Lost - 1/28/09 Episode Recap  1/29/09

The episode opens with a flashback of Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick) searching for a doctor to help his wife Penny Widmore (Sonya Walger), who is giving birth to their son, Charlie. In 2007, Desmond and Penny arrive in London, where Desmond plans to look for the mother of Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies), who is believed to be at Oxford University. However, there is no record of any Faraday in Oxford's database, even though Daniel himself was a professor there. Desmond visits Daniel's old lab, where a janitor tells him of a woman that Daniel knew. At her house, Desmond finds that the woman is in a vegetative state after experiencing temporal disassociation similar to what Desmond experienced on the freighter (as seen in "The Constant"). He learns that Penny's father, Charles Widmore (Alan Dale), is not only paying her medical expenses, but also funded Daniel's research. Desmond confronts Widmore, who gives him the address of Daniel's mother in Los Angeles. Desmond returns to Penny, who agrees that they must travel to Los Angeles.

In 1954, following the events of the previous episode, "The Lie", Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell), John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) and James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway) interrogate the two men they have captured. Juliet deduces that they are members of the Others because they can speak Latin. One of the men, a younger Charles Widmore (Tom Connolly), kills the other and flees to his campsite to warn Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell). Locke later meets up with Alpert and gives him the compass; however, Alpert is not entirely convinced. Locke tells Alpert to visit him when he is born in 1956, but cannot convince Alpert to show him how to leave the island before the next time jump occurs.

At the same time, the freighter team, consisting of Miles Straume (Ken Leung), Charlotte Lewis (Rebecca Mader) and Daniel Faraday are captured by another group of Others, led by Ellie (Alexandra Krosney). Faraday deduces that a group of Americans have come to the island to test hydrogen bombs, and that the Others are in possession of one which is leaking radiation. He is able to convince Alpert to let him defuse the bomb, confessing his love for Charlotte as proof that he won't detonate it on purpose. Ellie leads Faraday to the bomb (the titular Jughead), and after an inspection he advises her that the bomb should be buried and will not go off for at least 50 years, inadvertently revealing that he is from the future. Ellie doesn't believe him, but Juliet and Sawyer show up and disarm her. The time jump occurs and the group is safe, but Charlotte suddenly collapses with a bloody nose.

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