Am I crazy, or was the patient in the flashback the future Mrs. Jack Shepard? Didn't she say in the wedding ep that she was his patient when they first met?

In the beginning of the ep, with all the careful hiding of the face and the older music/technology, I was originally thinking it was a flashback to Locke, when he was young and still had his hair.

You are crazy, but not for that reason. It was Sarah, the future Mrs. Jack.

You're not crazy, it was totally the Future Mrs. Engaged- to-Jack.

I too thought the guy in the teaser was going to be Young Stud Locke. And I was kind of scared to see how they'd pull that one off.

You are crazy, but not for that reason.

Pthbbbtt! t sticks tongue out at ChiKat

I thought the guy in the teaser was Sawyer at first.

I did, too, P-C. Until they showed him without a shirt. Sawyer's a lot more cut.

Not that I have stared at noticed that before.

I'm going to have to go back and rewatch--I just glanced at the TWoP thread for this ep (they really do have a hate-on for Kate and a lovefest for Shannon, for some reason, so I had to bail after only reading the first page), and someone mentioned that the EMT said that the other guy involved in Mrs. Doctor's accident (caused by her?) had the last name of Rutherford. According to the poster, Shannon's last name is Rutherford, and her father died a few years back. Connection?

Cleolinda's recap isn't up, but my friend Emily is really funny as well.

OMGWTF? This dude is living at the bottom of The Hatch and he’s still got cooler dishes than me. That is so not fair.

And a blender!

Shannon: "I can't tell that kid I lost his dog 'cause I was exhausted!"
Yeah, because he’s totally going to come back and ask you about Vincent tonight.

And then:

Shannon flails around and falls down and looks up, and – OMG Walt is standing there covered in water and dripping and kind of eerie and blending into the dark. Ooookay, so I was wrong.

And the part that made me laugh a lot:

[Sorta Irish Guy]: "I was almost a doctor once, you know."
Jack: "Really? Well I am a doctor, and also a captain and a hero. And also I don’t care."

Sarah mentioned that it was 2 years before the wedding that she was in the car accident, and we know it was at least 2 months between the boozy dad botched operation and Jack's mom summoning him to send him to Australia. So whatever has been in motion has been in motion for that long at least, and probably longer.

Then again, the train wreck that their marriage was inevitably going to become may have been so horrible that time itself ran faster to get away from it.