The reason Ben was alive off the island, imo anyway, is that in 1977 he was a child, and i thought they were trying to do an evacuation before the bomb went off if I remember correctly. I'm guessing they got the women and children off the island before the blast, which also means Charlotte should be off the island as well.

about Broyles, i think with the shadow man episode earlier this season, we were supposed to feel like the FBI is his only family left. Work is his life, and saving the world is his work.

over time we've been given a lot of clues that make it seem like he and Olivia are close. with the fatherly advice, and what not, and I admit the line was cheesy, but i think they have to be building towards something here. or maybe its just me really liking the actor Lance Reddick.

i think we are supposed to assume they have built a relationship behind the scenes of the show. It would be nice though if we saw more of that, and less squid like parasites, elephant projects, and shadow killers from outer space.

The thing that was cool about "unearthed" was in one scene you could see a watcher in the background. it was outside the court house, and one walked behind Olivia. nice little easter egg, but did it really mean anything? probably not.

But i was watching on my DVR and had no clue it was a season 1 episode, seeing Charlie threw me off so bad, i feel like that hurt the episode beyond it just being another Freak of the week episode.

Jahari window wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either. it was easy to see where it was going, and I'm starting to wonder if we will ever find out more of what Walter was doing than just, hey guys Walter did a lot of crazy projects. Maybe some insight into how he got into these, and why the government was using him, and why they would just let him go afterward. It doesn't make sense to me that he would be a free man when he has some much information on these "secret projects"