Do you know anything about the new Claire storyline on Lost that Team Darlton has talked about recently? — Leo
Ausiello: No, but I imagine it's connected to the new Emilie de Ravin contract that I'm hearing about. Speaking of Lost, if it's a major death-related spoiler you crave, then check out this week's AR vodcast!

"Jin, Sawyer and Locke are alive on the Island in the future.".

Most of the info we actually already know, but he does say that the show will move forward, backward and "sideways" in time!? Is he hinting at possible alternate time lines!?

Here is a summary of the spoilers from the interview:
1) Ben has a lot to do in the next few episodes in a lot of "different places"
2) Ben will get some good airtime
3) We move around in time, forward, backward and "sideways"
4) Remaining episodes are violent and gaining speed down hill
5) New characters are very "wicked" and "dangerous" so you will like Ben more because he is not as "bad"

"Lapidus never takes anything at face value. He is a true conspiracy nut and that's going to pay off for him."

Off-Island mystery man Matthew Abaddon will pop up.

We will see Harper again. She is an other, we did not kill her and she is still on the island.

Chau was told unofficially that "Dr. Candle" will feature more prominently. If not in the 4th season, then in the next.

"Jacob? The answer lies further downstream in the ongoing story. Character names on the show are not assigned without a reason. And yes, that is a clue."

"What happened to Annie is another chapter of Ben's story that will be seen at some point."

"Annie is an extremely important part of the island's backstory, and it is a planned chapter to come."

Richard will appear "in at least one of this season's final five episodes."

Ageless Other Richard Alpert will pop up.

Rousseau may pop up in another character's flashback.

We'll find out what happened to Candle's hand and Montand's arm. Probably season 4 along with Rousseau's flashbacks.

Rousseau will get a flashback at some point in Season 4 or Season 5 but it needs to synchronize with the rest of the story

Claire's psychic and his visions for Claire and her baby's future will be revisited.

Horace and Olivia are important to the DHARMA story, and we can expect to see more of them in the future.

"There's a circularity to the way the story of Michael and Walt is going to unfold in the overall mythology, and that is a long-planned approach."

"We've always known Malcolm was going to grow faster than we could shoot the show. And we planned for it."

"Obviously, we have a couple more beats of Libby’s story to tell to fill in the missing pieces, and the way we would tell that story is in the flashbacks of another character. But that character can’t be a character that we already know and love, otherwise they would recognize Libby. We know who those characters are and what those story beats are, but it might be a while before we get to their flashbacks."

    *  Given everything else we have to tell, Libby’s story is going to be a mystery that's going to have to get answered in season 4.

    * There's really one significant missing piece to Libby's story. How did she get from A to B — from Desmond to the mental institution? We know the answer to that question, but the only way to tell that story is through another character's flashback, and that character would have to be another character on the show who is not among the beach dwellers.

The theory that Libby was DHARMA is NOT "barking up the wrong tree"

Cynthia Watros will be playing Libby again this season for multiple episodes.

"We will find out more back story as to why the late Libby was in the same mental hospital with Hurley, prior to the plane crash, and presumably after she gave her boat to Desmond for the race."

We will see Christian Shephard several more times and a good question to ponder of CS is how he is a part of the lives of Jack and the other Losties.

Coming attraction: Christian Shephard reaching out to both (!) of his children.

To the question of whether we'll ever see Helen again, Darlton indicated that they hoped so."

"To the question of whether the DeGroots are still alive, Cuse and Lindelof paused a bit and then pressed for more specificity on the time frame of the question. As of where the time line of "Lost" will be when the series returns on April 24, Darlton would only say: "One of them is."

Fisher Stevens said he would be returning to Hawaii to resume filming his role on Lost. George Minkowski.