4x03 Initial Reactions

This episode was an interesting one to say the least, with a shocker of an ending, although I'll get on to that a little later.
So it’s confirmed that Sayid has got his ticket off the island as he strikes a deal with Frank Lapidus. After this we move on into the flash-forward. It was interesting that the golf course guy suddenly got shaken up when Sayid said "I'm one of the Oceanic 6", perhaps this was just because he remembered who Sayid was. Then something somewhat unexpected happens and Sayid pulls a gun out on him. It would be interesting to know why Sayid killed him, but perhaps it was just something Ben asked for. (I'll talk Ben later!)
So how about the vanishing shack...It seems that it wasn't in fact Hurley just going crazy and perhaps the shack can appear in various different places. Perhaps it's even a projection by the smoke monster.
The bracelet Sayid took off Naomi looked similar to the one of the woman Sayid was with, I didn't catch the inscription, I'll check that out in another post.
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Perhaps something that might get overlooked in this episode is the apparent time difference from the outside world an the island, 31 minutes. Dan said "This is not good". Now that is something I want to know more about, perhaps the time difference could have an affect on some of the properties of the island, for example healing, although the length of time seems he same, just not the sync. Then again, maybe the payload clock gained time when it was where ever the hell it was for the amount of time it hadn't appeared. Anyway I've got a lot more to say on this so I imagine another article about it.
Ben's secret room wasn't too much of a surprise although that fact that he had a ton of currency and what looked like about 9 or 10 different passports leads me to think he hasn't been on the island all of his life, and that he might well be up to a little more than we thought.
I'm going to skip right ahead to the ending - Sayid and Desmond got on the chopper and headed out off the island. Hopefully we will find out if they are successful (unlike Desmond with his boat) or not. Then we see Ben stitching up Sayid, and he is portrayed to be his Boss. How the hell did he get off the island?? Perhaps it was more than the "Oceanic 6" that got off but the 6 were hyped up because they were supposedly dead. Theories welcome!
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