I really enjoyed last night's episode.

I will remain in the minority and still say that I still like Juliet. If anything was made crystal clear last night, it was that Juliet wants to be with her sister and nephew and will do ANYTHING to get herself back home. I firmly believe she is only working out of self-interest and is playing both sides, Jack and Ben, to see where the cookie will crumble and lead to her getting home. And she was sleeping with Goodwin - she has to be somewhat miffed that he is now dead. I have to admire her gumption for what she has gone through and will do to get off the island.

Drugged and restrained for a "very bumpy ride" when approaching the island - I can't but feel this will be really significant at some future point in time.

What I don't understand is why Ben would not let a female leave the island to be a test case? Why the babies most be conceived and then born on the island? Ben said he was born on the island - been on the island his whole life. And why did they only mention Claire as the only successful birth on the island - what about Danielle and Rousseau? Does it have something to do with the prevention of cancer - conception and birth on the island prevents cancer? Was there a point in time when pregnancy and birth were ok on the island? Did it change after "the incident"?

And on the subject of cancer - Jack said to Juliet ""You'll want to get that tumor biopsied to see if it is malignant". Do you think anything will come of this?

More importantly, what does this mean for Sun and Kate? I am guessing Ben put Kate and Sawyer in that position so that would have sex, and someone else would conceive on the island that Juliet could experiment on. And of course, this ploy also lead to Jack witnessing the sexual act and turning to Juliet. Ben is the master manipulator and truly evil.

I also think we know why Ben is keeping Karl away from Alex now - accidental pregnancy could mean the death of his daughter!

I also think Ben lied to Juliet, I don't think her sister's cancer ever came back and I don't think Jacob cured her. I think he just made up some fake medical charts to convince her to stay. Poor Juliet is quite the victim of a very long con!

In fact, after this episode I am wondering if Jacob even exists or is something mythical being Ben takes about to control people (kind of like God). Further evidence, when Juliet argues with Ben over his x-rays she said "You said YOU would fix it" not you said Jacob would fix it. Hrm. What do you think?

For those that did not notice "Mittelos" is an anagram for "Lost Time" - and Alpert said "time flies when you are there."

And how cool was it that Mikhail was watching live news feeds of the plane going missing!