Lost: Sundown Review

Summary:
Sayid gets banished by Dogen. Crazy Claire shows up at the temple and warns everyone, so then Dogen unbanishes Sayid so he can send Sayid to try and kill Flocke. Flocke is neither amused nor injured when Sayid stabs him in the chest, and offers Sayid the chance to get whatever he wants, in exchange for following him. (Deal with the devil...)
Meanwhile, Kate returns, and discovers Claire is mad kooky. Miles makes funny and inappropriate comments. Sayid returns from Flocke and gives an ultimatum - be out by sundown or die.
Dogen, at the healing spring, explains that he killed his son in a drunk driving accident. Sayid is appropriately sad, and then kills Dogen by drowning him, and Lennon by slashing his throat.
Then the smoke monster arrives, and everything and everyone gets ripped apart. Kate survives (dang it!) by jumping into the pit with Claire. Miles runs around frantically, and just when you think he's about to bite it by smoke monster, Ilana and the rest of Team Jacob show up and totally save the day by escaping through Jacob's secret tunnel.
And in the end, while a totally creepy "Catch a Falling Star" plays, Sayid and Claire (and befuddled Kate) wander out and smile knowingly at Flocke.
AltLost- Sayid meets up with Nadia, who is married to Sayid's brother Omar. Omar took out a bad loan, and the loan shark puts him in the hospital, and then threatens Sayid. When Sayid meets the loan shark, it turns out to be Keamy (!), who is appropriately creepy for two seconds. He's creepy for only thirty seconds because it takes Sayid approximately three seconds to kill him. Sayid then finds Jin locked in a freezer.
Thoughts:
Nice to know you Dogen and Lennon.
Oh boy did they have me worried about Miles...
Kate... so close to death so many times... Dang it.
Sayid vs Dogen... I rate it as one of the better Lost fight scenes - right up with Sayid vs Keamy 1.0.
Keamy in the alt world was freaking awesome. The other off island reveals haven't suprised me as much as Keamy did.
I was all prepared to think that A) Flocke was secretly the good guy and B) Sayid was conning Flocke (like I think Sawyer is). But after the massacre at the temple, I won't be able to buy either one as innocent.
Themes:
The magic box idea raises its head, with Flocke promising Sayid whatever he wants (shades of Ben to Locke in Season 3). The theme of redemption, and of repeating past mistakes, is all over Sayid (and Alt-Sayid).
Speculation:
First off - Alt Spec. I think Jin was released from customs, without the money he was supposed to pay Alt-Keamy. Thus his freezer imprisonment.
On island, Sawyer and Jin are together somewhere (where Sawyer won't see the genocide and change his tune).
And finally... my big speculation. The Alt - Verse is what Flocke is offering to the losties. So Sayid's reward for turning to Flocke's side is the alt-world where he can seek redemption. This obviously has questions... When will Jack flip to Flocke's side? What happens to those who don't flip to Flocke's side - (see one Hugo Reyes)?
Next week appears to be Ben, which shoots the crap out of all my speculation about the centrality of episodes mirroring first season. Even the title of last nights episode was to mess with me - Sundown should have been a Sun episode, if the pattern held. Jeez.