As Hurley tries to turn Sawyer into a nicer human, Kate and Juliet find they've been abandoned by the Others, who apparently have abandoned their village as well, putting on backpacks and heading for who know where.
Before this, however, Locke tells Kate he's going with the Others. He says he made a case for Kate coming along but was informed about her past history (presumably her having killed her stepfather). The Others, Locke says, "aren't very forgiving."
Kate and Juliet soon learn Sayid and Jack also have been left behind and meet up with them. Although Kate and Sayid are suspicious, Jack is adamant that Juliet be able to join them on their trek back to the beach and their fellow crash survivors.
Clues, observations, speculation:
* Where the heck did the Others go? Their submarine was destroyed and the electromagnetic disturbance caused by the Hatch explosion has supposedly made the island unfindable from the outside world so, presumably, they're stuck on the main island or their smaller, nearby island (if they go by boat, not sub).
* Has Locke really transformed into an Other or is he faking?
* What happened with Locke and his father, who apparently was captured by the Others and was being held in their village?
* Did Locke in someway make up for past faults by confronting his father? And is that why he's now viewed as hunky-dory by the Others and good enough to go on their backpacking trip?
* Is the whole scenario of the show--the crash, the island, the connections between people--all some self-improvement thing? Redemption and addressing past wrongs seems to crop up all the time. If Locke somehow put his conflict with his father to rest and is now viewed as ok by the Others, there may be something to the theory.
* Cassidy Phillips, the woman who helps Kate make contact with her mother, was swindled out of her life savings by Sawyer in the episode "The Long Con." Sawyer is also the father of her child.
* Has Juliet really been left behind or is she just foolin'? What about Jack: Is he trustworthy at this point or not?
* Juliet says she doesn't know what the smoke monster is, but the force field thingy around the Others' village can apparently keep it out.
* Again, Juliet reveals she knows tons of information about Jack. Where do the Others get such info and what do they hope to do with it?
* Where'd Juliet learn all those kung-fu moves? Do Others recruits receive martial arts training and, if so, why? What are they training to defend themselves against?
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