"Left Behind" (Season 3, Episode 15)

Women in chains. Women in wet t-shirts. Women mud wrestling. Is this Lost or Cinemax? Would you believe last night's show was co-written by a woman and directed by a woman? But enough about that. Smokey the Smoke Monster is back! I didn't see that coming in this episode.

Best Line - "I ain't gonna get the Korean vote." Sawyer after getting a dirty look from Sun while thinking the islanders were deciding his fate.

Did You Notice?

• The game under the Barracks rec room window was Mousetrap. In Locke's first flashback in Season 1, he was showing a little kid this game at the store where he worked.
• Kate was playing with a backgammon board in the rec room. In season 1, Locke offered to show Walt how to play this and later Walt and Hurley were seen playing it.
• The song "Walkin' After Midnight" by Patsy Cline (who died in a plane crash) was playing when Kate's car broke down and was also heard in Season 2 when Kate cared for Sawyer in the hatch and when Ana drove Jack's dad to his daughter's house in Australia.
• Sawyer was reading "Watership Down", the story of a group of rabbits trying to survive. This book he has previously been seen reading in an earlier episode.
• In last night's scene with the necklace scam, Kate played the part of an interested customer, the same role Cassidy played when Sawyer was running the same con also at a gas station in Season 2.
• Saint Lucy (where Kate got her alias) is the patron saint of the blind and those with eye trouble. Coincidence that Sawyer has needed glasses since being on the island?
• When the Others are leaving the barracks, a blond-haired woman in a light blue top and jeans can be seen wearing a gas mask. Was this Juliet? She pretended she didn't have the key to the handcuffs and acted as if she had never seen the smoke monster before, so was she really left behind? Or is this an elaborate plot to get her into the beach camp?
• When the smoke monster "flashed" then moved away, was it verifying who Juliet was?
• The circle of trees where Kate and Juliet hid was not unlike where Kate took refuge from the smoke monster in the pilot and where Walt hid from the polar bear.
• The smoke monster had three "heads" protruding from the front of it. When Locke found the glow-in-the-dark map at the hatch, there were two references to "Cerberus activity" around the perimeter (which we now know is probably the sonic fence). In Greek mythology, Cerberus was the three-headed dog that guarded the gates to Hades. He allowed the dead to enter but none could exit. His brother was Hydra, the same name as the station where Jack, Kate, and Sawyer were kept.
• Now we know that Cassidy is the mother of Clementine, referred to in Sawyer's prison flashback.

The Numbers - 2 4 6 8 15 16 23 42 (108) and maybe not 5 but 3 instead?

• Kate's car repairs were going to take 2 or 3 days.
• According to Cassidy, 6 guys were waiting to take Kate down at her mom's house.
• Sawyer couldn't use nicknames for another 3 days, 10 hours, and 15 minutes.
• Hurley said they had been on the island for about 3 months.
• Juliet had her shoulder dislocated 4 times. ( Was her husband abusive or did these other times happen after she got to the island?)
• 2 men were following Kate's mom.
• Desmond claimed that Sawyer hadn't spoken 3 words to him.
• The code Juliet entered into the sonic fence's control box was 16 23.
• Juliet said she has been on the island for 3 years.

Red Eye

• Fire extinguisher in the rec room that Kate leaned against.
• Open sign at the gas station.
• Gym bag carried by one of the departing Others.
• Lights in the bar where Kate and Cassidy were talking.
• Fishing line used by Sawyer.
• Stairs at Kate's mom's house.
• Bible that the marshal pulled out of Cassidy's case.
• Warning light on the sonic fence's control box.

Previews - With only eight more episodes left in this season, next week we will learn about Juliet's past in "One of Us" with what looks like her arrival on the island via the sub as well as Jack's return.