Time for a new feature here, where I give you some talking points with which you can at least appear to know what people are talking about when they discuss the previous night's TV at work the next day. It's not intended to be a full-on recap, just five points to give you some reference.
1. Sun is having Jin's baby - there was some concern on Sun's part that she was carrying the child of her dead lover, given that Jin has a low sperm count and that they'd not been intimate for some time before the plane crash. Juliet, using equipment hidden in a room at Dharma Medical, confirms that the fetus was conceived on the island - thanks in no small part to the island's ability to quintuple sperm count.
2. Make that Sun is carrying Jin's baby, which is going to kill her before she can deliver - as you likely know, pregnant women on the island have a way of dying before they can deliver. By confirming that the fetus was conceived on the island, Juliet is pretty much passing a death sentence on Sun. She'll likely die before the end of her second trimester. Which, given the way time passes on this show, will be sometime in the ninth season. After they're done, Juliet tells Sun she's going back in to make sure their tracks are covered, but in reality she leaves a taped message for Ben about getting a sample from Sun, and that Kate is next. She also says she hates Ben, but after the recorded is turned off.
3. At least that's one less whore in Jin's life - the flashback part of the episode takes place just after Sun and Jin were married, when a woman approaches Sun in a park and says that if Sun doesn't pay her $100,000, she'll go public with Jin's background as the son of a fisherman and a prostitute. Given the shame that would cause Sun and her powerful family, Sun gets the money from her dad and pays the woman off - who, of course, is Jin's mother. Sun doesn't let her dad in on what's happening, and he claims that Jin will wind up paying off this debt by working for Mr. Paik directly. So we now know how Jin wound up becoming muscle for Paik.
4. He's not dead yet - meanwhile, the group that found the survivor from the helicopter crash also discover that she's been impaled by a branch, and is dying. As they squabble about taking her to Jack or running to get Jack, who should stumble across the group but Mikhail, the eyepatched caretaker of the Arrow station who had apparently died when being pushed through the Others' sonic fence (I assume he saw the flare that Hurley accidentally shot off). Mikhail was a medic in the Soviet army, and is able to patch up the survivor in return for his freedom - but not before he is caught trying to steal her broken sattelite phone.
5. But maybe the rest of them are? - the survivor (who has been speaking Spanish, Chinese, and Italian in her injured delerium) comes to, and asks Hurley where she is. He begins to explain about the island and the crash, and she perks up at mention of Oceanic 815. According to her, the wreckage of the plane was found, and there were no survivors. This takes Hurley aback, though it probably pleases everyone who has "the island is Purgatory" in the office pool.
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