- Dharma Orientation film host Pierre Chang is revealed to have a wife and a child.
- The Dharma station The Arrow's true purpose is revealed.
- Daniel Faraday was a part of, or at least posed as being a part of, the Dharma Initiative.
- The Island is revealed to traveling in time, both skipping forward into the future and traveling backward into the past. Daniel Faraday likens this phenomenon to a record skipping on a turntable.
- Richard Alpert comes to John Locke, who is all alone, separated from the group, and tells John that he has to get everyone who left back to the Island in order to stop the erratic time leaps that the Island is undergoing.
- Sawyer cannot talk to Desmond in the good ol' then unimploded Swan hatch of the past, but Daniel can. He tells a very confused Desmond that he must find Daniel's mother at Oxford University. Desmond realizes this memory back in the present in a sort of vision and expresses its relevancy and urgency to Penny.
- Two men are waiting at "the safehouse" that Sayid takes Hurley to. Sayid kills them -- though it appears that Hurley is the killer and is consequently wanted by the authorities -- but is rendered practically dead by a dart which he was shot with in the heat of the action.
- Charles Widmore confronts Sun, inquiring as to their "common interests," which Sun reveals to be Ben. Sun assumes both Widmore and she want Ben dead.
- Kate is visited by two lawyers who have a court order to take a blood sample of both Kate and Aaron, in order to determine Kate's relationship to the child. We learn that the lawyers' client wishes to remain anonymous.
- Jack and Ben leave with coffin-dwelling Locke and find out about Hurley's escape from the mental institution, a complication in getting the Oceanic 6 all back together in order to return to the Island.
Story/Narrative - The storytelling style has changed, not dramatically in my opinion, but there definitely has been a change. Jumping forward and backward in time is an inevitability, considering the direction the plot has taken. The episode content is obviously very pertinent to the show, and it should be, considering it is the Season 5 premiere. The episode was incredibly engaging; the viewer had to be engaged in order to follow all the time shifts. You really have to pay attention to follow the story of Lost now, as if you didn't really have to before... 5
Lost Theory/Mythology - Much light is shed on the time travel aspect of the show and is explained by Daniel Faraday. He describes time travel as a road. You can travel backward and forward to different points on the road but cannot change the course of the road (aka, in the Lost universe, the future cannot be changed by traveling back into the past and altering the course of history). Beyond that, the reason why Locke needs to bring back the Oceanic 6 is revealed: He must stop the erratic time jumps of The Island. We are still not technically sure why killing himself is necessary, however...or how he'll manage to go visit people off the Island. Also, the compass presented in the Dalai Lama test that Richard Alpert gave to Locke when he was just a boy shows up again. Richard gives the compass to Locke, saying he will need it and that "it points North." Also, on a side note, I believe it is somewhat noteworthy to point out that The Arrow's true purpose is revealed: It was a Dharma station used to do research on the Hostiles and basically to keep tabs on them. All in all, for a premiere, I'd say a good deal of information was revealed regarding Lost mythology and questions viewers might have had in the aftermath of the Season 4 finale. 4
BAMF moments - Sayid kicks ass. He forcibly trips a man onto what essentially functions as a punji pit of dishwashed kitchen knives. He throws a man from a (two or three story?) balcony. Beyond that, he engages in some ridiculous, Bourne-esque hand-to-hand combat. 5
Overall Score - (5 + 4 + 5)/(3) = 4.67
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