Next episode. I think we'll see an on-the-run Sayid get picked up by the Hostiles, only to encounter a shocked Bernard and Rose among them, both of them gone fully native. And Vincent will be a Hostile Dog too.

My guess is that 'rifts' is the whole point of this. Ben ain't coming back. Sayid has well and truly fucked the space-time continuum by 'breaking the rules'.

Four words: Sayid broke the rules.

Oooh, that's right. My daughter watched that Olsen twins movie, and it was weird to see Andy in that. Not Larry-David-on-Hannah-Montana weird, but pretty weird nonetheless.

Yeah, that whole Ilana/Sayid situation is very strange. What is the deal with Sayid, anyway? Has he said more than three words since he boarded the Ajira flight? He looks like he's been dosed with a couple more of those tranquilizer darts.

The fact that she came back for a Season 4 episode leads me to think that she'll get her story told.

They kind of did a mini-version of this on the Season 3 Blu Ray. They run down a long series of questions about mysteries on the show, and anwer them definitively or say that it will or won't be addressed. I can see them putting a big answerpalooza on the Season 6 set.

I made the Juliet/Young Ben connection last week…. oh well. I think it's extremely likely that LaFleur and co. know exactly who teen Ben Linus is. What can they do with that knowledge? Farraday has told them that they can't change the future, they know that Ben survives the '70s, I'm guessing that they're just…

I pretty sure he says, "No, wait, what are you doing?"

I don't mean to be pedantic, but I'm old and remember when that song was originally on the radio.

Does anyone have any theories on what exactly Ben intends to do now that he's back on the island? Did he kill John thinking that he is now in the best position to lead the Others with Locke out of the way? Or did he have an inkling that Locke would rise from the dead once they returned? And why would Richard and…

I don't think there's any alternate reality stuff going on with the Barracks. I think it's plausible that Ben might have left some traces of Dharma after the Purge — they seem to have left the houses mostly intact, and maybe he gets nostalgic for the DI every once in a while. And since the time Keamy shot up…

His name is James Ford.

I don't believe that any of this season has taken place at the Pearl. That station is far from the Barracks, and every indication is that the monitoring station shown in the past couple episodes is in the Barracks area. So I think the monitors and jail cell are in a smaller facility at the Barracks.

Didn't Ms. Hawking already answer your first question? If they all aren't on the Ajira flight, then the results will be unpredictable. At least Walt was missing from the flight, so who flashed when became a crap shoot.

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Naw, this is the new Jack. He's been to the brink of despair, cried into then shaved a beard, kicked hard drugs and alcohol…. all in the past week!

The Virgin Spring is full of awesome Von Sydow murder killing.

I don't really buy your theory, but I read a related one that I like better: The reason Richard is so adamant about burying any dead bodies is that Smokey comes and possesses any unburied corpse — that this is what happened to John Locke, Christian Shepherd, Yemi. And this is also why we haven't seen Shannon, Libby,…

The presence of Ben in the DI community of this period brings up all kinds of interesting possibilities. Sawyer, Juliet and the gang will know who he is and, most importantly, what he is going to do. Do they try to warn Horace? Do they try to kill Ben? Farraday's laws of time travel say that they really can't do…