Previously on:
Sawyer’s flashback (The Big Con) with Cassie
Jack and Kate on the other island
John blowing up the pier (sub?)

Moments/Notes/Quotes:

• Juliet wasn’t taken down by Kate so easily
• Kate flashback:
  • Car trouble in Iowa (as Lucy)
  • Cassie, Sawyer’s girlfriend/con, pulling the scam that Sawyer did with her
• Appearance of the backgammon board
• John is going with the Others??? Where?
• “Forgiveness isn’t one of their strong suits”
• Hurley pretending not to talk to Sawyer
• The sight of the Others donning gas masks (in full view of Kate) before gassing Kate
• Kate taking tips from Cassie
• Kate waking up in the middle of the forest floor and cuffed to Juliet (hope there aren’t any spiders!)
• “I ain’t gonna get the Korean folks”
• Sawyer vs. The Fish
• “I’m just selling Bibles” (I was wondering why she was wearing that hat at first)
• Juliet knowing it was going to rain – exactly as Locke knew (did The Others dispose of Juliet and replace her with Locke?)
• WTH was the stomping monster that flashed light?!!!
• Watching Hurley coach Sawyer was like watching The Ghost of Christmas Past in The Christmas Carol
• “Well hey there little baby” [cue crying]
• Kate’s mom’s diner: Sawyer ate there the final day of his “Big Con”
• The Others don’t know what the smoke monster is, but the fence protects them.
• Showing Sawyer partake in the community was purposeful to show day-to-day life of the beached Losties. I suppose they had to find a way to survive and find sustenance.
• “Since when did anyone around here vote?”
• “Leader? WTH are you smoking?”
• Standing at the bushes once again looking in at the village.
• Juliet graciously lets Kate find Jack.
• (Was Ben ever going to really let Jack and Juliet leave the island?)
• Jack must have gotten a good dose of the gas if he was unconscious while Kate and Juliet were out in the jungle for the night…
• Jack’s apartment looks ransacked. What was the need for that? He looks like he took a beating too… he needed help to get up?
• Cassie’s pregnant (not a con and it is Sawyer’s), so we know it was early within the 9 months since Sawyer had left.

Good stuff:
Seeing Cassie and knowing she bounced back from Sawyer leaving.

Kate trying to reach out to her mother, but completely misunderstanding how her actions affected her mother who did not necessarily want “out” of the marriage.

Hurley conning Sawyer into playing nice.

Juliet keeps me guessing on whether she should be trusted as an ally or not. We know she has been left behind for unknown reasons. Surely she would have known of an “emergency plan” to evacuate. The fact that she doesn’t offer any information on where the Others have gone leads me to believe that she might know more (I’m guessing they have some sort of underground compound.)

She falsely led Kate to believe they were left alone in the woods. Would she have been able to carry Kate the entire way by herself? She had to have help especially without having left a trail. She knows more than she’s letting on and she’s using her relationship with Jack to her advantage.

We see that the perimeter fence offers protection from the smoke monster. Juliet knew this and activated its force field in time to ward off its advances. She stood at the fence line and did not flinch as the smoke rushed at her. Again, it seems like she knows more than she’s letting on.

Motifs/Themes:
Lying/conning

Questions:
Is Juliet really “left behind”. Or, “Left Behind” to spy on the Losties?

So, no one dug up the diamonds??? Poor whats-her-name and Paulo from last week!

Any idea what the monster’s flashing light was???

What do you think? Did you like this week’s episode? Did this week shed any light on the storyline with the Others or just create more confusion?

By TVJunkie Jenn