Spoiler Policy and Supplement to 304 Recap

Last night, my brother pointed out that he shies away from this blog between the Thursday posts to avoid spoilers. Given the "post as you go" format, I agree that any spoiler or potential spoiler I post will smack a visitor right between the eyes. Some of you like 'em, some of you don't, so here's the new policy for this blog -

If I spot a self-explanatory spoiler elsewhere online, I'll give it a link in a new post, but I won't reveal its contents. If a spoiler helps to explain the current episode, I'll leave it to the last paragraph of the weekly recap post, so you can just stop reading when you see "Spoiler Warning". And if a spoiler that I have something to say about pops up, I'll edit a prior post, adding the spoiler to the bottom paragraph, and let you all know via a new post.

With that in mind, a couple more observations from "Every Man for Himself."

1. Sawyer was incarcerated in Florida. Kudos to Sinai for his comment (based on the location of Munson's millions) and to the screencaps on www.thetailsection.com that showed a visitor badge that read "Florida Department of Corrections."

2. The cartoon Jack was watching in the opening scene featured 4 (one of the numbers!) swans (the defunct hatch!) swimming in a row.

3. If the Others have a submarine, it may be called the "Galaga." Colleen mentioned in episode 2 this year that she was going out to the Galaga when she kissed Danny goodbye.

4. When the two Others extras injected Sawyer, the one said to the other (Other) "it has to go through the sternum, like in the movie." At the time it seemed like a reference to Pulp Fiction, but the ABC/ American Express recap poses the question of what movie they could be talking about? Could there be another orientation film of some sort in our future?

5. If I had to guess, Hyrda island is to the North of the "main" island. There are no references to the Hydra on the blast door map (click the last link on the list to the right), but there are references to journeys northward being too far from the Swan hatch to be feasible. Also, the two main "expeditions" around the island - Sayid's walk to the East and his boat trip with Jin and Sun to the West - were both interrupted long before they made it around the other side. And don't forget Eko's stick, which reads "lift up your eyes and look North."

That's all for this week. I have a few things planned for the 12-week hiatus set to begin in 2 weeks (I would not leave you guys hanging!). Next week's recap will be delayed as I have tickets to see Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin of the Penguins in their only trip to L.A. for the next three years on Wednesday night.