"One of Them" Trivia Quiz

Answer: File cabinet

The episode opens with the squealing and hissing of bombs dropping over Iraq during the Gulf War. (The event of Sadaam invading Kuwait is later mentioned.) A panoramic view of the war-torn city shows a chopper flying through the hazy air and a large pillar of black smoke rising up into the sky over the buildings. (As we know, black smoke seems to foretell something ominous.)
A group of soldiers obeying their commanding officer Tariq (including Sayid) hurry to scatter and burn file folders as violent explosions rock the earth. One file cabinet falls over in the process and Tariq orders in Arabic that they continue under threat of death. When U.S. soldiers break in to the compound the burning ceases and Sayid, communicating in English, is questioned about the whereabouts of the leader. Note that Sgt. Buccelli refers to Sayid as "Abdul", a nickname given to him by Sawyer in the early days following the crash.
Notice that the officer who escorts Sayid to the compound in which Tariq is being held is none other than Kate's father-- or rather, stepfather-- Sam Austin. (Kate had mentioned numerous times hunting with her father, attributing that to her keen tracking skills.)

Answer: Yes

Ana is the first to spot a stranger lurking in the nearby jungle, and quickly alerts Sayid. Sayid orders that Ana go back and not say a word, which she accepts without argument. After interrupting Danielle's path, Sayid is reluctant to follow Danielle into the jungle on blind trust alone (following the kidnapping incident from Danielle's last appearance).
To establish his trust, Danielle offers her rifle and Sayid accepts. Upon arriving to the site, Sayid finds an unknown man trapped in a net as Danielle pulls out another weapon-- a hand-fashioned bow and arrow. The man immediately identified himself as Henry Gale from Minnesota, but Danielle insisted he was "one of Them".
After cutting the man down against Danielle's will, Henry tried to run off and was purposefully shot in the shoulder with an arrow. Upon taking the stranger back to his camp, Danielle warned that Henry was an Other and would lie for a long time-- but she knew that Sayid could do something about it.

Answer: 29

After hauling the injured Henry back to the hatch, Sayid alerted Locke and the two considered the foreigner's story: Henry claimed to be from Minnesota, stranded on the island for four months after he and his wife crashed in a balloon crossing the Pacific, and she later became ill and perished. Before questions could be answered and speculated upon, Jack entered and immediately demanded that the arrow be removed before any further interrogation was allowed.
While Locke and Jack struggle for decision and control amongst themselves, it is apparent that in Sayid's presence there is but one true leader. After moving Henry to the armory, Sayid demands that Locke change the combination and locks himself in with Henry to do his job. Later he tells Henry that he was 23 years old when the Americans came to Iraq and changed his life buy forcing him to do things he once thought himself incapable of for the next 6 years (making him 29).
He tells Henry, "My name is Sayid Jarrah, and I am a torturer."

Answer: Knife

After being used a translator for Sgt. Austin, as a method of questioning Tariq about a missing American pilot who was brought down in a helicopter, Sayid is turned to brutality by CIA official Joe Inman. After sermonizing Sayid about true loyalty, Inman allows Sayid to view a film of his village being attacked by sarin gas in a marketplace-- an attack of chemical warfare led by his own commanding officer.

He tells Sayid to make Tariq talk to him about the pilot, and provides a toolbox. When confronting Tariq, now as a "traitor" to his mission, Sayid reveals the contents of the box before the prisoner. Among the objects are a hammer, pliers, duct tape, a plastic bag and scissors to use as torture devices.

In this manner, Sayid must betray all which he once believed in and craw answers with brutality from his former leader.

Answer: Tariq and Henry

From the toolbox contents when confronting Tariq, Sayid is seen picking up the pliers to use to torture. This directly relates to the present, in which Sayid uses his formerly acquired "skills" to extract answers from Henry in much the same way. After treating Henry's wounds, Jack notices the missing pliers used to remove the arrow and immediately demands that Sayid unlock the door.
Sayid is determined and ignores Jack, starting with verbal interrogation and leading to physical violence.

Answer: Can of mandarin oranges

Sawyer grows irritated while a tree frog with a bizarre croak refuses to allow him to rest. Engaging on another animal hunt (this time after a slightly less aggressive creature than the boar he had previously tracked), Sawyer stumbles upon Hurley snacking on a secret stash of food. Hurley is quick to conceal his heap, but all too late for Sawyer's suspicious eyes. Among the contents of his stash those with good freeze frame will see a can of mandarin oranges and a box labeled (as far as I can distinguish) with the French dessert "crepes au chocolat".
The reason for Hurley's lack of weight loss-- considering the time spent on the deserted island with a mainly fruit-and-fish diet-- is finally established, and Hurley begs Sawyer not to tell that he had not given away all of the hatch food for which he was responsible.
This of course leaves Hurley coerced into the frog hunt as well.

Answer: Two months prior

Henry had allegedly landed four months ago, possibly more, making his arrival a full two months prior to that of the Oceanic survivors. This would lead to further questioning about the very coincidental-- or not-- crashes of many Pacific crossers onto this strange island.
Also according to Henry, he had supposedly stayed in a cave on the north shore of the island. (Recall that during the search for Michael, Locke identified the direction in which Michael was heading in order to find the Others was north.) He claimed to have had an ADF beacon (possibly the acronym for an "automatic direction finder" device) and had walked two days from the beach to the location at which he had been captured.
There is little doubt his capture was either evidence of a skillful scheme or proof of his alibi-- it seems highly unlikely a true Other would be caught in such a simple contraption.

Answer: The balloon is orange

Under interrogation at the threat of torture, Sayid demands specific and detailed information about Henry's journey to the island. Henry is terrified, but dexterously describes the balloon in which had had claimed to have landed on the island. The specification of the physical size and design of his balloon (yellow with a big smiley face) and the precise quantity of hot air and helium which kept it in the air may lend further credibility to the claimed arrival by Henry and Jennifer Murphy as stranded survivors, paralleling the many others who had mysteriously found themselves on the island.

However, Henry's masterful reference to the "sickness" which had claimed his wife and the diversion to play on Sayid's emotions pertaining to having lost Shannon suggest a far different incentive. Sayid seems vehemently unwilling to believe Henry's story nonetheless, holding unquestioning certainty that the man is indeed "one of them".

Answer: Second from the left

Unable to stand Henry's shouts coming from the armory, Jack reaches the brink of frustration at being unable to restrain Sayid and instead turns on Locke. Locke refuses to open the combination (having changed it for the fifth time) and the two come to odds with physical force. Breaking the tense moment is the sound of the timer, and- believing there will be no dire consequence- Jack refuses to allow Locke to press the button until the door is opened.
Locke is in desperation as the timer alarm sounds urgently in the final minute, falling to 27 seconds remaining. The fear evoked by the event of the unknown convinces Locke to open the armory and race to the computer with only 10 seconds to spare. He types feverishly the cursed number sequence, but a mistake costs the last moment and the countdown reaches the dreaded 000:00. Suddenly the mechanical roar of a device gearing up (a giant magnet, or perhaps that which was sealed inside the 6-foot block of concrete) was heard, and the black and white timer tiles turned to black and red symbols-- two in black and three in red.
Identified as Egyptian hieroglyphics, the strange symbols (appearing as images of what could be a bird, a flame or sword, a loop, etc.) locked into place. With four locked into place Locke, terrified and wide-eyed, pressed the "Execute" button. The timer reset back to the numbers and the mechanical noise subsided.
Thus one must consider the critical danger, or false urgency, surrounding the button and its results had the last glyph been secured. Perhaps the message was an encrypted warning:
According to Raymond O. Faulkner's "A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian", the symbols of which the hieroglyphic sequence was composed can be roughly translated as "cause to die".

Answer: Sayid told the U.S. troops the commanding officer had departed for Hila two days earlier

Upon their first meeting, when the American soldiers had ceased the Iraqi revolt, Sayid had claimed that the commanding officer had left for Hila two hours earlier. He was brought by Sgt. Austin to the cell in which Tariq was being held captive and told satirically, "Welcome to Hila."
The reason for the interrogation and forced torturing of Sayid to his commanding officer was rooted in an event which had taken place two days earlier, when an American helicopter pilot was captured by the Iraqis. When Sayid emerged, a bloody hand clutching the tool box, it is revealed that he had successfully extracted the information: the pilot had been killed two days earlier.
On this day, in the worst way possible, Sayid's participation in the Republican Guard had ended-- however, the torturing skills he had learned perhaps never would fade away.

Answer: "We mined non-metallic minerals."

Henry's story is shaky and suspicious at best, yet he did not falter in its revealing (even under the steady glare of an eager-for-revenge Sayid). This leaves one and all to question its validity, and the possibility that the hatch could be housing on of "Them"-- the malicious, manipulative tribe of inhabitants who had killed, kidnapped and haunted the steps of the survivors since their arrival.
Under intense scrutiny in every word he uttered, Henry explained to Sayid that he had been attempting to cross the Pacific with his wife Jennifer in a hot air balloon. He claimed to have gained his fortune by selling a company which mined "nonmetallic minerals". (Such would be sand, stone, clay, gravel, etc.)
He answered Sayid's intense questioning almost as if by acute rote memorization, his responses without clear motive or emotion. He frequently avoided direct eye contact and become panicky when Sayid ordered him to answer about the burial of his own wife in a grave dug by hand-- Sayid had done the same, and remembered every shovel of dirt removed. Henry was at a loss for words, until asking if Sayid had lost someone also. This action is also in question: a true moment of understanding or a devious ploy to weaken Sayid by his grief. In either case, Sayid became enraged and began to beat Henry in his fury. His spontaneous outburst may suggest Sayid's insistence of Henry's guilt is linked exclusively to his vengefulness of Shannon's wrongful death.

Answer: Turtle

After being coerced into assisting Sawyer in his hunt for the chattering tree frog- in order to keep silent the knowledge of his private food supply- Hurley endures ridicule at the expense of being the subject of Sawyer's crude humor. His disposition becoming increasingly bitterer by the day, Sawyer taunts Hurley's food addiction (the Ranch Dressing, in particular) with a new selection of sarcastic and belittling nicknames. As a result, the island's most amiable survivor is drawn to a near-maddened state and nearly walks out-- until, of course, his good nature resumes and he comes back to end the hunt.
The frog is spotted basking on a log and croaking, unbothered, and Sawyer holds the small creature in his palm with a hint of interest. Hurley briefly mentions his old pet turtle, Stuart, which he had lost as a kid and pleads with Sawyer to set it free far away. Sawyer considers the idea momentarily and then executes his own strategy by bringing the frog's jovial vocals to silence in his fist-- and then handing the squashed remains to a disgusted Hurley.
Perhaps Sawyer would never change.

Answer: Yes

After Locke opened the armory door, Jack managed to pull Sayid from the attack on Henry. At this point Sayid had become positively convinced that Henry was indeed "one of them", just as Danielle had warned. (The insidious, almost taunting glare given to Sayid by Henry as the heavy door shut between them doesn't help Henry's case.)
Jack, however, argued Sayid's sureness that Henry was an Other. He recalled that Rousseau had once mistaken Sayid for an Other and tortured him for the same reason. To this statement Locke replied, "He is one of them" (referring to Sayid). Locke resurfaced a rationalization of perception; Sayid was seen as an Other to Rousseau because everything is relative.
In an earlier verbal battle of philosophical difference, Jack had used the same concept of relativity (and survival) in response to Locke.

Answer: Initial intervention of file burning

We first see Sergeant Austen escorting Sayid down the street and to the building in which Tariq is held. He is there for the translation, in which no useful information is retrieved, although he was not present for the initial intervention or with Inman when Sayid is ordered to torture Tariq.
Throughout Kate's flashbacks it was learned that Austen is actually her stepfather (her real father having been Wayne, the murder of whom started her fugitive life). Aside from mentioning his military experience to Jack, Kate also spoke of Austen being in Korea just before she was born (which may or may not have a connection to our Korean survivors as well).
The connection is sealed during Sayid's final departure in the army convoy. (When Sgt. Austen asks Sayid if he has a family he is gazing down at a photo of Kate as a young girl, standing near a lake.)
Inman's mentioning of the retreat from Baghdad signals the end of the troop's presence in Iraq, and quite possibly the end of the Gulf War. He adds to Sayid, however, that the new "skill" he had acquired would be useful again one day. Here Sayid made the vow never to do again what he had done for the American soldiers-- this promise had been first broken by Sayid's torturing of Sawyer, and obliterated by the attack on Henry.
With cash for a bus to Ramadi, Sayid was left alone on the deserted road with the billowing column of black smoke still rising in the distance. While one war was over, the internal turmoil he faced for his actions would never end.

Answer: forgotten

Upon reflection of his brutal actions and difficult encounters, Sayid reveals to Charlie the truth about the prisoner in the hatch. Charlie remains silent as Sayid explains what he had done, and finally revealing his reasoning for such strong certainty concerning Henry's real identity.
Sayid divulged to Charlie that he felt utterly guiltless in his seemingly unmerciful actions towards the stranger, and thus felt that he knew Henry was lying.
Sayid also explained that neither Jack nor Locke (or likely, many of the survivors) could understand this notion because they had all forgotten what the Others had done. Somehow passage of time had left behind the thoughts of Charlie's near-death hanging and Claire's kidnapping by Ethan, and the additional sabotage and murder of their own survivors by the cruel mercilessness of the other inhabitants. Sayid held a constant reminder that the Others were in ultimate control of them all.
Turning to Charlie he questioned quietly, "So tell me, Charlie. Have you forgotten?"