...And Found

"...And Found"

Plot

On the familiar side of the island, Sun has discovered that she has lost her wedding ring. Jack tries to help by telling a story about how he lost his wedding ring, and tore apart the garbage and the plumbing looking for it. When Sun asks where he found it, he replies that he didn't, that he bought a replacement instead. Sun doesn't seem too sure how she feels about this answer. She then pointedly notices that Jack has no wedding ring on his left hand. Jack sees her looking and laughs it off uncomfortably, saying that now the ring is "rattling around in his sock drawer back home." Although Sun looks as if she wants more of an explanation, he doesn't offer one. Jack then offers to help Sun look for the ring, which Sun declines. Then Hurley gives advice, suggesting that Vincent ate the ring while Sun was feeding him.

Later, when Sun is angrily tearing apart her garden, Locke arrives. Since Locke is calm as usual, Sun states that she doesn't remember ever seeing him angry. Locke laughs and replies that he often used to be angry. Sun asks him why he no longer becomes angry, and he replies that he is not lost anymore. Sun asks him how he found himself. Locke answers, "The same way everyone finds something that is lost: I stopped looking." Finally, when Kate tries to console Sun, telling her everything is all right, Sun tells her that that certainly isn't the case, and reveals that the message bottle had been recovered. Kate asks where it is, and Sun tells her that she has buried it. Upon digging up the bottle, Kate becomes upset and frantically attempts to read all of the messages. Sun stops her and says that the messages are private. Kate tells Sun that she never said goodbye to Sawyer. Kate then glances at the sand and tells Sun to look down. Sun's wedding ring is lying in the sand.

Meanwhile, Jin, Michael, Sawyer and the survivors of the tail section decide to trek back to the safer side of the island. Before they leave, they gather food, with Jin distinguishing himself with his fishing abilities yet again. Michael abruptly leaves to look for Walt alone. Jin and Eko set off after Michael while the remaining survivors head for the camp. The group of new survivors reveal they have a radio. Sawyer is having trouble keeping up with the trek and exchanges some flirtatious/sarcastic banter with Ana-Lucia when she threatens they will leave him behind. Meanwhile, on the trail of Michael, Jin hears something ahead and Eko cautions, but Jin runs towards the noise. It turns out to be a wild boar, which charges Jin and he rolls down an escarpment. Jin comes to rest and notices the bloodied body of another survivor, with a large weapon still protruding from his chest. When Eko catches up he informs Jin the man's name was "Goodwin", and Jin asks "Others?". Eko replies, "Yes." Further inland Eko picks up fresh tracks and tells Jin "it must be Michael, they don't leave tracks". Moments later Eko senses someone coming, and he and Jin hide. Hidden in the bushes, they see a procession of people go by in almost unearthly silence. The "Others" are seen only from the thighs down, all barefoot, all muddy, and the last is carrying a brown teddy bear on a cord. There is a handkerchief wrapped around the left leg of the teddy bear. Later, the pair find Michael. Eko tries to convince him to go back, but Michael won't do it. Jin tells Michael he should find Walt. It appears the three of them have decided to go find him together.

In flashbacks, Sun is set up on a date by a matchmaker, and finds her prospective suitor, Jae Lee, to be wealthy, educated and surprisingly charming. Meanwhile, as Jin is preparing for an important job interview at a hotel, his roommate, Tai Soo, consults a book of astrology and suggests that Jin is destined to find love soon, and adds cryptically that its color will be orange. Jin's interviewer, Mr. Kim, insults his prospective employee, suggesting that Jin is a bumpkin villager who stinks of fish, then hires him as a doorman anyway, with a stern warning that Jin is not to open the door to anyone like himself. Sun and Jae continue to hit it off, and the pair schedule a meeting at the hotel where Jin is working, though he fails to see her because he is bowing as he opens the door for her. Inside, the suitor suddenly reveals that he plans to marry a woman he met in America, and has only been seeing Sun to placate his parents. Although she is obviously disappointed, Sun wishes him well and immediately leaves.

At the same time, a poorly dressed father with a young boy approach the hotel, and asks Jin for permission to enter, as the boy urgently has to go to the bathroom. Jin reluctantly lets the pair inside, but Mr. Kim observes this, and gives him a stern dressing-down, again insulting his background in the process. Jin quits on the spot and departs. Later, wandering along a bridge, he passes a woman in an orange dress walking past. Looking back wistfully, he shakes his head in amusement, and turns around, colliding directly into Sun, his first meeting with his soon-to-be wife.