>: 65 D.O.C.

Figured that Jack was in the garden talking to Sun representing Juliet. Guess he’s not completely in her thrall. Yet. Nice shades of Charlie sneaking up on her, at first.

Great bit with Hurley and the flare-gun. I swear the writers aren't coming up with these ideas, they’re what have been buried, nestled down in there all along.

I found the flashbacks to be very well-acted (particularly Jin’s dad) but they didn’t lend as much insight into present events as I’d like this late in the season.

This was the first I heard that the reason Claire lived was because Aaron was conceived off-island. I thought it was because of creepy Ethan and the vaccine.

Mikhail! That is one quick-healing island! Him showing up almost certainly (hopefully) points to us getting some solid answers before the end of the season about the recuperative effects of the island we’ve known about almost since Day 1. I mean, he was dead. One wonders, how’s Ms. Klugh? Or all the other dead castaways? Thought Jin was going to buy it when he chased Mikhail into the jungle. Anyone can go at any time, faithful. It's about to happen.

They always get so cinematic with Sun, that long rotational pan of her sitting on the beach. Nothing can top Damien Rice on Hurley’s Discman in 1.17, though. Why DO you sing Hallelujah?

I loved that shot of the ragged ping-pong table net in the campfire light as Juliet was sneaking up. They really are trying hard.

I wish the subtitles would have had a different denomination besides “dollars”. Unless Sun’s pop threw down 100K in American green, doesn’t quite make sense, and they know we’re not that stupid. It's called a won, not a dollar. But maybe that would have sent the masses reeling.

So great to venture down into the Lynch-strobe goodness that is the Staff. Particularly enjoyed the shot of Sun looking down the hall into the operating room, the exact same shot that Alex gave Claire in her 2.15 flashback (coolest thing about that shot being we had just met “Henry Gale” the previous episode and there he was in the operating room, those rodent eyes, prepping to cut Aaron out). Yeah, a disquieting empty room.

Boydamn, Kate opened the wrong locker back then, didn’t she? Of course it was very interesting to see that Tom’s beard needed spirit gum but we already had a hunch and wouldn’t it have been much more interesting if she’d have just opened the top locker on the right and found the secret compartment?

“On this island, the wounds are a bit different. Maybe a day and a half.” from Mikhail, serious acknowledgement, this is an answer we’re getting before June, folks. (which will, of course, lead to three more questions)

Can’t believe Desmond let Mikhail go. The way the undertones of that moment rang, with the bell, adding Charlie into the trio, some ominous stuff right there.

Nice of Juliet to provide the jacked-up 5x sperm-count stat. Cool island. Putting the scanner on Sun’s belly, though, Juliet shouldn’t be allowed to get away with phrases like “Moment of truth”. No, never.

And what’s with the Kwons quoting that Doors adverb all over the place? Madly.

Messed up news about the ol D.O.C, on top of the new stat, 90 days on-island (that puts us at 12/20/04, folks at home). Child conceived almost 8 weeks ago. 53 days. Putting sexytime at Day 37. This does not in any way gibe, I’m sorry to report. It seemed pretty apparent from the way Jin was standing outside of his tent in, I think 2.9, that that was the first time he and Sun had gotten down on-island, when Hurley saw him. Day 37 puts the alleged incident square in-between Jin finding out that Sun spoke English in 1.17 and when the raft sailed a week later in 1.23. I’m positive nothing happened in that range. We’ll call the machines in the Staff fallible and sail on.

Kind of figured the next Kwon flashback would favor Jin, as 3.2 favored Sun, but she rules the roost again. She certainly tears it up. But hey, how about the guy from LA who’s been selling the Korean dialect all this time?

We knew her explanation was fishy, glad we got to see Juliet make the recording to Ben. Couple of interesting bits in there, she’ll have Austin’s sample soon and she hates Ben. So, that’s settled. A spy, but in our camp, in every possible way.

And killer ending, the girl and Hurley. I don’t, for four seconds, think that this is actually a SIXTH SENSE type of thing, they're all dead people, more likely the Hanso Foundation/Mittelos Corp staged a crash with 324 corpses, but it’s a great macabre way to leave our noodles spooling for another 167 hours.

Not to keep on about it, but seems as though the title of this episode should have been the parachute-girl’s Italian translation of “I’m dying” or even Good News, but so it goes.

And, best I could find, looks like what she said to Mikhail when he obviously lied to Hurley and translated as "Thank you" was "I am not alone." And she does have a tattoo, four squares on her right shoulder linked by a line.