Interior shots of Eloise Hawking's church

Here's a few interior shots of Eloise Hawking's church. You can see the paint The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio behind Ms. Hawking. You can also see some of the stained glass inside the church. I wanted to get these shots out of the way before the massive post of the group in the Lamp Post Station. There will be more about the painting later.

Jack wakes up on the island, finds Hurley and Kate

The opening scene from episode six "316" was a doozy. We get to relive the opening scene in the series as Jack wakes up with the infamous close shot of his eye. He immediately seems relieved and even smiles slightly when he realizes he's back on the island. Jack is holding a scrap of paper that says "I wish" which we later learn is a piece of Locke's suicide note.

He hears Hurley yelling for help and finds him clinging to a guitar case in the water next to the waterfall. Jack dives in and saves him and quickly realizes that they can stand. That's when he notices Kate laying on a rock nearby. She is wet, but not in the water meaning she either made it to the rock, was pulled to the rock by someone or she somehow gently landed on the rock. Kate is briefly unconscious but Jack wakes her up and answers her partial question "Are we?" with "Yeah, we're back."

It the first moments of the episode, I was just waiting for Vincent to come out of the jungle. The scene was very close to the original scene in the pilot, he just seemed to end up in a different location on the island this time.

Jack and Sun meet Eloise Hawking, Desmond meets her again

When Ben, Jack and Sun arrive at the church where Eloise Hawking is, Ben gives Sun Jin's wedding ring. She tells him that Locke gave it to her when he was alive. Ben clarifies to Jack that Locke didn't come to him but he went to Locke. Sun agrees to go back to the island with Jack and Ben. That's when Desmond walks up and asks if they're here to see Daniel's mother too? Ben seems surprised that Eloise is Daniel's mother. Either that or he is surprised that Desmond knows this. They all proceed into the church and Desmond seems to immediately recognize Ms. Hawking. In case you forgot, Desmond encountered her in his time shifting after the Swan Station imploded in "The Constant" in season 3. Eloise says to Ben "I though I said all of them" but he replies "this is all I could get on short notice." She say "Well, I suppose it will have to do for now." The episode ends after she says "Alright, let's get started."

It seems that Locke did not approach Sun like he did the others who are off of the island. It would seem that he and Ben may have worked something out in advance to convince Sun to join the cause. Does Ben not know that Eloise Hawking is Daniel's mother? Why is Eloise Hawking not seem all that concerned that all of the six are not currently there? She seemed pretty adamant that all of them be there when she and Ben spoke earlier.

Locke is guided by Christian Shephard, turns frozen donkey wheel

Locke falls down the well which disappears when the island skips again. He ends up with something sticking through his leg when he falls and is in a lot of pain. He looks up where the well once was and is screaming for James (Sawyer) and then anyone. Christian Shephard then slowly walks out from behind a column. Christian says that he's there to help Locke the rest of the way. He then tells Locke that he was supposed to move the island, not Ben and that when has listening to Ben ever gotten him "anywhere worth a damn." He then tells Locke that when he gets off the island, he should gather up all of his friends and take them to Eloise Hawking in Los Angeles who will tell them how to get back to the island. Whe says that Richard told him he was going to die, Chritian says "I guess that's why they call it sacrafice."

Christian then tells Locke that the wheel is off it's axis and all he needs to do is "give it a little push." Locke asks if he can help him up, but Christian says he cannot. Locke pulls himself up and moves towards the wheel which is intermitedly emmiting bright light and jerking back and forth. Locke makes his way to the donkey wheel and breaks it loose and pulls it a little. As the light gets bright, Christian tells him to "say hell to my son." Locke ask "who's your son?," but he seems to disappear before he gets an answer.

Why does Christian keep appearing to help guide Locke? Why can't Christian help Locke up? Is it physical or just that Locke needs to do it on his own? Where will Locke land when he leaves the island? Most likely not the desert like Ben. Why did Locke need to move the island, not Ben? What happened to the Sawyer, Juliet and the rest of the gang when he turned the wheel? So many questions, so few episodes left.