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Man, Lost is sweet. It gets confusing, but it’s so worth it just to see what happens next.

The episode starts with Desmond running through a cramped marketplace in a foreign country, looking for some guy who turns out to be a doctor. So is this a flashback? Yes, but not in a way that will add to the confusion. Penny is on the boat, in labor, and the doctor helps her deliver a healthy baby boy. Three years later, Desmond and family are nearing London as he sets out to find Daniel Faraday’s mother.

Once at Oxford, Desmond finds out that Faraday’s experiments were shadier than he expected. He is directed to the house of a woman whose mind is lost in time because of Faraday’s experiments. Her sister reveals that he abandoned her, and the man who funded the experiments and is now paying to take care of the girl is none other than Charles Widmore. Desmond visits him, coerces him into telling him that Faraday’s mom is in Los Angeles, and leaves, ignoring Charles’ warnings about keeping Penny safe. He’s ruthless, but at least he cares about his daughter.

Back on the island, the time-jumpers are still stuck with the soldiers who shoot flaming arrows. Daniel, Charlotte and Miles are kidnapped and taken to the soldiers’ camp. Their leader turns out to be Richard, who is still ageless. He thinks they’re part of the Dharma Initiative, who have been attacking them. Daniel somehow knows about a hydrogen bomb they have and tells them to bury it if they want to keep it from going off. Somewhere along the way, he confesses his love for Charlotte, too.

Locke, Sawyer and Juliet find the camp, too, when one of the soldiers they’ve captured gets away and runs back there. That soldier turns out to be a young Charles Widmore, who seems just as mean and nasty in the 1950s as he does in the present. Juliet reveals that Richard is, not surprisingly, very old. Locke talks to him and tells him to visit him when he’s a child to prove that he is their leader. Before Richard can tell Locke how to get off the island, though, another big, white flash happens, and they disappear. The episode ends with Charlotte collapsing with a really bad nosebleed.

All in all, it’s a satisfactory episode. Nothing really big happens, but all the little tidbits of information they reveal make the show worth watching. That “Oh!” moment when they reveal something surprising makes up for the many, many unanswered questions that remain. It shows that maybe, just maybe, they really do know exactly what they’re doing.

This episodes gets 3 out of 4 Big White Flashes.