What “did” Kate do?  I would say that there is something here just by the tense alone.  What Kate does. Well, Kate does get on my nerves.  But in relation to the grander scheme, in both time lines Kate is keeping Claire and Aaron together.  Aaron must be raised by Claire, or according to the psychic.

1.  Answer.  We know definitively who was walking through the jungle earlier (remember Jin and Eko watching the bare feet?).
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2.  Dogan – writing a letter to someone or journaling about the island?  Just seems odd to see him typing anything at all.

3.  Someone pointed out that Dogan keeps grabbing his necklace every time something dramatic happens.  Nervous habit, poison pill inside, ash, etc???

4.  Sawyer, “Course he’s fine.  He’s an Iraqi torturer who shoots kids he definitely deserves another go around.”  No, he’s not bitter (can’t say I blame him)

5.  Maybe nothing will come of this but I’d like to think that the look on Kate’s face at the airport when she looks back at Jack is dejavu.  I guess I’m hoping that some of the original time line is seeping into their consciousness.

6.  No, we have not seen the mechanic before now on Lost.  However, I started wondering why we had to see this scene.  We are in the home stretch of the show, do we really need to see how Kate gets the handcuffs off?  I don’t care how – I can assume she picked them or used some other way but why show us this scene?  Guess I’ll file it away in the memory Rolodex in case this guy shows back up to ask Kate to “return the favor.”  Ooo, maybe he’s a land Other.  Maybe he’s like Abadon and he’s just around to make sure they get where their supposed to go.

7.  The sound that used to happen between flashes now sounds like they are playing it backwards between scenes.

8.  Now I wonder if Danielle was also testing Sayid to see if he had “the sickness.”  Yes, I know she was trying to get information on Alex but I’m sure she was worried about him since her crew all had the sickness.  And how did he fail the test?  Because he didn’t die now they see he is immortal?  Maybe if he were good there would be a different reaction – no pain?

9.  Claire gets back in the cab with Kate because she is just as desperate as Kate is.  If Claire’s backstory is the same as the original, or close, she doesn’t want to keep the baby.  The father left, her mom is in a coma and her real father is a deadbeat.  Claire knows that the couple isn’t going to take the baby but perhaps has one last hope that they will and therefore agrees to go to their home.

10.  Best line!  “No, I am not a zombie.”  Darlton had to be laughing so hard when they wrote that line.  There is backstory here people with the zombie joke.

11.  I’m still sticking with the notion that Ethan is not simply a doctor that happens to get Claire’s case.  Faraday, in 1977, went back and built his lab and wrote all his notes down.  Therefore all of his research is out there in this time line for Dharma and the DeGroots to use.  So just because they aren’t on the original island doesn’t mean that they don’t exist.  Expect to see more “Others” as the weeks go by.
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12.  Oh, and his last name is Goodspeed because his parents were Amy and Horace.  “Rom” was only used with the Losties when he was trying to pretend he was on the plane.

13.  Coincidence?  When Claire tells Ethan she’s not ready to have Aaron the baby’s heart stops beating and flatlines on the monitor.  If you recall, in Season One Claire had mentioned that she hadn’t felt the baby move since the crash.  Was Aaron infected with the “sickness?”  Could he be infected also back in this time line?

14.  So if we believe that Claire must raise Aaron (and I love, love, love the theory that he must be raised by her in order to take over Jacob’s spot) then Kate did have a very pivotal line.  She tells Sawyer on the dock that if she can get to Claire and reunite her with Aaron then “all of this” would not be for nothing.  Is that our answer to it all right there?  Anything that happens in the meantime is just progress (as Jacob would say)?

15.  I went back and watched the scene from Season Four where Richard “tests” young Locke and you can watch it here – to see if there was a baseball involved.  Richard does present Locke with a baseball glove.  There has to be a connection and with the fact that there are millions of obsessed fans out there, if the baseball had appeared before we would know.  There is also the connection of Jack and his dad to baseball, but I’m thinking that the baseball glove also is a clue.

16.  Jack doesn’t end up swallowing the pill because Dogan gets it out of him.  I’m betting that Sayid will end up taking it.

17.  The original flight crashed on the island in September.  Here is a snapshot of Claire’s ultrasound and the date is clearly October 22,2004 – one month ahead of the original crash.  Maybe the bomb didn’t split time at all.  Maybe all it did was push Jack, Kate, Jin, Miles, Hurley, and Sayid back to where they were supposed to be in time.  So time in both is moving along as it should.  But because of the butterfly effect their flight was delayed one month, the island is under water and so forth.
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18.  I think Jack is going to take over the island much like Dogan runs it now.  He is the modern day medicine man, he now believes (or appears that way) and has nothing to go home to.  Dogan is telling him the secrets so maybe Jack and Locke will become the new Jacob and MIB (man in black) of the island.  Man of Science, Man of Faith.

19.  The guy tells Aldo that he can’t shoot Jin because he’s “one of them.”  Jin and the others were on Jacob’s list.  Remember that Jacob also had a list when the Others originally came and kidnapped Kate, Jack and Sawyer.  What’s up with these lists?

20.  I love that the new Claire is all dirtied up on the island!  No more makeup kit!  I think that even if the “darkness” has taken her over it doesn’t mean that she doesn’t know who she is or remembers the other survivors.  Hopefully at some point though Jin can escape and get back to Sun.  But I’m going to be interested if Claire has taken over Danielle’s place on this island (recorded creepy soundtracks, wonder where her baby is, etc…).
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NOTE: Please go back and read my initial thoughts and then the terrific comments before leaving new comments.  I’m interested to hear what you think will happen from here and your theories.

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