USER REVIEW:

For the first time since the premiere, we didn’t focus on any one character or pair, but rather bounced from person to person, story to story as everyone began to come together, both in the real world and the sideways one. We got payoffs to a number of arcs and/or mysteries – Smokey admits he was posing as Christian Shepard all these years, Jin and Sun are finally reunited, Kate makes peace with Claire – and some high-caliber acting from just about everyone in the ensemble. (And if I’ve done my math correctly, the only castmember to not appear was Nestor Carbonell, since Richard is off with Ben and Miles in the real world and has yet to appear in the sideways universe.)

In fact, because “The Last Recruit” was largely devoted to moving various chess pieces into position on the board in both universes, there’s less to deconstruct and puzzle over here than usual.