While Desmond is fetching a doctor (in the Philippines?) to birth his and Penny's child, back on the island Daniel, Charlotte, Sawyer, Juliet and Locke happen upon what looks like the M*A*S*H compound. As it turns out, it is the 1954 version of The Others, complete with ageless Richard Alpert at the helm. It seems this group, highlighted by a young, feisty British dame named Ellie, blames Daniel and Co. for conducting scientific experiments. Daniel claims he can help defuse their hydrogen bomb. Is it me, or does Daniel seem a little too familiar with their situation?
Meanwhile, Locke, remembering his conversation with Richard in another time, approaches the leader with a little too much enthusiasm, and proclaims himself Richard's future leader. Richard's WTF? response indicates that perhaps he is not yet in tune with time travel.
Back in Desmond and Penny's kingdom, they have a young boy they name Charlie, and Desmond goes in search of Daniel's mother at Oxford, as instructed. He happens across Daniel's condemned laboratory, learns that Daniel jilted a woman he left in a tattered medical condition because of his experiments, and finally visits Daddy Widmore's office to learn about Mrs. Hawking... I mean Mrs. Faraday's... whereabouts. She's in L.A., it turns out. Shocker!
Interesting bits of this episode:
-The Others all know Latin - you know, the world's dead language. Does this suggest The Others go back farther than we think?
-Locke discovers the young British Brat who attacked Sawyer and Juliet is none other than Charles Widmore himself. Locke's smirk upon learning this information is priceless.
-Is Charlotte's nosebleed fatal? Methinks Daniel's confession of love for her is sketchy. Yes, he loves her, but how? As a lover? As a brother? As a... father?
-Is Locke the proclaimed leader of The Others because he went to visit Richard in this episode? Is it all that kind of never ending cycle?
-Could Widmore be Daniel's father?
-Are we to presume that, per Daniel's instructions, Richard's group really did bury the bomb? If so, is it under the hatch? Is that why Desmond had to turn the "fail safe" key? And does that mean that the island will someday blow itself up?
This series just gets more and more complicated, and the time travel is making my head spin. And I'm kinda lovin' it. A
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