Episode Title: "The Economist"

Episode Number: Season 4, Episode 3 (#72 Overall)

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Air Date: 2/14/08


Synopsis: "Locke's hostage may be the key to getting off the island, so Sayid and Kate go in search of their fellow castaway in an attempt to negotiate a peaceful deal."

Guest starring are Ken Leung as Miles, Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday, Rebecca Mader as Charlotte, Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus, Mira Furlan as Danielle Rousseau, Marsha Thomason as Naomi, Armando Pucci as Italian man and Thekla Reuten as Elsa.

"The Economist" was written by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz and directed by Jack Bender. (ABC Medianet)


Flashback: The flashback follows Sayid after the crash. He has now become a hitman, under the employment of Ben, and appears to killing targets in order to keep remaining survivors on the island from being hurt.


OMG Moments:

• Sayid is another member of "The Oceanic Six".
• The man Sayid is working for is Ben Linus.

New Clues:

• Sayid has a "list" of people, similar to the Others list at the end of the second season/beginning of the third, only Sayid's list is compiled of people who are not on the island.
• Ben has a secret room in his house, filled with extra clothes, money from around the world, and passports. This confirms Ben has been off the island and that the picture Miles showed Jack was not a fake.
• We find out Ben gets off the island along with the Ocianic 6.
• We find out that Ben still has some control over the people on the island, and he is using it to make Sayid work for him.

Questions:

• Who is RG (the inscriber of Naomi's bracelet)?
• What happened to Jacob's cabin?
• What does Faraday's experiment prove?
• Who is the economist?

Trivia:


Theories:
1. I'm starting to get the sense that the island is in a fold in the time continuum. This would explain Faraday's experiment, Desmond's flashes, and may even be the reason we saw Dharma drop off a package of food in the second season (Although that still puzzles me). Maybe it can't be seen from outside, because it exhists in another time altogether.