Ah, interesting - Ayn Rand! I guess we'll have to see if his first name is John. There's a Captain Gault entry in Wikipedia for a fictional sea captain from some books from the early 1900's:

Gault himself is a morally ambiguous character who follows the pattern of many famous fictional criminals: although a law-breaker (he seems primarily interested in making money), he proves also to have a strict moral code. As the series progresses, we learn tantalizing bits of information about Captain Gault: he seems to be highly placed in a secret society; he has occult knowledge about arcane religious artifacts; he seems to be very knowledgeable about gemstones; he is a skilled amateur painter. In general, he reveals himself to have surprising resevoirs of specialized knowledge.

Anyway, it could be that, or it could be Ayn Rand. I'm curious to find out!

I don't know about the other two. I haven't been able to figure that out about Kate at all. And Des hasn't had any psychic stuff since Charlie died, I don't think.

Kate: biig question mark. I didn't even understand why did she need so bad to know whether the freighter people knew about her, for that matter. The most plausible thing that comes to me is that she has presumably decided that Jack is the one she likes and if he goes, well, he goes, but IDK really.
Des: I think that since Charlie died he isn't and that the call should have resolved his island issues for good. As long as he goes back with the route Daniel said, I think he shouldn't need another one. As for being off the island, I think he's going to get left behind. For one thing, because they can't only have Sawyer as the main character who stays back (and I think he will, if only because if he goes we'd only have Locke and with Locke's popularity these days...) and also because I think that if/when the O6 manage to go back, it's going to be with Penny. If he knew she was searching for him on her own and he knew that she had nothing to do with the freighter people, I think he'd stay behind and wait for her maybe, but alas. Speculation ;)

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I'd say "beats me" on the first two and "probably yes" on the third. ;)

#1. Kate ... makes no sense to me.

#2. My thought regarding Desmond's flashes is that they are different from the ohshitwe'reoffthebearing side effects, and that the call with Penny stabilized him in time, fixing the problem caused by the chopper being a touch off course momentarily. From the information we have, I would say the flashes *shouldn't* stop because (a) they had a different cause and (b) they were not specifically focused on Charlie's death (remember that the first one was about Locke's find them and bring them home speech). Now, do I believe TPTB will have Des continue to have flashes? Nah. Gonna drop 'em like the proverbial hot potato (consider that Claire seems to have forgotten Charlie's dead).

#3. I thought of John Galt immediately, but think Z's got the right of it with the Wikipedia reference she cited.

I've tried to stop my brain thinking too much about it, because I'm going round in circles about the what-if's and I know I won't get the answers any time soon :)

1. I've always been intrigued by the fact that Kate has ALWAYS wanted off the island and, at some point I thought maybe she knew what it was (had to do with her dad's military background and possible secrets). Now I kind of think that BEFORE she wanted to get off the island because the island was a place where she had to be her true self and she was so freaked out and couldn't "dig in" that she'd rather return to the real world and continue running than make a tent and call it home and deal with these people knowing her true self.

Now I kind of think, because of growth, that she'll choose to go back to deal with the repercussions of her actions. Of course, we have the foresight to know that she'll get Aaron and get off scott free, but from Kate's POV right NOW -- she doesn't know that. I'm wondering if it'll be addressed at some point by Jack... if he's not too busy making nookie with Juliet.

2. Desmond SHOULDN'T be psychic because his conscious has been "grounded", so to speak, by his call with Penny. I wonder though now why all his flashes to the future on the island weren't causing him turmoil.

3. I should read more. ;)

I have no idea of why she'd want to go back if Jail awaits, but sometimes, jail in civilization could be better than being stuck on a rock with a bunch of loons...but then again, she has Sawyer there, so that negates that whole arguement and it goes back to my fallback answer..she's a loon.

And yes, another literary reference, which also leads to my theory that Lost requires a reading list. *smile*

I thought Desmond only saw things pertaining to Charlie and his imminent doom. If memory serves me right, he didn't really see things about anyone else, did he?

*shrug* I try not to get worked up about things on that damn show anymore. I mean, they still haven't explained what the friggin' hell why those people (Adam & Eve) were buried at the Caves and where the hell is Christain's body. :/

His name is Captain Gault? *eyeroll at more philosophical naming conventions* They go too far.