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In the last scene, we saw Hurley travel to Seoul and join Sun in visiting Jin's grave and introducing Ji-Yeon to her father, at least in spirit. But the marker indicated the date of death as 9/22/2004 — the day Oceanic 815 crashed. As the episode reminded us, wreckage of Oceanic 815 was found in the ocean, along with corpses of all the passengers. Some possibilities:

1. The marker was erected when Jin and all the other passengers were declared dead. But Jin really isn't dead. He's on the Island, or somewhere, for some reason. Hurley and Sun — who clearly have secrets to keep regarding the fate of their friends — merely went to Jin's grave site for the sake of keeping up appearances. After all, they're super-celebs in the future, their movements and choices are being tracked by the press — and, possibly, their enemies.

2. Nope: Jin's dead. He's gonna bite it in the unfolding Island story. So while the marker bears the wrong date, it's all the same to Sun: Her husband is gone.

Thoughts?

Oh, and I can't finish my Jin-Sun riffing without noting how my jaw dropped when Juliet spilled the beans about Sun's affair to Jin in order to prevent them from skipping off to Locke's camp. The balls on Juliet! That was ice cold. Awesome!

Other thoughts:

The Love Boat, this is not
Not that he needs the money, but Charles Widmore should rent the Freighter out for Halloween parties, because man, is this boat one freaky place! We got roaches, suicidal crew members, and blood splatter on the walls. (I loved the deadpan doctor's line: ''That shouldn't be there.'') And we got a heartless Aussie captain named Gault who likes to tell spooky stories about people who should be dead and yet are very much alive. Finally deciding to grant Desmond and Sayid an audience, the gruff Gault brought out the black box of Oceanic 815, purchased, he explained, at great cost and through secret channels by his boss, Widmore. (The mention of his name caused Desmond's peepers to pop out of his sockets in surprise.) Gault told the castaways that the world thinks all 324 passengers were found at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Clearly, this was staged — but how? ''Where exactly does one come across 324 bodies?'' Gault asked. Then he put this conspiracy right at the feet of the man he and his freighter thugs had come to nab: Benjamin Linus. Our freighter questions mount: Why does Widmore have his ascot in a bunch over Ben? And what was that secret midnight mission Lapidus, a self-proclaimed castaway ally, went on?

NEXT: Don't I know you from somewhere?


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