Young Miles is apartment hunting with his Mother. His father is out of the picture. He finds/hears a dead person. 
Miles is in the security station reading Sports Illustrated. Sawyer calls to have Miles erase the security tapes. He doesn't get to it.
Horace brings Miles into "the circle of trust." He is to go to Grid 334 (off limits)and deliver something (a body bag) to Radsinsky.
An armed Radsinsky, in his fancy black swan jumpsuit brings out a dead guy on a litter. There was an accident and he "fell into a ditch." Apparently, there was a bullet in the ditch. Miles to the dead guy: "Ok, so what really happened?"
Punk Miles visits his dying mother whom he hasn't seen in quite a while. He wants to know about his father and why he is the way he is. She tells him his father is dead and that he never cared about them. He kicked them out when Miles was baby (perhaps to save them from the purge). He wants to visit his dad's body but it's "somewhere you could never go." Hmm.
Horace is on the phone with Dr. Chang, something about electromagnetism. Horace wants the body taken to Dr. Chang in the Orchid.
Hurley and his garlic mayo carpools with Miles to the Orchid, global warming and all.
Juliet and Kate both make bad liars.
Hurley: "How do you spell Bounty Hunter?" Smells gas, oh wait, dead guy. 
His name was Alvarez and one of his fillings shot through his head. Electromagnetism anyone? Hurley discovers Miles gift.
Naomi reappears.
The swingset should be it's own character. Dharma beer and more bad lying.
Hurley and Miles discuss talking to dead people. Arrive at Orchid. Chang threatens Hurley with measuring Polar Bear feces if he breathes a word about the dead guy. 
Hurley: "Dude, that guy's a total douche." Miles: "That douche is my dad." Duh duh duh. The reveal we all knew was coming.
Naomi auditions Miles. Felix is the dead guy this time around. Was to deliver pics of empty graves and a purchase order of an old airplane to Widmore. Hmmm. Will give him 1.6 million to come to the island. (Well, now we know why he asked Ben for 3.2 million last season).
The third day Miles' mother got on line behind him in the cafeteria. Crazy. (BTW, Who says ON LINE? I would say in line). Now, they get to take Chang to Radsinksky. 
Jack is cleaning off chalk boards. Don't you find it interesting that he's erasing history, especially Egyptian history? Tries to talk to Rodger about Kate, succeeds modestly.
Hurley expertly tries to initiate conversation between father and son. HA! The look Miles gave Chang when he admitted he liked country music was priceless. 
Hurley deduces they're at the Swan construction site when he sees the hatch getting the infamous numbers.
Miles loses his fish taco when Bram and gang kidnap him. More shadow of the statue stuff.
Tries to talk him out of working for Widmore, playing for the wrong team. Promises all the answers.
I love that Hurley suggests Miles change his own diaper. Miles gets upset that Hurley is in his business so he steals the notebook he's been writing in. He's writing The Empire Strikes Back for George Lucas with a few improvements. Too funny!
Jack lets Sawyer know about Rodger/Kate. Then Phil confronts Sawyer about stealing Ben so he knocks him out. Tells Juliet, "Get some rope."
Miles hangs van keys on slot #8 (number). Hurley admits he gave his dad a second chance after he left. Same with Luke's attitude in Empire. He didn't communicate and got his hand cut off. 
Miles witnesses his dad reading to him a polar bear book, looks happy. Chang comes out and tells Miles "I need you." The sub is back with scientists from Ann Arbor. It's Faraday in his fancy black Swan jumpsuit. "Long time, no see."
Next Episode: "The Variable" Faraday centric, a bookend to the awesome lost episode "The Constant" Prepare from some crazy scientific goodies.
OK, not really, but you know I think I've really gone over to the other side here. On Chuck tonight, the Fulcrum agents were hiding at "The Black Rock." And tonight, on Heroes, one of Syler's lines was "Dead is Dead." Oh, and help Save Chuck below.
In the Other's jungle camp, Richard Alpert uses the go to excuse, "Jacob wanted it done" to explain Ben to hippie Widmore. Widmore introduces himself to Ben and tells him the Island saved him.
Ben awakens to Locke. "I knew it." Really?? Can we believe anything he says? Ben broke the rules to come back to the island and now says he needs to be judged by "the monster."
Ben gains Ceasar's trust to manipulate him. 
Ben and Ethan go to Danielle's camp in 1988 to kill her. Ben takes pity on the "Mom" but takes Alex and tells Danielle to run whenever she hears whispers. 
Ben goes to his old office in the Hydra station to claim a picture of Alex and himself. Locke discovers him and wants to discuss the "elephant in the room." "I assume you are referring to the fact that I killed you." Uh, yeah... So Ben stopped his suicide to get critical info but then he "didn't have the time to talk you back into hanging yourself." And once again, he had the "best interests of the island" at heart. I still think he's telling the truth about that last one, the others though???
Ben and Locke are heading to the main island in a boat. Ceasar stops them and Ben shoots him with the shotgun he swiped from him, apparently that was his apology to Locke. "This gentleman and I are taking a boat." Beautifully delivered line...
Locke calls Ben out on the fact that he really wants to be judged for killing his daughter.
1988 Ben challenges Widmore's authority and claims that killing Danielle and Alex was what he wanted and not the island. Widmore does not challenge back.
Ben heads to his house and finds Sun and Lapidus. Show him the 1977 photograph. Claims to have no idea. They were told by Christian to wait for John Locke who's dead, but wait, look outside. Nice wave. 
Lapidus: "..as long as dead guy says there's a reason, everything's peachy." Locke has some "ideas" on how to find Jin. Locke seems real keen on Ben getting judged and so Ben heads into the tunnel in the secret room in the secret room, and unplugs a drain!?! 
Splooge! "I'll be outside." What?
Ben is pushing a young Alex on the swing set. The sub is leaving with Widmore. Banishment time. Reason: left regularly and had a daughter with an outsider. Widmore warns him that Alex will die if the island wants it. "I'll be seeing you, boy."
Ben confesses to Sun that John was dead, "trust me, I'm sure." Had no idea the island could do this because dead is dead and he's scared. Tells Sun to go inside because he "can't control what's coming out of the jungle." It's Locke! Ha. Since the monster's not coming, they'll have to go to it and Locke just happens to know the way.
Ben calls Widmore to let him know he's found a way back to the island and he's going to kill his daughter. Pleasant chat.
Ben doesn't like have to ask questions and blindly follow someone, so now he knows how it felt to be Locke. End up at the wall around the temple. Hm, I thought it WAS the temple. Remembers they brought him here as a child. (What got erased then?) 
Ben asks Sun to tell Desmond that he's sorry and he heads under the wall. 
Ben tries to kill Penny, but little Charlie saves the day as Ben hesitates for the "mom." Growing up without one had an effect. 
Desmond was apparently saved by the milk carton enough to beat the snot out of Ben. 
Loved the bloody underwater shot, pretty, if such a thing can be?
Back with the new losties, Ilana's gang have guns, a special box, and a pass phrase. What does lie in the shadow of the statue? Geez, Frank you could have at least guessed.
Inside, Ben falls to an even lower level and finds smokey's lair. 
Picture of Anubis and Smokey? 
The smoke pours forth from it's sieved home and engulfs him. 
Shows him memories of Alex and departs. 
Ghost Alex appears and puts the smack down that Ben will now follow Locke. Ouch. Find Locke again and let's out a painful, "It let me live." Totally Awesome. Right at this tense moment my phone went off in my lap, I jumped so high. Argh.
Next Episode: "Some Like it Hoth" Miles centric. The produces labeled this a "fun" episode before getting to the nitty gritty before the finale. I expect lots of hilarious Miles-Hurley banter. Plus, if you didn't know Hoth is the ice planet in Star Wars. This bodes well for the episode. One more nugget before I go. Last year's cliffhanger was codenamed "The frozen donkey wheel," this year we have "The fork in the outlet."
Jin wakes to find little Ben shot and Sayid gone. Why is he bloody on the right side when he was shot on the left?
Horace knows "one of us" helped Sayid escape. Roger Linus enlists Kate's winching expertise and she makes the connection to Ben. Jin brings Ben back and Roger seems actually concerned.
Kate sings "Catch a Falling Star" (Claire's dad used to sing it to her) to a still infant Aaron and visits Cassidy and Clementine. Sawyer sent her to take care of them. 
Cassidy seems bitter. That's an understatement. Questions Sawyer's motives for jumping off the helicopter and makes Kate reconsider everything so much that she confesses the lies to Cassidy.
Sawyer and Kate clash. Horace and gang check out the cell and find janitor's keys. Sawyer check with Roger, no keys. Juliet is unable to help Ben.
Miles sits on Kate, Jack, and Hurley. Miles: "You can leave, but I'll shoot you in the leg." Hurley contemplates his hand disappearing like the Back to the Future time travel paradox. Miles and Hurley's conversation is golden. Discusses what the audience has been thinking. Sawyer asks Jack to help Ben. Flat out NO.
To explain, Jack goes all man of faith and says: "Island wants to fix things itself." Kate doesn't like the new Jack, but "You didn't like the old me, Kate." Ouch. Kate goes all motherly and gives blood to Ben. Roger admits he knows Ben stole keys because of him. Now we're supposed to feel sorry for Roger. He explains, "Boy just needs his mother." Ben's health worsens.
More Hurley and Miles goodness. Essentially, our present is Ben's Past, so why doesn't Ben remember?
Juliet suggest Kate take Ben to The Others.
Marina scene again. What is this like 12? Kate storms off, stops at supermarket to get Aaron a drink and proceeds to lose him. Finds with someone who oddly looks like Claire from behind.
The aisle numbers in the store our THE numbers but backwards. Does this say something about time travel?
Sawyer catches up with Kate at the fence, calls her Freckles, and decides to help her.
Kate heads to Cassidy's and confesses more. We see Clementine.
Sawyer's helping Ben for Juliet, not Kate.
Juliet confronts Jack, "We didn't need saving."
Sawyer lets Kate know that "you and me would have never worked out" and he's grown up in the last three years. The Others appear and are told to take them to Richard Alpert.
Kate goes to Claire's Mom and tells her the truth. She didn't let her know because "I needed him." Now, she's going back to the island to find Claire.
Richard Albert recognizes Ben from previous jungle chat. If he takes him, he will not be the same, will forget, lose his innocence, and always be "one of us." Kate and Sawyer still want him to go. Richard mentions that he doesn't answer to Ellie or Charles. 
Richard takes him to the Temple and Smokey!!! 
Endcap: Ben awakens to Locke! "Hello Ben, Welcome to the land of the living."
Next Episode: Dead is Dead, a Ben centric episode, always exciting, Smokey and Desmond Return!! Yeah!
Sorry my post is so late. Craziness.
Young Sayid steps up and kills a chicken for his older brother, "always a killer."
Little Ben brings Sayid a chicken salad sandwich and book to read, A Separate Reality. Sayid needs to be patient because little Ben can "help him."
In Moscow, Sayid's mark tries to bribe him, no dice. Ben, looking quite dapper in his Indiana Jones fedora, informs Sayid that "we're done." Sayid seems rather taken aback. "Live your life, you're free."
Is it garden tool torture time? Oh wait, that's to remove the handcuffs. Thanks, Horace... Unfortunately, Sayid's not talking and it's time to take it to the "next level."
Juliet burns some bacon and declares "It's over, isn't it.." Their little life is unraveling.
Saywer tries to help Sayid: "A 12 year old Benjamin Linus brought me a Chicken Salad sandwich. How do you think I feel?" He rejects Sawyer's help and chooses to be on his own. 
Chef Hurley!!! Who in grand Hurley style bluntly points out to Kate, Juliet and Sawyer's shacking up. Did you notice the Geronimo Jackson poster in the background?
Workman Roger Linus mops up Sayid's cell. Little Ben brings another sandwich and we see a glimpse of what Ben grew up with and perhaps feel a tad sympathetic.
Sayid is building houses with "Build our World." Ben returns to let him know that Locke is dead and he thinks he was murdered (REALLY?!?) He baits Sayid with the fact that someone is staking out Hurley's mental institution. "You're a killer, Sayid." (So, Does he remember or not?)
Sawyer tasers Sayid to transport to Oldham, who apparently lives in a tepee and has an old phonograph, ODD... Who is this? Sawyer to Sayid: "He's our you." Restraints, Bamboo tree, truth serum, it's all very Deliverance (which I've never seen, so maybe it's not).
Once again, we see the marina scene from another perspective. Did you notice the boat called "Illusion" in the background? 
Sayid leaves and goes to a bar and orders McCutcheon Scotch a favorite of Widmore and Desmond's. Ilana suavely moves in for the grab.
Sayid flat out tells the truth. Even more hilarious than Hurley's explanation to his Mom. We hear Sayid mention something about "before the incident" and then he gets cut off. "The Incident" happens to be the name of the finale episode this season. And of course, Sayid informs them that "you're all going to die you know."
Kate and Juliet have an awkward moment.
The dharma leaders have a meeting to vote on what to do with Sayid. Radzinksky threatens to call Ann Arbor, Whoo... Sawyer reluctantly makes it unanimous to kill Sayid.
Ilana takes down Sayid for the family of the guy he killed on the golf course. "People tempt you to stay the same, not change."
Sawyer comes to let Sayid out, but he refuses. 
Sawyer wants to know why Kate came back, before she can answer, FLAMING VAN. 
Security is busy and hoodie Ben lets Sayid go. Wants to leave with him. 
Sayid and Ilana are getting on a plane to Guam where golf course guy's family is. He sees the O6, wants to get on the next plane. HA. Wonders if Ilana is working for Ben. She doesn't seem to thinks so but really could be I suppose.
Little Ben and Sayid are escaping through the jungle. Run into Jin. Sayid takes him out and then SHOOTS Little Ben. "You were right." Holy Cow! Didn't think he would actually do that!
Notice Ben was shot in the heart on his left side...Keep this in mind for the next episode, "Whatever Happened, Happened."
We went to the John Deere Pavilion a few weekends ago. Ethan had fun exploring the tractors. 
