I'm blanking on who the lady at the end was. Was she the one that freaked Desmond out when he was back from the island that time?

I believe she was. She worked in some store he had run into during some flashback or another, but I don't recall the details.

The lady in the butcher shop that Ben was talking to who took Locke's body....have we seen her before?

She didn't look familiar.

Maybe. I can't remember either.

Goatee dude told Desmond to go find his mom in Oxford. Maybe that's his mom?

Ben's in LA, that probably wasn't Oxford.

Ben and Butcher Shop Lady, L.A., Ben and Ms. Hawking, aka Presumably Faraday's Mother, Oxford. Ben does have ways of getting around.

That's who we think it is. She looks exactly like the lady at the jewelry shop when he tried to buy a ring for Penelope.

That's HER!!!!!!

It's the same actress, so I assume it's the same character... But you never know with Lost!

Well, I do recall jewelry lady making comments that implied that she was pretty much the one in charge, so that jives with what we saw yesterday.