Speaking of the Long Con, what do you make of the scene where Sawyer goes out to the car and looks at the empty drivers seat before going back into the house. Are we to take it that Gordy doesn't exist and that Sawyer is slighty schizophrenic or that Gordy just isn't there? And he's not a nice guy.

On the subject of Henry Gale I think he is definitely an Other. That predatory look as the door closes said it all to me and I think Sayid. But where do you think they are taking Sayid with this and the death of Shannon?

How would he know all of that? By knowing about a man named Steve Fossett, who in 2002 manned the first succesful solo round-the-world balloon flight. The balloon was called the "Solo Spirit" and is described this way:

"The Solo Spirit balloon uses a combination of helium and hot air to fly, a design known as a Roziere balloon. The balloon envelope is 140 feet tall and 60 feet wide. It contains 550,000 cubic feet of helium plus 100,000 cubic feet of hot air."

So, obviously "Henry" knew about the "Solo Spirit" and after a little bit of stalling was able to think up the dimensions from his memory. So yes, "Henry" is an other. A very smart other, but an other nonetheless.

I watched the first half of the Lost pilot repeat last night, and I hadn't realized, or had forgotten, that Jack finds himself pretty deep in the forest at the start of the show. He's got to run for a while to get to the beach where everyone else is.

This doesn't mean anything, I am sure, but didn't Ana Lucia use that as a reason to kill the Other spy who had infiltrated her group? Though that guy copped to being a spy shortly before she whacked him, I think, so in that case it was a good decision.

Jack was definitely on the plane manifest, so I'm not proposing a convoluted conspiracy theory, but I was a little surprised that I had forgotten how the very beginning of the show went. But then, it doesn't take much to surprise me.

That giant magnet looms behind every speculation about crashes and ships that go off course, and so on. If someone can control the magnet, they can possibly snag passing planes and ships by fouling up their navigation sysems. (I was going to even wonder if they could magnetically PULL them in, but remembered that plane fuselages are made of aluminum, so, never mind....)