Lost Tawk: Jughead

No, it's not a throwback to the Archie's but with this show...I wouldn't be surprised if Veronica and Archie showed up at some point.  As with the last, this season has not disappointed so far.  Tonight's episode opens with a new addition to Desmond & Penny's houseboat, and I don't mean a patio.  Little Charlie (hee!) is now offspring #3 of the Losties group that have left the island.  As we know.  For now.  It's cute how he's named after the late, great Charlie Pace (or so we think).  He did, after all, save Desmond and let him reunite with Penny.  However, Charles is also the name of Penny's infamous father.  Who, we assume, doesn't know that little Charlie exists.  Probably for the better.

Meanwhile, back on craphole island, the remaining Losties are running around, trying to make sense where they are in time and who the thugs are that keep harrassing them.  I thought that in the previous episode Locke had killed their captors but instead just overtook them.  Turns out they speak Latin as a form of Other code.  Coincidentally, Juliet speaks Latin too.  Just something she picked up while spending time as an Other in Otherton.  Guess it's like riding a bicycle. 

In another part of the island, Myles, Daniel and Charlotte were captured by more thugs (and a thugette).  Apparently there's a bomb on the island that's causing some concern and only Daniel knows how to disarm it.  Lucky for all.  However, he has to try to convince the new, old Others that he knows what he's doing and since the new old Others are highly skeptical, he needed to prove that his intentions were good because wouldn't want to bring harm to Charlotte, to whom he professed his undying love & devotion (BLETCH!).  So, with that thugette Ellie takes Daniel to the bomb tower of doom and introduces him to Jughead where Daniel notices that the bomb is leaking and they need to bury it so it doesn't go off and blow everyone to smithereens.  Or somesuch catastrophe.  Thugette Ellie doesn't buy it and does not back off.  And she looks familiar to Daniel.  Hmm... 

As Lock, Sawyer and Juliette march the thugs back to their hideout, Locke decides to pull rank and demands to speak to Richard.  This is when we find out Richard & Co. are living in 1953 (or was it '55?).  At any rate, as far as Richard is concerned, he's never met Locke so he's intrigued as to his talk of knowing him "in the future."  And by the way, the little punk-ass thug is none other than a young Widmore -- Charles Widmore!  Heee!!

Bent on finding Mrs. Faraday, Desmond goes to Oxford but does not find her.  That would've been too easy.  Instead, he gets put off by the registrar's office saying there's no such person or persons by the name of Faraday who worked there.  Unthwarted, he decided to go snooping through the halls and finds a locked room and goes inside.  Lo and behold, it's the classroom Daniel was doing his calculations in.  He then proceeds to get busted by the janitor who actually didn't seem to concerned about him snooping around.  This is where it gets foggy for me because I went downstairs to get some hot cocoa during a commercial and it came back on before I returned, but Desmond goes to a hospital and sees a woman lying in a bed.  From what the boards say, she too was suffering from the nosebleed of death, or something similar.  I didn't catch who she was but I'm sure I'll know soon enough.

Unsuccessful at finding Mrs. Faraday at Oxford, Desmond goes straight to the source -- Widmore himself.  I was afraid for him when he showed up in Widdy's office.  I thought Widdy was going to use his evil Darth Sidious force to strangle him upon appearing, but he was rather civil and told Des that he could find Mrs. Faraday in L.A.  Now, from his reputation, I wouldn't trust him to give me the correct time.  But, Desmond seemed convinced - grateful even - about the information and went on his merry little way. 

Back on the houseboat, Des decided to lie to Penny about finding Mrs. F.  Penny, however, has weird Spidey powers that sense when he's lying because she totally called him on it and he ended up confessing.  Crazy kids.  I wonder how long it's going to take them to sail to L.A.  I guess there's no hurry.  Oh wait...

And for the record, it's okay with me if Charlotte dies (even though they're only teasing me with the possibility).  I mean, she's the most useless character thus far.  Myles brings on the snark and can sense/see/talk to/feel/read dead people and even Juliet had something to do this episode.  Of course, Daniel is the brains of the whole time travel.  Charlotte is disposable.  She and her perma-bitchface and get off my screen now.

So, I think thugette Ellie is going to be future Mrs. Hawking.  We already know snot-nosed thug twerp is Widdy.  I think Widdy is also Daniel's father so he and Penny would be half (?) siblings.  We don't know who Penny's mother is so it could also theoretically be Mrs. Hawking.  I'm glad this show has an ending because at this rate, especially with all the kidlets and the time jumping, it could possibly go on forever!