Cole is definitely 30, 31 years old; all those dudes are. I grew up in the same decent suburb…

no one's in charge
The big thematic reveal in this episode and the Daniel/Eloise timeline seems to be that all of the figures we thought were "in the know" (Widmore, Hawking, Linus, Alpert, Chang, etc.) have, at best, only an incrementally larger understanding than, say, Jack. In fact, when Jack reveals to Eloise that…