5x15 - "Follow the Leader"

This is the first time that an episode of Lost was not centered around any one specific character.

Present Day

1. It seems that Richard doesn't take orders.

2. Ben's claim that Alpert is a long time advisor seems to confirm that he is in fact immortal.

3. Locke's officially an other now, even giving Sun his word that he will find a way to reunite her with Jin.

4. Why is Richard so hesitant to acknowledge Locke as the leader? That title must be a figurehead position.

5. How did Locke know that tonight would be the night that Richard spoke to him?

6. How does Locke know that not even Ben has seen Jacob?

7. So are Ben and Richard scheming together this whole time? Why go through all that trouble to con Locke like this if all that needed to be done was to just let Locke move the Island at the end of season four.

8. Why does Locke want to kill Jacob?

1977

1. Jack has really frustrated me. He claims that he's trying to avert the plane crash to avoid the misery they went through. I truly don't think he's learned anything in all the time that's passed on the show. It's clear that Jack had nothing worth living for back in Los Angeles and nothing that happened to him on the Island could have been worse then that.

2. How did the Others let the DHARMA Initiative build the Barracks over the tunnels? Did they just happen to be away at the moment.

3. Radzinsky is a douche. I'm convinced now that he didn't kill himself in the Swan, but rather that Kelvin killed him just so he wouldn't have to deal with Radzinsky anymore.

4. "We are not bad people." - Juliet Sounds like a Ben Linus line.

5. Oh so NOW Dr. Chang believes that our castaways are from the future. That would have been helpful if he did in the last episode.

6. Did Eloise tell Widmore that Daniel was their son?

7. How exactly does Radzinsky get to be in charge? Does DHARMA choose it's leaders by whoever speaks the loudest? And now Radzinsky seems like he's on a warpath with the Hostiles.

8. Again, I say Kate is a moron. She can't keep her mouth shut around Roger, and now she intends to go back to the DHARMA Initiative, EVEN THOUGH THEY KNOW SHE'S NOT ONE OF THEM!

9. So Kate's on the sub, and the love triangle rears it's ugly head.

10. "Now what," is a very good question. I doubt that there are actual listed instructions on how to change the future in Faraday's journal.

5x14 - "The Variable" Island

1. Does the fact that Jack is in 1977 have to do with Aaron's absence on Ajira 316?

2. It's inappropriately funny to see Phil tied up in Sawyer's closet.

3. It's the first scene of the season now played from Daniel's point of view.

4. If Daniel's claims are true, then the Incident is the result of a mistake made during the construction of the Swan.

5. Why is it so important for Daniel to talk to his mother in 1977? Wouldn't Richard Alpert be the person you need to talk to?

6. Daniel couldn't bring himself to not tell Charlotte to stay away from the island.

7. For all the times Jack's fired a gun on this show, it's amazing that he hasn't actually killed anyone yet.

8. Why now is Faraday thinking that the past can be changed? What makes him think that people are variables, when Penelope was a constant for Desmond?

5x14 - "The Variable" Flashbacks

Daniel's life

1. How exactly does Eloise Hawking have all this advance knowledge of future events? I thought it might be similar to Desmond's flashes but, it's clear that she sees decades into the future.

2. So Teresa, was Daniel's girlfriend and research assistant. What happened to them that left, Daniel with short-term memory loss, and Teresa permanently brain damaged?

3. The journal Daniel uses was a gift from Eloise.

4. The Wired magazine headline reads, "The Impossible Gets Real."

5. What did Daniel test on himself?

6. We now have confirmation from Charles Widmore himself that he planted the false plane crash.

7. Well now we know why Daniel seemed so disoriented last season. The Island was gradually healing Desmond during those early episodes.


Present Day

1. Charles Widmore is Desmond's father. Obviously she's not Penelope's mother so who is?

5x13 - "Some Like It Hoth" Island

1. If the DHARMA Initiative was conducting work in the Hostile's territory, then it was a violation of the truce? Could this be the start of what leads to the purge?

2. How the hell does Hurley manage to get a delivery job to the same destination as Miles?

3. According to Alvarez's story, he must have been working near an area with high concentration of electromagnetism. The area he was working in was have been the construction site for the Swan.

4. There are certain things about this show which annoy me, which seem to be Kate's poor showing of judgement. In season 3, she went to inform Jack about the Other's impending attack on the beach even though it was clear to everyone that it was a bad idea. Then in the conversation she was with Roger, she accidently lets on that she knows more about Ben's ordeal then she lets on.

5. Hurley doesn't actually talk to dead people. He's seeing the Monster in the form of dead castaways.

6. The other thing about this show that annoys me is Hurley's inability to keep his mouth shut.

7. And now we have it, Pierre Chang is indeed Miles' father.

8. "What body?" Seems like being in the circle of trust doesn't mean that you have all that much trust placed in you.

9. Chang doesn't seem like the kind of person who'd like country.

10. Hurley's trying to help Miles reconnect with Chang but it's not working.

11. So the numbers on the Hatchare a serial number? There's got to be more to it then that.

12. Hurley has the lamest ideas for "Empire Strikes Back." Luke and Vader talking out their problems? I'm really trying not to laugh.

13. Miles' failure to erase the security tapes from the fence, means that Sawyer's life with DHARMA will now fall apart. He can't hide Phil forever, and now all of our castaways will be suspected hostiles when they get caught.

5x13 - "Some Like It Hoth" Flashbacks

1. So Miles' ability to communicated with dead people first manifested when he was a child.

2. The scene between Miles and his dying mother confirms that Miles was born on the Island and that his father is Pierre Chang. Chang's absence from their lives adds Miles to the long list of characters with "daddy issues."

3. The man in the restaurant was a delivery man for Charles Widmore. He was bringing evidence of the faked plane crash of Oceanic 815. It seems that Mr. Friendly killed him as he showed similar evidence to Michael last season.

4. Naomi offered $1.6 million to come to the Island. He asked Ben for $3.2 million to lie about Ben's well being, simply because it was double what Widmore was willing to pay.

5. Bram, was on the plane AND he's one of Ben's people. Does that mean that Ilana also works for Ben?

6. Again, what lies in the shadow of the statue? What does the answer to that question mean?

5x12 - "Dead is Dead" Island

1. What Ben says after he wakes up supports my theory that the Monster is some sort of physical manifestation of the Island's consciousness. If it is considered scared enough to pass judgement, could that mean that Eko could have been an Other had he lived long enough?

2. It's confirmed, Ben killed Locke only after he got Locke's information on the Oceanic Six.

3. Ben's claimed to do a lot of things for the greater good of the Island. Why then did we have the pregnancy disease?

4. Ben set up Caesar just to earn Locke's trust.

5. According to the Other's moral code, allowing someone to die instead of saving their life is the same as killing them.

6. Ben probably knew all along that passengers from Oceanic 815 were in the DHARMA Initiative.

7. I would assume that Ben doesn't know anything about Christian Shepherd, if he's seriously freaking out about John Locke's resurrection.

8. If Locke knows how to find the Monster, does that mean he's officially an Other now

9. Ben is actually sorry for trying to kill Penelope?

10. What happened to Ilana and the other Ajira survivors? Did they get infected like Rousseau's team?

11. Again with the Egyptian hieroglyphs. They're all over the walls of the underside of the Temple.

12. So the Monster's flashes are flashbacks from Ben's life. It must have been the same for Eko in "the 23rd Psalm."

13. So Ben's officially been ousted and Locke is now the leader of the Others. It's been a long time coming.

5x12 - "Dead Is Dead" Flashbacks

1. The flashbacks for this episode start right where "Whatever Happened, Happened," left off. The first time this has ever happened in an episode of Lost.

2. So Ben and Widmore have known each other for about 30 years.

3. It would seem that Ethan was also brought into the Others at a young age as well.

4. Why didn't Rousseau recognize Ben when he fell into her trap in "One Of Them?"

5. Why is Widmore so territorial about the Island? He tried to cut off Juliet's hand in 1954, he orders Ben to kill Rousseau when she never intended to come to the Island in the first place.

6. Widmore had a child off Island, with a woman who was not one of the Others. Ben never tricked him into leaving the Island as Widmore claimed to John Locke in "the Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham." He was found out.

7. Desmond named his new boat, "Our Mutual Friend," after the one Charles Dickens novel he has yet to read.

8. I normally don't bash shows for being unrealistic, but BEN FIRED AT DESMOND AT POINT BLANK RANGE! DESMOND TOTALLY HAD A PULP FICTION MOMENT THERE! WHY IS HE STILL ALIVE?!

9. Ben backed out of killing Penelope because he saw her child. I guess Ben has a soft spot for mothers because he never knew his.

5x11 "Whatever Happened, Happened" On and Off Island

Off Island

1. How did Kate know to sing "Catch a Falling Star" for Aaron?

2. It's confirmed that Sawyer asked Kate to look in on Cassidy and Clementine at the end of last season.

3. Cassidy still seems to have a dark opinion of Sawyer's heroism in jumping off the helicopter.

4. The woman apparently leading Aaron out of the supermarket almost looks like Claire.

5. And the final answer to Aaron's whereabouts is that Kate left him with his grandmother. Now if I can only understand why Kate won't tell Jack.

6. Is it Kate's intention to bring Claire off the Island?

On Island

1. Roger's probably going to give Ben the beating of his life when Ben recovers.

2. So Juliet has now graduated to the medical division of the DHARMA Initiative.

3. According to Miles, the basic answer to Hurley's questions is that our castaways are experiencing the events of the past for the very first time.

4. Jack has finally understood that he doesn't have to "fix things" anymore. He's decided to let go and let things happen.

5. How ironic is it that Kate, a universal blood donor was far away delivering Aaron, while Boone was dying and a blood transfusion could have saved his life.

6. I'm not buying Roger's apparent regret over the way he abused his son. Obviously it didn't change anything for Ben because Ben would go on to murder him in cold blood.

7. What's to say that Ben did in fact remember Sayid? Maybe that's why Ben treated Sayid so cruelly during the three years off the Island.

8. The fact that Juliet administered treatment to Ben might be why Ben is so heavily fixated on her as an adult. When Harper says, "you look just her," in "The Other Woman," it's because she IS "her."

9. What Richard says about Ben being different and being "one of us," leads me to believe that the Others do not take in children. Widmore himself was an Other at 17 which leads me to believe that the youngest one can be to join them is in the late teens. Maybe this is why Richard didn't take Ben back when they first meet.

5x10 - "He's Our You" On and Off Island

Off Island


1. I had initially thought that Sayid stopped working for Ben because he realized that Ben was either conning him and the people Sayid was hunting were not threatening the Oceanic Six, or that Sayid realized that it would never end. I find it shocking that Ben would just let Sayid go.

2. It's clear that Sayid came to the mental hospital in last season's finale on Ben's information.

3. So Ilana is a bounty hunter.

4. Peter Avellino was the name of the man Sayid killed on the golf course in "The Economist." How did his family know that it was Sayid who killed him?

On Island

1. It's been four years since, the early flashbacks in "The Man Behind the Curtain."

2. I hate to say this but Radzinsky is really a tool. Maybe Kelvin killed him in the Swan station because he couldn't stand working with Radzinsky anymore?

3. "A twelve-year-old Ben Linus just gave me a chicken sandwich."

4. Jack's perfectly ok letting Swayer do the dirty work in this matter.

5. Roger's been physically abusing Ben, which makes Ben's "daddy issues" among the worst out of all our characters.

6. Why would the DHARMA Initiative come to the Island with an interrogator?

7. The DHARMA Initiative seems to make their decisions as a group, whereas the Others make decisions on the will of their leader.

8. Sayid seems convinced that he's back in 1977 to kill Ben before he grows up to become the monster Sayid sees him to be.

9. Who sent the burning DHARMA van into the barracks? Sawyer seems genuinely surprised by this.

5x09 - "Namaste" On Island

Present Day

1. Shortly before the plane landed, it actually picked up the radio transmission of "4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42."

2. It landed on the runway which was cleared on the second Island.

3. Why are Ben and Sun still in the present?

4. Seems that Caesar is very eager to search the Island.

5. Ben's broken arm healed very quickly.

5. Looks like there's a role reversal, Ben's the honest man now and Sun's the liar for this episode.

6. The way Christian talks about the other castaways leads me to believe that they might be dead in the present day.

1977

1. Radzinsky, Kelvin's former partner worked in the Flame station.

2. In the Flame is a small model of the Swan station.

3. Amy's baby is named Ethan. Which means that time has not changed even with the appearance of our castaways.

4. If Sayid is also in 1977, then why did he appear in a different location from Jack, Kate, and Hurley?

5. Jack's work assignment is Work Man.

6. Juliet bailed Kate out of a jam reminiscent of Kate's time as a fugitive.

7. Radzinsky has a shoot first, ask questions later attitude just like the young Charles Widmore.

8. Given the way Sawyer has matured throughout the series up to this point, it's clear that he's a better leader then Jack.

9. Sayid's meeting with young Ben is a reversal of their first meeting in "One Of Them."