Claire flashes back to a tragic car accident in which she was the driver and her mom, the passenger, was severely injured. We also learn--as hinted last season--that her dad is Christian Shepherd, Jack's father.
Claire tells Christian she doesn't even want to know his name--so there's no way she even suspects she and Jack are half-siblings. We don't know whether Jack realizes he has a step-sister.
Back in the present, Claire spots a seagull with a tag on its leg. Figuring these birds are tracked and studied by researchers in the outside world, she gets the idea to capture one and attach a message to it.
Desmond, who has a vision of Charlie falling into the ocean while trying to capture one of these birds, takes extreme and baffling-to-Claire actions to keep Charlie out of harm's way.
Meanwhile, Sayid, Kate, Locke and Danielle--along with their prisoner Mikhail--encounter a bizarre array of huge pylons surrounding the Others' barracks.
Locke pushes Mikhail between two of the pylons and Mikhail is instantly killed by some sort of sonic energy. The crash survivors then knock down a tree, which they use to climb safely over the pylons.
At episode's end, we see the crash survivors sneaking up to the barracks, where they spot Jack happily tossing a football back and forth to the Other Tom, a.k.a. Mr. Friendly.
Clues, observations, speculation:
* Will Claire and Jack ever figure out they're related?
* What's up with Locke? He's acting shifty, having taken some explosives from the Flame station without telling Sayid or Kate. Is he purposefully trying to sabotage their efforts to learn more about the Others/Dharma and get rescued?
* Mikhail reveals that he knows a lot about the crash surivors--their full names, their personal histories, etc. How do the Others get this information? At the start of this season, it's clear they were surprised by the plane crashing on their island. Did they get a passenger list and then use resources from the outside world to prepare dossiers on all of the survivors?
* Again, Mikhail makes reference to a "list" of "good" or undamaged people--pointing out the flaws of his captors:
Kate: flawed
John: angry
Danielle: weak
Sayid: scared
What are the qualities the Others seek in people?
* Mikhail almost reveals that Locke was paralyzed before the crash, but Locke cuts him off.
* Mikhail also makes reference to a great leader--who isn't Ben. Last season, Ben himself made reference to such a leader. Who is it? Alvar Hanso? DeGroot? "Jacob"?
* Here's another look at the map Sayid heisted from the Flame station.
* Claire, like many of the other survivors has "bad dad" issues, ala Jack (same dad!), Kate, Locke, Sawyer, Sun, Hurley etc.
* Has Jack been brainwashed by the Others, or is he just playing along--tossing the ol' pigskin with Tom? Or is Football Jack a clone?
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