PREVIOUSLY ON LOST

And the discovery of the hatch combined with Charlie’s first death, Jack’s revival of him, the kidnapping of Claire and the first real indication that the Others might not be the most friendly people make this one of the best episodes in season one.

How does Locke know that it will start raining is “approximately 1 minute”…and then it does? And why does it always seem to start raining out of nowhere?

We find out that Locke worked for a box company “back in the real world”, and when Hurley and Walt are playing backgammon Walt says that Hurley owes him $20,000 to which Hurley responds “you’ll get it”. Of course we later find out that Hurley is in fact a multi-millionaire due to his lottery win and that he also owns the box company that Locke worked for.

Charlie theorises that the psychic might have foreseen the plane crashing on the Island, and in the flashback that follows we see the psychic tell Claire that she must catch flight 815 because they (the adopting parents…) will be waiting when she arrives. Perhaps he meant they (the others, and Ethan) will be waiting…

Claire’s psychic says that the people he’s found in Los Angeles are keen to adopt her baby, that the child will be safe with them and that they are “good people”, I wonder what chance there is that they are connected in someway to Dharma and the Others?

Claire mentions that her Dad used to sing “catch a falling star, and put it in your pocket” to her when she was little, of course we now know that Claire’s Father is also Jack’s Father.

Episode nine introduces so many important things, Rousseau, the underwater cable, Ethan, the whispers, and the first mention of “the others”.

Sayid says that Nadia is dead, however we see her in other people’s flashbacks (Locke’s and Charlie’s I think) later on, so did she die after those flashbacks happened or is she not dead at all and Sayid just believes that she is. After all he says he is still looking, hoping that one day he will find her.

Locke suggests to Sayid that the person who attacked him might be someone who has something to benefit from their situation (ie. being on the island), which really points straight at Locke himself since he has regained the use of his legs since crashing on the island, yet it isn’t until much later on that we actually find out that it was Locke who hit Sayid.

When Kate read out Sawyer’s letter it isn’t initially clear that he wrote it, it sounds more like it is referring to the storyline that is being played out in his flashback.