Tonight’s episode on the hit ABC series LOST was called The Constant and is a Desmond centric episode.

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This week we rejoin Sayid (Naveen Andrews) and Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) that made it off the island in the helicopter with Frank and Naomi’s body. As they are flying to the freighter Sayid (Naveen Andrews) becomes worried as they appear to be heading into a thunderstorm but Frank reassures Sayid that everything will be ok.

Back on the beach, Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Jack (Matthew Fox) confront Charlotte and Faraday about why they aren’t worrying about how long its taking the helo to get to the freighter. Daniel tells Jack and Juliet that time doesn’t exactly work the same way on the island as it does in the rest of the world…so they shouldn’t worry. What the crap!?! All Frank has to do is keep the course Daniel gave him and all will be fine, otherwise…there may be side-effects.

Back on the helo it appears Desmond is experiencing some of those side effects. As they land on the freighter he says he know none of them and that he’s not supposed to be there. A couple of the freighters take him to the sick bay to see the doctor.

As his condition worsens we find out that he’s not having flashbacks as much as he is traveling in time between his military time in 1996 and the present. Des talks to Daniel back on the beach and Daniel figures out what going on so he tells Desmond to head for the train station and go to Oxford to find the 1996 Daniel.

Back on the ship, Desmond meets George Minkowski, the communications officer from the ship. (What was the name of the guy Hugo went to see in Australia?) Anyway, Minkowski is tied up and being sedated because he appears to be having the same time flashes as Desmond.

1996 Daniel tells Desmond he needs to find a constant, something or someone what is in both time periods that will ground him…give him an anchor. Of course, he chooses Penny.

Minkowski tells Sayid and Desmond that the others on the freighter have destroyed the radio equipment on the ship so they head to the radio room to fix it. While there Minkowski has an aneurysm…and dies. Just as Desmond’s nose begins to bleed.

So as Desmond is time jumping back and forth he’s meeting with Penny’s dad and ultimately Penny herself. He begs her for a phone number he can use to call her eight years later on December 24th, 2004. Sayid gets the phone working and hands the phone off to Desmond…SHE ANSWERS!!! (Yeah, we like her!) She still loves him and has been looking for him for the last three years. She knows about the island but static cuts them off as they both promise each other to never stop looking for each other. This appears to have quelled Desmond’s time jumps.

Back on the beach Daniel is looking through his journal and finds a note he wrote to himself…that Desmond Hume would be his constant if anything ever went wrong.

Next week, The Other Woman, a Juliet centric episode!

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Just like last week, I took another break from the InterWorld last night to watch LOST…Wow! Just like last week’s post What Happened On Lost: The Beginning of the End, I’m gonna try to give you an update about season 4 Week 2′s installment entitled Confirmed Dead. My daughter was all pumped when she saw the title because she though we’d finally find out who was in the coffin from last seasons Through the Looking Glass episode. But alas, we did not.

Instead we found out that those Confirmed Dead where in fact the passengers and crew from Flight 815. We even saw pretty dramatic video as Remote Operated Vehicles or ROVs combed through the wreckage. Good enough in fact for “officials” to be able to identify the bodies of at least the pilot (although thats in question, more later). Now is it just me or…If the wreckage is so deep that it can’t be recovered (as they said) shouldn’t the bodies be crushed by the weight of the water?

We also met the four members of the “rescue” team from the freighter. First is Daniel Faraday, played by Jeremy Davies, he’s the one we’ve seen over the past couple of weeks saying, “I can’t really say rescuing your people is our first priority…” Daniel is some kind of physicist (so he says). Also of note, he’s been added to the regular list of actors in the credits. I presume that means we’ll see a lot more of him.

Next we meet Miles Straume, played by Ken Leung, some kind of ghost whisperer and definitely trigger happy wanna be mercenary. You might remember him from the first Rush Hour movies as the freaky blond haired henchman. Anyway, both of these guys were found by Jack (Matthew Fox) and Kate (Evangeline Lilly).

Next we meet Charlotte played by Rebecca Mader. (I knew I recognized here from somewhere, she was on another show I liked called Justice!) Anyway, she’s a pretty head-strong anthropologist with some kind of knowledge or connection with Dharma. We know that because she shows up on an archeology dig in Tunisia and finds the skeleton of a polar bear with a Dharma collar and seems to recognize it. She runs into Locke and company (including Ben) and hangs with them at least through this episode.

Finally, we meet Frank Lapidus played by Jeff Fahey. Simply, Frank is a drunk (albeit pretty good) pilot who was supposed to be the pilot on flight 815. We know that because he said so in his flashback where he questioned the identification of the actual pilot from Flight 815.

Now for the big news. No, we don’t find out any other members of the Oceanic 6 but we do find out what the “rescue” team’s primary objective is. They are on the island to get Ben! We also find out that Ben knew they were coming because (he says) he has a man on their ship! What the crap?!?

We also find out that the creepy black dude, (told Hurley his name is Matthew Abaddon) that visited Hurley in the Santa Rosa Mental Hospital is behind the “rescue.” Naomi is shown talking with him where he insists that there are no survivors from flight 815. Does he say this with such authority because he arranged for the fake ship to be at the bottom of the ocean? Hhmmm…

Finally, we also know from creepy black dude’s conversation with Naomi that the four members of the “rescue” party were specifically chosen for a purpose, and that they are to go to the island and return, all of them, safe and sound. Her job was to protect them…guess she should have thought about protecting herself!

All in all a pretty good episode. Certainly laid the groundwork for future episodes. I’d recommend a watch! Stay tuned to jtrigsby.com for more updates…only eleven more episodes this season!

Got a theory or an answer! Share it with us in the comments below!

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Since I spilled my big secret yesterday (see Tonight’s the Night!) about my love for LOST on ABC, I thought I’d go ahead and bite the bullet and start a weekly series to help everybody stay up to date on what happened on LOST.

Thursday night was the big premiere we’ve been waiting eight months for…a 2 hour LOST event no less…and it was great! After an hour long recap (a necessary staple of the series) we finally go into some new meat.

As we rejoin our castaways, Jack (Matthew Fox) has just phoned home, uh, the ship and they’re on the way. Locke (Terry O’Quinn) has just killed the parachute girl, and Ben, still bleeding from Jack’s beating, is tied to a big tree. As the losties at the radio tower celebrate, sadness sets in on the beach as everyone there learns Charlie died down below.

We also get re-introduced (quite heavily I’m afraid), a device first employed in the last season finale. This is a Hugo / Hurley centric episode where we see how life off the island has effected him, and lets just say he is much worse for the wear. As he’s being arrested from running from the cops, he says he one of the Oceanic 6 (six, I thought there were more than that on the island). So if there are only six that get off, we know three: Jack, Kate, and Hurley. But who are the rest and why didn’t the rest make it off the island?

Hurley is committed and while in the hospital, a strange man comes to visit him, the man asks Hurley if “they” are still alive? Who is they?

Jack comes to visit Hugo in the hospital…to see if he’s going to “tell.” Tell what? And if you remember the cliffhanger last year, Jack says he’s tired of lying. Lying to who about what?

And then there’s the fact that Hurley say Jacob’s cabin…and presumably Jacob. Does that make Hurley “special” too?

As usual this weeks installment has left us with more questions than answers. MAN, I love this show!