Black-haired Claire. Bloody. In a car crash. My first thought was that she was the passenger and her mom was the driver because of their positioning in the car. But then I realized that was the American in me. Is it the other way around in Australia? Ah, there’s my answer. Claire was driving. And her mother wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. That’s a terrible way to learn your mother is dead, from a police officer questioning your about the accident that you may or may not have caused.
Damn you, Danielle! What was Mikhail about to say about John Locke? “The John Locke I remember was p-” Pathetic? Paraplegic? I want to know!
It appears that Desmond is trying to distract Charlie, because sticking by Claire’s side may be the death of him. Charlie no longer seems as picnic-loving and carefree as he was fresh from surviving his suicidal joyride with Hurley in the DHARMA van.
I think the black hair is supposed to make Claire look like a rebellious 16 year old. And just when I’m beginning to wonder how the Jack-Claire half-siblingship theory can be true if Claire’s mom is dead – she’s not (yet) - after we’ve seen Christian Shepard demanding a very live woman to see his daughter, we’re introduced to Claire’s Aunt Lindsay. And if I’m not mistaken, she’s certainly the same woman that Christian confronted when he dragged Ana-Lucia out of her hotel room to perform her bodyguard duties.
Mikhail. That looked like a very unpleasant way to die.
All of those people with the loony theory that Locke is an Other… it’s beginning to look like they might not be completely wrong. Mikhail not only knew of him, but seemed to remember him personally. He has C4 in his backpack, which means he could’ve known full well that the Flame hatch would blow up when he entered 77 on the computer. It would certainly put a whole new spin on pretty much everything we’ve seen from him so far. It doesn’t explain his discovery of the Sawn hatch though. If he was really an Other, he would’ve known about the Swan before. Wouldn’t he?
[Insert Vader-like breathing here.] So Claire knows that Christian is her father. They’re not leaving any wiggle room here. He admitted it, so we can stop theorizing.
And just when I’m about to throw up my hands in the air and say just tell Claire that Charlie’s acting weird because Desmond keeps forseeing his death… Desmond told her. Not in a good way, of course. More in the way the police officer told her about her mother. Although that was also not entirely accurate. Speaking of which, it’s illegal to turn off lifesaving machines in Australia? I didn’t know that. I wouldn’t have even considered it as a possibility, since it’s not illegal here.
I kept chanting, “Show us the village. Show us the village.” And they did. They have houses, but we knew that. They have bicycles. And they have Jack… playing football with Tom. I’m sure I’m not the only one with a Whiskey Tango…? What’s happened since we last saw him on the boat from Alcatraz?
The preview for next week’s episode looks like it could be the Best Episode Ever. Or at least of the season. If nothing else, we’ll find out why Locke was in a wheelchair. But I have a feeling we’ll find out a whole lot more than that… hopefully shooting down the no-longer-so-loony theory of Locke the Other.
