Why would Charles Widmore want Faraday, Lupidas, Charlotte, and Miles on that boat? Why would he want them on that island? What do they actually offer him that he couldn’t get from him “own” people?

And then it struck me…they are all threats to him. They all know that the crash was a fake (Miles, Lupidas) about the Dharma Initiative (CS Lewis) and…what, time travel (Faraday).

Could Widmore be setting them up to die with the Lostaways?

Still doesn’t answer who it is…

Jack’s transition from post-trial happiness to bearded pill popper is somewhat similar to the way he handled his previous wife leaving him and finding someone new. The combination of suspecting Kate, seeing ghosts, and guilt over him making it off the island and others left behind (alive or dead) make a pretty solid combination to push him over the edge.

Par Avion maybe? (http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Par_Avion)

And I’m thinking Kate did something sinister, not helpful, like maybe put a hit on someone or hired someone to do it. But I’m alone in that regard. My wife thought the same as you, Hunter.

My feeling is that this “big reveal” is coming and is very much tied into my next point…

I’m of the opinion that Claire must die between now and Island Jack, Island Kate, and Island Aaron leave the island, which would go a long way to explaining the guilt LA Future Jack seems to have regardig LA Future Aaron. Not sure if this is just “I couldn’t save everyone guilt” or due to some specific course of action (or lack thereof) that Jack takes between now and then.

I also forgot to mention this before…re: Kate’s secret Sawyer-centric activities last night. Could Noreen (Kate’s mysterious playground mom friend) be Cassidy…the (supposed, probable?) mother of Sawyers’ baby way back from (I believe) the Long Con? Could Kate simply be fulfilling some wish of Sawyer’s regarding HIS child?

Also, Jack indicates at the end there that Sawyer CHOSE to stay when the O-6 left. I’m not sure how many had this choice, or why, but this seems significant.

1. I think the plans are to have some of her story revealed in the future, but her death does seem odd. Have we heard that Mira Furlan wanted off the show?

2. Again, I think you’re right, but my head spins sometimes thinking about laying a linear timeline onto the narrative.

3. I’m becoming one-note but I think he did. The casket was empty back at Adam & Eve’s cave way back in Season 1.

4. Agreed. Either Jack OR Claire know their half-siblings at this point, I just can’t recall which. Claire, I think. Anyhow, I’m of the opinion that family reunion that is soon upcoming will reveal all of this.

1. I’m shocked that Rousseau is dead and buried. This upsets me greatly, as I feel completely robbed by the loss of her flashback. Simply inexcusable, as her time from her shipwreck to the arrival of the Lostaways was a crucial period of lost time for us. Delenn, we hardly knew ye.

2. We are all agreed that the flash forwards at the end of last season occur AFTER everything we’ve seen thus far this season.

3. I know Miles is all Haley Joel Osment, but he really saw a corporeal Christian Shepherd last night…right?

4. My assumption is that by the time Jack and Kate are off-island, they KNOW that Aaron is Jack’s nephew. Obvously not verifiable, yet, but that seems to be the implication of Jack’s pointing out Kate and Aaron aren’t “even” related.

Jack’s little drunken outburst last night is telling. Kate isn’t biologically related to Aaron, but she’s more a parent than he is.

He’s trying, but he doesn’t believe in it himself (Daddy issues on Lost. Again.) Plus Hurley/Charlie say he shouldn’t raise Aaron.

And I think there’s reason to believe they won’t get back to the island. A season spent trying doesn’t mean success is a given.