A flashback sees a college-aged punk Miles visiting his dying mother. Punk Miles has facial piercings and bad hair, so you know he’s a rebel. I bet he shoplifts from Hot Topic. His mother won’t tell him anything about his father other than that he’s dead and someplace Miles will never find him. I think we all know that’s not true.

In 1977, Miles returns to Horace and gets further instructions to take the body to his dad (oops, sorry, we’re still not supposed to know that yet, so it’s actually just Dr. Pierre Chang) at the Orchid. Unfortunately, Hurley has already commandeered Miles’ van for his own mission to the Orchid bringing some ham and cheese sandwiches with his special garlic mayonnaise. I liked the ham and waffles with various dipping sauces, but that does not sound good. Now if he replaced the garlic mayo with some baconnaise, that would be delicious.

Because Hurley is stubborn and refuses to give up, Miles agrees to go on a road trip with him. And thus begins Miles and Hurley’s Excellent Adventure. Let the hijinx ensue!

They debate whether car pooling can help prevent global warming as well as farts. This is some real high-brow stuff. There are no farts, just the dead body, which Hurley discovers. He wants to know how he died, and Miles lets him know that he was just digging a ditch when suddenly his filling shot through his skull. Electromagnetism, perhaps?

Hurley promises to keep Miles’ “I talk to dead people” secret because he does it too. Hurley thinks his talking to dead people is cooler than Miles’ because he plays chess with them. The difference is that one of these is a truly paranormal gift and the other is just the hallucinations of a mentally insane person. I’ll let you decide which is which.


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