When I heard the beeping of the smoke detector Jack finally disabled, all I could think of was life lines and a connections to hospital patients in critical conditions. Jack asking for a script for seditives; telling Hurley to take his medicine; the drugs in the operating room when Jack is being operated on...all connections to a 'state of mind'. More confusion! Dream state for the O6? (Please tell me the last epi of Lost isn't everyone waking up in a hospital room!)

Bri, definitely a running theme in this episode, and apparently a running theme for both Jack and Hurley in particular (drugs drugs drugs). The beeping made me think of a life line too....
But I definitely don't think they all end up in Cuckoo's Nest. Why the emphasis in this episode though?.... good question that I need to think about more.

I also thought it was a heart monitor. But I also felt it would lead to his dad in a room.

Surely I wasn't the only one who picked up on the importance of the smoke detector going off right before Christian appeared? Like as in... Smokezilla? :biggrin:

Because the sequence had a quietness to it, that I knew it was gonna end with Christian appearing somehow. Then when Jack got up on the table to change the battery, it hit me -- smoke. I said to myself, "Niiiice..." That was a pretty sly reference by the writers.

Surely I wasn't the only one who picked up on the importance of the smoke detector going off right before Christian appeared? Like as in... Smokezilla?

But it wasn't going off like it would if it detected smoke. It was signaling a low battery.

-steve