Thanks, sfmarty!

Actually my Saget just figured it out. One of the cords was scroonched.

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Predominant thoughts on the eppy:

Kate! Pantsless! Swimming!

Jack has Gun. Jack Has Ammo.

Boone joins the list of people "behaving strangely" after finding or encountering something strange on the island.

Shannon & Sayid. Bring it on.

Kate seems to have some Ninja skills.

Jack is an idiot. The girl clearly needed a hug.

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I have a theory about Shannon and Boone (and no, it doesn't involve squickiness) and their whole dynamic.

Boone has been very quick to step forward into what he sees as a helpful or leadership role, but with limited success at best. Also, both he and Shannon have been relatively quick to dismiss Shannon as useless. Even the times when Boone pushed Shannon forward to do something (translate French, light the rocket), I got the feeling (and this is fairly subjective, mind you) that he almost expected her to fail.

I can't help but wonder if Boone's sense of worth depends heavily on Shannon playing the role of the incompetent, lesser sibling. Shannon's running off to Australia (if that's what happened), St. Tropez, France, etc. might have been a way of trying to break out of that mold, as she never would have been allowed to become the competent one as long as Boone was around. Maybe the parents even encouraged the dichotomy to some degree or another--Lord knows I've seen it happen in other families.

IOW, his jealousy at the end of last night's ep wasn't so much sexual jealousy as it was jealousy over the fact that the island's resident smart guy was relying on Shannon for help on an important project instead of him.

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I was SO happy Kate really was a criminal, and not just a poor ickle girl who just had to shoot the big bad robbers.

and

Now that we know that she's not only cold enough to romance a bank robber and use him to set up an elaborate job, but was able to shoot him (and the other two henchman) when he got in her way, I like her!

Yeah, except she apparently designed the whole caper, in order to retrieve a sentimental object from a safety deposit box. I still think her story is going to end up all misunderstood-girlie. Bank robber with a heart of gold, a broked one.

Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of "The mission went sour and I couldn't get everyone evaced in time and had to leave my Baby to die and that's what he gave to me when he proposed and it's all I have left to remember him by and oh God make the guilt stop and GIVE ME THE KEY TO THAT STRONGBOX OR I'LL TURN YOUR HEAD TO SWISS CHEESE, MOTHERFUCKER!!!"

Like this.

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It's kind of hard to accept that anyone would go to all that trouble, and endanger that many lives, just to recover a toy airplane. She had the key to the box. Surely there were legal means she could use to get it.

dcp is right about it being a DC-3, which is probably the most famous and long-lived air transport ever. Many are still flying, almost seventy years after they were built.

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Good ep, terrible title. Talk about bad puns!!

Loved Jack & Kate in this ep. Also Sawyer was funny when he kept treating Kate like "oh poor widdle girl" and she kept whacking him with rocks or head-butting him.

Also, Shannon/Sayid? HAWT. Boone? ASS. Although I totally wanted Locke to be his new boyfriend.

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Is it at all possible that Kate killed her father? That's the thing that I thought at the end of the episode.

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Are we 100% certain that the toy airplane was what was in the safety deposit box?

It seems we are meant to assume that, but its not neccesarily so.

OT: Just watched Alias. Clever start to the season.

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I thought Shannon/Sayid was wrong, and a waste of my Republican guard. And I thought Boone was right.

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the island's resident smart guy was relying on Shannon for help on an important project instead of him.

Resident smart, HAWT guy. Just sayin'.

t /not really here

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