Less than 24 hours until the next episode of Lost, which means it's time to start looking ahead.

Here is ABC.com's description of the episode:

Meet Kevin Johnson Sayid confronts Ben's spy on the freighter, and Ben urges daughter Alex to flee Locke's camp in order to survive an impending attack.

The big question for Thursday's episode isn't about the impending attack, though, but the impending death teased in the commercials after last week's episode.

Who do you think will die? Will it be a survivor, an other or someone on the freighter?

Post a comment below.

I don't know what to believe anymore after last week's episode.

I mean, flash forwards and backs -- at the same time? How do you call that? You can't, you just can't.

Still here's what I'm looking forward to in tonight's episode:

1. Michael is the featured flashback -- I mean, it only makes sense, what with the title of the show, and his sudden reintroduction last week.

2. We'll find out Ben is betraying Locke, but Locke won't know that he's being betrayed for a few more episodes.

In a strange town hall meeting, Ben tells Locke's camp that Michael is his agent on the boat. Sawyer obviously wasn't pleased.

On the boat, we see the captain beat up a crew member trying to leave the freighter on a raft, to "save everyone's life," citing what happened to everyone else.

On the boat, when Sayid asks Michael why he is there, he simply replies "I'm here to die."

But why? Has Ben foreseen the future?

In this segment we saw Michael pin a suicide note to his jacket and drive a car -- too old for airbags -- directly into a dumpster at the end of a pier.

So, is Michael dead now?

I mean, we've seen people come back to life in the past? Did Michael make a deal with the devil... or Jacob?

Miles is also with Locke's camp now, he described Ben as a "man who gets what he wants." No one in the camp should be able to trust anyone else.

Ben also told Alex, her mother and Karl to flee to the temple to be safe when the people on the freighter -- who are apparently more dangerous than even Ben -- come ashore. Where is the temple, and just why is it the safest place on the island?

Nope, Michael isn't dead.

Remember "It's a Wonderful Life" when a man in a trench coat stops Jimmy Stewart's impending suicide?

Yeah, we just had a moment like that.

What did Michael say to Walt that would estrange them? I guarantee Michael told him the truth -- that he shot two women to get them off the island. I can't see Walt forgiving that easily.

We can see how Michael came to work for Ben (and could be recruited by Tom). He's a lost character right now -- not to make a pun. The entire reason for him to leave the island -- that is, Walt -- has rejected him.

It keeps getting harder to figure out who to believe -- but, oddly enough, I believe Tom about Widmore's plan to put the falsified airplane at the bottom of a trench. It only makes sense, plus he had the paperwork. (Then again, these people can forge U.S. Passports, I think they could work up some phony invoices.)

The Others might just look like the "good guys" after all.

The strangest thing about this segment was the fact that Michael can't kill himself because, as Tom said, "the island won't let [him]."

Just what kind of force does the island have? How can Jacob -- if he is the spirit of the island -- control things like guns and car crashes?

Post your thoughts below.

Did anyone else think the little rolled-up piece of paper that popped up from the bomb was going to say "Boom?"

We can see now who the soldiers on the boat are -- and where Michael ranks on the ship.

I feel that now, more than ever, Charlotte, Daniel, Frank and Miles are just along for the ride without really understanding what they are doing. Frank confided in Michael that he wants to find the people on 815 -- he doesn't seem like he could kill them.

The guys shooting trap with machine guns, well, that's another story.

If Michael's mission is to kill everyone on the ship, how many of the deaths so far have been his doing? Regina's suicide? Minkowski's death-by-time-travel? The blood spot on the wall?

Just how is he killing the people on the freighter? Did he just stop the ship until they all go crazy?

Hopefully we'll get an answer this episode.

I hate to gloat -- but I called Karl's death.

I did, really.

What I didn't expect is Rousseau to die. Yeah, I really didn't see that coming.

My coworker -- CyberInk's Andrew Kochirka -- is a regular poster on the blog and probably a bigger Lost fan than myself. We decided to have a fairly regular discussion about the show -- called "Lost Productivity" because we are chatting on the clock -- and to post the transcript of our IM chat here.

Here's this week's edition:

Cody Switzer: What did you think of last night's episode?
Andrew Kochirka: I thought it was good
AK: better than last week’s
CS: The flashback this week was much better than last week
AK: What happened to Michael off the island is pretty interesting... just adds a new layer to the story
CS: Yeah, definitely. How can the island control fate, though? Stopping him from killing himself and all of that
AK: He now owes it to the island because of the two lives he took on it
AK: Do you think that will happen to everyone now?