*SPOILER ALERT*

(Because I know Emily won't have seen this episode yet, because I just pulled it off the TiVo.)

I was deep in an argument with someone at school last week before the Con Law final (i.e., in the hours before, when I'd pretty much decided if I hadn't learned it, I wasn't going to) about what Michael was up to on "Lost." It seemed clear to me that he was sent back to free Henry, but the person I was talking to insisted it was also about killing Ana-Lucia and bringing back Locke.

It was pretty obvious that there were just too many coincidences that would have had to fall in place for Michael to have set out to kill Ana-Lucia. His primary role was to free Henry, and with Ana-Lucia hanging around, she had to be killed off. Now we know that was the case.

I suppose an argument could be made that killing Ana-Lucia was necessary to ensure that he only brought back the people he was required to bring back; after all, surely she might want to tag along. However, she also might not care about tagging along. She's already tangled with The Others more times than she'd care to. I don't see how a decision that she had to be killed really would have fit in.

Mostly, I'm just celebrating being right. Usually I'm pretty dense about this stuff.