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!)

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

Just a piece of paper. I'm sure there were legal means she could've taken if it were really that important to her. Or else just buy a duplicate on eBay.

I think the plane is somehow related to another, larger crime Kate was involved in -- one she still hopes to pull off -- and the "man I loved/man I killed" thing is just a smokescreen. The marshall may have known this and been holding it as evidence.

I got the impression that she's basically a good person who needed to commit a crime because of something sentimental and possibly twee.

But I judge bitchily.

But, I mean, she did shoot the bad guys on her way out.

I'm assuming the plane was in the safety deposit box.

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'm still trying to work out the details for myself but it seems like a lot of work to hold up a bank to retrieve a toy airplane out of a safety deposit box. The cost of the box and the security provided would indicate that either the toy plane has more value than I'm originally inclined to think or that there was something else in the box that we don't know about yet.

I'm also recalling the beginning of the season when Kate and the Marshall were on the plane and he says to her like "Do you really think they'll believe your story" and I'm wondering what it is that Kate said to him and if it has anything to do with the robbery and/or toy plane.

I thought Kate was bullshitting with the "man I loved" bit. Not so much the "man I killed," though.

I did have some trouble with the bank set-up, though. In what world does the bank manager get all "you're going to kill me anyway, I refuse to hand over the goods" anyway? The whole elaborate scheme just didn't hang together for me.

Oh, re: "Beyond the Sea:" I felt very sad for Rousseau when I read the lyrics upthread.

Except you shouldn't since the original French lyrics are more of an ode to the sea than a song about lost love. The two sets of lyrics have a very different vibe. Don't even get me started on "My Way."

And damn, the actress playing Shannon has a nice singing voice

Was that the actress's real singing voice, or was she dubbed?

I'm assuming it was dubbed because Shannon's pronunciation in the translation scene was very very bad whereas in the song it was pretty good.

And yes, the words written on the paper (as far as I could tell) were the lyrics to "La Mer".

And yes, the words written on the paper (as far as I could tell) were the lyrics to "La Mer".

I think so too, because I remember seeing "argent" written and thinking it was another bad translation when she said "silver." (It does mean silver, but it also means money, and that was the first meaning my mind went to, my French being worse than Shannon's.)