So, I've got a problem. In episode 5, where you need to retrieve the dynamite and blow the door, I seem to have hit a glitch. My first time through, I went, got the dynamite, and would run every few steps, so by the end of the dark territory, my dynamite was rumbling. No biggie. Then, I think I messed something up, cause the black smoke came after me right at the last one, and I ran into the tree. It seems that the dynamite blew up right as I hit the tree (my controller rumbled as I entered the tree), and it went into the cinematic for hiding from the black smoke. I then hit the next flag and got to the hatch. The only problem is that once I hit the next area (the hatch area), I didn't have the dynamite anymore. I guess the game thought I blew up before I hit the tree, but since I didn't die (cause it must have been so exact), I ended up at the hatch without the dynamite.

Bummer, but not really a big deal, right?

Fast forward to yesterday. (This part won't make much sense) I fire up the game, and decide to try again. I start to go back, when I realize I seemed to be missing some stuff (not sure why I thought this), so I try doing the "Play Episode" right from the main menu instead of continuing. I ended being even further back, but decided to just beat it right there. And I did. Got the dynamite, got it back, blew the door, played on the computer, and bam, episode is finished. But then it brings me back to the title screen. LAME! I guess you can't just go "Play Episode" to beat an episode you haven't beaten (at least not to go to the next episodes, but I still got the achievements).

Now we are at today, and I go continue. What the hell, I'll do the dynamite thing for a THIRD TIME. Urgh. But whatever, it will be done and I can finish this. WRONG! I work my way through the dark territory, get to the Black Pearl, AND THERE IS NO DYNAMITE! It is not there, I don't have it, and the hatch door is still barred closed.

What the hell do I do now? How do I beat this game without restarting right from the beginning??? Is this a glitch???

Dude I had the same thing, I was just about on my second try to exit to the last flag, just before I had entered the tree my dynamite was about explode, I waited for the smoke to clear made it to the last flag, then for some odd reason when going threw the last flag to the hatch it took longer than it should have, I appeard and what do you know NO DYNAMITE, I had to restart the game because when I returned to the black rock there was no more, hope that helps.

Hey, give up man! it happened to me four times and when I restarted the level re-got my dynamite blew the hatch door, did what I was s'posed to inside, when it got to the end of the episode it stuffs you back to the main start screen and everything has gone again,dynamite and all! get rid of the dumb game or you'll end up chucking it out the window!