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The following was submitted by SWLS reader, Joshua Wilson:

Due to a recorder malfunction, I was not able to watch last night's episode of LOST, but I had read your post of the official blurb from ABC earlier in the day. It lists "Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus" among the credits. Since I couldn't watch the new episode of LOST, I did the next best thing and picked up the season 3 DVD and re-watched an episode. We watched the episode "Expose", and by sheer coincidence I decided to freeze frame on the shot of Nikki's Expose script where the cast is listed. What do you know, but there is another guy with the last name "Lapidus" listed as an actor for that episode of "Expose"! I suspect it's just a reuse of an interesting name by the show creators, but you never know what connections there are in the LOST universe. Incidentally, Lapidus means "candle," or "torch" according to Wikipedia. Reminds me of "Marvin Candle".

In 4x01 we get to see Big Mike again, the ex-partner of Ana Lucia from season 2. It just wouldn't be LOST without character connections in the flashbacks... uh, and flash-forwards. Big Mike has finally made detective, and is for some reason investigating pretty much a non-issue with Hurley's flight from a convenient store turned into high speed chase. I hope the detective can crack the case. Big Mike asks Hurley if he met Ana on the plane, or before the flight left, but Hurley isn't saying anything. Apparently, the whole island thing is top secret amongst the Oceanic Six (Jack, Kate, Hurley and three unknowns).

In 3x21, "Greatest Hits", we see a flashback of Charlie's similar to the time he ran into Desmond: He's playing Oasis' Wonderwall when it starts to rain, causing him to move out. In this instance, he hears a woman screaming in an alley and decides to help out. It turns out the woman is... Nadia, Sayid's girl from Iraq. She has also been linked to Locke, who inspected her house in California.

In 3x17, "Catch-22", Desmond is "fired" from a a monastery. When he goes to turn in his belongings, we get a glimpse of a picture on his superior's desk. The desk shows the elder Monk with none-other than the mysterious clock-lady from 3x08 who was aware of Desmond's time travel trip. Very interesting.

A couple users have suggested this could be a "Harley Davidson" tattoo, which is very likely. See comments below.
In 3x12, "Par Avion", we discover that Claire worked at a tattoo and piercing shop in Sydney. When Christian comes to visit her at work, we get a brief glimpse of a sheet containing tattoo patterns on the front of the counter. It appears the top center tattoo is the word "hurley". Probably nothing more than an easter egg for us to find, but perhaps we will see a Hurley-Claire connection down the road?
A promo photo confirms the word ends in "..rley", and the screencap from 3x12 seems to indicate the word starts with "hu....".
Maybe we'll find out sometime later that Claire is sporting the "Hurley" tattoo somewhere on her person. :)

You might remember the "Jack Has a Half-Sister" investigation from season 2. In episode 2x20, Christian showed up at Lindsey's house demanding to see his daughter. After 3x12, "Par Avion", we now know that Lindsey is Claire's aunt, and she was taking care of Claire after her mom was put into a coma from a car crash.

We finally know (it has been long speculated), that Claire is Jack's half sister. Christian is the father to both of them, but they each have different mothers. That also means Jack is Aaron's uncle.

In Disc 7, Phase 3 Bonus Features, there is a large map of wires that connects tiny screens of various characters seen on Lost. Most are expected and known to those who watch the show carefully (and can be explored in this site's own "Lost Connections" section).

However, there is one "Mystery Person" introduced, who is but a shadow, waving at us. This person connects Jack, Christian Shephard and Claire. There's some speculation that this person may be Lindsey, the lady that Christian Shephard accosted at her home (asking to see his daughter) in "Two for the Road".

Special thanks to truffula of Lost-TV for the screencapture.

Is this Mr. Friendly, aka Tom, of The Others being treated by Jack? You be the judge.

In "Live Together, Die Alone", Desmond comes up short on cash in a cafe in the states. A helpful customer loans Desmond the money - it turns out to be Libby. Desmond jokingly asks if Libby has another 42,000 he can borrow - which gets Libby's attention. The two sit together, and Desmond tells Libby how he plans to enter a sailboat race to win his true love back from her father. The only problem is, he doesn't have a boat. Libby tells Desmond that her husband died about a month ago, and that she has his boat, which is named Elizabeth after her. Libby tells Desmond he has to take the boat, that is what her husband would want. Desmond accepts, and makes a promise to win the race for love.

In "Live Together, Die Alone", we finally meet Desmond's hatch-mate, Kelvin. It turns out, Kelvin Inman is the man we previously know as Joe Inman from Sayid's past. Joe Inman was the CIA operative that trained Sayid in torturin in the Gulf War. It turns out, Joe Inman joined the Dharma Initiatve some time after the Gulf War, and was assigned to the Swan Station with someone named Radzinsky. Radzinsky eventually killed himself, leaving Inman alone in the Swan Station until Desmond washed up on the island. Inman was planning on fixing up Desmond's boat and leaving Desmond to push the button by himself, but Desmond found out about his plan. Desmond confronted Inman, accidentally killing him.

In "?", Eko is acting as a priest in Australia. He is asked to look into a supposed miracle: a young woman drowned, and later came back to life. It turns out the woman is the daughter of Richard Malkin, the psychic Claire visited in Season 1. Malkin told Claire that she had to raise the baby herself (instead of giving it away), and is ultimately responsible for Claire being on Flight 815. Malkin tells Eko that he is a fraud, and that he exploits people for a living, and that his daughter didn't come back to life as the result of a miracle.

In "Two for the Road", a drunken Christian Shephard visits a house late at night. There, he argues with an Australian accented woman, demanding to see his daughter. So, it sounds like Jack has a half-sister in Sydney.

In "Two for the Road", we find out that Christian Shephard, Jack's father, invites Ana-Lucia to go with him to Sydney as a bodyguard. In Sydney, Sawyer bumps into the car Ana-Lucia and Christian are sitting in outside the bar where Sawyer and Christian soon meet. This is a unique, three person connection in LOST.

We find out that Libby was a patient at SRMHI during the same time Hurley was there in 2x18.