I’ll go ahead and take a shot:

Kate is lending a helping hand to Cassidy and/or Clementine. That’s the only conclusion I’m left with after a borderline cheap fakeout of the possibility that Sawyer made it off the Island. Kate claims to be doing a favor for her former bad boy lover. But Jack made it clear that yes, Sawyer was still left behind.

I felt like this was sort of an anticlimactic finish for the flash forward. Overall we don’t get a lot of new information, but Something Nice Back Home fills in some of the blanks on Jack’s spiral towards despair. The beginnings of his lunacy are fleshed out:

Oh, and to have no trust in your brand new fiancée, and assume she’s up to no good. She was a fugitive after all, and she lies a lot, yet Kate can never get anything past Jack- never has. I admire his conviction. Unfortunately, Jack’s stubborn need to press the matter does him more harm than good. This is a true shame because it was nice seeing that it finally happened for Jack and Kate. Leave it to Lost to keep smiles to a minimum. It isn’t long before both of them are crying. It’s always a challenge for actors to shift emotional gears in a short period of time, especially within the same scene. Fox and Lilly do very well together in the final minutes of the show. The scene also implies that Jack is aware that Aaron is his nephew.

Slowing things down from a pretty wild last week, on the Island, Lost sees that Jack needs his tonsils appendix out. Okay... I guess these things happen, I suppose. Not really the follow up I was expecting, but the beach is faced with possibly working without a fully functioning leader for a while. That could be interesting. Unless Jack is up and running next week, in which case I’ll be wondering what the point of all this was. Juliet took the reigns, I guess for anyone to listen to you around here you have to have a PhD. But given the choice, I think I’d take Bernard- I’m becoming a fan. And that S.O.S. scheme wasn’t that bad an idea- better than tagging seagulls.

Hey! That reminds me: Claire ditched her kid in the jungle! That baby might as well have been seasoned and left on a platter for the polar bears. Why, of all the- (deep breath) Producers have been talking about pushing a strong Claire-centric mystery and it looks like it’s just begun. Where did she go? Did she really see Christian? Is she aware that she abandoned Aaron? Does she remember Charlie Pace? I’m sure we’ll get all or most of those answers in the inevitable “3 Weeks Ago”-style episode to come.

In case you had any doubt: Danielle and Karl are very, very dead. Ugh. Cover ‘em back up!

By the Way: That was totally Juliet’s voice in the shower at the start of the show. Nice try, guys. That’s cheating.