Best Line
- "Now why'd you go and do that?" UnLocke to Sayid after being stabbed in the heart.
- The cab driver in the opening, although not seen, sounded to me like Miles. Is he not listening to stiffs in the parallel time line, but actually a working stiff?
- The theme of reflection continued in this episode with Sayid's face in the glass window of Nadia's front door.
- Sayid's brother, Omer, was first seen last season in a flashback as a young boy. In the scene, he was unable to kill a chicken for his father and young Sayid had to do it.
- Dr. Jack is seen walking in the hospital corridor when Sayid and Nadia rush in.
- The license plate number on Nadia's mini-van is 2SAQ321, the same as on Jack's jeep. I'm guessing this is a production error and that the show only has so many California license plates in Hawaii where the show is filmed.
- Omar the thug who forces Sayid into the SUV was one of the freighter mercenaries on the island last season.
- The restaurant kitchen where Sayid is taken is the same one where Naomi recruited Miles to go on the freighter with her.
- Martin Keamy, who was the lead freighter mercenary and killed Ben's daughter, was even more creepy in this time line with his ice blue eyes and unusually white teeth.
- How did Jin get from the airport customs office to the kitchen storage locker? Was the money in his suitcase intended for Keamy or his boss (Charles Widmore maybe?) and it was confiscated so Keamy beat him and tied him up?
- Dogen refers to man's scale of good and evil not unlike the actual scale that was in Jacob's cave. Co-worker Dean pointed out to me that when he said good, Dogen gestured with his bare hand and when he said evil, he used his black-gloved hand.
- Now we know the significance of the baseball.
- With UnLocke and Claire at the temple, where are Sawyer and Jin? I wouldn't be surprised if UnLocke sent Sawyer on to the frozen donkey wheel. Both Ben and Locke used this to leave the island in the past so perhaps UnLocke will do so as well.
- Dogen referred to UnLocke as "an angry man" who was "trapped" but now that Jacob is gone, he is "free". He also described him as "evil incarnate". Ah, yeah.
- Dogen's dagger appeared to be made of silver. In folklore, weapons of silver are often used to kill supernatural creatures, such as silver bullets for werewolves.
- When UnLocke pulled the dagger from his chest, it was clean with no blood.
- The song Claire is singing in the hole is "Catch a Falling Star". We first heard mention of this song in the series when she asked the prospective adoptive parents if they were promise to sing this to her baby because her father (Christian) sang it to her. It was also heard later as the song the mobile played in the Dharma nursery and again when Kate sang it to Aaron after they returned from the island.
- Dogen's 12-year old son was first seen last week in the parallel time line at the music conservatory auditions.
- Dogen's car accident is the latest in this recurring theme: Michael's hit and run, Kate's as she tried to escape from the hospital, Claire and her mother's to name a few.
- Jacob's request of Dogen to guard the temple in exchange for saving his son made me think of the biblical story of God testing Abraham by asking him to kill his son Isaac. Isaac coincidentally would become the father of Jacob and Esau - perhaps the Man in Black's real name?
- Sayid drowned in the temple pool and came back to life. Could the same happen with Dogen? However, I'm pretty sure we've seen the last of Lennon with the slit throat.
- The hieroglyph tile on the temple hallway wall that Ilana pushes to open the secret passage is a Shen ring. The Shen ring is an ancient Egyptian symbol of eternity and protection. In ancient Egypt, the Shen ring also represented dual concepts of time: the cyclic line of periodicity and lineal time.
- The use of Claire's lullaby over the scenes of the smoke monster's destruction at the temple was especially haunting.
- What was going through UnLocke's head when he saw Kate join his group?
- Miles told Sayid he was dead for 2 hours.
- Sayid told Nadia that the kids went to bed 2 hours ago.
As usual, this episode will be rerun next week as the enhanced version at 8 p.m. ET. Next week's new episode is titled "Dr. Linus". It sounds as if we'll see what Ben Linus, European history teacher, is up to while island Ben appears to be at the island cemetery digging up someone (Locke?). Next week is the first of the final 10 episodes that lead up to the two-hour finale on Sunday, May 23.
In three weeks, we can expect to see Richard Alpert's back story. We'll learn why Richard doesn't age and that it is due to a request (I'm guessing from Jacob). It is also in this episode that Jacob reveals to Richard (and the viewers) what the island is. Last week, I told you the first clue was that it is a four letter word with no E or A. Now I've learned it does have an O. So much for the island being a SHIP! My co-worker Judy is adamant the answer will be VOID, which among the word's many definitions, can refer to a place between parallel worlds.
In other upcoming episodes, we will see the return of Faraday's love, Charlotte. She is returning "in a very big way" and she will be "very close to a male lead". Could she be the mother of Jack's son David and not Juliet? She also has piercing blue eyes. (Juliet makes more sense to me based on Jack and Juliet's lives on the island.) We will also find out if Desmond really was on the plane in the season premiere. And, although we won't see Desmond for a while, when we do, Penny will be at his side.
And last but by no means least, episode 15 (third from the final one) is set in a time and place that you have never seen on a network series before. And if that isn't enough to get you thinking, none of the series regulars are in the episode! I'm thinking distant past, maybe Biblical times, with it being Jacob and the Man in Black's back story.
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