"The Other Woman" (Season 4, Episode 6)

First off, a few follow-up notes to last week's "The Constant". From the 8 p.m. enhanced version, the purple light from Faraday's device which bathed over Eloise was meant to parallel the purple sky from the Season 2 finale when the hatch imploded. Also, the Black Rock was captained by Magnus Hanso, a relative of both the journal's owner and the founder of the Dharma Initiative. After re-watching the obvious love between Desmond and Penny, I now believe the "Adam and Eve" skeletons from season 1 will turn out to be them. Somehow they will travel into the island's past to escape her father's manipulations where they will live happily ever after until Jack stumbles upon their bones in the cave.

Tonight's episode's title "The Other Woman" makes you wonder to whom it refers. Juliet in regards to Goodwin and Harper? Harper herself? Juliet in regards to Jack and Kate? Juliet as the woman from the Others? Ben's past love?

Best Lines

• "She's my wife." Goodwin responding to Juliet's assessment that Harper is a mean and spiteful person.
• "This didn't have a number on it, did it?" Ben to Locke when served a cooked rabbit, referring to his Number 8 bunny from last season.
  

Did You Notice?

• My initial reaction to therapist Harper Stanhope was that she is one of the island's long-lived natives like Dr. Richard Alpert. In other words, Harper's bizarre. This feeling was even stronger when she appeared out of the blue right after the ghostly whispers and introduced herself to Jack as an "old" friend of Juliet's. I believe Ben used Harper to get to know more about Juliet.
• Add Tom to the list of characters with daddy issues.
• Coincidence that it started raining as the foursome began searching for Faraday and Charlotte?
  
• Okay, I just tried listening to the ghostly whispering audio from a website that had it as it aired and in reverse. I couldn't hear anything distinct and only managed to scare myself!
  
• The new Dharma electrical station, The Tempest, shares the same name as a play by Shakespeare, which features a group of characters stranded on an island. The logo for the station is a stylized tidal wave, possibly foreshadowing the tsunami?
• Henrietta is mentioned as the latest pregnant woman to be lost.
• Faraday's map features three areas marked "Unknown".
• Who is it that Juliet looks like that has Ben "You're Mine!" Linus so obsessed? I don't believe it's his mother since we saw her last season in his flashback. I think it's a long lost love and the same woman featured in the portrait in Ben's house. Seen last season and again last night when Ben opened the door for Juliet, the woman bears a striking resemblance to her, is seated in a wicker chair, and is holding a small furry animal in her lap (a bunny?).
• As Locked walked Ben down the hallway, there is a collage picture frame of photos of what looks like parents and children.
• Is the video tape of the taped-over Boston Red Sox the same one Ben showed to Jack in the Hydra Station to prove the Others had contact with the outside world? If so, then the incident with Charles Widmore occurred after the crash of Flight 815. Who was the videographer - Ben? Widmore's knowledge of the island no doubt comes from his purchase of the Black Rock's journal in 1996.
• Ben and Juliet discussed the two tail section children, Zack and Emma. Ben comments that were on the list, apparently referring to Jacob's list.
• The Tempest computer monitor that Faraday was looking at had the message "CROSS FEED ASS 16 OVERPRESSURE ALERT". Ass? Overpressure? Well, it did have to do with gas.
• Were the writers thinking of the old saying "close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades" by showing Hurley and Sawyer playing the game while Miles, we assume, remains with his explosive mouthful nearby?
  

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

• Ben points out to Juliet that her new living arrangements include 2 bedrooms and 2 baths.
• Juliet believes she will only be on the island for 6 months.
• The Tempest Dharma station brings the count to 8.
• The pregnancy problems occur in the 2nd trimester.
• Juliet tells Goodwin she has an appointment with his wife in 10 minutes.
• The combination to Ben's wall safe is 36-15-28.
• Ben mentions that the Virgin Mary mold story happened 3 months ago and that 5 thousand people came to see it.
• Juliet comments that Goodwin has been undercover with the Tailies for 3 weeks.
• The Tempest computer announces that contamination will occur in 10 seconds.
• The countdown is 5, 4, 3, and 2 before it stops.
  

Previews - Next week's "Ji Yeon" features a number of scenes with Sun and Jin, a note that reads "DON'T TRUST THE CAPTAIN", a woman (Regina?) wrapped in chains thrown off the freighter, and promises the revelation of the last of the Oceanic 6. Now if you doubt that baby Aaron is one of them, then this leaves the door open for two people. Will it be Sun and/or Jin and/or their baby? Will it be Michael? Or could it be an adult Walt? Is this why Ben told Locke he might want to sit down before revealing his man on the boat this week?