Loca for Lost...and a Thank You
Current mood: enthralled

I know you are all waiting for my analysis of tonight's episode of Lost, but first I want to give a huge thank you to my dear friend, Erika. Erika, I don't know how you knew that I was hurting last night but, just as I was falling into that dark place, you grabbed hold and didn't let go until I was laughing again. Thank you. Neither of us will ever know what possible tragedies were averted by your simple phone call.

Okay, onto the best show on television today!!

It was Sawyer's turn (again?) tonight and, as Paul Harvey would say, we get to see "the rest of the story". In a fireside game of "I Never," Kate and Sawyer both have to drink to the statement "I've never killed a man." I can't say I was really surprised that Sawyer killed a man. What did surprise me (and, I daresay, many other people) was how and whom!

Another shocker awaited us in the dark environs of an Australian bar, where Sawyer had gone to drink himself some courage. Oh...my...gawd! Haven't we seen that man at the end of the bar before? Is there a DOCTOR (or should I say "former" doctor?) in the house?! Yes, it's none other than Christian Shepherd, Jack's old man! You know, the guy Jack kept hallucinating when he first came to the island? The one whose career Jack jettisoned because he blabbed about his dad's drinking on the job? If it weren't enough of a jaw-dropper seeing Christian and Sawyer in the same room, we find out that the good (or should I say "bad!") doctor isn't even mad at his son's betrayal. Turns out he's proud of him! Sawyer keeps this information to himself, however, when he finally makes the connection in an island convo with Jack.

And speaking of "connection," is anyone else but me wondering if good old "Hibbs" isn't, perhaps, who he claims to be. Could he be the elusive "Sawyer" that our antagonist named himself after?