Well, um...Holy Schneikes! Okay, here"s the deal. This episode is basically the story of four Boaties who are scattered around the island after they are forced to bail out of their helicopter. As we meet each of them, we get a little flashback with just a touch of backstory. First, we meet Daniel Faraday, an extremely weepy and neurotic physicist. (He"s the guy Jack and Kate met at the end of the previous episode). His entire backstory is that he cries a lot. Then we meet Miles, who pulls a gun on Jack and Kate because he knows that Naomi was murdered. Fortunately, his backstory is that he can speak with the dead, so when he is brought to Naomi"s body, he comes to the conclusion that Kate and Jack didn"t murder Naomi. And then he"s relieved of his gun when Sayid and Juliet ambush the group.
The third Boatie we meet is Charlotte Lewis, an anthropologist who found a polar bear skeleton with a Dharma collar...in the middle of the Tunisian desert. She has the misfortune to be found by Locke"s group, who kind of take her hostage. Then we meet Frank, the pilot of the helicopter. His backstory is that he was supposed to be the pilot on Oceanic 815, and when he sees news coverage of the discovery of the wrecked plane, he recognizes that the corpse that is allegedly the pilot"s is not, in fact, the pilot"s. The best part is that he"s such a good pilot, he was able to land the helicopter instead of crashing it. And it may still work. Hurray! Rescue is right around the corner.
Of course, nothing is as it seems. The last flashback we get is Naomi, being given the assignment to take charge of this ragtag band of rebels by one Matthew Abbadon. Their real assignment? To find Ben. Ben, of course, knows who they are, and takes the opportunity to snatch a gun and shoot Charlotte. Fortunately, she was wearing a bulletproof vest. Ben, in order to avoid being shot by Locke, reveals that he knows who Charlotte and the others are because he has a spy on the boat. Whoa!