9. Stranger in a Strange Land
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Lost:
Season Three:
9. Stranger in a Strange Land
Aired February 21
Writers: Elizabeth Sarnoff and Christina M. Kim
Director: Paris Barclay
Guest Cast
M.C. Gainey: Tom
Tania Raymonde: Alex
Blake Bashoff: Karl
Kimberley Joseph: Cindy
Diana Scarwid: Isabel
Bai Ling: Achara
James Huang: Chet
Shannon Chanhthanam: Thai boy
Jack moves from his shark tank to the bear cage. Juliet, now in trouble for killing Pickett, takes his place in the tank while Jack does his best to help her from captivity. In flashback, Jack has an unusual experience in Thailand.
Jack backstory VII
Notes:
-Jack got his tattoos on his trip to Thailand (mentioned in Lockdown). They say "He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us." in Chinese
-The people taken by the Others make an appearance in this episode. Among them are Cindy and the kids from The Other 48 Days
-Nicknames: Kate is Magellan, Karl is Bobby (Brady), and Alex gets Sally Slingshot
-The others have at least one other powered boat
Unanswered Questions: Why do the Others want to give some of the crash survivors a better life? What exactly were they supposed to be watching? What does Cindy mean when she says it's "more complicated"?
By Kevin (Kevin) on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 9:08 pm:Usually I'd say something about the Asians-have-mysterious-psychic-powers cliché, but with Desmond running around, that's kind of hard.
I think we finally got a revealing flashback, even though we don't know what its consequences are yet.
I'm taking care of my two-year old niece at the moment so I may have missed something, but why the heck would she have written the tattoos in Chinese and not Thai?
By Josh M on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 9:54 pm:Apparently, there are a lot of Chinese speakers in Thailand. If that's the case, then it wouldn't be that much of a stretch.
By ScottN on Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 12:04 am:Other revelations: Ethan was the Others' doctor and surgeon.
By LUIGI NOVI (Lnovi) on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 12:25 am:Actually, that he was their doctor (or one of them) was revealed in Maternity Leave.
By ScottN on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 7:56 am:Oops! Forgot about that one!
By LUIGI NOVI (Lnovi) on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 4:45 pm:That'll be thirty days in the shark tank for you. 
By Number Two on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 5:40 pm:I'm sorry, we don't have sharks. We do have sea bass, and they're ill-tempered.