It is akin to when Spock’s casket lands on the Genesis Planet and it ends up regenerating his cells and he is basically reborn. (Circa Star Trek 2 & 3).

What if McGinty was a sly old dog, and knew that he would return to the living if he was buried on the island?

They obviously have some secrets to keep (like the Mysterious Volcano Machine) but, being made Immortal by the island would possibly produce such a care free lifestyle in the natives…

On the whole, it was supposed to be a Breaking Bad reference. But Vince did a lot of work with the X-Files beforehand, and many influences ran over into his own show.

So you are not too far off the mark.

In my opinion, Breaking Bad forms a watershed in both TV and storytelling history, but I’m sure that the X-Files – like other shows that I never watsched – was one of the harbingers of that change.

I watched some of Vince’s interviews and never heard him say it, but I’m quite sure he would agree that “he could pee far because he was standing on the shoulders of giants” (that, btw, is a Schlock Mercenary reference, itself referencing Sir Isaac Newton).

Now, if someone could help me get down from this high horse, please.

Nope. Just the way the face showed up in the reflection of the blade.

And, am I detecting and X-Files reference in the second half of your comment, or missing the point completely?

I think McGinty is still dead, he was just told the Idol was full of ancient Jamaican Rum, and being dead was not enough to stop him from having a drink or two…

That or he is back from the dead a wee bit or (like the Good Sgt. said) he has some look alike kin…

In the end that is no reason to cuss Joe!