Through a series of back-and-forth flashbacks, we learn what happened to Sawyer, Juliette, Miles, Jin and Daniel once Locke left the island: A period of three years.
The group has transported back to 1974, and it's stuck there. Time has quit shifting. The headaches and nosebleeds have stopped. As Daniel says "The record has stopped skipping, but the needle's on the wrong song."
Making their way back to the beach, to regroup and plan what to do next, the group comes across two Others/Hostiles who have killed one Dharma settler and are threatening to kill his wife. Sawyer and Juliette intervene, saving the woman, Amy, and killing the Others. At first, she thinks they are also Hostiles, but Sawyer creates a cover story about having survived a shipwreck.
Over the episode, we see that somehow, Sawyer's group has become accepted by and becomes part of the Dharma settlement. How this all happens isn't clear yet, but there are our people: Sawyer, Jin, Jullette and the rest all wearing Dharma clothes, doing Dharma things. Sawyer is Dharma head of security and is known under the name Jim LaFleur (it's Cajun, he says).
And Juliette is working as a mechanic. However, she takes time off the job to deliver Amy's baby (Amy has since remarried--to long-haired, seemingly genial, Dharma leader Horace Goodspeed). The baby and mother both come through ok. It's a boy. Whatever problems with births that occurred later on the island isn't happening yet.
In one flashback, we see Sawyer negotiating with Richard Alpert (who doesn't yet know Sawyer, having not met him yet) over the deaths of the two Others. The Others and Dharma have a truce, but it's been broken, Alpert says. And Dharma needs to make good somehow. This is done by handing over the body of Amy's husband to the Others and telling Alpert where the two dead Others were hastily buried. Alpert's interest in dead bodies isn't explained.
Alpert seems surprised, but not entirely freaked out, when Sawyer says they've met before and describes the visit Locked paid Alpert back in the 1950s.
Over time, we see that Sawyer and Juliette have developed a romantic relationship. But that may be in jeopardy because, at the episode's end, Jin has found Kate, Jack and Hurley--back on the island after three years in their own time stream.
Questions/observations/speculation:
* Why did Alpert want the body of Amy's husband? For Jacob or some other Other entity to inhabit as seems to be the case with Christian Shephard? It's creepy, whatever the case.
* Is Amy's baby anyone we know? Like, perhaps, Desmond? Ethan? Goodwin? Boone? Jacob? Let your imagination run wild!
* Is Horace the father of Amy's baby?
* Why does Dharma ultimately accept Sawyer and the rest into their settlement?
* Sawyer and the rest briefly spot the huge, four-toed statue but don't take a close look. What's it all about?
* Some viewers speculate the statue may the Egyptian god, Horus. The Dharma leader is named Horace as well, could be a clue.
* Also, Amy's husband Paul is wearing an ankh, an Egyptian symbol for life/eternal life, around his neck, which Amy removes before agreeing to hand the body over to Alpert.
* Alpert's heavy eyeliner look is sort of Egyptian. Is he a reincarnated pharoah or something?
* Potential Beatles reference: "Paul is dead." Or is he?
* What's the history of the truce between Dharma and the Others? In the last ep, Widmore told Locke that a war is coming. Are the Oceanic survivors going to be part of a re-do battle between the Others and Dharma, which ultimately led to Dharma being wiped out, thanks to Ben?
* Who's side will everyone be on? Will Locke side with the Others?
* Where are Sun and Frank?
* Daniel catches a glimpse of Charlotte as a young girl at the Dharma settlement. What is his connection to her?
Also see:
* Preview for the next episode: "Namaste."
* Read spoilers for "Namaste."
* What we STILL don't know.
Previous episodes:
* 5.1/5.2: "Because You Left" and "The Lie"
* 5.3: "Jughead"
* 5.4: "The Little Prince"
* 5.5: "This Place is Death"
* 5.6: "316"
* 5.7: "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"
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