Lost clues: Something Nice Back Home

Episode summary:

In flash forward:
Jack is living with Kate and they are raising Aaron. Jack is back at work as a surgeon, Kate is a happy mom. Jack even asks Kate to marry him. Things seem to be going well.

But then Jack has a vision of his dead father. He shakes this off, but then, after a visit with Hurley in the mental hospital--during which Hurley tells Jack about his visit with Charlie (also dead)--Jack is freaked out.

Hurley has a message for Jack from Charlie. It says: "". And Charlie said that Jack also would be receiving a visit.

Hurley tells Jack he thinks all of the Oceanic 6 are dead. They didn't really make it off the island.

That night at the hospital, Jack again sees his father. He asks a fellow doctor for a prescription for some stress-relieving meds. Back at home, Jack is drinking and mixed up emotionally. He's angry at Kate who--it turns out--was doing some sort of favor for Sawyer. Jack says Sawyer chose to stay behind and Kate shouldn't be doing anything for him.

Back in island time:
Jack is ill. Turns out it's his appendix and Juliet says it needs to come out stat.

Juliet sends Jin, Sun, Daniel and Charlotte to the medical hatch to retrieve supplies. During the trip, Jin becomes suspicious at the attention that Charlotte is paying to him and Sun as they speak Korean. He discovers she knows the language and tells her--in Korean--that he will harm Daniel unless Charlotte ensures that Sun gets off the island. Charlotte agrees to this.

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Juliet performs the operation, which is evidently successful. However, Rose wonders aloud to Bernard why is Jack getting ill when so many people, including herself, have been healed by the island? Is the island somehow telling Jack it doesn't want him to leave?

In the jungle: Sawyer, Claire, Baby Aaron and Miles are on their way back to the beach. They discover the shallowly buried bodies of Danielle and Karl and, a little later, encounter Frank Lapidus, the helicopter pilot. Franks says they need to hide, or the freighter troops will find and kill them, so they do.

That night, sleeping around a campfire, Claire awakes to find Aaron missing. He's nearby, being cradled by Christian Shepherd, the ostensibly dead father of both her and Jack. In the morning, Sawyer wakes up and finds that both Claire and Aaron are gone. Miles says they wandered off into the jungle with someone Claire called "Dad." He didn't bother to stop them, as Sawyer had earlier warned Miles to keep away from Claire.

Sawyer follows their trail into the jungle and discovers Aaron, but there's no sign of Claire.

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Questions/clues/observations:


* Was Kate talking on the phone to Cassidy, the mother of Sawyer's daughter, Clementine? What did Kate promise Sawyer she'd do?

* Or was Kate really doing something for Ben? Could be he recruited her, like he did Sayid, to help him out against Widmore.

* Is the ghost of Christian Shepherd really visiting folks, or is it a manifestation of Jacob or the Island (or both)? Perhaps Jacob is inhabiting Shepherd's body.

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* Where the heck did Claire go? And why did she leave Aaron behind?

* Jack, when he's drunk and angry, tells Kate that Aaron isn't "even related" to her? Does he realize that he's Aaron's uncle?

* Miles' psychic powers go off and he hears weird sounds and whispers when he, Sawyer and Claire discover the bodies of Danielle and Karl. Are the whispers heard occasionally on the island those of the dead, i.e. the Dharma Initiative people Ben killed?

* Jack is reading "Alice in Wonderland" to Aaron.

"Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: `Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!' And she began thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of them."

* There's a Dharma Initiative-looking object on Aaron's bed.

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* Daniel wonders where all the electrical power on the island comes from. Good question!

Also see:

Lost Season 4 Episode Guide
The Best Lost Sites on the Web
Lost: What we STILL don't know


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