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An eyeball. Yay!

It's Jack's. Juliet is trying to get him to wake up.

Outside the tent, Bernard is giving the Boaties the third degree.

"Jack, these people are lying to us!". No kidding.

Jack has a plan.

Hey, it's Rose! Nice to see her again.

Jack is going to get everyone off the island. I feel for him; he wants to save them so bad.

He just collapsed. Not good.

Flash-forward, I assume. Jack is in bed, just wakened by a phone call for Dr. Shephard. I didn't catch what the caller said.

Jack in a towel, putzing around the kitchen; his early morning routine.

Jack checks the newspaper. The Yankees swept the Red Sox. When did that happen? Is that in the past? Darn me for not remembering my ALCSes. There's some girl in the shower.

It's Kate in the shower. They kiss.

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Jack is in a nursery, reading a story to Aaron. Kate is at the doorway, wearing Jack's shirt and not much else.

"Who in the world am I? That's the great puzzle," Jack reads. Aaron is asleep.

Side note: I usually like Jack shows. I despise Kate shows. So I'm not sure how I'm going to feel about this one.

Jack tells Kate that his old man used to read him that story. "He was a good storyteller".

They snuggle.

"I'm so glad you changed your mind. So glad that you're here," Kate says. More kissing, and some not ready for prime time exposure of Kate's behonkus.

Back to the beach. Jack is up again, and he looks terrible. He's claiming that he's fine.

Out in the jungle now, with Miles, Sawyer, Claire The Doomed One, and Aaron. Miles is sensing some ghosts or something.

"Who's Danielle and Karl?" Oh no, this is their burial site. Danielle and Karl are really dead, because Miles just dug up their shallow graves to prove it.

Sawyer: "Your buddies do this?"

"They're not my buddies, man, I didn't sign up for this."

Man! I was hoping Danielle would somehow survive.

Back to the beach, and Jack is telling Juliet that he thinks he has food poisoning.

By the way, what suspense is there here? We know he's going to live, right?

Juliet wants to examine him. She knows what's wrong. "It's your appendix, Jack."

She asks, "Has it ruptured?"

"Not yet"

"Well, I guess we're just going to have to take it out."

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Juliet is springing into action. She is sending Sun to the medical station to get surgical supplies. Daniel offers to go, but they don't trust him. Charlotte is in deep snark and Daniel scolds her for her bad attitude: "That's why they don't trust us"

Juliet agrees to let Daniel go to the station, to help identify the medical supplies. But she tosses a gun to Jin and tells him to shoot Daniel in the leg if he tries to run.

Back in the jungle. Sawyer's about to go medieval on Miles if he doesn't quit looking at Claire, The Doomed One. You can tell Sawyer's about had it with . . . well, with everything. Sawyer is swiftly becoming, in my opinion, the only sane person on the island.

Miles gets the message.

Back to the beach, Bernard and Rose are talking. Rose is wondering how Jack is getting sick. She makes the point that people don't get sick here. "Here, they get better."

In the tent, Jack is being prepped by Juliet. She's shaving his stomach while Jack lets it be known that he doesn't trust Juliet to do the surgery. He doesn't even trust her to shave his stomach properly, evidently. He wants to talk her through the surgery on a local anesthesia. Juliet seems a little offended by this, and I don't blame her.

Jack is getting snippy. He's insisting on controlling things, and is insisting that Kate should hold the mirror during the surgery so he can see what's going on. Way to make the person who's about to operate on you jealous, Jack.

Flash-forward: Jack is talking to a patient, when he sees his dead father walk by. Jack is called away; something to do with a friend of his who's experiencing problems. Hurley, I assume. The therapist says therapy is useless, "because he doesn't think I exist."

Jack in Hurley's room. Hurley looks positively other-worldy. Jack: "Why aren't you taking your meds?"

"Because we're dead. All the Oceanic Six. We're all dead. We never got off that island."

Hurley's kinda freaking me out. Hurley thinks that because Jack's life is perfect now, this must be heaven.

Hurley's talking all dream-like. He is talking about his conversations with Charley. Charley, by the way, has a message for Jack.

"You're not supposed to raise him, Jack." That's the message.

Jack's pretty shaken up. "Take your meds, Hurley."

"Charley said someone's going to be visiting you too. Soon."

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At the medical station with Sun, Jin, Charlotte, and Daniel.

Daniel offers to go inside first, and I'm seeing the first little sparks of proto-love between the two boaties. Sun and Jin exchange glances and talk about it in Korean.

This is the room where Juliet gave Sun a sonogram.

"They aren't going to help us, Jin," Sun says in Korean, while Daniel and Charlotte act suspicious.

Back in the jungle. Miles tries to help Claire, The Doomed One, and Sawyer reminds him of the "restraining order" that he's under.

Frank runs out of the jungle and stumbles upon them. He tells them to hide, because Keamy's coming. And here Keamy is, with a bunch of his cammo-clad henchmen.

Keamy hears a whimper from Aaron, and starts to investigate until Frank's urgings for speed get him to move. Sawyer wouldn't have let Keamy get anywhere near Aaron before blowing him away. And I've got to hand it to Frank; he seems like a decent sort who really does want to help the Losties.

Back to the beach, Juliet is preparing a pale-faced Kate for mirror-holding duty.

Flash-forward. Jack is parked outside of the mental hospital. He looks nervous. He drives off.

At home, he wakes Kate up. As a side note, the producers are really trying to sell Kate's character with cleavage, aren't they?

Jack asks Kate, "Do you really think that I'm good at this?" "This" meaning "being a dad".

"Yeah, you're good at this."

Jack pops the question. "Will you marry me?" He pulls out a diamond ring. Kate starts crying and smiling.

"Yes! Of course I will. Yes."

They hug. I really want Jack to be happy, but we all know he's not going to be. Of course, I'm assuming this flash-forward is in the past of the flash-forward at the end of last season. Who knows?

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Juliet, looking intense in the torchlight. The Jins and the Boaties are back. They pass on the equipment to Juliet, who starts preparing for the surgery.

Meanwhile, Jin, who completely goes hard, is letting Charlotte know that he knows she understands Korean. She tries to pretend that she doesn't, but Jin is going to break all of Daniel's fingers if she doesn't admit to it.

She must care for Daniel. She asks Jin what he wants, in Korean. All Jin wants is for Sun to be put on the helicopter and taken off the island. Jin is awesome.

In the surgical tent, Bernard is applying the local anesthesia. He's letting Jack know that the surgery is going to hurt.

Juliet starts the incision. Jack can feel it. Kate holds the mirror, while Jack grunts in pain.

Juliet is insisting on knocking Jack out, as he gets more and more out of control. "KNOCK HIM OUT, BERNARD!" Bernard applies the chloroform

Flash forward. Jack is examining X-rays when he hears something. I bet it's his dad.

It's a beeping noise. Turns out that a smoke alarm is beeping. So he gets on a chair and removes the battery.

And there's his dad, Christian Shephard. Jack starts to walk over to his dad when the female doctor from earlier today, Erika, calls out to him. Dad disappears, and Jack is asking Erika to write him a prescription for sleeping pills, which she does. He says he needs them "for stress". He just got engaged to Kate, after all.

Back at home. Kate is talking on the phone to someone. She's wearing hot-pants.

"Who was that?" Jack asks her, in his most suspicious tone.

"Noreen"

Jack has never heard Kate mention that friend before. Kate goes upstairs, and Jack, who is really starting to look terrible, quaffs down the sleeping pills with a beer. Is that a good idea?

Back to the jungle. Miles and Sawyer are sleeping, when Claire, The Doomed One, wakes up to find Christian, her dad, holding Aaron.

"Dad?"

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Kate, on the beach, looking worried.

"Don't worry, it went well," says Bernard. He tells her she can go back inside if she wants to.

Juliet is stitching Jack up. "He didn't lose that much blood. I got the appendix out and put everything back where it belongs, I think."

Juliet's cool. "I'm sorry I yelled at you," she adds.

More conversation from Juliet as she stitches: "You know, he kissed me. The other day when we came back from the other side of the island. It was nice. But it wasn't for me, it was for him. I'm pretty sure he was trying to prove something."

"Prove what."

"Tnat he doesn't love someone else."

Kate gets the message.

"Thank you Juliet," says Kate, smiling. "Thank you for saving his life." Although I don't think that's all that Kate was thanking Juliet for.

Juliet's cool.

"I know you're awake, Jack." Bam!

Flash-forward. Jack keeps appearing unexpectedly and scaring Kate. I'll bet she's having an affair. Jack's drinking, a lot. He's acting very suspicious.

He tells Kate about his visit with Hurley.

"Where were you today." He keeps asking her these probing questions.

"I'm going to ask you to trust me. Trust me, and just leave it be."

Jack's not buying it. "Where were you. When I heard you on the phone last night, who were you talking to."

"Just let it go."

Jack's about to come unglued.

Kate: "I was doing something for him."

"For who?"

"For Sawyer. I made him a promise."

Jack can't believe this.

Kate: "It doesn't matter, it had nothing to do with us!"

And I can't believe that dumb Jack-Kate-Sawyer love triangle is still going on.

Jack: "He made his choice, he chose to stay. I'm the one who came back. I'm the one who's here. I'm the one who saved you."

Kate: "You can't do this. If you have problems, you need to figure them out, because I can't have you like this. I can't have you like this around my son!"

"Your son?! You're not even related to him!"

Aaron is standing in the doorway, and he heard that. Well done, Jack.

Back to Miles, Sawyer, Aaron and Claire, The Doomed One. Except neither Claire nor Aaron is there.

Sawyer asks, "where's Claire? Ladies room?"

"Nope, just walked off into the jungle." Miles is being all nonchalant. "In the middle of the night, just got up and left."

"Alone!?"

"She wasn't alone."

"Who was she with?"

"She called him 'Dad'. I would have followed them, but I have a restraining order." You're sick, Miles.

Before he beats the living tar out of Miles (or just cuts to the chase and shoots him), Sawyer hears Aaron crying. Unfortunate. Miles needs to be beaten.

Sawyer finds Aaron in a shady bower, alone. Claire (who I may upgrade from "doomed" to just "lost with dead Dr. Shephard") is nowhere to be found.

"Claire! Claire! CLAAAAAIRE!!!!"

End.

Previews. Next week looks pretty good. And it features some new, dead Dharma initiative friends for Locke.