The weird part is, Locke is gaining power over people by subterfuge, quietly. Like, dude, if you openly made a move for power, there's a good chance you might become the obvious leader anyway. Why are you going to all the trouble to create rifts?

I mean, if it came to it, he's easily equipped to talk Jack out into the woods and murder him, and frame the invisimechasaurs for it. AFAIK, Jack and Sayid are the only ones with their hackles well and truly up around him, and Sayid seems to have resigned temporarily from the leadership department.

All of this said, I will laff and laff if Sawyer and Kate turn out to be the deciding personalities in the Paradise Island Civil War. They're the only "I'm on my side" characters, and I wonder what it would take to win each of them over securely.

Snerk-worthy from Cleolinda's recap:

Meanwhile, Mercutio is looking into some Important Box of Personal Significance. They ought to keep Sawyer's letter and Kate's airplane in there, I tell you what.

and

She's totally dead. Barber's Adagio for (Not Actually) Inbreeding plays woefully.

Heh. Heh heh heh.

She's totally dead. Barber's Adagio for (Not Actually) Inbreeding plays woefully.

That made me laugh. I really wanted to find a new tag in there, but nothing really called out to me.

They're the only "I'm on my side" characters, and I wonder what it would take to win each of them over securely.

I think Locke will target them first for this reason. He's already started trying to get Sawyer out of the picture. (siccing Sayid on him)

Cleolinda once again brings the funny.

As for Sawyer's brief appearance in the police station flashback, I have a theory: He's been hinting from the beginning that he knows that Kate's a bad, bad girl. What if he saw her being brought into the station by Marshall Shrap and managed to overhear a few tidbits of why she was there.

Someone over at TWoP said that seeing how Locke is indoctrinating Boone made him think of how Holtz must have raised Connor in Q'ortoth.

Yes!

Also -- I'm so glad that the Abramsverse is contingous, thus, my scenario in which the final episode of Lost has the team from Alias swooping in to save them all. I think this should involve black helicoptors AND a unit of divers. Possibly a submarine.

I loved seeing Sawyer at the police station. And Jin TOTALLY knows English. I really loved the Jin + Hurley stuff and the Kate and Sun stuff this week.

He may have seen her on the plane in handcuffs. Who knows?

I missed all the disussion last night, but I'm still giggling every time I think of Hurley "JUST PEE ON IT! PEE ON IT!" Mr. H was all, "Dude. That's for a jellyfish."

Mr. H was all, "Dude. That's for a jellyfish."

HA! I think I muttered that out loud myself.

So was what Jin fed Hurley some natural equivalent to prednisone?

So...I thought the "love" scene between Boone and Shannon was supposed to be racy. Did they cut something out?

Didn't you see the hotel room? NO TWIN BEDS! NOT EVEN A BLANKET DRAPED DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE BED!!! What's the world coming to?!?

"Dude. That's for a jellyfish."

That's what I kept saying. Aren't sea urchins one of the worst things you can step on, with the spines breaking and leaving bits in your foot and the bacteria getting in good and deep where the salt water won't get to it and so forth? Or is that just my personal phobia?