As for Daniel, you are right that she asks him which cards he ‘remembers’. But remembers from what?

You are probably right about him telling Miles he is responsible for the island’s well being. I think I got my people mixed up.

Now, anyone want to take odds on when they work a T-Mobile product placement into the flash-forwards… Who’s in your Five Jack?

Locke must have read that book, because he’s a total (insert author’s last name here) now. I always felt like he was going to go bad and it is definitely on now. Now, again… I must not be hearing right, because I thought he told Miles he was responsible for the island’s well-being during his rant after jamming the grenade in his piehole. He definitely doesn’t seem to give a crap about the people, just that he can continue to walk and we know he knows almost nothing about the island since he doesn’t know what smokey is… as evidenced by him demanding Ben telling him. That said, you may be right, maybe Ben is working him over, but maybe not necessarily to take his place, temporary or otherwise. After all, Ben has been off island before.

As for the book choice, that’s just way too heavy for me to think about. I try not to delve so deep with this stuff.

So, I got the foreshadowing with Kate, but I thought it was because she was gonna be a natural Momma, not an adoptive one. I thought it was going to be Sawyer’s seed, but now, I think Sawyer is no longer one of the Six. When Kate met Jack last season, she now clearly wanted to get home to Aaron, not Sawyer. As for why she has Aaron and whether he is one of the Six, I don’t know, but I’m willing to believe Claire died to save her son and that, yes, maybe it was because of a Jack decision. He’s clearly having trouble seeing Aaron, so… I’m on-board. That also means that Jack had a hand in, potentially, his half-sister’s death. Wonder if he finds that out after a trip to Jacob’s cabin. Another possibility is that they simply had to take Aaron with them and Claire wasn’t there at the time, i.e. the theory that the Six left not entirely under their free-will.

Anyway, I thought, again, before I knew he was Aaron, that he was the spawn of Sawyer and that was why Jack had no interest in visiting. Also, I guess Kate could have said “your nephew” instead of “my son” if they knew that, but then, that would ruin the coming reveal, right?

As for Miles, I think he needs exactly 3.2 million for something, or he knows that’s exactly what Ben’s got. I didn’t understand why Kate wanted to know what Miles knew about her so much anyway. Certainly risking the wrath of Locke wasn’t worth that info, which you’d think she’d realize would be in the public domain at that point.

Lastly, I think due to the time anomalies around the island, the helo left and is caught in some kind of time pocket (or time storm maybe?). From the previews, and this is cheating I suppose, it looked like Lapidus was doing his best to keep the bearing (they show the instrument) and it looks like Desmond was going to try and take control. Maybe Desmond caused the time storm? Then we also see Sayid on the deck of a ship, so they obviously make it, you just wonder if the helo was still with them. Well, at least he made it. Those would be a wrinkles.

That’s the best I’ve got.

As for the baby, I agree that something bad must happen to Claire and Jack takes fault in it somehow. I think that they can explain the baby being Kates because maybe they are on that island a lot longer than 100 days….maybe years?

As for the age, I had him pegged about 2-3 years old which would make sense from a trial stand point. After they are rescued, I’m sure Kate is given some time to get collected while the justice system rebuilds their case against someone they assumed was dead. Knowing how these ‘celebrity’ trials stretch on forever due to delays, I’d say it would take about 2 years post-rescue for her to take the stand.