Needless to say, SPOILERS lay ahead if you haven't seen any of Season 3 yet.
The Others: They live in nice suburban houses. They have a book club. And most of them don't like horror stories, apparently. "Henry Gale" is actually Benjamin Linus and he is indeed the leader of this little clan. He may not, however, be the leader. But he's someone of great importance. The Others temporarily abandoned their posh lifestyle after they saw the plane crash, and sent various people to investigate and assimilate into the different survivor groups. The leaders of those groups were to make "lists" of people to bring back.
After kidnapping Jack, Kate and Sawyer in the season two finale, the Others stuck Jack in a locked cell underneath an aquarium. Kate and Sawyer both got outdoor cages in the old zoo, where they are monitored 24/7, unbeknownst to them, by Benry. Ben offers Kate a very, VERY nice breakfast, handcuffs her and warns her that the next couple weeks will be very, very unpleasant. He makes her wear a dress, so she'll "feel like a lady again". Next time we see Kate, she's dishevelled and won't talk about what happened. Later on, when Jack asks Kate if they hurt her, she bursts into tears. Yeah. They're not exactly cool like that.The Others, who love psychology and science, trick Sawyer into thinking that he has a pacemaker that will kill him if his heart rate goes above a certain level. Which, personally, sounds like a very lame plot in Alias, but whatever. After an episode of Josh Halloway looking angry, the Others tell Sawyer that it was a trick (duh), but then reveal to him that they are on a separate island, a few times bigger than Alcatraz. They can see the main island - where the other Lostaways are at - but they'd have to swim through shark-infested waters in order to get back.
As for Jack, the Others took him as part of a big old master plan to manipulate and break him so he'll want to remove a tumor from Benry's lower back. Instead of asking, they lock him up and befriend him with new blonde vixen Juliet, who looks way too much like Jacks' ex-wife that when they first showed her in the show, I thought she was Jack's ex. She's not. But that's just me.Anyways, Jack has to perform emergency surgery on a wounded Other, he catches a glance of some x-rays and surmises that they belong to Benry. Juliet and Ben figure out that Jack figured that out on his own, and Jack eventually agrees to perform the surgery. But not after rupturing something else in Ben on the table and pretty much takes the entire Others compound hostage, demanding that Kate (not Sawyer) be allowed to get to safety. Except that Jack doesn't know he's on Alcatraz. And he doesn't know that his plans usually don't end well, at all. Oh well, it made for a fun cliffhanger!
The Lostaways: We met two new characters, named Nikki and Paulo. And they were abruptly introduced, like they were always a part of the show. Only, we don't care about them. At least, not yet. Nikki shows potential for being a cool team member, but Paulo is useless. Seriously, his character is like Ray from Everyone Loves Raymond. I expect him to whine that he's on a desert island. (For those who are wondering, Paulo is on the right in that picture and Nikki is in the middle. On the left, of course, is Desmond.)Sun, Jin and Sayid enjoyed an episode together, making it the first time ever on TV history that an Iraqi and a Korean couple has shared an entire boring episode together on a island mystery-drama-thriller. I know! It's quite an accomplishment. Anyways, nothing really happened there, except that Sayid and Sun lied to Jin, and he's kind of ticked about that. And, Jin might know more about Sun's secrets than she thought. Maybe.
Meanwhile, Charlie didn't go searching for Locke at all following the hatch explosion, which wasn't really an explosion, but an implosion, which explained the explosion that we saw, and it explains the hatch door being thrown a mile or two across the island. Why, that must be another island mystery! Anyways, Locke comes back to camp as a mute (thank you!), but then gives himself narcotics, much to Charlie's chagrin, and regains his voice after a creepy vision involving Boone, the airport and a polar bear. Locke can speak again and is suddenly, magically Season 1 Locke, and he realizes he has to look for Mr. Eko. DUH!Mr. Eko, it turns out, had been dragged around by a polar bear and was being kept in it's cave as a back-up dinner meal. Locke saves Eko from the polar bear, but not from the big bad smoke monster, who apparently is a shape-shifter. After Eko was unrepentant for his past actions shown to us in his flashback episodes, the smoke monster got angry and took his life.
Oh, and Desmond? Can see the future. Or, has the ability to watch ABC's promos and figure out what's going to happen from there. Like, when ABC promised us somebody was going to die, then showed us in the commercials that it would be a Eko-centric episode, it wasn't exactly rocket science to piece it all together.
The Flashbacks:
Jack Shepard: Jack is creepy. After his wife filed for divorce, Jack kind of stalks her, hoping to find out who it is that she's dating. She won't tell him a name. At all. And it drives Jack INSANE. Seriously, he's willing to do anything, just so he'll know what this guy's name is. It's not just a mild fascination, he is obsessed with knowing who has stolen his wife's heart. And Sarah just won't tell him. Which, considering Jack's kind of crazy when he's mad, I don't exactly blame her. Jack's actions drive his recovering-alcoholic dad to drink again. Because Jack ruins lives that much. You know, for a doctor, he's not very good with people at all. Oh, and we had to pretend for a short while that Sarah may have been having an affair with Jack's dad. Yeah, like Sarah's that desperate!
Jin and Sun: Sun had an affair with the guy who taught her English. We suspected as much, but it was kind of saddening to see just the same. He encourages her to leave her marriage, not so much because Jin is doing SunDaddy's dirty work, but because he wants her. SunDaddy finds out about the affair, and tells Jin that this man has "disgraced SunDaddy", and that a message should be delivered. Jin was never told that he was cheating on his wife. But he left a clear message, one that drove English-speaking-dude to jump to his death. The major unresolved question for this couple is: Who's the daddy? Because Jin's sterile, but doesn't know it, but hey, the island has magical powers. But Sun had the affair with this one dude, and had a crush on Michael. Suddenly, the most grown-up, sophisticated plotline became a lot more mainstream. And actually, a little bit like one of the telenovelas that we get snippets of during an episode of Ugly Betty. All I'm saying is that Jin better hope Sun is actually pregnant and that she won't be wearing a soccer ball underneath her clothes for a few months!
John Locke: We saw a completely new side of Locke this time. In fact, it was like a completely different story! Following Helen leaving him, and his con-man dad, Locke joins a commune where they grow fruits, veggies and pot. He befriends an undercover cop who's looking to bust this operation, and Locke's gullible enough to fall for him hook, line and sinker. Leaving Locke even more confused, frustrated and angry in his past life. No wonder he loves the island so much! (Incidentially, there are promotional pictures of what seems to be a unseen flashback from this episode, after Jack let the cop go. Spoil at your own risk.) It is interesting to see how much relational abuse Locke has recieved in his lifetime. He went from foster home to foster home, met his real mom, which lead to his real dad, which lead to him pretty much stealing a kidney, he lost his girlfriend, and now after making another friend, he turns out to be an undercover cop. And he'll soon work at a box company. His life pretty much sucks.
James "Sawyer" Ford: He's a con man. But we knew that already! After doing the long-con in season 2, he's spending time in prison. But he's working with authorities to help con the location of a couple million bucks out of a fellow inmate. He does that, gets released and gets a share of the loot. Only, he puts the money in a bank account for the lady that he long-conned, because it sounds like he had a daughter by her. Sawyer, Sawyer... Incidentially, this episode featured Bill Duke, who was completely and thoroughly creepy and frightening in this episode. I'm not positive, but I think his eyes can kill. Anyways, unlike Sawyer's past flashbacks, this one was kind of boring. It showed us another layer of his character, yes, but it felt kind of dry.
Mr. Eko: Eko is not a nice man. Granted, he's an AWESOME character and would LOVE to see a Mr. Eko movie, but he's not a nice man. Eko returns to the town, posing as a priest taking over for Yemi. Eko, in the one week he's there before he goes to London, manages to kill a couple of trouble-makers and killers who were taking most of the town's vaccine. Which should make everyone happy, right? Except they kind of sense that Eko's kind of not right. Would it be the fact that he's a notorious murderous, cheating drug lord? Because that would raise a red flag in my mind. This episode was bittersweet, with it being Eko's last episode. Now who will beat up people with a Jesus stick? Who?
Kate Austen: This flashback resolved a revelation made way back in season one: Kate used to be married. After finding a very nice hiding spot in Florida, Kate hooks up with a police officer and falls head-over-heels for him. They marry, very quickly, and Kate settles down as a housewife. Despite the fact that she wants to live a normal life with her husband, she can't stay put. Especially after she has a "pregnancy scare." She has to keep running from her past. So she confesses her sins to her hubby before she runs away, again. Also, she confesses that she "doesn't do Taco night," showing us that she just does not enjoy cooking at all.We did learn a lot from this mini-series. But in typical Lost fashion, even big answers were delivered in a very understated manner, while new mysteries get the strings-of-danger playing on the soundtrack. Will Drosselmeyer visit Camp Castaways? Will Paulo become useful? Will Desmond join Heroes, where his powers actually belong? And how will Jack, Kate and Sawyer get back to the mainland? Those mysteries will have to wait for February for resolution.
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