Season 3 Episode 7

Season 3 Episode 7 - Not in Portland

WELCOME BACK !!!

Last night I was happy to see some reoccurring themes return,
The numbers:
The needle Juliet gives her sister says "Week 4 batch" on it
Her security card is for lab A-4
Carl is in room 23

Octagons,
The lamp/clock beside Juliet's sister's bed was octagon shaped

Ok on to the episode. We first see Juliet walking down a hallway where she spots Ethan leaving a room. She enters that same room where we find her sister, who we can tell is clearly ill. She injects her with a needle. At first we may assume that she's trying to cure her sister but we discover later she is trying to impregnate her. Her sister's name is Rachel.

Juliet's flashbacks take place in Miami. This is also where Kate's latest flashback took place. Juliet's full name is Juliet Burke and she works at the Miami Central University Bio Medical Research Lab for her ex-husband Edmund. Since Edmund's last name is Burke we still do not know Juliet's maiden name.

Then things get a little crazy. A recruiter from Mittelos Bioscience, Richard Albert, shows up to try and hire Juliet. Now in classic Lost form there is a website called www.mittelosbioscience.org up and running. It lists 5 Executives, 3 of which are: Richard Albert, Ethan Rom & you guessed it, Juliet Burke. It's worth going to check the site out and read their bios. It seems Ethan may be Canadian after all. It also says Juliet joined the company in 2001. This would make sense considering we know it is 2004 on the Island. Now try this, on the website go to projects. It asks for a login and password. Login: jburke, password: rachel
This brings you to a new screen that lists two folders, 'future projects' and 'current projects'. Future Projects is restricted. When you click current it shows you a map of Experiment 108 which looks to be the island the losties are on, a smaller island which Ben and friends are on AND a third smaller island called Observation Island. After a few seconds the screen says NEW MESSAGE. When you click you get an email from Rachel as follows:
"Hey Jules,
I ended up getting that camcorder I wrote you about. I sure hope you are still getting these messages... I know your job makes it "impossible" to reply but that's not going to keep me from sending them! She's getting SO big Julie. She asks about you everyday. We made a little something for you (web link).
I know you are well Juliet, and doing what you love. I just miss you. Be safe
Love Rachel"

When you click the weblink a video starts to play of presumably Rachels daughter saying she misses her aunt Julie. Then the screen goes fuzzy and a disguised voice cuts in and out with the following...
"Juliet it's me. I've been trying to contact you for years, to warn you... Hanso has been running these experiments for years Juliet, and you're in one. You are the experiment. You are one... we all are... The Hanso Foundation, JWC Wittemore Corporation, Mittlelos Bioscience... it's all the same Juliet... for over a century they've been in control... they've been killing us... they were trafficking slaves in the 1800's not to sell... THEY ARE GOING TO KILL YOU... they are the ones who commissioned ... experiments on humans... don't let them know I contacted-d-d-d" and the video ends with her niece saying I love you.

By he way if you rearrange the letters in Mettilos you get LOST TIME
INSANITY

Do you remember from my last blog how Juliet told Ben they had taken Alex home. Well either she was lying or Alex used her little boat to come back. Her return gives Sawyer a chance to use some great nicknames like Zena and Underdog. He also calls a messed up Carl "Cheech". When the trio go to rescue Carl the guard out front, Aldo, is reading "A Brief History of Time". This is a book written by famous scientist Stephen Hawking (aka the wheelchair guy). It's basically considered astronomy for dummies, using pictures instead of equations. It's also been spotted in other things like Harry Potter, Legally Blonde and even Weird Als "White and Nerdy" video. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Time

Aldo is the first one in the episode to point out that Alex's father is most likely Ben, although no one ever officially says it. If that is the case, and Rousseau is Alex's mother, do you get the feeling Rousseau may have fallen victim to some artificial insemination? Cleary Rousseau doesn't know Ben because she was the one who captured him in season 2 in the big net. I'm pretty sure she would have mentioned that had slept together. Rousseau claims she killed Alex's father.
It also brings up another interesting point. Someone is pregnant. And that someone's husband is supposed to be sterile. Perhaps Sun got a needle jabbed in her as well. I recall Claire "dreaming" she got jabbed when she was pregnant, as well as Ethan needling her.

So the trio finds poor Carl in what looks like a scene from the movie "A Clockwork Orange". The screen lists the following phrases:
"Plant a good seed and you will joyfully gather fruit"
"Everything Changes"
"We are the cause of our own suffering"
"God loves you as He loved Jacob" (remember last blog Danny saying Jack wasn't even on Jacob's list)
"Think About your Life"
Do you remember when Michael finally found Walt and Ms. Clue said "Walt! Do you want me to put you back in the room again?" I'm guessing this was the room she was talking about. That episode was called "three minutes" which was the amount of time Michael had with Walt and was also the time Jack gave Juliet and Ben together last night.

My coworker Melissa has a very interesting theory regarding Juliet's sister. "Juliet became famous for impregnating a MALE field mouse. What if her sister use to be male?" I like it.

Juliet kills old Danny Boy.

So Dr. Alfred and Ethan show up after Juliet's ex-hubby gets hit by a bus. We are to assume they made that happen... what other events could they have made happen?
Last night's episode ends with Juliet saying "I've been on this island for 3 years Jack. Three years, 2 months and 28 days. He said if I let him live and I help you, that he would finally let me go home"

Next weeks episode "Flashes Before Your Eyes" Desmond flashback BROTHER!!