While our good buddy Drew is out of pocket today, I’ll be filling in with the “Lost’ report. Drew loves the show, while I am only “in like” with it - but last nights episode was engaging and interesting. I am more interested in Lost than I have been in a very long time, and its episodes like this that keep me tuning in.

This episode focused on Sayid - and by the way SPOILERS AHEAD - who joins Hurley, Jack, and Kate as members of the “Oceanic Six”. While everyone else was arguing over the revelation that the “rescue team” was looking for Ben, Sayid noticed that the recently deceased Naomi was wearing a bracelet that read “I’ll always be with you. R.G.”.

Meanwhile, in the future, Sayid has become an assassin, killing people that are on a list made by his employer.

Back on the island Sayid heads up a group consisting of Kate and Miles to go rescue Charlotte from Locke’s team. If they do Jeff Fayhe agrees to take Sayid and two others to his ship.

It is also discovered throughout the episode that there is a 31 minute time gap between the outside world and the island.

To keep this recap brief, Sayid makes contact with Locke’s team, and reaches and agreement, trading Miles for Charlotte and returns to the location of the helicopter. Kate decides to stay behind with Locke’s team.

In the future, Sayid has fallen in love with a woman he is supposed to be using to get to another person on the list. It goes bad, and he discovers he’s been dupped, and she is not the innocent woman he thought she was. She shoots him in the arm, and he responds by shooting her in the chest - twice.

He looks at her as she dies, and grabs her wrist, looking at the same bracelet that Naomi had on earlier in the episode (or the same kind, anyway).

On the island, Sayid and Desmond, along with Naomi’s body, load up on the helicopter and head out to the ship. The last thing we see here is Sayid staring out at the water as they leave the island.

Back in the future, Sayid goes to a Veterinarian to get his gunshot would fixed. We see that he is talking to his boss - a man you may be familiar with - his name is Ben. He reminds Sayid that killing the people on this list is helping his friends. Just which friends we don’t know….

Very good stuff. i can’t wait to see what happens next.