I'm fine with that, too. I'm still waiting for a few cliffhangers to be resolved for series that will never be renewed *cough*AgentCooper*cough*.
(not really, but you see what I mean). I'm just over cliffhangers as a tv series or movie trope.
I like the reference to The Andromeda Strain. (using the name "Wildfire")
And yes, the imagery for what happened to Test Subject 19, and the story behind TS-19.... 
I was a little skeptical when at the end of ep. 5 and the doors opened, what all this was leading to or the direction things would take, and really didn't expect this to be wrapped up in one episode. So, the whole Desmond/Hatch fears were unwarranted.
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Sorry to see Jacqui go, even though she somewhat had that feeling of being a "fodder" kind of character; she had a good presence, they made her actions and words reasonable, useful and intelligent, and ultimately likable. At least her sendoff was about as dignified as one could hope to expect in world such as this, but still....
The flashback to the hospital scene reveals Shane in a more favorable light, then he pulls what he did in his drunken advance on Lori.
The hospital scene was pretty disturbing in its depiction of military slaughtering staff and patients. Definitely plays on the fears of just what military could or would do in an extreme national emergency on home soil.
