HOLY COW! I was NOT ready for what happened tonight. That whole thing with Jacob just weirded me out. I'm still trying to decide whether it was cool that someone was actually there, or it was too much of a stretch. I was beginning to think the explanation for the Island was a scientific and logical one, but now it looks like there's more proof of a supernatural explanation. It was very interesting to see Ben's childhood and why he is such a disturbed human being. When he gassed his father right in the van with him it pretty much sealed the fact that he's a complete nutjob. When he was talking to the empty chair I thought he was completely off his rocker. It was really cool that John could hear him...not so cool that he got shot. Do you guys actually think he's going to die? That would be a huge shocker. The one thing that confused me is how Richard Alpert could not have aged at all. I think he's supposed to have aged from the time Ben was a child to today, so I'm going to assume it was just a poor effort on the part of the makeup team to make him look a lot younger with the long hair or much older in the present day.