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While Ana Lucia is
trying to process what she sees in front of her, Sayid is slipping
further and further towards insanity. For him, even on this island,
Shannon represented hope. Hope for a chance to feel whole again -- and
maybe even to be happy. So as she dies in his arms we can understand
his desire to punish the one who took her from him. And as he draws
his own weapon and moves to it's all Mr. Eko can do to subdue him
before Ana Lucia can knock him out. Armed with Sayid's gun now and
with her adrenaline running at full speed, Ana Lucia makes it very
clear that she is in charge.
In FLASHBACK we learn
Ana Lucia has experience with a gun…from both sides earned during
the course of her work as an officer in the LAPD. Turns out, she was
born to be a cop and wearing the shield is a family business. We shed
some light on the world that shaped Ana Lucia into person she is now.
Like most lessons, she learned about the dark side of human nature the
hard way. And it's a lesson that nearly cost Ana Lucia her life.
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Back on the island, Ana is being
besieged on all sides: Sayid is awake now and demands to be freed from his
binds, his mind consumed with thoughts of revenge. Michael and Jin argue
furiously to take Sawyer back to their camp before they have another death to
explain. Knowing he is closer than he has ever been, Bernard is desperate to
reunite with Rose. But the time for discussion is over and Ana takes the hard
line. The only question is how long the fragile threads of her control will
last.
The first to defy her is the
last one we would suspect. Eko picks up Sawyer's unconscious body and goes to
leave, telling Ana this is something he has to do. Not for Sawyer's sake, but
his own. Perhaps buoyed by Eko's move, Bernard makes an impassioned plea to
push on. He and Libby have been talking -- they want to know why they're
waiting. They want to know the plan. Ana has had enough. She's kept them alive
for 48 days and now they want to leave her? Okay then…fine.
Ana Lucia tells Michael to go
back to his camp and bring her back some supplies: food and clothing, more
ammunition and a bag to put it all in. She'll be fine -- she's better on her
own anyway. And when Jin leads everyone else on the last leg towards an
emotional reunion, we are left with just her and Sayid. Very calmly, Sayid
asks her if she is going to kill him and admits if he were in her place that's
precisely what he would do. But what she ends up doing is even more extreme.
She lets him go.
And when she drops the gun at
Sayid's feet, stopping just short of asking him to exact his vengeance and
kill her, it is the undeniable truth of Sayid's response that does all the
damage…
What good would it be to kill
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