THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

Let’s talk about LOST!  The Beginning of the End.

A mountain of papaya is plowed over by a red and white Camaro.
A police chase through warehouse docks with truck/freighters. {Black and white.}

A black jacket on couch. {Ice in glass.}
The TV is showing the police chase on the highway.   Action 8 reports there is no information who is driving the vehicle.  Jack makes a drink; Vodka/orange juice.{Screwdriver. Keys. No wedding ring. {Not the same kitchen we see in TTLG}

The news anchor informs Jack the pursuit started in the LaBrea area; started at the warehouse then south of 10 freeway.  The car is a vintage early 70’s model.
Jack watches the chase and apparently has a revelation, "Damn it."

The Camaro gets cornered by the black and whites; it jumps the chain link fence and crashes into mirrors. Randy Nations is taping the event, dressed in a uniform/vest. {Wow! He’s prepared to film} We hear a helicopter.
The cops have their guns drawn. This is an undesirable neighborhood.
The driver is instructed to show his hands and open the door with his left hand. The driver exits revealing it is Hugo. They want him on the ground but he tries to run!
The cops trap him and Hugo yells and pleads, "Stop! Don’t you know who I am. I’m one of the Oceanic 6! I’m one of the Oceanic 6!"
Randy is there taping whole damn thing! There's mirrors everywhere.

Hugo sits in the interrogation room at the police station; tears apart his cup.
Big Mike chats with Hugo about this adventure, "10 cruisers on a chase across the city..."
Hugo was in a convenience store minding his own business until he sees something, then freaks out and then runs out.   Hugo watches himself on the video surveillance tape from the store.   He is asked why he ran, "Who did he see in there?" {No Smoking sign.}
Hugo says he wasn’t running away from anyone.
Big Mike doesn’t care that he’s a celebrity and crashed his Camaro in the wrong neighborhood.
Hurley-"I’m not a celebrity."
Mike asks if that’s why he kept shouting, “Hey, I’m one of the Oceanic 6.”
Mike tells him a funny coincidence, his partner before he made detective was on that flight too; Ana Lucia Cortez. He asks maybe Hugo met her on the plane before it took off.
Hugo-"Sorry, never met her."
Mike tells him to watch the tape, "Maybe it’ll spark something.”
This dick is going to get a donut! HA!
Mike-"When I come back, you’re gonna tell me who you ran from."

Hugo watches this LOOPED footage and then he hears tapping. {2 sets of 3 taps} He looks at the 2 way mirror, then the video and then back to the 2 way mirror that has become an underwater scene.   A hooded figure swims up to the glass with its left hand up, {They need you} the glass breaks and water spills out everywhere!  Hugo screams and runs to the window of the door for help. Mike comes in but there is no broken glass and no water anywhere.

Mike asks him if he’s trying to get tossed into the nut house because Mike can make that happen right now. {Convenient} That’s exactly what Hugo wants!
Hurley {Red shirt} hangs on the window of the passenger side of the Dharma van radioing Jack. "Beach to Jack."
Jack tells him he spoke to the people on the boat and they’re on their way to pick them up.
Hurley’s happy "It worked."
Jack tells him to pack his bags; they’re all on their way back to the beach. Hurley is very excited.
Jack asks Kate if she had any luck finding Locke.
Kate- "No, It’s like he just disappeared."
She sees Naomi’s body face down with the knife in her back. Jack feels Locke killed Naomi because he’s crazy.
Kate-"So, what if he comes back?"
Jack-"If he comes back, I’m gonna kill him."
Kate asks if they’re really going home.
Jack-"Yeah. We’re really going home."

Claire and Sun play with Aaron. Sun shares she can’t believe she’s going to have her baby in a hospital.    Rose asks if the ladies need a hand and offers them water.
Claire says to Rose, “You must be very proud of Bernard, I hear he’s quite the hero."
Rose-"I think everyone up here knows the real hero is your man, Claire.   If Charlie didn’t turn off that gizmo we’d still be getting a busy signal on that fancy phone. So you better make sure you treat him real good when we get back."

Tied up Ben wants Danielle to take Alex and get a far from here as possible; they don’t have time to waste. Everyone who stays there is going to die.  He doesn’t care where she takes her, just go, "I will not have my daughter…"
Danielle hits him, "She’s/It's not your daughter." {Yes, I put It/she there. The closed caption showed ’she’, but I hear ’it’ or ’is’}

Sawyer drinks a Dharma beer while Juliet digs a hole.
Tom’s body is covered, but not his head/face!{I guess he needs to breathe.}

Hurley and Bernard look out to the water.
Hurley confesses to Bernard that he won the lottery and he has like, 150 million dollars, "Worse thing that ever happened to me." {Worse than a 'plane crash'?} He figures his family has it all since they think he’s dead, "When we get rescued and I go back, I’m gonna be free."
Hurley feels like doing a Cannonball. He’s been walking up and down this beach every day and he wants to do a cannonball.  Bernie encourages him to do it. So Hurley takes off his shoes and Cannonball’s into the water.

When he resurfaces he sees Desmond and the guys return on shore with the outrigger. {If they were that close how come he didn’t see them? How long was he under water?}

Desmond tells them they need to get to Jack, "We can’t let him get in touch with that boat."
Sawyer tells him the boats on the way.
Desmond tries to tell them Naomi lied "The people on the boat aren’t who they say they are!"
But he doesn’t know who they are.  Juliet says they have a walkie, they can call him.
Hurley comes over yells "Where’s Charlie?"  
{It’s almost like they didn’t see Hurley that whole time. Hmmmm}
Desmond turns to him "I’m sorry brotha."
They realize Charlie is gone. They are all upset. {I am crying, again.}

Jack answer’s the ringing phone.
Kate-"That’s our ride."
On the phone is George Minkowski. They’re trying to get a lock on their signal but their getting some RF interference. George needs Naomi on the phone so they can re-jigger- the settings on the sat phone.  Jack lies and tells him Naomi went to get firewood.  They look around to see that Naomi is gone.
Ben’s still tied up.  Jack asks Ben where she is.
Ben mischievously cracks a smile and says, "I don’t know." {Very Cheshire cat!}

Hurley is mostly dry. Sayid is tells Sawyer that Des explained Charlie wrote on his hand...Sawyer is sorry he’s dead, "But I don’t even know what Not Penny’s Boat means."
Sayid tells them calling Jack accomplishes nothing. Juliet says it will warn him but Sayid explains it also means warning the people on the freighter that they’re suspicious of them, "I have no doubt they’re monitoring their communications."
Jin is listening to everything.
Sawyer and Sayid bicker and frustrated Hurley takes the walkie and throws it in the ocean.
Hurley-"We better get going."
Sawyer yells-"Going where?"

Jack hands out sticks. Danielle tells him she found blood; the girls trail; she can’t be more than 10 minutes ahead of them.   Jack wants to take Ben with them and Danielle asks why.  It's because Jack doesn’t trust Ben with anyone else.
Jack instructs the flock to head back down to the beach, "When these people show up, we want to make sure that we’re real easy for them to find. Okay?"
Claire tells Jack he looks worried.  He shares the only thing he’s worried about is missing their ride home.
Kate tells Jack she found her trail; she’s headed west across the Island.  He tells her Rousseau already found it. He’s going after her right now.
Kate seems confused. "Are you sure it’s hers?"
Jack-"Unless someone else is bleeding."
Kate explains that if she didn’t want them to find her she could have created a dummy trail. She thinks they should follow both just in case.
Jack-"6 hours from now we’re gonna be sittin' on that boat laughing about the fact that there was one final thing that we couldn’t agree upon."
Jack explains that Naomi is hurt and not thinking about leaving fake trails.  He’ll track her down; Kate will take everyone down to the beach. She hugs him long and tight. Ben watches; noticing something.

Sawyer asks Hurley what’s gotten into him.
Hurley-"You don’t wait with warning’s, you warn." {Then why destroy the walkie?} They all arm up; not Hurley. Sayid tosses Sawyer a rifle.
Sawyer-"And here I was thinking I was gonna get a good night’s sleep."

Santa Rosa:
Hugo plays Connect 4. He’s wearing a red robe.
He tells his opponent "You almost got me that time. How bout, best out of 7?"
His opponent is wearing a ski cap and is zoned!  The nurse brings Hugo his meds. The room is decorated with bugs, lady bugs and butterflies.

Matthew Abaddon is a visitor to see Hugo.  He is sitting at a table with a chess game; he waves at Hugo. {Tie looks like Dharma symbols}
The man introduces himself as an attorney for Oceanic Airlines. He is there because they heard about his resent episode, "Your arrest, your incarceration here.  Frankly we feel terrible about it. So, on behalf of Oceanic, we’d like to extend you an invitation to a little upgrade."
{Images of the "Island" on the board. Victory in red. Tribal mask, Palm tree, shark, boat}
His upgrade offer is to a facility where the paint isn’t peeling off the walls, where you’d have your own bathroom, he can see the ocean.
Hugo doesn’t want to see the ocean, he’s fine right "here".
Abaddon-"Are you fine, Mr. Reyes?...You’re in a mental institution."
Hugo-’"Who’d you say you were again? I’d like to see a business card."
Abaddon looks in his pockets and says, "I must have left them at home."
Hugo ends the meeting.
Abaddon-"Are they still alive?"
Hugo freaks out and calls for the nurse and tells Abaddon to get out, "Help me, Help me! He’s after me!"
Hugo sees the dark shadow head out the door.
Night:
Hurley w/torch.
Sayid w/torch; the rest walk through the jungle.
Sawyer asks Hugo if he’s Okay; he’s falling behind.   Sawyer asks him if he wants to talk about it.  Charlie because he knows they were buddies.
Hugo-"We’ll probably get to Jack faster if we don’t talk."
Hurley tells Sawyer he can keep up.
Sawyer-"All right esse, holler if you need me."
Sawyer can see he’s hurting.
Hugo stops walking. All of a sudden he realizes he is alone. The wind howls. He yells out for the ’guys’. There are Whispers.
Hugo sees the cabin. A light goes on inside.

Danielle tells Jack the blood trail ends here, "She fooled us."
Ben tells Jack to tell the people on her boat "she’s getting a really big bundle of firewood." {HA!} Jack realizes the phone is gone.
Ben admits to seeing Kate steal it from him when they hugged. Ben owed him one! {HA! Again} "She found the right trail but you wouldn’t listen to her so I guess she’s taking matters into her own hands. But look on the bright side, at least somebody around here knows what the hell they’re doing."
Danielle gives him one hell of a look.

Kate with a flashlight follows a trail. Ringing; Incoming call, she answers.
The guy on the other end asks "Who’s this?"
She replies "Kate."
The guy-"Are you with Jack?"
She tells him Jack's not there, they’re looking for Naomi.
He asks, "What do you mean you’re looking for her?"
Kate abruptly ends the call. Blood is dripped on her.  Naomi jumps her and holds a knife to Kate’s throat and demands the phone. Kate tells her she wants to help her.
Naomi-"I just spent the last three days trying to get you people rescued, and you throw this knife in my back."
Kate tells her John Locke did that to her.
Kate-"I swear to god we would never hurt you. You know us." {SHE KNOWS THEM?!}
Kate begs for Naomi’s help.
Ringing- incoming call.
Naomi talks to George on the phone. Naomi tells George a ’story’, "I had an accident. I’m hurt." She zones for a minute. She goes on to tell him she hit a tree branch when she parachuted in.
George-"We’ve lost our signal and we can’t come get you."
He asks her to change her tracking frequency.
Kate notices there's no knife in her back but Naomi seems to be suffering. Naomi fiddles with the phone and that seems to make things clear as a bell, "Hang on Naomi, we’ll get you back here ASAP."
Naomi-"I’m sorry George. Just tell my sister that I love her."
Naomi keels over.

Hugo-"Hello" as he walks up and looks in the window of the cabin. {We get an inside view looking out at him} We see white shoes and Christian is in the chair. Another figure pops up in front of the window. Startled Hugo runs away yelling for help!
He stops and takes a look back but the cabin disappeared.  He turns and sees the cabin has reappeared! The door to the cabin opens.
Hugo closes his eyes tight and repeats, "There’s nothing here. There’s nothing here. There’s nothing here. There’s nothing here."  As he backs away. {Does he mean ’there’s no place like home?} He opens his eyes and it’s gone again. He falls down. A torch light triggers him to open his eyes.
Locke is standing over him. "Hello Hugo."
Locke gives him water and asks how he got separated from the group. Hugo can get lost out there but apparently Locke can’t.
Hugo fell behind.
Locke-"What Desmond said happened in that station, not Penny’s boat, are you sure that’s what Charlie wrote on his hand?" {How did Locke hear about that?}
They both agree that Jack should never have called those people. They are going to have to try to "talk them into thinking they’re not coming here to rescue us."
If they can’t talk them out of it, then Charlie died for nothing.
Hurley catches up to Sawyer and the rest.
Sawyer-"Where the hell you been, Hugo?"
Hugo tells him "I got lost."
Locke arrives.
Sayid very meanly asks Locke "What are you doing here?"
Locke is there for the same reason they are; to warn Jack about the people on that boat.   He already gave it a shot but thought he’d have better luck with some support.  Angry Sayid wants to know why he destroyed the submarine. All of a sudden they hear whispers and then voices....It’s Jack and the flock.
Sun and Jin reunite.
Bernard and Rose reunite.
Alex and Juliet hug.
Hugo will tell Claire about Charlie.
Hugo cries, "He’s dead. Charlie's dead."
They hold each other and cry. {I’m crying AGAIN!}

Hugo sits under a big beautiful tree wearing his red robe and a blue shirt. He’s painting a picture in the yard of the nut house; he’s also snacking.
Another patient informs him, "I’d watch out if I were you. There’s a guy over there. Staring at you."  He points... It’s Charlie, wearing a black leather jacket, shirt with crow/raven on it, sunglasses, short hair, no rings.
Charlie tells Hurley not to run, "Sit down. I want to talk to you. Don’t do what you did in the store, okay? There’s no need to freak out."
Hurley-"I’m trying to buy some jerky and a Slushee and suddenly you’re standing there over by the Ho Ho’s. You’re dead. What do you expect me to do?"
Hurley tells him he may be in the mental hospital but he knows ’you’re dead’ and he’s not having an imaginary conversation with him.
Charlie tells him "I am dead. But I’m also here."
Hurley wants him to prove it so Charlie slaps him! {They both feel the sting} Hurley believes.
Charlie admits he knew he was going to die when he swam out there.  Hurley is in pain over Charlie’s death.
Charlie didn’t tell him because "You would have tried to stop me. And since I was gonna do it anyway I thought I would spare you all the drama.  And now you have to do something.  Be hiding from it. That’s the real reason you ran from me in the store. You knew I was here to tell you."
Hurley doesn’t want to listen, "You’re not here."
Charlie insists, "I am here. You’re being a baby."

Hurley covers his ears and closes his eyes tight, "I’m gonna close my eyes and I count to 5 and open it you’ll be gone."
Charlie-"I am here. Don’t so this. They need you." 1-2-3… "They need you Hugo. YOU KNOW THEY NEED YOU!"
"4-5!"
Opens his eyes and Charlie is gone!

At the plane wreckage Claire cries and asks what happened.
Hugo tells her he was trying to help us.
Danielle and Ben arrive.
Jack punches Locke in the face, gets Locke’s gun, points it at him and...
Juliet-"Jack."
Locke-"You’re not gonna shoot me Jack, anymore than I was gonna shoot you."
Jack pulls the fucking trigger!!!  { It’s not loaded or just didn't work.}
Jack tries to beat up Locke. Sayid and Sawyer pull him off.
Locke-"All I did. All I have ever done has been in the best interest of all of us."
Jack yells- "Are you insane?!" {Insane, you just tried to kill Locke!}
Locke knows he’s got a explaining to do but insists he never did anything to hurt any of you. He even risked his life to tell you there was a traitor in their midst.
Jack says she helped them, "All you ever did was blow up every chance we had of getting off this island. You killed Naomi."
Ben-"Well, technically, he didn’t kill her yet."
Kate arrives-"Yes he did. She just died. She didn’t give you up, John and she fixed this."
The phone. {At this point with the dramatic music and all, I just want to say, Colonel Mustard did it in the library with a wrench. Hehehe}
Kate tells Jack "They’re on their way."
Locke says she didn’t cover for anyone, "She wants her people to come here. And trust me, when they do we had better be far away from here. I’m going to the barracks, the others abandoned them, it’s the only place on the island with any form of security right now, it’ll have to do until he can think of something else. Until then, if you want to live, you need to come with me."
Jack-"No one’s going anywhere with you John. Because they’re not crazy."
Hugo says he’s not crazy, "What about Charlie? Charlie went down there to that place so we could all be rescued. And whatever he did down there it worked. But then something must have happened. Must have heard something before he- I don’t know why but he changed his mind. Because the last thing he did was to warn us that the people on that boat are not who they said they were. So I’m not listening to you! I’m listening to my friend. I’m listening to Charlie."
The whole time he is crying {Me too!}
Jack puts his head down; he looks troubled. {WHY DOESN’T DESMOND SAY ANYTHING?}

They start picking sides.
Ben-"Jack with your permission I’d like to go with John." {I LOVE IT!!}
Jack-"He’s all yours."
Bernard tells Rose that she’d never leave the island; he’ll be right behind her.
Rose-"I’m not going anywhere with that man." {Why? Is that not Locke?}
Sawyer picks Locke because he feels its "Surviving."

Team Locke-Hurley, Claire, Aaron, Sawyer, Alex, Karl, Danielle, Ben.
Team Jack-Kate, Rose Bernard, Sayid, Juliet and Desmond.

It rains. Locke tells them they "know where to find them when you change your mind."

In the Santa Rosa gym Hugo is shooting baskets.
Happy Jack comes to visit him. Black/dark suit, tie, shaved, no wedding ring, professional. Apparently Hugo never misses getting a basket.
Jack was on his way back from a consult. Jack suggests a game of horse. Hugo asks if he’s back doing surgical stuff.
Yes, Jack is.
Hugo asks if the reporters are leaving him alone.
Jack-"I still have to sign some autographs when I go out for coffee. I’m thinking about growing a beard."
Hugo tells him he would look weird with a beard. H-O.
Hugo makes the baskets, Jack doesn’t.
Hugo- "So, What are you really doing here, Jack?"
Jack’s just checking on him.
Hugo-"You checking to see if I went nuts, if I was gonna tell?"
Jack wonders,"Are you?"
Hugo doesn’t answer, he just tells Jack ’you’re up."
Jack-"Nah, you win. (Looks at watch) I gotta run. It was great seeing ya, Hurley."
Jack takes his jacket off the office/executive chair not the regular white chairs.
Hurley-"I’m sorry. I’m sorry I went with Locke. I should have stayed with you."
Jack- "It’s water under the bridge, man"
Hurley raises his voice-"I don’t think we did the right thing, Jack. I think it wants us to come back. It’s gonna do everything it can."
Jack yells-"We’re never going back!"
Hurley-"Never say never, dude."

Jack and Kate are in the rain at the plane wreckage. They look in and she asks if he’s thinking of Charlie.
Jack-"It feels like a hundred years ago that we came out here together. How did this happen?"
Kate comments the thunder’s getting louder and they realize it’s a helicopter. They see someone parachute out.
They get to the parachute with the blinking red beacon on him.
The parachuter asks-"Are you Jack?"



The beginning of the end is a GREAT EPISODE!!!!!!!
Here it is, another chapter to the story.  A different vibe, different feel.
Everyone seems to be trying to "get to Jack" and either warn or help him.   Are they inadvertently acting as guides for Jack, trying to keep him on a path?

Things to note...Questions to ask...
* Guess=Knowing?
* EYES.
* Time lapses.
* Blood.
* Jack believes Danielle’s discovery of the trail and not Kate’s.
* If Charlie isn’t real, why bother with RayBan sunglasses? To prove he’s really there he slaps Hurley! PLUS someone else saw Charlie.  Big Mike wants to know "who" he was running away from...Would that be proof enough for you? Hmmm.
* When are these "Flashes" from?  Are they all from the future? Do people really die or are they just removed? Dead for real?  Metaphorically? Or faked with a new identity? I’m just fucking asking!
* Hugo knows the same count to 5 method as Jack and Kate.
* Kate, Kate, Kate.
* Locke’s not the only one on the "Island" who knows how to blow shit up….Danielle knows her way around dynamite.
* A chess game set up in the mental hospital where all the other activities are basically simple.
* Six. Oceanic 6.
* The Best of 7 (game played 7 times)
* Connect 4. Where’s Leonard?!
* Choosing sides.
* Ho Ho’s. H-O- North. Santa Clause is coming to town.
* Real. Not Real. Fooled.  Dummy. Lied to. Tricks. Covers. Cover up.
* How come Hugo is walking with the Castaways one minute and a second later his is alone lost in the jungle? That is a very important issue!
* Hugo has this experience with the cabin,and then there’s "Locke". He didn’t see it? Why not?
* At one point is Randy's lens cap on?
* Who took the knife out of Naomi’s back?
* The freighter says they’ve lost the signal and can’t come to get her/clear as a bell...Sounds fishy to me!
* Why would Naomi die? The "Island" used its {physical} "healing powers" on her before.
* 100 years.
* Michael drew a picture for Walt...It was of a penguin.  Hurley draws Eskimo/igloo. Cold
* Why does Hurley throw the walkie in the ocean?
* Ana Lucia, Big Mike, Randy Nations...See, it all comes back around. The same players, scenes, props, the same imagery as the island, etc.
* Mirrors. 2 Way Mirror. Glass. Window.
* Visions. Hallucinations. Medication. Substances, Crazy. Hospital Santa Rosa.
* How many helicopters are on that freighter?  Naomi’s went down and here’s another one.
* Jack is capable of killing.
* Christian is not Jacob.
* No Coincidences, PEOPLE!!
* Hurley is special. Important.
* Are Jack and Hurley 2 horses/knights?

Vocabulary and Research...
♦ Abaddon is the name for the "Angel of the Abyss" in Revelations.
- Also means destruction.

♦ Chevrolet Camaro is a "pony car".
♦ Gizmo is a placeholder name for any small technological item.
 - Gizmo is a black and white comic book series created in 1986. Gizmo Sprocket, a robot and Fluffy Brockleton, a dog-like character. They are accompanied by Soto, a sentient, pan-dimensional space vehicle that resembles to a trailer truck.
 - Gizmo in Gremlins. It is about a young man who receives a strange creature named Gizmo as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive monsters.
♦ A cannonball is round shot ammunition for a cannon.
 - Erwin G. "Cannon Ball" Baker, (1882-1960), man who traveled across the USA several times, and in whose honor, the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea.A diving technique in swimming; its purpose is to maximize, rather than minimize, splash on water entry.
 - Experiment 520, an alien character from Disney’s Lilo and Stitch: The Series
 - Cannonball (Transformers), the Decepticon space pirate in the Transformers toy line.
 - Cannonball (comics), Sam Guthrie, a Marvel Comics character associated with the X-Men.
 - "Cannonball", a song by Five Iron Frenzy from their 2004 album The End Is Near.
 - "Galileo’s Cannonball",the first episode of Legends of the Hidden Temple.
 - Any of several ships named Oceanic: oceanic
 -Of or relating to the ocean.
 -Living in, produced by, or frequenting the ocean; pelagic.
 -Resembling an ocean in vastness or extent.
♦ The Oceanic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, containing approximately 450 languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia as well as much of Melanesia and Micronesia.
 - A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1 1/2 fluid ounces, the other typically 1 fluid ounce.
 -A Handcar, a hand-operated railway car
 -A wooden or metal headed golf club used to play low flying shots to the putting green from short distances.
 - An ingenious device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
♦ Jigger- is a parasitic arthropod found in tropical climates, especially South America and the West Indies. At 1 mm long, the chigoe flea is the smallest known flea. Breeding female chigoes burrow into exposed skin and lay eggs, causing intense irritation. After this point, the skin lesion looks like a 5 to 10 mm white spot with a central black dot, which are the flea’s exposed hind legs, respiratory spiracles and reproductive organs.
♦ PAPYA- Treating Livestock with Medicinal Plants: Beneficial or Toxic? Carica papaya.
{THERE’S A CLUE TO LIVESTOCK AGAIN!}
♦ HORSE-The knight sometimes referred to as a ’horse’ is a piece in the game of chess, representing a knight (armored cavalry). It is often represented by a horse’s head. Each player starts with 2 knights, which start on the rank closest to the player. Expressed in algebraic notation, the white knights start on b1 and g1, while the black knights start on b8 and g8.
 - "Horse" is the geological technical term used for any portion of rock bounded by two of more fault planes.
 - "The Horse is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
 - H.O.R.S.E., a form of poker.
 - HORSE-A cavalry unit; sometimes part of the official name of a mounted regiment.
 - H-O-R-S-E- A common, less athletic game for smaller groups of players is H-O-R-S-E .The game may be played with as few as 2 people, and as many as desired. The only skill required is shooting; no player is allowed to defend.
-Horse- slang term for heroin.



Research...For Fun!
The constant clues to cold made me look deeper. I think it literally/physically has something to do with the North and/or metaphorically "moral compass north".  But if they are not in the north, have to head north or we’re missing the importance of the NORTH clue, what if?...Could they be in a suspended state of animation? Hehehe!

♦ Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of humans and other animals that can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine until resuscitation may be possible in the future. Human cryopreservation is not currently reversible. Cryonics is derived from the Greek word meaning cold.
♦ In physics or engineering, cryogenics is the study of the production of very low temperatures (below –150 °C, –238 °F or 123 K) and the behavior of materials at those temperatures. (Rather than the familiar temperature scales of Fahrenheit and Celsius, cryogenicists use the Rankine and Kelvin scales.) The Kelvin scale is a thermodynamic (absolute) temperature scale where absolute zero, the theoretical absence of all thermal energy, is zero.




The Beginning of the End...When did it start?
Is Hurley/Hugo in danger of abandoning the people who need his help?
The "Island" will do whatever "it" takes to bring them back!  They have to go back!  They have been back! They probably will go back again!  Maybe, they never really leave.

LoopLoopLoopLoopLoopLoopLoopLoopLoopLoopLoopLoopLoopLoop.

Love to all who are "LOST"™




Does he have Dharma symbols on his tie?










Disclaimer:I never claim to know everything about the show and my thoughts by no means make me right! The things I share here are my views and/or opinions. I don’t claim to catch every single detail either! You all know I hate spoilers! And I stand clear of reading certain sites as to not take me off my own course of research. The one thing I don’t need to do here is rehash all of the obvious clues from an episode, we all know what they are. Understood? Good! Let the fun begin! I’ll only note things that I know come up as clues later, but need to be noted when they first show up and things I find that will be of importance! It will get very exciting as we progress into the story.