Michel is French Canadian so I was hoping to get him to do the work!

But let us know if you find anything. I'm sure it's out there.

À votre service, ma chère!

Here is what I could make out of the conversations. (The rain made some comments inaudible) The first comment was the most interesting.

1st man: - "On n'aurait jamais dû suivre tes maudits chiffres"
(We shouldn't have followed your damn numbers)

2nd man: - "C'est à cause de ce connard"
(It's because of that fool)

3rd man: Je vous l'ai déjà dit; les instruments ont mal fonctionnés"
(I've already told you; the instruments didn't work properly)

Danielle: "Un homme à la mer!"
(A man at sea!)

- 1st man: "Mais... je pensais qu'on était tous là"
(But... I thought we were all here)

- 3rd man: "On est tous là. Il n'est pas des nôtres"
(We are all here. He's not one of us)

- "Qui est-ce?" (who is he?)

- "Pagayez" (row)

- "On va droit sur lui" (we're headed straight for him)

Danielle - "Allez! Dépéchez-vous" (Hurry up)

- 1st man: "Il n'y a que lui. Pas de bateau, rien pour nous aider".
(He's alone. No boat, nothing that could help us)

- 2nd Man: "Merde! Ça ne nous avance pas."
(Sh*t! That does us no good)

- 3rd man: "Ta gueule"
(Shut up)

- "Il est lourd... Il respire encore."
(He's heavy... He's still breathing."

Then we see Jin and cut to commercial.
On the beach, we hear 4-8- on the radio and the first man says:

- "Le signal vient de l'île"
(The signal comes from the island)

- 2nd man: "As-tu déterminé la source?"
(Have you determined the source?)
- Bien sûr que oui. Regarde"
(Of course. Look)
- Tu crois qu'elle est habitée?"
(Do you think it is inhabited?)

Then they see that Jin is awake. Danielle speaks to him in English but there is one last comment in French that is fun. It happens as Danielle scolds the first man and we learn his name:
- "Mouton!! Il est en état de choc. On a de l'eau à lui donner?"
(Mouton!! He's in shock. We have water to give him?)

Mouton = Sheep as in "Le Petit Prince"

Merci Michel

Merci beaucoup mon ami. Vous êtes le meilleur!

I loved the bit about the damned numbers. It also seems to imply that they weren't headed for the Lost island but for someplace else.

I'm willing to bet that the '06ers fly Ajira Airways to get back to the island. The airline's tag line is "destiny calls".

Speaking of... do you think it was the '06ers in the water shooting at Sawyer and the other time travelers? I have no idea why they would be shooting at them though.

Was a ho-hum episode for me. Not as compelling as the first 3 but ok.

1. Was ho-hum until the appearance of Jin (basically with 10 minutes left). I knew Jin was going to surface at some point, but I wasn't expecting it to be him... the guy looked like Sawyer at first and I thought why is Sawyer there?

2. Not a surprise that Ben hired that lawyer... most likely to scare Kate into action.

3. Sun doesn't appear to be as attractive now that she is a baddie.

4. I heard about the French people going to be in the episode and I thought Danielle but then I was thrown off because they were so young and then the light went on when I saw the pregnant woman.

5. I think that Danielle had said that she was part of a group of scientists/researchers when she first came to the island, but don't they look a little too young?

6. If they are mere scientists/researchers... why the sketchy behaviour? What's with the guns?

7. Is Jin in the same time period as Locke and Co.?

8. How is Jin able to be moving through time when apparently the ship was outside of the radius? However, weird things were happening on that ship (people going crazy) when it was anchored.

9. If everyone has to go back to the island to make things right, does that include Walt? What about Michael? He is supposedly dead and therefore is off the hook, but if Jin survived there is a possibility that Michael could be alive and would have to return to the island as well.

10. Did Locke and Co. jump into the future? The camp looked like it had been deserted for a long time. Maybe Ben & Co. are the ones that arrived on the long boats? (I don't know why they would be shooting at them.)

Siggie courtesy of Seana

I share the love for this episode for the most part, despite its lack of Hugo (one quick scene is not enough!). When I saw Jin I said YAY and got up and did a little dance.

Now I'll rain on the parade No one has mentioned how ridiculous Ben's custody suit against Kate was-I know, he was just using it to get Kate to go back to the island. But she's always been a hard sell about that, especially since Claire's visitation when she told her "don't you dare take him back" or something like that. Push came to shove what could Ben do to prove he is related to Aaron and should be his rightful guardian? Gah, it just seemed really stupid to me. That lawyer was all over the place, wasn't he?

It does appear that Sun really is intending to kill Ben based on the preview. News of Jin turns that around, no doubt, because without Ben how would they all get back?

Can't wait for next episode!

"Push came to shove what could Ben do to prove he is related to Aaron and should be his rightful guardian?"

Not Ben himself but the fact that Claire's mother dealt with Ben's lawyer wasn't a coincidence. Ben will use her to force Kate if it comes to that.

I didn't think of that! Thanks!

I can't take credit for this catch, read it elsewhere. The name on the side of Ben's van, "Canton Rainier" is an anagram of "reincarnation.

LAST EDITED ON 02-05-09 AT 08:16 PM (EST)

As others have said, this wasn't a big episode.

- Seeing Jin was the biggest part of the episode but we had figured that he was probably still alive. I believe that he skipped in unisson with Locke and his group. So, Locke would be in the same time-frame as Danielle and Jin.

- We had figured that Ben was behind the law-suit. I started to feel disappointed when it appeared that Claire's mother was behind it (not someone else with an agenda) but then I realized she was part of Ben's plan. I'm still amazed at the ressources the Others have.
How much does it cost to have a high-powered attorney do all your work like that?
On the same note: How much did Ben have to pay killers to go after Sayid with only darts?

- Now, we know that Charlotte was on the island longer than Miles who, in turn, has spend more time on the island than Juliette because that was the sequence of the nose-bleeds.

- Myles as Dr. Candle's son looks good.

- Where does Charlotte fit in? Maybe Ben saved her by sending her off the island before killing Dharma.

- Why doesn't Ben get nosebleeds? Maybe some people are more sensitive to time-shift. Daniel did say that it affected people's internal clock and not all clocks are wired the same. Or maybe Ben knows all about the importance of having a Constant.

- I wonder how much the story will be influenced by St-Exupery's Little Prince? The candleman in that story reminds me a lot of Desmond pushhing the numbers. Ben appeared in the desert just like the Little Prince. The Little Prince had to die to get back to his planet. The little Prince should be Aaron but it could signal the return of Walt. The idea behind the book that the important things are only seen by the heart could be something Locke would say. Also, Jacob isn't seen with "ordinary" eyes. Is he the sheep inside the box?

Why doesn't Ben get nosebleeds? Maybe some people are more sensitive to time-shift. Daniel did say that it affected people's internal clock and not all clocks are wired the same. Or maybe Ben knows all about the importance of having a Constant.

Why would Ben get nosebleeds? He is not on the island nor as far as I can tell time traveling.

Also I don't think a constant is needed here. As far as we have seen they have been physically time jumping, not consciousness jumping like Desmond. They only mentioned the need for a constant in that episode "The Constant".

Danielle's people dying shows that the sickness was present before this set of time-shift started. There was a man on the freighter who also had nose-bleeds. And Ben had to feel something after he turned the wheel.

Well at this point we don't know for sure that Desmond/Minowski's problem, the current nose bleed problem and Danielle's Crew's Sickness are all the same thing.

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Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

Forgotten what Danielle said about her crew? That they got sick and died or went crazy and died?

If Danielle's crew died of time sickness, wouldn't that mean someone turned the donkey wheel to move the island? Who? Widmore? Is that how he got off the island? And why?

Still not sure how the time sickness works. Appears as someone noted earlier that there are different versions. If the longer you are on the island the more suseptible you are, why did Minkowski get it? Didn't he just travel to the island once? Why not the mercenaries or Frank the pilot?

Radiation exposure. They said he was exposed to high levels of exposure.

Now that I've watched the episode, I have nothing to add, other than to say that I'm enjoying reading everyone's theories and comments.

Oh yeah, Kate looked unusually hot at the end of the episode.