from wire reports...
The long-awaited Lost returns for a fourth season tonight on A-B-C. The abbreviated eight-episode season opens with a freighter that could rescue or kill our castaways. Last season the show took a departure from its flashback format to flash forward, where we learned that "Kate" (Evangeline Lily) and "Jack" (Matthew Fox) eventually make it back to civilization. Lily tells us, "I was told before the season began that it's now wide open. They can do whatever they want. We've seen episodes in the past where they haven't done flashbacks at all. We've always been able to go anywhere we want with it, but with the flash-forwards they now have just opened up one more option." Fox adds, "[We] manage to get off the island and it's in a future, but is that the present, or the future? We're not really certain."
