CRUSOE: Stranded Forever

Before we get into the final recap of CRUSOE, I just wanted to take a moment to thank Meredith for her hard work and dedication to this show this season. CRUSOE maybe wasn’t the hit NBC hoped it would be, but Meredith stuck with it all season long.  Kudos and again, THANK YOU!

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So he’ll be stranded forever…..

This week Blackthorn and his gang head back to the tree house looking for the baptism certificate hidden in Crusoe’s bible. When he doesn’t find it, they burn the tree house. (Did anybody notice how the fire stayed contained to the tree house and didn’t spread anywhere else? Just an observation on my part). After Crusoe and Friday watch the tree house burn, they return to the ashes and Crusoe finds his baptism certificate hidden in the spine of the bible, and not hidden within the pages where Blackthorn had looked. He apparently didn’t know it was there and as he reads it, he finally realizes why Blackthorn is after him.

It’s only a matter of time before Blackthorn and Crusoe run into each other and when they run into each other at the piranha filled lake, Crusoe lets Blackthorn know he has the certificate he’s looking for. He asks Blackthorn to head back to the ship and wait for him. Crusoe then asks Friday to follow Blackthorn back to the ship while he tracks down Tuffley and Nathan, who Friday had scared off earlier by shooting arrows at them. He follows them to the beach where he challenges them to a duel. He kills Nathan and then threatens to kill Tuffley if he doesn’t tell him the truth about what has happened to Susannah and his kids.

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Crusoe: Hunting Party

When a mysterious islander cuts off a lock of Crusoe’s hair, he’s determined to track him down and find out why he’s on the island. Crusoe thinks the islander is a cannibal, but after looking at a medallion left behind by the stranger, Friday tells him that it’s not the case – the stranger is a member of a tribe that protected his village from other cannibals. To Friday, they are the equivalent of royalty.

After the tribe members locate Crusoe again and fight and chase him through the forest, they eventually capture him and bring him to the shore where the chief ties him up. The tribe is looking for Crusoe because they assume Friday is his slave. The tribe’s chief was once a slave, which he said ruined his spirit. As revenge, he wants Crusoe dead. When Friday and Crusoe both tell the chief that Friday is definitely not a slave, he tells them to fight to the death to prove it. Of course neither of them will do it, so as they fight they manage to capture the chief. After they drag him into the forest, they pretend to stab him and then they escape to the tree house while they leave the chief screaming and thinking he’s wounded. Of course, the guys don’t stay alone for long because the chief and the rest of the tribe members find them. It’s then a fight to the death as Crusoe and Friday fight the chief and the rest of the tribe members. They are eventually able to load the chief into the gondola that carries their garbage to the compost pile. They send the gondola down the zipline where it hits a tree and they dump him into the compost pile. Defeated, the rest of the tribe members leave.

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Crusoe: Hallucinations

So Crusoe and Susannah are finally reunited…or are they?

Crusoe wakes up to find Susannah standing over him and he’s happy to finally see her again, but instead of just enjoying the moment, he’s just in a hurry to return to shore so they can leave before the tides change. When he tries to find Friday so he can leave with them, he discovers that Friday is missing, his tree house is a wreck, and he has no idea how any of it happened. As he heads back to shore to find Friday, Susannah helps him remember the events leading up to her appearance. Through a series of flashbacks, Crusoe remembers that he and Friday had discovered a quartz-filled cave. While they were in the cave, they found the letter “N” inscribed on the wall which stood for Nugent, the captain of the ill-fated ship that wrecked and brought Crusoe to the island. Then Crusoe finally remembers that he and Friday are not alone on the island — Nugent had survived the shipwreck and had used a smoke bomb to smoke them out of their tree house.

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