Sugar Processor. I love this show. Who would think that making sugar is a dirty job? I sure wouldn't have. My wife didn't. But it is. Perhaps one of the dirtiest. Sure, you have the machinery, which can get dirty anywhere, and it's no exception here. But the actual sugar is nasty - when pressing the cane to create the juice it's like dirty runoff water, and it doesn't get any better as it goes through the plant.
After a couple weeks off for the NCAA tournament, we get back to some new new content. I don't know if it's because of the break, or in spite of it, but this episode was actually pretty good.
The ghost this time around was from 30 years ago, a black man who died in a fight with a white man, and of course racial overtones polarize the sides, and no one can see which side is in the right, as both sides seem to make their points well.
As luck would have it, another ghost comes to the rescue (this is the nurse from a prior episode, who Melinda owes a favor - she was in the hospital the night of the incident and knows the truth) and everything turns out as well as it can.
A strange lockdown was in effect in the hatch this week, with the living quarters sealed off from the rest of the hatch. Locke let 'Henry' out of the armory to help him, then relied on him to reset the countdown after getting stuck under one of the doors when it came back down partway.
Meanwhile, the flashbacks were of another experience with Locke's father, showing how things apparently ended - with Locke's father faking his own death to get away with a large con, and Locke also losing Helen in the process. As this was happening, Jack was taking on Sawyer in a card game to try and get the medical supplies (and soundly whipping him), and Charlie, Kate and Sayid returned from their expedition across the island to find the balloon.
The good news is that they found it. The bad news is that they dug up the grave of Henry's wife - only to find a man buried there. A man with an ID card identifying him as Henry, and the picture doesn't match the guy in the hatch. Not looking good for the captive.
