One Guy's Immediate Reaction to the "Lighthouse"

1. Where was Sawyer? What did Smokey do with Sawyer while Smokey was off to visit Claire?

2. How was Claire able to see that Smokey, in his Locke form, was not Locke but her "Friend"? And based on her statement, it certainly sounds like her father is not Smokey.... is Christian simply "on Smokey's team"?

3. Who is sideways Jack's ex-wife? It seems he has at least a functional relationship with her since they share (somewhat)custody and he knows where she hides an extra key...

4. Whose funeral did Jack's mom reference? Its clear that Christian's coffin is still lost, and it seems its not David's mother (whose house we saw Jack visit) who died so..whose death upset Jack's sideways son, David? And did you see the sign at the piano concert "Welcome all candidates"? Nice to see Dogen and Jack there together.

5. Although Jacob (aka Rita's ex- this still makes me giggle and secretly suspect that jacob's going to sneak off and tie off and shoot up every time he disappears from Hurley...) continues to appear to Hurley, it seems as though he's as reliable of a character as any one else. Ironic that he's so much more involved in death than in life. The "Obi Wan" line was classic.

6. When Dogen found Hurley wandering the Temple and Hurley, at Jacob's command, asserted his right as a "candidate" Dogen muttered under his breath in Japanese '"You're lucky that I have to protect you. Otherwise I'd have cut your head off."- Credit, Lospedia.com

7. Did you see all of those names on the Lighthouse wheel? Austen- 51. Not in the cave. Also, Linus was on there too- Ben or Roger?. I think you get crossed off here even if you aren't dead, even though Smokey clearly implied that you get crossed off the cave list if you die... I think this is Jacob's list, and the cave was Smokey's list. We saw Dawson (Michael/Walt?), Littelton (Clare/Aaron?), (Charlotte) Lewis, Faraday, (Juliette) Burke, Rousseau, and... it really looked like there were 360 names there. Not that many in the cave. Not even close. Assuming the "candidates" are indeed intended to replace Jacob, it makes sense that Jacob would have the more comprehensive list.

8. Why was Claire brought to the temple? By whom? Was she dunked in the water? Did she fail her tests too? If nothing else this episode confirms that failing the test = Team Smokey. Also, Claire's story seems to reinforce that passing/failing has to do with memory. We were told when Ben was taken to the temple that he'd lost his memory. Both Sayid and Claire retained their memory. A consequence of Smokey? Methinks so.

9. The Lighthouse reflections showed the temple where Sun & Jin were married and the church where Sawyer's parents' funeral was held in addition to Jack's mother's home.

10. The musical selection chosen by David, Jack's son is the same one played by Faraday in the episode "The Variable."

11. Note the bottle of MacCutcheon's whiskey on the Shephard's liquor cabinet? I wonder what a bottle of that stuff would run me at LIV.

12. Anyone else think it ironic that Claire, who is "Infected" according to Dogen, told Jin that one thing that will kill him on the island is "infection"?

Finally...
Who is coming to the island? It's gotta be Widmore, right?