Let the live-blog begin.

Did I tell you how happy I am that this is (apparently) a Kate episode? I didn't? Wha?

****** WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW THE FOLD ******

Previouslies: Sawyer and Juliet kiss back in their Otherton days. Juliet dies (right after kissing Sawyer in their less clean and unbloody blown-up hatch days). Sayid dies. No wait . . .

Barefoot Hippie Translator to Kung Fu Temple Master walks along temple tunnels. Kung fu Master is using a typewriter. "He's alive" says HT. Ominous crescendo.

Sayid is awake and talking. His voice sounds different for some reason. Kate: "How is that even possible." Meaning the fact that Sayid is alive.

Sawyer: "He's an Iraqi torturer. He shoots kids. He definitely deserves another round." Bitterness. Hey, Sayid didn't do anything to kill Juliet. That was Jack, remember?

Sawyer's thinking about running.

Flash-sideways: Kate runs to Claire's cab and pulls her gun on the cabbie. And on Claire too. The cab almost runs over Artz. I love Artz, and it's nice to see him back in one piece, though his luggage has seen it's better days. Claire tries to escape but Kate's pretty serious with that gun. Jack and Kate exchange a . . . look from a distance. Do they recognize each other? "At the light take a left," she commands. The cabbie, instead, opens his door and bolts, and Kate jumps into the front seat.

"Give me your purse!" Kate then shoos Claire (who appears to be pregnant) out of the cab.

Flash-sideways: Back to the temple. Sayid is helped outside. I guess his voice is the same, but deeper and that's explainable because he was just drowned, killed, and re-animated. Hurley explains what's going on, to I didn't catch who.

"As you can see, Hugo here has assumed a leadership position." - Heh, Miles.

Jack examines Sayid's wound. It has closed! "Thankyou Jack." "For what?" "For saving my life." But he didn't.

No time to explain, because Kung Fu Temple Master comes out and demands to talk to Sayid, alone (through his Hippie Translator, who I don't like).

Jack raises a fuss and gets beat up. Sawyer, who has had it, pulls a pistol on all of them. He's walking out.

Kung Fu Master says, in English, politely, "Please, you have to stay."

"No I don't. Don't come after me." He means you, Kate.

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The Temple Others drag Sayid off, as Jack struggles against his captors. "Where did Ford go?" asks Hippie Translator. So, of course, these Others know everything about our Losties.

Kate offers to "track" Sawyer. Jin offers to go with.

"What makes you think he'll want to listen to you?" asks HT. "I can be very convincing when I want to be," retorts Kate. Can you be less irritating when you want to be? How about when I want you to be? Kate?

Flash-sideways: Kate's at a machine shop and pulls her pistol on a big beefy mechanic. He points out that a tire bar (I think that's what she asked for) won't get her handcuffs off. He's very cool for someone who has a gun pulled on him. They banter over him using a "punch-press" to get her out of her handcuffs. She won't be able to hold a gun while he does that, so her main negotiating lever is useless. She offers him $200, and he agrees.

"So why the bracelets?"

"I'm wanted for murder."

Again, he's a cool customer. He laughs, rather than cowering the way I would have. Kate goes to change in the bathroom. Attention, Beefy mechanic. This is when you call 911, right? But he doesn't. Kate pulls out of Claire's purse a Polaroid of a very pregnant Claire, and a Shamu doll. The Shamu doll is fraught with meaning for Kate, and the music gets very heavy, and she gets kind of emotional.

Flash-sideways: Kate and Jin pack for their tracking trip. Jack is staying so he can take care of Sayid. Kate says goodbye and they share a moment. They are taking two Temple Others with them.

Kung Fu master has Sayid strapped down (to be tortured?), and is blowing dust all over him. I have no idea why. KFM attaches electrodes to Sayid . . . this is very Jack Bauer of him and that can't be good. KFM starts spinning a hand-crank, and flips a switch.

Man, he is torturing him! Sayid's being electrocuted. They finally turn off the machine as Sayid screams.

"Why, why are you doing this?!"

Oh no, not the hot poker!

Man!!!

I despise these guys.

Hippy Translator: "We're sorry we had to put you through that. It was a test, we had to be sure."

"To be sure of what?"

"Don't worry, you passed."

They drag Sayid out.

Hippy translator remarks to Kung Fu Master: "I just lied to him, didn't I"

KFM (in English): "Yes"

You two mooks are both dead to me, you know that?

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Back to alterna-world LA. Kate has gotten back to Claire, and gives her her luggage. Claire, shouldn't you have been calling the police, and by now shouldn't you be giving a statement to a cop? Something? But no. By the way, Claire's being awfully snarky and snitty toward the lady with the gun, in my opinion.

Claire tells Kate that she's heading to Brentwood because a couple there is adopting her baybay. So Kate offers her a ride.

Seriously, would you accept? Claire does.

Flash sideways: Kate and Jin, with their two Temple Other chaperones: Jin asks about Ajira 316, but bad-cop Temple Other won't tell him anything, while the other more reasonable Good Cop Other keeps saying things that feed them small snippets of information, only to be shushed by Bad Cop.

"You don't even remember me, do you?" Bad Cop asks Kate. "Three years ago, you staged a little prison break, and you did it by knocking a guard out with the butt of your rifle. That would be me." No wonder he's in such a bad mood. She isn't sorry, and decks him, while unleashing a Rousseau trap that they were standing under which takes out the nicer guy. What a woman! Razzle-Dazzle!

Back to the temple. Sayid tells them how he was tortured. Jack's having none of this and is about to go open up a can on the temple master. He barges in and demands to know why they tortured Sayid.

"We didn't do anything him. Your friend is sick." So says Hippie Translator.

Kung Fu Temple Master actually chuckles at Jack, and gives Jack a pill to give to Sayid. "Why don't you give it to him?" Jack asks.

"Because it won't work unless he takes it willingly." Everything is a mind-game in this show.

Also, they weren't "torturing" him, they were "diagnosing" him.

KFM asks Jack how his friend got hurt. It's a rhetorical question. Turns out, according to KFM, it was Jack's fault. He brings up all the others (as in "other people", not "Others") who have died or been hurt helping Jack (and it's quite a long list, isn't it?). "This is your chance to redeem yourself." Jack, do not do this. These guys are liars.

"What happens if I don't give it to him."

"The infection will spread."

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Miles is questioning Sayid about what he saw when he was dead. "White light? Angels? Dead relatives?" All Sayid remembers is being shot.

"Dude, you're not a zombie are you?" Hurley, how I've missed you.

Jack walks up to talk to Sayid. "We'll be in the food court if you need us." I've missed Miles too.

Jack explains that it wasn't really torture, according to the Temple Others. Jack's not buying it either. It was just a "diagnosis". Sayid ties this back to the "test" that he "passed". Jack offers the pill to Sayid.

"You know, before when you thanked me for saving your life. I didn't have anything to do with you. I didn't fix you. They did," Jack admits.

"I don't care who fixed me. I only care about who I trust. So if you want me to take that pill, Jack, I'll do it." I'm so glad Sayid isn't dead. At least as far as I can tell.

Jin and Kate walk through the jungle. Jin is asking where the plane landed. Kate is not interested in talking about all this. Jin asks her what she cares about.

"Once you catch up with Sawyer, then what?"

"I guess we'll (meaning her and Sawyer will) figure that out together." Man, Juliet's body isn't even cold yet, Kate!

Flash-sideways: Kate and Claire drive to Brentwood (I think). They pull up to a smallish (for Brentwood?) sized house.

Claire asks Kate, the pistol-packing, hijacking, possibly murdering absolute stranger to come in with her. OK.

The poor lady who answers the door starts crying. Her husband has left her. "Believe me, I wanted the baby so much, but I can't do it alone. I'm sorry, I know I should have called you."

"She came all the way from Australia and you don't call?" Asks Kate, the moral exemplar.

Claire picks this moment to go into unhinged, panicky labor.

Flash-sideways: Kate sneaks around in New Otherton, alone, because Jin has wisely abandoned her. She hears a noise in one of the bungalows, and sneaks in. Sawyer is moving a dresser, and prying up a floorboard. This is his old house. He hasn't noticed Kate yet.

Kate Peeping Tom's as Sawyer opens a shoebox and pulls out . . . something. He starts to cry but hears Kate creak a floorboard so he pulls his pistol and charges into the hall. Kate is there but he doesn't shoot her. He just stomps off.

Kate, he's just not that into you anymore.

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Kate squeals to a stop in front of a hospital (still in her stolen cab). A nurse puts Claire in a wheelchair. Meanwhile, Kate, who is way too invested in Claire for barely knowing her (and having recently hijacked her cab and kidnapped her), goes into the hospital and finds a doctor to help. It is ETHAN GOODSPEED!

Ethan has awesome bedside manner. He tells her she's going to have her baby tonight if she wants. Otherwise it means drugs. Lots of drugs. He doesn't want to have to "stick her with lots of needles". OK, maybe his bedside manner is kinda creepy.

Suddenly, the baby monitor goes flat-lined. So Claire starts freaking out. "What's happening with my BAYBAY! Is Aaron OK!?"

Kate, who is, after all, a fugitive, is hanging around right at bedside during this medical emergency and isn't being shooed off the way Claire's husband if she had one would have been. Kate has a moment of recognition at the name "Aaron". By the way, Aaron is fine. He was just out of position, and the monitor goes back to normal as they look at Aaron on ultrasound.

Flash-sideways: Sawyer on a dock. Kate sits next to him and tells him she needs to find Claire. She wants Sawyer to help her find Claire. He seems a little preoccupied.

"I'm sorry, I never should have followed you," she admits.

"Which time?" Touche'

"That was your house, right, with Juliet?" Rub it in Kate.

"I'm sorry. For Juliet. If I hadn't come after you on the sub you two would have left and she would have never died."

"It's not your fault she's dead. It's mine." Sawyer remembers how he convinced her to stay, way back in 1974. "I made her stay on this island, because I didn't want to be alone." Sawyer (well, I mean, the actor who plays him whose name I forget) is acting the heck out of this scene . . . awesome. "Some of us weren't meant to be alone. I was going to ask ehr to marry me." He pulls out a ring, and throws it into the water.

"You can make it back to the temple by nightfall."

Kate starts crying.

Back to the temple, Kung Fu Master (I really need a name for this guy) spins a baseball in his office.

"What's that?" asks Jack.

It's a baseball, Jack

"It's a baseball."

"You speak pretty good English for someone who needs a translator."

KFM explains that he has to remain separate from the people he's in charge of, and that makes it easier when he makes decisions they don't like. That's why he speaks not-English.

His name is Dogan. I finally have a name. He was "brought here." Jack asks him what he means by that and he responds with a very familiar (to Lost fans) "you know what it means."

"You didn't give your friend the pill, did you?"

Jack wants to know what's in it. He gets the old "There's no time" and "You'll just have to trust me" from Dogan and those are some very nice (and perhaps on purpose) Bauerisms.

Jack doesn't trust the guy. He doesn't even trust himself. So he pops the pill with those crazy eyes of his flashing and Dogan springs into action and Heimlichs it back out of him.

"Now, tell me, what's in it!!!" Jack demands.

"Poison."

What the heck is it these guys are after? Do they want to kill Sayid? He was already dead!

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Claire is in a LDR (Labor-Delivery Room) admiring an ultrasound still-shot of her baybay. A detective steps in to ask about "Joan Hart" (Kate). Kate is hiding in a back room while Claire plays dumb. The detective leaves.

"What did you do?" Claire asks.

"Would you believe me if I said I was innocent?" (And also, maybe monkeys will fly out of my . . . )

"Yeah, yeah I would." Yes, you would, Claire.

Claire offers Kate her credit card. This bond between them is a bit too strong for only having known each other for an hour, and I think this is on purpose.

"Aaron is a great name," remarks Kate.

"I don't know why I said it. It's like I knew him or something."

"I think you should keep him."

You can tell that they are both trying to figure out how they know each other. So am I.

Flash-sideways: Kate fills a canteen in Otherville and Sawyer walks right past her and back into his former bungalow.

Hope he doesn't off himself.

In the temple: Hippy Translator asks Dogan about Jack swallowing the pill. Dogan gives Jack some tea. By the way, Jack did swallow it, or at least try to, but he spit it up when Dogan kneed him in the abdomen.

"Why did you torture Sayid?"

Right here there's this hilarious Dun dun DUUUUUN music thing going as Dogan looks inscrutable and evil.

"We believe he has been [oriental something said here]," explains Dogan.

"closest translation is "claimed" offers Hippie Translator.

"There's a darkness growing in him, and once it reaches his heart, he will be gone." That darkness is Jacob, says my inner speculator.

"How can you be sure?"

"Because it happened to your sister."

Back in the jungle, the two Temple Others jump Jin, who was just minding his own business. While they are arguing whether to kill him or not, he runs off and steps on a bear trap. Really.

Evil Temple Other smiles evilly and lifts his gun to shoot Jin, but he gets blown away by a disheveled, disoriented Claire. Who may also have blown away the less-evil Other, I didn't notice.

Jin recognizes her. "Claire?"

Boom!

Next week, Locke talks to Sawyer in Sawyer's bungalow.

"I thought you were dead."

"I am"

Oookay . . .

I'm still holding to my theory that the smoke-monster Locke is the good one, and that the white-robed Jacob is the bad one. Guess we'll see.