Lost Season Three: "One of Us"

Wow, what an episode

What I Liked:

• And the Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama goes to Elizabeth Mitchell. If she's not nominated, I will be offended. And so should you.
• Now pretty much everyone is back on the beach sans Locke.
• Answers! Tons of answers*.
• I think I'm finally okay with Sawyer and Kate being together
• Jin has become quite snarky
• Lots of Other-y goodness: Ben, Richard Alpert, Ethan, Goodwin, Mikhail
• Juliet putting Sayid and Sawyer in their place

What I Didn't Like

• Okay, this isn't really the writers' fault and is actually a testament to their work but damnit, I really wanted Juliet to be good now and I wanted Jack to be right.

What We Learned:

• Juliet really likes the song, "Downtown"
• Juliet was dropped off at a private airport (Herarat Aviation) to begin her work for Mittelos Bioscience. She thought she was only going to be working for six months
• She gets tranquilized and taken to the island via submarine where she meets Ben.
• She is supposed to trying to get the Others women pregnant but they keep dying.
• Pregnancy is fatal to women on the island
• Juliet wanted to go home after it appeared her experiments were not working but Ben told her that her sister Rachel had a relapse and her cancer returned*. If Juliet stayed, Jacob would cure Rachel
• In season one, when Claire was having those crazy dreams, it was Ethan taking blood samples because they were testing the theory if it was then island killing the women*
• Ethan and Juliet were trying to save Claire's life*
• When Hurley discovered Ethan was an Other, he went rogue and kidnapped Claire on his own*
• Juliet was in a relationship with Goodwin, the Other that Ana Lucia killed
• "Carrie" was the book they were discussing in the book club
  
• After the plane crashed, Mikhail pulled files on everyone on the plane
• Richard videotaped Rachel with her son, Julian, and Ben showed Juliet that they were okay
• The Others implanted something in Claire to make her sick so Juliet can appear to be a hero.
  
• Juliet is still secretly working with the Others. The whole gas/handcuff thing was a plan by Ben. They are going to reconnect in one week
• Getting Juliet away from whatever perm product she was using in Miami was the best thing that ever happened to her

Questions

• Who is Jacob?
• Is Jacob on the island?
• Did Rachel's cancer really return?
• Was everything Juliet said about Ethan and Claire true?
• Why did the Others kidnap all the children?
• Why did Ben get cancer?
• Is Juliet going to turn on The Others?
• Is Sun going to die?
• Is the fact that all the pregnant women die the reason Ben doesn't want Alex with Karl in case she gets knocked up?
  
• Is Desmond going to see a flash of The Others' plan?
• Has Kate finally made her decision to be with Sawyer?
• Is Jack ever going to stop trying to protect women who don't need his protection?
• How does Jack get pussy whipped by women he's never slept with?
• Or is this another Jack plan he's keeping to himself?
  
• What is going to happen in one week?

* Could be a lie