The Dharma story gets clearer on 'Lost' season 5, episode 9: 'Namaste'

If there's one thing the crew on "Lost" has gotten good at, it's knocking people unconscious by hitting them over the head.

Not that I'd know, but it's probably hard to do that effectively without, you know, sometimes killing the unsuspecting victim.

But in "Namaste," Sun wields an oar like a pro, and when she needs to get from Island Junior to Island Senior after surviving the return plane crash, it's lights out for Ben.

We'll get back to him.

The meat of the story, though, happens in the late '70s (what other show gives you a title card that reads "Thirty years earlier?"), where Sawyer is still running the Dharma Initiative.

Considering all the jolts of the early part of this season, it's almost tough to get used to the pace of this stretch -- a story given time to develop over the course of several episodes. Crazy, huh?

"Namaste" involves the Island's new immigrants -- Jack, Kate, Hurley and, later, Sayid -- trying to convince Camp Dharma that they're just your average sedated submarine-riding day laborers.