I looked really close at Claire's ring and it looks like an engagement ring or a single stone ring to me. I looked really closely at Charlie's rings because I specifically wanted to see if I could see the DS ring and I never saw it on his fingers. There are other prominent rings, but that one is conspicuously absent. It also looks like Charlie is wearing some kind of tuxedo shirt with the ruffles, but Claire has on dark blue or black, not white.

I did think that Desmond was with a group of three - he was with a group of three stewardesses, on the escalator when Boone says to John, "He's helping himself." Then at the bottom of the escalator Desmond walks away, arm-in-arm with one of the flight attendants.

I agree, since we have NOT seen Sawyer in ANY flash forwards that makes me nervous for him!

Right about Ben being the security guard with the wand and he is checking Jack. Security Guard Ben determines who gets on the plane and who doesn't. Likewise I suppose, Ben determines who gets on and off the island?

Speaking of this scene--> some of the notes I made about it were first, we learn that the watch that Jack is wearing is the one Christian gave to him right before Jack's wedding (and it was kind of a terrible story, wasn't it?). Then I thought about the symbolism of a watch, the marking of time, and the fact that he is about to be allowed into somewhere, checked by Ben, and took off his watch, meaning that around Ben time has stopped? Time does not pass on the island? What do you think Wednighter?

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