Desmond: I’ll shoot!
Locke:He means it!
Jack: So what? I hate Locke – so kill him already – it leaves a better shot for me…after all, I REALLY resent the fact that you beat me up the stairs.
BLAM>>>BLAM>>>BLAM>>>BLAM
Jack steps over the dead bodies of Locke and Desmond: What’s for breakfast?

I feel that subterranean mystery guy Desmond is a character deserving of some respect. Not only can he run up and down a sports stadium’s steps more nimbly than Jack, but he’s also managed to keep up the maintenance on the original computers from “Colossus: The Forbin Project.” And what a vindication of Bucky Fuller’s geodesic dome! Buried under thousands of tons of island and it still holds up like it did at Expo ’67. (Of course, if Pauly Shore turns up inside the dome next week, then this show has officially jumped the polar bear.)

And although Shannon seemed to be reclaiming her inner airhead when she ignored her mortal peril by wandering around in the dark calling for the dog, she was still less annoying than the little girl in Invasion who spent the first 20 minutes of the show calling for her cat, which she assumed would be walking around outside in a hurricane.