Here are some thoughts and theories about last night’s new episode, “Left Behind.”

JULIET

Jack is just as gullible as Locke. Juliet is totally pulling a Henry Gale. Ben (as Henry) allowed himself to be captured to learn more about the Losties, and now Juliet has manipulated Jack to the point where he’s protecting her and bringing her right where she wants to be – among the Losties on their beach. She knows exactly where the Others went and is just doing her part for their master plan…whatever the hell that might be. Perhaps the Others are testing Juliet’s loyalty since she was punished for killing one of their own (Pickett).

Then again, why on earth would the Others need to gather any more information about the Losties? They certainly seem to know everything about everyone already. And now they have Chatty Cathy Locke, who will tell them anything they want to know about his fellow castaways.

Kate and Jack were quite groggy when they awoke from their tear gas stupor. Juliet was only pretending to be knocked out. Her quick, lucid grab of Kate’s wrist as she went for the pocket knife indicate as much.

What kind of fertility doctor has such quick reflexes and strength? Juliet has clearly had some kind of physical training or expertise. Also, letting us know that she has dislocated her shoulder on 4 occasions is a clue. To what, I have no idea.

Juliet knew that Sayid and Jack were also left behind, and didn’t mention Locke, so she must have been aware that he left with the Others.

Timeline wise, I thought it was very interesting that Juliet said she knew how Jack’s dad died. He was not dead for very long before Jack flew to Sydney to retrieve his body and bring it back on Flight 815. Is the Others’ intel really that up to date? Or was it because the Others and/or Dharma had something to do with his demise?

Like Locke, Juliet predicted the rain. She also anticipated and quickly reacted to Kate’s assault in the rec room. Is she ‘special’ like Walt, or is it just another coincidence?

BLACK SMOKE MONSTER

We’ve never seen the Black Smoke Monster use flash photography before. Perhaps it is the Monster’s way of collecting data about a potential new victim. Or perhaps it was erasing or implanting memories…

The Black Smoke Monster could have gone up and over the security perimeter, but it ran directly into it instead, heading right for Juliet. We’ve seen it up high before (the dead pilot up in the tree, for example). Which means that whatever it is, Juliet and the Others do have control of it, she is only pretending to be frightened by it, and it purposely didn’t go up and over the security system to kill her.

THE OTHERS

If the Others were only throwing tear gas into the locations where Kate, Jack and Sayid were being held, why did all of them don gas masks?

They each had a backpack, which could signify a short trip. Were the Others only temporarily relocating? Did they set off the tear gas so that Sayid, Kate and Jack wouldn’t know/see where they were headed?

Sayid said that the Others left no tracks after they abandoned their village. And Ben’s wheelchair should have left a trail. I think that the Others went underground. I’ve said all along that there are tunnels and a rail system of sorts beneath the island, and that would explain why Sayid couldn’t track which direction the Others headed. Sayid did find that damn cord coming from the water in Season 1, and we now know that there was a sonar system and beacon connected to the communications center in the Flame Hatch. Don’t be surprised when we’re introduced to a subterranean and/or underwater hatch.

Or did the Others relocate outside of the security perimeter, to the main part of the island where the Losties live, because they all need to be healed in some way? They were very quick to trust Locke, and Ben was more than fascinated by his miraculous ability to walk after the plane crash…perhaps they were just following their new leader.

LOCKE

Now this is where I’m confused. Just days ago, Locke killed Mikhail, one of the Others. And now he’s on his high and mighty pedestal, telling Kate that the Others aren’t very forgiving of HER past?? Why is it that Locke is getting a pass? They must truly believe he is ‘good.’

CASSIDY

Sawyer’s ex, Cassidy, told Kate that she’d fallen in love with the wrong man. Looks like Kate did too (did you see the look on her face when Jack asked about Juliet?).

If Cassidy knew she was pregnant, why did she go have drinks with Kate at a bar? Because she wasn’t actually drinking; we only see Kate throwing back a few.

If Cassidy lost her life savings in Sawyer’s con, and she knew Kate was a wanted fugitive, wouldn’t it have made sense to turn her in for the reward money?

KATE

Why is it that Kate recovered fairly quickly from the tear gas, and yet Jack was still knocked out after Kate and Juliet had already been in the jungle overnight?

Kate’s got car issues. She crashed the farmer’s truck and then saved his life. She crashed her ex-boyfriend’s car while trying to escape with him, and he died in the accident. She and the Marshall crashed while swerving to avoid the black horse. And then she was stranded in Iowa after her car broke down.

RANDOM THOUGHTS

Um…where the hell is Rousseau?

Ok, so both Nikki and Paulo are indeed dead. Double yawn.

Not that anyone tells anybody about anything they’ve seen on that island, and not that it matters now that he’s dead…but wouldn’t it have been great if Paulo was still around when Juliet came to their beach, and he recognized her from when he was hiding in the bathroom of the Pearl Hatch?

Backgammon Alert! Kate was playing the game by herself in the rec room. Locke taught Walt how to play on the beach in Season 1, and then Walt beat Hurley.

Why is it that the Black Smoke Monster seems to take many forms, and kills many people, and yet it can’t get to people when they are hiding in clusters of very thin tree trunks?

In a Season 2 flashback, we saw Kate’s mom serve Sawyer and his friend at the diner as they were talking about a con job…Cassidy.

Kate’s “Cowboy Up” baseball cap is a total shout-out to Jack. That was the catchphrase of Jack’s beloved Red Sox and there was a Jack-centric episode in Season 1 called ‘All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues.’

Why the hell don’t the Losties move off of the beach (winter is coming, after all, in Lost time) and into the abandoned Other homes? They would be surrounded by a security system, with plenty of food and shelter.

There were references to ‘good’ and ‘bad’ again on last night’s episode: Cassidy told Kate that Sawyer was a bad guy (without actually saying his name; it is Lost after all), and Locke told the Others that Kate was a good person.

CRAZY THEORIES OF THE WEEK
1. We know how obsessed the Others are with children. And conveniently enough, Juliet is a fertility doctor. Way back when, while eating breakfast with Ben on the beach, perhaps Kate had to promise that she’d hook up with either Jack or Sawyer.  To get pregnant and produce a child for the Others. SO…did the Others leave Juliet behind because they knew she’d come in handy for the pregnancies of both Kate and Sun?

2. Locke didn’t really blow up the submarine. He entered the sub completely dry, but emerged drenched, which wouldn’t have happened had it still been docked. He anchored the sub underwater somewhere away from the dock, swam to one of the Others’ boats, brought it to the dock and blew that up instead.

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THOUGHTS & THEORIES

It seems we’ve met yet another pair of cons marooned on that island: Nikki and Paulo. They join Sawyer and Kate as those with mysterious and criminal pasts.

I may not be a forensic expert, but worrying about leaving behind cigarette ashes as evidence after killing a guy and then opening a safe without gloves is pretty damn stupid.

How close could Nikki & Paulo have really been if she wasn’t aware that he was stashing a bag of diamonds in his boxer briefs, and she never smelled the nicotine gum he was secretly chewing?

In Season One, Kate sent Sawyer into that same body of water to find the briefcase with the guns. Knowing how much Sawyer likes to pilfer through other people’s belongings and then claim them as his own, you would think that he would dive down there on many occasions in search of loot. How could he not have seen Nikki’s bag and found the diamonds?

After Boone & Shannon ran into Nikki & Paulo at the airport before boarding Flight 815, Shannon told Boone to stop flirting with random guys. Either she was just being bitchy Shannon, or that was the producers’ not-so-subtle way of informing us that Boone was indeed the island’s gay character (which would be kind of creepy, considering that he had slept with step-sister Shannon).

After the last scene on her show, Expose, Nikki made the comment that “you know what happens to guest stars.” Nice inside joke, now that she and Paulo have joined Boone, Shannon, Libby and Ana Lucia in that category.

After reading Nikki’s Expose script, Hurley said that the identity of the Cobra on that show, who was supposed to be a good guy, had been shrouded in mystery for 4 seasons. Duh. The producers are letting us know that either the identity of “Him” and/or “Jacob” will be revealed next season on LOST, or that one of our Losties is really a bad guy after all.

Poor Locke. You know he’d be bummed to find out that Nikki & Paulo discovered the Pearl Station and yellow plane before he did.

Last season, when Locke found the Pearl Station, there were recently smoked cigarette butts on the tables in front of the television monitors. Did Paulo find cigarettes while rummaging through the luggage in search of the diamonds, and then go to that hatch for secret smoke breaks??

Do you think that Paulo failed to mention that he saw Ben and Juliet in the Pearl Hatch on purpose, or that he really didn’t know who Shepard, Ford and Austen were (since he knew them as Jack, Sawyer and Kate)?

Did Paulo ever actually use the walkie-talkie he found in the Pearl? Did he communicate with the Others? He doesn’t seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer, so it’s quite possible that he was manipulated and/or tricked by the Others into providing information about his fellow survivors.

The infamous ‘monster’ sound appeared after Nikki threw the spider at Paulo, followed by the baby spiders that then bit her. Were the baby spiders this week’s Black Smoke Monster Manifestation? After all, right before dying at the hands of the Black Smoke Monster That Was His Brother Yemi, Eko told Locke that “they were next,” and Nikki & Paulo were there when that happened.

Before (apparently) dying, what do you think Nikki said to Hurley and Sawyer: a) Paulo Lies, b) Parallel Lives, c) Power Lines or d) Paralyzed? The answer is: Paralyzed. Which is quite an interesting term to use in light of the fact that last week’s episode was all about the formerly paralyzed Locke…

Did Vincent the dog remove the blanket that was covering Nikki & Paulo because he sensed that they were still alive?

Geez, Jack is nowhere to be found and folks get buried alive based on an assumption that they look dead. They need the Doc back, stat.

Are both Nikki and Paulo dead? No. Not yet, anyway. It was no secret that one character was being killed off of the show last night, and clearly that was Paulo. It didn’t help that Rodrigo Santoro, who plays Paulo, gave an interview a few months ago to the Brazil version of Rolling Stone Magazine that said his character was going to die this season. I’m sure the producers were less than thrilled when that tidbit hit the Internet…

FORESHADOWING

While opening the safe, in Nikki’s Anti-Smoking PSA Moment, she tells Paulo that they already poised Zuckerman, so they shouldn’t poison themselves. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Foreshadowing.

But wait, there’s more! After meeting Boone & Shannon at the airport, Paulo tells Nikki that he hopes they don’t turn out like them. Oops, you did. Bye-bye now.

AND…when Nikki tells Paulo to climb up to the small yellow plane and he refuses, she makes fun of him for preferring to go down into a dark tunnel instead. Our friend Locke did the exact same thing; he sent Boone up to the plane (and to his death) and didn’t even hesitate to blow the hatch door to explore the thing once he discovered it. 

FILE UNDER ‘RANDOM’

LOST creator JJ Abrams is a huge Star Wars geek. Thus, the Billy Dee Williams cameo.

Paulo is from Brazil, and the two men in Penny Widmore’s listening station were speaking Portuguese? Coincidence? I think not.

Dr. Artz discovered many new species of bugs on the island. More than likely, they were born or manufactured in the zoological station/hatch on the other island (with the empty aquarium tanked that housed Jack as a prisoner and the bear cages that held Kate and Sawyer).

Charlie is toast. You just know that Jin will find out about his abduction of Sun.

Let’s see…the late Mikhail was Russian and Nikki’s diamonds were hidden in Russian stacking dolls. Interesting.

Hurley Numbers Alert! The diamonds are worth $8 million and the spider bite paralyzes for 8 hours.

In an island flashback, they made a point to remind us that Jack used to have the key to the guns around his neck. Nikki took the key from around Zuckerman’s neck after killing him.

Last week in my LOST blog, I posted the above photo of what I thought was Sayid discovering an underwater cable. Yeah, I was wrong. It was Paulo diving for the diamond bag. Yawn.

Between Sun last night and the preview for next week’s episode…Women of LOST: 2, Men of LOST: 0. The island ladies are kicking some serious ass lately, and it’s about time.

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Step 1: You hide Locke’s dad in a box.

Step 2: You let Locke look in that box.

Now that was an amazing episode.  Daddy Island, indeed.

Locke used to work for a box company…voilà! Look, there’s your dad in a box!

John’s dad, Anthony Cooper, is the man from Tallahassee. Kate was buying a bus ticket to Tallahassee in a Season 1 flashback. Sawyer mentioned catching a disease in Tallahassee in a Season 2 flashback.  Other Florida connections: Juliet used to live with her sister in Miami, and Kate lived with her cop husband in Miami too.

I think John’s dad is the real Sawyer, the con man that Island Sawyer (James Ford) has been chasing his whole life, the one who killed Ford’s parents. So it will be very interesting if Island Sawyer comes face to face with him…

When Peter Talbot came to Locke asking why he gave his kidney to his father, Talbot said Locke’s dad name was Adam Seward.

Together, ADAM SEWARD & ANTHONY COOPER form the anagram: ‘Sawyer, the con man, a poor dad.’

Before the Swan Hatch imploded a few weeks ago (in Lost time), the Others had contact with the outside world and the submarine was able to travel to and fro. I believe Ben brought Locke’s dad to the island after Michael helped him escape from the Swan. He knows everything about Locke, is mesmerized by the fact that Locke was healed by the island when he himself was not, etc. Ben knew firsthand how easy it was to manipulate Locke, and so he knew to bring Locke’s dad to the island to use as a pawn in his overall game plan.

Richard Alpert, the guy who tried to recruit Juliet back in Portland, was the guy who untied Locke and brought him to see his dad last night. Is he Ben’s henchman? Did he deliver Locke’s dad to the island? Did they actually try to recruit or lure Locke’s dad to the island, or was he more than willing to go since he was on the run from the police?

Then again…Locke’s dad is a con man. For all we know, he is working in cahoots with Ben and the Others. He may not have been taken against his will; they’re just making it look that way to lure Locke into Ben’s trap.

Then again…are we being duped? Is that really Locke’s dad in that box? Could it be that the smoke monster has once again manifested itself into the shape of someone from Locke’s past (like Eko’s black smoke, Kate’s horse, Jack’s dad, Hurley’s friend Dave and Sayid’s cat)?

If it really is Locke’s dad, who’s to say who else the Others brought to the island to torment the survivors…Jack’s ex-wife, Charlie’s brother, Sayid’s Nadia, Sun’s dad, Claire’s ex-boyfriend/baby daddy, etc.

Why was Locke dry when he entered the submarine but wet when he emerged from it on the dock?

   

Locke’s dad was drinking the same rare brand of MacCutcheon Whiskey that Mr. Widmore was drinking in his office while talking to Desmond.  Which, of course, means that the two are somehow connected.

Why were Jack and Juliet leaving the island on the submarine, when Michael and Walt were set free on a boat? We saw a few episodes ago that the Others still have Desmond’s sailboat and also a large boat that Jack and Juliet were taking from the Hydra Hatch island back to their own.  Was Ben planning to send them to whatever Twilight Zone locale that Michael and Walt are stuck in now?

I thought all communications, including sonar, were destroyed when Locke blew up the Flame Hatch. Why would the submarine still be able to operate? Ben must have known that it wasn’t operable…I’m sure had Locke not shown up, Ben would have sent Jack and Juliet to the sub and pretended to be surprised to find out that it couldn’t leave. But Juliet should have also known. I love that we have no idea whose side she’s really on.

Why is it that the security system that killed Mikhail last week isn’t in place near the water? It seems that anyone can access the dock, boats and submarine. Why wouldn’t the Others or Dharma protect their only methods of leaving the island? The map that Sayid took from Mikhail seems to show that there isn’t a security perimeter anywhere except around the barracks, a.k.a. Other Village.

I still have no idea what Ben told Kate that first morning on the beach over breakfast or if this is still part of the two very difficult weeks he referred to, but perhaps her attempted rescue of Jack was part of it.

Is Ben really Alex’s dad, or did he take her as an infant from Rousseau, just as the Others have taken children? Was Ben really born on the island, or is he really Rousseau’s husband and they’re both original Dharma folks?  The Others are clearly aware that Rousseau is still alive/around, because the man guarding Sayid hit him when he started to talk to Alex about her mom.

In the last few episodes, they’ve been purposefully showing us meat in Others’ refrigerators…the slabs of unknown animal in Mikhail’s and the chicken in Ben’s. Why?

Jack told Kate that they were watching him and we saw the camera in the piano room. Tom motioned to Jack that they were listening in the game room when he went to see Kate. Is Sheriff Isabel the one monitoring all of this? And does it seem like Tom is on Jack’s side all of a sudden? Perhaps he has a crush on the doc…

So now we’ve seen two men get pushed out of windows: the guy Sun was having an affair with (who died), and now Locke (who didn’t die).

And this is a stretch, but worth a try…I’m not sure why he’d be in Florida, but in Hurley’s very first flashback in Season 1, when he was at his accountant’s office, his accountant was trying to convince him that ‘the numbers’ weren’t a curse, and at that very moment a body flew down past their window outside. Could it have been Locke?!

Is it just me, or was it strange to see Locke in the hospital after his accident without so much as a back brace on or in traction? If he broke his back, would they really be picking him up and putting him in the wheelchair like that?

I love the role reversals of power in this episode: Ben in a wheelchair and Locke standing, and Kate as a prisoner being interrogated by Jack.

NEXT WEEK (SPOILER ALERT)
If I had to guess, I think Sun will find out that Charlie abducted her last season, and Jin will kill Charlie. OR…since Charlie knows he’s going to die anyway (thanks to Desmond’s accurate premonitions), he might confess to Sun. Maybe she kills him.

The episode will be a Nikki and Paulo flashback. You might be saying to yourself, ‘who?’ Exactly. They are the two annoying new characters who’ve apparently been living on the beach among our Losties but have only made random appearances this season with awkward dialogue. The producers swear that they’re important to the overall story, and that next week’s episode will be a “game changer.”

 
AND, we might finally get to see the underwater hatch that I’m convinced is attached to that large cord Sayid found on the beach in Season 1. I have a feeling we’re about to be introduced to an entire new colony of island folk; the subterranean/underwater Others. Is that where the Hostiles live, or where all of the kidnapped Tail Section survivors and children are being kept?

Now, aren’t you glad you haven’t given up on Lost?! It just keeps getting better. If you’re reading this, you’re one of the faithful. I appreciate it. Thanks for reading.

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Here are some thoughts and theories about this week’s episode, “Par Avion.”

Please keep in mind that because I wrote them in the middle on the night on a red eye flight, they might be a tad more scattered than usual and I didn’t have time to gather more than one photo…

So Ben and Juliet had background information about our Losties, and now we know that Mikhail did as well. We know that before the hatch imploded at the end of last season, the Others had contact with the outside world. So here’s the question – did Ethan bring Ben the passenger manifest immediately after the plane crashed, providing the names of the survivors, which the Others then researched? Or, did they already have the information about the passengers because they were purposefully brought to the island as part of the large Dharma conspiracy/recruitment?

The infamous ‘list’ is referenced again. Is Locke on it or not? Mikhail began to say that the Locke he knew of was paralyzed. Freakin’ Rousseau interrupted him so of course Kate and Sayid didn’t hear it. Anyway, Ben (back when he was Henry Gale captured in the hatch) had told Locke he was coming for him…

I’m now convinced that the island ‘monster’ is controlled somehow by the Others or the Hostiles. Locke has been the only one to face it and live to tell; he was spared, probably because he was on the list…

Mikhail said that Kate isn’t capable of understanding why someone would want to come back to the island, given the opportunity, because she’s not on the list. This is another reason why I think Locke is on the list; his recent behavior indicates that he doesn’t want to leave the island.

Are the Others interested in Locke because they want to groom him to become their new leader?

 

Mikhail referred to those not on the list as ‘flawed.’ Kate was a criminal and Sayid was a torturer, but if Locke is on the list, he is not exactly free of flaws…

If the Others are so all-knowing, why are they surprised to see that Locke can now walk? It is interesting that the island seems to heal the survivors but not the Others. Locke can walk, Rose is cancer free, etc., but Ben had a malignant tumor that required surgery.

Just who the hell is ‘Him?’ We know it’s not Ben. Is Jack’s dad, Christian Shephard, too obvious a choice? That name alone, the fact that he has been in several people’s flashbacks…

Locke took some of the explosives before The Flame blew up. So did he set off the explosion manually before abandoning the building or was it related at all to his online chess game?

Sow how on earth do the Others travel back and forth between their village and the beach when there is that deadly security system? They must have some kind of deactivator or chip which allows them quick & easy access in and out of their perimeter.

Why is it that Locke, Kate and Sayid weren’t at all affected by the noise emanating from the security system when Mikhail was pushed into it; was he the only one affected by it because he had broken the force field between the pylons?

There is clearly a subterranean system beneath the island. Something tells me that is where the Hostile Others live and operate. The question is, are they leftover Dharma folks or exiles from Ben’s village?

Recurring Theme Alert: Car Accidents!
Shannon’s dad and Jack’s wife, Kate and the farmer in his truck, Kate and her doctor ex boyfriend, Claire and her mother…

What if Locke wound up in a wheelchair as a result of being involved with one of the above car accidents? Claire said a truck hit her car and we saw in Locke’s last flashback that he drove a pickup…

This season alone, 4 episodes have begun with someone’s eye opening: Juliet, Locke, Eko and now Claire.

This is the fourth significant appearance of birds: Walt willed a bird to die in Michael’s first flashback, a large flying hawk appeared to say Hurley’s name at the end of Season 2, there was a dove in Charlie’s dream last season, and now there are Claire’s migratory birds.

Note to Claire: Good luck getting your message out with the bird. I’m pretty sure you’re in some kind of bubble. Michael and Walt might eat your savior for dinner if they find him out the abyss where they’re currently sailing in circles.

I love how every time the Losties have an Other captured, Rousseau tells them not to believe what they’ll say, that everything will be a lie. And yet our fearless leaders continue to believe whatever comes out of the Others’ mouths.

When Jack’s dad disappeared, his mom sent him specifically to Australia to look for him. Was Jack’s mom aware of his dad’s affair? Did she know about Claire?

Anyone else think it was funny that Claire worked in a tattoo shop when we just had a Jack flashback showing him getting one of his first tattoos? Those crazy half-siblings!

Best last Lost scene ever? You tell me.

That is all I can muster. I need to get some sleep. Thank you for reading, and have a nice weekend.

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I am flying out of town tonight so my weekly LOST blog will be posted tomorrow. I appreciate your patience! 

Stay tuned for thoughts and theories about last night’s new episode, “Par Avion.”

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Last night’s episode was refreshing; it felt like Season 1.

 

Thankfully and finally, someone actually asked questions. I have been yelling at the screen since last season, wondering why our favorite survivors haven’t been in a hurry to chat up the Others about all of the mysteries.

 

Here are some observations and theories about “Enter 77.”

 

Mikhail mentioned being stationed at a military listening post. Penelope Widmore has that team of Portuguese-speaking men at a listening post somewhere surrounded by snow, looking for Desmond via an electromagnetic anomaly. Oh yeah, and they were playing chess, just like Locke was on the computer in The Flame…

 

Mikhail said that his house, The Flame, was the communications hub for all hatches. Does that mean that The Flame is in the middle of the map that Locke saw on the hatch blast door?

 

Freakin’ Locke. He was responsible for the implosion of the main hatch, and now for the explosion of The Flame hatch. Sigh.

 

Then again, is it possible that Locke’s actions weren’t the reason that The Flame blew up? There were cameras inside, watching all of the action as they do in all hatches. And there was at least a minute delay between the time Locke pushed the numbers and went outside, and when it actually detonated. Perhaps someone in another hatch pulled the switch because they saw it had been compromised.

 

Now that The Flame is gone, are all hopes of communications with the outside world gone? The satellite dish is gone, and I assume that because it was the hub, the cables running underground to all other hatches will also be affected.

 

When Locke was pushing buttons on The Flame computer, as directed by Dr. Candle from the Orientation films, one of the options was to enable the sonar communications. This adds fuel to my theory that there is an underwater hatch…

 

Was The Flame the only hatch prepped with explosives in case of emergency/infiltration?

 

Why, if the Others are supposedly against killing people, would Mikhail shoot Klugh rather than let her be taken by the Losties?

 

So now we know there are 2 sets of Others: Ben’s group and the “Hostiles.” Mikhail said there was a ‘purge’ which resulted from a war between the Dharma folks and the Hostiles.  Obviously the Dharma folks lost the fight, as there are none of them left. Are the Hostiles the ones with dirty feet who walk without leaving footprints? And was the ‘purge’ the same thing as the ‘incident’ that the Orientation Films referred to?

 

Mikhail had a fridge full of meat. Was it cow, boar, or what?

 

Also, if they’re hungry and almost out of Dharma food, why on earth didn’t Kate and co. take the cow back to the beach with the other supplies they’d gathered?!

 

I don’t know about you, but Mikhail seemed to recognize Rousseau, or at least her name. That woman is SO not telling the truth…

 

Mikhail said that the satellite hadn’t worked for years, but Ben had a video of the Red Sox World Series, which took place only months earlier (remember that the show is currently taking place in late 2004).

 

As soon as I saw that satellite, I expected Sayid to head right for it. He has been the island’s communications guru. After Mikhail told him it wasn’t working and that it could contact the outside world, why didn’t Sayid try to fix it??

 

We’ve now met two ex-military people who were recruited by Dharma and lured to the island because they had a chance to ‘save the world’ – Kelvin (Desmond’s old hatch mate) and Mikhail.

 

Kelvin’s first hatch mate, Radzinsky, apparently shot himself to death. What if he didn’t succeed; what if it is Mikhail and that’s why he has the eye patch? Remember that it was Radzinsky who drew the map on the hatch blast door in the first place, so had he lived, he would have known where to find and/or take over the hatch hub…

 

Sayid lived in Paris after escaping from the Iraqi Republican Guard. Isn’t Rousseau French?

 

I’m not sure if Sayid admitted to torturing that woman in the hopes that he’d be released, or if he really did do it. Although he claimed that he never tortured women, in his Season 1 flashback he was supposed to do so to Nadia before realizing her true identity.

 

Although Sayid had the opportunity to kill Mikhail, he didn’t. Just as the woman’s husband chose not to kill him in the flashback. Mercy, mercy me.

 

Add Sayid’s cat, Mikhail’s cow and Mrs. Klugh’s horse to the growing list of animals that have appeared on the island.

 

Obviously the cat Nadia was meant to represent Sayid’s long lost love, Nadia. Remember that when she escaped the prison with Sayid’s help during his flashback in Season 1, she wrote the following on her photo for him: “You will see me in the next life, if not this one.” Thus, the cat.

 

As we saw when Eko died earlier this season, it seems like the Black Smoke takes many forms, as manifestations of people’s pasts and memories. So was Nadia the cat another version of the Black Smoke?

 

On the map that Sayid took from The Flame, there is a place called The Barracks. Is that where Other Village is?

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