The Last Recruit: is who exactly?

For me the Last Recruit brought up more questions then answers. But first we got the show down we had been waiting for Jack vs. Anti Luck. The winner? I don’t really know. It seemed more like a stale mate then anything else with no real clear winner.

We did however get some interesting information from this conversation for one anti Locke said that john had to be dead before he could look like him. And next he had been Christian Shephard the whole time. Which at first made sense for me but then that does not explain other appearances off island. How do we explain that??

We know Smokey can not go over water as Smokey, but can as a man, that’s he traveled to the other island. So how is it that the image of Christian Shephard appeared off island? Was that a ghost? Or maybe it was a projection of Jacob? Similar entities similar abilities perhaps?

Then there is the whole “Christian Shephard” held Aaron part, which really freaks me out. Since a lot of the focus has been on hands and touching anti Locke this season does that mean that Aaron is evil?? Of course he didn’t really do so voluntarily so does that make a difference? Maybe he just touched the blanket and not the baby’s face? I can’t really remember.

Also Claire refers to her friend and her dad as keeping her company on the island for three years…that’s two different people. Why would she refer to them as such if she knew that MIB was pretending to be Christian Shephard?

As well remember Eloise Hawking made Jack take dead Locke with him. Did she know what would happen? Was she in league with Smokey the whole time?

All I know is that for me the whole Christian Shephard issue is far from over, there are just too many outlying factors to deal with yet.

The next interesting moment happened in the flash side ways when Claire said "Its him, its him" what does that mean, did she see something? All in all the sideways universe was interesting; I liked how this week we had a multi centric alt universe storyline. After all we are getting closer and closer to the finale, this may be the easiest way to finish up all of the story telling.

We are also seeing people mention they are running into each other more – sawyer even mentions it in the episode to Kate, and I think that’s the point. We got Sun, Jin and Locke running into each other, Kate Sawyer and Miles, Illana, Claire, Desmond, and Jack, and finally Jack and Locke all interacting with each other in their alt universes.

Next we finally get Claire and Jack talking to each other and realizing that Claire knows that Jack is her brother, how anti Locke would have known that im not sure, except for the fact that he seems to have some memories of John Locke, so he must have had some memories of Christian Shephard. She also says something very interesting about anti Locke. "You decided the moment you let him talk to you, just like the rest of us. Like it or not your with him now." I’m not so sure about that, after all Jack, Kate, and Sawyer all seem to be very wary of Anti Locke and they have all talked with him. I don’t really think they are with him.

I think Claire and Sayid are with him, mainly because they were infected. But I think in this episode Claire and Sayid were starting to not feel his influence as much, especially Claire. She is with friends now, and seems to be really with them even though she did say, “If John finds out, he’s going to be mad.” And I really do hope that she has turned to the light side.

Speaking of the light side, nice reference to the dark side and star wars on Hurley’s part. I love it when they put in star wars references into Lost.

We also got confirmation that Desmond is alive for now. The throw down the well did not kill him, as well that was not the same well as we have seen before on the island, different location all together...unless of course this is a continuity error.

The next interesting moment comes from jack when he says leaving the island doesn’t feel right, maybe it’s afraid of what happens when we stay – an interesting idea which I like, but I still believe some people deserve to leave the island as well.

Back in the alt universe we learn that Sun’s baby is alive, which how does a baby survive a gun shot to the stomach? Still not clear on that. We then see Jack operating on Alt Locke. And there we see are one and only mirror of the episode when Jack looks down into one to see Locke on the table. Other then that real mirror there were no mirrors, or reflections in this episode, however the characters were kind of mirroring themselves from alt universe to real universe in this episode.

But as always it seems with this season the real story line is more interesting then the alt universe and this week we finally get the Jin and Sun reunion that we have been waiting for since the very end of season 4 when they were torn apart. It was emotional and bitter sweet, and did not last as long as I would have liked especially since it looked like Zoey and her team from Widmore are going to execute them all. Argh!

Jack arrives back on the main island after jumping from the boat with the rest of our losties on it and arrives just in time for bombs to go exploding and for those really cool sound affects. Jack seems to have lost consciousness and anti Locke comes up to him and says "Your with me now.” Really?? Are you sure??

The last question up in the air this week is whether Desmond is dead or not now. Anti Locke has Sayid kill him, but after Desmond talks with Sayid and tells him “What will you tell her, on why she’s alive again.” I think that hit something in him, made him think. Perhaps brought the humanity back into him. Perhaps he is turning to the light side of the force as well.

But after all is said and done it still feels like last weeks promo - I don’t know where we are going, and what is happening. And I wonder is there any other way the writers can make me more confused then I am now?