Yeah, like you I didn't think much of the episode. Even the green pill was a re-hash of earlier tests of faith. I'm warming up to Japanese leader guy. I'm a little intrigued though with all this 'infection'-business - isn't that a plot-thread that's been dangling since Rousseau first turned up?

I've given up trying to make sense of the different time-lines or parallel universes,though maybe the characters can die in different planes (no, not the ones that crash though the pun is great, planes as in different spheres or realities) and still take their injured body to another reality.