Lost Kassicast

Lost Kassicast 06:06 'Sundown'‏

2010-03-03T13:16:00.000-08:00

FYI- starting the week of the 15th- I will be working at a new job!! J So, my recaps won’t be able to be updated until Wednesday nights or Thursday- instead of during the day on Wednesdays. Also, it’s going to become a collaborate job between Rick and myself- So if you have any theories that you would like to throw into the mix- send them to Rick or I by Wednesday night. Thanks!!

Best lines of the night:
“Right… Claire. She just strolled in here a couple of hours ago acting all weird. Still hot, though”
After Sayid stabs LNM- LNM holds out the dagger “You want it back?”

Ok- where to begin. Last night’s episode was… interesting… a bit funny (the fight between Dogan and Sayid) and really creepy. Sayid was one of my favorite characters until last night- where I wasn’t a fan of him either on the island (CREEPY) or off. Now don’t get me wrong- I thought it was a great episode- just bloody… and again creepy- but that just means they did a really good job J

Oh- and if you watched ‘House of The Rising Sun’- which was the ‘sister episode’ from the first season- you will know that the producers are messing with us! J Every episode- till last night- matched the main character and some key principals to the story of the ‘sister episode’ from season one. Last night, however, did not have to do with Sun (even though it was called ‘Sundown’) and the only thing that really lined up was the fact that Jin was in handcuffs again- someone else was wearing the watch (see below). However- if you look at the fine lines of both ‘House of the Rising Sun’ (where the camp split in two over caves and the beach) and ‘Sundown’ you will see that the underlining principles and ending are similar- in that groups that have come together are now being split in two.

Beware- there weren’t a ton of Easter Eggs this week- but there were a few J

Ah Sayid- he hops out of a cab with flowers- seeing him mooning over Nadia’s photo- we assume that’s who he’s going to see. And, we’re right. Although we’re wrong that Sayid came to be with her- as he has pushed her into the arms of his brother, Omar. You remember Omar? We’ll the last we saw of him- little boy Sayid had to kill a chicken for him- because Omar couldn’t do it. Omar runs a dry cleaning business and has two kids with Nadia- but Sayid’s still hurting over her. Anyways- Omar borrowed money… from the bank like a smart individual? Nope- from loan shark/mobster/all around bad guy- KEAMY. Keamy- being the butt head he is- is still charging Omar- even though Omar paid him back and is broke. He asks Sayid for help to scare off Keamy- but Sayid says ‘Nope’. Then Omar get’s ‘mugged’? and get’s a punctured lung from Keamy’s men. Nadia begs Sayid to stay out of it- and he obeys… until Keamy’s goons pick up Sayid on his way to pick up Nadia’s kids and try to convince Sayid to pay for Omar. Sayid puts a bullet in Keamy and his men. Good thing too- if you’re ever in a situation with Keamy- ALWAYS kill him. Sayid finds Jin in the freezer of Keamy’s death kitchen… Now… how did he get there?

EASTER EGGS/THEORIES/MORE:
1.There were two ‘Omar’s’ in this Dimension X episode- the other Omar was the one who brought Sayid to Keamy. He was also one of the mercenaries that worked for Widmore with Keamy- on the freighter. This all leads me to believe that Keamy wasn’t the big bad in this situation- he wasn’t the one that Brother Omar borrowed money for. My thought is Keamy was still working for Widmore?
2.Also, Keamy was wearing the ‘WATCH’ the same watch that in ‘House of the Rising Sun’ Jin beat Michael up over. It’s Sun’s father’s watch- Jin is supposed to be delivering it to someone. Widmore? Keamy?
3.We glimpsed Jack in the hallway (in his scrubs) of the hospital when Sayid went rushing in with Nadia
4.The man driving the school bus looks JUST LIKE Anthony Cooper (Lock’s dad) but can’t tell for sure- he’s shadowed but look at http://getlostpodcast.iimmgg.com/image/26753ad3961365fbbb4f66ac67aa6449 and tell me what you think!
5.Guessing it’s a prop error- but it’s funny J Nadia’s license plate on the minivan is 2SAQ321- California. It matched Jack’s Bronco’s license plate.
6.My vote is that Nadia is evil… I mean- Sayid kills people for her- in both Dimensions. Yeah- not really... Just thought...

On The Island:
RECAP:
Sayid barges in and demands answers from Dogan. They have a kung fu battle- but once Dogan get’s the upper hand- he’s stopped by a baseball falling on the floor. Dogan tells Sayid that he’s evil and has to leave. Meanwhile- LNM and crazyClaire are standing outside the ring of ash where LNM is convincing crazyClaire to go in and deliver a message and she’ll get her boy back. Claire comes into the temple right before Sayid is all packed up and tells Dogan he has to go meet ‘You know who’- wink wink. Dogan sends Sayid instead- with a magical dagger to plunge into the chest of ‘someone you know and you know to be dead’- “If you let him speak it will be too late”. Back at the Temple- Kate is back and demands to know where ‘that crazy Australian chick’ has gone. Now back at Sayid plunging through the forest- I was waiting for Michael Jackson to jump out of the bushes, here comes LNM. Sayid Stabs. LNM doesn’t die or do anything but start a talkin’ and offers Sayid the dagger back. Sayid was set up by Dogan. LNM promises Nadia back to Sayid if he cooperates and delivers a message. “Leave the temple by sundown or die… Jacob is dead, you are free, I’m leaving the island and you can come with me.” Panic ensues. Kate and Claire reunite- but Claire (while seeming childlike happy) doesn’t seem happy that Kate rescued (sorry- took) Aaron. Sayid goes to ‘return’ the dagger to Dogan, who tells Sayid about his off island life- he was a businessman in Japan- got drunk- crashed his car and killed his little boy. Jacob came to visit him and promised to save his son, as long as Dogan becomes the new CEO of the Temple facility. Dogan hasn’t seen his son since. Made him seem human. But, it didn’t last long- because Sayid got super creepy and drowned him. Lennon runs in “He was the only thing keeping HIM out!” So, Sayid kills Lennon too- quick as a bolt- and leaves both bodies in the ‘pool of life’… ironic. LNM barges in- smoke form- and starts killing everyone. Kate goes for Claire and Miles runs for the Exit Sign. Ilana, Sun, Ben, and Lapidus come to the rescue- of Miles at least. Ben goes for Sayid and backs away after Sayid tells him ‘it’s too late for me’. Ilana finds the secret brick and they get the hell out of dodge- leaving Ben with Sayid, and Kate with Claire. LNM’s group is growing- as he waits outside the temple for creepy looking Claire, Sayid and scared looking Kate.

EASTER EGGS/THEORIES/MORE:
1.If Sayid killed Dogan and Lennon and left them in the spring that seems to bring people back from life- would it stand to reason that they are not permanently dead?
2.“Sun downing” is another term for Dementia… Claire…
3.there are 108 stitches in a baseball
4.When Claire is in the ‘hole’ she’s singin “Catch a Falling Star” by Perry Como- the same song she had insisted Aaron’s potential adoptive parents sing to him.
5.Christian Shepherd used to sing ‘Catch a Falling Star’ to Claire and to Jack
6.Kate sang ‘Catch a Falling Star’ to Aaron in one of the Season 5 Flash Forwards
7.They made a point of showing the baseball falling on the floor. I noticed it didn’t roll, just *plunk* and sat there- which is odd.
8.The hieroglyph on the wall Ilana (and Hurley) pushes to open the secret door is a Shen Ring. Among other things, this means “protection”.
9.Knowing that in this world- Dogan’s son died in a car crash (which seems to happen a lot to people- Nadia, Juliet’s Husband, Michael- didn’t die but busted up his leg, etc- and seems to be an action that get’s people to the island) and knowing that he did not in Dimension X- would lead to the conclusion that something else had caused the accident… So he would come to the island.
10.WHERE ARE SAWYER AND JIN??
11.Actually- where are Rose and Bernard too?

OTHER THEORIES AND SUCH:
1.From Bailey- a Lostie: “I just wanted to add on to the good vs evil or God vs the Devil. For a long time i thought lost might mean lost in a spiritual way. I mean people die and come back again as something else...like a different body or different self. And the more and more they try and control their life or change the way things are on the island the worse it gets. And they are always talking about why they are here? Like what is their purpose? and they all think of the greater picture. And for instance in the last episode jack discovered that Jacob had been watching him all of his life (God). And then Hugo questions Jacob that if he knew jack would break the mirror and all then why didn’t he just tell Hugo to bring jack there. And Jacob says that some people can have someone jump in their cab and tell them what to do while others like jack need to find it on their own. So it could be the quest to accept Christ. And their slate is cleaned when they get to the island. Kate is no longer an outlaw, jack is no longer questioned with his medical skill, Hugo is no longer a curse, sawyer is no longer a con man and lock is no longer crippled and rose no longer has cancer and the list goes on. That’s my insight. –bailey”

2.Of course I still love the idea of Smokie being a Djin- but going off the religious angle- there could be another answer for him as well- thanks again to Islam insight: In Islam there are ‘major signs’ and ‘minor signs’ that the world is about to end and Day of Judgment is at hand. One of the major signs: the coming of a false messiah (LNM?) that will lead the faithful away from the remembrance of Allah or God. And then, there’s ‘The Smoke’. Seriously, I’m not making this up. From Wikipedia: “The Smoke will appear all over the earth that will cause believers to catch something similar to the common cold or even a nose bleed, whereas disbelievers will be hit harder by it. Finally, a cool wind will cause all of the believers to die. This leaves all the unbelievers left on earth to experience the last hour of the day of judgment”

Lost Recap, Easter Eggs, and More! 06:03 "Lighthouse"

2010-02-24T11:52:00.000-08:00

06:05 “Lighthouse”

“Nothing. I’m Just… you know… looking, cause I’m a big fan of temples, history, Indiana Jones stuff.”

This was the mirror image of the fifth episode of season one- for those of you who followed my instructions- good for you! You recently saw that “White Rabbit” was referenced multiple times in “Lighthouse”. In “White Rabbit” Jack chased his father and found the coffin and the caves. In a flash back Christian told young Jack, “You don’t have what it takes”.

Dimension X:
RECAP:
Jack questions himself in the mirror once again and notices a scar on his torso- funny as he had his appendix taken out on the island. His mom informs him that it was taken out when he was 7- by his father… interesting. Jack has to rush to his mom’s house to help her find Christian’s will, but before he can do so- he rushes to pick up his son, David, from school. That’s right he has a son. And David is the typical angry child of divorce. Jack takes off and helps find his father’s will, which causes Jack’s mom to question who Claire Littleton is… I Know!!!! Jack brings home pizza to find David missing- so he runs to his ex-wife’s house (who we wont find out who she is until the series finale of “How I Met Your Mother”) and learns that David has an audition. He’s a prodigy- much like another young dark headed boy we once knew… Faraday. We see Dogan, who’s son is also auditioning. Jack tells his son he will always love him.

Theories, Easter Eggs, etc:
1.So Dogan’s appearance in Jack’s sideways story reveals he was not aboard the Black Rock.
2.The sign at the audition said “Welcome All Candidates” J Sound familiar?
3.This one goes in Dem X Easter Eggs and Jack’s Easter Eggs- Jack Shepherd is number #23. The 23rd Psalm was written by David, who is a shepherd and a musician- links up a bit… doesn’t it?
4.The key to Jack’s ex-wives house is under a stone “White Rabbit”
5.There was a key hidden under this rabbit before… When young miles found it to enter the apartment of a recently deceased man named Mr. Vonner
6.The last will and testament was mailed to Christian Shepherd at 233 Bastian Drive. 233 was the house number for David’s mother’s house (23)
7.Long shot- but there are 8 stamps with the Ram’s head on the will and test envelope. The prophecy of Daniel from the bible, chapter 8, 10th verse- the penultimate battle between angels Michael and Gabriel…, and in the end it all comes down to shadow and light… good and evil.. one’s true destiny as a component of free will.
8.Why was the will so hard to find- if it was just sitting on a bookshelf?
9.Book one that was on one side of the will: “Terminal" plot summary (via Wikipedia): "The novel centers around the investigation of a medical student named Sean into a mysterious cancer called medulloblastoma and the secret behind the hundred percent remission treatment offered by a medical institute called Forbes Cancer Centre. In his investigation, Sean learns that the institute is responsible for the creation of the cancer. The secret behind their offering of 100% remission of the disease is that the creators had also invented an antibody to the disease. The institute procured Social Security numbers and other identifying details of wealthy people and their dependents, and as opportunities arose from those people undergoing surgeries or being on IV therapy, they were infected with the transformed SLE virus. Because the virus was encephalographic, it manifested with early neural symptoms in the infected patients, in the form of seizures and convulsions. The infected people, once they were completely cured of the disease, were usually willing to donate large sums to the Forbes. This book heavily deals with the controversial issues of the time."
10.Book Two: “It's only too late if you don't start now" review (via Amazon): "As baby boomers hit their 40s and 50s in record numbers, they're beginning to realize that middle age isn't what it used to be--that the old assumptions about these difficult years just aren't true anymore. Barbara Sher, the author of such motivational bestsellers as Live the Life You Love, believes that midlife is the beginning of something better than mere youth, a time when "you start to live your life to suit who you really are." Instead of worrying about your slowing body or unrealized expectations, Sher says, why not focus on new opportunities to take risks and try new experiences, or to take another crack at personal goals you never had a chance to go for in the past? Sher's unique view of aging is a heartening one, and it is sure to bring encouragement to those who would like to see "the big 4-0" as a beginning rather than an end."
11.On Christians liquor table- there was a bottle of MacCutcheon whiskey. The same drink of choice for Charles Widmore and Anthony Cooper (Locke’s dad).. Very expensive taste.
12.On David’s desk, the sheet music to Frederic Chopin’s “Fantasies-Impromptu” was sitting. This is the same song young Daniel Faraday was practicing.
13.The Annotated Alice (Alice in Wonderland)- that David was reading “White Rabbit”, “Through the looking glass”)
14.Also- this is the same book that Jack read to Aaron and now we hear he read it to David when he was young.

Jack’s Group:
RECAP:
Hurley gets a visit from Jacob’s ghost. Hurley talks Jack into coming with him by saying Jack has “What it takes”. They sneak out of the temple and find Kate- who’s on her mission to find Claire. Jack and Hurley find the caves- oh yeah the same ones that they lived in after Jack found them in “White Rabbit”. Hurley theorizes that they jump back to dinosaur times and that the Adam and Eve skeletons are them. Hehehehe. Hurley and Jack arrive at a giant stone lighthouse. They go upstairs and find a giant wheel with mirrors all over. Hurley tries to dial the wheel to 108 degrees, but jack notices all the numbers have names. He orders Hurley to turn the wheel to number 23- Shepherd and the mirror reflect Jack’s childhood home. Jack freaks and breaks the mirrors- then sits and stares at the ocean for a while.

Theories, Easter Eggs, etc:
1.So if the numbers and names going around the lighthouse are listed in degrees- there would have been 360 ‘candidates’ at one time
2.#51- Austen (so possibly Kate is on there- even if she’s not one of the ‘special’ numbers)
3.#117- Linus (crossed out)
4.We saw a grouping of Korean buildings when the mirror was turning… It was where Sun and Jin were married
5.Another one of the images in the magic mirror looked identical to the church where the funeral for Sawyer’s parents was held
6.So- both Sun and Jin, and Sawyer’s flashes in the mirror would have been where Jacob met them- but Jack’s shows his childhood home not the hospital?? Could this mean that Jack really isn’t the Shepherd that the list is referring to?
7.#108 is Wallace?? Who is Wallace and why is he coming to the island? AND- if he is coming to the island- why is his name already crossed out?
8.Or was this just to get Jack to get where he needed and there really isn’t a Wallace coming
9.#104- Lewis
10.#20- Rousseau
11.#107- Thomson
12.#109- Friendly
13.#111- Klein
14.#112- Horton
15.#113- Worden
16.#114- Yamada
17.#115- Bargas
18.#116- Lambert
19.#118- Chauer
20.#120- Rodriguez
21.#121- Neilson
22.#122- Freed
23.#124- Dawson (Michael?)
24.#125- Owens
25.#126- Penti
26.#127- Mora
27.#128-Paddock
28.SHEPHERD is written in all caps and in a different handwriting than the rest. It also looks like there was something else written underneath it that was erased.
29.#129- Campbell (as in… Brother Campbell?)
30.#119- was spelled Almeida at the lighthouse and Almieda at the cave?
31.Possibly Kate’s number #51 is the mirror image of Sawyer’s number #15

LNM/Claire:
RECAP:
Rousseau, sorry- I mean Claire is a total bad-ass. She brings Jin to her camp site along with the other I liked. She wants to know where they’re keeping her baby. She stitches up Jin. The Other tells Claire that they don’t have her baby. While, Claire states that she knows they do- because her dad and her ‘friend’ told her they do. Jin questions this- and Claire smiles ‘my friend’. Duh. Jin speaks up and says that Kate has Aaron and he’s three years old now. This seems to confuse Claire and after she kills the Other, Jin recants his story. Claire looks relieved “I would have to kill her”. Now why Claire? You left him in the jungle by himself- why are you now worried about him? Ah well- she’s a little off… The episode ends with the arrival of Claire’s ‘friend’ who is… du du duuuuuu… LNM. Jin looks shocked “John?” “That’s not John, THIS is my friend”

Theories, Easter Eggs, etc:
1.“If there’s one thing that’ll kill you around here, it’s infection” Really Claire?? You would know J
2.Claire has really lost track of time- again, reminds me of Rousseau- who thought that Aaron was her baby at one time. Claire doesn’t realize it’s been three years.
3.Claire heard from her father and her ‘friend’ that Aaron was taken by the others. Are the ghost of Christian and LNM two separate entities or have they just spoken to her at different times
4.The other’s ‘tortured’ Claire the same they did Sayid- with the branding iron
5.Where did Sawyer run off to?? Why wasn’t he with LNM?
6.Does Claire not remember leaving Aaron in the Jungle? She seems to really think he was stolen- not rescued.

OTHER THOUGHTS:
From Ben Smith (one of our Losties that works with Rick):
“Jacob and MIB represent Fate vs. Free Will. Jacob is all about leading people to where they need to be and MIB wants them to decide on their own. So maybe there is a higher power still on this island that is Good vs. Evil, Since Fate/Free Will is not really good or evil. And the 2 representing this Good vs. Evil could be Christian and the little boy with the bloody hands.”

Also he thinks Juliet could be Jack's wife in the x-line.
(Rick told me this last part- and then he recanted saying “I don't see how it could be Juliet as Jack's wife. She has to meet
Sawyer in the future x-world. "You wanna grab some coffee?" :)”)

-I think it’s a possibility that Juliet is Jack’s Ex-Wife. Not current- as it’s obvious he’s divorced… So she could be asking Sawyer for coffee- although my thought is I don't think Juliet was meeting Sawyer for coffee (I think she was talking to someone else)- because if we follow the timeline- as of when the world split in two- Sawyer was on the plane when Juliet was asking someone to grab coffee :)

From Rick (I love this theory!):
"I think we have already started to see the ending of Lost. I think these flash-sideways are not an alternate timeline but rather the future. I think that what ever big thing happens at the end of Lost on the island will transport them to Sept 22, 2004 and on a plane that safely lands in LAX. Their consciousness travels over to the parallel universe where the plane doesn't crash. This is why they are having déjà vu. This is why Jack seemed surprised when he saw the appendix incision. I think we may see Jack get cut on his neck at the end of the island timeline and that's why he's cut on the plane in the x-line and seemed confused about it. This is a little confusing but bear with me...

Picture Jack living his x-line life. At age 7 he has his appendix taken out. I'm sure he would remember this the rest of his life. He'd see the scar in the mirror every day and wouldn't forget. Then on Sept 22, 2004, a different version of his consciousness combines with his current consciousness. Now things start to become a little confusing as he has partial memories from both. He sees the scar and wonders did Juliet take out his appendix or did it come out when he was 7. He sees Kate and has déjà vu about her. Does he know her? In Kate's x-line she hears the name Aaron, that sounds familiar...even though in her x-line story up to then she didn't know an Aaron.

The typical drama would end with a big battle of some kind (physical or mental) and then there would be a scene like at the end of return of the Jedi that shows everyone and how they've come to a conclusion of where and who they are in this world. Having a short conclusion like this for Lost would not be good because there are too many characters that we need to know how it ends for them. Now picture the end of Lord of the Rings. This went on for 20-30 minutes and although I liked it and allowed this long an ending since it was over 9 hours long to tell the story, they can't get away with that on Lost either because people would complain about how slow the end was.

Lost has to end with a bang but we still need closure with these characters. So how is this done? Show us the ending throughout the entire final season. :) That's my thought."

Ok- that’s all folks! J Send me your thoughts, finds, and other info!

6:04- "The Substitute"

2010-02-17T10:29:00.000-08:00

First things first: I LOVED LAST NIGHT’S EPISODE!! It was my favorite Dimension X and I just love Terry O’Quinn.

Now the Locke-Ness Monster won- so when you see that below- remember we are talking about Smokie “Locke” not the real Locke. We split up into an extra group this week (the four on the beach- Sun, Lapidus, Ben, and Ilana) which we will now call the “Outcast Group”. At least, until next week or so, when I’m sure they’ll merge with the “Jack Group” at the Temple. The Locke-Ness Monster group has now lessened significantly in members… But lets get to it, shall we? Same as always- small recap then on to what else we can find!

Dimension X:
RECAP:
Locke- driving a beat-up van that doesn’t work properly, can’t roll out into his yard. He falls, the sprinklers turn on, and it’s back to feeling sorry for Locke. But wait. HELEN! She never left him- in fact they’re getting married and she mentions his dad. Which brings up some questions… because Locke met Helen at an anger meeting after Locke’s dad stole his kidney (although in Dimension X they could have met under different circumstances). So either, his dad never stole his kidney and then pushed him out a window (in which case- Locke went paralyzed some other way) or Locke is REALLY forgiving and so is Helen. Hmmmm… I believe the former. Locke went to work. Randy’s still a douche. Locke is fired. Angry Locke beats up on a yellow hummer- that belongs to the owner of the box company- Hurley! Hurley sends Locke to a temp agency he also owns, which happens to be run by Rose. Yes, Rose still has cancer L. She hooked Locke up with a substitute teaching position, where he meets Benjamin Linus, a European History teacher. Locke comes clean to Helen about the walkabout and loosing his job and tells her she shouldn’t wait for a miracle. She loves him and tears up Jack’s business card.

EASTER EGGS, THEORIES, AND MORE:
1. In Dimension X- Randy didn’t know about the walkabout- he sent Locke to Australia for a conference, where in the original dimension, Randy knew and had teased him about it for a while.
2. The woman at the temp agency that asked Locke what kind of animal he would be- was the fake psychic that Hurley’s dad hired to try to get Hurley to no longer feel he was cursed by the numbers.
3. There’s a poster behind Rose’s head in the temp office- with a man and a woman- where the man looks eerily like Desmond the woman looks a lot like Kate.
4. HOW DID LOCKE GET INTO THE WHEELCHAIR? Did his dad do it? Doesn’t seem like it- there were photos all over there house with his dad in it. One was also up in his cubical two of them hunting.
5. In Dimension X- the sound of Locke’s alarm clock sounds the same as the sound the Hatch made when the countdown began to enter the numbers.
6. Hurley is driving the same Hummer that he bought in the original dimension with his lottery winnings- and the same one he crashed after returning from the island and seeing Charlie in a convenient store.
7. Randy (aka Douche boss) calls Locke “Colonel”, something he also did in the original dimension due to Locke’s obsession with the military game Axis and Allies.
8. In the original dimension, Locke got the idea of the walkabout from Abaddon. But, without the island existing and presumably without Charles Widmore, Locke and Abaddon never would’ve met

Outcast Group:
RECAP:
Ben lets Ilana believe that Locke-Ness Monster killed Jacob. She pick’s up Jacobs ASH and puts it in a baggie. She also insist that Smokie is stuck in Locke’s form. She informs them that Locke-Ness Monster is recruiting… The four buried Locke, in which Ben apologized for murdering him, and they took off to the temple

Sorry- No Easter Eggs, Etc for this section- it was just too short. Albeit funny “This is the weirdest funeral I’ve ever been to”

Locke-Ness Monster Group:
RECAP:
Locke-Ness Monster (LNM) releases Richard from a trap and asks him to join him. When he refuses, LNM turns to Sawyer- who is drinking in his undies. In his encounters with both men, LNM saw a blond boy- once with blood and the other time Sawyer saw him too. LNM chased the boy- tripped- and was told “You know the rules, you can’t kill him” by the boy. Huh?? Before LNM comes back to Sawyer- Richard tries to warn him away, telling him that LNM wanted him dead. “He won’t stop—“ But then ran away, chicken, when LNM came back. Me- well if I saw Richard that scared- I’d run. Sawyer wants answers. LNM and Sawyer climb down an unsafe ladder into a cave in the cliff. Where he throws a WHITE rock and shows Sawyer the walls which have hundreds of names and corresponding numbers. “Jacob had a thing for numbers”. Most where crossed out- but a few remain. And this was the list of ‘Candidates’ to replace Jacob as guardians of the island. LNM tells Sawyer they can leave the island “Together”. Sawyer get’s excited- ignoring the fact he knows this isn’t Locke and ignoring Richard’s Warning.

EASTER EGGS, THEORIES, AND MORE:
1. The numbers and names on the wall that weren’t crossed out:
4- Locke (John)
8- Reyes (Hurley)
15- Ford (Sawyer)
16- Jarrah (Sayid)
23- Shephard (Jack)
42- Kwon (Sun or Jin)
2. When LNM was told he ‘Can’t kill him’ HE yelled “Don’t tell me what I can’t do”- following a very much LOCKE sentiment. Is a piece of Locke carrying over into LNM?
3. Hurley is number 8. The number 8 on it’s side is the infinity symbol. Some are thinking this might mean that Hurley will be chosen.
4. Kate’s name wasn’t on the wall. Even though she was also ‘touched by Jacob’. Rick thinks she really is on the wall- we just didn’t see her- and she’s number 108.
5. Although- let’s say Littleton means Aaron (see below), Kwon means Jin, and Kate isn’t on the wall… That would mean that the names all belong to men… There could be something to that. Kate could have been brought to the island to HELP the candidates- not become one.
6. Littleton (Claire or Aaron?) is crossed off on the wall.
7. I spy… other names crossed off on the wall
a. There was also a number 286-Jenssen that was crossed out- Kate’s fathers name?
b. #195- Pace (Charlie)
c. #64- Goodspeed
d. #56- Chang
e. #175- Straume (Ethan?)
f. #222- O’Toole
g. #291- Domingo
h. #233- Jones (name on a stolen Army uniform Widmore wore)
i. #346- Grant
j. #10- Mattingley (name on a stolen Army uniform an Other wore)
k. #33- Martin (Karl??)
l. #90- Troup (Gary)- he was the ‘author’ of the Bad Twin- a fictional book by the creators of Lost
m. #142- Lewis (Charlotte?? Or by the ‘man’ theory- her father who worked on the island?)
n. #70- Faraday
o. #31- Rutherford (Shannon or her father??)
p. Almeida (Paulo?? We never knew his last name- but he was Brazilian and Almeida is a common Brazilian name
8. Who is the blonde island kid covered in blood?? Aaron? Kid Jacob? Peter Pan from Never Never Land?
9. The Blond kid appeared also acted in the movie 2:13- starring with Mark Pellegrino (who plays Jacob on Lost)
10. The blond kid saying “You can’t kill him” Could be referring to Sawyer- as Sawyer is a candidate or a reference to the fact that Jacob isn’t really dead?
11. LNM throws the White Rock off the scales, leaving a Black Rock sitting there- and comments “It’s an inside joke”. Black and White again. Black and White stones with Adam and Eve, Black Horse, White Polar Bear, Backgammon, White shoes black suit, Light and Dark- Jacob and MIB, etc etc.
12. While drinking alone in his house, Sawyer listens to Iggy Pop’s version of the song “Search and Destroy” about a “forgotten boy” who wants someone to “Save my soul”

Lost 6:03 What Kate Does

2010-02-10T09:55:00.000-08:00

Brought up some questions- answered a few. I was wrong on my guess that Kate would deliver Aaron- but I was still better than Rick- who thought Claire wasn’t even pregnant!! J That made me happy enough to dance a little jig. We only have two sections from last night as we didn’t see Flocke’s group- makes me sad- but we’ll see them again next week!

Now first off- all of these episodes seem to following a pattern of sorts… lined up with Season One. The first episode matched up to the premier in that Jack had a flash back (or a flash ‘sideways’) to the plane- where he conversed with Rose, got free liquor, etc. And dealing with the lost body his father on the island (which he also dealt with in his flash sideways) The third episode of Season 1 and Season 6 cover Kate’s flashback and flash sideways (both times she’s running from the detective). And, if we follow that trend- next weeks episode should follow Locke’s flashback of “Walkabout” with the real Locke in Dimension X and Flocke throughout the episode.

Also- Rick would like for me to tell everyone his new favorite nickname for Flocke- “the Locke-Ness Monster” he found it on-line and loves it- so we’re taking a vote. Send me your vote on if we should call the fake Locke- Flocke or Locke-Ness from here on out.

Dimension X:
QUICK RECAP:
Kate steals a cab with Pregnant Claire in the back. The cabby is scared of little ole’ Katie’s gun and flees. Kate kicks a crying Claire out of the cab, but feels bad once she finds Claire’s baby bag in the back. After getting freed from her handcuffs by a flirty old mechanic, she goes back and gives Claire a ride to the adopted parent’s house. Future non-mom is crying- her husband left her. Suspicious? Claire goes into labor. Kate takes her to the hospital where Dr. Goodspeed (Ethan) gives her drugs to not go into labor- but Claire freaks when there’s no heartbeat. Aaron! Nope- he’s ok. Claire gives Kate her credit card and she’s off.

EASTER EGGS, THOUGHTS, AND QUESTIONS:
1. Ethan didn’t want to give Claire drugs because he “doesn’t want to poke anyone with a needle unless he has to”. I just thought this was funny coming from the man who was the master of drugging pregnant women on the island

2. We’re assuming that Horace Goodspeed got his wife and his baby, Ethan off the island in the last sub trip (much like miles and charlotte), but it’s odd that either off the island or on- he became a baby doctor. And he’s still a bit creepy.

3. BIG ONE- was flight 815 a month later in Dimension X?? The ultrasound picture in Claire’s hand is dated 10/22/04 (instead of 9/22/04- which is the date the plane should have landed in the original dimension)- which would put it only a few weeks before she had Aaron the first time around. And would be the same date that Charlie killed Ethan on the island. But here’s Ethan that same day in Dimension X- giving Claire drugs…

4. Ben Smith (one of my ‘viewers’) thinks that Charlie will still kill Ethan- that Charlie will have to go to the hospital before going to jail (probably will- as he almost suffocated on drugs...)

5. Kate is experiencing some serious Déjà vu- when Claire yelled out Aaron’s name- Kate looked like she recognized it- then confused. She definitely recognized it from ‘another time’.

6. Also- when she saw Jack standing outside of the airport- they both seemed to recognize each other.

7. The stuffed whale that Kate found in Claire’s bag is identical to the same one young Aaron was seen holding during the flash forward in the season 4 episode “Something Nice Back Home”

8. Tania Kahale played the nurse outside at the hospital in Dimension X when Kate and Claire arrived. She also was the nanny Kate hired to watch Aaron, in original dimension in season 4’s “Eggtown”

9. Kate used the alias Joan Hart in the hospital- the same alias she used in the original dimension to get a letter- informing her of her dying mother in a hotel in season 2

10. “I’m Walking Here” Arzt used the same line- after getting run over by Kate’s cab- that Sawyer used after almost getting run over by Ana Lucia, when she was driving for Christian Shephard.

Jack’s Group:
QUICK RECAP:
Sayid’s alive- and Dogan (aka ‘Jet Li’) seems a bit upset about the news. The other Other’s take Sayid to perform a test (aka ‘torture’) on him, which he doesn’t pass. Sawyer escapes. Kate, Jin, A grumpy other Other Aldo, and another other Other go after him. Hurley thinks Sayid is a Zombie, but like all zombies- Sayid says ‘No’. Jack is told to give him a pill- turns out its poison. Sayid is ‘infected’ with something dark and evil- the same as Claire. Kate beats up the other Others and runs to Sawyer- who is crying over Juliet and throws an engagement ring into the ocean. Kate wants to find Claire. Jin, on his way to find Sun, is captured again by Aldo and quiet other Other. Aldo wants to shoot him (even with a warning by the other Other- that he’s on THE LIST) but is shot instead by a wild looking Claire.

EASTER EGGS, THOUGHTS, AND QUESTIONS:
1. “it’s a baseball” duh! We see a lot of baseballs in Lost- there was one in the ‘time capsule’ that Kate and Tom buried, there was one sitting on the shelf in the locker John Locke the teenager was stuffed into, Ben showed Jack the Red Sox winning the World Series in 2004...

2. It was odd that Sawyer hid the engagement ring in a box UNDER the floorboards. That seems like a lot of work and a bit of construction to go through to hide a ring. Was there something else in the box?

3. Aldo- was originally guarding Room 23 when Kate knocked him out 49 episodes ago

4. Ben Smith thinks that Jack did save Sayid because Jack has special powers. What do you think?

5. We’re thinking that Sayid’s ‘infection’ is the same ‘sickness’ that Rousseau’s crew had- where she had to shoot them all.

6. I’m seeing a lot on-line –all assumptions that whatever ‘infects’ Claire, Sayid, possibly Christian, Rousseau’s team- is Smokie. I don’t agree with this. I think they could be related- but I don’t think they could possibly be the same thing. Smokie didn’t go into Locke’s body- he created a copy. Whatever is infecting them is taking over dead or close to dead bodies. Also- Bram shot Flocke- but the bullet ended up on the floor, while Rousseau shot her crew and killed them.

7. Dogan’s description of the darkness reaching the heart brings back memories of ‘The Heart Of Darkness’- I don’t know if this was required reading for all of you- but it was for me in high school- I don’t know why I thought of this- but it’s about men who work on a steamship in Africa. The steamship was sunk- but repaired and they set off with a crew of cannibals up the river. There’s a dense jungle on both sides of the river. At one point they come across a hut with stacked firewood and a note saying the wood is for them- no idea where it came from. The steamer is surrounded by a dense fog- and when it clears the ship is attacked by unseen natives- who shoot arrows from the forest. There’s a lot more to it- and I’m sure it’s not related- I just thought it was fun

8. Dogan confirmed our suspicions that the Island or some being on the Island brought everyone here- in the form of boats, planes, hot-air balloons, etc for a reason.

9. The test- Ash, Electric Shock, and a Fire Poker?? To me, it seemed like Sayid reacted the way any normal human being with a pain threshold would have done- so how does this prove he’s infected??

10. I think when Kate, Jin, and the other Other’s saw that trap that looked like one set by Rousseau- it was set by Claire… Along with having the fashion and artillery as Rousseau… So, that brings up another question- Was Rousseau infected??

11. The other Other’s know a lot about our Losties- they know Sawyer’s real name, that Claire is Jack’s sister, where the Ajira flight landed.

Also- last week we missed- that Desmond (in Dimension X) has a wedding ring on! So, he’s already married. Just interesting…

Smokie is a Djinn?? Does MIB actually exist at all??

2010-02-06T13:03:00.000-08:00

Ok- So we now know- thanks to Damian and Carlton- that the Man in Black is NOT the Smoke monster. So now that puts us at block one- thinking... well who is the Man and Black and who is Jacob and what the.. is the Smoke Monster??

First off- I'm told that I have to tell everyone that I think Jacob could be in Sayid's body (I'm at 50/50) while Rick thinks that there is NO possibility for that :)

Here's some theories:

(this is probably way off- but I wanted to get it out there :)) MY new theory is that there is NO man in black. He doesn't exist. So, therefore- when Damian and Carlton say "Smokie is not the Man In Black" and when they say that Smokie is not Locke- it's saying the same thing. While Smokie can portray certain people and look like whatever he wants- he is NOT actually these people. Man In Black might have existed way back when- but he did not at that time. He couldn't kill Jacob- Smokie can't kill Jacob. Again- I repeat- while Smokie is NOT Man In Black- he did portray him on the beach that morning way back in the 1800's.

Now- on to what smokie is. My favorite new theory is that he's a Djinn (possibly Jacob is too- but we've only assumed there's one... but I'm only about 20% on that one). It’s also a possibility that Jacob is a fallen angel… Who knows!! Anyways- read before and see if you see the connections between Smokie and the Djinn (or some form of). I don’t know how we didn’t see this before!

Djinn:
You may have heard of a Djinn before- only when you saw him, he was blue, sang songs, and sounded eerily like Robin Williams. That’s right Djinn is also known as a jinn, jinni, or genie in Arabia. It is a supernatural creature which occupies a parallel world and together with human’s (ex. Locke, Ben, Jack, Kate) and angels (ex. Possibly Jacob- fallen angel?) . A Djinn can be either good or evil and possesses free will. Jinn is the plural for jinni which is derived from the Arabic root JaNaA which means to always hide or be hidden (hmmmm…. Like the jungle at all Smokie?) Genie is derived from Latin genius, which meant a sort of tutelary or guardian spirit. Arabic lexicons provide the rendered meaning of jinn not only for spirits, but also for anything concealed through time, status, choosing another form, and even physical darkness. Pre-Islam times- The Djinn has also been known in Latin beliefs as The Guardian Spirits and The Evil Spirit. The Jinn is made from smokeless fire (literal translation is “subtle fire”… ) by Allah in the same way humans were made of earth. Djinn (having free will) refused to bow to Adam when Allah told him to- and then we was thrown from Paradise to earth (hmmm enter “Paradise Lost” a poem about Fallen Angels) and called “Shaitan”. Djinn are invisible to humans unless they want to be seen and Djinn often harass and even possess humans (we’re not talking possession like you may be used to- we’re talking possession as in getting humans to do what the Djinn wants the human to do). Djinns live in remote areas such as mountains, seas, islands, trees, and in the air. Muslims believe that the Djinn account for much of the ‘magic’ perceived by humans such as lifting people and objects into the air, mind reading, and mimicking the voices of deceased humans (Whispers?). In Muslim legend, a Djinn is capable of assuming human or animal form and exercising supernatural influence over people. In Arabic folklore, a Marid is a Djinn associated with the oceans where it finds sanctuary. Marids are often described as the most powerful type of Djinn, having especially great powers. They are arrogant and proud. Like every Djinn, they have free will yet could be compelled to perform chores. They also have the ability to grant wishes, but that usually requires battle, and according to some sources imprisonment and rituals. The Djinn is capable of appearing in human and animal forms and influencing humankind for either good or evil. Djinn’s are also supposed to live much longer than humans. Furthermore- some believe that Djinn can be trapped (this is where the legend of Genie’s come from)or confined to an area or bound and summoned by humans. Also- an Ifrit (which is a class of Djinn) is an enormous winged creature of smoke, either male or female, who lives underground and frequents ruins. While ordinary weapons and forces have no power over them, they are susceptible to magic, which humans can use to kill them, capture them, or enslave them. As with the Djinn, an Ifrit may be either a believer or an unbeliever, good or evil, but he is most often depicted as a wicked and ruthless being and one that tempts man on behalf of god so god can judge them.

Just a thought… 

Updates

2010-02-05T09:43:00.000-08:00

Thank you Mike McGee- for a link to an awesome website with peoples theories and thoughts. Here's the link: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2010/02/lost-in-a-flash-this-weeks-top-comments/1 but, I'm going to cover what I found to be interesting below- so don't feel the need to visit if, if you don't want to.

Also- thanks Rick, for this awesome article. You have to read this- it has some great LOST thoughts! (and it's really funny :)) : http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20313460_20341211,00.html it's long- so I'm not going to go into it here- but make sure you have some time to read it- because it's good!

Ok- so back to the original usa today/pop candy article- here are some other Lostie's thoughts, theories, questions, etc that I found interesting- and thought you all might too! (my thoughts are in black)

1. xeoomni: "I found it interesting that Jack was now in seat 24 on the plane. In the pilot, he was in 23. It seems the destruction of the island had a profound impact on the numbers and their meaning."
I love this thought!! I almost mentioned that he was in a different seat- but I couldn't remember for sure. Love it though!

2. Biggar: "At first I didn't want to believe it, but I do think Jacob has taken Sayid's body. If you look at the 'Lost Last Supper' pic, Sayid is in the Judas position, while Locke (MIB) is in the Jesus position. That's a pretty clear cut connection. Sayid seems like an odd choice seeing how the two really don't have a previous conflict. I would think Jack or Ben would be the better vessel. Does Jacob have special elemental abilities like Jacob being able to turn into the Smoke Monster? Could Jacob be the white flashing light?"
I didn't notice that Sayid was in the Judas position in the photo- makes you wonder though. If Flocke (aka Smokie) is in the Jesus position and Sayid (if he's Jacob) is Judas... Makes you wonder who the bad guy really is

3. Sister Carrie: "If the book in the cave turns out to be Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling (as I said, I saw the word "Soren" on the book), there might be some interesting connections:
- It was published in 1843, two years before the Black Rock set sail from England.
- It was published under a fake name, John the Silent (and our John really is silent now).
- And most compelling, the book feature ALTERNATE RETELLINGS of the same story. Perhaps that's a clue."
Good call on the Alternate retellings!

4. H.R.H. PetalKid: "So far no one had mentioned specifically the state of people's lives on the plane. It can't be a 'what if it hadn't crashed' because:

drastic changes for some:
Jack- Christian's missing corpse and a lack of patented 'Jackangst'
Hurley- luckiest man on Earth and Mr. Cluck CEO
Sawyer- A happy, polite dude.
Boone- He didn't 'save' Shannon from the bad choice, freeing himself from her.

not so much for:
Jin/Sun- he is a back to being a jerk/she trying to escape
Charlie- heroin addict/arrested
Kate- still being marshalled, still violent

and i've not clue what to make of:
Claire, Desmond, Bernard/Rose"
I don't necessarily agree with this- because it's not a 'Its what happened if the Plane didn't crash' scenario- it's more of a 'what happened if the island no longer exist' scenario- it's more along the lines of everything that changed since the 70's- not just on the plane. But thought it was a good thought.

5. j:
phanboy wrote:
What do you supose is the hidden meaning of the episode's title. It was NOT called LAX, the abbreviation for the airport. It was LA X. The space must mean something...
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"My first guess was that the X is the roman numeral for ten. At the end, when they were doing slow-mo shots of various cast members, ten were shown. But reading on other sites suggests that the X symbolizes an alternate reality. Stolen from Lostpedia: Earth X: The 'X' in 'LA X' stands for an alternate reality. It's common use in comic books, Marvel Comics have an alternate history/timeline called 'Earth X.'
I stick with my theory of the alternate reality- but I like the idea of X for roman numeral ten.

6.Patriccio: "The season premiere title 'LA X' may imply this is the 10th iterration or version of the Los Angeles landing. Might it be possible that Oceanic 815 has actually flown and landed this flight several times before? Conversely, if the plane has multiple landings ... why should it not have multiple crashes on the island as well?"
I really like this thought as well! Hadn't heard this one before!

7.CarolinaGirl: "Quick question.... Just playing devil's advocate here (and going way out in left field), but why is everyone assuming Jacob is the 'good guy'? He's the one that is in league with the island, which had supposedly chosen Ben as a leader/protector... who even Darlton has admitted was evil. Ben was responsible for killing the Dharma initiative... Ben killed Locke and presumably Nadia. He let Alex die. He's been nothing but coniving and ruthless.

"When we met the MIB he was lamenting that Jacob brought people and there was always destruciton... that doesn't necessarily sound like a bad thing (wanting a lack of destruction). Again, playing devil's advocate, and stripping things down to the very basics, but what if MIB is on the side of angels? (since someone brought up the whole fallen angel theme?)
TRUE! I've been going back and forth with this in my head. We don't know Jacob is good- it's just made 'obvious' by the show that he is.

8.Cletus1974: "What if Jacob and the MIB are aliens? The island is their ship. The pocket of energy was their ship's power source. UFO lore is steeped in Egyptian and Mayan iconography which seems to be abundant on the island. And really?! The MIB? Maybe the 'they' in 'They're coming' is Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones."
I just thought this was funny :)

9. Desmond disappeared AFTER Jack saved Charlie. He disappeared because Jack saving Charlie changed something on Desmonds timeline.
Interesting! Remember it was Des 'job' to save Charlie on the island.

10. lola121 wrote:
OK- Have like 3 minutes before a meeting...but has anyone mentioned Djinn yet? Well, I think MIB/Jacob might be Djinn. Djinn are from an Islamic belief that there are angels, humans and djinns. They are made of smoke and rooted in the idea of genies. They are similiar to the Christian belief of fallen angels. I appologize to any of our Losties who are Muslim, please correct any of this if incorrect. I got most of my info from wiki.
Interesting... I hadn't heard that before- I'm going to do some checking on that!

Ok- that's all the time I have today- let me know your thoughts- and check out the blog @ http://lostkassicast.blogspot.com/ (even if it is a repeat of what I send;))

Check out Jimmy Kimmel- from last night!

2010-02-03T17:07:00.000-08:00

Flocke is not the Man in Black:
http://www.reviewstl.com/lost-showrunners-damon-lindelof-and-carlton-cuse-on-jimmy-kimmel-show-020310/

LOST 6:01 LA X

2010-02-03T11:06:00.001-08:00

MY LOST T-Shirt (I wore it all day yesterday and got some funny looks- but I was ready for LOST!)

Ok. So we’re doing it a bit different today (and I’m guessing most of the season) as there are three different story lines going on. We’ll call one the ‘Jack Group’ (meaning the well… Jack group that is on the island) one the ‘Flocke Group’ (meaning the Fake Locke Group that is on the Island) and one ‘Dimension X’ (to be explained in the next paragraph. First of all, last night might have confused a lot of people- so we’ll start by diving into the science aspect of multiple dimensions J and then we’ll do each section with a mini recap and the theories and easter eggs from that section. Good? OK!

Ok- first things first: We need to explain why there are the THREE different time lines. First, The title of the show was LA X, rather than LAX like the airport. Now there were multiple theories on to why there was a space between LA and X- but now it seems to be obvious that it was in reference to the two different dimensions or realities. I will attempt to explain this in laymen’s terms- but if you have a better explanation- please email it to me! While there are many names for it (MWI, the relative state formulation, theory of the universal wave function, parallel universes, many-universes interpretation, and even closely related to Sting-Theory), The ‘Many Worlds’ theory was originally thought up by Hugh Everett and his relative state formula. What it means is that every action we make creates a new dimension or reality that is not known or seen to us. It’s almost like it creates another world- in which you did not make the decision that you did- it creates a different reality that is different due to that change. It views reality as a many-branched tree where every possible quantum outcome is realized. Many-worlds claims to resolve all of the correlation paradoxes of quantum theory, such as the EPR paradox and Schrodinger’s cat, since every possible outcome of every event defines or exists in its own "history" or "world". In layman's terms, there is a very large—perhaps infinite—number of universes, and everything that could possibly have happened in our past, but didn't, has occurred in the past of some other universe or universes. An easy way for you to see this- is if you’ve ever seen the movie ‘Sliding Doors’ with Gwyneth Paltrow (although that only shows two dimension and it comes together at the end- you get the just of MWI). I’ve always favored the theory and in it- that it explains ‘Déjà vu’. I like to think there is a minor connection between the realities- and when you meet someone you feel like you’ve known forever or have been someplace that just feels like home (even though you’ve never been there) it may be contributed by MWI. Fun thoughts. Anyways- back to LOST. Explaining what happened after the bomb went off. We see people on the plane- we see the island under water. What this seems to explain is that when the bomb went off- it created this new dimension starting with the explosion (which sank the island) and has followed to change the future in small ways (we’ll explain what ways in the ‘Dimension X’ section) It has changed everything from 1977- on. Anything that was or would have been affected by the island and magnetic forces still being intact. Make sense?? If not- email me and I’ll try to explain it better J

OK- Now on to the recap!!

Section 1: Jack’s Group:
RECAP:
Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sawyer, Jin, Miles, and half-dead Sayid are back to the present. Jack is shocked that it didn’t work. Sawyer’s mad. They hear something. What? Juliet’s alive? Impossible. Sawyer makes it to her, but she dies in his arms. Hurley sees Jacob. What? He’s Alive? No- it’s the whole ‘Hurley sees dead people’ thing. Jacob tells Hurley to go to the temple. The group meets the other Others- who live at the temple and seem to be directed by a man resembling Jet Li in ‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor’- who understands English but doesn’t want to speak it. ‘Jet Li’ wants them killed but stops when Hurley yells out that Jacob sent them and that Hurley has a guitar case given to him by Jacob. What’s in the guitar case? A guitar? Nope- an Ankh (much like the ones held by many Egyptian Gods, including the statue) ‘Jet Li’ breaks it open to find a piece of paper (I’m guessing a list) and request the names of the Losties standing in front of him. They answer right and bring Sayid into a body of water (the fountain of youth??) which seems to not be working- as it’s murky, doesn’t heal ‘Jet Li’ and seems to kill Sayid. Hurley lets ‘Jet Li’ know that Jacob is dead and the other Other’s freak. They surround the temple with the black powder (to keep ‘him’ out.) and shoot red sparks into the air (to be seen by the Flocke group). Then… Sayid wakes up.

Theories and Easter Eggs and Basic Observations:
1. Juliet mumbles, “Would you like to have coffee sometime? We could go Dutch.” Before she sees Sawyer in front of her. That coupled with her “It worked” makes Rick and I agree on this one. As, she’s the one who blew up the bomb. And, she was in and out of consciousness, we are certain that she knows it worked because her consciousness was slipping back and forth to Dimension X and our original dimension. This explains how she knew it worked and her ‘coffee’ remark.
2. The black powder to keep ‘him’ out- goes with our theory from last season. That Jacob was never in the cabin. Flock, Smokie, Esau, whatever you want to call him was the inhabitant of the cabin- and was trapped inside by the black powder. And was freed- once the connection was broken.
3. How did Kate wake up in a tree?
4. When we went through the time travel phase- where all of the planes survivors (plus Juliet) were time traveling, why did the Tailies that were with the other Others (such as Cindy) not time travel?
5. One theory on Sayid being alive- is that Jacob has entered Sayid’s body. Not sure how I feel about this- but it’s a valid theory.
6. They made a note of the water not being clear. Just thought this was odd…
7. One theory is that ‘Jet Li’ was the captain of the Black Rock
8. Another theory is that he’s Alvar Hanso. Now, I’m going to shoot this one down right now. If you read the timeline at all- Alvar Hanso was born AFTER the Black Rock disappeared- He was not a 40 year old man.

Section 2: Flockes Group:
RECAP:
Flocke tells Ben to bring back Richard. Richard refuses and shows Ben Locke’s body. Ben takes Bram and co into the statue. Flocke tells them that Jacob is dead and Bram and Co, load up. Flocke disappears and only leaves a dented bullet on the ground… huh? He’s like evil superman. Out comes Smokie- killing everyone even Bram who tried to protect himself with the ring of black dust. Ben emerges and Flocke is back saying “I’m sorry you had to see me like that” Oh. Ok- we now know Flocke (MIB, Esau, etc) is Smokie. Crap. Outside- Richard sees the red lights shot by the other Others. Flocke and Ben come out of the temple where Flocke tells Richard he’s happy to see him out of the chains. Flocke knocks Richard out, tells the Others that he’s disappointed in them, and takes off with Richards body.

Theories and Easter Eggs and Basic Observations:
1. Richard was a slave on the Black Rock- hence “I’m happy to see you out of those chains” or was it to mean that Flocke thought Jacob kept Richard in ‘Chains’- as in more a figure of speech? I think he was a slave.
2. We know Flocke is Smokie now. But Who is Flocke??? Why can he posses the dead?
3. Where is Smokie’s Home?
4. Doesn’t it take much hotter temp to turn a body into ash that fast? Did Jacob turn to ash right after he died?
5. Richard saw Flocke before he headed into the foot- but he didn’t recognize him for what he was until after he came out.

Section 3: Dimension X:
RECAP:
Jack Shepherd is on Oceanic 815. He looks confused. He and Cindy (in original Dimension- Cindy is an other Other) repeat a familiar conversation about a weak drink. There’s turbulence, but everything is ok. Bernard returns from the bathroom. Jack has a cut on his neck. He returns to his seat and sees… Desmond! Jack thinks he knows him. But, alas they’ve never met, at least not in this lifetime (see theory below) Camera goes down. Island is under water. Kate steals Jack’s pen. She’s in handcuffs... again. Sawyer gives Kate the once over. Arzt is begging Hurley to do the Australian accent. And Hurley tells Arzt he won the lottery. Sawyer warns Hurley that someone may try to take advantage of him, but Hurley goes ‘no dude, I’m the luckiest man alive.’ Whaaaaat? Jin is same ole Jin and tells Sun to button up her shirt. Locke and Boone chat it up- but there’s no Shannon- she didn’t come back with him. Locke fibs about his awesome walkabout- but Locke is still in the wheelchair. Jack has to go save a passed out Charlie, who happened to stick a whole bag of heroin down his throat- now I don’t know from personal experience, but I’m pretty sure that’s not how you’re supposed to do heroin… “You should have let that happen, man” says Charlie “I was supposed to die.” Yes, Charlie- you’re right on that one. Desmond disappears. They all get off the plane at LAX. Customs lost Christian Shepherd’s Coffin (seems suspicious, huh). Kate asks Edward if she can use the bathroom and she manages to beat him up and escaped. Kate is helped by Sawyer and then manages to escape into a cab already inhabited by a totally still pregnant Claire. Jin is held up in customs by having a wallet full of $100s that he didn’t declare. Jack and Locke have a conversation, as Locke lost a bag of knives. Jack tells Locke nothing is irreversible and gives Locke a business card with an offer for a free consult.

Theories and Easter Eggs and Basic Observations:
1. The head wound Kate inflicts on Edward in the bathroom is the same spot he receives the deadly blow to the head when Oceanic 815 crashes in original reality.
2. I think Claire is going to freak out- go into early labor- and Kate will have to deliver the baby… again.
3. The address on Jack’s Business Card that he gave to Locke- is to the “Delight Medical & Wellness Center- Independent Group” and the building is an Octagon. Dharmaish?
4. Charlie asked Jack “Am I Alive?” After Jack brought him back. The same thing that Charlie wrote on his knuckles in the original reality after the plane crashed.
5. The book Desmond is reading on the plane is “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” by Salman Rushdie. It was Rushdie’s first novel after The Satanic Verses. It is a phantasmagorical story set in a city so old and ruinous that it has forgotten it’s name. In the book (children’s book btw) Haroun has to protect the Ocean, which is being destroyed by machines powered by electromagnetic induction.
6. The Shark we saw swimming around the underwater 4 toed statue was a DHARMA shark- had the symbol on his tail.
7. Boone is in a different seat on the airplane this time around.
8. Sayid is from Iraq- in original reality, yet in Dimension X- his passport says he’s from Iran.
9. Rose isn’t wearing Bernard’s wedding ring around her neck.
10. When the plane crashed on the Island- they were ‘way off course’ yet in Dimension X, they’re on course and fly over the island underwater.
11. There is turbulence on the flight when they fly over the island- hinting that there is still a small magnetic pull
12. Sayid’s Photo of Nadia is different- in the fact the one for original dimension was horizontal and the Dimension X photo is vertical.
13. In the original Dimension, Cindy gives Jack two bottles of extra alcohol, not one (and he uses the second bottle for his wound after the plane crash)
14. There’s a cut on Jack’s neck
15. The back of Rose’s Magazine says “The Truth Is Out There”
16. Frogurt is annoying in any reality
17. Jack seemed to be aware that something is off. He recognized Desmond and I don’t think they met in this reality. See #18 for my Des Theory:
18. When Dimension X was created by Jughead, it appears that the explosion sunk the island and killed everyone on it. That would mean that Charles Widmore was killed, and Penny very possibly never existed. This opens up the opportunity for Desmond and Penny to never meet, but also destroys the chance for a ‘Round the World Sailing Race’, as it was hosted by Widmore, which makes it so Des doesn’t enter the race, which means he doesn’t train for it, which means he isn’t running up and down stadium stairs when Jack hurts his ankle. Which means that they haven’t met in this lifetime. Which means that when Jack recognizes him- it’s a ‘déjà vu’ moment- see my MWI theory at the top of the page.
19. Rick’s Theory- He thinks Desmond was in Jack’s mind and not really on the plane at all- as we never saw him get off the plane, and Rose never saw Desmond. It could be that Desmond is hopping from the original Dimension to Dimension X. I really like this so I’m torn between this and him being there because we’re in Dimension X.
20. Christian Shepherds body wasn’t boarded onto the plane in Dimension X- where it was in the original reality- we know this because the coffin was on the island.
21. But, they never did find Christians body on the island... Maybe it crossed over to Dimension X? Same as Desmond hopping over a bit on Flight 815? Goes along with Rick's theory #19
22. Where are Michael and Walt?? They weren’t in the tail section of the plane and they should be on there- unless they’re lives were changed in a way that Walt wasn’t living in Sydney with the detonation of the Island.
23. I don’t think Rose has cancer in Dimension X

That’s it for now. Send me your Theories and Thoughts!

IT'S HERE!

2010-02-02T09:51:00.000-08:00

Sorry- I was planning on sending this out this weekend- but then we had a car broken into and the death of a dear friend- so things got pushed back to a bit last minute. But it’s here 

Ok- So it’s been a while since I’ve posted- as we’ve been on a LOST break and I’ve been super busy. But, in the spirit of the 6th and FINAL season- here’s what’s been going on…
We’ll start with a short recap of season’s 1-5 and end with a detailed timeline to help all of you losties keep track of what’s been happening in real time (warning the timeline while the Losties are on the island- is rather long). 

Season 1:
Plane Crashes. Jack becomes leader. Flashbacks about their lives. Faith/Science struggle between Locke and Jack. Love Triangle between Kate, Jack, and Sawyer. We meet Smokie- who eats the pilot. Sayid finds Rousseau who has been sending a signal in French for 16 years. “I’m alone now, on the island alone. Please someone come. The others are dead. It killed them. It killed them all” Locke kills a boar and sees the eye of the island. There are Others on the island. Ethan kidnaps pregnant Claire. Charlie kills Ethan. Locke finds a hatch. Boone dies in a wrecked plane. Kate delivers Claire’s baby. Michael, Walt, Sawyer and Jin take off on a raft. They’re attacked by Others who kidnap Walt and shoot Sawyer. We see the Black Rock which has explosives. Teacher blows up. Locke blows up the hatch.

Season 2:
Hatch has Desmond living it up 1970’s style. Push a button every 108 minutes or the world will end. Desmond runs away. Swan Station. Shannon loves Sayid, but starts seeing visions of Walt. Sawyer, Michael, and Jin find the Tailies. 12 Tailies kidnapped. Ana Lucia kills Shannon. Rousseau finds Henry Gale who isn’t really Henry Gale- he’s Ben Linus- leader of the Others. Libby likes Hurley. Michael goes to save Walt. Comes back, shoots Ana Lucia and Libby and sets Ben free. Locke struggles with entering the numbers. But Eko enters them after seeing his brother’s body. Sun is pregnant. Jin doesn’t know. Tom (the Other) tells the Losties “This is our Island”. Claire finds Tom’s beard- revealing the Others aren’t shabby. Eko and Locke find the Pearl Station (the one with all the TV’s). Michael, Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley go to get Walt. It’s a trap. They’re captured. Hurley gets released. Michael and Walt leave on a boat. Desmond comes back. Sayid, Sun and Jin take Desmond’s boat to find Jack. Locke doesn’t want to push the numbers. Desmond crawls beneath the Swan to turn a key. Everything turns bright purplish. Two men call Penny “we found it”.

Season 3:
Jack, Kate, and Sawyer are being held prisoner by The Others. Jack is in a fish tank. Kate and Sawyer have to work. Kate loves Sawyer. They get busy. Jack’s supposed to save Ben from a tumor but Juliet wants Jack to kill Ben. Jack barters the release of Kate and Sawyer. Sun kills Pickett’s wife. Juliet kills Pickett. Desmond lives it up in 1996. He meets Ms. Hawkings who tells him to go back. Desmond runs around naked. He can see the future. Locke and Charlie rescue Eko from a polar bear. Nikki and Paulo show up. Nikki and Paulo die. Eko dies. Kate, Sayid, and Locke meet Mikhail (aka. Patchy). We don’t like him. They try to rescue Jack. Kate is prisoner. Locke blows up the sub. Locke sees his dad. Locke has Sawyer kill his dad. Kate is handcuffed to Juliet. The Others have fled to the Ruins. Juliet joins the Losties. Desmond sees a parachute. Thinks it’s Penny. They find Naomi. She has a freighter. Ben shoots Locke. Locke sees Walt. The Losties fill their tents with Dynamite and head for the radio tower. Charlie goes underwater. The Others attack the losties tent. Tom captures Losties at the camp. Hurley saves them. Charlie clears the jamming signal but drowns after showing Desmond “Not Penny’s Boat”. Jack beats up Ben. Locke stabs Naomi. Flash forward- “We have to go back, Kate!”

Season 4:
On The Island:
Naomi’s dies. Losties split between Jack and Locke. We meet Faraday, Charlotte, Miles, and Lepidus. Locke goes to the Barracks. Desmond and Sayid go to the freighter. Desmond can’t stay in one time till he finds his constant, Penny. They see Michael- Ben’s spy. There’s a bomb linked to Keamy’s heart. Keamy leads mercenaries to find Ben. They kill Alex, Rousseau, Karl and red shirts. Jacob tells Locke to move the Island. Kate, Sawyer, Jack, Hurley, Sayid, and Lepidus go to the freighter. Sawyer jumps off. Ben kills Keamy. Freighter blows up. Oceanic 6 and Desmond and Lepidus make it. Ben turns the donkey wheel. The island disappears. The helicopter group finds Penny’s real boat. Oceanic 6 rescued. Desmond and Penny go into hiding.

Off the Island:
Oceanic 6. Aaron is Kate’s. Kate’s in trial. She gets off. Jack, Kate and Aaron make a happy family. Jack starts drinking. Hurley sees dead people. Sun goes after revenge and has a baby. Sayid gets married. His wife dies. Ben finds Sayid. Gets Sayid to kill people for him. 2007- Locke gets off the island and starts seeing the Oceanic 6. Jeremy Bentham. Walt’s all grown up. Jack tries to commit suicide. Doesn’t work. Sayid kidnaps Hurley from Santa Rosa. Locke dies. Ben tells Jack they all have to go back.

Season 5:
On The Island:
Time Traveling junkies. Set back- nose bleeds. Locke is alone- no Others. Encounters Ethan who shoots him in the leg. Time travel some more. Richard gives him a compass. Faraday finds Desmond in a past time time-travel and tells him to find his mother. There’s a bomb in 1954 and Faraday’s mother- who is an Other. Charlotte dies. Locke moves the donkey wheel and goes to present day while the Losties are stuck in 1974.

Off the Island:
Widmore finds and helps Locke (along with Abaddon) Ben shoots Abaddon. Locke visits the 6- to no avail. He tries to hang himself. Ben interrupts him. Ben hangs Locke. Lawyer tries to take Aaron from Kate. Kate freaks and give Aaron to Claire’s mum. Desmond remembers Faraday and goes to find Ms. Hawking. Jack finds Ms. Hawking. Sun tries to kill Ben. Nope- wait- Jin is alive. Ben tries to kill Penny, shoots Desmond and Desmond beats the crap out of him. Ms. Hawking tells everyone to go back. They all board a plane- including Sayid (who was arrested by Ilana) and Locke’s body and Lepidus- the pilot. Plane crashes. Kate, Sayid, Jack, and Hurley are in 1977.

Back on the Island (70’s):
Sawyer, Jin, Juliet, Miles, and Faraday are working for DHARMA. Sawyer and Juliet are playing house. Kate, Jack and Hurley join the group. Sayid is taken hostage by DHARMA. He escapes and shoots past- little boy Ben. Kate and Sawyer take Ben to the Others. Phil finds out. Sawyer punches Phil and puts him in the closet. Faraday wants to blow up the Swan. He goes to the others. Ms. Hawkings kills him. Jack still wants to blow up the station. Ms. Hawkings will help him. Kate, Sawyer, Juliet try to stop him. Sayid is shot. Jack and Sawyer fight. The whole group goes to blow up the Swan. They have a shootout with DHARMA. Magnetic pull starts. Juliet falls into the pit. She hits Jughead. Blows up??

Back on the Island (current time):
Locke is alive. Ben wants judged. Smokie tells him to follow Locke. Ilana and co have a box and are trying to get to the 4 toed statue. Locke wants Ben to kill Jacob. They go to the statue. They go in the statue- Ben kills Jacob. Ilana meets Richard and shows him the body of Locke- is in their box. So who’s in Locke’s body?? Jacob says “They’re coming.” Right before he dies.

Timeline (The Bold is during time travel):
Time Unknown: Statue of Taweret is built

Time Unknown: Losties have traveled to a time when the full statue of Taweret is still there.

Time Unknown: The Ruins are built

Time Unknown: The Temple and the underground complex are built

3/22/1845: The Black Rock (supposedly sent by Magnus Hanso’s New World Sea Traders Co) sets off from Portsmouth England on a trading mission to the Kingdom of Siam and is lost at sea

3/1845: Jacob talks with a man while the Black Rock sits offshore.

1852: The log of the first mate of the Black Rock is found on Ile Sainte-Marie, an island off the coast of Madagascar

1882: Magnus Hanso’s New World Sea Traders Co is bought out by the East Ocean Trade Group

1894: Alvar Hanso is born

1937: Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear while flying across the Pacific.

1937: Eloise Hawking is born

1937: Charles Widmore is born

10/15/1940: Emily Annabeth Locke is born

1939-1945: Alvar Hanso makes his mark providing munitions to various resistance movements around Europe

1947/1948: Bernard is born

1954: American soldiers arrive on the island to test a hydrogen bomb. They are all killed by Richard and the Others.

1954: At night Bernard is still trying to get fire going. Miles returns with a dead boar. Neil goes on a huge rant and is shot by a flaming arrow. The survivors all run into the jungle and several of them are shot with arrows. Sawyer and Juliet are separated and attacked by three men in strange uniforms and threatened. Locke comes and saves them.

1954: Daniel, Miles and Charlotte are captured by a group of 1950s Others and brought to Richard. Daniel convinces Richard he can fix the hydrogen bomb that was left on the island. Locke lets the young Charles Widmore go and tracks him back to the Others' camp. He then confronts Richard and asks how he can get off the island. Daniel tries to fix the bomb but decides the best action is to bury it. Locke convinces Richard he is telling the truth but before he can learn anything they time shift again.

1954-1964: ‘Adam & Eve’ laid to rest in a cave

5/30/1956: John Locke is born three months premature- Richard Alpert is sitting in a suit outside of his hospital room

1960-1969: Ben Linus is born outside Portland, his mother dying during childbirth. Horace and Olivia Goodspeed find Roger and Ben on the side of the road.

1962: Richard Alpert visits Locke at age six and performs a test. John doesn’t answer how Richard wants him too and he leaves

1962: The Apollo Candy Company is founded in SF by David Benson

1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis begins, bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war.

1962: The United Nations begins investigating a mathematical formula predicting the end of the world (the Valenzetti Equation)

Alvar Hanso addresses the UN Security Council

1968: James Ford (Sawyer) is born

1969: Sayid Jarrah is born in Baghdad

1970: Karen and Gerald DeGroot founded the DHARMA Initiative with funding provided by The Hanso Foundation.

1970’s: The Apollo Candy Company falls to dire straits. It is saved by Alvar Hanso and becomes a private purveyor.

1970’s: Jack gets beat up by a school bully for trying to protect his friend.

1970-1979: Ben and Roger Linus arrive on the island

1972: Richard Alpert tries to get a sixteen year old Locke to go to a science camp in Portland. He refuses to go.

08/15/01973: DHARMA and The ‘Hostiles’ sign a truce

12/19/1973: Annie gives Ben the wooden figurines. Ben sees his mother in the jungle.

12/20/1973: Ben meets Richard

1974: The final time flash puts Sawyer, Juliet, Jin, Daniel and Miles in the DHARMA Initiative

11/27/1974: Jin is born to a prostitute who leaves the baby with Mr. Kwon unsure if the baby is his.

1976: James Ford's father kills James's mother and himself in front of James. At their funeral- Jacob gives Sawyer a pen to write his ‘Mr. Sawyer’ letter

1976: 8 year old Sayid kills a chicken

1977: Hugo "Hurley" Reyes is born.

1977: Kate Austen is conceived while Sam Austen is deployed overseas and she is born three months after he returns.

05/25/1977: Star Wars is released

Ethan is born to Amy and Horace Goodspeed

1977(back on the island- day 1): Kate, Jack, Hurley, and Sayid arrive on the island after disappearing from Ajira Airways Flight 316. Jin arrives in a DHARMA van. Sawyer and Juliet live together. Sawyer is in charge of security and has the alias LaFleur. He prepares the three to become DHARMA Initiative recruits, while Jin goes to look for Sun. Sayid is captured by Radzinsky as a hostile. Jack is a janitor, Hurley a Chef and Kate a Mechanic. Little boy Ben Linus brings Sayid a sandwich.

1977 (day 2): Sayid is visited in his jail by young Ben, Roger Linus, Horace Goodspeed, and Sawyer at different times in the day. Kate finds out Juliet is living with Sawyer. Horace gives Sayid a truth serum and Sayid tells Horace he’s from the future and knows of the DHARMA and the Purge. Young Ben breaks Sayid out of jail, but Sayid shoots young Ben. Jin takes young Ben to Juliet.

1977 (day 3): Ben looses blood. Juliet asks Jack to help- but Jack refuses. Kate gives little Ben blood. Juliet tells Kate and Sawyer to take Ben to the others. Alpert takes Ben to the Temple. Charles Widmore tells young Ben that he is one of the Others now. Sawyer tells Miles to erase the security footage but Miles can’t as Horace asks him to deliver something to Radzinsky. Miles delivers a body bag in which Radzinsky puts Alvarez’s body. Mile discovers he died from a filling being dislodged from a tooth and blown through his brain. Horace then tells Miles to take the body to Chang at the Orchid. Hurley insists they carpool. Hurley sees the body and when Miles explains, Hurley realizes he can talk to dead people too. Meanwhile, Kate returns and so does Roger. Juliet tells him Ben left. Roger is mad and is suspicious of Kate. Chang threatens Hurley to keep quit and Miles tells Hurley that Chang is his father. Chang gets Miles to drive him back to Radzinsky which Hurley recognizes as the Swan. Hurley tries to convince Miles to get to know his father and Miles discovers Hurley is writing The Empire Strikes Back. Phil has the security tape and threatens Sawyer. Sawyer beats up Phil and puts him in the closet. Miles drives to the dock where scientists from Ann Arbor are arriving, including Faraday.

1977 (Day 4):
Faraday discovers Jack, Kate, and Hurley have returned by plane according to Ms. Hawking’s instructions and tells Jack that they shouldn’t be there. Faraday drives to the Orchid where he awaits and follows Chang down the elevator. During construction of the Orchid, workers discover an underground chamber containing the frozen donkey when and Chang warns them not to open it because of the energy inside. Faraday tells Chang to evacuate the Island because of a greater amount of energy is about to release under the Swan in six hours. Faraday tells Chang that he’s from the future. Everyone meets at Sawyer’s house to discuss whether to hide in the jungle or take the sub. Jin and Hurley vote to remain on the island. Faraday enlists Jack and Kate’s help to find his mother while Juliet prepares to move the party to the beach. Radzinsky sees Faraday holding a gun and a fire fight breaks out resulting in Faraday being grazed by the neck and Radzinsky being shot in the arm. As the three get away in a DHARMA van, Radzinsky reports to Sawyer and finds Phil in the closet. Four hours before the Incident, Faraday reaches the Other’s camp and holds Richard Alpert at gunpoint. Hawkings shoots and kills Faraday. Widmore finds Jack and Kate and puts them in a tent where Eloise asks why Faraday needed the bomb. Jack explains he can change things by detonating it. Radzinsky, Phil, and Horace hold Sawyer and Juliet in the security station demanding to know where Kate is. Radzinsky beats Sawyer. Mitch discovers Jack, Kate, and Hurley were last minute entries to the sub’s manifest. Hurley, Miles, and Jin are trying to escape to the beach, but Dr. Chang follows them and discovers they really are from the future and evacuates the Island. Eloise, Richard, Jack and Kate go to Jughead. Sayid joins the group but Kate refuses and returns to DHARMA. When Chang evacuates, Sawyer demands to be put on the sub, then he will tell them what they want to know. Radzinsky gets Sawyer to draw a map of the Other’s camp. The evacuees board the sub including young Charlotte with her mother, Lara Chang and baby Miles, Sawyer, Juliet, and Kate boards too- after being captured. Kate convinces Juliet and Sawyer that they need to stop Jack from detonating the bomb. Meanwhile, Jack and Sayid dismantle the hydrogen bomb. Richard breaks a hole in the basement of one of the houses, then knocks Eloise out to prevent her traveling with them. Roger Linus recognizes Jack and Sayid sneaking across the compound and begins shooting at them before they can escape in a van driven by Hurley, Jin and Miles. Kate Juliet and Sawyer take a raft back to the Island and reunite with Rose and Bernard. Hurley drives to the construction site of the Swan station, but they are stopped by Juliet, Sawyer, and Kate. Jack and Sawyer get into a fight which is broken up by Juliet. Juliet breaks up with sawyer. Phil warns Radzinsky about the Losties coming. A massive gunfight ensues, wherein the survivors gain the upper hand, allowing Jack to drop the bomb at the same time that the drill hits the energy source. The strong magnetism draws all metallic objects towards the drilled hole. Phil is stabbed. Dr. Chang’s arm is crushed and Juliet is dragged in to the chasm by a metal chain. In the bottom of the pit severely injured Juliet hits the bomb with a rock 8 times until it detonates.

1977: The Swan station is built

1977: The ‘Incident’ occurs

1978: Daniel Faraday is born to Eloise Hawking and Charles Widmore

7/2/1979: Charlotte Lewis is born on the island.

1980: Orientation films for stations "The Swan" and "The Pearl" created by DHARMA.

12/1979-2/1989: Mikhail (patchy) Bakunin is stationed in Afghanistan sometime during the Soviet invasion.

1980: Little Sun breaks a glass ballerina and blames It on her father’s maid

1981: Boone Carlyle is born.

10/27/1981: Claire Littleton is born.

1982: Kate's parents split up.

1983: Shannon Rutherford is born.

10/28/1984: "Suspected shutdown date" annotation on the Blast Door Map. Possibly the date of the gas attack on Dharma.

12/25/1984: Liam Pace receives a Voltron Transformer toy for Christmas. Charlie gets a piano

1987: James Ford assumes the name Frank Sawyer and becomes a con man because of a $6,000 debt.

1987: Hanso Foundation funding of the DHARMA Initiative ends

1987: David Reyes takes off and leaves his son Hugo behind along with his brother, Diego and mother, Carmen.

1987: Kate runs into Jacob when she tries to steal a lunch box

1988: Leonard Simms and Sam Toomey hear the numbers transmission during a navy mission in the South Pacific

1988: Sam Toomey uses the numbers to win $50,000 in a bean-guessing contest.

11/18/1988: Danielle Rousseau's team, lured by the numbers transmission, shipwrecks on the island. They meet Jin and are attacked by the monster. Two members are killed by the monster.

11/18/1988: After escaping the bullets through yet another flash, Sawyer, Juliet, Locke, Miles, Daniel and Charlotte, find themselves paddling in the sea at night, in heavy rain. Eventually they are able to reach the Island beach again, where Juliet also gets a nosebleed. On the beach they find remnants of what appears to be a French ship. Meanwhile a group of French-speaking castaways finds an unconscious man floating on some debris, revealed to be Jin.

11/19/1988: The next morning, as Jin wakes up, the Frenchmen want to know who he is, and one of the women of the group introduces herself as Danielle Rousseau. They convince Jin to take them to the radio tower but on the way there they are attacked by the smoke monster which kills Nadine and sucks Montand into the ground minus one arm. Robert, Lacombe and Brennan go in after Montand when Jin flashes away

01/1989: Jin finds himself in the same place but Montand's arm is now partially decayed. He walks to the beach and finds some of Rousseau's stuff. Then he finds Brennan and Lacombe's bodies which have been there long enough to attract flies. He then sees Danielle and Robert arguing and Danielle shoots Robert and then sees Jin and starts shooting at him. Jin runs into the jungle and experiences another flash.

01/1989: Rousseau's team becomes sick after returning from the smoke monster's temple near the Black Rock. She kills them all.

01/1989: Rousseau changes the numbers transmission to a distress call.

01/1989:Rousseau gives birth to Alex

1989:Rousseau sees a pillar of black smoke, and Alex is taken by the Others

1989:Theresa, Boone’s nanny, falls and breaks her neck on the stairs. “Theresa falls down the stairs, Theresa falls up the stairs”

8/15/1989:Kate Austen and Tom Brennan bury a time capsule

1989: A case containing crackers, binoculars, and a mirror is hidden under some rocks on the island

1991:Sayid serves with the Republican Guard in the Gulf War. Kelvin Inman and Sam Austen serve with the US Army and all three meet at the end of the war.

10/5/1992:Emily Locke is admitted to the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institution

1992:Boone’s mother and Shannon’s father marry.

1992: Ben participates in and facilitates the slaughter or "Purge" of Dharma initiative personnel from the island.

1991: Mikhail claims to have arrived at The Flame.

1993-1998: Eko tries to smuggle Heroin out of Nigeria by posing as priests. His brother Yemi is killed and Eko is left behind.

1993-1998: Eko assumes Yemi's position as a priest and soon leaves for a new assignment in London.

1993: Widmore is forced to leave the island

1993: Faraday graduates from Oxford- Hawking gives him his journal

1993: Widmore begins funding Faraday’s research

1994: Locke lives on a commune in California.

8/24/1994: Walt Lloyd is born

1994-1999: The plane carrying Eko's brother's body and his fellow heroin smugglers crashes on the island.

1994-1999: The island is first moved and the survivors start to try and figure out what is happening. On the beach they realize that the burning freighter and the camp itself have disappeared. Daniel returns to the island on the dinghy and explains that they've time traveled. They head towards the Swan to help Daniel figure out a reference frame. While they are walking they see the white flash and time shift. Locke discovers that Richard and the Others have disappeared and that it is suddenly raining. He then sees the Nigerian plane crash in the jungle and walks towards it. He starts to climb up the cliff towards it when he gets shot by Ethan. Ethan threatens to shoot him again when Locke time shifts again

1995: Desmond enters a monastery days before his scheduled wedding. He passes the vow of silence test and gets accepted as a novice. He drinks an entire bottle of the monastery's wine and gets thrown out of the monastery. Just as he is leaving he meets Penny Widmore and the two start dating.

1995: Susan Lloyd takes Walt to Amsterdam, leaving Michael.

1996: Michael is hit by a car.

1996: Charlie is playing on a London Street (watched by Hawking and Desmond) and it begins to rain. He hears a woman (Sayid’s future wife Nadia) calling for help. He scares off the mugger and calls Charlie a ‘hero’

1996: Penny moves in with Desmond. Desmond was going to ask Penny to marry him but instead broke up with her and joined the Royal Marines. Desmond relived these events eight years later (sometime in December or 2004) after he set-off the failsafe device in the Swan bunker.

1996: Penny moves out of Desmond's place and changes her phone number.

1997: Michael initiates legal action to try and get custody of Walt, but relents after Susan talks to him.

1997: While in basic training, Desmond begins to experience shifts between this year and December 24, 2004, when his future self travels from the Island to the freighter Kahana. Under advice from Daniel Faraday, he goes to visit Faraday's past self at Queens College, Oxford University.

1997: Charles Widmore wins the journal of the first mate of the Black Rock at Southfield's auction, after which he gives Desmond, Penelope Widmore's new address.

1997: Desmond goes to Penny's new house, asking for her phone number so that he can call her eight years later, on Christmas Eve, 2004. The concurrence of his meeting with Penny and his call in 2004 seem to end the shifts.

1995-2000: Locke is reunited with his parents.

1995-2000: Locke's father swindles a kidney out of Locke and cuts off his relationship with him.

1997: Sayid falls in love with Nadia, a prisoner he's supposed to be interrogating, and helps her escape.

1997: Sayid leaves Iraq.

1997-1999: Locke begins attending anger management meetings

1997-1999: Locke begins seeing a woman named Helen.

1999-2000: Locke and Helen break up over Locke's obsession with his father. Locke inspects Nadia, Sayid's love's house.

1999: Claire and her mother are in a car crash with leaves her mother in a coma

1999: Hurley's Grandpa Tito receives a pacemaker.

4/4/1999: Desmond completes his prison sentence and is dishonorably discharged from the Marines

2000: Locke suffering from depression is confined to a wheelchair after his father throws him out a window and starts working at a box company while receiving government disability payments.

2000: Jacob touches Locke right after he gets thrown from the window.

2000: Sam Toomey kills himself.

2000: Sun and Jin marry. Jacob gives them his blessing.

2000: Two months after Sun and Jin marry Jin buys a birth gift for the Chinese Ambassador to South Korea's son.

2000: Jack makes a mistake in a surgery and after tries to get an Apollo Candy Bar from a vending machine- Jacob gets it for him.

2000-2001: Libby's husband Dave dies.

2000-2001: Libby meets Desmond and gives him her late husband's boat.

2001: Sarah (Jack’s Ex- Wife) blows out a tire and flips into oncoming traffic, hitting and killing Adam Rutherford (Shannon’s Dad). Jack saves her.

2001: Kate blows up her father Wayne. Her mom turns her in and Marshal Mars starts pursuing her.

2001: Edmund Burke (Juliet's ex-husband) gets run over by a bus after Juliet tells the recruiter that is what it would take for her to accept the job.

2001: Martin Keamy leaves the Marine Corps and joins a mercenary company.

9/21/2001: Juliet agrees to 6 months work and arrives on the island by submarine.

9/28/2001: Juliet meets Harper for their first therapy session.

2001: Desmond wrecks on the island during a solo sailing race around the world and is taken to the "Swan" Bunker by Kelvin.

2001: Sawyer cons a woman named Cassidy.

2001: Kate meets Cassidy who helps her talk to her mother. Kate then convinces her to press charges on Sawyer. Must be less than 3 months after Sawyer and Cassidy split up as Cassidy is not visibly pregnant and not that long after Kate first went on the run.

2001-2002: Driveshaft breaks up. Liam moves to Australia to go into rehab.

2001: Juliet learns her sister's cancer has returned and agrees to stay on the island if Ben saves her life.

2001: Sawyer discovers that he has a daughter. He makes a deal to get out of prison.

2001: Kate visits her dying mother in an Iowa hospital.

2001-2004: After another time shift the group of Losties at the Swan find themselves at a time before it was destroyed. Sawyer bangs on the door to no avail and everyone but Daniel heads back towards the beach. Daniel retrieves his bag and then gets Desmond to open the door and instructs him to try and find Faraday's mother in Oxford. On the beach Rose and Bernard try to start a fire and argue with Neil about the futility of it. Sawyer and Juliet discuss the raft that is traveling with them. Daniel returns to the beach and starts calculating their location in time. Miles sets off in search of food.

2002: Kate and Tom dig up their time capsule.

2002-2004: Jin meets up with Sawyer and the other group of time travelers. They continue towards the Orchid station. While traveling they experience several time flashes and Charlotte starts to really breakdown mentally and physically. When Charlotte is too weak to continue Daniel stays with her and Locke and the others continue towards the Orchid. Charlotte tells them to look for the well if the Orchid isn't there. They arrive at the Orchid in the same state as it was in 2004

1800-2004: Right after they arrive at the Orchid they time shift again and the Orchid ruins disappear. They then find the well Charlotte talked about and Locke begins to climb down. When Locke is part way down they time shift again and the well completely disappears. Locke falls the rest of the way down and breaks his leg. Sawyer finds himself holding a rope that just goes into the ground. Locke meets Christian's ghost and he guides him to the frozen donkey wheel. Locke then turns the donkey wheel and experiences another flash.

2002: Tom is killed when police shoot at the car when Kate tries to make her escape.

2002: Walt and his family move to Australia.

2002-2003: Liam Pace's daughter is born. Charlie tries to become respectable and takes a job selling copiers, but his addiction gets the best of him and he steals from his girlfriend Lucy.

2003: Kate robs a New Mexico bank to get Tom's plane back.

2003: Jack marries Sarah.

2003: Hurley is released from SRMHI.

2003: Hurley wins the lottery using the numbers given to him by Leonard Simms.

2003: Jin visits the Korean Secretary of Environmental protection to deliver a message.

2003: Jin gives Sun a Sharpie puppy from the environmental secretary.

2004: Locke begins talking with Helen (fake Helen from the phone-sex line)

2004: Claire becomes pregnant.

2004: Claire visits a psychic who becomes frightened and refuses to give her a reading.

2004: Thomas leaves Claire

2004: Kate hides out at Ray Mullen's farm in Australia.

2004: Christian Sheppard stops talking to his son Jack.

2004: Locke books his "Walkabout" tour.

2004: Walt's mother, Susan Lloyd dies.

2004: Michael flies to Australia to take custody of Walt.

2004: Sawyer buys Jack's father a drink in a Sydney bar.

2004: Ana Lucia is paid protection for Christian Sheppard

2004: Christian Sheppard dies and Jack goes to get his body in Australia

2004: Sawyer shoots Frank Duckett, believing him to be the con man who stole his parents' money.

9/18/2004: Nikki and Paulo poison Mr. Zuckerman and steal his diamonds.

9/19/2004: Sawyer is arrested after a bar fight.

9/20/2004: Boone is in the police station reporting on Shannon's abusive boyfriend.

9/21/2004: Ben discovers that he has a malignant tumor on his spine.

9/21/2004: Charlie goes to see his brother Liam in Sydney.

9/21/2004: Sayid's friend Essam kills himself after Sayid reveals that he's working with the CIA to stop the terror cell Essam joined.

9/21/04: Sayid is given a ticket to Los Angeles by the CIA, but he requests a later flight so he could bury Essam properly.

9/22/2004 5:23AM: Michael and Walt have an argument in their hotel.

9/22/2004 11:50am: Jack meets Ana-Lucia Cortez in an airport bar.

9/22/2004 2:55PM: Oceanic Airlines flight 815 takes off from gate 23 of Sydney International Airport.

9/22/2004: Desmond kills Kelvin, and fails to press the button on time. Oceanic Flight 815 en route from Sydney to Los Angeles, breaks into three pieces and crashes onto a large island in the South Pacific. Elsewhere on the island, The Others are living in The Barracks. They feel an earthquake when Desmond fails to press the button on time. They rush outside and see the plane breaking apart in the sky. Ben sends Goodwin to where the tail-end of the plane crashed and Ethan to find the fuselage. Ben tells them both to pretend to be one of the survivors. There are 50 survivors from the middle and cockpit sections but one is quickly killed by the still active jet turbine. The tail section of Oceanic Flight 815 crashes in the ocean on the other side of the island. Soon after the crash, Goodwin rushes out of the jungle dressed as a crash-survivor. He asks to get help for Bernard, whose seat landed in a tree. Nikki meets and befriends Art. The monster uproots trees and makes noise near the fuselage crash site. Ben takes Juliet to the Flame cabin and has Mikhail show her sister and nephew. He also asks Mikhail to collect information on the flight passengers. They take 3 people from the tail section survivors and try to take Eko, too, but he kills two of them. Eko stops speaking.

9/23/2004 Jack, Kate and Charlie find the cockpit section in the jungle. The pilot survived. The pilot reveals that the plane was off course, and then promptly gets eaten by the monster. Sayid, Kate, Sawyer, Charlie, Shannon and Boone go into the jungle to find a high spot to send a distress call from. Sawyer kills a polar bear. Sayid hears Rousseau's distress call and Sayid calculates it's been going on for 16 years and 5 months.

9/24/2004: Jack euthanizes the Marshal.

9/25/2004: Locke finds Vincent, and has Michael take him back to Walt. At night, boars investigate the bodies in the fuselage.

9/26/2004: Donald becomes the fifth (or fourth) tail section survivor to die of crash-related injuries. Locke encounters the monster while hunting boar. Memorial service for the dead, and burning of the fuselage.

9/27/2004: Barbara Joanna Miller drowns. Jack finds the caves and fresh water. Ethan introduces himself to Nikki and Paulo, who tell him they're looking for their luggage. Ethan suggests they look for it more inland, since the plane broke apart in the sky above the island and some of the stuff might have fallen out in the sky.

9/28/2004: Jack and Kate find two old corpses in the caves. Some of the survivors move from the beach to the caves.

9/29/2004: Jack is trapped when one of the caves collapses. Charlie helps him escape. Sayid is attacked when he is trying to triangulate the source of the distress call.

10/1/2004: Sawyer is tortured by Sayid, and is wounded in a scuffle. Sayid leaves the camp in shame.

10/3/2004: The Others attack the tail section's camp and drag off 9 more people. Ana-Lucia kills one and finds a U.S. Army knife and a list describing the nine who were taken.

10/4/2004: Sayid is captured by Danielle Rousseau.

10/5/2004: First Island Open Golf Tournament. Sayid escapes from Rousseau. Sayid hears whispers in the jungle.

10/6/2004: After 3 days of walking, the remaining tail-section survivors make a camp in the jungle.

10/7/2004: Claire becomes convinced that she was attacked in her sleep.

10/8/2004: Sayid returns to the caves, just as Hurley tells everyone at the caves that one of the survivors he talked to wasn't on the plane. Claire and Charlie are taken by Ethan. The tide starts coming further up the beach than normal, and starts washing the plane hull into the ocean. Charlie is left for dead by Ethan, but revived by Jack. Boone and Locke find the hatch in the jungle. Ana-Lucia starts work on the prison pit. She and Libby discuss their distrust of Nathan.

10/9-19/2004: Claire, drugged by Ethan and the Others is kept in the Medical Bunker. She agrees to give up her baby to the Others.

10/10/2004: Ana-Lucia thinks Nathan is one of The Others and puts him in the prison pit.

10/12/2004: Kate and Sawyer discover two dead bodies from the plane and a Halliburton case in a pool by a waterfall. The beach survivors start to move their camp further up the coast.

10/13/2004: Jack gives Kate the toy plane from the Marshal's case, and takes custody of the guns.

10/14/2004: Locke gives Boone a hallucinogenic experience. Goodwin releases Nathan from the prison pit, then breaks his neck and hides the body.

10/15/2004: Art shows Nikki his spider collection and draws her a map of the plane's path across the jungle. Nikki and Paulo to find the beach craft up in the trees. They also discover the Pearl station's entrance in the ground but don't go down.

10/19/2004: The tail section survivors find the entrance to the Arrow bunker. It wasn't concealed at that time. A radio is found inside. Ana-Lucia and Goodwin go off to try the radio. Ana-Lucia knows Goodwin is one of Them, and tries to get information from him. There is a struggle and Goodwin is impaled on a spear.

10/20/2004: Michael starts building a raft. Walt is menaced by a polar bear. A mysterious young girl in the Medical Hatch chloroforms Claire and leaves her in the jungle. Danielle Rousseau finds her, and Claire scratches her when Rousseau tries to keep Claire from calling the Others. Rousseau knocks Claire out and leaves her near the Oceanic survivor’s camp. Locke and Boone find Claire wandering in the jungle in the middle of the night.

10/21/2004: Charlie is threatened by Ethan in the jungle, who demands Claire.

10/22/2004: Scott is found murdered on the beach. Ethan is lured into an ambush and is captured. Charlie then shoots him four times, killing him. Sawyer's tent is raided by a boar. He hears whispers in the jungle.
10/23/2004: Charlie and Hurley bury Ethan. Kate offers to help Sawyer track down his boar in exchange for carte blanch to his stash.

10/24/2004: Sawyer returns the gun to Jack, inadvertently learning that he met Jack's father in a Sydney bar. Shannon and Art argue with Kate for keeping the guns a secret from the rest of the group. Nikki and Paulo go to the pool by the waterfall to look for their bag. Paulo dives in and finds the bag, but doesn't tell Nikki. Sun conceives a child.

10/25/2004: Walt burns the first raft down.

10/26/2004: Sawyer brings Jin to beach for a confrontation with Michael. To save her husband from an unwarranted beating, Sun speaks English in front of everyone. Jin leaves Sun and moves to the beach.

10/27/2004: Jin helps to start building a new raft.

10/29/2004: Hurley finds Rousseau to ask about the numbers. He gets a battery from her for the raft. Claire's birthday. Locke gives her a cradle he made for the baby.

10/30/2004: Locke and Boone try to break the hatch window with a crude trebuchet. Locke realizes that he's losing feeling in his legs.

11/1/2004: Sayid makes a pair of glasses for Sawyer, then takes Shannon out on a date. Locke and Boone find a Drug smugglers plane from Nigeria. Locke finds a gun on a smuggler. Boone is critically injured when the plane falls from its precarious position. Bernard tries the radio and picks up Boone's transmission. Ana-Lucia thinks it is Them trying to find the tail section survivors and turns the radio off. Eko finally starts speaking again, and Ana-Lucia cries.

11/2/2004: The hatch window lights up as Locke is sobbing over it. Boone Carlyle dies. Claire gives birth to a healthy baby boy. Locke re-appears at Boone's funeral. Jack accuses him of lying, then attacks him. Locke takes Sayid to the plane. Sayid interrogates Locke and confiscates the Nigerian smuggler's gun from him. Shannon steals a gun from the gun case and tries to kill Locke. Sayid stops her. Sayid demands that Locke take him to the hatch.

11/2/2004: Charlotte collapses as a result of the time shifts. Following Locke's suggestion the group decides to go to the Orchid to try and stop the flashes. After dark, they spot a beam of light, recognized by Locke as the light he saw the night Boone died. Sawyer sees Claire give birth to Aaron, before yet another flash appears.

11/3/2004: Sayid brings Jack to the hatch. Art warns Michael that it is nearly Monsoon season, and the raft has to be launched as soon as possible. Michael falls ill when working on the raft. Jack thinks someone poisoned him. Sawyer forces Kate to reveal that she was the fugitive so he can get his spot on the raft back.

11/4/2004: Rousseau wanders into the beach camp and warns the survivors that the Others are coming. Hurley and Rousseau are taken to the hatch. Locke suggests that they get dynamite to blow open the hatch. Jack organizes an expedition to the Black Rock to get the dynamite. Walt gives Shannon Vincent to take care of her. She promises to look after him until he gets back. The raft is launched. Art dies at the Black Rock. Rousseau kidnaps Claire's son. Charlie and Sayid set out to bring him back. Locke is nearly pulled underground by the monster.

11/5/2004: Locke, Jack, Kate and Hurley use the dynamite to blow open the hatch. The raft is attacked and destroyed by the Others. Walt is kidnapped. Locke, Kate and Jack separately enter the Hatch. Sawyer, Michael and Jin wash up on the far side of the island, and are promptly captured by the tail-section survivors. After accidentally damaging the Swan bunker's computer, Desmond runs off into the jungle. Ana-Lucia is dumped into the pit prison to find out who Sawyer, Michael and Jin are.

11/6/2004: Michael, Sawyer and Jin are let out by the tail survivors, and are taken to the Arrow Bunker. Hurley takes Rose to the Swan bunker. Hurley catalogues the food in the Swan Bunker with the help of Rose. The fuselage survivors feast on the Swan Bunker food. Sun buries the bottle of messages that went on the raft.

11/7/2004: Ana-Lucia decides to move the remaining tail-section survivors across the island to meet the fuselage survivors. Michael races off into the jungle looking for the people who took his son. Jin and Eko go after him. Jin and Eko go after him and see a group of people pass by their hiding spot. Jin and Eko convince Michael to come back with them. Sun searches for and finds her missing wedding ring. Shannon sees another vision of Walt, this time in her tent. Eko, Michael and Jin catch up with Ana-Lucia.

11/8/2004: Shannon sets out to look for Walt. Sayid follows her. Sawyer's infected bullet wound causes him to pass out. Michael and Eko build a stretcher. Cindy vanishes without a trace when the tail survivors struggle to get Sawyer up a steep hill. Shannon is accidentally shot by Ana-Lucia. The tail survivors meet Sayid. Eko carries Sawyer to the Swan bunker. Michael finds Sun and is taken to Jack in the bunker. Michael, Jin and the tail survivors arrive on the beach and reunite with the fuselage survivors. Jack and Ana-Lucia meet up in the jungle.

11/9/2004: Kate sees a black horse in the jungle. The survivors hold a funeral for Shannon, during which Sayid emotionally confesses his love for her. Sawyer wakes up and feels good enough to walk around with Kate's assistance. He and Kate see the black horse outside. Locke finds Paulo trying to bury the China doll on the beach. He tells Paulo that the tide will cause the beach to erode and his secret won't stay buried there for long. Paulo goes to the Pearl station and goes inside. He finds a toilet inside and hides the China doll in the basin of the toilet. While in the toilet, Ben and Juliet arrive and switch on a monitor. Ben shows Jack to Juliet on the monitor. Juliet asks what his plan is and Ben says that they'll use Michael to capture Jack, along with Kate and Sawyer. He will then convince Jack to do the surgery. At the Swan station, Locke splices a piece of the Orientation film that Eko had to the whole. Michael receives a text message on the computer from someone claiming to be Walt.

11/10/2004: Eko recognizes the Virgin Mary statue Charlie has and smashes it in front of Claire, revealing the heroin. He then forces Charlie on a hike through the jungle looking for the plane. Michael continues to secretly talk on the computer with the person claiming to be Walt. Eko has an experience with the monster that an astonished Charlie witnesses. Eko and Charlie find the plane that has Eko's brother's corpse in it. Eko turns the plane into a funeral pyre. Claire kicks Charlie out of her life.

11/11/2004: Michael locks Jack and Locke in the gun vault and takes off across the island, heading north, instead of where the tail section came from. Michael is following the directions given to him by whoever was sending messages to him on the computer. Jack, Locke, Sawyer, and secretly Kate pursue him. Michael runs into a group of Others and is captured. The Others surround the party tracking Michael, at night and "Mr. Friendly" warns them to turn back, using Kate as a hostage. Reluctantly they drop their guns, get Kate, and head back.

11/12/2004: Jack and the others arrive back on the beach. Jack asks Ana-Lucia how long she thinks it would take to train an army.

11/13/2004: Michael and the group of Others arrive at the Others tent village and bunker on a north beach of the island. He is handed over to "Miss Klugh", who asks him questions about Walt.

11/14/2004: Charlie wakes up from a nightmare. He asks with Claire to go back to the way things were before. Claire said that there was no before. Sawyer notes that Jack and Ana-Lucia have made at least three trips into the jungle. At night, Charlie has another nightmare and finds that he has sleepwalked and taken Aaron. Claire slaps him.

11/15/2004: Charlie tries to get Locke to put in a good word for him with Claire. Locke asks Charlie if he is using heroin. Charlie gets upset because other people have seen strange things, but people assume he's on drugs. Charlie lies to him about not having any more virgin mary statues. Eko and Charlie talk about his dreams, then Charlie thinks they mean that Aaron needs to be baptized. Eko has started work on building a church. Locke follows Charlie to his stash and confiscates the drugs. At night, Charlie sets a fire in the woods near the beach, and then attempts to steal Aaron so he can be baptized. Claire pleads with Charlie to give Aaron back. He does. Locke punches him repeatedly.

11/16/2004: Jack talks to Charlie. He admits that he started the fire. Jack already knew. He wants to know if Charlie will ever do anything like that again. Charlie tells Jack yes, and that he never used heroin. Claire goes to see Eko about baptizing her and Aaron. Locke puts the heroin into the gun vault. At night, Charlie sits alone by a fire.

11/17/2004: Jack puts the Marshall's guns into the gun vault. Jack and Locke make an agreement that neither of them will open the gun vault without consulting the other first. Charlie moves his tent farther from the others. Sun is attacked while working in her garden. Sawyer and Kate hear her cries for help and find her unconscious, and tied up in the jungle. Sawyer tells Kate that he thinks this was a plot to get people to join the army. Kate asks Sawyer to go tell Locke to move the guns. Sawyer warns Locke that Jack is coming for the guns. Locke moves the guns. When Jack shows up, he is ticked off that the guns are gone, and at night confronts Locke on the beach. Locke and Jack are both surprised however, when an armed Sawyer shows up and announces that he has the guns now. In the jungle, Sawyer meets Charlie. He was the one who attacked Sun and followed Locke to where he hid the guns. Charlie did it just to make Locke look like a fool.

11/18/2004: Rousseau finds Sayid and leads him to a man who got caught in one of her traps. He tries to escape and Rousseau shoots him with a home-made crossbow. Sayid takes him back to the Swan bunker. Sayid locks himself in the armory with the man and starts interrogating him. The man claims to be Henry Gale from Minnesota, who crashed on the island in a hot air balloon with his wife. Sayid becomes convinced that he's lying and starts beating him. Jack demands that Locke open the armory door, but Locke refuses until the one-minute alarm for the button starts sounding. Locke opens the door and Jack pulls Sayid away. Locke is late entering the code and the timer hits zero. The sound of a large machine powering up starts and the timer flips to show Egyptian hieroglyphics. Locke quickly finishes entering the code before the last hieroglyphic flips into place. Later, Sayid is on the beach, and he tells Charlie about Henry Gale.

11/19/2004: Early at night, Claire's baby Aaron is suffering from a fever and rash. Locke goes to get Jack. Rousseau shows up and warns Claire that Aaron may be sick with the same thing that infected the rest of her team. In the morning, Claire, convinced that Aaron is sick, and the cure lies in the place she was kept for over a week. Claire and Kate set out to look for it. Rousseau finds them and leads them to the place where Claire scratched her. From there, Claire finds the Medical Bunker, but it is abandoned. Kate discovers disguises worn by the Others. Claire tells Rousseau about the mysterious young girl who helped save her life. Henry Gale has been in the bunker for two days. Eko asks Henry Gale for forgiveness for his killing of two Others.

11/20/2004: Locke recruits Ana-Lucia to try and get information from Henry Gale, who has been in the bunker for three days. Ana-Lucia gets Gale to draw a map to the location of his balloon crash site. She gets Sayid and Charlie to accompany her on the day-or-so walk. Sun discovers she is pregnant. Bernard forgets Rose's birthday. Sayid forgives Ana-Lucia for shooting Shannon. He blames the atmosphere of paranoia created by the Others for Shannon's death. He says that if Henry Gale is an Other, he will have to be killed.
11/21/2004: Ana-Lucia, Sayid and Charlie arrive at a likely spot for Gale's balloon crash, and split up to search. After three hours of searching, Charlie finds a grave and the wreckage of a hot-air balloon in the clearing. Wanting to be sure, Sayid digs up the grave. Locke and Henry Gale become trapped in the bunker after the blast doors suddenly close, and they have to work together. Locke's leg becomes injured when it gets pinned by a blast door. After something happens with the timer, blue lights come on in the lounge and a map with notes on it appears on the blast door pinning Locke's leg. Then the lockdown ends and the blast doors retract. At night, Jack and Kate find a palette of Dharma Initiative food in the jungle, seemingly dropped from the air. Charlie, Sayid and Ana-Lucia emerge from the jungle. They all go to the hatch where Sayid reveals that the body in the balloon grave was that of a man, Henry Gale from Minnesota. In the Others village, a tired Michael demands to see his son. Miss Klugh agrees to give him three minutes. Walt tells Michael that they make him do tests, and that they're pretending. Miss Klugh then makes Michael a deal. He must free Henry Gale, and bring Jack, Sawyer, Kate, and Hurley back to this camp, and then they'll let him and Walt go free. Michael agrees.

11/22/2004: The DHARMA supply drop is salvaged by the survivors, and the lockdown in the Swan bunker and the existence of Henry Gale is made public to the survivors. Jack says that Locke's leg should heal in two weeks if care is taken. Henry Gale tells Locke that he didn't press the button, hieroglyphics appeared and then it reset on its own. Hurley nearly commits suicide, but Libby stops him.

11/23/2004: Henry Gale hasn't talked or eaten in two days. Jack decides to try and make a trade of Henry for Walt. Bernard starts to make a large S.O.S. sign on the beach, but Rose is not very supportive of his idea. At night, in the clearing where Jack and Mr. Friendly met, an exhausted Michael stumbles out of the jungle and collapses, to the shock of Jack and Kate. They start to take him back to the bunker. Ana-Lucia is attacked by Henry Gale when she brings him food, but Locke saves her.

11/24/2004: Henry Gale tells Locke that his mission was to bring Locke back with him, and that since he has failed, his life is forfeit. Jack and Kate arrive at the Swan bunker with Michael. Ana-Lucia seduces Sawyer to steal the gun he carries with him. Michael wakes up and tells Jack, Kate, Locke and Ana-Lucia that he found the Others camp and can lead a party back there. He tells them that the Others are not well off, but they have a bunker of their own. Jack, Locke and Kate agree to get the guns from Sawyer to go on a rescue mission. Hurley tries to take Libby on a picnic, but forget drinks and blankets. Libby goes to the hatch to get them. Ana-Lucia wants to kill Henry Gale, but can't bring herself to pull the trigger. Michael offers to do it, so Ana-Lucia gives him the gun and combination. Michael then shoots Ana-Lucia, killing her instantly, then shoots Libby twice when she surprises him. He then releases Henry Gale from the armory and shoots himself in the arm. Eko has a strange dream telling him to help Locke find the "question mark". Jack, Locke, Kate and Sawyer arrive at the Swan bunker to find a wounded Michael claiming that Henry Gale did this before escaping. Libby isn't dead, but Jack says she won't live long. He tells Sawyer and Kate to get the heroin from Sawyer's stash. Eko arrives at the bunker and recruits Locke to track Henry Gale down. They go into the jungle and Eko gets Locke to show him the map he transcribed from the blast door. They camp at the crash of Yemi's plane.

11/25/2004: Locke has a dream in which he is Eko and climbs up to where the plane was perched. Eko climbs up and sees what appears to be a piece of bare earth in the clearing. Locke and Eko find a new bunker, Station 5, The Pearl and a video suggesting that the Swan's button-pushing exercise is just a meaningless psychological experiment. Locke puts his map in the Pearl's pneumatic tube. Kate and Sawyer arrive at the beach and retrieve the heroin from Sawyer's stash under his tent. Outside Hurley finds them, and they take him to the Swan. Jack injects Libby with the heroin, and she regains consciousness long enough to say "Michael!" before dying. Michael insists that only he, Jack, Hurley, Kate and Sawyer can go to rescue Walt. Eko tells Charlie that he's stopping work on the church, and is staying in the Swan bunker now. Charlie gives Claire a box of vaccine he found on the supply drop, and he throws all the remaining heroin-filled statues into the ocean. Michael tells Sayid that he can't come with them. Sayid gets suspicious and tells Jack that he thinks Michael has been compromised and is the one who let Henry Gale go. At the sunset funeral for Ana-Lucia and Libby, Sun sees a small sailboat. Jack, Sayid and Sawyer swim out to the boat, the Elizabeth and they find a drunken Desmond. They bring him back to the beach using the small dinghy on the sailboat. Locke demands that Eko stop pushing the button. Eko throws him out of the Swan bunker.

11/26/2004: Jack, Michael, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley set out to find the Others camp. Sayid, Sun, and Jin borrow Desmond's boat to sail to the other side of the island. Charlie tells Locke that Desmond is back. At night, Locke tells Desmond that he saw a video that said the button in the Swan was a fake, and enlists his help to get Eko to stop pushing it, so they can really find out what happens.

11/27/2004: Sayid, Sin and Jin see the remnant of a strange statue: a sandaled foot with only four toes. Locke and Desmond create a lockdown and seal Eko out of the button room. Eko races to the beach and enlists Charlie to help him get back into the bunker. Charlie leads Eko to the dynamite left over from the attempt to blow up the hatch. Kate notices that they're being followed, and she and Sawyer open fire on a pair of Others. Sawyer kills one, but the other one gets away. Jack reveals that it doesn't matter because Michael was already working with them. Michael confesses his involvement, including the murders of Ana-Lucia and Libby. Hurley wants to go back, but Jack tells him that if they do they might all get killed. Jack says that he has a plan. Jin sees the rock Michael described. Sayid goes ashore and investigates the Others village. It's a fake, nothing is there, and the bunker is fake as well. Eko detonates the dynamite against Charlie's cautions. The blast door is undamaged, but a fireball sweeps through the hallway. Michael leads Jack and everyone to a large clearing that has the exit from the Pearl's vacuum tube. Hundreds, if not thousands of unopened message tubes litter the ground. Sawyer finds and gives Locke's map to Jack. Sawyer sees the black smoke of Sayid's signal, but its miles away. The group is attacked by blow darts and captured by the Others. Desmond goes through the printout and discovers the system error message from September 22, 2004. He tries to convince Locke that the button is real. Jack, Michael, et al are taken to the Pala Ferry dock, where Henry Gale shows up in a boat with Walt. Charlie finds Eko, he is alive. Desmond releases the lockdown and the timer hits zero. The room starts to shake, and metal objects start flying towards the electromagnetic anomaly. Desmond gets the shutdown key. The bunker starts tearing itself apart. Eko tells Charlie to get out, and he goes to find Locke. The power can be seen and heard all across the island, from the beach camp to Pala Ferry dock. Desmond turns the System Termination key, and the light and noise fade. Miss Klugh releases Hurley and tells him that his message to the Oceanic survivors is that they are never to come here. Henry Gale gives Michael instructions for how to get away from the island, and Michael and Walt drive away on the boat. Charlie emerges at the beach. At night, he and Claire kiss.

11/28/2004: Jack, Kate and Sawyer begin their first day as captives of the Others. Jack is in an underwater part of The Hydra - another DHARMA station. Juliet talks to him through a glass window. Sawyer is held in a cage, and later escapes with the help of Karl. Both Sawyer and Karl are recaptured and Karl is taken away. Kate is given a dress to wear and Tom takes her to have breakfast on the beach with Ben. Kate is later put in a cage opposite Sawyer's. Juliet stuns Jack when she opens a file revealing a great deal about his life.

11/29/2004: Colleen informs Ben and Juliet that they have spotted Sayid, Sun and Jin. Sayid, Sun and Jin set up a trap for the Others. Juliet continues to try and get Jack to trust her. The Others, with Pickett in charge, make Kate and Sawyer break rocks all day. At night the Others sneak on board to take the sailboat and Sun shoots Colleen. Tom succeeds in stealing the boat, leaving Sayid, Sun and Jin behind on the beach. Henry Gale reveals his real name to Jack and informs him how much time has gone by since the plane crashed and that they have contact with the outside world. Meanwhile, on the other side of the island Locke wakes up in the middle of the jungle, and then he and Charlie search for Mr. Eko. The returning Hurley finds Desmond on the way back to the beach camp. Desmond displays strange precognitive abilities. Charlie and Locke bring Eko back to camp, after finding him in the lair of a polar bear. As Sawyer and Kate contemplate a plan to escape, Ben watches them on monitors and listens in on every word.

11/30/2004: Tom and the rest of their group arrive back with Colleen critically injured. They rush her past Kate and Sawyer's cages on a stretcher. Sawyer plans a trap for the Others when they come back. When Ben comes out Sawyer decides to take his chance, but Ben has already turned the machine's power off and beats Sawyer up. Sawyer wakes up on an operating table and the Others tell him they've implanted a pacemaker in him to prevent him from trying to escape. Juliet asks Jack to scrub up to help save Colleen, but after trying for a few minutes, Colleen dies. Pickett goes outside and beats Sawyer to a pulp while asking Kate if she loves Sawyer. He continues to beat Sawyer until Kate confesses that she loves him. In the operating room, Jack sees the x-rays of a man with a tumor on his spine. Desmond builds a lightning rod just in time for it to save Charlie's, Claire's and Aaron's lives.

12/2/2004: Ben wakes Sawyer up before sunrise and takes him to the edge of the small island the Hydra is on. Ben informs him that they didn't really implant a pacemaker in his heart. At night, Ben takes Jack to join them at Colleen's funeral. Jack knows that Ben is the one with the tumor, and he tells Ben that he doesn't have long to live. Sayid, Sun and Jin arrive back at the beach camp. Eko has nightmares about Yemi and his tent catches fire. After being saved by Sayid, Charlie and Hurley, Eko disappears.

12/3/2004: Locke realizes that Eko has gone to the beachcraft where Yemi's body is. Locke tells Sayid and Desmond that he wants to use the computers in the Pearl Station to communicate with the Others. Nikki and Paulo join them on a trek through the jungle. At the Pearl Station, Eko stays outside. Juliet gives Jack a secret message in a home-made video tape. Eko sees Yemi in the jungle and follows him. Eko is killed by the monster in the jungle. Locke decides to bury him there, and goes to get shovels and Eko's "Jesus stick". Jack refuses to operate on Ben. After burying Eko, a ray of sunlight falls on a piece of scripture on Eko's stick. Kate slips out of her cage and bashes open the lock on Sawyer's cage. Sawyer tells her they're on a small island and there's nowhere to run. Kate and Sawyer have sex. Someone lets Jack out of his cell and he sees Kate and Sawyer on the monitor. He tells Ben that he'll do the surgery first thing in the morning.

12/4/2004: As soon as Ben is under anesthesia and Jack begins the operation, Picket drags Sawyer out of his cage and prepares to execute him. Jack deliberately sabotages Ben's operation. He tells Kate to tell him the story he told her from their first meeting once she's safe. Kate and Sawyer overpower Pickett and Jason, lock them in Sawyer's cage and run away. Juliet sends Ivan to go and help Pickett and then get Kate and Sawyer back. Kate and Sawyer run through the jungle and make it to the beach, but Pickett, Jason and Ivan catch up to them. Alex helps them by hiding them in an underground burrow. Alex offers to give them a boat to get off the island if they help her rescue her boyfriend, Karl. Ben wakes up from surgery and overhears Jack and Tom talking about Juliet wanting Ben to die. Ben asks to speak with Juliet alone. Juliet takes off and tells Jack that she is going to help his friends. Kate, Sawyer and Alex arrive at another part of The Hydra and rescue Karl. Pickett and Juliet arrive and she tells them that they are letting Kate and Sawyer go because Jack won't finish Ben's surgery unless he knows his friends are safe. Jack continues with Ben's surgery in the operating room. Alex takes Sawyer and Kate to a beach where a small raft is. As they put Karl in the boat, Pickett shows up to stop them. Juliet shoots him dead. She then convinces Alex that she can't go with them. She gives Kate her radio to contact Jack. Kate tells Jack that Juliet helped them and that they are safe. Jack finishes up Ben's surgery. Kate and Sawyer row off into the ocean with Karl in the boat with them. At the survivors' beach camp, Charlie and Hurley are going through Sawyer's stash. Desmond arrives and asks them both to come with him. He takes them to Locke and Sayid in the jungle where Locke informs them of Eko's death. Desmond suddenly takes off and runs to the beach. He dives in the ocean and swims in. Charlie runs into the water but Desmond already has Claire out. He performs CPR and she wakes up. When Juliet arrives back at the operating room, Jack wants to know what Ben told her. She tells Jack about her deal with Ben and that she has been on the island for 3 years, 2 months and 28 days. After rowing for some distance, Kate tells Sawyer that they need to go back for Jack. Sawyer refuses and Karl wakes up saying that Ben will kill them if they go back. Tom tells Jack that they are moving him somewhere else. On their way out, they pass another woman and Juliet, who is now handcuffed. Tom takes Jack outside and locks him in Sawyer's cage. Kate and Sawyer arrive at the main island. They make a fire as it starts getting dark. Jack is sitting in his cage when Isabel comes along. She reads the Chinese words in Jack’s tattoos. She takes him to a room where Tom and Juliet are and asks Jack about Juliet's request for him to kill Ben. At the main beach camp, Charlie takes a bottle of whiskey from Sawyer's stash and takes it to Desmond as a peace offering. Desmond, Charlie and Hurley are all drunk from the whiskey and sing songs around a fire. Charlie eventually gets Desmond to reveal he gets flashes of the future and in those flashes, Charlie always dies.

12/5/2004: Jack wakes up in his cage and finds a large group of people standing around watching him and then Cindy walks up. Cindy tells Jack that they are there to watch. Jack loses his temper and shouts at Cindy to leave. Kate and Sawyer wake up and find that Karl is gone. They start looking for him and hear him crying in the jungle. Sawyer goes to talk to him and tells him that if he really loves Alex he should go back and get her. Alex goes to talk to Jack in his cage. She informs Jack that Juliet is on trial for killing Pickett and that she will be executed. Jack tells Alex to let him out of the cage and take him to Ben. Jack says that he will treat Ben and be his doctor if Ben sees to it that Juliet doesn't get executed. On the main island, Kate is furious with Sawyer for letting Karl go. Sawyer says that Karl had a target on his back and the Others would have come looking for him. They start making their way back to camp. Alex takes Jack to the room where Juliet is on trial. They give Tom and Isabel a letter from Ben ordering Juliet's execution to be stopped. Jack is back in his cage when Juliet comes to bring him a sandwich. Jack is taken to the beach where all the others are gathered. They are taken on small boats to a bigger boat that is waiting for them just offshore.

12/6/2004: Charlie tells Hurley about Desmond's premonition of his death when Vincent comes out of the bushes carrying a decomposed human arm in his mouth. The arm has a key attached to the fingers. Hurley follows Vincent back into the jungle and discovers a junked minivan in the bushes. Hurley rushes into camp and tells everyone about the wrecked car. He asks for help to get the car started. No-one is interested but Jin stays behind to help. Kate and Sawyer arrive back at camp and are greeted by everyone. Later, Sawyer finds that his stash is missing and confronts Charlie and Desmond. They apologize for drinking the whiskey and tell him that they drank it with Hurley. Hurley shows Jin the car and they discover a body of a man wearing a DHARMA suit inside. Sawyer shows up to interrogate Hurley about the whiskey, but Hurley grabs Sawyer and hugs him. Hurley tells Sawyer that he will help them fix the car, because there is beer in the back of the van. After realizing that the car can't be fixed, Hurley gets an idea, but goes to get Charlie first. He tells Charlie that what he has planned may result in Charlie's death, but if it doesn't, they will win and break the curse. Sawyer and Jin drink the DHARMA beer and Sawyer teaches Jin some English sentences. Kate talks with Locke and Sayid and tells them about what Karl said about the Others living on this island. She takes off and says that she is going to find help. Charlie and Hurley get the van going by rolling it down a hill. Sawyer and Jin get in the van with Vincent and they drive around the valley celebrating. At night, Kate treks through the jungle alone when Locke and Sayid join her. They ask why she didn't ask for their help and she replies that they don't know where to look and they aren't motivated enough. Danielle comes out of the bushes and asks what Kate is doing. Kate says that she wants Danielle's help to find the Others' camp. She tells Danielle that she is pretty sure she met her daughter.

12/7/2004: On the beach, Sawyer finds Sun, Jin, Nikki and Charlie carrying a ping-pong table that used to be in the hatch. Sawyer confronts everyone about his stash and makes a deal. They will have a ping-pong competition and if he wins they have to give all his stuff back. Sun tells Sawyer that if he loses he can't use nicknames for anyone for a whole week. Hurley is chosen to play and beats Sawyer. Kate, Locke, Sayid and Danielle continue on their trek through the jungle. They stop to get some fruit to eat and Sayid discovers a farm house in the jungle. Sayid approaches the house unarmed, but is shot in the arm by Mikhail. Kate and Locke manage to apprehend and disarm him. Locke goes inside the building while Kate and Sayid talk to the man. He introduces himself and says that he is the last remaining member of the DHARMA initiative. Locke plays a chess game on a computer while Mikhail gets iced tea for Sayid and Kate. Sayid tells Kate that Mikhail is lying and that he is not DHARMA, but one of the Others. Sayid is also certain that Mikhail is not alone in the building. Mikhail catches on to Sayid's suspicion and attacks him and Kate. They manage to tie Mikhail up. While Sayid and Kate search for someone else in the basement, Locke gains access to another DHARMA video. Dr. Marvin Candle explains how to communicate with the outside world, but the satellite is inoperable. In the basement, Kate is attacked by Bea, but Sayid pulls a gun on her. Just as Locke is about to enter 77, the code for a hostile intrusion, Mikhail holds a knife to his throat and tells him to stop. Sayid and Kate make their way up with Bea and find Locke and Mikhail outside. Bea orders Mikhail to shoot her, which he does. Locke prevents him from shooting himself. Back at the beach, Hurley consoles Sawyer about Kate. As night falls, Sayid takes a tied up Mikhail out and calls for Danielle. Sayid says he found a map leading from The Flame to a place called the Barracks. Suddenly the entire Flame Station explodes. Locke tells them that he entered 77 into the computer. They set off to find the Barracks.

12/8/2004: Locke, Kate, Sayid and Danielle continue their trek through the jungle with Mikhail as their prisoner. Charlie prepares a picnic for himself and Claire, but Desmond tells Charlie to instead spend the day hunting with him. Claire sees some electronically tagged sea birds flying over and gets an idea to catch one of the birds and attach a message to the tag. Charlie knows that Desmond has had another premonition of his death, and refuses to support Claire's idea. Claire gets help from Jin and Sun and they set up a trap for the birds. Just as a bird steps into their trap, Desmond chases it away with gunfire, claiming that he was after a boar. Claire has a big falling out with Charlie and tells him to leave. Meanwhile, the search party for Jack arrive at the security fence. Locke pushes Mikhail between two of the pylons and Mikhail appears to die. They chop down a tree, balance it on one of the pylons and climb over it to the other side. At the beach, Claire follows Desmond to some rocks and sees that he has found a bird trapped on a rock. Desmond tells Claire about all his premonitions of Charlie's death and that he had another one today. Claire makes peace with Charlie and they attach a message to the captured bird and release it. Locke, Kate, Sayid and Danielle arrive at the Barracks. Kate sees Jack running towards them and sees him catch a football and throw it back to Tom. They decide to wait until dark to approach Jack. At night, Locke and Sayid keep watch while Kate enters Jack's house. Several Others burst in, with Sayid already captured. Meanwhile, Locke breaks into Ben's house and finds him in his room. He demands to know where the submarine is. Tom gives Jack a chance to speak with Kate. Locke keeps Alex hostage and has her take him to the submarine. From the bushes, Danielle watches and sees her daughter. Jack and Juliet go over to Ben's place and Jack asks for one last favor.

12/9/2004: In the early morning hours, Jack and Juliet arrive at the pier to leave the island on the submarine. They find Locke and ask what he is doing there and then there is a massive explosion where the submarine was. After being tied up for a while, Locke is untied by Ben and Richard, who tell him to come with them. Richard opens a door and when Locke looks inside he sees his father gagged and tied to a chair inside. Locke agrees to go with them and Ben says that he can say goodbye to Kate. That night Ben and Juliet plan out her con on Kate and the rest of the survivors. At night, Kate is still locked in the billiard room at the Others' village. She sees Juliet walk past the window. Kate grabs a pool stick and hides behind the door. When Juliet enters, Kate hits, but misses Juliet, who then throws Kate on her back. Juliet was only bringing Kate some food that now lies on the floor.

12/10/2004: Locke says goodbye to Kate in the billiard room and then Kate sees the Others putting on gas masks. Then a gas container is thrown in the room and the gas renders her unconscious. At the main beach camp, Paulo finds Nikki on the beach and she is upset over missing Thanksgiving two weeks ago. Nikki spots his nicotine gum and realizing that he must have found their missing bag she goes to Sawyer and asks for a gun. Sawyer says no. Later, Nikki takes Paulo to the jungle. She demands that he give the diamonds to her. Paulo refuses and Nikki throws Art’s Medusa spider on him. It bites Paulo in the neck and he squashes it. Nikki finds the diamonds in Paulo's pants, but suddenly a male spider bites Nikki on her ankle. Nikki rushes through the bushes and buries the bag in some loose earth. She stumbles from the bushes onto the beach where Sawyer and Hurley are playing ping-pong. She suddenly becomes paralyzed and Hurley tells Sawyer that she's dead. Jin, Sawyer and Hurley find a paralyzed Paulo in the jungle and also think he's dead. While Sawyer and Hurley search for answers, Charlie confesses to Sun that it was him who kidnapped her. Desmond tells Hurley that he saw Nikki arguing with Sawyer earlier. Sawyer returns and when Hurley confronts him about the argument, Sawyer denies having done anything to them and reveals the small black bag that he found. Sun opens it and finds that it is filled with diamonds. Sun later returns the diamonds to Sawyer, and tells him that she knows he was behind her attack. She punches him in the face and leaves. Hurley gives a speech at Nikki and Paulo's funeral, as they both lay paralyzed at the bottom of a double grave. Sawyer, Charlie and Hurley start filling up the grave. Suddenly, Nikki opens her eyes, but earth is shoveled over her face and it's too late. Nikki and Paulo are both buried alive. On the beach, Hurley tells Sawyer that there is going to be a vote to decide whether Sawyer should be banished. Sawyer catches a fish after a big struggle and then tries to gut it but fails. He finds Hurley and tells him that he'll make amends. Juliet drags Kate out into the jungle and handcuffs them together. When Kate wakes up Juliet claims she doesn't know what's going on. On their way back, it starts raining and they get into a fight. Kate accidentally dislocates Juliet's shoulder. She starts to apologize when they suddenly hear the sounds of the monster approaching. They run through the jungle and hide inside a tree. The monster approaches and bright white flashes appear before Kate and Juliet and suddenly, it disappears again. Juliet claims not to know what it is. At the beach, Hurley tells Sawyer to do something nice for Claire. Sawyer gives Claire a blanket and compliments Aaron. Juliet tells Kate that she broke Jack's heart. Kate helps Juliet to pop her shoulder back in.

12/11/2004: Early in the morning, Sawyer joins Desmond on a hunt. Desmond manages to shoot a boar. Kate and Juliet wake up in the tree and continue on their trek back to the Barracks. The monster returns and they run through the bushes. They reach the border of pylons and Kate wants to turn around to find another way. Juliet tells het that they're switched off but Kate doesn't believe her. Juliet takes a key from her back pocket and uncuffs herself from Kate. She runs through the pylons and opens a switch box on the other side and enters a code. After Kate runs through, she activates and turns on the pylons just as the monster appears. It freezes in front of the barrier and eventually retreats into the jungle. Juliet tells Kate that they don't know what it is, but they know it doesn't like their fences. Kate is furious that Juliet had the key to the handcuffs all along. Juliet lies to Kate and tells her that the people, who she has spent the past 3 years of her life with, left her behind too. She says she handcuffed herself to Kate to convince Kate that they were in it together, so she wouldn't get left behind again. Sawyer prepares a feast for everyone at the beach. After speaking to Charlie, he realizes that there is no vote and that Hurley has tricked him into being nice. He confronts Hurley, who tells Sawyer that he has to be their temporary leader since Jack, Locke, Kate and Sayid are all gone. Kate and Juliet arrive back at the Barracks. Juliet goes to get Sayid in one of the backyards while Kate goes to find Jack. She finds him unconscious on the floor but he quickly wakes up. She tells him that the Others have left and that Juliet is still there. They go outside and find Sayid. Jack says that they should start making their way back to the beach before it gets dark. Sayid doesn't want Juliet to go with them, but Jack says that she is coming with them. They make camp by a river and Sayid tries to interrogate Juliet but Jack stops him.

12/12/2004: Jack, Kate, Sayid and Juliet continue their trek back to the beach. Charlie wakes Claire up because she's ignoring Aaron and she reveals that she hasn't been feeling well. Later she asks Sawyer for some aspirin. Walking to get it he notices Jack and the others walking down the beach. As they are welcomed back Sawyer notices Juliet and gets angry. The survivors debate what to do about Juliet into the night. Just as the conversation switches to Jack and his motivations Claire suddenly collapses and spits blood. While Jack is treating Claire Juliet tells Kate she knows what's wrong. Juliet lies to Jack and says that a disease that affects pregnant woman is killing her and she needs a serum that Juliet invented to live. Juliet goes into the jungle to find a kit she said Ethan had buried before he died but was really left by Ryan just a few days earlier.

12/13/2004: As day breaks, Juliet retrieves the injection kit and is confronted by Sayid and Sawyer. She eventually convinces them that she is trying to help Claire and goes back to the beach. She injects Claire with some serum. Several hours later Claire wakes up without any problems. Desmond has a flash of the future involving Penny, an on island crash and Charlie's death. He finds Hurley and asks for help finding the cable in the sand that he saw in the flash. They then recruit Charlie and Jin to come along. He also borrows Jack's medical kit and they set out down the beach. Sawyer enters Kate's tent and catches her changing. She tells him that Jack knows they had sex and he asks her for some "afternoon delight" but gets turned down. Desmond's party reaches the cable in the sand and makes camp for the night. Kate is eating dinner in the kitchen area when Jack comes up. Jack borrows a spoon from her and goes to eat dinner with Juliet. Kate watches them and gets upset and after washing dishes in the ocean she goes to Sawyer's tent and jumps him. Sawyer realizes she is crying but she tells him to shut up and they have sex. The four camping out by the wire hear the sound of a helicopter and soon see it crashing into the ocean. They also see someone parachute into the jungle. Charlie convinces them to wait for light before heading out to find the pilot.

12/14/2004: Once the sun is up the four enter the jungle and find a pack containing Desmond's picture. Desmond reveals that he thinks the person they're looking for is his lost love Penny. At the main beach camp Sawyer gets Jack to play table tennis with him. The four in the jungle continue on arguing about silly things until Charlie sets off one of Rousseau's traps. Desmond saves Charlie from the trap. On the beach, Sawyer finds Kate and gives her a "mix tape" and confronts her about her motivations the night before. Desmond's group finds a parachutist hanging from a tree and cut her down. Desmond removes her helmet revealing it's not Penny but she recognizes him and says his name. Jack questions Sun about her pregnancy. Desmond and Charlie argue about what to do with the woman, Naomi. Hurley accidentally fires off a flare gun that he found among the women's possessions. Sun asks Kate why Jack would want to know about her pregnancy. Sun confronts Juliet about what happens to pregnant woman on the island. Mikhail runs up to Desmond's group and then quickly runs away. Jin catches him before he escapes. Mikhail agrees to treat Naomi. Juliet wakes Sun up and says she can help her at The Staff. Mikhail tends to Naomi well into the night and Desmond allows him to leave. Sun and Juliet arrive at The Staff and Juliet reveals a secret room with a lot of equipment. They determine the date of conception as being 53 days ago and learn that Jin is indeed the father of Sun's baby.

12/15/2004: Sun and Juliet leave the hatch and the sun is already up. Juliet goes back inside and leaves a message for Ben, telling him about Sun's pregnancy and Jin's infertility before he came to the island. The Others set up camp in an open field and Locke helps Cindy with her tent. Locke finds Ben listening to Juliet's message. Ben tells Locke that he must kill his father before he can tell him any of the island's secrets. The group with Desmond is preparing a stretcher to carry Naomi back to camp when she wakes up. Juliet tells Jack all about Ben's plan and her supposed mission to determine which of the women are pregnant. At the Others' camp, Ben wakes John up and unsuccessfully tries to get him to kill Anthony.
12/16/2004: At the Others' camp, Richard tells Locke that he wants him to find his way, but his father has to go in order for that to happen. He gives Locke a file on Sawyer, and says it might help him get rid of Anthony.

12/17/2004: The Others pack up their camp and Ben informs Locke that he can't come with. He leaves him behind with Anthony still tied up. Kate tries to sneak out of Sawyer's tent but wakes him so he goes to take a peek. Desmond, Charlie, Jin and Hurley return to camp in the early morning hours, along with Naomi. Locke confronts Sawyer while he is peeing. He tells Sawyer that he kidnapped Ben and wants Sawyer to kill him. Hurley and Charlie bring Sayid in to meet Naomi and he interrogates her and doesn't believe her story until she gives him the satellite phone. While Sayid is working on the phone Kate catches him and learns the truth about where it came from. Locke takes Sawyer to the Black Rock, where he actually has Anthony Cooper locked up. Charlie lies to Jack about what they did on their trip. Danielle shows up at the Black Rock and takes some dynamite. Sawyer learns that Locke's father is the man who conned his parents and caused their death. He strangles and kills Anthony with a chain. Locke informs Sawyer that Juliet is a mole. He gives Sawyer the tape recorder with the message that Juliet left for Ben about Sun's pregnancy. Locke picks up Anthony's body, wrapped in blankets, and makes his way back to Ben's camp. Kate tells Jack and Juliet about Naomi and that Jack's friends don't trust him anymore because he spends too much time with Juliet.

12/18/2004: Ben's birthday. Ben and Richard try to figure out what happened to Juliet's tape when Locke arrives at The Others' camp with his father's body and demands answers. Mikhail also arrives at the camp with news of Naomi and demands action. Locke beats Mikhail until Ben agrees to take him to Jacob. Sawyer returns to the survivor’s camp and talks to Sayid. He informs him of what he learned about Juliet and they go to confront her. When they get to her tent Kate tells them Juliet and Jack went off together after She told them about Naomi. Sayid storms off telling Sawyer to play the tape for Kate. While Ben and Locke are filling canteens for their trip to see Jacob, Alex comes up and gives Locke a pistol saying he will need it when he meets Jacob. At night the survivors on the beach gather to hear what Naomi has to say and Sayid and Sawyer inform them all about Juliet. Jack and Juliet arrive and Juliet has them flip the tape over and they here a recording Ben left saying he's going to attack the camp in two nights. Locke and Ben cross over a line of sand and come to a cabin in the woods. They enter the cabin and Ben says Jacob is in an apparently empty chair. Locke thinks he's crazy and goes to leave when he hears someone say "Help Me". Things then begin to fly all over the cabin on their own and Locke catches a brief glimpse of a shadowy man in the chair. Locke quickly exits the cabin and Ben follows him out shortly.

12/19/2004: In the morning Ben and Locke are heading back towards The Others' camp when Locke realizes they are going in a different direction and Ben says he wants to show Locke something else. He shows Locke a pit filled with Dharma skeletons. He shoots Locke. He leaves him in the pit to die. Jack takes a group of survivors out to an open field. Danielle shows up. Danielle sets off an explosion that collapses an entire tree and Jack reveals that they are going to booby-trap the tents of the women. Ben arrives back at his camp and gives Alex her gun back. He tells Ryan that instead of going the next night they have to go tonight. Alex runs off and meets Karl in the jungle. She sends him off with her gun to warn the survivors. Desmond has another vision of Charlie dying. Desmond tells Charlie about the vision and Charlie compiles a list of the five greatest moments in his life. Sayid realizes that they can't transmit from Naomi's phone because the signal is blocked. Juliet reveals that Ben is blocking all transmissions off the island. Sayid finds the station in the maps he took from the flame. Sayid realizes that the wire on the beach leading into the ocean must be connected to The Looking Glass. Charlie realizes it is his destiny to swim down there and switch off the jamming devise. Karl shows up at the beach and tells everyone that the attack is happening tonight. Danielle says that they'll never get the dynamite rigged in time. Sayid says that they can use guns to set off the dynamite. Bernard and Jin volunteer to stay behind as shooters with Sayid. Charlie and Desmond leave for The Looking Glass. Jack leads everyone else towards the radio tower. On their way Naomi shows Jack how to use her phone to contact her ship. Desmond and Charlie arrive at the wire on the beach and follow it into the ocean. Charlie gives Desmond his list of greatest moments to give to Claire. Desmond offers to go down instead, but Charlie knocks him out and swims down to the station. He reaches the entrance to the moon pool of the station and gets out of the pool and screams for joy that he is alive. Suddenly two women, Greta and Bonnie, show up and point their guns at Charlie. They tie him up and start torturing him. Charlie reveals that Juliet told them about the station. Bonnie contacts Ben, who is furious and sends Mikhail to go and help. At the beach camp, Ryan, Tom and the rest of the Others' team arrive to take the women. As they approach the tents, Sayid and Bernard fire their guns and set off the dynamite of two tents, killing five Others. Jin misses his dynamite but shoots two Others. Tom, Ryan and Jason survive and manage to overtake Sayid, Jin and Bernard. Jack and the rest of the group hear the explosions and Rose wonders why only two explosions went off instead of three. Rose and Sun want to wait for their husbands, but Jack convinces them to carry on.

12/20/2004: At daybreak Sawyer and Juliet decide to go back to the beach to check on Sayid, Jin and Bernard. The rest of the group continues on to towards the radio tower but runs into Ben and Alex. Ben tells Jack that Naomi is not who she says she is. Ben informs Jack that Tom has his friend’s captive and orders Tom to kill them. Jack thinking that Tom killed his friends beats Ben and has him tied up. Sawyer and Juliet arrive at the beach just as Hurley runs over Ryan with the Dharma van. Sayid kills one of the Others and then Tom tries to surrender but Sawyer executes him. Hurley then contacts Jack and tells him everyone is alive. Meanwhile in the Looking Glass Mikhail arrives and forces Desmond down into the station. He follows him down and then on Ben's orders kills Greta and shoots Bonnie. Desmond then shoots him with a spear gun. Bonnie tells Charlie the musical code to shut the jammer off and he uses it. Penelope then comes on the communication monitor and tells him it's not her boat. Mikhail swims to the outside window and sets off a grenade appearing to blow himself up and flooding the station. Charlie seals himself in the room to save Desmond but before giving him the message that it's not Penelope's boat. Elsewhere in the mass Dharma grave Locke wakes up and can't move his legs and is about to kill himself when Walt appears and convinces him it's all in his head and to get up. As the group reaches the radio tower Naomi discovers that she now can get a signal on her phone but Rousseau's message is over powering it. They go inside the tower to turn it off. Outside the phone receives a signal and as Ben pleads for Jack not to make the call. Naomi establishes a connection but is struck in the head with a knife thrown by Locke. Locke threatens to shoot Jack if he doesn't give him the phone but Jack calls his bluff and answers the phone.

12/21/2004: Desmond returned to the beach camp and informed the few survivors there about Naomi not being who she claimed to be, and of Charlie's death. The group decided to warn Jack in person instead of over the walkie talkie as Sayid believed the people on the freighter would be monitoring their communications. Hurley got lost along the way in the night, and found Jacob's cabin. He became frightened and ran away, running into Locke. At the radio transmitter, Jack and Kate discovered that Naomi wasn't dead but had crawled away. Kate tracked her down but was ambushed by her. Naomi contacted her freighter and covered for the survivors, claiming her injuries were sustained when she parachuted onto the island. She died from her wound. All the survivors met up at the nose section of Oceanic 815. Jack took Locke's gun and tried to shoot him, but the gun was empty. Charlie's warning was delivered and the survivors split up into two groups: those who believed Charlie went with Locke to safety while the rest stayed with Jack and the hope of rescue. After Locke's group left, a helicopter appeared overhead but a man parachuted out of it and was met by Jack and Kate.

12/22/2004: Jack and Kate meet Daniel Faraday, the parachutist, and a second man from the helicopter, Miles Straume. Miles demands to be taken to Naomi's body as she gave out a code phrase informing the freighter she was under duress. Alone with Naomi's body, Miles confirms Kate's story that they were not the ones who killed her. Sayid and Juliet catch up with the group and they all find the helicopter pilot, Frank Lepidus, who safely landed the helicopter. Locke's group comes across the fourth freighter person, Charlotte Lewis, and takes her with them to the barracks. He attaches her GPS transponder to Vincent's collar and Jack's group track down the transponder, realizing Locke is holding Charlotte. Both groups discover the freighter's purpose is to find Ben. Ben knows this and has detailed information of the freighter as he has a man on it. Sayid, Kate and Miles go to the barracks to get Charlotte. There they are ambushed and disarmed. Sayid exchanges Miles for Charlotte and leaves; Kate decides to stay. Frank leaves for the freighter in the helicopter, taking Sayid, Desmond and Naomi's body. Daniel performs an experiment revealing a time difference of 31 minutes and 18 seconds when an object was sent to the island.

12/23/2004: Jack and Juliet return to the beach camp. They attempt to contact the freighter, but get no response. Eventually they turn to Charlotte who contacts an emergency channel and they learn the helicopter never arrived at the freighter despite it leaving the day before. At the barracks, Kate frees Miles so he can talk to Ben in exchange for everything Miles knows about Kate. Miles demands $3.2 million in exchange for telling his employers that Ben is dead. Kate learns the people on the freighter know she's a fugitive. Her actions result in Locke banishing her from their group.

12/24/2004: At the barracks, Sawyer and Kate have an argument. Kate believes she isn't pregnant, but isn't as enthusiastic about the news as Sawyer is. She leaves for the beach camp. Sayid, Desmond and Frank arrive at the freighter, but Desmond's consciousness jumps between the present and his past in 1996, causing him to be very confused. Sayid gets a phone from Frank to call Jack on the beach, letting him know what's going on. In the freighter's sickbay, Desmond meets George Minkowski, who is also experiencing the same thing Desmond is going through. Sayid gets Daniel on the phone, who manages to help Desmond find a way to get better. Desmond realizes he needs to make contact with Penny. George takes them to the communications room, where all the equipment has been sabotaged. Sayid manages to connect a phone to a battery so Desmond can call Penny. He tells her about the boat and the island and she informs him that she has been looking for him for the past 3 years. She knows about the island and promises Desmond that she'll keep looking until she finds him. Under the cover of darkness, Daniel and Charlotte slip out of camp without telling anyone. Juliet and Jack head after them and Juliet runs into an old acquaintance, Harper, who tells her Daniel and Charlotte are heading to the Tempest to kill everyone on the island

12/25/2004: Daniel and Charlotte run into Kate, who's returning from the barracks, and Charlotte knocks her unconscious. Juliet and Jack find Kate, but Juliet continues on without them. At the Tempest, Juliet learns the two are trying to render the toxic gases inert to prevent Ben from using it against them. Daniel succeeds in securing the station. At the barracks, Ben is freed in exchange for his knowledge of which the freighter belongs to and the identity of his spy. Locke learns the freighter belongs to Charles Widmore who wants to exploit the island. On the freighter Frank meets with Sayid and Desmond in the sickbay. At night on the beach Sun and Jin discuss the name of their baby.

12/26/2004: Kate and Jack return to the beach. Sun confronts Daniel and then decides to go to Locke's camp. Juliet confronts Sun about leaving and in frustration tells Jin about Sun's affair. Bernard and Jin go fishing and have a heart to heart. At night they return and Jin reconciles with Sun. Sun says she now wants to stay on the beach and confirms the baby is his. On the freighter Sayid and Desmond are slipped a not warning them to not trust the captain. They hear someone banging pipes together. The doctor frees them from the sickbay and takes them up on the deck to see the captain. When they get up on deck they see Regina wrapped in chain jump overboard. The captain orders everyone to ignore her and introduces himself. He explains who he's working for and shows them the flight recorder for Oceanic Flight 815. He claims Ben is the one who faked the wreckage. The doctor escorts the two to their cabin below. There is a blood splatter in the cabin so the doctor orders Kevin Johnson to clean it up. When Johnson gets close Sayid realizes he's actually Michael. Late at night Sayid and Desmond are woken by an alarm and rush up to the deck where they witness the captain beating two men for attempting to desert. Sayid asks Michael what he's doing there and he says he's there to die. At the barracks Locke has a meeting and brings Miles. He has Ben and Miles share what he'd already learned from them. Including that Ben's spy on the boat is Michael. As Locke is bringing Miles back to the boat house Sawyer confronts him. Ben convinces Alex, Karl and Rousseau to go to the temple.

12/27/2004: Early in the morning on the freighter Sayid learns that Kevin/Michael is down in the engine room. Sayid and Desmond head down there and get Michael alone. They demand to know how Michael got on the boat and he tells them. Sayid drags Michael to the captain’s cabin and reveals who he really is and that he's the saboteur. Alex, Danielle and Karl are traveling through the woods when Karl is suddenly shot. Danielle pulls Alex behind a tree and says they're going to try to make a run for it. They attempt to run away but Danielle is shot. Alex then surrenders and reveals she is Ben's daughter. The mercenaries from the freighter reveal themselves and take her captive. They take her to the sonic fence and make her enter the deactivation code. On the beach Jack starts to be visibly sick. The body of the freighter's doctor washes up on shore. They come up with a plan to send a message to the freighter. At night Daniel sends out a Morse code message asking what happened to the doctor. Daniel lies about the response and Bernard calls him out. Jack confronts him and he admits they don't plan on saving them. At the barracks Hurley, Sawyer and Locke are playing Risk when the phone rings. Locke answers it and hears a cryptic repeating code. He and Sawyer go to Ben to find out what the code means. Ben tells them they have to fortify themselves in his old house as the code means someone pushed the panic button on the perimeter fence. Sawyer goes to help Claire. Locke and Ben start to barricade themselves in the house. Hurley is already there with Aaron. While Sawyer is trying to find Claire three other survivors are killed and Claire's house is blown up with a rocket. Sawyer finds Claire in the rubble of her house and carries her to Ben's house and through a window Hurley broke open for them. Sawyer lets Miles in after he rings the doorbell. Miles gives Ben a radio but he refuses to use it until Miles tells him they have his daughter. Ben talks to Keamy and tells him how much he knows. Alex is brought out and when Ben reveals that she isn't really his daughter and refuses to cooperate so Keamy shoots her in the head. The mercenaries disappear into the jungle but Locke realizes they're just waiting for nightfall. Ben heads to a hidden room in the house and reveals a stone doorway with strange inscriptions on it. He opens that door and heads further inside. Ben eventually comes out of the room and goes upstairs. The building begins to shake and they see the smoke monster shoot by. Ben orders them outside and they see the monster attack the mercenaries. Ben tells them to go and says goodbye to Alex's body. In the jungle Ben takes Locke and Hurley to find Jacob while Sawyer, Claire, Aaron and Miles head back to the beach.

12/28/2004: Juliet wakes Jack up while other people on the beach are arguing with Daniel and Charlotte. He tries to mediate but collapses which leads Juliet to diagnose him with appendicitis. Sun, Jin, Daniel and Charlotte head to the Staff for supplies to help Jack. The others on the beach start to build a sterile area for the surgery. At night the group from the Staff returns and the surgery begins. Jack tries to stay awake but the pain becomes too much and Juliet insists he be chloroformed. After the surgery Bernard tells Kate she can go back in and see Jack. Juliet reveals Jack kissed her a few days ago. Kate leaves and then Juliet tells Jack she knows he's awake. In the jungle Sawyer, Claire, Aaron and Miles continue their trek back to the beach. Miles senses Danielle and Karl's deaths and finds their bodies. Sawyer later gives Miles a "restraining order" to stay away from Claire. They continue on and run into Lepidus who tells them to hide. The mercenaries come along and Lepidus hurries them onto the chopper to protect the four in hiding. The four set-up camp and fall asleep. Claire wakes up and finds Aaron missing and then sees her father holding him. Claire walks off into the jungle. Locke, Ben and Hurley realize no one knows where they're going and set up camp for the night.

12/29/2004: Locke has a dream where he sees Horace chopping down trees. He wakes up and tells Ben and Hurley he knows where they have to go now. They head to the pit of Dharma corpses where Locke searches for Horace's body. He retrieves a map to the cabin Horace was building and they set off to find it. They reach the cabin at night and Locke heads inside alone. He sees Claire and Christian who tells him to move the island. Outside Hurley shares a candy bar with Ben. Locke exits and tells them what Christian told him. On the freighter the helicopter returns and the wounded are unloaded. Keamy attacks the captain who tells him Michael is who he really wants. He goes down to Michael's cabin and interrogates him then tries to shoot him but the gun doesn't work. Keamy retrieves the secondary protocol from a safe. The captain goes up on deck and tells Sayid and Desmond to hide. Sayid refuses and instead asks to take the dinghy back towards the island to ferry survivors. As the sun is setting Lepidus goes below and frees Michael and takes him to the engine room. Sayid prepares to leave but Desmond refuses to go so Sayid heads back alone. With the sun down the mercenaries load the helicopter up with more weapons. Lepidus refuses to take them back so Keamy slits the doctor's throat and throws his body overboard and threatens to kill more if he doesn't take them. The captain then confronts Keamy with his now fixed gun but Keamy shoots him while his head his turned. Lepidus agrees to pilot the helicopter but secretly activates his satellite phone before taking off. On the beach at night Juliet warns Jack that if he isn't careful he'll tear his stitches. The helicopter flies overhead and drops a backpack. Inside Jack finds a satellite phone that is actively tracking the helicopter. They argue over what to do with it. Daniel makes a call but only hears Keamy order Lepidus to land the helicopter. Jack decides to head to the helicopter with Kate. Daniel tells Charlotte that they need to get off the island immediately.

12/30/2004: Jack and Kate are continuing their trek to the helicopter when they run into Miles and Sawyer. Sawyer tells them they lost Claire. After exchanging stories Jack and Sawyer head onto the helicopter while Kate, Miles and Aaron go back towards the beach. They eventually make it to the helicopter and meet Lepidus. They realize that the mercenaries will kill Hurley if they don't try to save him so Jack and Sawyer head for the Orchid. Sayid arrives on the beach and prepares to go after Jack and Kate when Kate returns with Aaron and Miles. Kate and Sayid go after Jack. Daniel takes a group of six survivors including Sun, Jin and Aaron in the dinghy back towards the freighter. Kate attempts to track Jack and Sawyer but eventually realizes the person they're tracking doubled back on them. Kate and Sayid order whoever it is to show themselves and Richard comes out of the trees followed by a large group of gun toting Others. Faraday and his group arrive at the freighter off-load the survivors and Faraday returns to the island. Michael fixes the engine and Desmond has Hendricks take the freighter in towards the island. Sun and Michael have a conversation about how Michael got off the island. Desmond runs up on deck and then shows them all a massive pile of rigged to explode C-4. In the jungle Ben, Locke and Hurley continue towards the Orchid. Ben stops and signals an Other with a mirror. Hurley questions Ben about moving the island. The three arrive at the Orchid but Keamy and his team beat them there. Ben surrenders himself to Keamy. Jack and Sawyer meet Hurley and Locke at the Orchid. Keamy and his men bring Ben back towards the helicopter where Kate, Sayid and the Others ambush them. Keamy and his team are all disabled or killed and Kate and Sayid head to the helicopter while Ben goes back to the Orchid. Ben and Lock enter the Orchid while Jack, Sawyer and Hurley head to the helicopter. Frank, Sayid, Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sawyer take off towards the freighter. The helicopter is leaking fuel so Sawyer jumps out so the others can make it to the freighter. On the beach Miles, Charlotte and Juliet refuse to leave and Daniel heads out with a second group of survivors on the dinghy. Ben loads the Orchid's vault with metal in order to enter the inner chamber when Keamy arrives and taunts him into attacking and killing him which triggers the bomb on the freighter to activate. On the freighter they manage to temporarily stop the bomb from going off by freezing it. The helicopter lands and they fix the leak and Desmond, Sun and Aaron board. Jin leaves the bomb and runs to the helicopter. Michael runs out of liquid nitrogen and the bomb explodes before Jin makes it to the helicopter. The helicopter takes off and the freighter explodes. Sawyer swims back to the island and Sawyer and Juliet watch the freighter explode. Ben and Locke split up. Locke joins the others outside and Ben enters the inner chamber of the Orchid. Ben turns the wheel to move the island and is transported to Tunisia in the future

12/31/2004: In the early morning the life raft is found by Penny's boat.

Sometime 2005-2008: Miles starts getting a nosebleed. Reaching the camp, Sawyer, Juliet, Locke, Miles, Daniel and Charlotte, find it abandoned. A couple of canoes are stranded on the beach, and a bottle marked Ajira Airlines is found discarded at the camp. After the group leaves the beach in one of the canoes, attempting to reach the Orchid quicker, an unknown party, using the second canoe, approaches and starts firing at them.

1/1/2005: The Oceanic 6 discuss with Frank, Desmond and Penelope about whether to lie about what happened to them after the crash.

1/7/2005: The Oceanic 6 leave Penny's boat on the raft. Eight to nine hours later the six arrive on the island of Sumba.

1/2005: The Oceanic 6 arrive in Hawaii and are reunited with their families and hold a press conference.

Early 2005: Sayid and Nadia marry.

May 2005: Sun confronts her father over Jin's death and reveals that she bought a controlling interest in his company.

June 2005: The Reyes throw a surprise party for Hurley and his dad reveals that he fixed up the Camaro as a memorial to his supposed death.

July 2005: Christian's funeral is held.

July 2005: Ji Yeon is born.

Late 2005: Charlie Hume is born.

10/20/2005: Nadia is shot and killed in LA.

10/24/2005: Ben appears in the Tunisian desert having time traveled from 12/30/2004.

10/25/2005: Sayid has Nadia's funeral and sees Ben photographing him.

10/26/2005: Ben convinces Sayid to kill for him and then recruits him as an assassin.

Late 2005: Sayid kills a man in the Seychelles.

Early 2006: Sayid spends sometime in Berlin trying to find "The Economist" by seducing Elsa. Elsa is playing him and ends up shooting him and Sayid kills her.

Early 2006: Ben confronts Charles Widmore in London.

2006: Kate's trial.

Late 2006: Jack moves in with Kate.

Mid 2007: Jack visits Hurley at Santa Rosa and then proposes to Kate.

Mid 2007: Jack's pill and alcohol addiction worsens as he gets suspicious of Kate's phone calls.

Mid 2007: Jack drunkenly confronts Kate and then leaves her and Aaron.

December 2007: Locke arrives in Tunisia and is rescued by Charles Widmore. Widmore gives him a new identity as Jeremy Bentham and helps him visit Sayid, Walt, Hurley and Kate. He tells all of them but Walt that they have to go back to the island. Ben then attacks his driver and Locke ends up in Jack's hospital where he also tells Jack he has to go back.

December 2007: Jack starts flying all over the world hoping to crash on the island again.

2008: Walt visits Hurley at Santa Rosa.

2008: Ben kills Locke.

2008: Jack almost commits suicide but instead saves some car crash victims. His ex-wife visits him at the hospital.

2008: Jack attends Jeremy Bentham's viewing and has a series of confrontations over his prescription pill addiction.

2008: Jack meets with Kate at the airport.

2008: Sun confronts Charles Widmore in London.

2008: Sayid kills a man watching Hurley and breaks him out of the mental institute.

2008: Jack breaks into Jeremy Bentham's funeral home and Ben finds him there.

2008: In the really early morning Jack and Ben sneak Locke's body out of the funeral home. Hurley and Sayid sneak out of Santa Rosa. Jack shaves his beard off and discusses the fate of the island with Ben. Kate is visited by some lawyers looking to take a maternity test of Aaron and decides to run away with Aaron. Sun meets with Charles Widmore in Heathrow Airport. Jack and Ben see a news report about Hurley. Hurley and Sayid stop for some fast food and then head to Sayid's safe house. Sayid realizes that people are waiting for them and manages to kill both of them but gets tranqed in the process. Hurley brings Sayid back to the car. Desmond wakes up on a sailboat in bed with Penny and remembers meeting Faraday when he was still living in the Swan. They set off for Oxford to find Faraday's mother

2008: Hurley is driving an unconscious Sayid when he thinks he is pulled over by Ana Lucia who gives him advice. Hurley goes to a gas station and buys a new shirt. He then quickly leaves the gas station to avoid getting caught. Kate pulls into the same gas station just as Hurley leaves and contemplates calling Jack when Sun calls her. Kate and Aaron meet Sun at her hotel. In a hotel room Ben tells Jack to go home and pack and he will pick him up in six hours. He goes to a butcher shop and leaves Locke's body. Hurley goes to his house and meets his dad. He tells David what's going on and then a LAPD detective shows up. Hurley's mom comes home and then his dad sneaks Sayid out in his car. He brings Sayid to Jack who takes him to the hospital he used to work at. Jack calls Ben and tells him where Hurley is. Ben goes to Hurley's mansion and tries to convince Hurley to go back to the island. Hurley instead runs out and surrenders to the cops. Ben goes to a church where Ms. Hawking appears to be trying to find the island's location. She tells him he only has 70 hours to get everyone back together. Desmond and Penny approach England on their sailboat.

2008: Desmond goes to Oxford to search for Faraday's mother. He discovers the identity of a woman Faraday supposedly experimented on. When he visits her he finds that Charles Widmore financed Faraday's research. He then travels to London and meets with Widmore who gives him Faraday's mothers address in LA but implores him to stay out of it and protect Penny instead. Desmond goes back to the sail boat and tries to follow Charles' advice but Penny won't let him and insists on going to LA with him.

2008: Kate leaves Aaron at the hotel with Sun. Sun receives a package containing a gun and surveillance information on Ben. Kate meets Tom Norton and discusses Aaron's maternity case. At the hospital Jack wakes Sayid up who wants to leave but Jack says he needs to rest has he was drugged out for 42 hours. Jack gets yelled at for coming back to the hospital. A nurse attempts to shoot Sayid with another tranquilizer but he gets out of the way and disables the shooter. Sayid demands to know who sent him and gets an address from the man. Hurley calls Jack from prison. Ben arrives and Sayid shows him and Jack the address which turns out to be Kate's. Jack calls her and gets her location and goes to meet her. Jack meets Kate outside Norton's office. They follow Norton to a motel where he meets with Carole Littleton. Jack meets with Carole to convince her not to pursue the custody case and learns she has no idea who Aaron is. Ben and Sayid meet Norton in the police garage and Norton informs them that the charges will be dropped and Hurley will be out in the morning. Jack, Kate, Ben and Sayid meet up at a dock yard. Ben admits it's him trying to take Aaron. Sun is hiding in a car with Aaron watching them. She talks on the phone with her mom and daughter in Korea. She gets her gun and steps out of the car. She threatens Ben and accuses him of killing Jin. Ben tells her Jin is alive and he can prove it. Ben says he can take her to someone in LA who has proof that Jin is alive. Kate and Jack argue over his true intentions and then she leaves with Aaron in her car. Sayid also leaves. Then Ben, Sun and Jack head to the church where Ms. Hawking is. When they arrive at the church Ben gives Sun Jin's wedding ring. Sun agrees to go back to the island. As they climb out of the car Desmond arrives and asks if they are also looking for Faraday's mother.

2008: Sayid is arrested by Ilana. Ms. Hawking shows Jack, Ben, Sun and Desmond the Lamp Post Station and tells them to fly out on Ajira Airways Flight 316. Hurley gets into a cab with... Jacob. Jacob leaves a guitar in the cab. Kate gives Aaron to Carole Littleton. Jack goes to see his grandfather. Jack and Kate spend the night together

2008: Ben calls Charles Widmore. He shoots at Desmond and almost kills Penny. Desmond attacks Ben and throws him in the water. Desmond is taken to the Marina Medical Center in Long Beach. Jack takes Locke’s body to LAX. At the airport, Jack is offered condolences by Caesar. Jack, Kate, Sun, Hurley, Ben, Sayid, Lapidus (flying the plane) and Locke’s body- all get on the plane. Hawking visits Desmond at the hospital

2008: Jack, Hurley, Kate, and Sayid vanish from the plane to 1977 (see 1977) while the remainder of the passengers and the plane crash on the Island

2008 (back on the Island Day 1):Ajira Airways Flight 316 is maneuvered by Frank Lapidus to land on Hydra Island’s runway. Lapidus and Sun follow Ben into the jungle. When Ben gives directions to the larger island, Sun knocks him out and she and Lapidus leave in one of the outrigger canoes carrying the 316 passenger list. Frank and Sun arrive at the dock at night, near the Processing Center, they find the place disheveled and apparently deserted. They meet Christian and he shows them a picture from 1977- in which there is Jack, Kate, and Hurley. On the small island- Ceaser searches Ben’s office at the Hydra station and finds some of Faraday’s maps and charts as well as a gun. Ilana tells him about a mysterious man who introduces himself as John Locke.

2008 (Day 2): Locke tells Ceaser what he remembers since leaving the Island and about the DHARMA Initiative. Locke asks about the survivors but Caesar says the pilot too the passenger list. He explains seeing certain passengers vanish from the plane. Caesar shows Locke Ben’s body very injured among the victims. Ben wakes up to Locke watching over him. Ben tells Locke he needs to be judged by Smokie. Ben and Lock try to take a boat to go to the main island. Caesar forbids them and Ben shoots him. Ben and Lock go to the main island and return to Ben’s abandoned house, where Sun and Lapidus have been waiting for Locke. Sun shows Ben the photo of the 1977 DHARMA recruits, but Ben claim s not to know that their friends were there. Frank decides to go back to the plane to fix the radio to get off the Island, but Sun stays to find her husband. Ben attempts to summon Smokie from a hidden room under his house but the Monster never shows.

2008 (Day 3): Locke leads Ben and Sun to Smokies hole at the Temple walls. Ben enters and falls through the floor to an underground hall with hieroglyphs and an Egyptian picture of Smokie before Anubis. Smokie surrounds Ben showing him memories of Alex and Widmore and then appears in the form of Alex. Ben tries to apologize to her, but she informs Ben that she is aware of his plan to kill Locke again. She makes Ben promise to follow Locke’s leadership or she will ‘destroy’ him. Meanwhile, at the Hydra Island beach, Ilana and Bram have acquired guns and a large metal box, and asks Lapidus what lies in the shadow of the statue, before knocking him out. Locke, Ben and Sun go to the Other’s beach camp. Locke tells Richard Alpert they have an errand to run. Ben tells Sun that Richard has been their advisor for a very, very long time. Sun asks if Richard knew Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Jin in 1977. Richard says he watched them all die. Locke says they didn’t go through this for nothing. Lock, Richard, and Ben travel to the drug smugglers’ plane to meet the past Locke during the second time shift. Upon returning to the camp, Locke gives a speech to the Others. He tells them he’s going to find Jacob and wants everyone to join him.

2008: It is suddenly night after the time shift and when the survivors reach the Swan they find it destroyed. Locke finds himself next to the plane after it has already fallen off the cliff. Richard comes and treats his gunshot wound.

2008 (Day 4): Lock and Richard lead the Others to Jacob. Locke reveals to Ben that he’s going to kill Jacob. When Locke hears Ben will do anything he says, Locke assigns him the task of killing Jacob. Ilana, Bram, and three others take Lapidus to the main Island in the outrigger canoes. They take the crate to Jacob’s cabin but find the surrounding ash has been disturbed, the cabin destroyed, and no one is there. Ilana takes a piece of tapestry with a picture of the Statue of Taweret on it. They burn the cabin and head toward the statue. The Others take a rest stop at the Oceanic survivor’s camp. Locke convinces Ben to murder Jacob. Sun sees the crib that Locke made for Aaron and finds Charlie’s Drive Shaft ring. At the statue, Locke and Ben enter to find Jacob. Meanwhile, Ilana, Bram, and Lapidus show Richard what was in the crate: Locke’s body. Inside the chamber, Jacob correctly deduces what Locke is really his nemesis and that he has tricked Ben into coming here. Ben kills him. Jacob’s dying words are “They’re coming.”

Lost Kassicast- Season Finale- Season 5 Theories and Questions

2009-05-28T09:10:00.000-07:00

Sorry it took so long to get these out. I’ve been holding off- in the hope of getting more information… Plus, all of my free time has been spent in breaking my toe, painting our kitchen and full bathroom, and doing some serious organizing… So, in between going 100 miles an hour and being on pain killers (for my back and now toe) I haven’t gotten around to finishing this up till now… On another note- I’m really interested in hearing other theories and such- so I’ve included questions and multiple choice  Please send me your thoughts and answers- so we can keep this going a little ways! Also- please send me any questions you have- and I will do my best to answer them- and see if we can get other answers from other people!

1. The tapestry that Jacob created
a. While the style was Egyptian, the writing on it was Greek

b. The writing at the top of the tapestry is from Homer’s Odyssey (by the way- remember that the Odyssey speaks of islands with magical beings, mythical monsters, and interfering gods)
i. The first line reads “May the gods grant thee all that thy heart desires”
1. a lot of people are seeing similarities in this line- to the start of Psalm 20:4 “May he grant you, your heart’s desire…” and Psalm 20:1 “May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you”
ii. The second line “hail to thee, and all welcome, and may gods grant thee happiness” It was in a passage of two separate books and also in the Homeric hymn to Apollo- the phrase was used to greet a stranger and wish him well, whenever the speaker or the greeted stranger arrives from a sea journey.
iii. These first lines are where Odysseus had just washed up on an island with nothing, literally naked, and Nausicaa provided him with clothing and food and ultimately it is from this island that he returns home, to Ithica. The island was called the island of corfu or (also known as) the island of Pheakians. According to Plutarchos (who examined the geography of Homer)- this island was located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

c. At the bottom of the tapestry, it says “Only the dead have seen the end of the war” a quote misattributed to Plato

d. The pictures on the tapestry depict a pair of wings outstretched from an encircled Eye of Horus, and what appear to be fifteen long arms emanating like rays out from the eye. The hands at the ends of the arms grope for nine human figures who appear to be at the mercy of the hands, while on either side of them, a king sits on a throne and observes. In the row below, seven human figures dance to the music of a lone harpist on the right, for eight figures total. Four tall water jugs sit on the floor around the dancers. Several rows below that, figures labor to harvest wheat. The row beneath that depicts three heavily crewed ancient Egyptian sailboats debarking from the island, with a statue in view on the island’s shore.
i. In the tapestry, the hands ending from the lines were used in the Egyptian art of the Cult of Aten, created by the Pharaoh Akhenaten. The cult represents one of the earliest known examples of monotheism. The Pharaoh and his wife Nefertiti are seen in reliefs receiving the blessings of the Aten (the sun) in hands
1. The tapestry depicts the sun disk is shown showering blessing onto the people below. But in the legends- only Akhenaten and his direct family could receive these blessings, making it a very exclusive religion, other people could only receive blessings from the sun- through the royal family

e. The tapestry had various series of hieroglyphs as well. – found at the tips of the wings extending from the Eye of Horus, in the two lines in the middle of the tapestry, and in three clusters near the bottom of the tapestry. The hieroglyphs near the Eye of Horus make reference to certain “lords” or “masters”. The two lines of hieroglyphs contain words that are also shown on the Cerberus chamber pillars. The bottom three clusters represent the three Egyptian seasons: Inundation, Winter, and Summer.

2. WHO IS JACOB AND MAN #2? This is a very difficult question- but I’m going to give you some theories and see what you think

a. They are Jacob and Esau from the Bible
i. For those of you- who don’t know the story: Jacob and Esau were twin brothers born to Isaac and Rebekah. They fought even in Rebeka’s womb and God said “The two children inside you will become the fathers of two nations. Just like the two are fighting with each other now, the two nations will struggle with each other. One will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.” The boys grew up- Esau became a strong and skillful hunter and Jacob was a quiet man, who preferred to stay home. Isaac liked Eau best- but Rebekah liked Jacob best. One day Eau went out for one of his hunting trips. He must have been gone for a few days, because when he came back, he was starving. Esau saw Jacob eating some stew and asked for some of it. Jacob was a schemer, so he said, “sure! I’ll give you some stew- if you give me your birthright” (Esau, being older, would become the head of the household and get more wealth when Isaac died) Esau didn’t care about tomorrow- he was hungry NOW- So, he agreed. Years Later- when Isaac was dying Rebekah and Jacob tricked Isaac into thinking Jacob was Esau- to receive his blessing. But, once Isaac found out he was tricked, he told Esau that he could not bless him now “You will not have the richness of the earth, the dew from heaven won’t be given to you. You will have to live by taking, and you will serve your brother. But one day you will break free” Sound familiar? From that day on- Esau hated Jacob and vowed to kill him.

b. They are God (Man #2) Vs. Satan (Jacob)
i. The colors of the title card at the end of the show were inverted, possibly to suggest that the black and white shirts from the opening scene were inverted from traditional associations
ii. Jacob lives inside the statue, maybe the shadow of the statue is where Man #2 lives, thus making him “He will save us all”

c. They are God (Jacob)Vs. Satan(man #2)
i. Man #2 shows a strong desire to kill Jacob- but can’t- much like the Devil’s desire to kill God.
ii. Man #2’s resentment also seems to stem from a common past, as the Devil was once an angel of the Lord who fell from Heaven
iii. When they saw the Black Rock coming to the Island, Jacob expressed optimism that perhaps humanity was capable of greatness, change, and progress. Man #2, however, was convinced that humans were flawed and corruptible creatures who are easily convince into doing bad things, like eating an apple or killing Jacob
iv. Richard’s response to the question “what lies in the shadow of the statue?” was a Latin phrase that translates to “He who will protect us” or “He who will save us all”- since Jacob is the one who lives beneath the statue, it’s possible that the question refers to Jacob and that he is the salvation of mankind
v. Rick found this: Jacob and Man #2 are using Ben much like God and the Devil used Job in the bible. God told the Devil that people are good, just look at Job, my faithful servant. The devil said let me try to tempt him away and you’ll see. In the scene in Lost, Ben asked Man #2 “Why do you want me to kill Jacob” Man #2 said, “because despite your loyal service to this island, you got cancer, you watched your own daughter gunned down, and your reward for those sacrifices… you were banished from the island. And you did all this in the name of a man you’ve never even met. So the question is, why the hell wouldn’t you want to kill him?” Also notice what Ben said to Jacob when he meets him:

"So now after all this time, you've decided to stop ignoring me? 35 years I've lived on this island and all I've ever heard was your name. Richard would bring me your instructions, all those lists. And I never questioned anything. But when I dared to ask to see you myself, I was told 'you'll have to wait, you’ll have to be patient’. but when he(Locke) asked to see you, he gets marched straight up here as if he were Moses" And then Ben does turn- with Man #2 looking very smug at Jacob- as an “I told you so” way.

d. Jacob and Man #2 are the same person
i. There is only one Jacob- Man #2 is a representation of his own dark side/ other personality
ii. Or they are the physical representations of the island’s (or some ultimate being) conscience. They are able to act out the good and the evil of some high power.

e. They are ancient Egyptian gods.
i. Jacob is Sobek (trying to right the wrongs of the major players of the Lost crew- one of Sobek’s roles was to correct the wrongs caused by Set (seth) (Man #2)
1. Sobek ambiguous nature led some Egyptians to believe that he was a repairer of evil that had been done, rather than a force for good in itself. He was also said to call on suitable gods and goddesses required for protecting people in situations, effectively having a more distant role, nudging things along, rather than taking an active part.

ii. Jacob is Set, Man #2 is Horus
1. This would make Jacob- bad and Man #2 good as Set was the god of Chaos
2. Set was older brother to Osiris and was jealous of Osiris and his wife Isis… Set kills Osiris- then Isis gets pregnant with Osiris corpse (I’m trying to sugar coat this stuff- but most of mythology is not pretty- so this was the best I could sugar coat it… if you knew most of the story about Osiris and Isis conceiving a child… well, let’s just say- when I learned about it when I was 15- I thought I was going to be sick) and has Horus. Horus and Set became “like brothers” and natural enemies- always fighting to the death.

iii. Jacob is apep, Man #2 is Ra
1. there were yearly rituals the Egyptians used to ward against Apep; spitting on him, defiling him with the felt foot, shackling him, using a knife to smite him, and finally laying fire on him.
2. Ra, in the disguised form of a cat, slays Apep.
3. Tales of Apep’s battles against Ra were elaborated during the New Kingdom. Since nearly everyone can see that the sun is attacked by a giant snake during the day, every day, story tellers said that Apep must lie just below the horizon. This appropriately made him a part of the underworld, which attacked the sun each night. In some stories, Apep waited for Ra in a western mountain called Bakhu, where the sun set, and in others Apep lurked just before dawn. The wide range of Apep’s possible locations gained him the title World Encircler. Myths say that Apep was trapped in the underworld, because he had been evil and had been imprisoned for his battles.

f. MULTIPLE CHOICE>>>> WHO ARE THEY? (you can have more than one answer- but you must explain it)
i. Jacob and Esau
ii. Jacob=God; Man #2=Devil
iii. Jacob=Devil; Man #2=Devil
iv. The Original Evil and Good (not one specific person- but in a form)
v. The Island
vi. One Person
vii. Egyptian Gods (which ones?)
viii. Other (explain) 

3. Jacob and Man #2- Good or Evil?

a. In the first scene Man #2 wore a black shirt while Jacob wore white. The colors have been used many times in Lost to show the battle between good and evil- the forces of light and dark

b. Rick-“Man #2 knows that bringing more people to the island is a bad idea but Jacob keeps doing. Jacob gave Sawyer the pen so he could finish his revenge quest. He keeps little Katie from learning a lesson about stealing. He might have made it impossible for Jin and Sun to have a kid when he touched them. If you remember, Jin and Sun said they might try having a kid on the honeymoon. Jacob didn’t want them to have kids because it would keep them from coming to the island. He gets Nadia killed by bringing Sayid over to him which makes Nadia stop walking and turn around. So anyway, look out for Jacob ”

c. I don’t think Jacob is bad

d. If Jacob is from ‘Jacob and Esau’ maybe he inherited the island under false pretences

e. Man #2 spends years finding a loop hole- so he can go back and have Jacob murdered

f. Knowing this information and the information from #2- here’s another Multiple Choice
i. Jacob is Good, Man #2 is Evil
ii. Jacob is Evil, Man #2 is Good (Rick’s Vote)
iii. They’re Both Evil
iv. They’re Both Good
v. They are neither good nor evil- yet a portion of both (Kassie’s Vote)

4. Who/What is the Smoke Monster?
a. Jacob
b. Man #2 (Rick’s Vote)
c. The Judge- neither Good nor Evil (Kassie’s Vote)
d. God
e. Darth Vader
f. Other- insert your thought here

5. Rose and Bernard’s cabin looked very similar to Jacob’s cabin

a. Encircled with ash from the cabin that Ilana burned to the ground? Was a question- but doesn’t make sense- as the ash wouldn’t have been there before she burnt down the cabin… I think people are getting confused by the time line

b. But remember- in Locke’s dream- Horace was building the cabin for him and ‘his missus’- we’re assuming after Rose and Bernard would have been there- as Horace has been married for 1-2 years only at this point.

c. Also- the main thought- which I agree with- is that the cabin was put there- by Jacob- to keep Man #2 imprisoned. Now this brings up multiple questions and points
i. Ilana then went to the cabin searching for Man #2… to kill him?
ii. Who put the piece of tapestry on the wall- showing the statue and where he was heading?
iii. When did Man #2 get out- saying he was trapped of course- Was it Hurley or Locke that opened the protective circle (as they both fell- next to the cabin at one point- when startled)
iv. Ilana stated that ‘He hasn’t been here for a long time, other’s have been using the cabin’
1. How Long?
2. Christian and Claire- which would imply that they aren’t related or on the same side as Man #2?
3. Rose and Bernard?
v. It is said that ashes and salt have been used for centuries as symbols of either purity or preservation and are effective barriers against the evil or supernatural world
1. So, if Man #2 was a prisoner- and the ashes were used to keep him in- it would imply that he was evil
2. BUT- if he were not a prisoner- it would imply HE put the ashes there to keep evil out

6. When Ben was in the cave and confronted by Alex/smokie… We didn’t see Locke- Locke had wondered off- in search of something to help Ben back up the hole- and only reappeared when the ‘vision’ was over

7. One thought- is that Man #2 was killed long ago- and became the smoke monster. He was then trapped in that house with the ash on the ground and could only leave the cabin as the smoke monster. Now since the soil is broken, he can leave as a human being (in a ‘pod’)

8. Rick and I both thought Bernard looked like Moses- coming out of the jungle with a staff and his shirt billowing out behind him- and the grey beard

9. Who are Adam and Eve?
a. Rose and Bernard
b. Penny and Desmond
c. Kate and Jack
d. Juliet and Sawyer
e. Miles and Hurley
f. Other

10. Why did they need such a big box to carry Locke??

11. Maybe… is the Locke we see dead in the box- not really Locke either…

12. Maybe… it’s a magic box… which would make it a little humorous… that after all the “Magic Box” stuff, that Locke would end up in one!

13. When Sun found the DS ring
a. Charlie had left it there for Claire and Aaron- before he died- if you don’t remember
b. It actually stands for Dexter Stratton- Charlie’s Great Grandfather- and they named Drive Shaft after Dexter Stratton. Also- a far fetched theory is that Dexter Stratton was on the Black Rock

14. Touchy Touchy Jacob…

a. He touched everyone we saw in the flashback
i. Seemingly to get them back to the island
ii. Katie- Touched her nose while telling her not to steal anymore… but did buy her a lunchbox- possibly teaching her that punishment isn’t necessary
iii. Jack- Touched his finger- while giving him an Apollo bar and telling him- that sometimes ‘They just need a little push’
iv. Sawyer- Touched his head- and giving him a pen during his parent’s funeral.. – giving sawyer the pen to finish his revenge letter
v. Hurley- patted his shoulder and telling him that he’s blessed not cursed- thus causing Hurley to go back to the island
vi. Locke- Touched his shoulder- after Locke fell out of the window… Did he save his life- bring him back from the dead- or just wake him up?
vii. Sayid- He tapped him on the shoulder and asked for directions. Did Jacob kill Nadia or save Sayid’s life?
viii. Jin and Sun- He touched their shoulders and wished them a happy marriage at their wedding- Did he cause their inability to have children?

b. We think that when he said “They’re coming” he meant the people he touched

c. This also scared the bjesus out of Man#2/Flocke – what is it about this group that could scare him?

15. So.. on that subject… When Jacob said “They’re coming” Who do you think he means?
a. Kate, Jack, Sawyer, Sayid, Hurley, Jin (our vote)
b. Ilana and Co.
c. Richard and the Others
d. Dharma
e. Rose, Bernard, and Vincent
f. The next group of people- that we haven’t met yet… first there was black rock, then others, then military, then dharma, then plane… etc
g. Other

16. Juliet’s flashback- has a lot of people talking. When we saw other people’s flashbacks- it was evident that it was a flashback- IE the 70’s or 80’s. But with Juliet’s- their home, clothing, and hairstyles were all current. Was there more to Juliet than we knew?

17. On the bookshelf in Juliet’s flashback- there is a book called “Mysteries of Ancient Americas”… just an easter egg…. But the book was published in 1986- but Juliet’s timeline- should put us in the late 70’s.. so another reason people are pushing #16

18. In the hospital- where Jacob visits Ilana- they spoke Russian

19. Yet- the secret answer to the question of What Lies In The Shadow Of The Statue- is in Latin and says “He who will protect/save us all”

20. Is Richard Alpert a “god” that has been called upon from Jacob (assuming he’s an Egyptian god)… Alpert has always been an observer, but has also protected people. He takes his orders from Jacob. And he always has on awesome Egyptian gyliner

21. Juliet was holding her tummy- and Bernard tried to push her into having some tea… like he knew something… It’s a thought that Juliet is pregnant… Of course- I think she’s dead- so that defeats the purpose- but what do you think? Pregnant or not?

22. When Alpert went to see Locke as a child- Locke chose the knife- instead of the compass… Funny- because the knife Ben uses to kill Jacob- looks just like that knife

23. The knife that Jacob was using to gut the fish at the beginning of the episode is the same knife that was holding the piece of tapestry to the wall in the cabin

24. The statue… While ABC has come out and said it’s the statue is the Egyptian goddess Taweret- there is still much debate- even with me as…

a. Taweret
i. She was the demon-wife of Apep- the original god of evil (interesting…) and was seen as one who protected against evil by restraining it
ii. When Set took over the position of Apep- Taweret became seen as Set’s concubine- and she held him back on a chain
iii. She was a composite of all the things the Egyptians feared- her whole body was a hippopotamus, had the arms and legs of a lion, and the back of a crocodile…
iv. She was also portrayed as a pregnant woman- with the animal-compound, she was also seen with pendulous breat, a full pregnant abdomen, and long human hair…
v. While the hair and the ears and snout might fit- it really doesn’t seem like the statue has the body of a pregnant hippo and the arms and legs of a lion… does it?
vi. She often carried one ankh and a knife
vii. Early on- the Egyptians saw her as less aggressive and began to view her as being a mother and a deity of protection in pregnancy and childbirth.
viii. All of the personality fits- but the physical just doesn’t…

b. Sobek
i. Now even though this isn’t what ABC is saying- it makes more since to both Rick and I
ii. First of all- it seems to be a man- not a woman- by the clothing (wearing a garment worn by gods) to the shape of the form… doesn’t look like a pregnant hippo to me
iii. He is a man with a crocodile head, a full headdress and a toga, carrying one ankh (not two like the statue) and a staff
iv. Sobek first came out of the waters of chaos to create the world.
v. Eventually- Sobek came to symbolize the Nile and the fertility that it brought to the land and his status became more ambiguous.
vi. He was also considered the army’s patron- and represented as strength and power.
vii. He was also a repairer of evil that had been done…

c. Isis was another Goddess originally thought to be the statue
i. The mother of Horus and the wife of Osiris (the judge of the dead in the afterlife)
ii. Again… Goddess not God
iii. And she wore a full bodied dress… not a toga

d. My original favorite theory was that it was Bastet (who had the head of a lioness and the body of a human.. Again- now this is thrown out- because the body looks more like a God not a Goddess

e. Anubis
i. This was the most popular vote- back in “LaFleur” when we saw the back of the statue for the first time.
ii. Anubis also wore the traditional garb- held one Ankh in his hand and had large cat like ears and a long human main
iii. My argument at the time was that the statue’s ears weren’t nearly as big as Anubis’

f. So… WHO DO YOU THINK THE STATUE IS?
i. Taweret
ii. Sobek
iii. Isis
iv. Bastet
v. Anubis
vi. Another God
vii. A combination of two or more gods (I like this)
viii. A god just made up for the show
ix. Alpert
x. Darth Mal

25. Multiple Choice When we see the flash at the end of the show-
a. Jughead Blew Up (my vote)
b. It was the Time Jump- like before they got stuck in the 70’s (possibly caused by the magnetic incident
c. Juliet Died
d. The magnetic reaction caused the tunnel to explode
e. Something else- such as a truck- exploded by being pulled into things
f. Nothing happened
g. Other

26. Did They Change the future
a. Tell me Yes or No and why- and I’ll do my best to ‘argue’ with you  friendly manner of course 
b. My thought is NO- they caused the current future that they already live in. They are stuck in one dimension- so officially they cannot change the future- or else they would never go back to change the future in the first place- and they would still be in the place they are to begin with. It’s the common ‘Grandfather theory’ which can only really be changed if we’re talking multiple dimensions… So, long story short- by going back in time, setting off the Jughead, they end up causing their own future

That’s all folks. Again- sorry it took me so long to get out- this was some serious information to get organized! Please send me your thoughts, theories, and answers- and watch your email for updates through-out the summer!

Lost Kassicast: SEASON FINALE "The Incident" Recap

2009-05-22T06:53:00.000-07:00

Here’s the recap- just to start us out. Now, remember- most of the extras will be in the Theories email/post- BUT there are some things that are put into the recap that you need to remember… So, make sure to read it J This was a two hour long episode- so the recap may be a little read- but enjoy- it’s getting good J

Let's start at the beginning...

GOOD VS. EVIL, a long time ago

We open with a man in WHITE working at a loom in a dark cavern with Egyptian carvings on the wall. He wander’s out to the beach- cooks up a fish- and watches the Black Rock sail in. He’s joined by a man dressed all in BLACK- and they have, all things considered- a pleasant conversation… They’re really polite for Man #2 (as ABC calls him) wanting to kill… Jacob..

JACOB, everywhere and everywhen

Over the course of the two hours, we see how Jacob has met the Oceanic 6 and Locke before, so let's cover that now:
Jacob is there when cutie-pipsqueak Katie Austen and her friend (who get’s killed in an early episode- later in time) are attempting to shoplift a lunchbox from a general store in Iowa- The same lunch box- that kate and said friend dig up years later- right before he’s gunned down. Jacob covers for them when the shopkeeper catches them, and warns Katie not to steal anymore. AND TOUCHES HER NOSE

Jacob is in attendance at the funeral of little James Ford's parents. James is writing that famous letter to Tom Sawyer, the man who doomed his mom and dad. Jacob gives him a pen when his runs out and PATS HIM ON THE HEAD. A relative arrives and asks him to never finish that letter. "What's done is done," he says.

Jacob momentarily distracts Sayid (BY TOUCHING HIM ON THE SHOULDER to ask for directions) when he and Nadia are crossing a street in Los Angeles. She is, of course, struck in a hit-and-run and killed.

Jacob visits a bandaged Ilana in a Russian hospital and asks her to help him. She says yes.

Jacob is reading Flannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge outside the building from which Locke is pushed by his dastardly dad. Jacob SQUEZES HIS SHOULDER which appears to revive him and says, "Don't worry; everything's going to be all right. I'm sorry this happened to you."

Jacob crashed Sun and Jin's wedding, and wished them good tidings in Korean. Quite the linguist he is! HE TOUCHED THEM BOTH ON THEIR SHOULDERS

Jacob is wandering the halls of the hospital where Jack has just performed his first procedure, during which Christian embarrassed him by undermining Jack's authority. Jacob hands him an Apollo bar that got stuck in the vending machine and THEIR HANDS TOUCH BRIEFLY.

There's another flashback in which an emotional Juliet and her sister Rachel learn that their parents are getting a divorce, but unless Jacob was hiding under the sofa cushions, he appeared not to be present.

When Hurley is released from prison (thanks to Ben and his henchmen), Hurley shares a cab with Jacob. He encourages Hurley to return to the island on the Ajira flight by TOUCHING HIS SHOULDER and assures him that he is not cursed, but in fact blessed. Jacob leaves a guitar behind in the cab- the same guitar that Hurley takes on the flight

KATE, SAWYER and JULIET, 1977

On board the sub, Kate fills Juliet and Sawyer in on Jack's plan to fulfill the salient points of Faraday's Operation Boom Boom. She convinces them that they have to go back to stop him. They subdue the crew and get them to turn around and drop them off. They meet up with Vincent! Rose! and Bernard! who are all safe and sound, but have no desire to rejoin their craziness. "ah, hell no, they found us!" Rose says hilariously. "We traveled back 30 years in time and you people are still trying to find ways to shoot each other," she also says, speaking for those of you in the audience who wonder if things just couldn't be a little simpler for these people.

Rose and Bernard are perfectly happy as unorthodox retirees who scavenge for food and have the occasional spot of tea together, each other's company being all they really need. So the renegade trio is like: Aw, nice, but see ya because we have to go shoot a bunch of people, including maybe Jack, so he doesn't blow us all to Kingdom Come. But it's a nice interlude anyway, and maybe goes a long way toward the theory that says that they are the Adam-and-Eve skeletons from the cave. At this point- Rose says all you need is each other- Juliet looks at Sawyer- who happens to look at Kate- who is looking off to space… Poor Juliet. L

JACK, SAYID, RICHARD and ELOISE UNDERGROUND, 1977

The quartet successfully extracts Jughead's plutonium core, but before they can all escape through a tunnel that connects to a house in New Otherton, Richard knocks out Eloise and tells Jack and Sayid that they're on their own from this point on- and he’s protecting his leader.

WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE JACOB, 2007

Along the way to see Jacob, Locke and Richard agree that Jacob is the reason that Locke is alive again. Locke tells him that that's why he's going to see him — to thank him. (Um...) He also says they're going to have to "deal with" the rest of the Ajira passengers — and you know what that means. Doesn't seem like Locke to me.

Ben tells John about his run-in with Alex, and pledges his fidelity to John's leadership. Which is good, because, uh, Locke wants him to kill Jacob. Uh-oh.

At the site of the old Oceanic 815 camp, which is now in ruins, Locke asks Ben why he lied about seeing Jacob. Because he was embarrassed and he didn't want Locke to know he didn't have enough juice to get an audience with the big guy. Ben asks why he has to kill Jacob. "Because despite your loyalty, you got cancer, you had to watch your own daughter gunned down right in front of you, and you were banished, and you did all this for a man you've never met. So the question is: Why wouldn't you want to kill Jacob?" Locke asks. Makes sense to me... funny how the tables have turned and Locke is now manipulating Ben

Also: Sun finds Aaron's old crib, with Charlie's DS ring tucked inside. Sniff. Which- I totally called as soon as we saw the camp :)

Soon enough, they arrive at the foot of the giant statue because, apparently, that's where Jacob lives. But when Locke explains that Ben is going to join them, Richard says that's not how it works; only the leader can request an audience. "I'm getting the feeling like you're just making up these rules as we go along," Locke says to him. "Ben is coming with us." He acquiesces, and Ben and Locke enter the statue's foot through a stone Richard has effortlessly pushed aside. Richard stays behind.

ILANA IN CHARGE, 2007

Ilana and Bram argue about bringing Lapidus with them, but perhaps he's "a candidate," whatever that means. They show him what's in the cargo container they've carted along. We don't see what's inside, but judging by Lapidus' reaction — "terrific" — it doesn't bode well.

The group arrives at Jacob's cabin, and there's a path cut through the BLACK ash that surrounds it. Ilana finds a swatch of fabric with a hieroglyphic on it, pinned to the wall with a knife. Jacob isn't there, and hasn't been for a while. Someone else has been using it, Ilana reports. So... what to do? "Burn it," she instructs.

IN THE SHADOW OF THE STATUE, 2007

Ilana & Co. show up at the statue and she asks Richard: What lies in the shadow of the statue? She finally gets her answer when he replies, in Latin, "That which we protect." She has something they need to see. It's Locke's body, which they found in a coffin in the cargo hold of the Ajira flight. Zoinks! So if Locke's still dead, then...

Meanwhile, inside the Foot, Fake Locke and Ben find Jacob, who is quite proud of the tapestry he wove by hand. "So I guess you found your loophole," Jacob says, and it becomes clear that Locke is actually Man No. 2! Ben is all: You dudes know each other? But clearly Ben is a man with a mission. Jacob tells him he has a choice: He can either kill him, or leave them alone to discuss their issues. "Now you've decided to stop ignoring me," Ben seethes. "I never questioned anything; I did as I was told. But when I dared to ask to see you yourself, I was told to wait, to be patient. But when he asks to see, he gets marched up here as if he was Moses!" His jealousy is flaring. "So why him? What was it that was so wrong with me? What about me?"

"What about you?" Jacob asks. Probably not the best response... unless you want him to stab you... right rick? :) And with that final insult, Ben stabs him several times and just before he appears to die, Jacob whispers, "They're coming." Unmoved, Fake Locke rolls his body into the fire.

OPERATION BOOM BOOM, 1977

Jack and Sayid put on Dharma uniforms and attempt to "hide in plain sight" in the panicking Dharmaville. But Roger Linus recognizes them, and a gun battle ensues, in which Sayid takes a bullet to the gut courtesy Roger's shotgun. Jack goes kind of nuts and shoots, um, everyone. Just when it's starting to look like Jack is the crazy guy ready to go down in a hail of gunfire, Hurley, Jin and Miles arrive in a Dharma van, and they're off to the Swan site, Jughead core in tow.

Jack and a wounded Sayid explain the plan to their comrades, and Sayid explains that he needs to modify the core so it will detonate upon impact. But! They come upon Sawyer, Kate and Juliet, guns drawn. Sawyer wants five minutes to talk to Jack, and it doesn't sound like his demand is negotiable.

Sawyer tells Jack the story of his parents' death, explaining that what's done is done, and Operation Boom Boom is not going to make things right. Jack appears to explain that he's doing all this for Kate, but Sawyer points out the obvious: If 815 lands in L.A., he and Kate will be strangers, and she'll be in handcuffs. Jack doesn't listen and the conversation turns to a fight, which is only broken up by Juliet, who announces that she has changed her mind: She thinks Jack is right.

"Why did you change your mind?" Sawyer asks. "I changed my mind when I saw you look at her," she replies. Juliet appears to back-track on their relationship, explaining that if she never meets him, then she never has to lose him.

Meanwhile, Jack and Kate have snuggly time, remembering how they first met, when Kate stitched up his wounds. Jack convinces her that Operation Boom Boom is the right thing to do, since it will put Aaron back where he's meant to me, which is why Kate returned to the island in the first place. He is successful, and Kate is on board.

With everyone on board (including a dumbstruck Sawyer), Jack makes his approach to the Swan site, while his comrades hang back. While Jin attends to Sayid's wounds, Miles asks this noodle-baker: "Has it occurred to any of you that your friend is going to cause the thing he's trying to prevent? So maybe the best thing to do is nothing?" Now... Here's my initial thought- and you put a group of really smart people together and they don't even question it till now? and it's only miles who questions it? sigh...

But Phil has called ahead to Chang and Radzinksy, so they know Jack is coming, and they're packing heat. Just when Jack has another Butch-and-Sundance moment, his comrades appear, guns a-blazin', ready to cover his approach to the drilling pit that leads to the pocket of unique electromagnetic jazz.

[Insert bang-bang-bang here], as something goes wrong with the drill and they can't turn it off. Jack drops the bomb into the hole anyway, and... everyone kind of exchanges I-love-yous and meaningful glances and tears and... nothing happens. "This don't look like LAX," Sawyer cracks. hahahaha! But soon enough, a magnetic event begins, with everything metal being pulled into the pit, similar to what happened when Desmond forgot to punch in the numbers.

Phil is impaled on something metal and killed- which, I'm sorry, I would never actually wish something bad on a real person, but in this show- it's about time! Too bad it takes so many years for Radzinsky to die.... Jack is knocked out by an airborne toolbox. Miles saves his father, whose hand has been crushed under some falling debris. Juliet is pulled to the edge of the pit by some flying chains, and despite Kate and Sawyer's best, heartbreaking efforts, Juliet lets go of Sawyer's hand and falls into the pit.

Jack wakes up and sees Kate trying to get Sawyer away from the pit. "This is going to blow any second," she says. Cut to Juliet, who wakes up at the bottom of the pit, sees the bomb lying next to her, grabs a rock and bashes it until... the screen goes white. THUMP!

Awesome :)- Then we see the infamous LOST on the screen... only it's not White letters on a black background- it's black letters on a white background. It's inverted :) Sweet.

Keep your eyes open- I will try to send out the theories later today- It's been a hectic week- and we're headed to Iowa tonight for a wedding- so you might have to wait till Sunday.

Lost Kassicast Episode 5:15 "Follow The Leader" Easter Eggs and Theories‏

2009-05-11T07:45:00.000-07:00

Ok- Ready for the little easter eggs? Sorry for the wait- I had it done on Friday, but wanted to wait and see if I came up with anything over the weekend as I don’t really have many theories- but the one’s I stated before- that they will start the chain of events by trying to prevent it. I do have some little fun things tho! So, here we go! 

1.The ship in a bottle that Alpert was making in 2007- is most likely the Black Rock … I know, I know, in your mind you’re thinking “but Kassie, how could you know?” I don’t- but the sails and the shape of the ship is the exact same as the Black Rock- so it is so… in my mind 

2.In Faraday’s journal- we can clearly make out “Time=Obama=____” can’t make out the last word- but that is just funny. Did he happen to travel forward in time to 2008/09?

3.If anyone was questioning Ms Hawkings being pregnant or not- in the 70’s when leaving with Jack and Kate towards Jughead… well, when Widmore talks to her, he actually says “… not in your condition” and touches her belly. I’m pretty sure that’s a dead giveaway… Otherwise, maybe she has worms…

4.Much like most movies have a ‘color’, so do some of the lost shows. When they first got BACK to the island- it was green- everything had a green tint. Very happy, comforting, yada, yada. However in this episode- the color was grey. The clothes, the sky, the lighting. I’m thinking it might be to give a foreboding/ominous feeling- to be ready for the finale…

5.Might be something deeper to the grey color for this episode- it was very “nothing is Black Or White- as in- it’s hard to tell who’s doing the right thing here.”

6.I think Locke is going to ‘kill’ Jacob because… (tell me your vote before the finale!- yes this is a multiple choice question.. theory) Personally- my vote is A.
a.That is how he can “HELP” Jacob, by ‘killing’ him, setting him free, yada,yada
b.He actually wants to kill him, because Locke is not Locke anymore, but he is the same thing/person that is working through Christian Shepard.
c.Is actually expecting Jacob not to be there and is trying to call a bluff and get some answers
d.Richard is Jacob
e.There is no Jacob- you only see what you want to see- remember the bullet hole that moved on Ben’s chest?
f.Locke is Jacob- in another time jump… doesn’t quite fit with the why to kill him- but it’s a theory
g.Other (if your answer is other- please explain)

7.Um- they didn’t incase the bomb in cement- and there are also flames right next to the leaking hydrogen bomb… is it just me or does this not work? I can’t think if a hydrogen bomb would be effected by flames??

8.I think the bomb’s a dud

9.btw- on that subject… HOW DID THEY GET THE BOMB DOWN THERE? It was always tunnels, right?

Rick’s thoughts:
1.We’ve always thought that Richard knows all when it comes to the island. He knew that Ben looking into the baby problem was not the right direction and he always seem to be calm and in control…but no more. We now know that he went to see Locke being born because Locke told him to. He found Locke in the middle of the woods after he was shot because Locke told him to. There have been plenty of things happen now that tell us he doesn’t really know all.

2.I think Richard is bad. He will trap Jack and Sayid…maybe more…down with the Hydrogen bomb. He then assumes they dies but they end up travelling through time before a major event happens…maybe a bomb going off?

3.I think the final shot we may see is the Hydrogen bomb going off and then fade to “Lost”.

4.I also think that Richard is holding Jacob hostage and running things the way he wants to.

5.Rose and Bernard WILL show up in the finale, I feel. And I bet you they are working for Dharma somewhere. I still feel that they are Adam and Eve though. Maybe we’ll see them enter the cave this episode and no longer see them. It won’t effect much of the story since we haven’t seen them at all pretty much. 

6.Claire will return. I think we’ll see her at the end of the finale.

7.Is Locke really himself? I keep going back and forth on this one. I really think he is different from Christian. Whatever happened to him is different. Whatever he shocked Ben so I think it’s something special.

8.The smoke monster and Jacob are NOT the same thing. We know now, almost sure, that the smoke monster can take on other forms. The smoke monster turned into Alex and told Ben he had to do whatever Locke said to do. And if Locke wants to kill Jacob, then that’s probably not the same thing as the smoke monster. I do feel that on Kassie’s question on her #6 is that he will be freeing Jacob from Richard.

Lost Kassicast Episode 5:15 "Follow The Leader" Recap

2009-05-07T10:48:00.000-07:00

Last night, a newly energized Locke seeks out Richard Alpert in 2007 with some very interesting errands. Back in the past, Jack and Kate help Eloise Hawking understand how she came to kill her own grown son, and Jack convinces her to fulfill Daniel's dying wish. Sawyer and Juliet, whose cover is blown by that pesky surveillance video, make a shocking decision about their future on the island. All in all- I thought it was good for a ‘set-up’ episode- getting us ready for next week. And, just fyi- I will be late on my Kassicast next week- as Rick is out of town- and I can’t see the finale without him. I will hopefully get it out on next Friday- but do not send us text or emails saying “I can’t believe….. happened”, “I knew….. was his dad”, etc- BEN  Thanks! Now here we go- in the order that best makes sense to me…

JACK, KATE and SAYID
We back-track to see Daniel's shooting from Kate and Jack's perspective. Kate tries to convince Jack not to follow Daniel into Hostiletown- which would only seem to make sense. Jack, on the other hand, is convinced that this plan is their destiny, so he's practically ready to skip down into Hostileville. But before they can agree, they're captured by Charles Widmore.

Eloise has them put in her tent while she pages through Daniel's journal. Widmore asks, "Why has the Dharma Initiative declared war on us?" But Eloise says Kate and Jack aren't from Dharma. "Then where the hell are they from?" Widmore asks, and the unspoken, incredulous answer hangs in the air.

There's a nice scene here between Kate and Jack, as Kate questions why Jack would want to put things back the way they were supposed to be, as Faraday suggested would be the result of blowing up Jughead. For obvious reasons, Kate is not so nuts about this idea, as her pre-crash existence was pretty much a one-way flight to the slammer. "And what about us?" Kate asks. "We go on living our lives because we've never met?" When Jack says it would bring back dead people and end all their misery, Kate says it was not all misery. "Enough of it was," Jack huffs. He forgets about Kate being in Jail- and obviously it has slipped everyone’s mind- the OBVIOUS reason why they can’t change this. If they blew up the bomb- causing the island to explode- and their plane never crashed- and they would have never been rescued- and they would have never tried coming back to the island three years later and getting stuck in the 70’s- and so… they would have never blown up Jughead- in which case their plane would have crashed- yada yada yada- proving right then and there- they can’t change the past- at least not this way. Now if they didn’t go back to the island- they might have changed it. But not by doing an action- because then they wouldn’t have been there to do the action in the first place and It’s impossible- like killing your own grandfather (ie- you can’t kill your own grandfather- because then you would cease to exist- so you wouldn’t have been able to go back in time and kill your own grandfather- it’s impossible- unless, of course- it opens a different time sting- or dimension- and now we’re really getting into it- ok- now back to the story) Let me know if this needs explained better- I can draw a diagram 

Eloise questions the pair about Faraday's plan, and because of her 1950s-era run-in with Daniel – whom she saw disappear "before her bloody eyes," she's more receptive that she rationally should be. "How is this my handwriting if I don't remember writing it?" she asks. "Because you haven't written it yet," Jack says. He appeals to her future maternal instincts by telling her that if she sees Dan's plan through, she can take it all back. "Does he know what he's talking about?" Eloise asks Kate. "He thinks he does," replies Kate (I laugh- totally agreeing with Kate). She believes them, so they're off to find Jughead, which is buried underground as Daniel instructed, but in the intervening years, Dharma showed up and built Dharmaville over it.

"Why is it that this man looks so familiar?" Widmore asks. Well… Eloise announces to her Hostile cohorts that she's taking Jack and Kate to the bomb. There's a tense, whispery moment between Eloise and Widmore as Richard explains: "Widmore and Eloise are… let's just say that love can be complicated."

Eloise tells them that they have to enter the underground bomb-hiding place by swimming there. And then something interesting happens: Kate speaks for the Doubting Thomas’s in the audience and wants out of this cockamamie scheme; she wants to return to their friends. But Eloise won't let her, as the Hostiles are not in the habit of sharing all their deepest secrets with strangers and then letting them saunter off into the jungle. There's a bit of a stand-off, and a gunshot! For a split-second, I thought Kate was a goner- but then Sayid pops up out of the woods with a gun and it becomes clear what has actually happened. The Hostile rifleman falls to the ground, and Eloise and Richard put their hands up.

Once Jack, Kate and Sayid are reunited, Sayid points out what he thinks is a flaw in Faraday's plan. You see, he already killed Benjamin Linus, but they're all still there. Oh, but he didn't, Kate tells him, and she's actually a little ticked off. "Since when did shooting kids and blowing up hydrogen bombs become OK?" she asks. Jack spins another rich fable about destiny for Sayid, and Kate tells him that he sounds like Locke – and "he was crazy too." So Kate is heading back to Dharmaville to take her chances there. "Because if I can't stop you, maybe they can," This is a very interesting development.

Jack takes a deep breath and follows Richard underwater through a passageway and arrives at a temple- that looks remarkably like the temple where we’ve recently seen Smokie. "Where are we?" Jack asks. "The tunnels" is Richard's uninformative reply. Eloise and Sayid follow them, and they're off to see the Jughead. Along the way, Sayid is on board because "if this works, you might just save us all, but if it doesn't, at least you'll put us out of our misery." He does have one nagging question: Why should they trust Eloise? Jack points out that in 30 years, she helps them get back to the island. Sayid rightly points out that that isn't really an answer.

So they find Jughead (which is NOT incased in cement like Faraday told them to do) and Eloise asks: "Well, now what?" Indeed!

SAWYER and JULIET
Radzinsky is questioning Sawyer about where Kate is — with his fists mostly, and with the assistance of Phil. I’m starting to REALLY not like these guys. For his part, Horace is rendered mostly chicken as Radzinsky's rage motivates him to takes charge.

Juliet pleads for them to stop. "We have known each other for three years. We are not bad people. We are not here to hurt you," she says. She's perhaps more vulnerable than we've ever seen her in this moment.

Sawyer tells her not to tell them anything because, even if she does, they aren't going to believe her. Plus, it's only going to get more people hurt. Phil turns his fists of fury on Juliet, but just as things are about to get really sticky, an anonymous Dharma dude barges in with a head count the recent additions to their numbers. They know where Jack and Kate have gone, but…. "who the hell is Hugo Reyes?" Radzinsky asks. "He's the fat guy," an increasingly menacing Phil says.

HURLEY, MILES and JIN
Cut to Hurley in the Dharma kitchen, socking away canned goods. He makes a hasty exit from New Otherton to meet up with Miles and Jin. Dr. Chang, who appears out of, follows him.

Chang catches up with the trio, and rather than sound the alarm, he asks them if Daniel was telling the truth, if they're from the future. Hurley attempts to lie, but as we all know from the beginning of the season, he's not very good at that, so he cracks when he can't tell Chang who's the president of the U.S. in 1977 and denies the Korean war. "It's true then?" Chang asks Miles with a sly reversal on Empire Strikes Back (thank you rick ). "You are my son?" Miles says he is, and that Daniel has been right about everything so far. This is enough for Chang to call for a complete evacuation of the island.

THE SUB
Once Chang sounds the evacuation alarm with the Dharma Interrogation Squad/Chess Club, Sawyer says, "If you put me and Juliet on the sub with [the women and children], we'll tell you anything you want to know." Radzinsky wants a map that shows where the Hostiles are.

Sawyer presumably gives them what they want, because the next scene is them being escorted in handcuffs to the sub. "We'll buy Microsoft; we'll bet Cowboys in the '78 Super Bowl. We're going to be rich," he says to Juliet. "I should have let you get on this sub when you wanted to three years ago," Sawyer says. As he climbs down the ladder, Sawyer looks around at the island's breathtaking vistas and says with a characteristic huff: "Good riddance."

(Aside: Around the same time, Miles, Jin and Hurley witness Charlotte, baby Miles and their mothers boarding the same sub. They see Dr. Chang exchange angry words with his wife, and Miles realizes that it's what he had to do to get his young family out of harm's way. We already figured as much- but still good to see)
Sawyer and Juliet are handcuffed inside the sub. Just as Sawyer and Juliet are exchanging I love yous and planning their post-island, 1970s life… Kate is brought into the sub and cuffed beside them. Ouch! There is a very cool image of the sub slowly sinking into the sea

2007
Richard Alpert is erecting a ship in a bottle on the beach, and an anonymous lady-Hostile approaches and says, "Richard, he's here," and without further explanation, Richard immediately appears to know who she means. And then there's neo-Locke, carrying a dead boar over his shoulders. "I brought dinner," he says with a smirk.

It has been three years since they've seen each other, and Richard observes that there's something different about him. Rather than mention the small matter of his resurrection, he says simply, "I have a purpose now." Locke explains that Ben "helped me get back," and it's kind of hysterical how many crucial details Locke is leaving out of that sentence.

Ben explains to Sun that Richard is "a kind of advisor, and he has had that job for a very, very long time." When Sun hears of Richard's history with the island, she rushes up to him, shows him the Dharma photo with Kate, Jack and Hurley, and asks if he knows them. "Yeah, I was here 30 years ago." (We know) "I remember meeting these people." (Hooray!) "Because I watched them all die." (Oops)

Locke asks Ben to join their conversation. "Afraid I'll stage a coup?" Ben taunts. "I'm not afraid of anything you can do anymore, Ben," Locke says flatly. "Well, in that case, I'd love to come," Ben says with his signature snarky musicality.

Before they leave, Locke says to Sun, who is staying behind: "Whatever happens, Sun, you have my word, if there's a way for you and Jin to be together again, a way to save our people, I'll find it."

Alpert wants to know where Locke was for three years, and again he withholds the most interesting bits of his crazy tale, and says only, "You're about to see where I went. After that, you're going to take me to Jacob." Come again? "That's not how it works," says Ben, but they reluctantly agree, powerless in the face of Locke.

They arrive at a clearing and Locke gives Alpert some very familiar-sounding instructions about what to say to the man who stumbles out of the jungle. "Who is that man, John?" Ben asks. "Me." Big, satisfied smile. Awesome 

So we see the scene where Richard removed a bullet from John's leg and told him he was going to have to die again, from what appears to be a slightly different angle. It's a little unsettling, but it's an interesting way to resolve this previously inexplicable scene. "This must be quite the out-of-body experience," Ben says to Locke as they watch Richard counsel Locke. "Something like that," Locke replies, significantly.

"How did you know when to be here?" Ben asks. Yeah, what he said! The island told him. Hasn't the island ever told you anything? he asks Ben. No, says Ben, clearly annoyed, so he adds that the island hasn't told Locke where Jacob is. Locke is unmoved by his jab, and says "You've never seen Jacob," which is interesting considering that mind-bending scene in Jacob's cabin. Richard returns and says he's glad Locke didn't have to die, as he just told him he would have to. "Actually, Richard, I did," he says matter-of-factly.

Locke, Richard and Ben return to the Hostile settlement, where Richard says they can leave in the morning to see Jacob. But no, Locke wants to leave now. But first he wants to speak to "his" people. In a strange speech, he says it's a little odd than they're following the orders of a man named Jacob, a man none of them have ever seen. So he invites them all to come with him to see Jacob for themselves. "I'm starting to think John Locke is going to be trouble," Richard says to Ben. "Why do you think I tried to kill him?" Ben reveals.

We end on a procession across the beach, as the Hostiles follow Locke to their destiny. It's very Biblical-looking, except they all have shotguns. "Beautiful day, isn't it?" Locke bellows. "Yes, so far," Ben replies. Ben says that Richard has some reservations about Locke, but that he's here to follow Locke's orders. His deviousness is pretty transparent. Ben says he'll help Locke find his friends. "I'm not interested in being reunited with my people," says Locke. Then why are they going to see Jacob? "So I can kill him," Locke says. Thump!

I Can’t Wait For The Finale!

Lost Kassicast: Episode 5:14 "The Variable"- thoughts and easter eggs‏

2009-05-01T09:19:00.000-07:00

So here we are again- More theories than easter eggs. First I’ll put it my words what I think is going on ;) Then I’m going to post something from Rick- Then I’ll get into the smaller easter eggs, theories, and questions. Cool? Better be cuz that’s how it is :) not a whole lot this week tho- sorry :(

1. MY THEORY (also attributed to Rick- check out his input below) Is that Our Ms. Hawkings knew exactly what she was doing when she sent back Jack and Kate- She wasn’t wrong. She knew she would kill Faraday- and that Jack and Kate would… somehow ( I think possibly Jughead- but most likely something with the magnetism) would mess around with Daniels stuff- inadvertently sending themselves back to the present and causing the ‘incident’ which starts this whole chain of events to begin with---- the chain of events that Daniel was trying to prevent. If all of them hadn’t gone back- THAT would have changed the present, past, and future. But they are the ones who start it- if I’m not making sense- email me- and I’ll try to explain it better.

2. Rick’s email: (my responses are in italics) “Will they actually change the future or will these actions they are taking to change the future be necessary to make everything turn out the way it did? See my response above- they wont change the future- they will start the past

Things to consider. When Sun and Lapidus show up at the Others' camp
when they find Christian, it looked like the place was abandoned for
quite some time...even though it is just in the year 2007 and the Others
left camp in 2004. Also suspicious about that is the fact that there
were Dharma signs hanging up and pictures of the Dharma recruits all
over. Was this a different future caused by what the Losties are doing
now? Or were there always pictures of the Losties right there in Ben's
house?? That's confusing to me. Also the hanging signs with the Dharma
stuff doesn't look to much like New Otherton. Agreed- very confusing! Did they change something? Or will they? What are your thoughts on this?

Did Eloise recognize Daniel when she shot him? She did meet this guy 20 years earlier when he was telling her to bury Jughead, you'd think she'd remember. I don’t think she recognized him- but wouldn’t it be funny- if in her future, she has her son- can’t think of a name and then thinks “Oh yeah- Daniel, that’s what his name was” We’re looping :)

Originally I thought that the Losties, probably Hurley, would try to
blow up the hatch so it would never be built and their plane would never
crash. Then with the release of the electromagnetism (the incident)
they would be forced to build a Faraday cage (the hatch) to protect the
world from the release. This is still a possibility but with Daniel out
of the picture I don't know for sure. I think that’s what Jack and Kate will end up doing to start the chain of events

I do think the incident will be the release of the energy though.
Jughead won't come into play until possibly the series finale, blowing
up the island. I like this :)Agreed :)

3. Now for the Easter Eggs and Such… First things first:

4. WHERE ARE ROSE AND BERNARD?!?!?!

5. We’re thinking Rose and Bernard are Adam and Eve- I still want to see them tho :)

6. The Wired Magazine we see in Daniel’s house bears the cover line: “The Super Powers Issue—X-Ray Vision, Invisibility, and Time Travel—The Impossible Gets Real!!” :)

7. A big question people are asking is… Is Faraday Dead- I say yes. Sorry, but yes. We didn’t just see him get shot and ready for the next episode- we saw him fade out- dead is dead. The biggest reason for this question- brings us back to the comicon video- Many people think that it’s Faraday’s voice (the man who is recording Dr. Chang) I’m going to have to watch it again- but I still think he’s dead. Plus- the producers said that video is not canon (which means it was just an extra and is not meant to be tied in with the actual show)

8. Interesting point tho- How did Faraday walk into the Hostile camp without being detected?? Usually they see everyone coming a mile away?? Richard?

9. Is it just odd that there’s a gun cabinet right next to the motor pool and the janitor is the one with access?? I mean- if it were for the Dharma peops to get guns out of, in case of an attack- why didn’t Kate have a key to it- as she WORKS in the Motor Pool?

10. Why did Radzinsky already have his weapons drawn when he got out the van- Did he already think Faraday looked suspicious??

11. In case you missed it in the recap--- Little Charlotte said “I’m not supposed to have Chocolate before dinner” Which was exactly what she said right before she died

12. We didn’t see what happened after the hospital room with Desmond and Penny… I have a hunch that baby Charlie isn’t going to be there when Penny comes to get him from the waiting room- any takers?

13. Widmore said he sacrificed his relationship with Penny- which makes me think that he knew that when he turned down desmond as a son in law- what path he would take to eventually get him to the island- he knew it had to be done

14. We’ve had many references to Alice Wonderland in the show and white rabbits are everywhere. In the restaurant with Eloise and Faraday- you can clearly see there is a rabbit through Hawkings drinking glass :) Through the looking glass?? :)

15. Another Wired Mag thing- J.J. Abrams is the guest editor for this months issue :)

Lost Kassicast: Episode 5:14 "The Variable"- RECAP‏

2009-04-30T10:54:00.000-07:00

Dan is a man with a plan. After weeks of questioning what exactly Daniel Faraday knows or doesn't know, and whether or not we should trust him, Wednesday's episode of Lost, the show's 100th, gives us a peek into that complicated brainiac's melon, and what we find out is… well… interesting. And I’m even more scared of Ms. Hawkings. First off- just want to say… DUH- we knew she was his mom and Rick and I have been saying since the beginning- Widmore is Faraday’s dad- look back if you’re a non-believer  Let’s get to it!

Danny Boy
Young Daniel likes playing piano, and counting the ticking of the metronome. His mom, however, can't just enjoy his prodigious skills and be all: My boy is so talented. Instead, she asks him: "Do you know what destiny is?" She explains that he has a gift that he needs to nurture, with something other than piano-playing. "I could make time" [to play the piano], Daniel argues. "If only you could," a young Mrs. Hawking replies ominously. Burning question: Why do Daniel's parents (Hawking and Widmore) both have British accents, but he doesn't?

At his Oxford graduation, Daniel is the youngest doctor ever. But instead of an "atta boy," Mrs. Hawking insults Daniel's girlfriend, Teresa the doomed research assistant, and gives him a journal — the journal, in fact, which will later play a key role in future events.

Daniel also reports that he received a 1.5 million-pound grant from Charles Widmore, but is apparently unaware that he's his father. "Daniel, no matter what, remember, I will always love you. Mother" reads the journal's inscription.- after she stocks off in anger.

Back to "Confirmed Dead"
We now revisit the scene from Season 4's freighter-folk flashback episode. Daniel is watching the news report that says that Oceanic 815 has been located on the ocean floor, and that everyone on board is presumed dead. He's really upset, but he doesn't understand why. (Oh, we know why, Dan.) Charles Widmore shows up, and pointedly explains that they've never met- as Daniel doesn’t know one way or another- as he explains his memory is all wacky. He offers him a job on the freighter, and explains that he can finish his work on the island, where the passengers of Oceanic 815 are, in fact, still alive.

Further, his recent memory lapses — presumably the result of his questionable Oxford experiments that fried poor Teresa — will be fixed by the island. Widmore is sounding a lot like Daniel's mother, but that's because, Widmore explains, they're old friends. I heard some people still wondering on who Caroline is- I took it as being his nurse- as he has mental health issues.

A short time later, Faraday is forlornly playing the piano again and messing up a little. Mama Faraday shows up, and her un-surprising mission is to encourage Daniel to travel to the island with Widmore's crew. She repeats Widmore's claim that he'll be healed by the island. "You really want me to go? Will it make you proud of me?" Daniel asks pitifully. Yes, Daniel, it will, so off he goes. It's interesting that with all the daddy issues floating around, and with the confirmation that Daniel's daddy is Charles Widmore, it's Daniel's mother about which he could log some hard time on the couch discussing.

2007
Penny and Charlie are rushing through the halls of the hospital where Desmond is coding on a stretcher. Now- I really thought that Ben missed him with the bullet and got the milk instead. I was wrong. He’s taken into the ER and Mrs. Hawking shows up (I still think it’s possible that she Penny’s mom too?? Maybe?). She attempts polite chit-chat, but Penny is all: Who are you, dignified old lady? "I believe it's my fault that Desmond has been shot," Eloise announces. She came to apologize for making Desmond a casualty in something much larger than him. But wait, casualty? What is she getting at? "For the first time in a long time, I don't know what's going to happen next," Eloise reports. Eek! So little Faraday DID change the future??? That’s what I’m getting- Desmond wasn’t supposed to be there!

Except for now, what happens next is that Desmond appears to be OK, and he repeats his promise to his wife: "I promised you, Penny, I promised you. I'd never leave you again," he whispers. Aw. While my masochistic mind screams- they’re too happy for this show- I can’t help but feel relieved for the time being.

Outside the hospital, Mrs. Faraday meets with Charles Widmore. Widmore explains he can't go inside because his relationship with Penelope is one of the things he has had to sacrifice. "Don't you talk to me about sacrifice. I sent my son back to the island, knowing full well..." Eloise replies, but she doesn't finish because Widmore reminds her that Daniel is his son too. We all knew that already though, right? Yes. Eloise slaps him and leaves. Let's backtrack a second. Knowing full well what, Eloise? You don't mean? (Gasp.) Read on.

1977
Faraday is disembarking from the sub. Miles exposits that everyone apparently knew that Dan returned to Ann Arbor, but that they didn't think they'd see him again. Dan produces a copy of the Oceanic 6 Dharma portrait and reports that they're why he's back. He has to see Jack... immediately!

"How did you get back here?" Daniel asks, and Jack reports that they were on a plane, just as Mrs. Hawking told them all to. "Did she tell you it was your destiny?" Daniel asks.

"I've got some bad news, Jack. You don't belong here at all. She was wrong." Huh? Really? We will hit this in theories… A frantic Faraday has to get to the Orchid.
Meanwhile, the Oceanic 3 (Jack, Kate, and Hurley — hey, where is Sayid?) and the Dharma 3 (Sawyer, Jin and Juliet) meet with each other to get some Intel on what to do next. Phil is still locked in the closet and I’m sure listened in quietly.

Daniel has Miles take him to the Dharma caves to waiting for Dr. Chang, and we're seeing the first scene from the season premiere again, this time from Daniel's perspective- Rick and I called this as soon as we saw Faraday back on the island- btw . Daniel tells Chang he needs to order the evacuation of everyone from the island because in six hours, a catastrophic release of electromagnetic energy will take place at the site of the construction of the Swan station. To punctuate his crazy talk, Daniel tells Dr. Chang that he's from the future and that Miles is Chang's son. Chang ask Miles if it’s true- and Miles responds- nope- no way- what?  Chang storms off.

Naturally, Miles is mad because he kind of always is. What about "whatever happened, happened"? he asks. Daniel reports that he needs to make sure that Chang is going to do what he's supposed to. "What's that?" Miles asks. "You'll see," Daniel replies.
Daniel shows up just as the Oceanic/Dharma people debate their escape options: commandeer the sub or head back in the jungle and start from square one. Of course, Rick and I, being the always rational thinkers we are … said “Why don’t they just kill Phil and make it look like the Others did it?? I mean- c’mon- Two of them have killed in cold blood, one (Hurley) without meaning too- killed lots of people, and one’s a raging alcoholic and they’re all huge liars- like one more is really going to hurt anyone’s karma”. "Welcome to the meeting, Twitchy," Sawyer says to Dan, and then, under his breath to Miles, "Is he still crazy?" Miles is like: Dude, please. Interestingly, both Jin and Hurley say they want to stay on the island.

"Does anyone know where I can find the Hostiles?" Daniel asks. He tells the group that Eloise Hawking, his mother, is an Other. Daniel reports that they already met "Ellie" back in 1954, or "Fonzie times," as Hurley calls it. Hehe.

Sawyer goes full LaFleur and decides to take the floor, demanding that Dan tell them everything he knows. He repeats that they don't belong there, and that he needs to find the Hostiles. Sawyer thinks it’s a bad idea- “This is our home” and asks “freckles’ to come with them. Jack asks Kate to bring Faraday to the others. But before Kate can agree or disagree, Juliet gives up the fence code — 141717 -- and tells Kate that she should take Daniel. "It's over here for us anyway," she says (and secretly is hoping that Kate doesn’t return), and Sawyer mentally throws his hands up.

Kate, Jack and Daniel head over to the motor pool to scare up some firepower on their way to Hostileburg. Sawyer says the rest of them will pack and head toward the beach.

But first! Daniel sees Charlotte on the Swing set of Emotional Significance, and decides to tell her all that stuff that Charlotte remembered him telling her. "I'm not allowed to have chocolate before dinner," the adorable young Charlotte says to a clearly emotional Dan. Sound familiar? That's what Charlotte said just before she kicked it.

That Good-Time Charlie Radzinsky shows up, and he's on to them. Guns are drawn, and the gunfight ensues Radzinsky and Daniel both appear to be shot, although Daniel's injury is superficial. Jack has had enough of this, though, so he shoots a handy, 55-gallon drum of fuel and the whole place goes boom and they beat feet out of there. "Sound the alarm!" says Radzinsky. Uh oh.

They make it through the fences, and Jack is like: What ever happened to "whatever happened, happened."? Daniel explains "This is our present," he says. "When we met, did I have a scar on my neck?" (No.) "Any one of us could die." If you need this explained in further detail- email me… 

Hurley and Jin were making their way across the yard, bags in tow and see Radzinsky walking along carrying firearms and the alarms blaring “This can’t be good”
Juliet and Sawyer have a nice moment where they reaffirm their support for each other, but before they can make a clean get-away with Hurley and Jin, Radzinsky & Co. show up, find Phil and take them captive.

It's time for Daniel to do some explaining. Why do they need guns to go talk to Daniel's mother? "You don't know my mother," Daniel foreshadows. He lays out his plan: Once Dharma discovers the energy that is being released, they're going to cement it all in like Chernobyl in what will become the Hatch. In order to maintain safe levels of the energy, they're going to push the button every 108 minutes for the next 20 years. One day, Desmond is going to screw up and forget and Oceanic 815 is going to crash. The freighter will be sent, and ABC will have a nice cash cow for its prime-time lineup on its hands. But we can't let that happen, Daniel emphasizes.
They can change all that. They still can't change the past though. "I've been spending so much time on the constants, I forgot about the variables," he says. As Charlton Heston might put it, the variables are made of people who have free will. "We can change our destiny," he claims.

How is he going to destroy the energy that launches this series of unfortunate events? "I'm going to detonate a hydrogen bomb," he says and Jughead laughs heartily. Oh. I was afraid he might say that.

Of course this plan sounds insane. But Jack is getting used to insane.
Daniel enters Hostileburg with a gun and asks to speak to Eloise. Richard lies and says she's not there. "Do we know each other?" Richard asks. In reply, Daniel asks where Jughead is, the bomb "I told you to bury." As nonplussed as ever, Richard attempts to get him to put down the gun. But it's too late. Daniel is shot in the back and collapses. The shooter: his own mother, who, Daniel figures out, always knew this was going to happen, and sent him there anyway. "I'm your son," Daniel tells her, just before the thump! I hope she's proud now. Wow.<

Lost Kassiecast Episode 5:13 "Some Like It Hoth" Easter Eggs and Theories

2009-04-17T08:29:00.000-07:00

Woo Hoo- easter eggs, thoughts, theories, funny observations, and more! And it’s Friday and I get to go to Chicago in 2 days!!!  What a good Friday! Anyways  Here We Go

1.The first eight numbers are from Rick- thank him later ;) First off- “Miles with the bad hair looked like Rufeo from Hook.” HAHAHAHA!!! So true!

2.“The apartment complex that Miles and his Mom moved in looked a lot like the one in Karate Kid.”

3.“I SO called it that he was writing Empire Strikes Back.” He did- which I had in the recap… only true geeks would be able to call that at ‘bounty hunter’

4.“Hurley is going to create the Dharma ranch dressing that he loves so well.” We discussed this- Hehehehe! The ranch we know today didn’t come out until the early 80’s- so that could work 

5.“Now we know why Miles wanted 3.2 Mil from Ben.” True.

6.“We learned that Jack can't clean a chalkboard.” And hehehehe- he really is bad at that. But it’s because he’s really a surgeon NOT a janitor…

7.I also forgot to add that at the very beginning of the episode 3:16 was shown on the microwave- Rick reminded me  Thanks

8.Rick also sent me a message saying “Ben Smith thinks that Jack probably was born on the island and that is why he had the power to save his ex-wife's life. We now know that Miles was born on the island and has the power to hear dead people. I agree it could be, especially since we think Jack's Dad and Grnadfather have been on the island before.” I don’t agree with this- I think Jack’s family has connections to the island- but Jack’s only original connection was through his family. He had never been there before. I think the ‘miracle’ of him saving his ex- was just that. To bring in a story of his character and “I don’t believe in miracles” and introduce us to the ‘fixing everything’ Jack we know.

9.One thought is Bram and his peeps are working for God- like the knights who protect the holy grain in Indian Jones… There is also an area called Bram – it’s a commune of France.

10.An odd note- Kate is usually such a good liar- I mean- she’s a con… woman. Why was she such a bad liar in this scene with Roger Linus??

11.One note--- Anyone who has had a MRI (they use super magnets- which is why you can’t wear jewelry) and has had a problem with their metal fillings??? Fillings do not get ripped out during a MRI- it’s usually a combination of gold, silver, or titanium. So, the magnetic effect on the island has possible different attraction properties of normal magnets?? A normal magnet would not attract a filling- maybe on the island- they do (or at least the magnetic properties in the ‘hatch’ do??)

12.The picture book that Dr. Chang is reading to baby miles is called “Me and My Polar Bear” 

13.Also- there was the polar bear reference from Chang when he threatened Hurley with “picking up the polar bear poop for their ridiculous experiements”

14.One thought is that the Bram/Ilana group work for a new version of Dharma. Remember the San Diego Comic Con video where Chang transmitted a message to the future, imploring the recipients to reconstitute the Dharma Initiative in an effort to save the original group from the Purge?? Maybe this is it??

15.Also- Bram kidnapped Miles in a Blue Van  hehehe- like the original DI

16.In the scene where they were punching the numbers into the hatch, The dialogue would just suggest that it's just a part number in case they need to make another hatch, but then it would be one heck of a coincidence that the electromagnetism would later need buffered every period of minutes equal to the sum of the individual numbers therein. Maybe the part number was chosen based on electromagnetic data as a failsafe reference?

17.Question- How did they get all of this serious equipment, building supplies, etc to the island??? They couldn’t fit it on the sub…. How did it get there?

18.A lot of people think the photo of the kid in the football uniform is Eddie (the cop from the commune) It looks like him and there is no body. I do have to disagree with this tho- for multiple reasons- Locke was on the commune in the early 90’s-Miles was speaking to the ‘dead’ much later. Even if the case is that the kid ‘died’ years ago- he would have had to fake his death…. To get away from his father??? Doesn’t make any sense- sorry.

19.Roger’s cleaning supplies had the swan logo on them- even though the swan doesn’t exist yet- and the building of it is in the ‘circle of trust’ doesn’t seem like drunk roger would be in that special circle

20.The left side of the chalkboard in the classroom Jack was cleaning- has some Egyptian symbols then “writing of the words of God” then more symbols Archaic Egyptian before 2600bc then long circles with three dots. Odd that they would be teaching that in a classroom…. I don’t know about you- but I didn’t learn Archaic Egyptian symbols when I was 10

21.There’s also a stand up board to the right of the classroom looks like a drawing of something falling out of the sky and The picture above the blackboard left side above the symbols when lightened looks like an alien in a red shirt...Just thought that was funny 

22.I've been wondering for a long time now how they talk on the walkie talkies with no worry about anyone else overhearing. Obviously no one else would be on there or they wouldn't do that, but didn't walkie talkies in 1977 all pick up the same signal?

23.Miles’ mother told him that his dad “threw us out” when Miles was 3 months old, right? So whatever caused that to happen is going to happen soon. I’m guessing that Pierre moved his wife and child off the island to protect them, but that doesn’t explain why she was so bitter about the past.

24.I read this somewhere- thought it was funny “They were talking on the news this morning about airlines requiring large people to purchase an extra seat, and they said “Say you have booked seat 23B and you overflow into seat 23A…””

25.I think Faraday is the ‘very clever fellow’ Hawkings was referring to when she said who built the off station place to find the island. It was built in the 70’s…

26.Also- I think that photo we saw of Faraday- when Desmond went to find Faraday’s mother, the photo of him and the girl (btw- I had told rick and mention this in my Kassicast- that the photo looked like it was taken in the 70’s) was taken on Faraday’s ‘vacation’ from the island in the 70’s. I think he was at Oxford at that time- and that’s when he messed up the experiment on the girl- and put her in the coma. He was trying to get back to his present time.

27.Mr. Gray’s son was killed by a drunk driver. Ironic given some cast members’ problems with drunk driving.

That’s all for now. I’ll try to send out something next week!  Have a good week- everyone!

Lost Kassicast Episode 5:13 "Some Like It Hoth"

2009-04-16T09:24:00.000-07:00

Last nights episode was Miles-centric. First off- have to say- LOVE the Hurley and Miles duo! I thought this episode was pretty funny- although for most of the answers we received- Most of already knew they were coming. But we did get some answers, but we were presented with a few more nagging questions. Let's start with the answers: We learn how Miles ended up on Widmore's freighter and why this episode's title contained a pointed Star Wars reference. As for the questions "Some Like It Hoth" raised, well, let's get to it!

WHO YA GONNA CALL? MILES STRAUME!

We open on a close-up of a 1980s-era microwave, and see an Asian woman touring an apartment. It's the same woman we saw with Dr. Chang in the season premiere, so just like that, the cat is out of the bag: Dr. Chang is Miles' dad.

Young Miles heads out to the vending machine, where he starts having what is perhaps his first Ghost moment, which leads him to discover that one of the tenants has died in his apartment, and is still talking to Young Miles. The kid shrieks helplessly that the dead guy is calling out for Kimberly, who is his wife who died a year prior, which, needless to say, raises a few eyebrows about Miles.

We next see a punk-rock Miles going to visit his very ill mother — each spike in his hair and piercing in his face an obvious cry for help from the very angry young man. He asks his mom to tell him why he has his particular talent and what, if anything, his absent father has to do with it. Mom is clearly irritated by this line of questioning, since Miles' dad never cared about them, so she quickly reports that he's dead, and that he kicked them out when Miles was just a baby. "The less you knew about him, the better," his mother says, clearly thinking she's protecting her wounded child.

But since death is not really an obstacle to redemptive daddy-issues-resolving chats for Miles, he asks where his body is. "Somewhere you could never go," she reports, which makes us all go ha-ha since the good doctor is obviously in close proximity to his offspring at the moment. This is when we knew for sure- Chang! Paik! Candle! Whatever his name is…

We then see Miles talking to one Mr. Gray, who needs his football-player son, Russell, who died in a car accident, to know that he loves him. But uh-oh, he was cremated, and Señor Ghostbuster needs a body to chat with the dead. So he fakes it, telling the grieving dad what he needs to hear, charging him extra in the process.

But hey now, look, it's Naomi! Woot! I always liked Naomi! "My employer's been following your work and is interested in retaining your services," she reports officiously. She takes him to a restaurant, where today's special is a dead body! She tosses him a wad of cash and asks simply, "What can you tell me about this man?"
A lot, as it turns out. His name is Felix, and he was on his way to deliver a bunch of papers, photos of empty graves and a purchase order for an old airplane to a guy named Widmore. Aha! This information isn't that surprising, but it solidifies the theory that it was Widmore who needed to get the plane-crash infrastructure off the trail in order to clear the way for his attempts to regain control of the island. Any evidence to the contrary surely needed to be suppressed. "So, did I pass?" he asks.

Yes, he did. Naomi's employer needs Miles to come to an island to track a murderous man by communicating with his deceased victims. Miles passes, until Naomi says they'll pay him $1.6 million — interestingly exactly one-half the amount for which Miles blackmailed Ben to tell Widmore that he was dead. "When do we leave?" Miles says.

CHOOSE A SIDE

But first! Some guys in a van kidnap Miles and throw him in the van. A guy named Bram, who we now know was on board Ajira Flight 316 (I had forgotten about this- thank you other Lost fans for reminding me! I was just thinking “Wow, he looks familiar” tells Miles he was sent to try his best to talk him out of working for Charles Widmore. "Do you know what lies in the shadow of the statue?" he asks in that same way that Ilana did last week, until now- it was still possible that Ilana & Co. worked for Widmore. Guess not. Miles doesn't know the secret-password answer either, but Bram is a bit more forthcoming than Ilana was before she conked Lapidus in the coconut. "Then you're not ready to go to that island," he says. Huh? We’ll get to this later…

Bram also promises that if he joins them, all of life's answers will be available to him. An explanation of his power and the knowledge of his dad. Miles, ever the business man, asks for $3.2 million to join them (The amount he asked for from Ben). They aren't in the pay-for-play business, so they dump him out the side of the van and Bram tells him all the money in the world isn't going to fill that empty hole inside him.

"You're playing for the wrong team," Bram says. "What team are you playing for?" Miles asks. "The one that's going to win," Bram replies, which speaks directly to Widmore's assertion that there's going to be a war on the island, and that, without Locke, the wrong side is going to win. Any thoughts on who the sides are — and which side we're rooting for at this point?

Before Miles leaves on the freighter, though, he returns Mr. Gray's money, admitting to him that he faked it. Gray asks why he's telling him, and Miles' reply is dripping with symbolism, so pay attention! "It wouldn't have been fair to your son," he tells him. "If you needed your son to know that you loved him, you should have told him when he was still alive." Yeah, Dr. Chang, I mean, Mr. Gray! A little harsh tho- I felt bad for Mr. Gray.

THE BALLAD OF KATE AND ROGER

What is going on between these two? I can understand Kate's mama-bear pain driving her to help an ailing Ben last week, but why doesn't the crafty Kate know to leave Roger well enough alone.

After dropping Ben off at Hostile camp, Kate returns to the Dharma infirmary, where — still! — nobody is suspicious of why lady-mechanic Juliet is running the show. Roger shows up, and he's justifiably apoplectic that Ben is no longer in residence. "I'm calling security," he says as he storms off. And then with that perfect Juliet delivery she simply says, "Well... here we go."

Instead of rushing off to Security, Roger had a change of heart and decided instead to park himself on a Dharma swing set and start drinking. Kate joins him, and in an attempt to comfort the distraught dad, tells him nonchalantly that she's sure things are going to work out. As she cracks open a Dharma beer and prepares to hunker down, she says this: "I just have a feeling he's going to be OK." I think this could be taken just fine- as a friend- but Kate’s not his friend and is a bad liar and Roger is obviously suspicious and get’s angry.

But — again! — instead of sounding the alarm with Dharma Security about his son being kidnapped from the infirmary, he decides to drink more and get going on his janitorial rounds, starting with Dharma Elementary School, from the looks of it.
Jack is there, erasing the blackboards. Roger reveals that he thinks Kate had something to do with Ben's disappearance. "She's got some sort of weird thing for my kid," he reports.

Jack vouches for Kate's character, but to my eyes, Roger doesn't seem convinced at all, and he storms off again. But judging from his prior behavior, he probably won't make good on his threat to go tell Horace.

Sawyer returns from Hostile Land, like a billion hours after Kate. Was he off doing something else that I missed? Jack is at "Jim" and Juliet's house, and he reports on Kate's slip-up. Jack thinks he covered for Kate, but LaFleur is annoyed nonetheless. Phil shows up to report a "development": He knows that LaFleur kidnapped Ben because apparently Miles wasn't able to erase the security tape like Sawyer asked him to (see below). LaFleur invites him in, and promptly knocks him out. "Get some rope," he tells Juliet. Black

LUKE SKYWALKER AND DARTH VADER

Miles is reading Sports Illustrated, the cover story of which is about the "New Boss in L.A.": We’ll hit this in the Theories… Sawyer walkies in to ask Miles to erase the video-security feed that reveals Sawyer and. But before he can (see above), Horace barges in and needs Miles to fill in for LaFleur on a top-secret mission. "Can I trust you, Miles?" he asks, as he lets him into the Circle of Trust. Miles is to take a package out to Radzinsky, who will in turn give him a package to deliver back to Horace.

So Miles checks out a Dharma van and heads to Sector 334 (aka Hostile territory). With a gun pointed at him, Miles declares, "I'm in the Circle of Trust," which appears to appease the ever-jumpy Radzinsky. Miles gives him the package, which turns out to be a body bag, which Radzinsky and his crew promptly fill with a corpse. When Miles asks what happened, Radzinsky suspiciously reports that he fell in a ditch. But wait, the guy has what appears to be a bullet hole in his head. "The ditch had a gun?" snarks Miles. Miles heads back to Horace, body in tow, but first, he has some questions. "OK, so what really happened?" he asks the dead body. Personally- I would have driven a ways away before jumping in the back to look at a dead body…

"Pierre, if it was caused by the electromagnetism, we need to know," Horace is saying into the telephone as Miles returns with "the package." Horace asks him to bring the body out to Dr. Chang at the Orchid Station. Miles resists — and we know why — but Horace insists.

Then we get to the fun part. There is a mix-up about the Dharma van, which leads to Hurley and Miles sharing it, since Hurley is also going to the Orchid Station, to bring sandwiches out to the crew "with his special garlic mayo."

On the radio: "It Never Rains in Southern California" by Albert Hammond. It should be noted that Wikipedia, which is obviously staffed by robots, is already reporting that it appeared in "Some Like It Hoth."

"How do you spell bounty hunter?" Hurley asks as he writes something in a notebook. First, Hurley thinks Miles cut the cheese because something reeks in the car. Miles jokes that maybe it's Hurley's famous garlic mayo, so Hurley has to check lest his sandwiches make the crew sick. Miles is nonchalant about the body in the back, as is Hurley once Miles reveals that the guy's name is Alvarez, and that he was digging a hole while thinking about some chick named Andrea when he felt a pain in his mouth, which turned out to be a filling being yanked from its socket and through his brain, killing him. Hmmm, sounds like electromagnetism to me!

"You can talk to dead people!" Hurley exclaims. Miles demurs, but then Hurley says, "Don't worry, dude — your secret's safe with me. Wanna know why? (No.) 'Cause I can talk to them too," he says. As The Captain and Tennille's "Love Will Keep Us Together" grooves on the radio and makes me giggle, the awesome twosome compare powers. Hurley plays chess with dead people, while for Miles, it's just a feeling, a sense, he just knows what they were thinking when they died. "You're just jealous that my power is better than yours," Hurley teases. Insert Me Laughing!

When cranky Dr. Chang sees Hurley is along for the ride, he grumbles to Miles that his instructions were to come alone. Hurley spills that he knows about the body, but also that he can keep a secret. And he better, because if he doesn't, Chang is going to ship him off to Hydra Island to weigh polar bear turds "for their ridiculous experiments," he says, revealing perhaps that Dharma exists on two levels: from the ridiculous, circus-animal level to the sublime mystical electromagnetic energy level. "Gross," says Hurley

Wait, here it comes! Hurley says, "Dude, that guy is a total douche." To which Miles replies: "That douche is my dad." We know, Miles! What we don't know is this: Why, if Miles is currently sharing a year with his infant self, did Sun not flash back to the 1970s with the rest of the Oceanic 6? An early theory suggested that she and Ben crashed in the present because their "present" selves were unable to live in the same year as their "past" selves. But, you know, there goes that theory!

Hurley, of course, wants to explore Miles' family ties further. We learn that on his third day here, he stood in front of his mom in line at the cafeteria. But Miles is steadfast in his Faraday-rooted beliefs that he can't change the future, including saving people from the Purge. Before Hurley can dispute his beliefs, Chang is back, and needs a ride out to a work site.

Along the way, Hurley engages Chang in some comically inappropriate chit-chat, in which he learns that Chang has a 3-month-old son names Miles, named for the jazz musician because Miles' mom is a fan. (The good doctor likes country.) Hurley suggests they all go out for a beer some time, much to Miles' consternation.
They arrive at nowhere in particular, where Dr. Chang opens a gate entirely made of hedges that open to reveal a full-on construction site.

Anyhow, Miles and Hurley catch a significant glimpse of the goings-on inside, which includes the embossing of a serial number on a steel hatch. Yes, that steel hatch! So it's no surprise as we see "the numbers" unfold: 4, 8, 16, 23... "Forty-two," Hurley says, completing the series, much to Miles' surprise. How did he know that? "They're building our hatch — the one that crashed our plane," Hurley says.
After that sure-to-be-revisited moment, Hurley is still enthusing about Miles' serendipitous meeting with his bad dad. Miles is obviously resistant to any Cat Stevens-scored moment. "I'm not in pain. It doesn't matter," he says unconvincingly, turning the focus on Hurley's fervent notebook scribblings. It turns out that Hurley is writing the script, from memory, of Empire Strikes Back for George Lucas- Which btw- Rick called as soon as Hurley said Bounty Hunter.

"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard," carps Miles. "Well, at least I'm not scared to talk to my dad," Hurley replies. Hurley's snipe has a purpose though. He tells Miles that the best thing he ever did was give his own bad dad a second chance, which clearly gets Miles' hamster wheels turning, even in the face of Hurley's extended Star Wars metaphor. "That was Luke's attitude too in Empire," he explains. "Then the Death Star was destroyed, Boba Fett was eaten by the Sarlacc and we got the Ewoks," he continues. (I love the Ewoks )

"And it all could have been avoided if they had just communicated." And to top off an excellent episode by Jorge Garcia, he says simply: "Let's face it: Ewoks suck, dude."

WE ALL LIVE IN A DHARMA SUBMARINE

Miles wanders off through Dharma town, and conveniently spies Dr. Chang lovingly reading to Miles — that is, himself. He appears to get teary-eyed, but his tender moment is interrupted by Chang exiting his house. "Miles, I need you," he says. "You do?" Miles says, with a catch in his throat. But Chang actually just needs him to help greet the submarine, which has arrived with scientists from Ann Arbor. Right here- we were going… faraday? At the dock, Miles acts as glorified porter for the new arrivals, who include... thump!... Daniel Faraday. "Hey, Miles," he says. "Long time, no see." Indeed.

NEXT WEEK!
It's a clip show, or, as ABC calls it: "The story of the Oceanic 6 from a whole new perspective!" I will be in Chicago for work- but I will be sure to watch it on the following Sat- and throw some notes out if needed (Thank You DVR!)

IN TWO WEEKS!
Sides will be chosen! Some will run for cover! Some will stay and fight! "Any one of us can die," says Daniel Faraday!

Lost Kassicast Episode 5:12 "Dead Is Dead" Easter Eggs and Thoughts‏

2009-04-14T08:58:00.000-07:00

First off- sorry about the wait. I seem to keep getting busier and busier J - but, shall we?

-Funny thought- we have focused on Christian Sheppard’s shoes- his WHITE tennis shoes quite often. Now we have Locke- and in this past episode- we focused on his shoes- taking them off, putting them back on. The funny part is that they are Christian’s BLACK shoes- just a little easter egg going with the black/white theme that we’ve hit on so much

-Why did Locke take off the shoes on the beach? Was it to ‘keep them safe’? Does he know they belong to Christian- the man who Locke has spoken too and he’s going to ‘return’ them??

-“What Lies In The Shadow Of The Statue?” Different thoughts on this- That it’s a password- so Ilana knows if they’re on the same team- which then brings up the question of… Who is Ilana working for? Widmore? Dharma? Hawkings? Another Party? Or has been taken over by smokie itself? And how many of the random people on the plane were working for the same party?? As there doesn’t seem to be a ton of fighting between the crashies.

-What Is Buried Under The Statue??? The Bomb? Smokie? Jacob?

-Rick thinks that they possibly work for Dharma! They’re baaack! J I like that theory a lot! But…. I think they’re possessed- by something… I mean, why didn’t this all go down when they first got there?

-When Widmore met Locke, he asked him "Did Ben trick you into leaving the island, like he did to me?" So either Ben tricked him into some action that got Widmore banished, or Widmore was lying, or Widmore perceives his banishment as a result of Ben trickery (which wouldn't be too far off, really). – as we know now that Widmore was banished- he DID NOT leave the island because he moved it (which was a popular theory before)

-This scene made me wonder if Christian could be an Other who was banished for having Jack with an outsider.

-What is with Ben flushing a magic toilet? So if he pulls the drain plug in some ancient shitter he can summon Smokey? maybe the water was some special holy water or something and when flushed turned to smoke Was the releasing of the water what called it...or was it that he released the water to open the hole as a clear channel into the bowels of the island and then him saying "I'll be outside" actually called it. It's possible that none of the things he did actually calls it since it's very possible that he didn't even want it to come and judge him.

-Lostpedia give
13th of January 2008
Desmond talk to little Charlie about UK
14th of January 2008
Des tried to meet hawking in Oxford
15th of January
Desmond is in LA to meet Hawking in the church
17th of January
Ben called Jack from marina to care about the Locke's body to the airport

Desmond established a new record for crossing Atlantic in 2 days with his boat :)

-Anyone else notice that it wasn't Locke's voice when Ben was looking at the picture of Alex? I can't remember what was said but it was something to the effect of, "What are you looking at" and then Ben looked up startled at Locke who was just standing there. It DEFINITELY wasn't Locke's voice. Sounded kind of like Christian.

-Anyone else notice that Ben and Alex are looking in two different directions in the photograph? This is very similar to the picture of Ellie and the Monk in the monastery back in Scotland.

-I want to know how angry young Widmore in US Army cast off uniform, became this cool gypsy - Johnny Depp in 'Chocolat' - type, who went on to become an uber businessman and gazillionaire... Please fill in those blanks!

-Everyone is saying because of the hieroglyph of Anubis the statue has to be Anubis… But I say the back of the statue doesn’t match Anubis too well- so I’ll be pretty disappointed if that is who it is. It could be that they are just showing Hieroglyphs of Anubis to mess with us.

-Ok, I did a little research. Smokey is Ammit. http://www.touregypt.net/godsofegypt/ammit.htm

There are many ancient Egyptian depictions very similar to the glyph above the vent. The monster opposite Anubis in those is called Ammit AKA Eater of the Dead, the Devourer

-WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ROSE, BERNARD, and FARADAY?

Lost Kassicast Episode 5:12 "Dead Is Dead"

2009-04-09T08:21:00.000-07:00

We Are Back! I have a few things to say before we get started… 1.I LOVE LOCKE 2.I LOVE BEN (even tho he scares the ____ out of me) 3.Alex’s little part was awesome- and 4.We got some questions answered (some I didn’t even know I had) and got some new questions to answer- but we’ll get there. All in all- a decent episode- I thought it was so entertaining and there were a few parts were I grabbed Rick’s hand because I was a little scared… I know, I know…

Let’s Get To It!

In Hostiltown… Otherville… sigh, circa 1977

A dashing fellow with flowing locks arrives on horseback, and he has a bone to pick with Richard Alpert, and it's not about his choice of eyeliner, but the fact that the Hostiles are currently convalescing young Benjamin Linus, a member of the Dharma Initiative. Alpert silences his protests with a "Jacob wanted it done," which always seems to work. The man introduces himself to the boy — who doesn't want to go back to live with his dad — as Charles Widmore.

Surprising- if you didn’t see it coming- but as we already knew that Widmore lived there- at the same time as Ben and WAS the leader of the Others… Hostiles… yada yada- this wasn’t too much of a revelation. Now poor sweaty Ben- still acting like a normal child- and still scared of his dad- was a bit of a revelation to me.

Some years later — We’re assuming much earlier than the present Ben- considering his nice hairpiece- but I was assuming later than the purge- as he has lost his Dharma gear (we saw him in when he offed his dad) — we see Ben and a bloodthirsty young Ethan Rom (hey, why is his last name Rom and not Goodspeed? His papa’s name is Goodspeed. And why is he running Hostile errands with Ben? Isn’t he a Dharma kid still? Is this post-Purge?) spying on poor, crazy Danielle Rousseau. Ben confronts her, and is startled to learn that she has a baby. He takes the baby without blinking an eye and warns her to run the other way every time she hears whispers. No wonder Danielle is more unhinged than Desmond's hatch door. And I’m assuming here that Ben was supposed to kill Danielle- hence the shot- but couldn’t do it… Which brings oh so many questions to my mind. When he was turned to ‘forever one of us’ I thought that would have turned him to the cold hearted Ben we know and Love- but here he’s a caring human being with a beating heart?!?!?!

Ben brings Alex back to Hostiletown, where Widmore (Alan Dale with similarly giggle-inducing fake hair) is upset because Ben didn't kill Danielle and "it" (aka Alex). "It's not an it; this is a child," Ben says, insisting that Jacob doesn't want her dead.

Flash-forward a bit and Ben is pushing a 9-ish-year-old Alex on a swing- So we really know this is now post-purge. He heads over to the dock to see Widmore off on his last journey off the island via submarine. Ben exposits that Widmore brought his banishment on himself, as he left the island regularly and had a daughter with an outsider (really?? So Ellie IS NOT Penny’s Mom- got it folks?), thus breaking the rules. "I'll sacrifice anything for this island," foreshadows Ben. When Widmore reminds him that he wouldn't kill Alex for the island, Ben snips, "You're the one who wanted her dead, not the island." "If the island wants her dead, she'll be dead," Widmore snips right back. "You cannot fight the inevitable."

In 2007, at the marina

Ben calls Widmore and tells him he's going to kill Penny- btw, at the same dock we’ve seen the night scene so many times. In short order, he shoots Desmond and puts Penny in his gun's sights. In a nice echo of his previous baby-stealing scene, Ben's resolve is shaken by the revelation that Penny and Desmond have a baby too. But instead of stealing Charlie (sniff), Ben lowers his gun and Desmond comes out of nowhere and tackles Ben, beats the crap out of him and throws him into the murky, fuel-stained ocean. America exhales, comforted by the knowledge that DesPen has lived to charm us another day. Me- on the other hand- thought it would have been more realistic if someone would have died… don’t get me wrong- I like Penny and Desmond- but c’mon- no one has had a happy relationship (someone dies or leaves or becomes a raging alcoholic) once being a part of the island- and there can’t be an exception- I don’t believe it.

In 2007, on the island

When Locke greets Ben as he regains consciousness after the crash of Ajira 315, Ben appears relieved, excited even. He claims to have known that Locke would be resurrected. Uh-huh… He also tells Locke that he returned to the island to be judged by "the monster" (aka Smokey) for having broken the island's rules by leaving.

A creepy, smiley Ben greets Ilana on the beach, offering to help her and the other survivors with their post-crash labor. "Have a great day," he chirps. Shudder. He corners Caesar and plants the idea that Locke is crazy and that he might have already been on the island since nobody remembers him from the plane. This is Ben at his best; he is a gifted puppet master… for now anyway. Of course- we (as the audience) know what he’s doing because for once we know the truth- and I couldn’t help laughing.

Locke finds Ben sorting through his old office, where we see him tenderly examine a photograph of him and Alex. Locke wants to talk about "the elephant in the room" — namely, that time that Ben killed him. Ben does a little soft-shoe, humming a familiar ditty about getting the others back to the island and his death bringing them all together. It's a song we've heard before, and Ben knows it- but says that he just needed some key information before Locke died. "Well, I just didn't have time to talk you back into hanging yourself," he sums up. Once again- Hilarious! But- we did already assume this point to a t. One thing- I’ll bring up here- why is everything SO run down- it’s like they’ve been gone more than three years- and the Others aren’t still residing at the cabins, or the offices, or anything. Isn’t that a little odd? It’s like they’ve been gone for 20 years…

Born-Again Locke is a changed man, and his authoritativeness is pretty refreshing. He wants an apology from Ben, and he also wants a front-row seat for when Ben is judged by Smokey. But to do that, they have to convince the prickly Caesar that they need to take a boat over to Funhouse Island. Needless to say, he's not nuts about the idea. Ben seems to be playing a game- to not have to go back to the main land- but then Ceaser goes for his gun and Ben takes it out and shoots him in the chest! What?! Ok- now that surprised me! So, that solves that. I was surprised to see Caesar kick it so soon "Consider that my apology," Ben says flatly.

Ben and Locke reach the main island. "Home, sweet home," says Ben. Ben reports that Sun and Lapidus preceded them on this journey. Locke teases Ben about not having any friends like it's recess and Ben is all: Friends can be more dangerous than enemies. Overall, they're a humorous pairing.

They shuffle off to New Otherton, since Ben needs to go to his old house to summon Smokey. Along the way, Locke lets Ben know that he knows why Ben wants to be judged: for his role in Alex's murder. Ben is clearly irritated by Locke's newfound omniscience. Arriving at Casa de Linus, they discover that someone, a silhouetted woman, is in Alex's old room. Here I was really expecting to see Alex- and perhaps got a little too excited. But, instead we see Sun and Lapidus. They show Ben the picture of the Oceanic 6 in the 1977 Dharma photo, and tell them that a man named Christian told them if Sun ever wanted to see Jin again, she was to wait for John Locke.

It's then that Born-Again Locke makes his entrance, without much fanfare, for now anyway.

Lapidus, who isn't quite as well-versed in the island's mysterious ways, speaks for the audience and points out how cuckoo it would be to follow Ben and Locke, and suggests that Sun return to the crash site with him. "If you leave with him, you'll never see your husband again," Locke says, apropos of nothing. (How does he know?) Lapidus is leaving, with or without Sun. Sun opts to stay.

So Sun joins them on Operation Smokehouse. "Better get to it then!" Locke chirps. Into the walk-in closet of doom Ben goes, where he lights a lamp and crawls through a passageway. In a muddy pool of water, Ben turns a handle and it is drained. "I'll be outside," he says to nobody in particular. Interesting… HOW DOES THIS SUMMON A PUFF OF SMOKE??

Ben re-emerges, but John has wandered off. Sun thinks that Jack must have lied about Locke being dead, but Ben assures her that he was. "Trust me; I'm sure," he says. He admits to her that he had no idea if he would be resurrected- I KNEW IT! "I've seen [the island] heal the sick, but never once has it done this. Dead is dead; you don't get to come back from that," he says with significant weight. He says that John being alive scares the hell out of him. Hmmm. Wondering thoughts going through my mind- what if Locke is like Christian??

They hear a noise, and he tells Sun to go inside. "What's about to come out of that jungle is something I can't control," he warns. But — hardy-har-har — it's Locke. This line's real potency comes later.

Ben and Locke quibble about how long Smokey is going to take to wreak havoc on their lives. Ben claims he only knows how to summon Smokey; he doesn't know where it lives. "I do," says Locke, which really burns Ben's biscuits. So off they go. Locke is vague on how he knows where Smokey lives, and this annoys Ben, which Locke clearly relishes. "You don't like having to ask questions you don't know the answers to, blindly following someone in the hopes that they'll lead you to whatever it is you're looking for," John orates. Ben agrees. "Now you know what it was like to be me.”

Locke brings them to the temple, but they're not going inside; they're going under it (looks familiar- doesn’t it?- but the real question- is… HOW DOES LOCKE KNOW ALL OF THIS?). Before Ben descends the rabbit hole though, he tells Sun: "If you ever get off this island, find Desmond Hume and tell him I said I was sorry." He doesn't specify why, and in the original order of the episode, we haven't seen how things turn out at the marina, so this line was especially chilling.

Lapidus returns to the other survivors of 315, and is greeted with a guy exclaiming- they found guns! Lapidus goes up to Ilana and is greeted with "What lies in the shadow of the statue?" Since Lapidus has no earthly idea what she's talking about, Ilana, ever the bounty hunter, knocks him out. "Get everyone else, and tie him up – he's coming with us," she instructs, implying that 315 might have been staffed with undercover operatives of a yet-to-be-determined mission, on the orders of a yet-to-be-revealed leader. Widmore? One of the Oceanic 6? Who? Or does it go even deeper and have some of the 315 lost lostie’s been taken over by the smoke??

Meanwhile, underground, Ben tells Locke that he's right; he's being judged for killing Alex by making the wrong choice. "I appreciate you showing me the way, but I think I can take it from here," Ben says, attempting to assert some semblance of autonomy. As if on cue, the floor falls out from underneath him, Indiana Jones-style, depositing him into an ominous, further subterranean compartment. The ruin-like walls are lined with hieroglyphics, including one that appears to show Smokey consulting a jackal-headed man not unlike the silhouette of the giant statue Sawyer and Co. saw a few weeks back.

Ben approaches what looks like an altar. His torch goes out, and Smokey starts pouring into the room from a perforated tile in the floor. It surrounds him, and we hear that familiar clicking noise. All around him, Ben sees scenes from his life with Alex, ending with her shocking death. The smoke recedes; his torch reignites, and for a second we see a sad Ben and I feel sorry for him.

"Hi, Daddy," Alex says, as she emerges from the shadows with a knowing smile. Zoinks! She appears to be a little off, in that way that manifestations of the dead often do. A clearly awed Ben says, "It was all my fault." "I know," Alex the Not-So-Friendly Ghost replies, slamming him up against a column. She barks that she knows that he's planning to kill John again. And she wants him to know that he is not to do that, lest he incur the wrath of Smokey. But there's more! Alex instructs Ben to obey everything John Locke says. Ben agrees to this incredible, karmic kick in the Hacky Sacks, slumps over and starts to cry. And then she's gone.

Ben emerges from his Smokey-induced haze and rejoins John. "What happened?" Locke asks. "It let me live," he reports. Although Smokey's little display was quite impressive, and would surely scare the bejesus out of most mere mortals, a question is nonetheless raised: Since we're talking about Ben here, I wonder: Will he heed Alex's warning? After all, the man already thinks he's untouchable. It would be very much in character for Ben to think he knows better. Or does this development mark an abrupt, permanent shift in Ben's journey – and in the power dynamic between him and Locke?

Lost Kassicast 5:11 "Whatever Happened, Happened" and 5:10 "He's Our You" Easter Eggs and Theories‏

2009-04-06T08:48:00.001-07:00

Sorry- it’s taken me a little while to get these out- I’ve been super busy- both at work and out of work…

But- we’ll hit a few easter eggs and theories and such from 5:10 “He’s Our You” and then get into 5:11 “Whatever Happened, Happened” and go from there! Yay! Getting caught up!! 

1. When Cafeteria Hurley is bringing out breakfast to our new favorite Dharma Recruits- we see a Geronimo Jackson Poster- Now this is the latest in multiple references- we’ve seen to the band- the funny part- is that this time- we’re actually in the same time period as the band  Also- the theme of the poster is ‘Alice in Wonderland’- Yet another reference to the story 

2. In the famous- replayed scene of Ben, Jack, Kate, Sun, and Sayid all out on the dock- there is a boat behind them- name “Illusions”- just a fun little poke easter egg

3. After Sayid ran out of the building after killing the last ‘target’ the writing above the door is "олдхэм фармасьютикалс." Which translates to “Oldham Pharmaceuticals” Funny- as the man who gives Sayid the drugs in the future past is named Oldham.

4. At the same scene- the building in that scene where Sayid shot the guy- was #23

5. The guy who played Oldham was The Redneck Larry on Newhart back in the 80’s- just fyi  The series finale for Newhart was him waking up and it was all a dream too… just a funny little connection…

6. Just a thought- When Ben enters the plane- he sees Sayid in the clothes he’s wearing when he shoots young Ben…. Wonder how much- if anything Ben remembers about being shot as a kid- as it is his past.

7. Nobody seems to like Amy- aka: Ethan’s mom. I have to agree- she seems kind of sneaky and all too knowing about something. And she voted to kill Sayid- grrr.

8. One theory- is that The Other’s take Ethan as a kid- Two others were killed for amy- and the others got her ex hubby’s body- as retribution, but that only pays one debt- there’s still one more to be paid. I like that Amy becomes an other tho- and she takes Ethan with her.

9. The Book that young Ben gave Sayid is called “The Wheel Of Time” which actually is a series that contains eleven novels- with three more on the way. The series draws on European and Asian mythology- most notably the cyclical nature of time found in Hinduism and Buddhism and the concepts of balance, duality, and a respect for nature found in Daoism. The Series is notable for its detailed imaginary worlds, its well-developed magic system and a large cast of characters… Now we get to the interesting part- at the beginningof time, a deity known as the Creator forged the universe and the Wheel of Time, which spins the lives of men and women as its threads. The Wheel has seven spokes, each representing an age, and it is rotated by the One Power, which flows from the True Source. It get’s into more detail- but they’re long books- so if you want to dig deeper- I suggest reading them- but really, it’s just an easter egg 

10. And for the portion where we link the two episodes- let’s talk about how it seemed that when Sayid shot Ben at the end of 5:10- it was in Ben’s left side- where the heart is. But when Jin rolls over Ben- the bullet had entered the right side of his chest… Is it a fluke or is it just another thing showing- that people see what they (or the island) wants them to see.

11. What really freaks me is the things Richard said, about Ben never being the same again. It just reminds me to Pet Cemetery from King, where the old fallow warns the father of the dead boy. Is the Ben we know, Zombie Ben?

12. It's ironic that Kate and Sawyer and Sayid are the reason why Ben is the way he is.

13. The Other- mentions Ellie (aka- Eleanor Widmore, aka- Creepy Lady, aka- Faraday’s Mother) and Charles (aka- Charles Widmore, aka- Penny’s Dad, aka- trying to kill Ben) So are they in charge at this point?? I’m thinking so

14. Ben’s gun shot- got even lower on his side by the time Richard took him into the temple

15. Ben may technically have been born on a roadside near Portland, but he could also be said to have been born (again) when Richard takes him in to The Temple.

16. The woman that “took Aaron” looked like Claire from the back- coincidence- or in Kate’s mind?? As in- what she had to see to freak her out even more and get her to go back to the island to find Claire.

17. The numbers show up again- As the domino game Hurley and Miles are playing is called “42”

18. There is a guy laying in the hospital bed behind Kate while she’s giving blood. Some people think he looks like Jacob- but I don’t see it. The odd part is when they show the bed behind her again- the bed is empty. Mistake? There wasn’t anything special about this scene

19. The conversation about time travel between Hurley and Miles was hilarious- that is all I have to say about that!

20. can anyone tell me WHY Kate was not surprised when she saw Cassidy???
Cassidy saw Kate on TV when o6 returned, but Kate didn’t know Sawyer’s girlfriend was Cassidy.

21. When Walking up to Cassidy’s door- Kate was singing to Aaron- “Catch a Falling Star” Which is the song Claire wanted the adopted parents to sing to Aaron- because her dad had sung it to her.

Well- that’s all for now- send your theories- and other easter eggs to me. Can’t wait for Wednesday’s Episode!

Lost Kassicast Episode 5:11 "What Happened, Happened" Recap‏

2009-04-02T13:01:00.000-07:00

Rick and I had a little difference of opinion about last night’s episode. I was really looking forward to a Kate episode- possibly too much and felt a little shafted at the end of it- was a bit disappointed and bored through-out. Rick, on the other hand- Loved the episode. Now let me ask you- Did you love it, hate it, or does it go right down the middle? I didn’t hate it at all- it was just kind of- “eh”. But lets get to it- It was about truth-telling. It was bound to happen. One of the Oceanic 6 had to crack. But who knew it would be Kate? (As usual, I've rearranged the narrative. I hope this isn't annoying.)

1977
Crappy Jobs
Jin comes to, gets on the radio and reports that Sayid is headed north. (Aside: Is he telling the truth?) Interestingly, he doesn't tell the guy on the radio that Ben has been shot. But he does load him into a VW bus, stat! (god I love that van!)

Back in Dharmaville, post-flaming bus crash, they are preparing for another attack, where, in general, chaos reigns. Horace reports that "one of us" freed Sayid, which launches a witch hunt/investigation. He reports that only Roger Linus (Ben's dad), Jack and Willie have janitors' keys, one set of which unlocked Sayid's cell. For a second, I thought that Jack would find himself in some hot water, even though we know what really happened.

Kate has an odd little bonding moment with Roger Linus, Ben's dad, about receiving crappy Dharma assignments. It's actually a little flirty — very very weird and a little creepy- as I love Kate and am a little creeped out by Roger. Jin arrives with the mortally wounded Ben, breaking up the sexy-eyes showdown before something horrible happens.

He’s Just A Boy
Roger's keys are missing (duh), which Sawyer discovers as he meets up with Ben's dad, who is dutifully waiting outside the hospital as Juliet tries to stabilize Ben. The little guy is hemorrhaging, and Juliet tells Sawyer that he needs a real surgeon, with a knowing look. Hmmm- jack….

Meanwhile, Kate, Jack and Hurley are under house arrest by Miles. Hurley amuses us by noting the Back to the Future theory: that they'll all start disappearing if little Ben dies, since in the future he's the one who convinced them all to come back. "You're an idiot," Miles concludes, and he repeats Daniel's "whatever happened, happened" theory.

Sawyer asks Jack to come to help save Ben, and he refuses! Kate tries to convince him to change his mind, but New Jack is resolute. "He's just a boy, Jack, you can't let him die," she pleads, surely with thoughts of her surrogate son dancing in her head. "I've already done this once. I've already saved Benjamin Linus, and I did it for you. I'm not going to do it again," he says.

This is when things get interesting. Because Jack says this: "When we were here before, I spent all my time trying to fix things; do you ever think maybe the island just wants to fix things itself? Maybe I was just getting in the way." This is a shift in perception of significant proportions for the man of science, and I'm guessing that if Locke had witnessed it, he would smirk just slightly.

Kate, on the other hand, is not amused. "I don't like the new you," she spits. "You didn't like the old me, Kate," he spits right back. Despite her bizarre bid to become Ben's new stepmother, "Whatever Happened, Happened" isn't a banner episode for Kate's love life, as we'll soon see.

Juliet has stabilized Ben, but he’s not doing so hot. Kate shows up at the hospital, ready to donate blood, since she's a universal donor. Juliet and Kate have some talk about Jack. She tells Juliet that she's really, really mad at him because he's being a big dummy-head and didn't write back to her in math class. "Off-island did something happen with you two?" the ever-serious Juliet asks. "We were engaged; does that count?"

Roger barges in, suddenly playing the role of concerned parent. Kate convinces Juliet to let him stay. He confesses to Kate that he knows that Ben stole his keys to help Sayid escape, and acknowledges that he isn't in the running for Father of the Year. He also asks Kate if she has kids, and she says no. "I guess a boy just needs his mother," Roger says, as he tells her how Mrs. Linus died in childbirth. Kate's heart breaks into a million pieces, as she is surely thinking about the boy she left behind.

Dharmaville University- The Study Of ‘Time’
Meanwhile, back in the Dharmaville University physics-department faculty lounge, Profs. Reyes and Straume debate. It's a winky discussion that is clearly designed to speak directly to the befuzzled audience. "All this already happened," Miles says. "This conversation already happened, but not for you and me."

This whole conversation is extreamly funny to me. But! That said, Hurley asks an intriguing question: In 2004, when Sayid was torturing Ben, why wouldn't Ben remember getting shot by that same guy when he was a kid? yeah, why didn't he remember? This just made me crack up- as it seemed like a little shot from the directors and writers- as this question has been floating around forums for the past few months.

‘They’ can save him
In the same vein, why isn't Roger Linus all: Why is the motor-pool lady sticking wadded-up gauze inside my son's abdominal cavity? But he isn't and she is, so let's move on. Juliet has stabilized Ben, but she tells Kate that she can't fix him, that he's going to die. Kate refuses to accept that conclusion. "Maybe there's something they can do," Juliet offers. "They?" Kate asks. "The Others," Juliet says.

So they load the ailing Ben into one of the sporty blue VW vans, and, after some squabbling, decide that Kate is going alone to bring Ben to the Others, Hostiles, whoever. Juliet tells Kate that she is going to have to tell Sawyer the truth, but that she'll give her as much of a head-start as she can.

Sawyer soon catches up with Kate and Ben, but, surprisingly, he's not there to stop her; he's there to help her — and he called her Freckles finally. Except... "I'm doing it for [Juliet]," he says. Ouch. So off they go, trudging off into the jungle to find Richard Alpert.

Juliet and Jack face off about Ben, but mostly it's about why the Oceanic 6 came back. "We didn't need saving. We've been fine for three years," Juliet reveals. "You came back here for you." Well, not exactly. Jack says he came back because he was supposed to do something. (Again, what a 180 this guy has undergone!) "Do what?" Juliet asks. He doesn't know, but Juliet suggests with a harrumph that he'd better figure it out.

Back in the jungle, Kate tells Sawyer that she took care of his daughter. "She looks just like you when she smiles," she says. Sawyer seems uninterested. "I bet you and Cassidy had a lot to talk about," he prompts (they did -- see below). Kate presses on. "She thought you were worried about what would have happened if you didn't [stay]," she says, kind of harshly. To punish her right back, he says, practically apropos of nothing, that he and Kate never would have worked out.

Of course, Kate and Sawyer run into the Hostiles in short order. But no whispering this time, did you notice? They take them to Richard Alpert. "Where the hell did you come from?" Sawyer asks, as Alpert materializes seemingly out of nowhere. Alpert recognizes little Ben, and agrees to save his life.

But there's a catch: "If I take him, he's not ever going to be the same again. He'll forget this ever happened, and his innocence will be gone. He'll always be one of us," Alpert reports. "Do you still want me to take him?" Yes, says Kate. This is an "a-ha!" moment in that now we know how cuddly-cute Benny became the adult-sized ‘Kill- my own dad’ BEN.

One of the redshirt Hostiles warns Richard about Ellie and Charles. Oooo Oooo Oooo! Ellie (aka Eleanor- Faraday’s Mother) and Charles (aka Charles Widmore- Penny’s father) "Let [them] find out," he barks. "I don't answer to either of them," With that, Richard cradles Ben in his arms, and takes him off to what appears to be The Orchid… or ‘Smokies’ cavern that we saw earlier this season- still a toss up- where he will presumably enroll young Ben in megalomaniac school under the tutelage of... Professor Jacob?

CIRCA-2004 (guessing??)

Sawyer Sent Me
We see Kate visit Cassidy. (Aside: At the beginning of this scene, we see Kate singing "Catch a Falling Star" to baby Aaron, which you might recall is the song that Claire requested that her potential adoptive parents sing to her baby, since her father once sang it to her.)

"Sawyer sent me," Kate says with a thump. Cassidy recognizes Kate from both their previous run-in and her subsequent Oceanic 6 fame, and invites her in.

Kate gives Cassidy an envelope full of money, and says that Sawyer told her to take care of Clementine, his daughter. "She's asleep in her crib right now; want me to wake her up?" Cassidy says. Cassidy seems a little defensive. Kate tells her about how Sawyer sacrificed himself so that the helicopter could continue to fly, but a clearly bitter Cassidy isn't impressed, calling him a coward and insisting that he was just "trying to get away from you."

This Cassidy not only does she intuit Kate and Sawyer's romantic past — "you have the same look on your face as I did when he ditched me" — she also (somehow?) knows that Aaron isn't Kate's son, despite Kate's insistence that she was pregnant before she met Sawyer. It's then shockingly revealed that Kate has told Cassidy the whole truth about the crash of Oceanic 815, to which I ask: Why? Was she just worn out and needed a sympathetic ear?

2007 LOS ANGELES

Claire’s Alive and Aaron is your Grandson
We're back at the Long Beach marina again, except this time we see things from Kate's perspective. After she storms off, there's no $125 glass of Scotch in her future (although she looks like she needs one). Instead, it's milk and/or juice boxes from the supermarket for Aaron, where Kate ignores a call from Jack and momentarily loses her son. But fear not, some blond lady, who looked a bit like Claire from behind for a second, has him, and he's safe. Although- I don’t believe the woman was taking him to call for his mother- she seemed a bit shady to me- and it looked like she was headed out the door.

"Hi, Auntie Kate," says Clementine, Sawyer's no-longer-sleeping-in-a-crib daughter says. A clearly distraught Kate is apparently now buddies with Cassidy, who is totally that friend that tells you the hard truth. "Why would I expect him to be taken?" Kate asks, of her panicky supermarket sweep. "Because you took him," Cassidy replies. As Kate tries to rationalize her unorthodox adoption, Cassidy rightly tells Kate that she needed Aaron because Sawyer broke her heart.

Thank God she's going back to the island! Kate goes to see Mrs. Littleton, who is still holed up in the no-tell motel, and spills her guts: Claire is alive (now- I still don’t think Claire is alive), Aaron is her grandson, yada yada. When Claire's mom asks why she didn't come to see her in the first place, Kate admits that she needed Aaron. And then she gives her Aaron so she can go back to find Claire. Among other things! Kate says goodbye to a sleeping Aaron, who is lit as if he's in a manger. "Goodbye, my baby," she croaks. Sniff.

2007 ON THE ISLAND
Back in the makeshift infirmary set up for the survivors of Ajira Flight 316, Ben wakes up and is greeted by Locke: "Hello, Ben, Welcome back to the land of the living." Ben's face actually goes from shocked to resigned to shocked. Thump.

Lost Kassicast- Episode 5:10 "He's Our You"- Recap‏

2009-03-26T10:11:00.000-07:00

Well- another week of being ‘beat’ over the head by character traits… Wednesday's episode of Lost centered on Sayid, as we learned how he became a killer and how Ilana managed to get him to board Ajira Flight 316. The new Dharma recruits settled into their groovy new lives, but it was not without tension as Kate found out about Juliet and Sawyer, Sawyer tried his best to play double agent and keeping his new drama free life, and Jack and Hurley sampled dipping sauces. It was a bit on the boring side- for me- down to the last few minutes- which I know, in your mind, you’re screaming “LET’S TALK ABOUT THE ENDING” Patience grasshopper- we’ll get there. First let’s start through the relatively slow ‘family’ feel to the first fifty minutes of the show. I’m trying to keep from jumping around too much in this narrative- so we’ll go in an order that makes sense to me- stick with me J Namaste

A KILLER IS BORN AND A CHICKEN DIES
We open on a young Sayid in sunny Tikrit, Iraq, who kills a chicken for his more sensitive brother (he was fat, which is TV shorthand for "sensitive"). I found this act a little creepy but it seems to please Sayid's difficult-to-please father, and a killer is born! Hooray?

BUT WHAT DO I DO NOW?
We're in Russia, where Sayid systematically offs some guy. Once he's done, he reports back to Ben, which places him in the post-island timeline somewhere in the "Economist" era, when Sayid was a globetrotting assassin. But Ben has good news: Andropov was the last guy on the list of members of Widmore's organization who posed a threat to Sayid's friends. Or so Ben says, ha ha. And, uh, so what does that really mean- why were these people threats to the Oceanic 6? And what does Sayid do now, now that the Linus Slaughterhouse has closed up shop? "I suppose you should go live your life; you're free, Sayid," says Ben. Sayid's confusion indicates that the last thing on his mind is building houses in the Dominican Republic.

But that's where Ben finds him next. How did he find him? "I looked," Ben tells Sayid that he thinks that John Locke has been murdered, and since Sayid isn't surprised to hear that John Locke is back in the real world, we can place this after "Jeremy Bentham" in the timeline. Ben, his pants afire, thinks that Sayid is in danger of being murdered by the same mythical killer, and gives as evidence the men who are watching Hugo in the mental institution. (AND TO THIS I SAY…. HA! COME ON! BEN IS USING HIS OWN KILLER INSTINCTS AND KILLING OF LOCKE TO TURN SAYID BACK AGAINST… WIDMORE’S PEOPS?) Ben wants him to start killing people again, because "it's in your nature; it's what you are," he says.

"I'm not what you think I am," Sayid replies, clearly still aching from his boyhood trauma.

DON’T TRUST SINGLE WOMEN AT BARS…
This is presumably when Sayid goes to play buddy cops with Hurley, which ultimately leads him to the Long Beach Marina, where he storms off when he hears Ben's "hey, here's an idea, let's go back to Island" plan.

He drowns his sorrows in a $120 glass of MacCutcheon whisky, coincidentally also the preferred brand of bad dads everywhere, including Anthony Cooper (Locke's father and aka- original sawyer) and Charles Widmore.

Hey, guess who's at the same bar? No, not Norm and Cliff, but a sparkly, dolled-up Ilana, who is ordering a "bloody" rib eye and making her best sexy-eyes at Sayid, who, with his droll manner, immediately assumes that she's a prostitute (sorry, a ‘professional’- now that’s a way to win over a woman… no). No matter. After some chit-chat about trying to change and resisting temptation, yada yada, Sayid and Ilana head back to some hotel room- where they… well you know…

Sayid’s trying to get off Ilana’s serious ‘hooker’ (wait, not hooker- lets just say boots) boots and she round-houses him into submission. At gunpoint, she reveals that she was hired to bring him to Guam (aha!) by the family of Peter Avellino, the man we saw Sayid kill on the golf course in the Seychelles. This might be a little close to home for her- she seemed to get a little more upset than just a bounty hunter.

As they board Ajira Flight 316, Sayid sees his long-lost friends and asks, "Are you sure we're going to Guam?" Why don't you ask Frank Lapidus that question, Sayid? He knows! He tries to convince Ilana to take a different flight, but to no avail.

STAY AWAY FROM MY MAN
"It's over, isn't it? Us, playing house?" Juliet asks, as she looks forlornly through the curtains at the milling-about Oceanic 6- Mainly Kate. Sawyer demurs, but this doesn't change Juliet's mood.

Hurley, who has been hilariously assigned to the Dharma kitchen, is serving breakfast to Jack and Kate. "Be sure to try the dipping sauces; they really bring out the ham," he advises. Ham… Waffles… what is he making? I’m hungry… Heh. He also spills the beans about Jawyer (Julisaw? Fleuriet?) — "they live together now, and not as roommates" — to which Kate has an effortful non-reaction, which Jack notices. I thought that was odd… I mean- it has been three years. And Kate moved on with Jack and she would be married (at least engaged) to him if JACK hadn’t screwed up and started drinking… but now she’s upset because Sawyer moved on???

Later, in the motor pool, Kate and Juliet, aka grease monkeys, talk turkey about flat-four engines and, you know, the man they've both slept with. "I wasn't quite sure how to say it without it sounding like I was telling you to stay away," Juliet says. Kate says it's fine, which we know it totally isn't, because later Sawyer pays her a visit to ask why she came back. "I don't know why everyone else came back; I just know why I did," she replies significantly. Evangeline Lilly (Kate) didn't have a lot of lines in this episode, but she played then with an almost palpable weight on her delicate shoulders. Well done, Evie! I think she did a great acting job as always- but her character is making me a bit uncomfortable… J for Juliet’s sake of-course. Matthew Fox (Jack), meanwhile, might as well have been an extra tonight.

BEN WAS ALWAYS THE LITTLE MUNIPULATER
Back in Dharma jail, a young Benjamin Linus brings Sayid a chicken salad sandwich, and tries to get out whether Sayid is a Hostile sent by Richard Alpert. While Sayid is noncommittal, Ben offers to help him anyway, and a demented friendship is born.
Then comes the questioning. Horace and Radzinsky take a shot at it, but Sayid remains silent. "Ask him about the model," suggests Radzinsky, cryptically. Next Sawyer goes to check on the welfare of his old friend. "A 12-year-old Ben Linus brought me a chicken salad sandwich — how do you think I'm doing?" he says. Sawyer suggests that Sayid fake being a Hostile defector, but he resists that plan. Why? We're not sure. Once Sayid witnesses Ben with his cruel father, Sayid recognizes something in the kid's lonely childhood, and forms an uneasy alliance.

HE’S OUR YOU
But first! LaFleur shows up and Tazes him and carts him off to see Oldham. Who is Oldham? "He's our you," Sawyer mumbles. The eccentric Oldham is found in a tent by the side of the road listening to Billie Holiday. As played by guest star William Sanderson (you remember him as a Darryl on Newhart), Oldham is both folksy and menacing, a character straight out of a Tarantino film, if Q. was a hippie.

They put him in restraints, and give him a sugar cube laced with truth serum- that’s the 70’s way of ‘torture’ I’m guessing…. I’d like that more than Sayid’s torturing! The funniest part of what happens next is that Sayid, totally tripping, actually does tell the whole truth, but since his tale is so fantastical ("I am from the future," he reveals), Oldham thinks he messed up the dosage. "You used exactly enough," Sayid says, and then he sits Indian-style on an old Oriental carpet and sips mushroom tea as an old lady braids his hair with daisies.

Since Operation Truth fails so miserably, Dharma calls a meeting of the Jumpsuit Quorum, who — at Amy's impassioned, new-mother behest — votes to execute Sayid. To cover his tracks, LaFleur votes with the crowd, making it unanimous. And Sawyer- has taken my bad side. What a prick. He will do anything to save his newfound ‘barbie life’

I KNOW WHY I’M HERE
Sawyer hot-foots it over to the lockup to try to fake some sort of breakout scenario to save his friend. A still-woozy Sayid has other plans though. He has a purpose. "Now I know exactly why I'm here," he tells Sawyer, who throws up his hands and searches, fruitlessly, for a cutting nickname.

We see a Dharma van on fire as it careers through Dharmaville and straight into a house. While various Dharma folks — including Kate — attempt to reestablish order, young Ben springs Sayid from the pokey. Sayid notices the kid's broken glasses and says solemnly: "My father was a hard man as well." Ben, who's wearing a very ominous-looking hoodie, has visions of the streets paved with gold in Hostileville, as the pair skip off into the darkness. Sayid tells him that his purpose is to bring Ben to the Hostiles, which raises all sorts of questions about what exactly Sayid's future role will be and what else was laced into that ‘truth serum’.

But just as I'm thinking I’ve figured it out. in my head, they meet up with Jin, who appears to be down with helping Sayid escape. But just as Jin is about to call LaFleur on the radio, Sayid does a quick, assassin-y neck twist on the poor guy, and he falls to the ground. Little Ben is OK with the violence, but little does he know. "You were right about me," Sayid says to the kid Ben. “I am a killer." And with that, he shoots young Ben square in the chest. And... thump!

WHAT?!?!?! IS BEN DEAD? I thought ‘we’ couldn’t change the future- and if Ben would die- then there would be no purge, most likely no ‘incident’, there wouldn’t be a button needing pushed- and desmond wouldn’t have forgotten to push it, and the plane wouldn’t have crashed, and Sayid would have never been a killer to save the Oceanic 6, and Sayid wouldn’t come back and kill Ben- so everything would happen… My head hurts. Theories to be sent later.

Lost Kassicast- Episode 5:9 “Namaste” - Easter Eggs/Theories/and Questions

2009-03-19T10:13:00.000-07:00

There’s really not much this week- but feel free to add- There weren’t many surprises or easter eggs for me- but others had some theories, so here you go.

* The First One is something huge (potentially) that I totally missed. In the scene with Sun – when Christian Shepard appears and this time in Othersville. The recreation room is eerily similar to Jacob's cabin and well after the wind blows open the door and the light shines behind Sun and Frank you can see a woman move her head slightly in the background!?

It seems like someone with red hair or blond hair like Claire. Is Claire hanging with Christian OR is this a huge production error!?

I don't know the more I look at the image and re-watch the scene it looks like a production member looking at a screen or something to that effect (plus it was cut off of the widescreen versions- and there’s was no attention drawn to it)- but whatever it is- it’s pretty interesting- people are arguing Claire or Charlotte.

* Okay... maybe I am seeing things, but in the scene with were Christian is showing Sun and Frank the picture, does the smoke monster open the door and come in?

* “If the Swan wasn't built yet, why does Chang have a Swan lab coat in the barracks video?”

* Hurley’s a Chef  LOL

* Notice the airlock in the blueprints- when Radzinsky was building the Swan Model? Most likely part of the sealed off wall:

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3299/closedwall.jpg ;)

* “The whispers come from people that are in the same place/location on the island...but at different stages of time. Early in the series of the show, when time travel wasn't a theme, this would have been hard to figure out. But now that time travel is apparent...hearing the whispers but not seeing anybody could be plausible. Didn't some translations of the whispers (in previous years/episodes) sound like.."there they are"..."do you think they see us?"...and stuff like that? This is just my thought.”

* “I wonder if we'll get to see what's in the Swan room that's been sealed off. You're able to get in there in the video game (Lost: Via Domus) and look around, and that was cool - I wonder if we do see what inside in the show, if it'll be the same thing as the game! I have a feeling we're not quite done with Swan station hyjinx.

And I really don't mind spoiling that little tidbit about the game. The game itself is an "alternate universe" storyline separate from the show, and unless you're a fan of the show, the game really wasn't that great at all.”

* “Again, the room behind the sealed wall (also known as the Incident Room), can be found by accessing a secret area in the Lost: Via Domus video game. Although the game's storyline is considered non-canonical, the design of the Incident room is the intended layout made by the creators of the show! Mystery solved?

So, you can either wait to MAYBE see past the sealed door in an upcoming episode taking place back in 1977, or you can rent the game and find that secret area! It's near the end, but the game only takes about 4 or 5 hours to beat.

Or you can just go here: http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Incident_Room

What someone SHOULD do (I can't, because I sold my Via Domus on eBay), is play through the game and get to the Incident Room...because the game automatically makes maps of the places your character travels, including DHARMA station maps confirmed as faithful to the show. If someone would get to the Incident Room in the game and compare the game map to the blueprint Radzinksy was building his model on...then truly it could be mystery solved.”

* Where if Faraday?????

* If we see little Ben- that means that Juliet, Sawyer, Miles, and Jin see him all the time. They also see Ben’s little girl friend…

* We had thought that Caesar and Ilana had known each other before the flight, but based on Caesar saying, "Hey, lady," after the crash, it doesn't seem like they'd met previously.

* Jack's watch appears to have stopped working. This is presumably the same watch that his father gave to him on his wedding day.

* Jack was on the list, but Kate wasn't. Did Juliet do this on purpose to make her sweat?

* Why did Ben bring Sayid food? Why did they let a kid bring it and talk to Sayid alone?

* If the name Radzinsky (the guy running The Flame and building the scale model of The Swan, aka the hatch) sounds familiar, it's because Kelvin spent a lot of time telling Desmond about him during the flashbacks in the season two finale, "Live Together, Die Alone." He had been Kelvin's partner at The Swan before Desmond, and painted the map of all the Dharma stations on the blast doors. Assuming that one of The Others didn't assume Radzinsky's name after the purge, then The Swan was still technically under Dharma control in the 21st century, which might help explain why Dharma planes were still doing supply drops after the Oceanic 815 crash.

* I caught "The Muppet Show" on one of The Flame monitors. Were any of the others showing '70s TV?

* We don't get to spend much time with the other Ajira 316 passengers, or get more clues about whether Caesar knows more about the island than he's telling or is just this plane's equivalent of Sayid, but I did catch another familiar face in the crowd. When Caesar's arguing with Frank over going to investigate the nearby buildings, we see Brad Henke, late of "October Road".

Lost Kassicast- Episode 5:9 “Namaste” - Recap

2009-03-19T09:18:00.000-07:00

na⋅ma⋅ste
–noun
a conventional Hindu expression on meeting or parting, used by the speaker usually while holding the palms together vertically in front of the bosom.
Taken literally, it means "I bow to you"

So, I don’t know about anyone else- but this episode while good- was still a little boring. We enjoy figuring out what’s going on in the fictional addiction known as LOST, but when we’re right and there is nothing we don’t know going on in lost- it’s a little disappointing. Granted- this was a good ‘catch up’ episode and was needed for a filler and (I suppose- although I didn’t need it) a ‘breather’ and also.. more character development. Beyond my pouting- here we go with the Recap of “Namaste”

Hey Look- There’s A Runway.
We’re back on Ajira 316. The plane undergoes some turbulence and Lapidus isn’t happy with what he knows is about to happen. Things get rough and there’s a giant flash of white light.

Once the light is gone, we’re still on the plane with Lapidus, only it’s magically gone from night to day and he’s about to crash into the Island. Lapidus does some fancy flying and manages to land the plane on the “runway” on the secondary island. Hey look- we knew Sawyer and Kate were helping to build. But- the awesome part- is that it, oh, just happened to be right where 316’s engines went out and Lapidus had to land… The crash knocks him out, and when he comes to, his co-pilot is dead.

Lapidus heads to the back and sees that, for some reason, Sun is the only one of the Oceanic 6 still aboard. Ben says they’re gone (and he’s also not all beat up and unconscious waiting to be taken to the ‘infirmary’ where Locke sees him later), and when Lapidus asks how, the response is, “How would I know?” Oh Ben…

Three Years Had Better Be Enough Time
But we know where they are, and it’s 30 years earlier. We see Sawyer reconnecting with Jack, Hurley and Kate, and everything’s happy until he tries to explain why he’s in a DHARMA jumpsuit. “It’s 1977,” he tells them.

“Uh, what?” replies Hurley.

Sawyer tries to hatch a plan to bring them in, but as soon as Jin hears that Sun was on the plane, he speeds off to the Flame to check with Radzinsky. Here’s a quick reminder for any Lost fans who don’t remember all the mythology: the Flame is the communications center on a farm where Locke and others met Mikhail (aka-patchy). Radzinsky was Kelvin Joe Inman’s partner in the Swan Station before killing himself. At the Flame, Radzinsky is building a model of a geodesic dome. Jin asks if there have been any plane sightings. After checking in with the other stations (and Radzinsky being a bit of a smart ass) a blip on the radar suggests a Hostile has entered the perimeter.

He Will Be Hostile Once You Get Those Cuffs Off
Jin runs after it, hoping that the “Hostile” is his wife. It’s not, unless the time jump turned his wife into a Middle Eastern torturer. Sayid is happy to see Jin, but less so when Radzinsky arrives and points his gun at him, forcing Jin to go along with the assumption that Sayid is a Hostile. Jin couldn’t even wink at him- to let him know it’s cool and just go along with it?

Welcome to DHARMA
Sawyer returns to DHARMA-Ville and tells Juliet about who he found. They’re both stumped about how it happened (well Juliet seems more disappointed than stumped- this might very well take away her perfect life), but the submarine just happens to be bringing in some new recruits, the perfect cover.

Juliet takes the passenger manifest from Amy to help with the plan. Juliet asks if Amy has named her baby, and she has: Ethan! Sigh- Ethan, ethan, ethan, Can we tell you now- that you shouldn’t steal pregnant women off the beach in the future- because it might lead to your death?

Sawyer returns to pick up the Oceanic 3 and tells them about the plan for them to pose as DHARMA recruits. On the van ride back to DHARMA-Ville, Sawyer mentions Faraday and Jack wonders if he’s still there. “Not anymore,” Sawyer says. Well- duh- we haven’t seen him… but where has he gone to?

Sawyer puts some leis on his friends and tells them to play along with the initiation to get their work assignments. Jack, Kate and Hurley go through DHARMA processing. Jack is interviewed by Pierre Chang, aka Dr. Marvin Candle- which has just got to be odd- as Jack watched his antique video’s not long ago. Jack is a Workman, doing janitorial work in The Shed (Hahahaha!). Kate isn’t on Phil’s list (and I’m thinking this is a Juliet thing- so Kate doesn’t ‘ruin’ her and Sawyers life), but Juliet comes in to save her with a new list. Later they all smile and pose for an orientation group photo.

Kill The Hostile
Miles drives up and he’s clearly not a very good actor because he can’t stop staring. He finally tells Sawyer that there’s a Hostile who’s been captured, and when Sawyer gets on the walkie talkie, he’s furious that Sayid is the Hostile.

Sawyer drives over and Radzinsky wants to shoot Sayid because he thinks he’s a spy who saw the model of the Swan and where they plan on building it. In the holding room, James LaFleur interrogates Sayid and coerces him into admitting that he’s a Hostile, which allows Sawyer to take him back to the barracks as part of the Truce. Poor Sayid has NO clue what’s going on.

He takes the prisoner downstairs and locks him up, leaving him for another day.

“I’m A Thinker”
Sawyer goes home to read a book, and Jack stops by to ask what the plan is with Sayid. He’s surprised when he realizes that Sawyer and Juliet are living together but then the two men get into an argument about leadership skills, and while Jack acted impulsively and got a lot of people killed, Sawyer likes to read a book every night like Winston Churchill did and think. Interesting. But Jack doesn’t seem too upset that he does not have to lead anymore.

When Sawyer walks Jack out- we notice Kate standing on her front porch watching Sawyer. Now- I do really like Kate- but jeeze is she drama trouble.

Little Ben
Back at the prison, a little boy walks over to give Sayid a sandwich. As soon as we saw the back of the kid’s head- “Ben”.

Trusting Big Ben
Back in the present… I guess… Caesar and Ilana are taking control of the situation- bummer- because I don’t think I like either of them. Lapidus tries to calm everyone down, but Caesar wants to look through the buildings and the cages.

Ben lurks off as only he can, and Sun follows him. When she catches up to him, he says that he’s going back to “our Island” and asks if Sun would like to come with him.

She goes along with it in hopes that Jin is on the main island. Lapidus catches up to them and they go for one of the three canoes. He begs her not to trust Ben and gets into a debate with Ben. Sun sneaks up behind Ben with an oar and whacks him over the head. Ha! She’s such an angry little woman!

Lapidus thought she trusted him, but she responds, “I lied.”

“You Have A Long Journey Ahead Of You”
Sun and Lapidus take the boat back to the main island and head to the barracks. They’re abandoned and the two hear whispers all around them. A light goes on in one house, and out walks...Christian Shephard. Sun asks where Jin is, and he tells her to follow him.

Let’s put the pause button on. Sun was off the Island for three years and yet not once did she ever see a photo of Jack’s dad? I find that a little hard to believe, but I suppose plot holes are a moot point in a show with time travel, a Black Smoke Monster and four-toed statues.

Inside the house, Christian takes down a photo from 1977. It’s the DHARMA orientation group photo and Sun sees Jack, Kate, and Hurley in it. Christian tells her she has a long journey ahead.

Next week on Lost: It’s Sayid vs. DHARMA. Hmm, a trainer torturer versus a group of hippies, I wonder who’s going to win. Also- Kate vs Juliet/Sawyer

Lost Kassicast Episode 5:8 “LaFleur” Theories/Easter Eggs/ Thoughts/ and Questions

2009-03-05T11:02:00.000-08:00

Well, lets hit the most argued and important issue of the episode first… THE FOUR TOED STATUE. If you look back- my original thought was a Mayan statue or god- now seeing the full back figure- it looks like a HUGE Egyptian statue. So, I went in search of what other people thought- and here’s a list of different ideas. With my thoughts about each in parenthesis. (by the way- I used to be REALLY into mythology- once I learned I was named after a Roman Goddess- and some of it stuck with me- so that’s where some of my thoughts come from- although they might be incomplete or incorrect from what I remember- so go ahead and call me on them! J)

1. The Most popular vote is the God- Anubis. (it does make sense- we see the pointy ears, what definitely could be a large ANKH in his right hand, and the long main and toga. My argument with this is of course- that the statue’s pointy ears aren’t nearly is big as Anubis’ as anytime we’ve ever seen Anubis portrayed- plus Anubis’ ears stick straight up and the statue’s ears do not)

a. One person said “It has crutches, Locke?” (I don’t see the crutches, but thought it was funny)

b. Another said “It’s obviously Juliet” (a huge statue of Juliet in a toga and headdress… I’m doubting it)

c. A few people said that it’s not pointy ears- it’s more like the back end of a crown or tiara (Could Be)

d. (The ears also make me think of the goddess Bastet- there were other names for her but I can’t remember- and couldn’t find her too well- but she had the head of a lioness- hence mane and ears- and the face was something else I think… but I couldn’t find any other mention of this from other bloggers- let me know what you think)

e. Someone said Spock (HAHAHAHA!)

f. The God Horus is also a thought (as was Horace- the dharma one- which I say- I don’t believe so- but funny J… The god Horus is also a possibility- as he looks a bit like Anubis- with the mane, toga, and also holds a ankh- but… he does have the face of a falcon- so where do the ears come from…)

g. “its holding 2 Onyx's - - one in each hand - - - looks like it could be: Isis, mother of Horus. Isis is the wife of Osiris, who is also her brother. Osiris is the judge of the dead in the afterlife, who was murdered by Set.
This is a battle of light and dark as Horus is the sun god (good) who brings life warmth and protection and Set the god of night or darkness (evil). This mirrors the dark and light theme and struggle in LOST.
Set murdered Osiris and Isis resurrected him (Osiris). Her magical skills restored his body to life after she gathered the body parts that had been strewn about the earth by Set. . . similar to the O6 scattered all over and having to be retrieved or brought back to the island . . . Once Osiris was resurrected, though the resurrection was only temporary, Isis became pregnant with Horus, before Osiris died again.
The statue could also be a statue of Set.” (Cool thought- don’t remember too much about Isis, Osiris, or Set- but what I do remember is Isis didn’t wear a toga- had a full bodied dress in most depictions. Osiris was really odd looking, didn’t have hair or wear any type of long head-dress- wore a white crown with feathers on one side, and didn’t carry an ankh- I believe he carried a crook and flail? And Set- I don’t really remember much about- except he was Osiris’ brother and killed Osiris and was the God of the Desert and Chaos- not Night and darkness. And that there was a lot of argument- because it was thought he had the body of a canine- with other animals mixed in- but others thought he had a human body with the head of the weird creature. So, if they were going of one form of Set (the human body) I suppose it could be- as that form did also carry a ankh- and have a toga and mane- but I believe had long ears).

h. Rick’s thought (I’m guessing as a joke) is Richard Alpert. “Egyptians wore makeup so that’s why he wears eyeliner” (Albeit funny- I’ve seen a TON of people saying it’s alpert.

i. Another Anubis- that I liked J “the statue of Anubis has 4 toes...
the kilt....the pointy ears...im thinking now because Anubis is the guardian of the underworld...that the island are the gates to hell.........it has to be the statue of Anubis and the temple refers to the temple of Anubis.”

j. “it's definitely Egyptian, the circular thing in his right hand is exactly the thing in almost every Egyptian god statues right hand, a tao, or ankh I believe. the other hand is a mystery though as all Egyptian god statues tend to be holding some kind of staff in that hand, but this one seems to be holding something else. lastly, look at the legs, on most Egyptian statues, the left leg is angled outward, this one does not appear to be, though the right leg does look angled outward maybe, course that could be illusion. so I don't know, perhaps this culture was influenced by the Egyptians, but they've certainly gone their own way...” (good points!)

k. possibly Jar Jar Binks (another- Hahahaha!)

l. Maybe Hermanubis - if there was a Roman influence it would explain the Latin. Although I guess not spoken in a modern form. (I don’t know anything about Hermanubis- but this is what Wikipedia said “In classical mythology, Hermanubis was a god who combined Hermes (Greek mythology) with Anubis (Egyptian mythology). Hermes and Anubis's similar responsibilities (they were both conductors of souls) lead to the god Hermanubis. He was popular during the period of Roman domination. Depicted as having a human body and jackal head, with the sacred caduceus that belonged to the Greek god Hermes, he represented the Egyptian priesthood. He is the son of Osiris and Nephthys.”

m. “Crazy theory. The producers have stated that Smokey has been around a long time. The statue is a statue of Smokey's true form, that is to be worshiped and revered. Maybe the statue served as a security system as well telling outsiders to stay away or else.” ( Good thought! J)

n. Annie (have to disagree with that one)

o. Taweret is a good theory, without the crocodile on her back (it would give it away otherwise). She was the ancient Egyptian goddess of maternity and childbirth, and she also guarded the mother and child. Maybe Dharma did something to piss her off therefore all the women die during childbirth from that point forward?
The ears are similar and the thing on her head ( I don’t remember much about Taweret at all, but I had thought- she still had the body of a hippo and was always pregnant.. and a demon… I might be totally off on that tho)

p. Ok- that’s it for now- let me know what you think! J

2. So, when Alpert noted that the sonar fence can hold some things out but not “us”, does that mean that all of the others have some special powers… or that they have a large selection of ear plugs…

3. Still mad about the not knowing Horus’ baby’s name… Some think it could be Charlie, Ethan, Island Tom (aka. Mr Smiley), patchy, yada yada. My guess is that it would NOT be one of the now known others- as he would still have been a young Dharma kid in the purge and would have died. My guess is that it’s either no one or it’s someone connected with the island in another way… desmond? We know nothing of his parents. Sawyer? I’m trying to think men in their 30’s...

4. One magic Easter Egg- we always seem to find is the connections in all of the books that Sawyer reads- to the island. However- for once- here is Sawyer… reading a book waiting for Horace to wake up… and the book has NO cover and NO name on it. ?? L odd

5. I really liked the Sawyer and Juliet thing… Darn Kate- she keeps stealing guys from Juliet- first Jack and now we know Sawyer’s going to go back to her. But… I do still like Kate- so I can’t be too mad- I’m just a little bored with all of the love triangle stuff.

6. “Rosie” the girl with the magic brownies- in 1978 is… wearing a Geronimo Jackson T-shirt J Another Geronimo Jackson reference

7. Where did Horace get the dynamite?? The Black Rock?? It’s too early for Rousseau to have arrived with it.

8. The wine Sawyer and Juliet are drinking with their dinner is a nice choice- Swan Station Dharma Merlot… actually

9. Where was Faraday? We didn’t see him in any of the “Three Years Later” Scene’s …. Did he leave the island? Disappear? Was to freaked out over Charlotte’s death that he ran away in order to avoid her?

10. One thing that's still a mystery about the Others is that, while Richard Alpert may not have changed, the Others/Hostiles definitely seem to change, as an organization. "Jughead" showed them as a tightly disciplined, militaristic outfit; this episode—at least with the murder of Amy's husband—made them seem more like a sadistic cult. (And what was up with their demand for Paul's body?) Later, they purge Dharma, but take on many of its trappings. Maybe the Others have a way of absorbing the attributes of whatever groups they encounter/destroy. But what are they originally, at their core?

11. And speaking of who knows what about whom: We know that Juliet joined the Others around 2001, but what did they tell her about their history? Does she know the Purge is coming—about 15 years from the "present," if my math is right—or do they leave that bit out of the Orientation film?

12. What happened to Horace’s wife, Olivia? Remember way back- when Ben’s father and mother were picked up by Horace and Olivia right after Ben’s mother died in childbirth… So, where is Olivia? What happened to her?

13. Sawyer wants to protect Horace and not tell anyone that he got drunk and threw dynamite at trees.

14. Sawyer, Jin, and Miles are part of Dharma's security team. They have a star Dharma logo.

15. Sawyer and Amy both seem like they feel Sawyer has a right to ask Amy about Horace. Sawyer is seen as an authority.

16. Miles says that last flash was more like an earthquake. I think that with the other flashes they were moving in time, but with this one, the island actually moved to the spot where Eloise Hawking said it was going to be for the O6 to get back.

17. According the Ben- telling Juliet in a past episode: “During the Dharma Initiative, the pregnant woman went to the mainland a couple of weeks before their due date in order to give birth.”

18. That sub going back and forth… If the island is moving all the time, how is the submarine finding them? Do they have to recalculate where the island is all the time, or is there a pattern?

That’s it for now- add any theories, questions, or answer my questions J Oh my- waiting the 18th…

Lost Kassicast Episode 5:8 “LaFleur” Recap

2009-03-05T08:46:00.001-08:00

Sigh… well I thought it was all in all a decent show…. I don’t think it’s a completely awesome as I’ve been hearing from others (who also didn’t like “316”) But I guess, while Rick and I agree on our favorite episodes- we don’t agree with most of the people out there. Like I said- I liked “LaFleur” and it had some good fill-in points and had this little happy side to Sawyer and we got to see a bit more of Dharma. So, I will leave it at that and run into the Recap. By the way- as “LaFleur” was in a bit of a jumble- going back and forth between ‘Three Years Earlier’ and ‘Three Years Later’- we’ll do this in a ‘time-line’ order- so it’s a little easier to follow.

We briefly recap the disappearing wishing well situation, with Sawyer still hanging on to the rope that ends in solid earth after the flash.

So when are we now? "I'd say way before [the well was built]," Miles notes, and they all look up to see an ancient-looking, gargantuan statue off in the distance (we’ll get to the looks of the statue in the theories…) It’s the four toed statue!!!

As John turns the donkey wheel, there's a new kind of flash, sending Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Jin and Daniel into painful-looking convulsions. When it's over, Miles says, "That one was different; that was more like an earthquake." Now the well is back, but as Sawyer tried to jump in after Locke, they find that it's filled-in. They observe that their flash headaches are gone, and their noses are no longer bleeding. "I think it's over," Juliet says. "I think John did it." So now what? "Now we wait for him to come back," Sawyer says, "as long as it takes."

"THREE YEARS EARLIER"
After the big flash, they find Daniel, who is basically distraught... and alone. "Where's Red?" asks Sawyer. "She's gone. She's dead. There was another flash and she was gone," he cries. He really seems to have lost it. Her body just disappeared because dead people don't flash apparently. Daniel reports that wherever we are now, whenever we are now, we're here for good. Sawyer wants to head back to the beach, and although Miles complains about how much aimless jungle hiking they're doing — "who put him in charge?" he asks -- Juliet backs him up. It's all for naught though, as the ever-present gunshots ring out, and they come upon an ominous quartet: a dead guy in a jumpsuit, two feral-looking guys with guns and a lady with a hood over her head.

"We don't get involved, right?" Miles asks Daniel. "Whatever happened, happened," Daniel responds weakly. Sawyer- "Thanks again, Plato, I'm going over there”. In short order, Sawyer and Juliet waste the guys with guns and rescue the damsel in distress. "It's OK, you're safe, it's over," Sawyer says. For a second, as he reaches for the hood, the mind reels with all the possibilities for who this lady. Possibilities possibilities.

Could it be... Sun, Charlotte, Danielle, Mrs. Hawking, Harper, Shannon, Ana Lucia, Libby??? No, it's Amy, who, at this point in this episode, we've already met "three years later" (see below). Sawyer lies to Amy that their ship wrecked on the way to Tahiti. Amy says, because of "the truce," they have to bury the bodies and bring the Dharma dude back home with them, because he's Paul, her husband.

Along the way, Daniel almost walks through those weird sonic pylons, but Juliet stops him, and asks Amy to turn them off. She crouches by the control box at the base and then, at Sawyer's prompting, walks through them first. Phew. No bleeding from the ears! But when the Lostaways try, they collapse in twisted seizures. We see Amy remove her covert earplugs with a slight smirk. Oooo- I don’t think I like her.

Sawyer wakes up with another headache (might add- in the same building that Kate is held hostage by the others- oh… 30 years later), and our old friend Horace Goodspeed is there, and he wants some answers. Sawyer introduces himself as James LaFleur ("call me Jim," he says), and confirms his friends' story that he was the captain of the boat. He inserts some mythology into his lie, and says they were searching for the Black Rock. Horace thanks "LaFleur" for helping Amy, but says he can't stay on the island since he isn't a member of the Dharma Initiative. "There's a submarine that leaves the island in the morning, and you're going to be on it," he says. Sawyer says he needs to locate his missing crew members (and how!), but Horace isn't having any of it.

Juliet reveals to Jin, Daniel and Miles that she's having a strange moment because she lived in house in ‘Dharma Land’ for more than three years. "That was my house over there," she indicates. She exposits the history of the Others vs. the Hostiles and The Purge and how she ended up there in the first place.

Daniel is having a moment of his own. "Record's spinning again; we're just on the wrong song," he reports. His deep thoughts are interrupted by a cute little redheaded girl who walks by with her British-accented mother. It's Charlotte as a little girl! She waves significantly, and you can only imagine that Daniel is wrestling with whether he's going to approach her or not, if he can actually change her doomed future. Sawyer joins them, and explains that his name is LaFleur now. "It's Creole; I improvised," he says.

Then, the perimeter lights snap on and an alarm sounds. The Lostaways are ushered inside, and, predictably, Richard emerges from the jungle. Uh-oh. We learn that in addition to Richard's apparent discovery of the Fountain of Youth, he can also walk through the sonic fence undisturbed. Horace learns that he's there because two of his men are missing, and he believes that Dharma has broken their truce.

This sends Horace into a panic. "Call the Arrow, tell them we're at Condition 1, take the heavy ordnance, and make sure the fence is at maximum," he says. Sawyer suggests that maybe he can talk to Richard, “Your friend out there wearing the eyeliner. Maybe I should go talk to him” which he does. He reminds him of his meeting with Locke two decades ago, and asks if he buried Jughead. Once Richard realizes that Sawyer & Co. are not members of the Dharma Initiative, and that he killed the two men in self-defense (sort of), he makes a deal with Sawyer.

In order to give Richard's people justice, Amy agrees to give up Paul's body (for what exactly -- eye for an eye?), but not before removing a wooden necklace from his neck in the shape of an ankh. Interestingly, Wikipedia tells me that an ankh symbolizes "eternal life". As a reward for helping out Dharma, Horace says Sawyer & Co. can stay for two weeks, and look for the rest of his crew.

Juliet points out that maybe Locke has already saved them since the flashes have stopped. As a result, she drops her own Jughead: She wants to leave on the submarine the next day. Sawyer tries to convince her otherwise, and she agrees to stay for the two weeks, but then she's still going to try her chances for an off-island life. "You do realize that it's 1974, whatever you think you're going back to, doesn't exist yet," he argues. When she persists in her desire to leave, he tries another tactic. "What about me? Are you really going to leave me with the Mad Scientist and Mr. I-Talk-to-Dead-People? Jin is a nice guy, but he isn't exactly the best conversationalist," he pleads.

"All right, two weeks," she says, and we laugh heartily because we know what's coming next.

"THREE YEARS LATER"
We're dancing to Tony Orlando and Dawn's "Candida" inside a hatch with some dude named Jerry and a woman, Rosie (who brought magical 70’s brownies), whoever they are. Until... "Are you kidding me? I'm gone 10 minutes and you're having a hootenanny," says Bill. "What's going to happen? The polar bears are going to figure out a way out of their cages?" teases Jerry. Well, no, but Horace might be drunk out in the jungle blowing up trees with dynamite.

"We've gotta wake LaFleur," Bill says. Back in Dharma, it's 3 am and the boys have to rouse their boss, LaFleur (aka Sawyer!), who is sporting a shorter haircut, eyeglasses and a spiffy Dharma jumpsuit. "LaFleur" picks up "Enos" (aka Miles!) in that famous Dharma van, and they're off to save Horace from his demons. Once they find a passed out Horace, Jim… Sawyer… whatever- brings him back to his wife, Amy -- yes, that Amy -- who is REALLY pregnant and a little distraught. Amy explains that they had a fight about Paul, and then promptly goes into labor.

The baby's breach, so Amy is going to need a Caesarean, and the internist on hand isn't going to be any help for that. A quick-thinking Sawyer/LaFleur rushes off to find Juliet, whose Dharma job is now a mechanic- which I just thought was completely awesome! "We had an agreement," Juliet says, which we're meant to assume is something about keeping their real identities secret or –also- that she didn’t have to be the baby doctor of death anymore. But she agrees to help Amy with her difficulty delivery.

Outside the infirmary, Sawyer and Jin chat about what he's been doing, searching Grids 1-3 without any sign of "their people." Juliet emerges, and everyone's OK. It's a boy! Darn!!! As- we hadn’t seen little 2 year old charlotte yet- I really thought the baby would be charlotte… But, no- and NO names- Whose the baby?! Please don’t let it just be a random kid- that’s no fun! Where’s the connection?! (if you can’t tell- this was bugging me- just a bit)

We see La Fleur picking a flower, on his way to a romantic dinner with... Juliet! (by the way- DUH- we totally called it) "Something smells good," he says, as a sunny portrait of Dharma domesticity emerges. "You were amazing today," he says to her. "Thank you for believing in me," she coos. And then they kiss and exchange I love yous. Which is our cue to deal with the Kate situation tout suite. Shall we?

Once Horace wakes up from his drunken slumber, he learns that he's the father of a new baby boy. LaFleur asks about the argument, which was about Horace finding Paul's ankh necklace. Horace tells him that Amy still isn't over Paul, and asks poignantly: Is three years really long enough to get over someone? Hmm… that sounds familiar. LaFleur begins to tell him about the woman that he has gotten over in three years, but he sketches it in broad strokes. "Is three years long enough to get over someone?" he repeats. "Absolutely." Asked and answered. Just like that.

We cut a morning where Sawyer and Juliet are in bed together. The phone rings, and we know it’s Jin- and we know what it’s about! But Sawyer doesn't tell Juliet about the absolutely insane phone call he just received, and instead leaves abruptly to meet Jin in the north valley, where he's waiting with Hurley, Jack and Kate! They're baaack!

Now we have to wait two weeks! Can you do it?

Lost Kassicast- Theories/Easter Eggs/ Thoughts- Episode 5:7 "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"

2009-03-03T09:31:00.000-08:00

Easter Eggs/ Theories/ and Questions:

- ‘Jeremy Bentham’s’ passport is a Canadian Passport.

- Helen’s death date is April ’08… That would be 4/8

- The Real Jeremy Bentham was born February 15th, ’48 (same as Locke’s fake passport) the only difference is the Real Jeremy Bentham was born in 1748- not 1948

- How long have the 316 Survivor’s been on the Island before Locke arrived?? There is none of the chaos of the original Losties crash- and everyone has been patched up

- The paper bag containing the cord that Locke ‘hung himself’ with- was from Angel’s Hardware Store… Just thought that was funny.

- Ben killed Locke in the same way that Sawyer killed Locke’s father. (minus- the creepy set up to look like a suicide thing)

- I’m thinking Ms. Hawking wouldn’t have helped Ben if she knew he was exiled from the Island- that’s why Ben killed Locke after he heard the name

- There were multiple close shot’s of Locke’s foot. And in all of them- you only see four toes. Could that be some kind of connection to the four toed statue?

- If widmore knew the outpoint for the Island- why didn’t he capture Ben when he was there?

- Widmore says he was the ‘Others’ leader for 30 years. He was 17 when Locke last saw him; so he’d have to have been there till he was about 47… Where does Penny fit in?

- The Life Magazine from April 19, 1954 (found in the Dharma Station- by Caesar) is a real issue- not fake prop J Just happened to be about the hydrogen bombs

- Another Magazine found by Caesar had a picture of the Creature from the Black Lagoon and has him carrying actress Julie Adams. She was in Lost- episode “A Tale of Two Cites” and in the Missing Pieces webisode “The Envelope” Just thought that was funny J Remember her…. In A Tale of Two Cities she played “Amelia” who we’ve thought could have been Amelia Earhart….

- The papers that Caesar was looking through were Rousseau's map, the Tempest map and a photocopy from Daniel's journal. The original had blue ink.

- Rick and I both think Helen is alive- that this was a ploy to get John to keep moving. Another option tho- is that Helen is dead- but not by a brain aneurism

- But- do keep a note- Charlotte died of a brain aneurism and that’s what was causing the nose bleeds of the people on the island- odd how common brain aneurisms seem to be in this show…

- Rick thinks Ben is a good guy and Widmore is bad. “Widmore told John that if he didn’t make it back to the island, then “The wrong side would win”. He didn’t say the bad guys”. I don’t necessarily agree with this. I still think Ben’s a pretty bad guy. I have nightmares about him…

- We think Walt will still be in Lost- he still has a lot more story to tell- I was surprised he wasn’t on the plane. I thought we would see him lying in Ben’s spot at the end of the show

- Rick thinks Carlos and Ilana work for Widmore- I agree to the possibilities- I mean- I talk to people in airports- but he just seemed nosy

- Jack saw his Dad right AFTER speaking with Locke and that was what finally put him over the edge.. I concur J

- Remember back when Kate and Sawyer were having to help build the airstrip in Season 3- we think that’s what flight 316 landed on. Which brings up the question- who knew and how did they know about the future landing??

- Kate, Jack, Hurley, and Sayid flashed to Dharma time- and joined up with the Losties… Sun (for some reason) did not- and went with Lapidus to look for Jin on the other Island (30 Years too early). That’s how one of the boats got there.

- One more boat must go over to the main island (Locke?? Ben??) who will be shooting at the Losties??

- From Rick “Yes, Ben appears to be evil but I think it’s just a selfish act at most so he can come back to the island. If he rounds everyone up then he thinks maybe he can get back. The second he found out about Hawking he killed John” “Widmore has more evil plans in mind then just selfish acts. He wants the power of the island. Ben just wants back on it.” I don’t know about that…. I think Ben’s one evil dude.

- Charlie convinced Hurley to get on the plane- and take the guitar- obvious- agreed

- Kate gave Aaron to Cassidy (Sawyer’s ex flame and the mother of his child) Kate knew nobody could find him there.

- Rick thinks Kate’s pregnant “It just seems like she is, but I don’t know if there’s enough room left in the overall story of Lost for another kid, especially if the next point is true” I don’t think she’s pregnant tho.

- From Rick “The overall story of Lost is really centered around the Shephard family. Jacks’ grandfather was once on the island and will return. Jack’s dad was on the island prior to the 815 crash and may have been resurrected like Locke, but I don’t think so. I think he is still dead but connected with the island because of the bloodline. That is also why Aaron is so special and Claire is acting weird with Jack’s dad now. She is either dead (we both think so) or just has a greater understanding of the island than anyone else so she is content where she is.”

Lost kassicast- RECAP: Episode 5.7 "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"

2009-03-02T16:48:00.000-08:00

Wow…. Well 1. Sorry- that it took so long to get these out- Like I’ve said- I’ve been really busy running to five different states as of last Thursday, but I’m back in good ole KCMO and need to send this out 2. It was an awesome awesome episode! I just re-watched it- so I could finish up my recap. So, let’s get to it shall we?

SHARP-DRESSED MAN

We open on The man from the plane rifling through a Dharma office. We both thought this was before the plane ‘crash’ of 316- but I did totally call that it was in a Dharma location. He doesn't seem satisfied with the old copies of Life magazine and the random papers bearing notations about time and space, but when he finds a gun strapped to the underside of the desk, that puts a smile on his face. His name is Ceaser. The Woman that had Sayid in handcuffs, Ilana, is there too, and though there's a suspicious vibe between them, they appear to be working toward the same goal. He tosses her a flashlight. They exposit that Roxanne was scouting just south of here, that there's a very large group, and that they found a man in a suit.

On the beach, Suit Man is revealed to be a very-much-alive John Locke, and he's surrounded by a very large group indeed. The group on the beach found some boats, but one is missing because "the pilot" and "some woman" (I’m assuming it’s Sun- but we’ll get to that laterI) took off in one. The next morning, John reveals to Ilana that he remembers dying.

MIDDLE OF NOWHERE

Whoosh! We're back to the scene when John left the island, and like Ben before him, he is spit out into the Tunisian desert, gruesome leg injury intact. (And to all those that thought there was something sticking into Locke’s leg--- it’s his bone- proven this episode…) Locke sees that there are surveillance cameras, and in short order, a convenient band of Bedouins arrives to ferry Locke off to a hospital. (For what it's worth, their truck's license plate reads "342, something in Arabic, 6346." )

Meanwhile, back at Tunisia General, the mysterious Matthew Abaddon is there! Standing in the background. A painful-looking procedure — which includes sedation, biting down on a stick and the nausea-inducing realignment of the stray bone — renders Locke unconscious. When he comes to, Charles Widmore is there, just like that. "Nice to see you again, John," he says, which sends my mind reeling about how the Lostaways actually are changing history, no matter what Daniel Faraday says. Widmore remembers meeting Locke when he was just 17 (an event that Locke remembers happening four days ago), but it's unclear if Rousseau remembered Jin, since she was nuttier than a fruitcake.

It's at this point that I wonder, if Widmore had all his secret-squirrel cams in place, why didn't he immediately apprehend Ben when he took his similar trip through the "exit"? It's possible that he set up the cameras after Ben snuck out, whenever that was, since we've now discovered that time passes in radically different ways on and off the island. A matter of days after the island moved, three years have elapsed in the outside world. So who knows when Ben actually arrived, right?

On one side is Charles Widmore; on the other is Benjamin Linus. Choose a side, people, because it appears that it's these opposing nemeses who will define the remainder of the series.

Widmore exposits that Ben had him exiled, and tricked him into leaving the island. "I was their leader," Widmore reveals. Locke, in turn, reveals that Ben had no influence on his decision to leave the island, that he chose to leave.

After all, Locke's mystical frame of mind is such that his gullibility knows no bounds. Think for a second about all the dubious people that John has chosen to believe: his father; those drug dealers and that grifter; Matthew Abaddon; a spectral Walt; Ben; Mr. Eko; Richard; Daniel Faraday; and Christian, to name several. He hasn't made a single decision without someone telling him that it's his destiny or whatever.

Widmore tells Locke that the Oceanic 6 lied about what happened. He, as Ben did to Jack a few weeks ago, tells Locke that he has to convince them all to go back, which Locke already knows, but wonders why Widmore would be working toward the same goal as, say, Ben. "Because there's a war coming, John, and if you're not back on the island when that happens, the wrong side is going to win,"

It's Widmore that sets Locke up with his alias, and jokes that he named him Jeremy Bentham after the British philosopher since his parents obviously had a similar sense of humor. He gives him an international phone, a dossier containing the Oceanic 6's whereabouts and the services of a chauffeur, Abaddon. "What makes you think I'm so special?" Locke asks Widmore. "Because you are," he replies, which isn't a very inspiring send-off.

HELLO AGAIN

First stop: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where Sayid is working with the selfless folks of Build Our World erecting houses or something. He tells John he was manipulated by Ben, and that Nadia was murdered nine months after they were rescued. So he says no, he is not going back.

Next stop: New York, New York, the city so nice they named it twice, where Locke finds Walt Lloyd, Michael's son, who is all grown up. "The boy's gotten big," Abaddon says.

Walt reveals that he isn't surprised to see Locke because he's been dreaming about him, specifically him on the island wearing a suit surrounded by people who wanted to hurt him (uh-oh, that sounds familiar). Locke lies and tells Walt that last he heard, Michael was on a freighter near the island. "The boy has been through enough," Locke tells Abaddon when his driver chides him for not being very good at the old recruiting racket. It's kind of sweet, but the fact remains that Locke is 0-for-2. O-2, huh? It seems a little to me- that maybe Walt is supposed to get back to the island too.

Next stop: Santa Rosa, Calif., where Locke has a funny exchange with Hurley. "So you didn't make it. It's cool, no biggie," Hurley says, obviously fully adjusted to his dead-seeing abilities at this point. It really did have me laughing out loud- poor Hurley… Locke’s not dead… obviously. And- Surprise! Hurley is not going back to the island, and when he realizes that creepy Abaddon is with Locke, he freaks out and runs away. 0-for-3, dude.

"What exactly do you do for Mr. Widmore?" Locke asks Abaddon, who reminds John that they've met before, when Abaddon-as-hospital-orderly convinced Locke to go on a walkabout in Australia. Locke remembers. "I help people get to where they need to get to, John," Abaddon responds ominously. He’s creepy- but I’m starting to like him a bit…

Next stop: Los Angeles, where Kate is all: N-O. For added effect, she belittles John. "I think about you sometimes. I think about how desperate you were to stay on that island, and then I realized, it was all because you didn't love anybody," she spits. Locke tells her about Helen, but Kate is still a little grumpy and 0-4

Next stop: Santa Monica, Calif., where Abaddon takes Locke to Helen's grave. Bummer. Abaddon says that she died of a brain aneurysm, and that she's where she's meant to be, and nothing Locke could have done would have changed that. Maybe this show has heightened my sense of paranoia, but I have a feeling that this whole scenario might have been staged for Locke's benefit, and that Helen is actually married to an orthodontist in San Luis Obispo or something, since "reunited and it feels so good" would be an unwelcome distraction to Widmore's Operation Go Baaack.

At this point, Abaddon is shot, Pulp Fiction-style, splat, all over the windshield, and appears to be dead. A suddenly nimble Locke hops into the front seat and burns rubber. Just as he's about to make a clean getaway, he gets in a car accident, and he's off to the hospital again!

Final stop: Jack's hospital, and obviously the good doc isn't happy to see his faith-blathering nemesis. They argue about fate vs. probability, but to no avail. Jack's answer to the "lonely old man" is no, even after John tells him that his dead dad says hey.

REALLY?!?!?! SUICIDE ISN’T PAINLESS…

Then we see Locke write his fateful note to Jack. He throws the phone away, and unpacks the electrical cord and tools he picked up at Suicide Depot, makes a really weak-looking noose, and... there's a knock at the door, and it's Ben.

A clearly frantic Ben convinces Locke to get down from his perch, and they chat for a bit, allowing us to get Ben's side of this convoluted story. Ben says that he killed Abaddon because it was only a matter of time before he killed Locke. He reveals that Widmore is using Locke, and that Widmore is the reason that Ben moved the island. "I had to keep him away so you could lead," he offers, and my BS detector starts beeping.

"There is no helping me; I'm a failure," Locke. "Couldn't get a single one of them to come back." Ben, seeing an opportunity to appeal to Locke's ego, echoes Widmore's assertions that Locke is special. He also tells him that Jack booked a ticket to Sydney, which I think we're supposed to understand is the beginning of Jack's "try to crash on the island" plan that Sad Beardo Jack undertook at the end of Season 3.

Ben suggests that they try talking to Sun, and John (foolishly?) reveals that Jin is alive, tells him about the wedding ring, and lets it slip that Eloise Hawking is the person who can help them get back to the island. "Do you know her?" John asks. "Yes, John, I know her," Ben replies, and with the reflexes of a jungle cat, strangles and kills Locke dispassionately. I don’t understand why Ben

talked him down- then just kills him anyways…

In the next scene, Michael Emerson channels Martha Stewart-as-CSI, and stages a suicide scene so real, so devoid of any conflicting evidence, it's no wonder the newspapers didn't reveal Jeremy Bentham's cause of death. "I'll miss you, John; I really will," Ben says as he departs the scene of the crime. These final words make me wonder if Ben actually believes that returning to the island will resurrect Locke, or if he offed him so that he could regain control of The Others once they return.

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT

Back to the "present" (ha-ha) on the island, John tells Caesar about the Dharma Initiative, and that he was on the island for 108 days and then came back. Since Locke is good at saying puzzling things, Caesar has a puzzle for him. He explains that he saw some people — including Hurley — disappear from the plane when that white light flashed.

Locke says he thinks he might know how he came to be there, but that he has to find his friends. Caesar says the long-gone pilot and the woman (AKA Sun) has the passenger manifest, but also that there are other injured survivors. And... hello! There's Ben among them, all bloodied as usual. "You know him?" Caesar asks. "Yeah, he's the man who killed me," Locke replies. Thump!

Annie... Isn't it obvious?!

2009-02-27T15:06:00.000-08:00

Ok- so, I still need to post my recap- unfortunately I have misplaced my jump drive- under the seat somewhere. I will find it once I get to a permanent stopping point for the night and upload that. Hopefully finish the Easter eggs tomorrow or sun and get that posted as well

BUT- Here's a theory to keep you interested ;). I was driving to Iowa yesterday, and had a thought. I called Rick, and asked what Kate's mom's name is.. It's Diane- not too much help, but look at it this way... One of Kate's alias's was Annie (maybe she got it from her mom?) The little girl would now be about Kate's mom's age, Annie looked like a child version of Kate- and could have easily grown up to have a daughter who looked like Kate. We don't REALLY know who Kate's father is... When Kate and Sawyer were captured by the 'Others'- Ben was nice to Kate- he treated her in almost a 'fatherly' way... There were other things that we discussed last night- that also play into Diane being Annie- and possibly Kate being Ben's daughter- but now it's been about 24 hours- and I can't think of them... Rick- help me out here if you can.

But that's about it- My newest theory- that Charlotte isn't Annie's daughter and Ben's daughter... Kate is.

Late Blog This Week

2009-02-26T07:47:00.001-08:00

Hey all- So, this might be a little late this week. I have a lot of code to go over for work this morning and fix some problems that I've had come up at work- and skipping lunch today. I'm leaving work early- driving to Indianola, IA- Going to Minneapolis at 5am tomorrow for a funeral- then going to Chicago for the weekend for my niece's baptism. I wont be back to KCMO until Monday. I'm going to try to get this all done while riding in the car- and send it out once I get to a wi-fi location, so if you're lucky- You'll get it soon! :) Until then- send me your theories and thoughts- and I'll make sure to add them into my Recap or Easter Eggs!

LOST Season 5: Episode 6 “316”- Lost Kassicast Easter Eggs, Theories, and More

2009-02-19T13:36:00.000-08:00

1.The Dharma Station named “The Lamp-Post” made me think of a reference to ‘The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe’- Where the way that the children found there way- both to Narnia and home from it- was by locating the Lamp-post. It just hit me when I was writing the recap- that was the first thing I thought of.

2.I think that Ben was all bloodied up- because his “Promise to an old friend” was referencing his promise to Widmore that he would kill Penny. He tried and might have succeeded- not sure, but I’m pretty sure Desmond then kicked the crap out of Ben.

3.Now that we see 5 of the 6 Oceanic 6 on the plane headed back for the island- it makes me think of that ‘runway’ again. The one Kate and Sawyer were helping to build… You remember the one 

4.When we see Hurley- reading a comic book- it just happens to be a comic book that is actually written by a Lost writer- Brian K. Vaughan.

5.Some people think that Jack’s Grandpa Ray- in his quest to go ‘anywhere but here’ has been to the island before- it’s a family thing  I’m not sure if I agree with this.

6.I’m happy they finally explained the White Tennis Shoes on Christian Sheppard 

7.White Rabbit= The name of the episode in which Jack first saw his father in the jungle in season one… White Rabbit= the bunny in the magic show going on when Jack meets his grandpa and find’s his fathers shoes. (Also, we see white bunnies everywhere in this show )

8.Seeing Jin working for Dharma- brings up two main points… 1.That explains why Faraday was working in the Orchid Station in the first episode of this season 2.How long have they been stuck in the 60’s?!?!

9.Ben said on the plane that his mother taught him how to read- another lie- as his mother died in childbirth with him.

10.Sooooo.... Did the plane crash or did the 06ers just "flash" onto the island?? and, if they did - did Frank and Ben go too?? and if so, who's flying the plane now???

11.Was it just me, or did someone else notice that Frank made almost the EXACT facial expressions that Daniel makes when he is trying to figure something out/realizing something is going on. I was wondering if it was on purpose, or if Frank has always done that and I just noticed because he is all cleaned up.

12.From a description: “The man Jacks meets at the airport and that goes on board is a French actor named Said Taghmaoui, famous (at least in France) for his contribution to the movie "La Haine".
Considering his rather large status of fame, it is now obvious that he is doomed to play an important (yet secondary) role in the Season 5;”

13.I doubt this connection means anything important, but charlies father was named simon pace and he was a butcher. this is simons butcher shop. obviously this place is in la, but I thought it was an interesting point.

14.The date on the military photo of the island in the Lamp-Post station is 09/23/1954. The date flight 815 crashed is 09/24/2004- 50 years and 1 day later…

15.I wonder who the "very smart man" was that built the pendulum the Hawkings talked about...hmmm... could it be Daniel Faraday?

16.In Mrs. Hawkings Lamp-Post station- there is a post behind her when she’s talking to desmond. Everything else there looks like an old military station- then there’s this post that looks like old stone… such as the four toed statue.

17.There is also a Mary statue that looks just like the heroine filled Mary’s.

18.After seeing the 6 numbers making up Latitude and Longitude in the Lamp-Post station- I decided to look up the numbers in a “find my latitude/longitude location” site. Found that 4,8,15,16,23,42 will take you to right outside a city called Banga in the Central African Republic…

19.Thoughts From Rick= “I think Kate gave Aaron away to Clare's mom. She knew she had to go back to the island and she wanted to keep Aaron safe. The reason she asked Jack never to ask her what happened is because she wants to keep it a secret so that nobody can find him. And if it isn't Clare's mom, I still believe she gave him away and not that someone took him. If he just disappeared she would continue looking for him for a long time and not just give up and go to Jack's. I think the combination of Ben telling her "he's not your son, Kate" and her seeing and knowing where Claire's mom is a good indicator that she gave Aaron up to her.” I completely agree with this- and (even though Rick’s forgotten) did come to the conclusion Kate gave Aaron away last night. Although- I think that her vision of Claire telling her “Don’t you dare bring him back, Kate” was really the deciding factor.

20.Also From Rick “When Hawking told Jack that he needed to recreate as many circumstances as possible that mirror the original flight, it was not because those items needed to come to the island or that they had special powers or anything like that. It was to show that they believed the island would bring them back. It was a leap of faith, even Hawking mentioned that. When you believe in the island things work out for the better in general. Just look at Locke. Every time he doubted the island things were bad for him. In season 1 when he didn't believe, the island took his legs. He told Eko that Boone was the sacrifice the island needed. Now John is giving the ultimate sacrifice by giving up his life so that the island will bring him back and make everything right again. Now the 5 (minus Aaron) are allowed to come back because they believe it will happen. Even Frank Lapidus knows it will happen and he hasn't even been through half that the others have.

And Ben is allowed back to the island because of the way he has been acting. He has been letting things happen the way they should without knowing all the answers. He asked Jack what Ms Hawking said to him but he also leaves Jack alone to read the letter because he was supposed to. This act of letting the island take over will allow him to come back.”

21.Again: And I completely agree with this one “All of the oceanic 5 + Ben have changed roles on this latest flight compared to who they were on 815. They have all become different people but still people that were on flight 815. Think about this for a second: Jack is now John. Even though john wasn’t much of a believer while he was actually on the flight, he was a true believer once it crashed. And deep down Locke WANTED to believe in something greater. But Jack now is the believer, much different role for him. Kate is Claire. She is all sad and alone on a flight after she just made a big decision about her child...who happens to be the same one. :) Hurley is Charlie. Makes sense since he’s been visited by Charlie so much lately. He probably had another visit with him before he got on the plane. Plus he’s carrying a guitar case which could maybe have belonged to Charlie as well. Ben is Hurley. Hurley barely made flight 815. Remember all the trouble he had and how he barely made it on board? He was even upset later on when he yelled out “I’m not supposed to be her”. Then guess what Hurley says to Ben when he boards? “You’re not supposed to be here.” :) Sun is Rose. Even though it looked like her husband was dead, she believed he was alive. Sayid is Kate. This one was pretty obvious but he is in cuffs just like Kate was on 815.”

22.Rick has lot’s of thoughts this week  “What if the fake wreckage of flight 815 was real? What if it wasn’t flight 815 but rather flight 316? :) What if when Frank saw the dead pilot on the screen, he was seeing himself? Remember Frank was supposed to be the pilot for 815. The universe course corrects itself so the island made sure he came this second time. This is also why Ms Hawking said that it HAD to be this particular flight”

23.Also- Hawkings said that they had 36 hours to get back to the Island… It took them 46 Hours once they were awake- does this mean that they were passed out for 46 hours?!?

24.Rick “Now that we are in dharma time, which I was dead on right about btw :), we will get to see Charlotte as a kid. She mentions when she was time traveling "Why can't Daddy come with us?" I'm sure she is talking to Annie. Annie is her Mom but maybe Ben isn't the Dad. Maybe that is why Ben knew everything about her but didn't like her. So is "Daddy" Widmore or someone else?”

25.Rick is sure that Rose and Bernard are Adam and Eve- which I like, but brings up the question- if they die in the 60’s- will they keep traveling through time- or will their bodies stay behind and rot- to find the skeleton’s later… ?

Ok- I think that’s it for now. Leave your theories- or write me your theories and remember- We get to see the story of Jeremy Bentham next week!!!

LOST Season 5: Episode 6 “316”- Lost Kassicast Recap

2009-02-19T12:34:00.000-08:00

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” - John 3:16

Well here we go again. Last night’s episode was completely awesome! It might just be my favorite so far this season! We did learn a lot- and still have oh so many new questions- but we’ll get to those. In this recap- I’m not only covering the recap and things you might have missed but also some little thoughts here and there. Hold on and read ahead J BTW- the easter eggs and theories will be posted/emailed later today.

Déjà vu:
We start with an eyeball. Jack’s in fact. And we’re taken back to the very first scene of the very first episode that started our 6 year long addiction. Rick and I kept looking back and forth between the screen and each other- with confusion and awe. (sorry, I’m falling back into creative writing-this episode brings it out- I’ll try to stop tho J) Jack in, what looks like to be the same suit he crashed in before. Then it changes and we notice that he’s not confused, he looks somewhat happy, and he’s not rubbing his ears to get the hearing back just to hear the sounds of the wreckage and people of flight 815. He has a ripped piece of notebook paper in his hand, which has, "I wish..." scribbled on it.

Hurley's voice calls him away. He runs towards the voice, and sees Hurley struggling in the lagoon below. Jack swan dives off the cliff and makes his way down below and pulls Hurley (and his guitar case… hmmmm guitar case much like Charlie’s that was left behind) to shallow water. Across the lagoon, he sees Kate, unconscious on the rocks. He wades over and quickly revives her. She's OK, but all three are confused as to what happened.

The Lamp Post Will Help You Find Your Way:
Eloise Hawking lights a candle underneath Caravaggio's "Doubting Thomas." (it’s a painting- just in case you weren’t aware- Ben will explain the story later) She greets Ben, Sun, Jack, and Desmond, same as the end of "This Place is Death." She leads them all down a staircase to a large metal door with a Dharma logo on it. Once inside, all look around in wonder, even Ben: They see the pendulum, the blackboard, old electronic equipment, and a series of rotating numbers indicating longitude and latitude (which just happen to be 6 number- such as 4,8,15,16,23,42). According to Hawking, this is The Lamp Post: the way that the Dharma Initiative found the Island. Jack asks Ben if he knew about this place and after Ben says no- Jack turns to Hawking and asks if Ben’s telling the truth. “I doubt it” She replies J That made me laugh

Get ready for your Dharma history lesson: The room was constructed over a unique pocket of energy, similar to various pockets all over the world- such as oh, say, the Island. Those that built it wanted to find not where the Island was, but where it would be. Nice. Turns out some madman back in the day correctly presumed the Island was moving through time. However, this movement wasn't random, but fairly predictable based on equations derived at the time to more or less give highly educated guesses as to possible future locations of the Island. Predicting said locations leads to windows in time; and the Oceanic 6's window closes in 36 hours.

The Island Isn’t Done With Me, I Mean Desmond…:
Des has had just enough of this from the woman that cost him years of his life with Penny. I was waiting for him to speak up. He delivers Faraday's message letting them all know that Hawking is Faraday’s Mother. Funny, Ben looked surprised but Hawking showed no emotion whatsoever. When Hawking says the Island isn't done with Des yet, he explodes, confronting her over their encounter in the jewelry store and that she wasted four years of his life. He tells Jack that they are all just pawns in some large game, and suggest he ignore whatever Hawking says. He declares that he's done with the Island. Ha- yeah- good luck with that.

How will they get back? By selecting a flight that just so happens to fly over the location it will be during that window. And behold, just such a flight exists: Ajira Airways 316 (1.The Water Bottle, 2.See quote above), L.A. to Guam. The Oceanic 6 need to all return together in order to re-create, as best they can, the circumstances under which they initially arrived. The way she relates this suggests a ritual of some sort to appease the Island, which will then re-grant access to its awesomeness. What if they can’t get them to all be on that flight? “The Outcome will be… unpredictable” she says. Jack seems skeptical, but Hawking insists there's a little more for Jack to do.

Re-Create The Past:
Hawking leads Jack alone up to her study in the church. She delivers to Jack Locke's suicide note, which is inside an envelope marked "Jack Shephard." Apparently, Jack didn't believe Locke committed suicide. Hawking insists Locke will help Jack get back as a proxy for Christian- as Jack was transporting a deceased body before- now he will again. As such, Jack needs to find something of his father's and give it to Locke which naturally sets Jack off. Hawking scolds him, and suggests that he accept this "leap of faith." She says the quoted phrase as if she knows Locke once said those words to.

Inside the church, Ben looks a little jealous. After Jack sits near him, Ben gets up, lights a candle, and inquires about his conversation with Hawking. Jack wants to know why she's so important, but Ben instead chooses to lecture Jack on the subject of Caravaggio's panting. He points out that while Thomas is most famous for doubting Jesus' resurrection and needs to touch the wounds, he also bravely suggested all the apostles return to Judea where death awaited them all. "We're all convinced sooner or later, Jack." Sun has already left and now Ben a final loose end he needs to tie up about a promise made to an old friend (hmmm… He did make a promise to Widmore that he would kill Penny), and leaves.

Later, Jack is at a bar trying to have a drink. He's interrupted by a call from his grandfather's nursing home. He visits his grandfather, Ray the next day, sparing him from a magician's act involving a white bunny. The two seem to have a cordial relationship, which is a rarity in the world of Lost. Looks like Ray's a fan of the "anywhere but here" school of thought. Guess it runs in the family. As Jack unpacks Ray's suitcase, he finds Christian's dress shoes inside. Shocked to the core, he asks Ray to take the shoes with him. Ray has an odd expression on his face, but says yes.

Well, This Is Just Uncomfortable:
That night, he returns home. Again, he reaches for a drink, but hears someone entering his house. Who is it, Who is it? He wearily walks towards the sound to find Kate, lying on his bed. As we see her face, we see a very, very different Kate than at Slip 23. Her eyes are hollow, her cheeks pale, and she looks like she's aged years. She tells Jack she wants to come with him to the Island. When Jack asks about Aaron's whereabouts, she makes him promise to never ask her that question again- a little angrily. Then they proceed to… ah hem… well, you know… Good Gravy, that was weird.

The following morning, Jack makes Kate breakfast. Kate notes Christian's shoes, which launches Jack into a story of how he forewent shoes like these in favor of white tennis sneakers in 2004 (Thank God we finally know why Christian is always walking around in a suit and white shoes… That’s been bugging me!) He figured no one would look at Christian's feet anyways, though now he notes that such a small effort to get dress shoes probably would have been better (although- at least Christian’s feet are comfortable while hiking through the island and time…). The World's Cheeriest Continental Breakfast ends when Jack gets a phone call from...an extremely bloody and scared Ben. Looks like the someone beat the holy hell out of him, and now Jack needs to run to the butcher shop and pick up Locke's body.

Jeremy Bentham’s New Shoes:
Jack stops by the shop to pick up the body. Jill says she knows him- and Locke’s in the back. She leaves him alone in the meat locker as she pulls the van around back. This leads us to the first Locke/Jack scene of the year! Course, this is a little more one-sided than normal, but on the bright side, it's much less argumentative. As Jack takes off Locke's shoes, he says, "Wherever you are, John, you must be laughing your ass off that I'm actually doing this. Because this? This is even crazier than you were." He then puts the suicide note in John's pocket, unwilling to read it.

Here We Go Again:
At LAX, Jack makes the arrangement for Bentham's body with the Ajira ticket agent. While the agent explains the procedures surrounding caskets (including opening it for security reasons), he spies Kate approaching. On the way to the terminal, he runs into Sun. The gang's coming together. He also sees Sayid...accompanied by a female law enforcement agent- hmmm- the pieces are coming together. As he leaves, the man in line behind him offers condolences to Jack over his friend's death. The man looks familiar to me- but I need to look into it a bit further- lets just say he has a rather large part for a red shirt.

One more to go...and there he is! Reading a Spanish copy of "Y: The Last Man," Hugo Reyes, ladies and gents! He's fresh out of prison and the new owner of 78 seats aboard Ajira Airways. He really is the heart, as he's potentially saved the lives of that many people. When Jack arrives, Hurley is less than forthcoming about how he ended up at LAX. Yeah… How did he know to be there?

One by one, they board. I want to run down the Oceanic 6 remix right now- but I’m saving that for the theories and easter eggs…After a brief scuffle involving Hurley and Ben, the flight attendant hands Jack Locke's suicide note. Looks like it popped out during inspection. Jack's worried about the fate of the others onboard; Ben's as sympathetic to them as he was to those aboard the Kahana. Wow, he’s scary. All I know is that if I was in the waiting room- waiting for a plane- (and watched the news to recognize the faces) I would opt out of that flight once I saw the infamous Oceanic 6 all boarding.

Once in the air, Jack talks to Kate about all the coincidences that brought the Oceanic...well, 5, really, back together. While they talk, the final piece of the Oceanic 815 re-creation falls into place as we learn the identity of the pilot: FRANK LAPIDUS. I spell that in all caps because that was so freakin' obvious and yet I totally didn't see it coming. I soon as we heard his voice- we looked at each other- lost in pure awesomeness. Love. It. Lapidus is happy to see Jack, but after
seeing everyone else, delivers the line of the night: "We're not going to Guam, are we?"

Later that night, Jack frets as Ben reads James Joyce's Ulysses. When Jack asks how Ben can read, he replies, "My mother taught me." First Off- HAHAHA- funny reply.. Second- um- here I was thinking his mother died while giving birth to him. Jack pulls out Locke's note, and asks if Ben knew Locke killed himself. Ben denies it- yeah cuz he always tells the truth. Ben offers to give Jack some time alone to read it and heads to the bathroom. The note reads merely: "Jack: I wish that you had believed me. JL." Youch.

Just then, the plane goes a rumblin' and a tumblin'. Jack looks excited. Kate looks nervous. So does Sayid's chest hair. Hurley tells semi red shirt to buckle up and puts on his ‘blindfold’. All of a sudden, the plane's engulfed in a familiar white light.

We Know Where We Are, But When Are We?:
We start at the beginning of the show again- Jack saving Hurley then Kate

None of them remember crashing...all they remember is the white light. Jack suggests they look for the others, but just then, they hear a sound coming from the jungle. A pristine-looking Dharma van pulls up, and an unseen worker grabs a gun and holds them at gunpoint. That man? Jin! Dude's a work man now! AWESOME!!!!

Later Today: Easter Eggs; Theories; and Other thoughts, questions, and things you might have missed

Next Week: The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham!!!!!

LOST Kassicast Season 5: Episode 5 “This Place is Death”- EASTER EGGS AND THEORIES‏

2009-02-12T12:41:00.000-08:00

There weren’t too many easter eggs or new theories this week- as it was obviously a ‘catch up’ episode- not a ‘new-issue’ episode. But here’s a few things that I have:

1.Geronimo Jackson- the band- we’ve heard it a lot- it’s a 1970’s band whose member went missing- but we don’t know the details- here’s some past references= Charlie and Hurley found a Geronimo Jackson album in the Swan. –Undercover police officer (in ‘Further Instructions’) wore a t-shirt with Geronimo Jackson on it. –A Geronimo Jackson poster adorned the inside door of the locker that 16-year old Locke was locked in -A Geronimo Jackson vinyl cover is seen next to a DJ at Hurley’s surprise birthday party -Currently- Charlotte says “turn it up! I love Geronimo Jackson!” when she was out of it

2.Gun’s seem to always mess up- when pointed at certain people. Michael tried killing himself and his gun didn’t work, Jack tried shooting Locke- same problem, and now Robert tried shooting Danielle- Good thing that didn’t work either.

3.Fun little fact- the woman playing adult Danielle is named Mira Furlan and the young Danielle is Melissa Farman- same initials

4.When Locke turned the donkey wheel- Was it just me- or did it seem way different than when Ben was down there? It wasn’t freezing. Could it possibly be the other side of the wheel?

5.Locke doesn’t have identification or money- and he’s supposedly dead- where is he going to get this new identity and documentation to back it up with- in the middle of the desert?

6.Why is it that Locke’s legs always get injured? J

7.We already figured Hawking as Faraday’s mother- so that wasn’t a surprise but- it was a surprise that Ben seemed surprised by that.

8.The donkey wheel being off track- seems to possibly have been what was causing the ‘record to be skipping’ So, if Locke stopped that- would the losties be stuck in whatever time the wheel was fixed in? And, if that’s the case- what’s with the ocean 6 having to come back?

9.One thought that goes along with this- Charlotte said Daniel was that ‘Creepy Old Man’ Now- true to a little girl- anyone over the age of 20 seems old- but what if he was really really old- because he had been stuck back in time and aged…

10.Charlotte left the island when she was little with her mum- never saw her dad again… I’m thinking her parents are Ben and Annie.

11.The French group- came out of that smoky hole- possessed some how. Not an imitation like Christian Sheppard- because they could be killed by bullets.

12.The hieroglyphs that were on the outside of Smokie’s cave- are the same that were on that door that Ben called Smokie from- in the basement of his hut.

13.Faraday and Locke are the only two in the Losties group who don’t have bloody noses yet…

LOST Kassicast Season 5: Episode 5 “This Place is Death” RECAP

2009-02-12T09:54:00.000-08:00

Ok all, so I thought this episode was really good- closed some loose ends, opened some others and had some really good character development. We didn’t get to see much of the Oceanic 6 last night- but we got enough of them- and I was happy with the amount of time my TV stayed on the island.

Jin’s Alive?
We start at the Marina. Ben’s really running into trouble with the Oceanic 6. Jack is really the only one who’s on board with going back to the Island. We see Sun, sitting watching from afar, when she gets a call from back home. Sun tells her mother she’ll be back tomorrow and tells Ji Yeon that she’s got a new friend for her- from America. Strange! So, was she thinking about taking away both Kate and Aaron or just stealing Aaron?? What’s up with that?

Sun walks up to the group on the pier while Kate and Ben are arguing. She tells Kate to move and tells Ben that she blames him for Jin dying. Ben shoots out “Jin’s still alive, and I can prove it.” My question is- How does he know?!

Ben says he can take her to someone in LA who can show her proof. Kate freaks out when she hears about returning to the Island and takes off. Sayid wants no part of what’s going on and threatens Ben and Jack about contacting him again. He’s gotten really grumpy lately.

While they were supposed to arrive wherever within 30 min, and it’s been longer, Sun is getting impatient. Ben says, in his monotone voice, that he didn’t account for the traffic. Jack apologizes to Sun for leaving Jin behind, and Sun thinks he’s trying to get her not to shoot Ben. Jack says he’ll kill Ben himself if Ben’s lying. Ben freaks out a little and gives a nice little speech about what he had done to keep Jack and the others safe and if they’re going to kill him, do it now. Obviously they don’t and the car drives on.

Faraday’s Mother…
The trio arrives at a chapel in their van labeled Canton-Rainer (anagram for “reincarnation”) and Ben gives Sun Jin’s wedding ring, which he says Locke gave him. Sun believes him and is ready to go back.

But, Hey, Look- it’s Desmond! (let’s hope he didn’t bring Penny with him- as Ben would be happy about killing her) “You’re looking for Faraday’s mother too?” We get an interesting reaction from Ben, who didn’t seem to know that Eloise Hawking is Faraday’s mother… And, here I thought Ben knew everything…

They go inside the chapel and there’s Eloise Hawking who berates Ben for not bringing ‘all of them’. He says it’s all he could get on short notice and she says “I suppose this will have to do for now. Let’s get started” Started? With what, prey tell? She’s scares me more than a little.

Jin Ne Saia Quoi
Jin discovers he’s in 1988.. odd revolution. He’s worried about Sun- trying to communicate that he needs to go find his camp, asking one French guy if he’s seen a helicopter. The French guy scoffs “First a boat, then a helicopter. Next thing you know he’ll be talking about a submarine” (no he wont- Locke blew that up. Rousseau & Co agree to go to his camp, after they find the radio tower from which they can send out Danielle’s ominous broadcast.

Along the way, ‘Nadine’ disappears. At that moment they hear Smokie! While smokie is freaky- I’m oh so happy he’s back. A dead Nadine falls from the sky, and Jin yells “RUN!”. Rude Blonde Frenchie comes face to face with Smokie and is drug into a whole in an odd cave type building. The team bands together to try to pull him out and end up pulling off his arm while he get’s drug underground. They here “help me” yada yada- which I think was totally a set up and the team decide to go after him. Jin tells Danielle she has to stay behind because of the baby, and then he flashes away. (BTW- Side note- we’re watching this- and the exact time Smokie shows up we hear a beeping, just like in the hatch. We assume it’s coming from the back speaker and has something to do with the show… After Jin flashes and we still hear the beeping- Rick goes to check it out. Then we start hearing the warning signal- from the time running out in the hatch. We, of course are confused- trying to figure out if we’ve just been watching LOST WAAAY too much. But, as it turns out- Rick has a LOST timer application on the dashboard of his Mac- and it had counted down from 108 minutes. LOL- really- what is the chance that something like that would happen while we’re watching the show. It was great!)

After the flash- Jin is standing amidst the ruins of the monster’s ‘lair’ and sees the decomposing arm of the blond guy, gets some water from a leaf, and makes his way to the beach. He wonders upon the French camp and finds Danielle’s music box and… oh yeah- two of the frenchies shot dead. He wonders to Danielle and her husband, Robert who both have guns pointed at each other. She’s saying that he’s not Robert, he’s sick. He tries to explain, I’m worried about you and our baby, it’s not a monster, it’s a security system guarding the temple. For a moment, she touches her pregnant belly and appears to thaw a bit, but when he pulls the trigger on his gun and misfires, she shoots him dead.

young Danielle quickly whirls on Jin and aims. "You disappeared! You're sick too; you're a carrier," she shrieks. Just as she's about to make the newly alive Jin not so, Jin runs through the jungle. There's a flash and...

Reunion
So Jin has another gun pointed at him, but this time it's Sawyer's! Hooray! It's reunion time, and for a brief second, things are happy. Daniel surmises that he was blown within the radius. Jin has a lot of questions obviously. In his excitement, he lapses into Korean and asks someone to translate. Everyone assumes he means Miles — "He's Korean; I'm from Encino," Miles snarks — but he’s talking to charlotte- I guess we’re supposed to remember she speaks Korean- but I forgot.

Jin wants to know how Locke is sure that Sun made it off the island. Locke non-explains that he just knows and that she never should have left.

It's then that we learn that Charlotte also speaks Klingon, a funny. The flashes are happening faster now. Two in a row and Charlotte collapses again. She tells Jin, in Korean, not to let them bring her back, no matter what. Why's that, Charlotte? "This place is death," she cries. We'll contemplate the possibly wide-ranging implications of that statement later, but for now, let's hear what else Charlotte has to say. Because she has a lot to say.

Charlotte’s Past Life
Charlotte is talking like a little kid, much like Faraday's former squeeze back in Oxford. "Why can't Daddy come with us?" she non-sequiturs. To wit: "You know what my mum would say about me marrying an American." "I know more about ancient Carthage than Hannibal himself." "Turn it up, I love Geronimo Jackson." HA- more Geronimo Jackson.

Another flash (I'm losing track of them in the narrative now, but there were a lot), and the group decides to leave Charlotte behind; Daniel stays with her. But, before they part ways, they realize that they don't know when they are, thus the Orchid might not yet even exist. "Look for the well; you'll find it at the well," says Charlotte, in a helpful moment of odd clarity.

Charlotte unleashes a monologue that answers almost all of the questions we've ever had about her character. She's remembering things. It turns out she grew up on the island as part of the Dharma Initiative, but left with her mum, who tried to get young Charlotte to forget it ever existed. "That's why I became an anthropologist, to find this island again," she exposits. "That's what I've been searching for my whole life." "Why are you telling me this?" Daniel asks, and you expect her response to be something like "Because I'm dying" or "Because I love you." But no, when she was little, a scary, crazy man told her she had to leave the island and to never ever come back — or else she'd die. "Daniel, I think that man was you," (Rick really did call this one- I was thinking alpert? Ben? Mr. Chang? Nope- Rick says “Faraday”) she says. Well, there ya go- Really didn’t see that one coming!
Daniel tells her that he told Desmond to go find his mother, who will help them. But before Charlotte can get her mind around this really weird revelation, she's gone again. "I'm not allowed to have chocolate before dinner," she squeaks. And then she appears to die.

Below the ground
After what appears to be a very brief hike, Locke, Jin, Juliet, Miles and Sawyer find the Orchid. "What are the odds that we'd end up here at the same time as this thing?" Juliet says. Ha! Guess what? There's a flash, and then it disappears. "You just had to say something," Sawyer grumbles. But that's OK, they find the well to which Charlotte referred.

"How did Charlotte know this is here?" asks Miles: Locke is going in. As he says curt goodbyes, Jin — who knows a thing or two about not descending into dark, island-based pits this week — threatens to cut the rope. "This island is bad," he says. He doesn't want his wife and daughter to return. Locke promises not to contact Sun, but says that she might find him. "You tell her I'm dead. You buried me. Take the ring," he says. Fair enough! So down he goes, but — uh oh — there's another flash, and when Juliet, Jin, Sawyer and Miles come to, the rope that formerly went down the well now ends at solid ground. "We can't help him," Juliet says gravely.

Christian… or Jacob…
Meanwhile, underground, Locke has fallen to the bottom of the now-sealed-in well, in the dark, and has broken his legs- it’s always the legs with him- at this point I think I’d be wishing I still didn’t have feeling in my legs. Just as things look really grim, Christian arrives. "I'm here to help you the rest of the way," he reports. Christian scolds John for not following his instructions: He told Locke that he had to move the island, not Ben. When John explains that Ben said he had to stay behind and lead his people, Christian gives this enlightening reply: "Since when did listening to him get you anywhere worth a damn?"

But there's good news! Christian tells him he just has to give the ol' donkey wheel a little shove, that it has slipped off its axis (will this also stop the flashes?), and then see Eloise Hawking in Los Angeles, who will tell him how exactly to get himself — and all the others — back to the island. He also confirms Richard's mandate that he's going to have to die in the process. So maybe that's not exactly good news.

"Can you help me up?" Locke asks. "No, sorry, I can't," Christian replies. As the wheel turns and the screen fades to white, Christian says, "Good luck, John... say hello to my son." "Who's your son?" Locke asks, but there's the flash to end all flashes.

"The Little Prince" Theories/Easter Eggs/Questions

2009-02-06T09:53:00.000-08:00

Ok- so here’s a few easter eggs and theories…

1.The French novel- “The Little Prince” is about a prince who is stranded in a desert, but eventually visits six planets, each inhabited by a different single character… The King, The conceited Man, The Drunkard, The Businessman, The Lamplighter, and The Geographer.

2.The canister found on the beach (French time) said Besixdouze =Be+Six+Douze= B612= Home Asteroid in “The Little Prince”. The B612 foundation is also “a private foundation dedicated to protecting Earth from asteroid strikes. Their immediate goal is to significantly alter the orbit of an asteroid in a controlled manner by 2015

3.Just a reminder- remember the Asteroid that hit the chicken place Hurley owned?

4.The Numbers are at it again. Sayid was knocked out for 42 hours, Kate’s address is 42 Panorama Crest, and Ben, Jack and Kate met at the 23rd dock in the marina.

5.The name on the side of Ben’s van says Canton Rainier= move the letters to Reincarnation

6.The hotel that Norton met Carole Littleton- looks like the same hotel that Sayid brought Hurley for the ‘safe house’ and also looks just like the hotel in the video that Ben showed to Locke to show him Charles Widmore.

7.Fun little site.
http://www.ajiraairways.com/
Pilots and sailors avoid a new pacific location: trouble area.

8.On the beach with the Abandoned Losties camp there aren’t any dead bodies with arrows sticking out of them? Where’d they go? Buried? Has it just been long enough that they’re decomposed

9.Remember back when Kate and Sawyer were ‘helping’ the others build an airstrip??? Is this maybe for the Oceanic 6 to come back??

10.Funny thought- but if this time is relatively far in the future… let’s say 10 years and the losties/others/scientist have managed the time traveling thing- but are still keeping themselves protected from others…. Couldn’t they be in the canoe shooting at some random people (say oh themselves from the past) for stealing their canoe… I know it’s making my head hurt… But even try this one on- Locke, Sawyer etc jump back into their boat and try to head back to the beach camp after their Orchid mission… then they see the same boat, the one that shot at them before… Sawyer grabs his gun and takes the first shot, because they know they’re going to be shooting at him. The other people fire back… Then the other boat disappears- meaning it was their boat in the first place.. one boat one gun…

11.Danielle Rousseau never told us what they were researching, but apparently in the scripts, there was a scene where she told Sayid that they were researching time (they had to cut it though because ABC was appalled at the idea of introducing time-travel; little did they know).

12.I thought it was a little odd that Jin said that his boat sank instead of blew up… As he wouldn’t have seen the ship sink. But, back oh- when they were on a raft, the boat did sink and Jin was floating on a piece of wood from it as well… But as he was floating on a door- still assume this is after freighter Jin- just thought it was funny 

13.Young Rousseau is holding the Music Box that Sayid fixes in Season one- in her arms when their raft lands on the island

14.The surveillance report that Sun is reading is actually taken from a fictional crime solving website- http://www.crimescene.com/beauty.archive/evidence.pi.report.html#findings.%20it%20has%20nothing%20to%20do%20with%20Lost,%20i%20think.%20it's%20just%20the%20surveillance%20of%20the%20suspect%20in%20some%20homicide.

15.Who is Sun blaming and after to kill? Ben or Jack- I think it’s really a toss up. Jack left Jin on the boat and wouldn’t let Kate go after him. It’s Ben’s fault the boat blew up.

16.Is she pretending that she’s working for widmore now, or is she playing him too?

17.Charlotte’s been on the island the most time, followed by Miles, followed by Juliet, Followed by?

18.WHERE ARE ROSE AND BERNARD?!?!?!?

19.Speaking of that- Where is Vincent (the dog?)