A Michael flashback… only instead of life before the island, we got to see what he had been up to for the past 11 days. Yup, in the LOST timeline it has only been 11 days since Mike fled the camp in search of his son. the upshot… he was caught not far from camp. and Kate was caught right after. Alex, Rousseau’s daughter, helped him whenever she could. She did her best to explain things to him. We also got to meet Ms. Klugh (sounds like Clue), who seems to be Walt’s handler. She points out that for a man soo concerned over getting his son back, Mike sure doesn’t know much about his son. They play massive mind games with mike, eventually bringing Walt in. Walt confirms that he is undergoing testing, but they don’t allow him to say what kind of testing. The visit from Walt only insures that Mike will do whatever they want. He is told to return with only 4. if he does this, he and Walt go free. He agrees, but only if he also gets the boat.
Meanwhile, back in real time, well.. island “now” time… Michael is trying to convince Jack that it has to be only these people. afterall, it’s his son! He will decide who goes on the rescue. I love Saywer’s line… After Saywer informs Mike and Jack that he invited Sayid, and Mike goes postal claiming Sayid can’t come. Sawyer says oh really? I’m not knocking the Great Grape and Pipi Longstocking, but if we’re heading off to war, we might wanna bring the one guy who’s actually been in a war! He he he he! Soo true Sawyer! I love he always gets the funniest lines! *S* Josh Holloway’s delivery is awesome… *S*
Sayid tells mike he understands, and won’t go with them, but you can tell he totally knows mike has crossed over. Sayid goes to jack and says don’t trust him. and that he and jack will have to find a way to let mike think he’s in charge, but to also not really let mike be in charge of this expedition. Personally, I think that Sayid will lead a second raid party to tail the first… I think it will be Sayid and Eko, and maybe Charlie.
BTW, Sayid is not the only one who has figured this out. at one point, while attempting to clean libby’s blood from the hatch floor, Mike asks Eko if Eko is a priest… and eko launches into this story about a little boy in his parish in England. Says this boy wanted to know if he would go to hell for beating his dog todeath. said the boy had done it because the dog had bit his baby sister on the face, and he was trying to protect her. then Eko said, the boy wasn’t as concerned with whether or not he would be going to hell… the boy just wanted to know if the dog would be there waiting for him. Which was supposed to comfort Michael, but in reality, if you watch Eko’s face, you know, Eko *knows* what michael did. Remember his dream last week?? AnaL didn’t tell him to go help Mike, she said help Jack.
So many little things… Like did you see Eko’s cross when he was exploring the hatch? definitely a magent of some kind behind the wall… and did you see michael’s expression when they asked him if Walt had ever appeared in places he shouldn’t…. I’m thinking maybe walt can project himself… and that’s how Shannon and Sayid saw him in the jungle…. pretty weird… And Locke’s broken leg is healed after what, 3 days? I think that when he got up and took off during the funeral, he was running back to the hatch. I think his faith has been restored, and he will head back to help eko witht he button once again, thus freeing Eko to go protect the party of 5 that is headed to the others.
BTW.. I totaly think that the other end of the computer was not walt, but an other, setting Mike up to fall into the trap.