Lost has an abundance of mystery to hold over from season to season. It will take satisfying resolutions to some of the mystery to keep me interested over time. Some of the reveals have been very interesting. Locke and Hurley backstories as an example. French Chick still being on the island was a biggee. The radio message from the survivors and the hatch are bound to be held over until next year. They need to keep a good balance of questions unanswered and satifying resolutions. I'm still enjoying the show very much.

There's also the fact that there was some pretty major league police pursuit almost instantaneously after Kate made a break for it. That says to me that whatever she did in the past was bad enough that they either had a huge stakeout around her mom or the mere mention of her name got the kind of response normally reserved for the Blues Brothers.

See, I saw that as a TV-world thing --- even if she'd been wanted for overdue library books, the police would have been there instantly and en mass. (Also, did they know who she was? I thought they just knew she had made a hospitaized woman scream and left the scene suspiciously.)

I had erased the Alias promo from my memory.

The mother's room was being watched by police in hopes Badass Kate would show up. So they knew who she was.

I had erased the Alias promo from my memory.

You're like a human TiVo! That is a handy feature. I should upgrade.

The mother's room was being watched by police in hopes Badass Kate would show up. So they knew who she was.

Oh. I R Dum, sometimes -- I just thought the cop in the hallway was a coincidence. Thanks.

But given that? I think she went to the Spike School of Planning.

I assumed Kate's now dead friend is the one who sent her the letter and the $$.

I know she loved her friend, but I still don't know why she went so batshit over that plane to rob a bank for it and nearly bust Sawyer over the head for it on the island.

Kate has some obsessive compulsive shit going on. She would really be the likely candidate of "Lost" survivor who ran out of meds, but I guess they aren't going in that direction.

Outstanding mystery list (no doubt incomplete):

The numb3rs
The others
OMGWTF Poar Bear
Island monster
Walt's powers
Locke's island connection
The other survivors from the radio
The hatch
Voices in the wind

That's just island stuff, there are also a number of outstanding character details that will not all be resolved any time soon.

Well, doctor dude is not only her first love, he also has the happy family life she never had even as a child. That's why we got to see her in his sunny kitchen looking at all the everyday family detritus and the lingering over the photos on the fridge. It's like the plane represents the "normal" stable Edenic life Kate never had and never will have.

BTW, when Walt decided he needed to get the heck off the island after "seeing" what was in the hatch, I decided that whatever is in the hatch is some scary shit.

You'd think Locke would get a clue if Sayid and Walt - really different people - have serious reservations.