Also, I love what you've done with Luck. All the people he knows refuse to leave his head and he can't seem to really distance himself from what's happening now to what's come before.
And the little twinges of heartache - "There's always a girl eventually, isn't there?", and wanting something from Claire he can't have anymore, and trying to figure out what's going on with Dallas - makes it clear that this really is something he needs.