There were a few Easter eggs in this episode:
That waitress who waited on Sawyer and his partner was Kate's mom.
Also, note the name of the manuscript that Hurley was reading. It was called BAD TWIN and was written by Gary Troup.
From Amazon.com's page on that book:
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About the Author
Bad Twin is the highly-anticipated new novel by acclaimed mystery writer Gary Troup. Bad Twin was delivered to Hyperion just days before Troup boarded Oceanic Flight 815, which was lost in flight from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles in September 2004. He remains missing and is presumed dead.
I thought that was a cool way of tying in the book to the series' continuity.
Also, Locke was flipping through a book which had OWL CREEK BRIDGE written on the cover. This is probably a reference to Ambrose Bierce's short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," which was probably part of a collection in that book.
This story is about a soldier who is hanged at a bridge, but when he is dropped the rope breaks, and he escapes for home. After some strange things begin to happen, it is finally revealed that he was hanged after all and that the rope breaking and his escape all happened in his mind in the split second before he died, as if time was stretched out in that split second to seem like hours.
Oh, and the radio was playing selections from the Glenn Miller Orchestra, which prompts Hurley to make a joke about radio waves traveling through time. This is probably an amused nod to all the fan speculation that the Lost survivors somehow traveled back or forward through time.
