"This Place is Death" (Season 5, Episode 5)

Tonight's episode was a night of revelations and confirmations. Eloise Hawking is in fact Faraday's mother. Charlotte was on the island as a little girl. And the frozen donkey wheel looks to be at the center of all the time flashes.

Best Line

• "He's Korean. I'm from Encino." Miles to Sawyer after being asked to translate what Jin said on the presumption that all Asians understand each other.
  

Did You Notice?

• There was a small, red star near the neckline on the back of Jin's t-shirt.
  
• The blond Frenchman mentioned a submarine when mocking Jin and his comments about the ship and the helicopter. Not too far off.
  
• I guess we can add another book to the Lost library: A Farewell to Arms. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
  
• The temple where the smoke monster resides was covered with hieroglyphics similar to those where the frozen donkey wheel was and to the final symbols on the Swan station's countdown clock.
• Robert says the smoke monster is a security system for the temple. What is it guarding?
  
• The temple is where Ben told Richard Alpert to take his people after Ben shot Locke in Season 3.
• So the elder Rousseau was telling the truth when she said her team went mad. I guess the trip into the smoke monster's liar is not good for your mental health.
• Since Rousseau asked Jin about disappearing, I guess this means when anyone time jumps, the people remaining see them go and remember it.
  
• A boat at the marina had the name "Illusion" on its bow.
• Why was Charlotte adamant that Sun specifically not return to the island?
  
• Was Charlotte referring to Ben when, in her time-tripping state, she mentioned "marrying an American"?
• Charlotte also spoke of Geronimo Jackson, the band whose album Charlie and Hurley found in the hatch in Season 2. Could young Charlotte have been in that same Dharma station and listened to that exact record?
• Charlotte's life-long search for the island explains her joy in the Season 4 flashback at finding the polar bear skeleton with the Dharma collar in Tunisia.
• So at some point Faraday the "crazy man" travels back to young Charlotte's time on the island to warn her.
  
• Do you wonder if Locke regrets regaining the use of his legs since being on the island? The hatch door has crushed them. Ethan shot him in one leg. And now, he's got a bone protruding out of the other.
• If Jacob is a version of Locke (which I believe), could he be using a simulation of Christian Sheppard so as not to reveal himself? Is this also why Christian couldn't help Locke stand or reset the wheel?
• Christian informs Locke that "everyone" who left must return to the island. May not be so easy with Kate and Sayid refusing to have anything to do with this idea.
• The viewers all know that Christian is Jack's dad but obviously Locke has no clue.
  
• Did you get the impression that Ben didn't know that Eloise Hawking was Faraday's mother?
  

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

• The numbers 4,8,15,16,23,42 could be heard over the French team's receiver. Some folks on-line believe the voice to be that of Hurley.
• Rousseau said her team set sail on November 15.
  

Previews - On next week's "316", it looks like we may be in for some more revelations, this time about the island, as Eloise Hawking follows through on her declaration "Let's get started."