Live Together, Die Alone. Part 2.

Let's talk about LOST!  Live Together, Die Alone. Part 2

Inside the computer room:
Desmond with his ear to the door tells Locke, "I think your friends just blew themselves up brother."
He suggests they open the door.
Locke- "It's a trick!"
Desmond feels Locke they could be hurt; asks “Is your doctor is around?“
Locke doesn't know where he is.
The clock shows 33 00 and the computers are still working.
Desmond asks Locke if the reason he's letting the clock run all the way down to the very last tick, "Is it because you need to look down the barrel of a gun and find out what you really believe, John."
Locke tells him he did look down the barrel of a gun, and he believed, "I thought, was my destiny to get into this place. And somebody died, a kid. Because he was stupid enough to believe that I knew what I was talking about. And on the night that he died, for nothing, I was sitting right up there, all alone beating my hand bloody against...that stupid door, screaming to the heavens what I should do. Then a light went on. I thought it was a sign. But it wasn't a sign. Probably just you going to the bathroom.


Sayid on shore discovers the others "Fake abandoned camp".
There’s a Dharma symbol on the double doors.






 Sayid opens a Dharma door that is built into the rock, only to reveal actual rock behind the door and not an open entrance to anywhere.







Kate brings Jack’s attention to a huge mound of pneumatic tubes filed with notebooks; journal entries filled with handwritten notes.
 
Kate reads a few entries. “0400 S R moves Ping Pong table again, 0415 takes a shower.” {Who/what is SR?}
Sawyer finds Locke’s blast door map and hands it to Jack.
Sawyer gives Jack the heads up to seeing Sayid’s black smoke signal to hit that beach party.


Jack figures the signal smoke is miles from here. It isn't coming from the area they assumed it should be coming from. Jack asks Michael where he's taking them.
Michael says they are headed to the beach.
Angry Jack knows they are nowhere near the beach.
Michael yells back that he had to.
They all hear whispers/Elizabeth. The group is ambushed; they’re shot at with darts. Sawyer is hit; he convulses. They try to run away.
Michael yells "Wait!” in an effort to stop the craziness.
Kate is shot with a dart. Jack tries to carry Kate to safety.
Hurley is traumatized by all this commotion, he tries to block them out! The darts take them down and puts them to sleep. The Others bag them.

The clock in the computer room is at 21 00.
Locke shares more about the Pearl Hatch/station with Desmond.

"The Pearl is a psychological station full of TV monitors. And two men sat in viewing chairs and filled notebooks with observations on what happens in here.    And they put the notebooks in pneumatic tubes that send them back to their headquarters so they could evaluate us, as an experiment." {Note Locke says "US" not the study subjects or any reference to anyone other than them!}
Desmond asks him what if he's got it backwards {Backwards!} "What if the experiment wasn't on the two men in here, but the two men in there?"
Desmond wants to see the tape.
John tells him there's no way to see it down here.   Desmond wonders what the computer in the Pearl was for.  Locke mentions it printed out numbers “Lots and lots of numbers.”
Locke gives Desmond the Log, "Reading material for the next 19 minutes. Knock yourself out.” {Yes! Knock yourself out!!! Literally!}
Desmond looks through the log. Lots of numbers, followed by the word accepted.
{Flash}
Desmond looks at himself in the mirror in the bathroom {A Mirror with the picture of him and Pen in the bottom left corner. Yeah Penny/Widmore and a mirror.}


Kelvin notes that Desmond has been shaving everyday for last three years, “You need to live a little. Let go.”
{Kelvin is suiting up and reinforcing his suit with tape.}
Desmond- “I’m never gonna let go, brotha.”
Kelvin says that’s the spirit, “Goodbye, Des.”
Desmond seems concerned by this ‘goodbye’.
Kelvin says he'll see him in a couple of hours. Desmond notices a large rip in the right leg of Kelvin’s yellow suit. He now realizes Kelvin hasn't been completely honest about things. Kelvin isn't sick/infected.


Desmond quietly follows Kelvin outside and watches Kelvin remove his mask; so Des removes his. Everything is fine.
Kelvin leads Desmond to the discovery of his boat; the Elizabeth.
Kelvin armed with a gun, appears behind Des and says, "I didn't think you'd have the stones to come after me. I was a spook for 10 years, Des. I know when I'm being followed." {He intentionally led Des to the boat.}
Kelvin says he's fixing Desmond’s boat; he was about a week away from leaving. He also mentions Desmond wrecked it pretty good.
Kelvin lowers his rifle and asks Des, “So what do you think? You wanna come with me?”
Desmond is getting upset, "Come where?! What about the button?"
Kelvin- "Screw the button, man. Who knows if it's even real?"
He claims his rambling about dams; electromagnets and fail safes were due to his being drunk. Kelvin reveals to Desmond  he lied because he needed a sucker to save the world after he left.
Desmond is pissed, "You crazy ol bastard! You stole my life! What else did you lie to me about? Tell me!"
Desmond grabs and is pushing Kelvin in anger. They fight and Desmond bangs Kelvin’s head against the rock; Kelvin's bleeding. Desmond freaks out.
He takes the key and gun from Kelvin and runs back to the Swan. {It's a good thing he knows his way back. He's never been outside!}
Desmond runs into the hatch. The alarm is beeping, the station is shaking. The has begun, "countdown System Failure."     The timer shows hieroglyphs in red/black. He tries to enter the numbers. Stuff is flying all over the hatch!  Through the chaos he manages to reset the computer.

Back in the hatch with Locke, Desmond looks over the log. He sees a date in the log 922044:16System Failure.
Desmond  asks Locke, "When did you come here? The island. How long ago?"
Locke-"60-65 days ago. Sept. 22."
Desmond-"I think I crashed your plane."

On a long dock, the Others {No shoes} lead the hooded Lostie's, who are made to kneel near the end of the dock.
Michael of course is not one of the hooded.
Their hoods are removed but they are gagged. The Others are armed.
Kate tells Mr. Friendly through her gag that she knows his beard is fake.   He doesn't understand what she's said so Miss Klugh translates, “She said she knows your beards fake, Tom."
Tom thanks Kate for pointing that out and removes the fake beard; apparently it itches. He also thanks B/Bea for telling her his name.
A piece of shit boat pulls up to the dock. Henry steps off; no shoes. {Check out how he looks at Michael.}
Henry says "Hello again" to Jack first. He turns to Tom asks him where his beard is.
Tom- "I think they know."
Henry's not very pleased. He addresses Michael, "Let's take care of business, shall we?"

Back in the blown up part of the hatch, Charlie is waking up. The sound is VERY muffled and there is a high pitch ring. {He’s has blood on him and his right ear hurts.}
He calls out for Eko. There literally is a bit of an echo. Charlie is trying to wake up Eko.

The computer beeping can be heard.
The clock shows 3 55.
Desmond tells Locke they need to push the button.
Locke says NO.
Desmond-“Did you not hear me, brotha? I crashed your bloody plane...On that day those numbers turn to hieroglyphics.   And when the last one came down this whole place started to shake and that screen, that screen filled up with System Failure. System Failure! And that number there 9 22 04, September the 22nd 2004 …..The day your plane crashed. It's real. It's all bloody real. Now push the damn button!"
Locke insists, "I know what I saw! It's a lie! It's NOT real! None of it is real!"
If Locke won't push the button then Desmond will.
Locke grabs the computer monitor and throws it to the ground.
Desmond is stunned, "You've killed us. You've killed us all."
Locke-"No, I just saved us all."
Desmond uses the exposed wires to force the blast doors to go up and he runs out. He  moves the Ping Pong table away from the book shelves.
Charlie asks for help with Eko.
Desmond says he's trying to help, as he pulls books off the shelves. He finds the copy of 'Our Mutual Friend'.
{Flash}


Desmond is in the hatch with a gun and the key; he is drinking. {Alcohol is not a Dharma issued bottle.}
He opens the book a letter falls out.  He reads this letter written by Pen as Desmond leaves for prison.   She had it hidden in the one place he'd turn to in a moment of great desperation.



Pen wrote- "I know you go away with weight of what happened on your shoulders and I know the only person who can take it off is you…Please don't give up. {What Happened? When?} All we need to survive is one person who truly loves us, and you have her. She will wait for him always. She signs the letter, 'Pen"

{Note that part of the letter is not narrated by Penny, plus we see 2 versions.}

Desmond has a temper tantrum, crying, "It's all gone."
Des runs over to the bookshelf moves the Ping Pong table and starts pulling books and records off the shelf. {Locke is pounding on the hatch from the outside/above having his sown fit.}
{It's important to note that Desmond and Locke both felt “desperation” and “hope” at the same time! Des heard the banging, and Locke sees the light.}
Des takes the key out of the book and kisses the key.

In the computer room John watches the timer click down.
Frantic Desmond tells Locke, "Three days before you came down here, before we met… I heard a banging on the hatch door, shouting…But it was you John, wasn’t it?  You say there isn’t any purpose, no such thing as fate.  But you saved my life, brother, so that I can save yours."
Locke still insists none of this is real, nothing is gonna happen, we're gonna be okay."
Desmond is gonna blow the dam.
Desmond- "I’ve gotta go and you’ve got to get as far away from here as possible… I'm sorry for what ever happened that made you stop believing. But it's all real. Now I've got to go and make it all go away...I'll see you in another life brother."
"SYSTEM FAILURE."
Stuff starts flying around the hatch.
Charlie is still trying to get Eko to wake up. Finally he wakes up. They struggle to make their way out.
Silverware, darts, washer, dryer, pots and pans are flying at the guys.
Charlie says to Eko, "Come with me. I know…" {Know what?! Know WHAT?} The hatch is FREAKING OUT! {Interesting sound it’s making. Listen to it.}
Stuff flying everywhere, shaking, etc...
Desmond heads below.

Eko sees Locke in the computer room. The two men look at each other.
Locke admits, "I was wrong."

Desmond at the failsafe crosses himself, as he’s recalling the words of her letter he says, "I love you Penny", and he turns the key. {Or the screw…}
There is a bright light and a Hum that causes everyone to cover their ears. Everyone is looking up. {Listen to the sound again.}

On the dock: Henry LOOKS pissed at this event!!

Bernard saves Claire and the baby from the flying 'quarantine' hatch door. {Although is just looks as if it’s falling from the sky. Lol}
The event only lasts a few seconds.
Later at the beach camp they clean up the mess from this 'incident'.
Charlie wanders out of the jungle. Bernard asks him if he's okay


Charlie shows/tells him his "ears", implying an issue with his ears/hearing.  Bernie also asks about Locke and Eko, {No one asks about Desmond}
Charlie's response is, "They're not back yet?" {How much time could have passed here?}


At the Pala Ferry dock Henry says to Michael he's “not happy about the arrangement that was made with you but, we got more than we bargained for when Walt joined us, so...I supposed this is what’s best."
Henry acknowledges that Michael let him go, set him free. Michael lived up to his word.
Henry-“And we live up to our word too. Do you know how to drive a boat?"  {Not sail a boat.}
He gives him the shitty boat. {The boat that's not meant for OPEN WATER TRAVEL!}
Henry tells Michael to follow compass baring 3 2 5, "If you do that exactly, you and your son will find rescue."
{Rescue! He doesn't say anything about the outside world or home, etc.}
Michael- "How do you know I won't tell people about where I was?"
{Where are you Michael?! Do you know?!}
Henry- "Maybe you will. Maybe you won't. But it won’t matter, once you leave you'll never be able to get back here. And my hunch is you won’t say a word to anybody.  Because if you do. People will find out what you did to get your son back."
Michael asks about his friends, "I was promised you wouldn't hurt them."
Henry-"Deal’s a deal."
Michael- "Who are you people?"
Henry smiles, “We're the good guys, Michael."
He gives Michael the boat. Walt is inside. {What did Michael really do? Hmmm}
Henry-"Bon Voyage, Michael” {French.} Michael reunites with Walt, he tells him it's okay now and they’re going home.
Miss Klugh releases Hugo {Watch Hurley's expression!} She tells him to "Go back to your camp. Your job is to tell the rest of your people they can never come here."
Hugo- "What about my friends?"
Henry tells him that his friends are "coming home with us."
Hurley appears very confused. Jack gives his the “nod” for it's okay.
We see Michael leaving on the boat; he seems to make eye contact with Jack. Jack nods at Kate,  Kate blinks; a sign of some sort of 'plan' or something?  Their heads are covered/bagged again.

Night on the beach:
Claire asks Charlie what happened out there.
Charlie {still bothered by his ear} replies, “You wanna hear the part about me nearly being killed by the flaming fire ball or the flying fork?”
Claire wants him to be serious.
He carefree says "Nothing happened."
Claire-“Well something happened. I mean that noise and the sky turned that weird violet color.”
Charlie laughs, “Really?!” {Why would he say nothing happened? That makes NO sense}
Claire kisses him.


Two Portuguese men in a listening station somewhere very snowy. {Yeah! Snow globe. lol} They are drinking coffee and playing chess.








{The little window looks similar to a small airplane or portal window or even TV screen.}



We hear them say things like, “I crush your defense... It's all part of the plan... Then it must be your plan to lose."
Then we see a computer screen; a red light blinks. The screen shows Electromagnetic Anomaly DETECTED. 7418880. They’re just noticing it now. "That's it, isn't it?...We missed it again" {Again!!} "Did we miss it?"

There's beeping. One of the men unlocks a binder/log book with emergency numbers, finds a phone number to call.
The chess game gets knocked over!
"It's not a false alarm this time {this time.} The Jack look-a-like uses a yellow phone; a call is made to Penny. She gets awakened by the phone call.
On her night stand we see a picture of her and Desmond, lots of makeup items including lipstick number 20 and a clock.
"Miss Widmore, it’s us. I think we found it", says the Jack look-a-like.





Live Together, Die Alone. GREAT, GREAT EPISODE!!! There was so much to note with this one. Let’s point out some things. Keep in mind that Desmond left the Swan Hatch when the Castaways first entered it. {Replacements}

Things to note...Questions to ask...
♟ Military. Military Jail. Bomb.
♟ Confinement. Prison. Snow Globe.
♟ "There is no outside world, there's no escape."
♟ Sleep. Wake Up. Knocked out.
♟ Crazy. Injections. Alcohol/Drunk. Darts
♟ Psychological experiment
♟ Wire. Wired. Wires.Computer. Screen. Log. Stick. Net.
♟ Microcomputer processor. Escape. System Termination. System Failure. Key.
♟ Languages. Linguistics. Write. Numbers. Understand.
♟ Listen-Hearing-Can't hear.
♟ Joke. Fake beards. Costumes. Make up. Decoy village. Sets. Proof of things being staged and fake. The pneumatic tubes/note books to nowhere. All for show and illusion.  Things aren't real
♟ Desmond sailed around for 2 1/2 weeks. So the Castaways only had access to the hatch and the button for 2 1/2 Weeks.
♟ Is Desmond on Team B or Team A on the island?  2 teams/sides- 'A' and 'B'. Make sense? But who is on which side?
♟ Who is S.R.?  Being watched/observed/viewed.  Binoculars can be considered 'looking glass' of sorts.
♟ Coincidence Libby gives Desmond a boat? Come on! NO it is NOT!
♟ Does Desmond know who the Hostiles are? Could Widmore be a Hostile?
♟ Are any of them tied to the Black Rock, a slave ship? A ship?
♟ Who is Libby's hubby David?
♟ Why do we hear the name Elizabeth in the whispers?  Libby is short for Elizabeth.
♟ "Smells like carrots"...A food for rabbits.
♟ The 4 toed statue: A real statue? Part of an old culture of the island or somewhere else? Was it built there? Was it dropped there? Is it just a prop?
♟ Does anyone we know on the "Island" have 4 toes?
♟ Jack says Live Together, Die Alone in this episode only to Michael.  We know he's only said it once in front of all the Castaways in season 1.  Remember that for another time!
♟ Desmond knows how to make the blast doors go down/up. Who made the blast doors go down in the episode LOCKDOWN?
♟ Where does Kelvin go every time he leaves Desmond in the hatch? Hmmm? Was it really to fix Desmond's boat?
♟ MORE LIES. Kelvin lies to Desmond about why he wears the suit.
♟ Where did Kelvin's body go after Desmond cracked his head open?
♟ How long is Desmond on the "Island"? Is it really for three years?
♟ Missing parts. Film Edits. Missing parts of a statue. Missing Film pieces.
♟ The Alien reference. Hostiles.
♟ Eko was wrong about everyone dying in 90 minutes if the button didn't get pushed. There was an event, but nobody died.
♟ Locke was wrong about not pushing the button.
♟ Is Michael part of something that ended up being much bigger/different than he 'signed' up for? Could Michael have been involved with 'people' of the "Island", but Henry and his people are not from the same group of said people?
♟ How many times has the 'experiment' been done?  How many times have things been done over?
♟ I know Desmond's accent is of a real dialect. But when he uses the word Aye, he sounds like a pirate! LOL!
♟ If there really is no quarantine…Maybe there aren't any hostiles or any sickness.
♟ Where are the whispers coming from, REALLY?
♟ The Others camp: Why a fake camp? Who are they trying to fool?
♟ Black- White
♟ Stick-Stuck.
♟ Drunk. Liquor = Desmond-Christian-Jack.
♟ "No Escape".   Obvious EXIT sign in orientation film.
♟ Michael can't be traveling very far. The boat isn't meant for the open water.
♟ Jumping ahead (Naomi speaks Portuguese).
♟ The EMA DETECTED: How many times? They reference it's happened before, but missed it!
♟What is the sky turning bright/violet about, really? What happened? What did it do?

Vocabulary and Research...
♦  Echo- most commonly refers to Echo (phenomenon), the reflection (and/or repetition) of a sound. 2). An echo cardiogram often referred to in the medical community as a cardiac ECHO or simply an ECHO, is a sonogram of the heart.  3). An echovirus is a type of RNA virus.  4). A term used in computing.  5).In Greek mythology Echo was Oread (a mountain nymph) who loved her own voice. 6).  Echo park.
♦  The Turn of the Screw is a short novel by American writer Henry James. This ghost story was originally published in1898.
♦  A pen is an instrument for writing or drawing, the pen as the instrument of writing or authorship, the profession of writing: a master of the pen.
♦  Pen: Swans- is an adult genus Cygnus.
♦ "Chains and Things". A song by B.B. King.
♦ "Footprints of the Buddha traditionally symbolize the physical presence of the Enlightened One. This image was reproduced from a rubbing of an ancient stone imprint at Bodh Gaya, India, site of the Buddha's enlightenment."  The story goes that prior to his death the Buddha left an imprint of his foot on a stone near Kusinara, a reminder of his presence on earth.


I know I ask many questions at the end of the episode notes . Although I write things in question form some of them are answers...in disguise.

Live together, Die alone... I guess all the residents of the island are having a hard time living together. You know what that means.

Love to all who are "LOST" ™

Live Together, Die Alone. Part 1

Posted on MySpace Nov 1 2007.


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.

Live Together, Die Alone. Part 1

Let's talk about LOST! Live Together, Die Alone. PART 1.

"Are we rescued/saved?" asks Charlie as they all see the boat out in the water. The survivors all wave their hands in hopes of getting the attention of someone on the boat.
Sayid-"Perhaps it's them." {Whom?}

Sayid, Sawyer and Jack dive in and swim out to the boat.
Kate looks through binoculars. {They're at a funeral and Kate happens to have binoculars.}
Charlie- "Maybe it's a trap?"
Hurley-"What do you mean a trap?"


Jack, Sawyer and Sayid climb on board and cock their soaking wet guns. The 3 amigos hear Opera music coming from below.







Shots are fired upward from below.
They hear the gun run out of bullets and a voice say, “Damn it.”
Jack kicks in the boat’s hatch.
Drunk Desmond looks up, "You."
He laughs in amusement.{We get a glimpse of Sawyer's healed gunshot wound on his left shoulder}

Nigh on the beach:
Jack brings over food and talks to a still drinking/drunk Desmond.
Jack chats with Des about him running off and that he forgot to mention that he still had a sailboat.
Jack- “Why’d you come back?”
The drunk replies, "Do you think I did it on purpose?”
Desmond tells his tale of sailing out there for 2 ½ weeks, bearing due west, making 9 knots, he should've been in Fiji in less than a week. The first piece of land he saw wasn't Fiji; it was here, this island. He continues, "Because this is it. This is all there is left. This Ocean and this place here. We're stuck in a bloody snow globe. There's no outside world, there’s no escape."
Desmond wants Jack to go away and let him drink.
Sayid gets Jack’s attention.
Desmond asks Jack, "You still pushing it?
Jack smiles, "Yeah, we're still pushing it."
Desmond shakes his head as if to imply they’re idiots.
{FLASH}
BUZZZZ!!!
Desmond stands at the counter in a military prison.
The soldier/guard is returning Desmond’s personal property to put in a brown paper bag. {A set of keys, pocket watch-gold plated, 1 photograph w/Penny, one book 'Our Mutual Friend' by Charles Dickens. {Hardcover}
{Over the speaker you can hear, Corporal Priestly 9 1….}
The Guard asks him why he didn't bring the book inside.
Desmond-"To avoid temptation, brother.”   He's read everything Mr. Charles Dickens has ever written, every wonderful word, every book, except this one. He's saving it. It will be the last thing he reads before he dies.
The Guard- "That it's a nice idea, as long as you know when you're gonna die." {Does he know when he's going to die? Nobody knows that! How would he know when to start reading it?}
The guard proclaims, "Lance Corporal Desmond David Hume, your sentence is hereby complete. You are now and forever Dishonorable Discharged from the Royal Scots Regiment of her majesties armed forces. Long live the queen."
A date on discharge paper April 4, 1999. The guard tells Desmond to "Enjoy your sodding book!" {Does he know Desmond is going to die? LOL!}

Desmond leaves the building with his paper bag.
Thunder rolls and it’s pouring rain.
Building 5B and sign that says Southway Garrison. B Company.
Desmond is offered a ride by a man in a fancy car {Mr. Widmore}. Desmond initially refuses the ride from him. Widmore tells Desmond to “Get in the car!”
Sitting in the back seat Desmond notices Widmore has a black box and a white box, “Did you bring me a present?”
Actually Widmore brought Desmond two presents. “One of these boxes contains your past, Hume, the other, your future.”
Desmond opens the black box containing all the undelivered letters he wrote to Penny (who he calls Pen).
Desmond is upset, “You’re a bastard. You know that.”
Widmore feels that it’s good for Penny to have not received his sentiments. Now Penny believes Desmond has forsaken her and that’s the way it’s going to stay. Widmore shares Penelope has moved on with her life and will marry. Widmore opens the white box, "This is for your new life, away from my daughter. The conditions are simple. No contact, No calls, No post. You just run away."
Widmore feels Desmond would 'just' run away because he's a coward. {Coward from what?}

Back on the beach Desmond continues to imbibe.
Sayid talks to Jack about taking advantage of Michael being compromised by the Others, "I believe fate has given us our answer. The boat."
Sayid explains to Jack the camp Michael is leading them to is where the Others will set their trap. Michael will lead them by land, Sayid will approach by sea; he can go ashore undetected and scout for them. Their numbers and positions, their weapons. Then he will go to the nearest beach and start a signal fire with these leaves that burn a dark black smoke. {Oh really? Hmmm?} "You and your team will meet me at the signal and will go in together."
Sayid feels sure Michael has been turned and doesn't want the other three to know the plan. Sayid doesn't want Michael to sense they know he is lying, "All we have is the element of surprise, Jack."
Jack’s only responsibility is to keep it secret.
Jack-"Black Smoke, huh?"
Sayid nods, "This time they will know that we are coming." {This time!}

Locke limps into the computer room of the hatch. We hear the big magnet sound, computers running and clicking.
Eko, who is happy to see John, is looking over the log printouts from the Pearl Station.
The timer shows 5 minutes.
Eko asks John where he’s been.
John’s been thinking… in a minute that computer’s gonna start beeping and he wants Eko to "let the computer run down to zero, past zero. And you're not gonna push the button."
Eko smiles, “But I am going to push the button. Why wouldn’t I?”
Locke- "But you don't want to be a slave."
Eko-"I am a slave to nothing"
Locke-"You're a slave to that. {points to the time/timer}Just like I was. So I'm going to tell you again…don't push it."
Eko- "Do not tell me what I can do."
As Eko is entering the numbers Locke attempts to smash the computer with Eko’s stick.
Eko grabs the stick before he can hit the computer with it he punches John in the face.
Eko enters the code.
Eko literally tosses Locke out of the hatch as Locke's yelling "No, it's not real! We're only puppets! Puppets on strings! As long as we push it we'll never be free".
Eko-"Well you're free now, John. Do not come back."
Eko closes the door on Locke.

Daylight at the beach:
The boat is pretty far off shore.
Jack gives one armed Michael a gun. Jack tries to give Hurley a gun, but Hurley says, "No way. If I take that, I'm gonna kill someone."
The point of this excursion is to get Walt back.
Jack gives Kate a gun and she looks at it weird. She talks to Jack again about the stuff they found in the medical station, "Costume, makeup, fake beards. What if these people just want us to think they're hillbillies?"
Michael gets uppity, “Listen. Listen, I was there. I saw them, they are hillbillies! They live in huts, they eat fish. They’re probably more scared than we are and they have no idea we're on our way!"
Sawyer interjects, “Alright. Enough jibber jabber. Let’s Roll."
And they all roll.

ELIZABETH Newport Beach is the name and port city on the boat.
Desmond is rowing to shore.
Desmond and his bottle arrive at the beach. Sayid tells him he needs his boat. Sayid informs Des he's not going "out there"; he needs to get to the north shore quickly.

Desmond asks if he's off to see the Hostiles.
Sayid- "The what?"
Desmond-“You know what? Ignorance is bliss. The boat’s all yours, brotha." {WTF? So don't tell him any info that he may need to save his life or protect anyone? WHY? Maybe he's only worried about himself} Sayid admits he doesn’t know how to sail. Desmond suggests he find someone that does.
{Flash}
Desmond is at the counter buying a cup of coffee. {The color Yellow is obvious here.} He orders the one with the most caffeine in it {stimulant} He's just arrived and doesn't have any more American money; spent it all on a taxi.
Libby, who is behind him in line, pays for it. $4.00. Desmond jokingly asks her if she has 42,000 more of those.
Libby replies seriously, “Depends on what it’s for.” {Really!?} She feels he wasn’t joking about asking for money.
Des tells her about the Solo Sailing Race Around the World. The brochure cover shows us: International Open Ocean Racing Association. Notice of Race.
Desmond’s got 8 months to get in the best shape of his life.
Desmond adamantly tells her, "I'm going to win."
Libby wants to know what he gets if he wins. To Desmond, what matters is who he wins it from. He shows her the back of the brochure; a picture of Charles Widmore. Industrialist, Philanthropist. Sailing Competition.
He openly shares with this "stranger" the fact Widmore tried to buy him off, and when Des didn’t take his money Widmore took away the only thing in the world he ever truly cared about.
Libby- “Who is she?”
Desmond-“His daughter. I was unsuitable on several levels.”
Libby asks what the 42 grand is for. Desmond reveals he still needs a boat.
Libby looks stunned as she has a boat. It belonged to her husband. He wanted to sail to the Mediterranean but he got sick and passed away a month ago. She wants Desmond to have his boat. Desmond says he can't take it.
Libby- "You have to. He'd want you to have it." {WTF? Why would he want HIM to have it?}
Desmond asks what his name was. “David” named the boat after her. {Elizabeth}
Desmond accepts the generous gift and says "I thank you, Elizabeth. And I shall win this race for love." {David -Desmond’s middle name and the formal of Dave. Elizabeth-Libby-Ellie.}

Back at the beach, Sun and Sayid talking. Jin comes over to have a private chat with Sun; Sayid will be at the shore. Sun tells Jin, Sayid wants him to sail the boat to the other side of the island to help Michael. Jin smiles but says no; he won’t leave her now. But he wouldn’t be leaving her because Sun’s going with them.

Michael leads the group through the jungle.
Sawyer sees a doll on the ground and almost falls into the ol dolly trap. Kate shares it’s one of the many traps Rousseau has throughout the island. Sawyer asks her how she knows that.
Kate shares the bit about her and Jack getting caught in a net. They hear what sounds like wings flutter/fly by them. A Big {Prehistoric size, camouflage bird} flies over them. Then sound/"HURLEY" coming from the bird.
Hurley-"Did that bird just say my name?"
Sawyer says yeah it did, and then sarcastically, "Right before it crapped gold." {That's interesting, only Hurley heard anything. Also note that the bird and Hurley blend in with the jungle.}


Michael is the only one pulling the trigger at the “bird”, except he realizes his gun has no bullets. Jack gives him a new mag and apologizes for forgetting to load his. Michael realizes that they may be onto him.

Charlie comes upon Locke crying in the jungle. Locke pulls himself together.
Charlie asks Locke what happened to his face. Nothing; Locke says he’s fine.
Charlie- “Hey ahh, you’re feeling sorry for yourself, you may wanna have a drink with your mate from the hatch. I hear he’s a little despondent as well.”
Locke- “What?”
That’s right, Locke wasn’t there for "Desmond's dramatic arrival at the funeral.
Charlie-“I think he’s pushed your button too many times, if you ask me.” {Charlie has attitude/eyes}.
Locke- “Desmond?”
Yep.
Charlie’s sure Locke and Desmond have a lot to talk about. Charlie gives a quiet chuckle then just walks away.

Sayid hides a gun on the small raft in a blue tarp.
Sayid says to Sun “I’m sorry if what I said was confusing but, I asked Jin to come.”
Sun explains you need at least two people who know how to sail and she'll translate. Sayid notes that Desmond managed by himself.
Sun-“And look where he ended up.” {Jin seems to have understood what Sun just said. Desmond’s boat is very far in the distance.}

At the beach, Claire is contemplating the whole pneumatic injector issue with the baby.
Desmond, still drinking his bottomless bottle of liquor, says "You're wasting your time sister. I shot myself with that stuff every 9 days for 3 years."

Desmond walks over to look at the “lovely” baby and asks, ”Is the father here on the island?”
Claire- “No. He’s been gone a long time.” She shares he walked off when he got scared over the situation.
Drunk Desmond thinks maybe the guy knew he’d be a lousy dad and did what was best for her. Insulted Claire replies, “He was doing what was best for him. “ {That is important, especially said in Desmond's company.}
{Flash}
At the stadium, Desmond is outside his car gearing up for a run. Jack pulls up in the background. {His tee-shirt has an emblem on the left side} Penny pulls up. {Jack runs up the steps.} Des is surprised but not shocked to see her.
Desmond-“How did you find me?”
Penny was able to find him due to her affluence. "With money and determination, you can find anyone." She asks if he read his beloved book, the one he was saving.
Desmond- “Not yet.” She thought he might have read while he was away.
Des was he was in prison, “not away”.
Penny gets teary eyed and asks why he didn’t write to her. He doesn't give an answer to that question, just asks when she'll get married. They have yet to set a date.
Desmond-"I'll be back in a year."
Pen- "What if you were back right now?"
Desmond tells Pen that he's going to win this race, “his” race and in a year he'll be back.
Penny- “Desmond, what are you running from?”
Desmond- "I have to get my honor back. And that's what I'm running to." He runs off.

The beach at night:
Locke approaches Desmond {He's still drinking his bottomless bottle of liquor; finally finishes the Dharma Chardonnay and tosses it.} and asks, “So, what did 1 snowman say to the other snowman?"
Desmond, who seems happy to see him says, "Smells like carrots." {Des has a bottle of Dharma Merlot.} They both smile seemingly happy to see each other.
Locke- “Hello Desmond.”
Desmond-“Hello yourself Boxman.”
Locke shares a sip from the bottle. Desmond notes that he/Locke managed to fix the computer.
Locke- "The world's still here aint it?"
Desmond isn’t so sure about that.
Locke asks Desmond to refresh his memory. {YEAH!! Refresh it!}
Locke-"How long did you say you were you down in the hatch?"
Desmond- "Three years.”
Locke-"What if I told you that, for all that, all those years that you and all the men before you, were down there, pushing that button. What if I told you it was all for nothing?"
Desmond-"I’d ask ya how the hell you'd know something like that?"
Locke-"I found another hatch. Another station on the island. They called it the Pearl. And I saw a film there. An orientation film. And it said that everything that was happening in our hatch wasn't real. That it was a test. A psychological experiment." {"He" found another hatch! Eko did too!}
Desmond feels he's lying, so Locke presents the video tape to him.
Locke-"You want to take a walk? I'll make the popcorn."
Desmond gets mad, "You're so sure it's not real, then just stop pushing the button."
Locke says he has stopped, but someone else decided to start. He tells Desmond to sober up, "We're going to get a good night's sleep, tomorrow we're gonna find out what happens if that button doesn't get pushed."

Hurley sits starring at the campfire. Sawyer offers him a Dharma nutribar but Hurley’s not hungry.

Michael out in the jungle is breathing heavy, stressed and sweating. You can see he’s got some heavy thoughts on his mind. Jack asks is he’s alright. Michael tells him he’s just getting some more fire wood and that he’s not feeling too hot. Jack tells Michael he shouldn’t be out there alone; so he gives him a hand. Michael thanks Jack for coming out here, risking his neck for his boy.
Jack-" Live together, Die alone, man."
Michael-“Yeah.”
Daylight:
Sun, Jin and Sayid sail around the island. Sun pukes over the side of the boat. Jin remarks that he told her not to come. She says it’s not seasickness. {Seasick sailor.}
There’s something Jin wants her to see. Sayid is looking through binoculars.
They see a 4 toed statue in the water near the shore of the island.
Sayid-“I don’t know what is more disquieting. That fact that the rest of the statue is missing or that it has four toes.”


Eko is in the computer room of the Swan hatch. He is carving into his stick. {9 22 next to the word revelation. The log print out is underneath the stick with 9 22} the electricity is blinking and buzzing. The power goes out leaving him in the dark!
Something resets and things power back up. {You can hear winding up sound}

The countdown clock shows 101 00.
Eko, armed with his stick and flashlight, gets up to investigate. The hatch door is wide open. There is a humming sound. He sees that a fuse has been tampered with.
The static countdown with the woman's voice starts. 8… 7...6... We see Desmond handling some live wires trying to spark a connection. …5….4…. Locke enters the computer room.
The countdown clock shows 101 00. An alarm sounds and the blast doors go down!
Eko runs to try to get back to the computer. While trying to get in his stick ends up with Locke inside the blast door sealed computer room. Eko is locked out!
Locke tells Desmond that's a neat trick! {The whole making the blast doors go down thingy} Eko is yelling for John from the other side of the blast door. Desmond hopes that Locke is sure about this.
Locke- "I'm more sure about this than anything in my entire life." {Did they get a good night's sleep? Is this a day later? The same day?}
Des-"Alright then Boxman…we wait."
{Flash}
It's a very stormy night.
Desmond is on the sailboat in this storm. His boat is getting tossed around by the violent waves. He’s holding on to the wheel trying to keep control of the boat. He ties up the wheel with rope. Then Des heads below deck, grabs his 'Our mutual friend' book, seals it in plastic for protection, and wraps duct tape around the plastic.
Back on deck Desmond falls, hits his head and gets knocked out. {Yeah, didn't see that coming. LOL!}
Flashes of Desmond waking up face down on shore.


A man in a yellow chemical/environmental/HAZMAT protective suit and mask picks him up then drags Desmond through the jungle on a stretcher made form branches.
{Note that things are very blurry, jumbled and distorted! One person is perceived as 2 or more people.}
We then see Desmond lying in the bunk bed trying to get some clarity.
The man removes the book from Desmond's protective plastic wrap and throws the book! Then he begins to remove his protective gear as Desmond appears to watch him.
The man in the yellow suit whispers, "Are you him?…What did 1 snowman say to the other?" Desmond has no idea what this man is talking about.
This is Kelvin Inman. Inman says that he found Desmond washed up on the beach, there was no boat. Kelvin is wearing a Dharma jumpsuit with the Swan patch on it. The beeping starts.
Desmond follows him into the computer room.
Kelvin, half in/half out of his Hazmat suit, enters a code and the clock resets.
Desmond asks "What was all that about then?"
Kelvin, seeming to not give a shit says, "Just saving the world." {Kelvin walked by the same new washer/dryer that is in the hatch with the Castaways. How new/old are those appliances, really?}

Desmond is watching the orientation film on the reel to reel projector.
{Note the audio sounds backwards. Desmond stops then starts the projector and it fixes itself.}
The film: “Not long after the experiments began however, there was an incident. And since that time the following protocol has been observed. Every 108 minutes the button must be pushed. From the moment the alarm sounds you will have 4 minutes to enter the code into the microcomputer processor.” {Note Candle is in a room within a room and there is an EXIT}


Kelvin asks Desmond how many times he's going to watch that thing. {How many times? Hmm?!} Desmond asks why there are missing parts.
Kelvin mentions Radzinski (his partner) made some edits. Kelvin is suiting up to go outside. He uses Duct tape to make his suit airtight.
Desmond wonders what happened to his partner but he doesn't answer.
Kelvin wants Desmond to be sure to put the film back behind ‘Turn of the screw’ when he’s done. Desmond asks why he wears that suit. Kelvin explains he wears the suit so he doesn't get infected out there. He gives Desmond the pneumatic injector and tells him to give himself a shot of this every 9 days, “You were out there a while before I found you. I hope it's not too late." {Manipulation-con}

In the computer room Desmond asks Locke, “Who is he, Boxman? The man out there pounding on the door.”
The timer shows 99 00. You can hear Eko pounding and yelling for John to open up the door.
John sits calmly, “His name is Mr. Eko.”
Desmond wants to know why Mr. Eko carries around a stick covered in scripture.
Locke says he's a priest.
Desmond- "We locked out a priest?"

Eko looks around; there’s a hum. He climbs out of the hatch and sees the blown open hatch door with the word Quarantine stamped on it.

Charlie is playing guitar on the beach. Eko runs up to him, “Charlie, do you know how they got the hatch door open?!”
Charlie- “No but if you hum it I can probably play it.”
Charlie reveals they blew it up. Eko needs Charlie’s help.
Charlie- "Oh now I'm back in your good graces, father?"
Eko frantically tells him about John locking him out of the hatch. Eko believes John is going to stop pushing the button. If John is successful, Eko is absolutely certain that in 90 minutes everyone on the island will die! {WOW!}
Charlie thinks about it for a few seconds, and says he's in.

In the jungle, Sawyer asks Michael if he thinks these Others are left over from the Dharma folk. Michael doesn't know.
Sawyer's theory is that they're aliens, “That's why they use the fake beards; their heads are made of prosthetic.”    Except he says the word prosthetic wrong and Hurley corrects him. Sawyer remarks about being corrected by a guy that can’t spell so he asks Freckles for her opinion.
Kate tells them to keep moving, “We’re being followed...Just keep smiling.”
Kate notes there are at least 2 of them across the river.   In 5 seconds she's gonna turn the tables on them. She asks Sawyer, “You in?”
Kate opens fire on them! One is dead, another is getting away. Kate wants to go after the one who got away. Jack says no.
Sawyer yells, “You crazy! You let him go they’ll know we’re comin'! He’ll warn them!”
Jack says it doesn’t matter if they catch him now, they’ve already been warned. He realizes Michael was indeed part of the set up. Jack knows Michael is lying and demands he tell everyone what he’s doing.
Michael reveals “It was the only way. They gave me a list…It had your names on it. I had to bring all four of you back or they said I’d never see my son again.”
Michael swears to Jack these people live in a camp with huts.
Jack takes the list from him. They now know Michael let Henry go, and killed the girls. He had to kill the girls, there was no other way. Killing Libby was a mistake; he didn’t have time to think. Hurley asks him if he had time, would he still have killed them. Michael is still claiming this is all about his son.
Upset Hurley says he's going back.
Jack talks him into staying. Jack apologizes for bringing them out there, but they have to follow the plan.
Sawyer wants to know “What plan?” {Apparently Jack has a plan.}

Sayid is on the boat, kneeling, praying.
Jin sees something through the binoculars. He leaves the wheel and shows Sayid some sort of rock structure. {Sun is at the wheel}
Sayid says that's the rock Michael described, "We're here."

Charlie and Eko are in the jungle looking for the spot that (Charlie says) Hurley showed the explosives he hid. Eko says they are running out of time. Of course Charlie finds the dynamite under leaves, wrapped in a blue/white beach towel.
Charlie warns him to be careful, “Dynamite is very unstable. Don’t handle it like Dr. Arzt.”
Eko brings the dynamite to the hatch.
Charlie is trying to get focused Eko to listen, “What if we hurt them or blow up the computer?”
Eko tells him he can leave now.
Charlie pleads with John beyond the blast door.
Desmond is twirling Eko’s stick.
Charlie says they should try to work this thing out. Charlie is trying to express to John that "Eko is very upset” and they should open the door and talk about it. Eko is running the fuse line. Charlie tells John Eko is going to blow open the blast door with dynamite from the old ship in the jungle.
Desmond tells him not to bother. It would take an atom bomb to do the job.
Locke-“You sure it’ll hold?”
Desmond looks at a damaged/crushed metal cart, “Aye. I’m sure.”
{Flash}
Desmond is playing with 2 wires to start a connection. {The electronic woman’s voice counts down.}
The timer shows 9100 When the countdown reaches 3…2…1… Des makes the Blast Doors go down for the lockdown. He smiles when the blast door can’t completely crush a metal cart.
Kelvin is pouring laundry detergent out into a measuring cup. {He mixing up stuff to act as invisible/glow ink}
Desmond asks how he knows where he left off from.
Kelvin inspects the blast door, “Slowly, Des.Very, very slowly.”
Kelvin paints the Blast Door Map. He says this whole baby was Radzinski's idea. He has a photographic memory. Radzinski also figured out how to fake a lockdown and created this great invisible map.
Desmond considered these tales about Kelvin’s former partner.
Kelvin shows Desmond a brown stain on the ceiling, "That's Radzinski."    Radzinski put a shotgun in his mouth when Kelvin was asleep. {Sam Toomey also killed himself this way} Kelvin only had 108 minutes to bury the poor bastard.
Desmond- “Well, if you don’t want me to go crazy, next time let me go out.”
Kelvin- "What? You want to go out there with the quarantine and the hostiles?”
Desmond says he hasn't been outside for two bloody years, “Yes, I wanna go. I was in the Army for god sake.”
Kelvin mocks him- "Oh yeah, Her Majesties army…Tell me Desmond, why did you leave that nice old ladies army. Oh, I remember now, you got kicked out because you couldn't follow orders?"
Desmond asks him why he left his army.
Kelvin shares with contempt, "Because men followed my orders. But then, thank god, I joined the Dharma initiative. Namaste. Thank you and good luck."
Desmond begs to go out just once.
Kelvin-"Sorry. You stay here and push the button. That's an order." {Is Kelvin still in a role of giving orders? Is he still in command of an Army? Hmmm? By the way, it’s a good thing Radzinski was the same size as Desmond. Otherwise he wouldn't have a Dharma jumpsuit to wear. HA!}

Back inside the hatch Charlie is still pleading with John. He tells John seriously he’s about to be detonated.
Charlie then talks to Eko, who is still working intensely on his explosives.
Charlie-"What if John's right? Maybe it's just some colossal joke. Just some old computer connected to nothing. Maybe it's a bunch of wires that…"
Eko rips off Charlie's belt and throws it against the Wall/magnet!
Eko- “Is that a joke?”
Charlie sees himself out and takes his belt too.
Eko tells John “This is your last chance to end this. Open the door and I will forgive you.”
Locke- “Forgive me for what?”
Eko blesses himself. Charlie, still in the hatch, begs Eko to wait and tries to talk him out of it. Tells him it's not a good idea, they're in a very confined area. Eko lights the fuse with Dharma matches. Charlie runs! The TNT blows!
{Flash}
Desmond wakes up to the sound of the alarm.
He calls out for Kelvin, enters the code in the computer resetting it. Desmond hears a voice coming from another hatch in the ground of the computer room. It’s drunk Kelvin under the computer room with a key.
Desmond goes down there.
We see Caution System Termination, failsafe key.
Kelvin is swinging the key on its chain like a pendulum, says he couldn't do it. He tells Desmond this is the only other way out partner. Failsafe, “Turn this key and this all goes away. Poof."
Desmond asks what's behind that wall, “What was the incident?”
Kelvin- "Electromagnetism. Geologically unique. The incident {he snorts a laugh) there was a leak. So now the charge builds up and every time we push the button, it discharges it. Before it gets too big. “
Desmond- "Why make us do it, push the button? If we could just…"
Kelvin laughs, "Here's the real question Desmundo. Do you have the courage to take your finger out of the dam? Blow the whole thing up instead?"
{Eko is at least willing to blow up something. LOL}
END OF PART 1.

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Live Together Die Alone Part 2.


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.

Every man for himself.

Let's talk about LOST! Every Man for Himself.



We begin with a shot of the water and pan to Desmond sitting there; his wheels are spinning.
Claire is heard saying, "Aaron, Aaron."
Desmond watches them. {Campfires burning} He heads over to see Claire who is now writing in her diary. {With black pen, wearing 2 shirts}

Desmond tells her- "You've got a problem with your roof."
He feels Claire should move down to the beach just for tonight that way he can fix it; make some improvements. {Improvements!}
Aaron had just fallen asleep, but even so Desmond feels it will be worth it.
Charlie comes over and asks, "What cha doing brother?"  
Desmond explains his offer to fix the roof.
Charlie lets him know if the roof needs fixing he can handle it, "I'm quite handy. I was building a church before Eko exploded." {Eko exploded? Not imploded?!}
Desmond backs off and walks away.
Charlie seems a bit annoyed- "I don't know. Gonna have to get that guy another button to push." {I just want to ask…How friggin' hot is Desmond?}

Jack is in his glass cell where he has the privilege of having a TV monitor set up on the other side of the glass; there is a cartoon showing on the TV.    The eyes of the cartoon bird/vulture watch a Swan with 3 little swans. The big eyed vulture puts up his Out to Brunch sign and salts a baby swan.
There’s a knock at the door.
The video camera watches Jack. {Red light blinking.} We can see the refection of TV in Jack's glass cell.   Jack heads back to sit in the corner of his cell.    {Juliet trained him well.} 
Juliet comes bearing food/bottled water and she makes small talk with him.
Jack wants to know if he's going to keep on watching cartoons or is she going to tell him why he's there.
Juliet asks him if he likes blueberry.
Frustrated Jack asks, "Should I talk to Benjamin? {Benjamin} Should I talk to Benjamin? Because I'm starting to think you're just the person who brings me my food."
Juliet- "You can talk to him all you want. But he won't tell you anything."
Jack- "You work for him?"
Juliet-"No. I don't for him."
Jack- "He's in charge."





Juliet-"It doesn't work that way over here Jack. We make decisions together." 
Jack blurts out, "Cause when I was holding that broken plate at your neck, he seemed happy to let you die. I mean. It felt like he made that decision on his own."

Juliet looks hurt but insists Jack doesn't know what he's talking about; she "doesn’t answer to him." {Who do you answer to?}
Ben storms in because he needs Juliet, "The sub is back. We have a situation. So come with me now." {Sub? Submarine or substitute?}
They leave and curious Jack runs up to the closed door to listen.

We see a bloody body on a stretcher is being hurried through the jungle.

Sawyer and Kate are sleeping in their cages/cells.
Danny announces it’s- "Time for work."
They wake up.
Sawyer calls him Chinatown; making fun of Danny's bandaged hurt nose.   Pickett is looking for an excuse to "get" Sawyer.
Hot Sawyer thinking he’d get Pickett fired up says, "I thought I just did. What do I gotta do? Talk about your mother?"   {Fighting words! LOL}
Danny gets called via the radio; it's bad news.

Ben and Juliet come running over; It's Colleen who is on the stretcher.
Kate sees this and wonders, "What happened?"
Sawyer-"We happened…Been on this rock long enough to realize they aint in the business of shooting each other. We did it. Our team."
This makes Sawyer happy, "Damn right I'm smiling. Cause we just got our ticket outta here."
Sawyer is rigging things in his cage so he can retrieve fish biscuits/food/water. {Using a black rock.}
Kate, twirling a string around her finger wants to know what Sawyer is doing. 
He's thinking! {Is Kate trying to remember something?} 
A Recorded woman's voice announces "Warning".
His reward is food. The water pours out the spout and it makes a stream. {Sawyers eyes follow it.} Sawyer tells Kate the girl on the stretcher is broken nose man's girl.
Kate informs Sawyer that they call him Pickett. {Kate heard that name? When? They called Danny.}
Again we see the water stream into a puddle.
Sawyer tells Kate, "Watch and learn little lady."
He explains, “That there's 'juice' pumping into this box from somewhere. The next time somebody comes to pull me out, I'm gonna wait till they step in my little swimming hole and I grab um. Zap! They fall back from the shock. I grab the keys. Bet the bears never thought of that."
{He's so proud.}
Kate- "You're both going to get electrocuted."
Sawyer- "Yeah, but I felt the jolts. I can take it."  {He can take electric volts. Hmmm}
Kate is impressed by his smarts.
Sawyer-"Well wipe the stars out of your eyes, Sweetheart. Cause we're gonna do this."
Kate asks about Jack.
Sawyer-"What about him? We don't even know if he's here. Hell. We don't even know if he's alive. We gotta take care of us. It's every man for himself, Freckles."

Sawyer is in a boxing ring. He is in prison. The guard calls him Ford.
Sawyer has black gloves and his opponent has red.
It happens to be mandatory chow time. Sawyer chats with his boxing partner. Calls him "Old and dumb". {Sawyer's number is 840}
On their way down the steps they see that there's a fight below.  The guy being the punching bag is Munson. Rumor has it he ripped off the government for 10 mil but they never found the money.
Sawyer’s friends say, "If your buddy the warden didn't keep breaking up the fights, Munson'd be a dead man." {So Sawyer is already buddies with him.}
Sawyer-"That son of a bitch."

Later we see Munson {248} busy at a sewing machine.   Sawyer, who is making his rounds, says to Munson, "You've been here what a week and you're on tote bag duty? I've been here 9 months. I'm still pushing trash." 
Sawyer goes on to explain that the Warden isn't breaking up the fights because Munson is cute, it's because he's making a play for the 10 mil. 1st step, butter you up. Give you a plum job. Step 2, Warden will “reach out to your wife, use her against you. Text book con." {Is Sawyer speaking from experience here?!}
Sawyer is telling him all this cause the Warden has made his life a living hell for the past 9 months, "He gets that 10 mil you aint got, I just might have to kill myself."
The Warden comes over, eating an apple.  Sawyer asks what brings him over to the sewing shop. The Warden is sure to ask Munson if Ford is bothering him.
Warden-"Don't think I can't extend your stay, Ford. All it takes is one call. One call."
Ford shares a different type of eye contact with each man.

Sawyer in his cage comments about approaching Ben, “Oh yeah, the big Kahuna."
Ben stands close to Sawyers cage but not close enough to step into the puddle. "Lunch already?"
Ben asks Sawyer what he weighs; actually demands to know what he weighs.
Sexy Sawyer weighs 180 lbs-give or take. {Okay, I'll take} Ben asks how old he is.
Sawyer- "32.”
Ben-"Don't lie."
Sawyer-"35."
This pleases Ben.  Ben goes to open the cage and Sawyer pulls his arm; and with no shoes on tries to zap Ben.   Sawyer’s zapping bit is not working because they turned off the power.
Ben hits Sawyer and continues to beats him with his stick. {Little Ben really kicked some ass.}
Ben kicks him in the face knocking him out.

Sawyer starts to wakes up. {We hear, "Two days since the sky turned purple, we've been blind, our comms are all down, I can't get um back up again and in case you forgot Colleen's in critical..."}
Sawyer is now in a cell similar to Jacks. {How close is he to Jack?} He's strapped down to the table and he wants out! Jason and another guy are trying to inject Sawyer with a BIG needle.
Ben tells him-"It's for the pain."
Ben hates needles. {Huh?} Sawyer is struggling to get away.

We see Jack sitting in his corner eating but Jack can hear Sawyer's struggle through the intercom. {Yes, the intercom that's not supposed to be working!}

Back in Sawyer's "room" the two guys are trying to inject him. One guy explains to the other that "You have to go through the sternum, like in the movie." (Movie?} After counting to two they apparently plunge the needle into his chest. {Just like Jack did with injured Boone after he fell in the drug plane.}



Paulo is golfing with fruit. {Fruit in a basket} Desmond comes over and is going to borrow one of his clubs; Hurley said it would be alright. {Asked Hurley for permission?}
Paulo assumes - "Must mean you’re off to save the day."
{Does Paulo know what Des is up to? Paulo’s shirt has stars on the sleeve.}
Paulo tells Desmond to take the 5 iron. I never use it, "That way when you die in the jungle, doing whatever your doing, I don't have to go looking for it."
{Holy Shit! What does Paulo know?}
As Desmond walks away he suggests to Paulo that he "may want to square your shoulders a bit more."
Paulo asks if he plays golf.
Desmond replies he's “Scottish”.

Sawyer is still strapped to the table with two bandages on his chest. {They did not inject him directly in the center of the sternum where they pointed out (heart). They missed and hit off to the left side}
Tom comes in with a caged rabbit; number 8.
Ben rattles the bunny cage over Sawyer. He is rattling and shaking the cage to the point of what we see becomes blurred.
Ben yells at it, “Move, move, move, Come on, let’s move, Hippity hop!!” and the rabbit falls over.
Sawyer wonders if Ben just killed that bunny.
Ben asks Sawyer if he knows what a pacemaker is.    Ben explains that they stick them in the tickers of people who've had by-pass work whose hearts need just a little jump; a kick start. He goes on to tell him the rabbit had a small pacemaker set to deliver its kick start should it get too excited, or anxious or frightened. Or should it try to escape."
Ben then puts a 'watch'/'monitor' on Sawyer. Assuming Sawyer was telling the truth, his resting heart rate should be about 70 beats per minute. Your active heart rate however, that would be about 140", which will be the point that Sawyers pacemaker will cause his heart to explode. This is how Ben knows that he will start behaving now.

Ben frees Sawyer from his restraints and he explains the watch monitors your pulse. {94 bpm} "If you get within 15 beats of your danger zone, it will start to beep. If and when it beeps…you're gonna wanna relax yourself. Do some deep breathing…some yoga."
Sawyer asks if they want him dead why they don’t just shoot him, get it over with.
Ben says they are not killers. "If you tell Kate, what we did, what we put in you, that we're watching you, you tell her any of these things. We'll put one in her too."

Sawyer is returned to his cage. They each are given a bucket so they can wash up.
Tom, who is very courteous to Kate offers her other clothes; should the ones he left her doesn't fit. {Could Tom already know Kate? He acts like they know each other.}
As Sawyer rings out his sponge you can see his heart rate is 120.  Kate asked what happened. Sawyer lies says they just asked him questions. Kate wants him to turn around while she changes her clothes.  As he removes one bandage, he catches a glimpse of Kate's bare back.   His heartbeat hits 125, the beeping increases. {Time to take a cold shower, my man!}
Kate wonders what that is. He lies again and says it's his watch. She wants to know when he got a watch.
Sawyer-"Look, I don't tell you everything, now leave me alone, damn it!"
Sawyer does indeed douse himself with is bucket of water and his heart rate does slow down.

Sawyer is in the prison visitors room. Munson is across the room visiting with a woman with big boobs.   He and Sawyer make eye contact. Obviously there are video cameras around. {"No smoking in visitors area" sign.}
Cassidy comes to visit him; she calls him Sawyer.
Sawyer states, "It's James Ford.”
Cassidy was the person who had pressed charges. {He with cigarette. She's wearing 3 necklaces.} He's mad at her for putting him in there, but after all he conned her.
James just wants to know what she wants, "Come on. I've got license plates to make."
Cassidy shows him a picture of baby "Clementine"; his 'daughter. They are living in a university town in Albuquerque. She just wants him to write the child a letter.
He says the child isn't his.

Back in his cage Sawyer checks his watch and heart rate. {Resting heart rate?} Kate sees that there a possible way for her to escape the cage/cell.
Sawyer tells her to chill out, get the lay of the land.

Jack in his cell hears voices from the intercom. {The one that hasn't worked in years.} He hears "Everything's under control…You know what he's-doing- to Karl. He knows what he's doing….It was a mistake bring those two here." {Who is that talking?}
Juliet storms in and asks Jack for help with a gunshot patient.  Jack had assumed it was Sawyer's blood. Juliet needs his help.

A very loud buzzing alarm is going off.
Juliet and others are transporting a hooded/bag over the head Jack, so he can't see/blind where he’s been or going. The walk him right by Kate/Sawyer's cages.  Kate and Sawyer are calling out to him to get his attention, "Jack" ... "Doc".
Jack stops a moment, possible hearing them or something.

Jack is led to an area that has AREA OP 4 and AREA OP 5 with directional arrows on the wall.  Ben asks Juliet if she's lost her mind bringing him there.   But after all Jack’s a Doctor... Jack peers into the O.R. doors and goes straight into Doctor mode. {WHY is he helping these people?} He catches a glimpse of spine x-rays that are conveniently up, but they aren't Colleens. {X-rays show R with 2 marks/spheres inside of 2 circles}
Danny, whose shirt doesn't fit him, tells Juliet to tell him who did this, "He ought to know that!"
Check out how FOCUSED Jack is! Juliet is not a surgeon.
Jack says, "I know." {WOW! HOW?}

Ben, Tom and Danny watch from behind the glass observatory. Ben is very calm, just watching.
Colleen crashes. Jack needs the crash cart/paddles but conveniently it is broken.
Jack tried CPR.
Juliet seems very upset as she tells Jack they "haven't had anything happen/before".
Colleen is gone.” {Video cameras everywhere.}
We are shown Colleen's heart rate go from 60 to 109, 13, 39, 16}.
Jack calls Time of Death...He looks around; there is NO CLOCK {No sense of Time. Is she really dead? Weeeeeeeeee!}
LOOK AT BEN! He is amazing!





 

Very distraught Danny attacks and beats up Sawyer in revenge for Colleen’s death. During the beating he gets Kate to admit she loves Sawyer in order for the beating to stop. {Listen to Sawyers heart rate watch.}
Danny commands "Lock him up!






Ford sits reading Of Mice and Men.
Munson {248} comes to talk with him. {LOOK! it appears he is sitting in a vehicle parts like in auto shop or something. It reminds me of his set up on the beach!}
They men walk down a long hallway; video cameras are everywhere. Munson tells of his love for that woman... Ford tells Munson, "10 mil is a lot of greenbacks, killer.  It tends to change things. That's why you never get attached. 'Cause once you care, that's when they can come at ya." Everyone is involved in a con.
Munson-"What did yours want?"
Ford-"Something I ain't got."
Munson needs " him to move it, the money."
They both know he stole the money. "Lila hired a P.I. she's gonna find it. Do this for me. You have too."
Ford- "No. It's too dangerous. I'll be a walking target." {THAT’S IMPORTANT!}
Munson- "If you don't help me the Warden will get it all. He'll win."

In his cage Sawyer has a bucket of water and is cleaning himself up.   Kate is worried about sawyer so she climbs up and out of her cage. This upsets and concerns Sawyer, "Hang on a second Freckles. I told you the time aint right."
Kate-"You're the one who said we had to go." But that was before.
Kate realizes that they did something to him, enough for him to lie about it; and that scares her more than anything that they've ever done to them before. {HOLY SHIT!!}
Once at Sawyers cage, she wants to break off the lock and get the cage door open.
Sawyer wants her to wait, "You gotta leave me. RUN!"
Kate-"What did they do to you?"
He tells her to run, "It's everyman for himself."
The watch starts beeping.
Kate- "Why didn't you fight back?! Tell me the truth for once in your life!" {For once in your life!}
Sawyer- "If you really love me, go."
Kate tells him she only said she loved him so Danny would stop hitting him. {That comment was probably hurt worse than Danny's punches}
Kate climbs back in her cage, "Live together. Die Alone." {I wish I was a physically strong as Kate. I really do!}

Inside the video monitor room, Ben and Tom watch-everything. {Sawyer’s on camera 5. Ben controls number 2 controls} Tom tells Ben that Danny wants to kill Sawyer.
Ben feels, "Danny can wait."
Tom asks "Should I bring Shepherd back?"
Ben says no, he wants him to sit with her a while longer.
We see Jack on the monitor. {Why? Are you trying to get him to remember something? Punishment? What?}

Jack is cuffed to the gurney with the body still there.
Juliet comes in through double doors and apologizes to him for them putting handcuffs on him. She goes on to say that she is a fertility doctor and that she's not used to death. {That's because she creates life.} She tells him that the girls name is Cole, short for Colleen.
Juliet- "I should have come to get you sooner."
Jack-" It wouldn't have mattered. There wasn't any more you could have done. She was dead before you put her on the table." {WHAT?!}
Juliet is going to take him back now, "I'm sorry for bringing you here." {WOW!}
Jack grabs her hand and asks her whose x-rays are those, "They belong to a man about 40 years old. And whoever he is…He has a very large tumor on his L4 vertebra. And I just happen to be a spinal surgeon. So, you tell me. Juliet. Who am I here to save?" {How about yourself, Jack!}



The 5 iron has been made into a makeshift lightening rod at Claire's tent.
Desmond heads over to the 'kitchen' where Hurley is cutting up fruit.
Desmond looks at his own handy work.
Hurley asks Desmond “Is that, art?"
Desmond- "Nope. Just an experiment."
Hurley starts to walk away with his fruit salad but Desmond says maybe he should wait a minute. With that, Des gives him a 'wait and watch look'. Thunder/lightening/rain. A Flash of lightening hits Desmond's rod, saving Claire/Aaron and Charlie. {Yes, and Charlie.}

It’s night and Kate and Sawyer are asleep in their cages.
Ben is trying to wake up Sawyer.
Ben- "Pssst!, Psssst!"
Sawyer wakes up.
Ben –"Good morning. Let’s go for a walk.”

Ford is escorted by four guards through the game/play yard/field at prison. He is meeting the Warden. Two guards walk him down the steps. The Warden waits with two men in front of the Red boxing ring.
The warden shares with Ford that when they first brought him there he was just a dumb hick; now he knows better, "You're a dumb hick that knows how to steal."
One of the men with the Warden is Agent Freedmen from the treasury department. {This man's I.D. badge says State of Florida Department of Corrections}
Ford remembers who this man is; they know each other.
Ford reveals the "10 million's parked in a RED bronco parked in a 'store it quick' facility in Sawgrass. Right off 441. Unit 23C. That's where your money is."
The Warden tells him, as agreed the last 6 years of your sentence have been commuted, "As soon as the truck is recovered and the funds confirmed, your commission will be processed.”
Ford instructs them to set up a new account, it doesn't matter what bank. Make it in Albuquerque. Put it in the name Clementine Phillips. He wants to be sure she can never find out who the money is from.
Warden asks who she is.
Ford doesn't answer.
The warden congratulates him for lying and cheating his way out of prison, "You're a free man."

Ben and two guards are on a trek with Sawyer. It's not much further, just to the top of the next rise. There's something Ben wants him to see.
Sawyer quotes a line from “Of mice and men”... “Is it that place you always wanted, George?" He says to Ben, "Don't you read? It's from “Of mice and men” you'd like it, puppies get killed."
Nearing the top, Sawyers watch starts beeping. {125, 135}
Sawyer, looking a little woozy, comments to Ben about him killing him up there-his heart explode.
Ben tells him his heart will not explode, "The only thing we put inside you was doubt."
He confesses the watch is a heart rate monitor, nothing more. Ben takes out a white rabbit number 8 from his bag. {The beeping stops.} "We gave him a sedative, not a pacemaker."
Sawyer- "How do I even know it's the same bunny? That you didn't just paint an 8 on another one."
Ben-"You don't."
Sawyer punches Ben!
It turns out the rabbit wasn't the thing Ben wanted to show him.The reveal is another “island”.
Ben asks him if he's ever been to Alcatraz, take the tour? "You're standing on an island roughly twice the size of Alcatraz. And that over there, that's your island. The one you've come to know and love."
He just wanted him to know there's nowhere to run.
Sawyer- "You did all this just to keep me in a damn cage?"
Ben –“We did all this because the only way to gain a conman's respect is to con him. You're pretty good, Sawyer. We're a lot better."
Ben comments that it wasn't the pacemaker that kept him in line; it's when he threatened her.
Sawyer works so hard to show her that he doesn't care or need her, “A guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody. It don't make a difference who the guy is. Long as he's with you. I tell you. I tell you a guy gets too lonely and he gets sick.’ It is from 'Of mice and men'. "Don't you read?"
Ben nicely says, "Come on. Let’s get you back to your cage."



 








Every man for himself is a GREAT EPISODE!!!! Why? Because it is every man for himself.

Things to note...Questions to ask... 
✈ CONS! Con-Game, Manipulation. “Text book con”.   We see that the Castaway's can be easily manipulated; talked into things, believe things.  They are conned about animals/people being dead. A couple of them know how to play the con game as well, but there's always somebody better at the game. 
✈ Is Desmond about to CON anyone? Yep!
✈ What is going on in their heads?   “Going nuts“, “Out to lunch”..."..Goes nuts"...
✈ Heart. Heartbeat Heart rate. Monitor. Implant.
✈ Ben. The Warden.
✈ Sleeping, dreaming, sedatives. Are people really "dead"? {Where’s Eko?} Are all these events really happening?
✈ Watch. Being watched. Videotaped. Observation room/observatory. Monitor.
✈ What’s with all the fruit?
✈ Why is Jack made to watch cartoons? Is he a child?
✈  "A guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody...” Is this what happens to Jack, or anyone else who leaves the “Island“?
✈  References to plates again. Plates? Food? Or Plates on earth?
✈  The sub. If it's the submarine they're mentioning, it must only make little short trips around the Island. Like the 20,000 leagues under the sea ride at Disney!
✈  If the "Island" really has these 'magical' healing powers why doesn't it heal Colleen? Is she really dead? Maybe she was given the rabbit sedative.   Maybe it's a different rabbit, Uh I mean Colleen. lol. Remember Jack can't call her time of death! There is no sense of time!
✈  How sexy is Sawyer and Desmond? I know I adore Jack, but come on? Sawyer and Desmond... Yeah!!
✈ Sawyer- "Well wipe the stars out of your eyes, Sweetheart" The same line that is heard in Locke's vision in Further Instructions.
✈  LUNCH! I can't tell you how many times the reference to lunch comes up. It's making me crazy! Sure, brunch comes up. So does breakfast and supper. But LUNCH! What the hell is the deal with friggin' lunch?!!! Is it important? Is something getting put in their food and water? OMG! Lunch!! I'm hungry!
✈  The sky turned purple knocking out visuals and intercoms, etc. What/Where is it they can't see now?!  Who can't they talk to? I can hear voices coming out of the intercoms!
✈  Where are the voices from the intercom coming from? {Talking about Karl in room 23?}
✈  The whole dialogue between Desmond and Paulo with the golf club is interesting. Paulo never assumes Des is going to play golf with the club. He only states that he's taking it to go 'DO' something with it. How does Paulo know that? Come on LOST fans...Think...Think!!
✈ I still feel I need to revisit the song Le Mer for clues.
✈  I can't help but wonder…about Sawyer's hairstyle, clothes and surroundings in the “Flash”. It‘s all very much like “him” on the “beach“.  It is blurred/blended together.
✈  How is the "Island" hidden? Is there literally a dome/globe affect over it? Has it been there the whole time it's just no one can see it?
✈  Different "Islands",Two "Islands". Are there really two different "Islands"?   Maybe there’s more than two. Is it an illusion? If there is another island twice the size of Alcatraz how come they didn't even see it?
✈  Escape.
✈  Cheat 
✈ 23
✈  The Blue Danube is the second part of the Looney Tunes cartoon, A Corny Concerto with the "vulture". I seem to have to ask this a lot…Who’s conducting this orchestra?
✈ Electricity. Shock. Zapped by electric current. Lightening.
✈ Prison. Cell. Are they in prison? Are they prisoners? Or could it be a metaphor for self imprisonment.

Vocabulary and Research... 
♦ Cartoon: The original meaning was in fine art, and there cartoon meant a preparatory drawing for a piece of art such as a painting o tapestry. It is most often refers to a humorous single-panel drawing or gag cartoon.
♦  Photographic plates were one of the earliest forms of photographic film in which a light-sensitive emulsion of silver salts was applied to a glass plate.
♦  A plate: is a type of electrode that formed part of a vacuum tube. The plate is impressed with a positive charge so that it may capture and flow electrons within a circuit.
♦  In baseball and related games: home plate is the final base that a player must touch to score. Unlike the other bases, home plate is a pentagon and is hard, usually a slightly flexible hard plastic with beveled edges that rises only slightly above ground level.
♦  Plate tectonics: (Greek builder" or "mason") is a theory of geology that has been developed to explain the observed evidence for large scale motions of the Earth's lithosphere.
♦  Pacemaker (track) or pacer:, a competitor who enters a race with little or no intention of winning, but purely to set a fast pace for other competitors to follow.
♦  Coal: is a fossil fuel formed in swamp ecosystems where plant remains were saved by water and mud from oxidation and biodegradation. Coal is a readily combustible black or brownish-black rock. It is a sedimentary rock, but the harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rocks because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure. It is composed primarily of carbon along with assorted other elements, including sulfur. It is the largest single source of fuel for the generation of electricity worldwide. 
♦ Rock anagrams to Cork




Are things we see a fantasy, illusion, made up, razzle dazzle, trickery or magic?  Is it in their heads, a dream or experience, experienced in their conscious/subconscious mind?   Is everything just blurred together?
I still see clues to those lucid dreams/waking dreams {happening in the mind/consciousness} I mentioned. If it is a dream, whose dream is it?   Is it one big CON?
Here Sawyer is in prison, so I must ask, are there ties to other Castaways and prison?

Here's the most important thing I have learned through all of this...It's ALL in the details, and they are fucking wrong.

Love to all who are "LOST"™












   
Posted on MySpace Dec 20, 2007

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? 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.