Yeah, that episode was amazing. Tiptup, Kelvin never had an eye patch, probably what you read was an old blog. When we first saw Mikhail (eye patch guy) on the video monitors in the pearl station it was only for a brief glimpse and there was a lot of speculation that maybe he was Kelvin and Desmond didn't actually kill hm after all. That is probably what the blog you read was talking about. Kelvin was also the US soldier who worked with Syid. He tells Desmond that after he got out of the army he joined Dharma. From this last episode it is pretty clear that when the "Hostiles" took out the Dharma camp they neglected to take out the two button pushers in The Swan station. Kelvin told Desmond that they were suppose to be relieved and replaced by two other guys, but that they never showed up, and that Kelvin's partner eventually killed himself. The reason Kelvin told Desmond the whole place was contaminated and that you couldn't leave without the biohazard suit was so he did not discover the boat that Kelvin intended to use to escape the island (a boat Ben did not even know about). Kelvin probably returned to the camp sometime in the beginning and found it abandoned and never went back. Not sure why Ben and his present company never bothered to check up on them or to make sure the button continued to be pressed, it seems they did not believe it was real either.

Anyway, this show is getting back to being as awesome as it used to be. Can't wait for the next two weeks! Then we will have a whole painful wait until next season. I was lucky enough to start watching the show on DVD, and I had just finished seeing all of season two merely a month or so before the start of season three. This is one of those shows I really wish I had not discovered until it was completely over and had all season on DVD. But then again, the speculation and discussion are half the fun