This week's Lost mobisode, written by co-creators J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof, is a terrible tease.  It gets you all pumped up for an exciting reveal and then abruptly ends.  The episode is entitled "The Envelope," and it appears that it could be a deleted scene from the season 3 premiere instead of an original mobisode.  It starts with Juliet preparing for her book club gathering, and after her first guest shows up things take a turn for the cryptic and the mysterious.

Juliet is busy burning her muffins when her friend Amelia, who we saw in "A Tale of Two Cities" and who may or may not be Amelia Earhart, stops by.  Amelia notices that Juliet is distressed and asks if it's about Ben.  She asks Juliet if she invited him, but Juliet says that things have been kind of awkward between them.  Amelia responds with, "Finally told you how he felt, huh?"  However, Juliet insists that he didn't say anything, and that things are merely complicated.

The mobisode takes a turn for the ominous when Juliet states, "I think we're in big trouble.  If I show you something, do you promise not to tell anyone?"  Amelia agrees.  Juliet opens a kitchen drawer and pulls out a large manila envelope.  It's of a size that could easily contain some photos or some documents, but just as she starts to open it the doorbell rings.  The book clubbers are there, and the mobisode ends.

As I mentioned, it's a total tease and leaves us wondering what the heck was in that envelope.  If this is the deleted scene that Elizabeth Mitchell discussed in the commentary for "A Tale of Two Cities," then the envelope contains Ben's x-rays and Juliet is distressed because cancer can occur on the island.

However, if this isn't that deleted scene, then the contents of the envelope remain a mystery.  It could be information on Flight 815 or something else entirely.  I suppose if it's not the x-rays, this mystery may be addressed in season 4.  If it is the x-rays, this mobisode was pretty pointless.  However, any chance to see more of Elizabeth Mitchell works for me, so I'm not complaining.

The only other interesting moment from the mobisode is the confirmation that Ben has feelings for Juliet, but that's not particularly surprising.  I'm more interested in what in the world is in that envelope.  X-rays? Government secrets?  An interior design layout for one of the hatches?  Pictures of the Cloverfield monster? We may never know for sure.

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