The Tail Section

Kristin from E! Online has prevailed with excellent news once again.

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A little birdie told me William Mapother was in Hawaii last week — and he exactly wasn’t sipping mai tais by the pool, but rather, he was working his wonderfully creepy Ethan magic. Simply put in the words of executive producer Bryan Burk: "The Hatch is gone. Done. We have new sets that have been built on our soundstage, so it’s a whole new world for you." It looks as if Kate is spending some quality time in close quarters with good ol’ Henry. Rodrigo said that he won’t appear on the show until February. Turns out, Rodrigo is still under contract with Globo TV. He said they’re letting him take a sabbatical to shoot Lost, and then he’ll go back to Globo, so it doesn’t sound like he’ll be sticking around all that long in Hawaii. Rodrigo said, "I’m going to be one of the survivors from the plane that apparently was on the island all this time. I’m going to be a character with a past." Terry O’Quinn revealed that "I’ve heard that [the why was Locke in a wheelchair explanation is] going to happen this season. I’m not sure when it will happen but I have heard that it will."