the island's resident smart guy was relying on Shannon for help on an important project instead of him.

Resident smart, HAWT guy. Just sayin'.

t /not really here

Are we 100% certain that the toy airplane was what was in the safety deposit box?

I wasn't sure - in the box, the envelope didn't look as bulky as it did coming out of the suitcase. But I didn't go back to double check, so it could be in my mind.

I was hoping that she did not know the envelope contents when she went after the bank. I really want her to have killed someone over his super-secret safe deposit box, and it turns out he just had some precious childhood toy in there.

Wishful thinking is all my names.

Are we 100% certain that the toy airplane was what was in the safety deposit box?

It seems we are meant to assume that, but its not neccesarily so.

I was just about to post something like this. Having never watched ALIAS, is JJ big with the honkin' misdirect? Because that seems to be his rep.

I do think there's definitely more to Kate's story.

The model plane was in an envelope marked "Personal Effects" which makes me think that the marsall took it from her when he caught her, so she's been carrying it around with her while she fled. Right?

I'm kinda liking Shannon/Sayid. She clearly needs someone to tell her that she can do things if she just tries (and look, she can! She figured out what the notes were! Not her fault they were not the helpful guides to teh equations that Sayid was hoping they were), and he's obviously going to go through all the women and half the men on the island eventually, why not start with the leggy blond with self-esteem issues?

I wondered if maybe the plane wasn't her child's, and that she somehow was responsible for the death of her own child, therefore justifying (in her mind) her confession that she'd killed him.

I am not spoiled at all, for what it's worth, because I can't keep up with the show, never mind the spoilers.

Didn't she refer to him as "the man she loved?" That doesn't imply child to me, nor father, as was mentioned upthread.

Man I loved makes me think more father than son. I got a father vibe anyway. Staging the robbery for a toy plane seems a little over the top. More to the story for sure.

I was pleased, yet surprised that Jack caught the key swipe. Really didn't think he had it in him. Island smarts?

Sawyer is damn cute. Odd that he didn't take off his pants to swim. What's up with that?

Sayid's look at Shannon seemed more big brotherly to me. Sweet, and of course way HAWT.

Alias is taunting me on tape.

I thought Shannon/Sayid was wrong, and a waste of my Republican guard

Wrod.

I wondered if Shannon was outing Boone to us when she asked if Locke was his boyfriend now, or if she was just being all twelve year old hurtful.

Me, too! I mean, I would say the same thing to *my* brother if we were in a similar situation and I wanted to be a pissy snickerbitch. But the fact that she said "Is he your *new* boyfriend?" made me wonder just a little.

It's kind of hard to accept that anyone would go to all that trouble, and endanger that many lives, just to recover a toy airplane. She had the key to the box. Surely there were legal means she could use to get it.

But she told Bank Manager that she didn't have the signatory card.

Other thoughts:

I loved the Blue Lagoon opening, complete with Fantasy Island-type music. Because: (1) Sawyer hot. Sawyer SO HOTT. (2) All I could think was "You're stranded on the Island of Fucked-Upped-ness -- this idyllic swim is going to have a nasty side."

I thought there was believable sparkage between Sayid and Shannon.

Sawyer and Kate are SO going to hook up.

The fact that the safety deposit box had an airplane is just one more fucked-up part of this story. I don't think it's a toy, or anything like that. There's more to it (though I don't know if JJ Abrams knows what that is, yet).

I also feel like there's something more to the comments on the map being the lyrics to "Beyond the Sea" than just how sad it makes us feel for Rousseau. I feel like it ties into the whole Island of Fucked-Upped-ness in some way that we don't know yet.

Next week: Shannon and Boone present the island's first theatre production as they perform Fall of the House of Usher! (Or, to quote Jessica: Island of Yes!)