Lost clues: "One of Us" ep. 16, season 3

Synopsis:

Juliet joins Jack, Sayid and Kate on their trek back to the crash survivors' beach camp.

Along the way, we see flashbacks relating Juliet's arrival on the island (by submarine) to do scientific research for the Others.

We learn that, for some reason, women on the island cannot give birth. Juliet is working on a drug that prevents the problem and we learn that Claire was part of her research.

Back in the present, Claire suddenly becomes very ill. When Juliet arrives, she tells Jack she can help--Claire's problems are the result of the research she did, and Juliet knows where to find a supply of medications that can help. Jack lets her go for the meds, but Sayid and Sawyer--very suspicious of the Other in their midst--follow.

Juliet is able to administer the meds and Claire quickly recovers. Juliet ends up looking pretty good in the eyes of the crash survivors. However--in another flashback--we see that Juliet is very much a spy. Ben and she have carefully planned it to look like Juliet had been left behind by the Others and somehow caused Claire's "illness" to flare up at precisely the right time. What are they up to?



Clues, observations, speculation:

* What ARE Ben and Juliet after?

* If pregnant women really are in danger on the island, what will happen with Sun? And what about Kate? She and Sawyer got together while captives of the Others. Is Kate pregnant too? Did the Others want her to get that way?

* What's up with the symbol on the tree near the drop point for Ethan's supplies, where Juliet retrieves the meds to help Claire? It's very similar to the brand Juliet received on her back.





* Ben makes reference to Jacob and tells Juliet the Others have the ability to somehow cure Juliet's sister of cancer. Who is Jacob? And how do the Others cure cancer? And, if they can, why couldn't they help Ben?

* Is Jacob real, or just a "Wizard of Oz" creation of Ben, playing the man behind the curtain?

* Where and why did the Others go and when are they coming back?

* It seems the Others want to be a self-perpetuating society apart from the rest of the world. But that's hard to do when nobody can have children. It seems this is why they abducted kids from the plane and why they recruited Juliet.

* In flashbacks, we see Juliet had a relationship with Goodwin, the Other who was killed by Ana Lucia.

* Immediately after the crash, we see Ben asking for details background information on all the crash survivors and later Juliet spouts off deep dark secrets she knows about Sayid and Sawyer. But this information couldn't have come from conventional detective work. How, for example, could the Others know about the man Sawyer killed the night before his ill-fated flight? They had to be spying on him, which means they predicted the crash, or they must have some psychic, mind-reading way of learning about the crash survivors too.

* Juliet is led to believe she'll be taking a flight to the island, but she's actually tranquilized and put on the submarine. We see her, with Richard Alpert and Ethan, awaiting a flight via Herarat Aviation.

* What does Herarat mean? A similar word is Ararat, the supposed resting places of Noah's Ark. It also could mean "her a rat," a hint to viewers that Juliet is, indeed, untrustworthy.

* Or, maybe more likely, Herarat is an anagram for Earhart, as in lost aviator Amelia. Maybe the island's Adam and Eve are Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan.

* Since Juliet only wakes up after the sub has supposedly arrived at the island, is it possible the sub is a fake? That she arrived on the island in some other fashion?

* Note the Dharma-ish, I-Chingish symbols on the sub.

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