"Something tells me you're good .....for it."

THE MOTH

Locke tells Charlie that he will give him back his drugs after he has asked for them three times. Coincidentally, Jesus tells Peter that he will deny him three times.



The aggravation Charlie has for his brother and by extension Locke, is taken out on Jack. Did Charlie look like the ghost of Christmas future when he pointed to the caves with his hoodie on or what? TPTB say that the hoodie is Charlie’s version of a security blanket.



Sayid is starting to come around this episode. Why do I say that? He tells Kate that all of them surviving the plane crash with barely more than a few scratches was not luck. Is it possible that the O6, who I have said have gone through this before, will eventually or have already remembered some of the previous trips to the island. Perhaps there does not have to be a plane crash every time. Maybe that is how Ben gets them all back; by looping time and the side effect is them not remembering all of the previous trips. The whispers could then turn out to be the disembodied voices of them all watching a sort of video documentary of their previous trip (or trips) and they are making mental notes of what happened before and what not to do this try. In other words, what we are seeing as the events on the island have already happened before. What we are watching is the same thing the survivors are watching (even Boone would be there because we hear him say when Shannon gets shot later on in season 2 “Hi Sis!” and “Dying sucks.”), if this is true we eventually need to start hearing the whispers off island which hasn’t happened yet. Unless the events off island cannot be changed by time looping and there would be no reason to view the post rescue portions of the survivors past incarnations. If the time loop theory turns out to be true then the last scene we see of the entire series could be all of the O6 and some of the survivors still on the island going through the same actions they did in the pilot episode. Maybe the wound on Jack’s side will turn out to be a similar wound that Ben has on his arm before turning the frozen donkey wheel. One he actually had before crashing on the island and the disappointment he is supposed to look at it with in the pilot episode is because he is disappointed to still have it after the time loop.



I liked Locke’s old philosophers story about the moth. He sure does have copious amounts of useless information stored in that bald head of his! Useless that is unless you end up stranded on a mysterious island. Locke said that a moth is much stronger than a butterfly, even though a butterfly is more beautiful. By comparison, Charlie represents a moth and Liam represents a butterfly.



I didn’t notice it in previous episodes but it seems that Charlie’s eyes go from light blue to dark blue depending on if they are showing the “good” (light) side of Charlie or the "bad" (dark) side. Saving Jack is exactly what Charlie needed in order to kick his drug habit. He needed to feel wanted and useful. Kudos to Jack for stepping in when Hurley inquires about why Charlie looks like crap.



At the end of the episode we see Sayid get whacked in the back of the head giving us our first hint that not all of the people on the island have the same agenda. We later find out that that someone was Locke.



This episode was heavy on the foreshadowing. We see a Virgin Mary statue when Charlie exits the confessional. The statues would become an important part later when Locke and Boone discover the drug smugglers plane. The source of the distress signal (which only requires two locations to triangulate BTW, not three) is discovered but not found until much later in Through the Looking Glass. Redemption as well as fate versus free will continued to be seen in this episode.



CONFIDENCE MAN

What if the entire series really does turn out to be “all about bunnies” which Sawyer tells Kate Watership Down is all about?



When Kate first reads "the letter" it is supposed to make her, and us the viewers as well, think it was written to Sawyer. We later find out it was written by Sawyer when he was 8 years old. The flashbacks try to make us think that as well but they let us off the hook when Sawyer cannot go through with the con in the end.



Locke tries to convince Sayid that it was Sawyer that hit him at the end of The Moth. This leads to the first time we see Sawyer get his ass kicked. He takes it well and he wants it. Even though he doesn’t deserve the punishment for what they say he has done he thinks he deserves the punishment for other things he has done in the past. Kate even points out that he tries hard to make people hate him. It turns out that this is the inner child crying out for help. It is this fact that draws Kate to Sawyer. When she tells Jack that Sawyer thinks they have a bond Jack asks her, "Do you?". Truth is, they really do.



Hurley refers to Jack talking Shannon out of the asthma attack as a “Jedi moment” and is the first Star Wars reference we hear.



When Jack tells Sawyer right before Sayid begins to torture Sawyer that “it doesn’t have to be this way” Sawyer says back “Yes it does.”. Sawyer not only wants to be punished he has a death wish. The letter Sawyer has is originally supposed to be his suicide letter. The man at the bar in Sawyer’s flashback (maybe his boss) even asks him “Sawyer, do you want to die?”. We get our first Kate/Sawyer kiss. This episode also has my favorite Sawyer line of the season, if not the entire series: “Baby, I’m tied to a tree in the jungle of mystery. I just got tortured by a damn spinal surgeon and a genuine Iraqi. Of course I’m serious.” How do you top that one? There was once a time when Sawyer was conning people out of thousands of dollars. Now, on the island, he cons Kate out of a kiss. When Jack has his finger buried in Sawyer’s stab wound Sawyer tells him that if the tables were turned he would watch Jack die. I definitely don’t think he would now and I don’t think he would have then.



The eyes turning dark and light continue in this episode. I know some say it is just the lighting in the different scenes but I think it is filmed that way on purpose. Watch how they capture the contrasting color of Sawyer’s dark blue eyes and the little boys light blue eyes. The boy reminds Sawyer of himself when he was that age and it shows us Sawyer's humanity and sadness. At the end of the episode when he is telling Kate about the letter notice how dark his eyes are. The song at the end is I Shall Not Walk Alone by The Blind Boys of Alabama. This song marks a turning point for Sawyer in that he will decide to become more of a part of the group instead of continue with his self imposed isolation. It also marks the beginning of Sayid’s. In the song there is a lyric about Mother Mary. Much later in the episode The Brig it is revealed that Sawyer's mothers name is Mary.