Claire's sonogram has the date October 22, 2004?!

Back at the hospital with Claire, she is looking at her sonogram which in a potentially huge revelation, has the date October 22, 2004 instead of the original Ocean 815 date of September 22, 2004. What exactly does this mean for our alternate timeline?

[UPDATE: Damon and Carlton have confirmed that the new date was a prop error, so we can stop reading into the different date.]

After that little bombshell, Claire is approached by a Detective Rasmussen and another officer looking for Joan Hart which is one of Kate's aliases. Claire covers for her as she hides in a supply room. Kate emerges after the police leave.

Claire gives Kate her credit card to help her out and then admits that she doesn't know where she came up with the name Aaron. She says "It's like, I don't know. I knew it or something." So we have another instance of our Losties, and not just the ones at the Swan site in 1977 and those we've seen touched by Jacob, seeming to remember bits of the original Oceanic 815 timeline. Also, Kate tells Claire she should keep the baby. It seems that little pieces of the original timeline are still falling into place.

Ethan is Claire's doctor at the hospital, Kate seems to recognize the name Aaron

Back the "alternate" timeline, Kate rushes Claire to the hospital where she is quickly taken inside. Kate is clearly paranoid about the police presence in the vicinity.

Once inside, Kate gets impatient waiting for a doctor and goes to find one herself. The first one she comes across is none other than Ethan Rom, who is going by Ethan Goodspeed here (since he is Horace Goodspeed's son). Once he gets inside with Claire, the scene is reminiscent of their scenes in the season 2 episode "Maternity Leave."

Ethan says that she can have the baby now or he can give her some drugs to slow the process down. He drops the line "I don't want to stick you with needles if I don't have to," which if you recall he did regularly at the medical station. Once she chooses to wait, an alarm sounds and in her panicked state, she says "Is Aaron okay?!" When Kate hears the name Aaron, her eyes widen and she looks stunned as if something in her mind briefly clicked with the original timeline (check out photo 8).

Everything then calms down and Claire can see Aaron on the screen once he's moved back into position. Kate is holding Claire's hand and that moment together is reminiscent of the moment they shared when Aaron was born on the island, but just slightly. The scene seems to solidify the bond these two have, no matter what events occur.

Charles Widmore wakes Locke, warns of impending war

At night, Charles Widmore is sitting by Locke's bed in the field hospital. He wakes Locke and tells him that he had a compound fracture and that the doctors there did their best, but he had a specialist flown in to properly reset his leg. Widmore says "It's nice to see you again John" but Locke doesn't recognize him. Widmore says "I met you when I was 17" and continues by saying that after all these years, Locke looks exactly the same. When Widmore says "My name is Charles Widmore," Locke looks shocked and even a bit scared. Locke tells Widmore that is has only been four days since they first met at the campsite on the island in 1954.

Widmore then confirms that the camera in the desert was his and Locke asks "How did you know I'd be there?" Widmore replies "Because that's the exit." Widmore says he was worried that Ben would trick Locke into leaving the island like he did to him. He continues by saying he was once the leader of the others who he calls "his people." He claims that they protected the island peacefully for more than three decades. He says but then he was exiled "by him." Locke then tells Widmore that Ben was already gone when he left and that he wasn't exiled, he chose to leave. Widmore asks why he would choose to leave and then pauses and somehow knows that Locke is there to bring his people back. Locke lies to him initially and says that's not why he is there, but Widmore knows that he's lying. Widmore then tells Locke that his friends have been back for three years and have been lying about what happened. He shows him a London Daily Tribune newspaper from January 14, 2005 that confirms his claim. Locke then admits that he's there to bring them back and Widmore says "I'm going to to everything in my power to help you do that." Locke asks him why he's going to help him, Widmore says "Because there's a war coming John, and if you're not back on the island when that happens, the wrong side is going to win." With that ominious line, the scene ends.

So, how much truth is Widmore telling about his life on the island and his leadership of the others? He claims they protected the island peacefully, but Widmore killed Cunningham without hesitation and the military presence on the island was wiped out too. If Widmore was exiled in the 80s though, that would mean he was gone before the purge of the Dharma Initiative in 1992. It's hard to believe Widmore just as it is hard to believe Ben, though there are probably at least pieces of truth in his story. I guess the big question that lingers is, what is this war that is coming?

Emily Locke in Hosptial gives birth to John

Here we see Emily at the hospital after she is hit by the car. She tells the nurse that she is almost six months pregnant. She then gives birth to John Locke and he is put into isolation due to being premature. She yells to the nurse to name him John.

Michael's vision/dream vs. reality - Nurse Libby

Here's the big one. In Michael's vision, his nurse is Libby. Are his island actions just haunting him or is Michael seeing things off the island like many characters have on the island (ie the horse, Walt, etc)?

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Michael's vision/dream vs. reality - Old man in hospital

The old man in the hospital next to Michael has a breathing tube in during Michael's vision, but only has an oxygen mask in reality.

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Michael's vision/dream vs. reality - Hospital monitor

A number of things are different between Michael's vision in the hospital and between reality.

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