A Sayid episode — and also our introduction to Danielle Rousseau. We learn details of Sayid's complex history, which involved telecommunications and torture for Iraq's Republican Guard. We also learn of Rousseau's complex history and see a new alliance formed, an alliance that becomes of great importance to the survivors (but also to Rousseau).
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Sitting on the beach and staring at Nadia's photo, Sayid discovers a cable on buried in the sand. While following it into the jungle, hoping to find a power source, he is captured by Danielle Rousseau. She proceeds to torture Sayid for information about Alex, who we come to find out is Rousseau's child. Sayid makes friends with Rousseau by fixing her music box.
It is also revealed that Rousseau was part of a science team whose ship ran aground, landing them all on the island. The other members of the team were taken by a mysterious illness, which prompted Rousseau to shoot each of them one by one.
Rousseau tells Sayid of The Others, the island's violent original inhabitants who are known mostly as whispers in the jungle. We presume they too are sick. Upon escaping from Rousseau's lair, Sayid is hounded by the voices.
In a flashback, we see Sayid torture Nadia (or at least be put in charge of her torture). We learn that the two were childhood sweethearts, Nadia, a beautiful girl from a rich family, and Sayid, the neighborhood boy she'd shove in the sand — ah! young love. By tugging at his heartstrings and appealing to the good in him, she convinces Sayid not to carry out her execution. Instead, he shoots himself in the arm and kills a friend to facilitate her escape.
Back at the survivor's beach, while Jack continues to treat the injured and focuses on survival, Hurley becomes concerned about the group's dynamics. His solution: a two-hole golf course, which provides the needed levity through the First, And Hopefully Only, Island Open.
QUOTABLE
"You'll find me in the next life if not this one." — Nadia to Sayid when he helps her escape
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