I’m still disappointed with the whole Michael returns story line. I *almost* had sympathy for Michael tonight, however. He keeps making really bad choices and getting himself into some very bad situations. Not sure I thought it was a tremendous cliffhanger either.

1. What I want to know is when Michael and Walt found rescue how did they explain who they were and how they got that boat? They obviously didn’t admit to being part of the Oceanic survivors.

2. I would guess that it’s Michael in the coffin, but it almost seems too obvious. On the other hand, it would explain why no one came to the funeral - he was using a fake name. Again, how does Michael get back to the mainland if he doesn’t die on the freighter? Jack would have to know Michael’s pseudonym in order to know it was his obituary which means Michael meets back up with the survivors.

3. So the sanctuary is the last safe place on the island? I’m thinking it must be a bunker similar to the original button pushing bunker. Remember those thick doors that Michael was checking out?

4. Are we supposed to believe that the people on the boat are the one’s who are coming that Ben is so afraid of? I’m thinking we may see the “Other” Others that have been on the island. They could be the remaining Dharma’s that weren’t killed by Ben. Besides the fact that the men on the boat have machine guns, they don’t seem to be in very good shape (think Minkowski) and the boat is trying to get AWAY from the island but Michael sabotages the engines so they can’t get away. I’m just not convinced that the freighties are the ones coming to kill them all.

5. Michael’s eye opening in the hospital. Interesting it wasn’t at the beginning of the episode this time.

6. Did you catch that nurse Libby was bringing Michael blankets? Just like when she walked into the hatch when Michael shot her. So why is Libby haunting Michael? We’ve seen a lot of hauntings in this show. Charlie, Christian, Ana Lucia, Eko’s brother, Boone, and Dave who technically wasn’t ever alive.

7. So the time frame is that Michael has been gone two months according to his mother. Mr Friendly didn’t have too much more time to live after this episode if my memory is correct.

8. Could they have at least used the original actor for Walt? Seemed too cheesy.

9. Someone needs to read Korean! what was on the back of that watch? I haven’t thought about that watch for awhile. Good thing Jin didn’t make it back without it.

10. The island won’t let Michael die? Is that why Mikael kept living through those crazy accidents that should have killed him? This idea is very strange. If everything on this show has some explanation, how do you explain this outside of pure coincidence? Reminds me of an XFiles episode. I forget how that guy finally died.

11. Michael sure seemed to heal fast after trying to kill himself. He was out running around in no time. Did the island somehow give him the ability? Not like a Heroes power, more like some magnetic *hangover* if you will that allows your cells to heal faster. Or at least for awhile.

12. Mr Friendly tells Michael that he has work to do. Boone told Locke the same thing in his airport magic carpet ride dream and Walt also tells Locke this when he’s laying there dying after Ben shoots him.

13. It wasn’t a secret that Mr Friendly was gay. Remember that when Kate is first in the Others locker room after being kidnapped, he tells her not to worry because she’s not his type. He indulges when he’s not on the island.

14. I still don’t believe that Widmore staged the crash. Mr Friendly knows so very many details about how it was done, seems like maybe he knows just a little *too* much about it. I did appreciate that the reason the bodies weren’t pulled out of the wreckage and identified.

15. No one in Thailand noticed all those bodies missing?

16. Miles could have been talking to the ghost Libby that is following Michael around and that is how he knew it wasn’t really his name.

17. Maybe Michael sees that the effects of the island are killing the freighter crew and that is why he doesn’t want the ship to move away.

18. Is Frank really a good judge of character? He confides that the survivors of 815 might still be out there. Or since he has the manifest memorized does he perhaps know this is Michael somehow?

19. Michael killed Ana Lucia on his own. Wow, makes him seem even worse.

20. Ben wants a list of people on the boat. Makes me wonder if he is the one who orders the list of survivors on the plane. Makes me even think that there could have even been a mole on the plane who had the list before they crashed. Who is good on that boat that they want to save and why would Ben care?

21. Looks like Sayid must like Desmond’s hair this week because he has the same ‘do’ in the future. Yucky.

22. Ben is totally communicating with the Others - how else would they know Alex was coming? Ben is really a very selfish person - wanting Alex all to himself and he’s willing to kill to make that happen. However, it would be a cool twist if this explains where Frank and the other freighter guy went on their *errand.* They went to capture Alex because she is a great bargaining chip to get to Ben.

23.  They can’t kill Danielle!  We haven’t seen enough of her story yet!

24. April 24th. Doesn’t sound like too bad of a wait.

25. I could hear the monster outside of one of the houses in the previews. Looks like old Smokey must find a way around the security perimeter.

26.  Instead of whispers, Michael hears a song right before Libby shows up to tell him not to push the button (remember Walt’s “Push the button, don’t push the button.  The button’s bad?”).  And the Execute button was just like the one in the hatch.

27.  I thought for sure Michael would ask Sayid how Vincent was doing.

I have to start by saying I hated the ending. I usually hate happy-sappy endings but I wanted to see the excited dad come to see the new baby! I suspected that Jin might die but I guess now that I saw this week I was really bummed. How sad and another tear jerker!

1. Flash forward and flash back in the same episode. *That* was genius.

2. Some bad things are happening on the freighter. Regina’s book is upside down and she doesn’t even realize it? This put me in mind of things that are backwards on the island (whispers, Little Dipper). Then she kills herself. Frank says that they are having a “little problem” in the kitchen and what was up with the banging? Oh yeah, and the blood in Sayid and Desmond’s new cabin.

3. I had a couple of moments in the show tonight and I found myself saying, “I can’t believe that I didn’t think of that!” One was questioning where they came up with all those dead bodies to stage the wreckage. The other was that Ben staged it. Usually I’m wondering what took them so long to ask questions but tonight I was wondering why I wasn’t the one asking them.

4. Lots of three’s in tonight’s episode. Sayid and Desmond left three days ago. Sun has three weeks to get off the island.

5. I loved that Sun just flat out asked Daniel if they were going to rescue them. I was thinking, “Finally, someone just asks and waits for a straight answer.” Maybe Daniel didn’t answer straight, but Sun could read him loud and clear.

6. I thought that maybe Juliet had indeed found a cure for whatever was killing the pregnant women on the island but that Ben was sabotaging her work to keep her there. Now, seeing that Sun lives through her pregnancy and childbirth I’m even more convinced. Yes, I know she got off the island but seeing what’s happening to people who aren’t on the island but are under it’s influence (the freighter crew) I think that Ben didn’t want Juliet to succeed.

7. I was worried for Sun when the strange doctor came into the room that he was going to be a bad guy since she didn’t know that her regular doctor wasn’t going to be around. I kept thinking of creepy eyed man and wondering if the doctor was someone from his group.

8. Jin only understands English in small pieces, but he understood Juliet just fine when she explained Sun’s affair. Hmmm. Bad writing or more going on?

9. Are Jin and Bernard fishing off of Karl’s boat? And why was Bernard giving Jin advice to reel in the fish when Jin is the son of a fisherman.
10. Frank was running an errand with the helicopter? Very interesting. No Walmart nearby so I wonder what they’ve got him up to?
11. I’m interested to know what data is on the black box recorder. Obvioulsy it had info that clued them in that there were survivors but Widmore and his people had this info and chose not to disclose to the families that thought that their loved ones were dead. I guess they couldn’t if they wanted to keep the island all to himself. And I guess there goes Ben’s theory that Widmore wants to exploit the island and turn it into some sort of healing theme park. And I loved that the black box was red.

12. So Widmore wants them to move the boat to safer waters but Michael/Kevin is sabotaging the equipment. Why does Widmore want them to move? Why is Michael keeping the boat there? Walt must not be in the boat or Ben wants them to stay or I doubt he would care to stay by the island any longer than he has to.

13. Sun’s birth scene was the most unrealistic portrayal I have ever seen. I was even thinking she might be dreaming it because it was just that bad. Imagine if having a baby was really that easy. And there wasn’t an umbilical cord to cut.
14. Sayid says to Ray, “But the ship isn’t moving” and Ray responds, “If you say so.” Huh?

15. My daughter made a good point - they were showing (in our market) Carnival Cruise commercials. Happy people looking out to the islands and riding horses on the beach. Yeah, great idea during a show about people who crash landed and are now stuck on an island and some of their people are on a boat with all sorts of creepy people.

16. The date on the tombstone was 2004 so my guess is Jin dies saving Sun and the baby.

17. Anyone surprised to see Michael? At least he got his hair cut.

I don’t want to say that this episode stunk because it really was OK, but certainly not in my top favorites. Even if it didn’t follow the amazing episode last week, I think that this one would still be just mediocre at best. Still not a stinker yet this season though.

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1. OMG! It’s a black rock in the Zen garden! It must mean something! (sacrasm people!)
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2. Juliet is going to die. We know about Ben’s obsession with her and I doubt he would ever let her leave the island. BUT… what if she dies helping Aaron leave the island? She obviously cares about children (she asked Ben about Zach and Emma not to mention she’s a baby doctor) and that would also explain why future Jack can’t bear to see Aaron off of the island.

3. Way to go Harper! Not only does she have a Certificate of Recognition from the Hanso Foundation, she also belongs to the Experimental Social Psychology Society. She is obviously well qualified to be counseling people on *this* island.
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4. Wow, Harper, jealous much? I can understand the animosity once she finds out that Juliet is a home wrecking ho sleeping with her man, but in their first meeting she’s already cutting her down (”You’re not a celebrity…. you’ll find out soon enough that you’re no different than anyone here.”). Claws are out!

5. Yeah Tom! They really should have kept him. I would have loved to have seen his flash back story.
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6. I’m thinking that Juliet is of so much interest to everyone not only because she is the baby doctor, but also because Ben has obsessed about her for some time and I would guess they’ve all heard or know about it. “So, this is the woman he’s been so infatuated with.” Sounds like Ben did quite a lot of research and work to get her to the island.

7. AND, we’ve finally found Ben’s Achilles Heel. Juliet.

8. I’m wondering if Juliet somehow did figure out why the women keep dying but that Ben has sabotaged her research because it will keep her on the island. He knows how passionate she is about her work and if she can’t solve the puzzle it will keep her there until she does.  Juliet probably has no clue that she has solved the mystery because Ben is a very sneaky little man.
9. Those are pretty amazing torches that can stay lit in the rain.
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10. If you heard scary whispers in the jungle wouldn’t you be like “What the hell was that!?” Juliet and Jack never discuss, at least that we see.

11. Of course Ben would send Harper as an unspoken reminder to Juliet that she still *belongs* to him.

12. It was pretty good timing that Harper showed up during the whispers then vanished. It reminded me of the old Walt apparitions.

13. Why is it safer for Jack not to know about The Tempest? He’s not prone to freaking out over new information, so why not at least give this guy a clue about the gas? If I were Matthew Fox I would not be pleased with how naive they make Jack all the time. You can’t just chalk it up to trust.  At some point doesn’t he want answers?

14. I really like Kate’s new, darker hair. She must have gotten a touch up from Claire while she was at the barracks.
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15. Michael Emmerson is truly an amazing actor. He goes from a love sick little puppy in this scene to the crazy mad man who practically drags her to the dead, rotting corpse of Goodwin. I thought the scenes where Ben is doting on Juliet were great. He is practically skipping around his house getting ready for their dinner together.
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16. There must be a lot of (ahem) *coupling* going on here at the island for all these pregnant women to be running around. They have to conceive on the island in order to be part of the experiment. I’m just saying that they can’t all be using in vitro fertilization.

17. I miss the old crazy, jungle running, knife throwing, sneaking around Locke. This domesticated version isn’t nearly as interesting.
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18. I found it interesting that the writers hinted that Ben had something to do with the plane crash. I thought that it was settled that Desmond’s error caused the crash. But Goodwin asks what Ben is going to do then they flash to the plane breaking apart mid air.

19. This is definitely a new tape of Widmore. Ben just showed Jack the Red Sox game a few weeks back in island time.

20. Does the tape of Widmore really prove anything to Locke? I think I would have had a heck of a lot more questions for a man that had just shot me and left me for dead days ago.
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21. When Locke asks Ben what Widmore wants, Ben goes into the story about the mold. I’m thinking that is our answer why Widmore wants to find the island - for the healing powers.

22. Locke wants to keep this island to himself just like Ben wants to keep Juliet. They do have this obsessive side to their personality in common. I think that Locke will help Ben keep Widmore away so he can keep the island secret.

23. Ben’s man on the boat. We all think it’s going to be Michael, but it just seems so obvious. It’s torture because on one hand we know Michael is coming back and it makes sense. But on the other hand it seems to go along with the show to have a twist. Maybe have Michael as his man but Christian Shepherd be the captain? I would love it to be Charlie but that is just asking too much. Any wild and crazy theories out there?

24. Cool new hatch.
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25. Notice the painting over Ben’s shoulder. I think that this is the “her” that Harper was referring to that Juliet resembles. I think that it’s Annie. Annie probably got preggers, died, lost the baby and that is what fueled Ben’s fire to fix whatever is killing the women. Then he found Juliet and kind-of, sort-of started to forget about Annie.
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26. Daniel sure can type fast in those heavy rubber gloves!
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27. Here are a bunch of screenshots from the computer:

28. I forgot to mention the map that Faraday is looking at to find The Tempest. My guess is the original was taken out of the Black Rock log but since they are using it to find the hatch (that could not have been there in the 1800’s) then someone who has been to the island would have had to give them the location. Michael perhaps? Maybe that is why they were holding off going to the island because they needed the one last piece to be sure they wouldn’t be killed when they stormed the island. I know that Charlie had to flip the switch to get them there, but they needed to be able to find The Tempest and the Losties on the island didn’t know about this hatch.
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29. They have to be either purposely filming where these red flowers on the island are, the red flowers do mean something, or there are just a whole bunch of these around Hawaii. Anyone from Hawaii know?
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30. If Juliet was so in love with Goodwin, then why is she so hot and bothered for Jack (outside of the fact that he’s a hottie)?

31. Awesome camera shot.
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32. Oops, here are some shots of inside the new hatch:

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33. Hurley is darned good at horeshoes. But remember how good Walt was at throwing that knife? They both apparently have some special *abilities.* Either that, or they’ve spent some serious time in the Southern US learning these skills.
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34. First we have Hurley questioning Locke out in the jungle on the way to the barracks. Then Claire wants to talk to Miles. Now Sawyer sees Ben just wandering around. Yes friends, I think we are going to see a revolution just as Ben predicted, against Locke.

35.  Now we know what Daniel’s purpose was in being chosen to come to the island. Didn’t see that one coming. Now it will be interesting to see what Miles and Charlotte’s uses are. I’m not so convinced that they are good guys or really care what happens to the Losties. Well, Daniel and Frank seem to care, but Miles and Charlotte are certainly more self centered.

36. Could Smokey be the by-product of a gas leak from The Tempest? I think there is more to it than just gas (like it cloaks something solid) but it appears that this gas is deadly and could certainly kill people.

1. If they had to dump supplies out of the helicopter to reduce the weight load, not to be rude, but how in the world are Hurley and five others going to get into the helicopter and off the island? There must be another way.

2. Cute with all the daddy issues over the past three seasons that Mr. Friendly tells Juliet that after a week with Harper she’ll have you crying about your daddy.

3. I must be deaf because I can’t ever understand what the whispers say. I think I heard Juliet but I don’t know for sure. Then Jack heard them too. I don’t remember him hearing them before. Probably freaked him out pretty good! I was just waiting for the black smoke… which they say will reappear in the next couple of episodes.

4. The Tempest. Appropriate name. Play about people stranded on an island and a spirit trapped in a tree (jacob).

5. Remember that there was an “incident” once on the island? Could it be possible that the gas was released before (and not when Ben killed off Dharma)? It would explain why the hatch was quarantined (couldn’t leave to the poison air), why they originally had gas masks and perhaps whatever poison was in the gas has something to do with women not being able to conceive on the island.

6. I thought it was hilarious that Ben asks Locke if the rabbit happened to have a number on it.

7. Juliet is the other woman in more ways than one.

8. I figured since Locke had Ben trapped in his own house, Ben knew ways to communicate and probably even leave if he wanted to. Duh Locke!

9. The picture on the wall in front of Ben’s safe looked like the place where Rose met her healer, Isaac of Uluru.

10. I can’t believe that Locke didn’t question Ben seven ways from Sunday about how he got the secret video of Mr Widmore. And if Widmore is so bad then why does Ben have the tape locked in a safe? Could this be another reason to believe (as viewers) that Mr Widmore isn’t the bad guy? If Charlotte and Daniel are really there to make the chemicals inert, then maybe he’s trying to stop Ben from killing Desmond. Maybe Widmore is dying and knows that the island has healing powers and he wants to get there himself. We know one thing for certain, you cannot trust Ben.

11. I’m interested to see screencaps of the secret video and see if we can tell who Widmore has blindfolded.

12. Doesn’t Locke wonder why someone was secretly taping Widmore? And doesn’t he wonder how, on the island, that Ben got a copy from the outside world? And why even make the video?

13. I liked that Juliet mentioned the kids that they took from the tailsection survivors. I know I was wondering about them.

14. Girl fight! Juliet versus Charlotte. I wouldn’t mess with Juliet, but we haven’t seen yet what Charlotte can do.

15. Yes! If Daniel ends up *really* being a good decent guy then maybe they will keep the character on the show. Last week in the podcast Darlton acknowledged that they knew the fans really liked Daniel. Please keep him!

16. What a sick-o … Ben taking Juliet to the dead body of Goodwin with the flies buzzing around his body. That man is evil.

17. So I guess we know that Ben wants to kill Jack but we’ve seen flash forwards so we know he at least makes it a little while off of the island. But we also know that Ben has a double life off of the island.

18. Claire asks to see Miles. I’m worried that she’s going to get hurt trying to talk to him.

19. It appears that Ben is keeping the gasses on the island just in case he ever needs to wipe out another population. Why else keep them around? Why does any government keep dangerous chemical warfare knowing it could get in the wrong hands.

Juliet flashies. Get it, the “Other” woman?

Uh oh, rain.
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Looks like they are watching one of the orientation videos. Or maybe reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond.
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1. What does Eggtown mean anyway? Usually the meaning behind the title is much more obvious. But nooooo, they have to go and make us think even more.

* Idea one: “Egg-town is a pejorative term that refers to the days of bartering. A traveling salesman would have to barter his candy or tobacco or shoelaces for different commodities. A poor exchange would be for eggs, a relatively common item that is also highly perishable. Nobody wants to trade for eggs from a traveling salesman because they have their own, so the salesman who accepted an egg in exchange was forced to accept a bad deal. Salesmen would use the term like “If I were you I would stay away from Bogart. That’s an egg-town.” Of course, the lack of trust among salesman was also high, and it was likely that one salesman would lie to another about the quality of a town’s customers to keep them for himself. Invariably, the second salesman ventures into to Bogart only to find it is truly an egg-town. He is either persuaded to not visit a town that has good customers or is tricked into visiting a town that can only offer eggs. The term “egg-town” represents a deal with undesirable outcomes in either case. Source; Lostpedia

* Idea two; “Don’t put your eggs all in one basket.” Seems to apply to Kate’s agenda. And many others (Sawyer, Locke, Hurley, Juliet, etc…). Plus Kate is totally playing Sawyer and Jack off of each other.

* Idea three: Ben eggs on Locke. Nothing new there really.

*Idea four (and my least favorite): It’s a fertility reference. Where is “Eggtown” exactly? This is just too cheesy to believe though.

2. Why open with Locke’s eye when it wasn’t a Locke-centric episode?
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3. Here’s the book that Locke chooses for Ben. Check out my other post for a link that will run down the books in this episode.
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4. Locke is taking this power tripping this a little too far. I think he’s trying to recreate the commune that he was so happy in back home but he fails to see that he’s working with far different conditions - for instance, the people that are there aren’t there because the chose to drop out of society to live on a pot farm. Locke is cooking up a big meal for everyone to get together and sing Kumbayah, but when your personality is like Sawyer and the two prisoners being held (not to mention Old Smokey is lurking somewhere out there) it’s not exactly the perfect ingredients for a happy community.

5. Is it just me or is it weird that Ben’s house is built on a basement thats primary function appears to be a jail. If the peace loving Dharma gang lived there before, what did they need the basement for? The hostiles? Did they take them prisoner here? It’s very Silence of the Lambs to me. Like a secret underground Gitmo.
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6. Locke gives Ben the last two eggs and then kills the chicken. Yeah, really smart. Almost as smart as blowing up Patchy’s communication station. Are there more chickens around somewhere that we haven’t seen? It is Eggtown after all. (That was a joke).

7. Is Ben right? Is Locke more LOST than he ever was? Seems to me Locke was doing just fine for himself before he came to this commune he set up. I would probably chose his side just for the idea of ice cubes and showers, but he doesn’t seem to have it all figured out like he did before. We need Charlie here to make some smart remark or add on a new nickname for Locke. (Remember the Great White Hunter?) But I was glad John walked away from Ben when he did.
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8. Ben lived in this house (presumably) for most of his life. I would bet that he also knows a way out of the underground prison. I think he’s staying there to toy with Locke for awhile. If Ben really thinks he’s in danger from the freighter people he will surely disappear.

9. Wow. the Dharma folks shop at WalMart. They sell the Mainstays brand around these parts at least.
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10. Here’s a screencap of the guy yelling at Kate when she walks into the courtroom. One site went as far as to play it backwards and you can hear, “We hate you!” Interesting little twist.
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11. Kate’s lawyer. I think that this is just to get us talking, but check this out about the actor:

Her lawyer, played by Shawn Doyle, previously acted alongside Elizabeth Mitchell, Juliette, in the film Frequency. In the film, he plays a serial killer named Jack Shepard who kills Mitchell’s character after she saves him because her son messes with time travel. Source: Wikipedia

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12. Interesting choice of cities for Jin. Especially considering Kate robbed a bank there and Sawyer’s baby’s momma (Cassie) lives there.
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13. I want to go on the record (again) saying that Jin and Sun are the remaining two of the Oceanic Six. I know that some of you will argue that Aaron was number five, but I don’t know that he’ll count necessarily. And on an aside, if Kate wasn’t preggers when she was taken into custody by the Marshall, then how does she explain the baby (assuming she’s telling everyone back home that it’s hers) when they were only on the island for a few months? She would have to be bringing him back with her from the island in order to claim him as her own. You can’t shove a 6 month old baby up your dress and *pretend* to give birth. Not around where I live, at least. People might get suspicious of that.

14. Why does Sun want to raise her baby back in Korea? Yes, she was running from Jin that day in the airport but she was also running from her father. If she goes back it will be more of the same and Jin will be working again for her dad. Gosh, maybe there is another reason we don’t know yet! Do you think?

15. Creepy boathouse. Looks so much like Jacob’s shack, too.
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16. Oh boy, I hate seeing Kate in a red jumpsuit. Red has not been a good color for anyone on the island. What started out as a joke (the red shirts) has turned into a harbinger of doom and death.
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17. The DA decides to try the case herself. Momma decides she doesn’t want to testify against Kate. Hm, seems like someone might be pulling some strings here…. with the bazillion counts against her and all she gets is probation? And let’s talk again about why the DA is so set with her staying in California? Must be someone or something outside the state that Kate could connect with and make trouble with (fill in the blank for whoever is pulling the strings). Could be Ben. He is very rich.

18. I don’t think that Kate stole baby Aaron. Remember on the island she really didn’t want to hold him. Back home she won’t take a deal for prison time even knowing the charges she faces. I think this is because she made a promise to Claire to take care of him and she knows therefore that she can’t go to prison.

19. Remember that Aaron is also a very special child. The Others kept trying to nab him. The psychic didn’t want her to adopt the baby out. It has been hinted all along he is special. I think Kate knows this. I think that she *has* to pass the baby off as hers because if the *bad guys* found out who the baby really was they would probably try to take him. I think that is also why she was so dead set against bringing him into the courtroom - she knew the media coverage around and wants to keep him out of the spotlight. Not to mention he is still a very young child and I’m not sure what he could possibly do to help build her character in court. Outside of the cute factor of course.

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21. OK so according the Jack they crashed on an island in the South Pacific yet the *airplane* was found off the coast if Indonesia. That is one hell of a swim. I guess really is a hero.

22. I think that whoever the two additional survivors Jack mentions (he says 8 survived but we know only 6 make it back) are survivors that must get killed in whatever dramatic events are about to happen to get these six off of the island. Sawyer? Michael & Walt? Locke?

23. Foffman mentions in the comments that scenes are remniscent of prior scenes in the show. Here’s one - the DA asks Jack if he loves Kate. Just like when (I forgot his name from last season) asks Kate when they are in the cages if she loves Sawyer as he’s about to kill him. She says yes to save Sawyer. I know Jack says no, but later tells Kate he was lying.

24. Why does Kate keep wearing dirty clothes? There are clothes around her size and a washer and dryer.
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25. So Miles can *arrange* to *amend* Ben’s current situation (being held hostage)? And Miles knows that Ben has access to millions of dollars in cash. And Miles suggests to Kate she’s better off on the island (something he’s not telling her?) and that “Who knows, maybe you didn’t survive the crash.” Miles may be a creep, but he has *some* conscience (he gave some of the money back to the grandma). Maybe he’s trying to warn Kate in a subtle way not to go back. Kate wanted more in this scene than to just know if they knew she was a fugitive. That wrap wouldn’t just go away. I think we’ll see more going on with these two.

26. Is it just me or does Kate’s mom bear a striking resemblance to Gwenyth Paltrow?
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27. Remember that Ben *healed* Juliet’s sister Rachel when he wanted to keep Juliet on the island. I’m thinking that Ben has something to do with Kate’s mom living so far past what the doctor’s had expected. Maybe he can’t save her but he can keep her alive. But it won’t come without a price.

28. Dan’s memory is getting better. Maybe he’s not perfect, but it’s better. I think that it’s the healing powers of the island. I think this also tells us why Dan was crying when he saw the plane crash on tv. He couldn’t remember why, but something he knew at one point touched him. What if he has some type of electric shock therapy and it fried his memory? He kind of needs it though if he is going to get them back to the boat (they need the coordinates). I’m sure it will also come into play for scenes we haven’t seen yet.

29. The card that Dan remembers is also in a picture on Aaron’s wall back home. Wonder why this is going to be significant? Unless *gasp* it’s just another meaningless connection that drives us obsessed Lost fans crazy!
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30.  The phones the “Freighties” have sure to have long lasting batteries don’t they?

31.  Kate has a really nice house which I’m sure Oceanic paid for.  But she has those awful red flowers that appear everywhere on the island in front.
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32.  For the record, this is not Juliet’s sister Rachel.  Not even the same actress.
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33.  I would guess that Aaron is at least 2 to 3 years old here.
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1. Eye opening… at the opening. But you knew that. It was Locke’s eye.

2. Ben in the room that the “real” Sawyer was being held. Remember last season when Locke first encounters him all tied up?

3. Loved Locke’s line about the book he gives Ben. “Maybe you’ll catch something you missed the second time around.” Not that I, *ahem,* would watch anything a second time for things I missed….

4. Locke should have know Ben was playing him when Ben asks about the other prisoner, “Miles, is it?” Duh, Ben is the one that told Locke all about the four that came from the freighter and all about Charlotte’s background. So he obviously would know Miles’ name.

5. Do you see the bearded guy yelling at Kate when she was walking through the paparazzi into the courtroom? He really stuck out to me but I couldn’t make out what he was saying. Will for sure have to screen cap him.

6. Katheryn ANNE Austin. We had talked before about Kate possibly being the Annie from Ben’s childhood on the island.

7. Wow, Jin learned English pretty quickly didn’t he? If they’ve only been there 100 days and Jin only found out about Sun’s secret approximately half way, that means he had somewhere in the neighborhood of a month or more to learn the language. Impressive.

8. Interesting that when Jack came to the beach and told Sun and the others that Dan and Charlotte were there to save them, Dan looks down. Yeah, not their primary objective.

9. Creepy when Locke’s hands were all bloody from killing the chicken.

10. Loved it when Hurley asks Kate if she Scooby Doo’d him when she found out where Miles was.

11. Didn’t the boat house look like Jacob’s cabin?

12. Miles wanted to be in the boathouse? I think there was more to this than just wanting to get to Ben. There is a bigger plan at work.

13. The numbers again. Duncan (Kate’s lawyer) tells her to plead down to 15 years. Prosecutor offers four initially.

14. Charges against Kate (I think we’ve seen them all happen). Fraud, Arson, Assault of a Federal Officer, Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Grand Larceny, Grand Theft Auto, and Murder in the First Degree. And 15 years for all this! She’s crazy not to take it unless (here we go again) she knows something. Maybe made a deal with Creepy Eyed Man and his people? They could have swayed the mom and the prosecuting attorney.

15. Of course the “him” is her son but how much time had to have passed since this epi and when Kate meets up with Jack (in the scene at the end of last season)? She says “he” will worry where she is. In the middle of the night why would her kid know she was gone unless it was much later and he was older. And why would the attorney consider bringing in this small child to a courtroom?

16. Busy signal on the phone to the boat? Why? What have they done with Sayid and Desmond? Guess we’ll find out before the first eight end.

17. Wow! Was Jack smoking hot in that courtroom or what? Guess Kate wasn’t the only one that cleaned up nicely.

18. Jack says that there were eight survivors. Maybe…. Michael and Walt make it back to land before the other six? Otherwise there would have to be two that die trying to get back and only the other six of the eight make it.

19. Whatever happens to get the six off of the island must be very dramatic. It must be something that really compromises their morals and feeds all of the post-island guilt. Jack and Kate couldn’t even look at each other in the courtroom when he was telling what happened. I WANT TO KNOW!

20. Loved the movies that Hurley has to choose from. “Xanadu” or “Satan’s Doom.” And, they looked to be VHS tapes. Again with the old school technology.

21. The only words I could hear during the Xanadu song was “Open your eyes…” ironically.

22. OK so Kate uses Sawyer for more than just getting Ben to Miles. So what, Miles knew she was a fugitive. What did she really want to know from him? I think there is more here.

23. So Ben is rich. And Miles knows who he is and “what he can do.” I can’t believe I’m going to say this… but can he somehow time travel? I don’t think he has a machine or anything but perhaps he’s found a way to get off and on the island through some sort of time rip. If I could do that I would get some winning lottery numbers and get rich but perhaps Mr. Fenry used it for evil. OK not evil but something very bad that makes someone off the island spend lots of money to find him.

24. I’m very curious to find out what the $3.2 million is for. Charlotte is already in on it. I’m sure that Miles and Charlotte had a plan before Miles let himself get caught.

25. Daniel has a terrible memory. Remember that. It will be important later.

26. It sounds like Charlotte tells Regina on the phone that Cassie wasn’t answering the other line. Remember that Sawyer’s baby’s momma was Cassie. Coincidence (or fate)?

27. Can I just say that this season has rocked!!

28. Locke is a FREAK putting the grenade in Miles’ mouth. Either he really knows something huge or how could the Six possibly leave everyone else behind with him?

29. Kate can’t get pregnant. Eggtown. Was there some kind of X-Files-esque conspiracy to steal her eggs? Falopian tubes removed and cannot get the eggs to hatch?

30. Red flowers in front of Kate’s house. Those things are everywhere!

31. Aaron. I didn’t see that one coming. I can see why Jack didn’t want to come and see the baby. Guilty conscience. Just another reason to head back to the island. Claire must have given Kate the baby just in case they didn’t get back to rescue them. Not sure why Claire wouldn’t have gone instead of Kate. But, if Desmond saw Claire and Aaron getting lifted into the helicopter I would say that is a sure sign that we will see a rescue of the others by the end of the show. Eeek! I don’t even want to think about the end of the show.

32. I agree. Who cares if Kate leaves the state? I think after this she’s going to have to leave the state to find Penny to get back to the island and save the others left behind. Who really wants her to stick around?

33. Next week looks really cool as they are flying into the electrical storm. If they left in the helicopter at least one day before Jack radioed the boat can it be possible that time moves differently going to and from the island? We know they make it to the boat because the other freighter people are in the preview. I also saw a chalkboard….then again…. it is a Desmond flashie. He has short hair in the preview too. And…. per NBC the flight to the boat causes some unexpected side effects.  Another weird Desmond time/head trip?

You’ve been on this island for 100 days living all primitive and stuff. I would be doing the happy dance to have access to a refrigerator. I would miss ice cubes and the way stuff freezes in the back for the refrigerator when it’s turned up too high. Ahh, the comforts of home.
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Playing house.
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What is he eating? It’s not a cheeseburger but maybe Juliet will come and cook him up a nice grilled cheese sandwich.
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Check out this link to see the books shown in Eggtown. Kind-of spoilerish so didn’t want to post it here.

See my last post for initial thoughts.

1. Interesting to open with eyes closed. We’ve always seen the one open eye. Obviously, Sayid is different than the others. His eyes are closed when it seems like theoretically his eyes are more *open* than others. But, Sayid hasn’t had a healing or eye opening on the island. If anything, he is more of a killer in the future than before the island.
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2. I didn’t post a picture of a Muslim in prayer but it doesn’t look to me like Sayid is necessarily in a prayer position (anyone out there have insight into this?). Then he opens his eyes and is looking at Naomi’s body. He wants her body off the island for some reason. Either it has something to do with dead bodies somehow being inhabited by Jacob or he is transporting something in/on her body or he knows Naomi or something about her that makes him treat her respectfully.
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3. Naomi’s bracelet inscription pictured here. Instead of Elsa just happening to own the same bracelet, maybe Sayid gave it to her (he kept Naomi’s)? Either it had sentimental value because he cared for Naomi for some reason or it was a connection back to the island. Or, it could be a bracelet given by whomever is hiring them to kill off Ben.
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4. Miles is getting to be quite the funny guy. Miles to Frank: “In case you zoned out while you were tweezing your goatee, one of these yahoos took Charlotte prisoner.” Very high strung.

5. Dane pointed out in comments on the last post that the seven iron is what they were using on the island. Sayid is using the seven iron here. Guess he grew to like the club. Good catch!

6. I don’t think that only 6 from the island have to be the only ones that make it back to land. If Juliet makes it back she probably wouldn’t want to make a big media spectacle because how would she possibly explain or prove where she has been? I think that it’s possible some of the “natives” could make it back but would have to just try to blend back into society without a media fuss.

7. Anyone work at a golf course and know when the sprinklers come on? I thought it was at night which would mean that perhaps someone turned these on to help cover the gunshot and wash away evidence? Also, symbolic of course.
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8. I thought it was funny that Sayid was pretending that he couldn’t read maps. Ironically, he was the one navigating Danielle’s map and the map of the underwater hatch.

9. So Charlotte knows that Ben has a spy back on the freighter boat. I would probably be telling my other team mates when I was reunited about this piece of info first thing. Yet so far she hasn’t said anything about it to them.

10. Theories on where Jacob’s shack is? Hurley saw it flip positions. The creators have been saying since day one that everything can be explained. I guess they didn’t mean in reality, but rather in possibility? I’m not aware of any disappearing cabin theories out there.

11. I think that Jack sends Kate with Sayid on the mission to get Charlotte because he is trying to protect her. Remember when Jack was doing surgery on Ben and told her to run and save herself? I think Jack knows that there is trouble coming and he thinks that Kate will be safer back at the barracks. You know Jack, if he thinks he’s getting off the island he would come back and save her.

12. Elsa’s employer is “old fashioned” when it comes to technology (ie; the pager). Remember back on the island they were using a very old school computer in the hatch and had a record player. There has to be a connection.
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13. Why does Frank tell Daniel that it’s ok to use the phone but to hang up right away if Mankowski gets on the phone?

14. Radio signals and the phones go through right away to the freighter yet animated objects have a time delay. When Daniel sets up his experiment Regina gets the signal “clearly” yet the beacon is delayed.

15. I’ve read a lot of talk about Jack and Frank’s conversation regarding the Red Sox winning the Series. I don’t think that Frank really has a reaction like he’s surprised at Jack’s question. It just seemed like banter to me.

16. 31 minute time delay. So time is moving slower on the island. Anyone want to do the math? After 100 days how far behind in time would they be? There are also biblical scriptures in Daniel that correspond to these numbers if you care to look them up.
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17. Ben’s bookshelf. I doubt they were reading the Qur’an in the bookclub.
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18. Some people are saying that Michael Faraday is on the money. It would be a fun little “Where’s Waldo” of the show. Thoughts?
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19. We can see passports for Brazil, New Zealand in his hands and Japan in the drawer.
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20. This is the best shot I could make of Ben’s passport info. It looks like he was born March 23, 1962 which would make him 42. One of the numbers! I’m sure there are better copies out there so we can see the name and other info on the passport.
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21. Here’s the scene where Saywer comes walking into the room where Kate is looking under the bed. It looks just like when he was a kid and his dad came walking into his room and he was hiding under the bed.
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22. Hurley had some great lines in this one. I loved it when he said to Sayid he knew he could hurt him when he saw him break that guys neck with his break dancing move.

23. Was Miles really a bargaining chip for Sayid? Locke already had him locked up so why would Locke see Miles as a trade for Charlotte? I’m thinking there was another trade made that we will find out about later.

24. Maybe Frank hasn’t heard of Penelope Widmore, but I would bet he has heard the name Widmore… perhaps his boss?

25. So could Sayid’s last mistake of thinking with his heart instead of his gun have anything to do with Nadia? She was his great love, certainly he would have gone looking for her when he got back. And I want to know which friends Sayid is protecting - the Oceanic 6 or the ones left on the island?
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I started off thinking this episode was really slow then true to form, for every one answer we got another 12 questions.

WARNING: If you haven’t watched the episode don’t read this. There is a major twist at the end.

1. What is up with this bracelet? It reads, “N, I’ll always be with you. RG.” Elsa is wearing one that we can see when she is getting ready for the opera and when Sayid is in bed with her right before he kills her. Is it something with the organization Sayid/Ben/Naomi works for? Does Mr Creepy Eyed Man have something to do with it? He is the one that hired Naomi. Seems MCEM would also want Sayid for “missions” considering all the skills he has and that he is a ruthless killer. Sayid gets to the boat and could be Ben’s mole that he can’t tell them the name of. My sis is convinced that Sayid is the mole.

2. Red towel on Sayid’s golf bag should have been a sign that someone was going to die (red has been the death theme all three seasons). But where does this guy who pulls up to Sayid even come from? I may not know much about golf but you don’t just come up to someone who’s about to hit a shot in the middle of the course for nothing. He’s not trying to pass and he even offers him a ride to the next hole. But he can clearly see Sayid is in the middle of this hole. Then, when Sayid tells him who he is, the man seems frightened and tries to leave. Did Ben send him there and why does this guy need a killing? Is he part of Dharma and they are slowly killing them off one by one? Ben killed them on the island so I’m sure he’s not above killing them off the island. This new guys tells Sayid he’s the only one on the course all morning. Suspicious, don’t you think?

3. I just watched the scene again. This guys works for Oceanic or whoever set it up to look like they died on that plane. THAT is why he freaks out when Sayid tells him who he is.

4. Looking back at the “previously on…” why was Frank studying every single name on the manifest if they thought or were told that there were no survivors from the flight?

5. So starting in the cafe, Sayid and Elsa were both playing each other. Ben actually sends them both there.

6. I knew the second Elsa had that red dress on that she was going to die. Then to see that bracelet, it was all over for her.

7. Loved, loved, loved Sawyer’s suggestion to start shooting off Ben’s toes. First you start with the big toe and send that piggy to market. Then you move on to the roast beef. Hilarious!

8. Interesting that everyone seems to have insight into the survivors but Frank didn’t know about Sayid’s background.

9. Why can’t Locke see the cabin? Aaron starts crying when they get to the location also.

10. Notice all the playground equipment at the barracks? There weren’t any children. Why all the equipment? It didn’t look old like it had not been used since Dharma. Miles even says something about a daycare being there.
11. So there is a 1/2 hour (31 minutes to be exact) time lag from on versus off the island. This should explain some of the growth when Walt comes back.

12. I thought for sure when Sayid found Ben’s secret closet he was also going to find a secret way off of the island. He might have found something for all we know and that is why Sayid wanted off of the island. Maybe he thought he could use the worm hole back to the island to save the others. Why doesn’t Sayid tell the others what he has found? It’s more costumes (like the ones from the lockers).

13. Why does Kate call Sawyer “James?” Everyone using proper names has been weird.

14. Did you notice when Kate is looking under the bed at Ben’s house the feet she sees coming in look just like when Saywer was a young boy and he saw the feet of his father coming into his room.

15. How sweet, Sawyer wants to play house with Kate. Just in time for Valentines’s Day!

16. The list! Another list!

17. Why does Sayid care about getting Naomi’s body back to the boat? This guys knows so much that we haven’t seen yet! He knows something to do with that bracelet that makes her special.

18. Why does Desmond want to go to the boat when he knows it’s not Penny’s boat? Obviously Frank and Dan “do” know about Penny from the looks they gave each other. Will be interested to see the boat scenes but I’m sure there won’t be much of that until near the end of the 8 episodes. Who does Desmond think on the boat is going to tell him about Penny when it’s NOT HER BOAT!

19. I wonder if Kate really wanted to stay behind with Sawyer or if Sayid pretty much left her.

20. Why does Sayid meet Ben in the dog kennel of all places and when did Ben get to know so much about medicine?

21. Who are they after (Ben and Sayid)? Must be the people who either purposely crashed the plane or covered it up and left them to die.

22. In the rerun before the new epi, the pop up said that the woman with Dan was not his wife but was his caretaker. This guys must have issues.

23. Sayid says something to Elsa about the old technology her boss uses. Should have been a clue that her boss was Ben.

24. Sayid closes Elsa’s eyes tenderly just like he does to Naomi. Still thinking there is more going on there.

25. When Desmond asks Frank flat out if he has ever heard of “Penny” Widmore he and Dan both say no. but perhaps they know the Widmore name, not Penny specifically. Maybe they were hired by Poppa Widmore.

26. Jack was so set to get off the island and now he lets the dead body of Naomi go before he gets on the helicopter. Yes, now that Kate decided to stay behind.

27. So Sayid is killing to protect his friends? Which ones, the Oceanic Six or all those left back on the island?