A Spectrum

We open on Jack's eyeball. Just like the pilot episode. Awesome. I have a feeling that is how it will end as well...He's back on island with a note "I wish." Hurley cries for help, he has a guitar (Charlie's?) Kate is slumping over a rock... "Are we?" Jack: "Yeah, we're back."



46 hours earlier (really, how can you quantify time on a time traveling show) we are at Ellie's church, underneath is the Dharma Station, the Lamp Post (Narnia reference). We've got a swinging pendulum, old school computer, etc. This is how Dharma found the island. Jack to Ben: "Did you know about this?" Ben: "No, no I didn't." HA!



Ellie has an army file regarding the island, the date is 9/23/54. Oceanic 815 crashed on 9/22/04...The Lamp Post was built over a pocket of energy just like the island...The pendulum was built by a "clever fellow" (Faraday?) this allowed them to find where the island was "going to be in time." Desmond gets mad. There is flight "Ajira Airways 316" (Remember the water bottle in the long boat, the islanders found a couple of episodes ago). They need to recreate the conditions that brought them there the first time. "Unpredictable" result otherwise. Ellie gives Jack John's suicide note. Waoh, he hung himself. (More on that next week). He is now to be a "proxy" for Jack's dad, Jack needs something from his father.



Ben imparts the story of "Doubting Thomas" to Jack. (Our 316 biblical theme). Ben has a loose end, a promise to an old friend. (Kill Penny? since he knows Desmond in town).



The magic bunny has black eyes...Perhaps like a certain numbered rabbit.



Ray is Jack's grandpa and has Christain's shoes for Jack to give to John.

Kate's at Jack's. Aaron is gone. Don't ask why and she'll go back. So let's make out. Jack explains why Christian had the white tennis shoes. His dad wasn't worth a pair of nice shoes.



Ben calls Jack to pick up Locke's body. He's beat up and around boats. Supports the kill Penny theory...

Jack has an interesting conversation with dead Locke as he switches his shoes. Jack: "This is even crazier than you were." Gives him back suicide note without reading.

At the airport, a gentlemen expresses his condolences for Jack losing his friend. I am thinking we'll see him again. We see Kate, Sun, Sayid being escorted, Hurley is reading a comic book "Y: The Last Man" (This comic was written by one of Lost's writers).



Hurley also bought 78 seats on the plane! We don't know how everyone got here to be on the plane, but I am sure we'll find out...

Everyone on the plane seems to have switched roles...Hurley has a guitar like Charlie, Ben is late like Hurley, Sayid is in custody like Kate (why they would transport him to Guam is beyond me???), Locke is Jack's dad, perhaps Kate is pregnant like Claire, not sure who Sun is...

Locke's letter makes it back to Jack. Jack referring to the other passengers: "What's going to happen to them?" Ben: "Who cares?"



The plane's pilot is.... Frank J. Lapidus!! What are the odds? ;) He's surprised to see the Oceanic 6 on his plane. Best line of the episode: "We're not going to Guam, are we?"

Ben is reading "Ulysses" by James Joyce. Jack: "How can you read?" Ben: "My mother taught me." LIE. His mother died giving birth to him. (Oddly, Michael Emerson's real life wife plays his mother on the show).



Jack reads the note and immediately there's trouble with the flight. There's a flash similar to the time traveling flashes. They are on the island with no memory of crashing.



A newish Dharma Van pulls up and it's JIN!! In a Dharma uniform looking just as confused as them.