Unfortunately, Maggie wasn't able to catch Lost last night, so no recap. Some thoughts: Locke was chosen from birth? Or before he was born? Is Claire dead? Did Christian kill her? Does Sayid rock the party or what? How cute are Ben and Hurley when they share candybars? And how, exactly, does one move an island?
Due to a combination of user error, user error, and Surprise! It's Thursday!, Lost did not record. I did not watch it, so I have no recap. I'm sorry, guys! Please have at it in the comments, and I'll have to catch up with you all later.
Lost was back tonight, did you all remember to watch? It was quite an episode!
Jack walked past Kate on the beach, making her go all googly. Jack smiled back but he was more interested in finding some medication since he hasn't been feeling so good, stomach bug. They were talking about what could be taking so long in terms of Sayid and Desmond on the boat, when Bernard starting yelling for help. They went to him at the shore, where he needed help bringing a body out of the ocean. It was the doctor from the freighter, and his throat was cut.
They dragged him ashore where he was identified by Daniel and Charlotte. Daniel managed to MacGyver some magic and send a message in morse code to the freighter, asking what happened to the doctor. The response was one of confusion: "What are you talking about, the doctor's fine." Apparently, on the freighter, the doctor hadn't been killed yet! Daniel got all sweaty and lied to everyone, but Bernard could understand morse code and told everyone the truth. Jack got angry at Daniel's lie, and Daniel admitted that they never had any intention of rescuing anyone.
In Locke's camp, our three stooges were busy babysitting little Aaron and innocently playing Risk in Ben's cottage while poor Alex, held hostage, was being forced to disarm the security around the compound. The phone at Ben's started ringing. Locke, totally stunned, went to answer it and was greeted by a recorded message repeating, "code 14J."
Locke and Sawyer went to the cottage where Ben was staying and asked him about the phone message. Ben became very serious. He grabbed a shotgun from the bench of the piano he was playing and gave a bunch of orders to hide out in the other house, announcing, "They're here." Sawyer announced he'd go round up Claire and the others, but Ben insisted there was no time, and not to worry about Alex, Carl and Rousseau since he'd already secretly sent them away. Sawyer went to find Claire anyway.
While he was gone, Ben, Locke and Hurley barricaded themselves inside Ben's house and discussed their need to go see Jacob. Locke couldn't remember how to get to Jacob's cabin, but Ben reminded him that Hurley knew the way.
Sawyer barely made it to Claire's house alive but he managed to get her out and brought her back to Ben's. Ben did not want to open the door to let them in. Hurley didn't care; there was too much stuff blocking the door, so Hurley broke a window. As soon as they got inside, the doorbell rang. THE DOORBELL RANG. Sawyer and Locked peeked out the window to see who it was, and then they frantically started clearing the blockade. It was Miles and he had a walkie-talkie. He told Ben to listen because they had Alex hostage. Ben decided to listen. The man on the line identified himself as Keamy, an employee of Charles Widmore's.
Ben refused to believe Keamy's promises and would not surrender himself, so Keamy brought out Alex and threatened to shoot her. Ben told him to go ahead, and he did. Alex was dead.This seemed to stun Ben, and he claimed that they'd "changed the rules." He came away from the window and entered a secret underground room of the house. When he came back, he outlined that, on his order, they'd all need to run for the treeline away from their oppressors. When they went outside, they saw that Ben had somehow called on the Black Smoke Monster to destroy Widmore's crew. Ben and Locke wanted to go to Jacob's cabin, but Sawyer had had enough. He decided to take Claire and Hurley back to the beach. Locke refused to allow Hurley to go with them; he and Sawyer were at a standoff, guns drawn. Hurley agreed to go with Locke and Ben, and said he'd join Sawyer on the beach later.
The flashforwards this week were Ben's and they showed how he ended up getting Sayid to help him in his quest to destroy Charles Widmore. By 2005, Sayid had found and married his lost love, Nadia, only for her to be killed and he returned to Iraq to bury her. Ben had made his way to Iraq and on that day let himself be caught by Sayid. He told Sayid that he was there hunting a man who worked for Widmore, a man who also happened to be the one to have killed Sayid's wife. Working together, they killed this man and then Sayid decided to continue to help Ben rid the world of Widmore's people, something Ben seemed to have been counting on. The last scene of the show was Ben in Widmore's penthouse, promising him that in exchange for "changing the rules" and murdering Alex, Ben was going to kill Widmore's daughter. During their conversation Ben mentioned being unable to kill Widmore. Why? Does this have anything to do with the "rules" and Michael's inablility to kill himself?
Sayid managed to corner Michael on the freighter and demanded to know how he got there and why he's there. The answer, apparently, is guilt.
Once Michael left the island, he couldn't live with the guilt of killing Libby and Ana Lucia. He was estranged from his mother and Walt, and tried to kill himself unsuccessfully. During another suicide attempt, Michael was shocked to find himself approached by Tom, who offered him salvation through doing a job for Ben. He told Michael about Widmore's plans to harm everyone on the island, and said perhaps Michael could redeem himself by saving the lives of his friends. Tom also told Michael that he'd be unable to kill himself since the island didn't want him to.
Michael went home and tried yet again to shoot himself and when his gun kept misfiring, he decided to go and see Tom. Tom gave him his mission, which was to pose as a deckhand on Widmore's freighter and kill everyone on board so that the freighter would never make it to the island. Michael agreed.
Once on the freighter he was torn about sacrificing some of the nice people aboard (like Naomi and Fisher Stevens) but made up his mind after encountering some jerks. He got out his bomb, set it up and detonated it. Instead of exploding, it sent up a flag that read, "not yet."
Soon afterward, he received a personal call on the ship's radio that turned out to be from Ben, who called to provide additional psychological abuse. Ben made himself out to be a good person in comparison to Widmore and told Michael he'd not have to kill the innocent people on the ship, just the bad ones. Michael accepted.
Once Sayid finished listening to Michael's story he grabbed him and took him to the captain, revealing Michael's true identity and that he is a traitor.
On the island, Locke had a meeting where he assured everyone that Ben was on their side. This afforded Ben a few minutes alone with Rousseau, Alex and Carl. He advised them to make their way to the Temple station, where the rest of the Others were holed up, and said they'd be safe there just in case things went wrong. In the interest of protecting Alex, Rousseau agreed so the three of them set off. Partway to the Temple they stopped to rest and suddenly Carl was killed by a sniper. Rousseau tried to run with Alex but she was killed also. At this point Alex stood up and revealed herself to her invisible attacker as Ben's daughter.
Sorry guys, it was a late night for me last night and so there was no time for a real recap, but that's no reason you can't discuss the show amongst yourselves. I'll share a few of my thoughts: I felt the big reveal when Michael showed himself on the boat was totally spoiled by the fact that they had to have Harold Perrineau's name in the credits all this time - so unfortunate! I didn't love Bumbling Jin and the Panda, nor was I too keen on the combination of flashback with flash-forward in order to create a red herring. I did completely tear up at the end there with Sun and Hurley at the cemetery.
Also? I'm having trouble counting to six. Does Aaron count, or not?
It seems that Jack and Juliet had good reason to be suspicious of Daniel and Charlotte because they vanished and took all their things, including their satellite phone, with them. Jin said he saw them go into the jungle but didn't think to report it because he thought they were to be trusted.
They all split up and set off immediately to find Daniel and Charlotte. Juliet is alone in the jungle when she starts to hear the mysterious voices (I'd forgotten about that!) and suddenly she's face-to-face with a woman from her recent past. The woman tells Juliet that Daniel and Charlotte are on their way to the Tempest station with the intent of releasing gasses in order to annihilate everyone on the island. She says the only hope is for Juliet to find and shoot them, as per Ben's instruction. Juliet challenges his authority since he is a prisoner in Locke's camp, but the woman assures Juliet that Ben is exactly where he wants to be. Jack stumbles upon the two of them and acknowledges the woman, so we know she's real. But then we hear the voices again, and suddenly the woman is gone.
The woman is Harper, we find out through flashback. She was Juliet's therapist upon arrival to the island, before Juliet knew she was a prisoner. Juliet developed a relationship with Harper's husband, Goodwin, whom we met in season two. Ben learned of Juliet's affair, as did Harper. Harper warned Juliet not to continue the affair. She was afraid that Ben's feelings for Juliet might prompt him to hurt Goodwin in some way. It was obvious that Harper was afraid of Ben. We already know how that came to pass, and upon learning about Goodwin's death (killed by Ana Lucia in season two), Ben brought Juliet to his corpse as a way to both torture her and let her know that he was in charge and that she belonged to him.
The flashbacks also reminded us that Ben was amassing people on his list, did we ever entirely learn about that?
Anyway, back to the current situation on the island: Kate, on her way back to the beach from Locke's territory, stumbles upon Charlotte and Daniel and becomes so obviously suspicious of their motives that Charlotte clocks her on the back of the head, leaving her unconcious. Jack and Juliet find her a bit later, and she tells them that they hit her and that they had gas masks in their bags. Juliet promises to be right back with water for Kate but instead she sneaks away to continue her pursuit of Charlotte and Daniel.
Juliet finds them in time and after a big struggle where Charlotte tries to kill her, they all realize it's been a big misunderstanding and that Charlotte and Daniel actually intended to save the island and everyone on it, which they successfully accomplished. Jack and Kate catch up and Juliet relays her fears about Ben still having the upper hand. Kate enters the station with Charlotte, leaving Juliet and Jack to have a private moment where Juliet tells Jack she fears for his life because her feelings toward him will anger Ben.
Meanwhile at Lock's camp, Ben managed to convince Locke that they were also on the same side, and they both had the same goals - to protect the island from outsiders. Locke decided to listen so Ben showed him a videotape of Charles Widmore beating someone up in an alley, and tells Locke that he is the island's enemy. He produces a file on Widmore and gives it to Locke. He says he doesn't know how Widmore every learned about the island, but we already know there has been some kind of relationship between the Widmores and the island since some of the products on the island were branded as being made by Widmore Labs. Ben states that the freighter off the coast of the island belongs to Widmore. Which, if true, is very interesting since they have been blocking Penny's signals and messages so stringently.
As a result, Locke releases Ben and gives him clean clothes and a house on the compound. Ben calls to Sawyer and Hurley, who are playing horseshoes in the next yard, that he'll see them at dinner. Funny.
That was a fantastic, and fantastically complicated, episode. Thankfully I have to go out of town right now to visit family and meet a brand new baby, so I can't turn my brain to mush recapping and asking paradoxical questions, such as does Daniel suddenly remember Desmond visiting him in university? Did Daniel have time to teach Eloise how to run the maze before she died? What changed Penelope's mind about Desmond to prompt her to start searching for him three years ago?
The episode begins with an homage to the last time Locke held Ben captive, by bringing him some food and a book to read. This time Ben doesn't want the book because it's from his own shelf and he's read it before, and so we find out that Locke is living in Ben's house while Ben is jailed in the basement below.
Kate is sharing a bungalow with Claire and they have some inane conversation. Sawyer swings by and mentions something about a pregnancy scare and I go, whatwhatwhat? Then we have our first flash forward to Kate, back in civilization, heading to her indictment. She and her lawyer have to fight through crowds of media to get to the courtroom. Once there, the charges are read to her and she pleads not guilty. The judge decides that she has to stay in jail for the duration of the trial.
On the beach, Sun and Jin are talking and he is trying to decide where in the US they should live when they are rescued. Sun says that she'd rather go back to Korea so they can have their baby at home. At that moment Jack arrives with Juliet, Charlotte and Daniel and tells Sun that Kate decided to stay with Locke.
Back at the compound, Kate asks Locke to see Miles, but he refuses. She tricks Hurley into telling her that they're keeping him in the boathouse. When she gets there, she demands to know if Miles knows who she is and what she did before she came to the island. Miles promises to tell her everything she wants to know if she can facilitate a meeting between him and Ben. She agrees.
Flash-forward to Kate in jail, having a meeting with her lawyer. He suggests that they make the trial about her character, presumably as a mother, but she doesn't like the idea because she wants to keep her son out of it (whatwhatwhat?).
Back at the compound, Kate and Claire are hanging sheets to dry when ol' turniphead Aaron starts fussing and Claire asks Kate to get him. She makes such a big deal about not being good with babies and refuses to pick him up, that I start thinking the whole Sawyer-baby-scare might be a red herring.
Flash-forward again, and Kate's trial is underway. Her lawyer arranged for Jack to come and give character testimony, to Kate's total dismay. Jack sits on the stand and gives a phony account of the plane crash, painting Kate as a big hero. He says eight of them survived the actual crash, and that two of those eight died immediately. Jack seems to be very comfortable lying on the stand, obviously talking about what the Oceanic Six had decided to make their public story. During his testimony Kate stands up and asks for it to stop, that she doesn't want him to say anymore.
Present time again, at the compound. Kate calls on Sawyer, who is living with Hurley (Xanadu!), and asks him to help her free Ben. Then we see Sawyer calling on Locke an hour later, tattling away, probably as part of his strategy to help her out. This makes Locke run to the boathouse to check on Miles, who is now missing, and Sawyer plays dumb. In the meantime, Kate had brought Miles to the basement of Locke's house so that he could question Ben. Miles tries to make a deal with Ben, saying he'd pretend Ben was dead and lie to his partners-in-crime, in exchange for $3.2 million bucks. He gives Ben a week to get the money together. Kate is irritated by the whole thing and yanks him out of the room. Regardless, he makes good on his promise and tells Kate that his whole crew knew who she was and that she was wanted for murder. He suggests that she stay on the island. Before they can leave the basement, Locke shows up.
Later on he pays a visit to Kate in the bungalow she's sharing with Claire, and asks her what Ben and Miles said to each other, which she told him. Then he asked her to leave the compound in the morning and not to come back.
Flash-forward again. Kate's mother, the star witness in Kate's trial, comes to see her and offers to withold her testimony if Kate would just introduce her to her grandson. Kate declines. In present time we see Kate spending her last night on the compound with Sawyer.
On the beach, Jack and Juliet are fed up with being unable to get the research ship to answer their phone so they approach Daniel and Charlotte, who are playing a memory game with which Daniel is having difficulty. Juliet tells Charlotte that it's an emergency, so Charlotte calls the ship and finds out that the helicopter never arrived. Now everyone is freaked.
At the compound, Locke punishes Miles by shoving an armed grenade in his mouth and walking away. Kate and Sawyer wake up together and Kate announces she was definitely not pregnant. Then she slaps Sawyer for suggesting that she's bouncing between him and Jack.
Flash-forward. At Kate's trial, it's determined that Kate's mother cannot testify because she is too ill. Kate signs a deal stating that she agrees to time served and being unable to leave the state for ten years. They let her go and she runs into Jack in the parking lot. He tells her that when he testified that he did not love her, he didn't mean it. She invites him home, but he declines. She says that she isn't interested in his company until he accepts her baby, and I start thinking that perhaps the Sawyer-baby-scare wasn't a red herring after all.
Kate goes home and wakes her son from his nap. He calls her Mommy; she calls him, Aaron. HA I KNEW IT! So, does this mean that Aaron is one of the Oceanic Six, or do babies not count? And what is the reason Jack doesn't want to see him...does Jack know Aaron is his nephew? Did Jack have something to do with Claire's death?
This week the episode centered around Sayid. On the island, we picked up where we left off which was determining who would take the first ride out on the helicopter. Sayid wanted to go so in order to secure his place he offered to get Charlotte back from Locke's group. Miles insisted in going along, which Sayid allowed, and then Jack also sent Kate, saying he knew she'd be safe because Sawyer wouldn't allow anything to happen to her. They set off. In the meantime, Juliet offered to go back to the beach to fetch Desmond so they could clear up a few things about why Naomi had his photo on her when she first landed on the island.
Our first flash forward showed us that Sayid was one of the infamous Oceanic 6, a fact that frightenend a fellow golfer he met out on the green. We also learned that Sayid was specifically hunting that particular golfer because he was working as an operative. Later on, Sayid was on another job and met a woman in a Berlin cafe because he was hoping she would lead him to her mysterious boss. They fell in love, but when it was time for Sayid to do his job he learned that she wasn't who she appeared to be either. She already knew all about him and shot him. Unfortunately for her, she didn't shoot him so good, which gave him the chance to kill her. Before he did so, she had a chance to speak to her employer and Sayid found out that they knew who he was.
Back on the island, Sayid's party made it to the barracks where they knew Locke's people were going. They found Hurley gagged and tied up in a closet. He told them that he was left behind for not wanting to go along with Locke's plans, and that everyone else was gone. He was lying (Oh, Hurley!), they fell for it (so did I) and Locke ended up capturing everyone. Sawyer kept Kate busy while Sayid dealt with Locke and tried to get Locke to give them Charlotte and let them go back.
In the meantime, Daniel in his infinite nerdy wisdom decided to do an experiment, which entailed a contact sending a payload to his exact co-ordinates. The payload did not arrive, and the experiment failed. Or so we thought...half an hour later the payload (a rocket) arrived, and when Daniel compared the clock attatched to it with the clock attatched to the beacon it was sent to, he found a significant time discrepancy. I immediately thought of Back to the Future when they opened the Delorean and Einstein's stopwatch was exactly 1 minute behind.
In Sayid's negotiation with Locke, he said he didn't expect to receive Charlotte for free, so when he returned to the helicopter, he and Charlotte were alone. He revealed that he had exchanged Miles for Charlotte, which was his plan from the beginning. Jack was disappointed to learn that Kate had decided to stay at the barracks with Sawyer.
When it was time to leave the island, Daniel and Charlotte opted to stay a bit longer, so Sayid suggested that since there was room for one more, that they should take Naomi with them. Daniel told the pilot very specifically to strictly follow the bearings that brought them to the island and not to deviate from that path.
The final scene was a flash-forward that occured after Sayid was shot by his German mark/girlfriend. He staggered into a veterinarian's office to get patched up and it turned out that the "vet" was Ben. Sayid was working for him, seemingly because he was forced to in order to protect others.
A couple of things interested me specifically about this episode. When Sayid was examining Naomi's body at the beginning, he noticed a bracelet on her arm. He took it and read its inscription: N. I will always be there with you. R.G. Sayid kept the bracelet. During one of his flash-forwards, right after he killed his girlfriend in Germany, he fingered her wrist and we saw she was wearing the same bracelet. Did he give her dead Naomi's already-inscribed bracelet? How weird.
The other thing was that in a scene at the beginning of the episode, Locke was trying to return to Jacob's cabin but couldn't find it. He found the protective ring of ash but no sign of the cabin itself. What up with cabin, yo?
Rescue. At the end of the last episode Jack and Kate met one of their rescuers, a man named Dan who seemed a bit overwhelmed to even be there. He was awkward and uncomfortable, and Jack and Kate noticed a gun in his belt. They instinctively distrusted him. He explained that he had to jump out of the helicopter unexpectedly, along with the rest of his collegues, because of the storm. He showed them his transponder and said they need to find the rest of his team. They started to travel across the island, Jack and Kate constantly exchanged worried looks.
Four people were in that helicopter, and through flashbacks we learn a little bit about each of them. The flashbacks were centered around the discovery of Flight 815's wreckage, and in Dan's flashback we learned only that something about the discovery of the fusilage upset him to the point of tears. We met Miles, who was some kind of ghostbuster that could commune with the dead. We met Charlotte, an anthropologist who discovered the skeleton of a polar bear in the desert wearing a Dharma collar. We met Frank, the pilot of the helicopter whom we learned used to be a commercial pilot, as he was originally meant to fly Flight 815.
We also learned that these four people were brought together, presumably for their particular skillsets, by the same man that visited Hurley in the asylum, pretending to be from Oceanic. Naomi was instructed to take these four people to the island for a specific mission, and protect them as they fulfilled it. He assured her that there were no survivors from the flight, so the mission shouldn't be too difficult.
We already know how that turned out.
But what was the mission they were on? Jack, Kate and Dan came upon Miles first, and he was quite agitated and immediately put Jack and Kate on the defensive. Miles seemed dangerous, demanding to see Naomi's body. At this time, on the beach, Juliet and Sayid were discussing the possiblity that Ben was telling the truth about the people from the frieghter, so they decided to gather a couple of guns and go for a walk. Miles communed with Dead Naomi and learned that Kate was telling the truth, that she and Jack were not responsible for her death. Even so, Miles trained his gun on them and ordered them to march so that they could locate Charlotte. Juliet and Sayid popped out of the forest and gained control of the situation.
Charlotte was unfortunate enough to land near Locke's group and found herself amongst very suspicious people who obviously didn't welcome rescue. She kept trying to get everyone to help her find her collegues so they could all go home, but Locke resisted. He felt that she had information he could use. Charlotte also had a gun in her belt, which Ben stole and then used to shoot her. Charlotte was wearing a bulletproof vest and survived the shooting.
Frank was lucky through the storm and he managed to land the helicopter on the island. Jack's group found him, they found the helicopter intact and began making plans to fly back to the freighter. Frank informed them that they didn't have much fuel and would need to take a couple of trips, so Naomi's body would have to wait. During this conversation, Juilet told Frank her name, and he freaked out when he realized she was not a survivor, but instead a native. At this point, Miles freaked out and explained their mission, that they were there for Ben.
In Locke's camp they were coming to a similar conclusion. Locke had decided that maybe Ben had outlived his usefulness, was very dangerous and that it was time to kill him. First, he demanded to know what the black smoke monster was, but Ben said he didn't know. Locke was about to fire when Ben started spouting off details about Charlotte's identity, which got everyone's attention. He revealed that the people from the freighter were hunting him.
That was a great episode. It's nice to see that even though the concept has changed, the show is still bringing up as many questions as it's answering! Great mood through the entire episode.
Last season we were left with a flash-forward of Jack being unable to cope with rescue, pining for Kate and the island. We didn't learn any more about that, although we were treated to a few flash-forwards from Hurley's perspective. I don't know which flash came first...bearded Jack, or the Jack who muses about growing a beard when he visits Hurley in the loony bin.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
We start with a flash-forward of Jack spiking his breakfast OJ and watching a high-speed chase on the news (ba-dum-bum), and he reacts when he realizes that it's Hurley in the car.
Hurley eventually crashes and gets arrested, and while he's being questioned about his behaviour we learn that Hurley was running away from something he saw, and that he's being tortured by his experience on the island. When the cop threatens to send him to a mental facility, Hurley hugs him with great relief.
In the present, the objective of our Oceanic survivors is to continue to connect with Naomi's phone and get rescued. Locke tried to prevent rescue by stabbing Naomi in the back. Jack later realizes that Naomi ran away when the satellite phone rings again; it's Naomi's contact and he wants them to reset the signal. Jack doesn't reveal that Naomi is hurt or missing. Jack and Rousseau search for her but they go the wrong way. Kate, however, finds the right trail. Naomi gets in touch with her people, doesn't tell them she's hurt and resets the signal.
While this is happening, Desmond returns to the beach and tells everyone there that they need to warn Jack because Charlie's final message was to reveal that Naomi was lying and that they don't know with whom they're dealing. They decide not to send a message by walkie-talkie in case Naomi's people are listening in. Instead, they start making their way to intercept Jack and everyone else.
Flash-forward again: Hurley is happy playing Connect Four with his fellow crazies when he gets a visitor who claims to be from Oceanic's legal department, and offers to send Hurley to a nicer facility because Oceanic feels responsible for his condition. Hurley asks for some kind of identification and at that point his visitor's demeanor becomes slightly threatening and he asks Hurley, "Are they still alive?" Hurley freaks out and the man leaves.
Present: Hurley gets separated from his friends and winds up in front of Jacob's cabin. He hears voices, peers in the window and sees Jacob in his chair, then a face looms up and scares him. He runs away, terrified, and when he finally feels safe he turns around and somehow the cabin is right there! He talks himself out of hallucinating and when he opens his eyes again, he runs into Locke. They talk about Charlie and how his message seems to agree with Locke's obsession that rescue will be a big mistake.
When both parties meet near the fusilage of the plane, Hurley tells Claire about Charlie's death.
Another flash-forward about Hurley explains what he was trying to get away from when he crashed his car. He had thought he'd seen Charlie; Charlie appears to him at the institution to give him a message, that "they" need him. Hurley refuses to listen and decides to de-hallucinate him.
Hurley then turns to Jack and states that he is going to stay on the island, with Locke. He explains what Desmond told him about Charlie's last words, and the survivors split up, some going with Locke, some with Jack. Sawyer and Kate part company, and Kate is shocked to learn that he wants to stay.
A final flash-forward brings Jack and Hurley together. Jack, apparently after learning about Hurley's accident and subsequent stay in the mental facility, decides to pay him a visit to ensure that Hurley will keep their secret, whatever it is. Hurley expresses regret at his decision to follow Locke.
In the final scene, Jack and Kate are talking alone on the island when they hear and see a helicopter. A man alights and addresses Jack by name. Naomi's collegue, presumably.
Tonight, ABC is re-airing last year's Lost Season 3 finale. However, they're marketing it as "enhanced," with little facts about the show popping up throughout. Cool or annoying? We'll decide tonight.
Or, read this awesome Season 3 recap instead.