Great episode
Kate is soooo yuumy

I have been drinking so I am going to kepp it short. Thankks.

Good people on the island don't get sick. The island was telling jack he isn't good.

Being in the middle of a house that exploded in last week's ep probably had something to do with her current condition... ;-)

I was disappointed with the Rousseau revelation. It seems like there was a lot more story to be told about her and how she got on the island and her life for the past 16 years.

I was surprised to see that the mercs apparently just got their hair mussed in their encounter with Smokey. Sure sounded like they were being killed last week.

Always nice to see more Rose & Bernard.

This seems to be the kind of episode people jump all over and say they don't like, because it was more heavily character-driven than mythology-driven. But I really dug it. Thought the comment about it feeling like a vintage, season 1 type episode was apt.

I think Rousseau's story will coincide with a Richard Alpert flashback if we ever get that. I'm struggling to think of any other ways her story can be told, now she's confirmed dead. I still can't comprehend how they're going to be able to tell Libby's Story, and tim'es running out for it to be even told this season as they'd said (might've been one of the episodes that fell victim to the WGA strike).

Not sure if this means anything, but it really seems like they went out of their way to show us plenty of Jack with his shirt off in the beginning.

Where was the scar from the surgery? I couldn't see it, and I'm watching in HD on a 61" display. I'm not expecting a big gnarly scar, but if you had an appendectomy under those conditions, I would think there might be some visible mark even a couple years later.

Maybe Hurley is right to a certain degree.

Just clearing up a few things...

I think Kate was talking to Ben and doing stuff for him. that's how I took it. when she said "him", jack obviously thought it was sawyer since those two were close. but it's obviously Ben. I doubt sawyer can use his boost mobile on the island or else jinn would've contacted sun also. only Ben can come an go.

Agree!

I completely forgot and didn't react at all with the line of "you're not even related to him!". I knew, but had completely missed the point that Jack was Claire's brother and clearly was related to Aaron, while Kate wasn't.

That was my first thought.

Except that Kate said it was Sawyer for whom she was doing something.

Are we supposed to take the smoke detector going off outside of Jack's office as another hint to the smoke monster "becoming" other people, or is a convenient plot point to get Jack into the lobby?

Perhaps I was dozing off, but when Claire saw her father picking up Aaron, was that Dr. Sheppard? It just didn't look like him from that angle.

I don't know how people make these connections so quickly, but this seemed possibly significant...

That's what I was thinking as well, he probably would have said something about neither of them being related to Aaron if he didn't know.

I'm pretty confident that was Dr. Sheppard.

Wow... that could either be something pretty big if Kate has some connection to them... or just simple re-use of props and decoations on the set.

well, it wasn't going off, it was beeping because the battery was dying. convenient plot point.

glad i came on here and saw the scar picture. cause i had the same question about the apparent lack of a scar.

and guys, i don't really care, honestly, cause i watch them, but previews are supposed to be within spoilers.

who's "them?" The Santa Rosa Insane Asylum? Or was smokey responsible for putting up those construction paper cutouts?

I thought the black guy in the shot was the one responsible for assembling the team on Widmore's boat. Actually, I was thinking the last of the four pics with him was in the room where he was talking about choosing them. But that's not the case. Ignore me

That (posted picture) doesn't look like an appendectomy scar to me - more like just a skin wrinkle/muscle. I watched the first flashback scene again where Jack is in bed and they pan from his waist to the phone... there is NO scar there.

I'm voting scar. Here's a better shot.

Perhaps Aaron made them for his "parents" and Hurley, too.

here's an even better one

Good episode

Nice change of pace for this season yet still engrossing.

Oh, Palavar... that one is better. Huh. Now I'm confused. I was CONVINCED he didn't have one.

What does everyone thing happened to Claire? It's not like her to just lose it and go off into the jungle.