LOST: Jughead (Airdate: 1/28/09)

This week's episode was packed with lots of information, all of which will be important in the coming weeks. Here's a short synopsis:

Penny and Desmond have a young boy. We watched the birth and then saw him as a young boy between 3 and 5. Last week Daniel had planted a "new memory" into Desmond's head, telling him to visit Oxford to find his mom. He was to tell her that everyone is still stuck on the island. However, when he visited the university, there was no record of any Faraday every being employed there. That's because Daniel had experimented with time travel on Theresa Spencer's brain and it left her in a very odd state. Desmond did find out that Faraday's experiments AND Theresa's health care were both being funded by none other than Charles Whidmore. Desmond barges into Whidmore's office and demands to know where Faraday's mom is. Whidmore tells him she's in Los Angeles, but she's a very private person, and probably won't enjoy seeing him. Whidmore warned for Desmond to, "Deliver your message and then get out." Is this a ploy to get Desmond to LA to return to the island? Ben did say everyone must go back.

Random Note: Penny and Desmond's boy is named Charlie. Is this after Charlie who died at the end of Season 2?

Faraday's group is still on the island and hoping from time to time. He noticed that Charlotte was experiencing double vision, dizziness and bleeding from the nose. He knows why, but won't tell her.

Random Note: The young woman that leads the gang that finds Daniel, Charlotte and Miles, says to Daniel, "You just couldn't stay away, could you?" So does she know something? Later she said she didn't trust him, so I'm confused.

Julia speaks to the Others in Latin. She tells them to take Locke, Julia and Sawyer to see Richard Alpert. One of the soldiers agrees, but the other runs off. Locke doesn't heed Sawyer's plea to shoot the soldier running away. When Sawyer asks why, Locke replies, "Because. Because he's one of my people."

When Richard meets Daniel back at camp, Richard asks, "I assume you came back for your bomb?" A hydrogen bomb had been dropped on the island during military testing and Faraday said he could disarm it. Once he looks at the bomb, labeled Jughead, he realizes it is leaking and tells the woman soldier that he needs lead to fix it. Then it must be buried. She doesn't believe him. When he says, "50 years from now, this island is still here," she draws her gun more intensely. Sawyer came in to save the day and shouted, "Drop your gun, Blondie!"

Random Note: Daniel assured Richard that he wasn't on a suicide mission with the bomb because, "(He's) in love with the woman sitting next to (him). And (he) would never, (he) would never do anything to hurt her." Daniel later confirmed to Charlotte that his feelings were genuine. Ooooo!

Richard was forced to kill the US soldiers when they wouldn't leave the island. He takes his orders from a chain of command. Jacob?

John wants to finish his conversation with Richard. He isn't getting any respect until he says, "Jacob sent me." It's 1954 on the island and Locke is pleading with Richard to tell him how to get off the island now, because he has something important to do after he gets off. Of course, before he can hear how, they jump to a new time.

Random Note: Charles Whidmore used to be one of the others on the island! Interesting!!!

Unanswered questions still looming:

• Will Locke, or any of the other castaways, meet their younger self on the island during the time travel? If so, what are the consequences?
• How will Hurley get out of jail to get back to the island?
• Is Walt going back too?
• How will they get back to the island?
• When will we ever find out more about Ben's old girlfriend Annie?

Next week's sneak peek:

• Kate is threatened that she will lose Aaron.
• Locke says that he will have to make them come back, even if it means his life.
• Sawyer says that he saw Kate in the jungle.