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Back to Desmond in the ER, apparently there was not magic milk. Eloise Hawking visits Penny in the waiting room to confess that it was her son's fault. Penny mistakes her son for Ben Linus. "Good Lord, no. My son is Daniel Faraday."

30 years earlier: Dan is back on the island because of Jack, Kate, and Hurley reappearing. He and Miles wake up Jack to ask HOW they got back to the island. Not their destiny, don't belong here.



Young Dan playing the piano. Mother informs him his destiny is Science and Mathematics, must give up piano. Dan knows the metronome has beat 864 times since he began (numbers). "I can make time" (to do both). "If only you could." Hmm, Daniel creating time...

Jack lets Sawyer know that Faraday's back and Sawyer shows him Phil. Poor, poor Phil.



At Orchid station, Dan consults his notebook. Declares Chang, "right on time." And we're back to the season premiere. Tells Chang to order an evacuation of the island. In 6 hours, energy from the Swan will be released and it will be catastrophic! Ok, future boy. Oh, and by the way, Miles is your son. Way to back up Faraday, Miles.



Dan graduates from Oxford. We see pre-catatonic Teresa. Mom wants lunch to themselves. Focus on work. Always pushy! Grant from Widmore. Suprise.



Gives him his special notebook, Love, Mom.

Sawyer's clan have a party's over meeting. Sub or Jungle? Twitchy Dan is on a whole new level of crazy. Dan needs to find Hostiles because one of them is his Mother...



Dan is upset by the footage of Oceanic 815, doesn't know why. Widmore visits. Dan's condition affects his memory.



(Widmore moves an issue of Wired Magazine about superhero powers. Oddly enough or not really, creator J.J. Abrams is guest editor of the current issue). Dan tested his experiment on himself first. Widmore offers him a new opportunity to go to the island, further his research, and be healed. Claims that the Oceanic was faked, by him. Old friends with Dan's mother.

Dan explains to the new arrivals that the time skipping losties met his mother Ellie in a skip to 1954. Hurley: "Fonzie times?" Classic. "Twitchy" becomes "HG Wells" and Sawyer slips up with "Freckles." Juliet fires back and gives Kate the code for the fence so Jack, Kate, and Dan can find the Hostiles while everyone else heads back to the beginning, the beach.



Dan and little Charlotte have their creepy conversation. Charlotte: "I'm not allowed to have chocolate before dinner." This was one of the things she said before she died. Dan admits that maybe, just maybe he can change things.



Dan, Kate, and Jack duke it out with Radsinsky and gang. Always aim for the fuel, fellas. Time to sound the alarm.



Memory loss Dan forgets how to play the piano. Eloise advises him to say yes to Widmore. Dan asks if it will make her proud. She says yes, but there is a definite strain in her eyes.

At the pylons, Dan tells Jack that "we can't be naive to think nothing can happen." Man, lay it on with the foreshadowing why don't you.

Saywer and Juliet still have each other's backs. ALARM!!!



The best line of the episode comes from Radsinsky: "I just got shot by a physicist!" Finally, someone finds Phil.

The catastrophic incident is what causes the Swan to get cemented over. If there's no Swan incident, there's no button, there's no Desmond, there's no plane crash, and no freighter. This loop all starts this afternoon. Dan was so focused on the constants in his equations that he forgot about the variables (the Losties). Which now means they can change things. Whatever happened to what happened, happened. Dan believes he can negate the swan energy by detonating Jughead. Oh boy...

Eloise to Penny: "For the first time in a long time, I don't know what's going to happen next."



Des recovering, promises to never leave her again. I have a feeling he's going to be breaking that one since he keeps saying it. Ellie tells Widmore to go see his daughter. Had to sacrifice that relationship, slaps him.



Dan's his son too! Woah!

Jack is "getting use to insane." Dan flashes a gun at the Hostiles, dumb. Rants about finding Eloise.



Talks to Richard Alpert, "Where's the bomb?" Seems shocked.



Gets shot by his MOM! "You knew!" Holy crap...I hope Dan comes back like Locke. ;)

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