Sawyer said that he was there, but when he went out there was no one in the driver's seat.

Okay, so I did miss the last flashback.

Okay, so I did miss the last flashback.

It was right after Charlie asked Sawyer how someone could think up a plan like Sawyer did.

Hmmm, I looked her up in the IMDB and apparently, I haven't seen Kim Dickens in anything -- she must remind me of somebody else.

It was right after Charlie asked Sawyer how someone could think up a plan like Sawyer did.

Yeah, I didn't see the end of that conversation either, I guess.

Drat.

Yeah, I didn't see the end of that conversation either, I guess.

Basically it was Sawyer telling Charlie what a not nice person he was, but not regretfully - more like he was embracing his badness.

Someone on another board just posted that Kate's Mom was a waitress at the diner. Did anyone notice that? Was she Sawyer/other guy's waitress or in the background?

She was Sawyer/other guy's waitress.

The way I saw the end of the long con was that Sawyer agreed with his partner that love was for suckers and to get the $600,000 while you can, especially after working for it for six months. The partner was never in the car--Sawyer just told Cassidy that so she'd take off, and he distracted her with the lovey-dovey stuff and staring in her eyes while he was actually switching the bags behind her back and hiding it on the dining room chair. He went into the car and waited (counting to 5 in that schoolyard way) just in case she was hanging around instead of running for Iowa or wherever he told her to go. I presume he took the money and met up with his partner to split it up and he proceeded to the next con.

Kathy's way is mine. Except I'm leaving open the possibility that he ran off with the entire $600K. That's the money he owed the guy in Sydney. (As I don't really remember the details of him owing money to the guy in Sydney, I am talking through my ass re: this last bit)

Hmmm, which episode was that in? I may need to rewatch.

I was hoping that they re-aired Numbers for a reason. But it doesn't seem like it -- perhaps the reason that they reaired numbers will become apparent in the next couple of episodes.

From Entertainment Weekly's recap of the ep:

And then there's that manuscript, the one Hurley was reading before Sayid came along to play radio...The book is Bad Twin, by Gary Troup, a mystery writer who boarded flight 815 and is now presumed dead. From Amazon (where the ''real'' book will soon be sold, in a gloriously meta tie-in):

Paul Artisan, P.I. is a new version of an old breed — a righter of wrongs, someone driven to get to the bottom of things. Too bad his usual cases are of the boring malpractice and fraud variety. Until now. His new gig turns on the disappearance of one of a pair of twins, adult scions of a rich but tragedy-prone family. The missing twin — a charismatic poster-boy for irresponsibility — has spent his life daring people to hate him, punishing himself endlessly for his screw-ups and misdeeds. The other twin — Artisan's client — is dutiful and resentful in equal measure....Troup's long-awaited Bad Twin is a suspenseful novel that touches on many powerful themes, including the consequence of vengeance, the power of redemption, and where to turn when all seems lost.

The dueling dualities continue. Locke and Eko? Ana-Lucia and Jack? Sawyer and Kate? All light-dark pairings, all ''twins,'' in a sense.

Oh, and speaking of Sayid's new radio: Who's biting? The Lost writers must be impatient: They're dropping hints right from the mouth of Hurley. ''The signals...could be coming from anywhere,'' said Sayid, after they tuned in what sounded like an American oldies station. ''Or any time,'' said Hurley. Pillsbury, my man: You're pre-geeking us! Don't do that! You'll put us out of a job! (By the way, it's been noted: The station's initial call letter was a W, which would make it in the eastern half of the U.S. The full title: WXO, which are letters 23, 24, and 15 of the alphabet. Make of it what you will.)