Lost Watch

Episode 5 : White Rabbit.

Spoilers rules as before.

This time it's Jack first turn centre stage. We open a young Jack taking a beating for standing up to bullies, even as a kid he was a Dudley-do-right we just can't help himself. Flash back to the island and within seconds Jack "I'm no hero" Shepard is diving into the sea to save a flailing swimmer.

Dramatic moments later and he surfaces pulling poor young Boone to the surface with him, phew, day saved, everyone happy, but then.."Did you get her?" splutters the lad and ladies and gentlemen Lost has killed again. Yep, following the crash (obviously) we have already lost the pilot, the Marshall and now a random woman is thrown to the sea by the writers. The Island is truly a dangerous place , even more so if you don't have a name at this stage. Let us hope no one is fool hardy enough to wear a red shirt too.

As Jack berates himself for failing to save said lass we get our first proper day count, six days and there appears to be a man in a suit wading in the sea. Or is Jack just mad? Meanwhile Sawyer is bartering as usual and finding the time to nickname Shannon as 'Sticks' ('cos of the legs you see. Mind they are quite impressive, he's right).

Next, it's panicky stations for Charlie and Hurley as they find the water supplies are running low and run over to Jack to bombard with questions and requests to be told what to do about it. Jack throws a 'I'm not in charge' strop - this is one of many more to come.

Back to the past and Kid Jack is having a heart to heart with his father, well, if you can call your father telling you that your not cut out to be able to cope emotionally with failure a heart to heart. Also note the Mr Shepard has a drink in hand.

On the island Sayid's and Sawyer's opinion of each just gets worse as one assume the other has taken and hidden the water whilst Jin and Sun briefly get caught in the middle. One wrestling match later and Sawyers successfully protests his innocence and it's probably fair to say he enjoyed the wresting Kate more than he did tumbling with Sayid. Lacking Jack (who's wondered off into the Jungle after what appears to be his dad) Kate and Sayid turn to Locke to help find water, something made more pressing by a fainting Claire. Locke gets that twinkle in his eye and strides off to find water in the jungle.

Already in the Jungle it's all getting a bit two rate horror movie as whirling cameras and a vanishing father finger are making life hard for Jack. So hard he comedy pratfalls over a overgrown ledge, comedy that is until he's left dangling from a very large cliff. Whilst he dangles lets us consider what we've learnt from the flashback; Jack's dad has done a runner and is very much a heavy drinker, this isn't the first time it's happened, father and son no longer speak and Jack has done something to his father to upset his mother. But what?

Just in the nick of time, hero of the moment Locke appears and pulls Jack to safety. The two men discuss why they out in the jungle, with Locke reassuring the good doctor he isn't going mad and needs to finish what he started because the island is special. Locke tells Jack that he needs to do this because leaders can't lead until they know where they are going. So we have the first real movements in the Jack/Locke dynamic and Locke's first outright statement that he believes the island is special.

After we discover Jack's dad is dead and the body was on the flight we follow him (that would be Jack not his dad) through the jungle where he finds a fresh water stream, the caves and his dad's coffin. A coffin which is empty.....

Turns out Boone stole the water so he could ration it out (his cunning plan rumbled when Charlie sees him trying to drown Claire, that at least is what pouring water down the throat of someone who is asleep at the time looks like to me). But just before Boone can have his pretty boy face smashed in Jack emerges from the jungle to declare he has found water and to deliver (one of many) an inspiring speech about working together to survive (but don't forget he's not the leader, ok?)

As we close Kate presses Jack for what he's being doing all day, in shock twist he actually tells her about his father although he does leave out the missing body part it of it out.

And that is pretty much it for this one. Of the smaller moments we have Micheal struggling to be a father for Walt, Charlie and Claire beginning to really bond ("Who packs 300 knives?") and seems that everyone is really, really good at fire building.

So we have minimal lying, the establishment of the caves, the question of why Jack really is seeing his dad, what Jack did in the past to piss his dad royally off and the growing sense that no-one is coming any time soon.