Some Like it Hoth, Initial Reaction

Questions:

• Do Bram and Ilana work for the reconstituted Dharma Initiative?
• Why can Miles talk to the dead? Does it have something to do with being born on the island? Or with him going back in time?
• Where has Daniel Faraday been?
• Why does the hatch door need a serial number on it?
• What caused a filling to be shot through Alvarez's brain? Was the electromagnetic field somehow reversed, forcing it to be pulled out of him?
• Why did Miles' mom lie about her husband, Pierre Chang?
• Why did Miles and his mother leave the island? Did Chang make them leave?
• Since Hurley's "powers" are different than Miles' powers, is he really seeing and talking to dead people or are they really just the smoke monster?
• Kate, why didn't you just straight-up tell Roger you stole his damn kid?
• Speaking of Ben, when is he coming back and how are they going to explain it?
• Was Felix the guy that Widmore was beating up in the video that Ben showed to Locke
• What lies in the shadow of the statue? Come on!

Notes:

• Now we finally know why Miles asked Ben for $3.2 million.
• All of the exchanges between Miles and Hurley as of late have been brilliant.
• Miles had a punk phase. It all makes sense now.
• It's nice to see that Miles has a human side and a conscience, and this episode also explained a lot of why he is the way that he is.
• I love the title of this episode. It's a big step up from the past couple of titles.
• Daniel Faraday is back! Now where the hell was he?
• The apartment where Miles finds the dead body was #4.
• Hearing dead people constantly must be pretty annoying.
• The microwave clock reads 3:16.
• Your young mom getting in line behind you in the cafeteria must be freaky.
• Miles, you only had one job. Erase that damn tape!
• Also, Juliet and Kate, how about hatching yourselves up a better plan than just standing around and talking eachother up and not looking worried at all?
• We finally find out that it was Widmore who faked the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 and not Ben who did it, which was a cool find.
• I love how Jack has no purpose whatsoever now.
• Miles was disgusted that his father likes country music.
• I think Bram and Ilana are working for a new Dharma Initiative, which explains the question "What lies in the shadow of the statue?," which was much like "What did one snowman say to the other snowman?," a code to figure out if someone is one of them.

Even though not much happened in this episode, and was just kind of a fun one, I enjoyed it.