Season 3 Episode 9

Season 3 Episode 9 Stranger in Strange Land

"Hey Dr Jack.. Dr Jack want soda.. Dr Jack"
Let's start with the flashback. Jackie boy ends up in Phukett Thailand. This is presumably after him and Sara split but before daddy has his drunken surgery mishap and loses his job. We know it's before that because Jack has the tattoos when that happens but not when he's with Sara. There he meets Achara who loves Jack long time. After a few months of sweet lovin' Jack follows her to find out her gift is she can "...see what people are..." and she tattoos it on them. She tattoos Jack which is against her peoples rules and because of that her brother and his friends give Jack a stomping and tell him to "hit the road...JACK"

Back on the Island Jack meets Isabelle, aka the Sheriff. She tells Jack "We don't live on this little island. In fact, most of us don't really even like coming here".

Carl confirms that the Others indeed live on the same Island as the Losties, with backyards none the less. He tells Kate and Sawyer that the other Island is only where they work... on projects. Kate then asks him why they took the Losties and the kids:
Carl "We give them a better life"
Kate "Better than what?"
Carl "Better than yours"

Sawyer finds Carl crying and gives him a nice shot in the arm. He then calls him Bobby. Carl lets Sawyer know he has no idea what the Brady Bunch is. No Dejavu channel on the Island I guess. Sawyer has a sweet line when he calls Alex Sally Slingshot. For some reason I get the feeling Carl isn't one of the Others. Maybe his family crashed on the Island or there are more groups then we know of but Ben certainly doesn't want him around. Sounds like some Classic Romeo and Juliet to me (no pun intended).

Cindy and the kids (and presumably the other stolen Losties) show up to "watch". Now, people are blowing this way out of proportion I think with their theories. It seemed pretty clear to me that they came to watch Juliet get sentenced (and maybe executed). The little girl asks how Anna Lucia is doing so clearly they haven't heard what happened at the hatch. Kids are growing pretty fast too, just like Walt did.

Alex wanted to see dear old daddy die apparently.

Ben has some interesting quotes last night:
Jack "I'd be much more impresses with you people if you had a good surgeon"
Ben "We had an excellent surgeon Jack. His name was Ethan"

And then when talking about Juliet
"Juliet doesn't care about you Jack. It doesn't matter what she's done. No matter what you think; she's one of us"

Ben sends a message that the execution is off because "the rules don't apply". Gives Juliet a nice asterisk on her back though.

Jack ends the episode as follows:
Isabelle "He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us. That's what your tattoos say"
Jack "That's what they say, but that's not what they mean"
And with that he rows out to the boat they used to take Walt and heads for 'home'.

Not the greatest episode. I really didn't enjoy the flashback at all.
Next week
'Tricia Tanaka is Dead"... a little Hurley flashback. Previews show Vincent with somebody's arm in his mouth, and someone driving a 1970s Volkswagen Mini Van with a Dharma logo on the front.

"There will be consequences... there always is"