1.21 The Greater Good

1. Shannon grieves next to Boone's body. Sayid tells her that Boone was brave. From Lostpedia
2. Sayid is brought in by the CIA at Heathrow Airport to break up a terrorist cell with 300 lbs. of C4 in Sydney. They make him do it because he knows a man involved, Essam Tasir, who he went to Cairo University with, and they know where Nadia is. From Lostpedia
3. It's been 7 years since Sayid left Iraq.
4. They have a funeral for Boone. Sayid speaks about Boone trying to save Joanna. "I'll remember his courage and I know he will be missed."
5. Locke returns and tells them it was his fault, that they found a plane and Boone climbed up because his leg was injured. "It happened because he was trying to help us. He was a hero." From Lostpedia
6. Jack attacks Locke and calls him a liar in front of everyone, he tells Sayid about the hatch.
7. Sayid meets Essam in a Mosque. He tells Sayid that his wife, Zahra, was killed by a stray bomb when she was shopping.
8. Sayid finds a bugging device in smoke detector, he convinces Essam and friends that he knows about things like that.
9. "Perhaps it is not happenstance that you and Essam met at the Mosque. Perhaps it is fate." Haddad, Essam's friend.
10. Locke tells Shannon he's sorry, gives her Boone's bag and tells her he shouldn't have let him go hunting with him.
11. "He would've gone anyway." Shannon
12. Shannon asks Sayid to do something about Locke.
13. Kate drugs Jack with sleeping pills because he refuses to sleep.
14. Sayid interrogates Locke, asks about his scar, he says it's a war wound. Sayid asks about the plane, the radio, says he could use it for parts on the raft.
15. Locke takes Sayid to the plane, tells him that he isn't lying about it.
16. "I know when I'm being lied to. There's a plane." Sayid From Lostpedia
17. Essam tells Sayid that he's going to be the martyr in the operation.
18. The CIA wants Sayid to convince Essam to go through with the suicide bombing. From Lostpedia
19. Locke asks Sayid why he doesn't trust him, and Sayid calls Locke on carrying a gun without telling anyone about it. Locke tells him about the priest, Nigerian money, and the gun.
20. Locke confesses he knocked Sayid out and destroyed his equipment when he was trying to triangulate the signal to gain his trust, but it only angers him. From Lostpedia
21. "Is that a place you really want to lead people to?" Locke explains why finding the source of the distress signal was a bad idea.
22. Sayid tells Essam that he lost someone too and will participate in the bombing.
23. "Innocent lives will be lost in service of a greater good." Sayid
24. "It was fate that brought us back together." Essam
25. Sayid tells Shannon that he believes Boone's death was an accident. "I know how strong the need can be to find someone to blame." Shannon isn't satisfied with what Sayid has to say.
26. Walt is worried about going on the raft. "What if we die?"
27. Shannon steals the key for the Halliburton when Jack is sleeping.
28. Sayid reveals to Essam that he is working with the CIA, that he will give him 10 minutes to get away, but Essam turns on Sayid and then kills himself. From Lostpedia
29. Sayid saves Locke from Shannon, but Locke is still grazed by bullet.
30. Kate comforts Sayid because Shannon won't talk to him, says she just needs time.
31. "Time won't make a difference." Sayid
32. "There's always a choice." Sayid
33. Nadia is in Irvine, California. She is a lab tech at a medical testing company.
34. Sayid has his flight changed to the next day in order to claim and bury Essam.
35. Locke thanks Sayid for saving him from Shannon. "I did it because I sensed you were our best hope of surviving here."
36. Sayid demands Locke take him to the hatch, that he knew he was lying about it.

Questions:

1. Was Sayid in London at the same time as Nadia?
2. Why did Sayid say that Nadia was dead when he was on his was to see her from Sydney?
3. How did Shannon know where the Halliburton was?
4. When did Shannon learn how to use a gun?
5. Why is Locke so imperative to the island?

Favorites:

1. Charlie calls the baby Turnip Head.
2. Sayid and Essam playing football.
3. Hurley and Charlie singing I Feel Good to the baby.
4. "Hey, Chuckie, you wanna keep that kid quiet? Baby Huey's like nails on a chalkboard." Sawyer
5. "I liked that thing a lot better inside than I like it outside." Sawyer
6. Charlie following Sawyer with the baby because his voice makes Turnip Head stop crying.
7. Sayid telling Shannon that she doesn't know how to use a gun, and then she immediately shoots at the ground.
8. Sawyer reading a car magazine to the baby.

Notes:

1. Uh, Locke, maybe you should take the bloody shirt off before you confront everyone and try to convince them that you're not guilty of killing Boone.
2. Again, uh, Locke, maybe Shannon wouldn't have wanted to kill you if you hadn't gotten up and walked away right when she's in the middle of crying about her dead brother. No chick skills, Locke.
3. Even Walt is terrified by Locke in this episode.
4. Sayid saves Locke from Shannon in sacrifice of the greater good.
5. Shannon was actually going to kill Locke.