"I'm like this close to the high score on Donkey Kong."

THE LONG CON



Sawyer gets caught at his own game when he is figured out by Cassidy. Seems times are a little harder than they were in the past, the “money” is mostly paper this time around. The first time we saw Sawyer try to run this con the money seemed to be all real.



Sun gets roughed up a bit by Charlie.



Ana Lucia gets Scott and Steve mixed up. Why? Or better yet how? She wasn’t there when Scott was alive so how did she even know who he was?

In the hatch we see the novel An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. The story is interesting in that it incorporates the unreliable narrative theme of writing as well as a twist ending and irregular time sequence.



Kate’s mom waits on Sawyer at the diner.



Sawyer proved to be a better con man than I originally gave him credit for both on and off the island.



Sayid fixes the radio Hurley got from Bernard and they end up getting reception on it. Hurley mentions that the transmission could be coming from “anytime”. The station is identified as WXR. The call letters belong to a public service station that belongs to the US Army. Oddly enough the announcer mentions the song “Just a sittin’ and a rockin’”, which is what we see Jacob doing in season 4.

The song Hurley and Sayid hear on the radio station, Moonlight Serenade was recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Miller, besides a musician, was also a U.S. Army Major. On Dec. 15th, 1944, Miller and two other officers traveled from London to Paris and their plane simply disappeared.

Also notice that Hurley is reading the manuscript for the book "Bad Twin" written by Gary Troupe. TPTB said that Gary Troupe was the survivor that is sucked into the plane engine in the pilot episode



Sawyer tells Charlie that he is not a good person. If that was the truth would he still be alive?



ONE OF THEM



Kate’s “father” has Sayid held hostage during Desert Storm.



Sawyer has it out with a tree frog and catches Hurley with his secret stash.



Danielle catches a man named Henry Gale in a trap.



Kelvin is revealed to be the person who set Sayid on the trail that would lead him to becoming a torturer.



Notice that when “Benry” gives Sayid the symptoms that supposedly his wife died from they are the same symptoms that the pregnant women on the island go through before death.

Sayid tells Benry that he was a good man until he was given his abilities as a torturer.



The hieroglyphics are shown for the first time when the timer in the hatch reaches zero.



Benry says that he became stranded on the island after his hot-air balloon went off course and took him there. This is a direct reference to the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, where the main character, a girl named Dorothy Gale, dreams she has become lost in a fantastical world after her house is sent there during a tornado, many points of which have a parallel within the world of LOST. Henry Gale is the name of Dorothy's uncle in the 1939 film. The famous "Wizard of Oz" arrived in the Land of Oz when his hot-air balloon took him there by mistake. He too, like Lost's Benry, comes to live in a community that exists in a strange location where its inhabitants seem to stand out from their surroundings.

Sayid comes to the conclusion that “Benry” is an “Other”.



Kate’s “father” carries a picture with him of a much younger Kate than the current version that we are used to on the island.



When Kelvin releases Sayid he tells him that some day Sayid will need to get information from someone and he will have the skills to get that information from them. Is it possible somehow Kelvin knew Sayid would meet with Benry in the future? That’s not possible is it?

Henry Gale is described as "one of them", being one of the Others, whilst Sayid is "one of them", helping the Americans.



MATERNITY LEAVE



Aaron gets sick and suddenly LOST has it’s first “girls night out”.



Didn’t it seem odd that when Claire tells Libby about Ethan she doesn’t tell Kate and Claire about Goodwin?



Benry asks for some Stephen King when Locke gives him some Dostoyevsky to read.



Libby helps Claire remember what happened when Ethan took her captive.



Ethan lies to Claire when she asks him about Charlie. The numbers appear on the vaccine. The vaccine appears to be the same vaccine Desmond was seen using in "Man of Science, Man of Faith"


In Claire’s dream there was a plane mobile that is identical to the one she sees in the Arrow station. Notice the Oceanic logo on the plane.



Hey, there’s Tom for the first time without his beard. Is Tom talking about Ben when he says; “What am I going to tell him?”



Danielle practically begs Kate to kill her.

Notice that rain begins to fall violently just as Claire discovers the medical station



Claire drinks from Ethan’s canteen and whatever was in there is sour. Ethan says he didn’t notice. What was in there and why didn’t he know it was sour?

The Others goal was to take Aaron and allow Claire to go back to her camp. Was that true? I think they would have killed her once they were done with her. Or she would have died while they were taking the baby from her. They were going to take the baby right out of her so it's possible, as Danielle says they had no intention of Claire even surviving.

Ethan told Claire that they are "good people" and a "good family."



The Others were able to strip the medical station pretty quick. But Kate still manages to find the costumes and the fake beards.

Was the fertility specialist, Juliet, aware of Ethan's attempts to prematurely birth Aaron by cutting him out of Claire's belly? Was Ethan following Ben's orders or acting solo? Which side of "The Line" is the Staff located?



Alex helps Claire escape and it seemed that Claire still wanted to give up her baby.



Claire gives Danielle hope when Danielle is devastated about not being able to find her daughter yet again.



In a weird but still good scene, Eko tells Benry about killing the two Others his first night on the island. He asks Benry for forgiveness and tells him that it is his confession. Then he cuts off his little beard knots. Aside from being dramatic, what is the significance of Mr. Eko's action with the knife? Some say that the knots were purposely grown into the shape of a "V" so if this is true what did the "V" stand for?



Claire reconfirms her motherhood towards her son. Too bad we know that it can't last.



Benry gets under Locke’s skin for the first time when he asks Locke why he allows Jack to call all the shots.

"I probably would have gone around Mount Vesuvius!"

THE HUNTING PARTY



Christian sees Jack getting a little too close to the woman whose father Jack is going to perform surgery on. He tells Jack not to cross the line. Jack retorts that Christian should know something about crossing the line. To which Christian responds that it is okay for some people but not for him (meaning Jack). What an odd relationship these two had. For all the continuity cops out there and the conspiracy theorists the date on the x-rays Jack looks at is just a mistake. They are dated November 2005 which some believed would make all of this flashback actually happening in the future. TPTB have said it was just an oversight on their part.



Locke asks Sawyer why he uses the name Sawyer almost as if he knows some of the background as to why Sawyer chose that name. He even asks “Who did you get the nickname from?” Just seems like a suspicious way of asking the question to me.



After the woman’s father dies, Jack ends up crossing the line anyway.



Tom AKA Mr. Friendly enters the picture and tells the group that Walt is a very special boy. In his “Do not cross the line” speech he quotes the Hanso line. Tom says, in reference to the island "Tell me, you go over a man's house for the first time, do you take off your shoes?". Locke did take his shoes off when he first got into the Hatch, but Jack did not.



He used the “light ’em up trick” which is a classic “Others” move. He then tells Alex to bring her out. “Her” being Kate who followed Jack/Locke/Sawyer after Jack told her not to. We also have our Danielle connection with the name “Alex” being the name of her child. Some people were fooled into thinking Alex was a male seeing as it is a man that brings out Kate but he certainly was more than sixteen which is how old Danielle claimed her child to be. Pickett was the person we see bring out Kate. Of course we don’t know that until later.



It has been noted that the large black rock that is seen in this area seems to be out of place. As in why is it out there in the middle of the jungle? It is possibly there to mark the area where “the line” is. Or it could be a marker for where one of the Cerberus Vents is.




Jack ends up getting all pissy with Kate for not following his orders.



Sarah tells Jack that she thought she might be pregnant but not to worry that she took a pregnancy test and it was negative. I wonder if our good doctor was shooting blanks just like Jin was. Would it have been Jack’s anyway since right after we find out Sarah is leaving Jack and she says she has been seeing someone.



It didn’t seem that Jack was too keen on the idea of having a child anyway. My only other thought was why in the hell did he tell Sarah about the one measly kiss he shared with the grieving daughter? There are certain man rules he needs to brush up on.



As Sarah leaves, she tells Jack he will always need something to fix. Jack oddly enough just lets her leave without much of a fight.



FIRE + WATER

“The Baptism of Christ”, the painting hanging on the wall in Charlie's dream is by Andrea del Verrocchio. It depicts the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist. Charlie's vision on the beach is based on this painting. Although Jesus and John do not appear in Charlie's vision, the angels appear (Claire and his mother), as does the dove (seagull?) that flew toward Charlie. In the painting, the dove is released from God's hands.



There’s that word “special” being thrown around again. This time it is Charlie’s mother who calls Charlie “special”.



Charlie's mother gives him a piano and tells him, "Someday you're going to get us out of here," foreshadowing Charlie's actions at the end of Season 3 in "Through the Looking Glass", when Charlie plays "Good Vibrations" on a keyboard, in order to get the survivors off the island. I have a theory that involves Charlie being the actual person who programs the keyboard password in a time loop crossover type thingy deal there. Yeah, I get a lot of flack for some of these.



The scene where Charlie's father chops off the doll's head (as a butcher in his flashback) was an homage to this Beatle's album, "Yesterday and Today".



Charlie stews a bit while Claire and Locke begin to bond and she allows Aaron to get a little closer to John as well.



In Charlie’s dream, notice you can see Yemi’s plane crashing behind Claire and Charlie’s mother in the dream. After we hear the plane crash, a seagull (dove?) comes flying towards Charlie.



In a way that only Sawyer can, he tries to help Hurley move forward with his school boy crush on Libby.

So in all the time Boone and Locke were digging up the hatch neither of them saw the door that must be somewhere nearby?



Charlie’s reaction to Locke’s accusation of him using heroin again seemed pretty legit to me.

Charlie is nothing if not loyal and faithful, albeit occasionally misdirected with it both on the island and in his flashbacks.



Libby comments that the washer and dryer seem to be newer than everything else inside the hatch. Why exactly was that just brushed over? That seems pretty big to me. Definitely more hatch story is yet to be told. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it in all it’s 1978 glory come season 5. When Hurley says that he recognizes Libby from somewhere she tries to convince him that it was from them seeing each other on the plane.

And then takes her shirt off to seal the distraction.



Eko marks all the trees that he likes(?) and asks Charlie about his dreams. Eko tells Charlie that perhaps the dreams are trying to tell Charlie that the baby needs to be baptized.



A stuffed polar bear can be seen in the giant crib in which Drive Shaft shoots their Butties diapers commercial. In Charlie's place, a Drive Shaft "Drive Across America Tour" poster hangs for their concert on 8/15/2000.



Locke catches Charlie at his stash. I, for one, do think Charlie was about to use again. Locke gives Charlie some tough love but I give Locke some credit for not telling Claire about the statues.



Charlie drags out the hooded sweatshirt as he turns firebug and baby napper.

What family did Charlie mean when he yelled to Liam “What about my family?”?



Eko explains the plane crashing and the seagull (dove) and the whole baptizing thing. To him, them crashing on the island was a way of cleaning them of their sins and they all could have a new life on the island if they wanted it. Eko's description of the baptism of Jesus is slightly incorrect. The Catholic Church teaches that Jesus was born without sin. Although he was telling the story from John the Baptist's perspective, it still goes against the views of Catholicism. Perhaps these errors were added to the script deliberately, since Eko has had no formal religious training (as far as we know), and is therefore not fully versed in the traditions of the church.



Ana Lucia asks Jack, in regards to Kate, if he is "hitting that". Have I ever told you how much I just love classy dames?

Locke puts the statues inside the armory and changes the combination. I wonder if he really was keeping them to use for medicine later or a way to bribe Charlie, if he needed to.



In classic Anakin Skywalker fashion, Charlie puts the hood of the sweatshirt back over his head.




The title is a reference to this classic dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In the book, it states: “His mind would well over at last and he would not be Montag any more, this the old man told him, assured him, promised him. He would be Montag plus-Faber, fire plus water, and then, one day, after everything had mixed and simmered and worked away in silence, there would be neither fire nor water, but wine. Out of two separate and opposite things, a third.”



Also, one of the chapters in the Hobbit is entitled Fire and Water.

Another thought towards foreshadowing puts the seagull in the dream as a way of showing that Claire will later use a seagull in an attempt to send a message off of the island in hopes of getting them saved.

And my my my wasn't this a long ass post!