Directed By: Eric Laneuville

Written By: Co-executive producer Drew Goddard and Christina M. Kim

Episode Focus: Juliette (Elizabeth Mitchell)

Original U.S. Air Date: March 6, 2008

Reviewed by Chris Daniel

Back to on island action and a character that we haven’t heard much from in while. After last week’s mindblowing Desmond episode we get back to the regular formula. And by “regular” I mean an actual flashBACK, who would have thought? The title The Other Woman, has multiple meanings, it refers of course to Juliette originally being an Other as well as her relationship to Goodwin. We learned a lot about Juliette’s time on the island, that she was in fact having an affair with the married Goodwin. Her therapist was Goodwin’s wife. And best of all Ben is obsessed with her. We always knew that there was something strange about their relationship, but we could never be certain what it was. Now we know.

We also saw Daniel and Charlotte go on a little trip. There mission was to find yet another Dharma station, the Tempest, and shut it down. The Tempest(get your Shakespeare reference here) was/is a power station on the island that contains chemicals that, according to the freighter folks, Ben plans to use against every one on the island. Daniel succeeds at the last moment to shut her down and saves the day. While the on-island action was pretty mundane there were some very interesting points made during the episode that made it better that it actually was.

• Ben gives us proof that Charles Widmore is the “man behind the curtain”. Perhaps not in the sense that Jacob was last year, but Penny’s pappy is certainly up to know good. First buying the Black Rock diary now beating people up in parking lots. Is there no end to his madness? I can’t imagine it will be long before we see an on air connection between Widmore/Piak(Sun’s Dad)/and Hanso. What The Lost Experience revealed to us nearly two years ago seems like its about to play out on the show.
• Ben is living the good life again. How long will it be before he double crosses Locke again?
• What was the meaning behind the horseshoe game if any? Was it just me or did it seem a really odd thing to place at the very end of an episode? Hurley is good at it too, which is surprising, he even seemed surprised. Remember when he was really good at HORSE in the season premier with Jack? Any connection or am I just reaching? The only thing that comes to mind maybe the freighter being a Trojan Horse reference. Thoughts?
• I you have the episode recorded, go back and listen to the whispers that Juliette hears in the jungle. Is that Ben’s voice, or was it just me? Has it been his voice all along, even in the Season 1 whispers?
• Juliette loves Jack. Who cares? If, at this point, you are watching the show for the Jack/Kate/Sawyer/Juliette crap then you obviously don’t understand what this show is bout at all.

Just one thing about next week. If Ben’s man on the freighter isn’t Michael then I will stop watching the show.