LOST: Episode 4.04 (Discussion)

I found this episode to be not quite as riveting as the previous episodes this season but still very good. If the previews for next week's episode are any indication, this may have just been a much needed breather before the action picks up again.

• I thought that Kate looked gorgeous in her FF. Really gorgeous. I love how they dressed her like Kate Hepburn.
  
• What sort of deal did they make to get off that island that resulted in that cover story?
  
• So now we know who the "he" was that Kate said would be wondering where she was in Jack's FF. I absolutely did not expect that twist! How did she end up with Aaron? What happened to Claire? Kate must have told people that she gave birth to Aaron on the island because I don't think there's any way she would have been allowed to adopt him considering she was a wanted criminal.
  
• After the show ended I remembered Claire's visit to the psychic in her flashback. He told her that no one but her should raise Aaron, remember? Specifically: "It is crucial," he says, "that you yourself raise this child...Danger surrounds this child...Your nature, your spirit, your goodness must be an influence." And the psychic was the one who put her on flight 815, presumably so that she would never make it to LA and the family who was going to adopt Aaron. So what kind of horrible things are going to happen if Kate is going to be raising Aaron?
• What was with Daniel's card trick? Was he trying to remember what he saw or was he trying to guess the cards?
• Miles continues his extortionist ways with Benry. But $3.2 million? Why such a specific amount?
• I can't BELIEVE Locke put that grenade in Miles' mouth! I want to think that Locke knows what he's doing but sometimes he really scares me. And they're really playing up the craziness with the banishment of Kate and the bloody chicken-killing hands.
  
• I loved it when Hurley said "You just Scooby-Doo'd me, didn't you?"
• Sawyer, Sawyer, Sawyer. Let's see, I'm Kate and I have a decision to make: Either 1) Take a chance that the rescuers are NOT going to kill them all, return to her old life and a long stay in prision or 2) Stay on a beautiful tropical island amid all the comforts of home, including Xanadu and boxes of wine, with this guy:
  
  
  Sawyer's right - Jack is the reason she's leaving.
• BTW, Sawyer is reading The Invention of Morel. According to Wikipedia, "It is the story of a man who, evading justice, escapes to an island said to be infected with a mysterious fatal disease. Struggling to understand why everything seems to repeat, he realizes that all the people he sees there are actually recordings, made with a special machine, invented by Morel, which is able to record not only three-dimensional images, but also voices and scents, making it all undistinguishable from reality. The story mixes realism, fantasy, science fiction and terror."
• Finally, why in the world was this episode called "Eggtown"?