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?