Most of the episodes have been new, but for awhile they were running the old one the same night as the new one to help viewers get caught up. Makes sense to me.
They opened the hatch and the Scottish man was down there, the same one who Jack met 15 years earlier when he was running up and down stadium steps for exercise. But this time the Scottish man wasn't as nice. After he calmed down he showed them a few things and he left the hatch.
Locke, Jack and the rest learned you have to punch these numbers into the computer every 108 minutes. The numbers add up to 108, and they are the same numbers Hurley used to win a mega lotto. But hitting the mega lottery also brought him bad misfortune. They are the same numbers the French lady had written down over and over.
Jin, Michael and Locke washed ashore on the other side of the island and were taken prisoner by the tail section survivors, who thought they were The Others, which are bad people.
About this time they had an episode where they showed what happened to the tail section survivors for the first 40 days. As soon as they came ashore The Others took some of their camp members, including two younf children. They became paranoid that one handsome man was a spy so Ana Lucia dug a pit and tossed him in. At night another member of the tail sections let him loose, saying Ana was going to really hurt him (cut off fingers). As soon as he got out of the pit that man broke his neck, killing him.
The next day Ana Lucia and this man went up on a hill. She let it be known to him that She noticed that after they crashed he appeared on the beach and was dry. She knew he was a spy for The Others and after a struggle she killed him.
Ana and the other tail section survivors (tailies) trekked through the jungle to the other side. Sawyer, weak and dying from his funshot wound, had to be moved on a stretcher. As they went up on a rise they heard whispering and another mmber of the tailies was taken.
Meanwhile Sayid and Shannon had formed a romance. She kept having visions or sightings of young Walter, the black boy who had been taken by The Others while they were on the makeshift raft.
Shannon said she had a hard time trusting men because so many had used her. She saw another sighting of Walter and ran after him in the rain, with Sayid in pursuit. They had a fight and he finally won her trust. Then he saw Walter, who looked like he had materialized in a thicket. Shannon ran after him and they heard a gunshot. Ana Lucia had shot her, thinking she was one of The Others.
Shannon was dead and buried the next day, next to her stepbrother Boone. They showed the Hatch to the tailies. Kate nursed Sawyer back to health.
Then we saw a background story on Charlie, who was in a band called Drive Shaft, until his brother started doing drugs and couldn't function. When his brother met a girl and had a baby with her, he deided to clean up his act, so he sold Charlie's beloved piano that his mother had given to him as a child. His brother then left him. So Charlie was alone with nobody and no money, which is why he took a job selling copiers, as seen in last season, but he had also become hooked on drugs and stole off of a girl he met to supply his habit.
Currently, Charlie is having visions and the islanders feel he is back to using drugs that they found on another crashed plane on the island, but it was the crashed Cessna that Mr. Ecko's brother was flying, not knowing it was full of heroin filled in hundreds of statue of the Virgin Mary.
During a vision episode Charlie took Claire's baby, which upset her. I think I already told this part.
About the island--there was a scene where Charlie and Ecko were chased by the monster, which was like smoke but seemed to be alive. Ecko stopped running and turned to face it, and it stopped chasing him. Ecko saw scenes of his life in the past, which was rough.
Also, according to a film strip Locke and Jack watched in the hatch, the island was part of an experiment called the Dharma Iniative. The saw scenes of polar bears fighting. Keep in mind that twice they were charged by polar bears, and last season they showed a scene of Michael giving toddler Walter a stuffed polar bear cub. In the background you can see the symbol of the Dharma Iniative of a bridge pillar.
And in seaon 1 Walter was reading a comic book he found with a polar bear on the back cover.
*So, polar bears must mean something we don't understand yet.
*We don't know who The Others are, except they are not friendly but they look normal. They also don't want the survivors of the crash on "their island."
*Walter is still missing, but when Michael was on the computer someone started IMing him claiming to be Walter. Michael fled looking for him.
*the cranky Scottish man hasn't been seen since fleeing the Hatch.
*Ana Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez) is aggressive and trigger happy. She once was pregnant but lost the fetus in a shooting.
* The Smoke Monster still baffles us, but it isn't the only monster. I don't think it's the same monster that seemed invisible and knocked over trees.
* When viewers played scenes of Walter trying to talk in those scenes where he seemed to materialize, he said something like, "Don't push the button, the button is bad."
* Every episode leaves clues whether we see them or not. Like the Dharma logo being seen on the back of the shark after The Other took Walter and shot Sawyer.
*More people are going to die.
*Everybody seems connected in some way or another, as seen in flashbacks.
*The plane was two hours off course. Before it crashed Locke was paralyzed. Afterwards he could walk. We don't know why yet, and he hasn't told anyone he was once paralyzed.
* Kate was a fugitive--she burned the house down of a stepfather who was molesting her.
* Jack and the Scottish Guy talked to eachother 15 years earlier. Then we find out Scottish Guy is the one who was in the hatch by himself for years.
* Jack had a patient who was badly hurt in a car accident and had a severed spinal cord. Then through a "miracle" it healed and she could walk. They fell in love but years later she wanted a divorce. His wife is the one who killed Shannon and Boone's parents in the car accident.
* Hurley (overweight guy) was once in a mental institution, and one of the nurses from there is a survivor of the crash!
* The French woman from Season 1 is still out there. We haven't seen her in Season 2, but one of The Others referred to another one of them as Alex, the name of the French lady's son.
Hope this helps!
