LOST-1/21-Because You Left/The Lie

Holy Crap! What a great way to start of the second to last season of LOST. Starting off with Dr. Marvin Candle filming a Dharma video sometime in the past, we see Daniel Faraday working for Dharma. Let the gigantic Mind-F^^k begin.

• The Oceanic Survivors and the science team from the freighter are traveling through various points in time on the island. Alpert and the rest of the Others do not travel through time, but Alpert realizes that Locke is, and gives him a compass that seems to be the one from when Alpert gave Locke a Buddist Test.
• Lawyers appear at Kate's house in 2007 to take blood samples from both her and Aaron. This causes her to leave and go find Sun. Who sent the lawyers to Kate's house?
• Jack and Ben need to get everyone from the island back to the island. Kate and Sun are now together, though it appears they are under watch of Charles Widmore. Hurley and Sayid are together, but Sayid took a couple of darts to the back and is now a vegetable. Hurley is accused of murdering three people, and instead of going with Ben and making things easy, he gives himself over to the LAPD.
• Faraday finds the past Desmond, and tells him he needs to find his mother at Oxford. Desmond wakes up in the future, now remembering this, and tells Penny they need to go to Oxford.
• Dr. Candle lives on the island in the past, and he seems to have a healthy baby with an alive wife.
• Best line: "Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?"
• Hurley spills the beans to his mom about the island, and she tells him she believes him.
• Ben is told he has 70 hours to bring the Oceanic 6 back to the island. Is the show now going to be like 24 set in real time?
• The woman who tells Ben he has 70 hours is the woman who sold Desmond his engagement ring from the episode where Desmond was flashing in and out of time.