Man, what a body count. Which is cool, in a dramatic sense -- a show that is willing to kill off characters so ruthlessly is a show that at least has the potential to be constantly surprising. Though, there was a point last night when I thought Sawyer was done for, and if they kill Sawyer, I'm leading the riot.

I've said it before, I'm gonna say it again: It's all about wormholes. Ben lands in the desert, coughing, almost vomiting ... that's because wormhole travel messes with yer insides, and wormholes are cold, too, which is why Ben is wearing the parka. And I bet he didn't just travel in space but in time, forward from the "present" on the island, even. Certainly, he thinks he time traveled, or he wouldn't need to ask the date ... the year.

Look, here's what Ben does: After Whitmore's crazy mercenary kills his daughter, Ben retreats into that hidden room in the house, and he's all nice and clean when he does so. There he's got some kind of hidden wormhole machine -- or maybe even a TARDIS! He leaps forward in time, manipulates Sayid into acting as his hit man in his "game" with Whitmore (Sayid kills Whitmore's "player," right?), then hops back to the island a year in the past, all messy and dirty ... so he certainly went somewhere and did something. Oh, and as he's on his way back out of the secret room to the house, he sics the Black Smoke monster on the mercenaries outside.

I dunno: I'm pulling this all outta my ass. Which is what I'm starting to suspect the Lost writers are doing, too. Sure, they told us that they have a plan, but so do the Cylons, apparently, and it's starting to look like they don't really know what the hell they're doing either.

Oh, and I knew that that game of ersatz Risk that Hurley and Sawyer and Locke were playing was gonna be metaphoric. That's what Ben and Whitmore are doing -- playing some sort of giant game with the globe as their game board. Creepy.

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MaryAnn Johanson (email me)
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