"One of Us" (Season 3, Episode 16)

Juliet. What an amazing character. One minute, you're feeling sympathy for her, the next you hate her. Last night's episode took us on an emotional roller coaster with the island fertility expert. Can she be so gullible to drink a glass full of tranquilizer and go off with two strange men (and can you get any stranger than Ethan)? It was so heart-wrenching to see what she went through regarding her sister, Rachel. So helpless and far away. Is she really going to make Claire better? She did! Then we learn of her and Ben's ulterior motives. What happens in one week when she and Ben are reunited? Or did Juliet just go along with the plan to save herself and could you blame her if she did?

Best Line - "Well, if it ain't three men and a baby. I counted Hugo twice." Sawyer commenting on Hurley and Charlie with baby Aaron.

Did You Notice?

• "Downtown" by Petula Clark was playing in the car as Juliet and Rachel drove up to the airport. As we saw later in this episode (which was actually from this season's first episode), this was what Juliet was listening to on her CD player as she got ready for the Others book club.
• The name of the aviation company where Juliet, Ethan, and Dr. Albert met was Herarat. This is an anagram of Earhart, as in Amelia Earhart, the woman pilot who mysteriously disappeared.
• One of the submarine's crewman had a portion of the Dharma logo line segments on the back of his shirt.
• Is it obvious how much Sawyer loves Kate? When he saw her return to the beach, his face spoke volumes.
• The pregnant woman of the Others who died during surgery was named Sabine. According to legend, ancient Romans abducted the women of Sabine, an Italian tribe, to populate the newly built Rome.
• Why can't the women of the island get pregnant?
• Another mention of Jacob when Ben promises Juliet that the mysterious man will take care of Rachel's cancer himself and apparently does so.
• So Juliet and Goodwin were lovers.
• The symbol carved in the tree was similar to the brand burned into Juliet's back.
• I loved that we now understand the myriad range of emotions (sadness, anger, resignation) that crossed Juliet's face as she stood before the mirror prior to the book club and listened to the last song she and her sister heard prior to her leaving.
• I'm thinking Mikhail and his unprecedented access to information is how the Others know every little detail about the survivors of Flight 815.
• Was it unusual that shortly after the plane exploded over the island that Mikhail's screens were already displaying news reports of its disappearance? Would Oceanic Air's radio silence result in three news stations covering the event so quickly?

The Numbers - 2 4 6 8 15 16 23 42 (108) and 3 this week

• Sayid was chained to a swing set for 3 days.
• Juliet could talk to no one for the 6 months she expected to be on the island.
• Sawyer made his 3 men and a baby comment.
• Sawyer offered to get Claire 2 aspirin.
• Rachel was expected to give birth in 3 months.
• Juliet was on the island for 6 months when she and Ben spoke on the rocks.
• Juliet has currently been on the island for 3 years.
• Ben wanted Ethan and Goodwin to get him a list of the passengers in 3 days.
• Ben informed Juliet that her sister's cancer went into remission 2 years ago.

Red Dawn

• Lighting on the sub when Juliet awoke.
• Toy football Charlie was holding for Aaron.
• Blood-soaked surgical gloves Ethan was wearing.
• Back splash tiles, curtains, and dishware in Ben's kitchen.
• Buttons on Mikhail's control console.
• Slide at the playground where Rachel and her son Julian were playing.

Previews - If everything shown in the previews are in next week's "Catch-22", we are in for a jam-packed. A helicopter coming to the island? Charlie triggering a rigged spear in the jungle. Is this one version of his death Desmond didn't foresee? Hurley shooting off a flare gun. Juliet and Kate together again and at one of the stations? Sawyer and Kate getting hot and heavy in the jungle. Locke held at knife point by Sawyer. An S.O.S. message? Do the black clad legs and boots hanging from a tree have something to do with the tangled parachute of which there is a quick glimpse. And in a freeze-frame moment, we see a copy of the book "Ardil-22", which is the Portuguese version of the episode's title. Considering the men who notified Penelope Widmore of the magnetic anomaly in last season's finale were speaking Portuguese and this is a Desmond flashback episode, could it be she has finally found her lost love?