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Jack-centric. WATCH BELOW. For the first real time since season one, LOST has inundated us with “whoa” moments in an episode. Synopsis: Hurley must convince Jack to follow him through the jungle to a lighthouse. More information and details at Lostpedia »

Flash sideways time … We see Jack walk through his house, change shirts and notice a scar on his abdomen. He then gets a phone call from his mom (who can’t find Christian’s will), then Jack asks “when did I have my appendix removed?” She tells Jack it was taken out when he was 7 or 8, “you don’t remember that?” He has the recurring deja vu look.

JACK HAS A SON?!?!?!? We find out that Jack has a son in the flash sideways!

On the island, there were some great scenes. Claire and Jin figure some things out, and we see that Claire has had a “friend” the past three years who turns out to be New Locke.

The best thing on the island is Hurley taking Jack to the lighthouse. Jack and Hurley go into this lighthouse (that Jacob told Hurley to go to). At the top, there’s a large dial with mirrors on one end … typically used to magnify the fire signal … and Hurley begins pulling on a chain to rotate it and says, “tell me when it gets to 108.”

As the dial begins passing various numbers, Jack sees reflections in the mirrors of things that are not behind him. First he sees what looks like the wedding place for Sun and Jin, then he looks at the dial and sees that all their names are written on the dial next to the numbers … same numbers we saw on the cave walls.

Jack tells Hurley, keep going to 23 – Shephard. Once it stops there, he looks into the panes of glass and sees the house he grew up in. Jack gets worked up and pissed off that Jacob has been watching him this whole time. Jack grabs a pipe or a telescope and smashes each of the panes.

Afterward Hurley is sitting outside the Lighthouse. Jacob appears and Hurley apologizes for failing in his mission and that the plan for the people to find the Island is “totally screwed”. Jacob is unperturbed, telling him the people will find another way. Jack is sitting some distance away, staring out to sea and Hurley realizes that Jacob actually wanted Jack to see what he did. Jacob explains that it was the only way for Jack to see how important he is. Jacob also explains that Jack is here to do something, “to get some people to do something you just tell them, but for people like Jack you need to let them look out at the ocean for a little while”. He also explains that he had to get them away from the Temple, because someone bad is about to arrive there. Hurley wants to warn the people at the temple but Jacob explains that it is already too late.

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In a lawsuit filed in Jackson County, Missouri in which John Coomer claims he was just chillin’ at a game on September 8, 2009 — when Slugger “climbed atop the third base dugout and started shooting hotdogs into the stands from an air gun.”

Coomer claims Slugger eventually put the air gun down — and started firing off the wieners by hand … when, according to the suit, things went horribly wrong.

In the docs, Coomer claims “Slugger lost control of his throw or was reckless with his throw, and threw the hotdog directly into the Plaintiff.”

Coomer claims the dog hit him right in his left eye — leaving him with a detached retina and the development of cataracts.

Seriously?! Anyone else have a hard time believing that a hot dog tossed behind-the-back (while wearing a mascot suit) could inflict enough damage to DETACH A RETINA!!??!!??!!

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Watch this episode below. This episode of LOST proved to be very, very interesting and enjoyable. This episode centered mainly around Locke … and New Locke.

Read about this episode in detail at Lostpedia.com »

We see Locke’s life in the flash sideways. He appears to be a more happy Locke, but still has the same trials as before. Working at a box company where supervisor Randy is still a prick … who fires Locke in this episode. He seems to have more hope, but gives the impression that he is accepting his handicap.

On the island we find more about New Locke and his hatred of Jacob. We also see New Locke manifest into the smoke monster. New Locke (as Smokey) heads to New Othertown where Sawyer is grungy. Sawyer has been drinking Dharma whisky and has apparently given up. New Locke tells Sawyer he can tell him why he’s on the island and Sawyer agrees to follow him through the jungle. They arrive at some cliffs and climb down a ladder to a cave where Jacob lived.

In this cave there are names written on the walls with numbers and with some names crossed out. The numbers next to the names correspond with the numbers that we know in the show (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 – Locke, Reyes, Ford, Jarrah, Shephard, Kwon).

New Locke tells Sawyer that he has three choices:

1. “Do nothing. See how all this plays out. And possibly your name will get crossed out” (New Locke crosses out Locke’s name)
2. “Perform Jacob’s job. Protect the Island from nothing, there’s nothing to protect it from, it’s just a damn island.”
3. “We just go. We get the hell off this Island and we never look back. We do that together.”

New Locke asks Sawyer if he is ready to go home. Sawyer says “Hell yes.”
LOST

So many questions were answered or headed to answer in this episode. Read about this episode in detail at Lostpedia.com » … OR … watch/rewatch the episode below.

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Watch “What Kate Does” below the text – This episode really wasn’t all that exciting … actually, pretty useless and slow. There were a few round-about circles of connection in this episode, which can only elude to more to come. Though I’m sure the characters and what they do off the island in the new time/universe are important, I really don’t need to see any of their development. So far there hasn’t been any character trait changes to massively point out, so with SO many seasons of questions … let’s get to it with some answers and closure. Start bringing it all together, instead of introducing more questions.

Main points to highlight:
OFF ISLAND

• Kate, the fugitive airport cab driver, takes over the cab
• Claire gets out of the cab
• Kate gets cuffs off
• Kate goes back for Claire
• Claire asks her to drive her to meet the people who were going to adopt her baby … who didn’t show to pick her up
• They arrive and lady says husband left her; she can’t take the baby now, Claire goes into premature labor
• Kate gets Claire to hospital where Ethan is her doctor … makes comment about “sticking you with needles”

ON ISLAND

• Sayid is saved, but the new Others want to “talk” to him
• Sawyer takes a gun and leaves the temple
• Kate and Jin go off after him with two new Others
• The new Others take Sayid to the temple where they “test/torture” him with electricity and a red hot fire poker
• New Others leader tells Jack that he needs to give Sayid a pill/medicine to stop an “infection.”
• “Infection” turns out to be “a darkness” and the pill/medicine turns out to be poison – Jack takes it instead
• Kate springs a jungle trap set by Russeau (we’re lead to think) and takes out the two new Other guys
• Kate and Jin separate – Kate to find Saywer and Jin to find Sun
• Kate finds Sawyer in Othertown inside his and Juliet’s house where he is prying up boards from the floor to retrieve a box
• Kate and Sawyer sit on Othertown’s submarine docking pier where Sawyer recounts how he was going to ask Juliet to marry him. He is most upset.
• New Others leader heimlichs Jack and retrieves the poison pill – tells Jack about the “darkness” and that it has happened to others … including his sister
• Jin stops by a stream to drink when the new Other guys catch up to him and beat him
• Shots are fired and the new Other guys drop leaving Jin on the ground
• Jin turns to look in the direction of the shots to see a Russeau-esque-looking Claire
• LOST

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Congratulations to New Orleans and its Saints … Super Bowl Champions!!! Doesn’t quite sound right to us to say those words together, but the Saints well-deserved it this year. Congratulations.

Now, for Fan Stop Central, the NFL season wasn’t as pretty. It’s recap time. Let’s quickly take a look at our predictions and just how wrong we were:

AFC
West – San Diego
North – Pittsburgh (Cincinnati)
South – Tennessee (Indianapolis)
East – New England
WC – Baltimore
WC – Indianapolis (New York)

NFC
West – Seattle (Arizona)
North – Chicago (Minnesota)
South – New Orleans
East – Philadelphia (Dallas)
WC – Dallas (Philadelphia)
WC – Atlanta (Green Bay)

So, we were decent in our playoff participants predictions … we only had 5 completely wrong and we had a few division winners and wild cards swapped, but overall, pretty good. Now, here’s where we go wildly astray:

AFC – New England
NFC – Philadelphia

Champion – Philadelphia

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