LOST 6.12 Everybody Loves Hugo

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Wow. Another great episode...I must admit, I'm a sap for Hugo and Libby as a couple, too.You can definitely count me among the "everybody' that loves Hugo.
  And I want to take a moment to give a shout out to Jorge Garcia...He is sooo good at capturing the humor and the heartbreak of Hugo. It's nice to see him emerging as the leader of this group,too.

  Okay, enough of that. we got one of the BIG ANSWERS last night...We now officially know what the Whispers are...They are the spirits of those who cannot "cross over".The only question I have there is this: Is it the Island that is keeping them there, or is it something else? I assume it's the Island, but there seems to be some room for theological debate there.Not that I care to have a theological debate about it...I'm just saying, is all.

   Let's do the Island first....
 The ghost of Michael appears and tells Hugo that he needs to keep a lot of people from dying.He tries to talk Richard and Ilana out of blowing up the plane.His logic, after Ilana says that if they destroy the plane, Flocke will not be able to leave the Island, that "Neither will we,and then we'll be stuck here with it, and it'll be angry at us.", was fantastic. That didn't work. Then Ilana blew up. Yikes!I gotta be honest, I  figured that she would die, I just figured it would be a few episodes from now. Ilana blowing up did not convince Richard. Jack's line that "maybe Ilana blew up to tell us to stop messing with the dynamite" was classic.
  Hugo then acquiesces to Richard and they all go to the Black Rock, which Hugo blows up because he is protecting everyone.
  He then claims that Jacob told them that they need to go talk to Locke.Richard doesn't believe him, and Richard, Ben and Miles go to the Dharmaville  to get grenades. Jack, Sun,and Lapidus follow Hugo to go see Flocke.
  I also really liked Jack's admission about not ever being able to fix it.I thought that was well played. I ahve always liked jack, but if any of you folks are among the Jack haters, did this make him any mor palatable to you?

  Flocke, in the meantime, walks Desmond out to a well, and after waxing philosophic about Widmore's intentions, pushes Desmond into the well. A move, by the way, that Jen saw as soon as she saw the well. I could not tell if Flocke now knows of Widmore's plan because of what Desmond said or not.Of course, we don't necessarily know what Widmore's plan is either, I'm just assuming he wants to capture Flocke.Because, while I do believe that Widmore just wants power, I also think he wants to keep Flocke on the Island.

   And obviously, Flocke pushing Desmond into the well implies that Desmond is some sort of threat to Flocke, for sure. I also wonder if that move(or any other violence towards Desmond) could be where Flocke's followers start to really question his motives.

   I also found the smile on the ghost kid after Flocke gets all flustered and yells for Desmond to "IGNORE HIM!!!" was pretty interesting. The Ghost Kid is getting under his skin. Could he be part of the reason that Flocke is confined to the Island in the first place? Hmmm.....

  Hugo,Jack, Sun and Lapidus go to see Flocke and Flockees. They all agree to a truce, for the moment  anyway. Flocke gives Hugo his "word".

  My only fear in this is that these are the exact people that Flocke needed. I fear he may be manipulating all this somehow.
  One other great, small moment was Sun's face when she sees that Jin is not there...Such resignation, it was so sad.
  In the A/R. We see Dr. Pierre Chang/Dr. Marvin Candle give a speech about Hugo's great philanthropy and give him an award, and then we see Hugos' mom cut him back down to size.But she sets up Hugo on a blind date, and who speaks to him at the restaurant? LIBBY!!! I loves me some Libby, and it was nice to see her again.
  She then asks Hugo if he believes that two people can be meant to be together.Then she says"You don't remember me, do you?" I actually gasped, when she said it. then she goes on to tell him about the plane crash and their attraction to each other. The Dr. Brooks comes over and gets her, and loads her back into the van to go back to the mental institution where Hugo and she had both been in the pre-Island world.
  Desmond "happens" to run into Hugo and asks him if he believed Libby, and Hugo said yes.Hugo decides to go and see Libby at the hospital, and then  bribes his way into see her.
  She tells him some more about her deja vu esque type feelings, and he asks her out. they go to have a picnic on the beach, Libby once again tells Hugo that he is "doing fine". they kiss, and Hugo begins to remember the Island. we see Desmond drive away, clearly imlpying that he is manipulating a lot of this action.
  Then, we see Desmond sitting outside the school where Ben and Locke work. he tells ben taht he's scouting the school for his son, Charlie. Hmmmmm....  the n he proceeds to run Locke over with his car. Maybe the best LOST ending ever. Just batshit crazy!!

  After last night's episode, my wife and I were talking about how we think that maybe when Widmore tested the electromagnetic pulse thing on Desmond, he teleported Desmond's Island "conciousness" to his Alternate Reality body, and vice versa, and that is why the A/R Desmond is now slowly unweaving the alternate reality by "showing" people the cracks in it, and why the Island Desmond is so willing to go with the flow, he knows what the A/R Desmond is doing(even if we don't fully know). Did Widmore know that this would happen?

  Okay, that's what I got. What did I miss? What did y'all think?