There's something on the freighter prohibiting the radar from working and we are back where we were when the engines were broken, and we soon find out it's a heck of a lot of C4 explosives. Who put them there? Why would someone want to blow up the thing that is seemingly the only way home? If I had to make a guess I'd say Keamy has done it, as insurance so that not only won't the freighter leave without him and his men but that everyone else won't get rescued if they manage to get off the Island to the freighter. Keamy is a great villain, one of the true "bad guys" we get to hate in the way one should be and he has been the cause of a lot of the events in the short time he's been on the show. No doubt he will be gotten the better of sooner or later.

At the Orchid station Ben, Locke, and Hurley find that Keamy's team are already there and already Ben has a plan. He gives Locke some very specific instructions which leads him to "the real Orchid station". What is the Orchid? Is it the reason Mr Widmore wants the Island so much? I am going to go out on a limb and say that it has something to do with why Richard doesn't seem to age. I think the secret to the Island's true power is contained within the Orchid station.

Ben's plan to distract Keamy and his men is to just give himself up. He simply walks out into where the men are patrolling, with his hands up, and says, "My name is Benjamin Linus. I believe you're looking for me." I absolutely love how Ben has become much more of a good guy, certainly not the evil one we once took him for. It was the sense, as it was with all of The Others, that we didn't know anything about him that made him so seemingly evil but now that we know his back story and what he's prepared to do to help people, he has become a very likeable character, with both good and bad qualities that the rest of the characters have. He might actually be the one who ultimately saves the survivors.

The flash-forwards in this episode are a mix of all of the Oceanic 6 and it was very interesting to see them together off the Island, in particular at Hurley's birthday. Even though you know that things don't turn out so well for Hurley, Nadia, or Sayid it still brought a smile to my face seeing them together somewhere other than the jungle or the beach.