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On one side of the
island, Sun is devastated when she notices that her wedding ring is
missing from her finger. While on the other side of the island, we
follow Jin's attempt to return to his wife. Michael tells him that
they will find each other again, soon.
As our survivors help
Sun search for her ring, Jack shares that he lost his wedding band
once. He looked everywhere - the garbage, the plumbing - and finally
went to a jeweler to have a replica made. He tells Sun that it's now
rattling around in his sock drawer. And Hurley recounts a story where
his Dog once ate a drawer full of change, suggesting that Vincent
might be the culprit. But when the search is fruitless, Sun ends up in
tears, ripping apart her garden, until we realize that it's clearly
not about the ring anymore - it's about the fact that she's lost Jin.
Locke tells her that in order to find something, sometimes you have to
stop looking.
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Meanwhile, the Tailies enlist
Michael & Jin to gather food and water before moving out to find the other
survivors. Jin helps Ana Lucia fish, while Michael is supposed to help Libby
gather fruit. But Michael takes off in search of Walt. And when Libby returns
without him, Ana Lucia steps in and orders the group to move out immediately -
before Michael gets caught and tells "them" where they are.
Jin wants to go after
Michael, while Sawyer argues that Michael won't return without Walt. But Jin
is insistent, to the point where he comes to blows with Mr. Eko. Eko, seeing
Jin's determination and loyalty, offers to help him find Michael. Ana Lucia
refuses to wait for them and moves out with the rest of the group, including
Sawyer.
While searching for Michael,
we get a glimpse of Eko's considerable tracking skills and come across the
body of a fellow Tailie - Goodwin - whom Eko says was killed by the Others.
And at the mention of their name, they seem to come out of nowhere. Eko and
Jin hide behind some bushes as the Others march by silently in a line - the
last a child, dragging a teddy bear.
When Jin and Eko finally find
Michael, he refuses to return without his son. Jin tries to convince him by
reassuring him that he and Walt will be together again soon. Michael
reluctantly agrees and they head out to catch up with the group, and
hopefully, reunite with their loved ones.
In flashback, we learn that
Sun's parents have set her up with a matchmaker to find an appropriate husband
- and it's not Jin. He's on a very different path, trying to make his way out
of his station in life as that of a lowly fisherman's son. But after a series
of near misses, in which their paths continue to cross, fate eventually brings
them together - just as fate leads Sun to find her wedding ring, buried with
the message bottle. And as she slips it on her finger, she registers a renewed
hope that she and Jin will someday find each other again. |
