Oh no! Dynamite on the freighter? Are we gonna lose everyone on the boat? I mean, obviously Sun has to jump into the ocean with the baby, or something, so that she won't get blown up and get on that plane to Honolulu. But Michael? Jin? Desmond? (Oh, not Desmond...) When almost all the anonymous survivors got on that first raft to the boat, I knew it was not good.

I'm sad about this possible development last night on Lost, yet another episode that just raised more questions without answering any, but at least I don't feel gypped like I did over the last few weeks. I feel like something is happening. We have a bit of forward momentum again.

But I'm still hoping that we're gonna get some answers two weeks from now in the season finale. The uncharted island of Membata? What? Remains of an Indonesian fishing boat? Huh? Fake photographic evidence? Why say two people died on the island? I mean, why couldn't the Six be the only ones who survived the crash? Why invent two more survivors who didn't, you know, survive? What's that all about?

"We all know the story," Jack says in the plane to Honolulu. What? What story? Why a story? What on earth could compel the Six to lie about what really happened? It can't all be about money, can it? There's gotta be something deeply scary going on. Why else would the copilot on the plane to Honolulu be clutching his white rabbit's foot like that? "We need this thing. With the cargo we got back there? Bad mojo ..." What bad mojo?

Speaking of money: I have a sneaking suspicion that Sun's purchase of a controlling interest in her father's company isn't just about revenging Jin. I bet the company has something to do with the island, with Widmore.

Threads, all sorts of thread coming together in this episode: Claire's mother turns up at the memorial for Jack's father, and now Jack knows that Aaron is his nephew ... I wondered a few weeks ago whether he did or not. Hugo's car, with the odometer numbers: 4 8 15 16 23 42. (The numbers will be the one thing I'll be pissed off about most if they're not explained before the series wraps up.) And poor Sayid: sweet how he gets a big hug from Hugo's mom, and how bittersweet that Nadia shows up, because we know where that's gonna go.

I'm still thinking it's all about wormholes -- there's obviously some time travel going on, what with Ben's guy Richard, who interviewed the boy John Locke like 45 years ago, showing up again on the island without having aged a day. But I'm also thinking "holodeck," too, and that maybe escaping from the island isn't escaping from the "holodeck," or a joint, shared illusion, or the Matrix, or whatever you want to call it. I'm not sure that plane to Honolulu actually the took the Six anywhere at all except further into their own heads.

I guess we'll see.

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MaryAnn Johanson (email me)
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