It could turn out to be a dream sequence.  Last shot will be Quinn waking up in the hospital

I honestly think they are setting Sue up to lose the baby.  It will be another very special episode, in which the Glee club reaches out to Sue.  The next episode, Sue will go back to being mean and angry at the world.  It will be manipulative as all hell, but at the level of writing I've come to expect from Glee.

I'm a battered Lost fan, once again returning to a show with a long-running mystery that probably won't pay off in the end.  As long as I see the potential for fantastic and interesting story, I'll hang in for at least the first season.

My bet is that the mother is Robin's blond friend from the pilot episode - the one who was dumped.

Dark thought - the exact wording of the bet was that Ted and Robin "won't end up together."  We don't know that the mother is alive in 2030.  Maybe Ted is telling this story on the anniversary of the mother's death, and Robin lives with them. Ted and Robin would "end up together," but not be romantically in love.

I realized that after the fact.  But - and this is kind of a stretch - "Around the World in 80 Days" could still apply.

I think it is part of the overarching mystery.  Someone is obviously helping these guys - I mean, some of them have missions to accomplish but they don't know why, and they've been given supplies and enough knowledge of current technology to make their way in the world.  I think they're being released as part of a…

Last week's theme was cold, and this week's themes are sleep and dreams:

Hauser was hurrying Sylvane out of the room because Rebecca was present, and Jack was starting to talk about things that Hauser doesn't want Rebecca to know - New Alcatraz and Dr. Beauregard specifically.

So here's my theory.  The mother is going to end up being Robin's blonde friend from the pilot - the one who was dumped.  She is the first thing Ted sees when he turns around and says "Okay, I'm ready where is she?"  She's in the frame for just a second, then the crowd shuffles, and Ted catches site of Robin.  Robin…

I've been thinking about this since the Symphony of Illumination episode.  This  whole story could just be Ted coming to terms with the fact that he never had kids.   If the show wanted to go really dark, the last episode could be Ted rambling to an empty couch in his empty house. They could even use that for an…

My hope is that the next episode opens with Robin laughing in Ted's face - again - about the possibility of them getting back together.

They are referred to as 63s because 1963 is the year they all disappeared from the Rock.

There was a LOT of emphasis on cold in this episode:- Captain America being frozen- Paxton dunked in ice water, and reference to the fact that many of the prisoners had faced the same treatment- During the war, Paxton cleared a frozen field of landmines all by himself- The guy who worked at the cemetery in the present…

We have a potential explanation for why the 63s know about life in 2012 - Dr. Sengupta's interest in both removing bad memories and implanting new memories in patients.  This episode confirms that Dr. Beauregard "knows her techniques"; somebody else could, too.

I've been kicking around cloning as the plot solution.

Trying to reply to Hear God Laugh and Damn Kids about checking the ferry:
Not setting up a checkpoint on the ferry is indeed a HUGE plot whole.  The only way not checking the ferry makes sense is if someone more powerful than Hauser wants the 63s to get back to land, and Hauser has orders to let it happen.That doesn't…