"The Constant" (Season 4, Episode 5)

Two things before we get into last night's time trippy episode. First, this blog has received over 5,000 hits since its inception. Nowhere near the most visited web page in the history of the Internet, but I appreciate everyone's interest in my ramblings and crazy theories. Second, if you are not watching the enhanced version of the previous week's episode (every Thursday at 8:00 p.m. EST) which precedes the new one, I would highly recommend it. I watched "Eggtown" last night, thoroughly enjoying the informational captions. It's like watching the show and reading my blog at the same time. I personally appreciated the confirmation of some of my observations. New things I learned:

• The basement where Ben is being kept by Locke is the same room where Ben had held Locke's father captive. (Sorry for doubting you, Joel!)
• The location where the L.A. courtroom scenes were filmed was a YWCA in Hawaii.
• Shawn Doyle, the actor who played Kate's lawyer, also appeared with the actress who plays Juliet in the 2000 film "Frequency". This was the movie where Jim Caviezel played a man who connects with his dead father (Dennis Quaid) across time via a radio. The name of the character Shawn played in that movie? Jack Shepard! Bizarre.
  

On to last night's new episode. Perception. Displacement. Side effects. Progression is exponential. Time travel makes my head hurt. This is not your father's "Back to the Future". Closer to "Quantum Leap". A number of co-workers I talked to today felt "The Constant" was one of the show's best episodes. After viewing it a second time, it's definitely up there. Getting confirmation that time is definitely a factor in the overall storyline is satisfying. From a production standpoint, the editing of scenes as Desmond jumped between 1996 and 2004 was seamless. And that final moment between Desmond and Penny makes you forget about any other love triangles or quadrangles on the show.

Best Line

• "Do I get one?" A concerned Desmond to Faraday as the physicist dons a lead apron for protection from radiation.
  

Did You Notice?

• The helicopter's cheat sheet show the freighter at 40 miles N@305" and 7 K east.
• The cockpit's dial showed a heading of 31 - the same number of minutes off the island is. Minutes are also used in navigation along with degrees and seconds. Could Faraday's payload test from the earlier episode be about the island's navigational location more than time?
• The freighter's name is Kahana, a Hawaiian boy's name meaning priest.
• Those freighter folks (Keamy from Las Vegas, Omar from Florida, and Dr. Ray) are not the friendliest bunch. Maybe Ben was right way back when he said he and the Others were the good guys.
• George Minkowski was the voice on the satellite phone first heard in last season's finale. He was played by Fisher Stevens, who was a regular on TV's "Early Edition", the 1996 series about a man who receives a newspaper from 24 hours in the future.
• Interesting that Dr. Ray examines Desmond's eyes since the close-up of an eye is a common theme on the show.
• Dr. Ray hits the button labeled "Emergency System Activation" which sounds an alarm not unlike the one in the hatch when the countdown clock ticked down too low.
• Why was the freighter crew not allowed to receive Penny's calls? Was her father, Charles Widmore, behind this order?
• Was the person who sabotaged the communication equipment the same one who unlocked the sickbay door? Was this Ben's man on the ship? Was it Michael?
• The Black Rock is of course the same ship that ran aground on the island and contained the dynamite. Did Charles Widmore want the ledger to try and locate the ship or to suppress its discovery? The journal belonged to Tovard Hanso - a relative to Alvar Hanso who created the Dharma Initiative? The back story of the freighter that discovered the "wreck" of Oceanic 815 was that it was searching for the Black Rock. Coincidence? Not on this show.
• Why did Charles Widmore leave the water running with the drain shut in the restroom?
• Penny's neighborhood of Cheyne Walk in Chelsea has been home to the Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
  
• Is it significant to know that this episode took place on December 24, 2004? In the real world, two days later, the deadly tsunami will occur caused by an undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean. Will the show experience the effects of this disaster?
• Did you get the impression that the message in Faraday's journal "If anything goes wrong, Desmond Hume will be my constant" was something he had not seen before?
  

The Numbers - 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 15 16 23 42 108

• Lapidus says the helicopter is 2 miles from the freighter.
• Desmond has 2 days leave from the army.
• Desmond believes it is 1996 when it is actually 2004, a 8 year difference.
• 2.342 is what Faraday tells Desmond the device should be set at, a combination of two of the numbers, 23 and 42.
• Desmond tells Faraday he believed he was in the future for 5 minutes.
• George says the communication was sabotaged 2 days ago.
• The Black Rock's journal at auction is lot number 2342.
  
• Penny's address is 423 Cheyne Walk.
  
• Penny tells Desmond she's being searching for him for 3 years.
  

Previews - Next week's "The Other Woman" included scenes of Faraday and Charlotte in white bio hazard suits being threatened by Juliet. This episode is expected to feature flashbacks of her, all on the island yet Penny's dad, Charles Widmore, makes a reappearance. That should be interesting.

"Eggtown" (Season 4, Episode 4)

The ending to last night's episode, "Eggtown", was either what you expected or you obviously have never read my blog before this or don't work with me and listen to my daily theories on the show and were thus surprised. Allow me a moment of self-congratulation on suspecting the "him" in future Kate's life in last season's finale was not a boyfriend or husband, but a baby. And Claire's baby Aaron at that! I can't wait to see the circumstances that led to this. Is whatever happened so bad that this is why Jack cannot bear to see him? Or does it have something to do with Jack learning that Aaron is his half-nephew? (Remember, he and Claire have the same dad. They just don't know it - yet.) My co-worker Shannon is late getting on the "Lost" bandwagon so she is furiously watching the first three seasons. Yesterday, she mentioned that she had just watched the Season 1 episode "Raised by Another" where Claire visits the psychic. In it, the man first warns Claire that her unborn baby should not be raised by another (an Other), then insists that she give her baby to a couple in Los Angeles, going so far as to buy her airline ticket. Could this man and woman actually have been a vision of Jack and Kate in the future?

Best Line

• "You just totally Scooby Doo-ed me, didn't you?" Hurley to Kate after she tricks him into revealing where Miles is being kept.
  

Did You Notice?

• If anyone has a theory as to why last night's episode was titled "Eggtown", I would love to hear it. Sure, Locke served Ben eggs and eggs play a part in pregnancy, but Eggtown?
  
• Another trademark "Lost" eye close-up. This time of Locke as he awoke in Ben's hospital bed.
• On the refrigerator door was a can of Dharma Initiative spiced pork (better known as Spam).
  
• The book Locke provided to Ben was science fiction author Philip K. Dick's "VALIS". This is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System. (Is this what the smoke monster is?) The plot summary from the author's website describes the book: "A coterie of religious seekers forms to explore the revelatory visions of one Horselover Fat; a semi-autobiographical dialogue of the author. The groups hermeneutical research leads to a rock musician's estate where they confront the Messiah: a two-year old named Sophia. She confirms their suspicions that an ancient, mechanical intelligence orbiting the earth has been guiding their discoveries." (Light reading, then.) Locke's suggestion to Ben to re-read it as he might catch something he missed the second time around sounds like the show's writers inside joke to all the obsessed viewers (who, me?).
  
• I liked the almost deja vu aspect of Ben locked up and Locke as his captor going back to the similar situation in Season 2 in the hatch. Even the ability of Ben's words to drive Locke to a show of frustration and anger.
• It appears Sawyer may be living in Juliet's house. In which case, the clothes he offered her would have been Juliet's.
  
• The bearded man in the crowd outside the courthouse sounded like he shouted "We're gonna get you back!" Was he referring to the island? And was it me or did he look like Rupert from "Survivor: Pearl Islands"? Another inside joke? An island survivor like Kate?
• The judge's last name was Galzethron. I could find no significance to this but wanted to note it.
• We learned the answer to the eternal question of which came first - the chicken or the egg? At least in regards to Locke and his culinary skills: Eggs for Ben's breakfast and chicken for dinner. Was this a subtle reference to circularity or paradoxes?
• I'm not certain but this may have been the first time we've seen a clean-shaven Jack. (At least since "Party of Five". No, come to think of it, he had perpetual five o'clock shadow even then.)
• Since Jack swore to tell the truth and proceeded to do everything but that, I'd say he was guilty of perjury. Why did Jack say only eight passengers survived the crash of Flight 815 and Kate was the reason for their survival? How did Kate try to save the other two? The story that has been concocted by Oceanic Airlines (Dharma?) will be an interesting revelation.
• Another sitcom spin-off possibility: "The (Really) Odd Couple" starring Felix Sawyer and Oscar Hurley.
• Sawyer was reading "The Invention of Morel" by Aldofo Bioy Casares. Amazon.com summarizes it as "a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious." That last line could easily sum up "Lost"!
• Hurley offers the video tape viewing choice of "Xanadu", the 80's movie starring Olivia Newton John (whose husband in real life went missing) as a Greek muse who takes human form to inspire an artist or "Satan's Doom", which may be the heavy metal band of the same name.
• Add Red Wine in a Box to the list of Dharma Initiative food stuffs.
• Locke playing backgammon with Sawyer harkens back to the pilot episode where he played with Walt (and asked him the question "Do you want to know a secret?" of which we still haven't learned what that secret was).
• Who is the "he" Miles obviously needs to report. Scary Mr. Abaddon?
• The exchange between Miles and Ben regarding the money seemed to me like it was a code, much like Naomi's dying words, "Tell my sister I love her", were a code. Another co-worker of mine, Scott, pointed out that the dollar amounts discussed, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4, could all be versions or variations of a plan and Ben was confirming it to Miles. Could Ben's comment that it was black mail ("extortion" Miles corrects him) be code for Mr. Abaddon? Black mail/black male? And did the two days being changed to a week have a hidden meaning?
  
• Kate was once again listening to a song by Patsy Cline (who died in a plane crash) as she has in a number of her other episodes. This time it was "I've Got Your Picture" with the lyrics "I've got your picture, she's got you." Appropriate if Kate thinks she's lost Jack to Juliet.
• In case you missed it, the sound we heard when Kate and Sawyer were in the bedroom before he referred to Montezuma was the toilet flushing as Hurley used the nearby bathroom.
• Why was Charlotte testing Faraday with the playing cards? Checking his level of ESP?
  
• Since the chopper has not yet shown up at the freighter, could this confirm my suspicion that the island is more than just 31 minutes in the past?
• I loved the reversal of traditional roles with Sawyer and Kate the morning after. She's done what she needed and is dressing to leave as he begs her to stay.
• Was Kate's mom named Diane Jansen as a tip of the hat to TV actor David Jansen who played "The Fugitive", not unlike her daughter's previous life on the run? (For you young kids, this was the series on which the Harrison Ford movie was based.)
• Why was Kate more than willing to not leave California for 10 years while on probation?
  
• And now we have the fifth member of the Oceanic 6: Aaron. I hear by the seventh episode, we will learn the identity of the remaining one. Will it be Ben using an alias? Could it be Michael?
  

The Numbers - 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 15 16 23 42 108

• Locke gave Ben the last 2 eggs.
• Locke told Kate dinner was at 6.
• Kate was likely to get a 15 year sentence.
• Jack said there were 8 passengers who survived the crash of Flight 815.
• Miles asked for $3.2 million from Ben and 2 days to deliver it.
• Kate's mother had been told she had 6 months to live for the last 4 years.
• Faraday guesses of the 3 playing cards included the 6 of clubs and a red 10. The card he got wrong was a 3 of spades.
  
• Kate was offered 4 years jail time, then time served with 10 years of probation.
• Her lawyer pointed out that she had saved 5 people.
  

Previews - Next week's "The Constant" reveals the circumstances surrounding the chopper's attempt to return to the freighter. Desmond will be featured in flashbacks, although with him you never know where (or when) he might end up. In the one scene, a short-haired, clean-shaven Desmond demands of a long-haired Faraday: "Am I gonna die?!"

Interview with "Lost" Producers

There is a great interview with the producers of "Lost" on Entertainment Weekly's website.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20179125,00.html

In the discussion, the comment is made that Ben could be a member of the Oceanic 6 if "he doctored some records and adopted the identity of someone on the plane - someone with no friends or family who would know otherwise." No friends or family like the comment Jack made about the man in the coffin at the funeral home? Hmm.

"The Economist" (Season 4, Episode 3)

How can an episode with such a mundane title as "The Economist" have such a jaw-dropping ending? Only on "Lost". Three years and over 70 episodes later and I am still able to be surprised and shocked by twists and turns in the story. Sayid is working for Ben? And he's killing people? Perhaps current members of the Dharma Initiative? In the past, Richard Alpert had Ben gas everyone in Othersville. Could this be the current phase of the native island people's plan? To wipe out the puppet masters who are off the island? And if so, why? Does Dharma do something bad in the future, either intentionally or not, that the island people are trying to prevent?

The Man Behind the Coffin

• With the revelation that Ben makes it off the island (and based on his extensive wardrobe, various passports, luggage, and diverse currencies, he does this a lot!), I now believe it is Ben who is in the coffin in last season's finale. I originally thought it was Michael, partly because of the inner city locale of the funeral home, the fact that he was neither "friend nor family" to Jack, and that no one else showed up. However, the last two could also apply to Ben and the neighborhood might have ended up being the West Coast location of Dr. Ben's chain of veterinary clinics (Berlin and L.A.?).
• Ben's ability to come and go from the island could also be why Jack was pushed to suicide with his death. Ben was Jack's last chance to get back and now that was gone.
• The unrecognized name in the obituary (seen in Jack's hand in last season's finale) could simply be another of Ben's aliases, such as Henry Gale or Dean Moriarty (more on this name below).
  

Best Line

• "Oh, awesome. The ship sent us another Sawyer." Hurley's observation of Miles when he uses the less-than-flattering nickname of Tubby.
  

Did You Notice?

• The opening scene is Sayid praying in the Islamic tradition.
  
• The inscription on Naomi's bracelet reads "N, I'll always be with you. R.C." Is it a lover? Could the "R" stand for Regina, the so-far-unseen woman on the freighter? Or Juliet's sister, Rachel Carlson?
  
• Sayid the "golfer" is at a course in the Seychelles, an island nation in the Indian Ocean. Near the "crash site" of Oceanic Flight 815, I wonder?
• The man Sayid kills on the golf course is named Avellino, which is the name of the patron saint against sudden death, ironically enough. It is also the name of a city in Italy and, on "The Sopranos", the crime family traced their origins to here.
• Sayid the "tourist" is trying to find Potsdamer Platz, once one of the busiest crossings in Europe and currently a tourist attraction in Berlin.
• The circle of volcanic (?) ash would indicate that was where Jacob's cabin once was, but where did it go?
• We clearly see the beginning of Hurley's regret of choosing to follow Locke over Jack.
• According to one website, a deleted scene prior to Sayid, Kate, and Miles entering Othersville showed the trio encountering the sonic fence. Miles the Ghostbuster seems to listen to something that no else hears (ghostly whispering?). Kate believes she can deactivate the fence having seen Juliet do it, but Miles simply walks through it with no repercussions.
• Hurley appears to have been tied up in Juliet's house.
• Jack's question of the Red Sox winning the World Series ties back to Season 3 when Ben held him captive in the Hydra Station and used this sporting news event to make a point.
• Faraday's island beacon clock read 2:45:03 whereas the payload timer read 3:16:22. The island exists 31 minutes in the past. That is if we assume it's the same day. Or the same week. Or the same month. Or even the same year.
• Very symbolic that Ben's decorating choices include many masks.
• The book Sayid notices on the trick bookcase is "The Holy Quron", the holy book of Muslims.
• One of the packs of currency in Ben's hidden room is from the Bank of England.
• The passport Sayid opens lists Ben's name as Dean Moriarty, the same name as a character from Jack Kerouac's novel, "On the Road". Moriarty is also Sherlock Holmes' nemesis.
• Kate watching under the bed as Sawyer enters the bedroom is reminiscent of his point of view when he hid under the bed as his father killed himself.
• Based on his desire to stay on the island, I can bet Sawyer will not willingly become one of the Oceanic 6.
• The Hotel Adlon where Elsa first agrees to meet with her boss is an actual hotel in Berlin, located across from the Brandenburg Gate.
• Is it me or is Sayid not meant to have a long love affair? He rescues Nadia from imminent execution only to have her disappear out of his life. He professes his love to Shannon only minutes before she is shot dead by Ana Lucia. And he has to kill his latest love after she shoots him.
• So whose else is on the list of Sayid's targets besides the Economist? Alvar Hanson? Or are they one and the same?
• Another symbolic moment when Sayid shatters Elsa's mirror (looking glass), essentially destroying his perceived image of her.
• Elsa seemed to be wearing a silver bracelet similar to Naomi's. A trademark of all Dharma operatives?
• Lapidus and Faraday didn't look like they were being completely upfront about whether or not they were familiar with Penelope Widmore.
• What did Charlotte mean when she said "I've got work to do"?
• I imagine the "same, exact bearing" that Faraday insisted the chopper take was probably the same one used previously by the sub and the boat on which Michael and Walt left the island.
• Why does Sayid need to kill Ben's targets to protect his friends?
  

The Numbers - 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 15 16 23 42 108

• The chopper can carry 3 passengers in addition to Lapidus.
  
• Mr. Avellino suggests Sayid use a 5 iron on the golf course.
• Sayid is to meet Elsa at 8 for dinner.
• Sayid, Kate, and Miles plan on leaving for Othersville in 10 minutes.
• Regina counts down the final approach of the payload to the beacon at 15, 10, and 5 kilometers.
  

Previews - Next week's "Eggstown" focuses on Kate, apparently the next member of the Oceanic 6 as indicated by the mob of journalists swarming around her - no doubt because of her criminal record. It also looks like she and Sawyer rekindle their love in Othersville.

What About the Rest of the Season? - Now that the writers are back to work, it has been announced that an additional five episodes will air this season. Episode 7 will air on March 13 and then there will be a month break. The eighth episode (originally planned as a mini-finale) will herald the show's return on April 17 in its usual time slot of 9 p.m. EST and then the remaining five new episodes will air over the following weeks but an hour later at 10 p.m.

The Future of This Season

Thanks to Greg for this from CNN:

Damon Lindelof is eager for some answers. An executive producer of ABC's mystery serial "Lost," he should learn this week what his show's future holds as it closes out its fourth season.

"Lost" has been back on the air just two weeks. But the strike meant a planned 16-episode shooting schedule was halted after just eight episodes were shot. Fans braced themselves for no more this season.

"But we very much want to come back and do as many episodes as possible," said Lindelof, who then listed a few issues that first need to be settled.

"How many episodes can best serve our story? And what are the production realities?" He noted that the shooting facility in Hawaii, 2,500 miles from his Los Angeles office, had been shuttered since Thanksgiving. The crew has dispersed, the huge cast has scattered.

The first new post-strike episode of "Lost" could possibly be ready for broadcast the week after episode eight appears, he said. There likely would be three or four more after that.

Could there be even more?

"I'd be surprised if the network wanted to air episodes deep into the summer," he said. But if all the pieces fell into place, "Lost" fans would be blessed: "I don't see why we couldn't deliver all eight remaining episodes."

That kind of zeal should warm viewers' hearts. Lindelof and the rest of TV's creative community seem delighted to be back.

"Confirmed Dead" (Season 4, Episode 2)

This episode should have been titled "The Fantastic Four" because of its introduction of the four new characters and the fact that it was so fantastic! This was what I was expecting last week. A show that gave us so much new information that only resulted in a new set of questions. Who are these new people? Why is there a plane that looks like Oceanic 815 at the bottom of the Indian Ocean? And what the heck is the skeleton of a Dharma Hydra Station polar bear doing in a desert in Africa? That eerie opening sequence of the drones searching the ocean floor set the mood. This was also the first time the show departed from some established patterns. Instead of focusing on one character's flashbacks (or flash-forwards for that matter), we had four. Five, if you count Naomi's with the increasingly creepy Matthew Abaddon. And that was the first time a dead character has had a flashback. (Nikki and Paulo were merely unconscious when we saw their's.) This show also featured on-screen location names in each of the flashback's establishing shots (Essex, Massachusetts; Inglewood, California; Medenine, Tunisia; and Eleuthera, Bahamas). In the past, a landmark or spoken line revealed the locale. It was obviously important that we realized these four people came from all over the world.

The Fantastic Four - Now this is how you introduce new characters successfully. (Nikki and Paulo from last season being the unsuccessful way.)

• Daniel Faraday - What a great, frenetic character. Why was he so visibly upset over the discovery of the apparent crash of Flight 815? Was it significant we didn't see the face of his wife? In the world of science, Michael Faraday was a physicist who contributed to the field of electromagnetism - something the island has exhibited - and lends his name to the Faraday Cage, which is an enclosure that blocks out electrical fields.
  
• Miles Straume - Ghostbuster with a Dustbuster. Sarcastic and perfect foil to Daniel. Why is someone who can commune with the dead needed for this mission?
• Charlotte Staples Lewis - Award-winning anthropologist. Did she buy her way into the closed dig site because she knew what she would find there? Is it a coincidence her name is C.S. Lewis, the same as the author of "The Chronicles of Narnia"? Is Ben's box that brings people to the island really a magical wardrobe? Ben claimed to be Henry Gale; could this be an alias for her? Will it turn out she is actually Ben's childhood friend from the Dharma village he grew up in? Is she actually Ben's "man on the boat"?
• Frank Lapidus - He was supposed to be the pilot on doomed Flight 815? Can't wait to see why that didn't work out. I'm thinking some drinking may have been involved. Lapidus is also the name of a kind of granite.
  

Best Lines

• "It was Walt. Only . . . taller." Locke explaining his encounter with Michael's son, who obviously experienced a growth spurt since his last appearance on the show.
• "Karl. Now if you're gonna sleep with my daughter, I insist you call me Ben." Ben chiding Alex's boyfriend after he called him Mr. Linus.
  

Did You Notice?

• The opening sequence of the underwater discovery of the supposedly sunk Flight 815 plane by the ship Christiane I carries over from the on-line interactive experience from the www.flyoceanicair.com website that started earlier this year. The ship had actually been looking for the wreckage of sunken trading ships, specifically the Black Rock.
  
• As the chopper is spinning out of control, Charlotte can be heard asking for her "vest", referring to a bulletproof one. Miles ends up giving her his. Good thing no one shot at him!
  
• Locke seems to be one again with the rain, enjoying its cleansing properties and being able to know when it will stop.
• The look on Hurley's face when he realized he shouldn't know about the cabin was priceless.
• Sawyer referred to Locke as Colonel Kurtz, which was Marlon Brandon's allegedly insane character from "Apocalypse Now".
• Why does the chopper team feel there may be a need for gas masks? Do they know of Ben's past gas antics?
• So if Locke had not donated his kidney to his no-good con artist father back in Season 1, then Ben's bullet would have killed him? Coincidence?
• I loved gun-toting Sayid and Juliet's surprise appearance.
• The photo of Oceanic Air pilot Seth Norris was the same man we saw in the very first episode who got killed by the smoke monster except with a moustache.
• Could the clay-colored cow that Lapidus saw have belonged to Eye Patch? He did have cows outside his abode before Locke blew it up. Or did the Island just feel that Lapidus needed a boost of energy so it sent him a Red Bull?
• Abaddon was pretty adamant that "there were no survivors". I'm guessing he won't be too happy when the Oceanic 6 show up.
• Locke asks the question we've all had since the pilot: "What is the monster?" Too bad Ben didn't know. Or does he?
• Could Ben's "man on the boat" be the same someone who left the island and who we know is returning to the show after an absence and likes to yell "Walt!" a lot?
  

The Numbers - 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 15 16 23 42 108

• The remote operating drones were 5,000 meters beneath the surface.
• The Christiane I had been scouring the surrounding waters for 2 months.
• There were 2 remote operating vehicles.
• There were 4 people on the chopper.
• Miles wanted $200 to "clean" the grandson's room.
• A football poster in the grandson's room has the number 15 in it.
  
• The phone number for families of the Oceanic 815 passengers was made up of several of The Numbers: 1-888-548-0034. Try calling the phone number. It's real!
• The chopper's tail had N842M on it.
  

Previews - Next week's "The Economist" promises to reveal another member of the Oceanic 6. I'm thinking it will be Sayid as he is featured in a number of the upcoming scenes.

Ho! Ho! Ho?

Thanks to Rene for finding this on the web and bringing it to my attention:

Hurley said he saw Charlie in the convenience store by the Ho Hos. When Jack and Hurley are playing Horse, Jack misses his two shots, getting to "H" and "O". H is the 8th letter of the alphabet and O is the 15th (as in Flight 815 or two of The Numbers). I must be out of practice to have missed this!

Two More Days Too Long to Wait?

Anxious to see this Thursday's episode, "Confirmed Dead"? Check out three short video clips from this week's show at E!'s website: http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/index.jsp?sid=nav-gossip