The Lost Diary

00:04 -- "The Others are coming." -- Danielle. No joke: that line gave me goosebumps, even now.

00:05 -- "There are only three choices: run, hide or die." -- Danielle. She paints a pretty rosy picture, doesn't she?

00:07 -- I spent the better part of today framing movie posters. The frames are pre-built -- just pop off the back, slide the poster in, put the back back on and then hang. It was a nightmare. The fact that Michael, fictional or not, built a raft and is now setting sail, kind of depresses me. I am not handy at all.

00:08 -- A pillar of black smoke, five kilometers inland. That can't be good.

00:11 -- Pre-flight again, we're introduced to Ana Lucia as she hits on Jack at the airport bar. Ana Lucia will never be more liked on this show than she is right now.

00:12 -- "They stuck me all the way in the back of the plane, " -- Ana Lucia.

00:14 -- Watching Michael and Jin argue is always one of my favorite things to see on "Lost." They don't have the natural chemistry of Hiro and Ando on "Heroes," but they're cute nonetheless.

00:15 -- The Australian cop reads Sawyer a laundry list of things he's been busted for. If he's been arrested that many times, guess he's not as good of a con man as we're supposed to think.

00:18 -- Sawyer tells Jack about his run-in with Jack's dad at the bar in Australia and I have to admit I got a little choked up -- even though I knew it was coming.

00:20 -- The Marshal is checking in his guns with airport security and goes into a whole diatribe about how terrible a person Kate is.

00:21 -- "THAT is why I need five guns." -- The Marshal

00:23 -- Jack is rounding up people to go get the dynamite, Michael is getting set to launch the raft, and Charlie is collecting messages in a bottle. One of those things pisses me off.

00:25 -- The dynamite crew is walking to parts of the island we haven't seen before. Of course, maybe we would have seen these parts before if the Losties had actually bothered to look around the island a bit.

00:28 -- "Just be very careful with it." -- Artz. Gee, they couldn't have come up with that advise on their own?

00:29 -- "RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN!" -- Artz

00:30 -- Danielle explains that the "monster" is a security system designed to protect the island. This is one of those sentences that sounds crazy on any other show.

00:31 -- "He'll take care of you." -- Walt to Shannon, about Vincent. A reader emailed me this week, saying Vincent is more important to things than we realize. I don't know if that's true or not, but this scene sure suggests he might be.

00:32 -- Boone is back. I'll be ok, I just need a minute.

00:33 -- "You have no idea what I'm capable of." -- Shannon. I know you're capable of being a bitch.

00:35 -- "This is the Black Rock." -- Danielle.

00:36 -- "Relax, they don't speak English." -- Bitch in the airport, talking about Jin and Sun. Or do they?

00:37 -- Sun made Jin a Korean-to-English dictionary for the raft trip. Again, I am a tad choked up.

00:38 -- From now on, I am banning any reference to Sun when I rank the hottest women on "Lost" because it would be disrespectful to Jin. She is off-limits.

00:39 - Jin STILL has the handcuff around his wrist. That's crazy.

00:40 -- I wonder if Charlie's bottle will ever come into play again.

00:41 -- The S.S. The Thing Is We're Gonna Have to Take the Boy has set sail.

With all the talk of the writer's strike and how it might affect "Lost" this season, this episode really hit the spot. Hearing Danielle say "The Others are coming" was just as creepy now as it was then -- actually it might have been more so.

I needed a great episode of television to restore my faith. If writers can create an hour of television as good as this, they deserve whatever they ask for.

A+.