When Juliet finds out from Amy that she plans to name her baby "Ethan," her reaction is priceless. Ethan, the "other" who terrorized the Losties in season one by kidnapping Claire and Charlie, has been seen on the show more often after his death than before and looks like he may be more important to the overall LOST story than it originally seemed. This also explains why Ethan considered it "an honor" to meet Juliet in season three, since she was the woman who delivered him as a baby. There is just one problem that I have with this whole thing: if Ethan was born in 1977, then he would be 27 when we see him in season one, taking place in 2004. William Mapother, the guy who plays Ethan (who also happens to be Tom Cruise's cousin) is 44 years old!
Does this dude look like he is 27?
But I guess this could all be explained by Juliet's remark to Jack in season four: "It's very stressful being an Other, Jack." Haha, the stress of being an "other" must have aged Ethan rapidly!
It was great to see Jack, Kate, and Hurley become a part of the Dharma Initiative in this episode. Recruitment day seems like such a happy time for the Dharma Initiative, which is odd for this show. Everything is usually doom and gloom, mystery and suspense, so it was good to see something good happening on the island.
The best part of the Dharma Recruitment Day was the scene between Jack and Pierre Chang. Jack is given a Dharma jumpsuit with the title "Work Man" stitched onto the chest.
JACK: "Work man." What does--what does that mean?
DR. CHANG: Based on your aptitude test, you'll be doing janitorial work.
Jack, a successful spinal surgeon, just chuckles at his janitorial assignment. I'm sure that Sawyer had a hand in the selection of Jack's title!
A big reveal in this episode was Radzinsky. We first heard about Radzinsky back in season two from Kelvin Inman's explanation to Desmond. Radzinsky was Inman's partner in the Swan station. Kelvin explained to Desmond that, while he was asleep, Radzinsky committed suicide by putting a shotgun in his mouth and firing it, causing a blood stain on the ceiling.
We see Radzinsky for the first time in this episode, working in the Flame station, building a model of the Swan station.
The biggest thing that happened it this episode was the capture of Sayid. Jin and Radzinsky discover Sayid wandering in the jungle. Because Radzinsky is with him, Jin is forced pretend that he does not know Sayid as they bring him in as a "hostile."
In a strange reversal of situations, Sayid is locked up and visited at the end of the episode by ... BIG REVEAL! ... a young Ben! Ironically, in season two, older Ben was locked up and subsequently visited by (and tortured by) Sayid.
After this reveal, the episode ends. So what does this mean for Sayid? Will he try to do something in the past to Ben? In the promo for the next episode, Sayid says "I now know why I am here," and he is seen firing a gun. Does this mean that he is going to shoot younger Ben? Will Sayid really shoot a child? Considering what Ben does to Sayid later in his life, I wouldn't doubt it. We'll find out next week.
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