Look Ahead to "Cost of Living" [rumors/spoilers]

A delirious Eko wrestles with demons from his past, while Locke and other castaways head to the Pearl, one of the Dharma Initiative's island stations, in search of a computer they can use to locate Jack, Kate and Sawyer.  Meanwhile, Jack doesn't know whom to trust when two of the Others seem at odds with each other.

OK, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this week the important part is going to lie with John and crew as they go back to the Pearl.

Now there's been rumors that someone is going to bite the dust this week.  I've not been able to ascertain who that might be.  Rumor has it its going to be "a regular."  Take that for what you will.  Might it be Eko?  If the "in trouble with the law" curse holds it may well be.  Personally I hope the writers aren't going to just "off" somebody, let alone a regular, without good reason.  You don't expend a bunch of screen time building up a character and then just say, "bye!"  The four we've lost (ha!) so far weren't built up that much, nor have they played particularly important parts in the story (Shannon being the only possible exception.)  Unless of course you're going to take a page from the Joss Whedon playbook and just do it anyway!

By now you've probably seen the previews.  The big question (for me anyway) is *who the h-ll is that on the monitor with the eyepatch?!!*  (I did see that right, didn't I?) And where is he?  I'm guessing they catch a glimpse of him on the monitors in the Pearl.  If anyone cares to speculate I'm all ears, I've got nothing on this one.  Maybe somebody in another station? Maybe a DHARMA operative checking out whats left of the Swan?

So anyway, the purpose of the Pearl was to watch the "subjects" in the Swan hatch (and possibly other stations?), make notes and stuff them into little tubes to be taken away for review.  Of course we learned that they just ended up in a big pile at the other end of the tube.  In the Pearl there was also a printer, recording the times that the button was pushed (and of course when it wasn't.)  Meaning that there must be a machine feeding that printer.  We can assume this is what Locke is going after.

We can also surmise that the flashback must involve Eko, maybe to do with his brother, killed in the conveniently coincidental plane crash that covered the Pearl in the first place.  Of course there is more time in between his brother leaving on that runway, him becoming a priest, and his arrival on the island we have not seen.

It would appear that this might be sort of a "cliffhanger" setting up next week's mid-season ender, as the description reads more into Locke's new mission.

And the bit about Jack?  I'm guessing that's got something to do with the tension between Ben and Juliet.  Exactly what is anyone's guess.

So yeah this week's speculation is pretty vague, and that's kind of a good thing.  It means we really don't know what to expect.  That's most of the fun here, right?!

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