1.17 ...In Translation

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1. Jin asks Mr. Paik for permission to marry Sun, he says that his father is dead but he is not.
   
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2. Michael tells Walt he wants to take him to New York and show him the architecture, like the Flatiron building.
3. Michael tells Jack that there's only room for 4 people on the raft.
4. Someone destroys the raft by lighting it on fire. Micheal thinks that Jin did it, so does Sun. From Lostpedia
5. Jin is promoted by Mr. Paik to be his new assistant.
6. The man that Jin delivers the message from Mr. Paik to gives him the dog that he gave to Sun.
7. The television in the background at the man's house has Hurley on it. From Lost Hatch
8. "Everyone gets a new life on this island. Maybe it's time you start yours." Locke tells Shannon.
9. Everyone finds out that Sun speaks English when she tells them that Jin didn't burn the raft, that instead he was trying to put the fire out, which is why his hands were burned.
10. "We're so intent on pointing the finger at one another that we're ignoring the simple undeniable truth that the problem isn't here, it's there. They've attacked us, sabotaged us, abducted us, murdered us. Maybe it's time we stop blaming us and start worrying about them. We're not the only people on this island and we all know it!" Locke From Lostpedia
11. Sun's father wants Jin to deliver watches to his associates in Sydney and Los Angeles.
12. Jin visits his father and he tells him to get away, to disappear with Sun when they get to Los Angeles.
13. Hurley owes Walt $83,000 in backgammon.
14. Walt asks Locke about his father.
15. Locke knows that Walt burned the raft.
16. "I don't want to move anymore. I've been moving places my whole life. I like it here." Walt "I like it here too." Locke
17. Jin begins to help Michael on the raft.

Questions:

1. Do Walt and Locke belong on the island?
2. Why does Sun seem surprised to find out what Jin does for her father when she's the reason he's doing it in the first place?
3. How did Locke know that Walt burned the raft?
4. Did Walt begin Locke's blow-up everything on the island tour?

Favorites:

1. Jin playing golf and Hurley talking to him even though he knows he doesn't understand a word.
2. "The folks at the beach might've been doctors and accountants a month ago, but it's Lord of the Flies time now." Sawyer
3. "Why'd you burn my raft?" Michael
4. "Why take it out on our best chance of getting off the island?" Yeah, Locke, like you haven't destroyed every other chance of getting off the island since.

Notes:

1. Boone tells Sayid about Shannon's liking to older men who can take care of her, which turns him off from her, but he ends up pursuing her anyway because of Locke nudging Shannon to start over with Sayid.
2. This is the first time we see Jin in a new light, where we begin to like him and understand that he really is the good one in his relationship with Sun.
3. Good speech, Mr. Locke.
4. Sun and Jin both have the same idea to run away to the United States, except Jin's plan included Sun.