Original air date: 2/15/06
Previously on LOST: Rousseau told Sayid about The Others, who have since done a lot of stuff to our survivors.
There's a war going on and Sayid's troop is getting raided. The Iraqi soldiers are shredding documents as fast as they can when American troops burst through the door with guns pointed. The U.S. sergeant demands to know who is in charge and threatens to shoot the one man who won't stop shredding. This makes Sayid yell for his comrade to stop. With the attention now focused on him, Sayid denies that he is in charge and says that their commanding officer fled two hours ago. The sarge is impressed with Sayid's English, but thinks he is lying and knocks him out.
Later, Sayid the POW is asked to be a translator so the U.S. can find out what Sayid's captured commanding officer has done with a downed helicopter pilot.
In the present, Sayid is washing up when Ana-Lucia runs up looking for Jack. She settles for Sayid and leads him into the jungle where they spot someone coming toward them. Sayid recognizes Danielle Rousseau and sends Ana-Lucia home. Sayid runs over to cut off Rousseau's path and ask her what she is doing there. "Looking for you," she replies solemnly. This cues the creepy LOST title screen.
Rousseau leads Sayid through the jungle, but in typical LOST fashion, she won't say why. Sayid has an ace up his sleeve, however. He stops walking and demands to know where they are going. This forces Danielle to stop as well. Sayid does not trust her since she lied about the Others the last time they saw each other. She offers up that the place they are going is important and will help him. To gain trust, she hands over her gun.
Sayid flashes back to his first attempt to get information from his leader. The captive is less than cooperative so Sayid tries to cover for him by insisting that the man is saying that he doesn't know where the pilot is. The U.S. soldiers don't believe him, but all they can do at the moment is lock them both back up.
On the beach, Sawyer can't get a good nap in because of the irritating cries of a tree frog. He asks Jin to help him find it, but Jin just keeps on walking. Sawyer doesn't have too many friends these days. He heads into the jungle alone.
He doesn't find the frog, but he does find some leverage over someone. Hurley is caught red-handed stuffing his face with his secret stash of officially licensed Dharma Initiative junk food. Sawyer quickly makes a deal to keep Hurley's secret in exchange for help locating the frog.
Elsewhere, Danielle picks up her hidden bow and arrow and announces that they have arrived at their destination. Sayid hears cries for help and sees a man hanging from one of Danielle's homemade traps. The trapped man is panicked and begs Sayid to cut him down. He offers that he is Henry Gale from Minnesota. Danielle insists that he is lying. "He is one of them," she warns. Sayid is not as easily convinced and decides to cut Henry down. As soon as he is free, Henry makes a run for it and despite Sayid's protests, Danielle shoots him in the shoulder with an arrow, knocking him out. Sayid is pretty mad as he makes sure the man is still breathing. Danielle continues to be pretty damned sure that Henry is an Other. She helps Sayid tie him up and warns him that Henry will lie for a long time.
As Sayid carries Henry to Jack on his shoulders, he flashes back to a meeting with a U.S. military higher-up. He shows Sayid footage of a village being gassed- a village where Sayid had relatives. The army big shot tells him that Tariq- Sayid's commander was responsible. Even if this new information has swayed Sayid's loyalties, he insists that Tariq will never talk. That's when Sayid's new friend breaks out the box-o'-torture and says to "make him talk."
In Station Three of the Dharma Initiative, Sayid wakes Locke up and shows him Henry Gale. When questioned, Henry, through troubled breaths, tells his story. Four months ago (FOUR!), he and his wife crashed on the island in a hot air balloon during their quest to cross the Pacific. He then claims that his wife got sick and died while they were living in a cave off the beach. Just then, Jack crashes the party and asks what is going on. He begins to treat the man, who still has an arrow sticking out of him and any more questions will have to wait. Sayid warns Jack not to untie him.
In the jungle, Sawyer and Hurley have begun Operation: Tree Frog, but Hurley stops after he can take no more teasing. He says he knows he is fat and likes to eat, but at least people like him. He starts to walk off, but Sawyer stops him with a seemingly genuine plea for help.
Back in Station Three, Jack cuts the arrow out of Henry's shoulder and begins to patch him up. A few feet away, Locke and Sayid agree that their captive tells a pretty convincing story. Sayid implies that the only way to the truth is through torture and Jack might have a problem with that. Locke agrees to change the combination to the armory so Sayid can have some alone time with Henry.
Once Locke is done, which took him about the length of a commercial break, he and Sayid suggest keeping Henry in the armory so no one will walk in, see him and panic. Smooth, guys. Jack doesn't suspect a thing. Once they get their captive inside, Sayid hangs back and locks he and Henry inside. A confused Jack pounds on the door as Sayid prepares for "what needs to be done."
Before he starts that, Sayid thinks back to attempt #2 to get the information from Tariq. As Sayid lays out the instruments of torture on the table, Tariq laughs. He thinks Sayid is too loyal a soldier to go through with it. He orders his subordinate to kill himself on the spot and save his dignity, but Sayid won't do it. Tarik spits in his face, which only makes Sayid pick up one of the instruments.
As the U.S. soldiers pace outside, Sayid emerges with blood on his hands. The bad news is that the downed helicopter pilot was already executed. Sayid offers to take them to the grave.
Back in the present, Jack can't quite get the lock combination to work. I hate when that happens. It's not his fault, though. Locke admits that he changed it and explains that what Sayid is doing is part of the very war effort Jack wants to train an army for.
Inside the armory, Sayid ignores Henry's pleas for mercy and answers and continues to ask his own questions. Henry has a quick answer for every one, but Sayid is not satisfied. Henry finally gets tired of explaining himself and demands to know who Sayid is. The answer he receives is chilling. "My name is Sayid Jarrah and I am a torturer."
Back in the jungle, Sawyer and Hurley have found their prey. They approach slowly, but the frog leaps. Sawyer uses his quick reflexes to catch the thing in mid-air. As Saywer petsthe harmless creature, Hurley offers to release it a few beaches away. Sawyer likes his own idea better- crushing the thing in his bare fist. He puts the dead body in a disappointed Hurley's outstretched hands and walks away.
Over in Station Three, Jack tells Locke to shut up when he tries to make peace. In the armory, Sayid directs his questioning toward the balloon. Henry again has all the answers without missing a beat. When Sayid questions this method of travel, Henry reveals that he was rich from selling his mining company and it was his dream to travel by balloon. Sayid is still not satisfied so he breaks out the pliers and asks for Henry's hands. As the situation escalates, Henry finally begins to give some answers that Sayid really doesn't like. If Henry had really buried someone he loved, he would remember every excruciating detail. Sayid has done this, so he knows. If Henry can't remember what it was like then he must not have ever done it. Thinking about Shannon and perceiving that Henry is lying about his wife makes Sayid angry. He drops the pliers and begins a merciless beating with his bare hands.
From outside the door, Jack has heard enough and grabs Locke by the shirt and pushes him against the wall. Locke stands his ground and refuses to open the door. They both notice the countdown alarm beginning to sound, which Jack tries to use as a bargaining tool. At this point, he's ready to see what happens at 0, but is Locke? The answer is no, as Locke gives in, quickly opens the armory and rushes over to the computer. As Jack pulls Sayid off of Henry, Locke is too late and the counter reaches 0. The flaps begin to spin frantically and settle on some ominous red symbols. Locke finally gets the numbers in and hits enter. The counter then flips back to its normal, dull 815. Jack finally drags Sayid out of the armory, but not before Sayid and Henry have an icy staredown.
After things cool down, Sayid tells Jack that he "just knows" that Henry is one of them. Hey, that's the name of this episode! Jack reminds him that Rousseau once thought Sayid himself was an Other. Locke points out that it is all relative. Everyone is an Other to Rousseau.
Sayid flashes back to when he was riding in a U.S. transport. The truck stops and the man in charge lets him out. He sets him free and gives him a couple of bucks because the U.S. is pulling out of Kuwait. Sayid says that what he did to Tariq, no man should ever have to do. Surprisingly, the man answers in Iraqi and says that someday Sayid will need something and now he knows how to get it. As the truck pulls away, Sayid is left on the side of the road with a lot to think about.
As the sun sets on the beach, Sayid tells Charlie all about what happened in the armory. He says he knew Henry was an Other because when he beat him, he felt no guilt. Jack and Locke wouldn't understand that because they have forgotten that Charlie was hung and left for dead and all the other terrible things their enemies have done to them. The Others will do anything they want with no remorse. "Have you forgotten?" he asks Charlie.
Next time: Libby helps Claire remember what happened when she was abducted, which sends her on a quest to return to the place where she was taken.
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