S3 Ep11 "Enter 77"

(started 5/21/10 17:50)

First there was the 2-hole golf course, now a ping-pong tournament is in the works, but they have no ball. The table came from the hatch. Where to find a ball? Sawyer has one. Of course he does.

He challenges the entire island to a ping-pong competition in order to reclaim his stash. What does everyone else want if they win? Sun comes up with it - no nicknames from Sawyer for a week.

Hurley wins, not just because he's a hustler, but because Sawyer doesn't have glasses.

Kate, Locke, Sayid, and Rousseau find an isolated house in the countryside, complete with a cow and kitty. Rousseau takes off, letting them know she has been able to survive on her own this long because she doesn't bother other folks. She's out of there. What they find is the the one-eyed man from a the monitor screen Sayid hooked up at Pearl Station. (Hopefully somebody will give him the glass eye they found there - that'd be a coincidence if it was NOT his.)

His name is Mikhail and he claims to be the last surviving member of the Dharma Initiative, who has run this communication station since leaving the Soviet Army and answering a classified ad. Sayid doesn't believe him, he believes Mikhail is an Other, and is certain he is not alone.

Locke can't refrain from the siren call of the computer chess game to concentrate on watching the Mikhail passed out on the floor. But it actually unlocks the Hanso menu of communication selections. No sonar, no satellite, but 'enter 77' if there has been an incursion by the hostiles.

And then the house blew up. So there's that.