I'll be starting the live-blog of tonight's episode shortly. I'm expecting that all the "I want answers, now!" people will at least be somewhat sated after tonight's episode.

The title of this episode reminds me of the French song Shannon sang in the early part of Season one. Remember? "La Mer"?

Major Spoilers below the fold . . .

Lost. Wreckage of a boat . . . A pregnant lady in red who I don't recognize clings to the wreckage, as it and she is washed ashore on our favorite island O' mystery.

She makes her way to a river and sees the reflection in the water of a strange, non-English speaking lady wearing white. I can't tell what language is being spoken. Spanish I think?

The woman in red is named Claudia. They are sitting in the very caves where our Losties holed up back in Season one.

Now they are both speaking English.

"How did you get here?" Claudia asks the lady.

"Every question I answer will simply lead to another question." WORD!

Claudia starts going into loud, agonizing labor as she is midwifed by the lady. Out pops little Jacob!

But she's still (obviously) expecting, because she's still HUGE. I predict some Esau-ness is coming. And out he comes.

Jacob is wrapped in white swaddles, and BabyMIB in dark. The lady in white's face got all scared-looking when she first laid eyes on BabyMIB. She seems concerned. Very concerned. As the momma asks to hold the babies, the lady in white hits Jacob/BabyMIB's mom hard in the head with a rock, killing her.

At least she said she was sorry.

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Back to the beach. A young, dark-clad boy picks up something (a box? Maybe a Locke Box? Oh, it's a backgammon set). The twins start to play, because LittleMIB "just knows" how to play.

LittleMIB tells Jacob to promise not to tell Mother that they are playing.

"So, do you want to play or don't you Jacob?"

"Yes, I want to play." And so it starts.

Later in the caves. Creepy mom: "Where's your brother?"

He's down at the beach, watching the water.

"Do you love me, Jacob?"

"Yes."

"Then tell me what happened."

Mother strolls down to the beach, where LittleMIB is.

"May I join you?"

"Sure. Jacob told you what I found."

She tells him that Jacob isn't like him. LittleMIB is "special"?

"Can I keep the game?"

"Of course you can. That's why I left it for you."

He thinks it came from across the sea.

"There is no where else. The island is all there is."

She explains that he and Jacob came from her, and she came from her mother, who is now dead.

"What's 'dead'?"

"Something you'll never have to worry about."

Later, the boys are chasing a boar, but someone else gets to it first. Savages. The boys hide. When the savages take off, the boys run back to tell their mother.

"Where did they come from. They looked like us!"

"They're not like us. We're here for a reason."

"What reason?"

[insert standard Lost "There's no time to explain" excuse here. They'll just have to trust her, etc. etc.]

As they walk through the jungle, the boys blindfolded, she explains that men are all the same. They come, they destroy, etc.

LittleMIB looks like Zac Effron, by the way.

She explains that they are different, because they can never hurt each other.

They walk toward a very Cair Paravel/Narnia-looking glowing cave. She forbids them from going down there. It's full of light. "The warmest, brightest light you've ever felt."

This is a little bit of the same light that is inside of every man. If the light goes out here, she tells them, it goes out everywhere.

She tells them that they will protect this place, forever. Well, at least one of them will.

Zac smiles.

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The boys, back to the game. White rocks, black rocks, and Jacob is cheating. LittleZac made the rules of the game, of course. Just then their real mother shows up, but only Zac can see her.

He takes off, saying he's going for a walk, but instead finds his mom. She informs him that she's dead. She wants to show him something. "Where you came from. It's across the island, a place you've never seen."

She shows him the village where the other people on her ship have settled, and tells him that they came across the sea. Where he came from as well.

And, by the way, your "mother" is not your mother. "I am"

Cave camp, LittleMIB wakes up Jacob as fakeMom sleeps. They travel by torch. "We're leaving, and we're never coming back."

"Where?"

"To the people. They're our people."

When LittleMIB tells Jacob that she's not even their mother, Jacob begins to beat the tar out of him. FakeMom breaks up the fight.

LittleMIB confronts her. "You killed my mother." He's going to go across the sea. He implores Jacob to come with him, but we both know that's not going to happen.

FakeMom: "Whatever you have been told, you will never be able to leave this island."

He tells her that he's going to prove her wrong and walks away.

Cut to mom and Jacob on the beach. She admits to having killed their mother. "If I had let her live, she would have taken you back to her people, and those people are bad. Very bad."

"Am I good mother?"

"Yes!"

"Then why do you love littleMIB more than me?"

"I love you in . . in different ways." Reassuring. I love it when my Mom tells me that too . . .

"Will you stay with me Jacob. Please?"

"Yes . . . for awhile."

Side note: Interesting how Jacob, littleMIB and FakeMom had their own Others to deal with. Kind of a constant theme on this show . . .

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Jacob is grown up, and has learned to use the loom/big knitting thing. Momma's there too, looking no better for the wear.

Jacob observes his brother, the MIB we now all recognize, living among the natives.

Jacob and MIB play backgammon. Jacob is watching the people, because he wants to know if mother is right.

One thing's for sure. The proto-Others may be not be bad, but they sure are covered in dirt.

MIB thinks they are bad (he's dirty too). But they are a means to an end. He's going to leave. He found a way off the island.

"That's impossible. There is no way off the island."

In answer, MIB throws a dagger against a magnetic well. Evidently there are places all over this island where metal behaves strangely.

MIB tells him that when they find those places, they dig. And they've found something.

Jacob is disconcerted. He doesn't want to leave this island. He doesn't believe that his mother will die.

MIB: "Everything dies." He's certainly not that much like Zac Effron anymore.

Jacob tells his Mom that MIB has found a way to leave the island.

Mother goes to look into things, spying on the villagers. She comes upon MIB, working his smithy. She startles him, and he pulls a knife.

"May I join you?"

"Yes. How are you?"

"I'm worried."

"Well, you should be." MIB hasn't been able to find the light under the island. He's been trying to figure out how to reach it.

She tells him he has no idea what he's in for.

"I have no idea, because you wouldn't tell me." Story of our lives.

He digs out part of the wall, and there's the golden light. Well, maybe. It might just be sunlight.

He points out a wheel. He's going to attach the wheel, somehow, to the light. And then he's going to turn it, and leave the island.

"I'm special, mother."

"Then, I suppose this is goodbye," she says.

She reaches to hug him. They embrace, and they both look sad. I'm wondering if she's going to try and off him.

"I am so sorry," she says as she smashes his head against the wall. Yep, saw that coming.

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It is night. Jacob sleeps.

His mother wakes him up. "It's time."

"Something happened, didn't it."

She claims to have let MIB go.

They walk off by torchlight to the Cave of Golden Light.

"What's down there?"

"Life, Death, Rebirth. It's the source, the heart of the island. Just promise me. No matter what you do, you will never go down there."

If he did, it would be worse than dying. Much worse.

She uncorks the wine bottle from a few shows ago, and begins to incant something in a different language. She hands him a glass. "Drink this."

"What happens if I do?"

It's his commitment to protect this place. He doesn't want to. He knows that MIB was her favorite, "And now I'm all you have."

She tells him he doesn't really have a choice. "Take the cup and drink."

He takes and drinks. Is this eternal life?

"Now, you and I are the same," she tells him.

Cut to daylight and MIB, passed out on the ground. He comes to. He's kinda bloody.

He sees that his well has been filled in. Man!

Behind his shoulder, he sees the smoke of his burning village. Everyone's dead, so I'm not sure what happened. My guess is that Crazy had something to do with this.

He finds his backgammon set in the ashes and starts to cry.

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Conversation on the couch . . .

Daughters and wife are grumbling . . .

Me, trying to be reassuring: "They're giving us answers every week!"

Bethany: "THEY'RE GIVING US ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS WE AREN'T ASKING!!"

Molly: "All I want to know is will Kate choose Jack or Sawyer."

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I see a beach, and new characters, and so naturally I assume this is Lost. But it's Brothers and Sisters.

Still commercials . . .

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Jacob and Mom walk.

"Storm coming."

"Yes there is. You should go, get some firewood."

She tells him to be careful, and that she'll see him back home, but I doubt it.

She walks up to the caves. It's dark, and stuff has been messed with. She finds the backgammon set, and pulls out a black and a white rock.

She gets stabbed by MIB. I saw that coming but didn't have time to blog it before it happened. He looks sad.

"Why wouldn't you let me leave, Mother?"

"Because, I love you. Thank you." She dies.

Just then Jacob shows up. "What did you do?" He attacks MIB and starts beating the living crud out of him. MIB may be pretty good with a knife, but Jacob is golden gloves, baybee.

Jacob drags MIB down a jungle trail.

"You can't kill me Jacob. She made it that way. You can't!"

"Don't worry brothah brother, I'm not going to."

Jacob sends MIB down the river into the Cave of Golden Light. When MIB hits the cave, he gets "flushed", kind of, the light goes out and Smokie emerges.

Jacob washes his face off at the river. Off to the side he sees his brother's dead body, lying on some rocks, tangled in some limbs.

Adam and Eve. Mom and MIB.

He carries the body back to the caves, and lays MIB by Mom. I totally called that (well, ten seconds ago).

He puts the black and white rocks in a pouch. The same pouch (the show helpfully flashes forawrd) that Kate and Jack found.

Jacob puts their hands together as the flash-forwards to the Season One cave scene intersperse.

"Goodbye brother. Goodbye."

Sad.

The song The End, by the Doors, plays as we see various Losties reflected in mirrors.

BAD WOBOT!!!