About the plot of the episode itself, I have surprisingly little to say. Richard's story was well done but I wish they'd spent more time developing the relationship with his wife. That would have interested me more. The jail stuff and the Black Rock did not grab me since it's essentially exactly what we knew was coming. Oh, but then you get to Jacob and Smokey/MiB and they bring the awesome. It confirmed a lot of what we thought about the two (like Smokey’s game: he scans people and leaves the ones he thinks can be useful to him alive) but it also underscored that everything hinges on free will.
