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LOST continues to thrill and reveal.

Cabin Fever begins with the same record player and music that entertained Desmond in the Hatch during the years he spent pushing the button.  But this isn’t the hatch.  It’s the nineteen fifties and a teenage girl is defying her mom, getting ready for date with an older man.  Seconds later she leaves, emerging from a house similar to those of the island.  But she’s not on the island.  The rain is pouring, as it has on the island over and over.  The girl runs into oncoming traffic and is struck by a car.  She’ll live, but there’s a problem.  She’s six months pregnant.  She’s reached the month that babies on the island die, taking the lives of their mothers’ with them.  But again, she’s not on the island.

In the hospital she gives birth to John Locke.

This thrilling episode, full of Hurley’s one liners, poses as many questions as it answers.  How many times have reviewers said that over the last four years?  Finally, however, we are asking questions that are more focused.  We are given information that leads us towards the hazy theory resolutions.  And each week we are spoiled to thrills and chills and a few confirmations of long held beliefs about the show.  If you’ve given up on LOST, you might want to check back in.  LOST is going somewhere, somewhere fast.

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