GAH! Missed the last couple of weeks, just now catching up via iTunes.
The scene as it should have played out…
Faraday: “Look at these clocks! This isn’t good! This means…”
BANG - A shot rings out, Faraday stumbles backwards a bullet hole in his forehead. Jack appears over the body. (Close up, Jack looks crazed) BANG…BANG…BANG
Chopper Pilot : “Why the hell did you do that?”
Jack: “We were flying on a plane that broke apart in mid-air. We’ve been here for THREE months. There are polar bears, black smoke monsters, wild boars, crazy French people, falling plane wreckages, 200-year-old sailing ships, abandoned secret laboratories and a crazed hippy commune whose members sit around all day figuring out how to mind f[beeeep]k us. You guys come here to rescue us…”
Chopper pilot: (interupting) “We’re not here to res…”
Jack: “Yes you are!” BANG (from the angle of the shot, it is assumed another round passes through Faraday’s corpse)
Chopper pilot: “Why do you keep doing that?”
Jack: “Nobody seems to stay dead around here. Did I mention the pyscho-cyclops-Russian? That helicopter is my ticket off this island and this idiot…” BANG (another round through Faraday / chopper pilot grimaces) “…shoots a missile from 80 miles away at a beacon 30 feet from the helicopter.” BANG BANG (2 more to Faraday / chopper pilot looks nauseas) “No more experiments. You want to do something, bury this idiot…” BANG
(Jack looks thoughtful)
Jack: “Scratch that, you might hurt your hand or have a heart attack digging the hole. As a matter of fact, while we’re waiting on Sayid teach me to fly this helicopter.”
Chopper pilot: “But I can’t…”
(Jack looks at chopper pilot, a persistent twitch flinches under his right eye giving him the appearance of a crazed man)
Chopper pilot: (continuing) “…right. Well the first you do is turn on the starter motor.”
Jack: “Where’s that?”
Chopper pilot: “Let me show you.” (steps over to helicopter)
(Jack steps across Faraday’s corpse, then turns back towards it) BANG
Sorry - venting finished. I thought that whole scene was really sloppy, maddeningly so.
-rainy