S.O.S.
Air Date: 04/12/2006
When Bernard attempts to recruit people to build an SOS sign on the beach, Rose uncharacteristically defies him, telling him that he shouldn't give everyone false hope.
FLASHBACKS reveal the source of her hesitation, as we highlight Rose and Bernard's love story from the day they met to the day he proposed. When Bernard takes a knee, Rose confesses that she is sick and has less than a year to live. But it doesn't deter Bernard -- he loves this woman and wants to marry her, regardless.
We follow their hopeful love affair through to their honeymoon in Australia to learn that it was, in actuality, a ploy by Bernard to get Rose to see a faith healer in an effort to cure her terminal cancer. Rose clearly isn't a believer, but goes along with it to satisfy Bernard. And though the healer tells her that he cannot help her, Rose decides to let Bernard think that he did. Her hope may be gone, but she is going to preserve his.
On the island, Rose finally comes clean and admits to Bernard that she was lying to him. She confides that after the crash, she began to feel better and that she suspects it was the island that fixed her. Bernard has a difficult time believing this and maintains that it was Isaac who did the healing. But Rose is insistent. And in the final flashback we find out that her conviction lies in the fact that she saw John Locke, on his feet on the island, in a wheelchair at the airport.
Bernard realizes that Rose doesn't want to be rescued because she thinks she might get sick again. And in an act of faith and love, Bernard vows to stop work on the SOS and tells her that they will never leave the island.
Back in the hatch, Locke attempts to draw the map he saw on the blast door from memory. But his commitment is clearly waning and he leaves the hatch in frustration. It's not until Rose convinces him to maintain faith, that Locke returns with a sense of renewed purpose and continues drawing.
Meanwhile, Jack and Kate go out on a mission to attempt to trade Henry for Walt. While they wait for Mr. Friendly to make an appearance, Michael stumbles out of the jungle and collapses at their feet.
Observations/speculation:
* The healer tells Rose there are places on the earth with power forces. He equates them with magnetism or "something else." He harnesses these forces to help others. The island, obviously, is such a place in spades.
* Do the Others want Walt because he can harness the forces of the Island? It seems likely, given Walt's psychic powers. Henry tells Jack that the Others will "never" give up Walt.
* More on the Uluru/Ayer's Rock, Isaac the psychic's real-life Australian hangout:
Ayers Rock is a large magnetic mound large not unlike Silbury Hill in England. It is located on a major planetary grid point much like the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
...The Aborigines believe that there it is hollow below ground, and that there is an energy source that they call 'Tjukurpa' the dream time. The term Tjukurpa is also used to refer to the record of all activities of a particular ancestral being from the very beginning of his or her travels to their end. Anangu know that the area around Ayers Rock (Mount Uluru) is inhabited by dozens of ancestral 'beings' whose activities are recorded at many other sites. At each site, the events that took place can be recounted, whether those events were of significance or whether the ancestral being just rested at a certain place before going on.
* The healer's reaction, when he tries to help Rose, is similar to that of the psychic Claire was seeing--they guy who gave her the ticket for the Oceanic flight and seemingly knew her fate.
* We learn Rose is aware of Lock's recovery from paralysis--apparently the only of his fellow survivors to realize he once used a wheelchair.
* The unfinished S.O.S. sign on the beach now looks like an unsmiley face. Like one you get when your computer goes belly up.
* Is Rosseau's doll trap meant to help get her daughter back?
* Eko and Charlie ARE building a church.
* Why does Michael come stumbling down to Jack and Kate on the point of collapse. Is it merely coincidence? Was he released by the Others? Or did he see the light from their fire from afar and run for miles to reach it? Or is he working with the Others?
* Henry is obviously playing mind games with Locke and the rest re: what the numbers and the Hatch are all about.
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