Uncharted Island

So we finally see Regina, and she’s pretending to be reading outside the room holkding Sayid and Desmond.

Lima beans. Yummy. I would gag on every bite, but I guess that would be better than starving.

Sun doesn’t want to pick a name for the baby until they get off the island. I can understand that. “Deal.”

And Sun does get off the island. We “knew” that. But she makes six. And the fact that she has to call for an ambulance just confirms what that means… Jin doesn’t get off the island.

Wait… Jin? Jin! He wants a panda for the baby. So… Aaron didn’t count in the Oceanic 6 then. Fake out!

Oh look, a note! “DON’T TRUST THE CAPTAIN.” In very boxy letters, like a kid had written it.

Is the captain the guy who talked to Frank at the beginning of the episode? (Incidentally, I needed to hear him say la-PEE-dus. I thought that it was LAP-id-us.) He looks familiar to me, and I don’t know why.

Sun’s doctor is away at a conference. I don’t trust that to be the truth. We’ve already seen Hurley being manipulated by Abaddon. I think this replacement doctor is somehow connected to Widmore. Or is otherwise shady and trying to get his hands on the baby. I don’t think he’s on the level.

Poor Jin, lost his panda and his cab. What’s the deal with the panda? Does it have some sort of significance in Korean culture?

Not a good time, Bernard. Well, maybe they can have a man to man talk. Ha… Bernard babbling about marriage. “We must be the good guys.”

Is that Morse code being banged on the pipes? Even though I’m a fan of Jericho, I still know nothing of Morse code.

Regina just jumped off the side of the boat wrapped in chains. Um… wth?

I just used IMDB to check up on the captain. I have no idea why I recognize him.

And the good ol’ captain just confirmed that Ben wasn’t lying. The boat is Charles Widmore’s boat. Unless, of course, he’s in cahoots with Ben. But I doubt that. Oh… and we just got a good rundown of exactly what went into staging the fake wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815. Widmore didn’t do it, Ben did?

Wow, Sun is a champion pusher! She took less time pushing to get her baby out than I did!

Johnson. That’s totally Michael. Kevin Johnson, huh? Not a big surprise. But I did just hear the collective sigh of hundreds of LOST fans who had hoped against hope that Michael wasn’t going to be Ben’s man on the boat. The only thing I’m surprised about is that we saw him before the last five seconds of the episode. I thought his face would be revealed right before the end credits rolled.

“I made dinner.” Aww. Jin really has changed. Although I wonder if he’ll need to use his old skills to commandeer the helicopter when it comes back.

Whoa… it was a flashback and a flash forward. Weird!

Crap. That means that Jin doesn’t get off the island?

Okay, I’m crying now, and trying to type through my tears. Hurley came to see little Ji Yeon. Sun was just completely out of it when she asked for Jin during labor. And they went to see Jin’s grave stone…

The stone said that Jin died on September 22, 2004. The date of the plane crash. Jin doesn’t get off the island. But is he actually dead, or is he just… still on the island?

Look at that, a flashback! It looked like a building out of New Otherton from the first shot, so I did suspect. I knew not to make any snap judgments, though - this is LOST. Juliet’s seeing an on-island therapist. That’s kinda funny. And Tom had a mustache! Has he lost weight since filming his death scene last season? The actor, of course. In the case of the character, he would’ve gained weight from that time up until the island’s present time.

And Juliet meets up with her old therapist, Harper, in the jungle. Is she really there, perhaps on an excursion from the Temple? She is all wet with rain.

Ah yes, she’s delivering a message from Ben. Her appearance and disappearance was accompanied by the whispers. Could she be like Richard, one of the island’s original inhabitants? Juliet seems confused by them, so it would seem that ordinary Others aren’t responsible for the whispers.

“Ben is exactly where he wants to be.” Isn’t that what Miles said as prisoner in the boathouse? Just a few scenes before he ended up with a live grenade shoved into his mouth?

Aww, and Juliet met Goodwin to bandage up his arm. He was married to Harper? I guess there’s a good reason for Harper to have more than a little animosity toward her, considering Juliet ended up sleeping with him.

The Tempest is the power station. And did I hear Harper say that the gas canisters were also being stored there? The kind of gas used in the Purge?

What doesn’t Dan think he can do? The easy answer would be to speculate that he and Charlotte will orchestrate a second Purge. But that would be too obvious, wouldn’t it?

Kate knows that Charlotte is lying about the satellite phone being out of juice and looking for the packs they threw from the chopper. She saw the phone’s light on. And… she got pistol-whipped. Doh.

Harper seemed “hostile” for a therapist. Would that be hostile or Hostile?

So apparently, during a woman’s second trimester, the woman’s immune system turns on the fetus. And… we don’t know what she was about to say next. I wonder if Goodwin’s visit was really about an egg salad sandwich, or if it was meant to be a booty call.

Yikes. Harper is not a very good therapist. You don’t confront your patient about sleeping with your husband - at least not during her session. Threats are not cool, either. Who does Juliet look like, and why would Ben harm Goodwin for sleeping with Juliet? Does Juliet look like a grown up Annie, maybe? Is she one of the women who died in pregnancy?

Claire makes a good point to Locke. It sounds a lot like what we fans said all along about the Others and how they treated the castaways.

Ben wants to know if the rabbit he’s eating for dinner had a number on it. We know what that means, but apparently the experiments run on the rabbits weren’t too bad. Ben still ate it.

What could Ben do to Goodwin? Now we know. He could send him over to the Tailies, which would lead to his death. Did Ben know how it would turn out when he chose him? And if so, what did Ethan do to get on Ben’s bad side? I mean, Ethan was their surgeon.

36-15-28 opens Ben’s secret safe. With the Red Sox tape in it? “I taped over the game.” LOL. Charles Widmore! Confirmation that he owns the freighter and is looking for the island. We “knew” that, but now we know that. And Widmore does his own dirty work. I would’ve thought he’d hire someone like Jin to beat people up for him.

Oh come on, just tell us who the man on the boat is. Stupid commercial break. Tell us it’s Michael. That’s what most of us fans think, anyway. And if it’s not Michael, we need to know that, too. And then we need to know why Harold Perrineau’s name has been in the opening credits all season!

So Ben sent Goodwin on a death mission, then cooked a romantic candlelit ham dinner for Juliet. Wine. Opera music.

The children from Flight 815 were on Jacob’s list. Hmm. And Ben says that Goodwin is trying to bring Ana-Lucia to New Otherton, trying to make it sound like Goodwin “wants” Ana-Lucia in a sexual way. To make Juliet jealous.

I get a Season Four Mishear Award! I thought that Chemical Suit Daniel just told Juliet, “Don’t shoot me yet!” I was so taken aback by the phrase that I repeated it out loud. My husband turned to me and said, “Juliet. He said, ‘Juliet.’” So it was “Juliet, what are you doing here?” That makes a bit more sense.

That alarm sounds familiar. I’d be having flashbacks if I were so surprised that Charlotte is so… violent. “That was a close one.” They rendered the gas inert so that Ben couldn’t use it again.

Ben’s not more excited about Jack being a spinal surgeon because they just found Goodwin’s dead body. And he took Juliet to it.

“You’re mine.” Ben thinks he owns Juliet. He’s a bit sicker than we thought.

“Okay, what do I react to first?” That’s what I’d be thinking if I were Juliet. The impaled body of her dead lopver, and being told she belongs to a man she hates.

Jack will take their word for it, about Daniel and Charlotte saving their lives. When did he become such a man of faith?

Hurley says he’s lucky, playing horseshoes with Sawyer. Never thought he’d say that.

And is Ben now roomies with Locke? They’re awfully chummy.

Previews: Sun is almost certainly the last of the Oceanic 6. And Michael is almost definitely the man on the boat. “The face we thought we’d never see again.” Yeah, except for his name in the credits every week.

For Sun’s sake, I hope her baby is Jae’s, because that would mean she did not conceive on the island, and she shouldn’t die of the island’s anti-preggo disease.

At least Sun has mentioned what the fans have been talking about… Jack seems different since he was with the Others. And good for her, demanding answers from Juliet. Too bad she didn’t get an answer she wanted to hear.

Umm… Mikhail? Didn’t he convulse and have blood squirt out of his ears the last time we saw him? I am very interested to hear the story of how he’s still alive.

Oh dear. The blackmail money that Sun needed… it’s the whole reason Jin had to work as Mr. Paik’s heavy. I’m wondering now. Did Mr. Paik send that woman on the park bench to blackmail Sun knowing full well that she would go to him asking for the money and that he could put Jin in his debt? I wouldn’t put it past Sun’s father. Or the writers.

That’s quite an elaborate setup for the medical station. Juliet said that it’s where they brought the pregnant women to die. That still doesn’t explain why a lever hidden in a locker opens a heavy steel door hidden in the wall.

Mikhail admits that people heal faster - from grave injuries - on the island. And Juliet just told Sun that men have five times the sperm count of men elsewhere.

And the baby is Jin’s. Damon and Carlton had said that the baby’s father would be a secret until the end of the show… Can we trust Juliet on the date of conception? I’m tempted to check out the ultrasound pictures I had done for my son and see if he was that well developed at eight weeks.

I did have a sneaking suspicion that blackmail woman was Jin’s mom.  That doesn’t make my other thought about Paik sending her.

Oh no. I shudder to think how many new purgatory theories are going to pop up after Nessa/Naomi said they found the plane with no survivors.

“Bring her back in one piece,” Rachel says.

“We’ll do our best,” Alpert replies.

It sounds like a friendly joke. It was the honest truth.

Oh no, Jack did not just tell Sayid the torturer to lay off Juliet until she was ready to talk.  The look Sayid gave him made it clear that Jack may need to worry about some bamboo shoots under his own fingernails.

I wonder what’s wrong with Claire. Not waking up when your baby cries?  Hasn’t happened to me yet. 

“You’ll be amazed at how time flies…” Are they messing with us about time again?  Just come out and tell us!  I don’t want time travel to be the answer here, but I don’t want to give up on my theory about time passing at a different rate on the island.

Jacob is Him.  But who is Jacob?

Okay, so what did Juliet do to Claire?  Will Charlie end up killing her the way he killed Ethan?  Harming Claire is kinda like a death wish.

Everyone who said that women can’t get pregnant on the island… were wrong, but on the right track.  Apparently, women can’t have babies on the island.  I’m not quite sure how they’re going to explain this, but there must be a biological explanation if Juliet successfully created a serum that kept Claire alive to deliver Aaron.  There are a few problems with this.  Danielle… Was she far enough along when she ended up on the island that she was able to deliver Alex without a problem?  And Karl seems to be around Alex’s age; was he not born on the island?  He seems a bit young to have been recruited.  And Ben himself… if he’s spent his whole life on the island, how did his mother survive to give birth to him?

Kinda scary for Sun.

I was a bit surprised to see Juliet in bed with Goodwin.  (At first I thought he was Pickett. I get my dead Others confused sometimes.)

Okay, so many people suspected that Juliet being left behind was a con.  It’s been even better orchestrated than I had imagined.  The Others left a remote-activated implant in Claire that could kill her unless Juliet stepped in to save her?  Talk about planning!  To what end is all of this?