you dont remember the russian from previous seasons. he had the patch on his eye. he threw the bomb that killed charlie. in the alt timeline, he was shot in his eye. so either way, he loses the eye.
but the thing about the alt timeline, how far back did they go? we see ben as an adult with his dad, but on the island, he killed his dad when he was a child. its getting confusing. I think there were only really 2 good episodes this season.
another thing i didnt understand, sawyer is a cop. when he got off the plane, he saw kate in cuffs with no guard around, why didnt he do something. instead, he let her get away.
Remember Alt Sawyer wasn't supposed to be on that plane. He was supposed to be somewhere else. So he couldn't do anything cause that would have busted him as well.