LOST episode 4.02- "Confirmed Dead"

What happened in this episode: Jack and Kate find Daniel in the jungle. He explains that rescuing them is not their primary objective for coming to the island. They use his sat phone to find Miles who pulls a gun on Jack and demands to be taken to Naomi because he thinks they killed her. He does his thing and affirms their story that it was Locke who threw the knife into her back. Miles thinks he can boss everyone around, but then Jack says that his people are hiding nearby with guns. Sayid and Juliet arrive. Frank joins the group next after landing the helicopter. Team Locke apprehends Charlotte on their way to The Barracks. Locke asks Ben the question that every single person who watches LOST wants to know: "What is the monster?" Ben says he doesn't know, but he does know why the Freighties are there. He starts telling details about Charlotte's life. He knows because he has a man on the Freighter (maybe Charlotte herself?). The Freighties came to the island to get Ben.

Flashbacks revealed that Oceanic 815 was found on the bottom of the ocean with the bodies of all passengers accounted for. Hence the "confirmed dead" thing. We also get a glimpse into the back story of each of the Freighties. Daniel Farraday is a physicist (sorta. He doesn't like to be pigeonholed.) and for no apparent reason cries when he sees news stories about what happened to the plane. Frank Lepidus is a pilot and was supposed to be flying our Losties from Sydney to L.A. He recognizes that the underwater plane is not really 815 because the body of the pilot (monster-ravaged Greg Grunberg) did not have a wedding ring. Charlotte Staples Lewis- referencing, I presume, Clive Staples (a.k.a. C.S.) Lewis- is an archaeologist who also believes that 815 is not in fact the plane from the bottom of the ocean. She goes to a dig site in the desert where a polar bear skeleton is being excavated and finds a Dharma collar (Hydra station). Miles Strom is a ghostbuster... And now-dead Naomi was assigned by creepy Matthew Abbadon to protect the little team on their mission to find Ben.

Who I thought was the most awesome in this episode: Ben. Beaten, tied up, and led along like a dog, Ben still manages to get inside people's heads. Sawyer gives him the endearing nickname "Yoda" and says that it's just a matter of time before he is in control again.