TV Thursday: Lost

**SPOILER ALERT FOR ENTIRE POST**

Last night's episode really challenged me and got me thinking. There are some serious mind games going on...between the cast members, and between the writers and the viewers. Juliette is giving me serious indigestion. I want to smack that crooked smile right off her puss.

The back story was centered around Juliette, and while we got to see a lot more about how she came to be on the island, we also got to see how she's spent some of her three years there.

• Is Locke really in with The Others, or does he have a plan? What happened to his father?
• Sayid, Kate, Jack, and Juliette head out to the beach camp. Jack makes a grand gesture/power play that Juliette can come because she is "under his protection."
• Sawyer and Sayid remain skeptical of Juliette and follow her into the jungle to confront her. She quickly turns the tables on them, reminding them they had no moral authority given each of their murderous backgrounds.
• Juliette explains to Jack that she was brought to the island to solve their fertility problems. Claire takes sick and Juliette wins over the crowd by saving her life. It appears that she knows the solution since she admits to performing experiments on Claire in her fertility experiments.
• Remember Sun is pregnant.
• Remember that Kate and Sawyer got it on.

FINAL SCENE: We see Ben and Juliette setting up her whole capture, planning her acceptance into the survivor camp, setting off an implant in Claire to make her appear sick and give Juliette that opportunity to fit in. Juliette is on a mission for Ben and he says he'll see her in a week.

• Does Jack really trust Juliette or is he working her?
• Is Juliette good or evil? I still don't know and it's pissing me off!
• Is Ben holding something over her to coerce her to cooperate with him, or is she doing so willingly?
• Has Juliette fallen for Jack? Will she betray him, or Ben?

For newbies like Mary, here is a good character recap to get you up to speed a bit.
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