S.O.S.
Locke’s concentration and faith are questioned as he almost allows the timer to run down to zero. His attention is distracted by his inability to re-draw the blast door map he saw during the lockdown.
Rose and Bernard had a very sweet and moving back story.
Bernard tries to rally the survivors into making an S.O.S. sign on the beach. Frogurt is mentioned by name for the first time.
The story Rose tells Bernard about her cancer and having a year to live is a mirror image of what happened to L. Scott Caldwell in real life and her late husband.
Turns out Mr. Eko and Charlie are building a church.
While John pounds on the door demanding answers from Ben, a menacing smile crosses the his face. Ben's manipulations over John Locke are working!
Rose ironically states that for their honeymoon she wanted to be on a beach somewhere. Wish granted! Bernard, on the other hand, wants to get them rescued because he feels to blame for them being on the island in the first place.
Jack and Kate discuss that the reason the Others did not want them is because they are both “damaged goods”. Which may be right on the money. Then they get caught in a net. Yes, they really do ... get caught ... in a net. So is Jack a good shot or just lucky when he shoots the rope?
Rose and Locke both know about the islands healing powers.
The faith healer that Rose meets with tells her he can’t fix her. Not that she cannot be fixed, just that where she is (somewhere in the Australian outback) is not the place that can heal her. After this, she tells him she is going to lie to Bernard and tell him she is healed.
Kate tells Jack about the “Others” stash of fake beards and costumes. When Jack is shouting for the Others to come out and talk, it begins to rain very hard.
Rose tells Bernard the truth that the healer didn't heal her, but yet now it seems she is healed. She tells him that she believes the island healed her.
Rose spoke to Locke at the airport therefore being someone who knew Locke's physical condition before the crash and kept it quiet.
Bernard decides to stop making the S.O.S. sign on the beach because he now feels that the two of them must stay on the island or Rose’s cancer could return. With the theory of a time loop or some other type of time anomaly could Rose and Bernard be “Adam and Eve” in the caves?
Locke regains his focus and is able to make a copy of the blast door map.
Kate apologizes to Jack for kissing him, (something he is not sorry for) and Michael comes crashing through the jungle.
TWO FOR THE ROAD
Ana Lucia’s mother knows she shot and killed the man that she allowed to walk free just so she could kill him. Ana Lucia quits the police force because of it.
Ben attacks Ana and tells her that his people and he are not the killers. She is the killer.
Ana meets Christian at the airport (similarly to how she meets Jack later) and agrees to go with him as a sort of personal security guard. Notice Christian gives her the name “Sarah” when they decide to use fake names and he takes the name “Tom“. Both are the names of his two childrens significant others.
Ben tells Locke some things that may or may not be the truth. (A) Locke is “one of the good ones”, (B) Ben’s leader will kill him if he tells the survivors anything. A lie or is there really someone else? Possibly he means Jacob. (C) The last thing he tells Locke is that he was on his way to the survivors camp to get Locke before he was caught in Danielle’s trap.
Whatever reason Christian went to Australia it had to involve Claire somehow.
Ana steals a gun from Sawyer while they are “creating the thing with two backs“.
Sawyer bumps into the car Christian and Ana Lucia are sitting in during the flashback. This apparently must have happened right before Sawyer and Christian share some drinks in the bar.
Locke goes along with Ana’s lie to Jack when he asks her how she got the head injury.
Michael regains consciousness and relates his story of what he discovered about the Others and their camp.
Jack admits to Locke that he was right about Ben and is sorry for getting in the way.
When Ana tells Ben that Goodwin was going to kill her Ben asks; “Was he?”, in a very telling way. As in, no he was not going to kill her.
In the end, Ana could not kill Ben (something she has not had a problem doing to just about anyone and everyone the past few months of her life).
Michael tells her he will do it.
A decision that costs Ana Lucia her life ...
And Libby as well.
The title of the episode refers to Ana Lucia and Christian being "two for the road" as well as referring to Ana Lucia and Libby.
In a matter of seconds we find out that the "Michael" that we knew before he went looking for his son is not the same one that came back.
The novel "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky may have inspired some key elements of Michaels storyline. Michael kills Ana Lucia in order to free Ben, but is forced to kill Libby as she accidentally witnesses the murder scene. Just like Rodion assassinates a user, but is forced to kill an innocent witness named Elizaveta, which is the Russian equivalent of Elizabeth.
Much like Sayid did to aid Nadia’s escape, Michael shot himself to make it appear he tried to stop Ben's violent escape.
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