1.21 The Greater Good

1. Shannon grieves next to Boone's body. Sayid tells her that Boone was brave. From Lostpedia
2. Sayid is brought in by the CIA at Heathrow Airport to break up a terrorist cell with 300 lbs. of C4 in Sydney. They make him do it because he knows a man involved, Essam Tasir, who he went to Cairo University with, and they know where Nadia is. From Lostpedia
3. It's been 7 years since Sayid left Iraq.
4. They have a funeral for Boone. Sayid speaks about Boone trying to save Joanna. "I'll remember his courage and I know he will be missed."
5. Locke returns and tells them it was his fault, that they found a plane and Boone climbed up because his leg was injured. "It happened because he was trying to help us. He was a hero." From Lostpedia
6. Jack attacks Locke and calls him a liar in front of everyone, he tells Sayid about the hatch.
7. Sayid meets Essam in a Mosque. He tells Sayid that his wife, Zahra, was killed by a stray bomb when she was shopping.
8. Sayid finds a bugging device in smoke detector, he convinces Essam and friends that he knows about things like that.
9. "Perhaps it is not happenstance that you and Essam met at the Mosque. Perhaps it is fate." Haddad, Essam's friend.
10. Locke tells Shannon he's sorry, gives her Boone's bag and tells her he shouldn't have let him go hunting with him.
11. "He would've gone anyway." Shannon
12. Shannon asks Sayid to do something about Locke.
13. Kate drugs Jack with sleeping pills because he refuses to sleep.
14. Sayid interrogates Locke, asks about his scar, he says it's a war wound. Sayid asks about the plane, the radio, says he could use it for parts on the raft.
15. Locke takes Sayid to the plane, tells him that he isn't lying about it.
16. "I know when I'm being lied to. There's a plane." Sayid From Lostpedia
17. Essam tells Sayid that he's going to be the martyr in the operation.
18. The CIA wants Sayid to convince Essam to go through with the suicide bombing. From Lostpedia
19. Locke asks Sayid why he doesn't trust him, and Sayid calls Locke on carrying a gun without telling anyone about it. Locke tells him about the priest, Nigerian money, and the gun.
20. Locke confesses he knocked Sayid out and destroyed his equipment when he was trying to triangulate the signal to gain his trust, but it only angers him. From Lostpedia
21. "Is that a place you really want to lead people to?" Locke explains why finding the source of the distress signal was a bad idea.
22. Sayid tells Essam that he lost someone too and will participate in the bombing.
23. "Innocent lives will be lost in service of a greater good." Sayid
24. "It was fate that brought us back together." Essam
25. Sayid tells Shannon that he believes Boone's death was an accident. "I know how strong the need can be to find someone to blame." Shannon isn't satisfied with what Sayid has to say.
26. Walt is worried about going on the raft. "What if we die?"
27. Shannon steals the key for the Halliburton when Jack is sleeping.
28. Sayid reveals to Essam that he is working with the CIA, that he will give him 10 minutes to get away, but Essam turns on Sayid and then kills himself. From Lostpedia
29. Sayid saves Locke from Shannon, but Locke is still grazed by bullet.
30. Kate comforts Sayid because Shannon won't talk to him, says she just needs time.
31. "Time won't make a difference." Sayid
32. "There's always a choice." Sayid
33. Nadia is in Irvine, California. She is a lab tech at a medical testing company.
34. Sayid has his flight changed to the next day in order to claim and bury Essam.
35. Locke thanks Sayid for saving him from Shannon. "I did it because I sensed you were our best hope of surviving here."
36. Sayid demands Locke take him to the hatch, that he knew he was lying about it.

Questions:

1. Was Sayid in London at the same time as Nadia?
2. Why did Sayid say that Nadia was dead when he was on his was to see her from Sydney?
3. How did Shannon know where the Halliburton was?
4. When did Shannon learn how to use a gun?
5. Why is Locke so imperative to the island?

Favorites:

1. Charlie calls the baby Turnip Head.
2. Sayid and Essam playing football.
3. Hurley and Charlie singing I Feel Good to the baby.
4. "Hey, Chuckie, you wanna keep that kid quiet? Baby Huey's like nails on a chalkboard." Sawyer
5. "I liked that thing a lot better inside than I like it outside." Sawyer
6. Charlie following Sawyer with the baby because his voice makes Turnip Head stop crying.
7. Sayid telling Shannon that she doesn't know how to use a gun, and then she immediately shoots at the ground.
8. Sawyer reading a car magazine to the baby.

Notes:

1. Uh, Locke, maybe you should take the bloody shirt off before you confront everyone and try to convince them that you're not guilty of killing Boone.
2. Again, uh, Locke, maybe Shannon wouldn't have wanted to kill you if you hadn't gotten up and walked away right when she's in the middle of crying about her dead brother. No chick skills, Locke.
3. Even Walt is terrified by Locke in this episode.
4. Sayid saves Locke from Shannon in sacrifice of the greater good.
5. Shannon was actually going to kill Locke.

1.12 Whatever The Case May Be

1. Kate and Sawyer find bodies and Halliburton case in lake. From Lostpedia
2. The tide is shifting. They move up the beach.
3. Kate, New Mexico, photographer for a coffee table book.
4. Rose tells Charlie that he doesn't get to not help, that nobody blames him for what happened to Claire. "Maybe I should've died." Charlie
5. The guy Kate cons to rob the bank for her is named Jason.
6. Sayid has maps from Rousseau. He tries to translate. He asks Shannon to help him. From Lostpedia
7. "We have a problem, or you have a problem?" Jack, to Kate. In the Halliburton, 4 9mm guns and boxes of ammo.
8. The sea of silver sparkles that change, next to the pond, blue infinity. "There's something about this that seems so familiar." Shannon translates for Sayid. From Lostpedia
9. Jack threatens that he won't give Sawyer his drugs so he'll give him the case. "Whatever she told you, she lied." Sawyer
10. Kate opens security box in the bank, #815. She's not a signatory.
11. "It belonged to the man I loved. It belonged to the man I killed." Kate
12. Rose says that she knows her husband is alive. "There's a fine line between denial and faith. It's better on my side." Rose
13. Charlie asks her for help. "I'm not the one that can help you." They pray.
14. Shannon tells Sayid that the notations from the maps are from the song La Mer.
15. Toy plane in envelope from Halliburton and safe box.
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Questions:

1. How does Kate know about the safe deposit box? How does she get the other key? Did Edward Mars give it to her?
2. How did the plane get to the deposit box? Did he put it there? Why is Kate so attached to that damn toy plane?
3. How does Rose know her husband is alive?
4. What do the maps and notations mean?

Favorites:

1. "I'm protecting you!" Sawyer "Protecting me from what? Southern perverts?" Kate
2. Shannon asking Boone if Locke is his new boyfriend.
3. Sawyer and Kate fighting over the case. When Sawyer climbs up the cliff to drop the case, she runs in and takes it, while giving him a snickering look. It makes me laugh every time.
4. "You're wasting your time, man. If you pick the lock on a Halliburton, I'll put you on my back and fly us to LA." Michael "You better find yourself a runway, daddy, cause there ain't a lock I can't pick." Sawyer
5. "Do you think you're the only one on this island that's got something to be sad about? Baby, I've got sob stories for you." Rose, to Charlie.

Notes:

1. The bodies underwater and Kate and Jack digging up the marshal's body is totally creepy.
2. For once Jack does something right. He figures out Kate's motives.
3. Jack finally does something good, but then he has to mess it up with wanting to know everything about Kate. What's she supposed to tell you her life-story, dude?
4. It's really awesome that Maggie Grace sang La Mer. From Lostpedia

1.11 All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues

1. Ethan wasn't on the plane. He takes Claire and Charlie.
2. Locke says that he hunted with Ethan, and that he knows more than him.
3. Jack asks "How can one man drag off two people?" whereas Locke asks "Not how, why?"
4. "Be the doctor. Let me be the hunter." Locke, to Jack, about going to look for Claire.
5. Kate tells Jack her dad was in the Army, Ranger Battalion, stationed at Fort Luis, Washington, that she hiked with him for 8 hours and tracked deer. "It was like his religion."
6. Locke tells Boone he is a Regional Collections Supervisor for a Box Company. Boone doesn't believe him.
7. Christian tells Jack that he was hard on him so he could become a good doctor, that it was all for the greater good.
8. Sayid tells Sawyer about Rousseau and that he heard something in the jungle.
9. Walt and Hurley play backgammon. "My dad said I was the luckiest person he ever knew." Walt says, not Michael, but Brian, his step-dad. From Lostpedia
10. "I'm not letting him do this. Not again." Jack
11. Charlie is hanged by Ethan. Jack saves his life. From Lost Virtual Tour
12. "All they wanted was Claire." Charlie
13. "What are we following?" Boone "My gut." Locke
14. Boone and Locke find the hatch door while looking for Claire. From Lostpedia

Questions:

1. Will Hurley ever give Walt his money?
2. Jack fights Ethan. Why is Ethan so strong? Why does he look so robotic? From Lostpedia
3. How did Locke know where he was going if he wasn't following tracks? Did his destiny lead him to the hatch?
4. Why can Jack hear Claire but Kate can't?
5. Does Locke want Boone to be his apprentice?
6. When Walt and Hurley are playing backgammon, Walt keep rolling the number he wants. Is this because he's special? Does he make it happen?
7. Was someone helping Ethan?

Favorites:

1. "Back home, I'm known as a warrior myself." Hurley
2. "You owe me $20,000!" Walt "You'll get it." Hurley
3. "It's stupid to lie about your name." Walt, to Sawyer.
4. "The crew guys that would go down to the planet with the main guys, the captain and the guy with the pointy ears, they always wore red shirts, and they always got killed." Boone "Sounds like a piss-poor captain." Locke From Lostpedia
5. "You're either a taxidermist or a hitman." Boone, to Locke about what he does in the real world.
6. "Did they teach you how to predict the weather at a box company?" Boone

Notes:

1. Maybe it's just me, but the scene where Jack is operating is really creepy looking. Is an operating room usually that dark? The darkness and the shaky camera always gives me this weird feeling.
2. Jack's dad operated under the influence, and was fired because of Jack's confession, which led Christian Shepard to Sydney, Australia.
3. Jack has the crazy eyes again. He needs to chill out and stop trying to fix everything.
4. Charlie leaves the LATE tape from his fingers behind as clues. From Lost Hatch
5. Walt is just a kid, but he knows exactly how to work people.
6. Boone offering to help look for Claire and Charlie is what leads him to the hatch and finding the beach craft, which is what ultimately leads to his death. His Star Trek line and the red shirt is also foreshadowing of his death.
7. During the Jack saving Charlie scene, at first I was thinking there was no way that they'd kill Charlie, but by the end I started to believe that he really was dead, and I think this is the first time this show made me feel emotional. The music is awesome during this scene.