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Leftovers Recipe: Turkey Noodle Casserole
Recipes from The Kitchn
Countless versions of turkey noodle casserole abound in Southern community cookbooks and recipe boxes, but I think this one is the very best. There is not much to it: just a creamy cheddar béchamel tossed with noodles, turkey, and veggies, all baked to perfection. It's comfort food at it's finest.
If you are looking for something delicious for your turkey leftovers, yet simple and easy to throw together, this is your recipe. It's nothing fancy, but I guarantee you there won't be a single bite left. But then there's always next year.
Turkey Noodle Casserole
8 ounces dried egg noodles
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 cup chopped sweet onion (about 1 small onion)
1/2 cup chopped carrots
1/2 cup chopped celery
2-3 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups milk
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
3 cups shredded sharp cheddar, divided
2 cups cooked, shredded turkey
3/4 cup sour cream
kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the noodles and cook until al dente, about 6 minutes.
In a large skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Add onions, carrots, and celery and sauté until tender and softened, about 10 minutes. Add garlic and cook for another minute.
Whisk in the flour and stir until it is absorbed (and the "raw" tasted cooked out), about 1 - 2 minutes. Slowly pour in the milk and cook, stirring frequently, until thickened, about 3 minutes. Add 2 cups shredded cheese and stir until melted. Add the cayenne, and season with additional salt and pepper to taste.
Add the cheese sauce, shredded turkey, and sour cream to the noodles. Season generously with cayenne, salt, and pepper to taste.
Grease an 8 x 11-inch baking dish (or similar size) casserole dish. Pour noodle mixture into baking dish and top with remaining 1 cup of cheese. Bake until casserole is warm and cheese is bubbling, about 25 minutes.
Serve with lots of hot sauce, preferably Frank's.
Related: Recipe: Chicken and Swiss Chard Pasta Bake
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Per serving, based on 6 servings. (% daily value)
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Waaah! I miss gluten :(
Sounds great, but I'm confused about the cheese. The recipe calls for cheese in the sauce and the three cups in the ingredients list mixed in with the noodles and used as topping. Is the sauce a bechamel or do we need more than three cups of cheese?
Agreed, a bit confusing, once cleared will definitely be trying this. Sounds yum.
Try using Ancient Harvest quinoa pasta in elbow shapes. The texture is almost exactly like real pasta and it holds up well to casseroles. I'm using a corn spaghetti to make turkey tetrazzini tomorrow! I also use rice flour in place of real flour as a thickener, substitute it in the roux and use just like you would regular flour. I am dairy-free too, so I'd make this with rice milk and some diaya cheese.
Looking at the recipe, I suspect the reference to 2 cups of cheese got inserted in the wrong place, and should instead appear above where the cheese is stirred into the sauce. So, 2 cups of cheese for the cheese sauce and 1 cup for the topping.
This sounds delicious, but it seems more like 4 servings than 8. At 8 servings, each portion consists of 1/4 cup of turkey, 1 ounce of noodles, and about 1/4 cup of carrots and celery combined. That's very little food for an entree, even if you're serving it with sides.
Today was my birthday dinner, cooked by Mom. She asked me for my requested main dish and I forwarded her this recipe. Boy, was it good! She made a vegetarian version for my brother's girlfriend and we agreed the basic template would be delicious with any number of add-ins.
Sorry for the cheesy confusion, guys! I updated the recipe to fix the writer's error. And I have to say—these photos (taken with an iPhone due to a camera malfunction) don't do it justice at all. It's much for delicious-looking in person.
Try Schar Tagliatelle. Totally GF (rated best in Italy) and doesn't crumble or fall apart like some GF pastas. I've been using this for years. I tried all the other GF pastas and this beats them all.
Sometimes, certain Walmart stores carry this in their GF section. If your store doesn't have it, there is a brand in Walmart called Heartland, it's GF, but usually in with the regular pasta. You could use their rotini for this recipe, but it won't hold up as well as the Schar.
MLH: I forgot to mention one thing. You might want to try the very wide rice noodles you can get in an asian market. They're thicker and have a better texture than the usual american rice pasta that is sold. It's cheap too, you can buy two big packages for about what it would cost for a little package of regular spaghetti. Great to keep around.
Toss these noodles (cooked) with a little oyster sauce & GF beef stock (I use Better than Bouillon), some leftover chicken or shredded beef, sauteed onions and bok choy, and you have a meal. I also add some Penzey's Bangkok or Singapore blend, or five spice powder.
I made this tonight, it was really really good! I also added about 2 cups of broccoli to it. We did it as 6 servings... 8 would have been really really small servings (more like a side dish size), and I'm not even someone who eats huge portions. This would also be tasty with chicken or even meatless.
Oh and if anybody cares, I calculated the calories at 608, using 12oz of turkey (mostly white meat), 1% milk, but full fat sour cream and cheese.
comments above have just convinced me that i might want to double this since we have so much turkey anyway. and i'll make a for a few quick thermos lunches after tonite...i'm going to try it today...i hope it's as good as it sounds!
I would say the servings should be listed between 4 and 6 rather than 6-8. I made this last night and was very pleased with the outcome. I cut the down the amount of the cheese used for the topping and added some dry mustard to the cheese sauce.


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Morton's The Steakhouse - White Plains
- Address:
9 Maple Avenue
White Plains, NY 10601Neighborhood:
White Plains
- Cuisine:
SteakhousePrice: $50 and over
Morton's The Steakhouse - White Plains
- Dining Style: Fine Dining
- Website: http://www.mortons.com/
- Phone: 9146836101
- Hours of Operation:
Bar: Daily at 5:00pm
Dining Room:
Monday - Thursday 5:00pm - 10:00pm
Friday - Saturday 5:30pm - 11:00pm
Sunday 5:00pm - 10:00pm
- Payment Options: AMEX,Diners Club,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Steak, Seafood, Steakhouse
- Dress Code: Business Casual
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Full Bar, Happy Hour, Non-Smoking Area, Personal wines welcome, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Private Room, Smoking Area, Takeout, Wheelchair Access, Wine
- Catering: Private and group dining available. Contact our dedicated Sales and Marketing Manager to plan your next business or social event. Hosting a party at your home or office? Ask about Morton's Prime To Go and Prime Platters!
- Special Events: Morton's in White Plains hosts a variety of special events featuring fine wine & spirits, the best steak and a great time! For more information, visit http://www.mortons.com/whiteplains
A word from Morton's The Steakhouse - White Plains
Morton's The Steakhouse, the nation's premier steakhouse group, specializes in classic, hearty fare, serving generous portions of USDA prime aged beef, as well as fresh fish, lobster and chicken entrees. The menu features a variety of favorite cuts, including a 24 ounce porterhouse, which is the house specialty, a 16 ounce New York Strip and a 12 ounce double cut filet.Continued
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Morton's The Steakhouse - White Plains reviews from OpenTable diners
94 reviews since May 27, 2014
- Food4.5Service4.6
- Ambiance4.2Noise LevelModerate
special occasion (74)romantic (45)notable wine list (34)fit for foodies (34)good for groups (31)neighborhood gem (25)kid-friendly (11)hot spot (11)late-night find (9)vibrant bar scene (9)great for lunch (8)great for outdoor dining (4)great for brunch (4)scenic view (3)Show More
- Amazing ServiceOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 9/15/2014Food, service, and ambience absolutely fantastic.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Family eventsPoggyDined on 9/13/2014Great place to celebrate a milestone! Enjoyed several birthday celebrations here!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- We had a great experiencedeliciousDined on 9/10/2014My wife and I had a terrific time, enjoyed the romantic setting and loved the delicious food. As always, we love the great deals that come through our email.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- VIP treatmentOpenTable Diner Since 2013Dined on 9/8/2014We celebrated my wife's birthday and we were treated like VIPs. The food and service was great, and we were both saying the same thing when we were leaving: we need to come to this place more often.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- GRAT PLACE AND EXCELLENT FOODFLOATVIPDined on 9/7/2014This Morton's help me celebrate my wife 70th birthday. They gave her a very special dessert. Thank you.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great ServiceYummy1Dined on 9/6/2014Cory, our server, was excellent. Tiffany also came by our table to ensure that we were satisfied and we appreciated the attentiveness of the Mortons staff.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- morton steakmilkyDined on 9/6/2014went there for the summer special and did not want a lot of food...just what we got..salad was fine , petite filet 6oz was a healthwise portion and nice and small the side dish was normal size...the desert soufflé was best part of the dinner. For 40$ it was a good deal for the regular price not the greatest it was a good steakSpecial Features:
- Good food!DottyDined on 9/3/2014The food was cooked to perfection. The service excellence.Special Features:
- Always Consistent!MedicllawDined on 9/2/2014No matter how many times we eat at Morton's White Plains, the food, service, attention and ambiance are always consistent. If you love great food and special attention to every detail..This is the place for you :)Special Features:
- Excellent serviceYummy1Dined on 8/29/2014Tiffany, our server, always provides outstanding service. The food and attention to detail was great.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- need more greeters and servers.SamthemanCTDined on 8/29/2014Noone to greet us as we entered. Had to walk to bar area to see a greeter. Didnt even ask if we had a rez, seated people as they walked in, not based on rez. Server was slow to come to table. Bread and drinks took a long time to arrive. Server tried to tell us we didnt need to order certain items, we could "share". We eat at Mortons allot, and know what to expect, and servers should offer views when asked, not volunteer them since we were very specific in our odering and that should be alcue they pick up on. There were several very large groups and that seemed to distract the entire wait staff, greeters, bar and kitchen. In a word, staff up, you know abvout large groups and the rez's you have and be careful about the walk ins.Special Features:
- OpenTable Diner Since 2010VIPDined on 8/29/2014We always have a good to very good experience at Morton's and this was no exception. The highlights, foodwise, were: the bone-in ribeye, the red velvet cocktails, my wife's wine, and the key lime pie. The server was skilled and informative. There was one technical glitch related to drinks at the end, but it was not that material.Special Features:
- Best Westchester Steak Housedublin1Dined on 8/16/2014From the time we entered the restaurant until we left, the service was impeccable and friendly. The bartenders were also very nice and made perfect drinks! The best part was the dessert! An excellent way to end a perfect meal!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- You feel very special here!KJM1Dined on 8/10/2014My husband and I enjoy going to Morton's because we always feel special there. We have sat at a table and at the bar. We have gone to many locations around the country since we always know the food will be good and the service excellent. The prices are expensive but they are always offering special deals - Steak & Seafood, Summer Special, etc. We started going for special occasions but wind up going almost once a month! The food is always top quality and the service is always excellent.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Very overpriced & Not high qualityOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 8/8/2014Shrimp scampi and mixed grill comes with very few, very small, tough and chewy shrimp. Filet mignon had an odd, undesirable taste and was very chewy as well. The bacon mac and cheese however was excellent with tender, smoky bits of bacon that didnt overwhelm the cheeses.
- OpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 8/2/2014Should be valet parking for a restaurant of this status. The meat was good, the potato was a little hard for being baked. The waiting time to get food served was way longer than it should have been since it was before the dinner rush time. Not a very classy atmosphere.
- DeliciouscharbarDined on 8/1/2014The food was simply delicious and our waiter very professional. Make sure you get in a big workout earlier in the day. This is not a low calorie evening but worth the splurge.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Dinner and a drink!!HungaryGirlDined on 7/29/2014We really had a great time. Food was great...can't beat the steaks!! It is our favorite steak restaurant. The staff is so friendly. Was the best!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Eat like a King here!Beachmom113Dined on 7/23/2014This restaurant goes above and beyond when it comes to service, customer service and delivery and preparation of food! This is the second yr we have celebrated my birthday here and they attend to every detail possible. Food was wonderful, perfectly prepared and delicious in every way! The wait staff is wonderful and considerate, food arrives in timely manor from appetizer and entrée as not to be on top of each other. We have never had a bad meal at this restaurant! Just enjoy it more and more each time we go, special occasion or not! This is the BEST place for Filets, shrimp and scallops.Special Features:
- yum yum extra-yum!!!TSfromNRDined on 7/19/2014Great birthday or special occasion place to go. The waitstaff were expecting us and went the extra mile with personalized menus and a very photogenic souvenir photo for the birthday boy. Better yet, was the food quality, preparation, selection, cocktails and perfect attention by the waitstaff. We would return again in a heartbeat!!!Special Features:
- Great NightOpenTable Diner Since 2010Dined on 7/15/2014Went for a business dinner - food, service, setting - all were excellent. Great place!I would recommend this to a friend.
- The Best!tp2625Dined on 7/13/2014Morton's (White Plains) is that special perfect place for those occasions that require over-the-top service, menu selection, quality food and ambience that says "I'm special", "Your special", "This business is special" or just "We're special"!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Hit and MissLowCarbLiferDined on 7/11/2014The food didn't quite hit the mark especially considering the high prices. While my filet mignon was delightful (like butter!), my husband had to send his double cut lamb chops back 2 times because they were raw not rare. The service, however, was spectacular. Our waitress was very attentive, as were the other staff members.Special Features:
- AngeloAm3581Dined on 7/9/2014The people were very friendly and very attentive the food and services were great would go there angSpecial Features:
- Wonderfullove2eatDined on 7/6/2014Delicious food….excellent, friendly, and attentive service. Made our 30th Anniversary dinner very special.Special Features:
- AlexBVIPDined on 7/5/2014I've been to many Morton's around the country. This one was good but not great. Shellfish was excellent but my steak was overcooked. Service was top notch. I will be visiting a Morton's in NYC soon to see if the quality is better.Special Features:
- MicheleDined on 7/5/2014One of my favorite places to eat. The food and service are excellent.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Never go backEateatDined on 7/3/2014Went for $35 3-course meal. Ordered two extra apps. Ahi tower was bland. Shrimp cocktail was terrible. Tasted alike it was pre-made, then frozen. Not fresh at all. 5 small shrimp. At 21$, you'd expect much better. Salads were OK. I've had much better at the Outback. My wife like the onion soup. Filets were good, but I've had same quality at much less expensive restaurants. Mashed potatos had too much raw horseradish, which again tasted funny. and I luv horseradish. Key lime pie was good, but average. Rye amaze race was excellent!! Server was polite, but service was very slow when dining room only about 10% occupied. Will never return for those prices!!!!
- boyer outstandingrobertivy17Dined on 7/2/2014Great spot. Period. ...keep up the good work. A second place to home.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Special OccasionbellaragazzaDined on 6/29/2014We went there for a high school graduation dinner and it was very nice. Courtney the server as well as the other staff were very kind.Special Features:
- Great steak house!IvanDined on 6/28/2014Enjoyed a romantic dinner with my wife at Morton's White Plains NY this weekend. Pre-dinner cocktails were fantastic! The steaks were AMAZING, definitely go back just for the steaks. Would have given highest marks on food but they changed their chocolate soufflé recipe and wasn't nearly as good as it used to be, it was good, not great. The home made butter was great, not sure why they offered it at $5 extra. For service, the staff did a terrific job and would say the staff deserved an outstanding rating for their impeccable service! I didn't like the fact that they tried to up sell a Landry's membership during our dinner, not something I want to talk or think about during a romantic dinner with my wife. Overall, terrific experience there!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- EXCELLENT DINING AT MORTON'SLUV4DINEDined on 6/25/2014What an excellent location for a great Steakhouse in White Plaiins, N.Y. The food and dining experience was exquisite!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Always Great!slobloDined on 6/14/2014We always have a great meal here. Aside from delicious steak, try the chopped salad and Tuna apps. Terrific! And, if you can ask for Tiffany as your waitress - she's wonderful too!Special Features:
- Terrific!Karen66VIPDined on 6/14/2014What can you say about a restaurant that delivers on all levels? The food, ambiance and service were amazing. The only negative we found was that the background music only added to the noise, which was pretty loud.Special Features:
- Steak house dinnertonitravelVIPDined on 6/14/2014We will start out by highly recommending their service. From the moment that we entered until the end, all of the waiters and busboys were extremely friendly and helpful. They remembered our anniversary, and took a great photo of us. Our water glasses were always filled and refilled. The steak was very good as was the sea bass. However, the appetizers were disappointing. We ordered escargots which were not good and the short ribs tacos which were okay. They also brought us the wrong fish for my husband, which they did exchange after he stated that the fish tasted like salmon. They did apologize though. We eat out at great restaurants at least 4 times a month and this was the first time ever that we were served the wrong meal.
- Great Steak HouseFoodloverVIPDined on 6/13/2014Chicago RIBEYE with bone is great. We also enjoyed the Hot seafood platter as appetizer.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Dinner on my birthday.krystinalynneDined on 6/10/2014I like coming here for special occasions. I let them know it was my birthday and they printed out personalized menus with "Happy Birthday Krystina!" and the date on it. They also took a picture of me and my mom at the table, and dessert was on the house. A delicious meal all around. The service is always great.Special Features:
- Great service & FoodADM369Dined on 6/9/2014Visited for a special occasion and the staff went out of their way to not only acknowledge it but make it memorable and enjoyable. Our waiter was helpful in recommendations and overall service was excellent. Food was perfect! Would definitely return and highly recommend!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great service loved itOpenTable Diner Since 2010Dined on 6/7/2014It was a great first experience and the food was great.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Lovely dinner!MTLMDined on 6/6/2014We always enjoy our dining experience at Morton's in White Plains, NY. Sean and his staff are always happy to see us and to make sure that we have fun. Our server Liz has taken care of us in the past and she always does a super job!Special Features:


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Taken in my showroom, a month ago, this was part of an article in Country Life magazine titled Bright Old Things. and featured several people who had started new careers after retiring and are still working. Myself, I don't think I have ever stopped working and have been involved in antiques in most of my life, the latest choice being textiles. Here is my great- granddaughter, Rose Murray, her grandmother, Charlotte, (my second daughter) playing in one of my showrooms with a bit of old Indian fabric. The cupboard in the background is a handsome Irish Regency pine housekeepers cupboard for the storage of linen in a big household - with locks on every door, ideal for my business.
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Young and old
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Dolly needs a hospital!
A young lady came up to my stand at the American Museum Fair last year and scooped up a dismembered doll that I had found in a mixed lot of chateau stuff, at the bottom of a big box. Not very pretty and needing lots of attention, I was delighted to part with her for a triffling sum. It transpired that this girl was going to open a doll's hospital in her mother's shop in Pewsey and I phoned her the other day and was pleased to hear it had got off the ground and she is in business - could be a useful address if you have battered members in your toy cupboard. Sophie Patterson is at 16 River Street, Pewsey, Wilts, phone 01672 772 146 (not always open so check before travelling.).
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Buy bike in US, rtw and back to Australia
Hi,I'm veryX3 happy to know this site,it's so helpful..^^
I'm Korean and holder of Australian residenceship and I'd like to buy the motorcycle in US to save the initial shipping cost of 2,500 AUD from Sydney to L.A. and travel the world over 2 year.
(North-South america-Euroupe-Asia-Australia)
If I buy the bike in US(such as 2005 F650GS),how about registration? Is it possible to buy?
In this case,what should I do to get back the deposit of carnet after I export the bike to Australia permenantly after rtw?
Also,I don't know how much do I pay for the import tax to Australia.
Please,give your priceless opinion and forgive my poor English.^^
I can't make choice between buy the bike in US or Australia.
Which is the best choice?
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[This message has been edited by motoride (edited 24 January 2005).]
Hi SHK
The Carnet is probably the determining factor. In order to get a Carnet in the US you would need a US address and have to arrange your deposit bond or insurance in the US...someone may be better able to explain US procedures to you here. I had this problem when deciding wether to buy in the UK or ship to Europe as I needed a Carnet for Iran.
As you are resident in Australia you could get your Carnet in Australia at your residential address and organise the deposit bond insurance through the NRMA,RACV etc.
If you have the time it is not too expensive to send the bike by ship to the US eg Sy-LA, this might save you money in the long run. You could then fly over to meet it and ride away.
I believe the import tax for motorcycles to Australia is 10% of the value, however to register it here you need to show the roads authority that it meets the Australian Design Regulations. This is relatively simple if the bike is a model common to australia ( such as the F650GS) but can be difficult otherwise.
If you avoid Ecuador you won't need the carnet until Iran. By then your carnet may well have expired... Perhaps the German automobile club www.adac.de will provide you with one? Try contacting them.
Don't import your bike into AUS on a carnet! Get your import clearance beforehand. The Oz govt. has a website, check the Carnet link on the left.
Salut from Southern France, the bikers' paradise,
Oh,thanks for reply.
Hm..I think the 1 year carnet will be expired when it's time to enter Iran. So if I don't need the carnet from US gov,is it possible to buy the bike in US? How about registration? ^^
Because the price of F650G is chipper in US,10% Australian tax can be handled.
What do you think?
Re shipping into Australia, we have just done this and used our carnet de passage. It couldnt have been simpler. I am not sure what the worry is about using a carnet is Aus??
Simon I dont think its the temporary import on the carnet thats the issue, rather the attempt to permanently import after its come in on a carnet. Permanent imports are treated diferently.
Yeah!! I find that I can buy the bike in US with my
Korean IDP and tourist B1/B2 US Visa.^^
2005 F650GS is 2,000 USD cheaper than Australia and also
I can save the initial shipping cost of 2,000 USD from Sydney to California.
That is 2,000+2,000= 4,000 USD
And Australian importing tax is 10% = 1,000 USD
Total saving= 3,000 USD !! ^^
The only problem is the carnet..
I can ride the North-> South america-> Euroupe-> Turkey with no carnet
(I think this route will take 1 and half year).
So,the problem is after that, I mean pass the Iran for Asia.
In this case,is it possible to get the carnet from Euroupe such as www.adac.de or
from US by mail ? (but you said that I cannot get the carnet from US because
I'm not resident).
If it can, do I have to return to Germany to get back the deposit?
Or can I just pay the 2 % insurance of total deposit amount?
(Is it refundable? or not?.. I don't know..T.T)
If 2% insurance fee is not refundable,I'd like to take the following route to avoid carnet.
(Because,Iran,Pakistan and India need a carnet..wow! what a huge money for this!!)
If there is the way of avoiding Iran,I'll take that because
China and Russia don't require carnet. But I don't know how to pass without Iran for Asia.
Is there another way for this? Such as crossing the Caspian sea from Azerbaijan to
Turkmanistan by ship.^^ (On the map,it seems very close..^^)
If it's possible, I can ride without carnet on North-> South america-> Euroupe-> Turkey
->Azerbaijan->Turkmanistan->China->Tailand->Australia. ^^
It it's impossible,next choice will be Euroupe->Russia->China->Tailand->Australia.
Please, desperately need your help..!!
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[This message has been edited by motoride (edited 28 January 2005).]
China is impossible without guides and very expensive. Some Asian countries also require carnet. Contact the ADAC for info on whether they can help you.
The insurance premium on the carnet is not refundable, of course, but the deposit is.
Salut from Southern France, the bikers' paradise,
In the US carnets are obtained through the Candadian Automobile Association, not the American AA for some unknown reason. If you go to: http://www.caa.ca/e/travel/id/passages-usa.shtml you will find info on applying for the carnet, fees, etc., and can download an application form there.
It would seem from the application form that you don't need to be a US resident to get the carnet, but only to have a US mailing address. Perhaps the dealership that you buy the bike from would allow you to use their address for this purpose.
The phone number for CAA is (613)247-0118, then ask for the department for carnets. I've heard from a friend that the person who deals with carnets for CAA is named Suzanne and that she is very helpful. Perhaps if you called her and described your situation she could help.
I hope this info is of some help. Good luck and have a great trip.
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Thanks for rely..wow..I'm so suprised of your fast feedback!!
I cannot find the E-mail address to ask them directly because they service only in Germany on webpage.T.T
Q)I don't know if I can get the carnet from them.
But I download the carnet guide and it said that;
-I must return carnet to ADAC by expiration date.
(Q: Is it possible to do by mail? or do I have to go in person?)
-It shows bank gurantee is 3,000 for 15,000 bike for
Esypt,India,Iran,Parkistan and South africa.
(Q:Bank gurantee is the fee or deposit?
Q: Does it means only 3,000 for all this countries or
3,000 X number of country?)
2.China is expensive and need guide? Why?
You mean the Tibet? One of my friend cross the
Taklamakan and Gobi desert by cycle,alone.
I don't know what you are meaning..???
3.Yeah! I'll ask to CAA ..^^
ADAC Touring GmbH
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81373 München
You can return the carnet by mail, but you must appear in person to get it in the first place.
The bank guarantee is an alternative to a deposit, but as a non-resident you will have to deposit the money, as no bank will guarantee anything for you (you are not a customer of theirs). This you will get back. Only one deposit per carnet, not per country. You won't get back the fee (a lot less).
China: Don't know why they are so difficult, but I suspect their govt. is hiding things from its own people. Check out this: http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/ubb...ML/000189.html
Salut from Southern France, the bikers' paradise,
Hi SHK
your email bounced so I will answer your questions here
The insurance fee guaranteeing the duty payment is not
There is
1. Cost of Carnet itself (approx 350 AUD)
2. Deposit Bond covering possible duties (refundable) or insurance (% of total liability) not refundable.
3. Carnet Bond ( around 250AUD) refundable on return.
You can get from Az to Tk or
Kz over the caspian. Just remember that visa situations for Turkmenistan are not reliable. Many travellers use Stantours.
Good luck getting a Carnet in Germany...it would be good to hear how you got on.
You may be able to organise the Carnet from Aus on your trip but check with NRMA/RACV before hand.
Thanks so much..^^;
Few more questions;
1.Only one deposit per carnet, not per country.
This is still so confusing...
If I go to Iran,India,Parkistan and south Asian countries which has different percentage of deposit,
Q)Only have to pay the deposit for Iran as its rate is the most high?
Then,I can go other countries with Iran carnet?
Or what?
I have to know how much money do I pay..!!!
You mean..If I pay the deposit(I have to), I can get back it by Australian bank account by experation date(within 1 year am I right?)after send back the carnet to them by mail? Don't need to go to ADAC in person ffor this?
3. Is it possible to get the carnet from NRMA(Australia) in Euroupe by mail?
I also think it's better to take the Stantour ,but I have to find which is the best choice to get the carnet for that from..CAA,ADAC or NRMA.
(I mean which is the possible way..^^)
So,I need above information ,Answer me please..^^
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For information on Carnets, why don't you contact the Korea Automobile Association
I think they are member of the FIA that issues the carnets.
http://www.kaa21.or.kr/kaainfo/info_main06.asp They should be able to answer all your questions in Korean, even if they cannot actually issue the carnet to you.
Why can't I think of that !!
Korean Carnet..!!
Thanks..I'll try and let you guys know..^^
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"When I was 15, I was going to Hotchkiss and I started these fainting spells," Ebersol said.
It was a mysterious medical condition, eventually identified as autonomic neuropathy, that set the scene for Schuyler Ebersol's journey four years ago. "I would be fainting five or six times a day - a lot of confusion, a lot of light-headedness, not being able to see straight," he said.
He was eventually asked to leave his high school in Connecticut, homebound from his debilitating illness. Creating an imaginary, hidden world where characters could unlock the mind's potential became his escape.
"I was going through a very difficult time and the idea that you could maybe use your mind to fix things and really do anything was a great idea for me," Ebersol said.
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ESWT For Plantar Fasciitis: What Do The Long-Term Results Reveal?
- Volume 24 - Issue 11 - November 2011
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The indirect costs associated with surgical intervention include the chance of significant complications requiring some intervention (2 to 5 percent) and the resultant expense of care needed for those complications. Other indirect costs associated with open surgery include lost time from work and changes in activities of daily living. It is not uncommon for postoperative plantar fasciitis patients to miss work for two to six weeks due to immobilization and partial weightbearing. It is difficult to accurately determine the overall cost of someone being away from work as this is different from person to person based on the job. It is even more difficult to put a number on the cost of interference in activities of daily life. Without doubt, there are tangible dollars and social costs that are significant with both.
With low-energy ESWT, the typical costs range from $900 to $1,500 total for three treatments, based on my experience and talking to people around the country, and recognizing what insurance covers when ESWT is covered. There is no facility fee or anesthesia fee. There are no complications associated with low-energy ESWT that would create any additional expenses. There is virtually no loss of work with the exception of the time spent to have the procedure performed. Social costs are also reduced as patients can return to almost all activities of daily life without restrictions.
High-energy shockwave does have higher costs associated with it in comparison to low-energy ESWT and can range from $1,000 to $3,000 total. However, treatment with high-energy ESWT does have the advantage of one-time treatment.
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy, high energy or low energy, exhibits strong cost benefits in both absolute dollars and less tangible but equally important work and social costs. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery states that long-term studies must be those that have been performed at least five years following the original study. We initially reported our early results in 2002 in the Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery and now have reported our long-term results, which, as far as we know, is the only long-term study on ESWT and plantar fasciitis.4,5
Final Notes
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy has gone through the trials and tribulations of being a new and expensive technology. These include inconsistent information to consumers, conflicting results of research on the efficacy of the technology and the relative inaccessibility to physicians and patients. However, years of clinical success and proper research have proved the validity of ESWT.
Plantar fasciitis continues to be a burden on our healthcare system, economy and society. It is incumbent on all medical providers to find the most proven and cost-effective treatments for their patients to return to life and work. While there are many treatments employed for plantar fasciitis, most have not been proven and we have pointed out their costs. Others have been studied but their costs are quite substantial and their complications are notable.
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy has proven to be a cost effective treatment for plantar fasciitis while showing long-term success that other treatments cannot boast. Not only should one consider ESWT a mainstay of treatment for more chronic cases of plantar fasciitis, it should now be an option earlier in the treatment regimen and possibly supplant other treatments that have not been validated. The future may show that combining treatments such as ESWT and PRP will provide the fastest and safest recovery but until PRP is better studied, it will still take a back seat to ESWT.
Dr. Weil is the Research and Fellowship Director for the Weil Foot and Ankle Institute, which has various office locations in Illinois. He is the Editor of Foot and Ankle Specialist, and is a Past President of the International Society for Medical Shockwave Treatment.
You discuss high vs. low energy shockwave. How do you define it? How do energy levels compare with the various systems available (i.e., mJ/mm vs. barr vs. kV?
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Can you give any advice on which high-energy ESWT device your group prefers to use?Reply to this comment »
Rich Bouche, DPM, brings up a point that the industry needs to better address: a more uniform manner to describe energy delivery to tissue.
I use the Swiss Dolorclast based on your recommendation. The results are very good and I want to thank you for the good advice.
The machine, using radial shockwave type technology, uses the "bar" for measurement which is a unit of pressure as opposed to energy delivery which is often measured in mj/mm sq. Energy delivery measures the end effect and is referred to in the literature. Rompe endeavored to establish the minimum energy delivery required to achieve a therapeutic effect. That was an important endeavor as we later saw the critical Buchbinder study, in which subtherapeutic energy levels were delivered and concluded that ESWT was ineffective based on such flawed experimental design.
The distinction between low" and "high" energy appears to have been de-emphasized in recent years as energy or pressure levels delivered are a continuum and what really counts is the total energy delivered to the tissue. The original US model was to use fewer shocks by utilization of more expensive machines capable of more intense energy delivery, which required anesthesia.
Our medical-political system took that artificial distinction and over-emphasized the distinction for insurance coding and reimbursement services. The low vs. high energy debate really was a non-issue in Europe and Canada.
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LOST Marathon, Milepost 21: It's Game Time - Are You In or Out?
- Thursday, January 28, 2010
Note: This blog is counting down to the premiere of LOST's final season on Feb. 2 by spending the month leading up to it racing through every one of the previous 103 episodes. We're looking specifically at Christian/religious themes, other important or interesting concepts, literary references, and the theory that it's largely been about a game in which someone has won, and someone has... LOST. To follow us from the start, click here.
We start this disc with Locke gathering his peeps and promising "no more secrets." So -- will this prove true? Will this theme hold throughout the disc? Let's watch!
LOST Season Four, Disc Three: It's Game Time - Are You In or Out?
Episodes: 4.8 MEET KEVIN JOHNSON (Michael-centric); 4.9 THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME (Ben-centric); 4.10 SOMETHING NICE BACK HOME (Jack-centric); 4.11 CABIN FEVER (Locke-centric)
Things That Stuck Out
We start with the barracks group learning about and discussing a problem. Locke gets Miles to admit that his people - who have been on the island now for "about a week" are there for Ben. Okay, says Sawyer, let's turn him over. But it's not that simple, says Locke, because once the freighter folk have Ben, their orders are to kill everyone else on the island (and now we know why they wanted the poison gas neutralized, and why Ben wanted it activated). Our followers also find out that Ben is "one of us now," at least inasmuch as Locke is protecting him, and that Michael is the spy on the boat.
An alarm sounds in the middle of the night on the ship, waking Sayid and Desmond. On deck, Gault is beating someone for attempting to desert.
Sawyer instantly questions Locke's "no more secrets" promise when he realizes nothing was said of the deal Miles struck with Ben for $3.2 million. Locke said he didn't find it worth mentioning "as I haven't seen a bank on the island." Miles scoffs at this. He's right to. Locke can be so stupid sometimes.
Ben gives Alex, Karl, and Danielle a map to the Temple, warns them to get out of Dodge and go there. He can't offer everyone else sanctuary there because "it's not for them." Ben warns that the people coming for him would use Alex to get to him if they captured her. We know that's right. When they stop for a drink, Karl pulls out his Star Wars homage with, "I have a bad feeling about this."
When Alex asks if the freighter folk are "more dangerous than" Ben, he at first slightly shakes his head, then slightly nods it. The message I take is: no more, no less, but just as.
Sayid would kinda like to know how the heck Michael - or anyone else - could ever end up working for Benjamin Linus after knowing him they way they do. Don't be so quick to judge Sayid... He hauls Michael straight into the Captain's office and tells Gault everything about Michael - who he really is, how he knows him, that he's the saboteur, a traitor, everything. I'm kind of surprised at Sayid's lack of forethought here. He's heard Michael's story about protecting those he knew on the island. So even though he's working for Ben, it's not like Sayid to just go through with this... unless he has a plan.
Danielle Rousseau gets to tell her daughter Alexandra she loves her very much right before she loses her life.
Jack takes some medicine for a stomach bug and he and Kate talk about whether they should be worried - he says no. Just then, Bernard has found a body washed ashore - that of Ray, the ship's doctor, which a big stitched-up scar on his cheek. Daniel IDs him as such. But he tells the group that "'When' is kind of a relative term" in determining the last time he saw Ray the doctor, whose throat has been cut.
Faraday's sat phone is busted, but it's possible he could still use it to send morse code, like a telegraph. When they do, he sends a message asking what happened to the doctor. When the reply comes back, Faraday lies. Bernard catches it, as he knows Morse code. What the reply actually said is, "What are you talking about - the doctor is fine."
Jack gets upset. Demands of Faraday: "Where you ever going to take us off this island?" No. Jack's stomach cramps start again. Juliet diagnoses appendicitis - Jack concurs. She dispatches Sun to the Staff hatch for a list of medical supplies, rather than moving Jack there.
"We're all gonna die," says Hurley, in close-up... but it's revealed he, Sawyer, and Locke are only playing a game (Risk).
Keamy knows about the sonic fence. Leads Alex to it as prisoner and tells her to turn it off. Instead of pressing 1-6-2-3 as we've seen Juliet do previously, she presses 1-6-2-2, which triggers an alarm that rings at Ben's house (while also probably turning the fence off). Locke answers, and an automated voice tells him there's a Code 14-J. When they tell Ben about it, he springs into action.
Sawyer goes to wake-up Claire (Aaron was with Hurley while they played Risk and Claire napped), while Ben tells Locke "it's very important" he survive what's about to go down. Three people are killed, though somehow Sawyer manages to use a white picket fence for cover. He heads for Claire's house... which gets bazooka'd.
So here's the question about Claire - did she survive the bazooka blast AND being covered by rubble? Obviously, right? She's up and walking around and corporeal and everyone can see and talk to her. Then again...
- Aaron - with Hurley - was calm before Claire's house was attacked; he's crying like crazy after
- She thought she was with Charlie when Sawyer found her
- When she shows back up she says she's, "a bit wobbly, but I'll live." To which Miles answers, "I wouldn't be too sure about that."
- Miles starts staring at her funny, like Mr. Ghostbuster can't figure out what's going on with her
- Claire says her head feels funny, "but at least I'm not seeing things anymore."
- She doesn't much have a maternal instinct for Aaron anymore
- She goes off with her Ghost Dad and the next time we'll see her is looking weird in the Cabin. And after that, we won't see her again until Season Six.
Ben tells Locke that the only one who can save them now is Jacob, and they'll have to go see him together. Locke doesn't know where the cabin is, but Ben knows that Hurley does.
Miles has been freed by Keamy, and given a walkie, so they can talk to Ben. Ben has no intention of talking. Miles says they have a hostage, but Ben says that's a miscalculation, because every one of his people would die in service of the island. But... it's Alex...
When Keamy executes Alex, the look on Ben's face is of complete horror and surprise. He is truly shocked and awed (which he had said was these people's plan in coming ashore).
Ben takes off for his Batcave behind the bookcase, locking Sawyer and Locke out. He has yet another hidden room behind the wall of his closet, one marked with heiroglyphs. When he comes back out a few minutes later, he's covered in grime and tells everyone that in a few minutes they'll have to run as fast as they can. They don't know it, but he's just called in the Monster.
Smokey arrives like a freight train and starts pounding on some mercs. Ben sends his group off into the woods, and will catch up to them after he says goodbye to Alex. He truly is sad over her.
As Ben and Locke discuss going to the cabin and getting word from Jacob on what to do next, Sawyer's had enough of "you two wackos." He's leaving for the beach, and everyone else is going with him. Locke pulls his gun, because they need Hurley to find the cabin. Hurley goes along voluntarily. He'll catch up to Sawyer later. Sawyer threatens to kill Locke if any harm befalls Hurley. Locke says, "fair enough."
Jack - though sick - tells his group that when the boat folks come for Faraday and Charlotte, they'll be waiting. Sounds like... another plan! Another job for the Lost Justice League! As Rose and Bernard clean off a table for the surgery, she wonders why Jack even got sick. It's especially odd with rescue on the horizon, and it being the person they count on the most. She doesn't buy Bernard's "bad luck" theory.
Miles stops suddenly - asks Sawyer and Claire who Danielle and Karl are! He's hearing voices, looks at the ground, uncovers the spot where their bodies are. What's even weirder about this is it doesn't appear like they were buried. It also doesn't seem like Keamy's group would have taken the time to dig graves, nor does it look like any were dug. What it looks like, is that the earth started to absorb/swallow them!
Sawyer, Miles, and Claire come across Lapidus running through the bushes with a first aid kit. Sawyer and Claire don't know him, but he warns Miles that Keamy is RIGHT behind him and they should hide, NOW. Frank gets Keamy and the others to move away from the area, back toward the chopper. That night, as they sleep by the fire, Claire wakes to find... her dad, holding Aaron (so I guess Christian CAN touch and effect things like people? I was under the impression that when he couldn't help Locke up after Locke fell down the well that he could not). When Sawyer wakes up, Miles informs him that Claire left in the middle of the night with someone she called "Dad." And apparently, she abandoned Aaron! So, Miles could see Christian - is this because Christian can be seen by all, or because Miles has these special ghost powers? There's always some question like this keeping from answering the supernatural issues.
Jin swings a deal with Charlotte, who he knows speaks Korean. He will keep her secrets and not hurt Daniel if she promises to get Sun on that helicopter no matter what. It is agreed.
"Hopefully the man who lives in the cabin can tell us what to do about the people who are trying to kill us." -- Locke. And that, good people, is the whole plot of "Cabin Fever"
Hahahaha... Locke, Ben, and Hugo are like the Three Stooges. Hugo's been following Locke, Locke's been following Ben, Ben's been following Hurley in their search for the cabin.
When the helicopter returns to the freighter, we get confirmation that Ray the doc IS indeed alive, and was alive at the time Daniel asked about him via Morse code. He was there to see the mercs brought back after Smokey attacked them. Keamy knows somebody gave him and his identity up to Ben; the Captain shows him it was Michael. Keamy tries to kill Michael, but his gun misfires several times. Guess it's still not Michael's time to die. Good thing, says the Captain, so he can fix the engines.
Locke Meets Ghost Horace. He's a Lumberjack... But I'm Not Sure He's Okay
- Locke's eye opens. It's morning. He hears chopping. Hugo and Ben still sleep. Around a bend, Horace chops trees down to make a clearing for a cabin. He wears a Dharma Aarow jump suit.
- Horace doesn't wear his glasses. They hang from his pocket.
- The cabin is a getaway "for me and the Mrs. Sometimes you need a break from the DI, you know?"
- "I'm not makin any sense, am I? That's probably because I've been dead for 12 years." (We know this is true - the Purge occuring in 1992).
- When he turns back around, his nose is bleeding ala time-travel sickness... but why? He's a dead dude. He's also...
- STUCK IN A TIME LOOP! The tree he just chopped down he chops and pushes over again. And then it's back up again!
- "You gotta find me, John. And when you do, you'll find him."
- Jacob's been waiting for Locke "a real long time, man."
- Loop begins again: "I'm Horace..."
- "Godspeed, John!" Was Horace wishing John luck, or telling him his last name as a clue to finding him? Both.
Locke's eye opens again, he had been dreaming (similar to his campfire dream with Eko that time), and Ben is staring at him.
Okay, whatever has happened will continue to happen and perhaps has always happened. At least Locke now knows what they have to do.
For the first time, I feel a twinge of sympathy for Ben. Not only has he lost his daughter, but he has sorrow as he realizes what John has just had that he did not when he says, "I used to have dreams."
Hurley's Theory: The people who can see the cabin are the crazy people. Does this also apply to ghosts? But Jack has never been labeled as or implied to be crazy. Locke thinks they can because they're special. Of course he does.
Locke makes a funny -- they're going to make a "pit stop" before going to the cabin. Oh Locke, you slay me. Locke does find Horace's body, and in the pocket, he finds the blueprints for the cabin, including it's location on the island.
Ben says he should have realize that trying to kill Locke was pointless, but he wasn't thinking clearly at the time. He also tells Hurley that HE didn't kill the Dharma Initiative in the Purge (he told Jack differently that day near the radio tower), because he wasn't always their leader. Someone else was. And that's true... I never caught this or made the connection the first time through, perhaps thinking that Ben was referring to Jacob, or even Richard. But now I think he means Widmore. The problem with that, however, is that Widmore was long gone from the island well before 1992. So is Ben lying, or does he mean Jacob?
The "secondary protocol" that Keamy opens has a Dharma logo as a cover sheet. What the...? Dharma and Widmore and this operation are all together? "If Linus knows we're going to torch the island, there's only one place he can go."
Omar is receiving the morse code message during the day (Daniel sent it at night), and Ray is fine... although he's about to not be.
Gault warns Sayid and Desmond that Keamy's going to torch the island. Sayid asks for the Zodiac so they can ferry people to the boat and try to save their friends. Gault gives them the bearing of 305 they'll need to follow. (Why did Ben give Michael a 325 bearing way back when?)
Lapidus frees Michael, and says he would have believed he was an 815 survivor, but he's not going to the place Michael is - believing Widmore is the one who staged the crash site. He also says to let him worry about Keamy. They notice Keamy getting a death switch installed on his body that will blow the freighter if his heart stops beating. Frank's gambit was to tell Keamy he's not taking him, and if he kills him, too bad, he's the only pilot. Nice try, but Keamy slits poor Doc Ray's throat and dumps him overboard. Gault gets the drop on Keamy, but Keamy shows the kill switch on his arm and says he shouldn't do that. Then he shoots the Captain. This is enough to convince Frank to fly. It also means my brain is going in circles trying to figure if the the island is ahead of or behind the boat in terms of time based on when Ray washes up, so I'm not going to try. Lapidus flies over Jack's beach bringing Keamy back, and drops something out of the chopper for the Losties. The bag contains a sat phone tracking his signal.
This time when they arrive at the cabin, they all three see it. Ben wishes him, "Good luck, John," and as in the past, 'luck' sounds an awful lot like 'Locke,' to where it could be interpreted "Good Locke John," and maybe Locke has finally become one of the good guys.
Locke Enters the Cabin a Second Time
- Lights the lantern (this is probably symbolic of a truth quest, and probably why the lantern is unbroken every time)
- Opening the door, he clearly sees someone in the chair
- Are you Jacob?
- No. But I can speak on his behalf
- Well who are you?
- I'm Christian (he brings his face out of the shadows into the light, smiles at Locke)
- Do you know why I'm here?
- Yeah, sure. Do you?
- I'm here because I was chosen to be
- That's absolutely right
- Locke hears a creak, looks to the side. Light falls on Claire grinning one creepy grin. "Don't worry, I'm fine - I'm with him."
- Where's the baby?
- Christian: The baby's where he's supposed to be, and that's not here. It's probably best if you don't tell anyone that you saw her.
- Locke: Why?
- We don't have time for this. The people from the boat are already on their way back, and once they get here all of these questions won't matter one bit. (Suggesting that all of humanity's religious and existential questions are immaterial in the light of the truth of being constantly threatened with extinction and survival?) So why don't you ask the one question that does matter.
- Locke: How do I save the island?
- Christian and Claire smile. That was the right question.
Outside, Hurley and Ben do not speak, but Hugo shares an Apollo bar with his former enemy. He might be the one truly good person in this place. When Locke comes out, he confirms that he does indeed know what to do -- move the island.
The Story of Michael between Leaving the Island on One Boat and Returning to it on Another
- He's in his apartment, looking at a photo of Walt, and writing a note
- He leaves. There are Christmas decorations in the neighborhood, putting the time frame probably at early Dec.
- Gets in his car, turns on the radio. Mama Cass playing
- Pins the note (a suicide note) to his jacket, drives his car at high speed into a dumpster.
- But he lives. We get an eye-opening shot. He's in the hospital. A nurse comes in carrying blankets - his mind thinks it's Libby (who was carrying blankets the day he killed her)
- Michael had no ID on him, but apparently the note he was found with was written to Walt, so the real nurse asks if he wants her to call him. No.
- Walt is staying with Michael's mother. She won't let him see Walt, because Walt doesn't want to see Michael. Apparently, Michael told Walt what he had to do to rescue him.
- We learn from Michael's mother that she thought they were dead in the crash. When they show up, she's not allowed to call them by their real names. Walt barely talks, but he does wake up screaming at night
- Michael was gone for "over two months," meaning he returned to NYC in very late November
- Walt looks out the window, sees Michael briefly, closes the curtains and walks away
- Michael pawns the watch he got from Jin to get a gun. In an alleyway, he tries to pull the trigger, but is interrupted by someone asking for the time (ha! classic, considering he just sold the watch). It's TOM, who has come off-island for a little romp in the city
- Tom explains there was no way they were going to send him back without keeping tabs on him
- Tom realizes that Michael made the stupid mistake of telling a 10-year-old what he did. Infers that's why Michael wants to kill himself - can't deal with the guilt. Bad news though - THE ISLAND WON'T LET YOU kill yourself
- Tom tells Michael he has more work to do, and can find him in the penthouse of the Hotel Earle
- Michael tries the gun back at his apartment - it misfires. Just then, the breaking news of 815 being found interrupts the game show in which Kurt Vonnegut was the answer to a question
- Michael visits Tom (who is enjoying a nice spread with his boyfriend Arturo). Tom doesn't make it to the mainland too often, he says, but yes, "some of us" can come and go
- Michael asks about the wreck - Tom tells the exact opposite story Gault told Sayid: that Widmore put it down there, staged the whole thing. Even has photos of the Thailand cemetary where he got the bodies... and the P.O. for the old airplane ... and the invoice for the freighter he used to drop the wreck.
- Tom waits for Michael to ask what he wants. Only then does Tom tell him about the freighter porting in Fiji, and how the Others have reason to believe Widmore found the coordinates and is headed right for the island. Gives him his fake ID as Kevin Johnson. His job will be to spy, so that Widmore can't kill everyone on the island, including Michael's former friends. Oh, and by the way, your other job is to kill everyone on the freighter
- In Fiji, Michael boards the freighter (name of the boat and port of origin have a bunch of gunk smeared on them - significant to keep us from knowing?). A crate has arrived for him. And Miles knows his name isn't Kevin. Apparently his ghost pals told him
- On the boat, Naomi tells Frank she'll be flying the first mission to the island - solo. She needs him to wait and bring the science team after. Her mission is need-to-know... and Frank doesn't
- Lapidus signed up for this gig because "Charles Widmore believes me" that the 815 wreckage was staged, and that plane is still out there somewhere. "Can you imagine what would happen if we found some of those people alive?" he says right into the face of one of those very people. This quote from Frank is the question that Season Four is all about
- Keamy's guys chuckle at Michael for believing this is a "rescue mission." They seem pretty eager to get at it with their machine guns
- Michael's been given saboteur equipment, and a bomb. The bomb even comes with a code plus an "Execute" button just like the Swan had! He hears the Cass Elliot song and has a fleeting glimpse of Ghost Libby telling him, "Don't do it, Michael!" The "island" is again not letting him kill himself. He tries to activate the bomb, but a flag pops up like something out of a cartoon with a message: "Not Yet."
- Michael gets a call from the mainland to the boat. It's from "Walt," but it's really Ben. Ben explains that Charles Widmore is a monster without purpose. Ben? He doesn't want innocent people - like some who are on the boat - to die. If Michael will compile a list of names of everyone on the boat, give it to Ben next time he calls, then disable the comm room, then the engines, he can consider himself "one of the good guys."
Ben's eyes (both of them, not just one), closed, then open as he gasps for air. Appears that he's just come from somewhere totally cold to totally hot as you can even see his breath. It says he's in the Sahara Desert, but he's wearing a Dharma parka with the name "Halliwax" (sounds conveniently like one of "Marvin Candle's" aliases) and a Dharma logo for a station we're not familiar with. He's in the Sahara - likely Tunisia - and this portal where he's landed is being watched, as two men instantly ride up. Ben disarms them, puts a tourniquet on his injured right arm, and takes off on their horse. He then checks into a hotel in Tozeur, where he has evidently stayed before. He has his Dean Moriarty passport with him, so he obviously planned this possible trip before he turned the wheel. He also has a pretty good idea that the date is not the same as it was from where he left. He verifies with the desk clerk that it's October 24, 2005 (should have been late December 24 on the island). A hotel in the lobby catches his ears. Sayid - famous as one of the O6 - is burying his wife, and wants to do so in peace back in Iraq. Apparently he only got a few short months with Nadia before she was killed. Ben sees a play to be made, and makes his way to Sayid and Nadia's hometown of Tikrit.
In Tikrit, Nadia's casket is being carried to her funeral. Sayid is one of the pallbearers. Ben takes photos from a rooftop of an ominous-looking man watching the procession... but is this guy really bad news? Or is Ben just wanting to show Sayid a face to pin the blame on as part of his manipulative cover story? Sayid saw him taking photos, and assumed he was papparazzi. Chases him down. Can't believe his eyes. Ben's clever excuse: "I'm here to find the man who murdered your wife." Murder? Sayid had thought it was a traffic accident. But wouldn't he prefer to buy murder? And get some yummy revenge? This man I have a photo of - Ishmael Bakir - was both at Nadia's funeral and in LA five days ago when a traffic camera caught him speeding away! And guess what, Sayid? He works for Charles Widmore! Won't you help me take him down? (I'm so tired of trying to figure out how many grains of truth are in these ideas, because at the end of the day, it just doesn't matter. Ben's that good. Like the Devil or something).
Ben trails Bakir through Tikrit, allowing himself to be discovered. Bakir corners him. He tells him his name. This means something to Bakir. Ben tells him to take a message to Charles Widmore for him. This is when Sayid shoots him. Ben walks away, Sayid can't just leave it like that. He needs a purpose, and Ben's only too willing to oblige him with one as the general of his off-island war.
Ben in Widmore's London Penthouse Bedroom
- His face is exactly half in light, half in shadow
- Tells Charles to wake up
- Charles wondered when he was gonna show
- Widmore has been having nightmares - sleeps with Scotch by the bed
- "Have you come to kill me, Benjamin"
"We both know I can't do that."
Can't, as in physically can't? Can't, as in not allowed? Can't, as in even if I tried the island would prevent it, like it did with Michael's suicide attempts?
- They play the blame game over who killed Alex. They both see the other as responsible.
- "You have the audacity to pretend that you're the victim? I know who you are boy. WHAT you are." -- Widdmore to Ben
- Widmore says everything Ben has he took from Charles.
- Ben is there to inform Charles that he's going to kill Penny. "Once she's dead... you'll wish you hadn't changed the rules."
- Charles believes Ben will never find Penny.
- Widmore says the island is his, it always was, and it will be again (past, present, and future all together here).
- Ben believes Charles will never find the island.
- "The hunt is on for both of us."
Jack is living with Kate. She notes how glad she is he "changed his mind," so perhaps it's after her trial? He steps on Aaron's toy Millenium Falcon, makes coffee, notices the Yankees swept the Red Sox. It's summer of 2005.
That afternoon, after Jack says goodbye to his consult, he sees his father in the lobby. Seeing Christian's ghost is what starts to drive him mad (kind of like what happened to the governess in The Turn of the Screw, the book behind which the Swan Orientation film was kept). He also gets a call from Santa Rosa regarding Hurley, who has stopped taking his meds, and doesn't think his therapist really exists.
Jack Visits Crazy Hurley
- Why aren't you taking your meds?
- Cause we're dead. All of us. All the Oceanic Six, we're all dead. We never got off that island.
- Kate and I fed the baby
- I thought you didn't want anything to do with Aaron?
- I changed my mind after the trial
- Living with Kate, taking care of Aaron - it all seems to perfect. Kinda like heaven.
- Happiness doesn't necessarily equal unreality
- Hurley was happy too... for a while... until he saw Charlie (Jack has just started seeing ghosts too)
- Yesterday Charlie told Hurley Jack would be coming by. The message for him is: "You're not supposed to raise him, Jack." Does that make any sense?
- Do you think he means Aaron?
- Take your meds, Hurley
- Charlie said someone's gonna be visiting you, too. Soon.
Right after visiting Hurley - probably to to try to take control and prove Hurley wrong - Jack proposes to Kate, with a ring and everything, after getting her to confirm he's good at being a father figure. She happily says yes.
Jack is working late one night when he hears beeping. It's a broken smoke detector (or is it broken? Did it perhaps just detect some SMOKE just fine?, because...). Christian is sitting in a chair in the waiting room, and addresses Jack. Unlike Hurley with Charlie, however, the woman who Jack works with can not see Christian... unless of course he didn't want to be seen, because when Jack turns back he's gone. He gets Erika to write him a scrip for Clonozepam. He's starting to lose control, which is really the cause of what sends him spiraling. He's great when everything's great, when life is tidy, when he's a hero and people want his autograph. But when things start going crazy... Jack Shephard, like 95% of the rest of us, does too.
When Jack gets home late, Kate is having a suspicious phone call about visiting with someone before he gets home some night. The next night, he makes sure he's home early, and this is when they have their tragic fight. Jack's drinking and taking meds together, he's creeped out by seeing his dad and talking to Hurley, and now he thinks his fiance is cheating on him and lying to him. I hate this scene, because I think it would take SO LITTLE for Kate to just tell Jack the truth - Sawyer had a kid, and Kate promised to look her up. What's the big hairy deal? "He wouldn't want me to tell you"?? What's that about? This is your fiance, girl! Come on, people, talk to each other. Have we learned nothing through four seasons?
Locke's mom, Emily, is in her room getting ready for a date with her older boyfriend (Anthony Cooper). She runs out of the house away from her mother and into an oncoming car. In the hospital she mentions she's almost 6 months pregnant. They induce labor, and John Locke is born very prematurely.
Locke was the youngest preemie to survive in that hospital. He even knocked out pneumonia and other complications and just kept on going. But his mother never holds him. She gives him up for adoption on the day he comes out of the incubator. And staring through the window is one Richard Alpert, looking very much the same as he always does (except on Pirate dress-up day, that is).
When Locke is visited by Richard as a boy, Richard claims to run a school for very special kids. He'd like to show John some things, and puts him through a test similar to how monks find the Dalai Lama. It's suggestive of the time-looping theory as well, and of ownership / possession / past ownership, which we have seen as a theme before. Richard is also intrigued by the drawing Locke did that looks like a stick figure getting attacked by the Smoke Monster.
Richard places before Locke these items to "look at" and "think about" and decide "which of these things belong to you already":
- Book titled "The Book of Laws"
- Vial of some kind of granules
- Baseball glove
- A knife
- Comic titled "Mystery Tales" with the tagline: "What was the secret of the mysterious hidden land!"
- Brass compass (same compass, probably, that Locke gave Richard in 1956 on the island, also the same year Locke was born... which is probably why Richard showed up to see Locke born)
Locke picks the vial (which is probably sand from the island), and the compass. If he had stopped there, I believe he would have chosen correctly. But as we know John Locke can't resist a good knife. Richard even gives him a chance to put that down, but nope. Richard seems mad. Yanks the knife away, puts all the stuff in his bag, and storms out. And the kid is left wondering what he did wrong, as is his foster mom.
High School lock was locked in a locker with a Geronimo Jackson poster. The counselor at Locke's school got a call from a Dr. Alpert at Mittelos Labs in Portland, and he's very interested in bright minds like Locke... "Don't you understand that things like Science Camp are the reasons I get stuffed into lockers? I'm not a scientist!" Locke is SO tragic that he has spent his entire life both running toward and hiding from his destiny, all because he couldn't accept what it was.
Crippled Locke is exahusted from a day of physical therapy. An orderly who looks amazingly like Matthew Abbadon brings over his chair, and takes him from a stroll and a chat, stopping at the top of a steep flight of stairs:
Abbadon: Don't give up. Anything's possible.
Locke: Read my file - my spine was crushed.
Abbadon: I did read your file - you survived falling 8 stories. That's a miracle (it occurs to me at this point how for-granted things like surviving this fall and the plane crash have become to our group, which can only whine and complain as they wander in the wilderness. It's such a parallel to the children of Israel after the Exodus. The Red Sea parting, manna, the commandments being received... all miracles, all either taken for granted or unremembered or unappreciated when things got uncomfortable or unknowable for a while. Patience - this show has shown - is not only the quality of a leader because one avoids bad decisions, but because it reflects on the past miracles and waits for the next ones. Hence its key role in faith).
Abbadon: Do you believe in miracles?
Locke: Nope.
Abbadon: You should. I had one happen to me.
Locke: I just want to go back to my room (that's usually what all of us want when we get tired and pushed... but it's rarely what we need)
Abbadon: Know what you need? You need to go on a Walkabout - it's a journey of self-discovery. I went on a walkabout convinced I was one thing. I came back another. (This idea of being a "what" as opposed to a "who" (which the existential theme has explored) was also brought up by Widmore about Ben. Is it perhaps the more important, higher-philosophical question to answer?)
Locke here mocks him for just being an orderly.
Abbadon: Oh I'm a lot more than just an orderly. One day, you'll think about what I'm saying. And then, when you and me run into each other again, you'll owe me one.
- Appearances of the Numbers: 15 seconds the timer ticks down on Michael's bomb; 8 years Sayid spent searching for the woman he loved; L-4 is the vertebrae X-ray Jack is handed in the lobby, the same one as he operated on Ben.
- Deaths: Karl and Rousseau gunned down by people we can't see, but who we know are Keamy and his men; Redshirts Ahoy! It's comically sad the way they keep running out to get picked off in the scene where Sawyer goes after Claire. I count THREE that bought it at the hands of the merciless Keamy (two of which were actually wearing red shirts); Alex, executed by Keamy right in front of Ben; 2 of the mercenaries by Smokey (I've always wondered why the Monster didn't do more damage); Ray, the ship's doctor, washes up dead, his throat cut by Keamy; Mayhew, one of the mercenaries, dies in sick bay from monster-related injuries; Captain Gault, shot by Keamy.
Themes Established or Revisited
- Time. There's a discrepancy between the doctor washing up dead on shore, and the folks on the boat saying he's just fine.
"We don't have much time." -- Ben
Ben: There's no time!
Sawyer: I'll make time.
Miles: Just making conversation.
Sawyer: Well, let's make some time.
Kate: So it looks like I'll be your nurse.
Jack: Wouldn't be the first time.
A mere joke about how she stitched him up on Day One... or a clue about time loops? Or both?
"Sorry I've wasted your time." -- Richard, to Locke's foster mom
"My time is over, John." -- Ben, to Locke. The island wanted him to get sick, it wanted Locke to get well. So, there you go. But why did it also heal Rose and Jin, and let Jack get sick?
- Salvation through Pain or Some Twisted Method. Gault says he is beating two men to save everyone's lives (last two guys who took the Zodiac boat got their brains fried) ... Juliet saves Jack through doing a surgery outside her area of expertise ... Jin saves Sun by threatening harm to Daniel if Charlotte does not comply.
"You want to redeem yourself for all you did, this is your only chance. You can save all their lives." -- Tom, to Michael, about why Michael will work for the people he despises - the Others.
"The only way to save them is to man up and get on that boat." -- Tom
Jack thinks saving is a choice, but it can also be an indirect choice. He doesn't recognize that Sawyer ALSO saved Kate when he sacrificed himself by jumping from the helicopter.
...and most importantly overall, "How do I save the island?" -- Locke
- Lies. "80 percent of the people on this boat are lying about something." -- Miles, to Michael ... Ben lies to Sayid about how he got off the island, citing Desmond's boat ... Bernard and Rose are in a fight with Daniel and Charlotte about how the latter are lying. Jack says he knows they're lying, but it doesn't matter until eventually, their people come back for them ... Jin knows Charlotte speaks Korean. In Korean, he tells her that if she continues to lie, he will break Daniel's fingers one at a time ... Kate lies to Jack about who she was on the phone with ... She also asks Jack to trust her so that she won't have to lie to him about where she was ...
- War. The battle has come to the island - mercenaries kill people at will ... Hurley and friends play a war strategy game ... Faraday lies about the ship's response regarding Ray the doctor's condition ...
"I'm attackin' Siberia." -- Sawyer
Locke: You lied to me. You told me you didn't know what the Smoke Monster was.
Ben: You can ask Jacob all about it when we get to the cabin.
So... first of all, Ben was NOT necessarily lying. He may NOT know what it is, only what it does and how to call it. He still didn't want to be anywhere near it when it attacked. Second, there IS some connection between it and Jacob. So is it possibly one manifestation of the Man in Black?
- Existentialism. Just like on last disc, this is important here, especially in the Jack-Kate part of the O6 story. Here, he reads from Alice in Wonderland - and ponders for himself - "but if I'm not the same the next question is who in the world am I?"
"Do you know who I am?" -- Keamy, to Michael
The Game
"It's taken me a few days to figure out our next move." -- Locke, to the barracks group.
"The rules of desertion still apply to everyone." -- Capt. Gault.
"It's game time. Are you in or out?!" -- Tom, calling Michael as he boards the freighter
"So much for the fairer sex, huh?" -- Lapidus, to Michael. Both sides of gender can play equally unfairly as both sides in the LOST mega-battle.
Keamy & Co. do skeet shooting with machine guns from the deck of the boat. Talk about overkill.
"When I'm at war, I'll do what I need to win." -- Ben
Hurley, Sawyer, and Locke all play Risk. "He wants us to fight amongst ourselves."
"What if your dad is playing us?" -- Karl. So let's ask then - what if? It would mean that Ben knows that Danielle and Karl would be killed, and Alex perhaps used as bait. There is an argument to be made that he would be happy with all of that. It would also assume Ben could guarantee them crossing paths with Keamy's group. That I'm not so sure about. Maybe Ben just figured he'd win either way, whether Alex reached the Temple, or whether her companions got killed and she was used as bait (since we know he believes it's "against the rules" to kill her anyway).
"Australia's the key to the whole game." -- Hurley. Could this be true, with the flight originating from Sydney? Is it more than just true of the game Risk as Hurley sees it?
"She's a pawn, nothing more." -- What Ben says about Alex in hopes Keamy won't kill her. He also denies she's his daughter and that she means anything to him.
"HE CHANGED THE RULES." -- Ben, when Keamy kills Alex. This, most likely, is "the shape of things to come;" the game will now be played winner take all, gloves off, no holds barred.
"Go home Sayid. This is my war, not yours." -- Ben, knowing full well Sayid will never find home again, and has nothing else to do but sign up for the Ben army.
Young Locke sets up backgammon when Richard comes to test him at the home of his foster mother. Locke's foster sister Melissa is still alive, and she pushes his game, calling it "stupid." Richard's first-ever question to him is: "You like backgammon? You seem to have a pretty good sense of the game."
Teenage Locke likes "boxing, and fishing, and cars, and sports." He likes the game, not the science. Fortunately, there's room for both in the story of the island.
Black-and-white: Keamy has a thick-black-line tattoo on his left shoulder that looks like a menacing angel with devil horns; close-up on the piano keys as Ben plays; X-rays Jack looks at back in LA; Aaron's stuffed Orca he carries downstairs; young Locke has made a B&W stick figure drawing that looks one heck of a lot like a man getting attacked by Smokey.
Religious References
The others have a "Temple" on the island, which Ben says is a sanctuary. Alex and Karl haven't known about it previously because "it wouldn't be a sanctuary if I told everyone." It's a day and a half from the barracks, and it's where the rest of the Others have gone.
"It's a miracle you're alive." -- 'Nurse Libby' to Michael after his car crash.
Tom has such "faith" that the island won't let Michael kill himself, he hands him back the loaded gun to let Michael go ahead and try.
When Ben calls Michael on the boat from his home, the first shot we see is a close-up of a god figurine praying. Looks Indian, possibly?
Bernard: Are you saying that Jack did something to offend the gods? People get sick Rose.
Rose: Not here. Here, they get better.
Baby Locke's nurses referred to him as "a miracle baby." He fought off everything that threatened him.
Mysteries or Questions Since Solved
- How and why was Ben transported to Tunisia wearing a Dharma parka?
- How exactly did Ben "summon" the Smoke Monster?
- If Charles found the island (put Keamy on it), why does Ben say he'll never find it again? What, did it MOVE or something? ;-)
- Who killed Ray the ship's doctor? Why does he seem to arrive dead before he's even killed on the boat?
- How and when did Jack learn he was related to Aaron?
- Will Locke really meet Abaddon again? When? And if he works for Widmore, why does he want Locke on that island?
- "Who builds a cabin in the middle of the jungle anyway" asks Hurley. "That's a good question," replies Locke. So we list it here.
- We know the O6 now, and we know that Desmond stayed on the freighter, never intending to set foot on the island again. But... where is he, then? What was his fate?
- "Move the island"? How does one move an island?
Mysteries or Questions Still Needing Answers
- How did Ben know the date would be about 10 months different in Tunisia than from the island? Why is it so?
- Why can't Ben kill Widmore?
- Widmore says he knows WHAT Ben is. Does this have anything to do with how Ben survived his gunshot wounds as a kid, and Richard said he would be forever changed?
- If Widmore didn't leave the island until he was forced off already well into maturity, how did he amass such vast wealth and importance?
- Where's all this electrical power coming from? (see below in Excellent Lines)
- Why and how did Jack get sick (appendicitis)?
Add to the LOST Library:
- "Gettin' Better Every Day," by Cass Eliot. Second song we've had by Mama Cass ("Make Your Own Kind of Music").
- The Shining. Minkowski accuses Michael of "going Nicholson" on them the way he's bouncing a tennis ball the way Jack does in that movie. Also interesting because the Captain will soon after describe the symptoms his people have as "cabin fever."
- Alice in Wonderland (again). Jack reads this to Aaron at bedtime, including the line, "I wonder if I'd been changed in the night."
- "Everyday," by Buddy Holly. Emily Locke dances to this just before being hit by a car and giving birth to her preemie son.
Excellent Lines
Kate [sees Jack taking some meds]: You got a prescription for those?
Jack: Yeah, I wrote it myself.
It's actually not all that funny, as he's going to end up doing just that when he's strung out in the future.
"Let me guess, 14-J ain't the code for the pizza boy." -- Sawyer
Daniel: Where do you think all this [electrical] power's coming from?
Charlotte: Add that one to your list, Dan.
Okay, we'll add it to our list above, too, then.
Jin: Do you think she knows he likes her?
Sun: She's a woman. She knows.
More Meaningful (and double-meaningful)
"We gave Walt back to you in one piece, Mike, you're the one who LOST him." -- Tom, to Michael.
"What kind of guy do you think I am?" -- Keamy, to Ben. This might be the most-used repeat line on this show when someone feels impugned who has absolutely no right to be.
"You're not even related to him!" Jack screams at Kate about Aaron. It's true - he's the boy's uncle and she's only pretending to be his mommy... The bigger meaning is that Jack somewhere has obviously found out he's related to Aaron.
Ben: [Hugo] actually thinks staying was his idea. Not bad John. Not bad at all.
Locke: I'm not you.
Ben: You're certainly not.
Guidance counselor: You can't be a superhero.
Young Locke: Don't tell me what I can't do!
(His favorite line, again not liking the rules or the suggestion of restrictions he doesn't want to live by)
"I was told a lot of things, too. That I was chosen, that I was special. I ended up with a tumor on my spine and my daughter's blood on my hands. Those things had to happen to me. That was my destiny. You'll understand soon enough that there are consequences to being chosen." -- Ben
Yes there are, especially what if you are chosen for is just to be a pawn in someone else's bigger game to settle a bigger argument, perhaps like the one between Jacob and the Man in Black...
Last time we saw Michael, he was killing some people and betraying others to save himself and Walt. Asked now why he's on the boat, he tells Sayid, "to die." Sounds as if he's accepted that the only way to atone for what he's done is sacrifice himself for those he's hurt.
"Considering a week ago you had a gun to his head and tonight he's eating pound cake, I'd say [Ben's] a guy who gets what he wants." -- Miles. I'm starting to like Miles. This is Ben alright.
Does Ben actually seem concerned about the fate of everyone else on the island if he gives himself up? I think he is.
Keamy is a nasty mercenary whose many kill-for-hire travels have taken him to, among other places, Uganda. "So I know exactly what kind of man you are," Ben says.
Kate calls Jack a "natural" at bedtime stories, and he even says that that's one good thing about his own father - he was a good storyteller. Jack appears happy, and Kate's happy to have him there. But something's gotta change.
Charlotte speaks Korean... and Jin knows it.
Geez, Kate... Juliet asks her if she would help her with Jack's surgery... and she balks. Would rather not. But if Juliet had told her she absolutely couldn't be there for it, she would have forced herself in. It gets old.
Juliet tells Kate about Jack kissing her, and says it was nice, but it wasn't for her. It was for him, probably as an attempt to prove he doesn't love someone else. For this, Kate thanks her.
Opening & Closing
4.8 Open - Night, a shadowy front of a house in New Otherton. Inside, Claire holds Aaron. Everyone's gathered waiting for Locke, who brings a still-tied-up Miles.
4.9 Open - Waves crash on our familiar shore. Kate's in the sand doing some light bathing, waves and smiles at Jack.
4.10 Open - Close up of a single eye... but this time, it doesn't open. Not until Juliet calls Jack's name twice, at which point he opens it slowly.
4.11 Open - First spinning record turntable in a while - a girl in 50s garb puts on Buddy Holly's "Everday" and dances to it in her room.
4.8 Close - Alex - freaked and scared by seeing her boyfriend and her mom killed - still has the presence of mind to think about what she screams out: "Wait, don't! I'm Ben's daughter!"
4.9 Close - "Sleep tight, Charles," growls Ben, as he leaves Widmore's room in the middle of the night.
4.10 Close - Sawyer finds Aaron crying and abandoned. Camera circles around him as he screams out repeatedly for Claire... no one answers.
4.11 Close - Locke's face, in close-up: "He wants us to move the island."
Probably Unimportant, But I've Always Wondered...
Did the freighter have two helicopters? If Naomi - as she said - ditched hers in the ocean (and we did hear something splash), how did Frank & Co. fly to the island? If they had two helicopters, why is there only one helipad on the freighter?
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Elizabeth Nass and Rose Mayr sat on the edge of the Ellicott City bridge dangling their bare feet over a dimly lit Main Street shortly before midnight Monday, a last get-together before parting for their junior year away at college.
"Drinking on top of the Ellicott City sign with @r0se_petals," Nass wrote on Twitter at 11:40 p.m.
At 11:51 p.m, Mayr posted a snapshot of their feet high above the road and what would be a final message: "Levitating."
Moments later, a CSX train traveling along railroad tracks atop the iconic red bridge derailed, burying the 19-year-old best friends in coal. When police recovered their bodies, they were still seated on the edge of the span.
Howard County police, who said those Twitter accounts appeared to belong to the women, are examining the teens' cell phones to verify the messages.
"It's unimaginable," said Mark Mayr, Rose's father. "From 4 a.m. until 8 a.m., it was terrible uncertainty."
The family had to identify her from a photo, said Mark Mayr, who spoke at a candlelight vigil Tuesday night at Mount Hebron High School, where both women graduated in 2010. Rose's mother, Sharon, and her older sister, Anna, also attended the vigil.
Kyle Nass, a cousin of Liz Nass, also spoke briefly, calling her a role model for the many cousins in their large family.
"She was very charismatic, extremely intelligent. She had the biggest heart," he said.
The two had known each other since elementary school and had recently resumed their close friendship, Mark Mayr said.
About 250 people attended the vigil.
"It shows how many friends they had," said Gabby Barnes, a 2012 Hebron graduate who said she danced with Mayr.
A family friend who lives near the accident site said Nass' younger brother called her soon after the crash.
"He said he knew his sister was hanging out here, and he said he knew she was sitting on the bridge," said the teenager, who asked not to be identified out of respect for the family. "He couldn't reach her after he heard about the crash and was really panicked."
She said some of Nass' family went to the site of the accident before daybreak.
In the aftermath of the deaths, a sketch of two vibrant young women emerged.
"They were great students, great people, active in the school," Mount Hebron principal Scott Ruehl said. "It's a tragic loss for not just Mount Hebron and the families but the whole community, because they're such great kids."
Nass attended James Madison University in Virginia, where she was an honor student, majoring in interdisciplinary liberal studies, according to Don Egle, a university spokesman. She was also a member of the Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority, Egle said.
Mayr was studying to be a nurse at the University of Delaware, according to a university spokeswoman.
Two lives lost as train derails in Ellicott City
CSX crash victims remembered as vibrant young women
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Elizabeth Conway Nass (Mt. Hebron Yearbook photo/2010 / August 21, 2012)
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