This weeks episode of Lost was not as packed or shocking as last week's season opener but did follow the usual Lost pattern of raising more questions than it answered. We're still dealing with two timelines (and the producers have said in a podcast that we shouldn't consider one timeline as being alternate; both timelines are "real") so let's see what the Losties have been up to.

Land Safely Timeline

Kate is still in the cab ordering the driver at gunpoint. Doc Arzt steps in front of the cab and drops his luggage, forcing them to stop. Kate orders the driver to continue and he does, driving over Arzt's luggage in the process. Kate briefly sees Jack and the two seem to share a brief moment of recognition.

At a street corner the driver suddenly stops, jumps from the car and runs off. Kate climbs into the driver's seat and, after forcing Claire out of the car at gunpoint, drives away.

She goes to an auto repair shop and, still holding the gun, orders him to show her an impact wrench. The mechanic says she needs a punch instead and offers to help her. He breaks the handcuffs loose. She then goes to a bathroom to change and, looking through Claire's luggage, finds her baby things including a stuffed whale.

Kate drives back to where she left Claire and returns her luggage. She then offers to drive Claire to where ever she had been going. Claire is distrustful and reluctant at first but ultimately agrees.

Along the way, Claire briefly tells Kate of how she is giving her baby up for adoption and how she is going to me the adoptive parents. They talk a bit about how the parents didn't meet her at the airport but she continues to insist that everything is fine. Despite this, when they reach the house Claire asks Kate to go to the door with her.

A distraught woman, who has obviously been crying, answers the door. The woman, who was to have adopted Claire's child, says that her husband has just left her and that she cannot take the child. Claire is shocked and Kate is angry but her argument with the woman is cut off when Claire goes into labor.

Kate takes Claire to a hospital where she is taken to a room. The attending doctor turns out to be Ethan Goodspeed, though of course neither Kate or Claire recognize him in this timeline. He tells Claire that she can either have the baby right away or they can give her some drugs to calm the contractions and allow her to wait for her normal due date. She opts to be given the drugs.

Almost immediately they lose the baby's heartbeat. There is a brief moment of panic before Dr. Goodspeed is able to find the heartbeat again and he dismisses it by saying the baby is simply moving around. Claire refers to the baby as "Aaron" and Dr. Goodspeed says that it appears that Aaron will be a handful. He leaves and Claire admits that she doesn't know where the name Aaron came from; it just popped into her head.

Later, two police officers come to the hospital and ask Claire about Kate. She tells them that she didn't know anything about Kate, she was just the taxi driver who brought her there. The police leave and Kate emerges from hiding in the next room and thanks Claire for covering for her.

Claire asks what Kate did and she says that she is accused of murder but that she is innocent. Claire believes her and gives her her credit card, telling her to use it. Kate thanks her and leaves.

Crash Timeline

Meanwhile, in the crash timeline, everyone is still surprised to see Sayid alive again. There is some confusion which Sawyer uses to grab a gun and announce that he is leaving. Kate seems as if she wants to go with him but he rejects her and, opening the gate, leaves. Kate tells the Others that she can track Sawer and bring him back. After some discussion she, Jin and two Others leave to go after him.

The Japanese leader of the Others (who we learn is named Dogen) insists on questioning Sayid. Jack wants to go with them but is held back by several of the Others. Dogen (though his translator) tells Jack that after they question Sayid they will answer any questions Jack has.

Sayid is strapped to a table. He continually says that he will tell Dogen and the Others anything they want to know but Dogen ignores him. Dogen first blows some ash across Sayid. He then attaches several electrodes to him and shocks him then finally burns him with a hot poker. After this he gestures to his assistant and they release Sayid and lead him away. As they do, the assistant tells him that these were just a series of tests and that he passed.

After Sayid is gone the assistant asks Dogen if he just lied to Sayid. Dogen says yes.

Jack and the other Losties are beside the pool when Sayid is returned to them. After learning that Sayid has been tortured Jack leaves to confront Dogen.

He finds Dogen mixing some herbal medicines and putting them into a capsule. Dogen tells Jack that Sayid is "infected" and that the medicine he has mixed will help him. Jack asks what the medicine is and Dogen refuses to tell him. He also says that Sayid will not take any medicine that he or the Others give to him so Jack will have to be the one to give it to him.

Jack asks how Dogen came to be on the Island and Dogen says he was brought there, just like Jack. Jack asks what that means but Dogen avoids the question. Jack then asks why Dogen speaks through an interpreter when he can obviously understand and speak English. Dogen says that he does it to maintain distance between himself and the Others, that by doing so it makes it easier for him as their leader to give orders that they may not like. He asks Jack how many mistakes he has made as a leader and how many people have died because of his mistakes. He then tells Jack he can redeem himself by giving Sayid the capsule.

Jack returns briefly to Sayid and tells him what the Others said. Sayid says he does not trust the Others, but that if Jack wants him to take the capsule he will. (At the start of this scene Hurley asks Sayid if he was a zombie. Sayid assured him he was not.)

Jack returns to Dogen and again asks what is in the capsule. When Dogen still won't tell him Jack pops the capsule into his own mouth. Dogen immediately grabs him and starts a Heimlich manuver on him until he coughs the capsule back up. He picks it up and tells Jack that the capsule contains poison.

Later he pours tea for Jack. He tells Jack that Sayid has been "claimed" by darkness and when that darkness reaches his heart then everything that Sayid was will be gone. Jack asks how they know this and Dogen says they have seen it happen, when the darkness claimed Jack's sister. Jack looks stunned.

Meanwhile, Kate, Jin and the two Others are in search of Sawyer. Kate finds what she says is a false trail. One of the others insults her for suggesting it but the other says she is right. The one who insulted her tells her that he doesn't like her because she knocked him out when she and Sawyer escaped from the Hydra station.

Kate starts to walk down the real trail but the other Other stops her, pointing to a tripwire. She questions if it belongs to Rousseau but dismisses it since the tripwire looks recent. The second Other starts to say something but the first makes him shut up. Before he can go any further Kate knocks him out then deliberately trips the tripwire, knocking out the other.

Kate collects their guns and gives the rifle to Jin. Jin demands to know where the Ajira plane landed, hoping to find Sun. Kate of course doesn't know. Jin sets off in search of Sun while Kate continues to follow Sawyer.

She tracks him to Otherton. She goes inside his house and finds him pulling up the floorboards in one of the rooms. There is a shoebox hidden underneath the floor and he opens it then takes something out. He then hears Kate and, pulling his gun, goes into the hall and finds her. Upon seeing who it is he lowers the gun and walks out without saying a word.

She finds him sitting on the end of the dock. She tries to make small talk with him but he tells her how Juliette wanted to leave but he convinced her to stay. He blames himself for her death. He then reveals that the object he took from the shoebox was an engagement ring and says that he had planned to ask her to marry him. He throws the ring into the water and says that it is apparently their destiny to be alone. He tells Kate she can make it back to the Temple by nightfall then walks off. Kate sits on the dock and cries.

Later, Kate is refilling her canteen when Saywer walks past her. He ignores her and goes into his house, closing the door behind him.

Meanwhile, Jin has been continuing towards the beach (presumably). He stops to drink from a stream and is grabbed from behind by the two Others they had left earlier.

The first Other wants to just shoot Jin but the second doesn't. While they argue Jin makes a break for it down a path but is almost immediately caught by a leg-hold trap. The first Other comes up and is about to kill him when he is suddenly shot. The second Other looks up in surprise and is shot as well.

Jin looks up in surprise and sees a woman standing on a ridge and aiming a rifle at him. She lowers it in surprised recognition and he recognizes her as well.

It is Claire.

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