"...I've been here less than two weeks..."

Okay, so in the latest episode of Lost, "The Little Prince" (look away now if you've not seen it...) Daniel says that the nosebleeds etc that people are experience are related to the length of time they've spent on the island. The longer you've been there, the sooner you'll suffer. So... Daniel (on island a fortnight), Locke (4 months), Sawyer (ditto) have not experienced any nosebleeed. Juliet's(3 years) only just started to get them, as has Miles. Charlotte's suffered the most. 

Now, we can thus deduce from this that as Miles started to get the nosebleeds at about the same time as Juliet, he must have been on the island for about the same time as her; 3 years in total. But as he says, he's only been on the island a fortnight... or has he...? Now, there is a theory we have already seen Miles on the island this season, played by a different actor... have a think about it, see what you can come up with, and I'll tell you when I think we already saw Miles later at the end of this post.

But Charlotte... ah, so when was she on the island before? She, too, has apparently only been on the island a fortnight, yet she suffers worse than Juliet who's been there about three years. So, when was she there before, and why was she there? Was she Dharma? Is she someone significant? We shall see.

Elsewhere, off-island, we see the Oceanic 6 et al getting ever closer to returning to the island (in episode 6, anyone...). Ben being the one behind the lawyers at Kate's house did surprise me. I'd had that one pegged as Sun's doing... but what about the people with the trank guns...? Are they Ben's, too? Or are they Widmore's? 

I was very glad to see Jin alive at the end, and even more pleased to see that at long last we're going to see Danielle's back story. This has been promised as coming soon in Seasons 3 and 4, and finally here it is. The "surprise" reveal that the lady was Danielle wasn't a massive surprise - everyone's hopping through time and we see a group of French people wash up on the island? Kinda obvious... even listing them as "Frenchwoman" and "Frenchman" 1-5 in the cast lists posted on the web didn't really preserve the surprise. Better to have put them as "Woman" and "Man" 1-5, I reckon... Still, this lack of surprise doesn't make the huge sense of anticipation for the next episode dissipate at all. It'll be interesting to see what the sickness her party experienced was, and whether or not it's the same time-displacement sickness as experience by Minkowski and Desmond in Season 4. I'm possibly looking forward to next week's even more than the intriguingly titled episde 7; The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham.

Anyhow, to conclude this post I return to the Miles theory as mentioned above; we saw Miles before in the opening scene of Season 4. Miles is Pierre Chang's (aka Marvin Candle etc) son. He's the baby at the start of the season, who presumably lived there for the first few years of his life. Hence being affected by the nosebleeds etc sooner than Locke & Sawyer...