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Yay! This week on "Lost", we get to see what happened to the fellas on the raft. And we get a second take on exploring the hatch.

Sawyer was indeed shot, in the shoulder. He was thrown from the raft before it was blown up. He survived the blast and was trying to stay afloat, yelling for Michael and Jin. Michael dived under the water just before the raft blew up, which saved his butt. We don't get to see where Jin landed in the water or what happened to him.

First, Sawyer spies some floating raft wreckage and hauls himself onto it, then goes after Michael, who had been screaming after Walt but suddenly isn't making a sound. He drags Michael onto the wreckage and incredibly begins performing CPR. Why would a con man have bothered to learn CPR? He looks genuinely concerned that Michael might have drowned. Fortunately, Michael sputters back to life.

I didn't care much for the arguing between Michael and Sawyer that followed. Seemed inconsistent with Michael's character and forced. Made me like Mike a whole lot less. But Sawyer was his usual facetious self, which saved the scene. He gets pissed at Michael and climbs onto a different piece of wreckage. Michael says something aggravating, and Sawyer responds, "What are you gonna do? Splash me?" It cracked me up when Michael actually does this and to Sawyer's dismay, his chunk of wreckage comes apart.

It didn't surprise me that a shark comes sniffing around since Sawyer is bleeding, but it did surprise me that Sawyer decides to remove the bullet with his bare hand. Then he sarcastically asks Michael for a band-aid, which I found hilarious. After Sawyer spies one of the pontoons floating in the distance, he decides to try to out run the shark to get to the pontoon. He gives Michael his gun, which all too conveniently still has dry bullets. Michael does manage to shoot the shark, climbs onto the pontoon wreckage, and he and Sawyer drift along with the current the rest of the night.

The hatch scene is replayed, but this time, we get to see what happened to Locke when he got to the bottom. He finds Kate on the floor, and as he checks to see if she is ok, Desmond comes up behind him with a gun and asks, "Are you him?" Locke says yes, but then Desmond poses a riddle to him that he can't answer. Desmond decides that Locke is not who he was expecting. He is surprised to hear of the plane crash.

Desmond forces Locke to throw away his knife and tells Kate to tie him up. Then Locke objects and says that Kate's a fugitive, so Desmond changes his mind and says Locke should tie up Kate. While Locke is doing this, he sneaks to her an extra knife he was carrying. Then Kate is thrown into a room and the door is shut.

Locke makes nice with Desmond, talking calmly with him and trying to get him to put down the gun. Desmond won't back down though. He asks Locke how many of the crash survivors have gotten sick and doesn't believe that the answer is none.

Kate manages to get loose with the help of the contraband knife. She discovers she has been locked in a huge food storage area. She sees a vent overhead and is about to devise a way to escape when she is distracted by a box labeled "Candy". She stops and unwraps a chocolate bar. The look on her face when she tastes the chocolate is priceless, and she quickly grabs several bars for future snacks before resuming her escape. She climbs up into the ventilation system.

An alarm goes off in the underground abode. Desmond makes Locke go to his ancient computer (Locke's comment is, "I haven't seen one of these in 20 years!") and type in the ill-fated lottery numbers and then hit the "execute" button. Instantly, a timer resets to 108. Guess that will be explained later??

Then Desmond hears Jack coming down the hatch. He blasts the Cass Elliott music to drown out any noise Locke or Kate might try to make. Kate is crawling in the ventilation shaft when the music starts, and she reacts with the most hilarious expression. She ends up right above where Jack, Desmond and Locke have their confrontation. When Jack refuses to lower his gun and Desmond shoots over his head, it narrowly misses Kate!

Sawyer awakens to find Michael sobbing, which really unnerves him. It is actually the best moment between the two of them in the episode. The sun has come up, and to their surprise, they have drifted back to the island overnight. Exhausted, they stumble off the wreckage and onto the beach. Almost immediately, they hear Jin shouting and running toward them! His arms have been tied behind him to a piece of bamboo. He is hysterical, but the only thing I could understand was him saying something that sounded like "others". And sure enough, behind him on the beach are strangers loping toward him like zombies carrying crude weapons.

Thought this would be an appropriate place to mention a website that my friend Robert brought to my attention yesterday. It's a message board for fans of "Lost":

The Lost Forum

I visited there last night and discovered that it's just as addicting as the show. There is a place to post your favorite theory as to where the show is going, spoilers for future episodes if you're too impatient to wait for the next broadcast (I plan to resist that temptation), and places to analyze each episode. I spent entirely too much time there last night and tonight, but I must admit it is a great deal of fun. Also cool are the screen caps. Apparently, some people will freeze frame something and post it. For example, the shark that wanted to take a bite out of Sawyer apparently has been tattooed with the very same logo as Desmond was wearing on his shirt. I never would have noticed it if it weren't for a screen cap.

I'm also gonna add it to my links list because I think it's worth visiting more than once.

Is it Wednesday yet??