Episode 3-4: "Every Man for Himself"

• Desmond used "psychic ability" to help Claire:
  
• Since he saved Claire from the lightening, does that change the future somehow (think Back to the Future)
• Is Desmond now seeing the future? and is he using it to help people?
  
• Perhaps rather than a flashback from Desmond, we'll get a flash forward.
• Sawyer:
• this episode set up what he was willing to do and willing to compromise to save himself.
• Yet he gives the money he received to his daughter, perhaps that was a con too?
• He said to put the money in a bank in Albuquerque, which is where the bank was that Kate robbed.
  
• In some episode, Sawyer made a reference to Florida, so now you have Kate and Sawyer connected peripherally in Iowa, Florida and New Mexico.
• After this flashback, seeing how Sawyer was in jail and what he did to get out, perhaps there is a chance that the Others can turn him. Before this episode, thought he'd be the last one to turn.
  
• Implications of Hydra station on separate island:
• not an easy escape-the cages aren't really cages (how easily Kate got out of it), the island itself is the cage.
• Implications of Colleen's death:
• it was interesting to see how quickly Jack was to help an "Other"
  
• we will be finding out whose X-rays those are up there.
• Colleen's husband (Pickard) may be very eager to take vengeance.
  
• Jack and Juliet had a conversation about power, where Juliet was saying that she does not have to listen to Ben. This conversation mirrored the conversation between Benry and Locke, when Benry was locked up in the Swan Hatch. It was regarding Jack and Locke. Both conversations had the line "It doesn't work that way. We make decisions together."
• X-rays:
  
• they belonged to a man in his 40's with a tumor. Benry? Sawyer? Locke's (his license said his DOB was 5/30/56 and remember LOST is occurring in 2004, plus you don't know how old those x-rays are)?
• Perhaps they belong to an Other we haven't met yet. Maybe Benry is not the leader, but tumor man is. While in captivity, Benry did say "Our leader is a great man." Was he talking about himself or someone else?
• Island:
  
• How do the Losties not see the island. Even if they are on other side of the big island, they have climbed mountains.
  
• But perhaps this little island explains why Benry was so freaked out when he learned about Desmond's boat.
  
• Other village is on the big island with the Losties. Ben told Ethan he could get to the Losties in 2 hours by foot.
• Apparently, the polar bears swam from little island to big island since those cages that Sawyer and Kate are in had originally held them.
  
• Easter Eggs in episode:
• Dialogue of the Others: "Two days ago the sky went purple and the coms are down"
  
1. initially it seemed as though they were not surprised by the light in the sky when the hatch imploded, but perhaps they were.
2. What are these coms to?
• to the outside world, not to each other?
• to other groups of Others?
  
• 2 way or just 1 way (for listening only or communicating?)
• So far, we know that Ben and the Others can see what is happening around the Hydra Station. Can they see other hatches, like the Pearl Station can?
• Audio from intercom in Jack's cell
• There were 2 voices. Here is the dialogue:
• 1. Speaker 1: (Everything's) under control (.5 sec)
  2. Speaker 2:yeah? (2.35 sec)
  3. Speaker 2: You know what he's doing to Colleen? (3.09 sec, note Closed Caption had "Karl" instead of Colleen)
  4. Anyone hear what the comm/con is saying (4.19 sec)
  5. Speaker 1: the man knows what he's doing (5 sec)
  6. Speaker 2 it was a mistake bringing those two here (7 sec)
• Which 2 are they talking about? Sawyer and Kate? If the intercom said Karl, was it the Karl that Alex had talked to Kate about (the kid that helped Sawyer try to escape from the cages)?
  
• The Sub:
• The Others said to Ben, "The sub is back"
• Do they have a submarine? This could explain how Ethan struck from the water and how they "snuck" up on Sun on the boat (though Sayid's plan SUCKED anyway)
• The Mural: many many episodes ago, we saw a mural painted on the wall of the Swan Station. Here is a screen shot of it: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~andorfc/iowa_mural.html
• Now that we know more about the Others, there is some analysis of it going on.
• On the mural, there are houses, which may represent the Others' village(s). There is a sailboat, perhaps Desmond's, and a submarine in the far right corner.
  
• The overall layout is divided horizontally by waves, perhaps symbolizing the Losties' mainland (big island) on the top and the Others on the bottom.
• There are 3 houses, perhaps representing 3 different Other villages?
• Perhaps the bigger question: who painted it? someone who actually knew the layout of the island, or maybe someone who survived the first "incident" and had the ability to foresee the future like Desmond seems to now.
  

Spoilers:

• Next Episode: "Cost of Living"-Eko's flashback.
• Synopsis: Eko wrestles with demons from his past while Locke and some other Lostaways head back to Pearl Station in the hope of finding a computer to help them locate their friends. Jack doesn't’t know who to trust when two of the Others seem at odds with each other.
• See a guy with a patch, shown on a monitor in what appears to be the Pearl eStation. Maybe it was his eye the Tailies found in the hatch they had been hanging out in before they left to find the Losties.
• A major character, regular actor, but not Sawyer, dies in this episode.
• There will be a love triangle between Charlie, Claire and someone else this season.
  

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