23 Questions About Lost Episode 610, "The Package," Answered!

If a strange being who seems to be inhabiting the body of a friend you know to be dead says he'll reunite you with your estranged husband if you just come with him, do you trust him?

No, you run like hell. Until you conk your head on a tree and are knocked unconscious.

When Smokey is chasing Sun through the jungle, why does he bother running after her when he could just turn to a pillar of smoke and easily capture her?

Because he'd try to interfere with her free will to run away. The only time he kind of disregards the whole "free will" thing is when he's mercilessly slaughtering hippies who don't want him to leave the island.

Where have we previously seen this strange room where Zoe is holding a captured Jin, with all the bullhorns and crazy images on the wall?

The Dharma Initiative's Psychedelic Chamber Of Brainwashing Insanity (or Room 23 for short) was where Ben stashed Alex's boyfriend Karl to prevent him from zooming his daughter. The fathers on this show seem quite preoccupied with maintaining their little princesses' virtue.

Why does Smokey need a boat to get to Hydra Island? Can't he just turn to smoke and fly his ass over the water?

If he could do that, do you think he'd still be on this island? Of course not, because that would be ridiculous.

So Smokey can't smoke himself off the island, but he can paddle himself off the island in an outrigger canoe?

Well, just as far as Hydra. Probably. Look, being a smoke monster that assumes the shape of dead people comes with a lot of rules, OK? You just have to figure it out as you go along. It's not like the job comes with a manual to explain all this stuff. And that Jacob guy is no help at all.

Why can no one believe that Ben was just minding his own business, innocently gathering some mangoes for all his friends, when he stumbled upon an unconscious Sun in the jungle, who, by the way, now can only speak in Korean?

No one will cut that dude any slack. Isn't it clear his murdering/lying/manipulating days are behind him? He was getting mangoes for everybody! What else does he need to do to show everyone he's a changed man? Kill another god?

Should anyone trust the inscrutable billionaire with his own sub who knows enough about Smokey to set up a Sonic Smokey Fence on Hydra Island?

Who are you going to trust, the massacre-happy smoke monster, or the guy who generously shows Jin some super-adorable pictures of the daughter he's never met?

What's "The Package"?

It's not a what. It's a who. And we think we all knew he/it was going to be Desmond. Which he/it was. Sometimes Lost delivers exactly what you expect. (And sometimes you spend a season time-traveling and turning frozen donkey wheels.)

Wouldn't "The Package" be an amazing Jersey Shore nickname?

D-Money would smoosh so many poof-having guidettes in that hot tub.

Shouldn't "Patchy" Mikhail (now Keamy's goon translator in the flash-sideways) have lost an eye by now?

Wait for it...Oh, Jin just shot him in the face. There, balance has been restored.

Is it a good idea to have a gunfight in an small, enclosed space, like a restaurant kitchen, with a pregnant lady nearby?

This always proves a terrible idea. She's inevitably going to wind up with a bullet in the belly.

Sawyer sure says "son of a bitch" a lot, doesn't he?

He sure does.

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