Lost season three - right around the corner

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

It wasn't Desmond's girlfriend(Penny). She didn't say "Desmond"...she said "Desmond?"*.

CDW meant the other girlfriend, the one he apparently jilted to join the monastery. As for the inflection of "Desmond", that could either "Desmond?" as in, 'I've only seen photographs so I'm not sure, but are you Desmond?" Or it could have been, "I'm severely injured, barely conscious, and had little hope of ever actual finding him, so am I really seeing Desmond?" So really, that doesn't give much of a clue. The only real clue was the book, in a foreign language.