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It was easy to love “Some Like It Hoth,” the Miles-centric episode from two weeks ago, which boasted Hurley’s crazy conversation with Pierre Chang, maybe the strongest Hurley scene since he took to smooshing Others with his van. And Miles’ discovery near episode’s end that his dad did love him provided one of the series’ most moving moments. With “Hoth” we also received confirmation that Miles, like Charlotte and Daniel, is islander spawn.

37-year-old Alice Evans tonight becomes the third actress to be cast as Daniel Faraday’s mom, Eloise Hawking. Daniel reveals tonight that he’s been at Dharma HQ in Ann Arbor, but has he really been sneaking around in Scotland, conducting gruesome experiments on a 9-year-old Desmond Hume? ABC’s description of tonight’s 100th episode, titled “The Variable,” makes no mention of a “young Desmond”:

The time of reckoning has begun when Daniel Faraday comes clean regarding what he knows about the island. Guest starring are Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Sonya Walger as Penelope "Penny" Widmore, Alan Dale as Charles Widmore, Francois Chau as Dr. Pierre Chang, Fionnula Flanagan as Eloise Hawking, Patrick Fischler as Phil, Eric Lange as Radzinsky, Sarah Farooqui as Theresa, Alice Evans as younger Eloise Hawking, Wendy Pearson as E.R. doctor, Todd Coolidge as paramedic, Peggy Anne Siegmund as caretaker, Jennifer Sojot as E.R. nurse, Spencer Allyn as young Daniel Faraday, Michael Dempsey as foreman, Maya Henssens as young girl, Ariston Green as workman, Marvin DeFreitas as young Charlie and Brad Berryhill as anxious guy. Written by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz and directed by Paul Edwards.

After tonight, all that remains for season five are three hours spread over the next two Wednesdays. ABC says of next week’s installment, said to be Alpert-centric and titled “Follow The Leader”:

Jack and Kate find themselves at odds over the direction to take to save their fellow island survivors, Locke further solidifies his stance as leader of "The Others," and Sawyer and Juliet come under scrutiny from the Dharma Initiative. Guest starring are Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Francois Chau as Dr. Pierre Chang, Doug Hutchison as Horace Goodspeed, Patrick Fischler as Phil, Eric Lange as Radzinsky, David S. Lee as younger Charles Widmore, Alice Evans as younger Eloise Hawking, Leslie Ishii as Lara, Sebastian Siegel as Erik, Kevin Chapman as Mitch, Elisabeth Blake as Vanessa, William Makozak as Captain Bird, Victoria Goring as mother and Maya Henssens as young girl. Written by Paul Zbyszewski & Elizabeth Sarnoff and directed by Stephen Williams.

ABC says of the May 13 two-hour fifth-season finale, titled “The Incident” and hailing the return of Rose and Bernard and the introduction of “Deadwood” vet Titus Welliver:

Jack's decision to put a plan in action in order to set things right on the island is met with some strong resistance by those close to him, and Locke assigns Ben a difficult task. Guest starring are L. Scott Caldwell as Rose, Sam Anderson as Bernard, John Terry as Christian Shephard, Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus, Francois Chau as Dr. Pierre Chang, Patrick Fischler as Phil, Eric Lange as Radzinsky, Zuleikha Robinson as Ilana, Brad William Henke as Bram, Jon Gries as Roger Linus, Alice Evans as younger Eloise Hawking, Andrea Gabriel as Noor "Nadia" Abed Jaseem, Kevin Chapman as Mitch, Mark Pellegrino as man #1, Titus Welliver as man #2, Emily Rae Argenti as young Kate, Tanner Maguire as young Tom, George Gerdes as Mr. Springer, Agnes Kwak as Aunt Soo, Amy Stewart as mother, Rylee Fansler as young Juliet, Savannah Lathem as young Rachel, William Makozak as Captain Bird, Daniel James Kunkel as anesthesiologist, Sonya Masinovsky as Russian nurse, Keegan Boos as young Sawyer, Colby French as Uncle Doug, John Pete as prison clerk, Michael Trisler as father, Sally Davis as woman and Adam Bazzi as cab driver. Written by Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse and directed by Jack Bender.

9 p.m. Wednesday. ABC.

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