An ocean of new mysteries on ‘Lost’

5) Which Others? Ana-Lucia's arrival last week was more mysterious than revealing. She's apparently aligned with the group of other islanders who captured Jin, Michael and Sawyer, but this other group is as puzzled by their captives as our three intrepid rafters are by their captors.

The yet-unnamed mystery Island Man (played by "Oz's" Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) asks Ana-Lucia, "Who are they?" We know Ana-Lucia sat at the rear of flight 815 in seat 42F (for what it's worth: flight's last row is 42, mystery sequence's final number is 42) but are the captors other survivors from the tail of the place? We assume they are.

If so, are they the Others that Rousseau mentioned last season? Or are there other Others yet to appear?  Some folks even think Ana-Lucia was one of the Others before she got on the flight, and her meeting Jack in the Sydney airport bar wasn't a coincidence. Could be.

Meantime, many viewers swore they saw Jin speaking English in the next-episode preview. (He's only spoken Korean thus far, though wife Sun secretly spoke English.) We thought we'd get a hint from a hidden script page found on Oceanicflight815.com, but we're still not sure whether Jin really can speak English, or whether we're hearing Jim through the ears of another character who can understand Korean. For that matter, was that really Jin in the trailer?

6) Other odds and ends.

• What's up with Desmond, his stuffed rabbit and the copy of Flann O'Brien's "The Third Policeman", both of which he took when he bailed from the station? For much of the past week, this site featured a very Owsla-y image of a rabbit, along with cryptic messages hidden in Morse code. A hidden Web hunt for "Lost" clues, or a dead end? Speaking of books, the orientation film was hidden behind Henry James' "Turn of the Screw." Are we meant to draw a link between two spooky plots? And don't even get us started about Narvik.
• In the season premiere, Shannon went looking for Walt's dog Vincent and instead found Walt.  Walt mumbled something incomprehensible, which many people played backwards and interpreted as either "Press the button, no button's bad," or "[Don't] press the button, the button's bad." Button being "Execute," presumably. What's with the "Twin Peaks" thing again?
• In the season opener, two patients came into Jack's ER.  He made a choice to save wife-to-be Sara.  The other patient, Adam Rutherford, shares a last name with Shannon. Coincidence? We think not.
• Oh, and we're still trying to parse the Swedish-registered Dharma Industries Web site. It keeps flashing "Invalid IP" when we try and get inside, though the flashing numbers go higher than 256, the upper limit for Internet Protocol numbers. (Yes, we're geeks too.) On a similar Dharma Initiative site, you can find a copy of the orientation film. Official Web spinoffs or unofficial tributes?

MSNBC.com lifestyle editor Jon Bonnè wants to know how often the Swan station gets food deliveries.

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