Another great recap, Greybishop! I'm afraid I had to read the title a couple of times before I "got" it. I know, I'm slow....

There were two stunners for me in this episode. Jack smiling and laughing! I don't believe we've seen that before. And what's up with our C4 carrying Locke throwing Patchy into the fence!?! What has happened to our lovable, boar hunting, Man of Faith Locke?

Also, looking at the bottom of the map, could that be a tunnel running under the fence.....?

I just had to say that I laughed long and hard when I noticed that madeyoulaugh picked two seperate pictures of Kate on the tree where we see Our Man Locke looking unabashedly at her ass and grinning his fool head off...
As for the tunnel, Lady, that's the best explanation I've come across yet.

Yep! Locke looks REAL happy in that picture!

GB-wow, i don't know that ANYone realized the odometer reading. not that it changes the show, but one more little clue so many overlooked. GREAT recap!! clap clap whistle "woo hoo" whistle clap clap clap "woo hoo!" well worth the wait. i don;t totally get the title, but i am sure it's funny! ;o) GB-you rock!

One other tidbit that didn't find it's way into my recap.
Anyone familiar with Terry Goodkind and the Fantasy Series "The Sword of Truth" that he created, will no doubt have drawn a DIRECT parallel to the "Dominie Dirch" weapon from "Soul of the Fire" the SECOND they saw the fence and what it did to Bakunin.
Sure the "Dominie Dirtch" was a magical weapon in a fantasy novel, but come on! It's a string of large pillars with bell shaped tops, all within site of each other in a line around the town, that fire a sonic beam that tears flesh from bone...
Methinks that someone over at ABC might just be...ahem...borrowing...

LOSTbean -
"Oh my gosh, Jack has a sister" with a lisp, because of Claire looking all Goth (and dare I say for the first time, HOT!).
;o)

GB-thanks! so "brady bunch" like, which i LUV! now i get it. thanks (dude, you rock! have i mentioned that? LOL) !

I liked the episode overall, since it really revealed (or confirmed) a lot of things and got a lot of storyline moving along. I certainly concur, though, that the writing was overly soap-operatic this week; that letter they sent with the bird was just unbearable -- who would write something so flowery and filled with useless information?!

However, regarding greybishop's plaudit:
"The bit of the odometer that we can see reads '108'. Those prop guys never miss a trick"

I'd argue that the prop guys did miss a trick. The speedometer that's shown has miles per hour as the primary velocity, with kilometers per hour as the secondary display -- as all cars in the United States have it appear. But, in Australia, the display would only have kph, not mph. Picky, picky, I know...

Mikey -
Good point.
Only to nit-pick your nit-pick, the only thing really wrong is that the display is inverted. I live in Canada and my car shows both, but with the Kilometers Per Hour as primary. We still display (and understand) mph and while I've never been to Aus., I wouldn't be suprised if they do to.
I should go back and check Hurley's Sydney rental car. They probably messed that up too...

Another fine episode! That's 3 in a row.
Anyone else much more excited about the rescue team plot than the flashbacks and beach plots? Anyone that's been paying attention already knew about the connection, but I did find the flashback compelling, they did a good job catering to the people who knew and those who didn't.
I'm sad to see Patchy go, I really liked him for some reason. Did Locke test out a death fence on someone just for almost mentioning he used to be paralized? I'm starting to like him less, but the next episode is going to be huge!
Anyone else get the giggles at the scene of Jack spiking the football?
Halfway through the season and we don't know anything about Nikki and Paolo! I'm all for making a smooth transition to A-players, but come on already.

I thought this episode was pretty good overall.
You're not alone in your hatred of Claire. God she is the most whinest brat ever! And when she gets going she starts talking completely out of her nose.
Good god I can't stand her!

Locked really ticked me off last episode. Just leaving eyepatch man there to go play chess.
But I actually thought it was funny when he pushed him into the fence :P I guess it was better him than them.. even though I would've loved to have seen Kate go the way he did.

But I guess Claire and Jack are never going to know that they're siblings though. Unless the Others tell them of course.
Jack's father never mentioned it to them probably... and Claire never got the guy's name which I thought was pretty dumb.
*shrugs*
Anywho! Next episode looks awesome! I can't wait to see what happened to Locke!

great recap- I liked the ep as well. Locke is starting to remind me more of his old self- doing maddening things against everyone elses' wishes. Next week looks great too.

Just another comment about the speedometer thing: When I was living in the UK, I had a few different cars and all of them had mph as the primary velocity since speed limit signs were in mph. Maybe it's the same in Australia?

Actually, I stand corrected. I was just looking online and I read about Australia's process of metrication. It looks like cars now have km/h as primary, and many don't have mph at all, as speed limit signs are now in km/h. Interesting. Can anyone who has ever been to Australia confirm this??

man, i miss edhill.....

GB, I actually rather liked this episode though I would concur with other posters that I was far more interested in what was going on with Kate, Locke, and Sayid in the B story than I was with any part of the A story. Jack being Claire's brother was obvious and a little too plainly set up last season. While I don't have any particular disdain for the Clair character I do find it odd that she is one of the main characters yet she has only had two episodes (that I can recall) that were flashbacks outside of the island, as a character she hasn't really been fleshed out at all.

Has anyone notice that if you rearrange the letters of CHARLIE, you can spell CLAIRE with an extra H. An H is the eighth letter of the alphabet. An 8 is one of the numbers. Ok, I'm being stupid. Doesn't mean anything.

Was I the only one who thought Claire looked smoking HOT as a GOTH girl?! Dag, yo. I guess when she got preggers, she couldn't dye it anymore. A shame.

Does anyone else think that John is slowly turning towards the DARK SIDE? Or has he just been stupid lately? We'll see.

Great recap, great episode. Mikhail was definitely going to say PARALYZED when he said: "I must be confused, because the John Locke I know was para..."
Although paragliding would have been cool.

Was that Claire's mom that Jack's dad was visiting when he was with Ana Lucia? I'm pretty sure it was.

Can't wait until next week!

He coudl have been visiting claire's mom but it also could have been teh aunt.

claire's "stay away from me and my baby, charlie" is the new "WALLLLLLLT!!!!!"

Merick: good point about locke "testing" the guy who knew of him being paralyzed. i really dislike locke more and more!

plus, claire, as whiny as she is, looks so much better w/ dark hair.

#11 Shollia ---- If I remember correctly... Jack (and Claire's) father's body was on the plane but disappeared. Maybe it will turn up at one point, then they may find out they are siblings.

Just a possibility...

Urgh, they've been on the island for 80 days now (according to Claire's seabird note.)
Can you imagine the state of Christian Shepard's body, if it is still around?

Am I remembering correctly that the "come rescue us" note that was attached to the sea (hence...water)bird was written on a piece of notebook paper? Um...HELLO McFly? Do they think that after flying over the water and landing in the water, the piece of scrap paper is actually going to be readable? Or did I miss something?

Good point Leah3T, it could have been the aunt, not the mom.

okay, guys, to clear a few things up.
I am australian, so i thought i could help with your is-it-australian issue.
1) we don't have mph in our cars. ever. and i'm probly th only one in my high school to understand even the teeniest bit of imperial measurement.
2) yes, i agree, very soap-opera. and the bits with the rescue team were much better.
3) for the record, claire's accent is SO fake. no-one i have ever met talks like that. and for seventeen years, thats a lot of aussies i know.
4) good job with the definition of 'g'day'. quite accurate. there are suvenier shops where u can buy dictionaries on our language. therer's a lot of words i could use you wouldn't understand.
5) another mistake on the car, i just remembered - i think (from memory) that claire was on the left hand side of the car, but she said she was driving - we have r-hand drive cars.
6) that cop was such a dickhead. and his accent was fake too. tyhe closest thign to an australian accent on lsot so far... walt's. maybe cindy, if you go way out west.

Claire's accent is fake? The actress (Emilie de Ravin) is FROM Australia...obviously its HER real Australian accent.