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June 14, 2009

Confidence Man.

Let's talk about LOST. Confidence Man






 Kate walks along the shore carrying a bunch of bananas over her shoulder. She comes upon a pile of clothes, shoes, book, cigarettes and a lighter.
Sawyer emerges from the water yells out to her, “Hell of a book. It’s about bunnies.”

Kate remarks he must be cold without his trunks. Sawyer flirts says “You bet”, she should come a little closer and warm him up.
Kate- “You sure know how to make a girl feel special, Sawyer.”
Sawyer just smiles and Kate walks on.
{Flash Whoosh}
“Hahaha! You’re incredible, Sawyer,”
Sawyer’s in bed with Jessica. Sawyer tells her he loves her and Jessica just smiles out loud.
Sawyer touches her face and says “Look at you. What do you want, right now?”
How could she want anything else? Lol.
Jessica notices the time is 3:28 and he said he had a meeting at 3:30. Sawyer hurries to leave; she’ll stay and order room service and get fat.
Sawyer-“Why don’t you order a chocolate sundae” and when he gets back he’ll use her as a dish. Sawyer pulls a briefcase off the top of the armoire and piles of cash spill out of it.
Sawyer- “You weren’t exactly supposed to see that.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Sawyer, in a blue tee-shirt and holding his book, walks through the jungle. He stops dead in his tracks and listens. He hears a snort and then the sounds of items being tossed around. He runs and comes upon Boone rummaging through his stuff.
Sawyer-“What are you doing in my stuff, son.”

“This is gonna hurt.” Jack tells Sayid, as he treats the wound on his head.
Sayid shares with Jack that they were trying to find the source of the distress call. He saw the flare from the beach and then the flare from Sawyer’s position in the jungle, he switched on his antenna, “activated the transceiver and then darkness.”
Whoever hit him came from behind. The culprit also destroyed the equipment. Jack tries to assure him they’ll figure this out, but Sayid feels he will do whatever he needs to find the man responsible.

Shannon helps to carry bloody Boone into the caves for medical attention.
Jack asks Boone what happened.
Boone says, “Sawyer.”
Jack and Sayid make eye contact.



Claire sits on the beach writing in her diary. Sweet Charlie delivers her bottled water. Charlie figures in her condition, with the extra baggage she can barely walk. He admits to worrying about her out there, “It’s very sunny.”
But alas Claire is wearing a hat.
Charlie tells her there are plenty of hats in the caves; plus they have a doctor, that could come in handy.
Claire likes the beach.
Charlie sarcastically says, “Yeah. Who wouldn’t want to spend the day with sand fleas?”
Claire tells him she wants to be here, “For when we get rescued.”
Charlie- “When we get rescued. Right.” {Does he know there isn’t going to be a rescue? What is he implying here?!!}

Dr. Jack tends to Boone's wounds {near his temple}. Boone feels it’s just a scrape.
Jack-“Yeah. Lots of scrapes today.”
Jack comments that he’s running out of peroxide.
Boone tells Jack that “He just jumped me, man.”
Jack wonders why. Boone reveals that Shannon has asthma.
Jack hasn’t seen her have an attack before.
Boone explains she had an inhalers; he sneaks hits when no one is looking. He also mentions that she’s been embarrassed about it since she’s a little kid, “I guess breathing’s not cool.”
Jack notes Boone’s use of the word “had”.
Boone explains she ran out a couple of day ago but he had four refills, which would have been enough for a couple of months, “But she always forgets her medications so I put it in my suitcase...”
He goes on to tell Jack that today he saw that jackass reading Watership Down, this was in the bag that he checked. If Sawyer has the book then he also has the bag containing the inhalers. Boone’s concerned because her breathing got really rough today, “If she has an attack…it’s not gonna be good.”
Jack looks angry and fired up.


Sawyer sits reading his letter and smoking.
Jack shows up and rummages through Sawyer’s stuff. Sawyer carefully folds up his letter, “Hey doc. Long time, no see.”
Jack asks him where Shannon's inhalers are.
Sawyer- “Oh that.”
Jack- “You attacked a kid for trying to help his sick sister.”


Sawyer corrects him, “No I whooped a thief, 'cause he was going through my stuff.”
The stuff he had to move because everybody wants to help themselves to it.
Fired up Jack is yelling about Sawyer claiming the stuff he took from everyone, makes it his stuff. Sawyer doesn’t know what kind of Commi Sheriff Fest he’s running over at Cave town, but down here possession’s nine tenth’s, “And a man’s got a right to protect his property.”
Jack demands Sawyer “get up” because he’s sure he wants to make this his problem.
Sawyer gets up but before the boys could scuffle, Kate shows up and that stops them in their tracks.
Jack walks away, Kate follows him.
{Flash Whoosh}

Sawyer told Jessica he was going to Baton Rouge to close a deal.
Sawyer just wants her to trust him; there isn’t any time to explain, he’s already late. If he misses this meeting the whole deal’s a bust. This is everything he has, $140,000.
He shares with her there’s an oil mining operation in the Gulf of Mexico; drilling platforms, $300,000 buys you one share, but as soon as you invest a government sponsored fund kicks in and triples your money in two weeks. This is his chance.
Jessica suggests an option; she’ll get the 160,000 and “We split the profit.
She will scare up the money from her hubby.
{Flash Whoosh}

“I’m gonna kill him!” says angry Jack. But Kate knows that won’t help them get the medicine. Pissed Jack knows that “But it’ll feel good.”
Kate-“So what’s stopping you?”
Jack-“We’re not savages, Kate. Not yet.”
Kate offers to talk to Sawyer, as Sawyer feels they have a connection. {Of course, they ALL do!}
Jack- “Do you?”
Kate only says “Please.”
Jack grants permission.

Sawyer chops wood with the red ax.
Kate comes up from behind and asks “What do you want?”
She asks it again.
Sawyer tells Freckles he’s got so many answers to that question he wouldn’t even know where to start.
Kate- “What do you want for the inhalers?”
He feels that’s a good question, “Hang on a tick.”
He chops the wood and tells her “A kiss aught to do it.”
Yep, a kiss from her, right now.
Kate doesn’t buy the act; He tries too hard.
She just wants him to help a woman who can’t breathe.
Kate, who seems to blend in with the jungle, admits she’s seen him with that piece of paper; the one he keeps in his pocket. She’s seen the expression on his face when he reads it, and how carefully he folds it up; it means something to him.
Kate-“So you can play games all you want, but I know there’s a human being in there somewhere. Give me the medication.”
Sawyer gets annoyed and says “You think you understand me?”
Kate starts to answer yes, but he tells her to shut up.
Sawyer {Who seems completely different right now} “You wanna know what kind of human being I am?...Read it.”
He forces her to take the letter and read it out loud. {Watch him the whole time}

Kate opens the letter and begins…”Dear Mr. Sawyer, You don’t know who I am, but I know who you are and I know what you done. You had sex with my mother and then you stole my dad’s money all away. So he got angry and he killed my mother, and then he killed himself too.” She stops, but Sawyer wants her to read on to the good part. Kate continues, “All I know is your name. One of these days I’m gonna find you and I’m gonna give you this letter so you’ll remember what you done to me. You killed my parents Mr. Sawyer.”
Sawyer takes the letter from her and says, “Now about that kiss.”
She doesn’t budge. He didn’t think so.




Locke sits crafting a spear out of a piece of wood. Sayid enters and asks where he was last night around sunset.

Locke’s only witness to his whereabouts was the boar he was skinning for their dinner. Locke in all his Locke-ness, says to Sayid, "It would seem, whoever attacked you has a reason for not getting off the island. Maybe someone who is profiting from our current circumstances." {Yep! Locke knows they're not supposed to leave the island. Maybe he even knows why.
Locke is aware Sayid and Sawyer share certain animosity. But Sawyer has an alibi.
Sayid tells him Sawyer set off the bottle rocket two kilometers away and wouldn’t have time to…
Locke suggests, “Unless he found a way to time defuse his rocket.
But how?
Locke also adds that anyone who watches television knows how to improvise a slow fuse, “Use a cigarette.”
Sayid wonders silently and Locke offers him his red handled knife, “Just in case there’s a next time.”
Sayid touches the knife.

In the caves, Shannon is suffering an asthma attack. She gasps for air.
Boone-“Just try to breathe.”
Jack rummages through medical supplies for something to help as Sun watches. Sawyer nonchalantly strolls by apathetic to Shannon's current situation.

Sawyer is going to fill up his water bottles and Jack demands the inhalers from him.
Cocky Sawyer says, “Hell…wondering when you were gonna stop asking nice.”
Jack hits him!
Jack gets pain in his right shoulder.
Sawyer gets up and tells Jack, “Well it’s about time, Cowboy. Been telling you since day one that we’re in the wild. Didn’t know if you had it in ya.
Jack punches him again.
Sawyer eggs him on but Jack realizes all eyes are on him and walks away.
Sawyer is left with a bloody mouth.
{Flash Whoosh}
"I’m not so sure this is a good idea.” Sawyer tells Jess and her hubby, David.
They are having lunch at a nice restaurant.
Sawyer feels business between friends is always a little sticky. Apparently Sawyer works with Jess at the Auto Dealership. Sawyer tells the couple he’s just not sure if he’s comfortable with this. David says, “Louisiana will invest two thirds of the drilling costs…what is this, a loophole?”
Sawyer understands David is reluctant, after all he’s got his lumber yards; he doesn’t need this. Jess tries to get him to do it, but David is still hesitant since he doesn’t know this guy.
Jess wants Sawyer to show him the cash, and he does.
David- “How do I know this is real?”
Sawyer- “The money?
Sawyer encourages David to hold on to the money for the night, check it out; he wants him to feel secure. After a few seconds Sawyer thinks they shouldn’t do this; he’s got another investor who’s already committed…”
Sawyer covers lunch and will see Jess on Monday; he walks away.
David calls him back. Sawyer smiles; mission accomplished.



Claire and Charlie hang laundry on wires and chat about the things they miss. Charlie misses food items. Claire misses warm fluffy towels and peanut butter. She’s the only Australian who loves peanut butter. Charlie can get her peanut butter. And when he gets her the peanut butter she has to vacate the sandy shores of depression and move to the caves.
Charlie-“Deal?”
Claire-“Deal.”
They shake on it. {Charlie's taped letters- LATE}

In the caves Boone yells out for help, “She’s not breathing!”
The attacks are getting worse
. Jack wants Shannon to look at him and listen, “This isn’t just the asthma. Its anxiety. It’s in your head. You know that your medicine’s run out and you’re panickingWe can fight this, together. Okay?”
Everyone looks on.
Shannon gasps for air but nods her head yes. Boone tells Jack she needs her inhaler but Jack is trying to get her to calm herself down; to gain control of the asthma. It seems to be helping.
Jack tells Boone to keep her relaxed, “Do not let her panic.”
Hurley- Wow, man. That was awesome. I mean, that was like a, Jedi moment.”
Sayid runs after Jack.

Sayid asks what will happen if she doesn’t get her medicine.
Jack gives the look of doom. Sayid feels then they need to make Sawyer give them the meds. That’s where Jack is headed.
Nope, not Jack.
Sayid served five years in the Republican Guard.
Jack-“I thought you were a communications officer?”
Sayid reveals part of his training entailed getting the enemy to communicate. Just give me ten minutes with him. He’ll give us the medicine.“
Jack grants permission.

In the jungle Hurley {Carrying luggage} tells Charlie the food from the plane’s been gone over a week. Charlie inquires if there’s a secret stash for emergencies; Hurley and Jack have a bunch of stuff in that cave. Hurley apologizes, “No peanut butter. No peanuts. No nothing.”
Charlie feels there’s got to be something, after all Hurley’s still large. Hurley’s a bit insulted, “Fat guy hording the food...is that what you think?”
Charlie feels they’ve been there for two weeks and Hurley hasn’t slimmed down much.
Charlie whispers, “All I need’s a bag of peanuts.”
Hurley has NO food and for the record, he’s down a notch in his belt. “I’m a big guy. It’s gonna be a while before you’re gonna wanna give me a piggy back ride. Okay?”
Charlie apologizes.

Michael is having a hard time cleaning a fish. Sun is washing herself up behind him. Sun walks over to Michael and in English quietly tells him she can help the sick girl with the asthma.

Sawyer sleeps in tent made of yellow and blue tarps. He wakes to see Sayid standing over him. Sayid says, “Good morning” and hits him; knocking him out.
Jack and Sayid carry/drag a knocked out Sawyer.
Kate wants to know what they’re doing. Jack tells her this was Sawyer’s choice not his. Upset Kate yells, “If you do this!”



Sawyer is tied up {Hands behind his back} and kneeling on the ground.
Sayid throws water in his face in an effort to wake him.

Sawyer wakes, “Well aint you the brave one? Jumping a guy while he’s napping.”

Jack squats down in front of Sawyer and tells him they gave him the chance to do the right thing; all he wants is the asthma medicine. “Just tell me where the inhalers are and we’ll stop.”
Sawyer-“Stop what, Chico?”
Sayid is sharpening a piece of bamboo with a knife.
Jack again tells Sawyer it doesn’t have to be this way.
Sawyer-“Yeah it does.”
Sayid explains to Sawyer that when the bamboo/reed shoots are inserted underneath the fingernails; they’re effect is the same.
Sawyer tells “Ali” he thinks he’s never really tortured anybody in his life. Unfortunately for them both, Sawyer is wrong.
Sayid goes behind kneeling Sawyer and inserts a bamboo shoot. Although it appears painful Sawyer eggs him on for more.
Sayid proceeds and Sawyer screams out in pain. This scene is upsetting Jack and he has Sayid stop. Smart ass Sawyer tells him not to stop now, “I think my sinuses are clearing.”
Jack wonders what the hell is wrong with him.
Sayid-“Perhaps losing an eye will loosen your tongue.”
Sawyer concedes, but the only person he’ll tell is her.
Jack-“Kate?”
Sawyer- “That’s the deal.”
{Flash Whoosh}
“Tell me Sawyer, do you want to die?” asks the man playing pool in a smoky bar. “'Cause when a man walks in to my place and tells me he left 160 of my hard won dollars in the care of a civilian, I gotta ask myself if what I’m hearing isn’t a desperate cry for the sweet release of death.” Sawyer lights up a cigarette and tells the man the deal closed today.
Sawyer feels women are easy; you sweeten things up and they end up thinking the scam is their idea. The husbands need to touch the money; smell it, “Believe that if they had the brass to put that suitcase in the trunk of their family sedan speed away, they just might have a chance of being an honest to gosh outlaw.”
The pool player asks why then did “Tex” need his money. Sawyer likes earning it as much as he likes spending it. Be that as it may, but this guy knows a thing or two about making people suffer, “Now you have my money, plus 50 percent by noon tomorrow or I’ll tell you all about it.”


Kate appears in front of tortured Sawyer. He’ll be happy to tell her where it is as soon as he gets that kiss and he’s serious. “Baby, I am tied to a tree in a jungle of mystery. I just got tortured by a damn spinal surgeon and a genuine Iraqi. Course I’m serious. Just not seeing the big picture here Freckles. You really gonna let that girl suffocate, cause you can’t bring yourself to give me one little kiss. Hell, it’s only first base. Lucky for you I ain’t greedy. ”
Okay, they kiss. {Only it’s a little more than one little kiss!}
Sawyer quietly tells her, “I don’t have it.” He never had the medicine.
Kate questions “The book. They said you found it in their luggage.”
Sawyer reveals the book washed up on shore.
Kate punches him in the face. Mission accomplished; Sawyer got his kiss!

Kate tells Jack and Sayid he doesn’t have it.
Sayid feels Sawyer’s lying, “Can’t you see that? He’s been lying from the beginning. He doesn’t want us to get off this island. That’s why he attacked me. He destroyed the transceiver!”
Jack tries to stop Sayid from going after Sawyer again, “You don’t know that!”

Sawyer unties his own hands and is prepared to fight Sayid. They fight and Sawyer ends up stabbed in the right bicep. Jack pulls the knife out; the knife hit an artery. Jack sends Sayid to retrieve Jacks leather backpack from the caves, “GO!”
Kate wonders if Jack can make it stop.

Shannon is asleep in the caves and Sayid runs in for Jacks bag.
Boone asks Sayid, “Whose blood is that?”
Sayid tells him.
Boone- “You went after Sawyer and you didn’t even tell me. She’s my sister.”
Shannon wakes and asks Boone not to leave her alone.
Boone assures her he’s not going anywhere. Sayid runs out with the backpack and Michael enters. Michael asks Sun if these are the right ones she asked for. He retrieved eucalyptus from a tree for her. Sun sniffs it; it’s correct. Angry Jin yells something in Korean to Sun. {Must be something about Sun AND Michael.} Sun is nervous at first but ends up just walking away from him. Jin looks at Michael as if he’s going to say something but tough Michael tells him, “Don’t, man. I’m telling you, don’t”

Jack is trying to stop Sawyer’s bleeding.
Sawyer tells Jack to Let go. I know you want to.”
Jack tells him to shut up and stop moving. Sawyer feels Jack has been waiting for this to happen so he can be a hero again, “Cause that’s what you do. Fix everything up all nice.”
Sawyer wants Freckles to tell Jack to let go; what else does he have to live for?
Sawyer tells Jack, “There’s something you should know…the tables were turned, I’d watch you die.”
{Flash Whoosh}

Sawyer is dressed in his power suit. David paces, but it looks like they’re in the oil business. Everybody’s cool. {Watch Jess here.} Sawyer tells David they’ll get the money back a week from tomorrow. Tripled.
David asks him, “You’re not gonna skip town are ya?”
Jess feels they should trust him because Sawyer left his money with them.
Sawyer feels Jess is a smart woman, “Don’t let her go.”
A little boy enters the room. Jess asks the boy What are you doing up? Are you feeling better?
The little boy asks, “Will you read to me?” {We don’t see the boy ask this}
Sawyer is moved by seeing the child. A different woman’s voice says, “In a minute, sweetheart. We have company right now.”

Sawyer and the child just look in to each other's eyes.
Sawyer tells David the deal’s off, forget it.
David asks if this is a joke. Sawyer’s calling it off; walking away. David’s getting pissed and Jess blurts out, “This isn’t how it was supposed to work.”
Sawyer drops the briefcase and walks out.

Outside the house Sawyer walks in slow motion as David yells behind him. {NO flash whoosh}



Sawyer is sleeping.
He wakes to the sound of the waves and sees his right bicep is bandaged.
Kate, who was watching over him, tells him he’s lucky to be alive. Sawyer looks a bit confused and says “Jack.”
Jack went to the caves to check on Shannon.

Kate tells Sawyer she read it again, because she was trying to figure out why he beat up Boone instead of telling him he didn’t have his sister’s medication; why he pretended to have it anyway, “The thing that I keep coming back around to is that you want to be hated.”
Then she looked at the envelope and realized it was from America’s Bicentennial in Knoxville Tennessee. Sawyer would have been just a kid of 8 or 9, “This letter wasn’t written to you. You wrote this letter….Your name’s not Sawyer is it?”
Sawyer admits it was “his” name. “He” was a confidence man who romanced his mama to get to the money; wiped them out clean, left a mess behind. So Sawyer wrote that letter knowing one day he’d find him. But that ain’t the sad part, when he was 19 he needed six grand to pay these guys off he was in trouble with. So he found a pretty lady with a dumb husband who had some money, and he got him to give it to him. “How’s that for a tragedy? Became the man I was hunting. Became Sawyer.”
He turns to Kate and says, “Don’t you feel sorry for me.”
He grabs the letter and tells her to get the hell out.

Sun is tending to Shannon. Sun has made a remedy from the eucalyptus; she applies some to Shannon’s chest and has her breathe in sniff the vapor from it. Shannon is doing better. Boone tells Jack it’s like some miracle Sun showed up with that mixture, rubbed it on Shannon’s chest, “and 10 minutes she was breathing.”
Jack takes some of the mixtures, sniffs it and says to himself, “Smart, Jack.”
He thanks Sun. Jin looks over at Sun.

On the beach, Claire wakes up to Charlie packing her stuff, as she is moving to the caves. Charlie the peanut butter she ordered. Charlie tells her its extra smooth. He presents an empty jar to her. He convinces her it’s filled to the brim; through his acting as if he’s eating real peanut butter from the jar, “Makes you want a glass of milk.”
So they play make-believe, eating the best peanut butter they ever tasted.
{All an illusion, pretend}

Kate looks out to the water.
Sayid walks by her not even stopping to say hi. Kate stops him wondering where he’s going.
Sayid feels he can’t stay there, deciding to leave the camp but doesn’t know for how long.
Kate tells him he can’t, “We still don’t know what’s out there.”

He has worse things to fear than what’s in the jungle. Sayid is ashamed for breaking his own promise of never to do what he did today ever again, “I have no right to be here.”
Kate feels there’s nowhere to go.
Sayid-“Someone has to walk the shore and map the island…see what else there is. I can’t think of a better person to do it than the only one I trust. I hope we meet again.”
He kisses her hand and walks away. {What makes these two so close?}

While the song "I Shall Not Walk Alone" plays, on the beach, Charlie and Claire make their way to the caves.
Boone sits with recovering Shannon in the caves.
Sawyer sits, about to ignite his letter, but decides against it.
Sayid leaves the beach camp, alone. {Or is he?}





Confidence man is a GREAT episode. As this particular episode unfolds we notice Sawyer comfortable in his role of con man, until he sees the little boy of a couple he's in the middle of conning. He calls that deal off as he evidently sees himself in the little boy. I love watching Sawyer with his letter. He's so intense, so angry, so hurt.
I think there's a lot more to the "conning" than meets the eye.

Things to note...Questions to ask...
* Con. Trick. Manipulate. Deal. Use.
* Eyes.
* Depression. Anxiety. Panic. Guilt. Hurt.
* Alias. Alibi. Witness.
* Play on words- “Incredible”
* Watership Down. Government.
* Military. Civilian. Profit.
* Bar.
* Map out. Attack.
* The word TARP is an anagram for TRAP.
* Illusion. Pretend. Imagination. What is real? AND WHAT IS NOT?
* Time. Time limit. Time defuse. Time constraints. Timer. LATE.
* Emerge from the water.
* Games. Trade. Deals. Loophole.
* Come back around.
* Why would there be the sound of a snort and then we see Boone?
* Jack says, “We’re not savages, Kate. Not yet.” When will they be savages?
* Jack can SNAP! Does Jack need to let go of something? Yes.
* Jack is literally being told to "Let go" 
* “Pregnant” Claire doesn’t have food cravings like most other normal pregnancies. Maybe she’s not really pregnant. Yep! That’s what I just said.
* Where did Charlie find a jar, let alone that kind of jar?
* Locke says to Sayid, "It would seem, whoever attacked you has a reason for not getting off the Island. Maybe someone who is profiting from our current circumstances." Is Locke that someone?
* The bit when the little boy comes in the room felt weird. Is it me or did the voices change? Sounded like it. It could be due to ADR. But it felt more like it was a peek inside to Sawyer’s own memory for a second. I know, I’m crazy.
* It’s in your head.


Vocabulary and Research...
* Con- A confidence trick or confidence game (AKA: bunko, con, flim flam, gaffle, grift, hustle, scam, scheme, or swindle) is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. Persons of any level of intelligence are vulnerable to deception by experienced con artists. Confidence tricks exploit human weaknesses like greed, dishonesty, vanity, but also virtues like honesty, compassion, or a naive expectation of good faith on the part of the con artist.
* Hydrogen Peroxide is often abbreviated to peroxide.
* Boon- A prayer, blessing, petition benefit.
* Tick- A parasitic bug,
- Tick, the sound a pendulum clock makes.
- Tick bases game is a game that is played in iterated time periods.
- Tick, the smallest increment of system time as measured by a computer system.
- A tic is a sudden, repetitive, non rhythmic, stereotyped motor movement or vocalization involving discrete muscle groups.
- The Trusted Internet Connection initiative AKA as TIC.



At this point we find they are on the "Island" about two weeks. Jin shows a little jealousy when Michael gives Sun the plants. It's in this episode that we hear the phrase "Come back around" Kate says it on the beach. {That's important}

Again, I keep close tabs on Locke at all times! Boy, he sure does know how to play a game!! Is he conning anyone? I need to know who is profiting by their current situation.

The insight to Sawyer was enlightening. We found a very angry, hurt and 'lost' little boy, grow up to be too close to the man he hated. But is Sawyer really that bad man? Sawyer is his own worst enemy. He keeps everyone at a distance on purpose. It's almost like he self punishes himself by the behavior he displays. He does try to make everybody hate him, when in reality a con-man would try to make everybody like him. Sawyer unfortunately was a victim of circumstance (as a child).
He IS a man who can "love".

If here on the island they all get a clean slate why doesn't he take advantage of assuming a new role instead of living the same role he had in the “outside world”?
Because he can't…they all are carrying baggage and they ALL have their roles!

Love to all who are "Lost"™

Posted on Myspace 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.

May 26, 2009

The Incident. Part 2.

Let’s talk about LOST! The Incident. Part 2.






(click the pics).




Richard leads John’s group.
John-“What is it? Why are we stopping?”
Richard- “You’ll see.”
They have arrived at the 4 toed Statue.
John remarks that it’s a wonderful foot, “But what does it have to do with Jacob?”
Richard- “That’s where he lives.”

Jack asks Kate what’s going on.
Sawyer- “Doc. We gotta talk.”
Jack tells him if he wants to talk he has to get in the van as they don’t have a lot of time. Pissed off Sawyer aint gettin in the van, “I need 5 minutes, that’s all.”
Sawyer’s gonna say whatever he gotta say then Jack can do whatever the hell he wants to, “But you’re gonna listen. You owe me that much, Jack.”
Jack-“Five minutes.” {All this while Sayid bleeds to death.} The unarmed men go and talk.

Jack performs surgery on a girl. {The room is bathed in blue.}
Jack cut the Dural sac; it’s flooded, he asks for suction.
Composed Christian, who is observing the surgery, tells Jack “Calm down. It’s alright.”
Jack is starting to get nervous about the fluid that’s leaking everywhere.
Christian tells Jack, “Look at me…Jack. Look at me.”
Jack looks at dad and Christian tells Jack to count to five.”
Jack-“What are you talking about?”
Christian’s trying to get Jack to focus, “I’m talking about you stitching up the sac so this girl isn’t paralyzed for the rest of her life. And the only way you’re gonna do that is not to be afraid. So close your eyes, count to five and then fix her, Jack. Or I’ll have to fix her for you.”

Jack follows dad’s instructions. He closes his eyes, counts to five and he seems focused.
He finishes the surgery.
Jack puts a coin in the vending machine and pushes button D5 for an Apollo Bar. It’s stuck. {The Apollo Bar is flanked by Lindo’s/Humdinger candy that is peanut butter flavored. Lol}
Jack pushes the machine but it still doesn’t deliver the bar.
Happy Christian comes down the hall to get coffee, “Hey, Kiddo! The girl’s in recovery. She’s responsive to stimulus below the waist, so, no paralysis.” {The coffee station is set up in front of the med/lab/pharmacy.}
Christian senses something up with Jack.
Jack-“You embarrassed me…Its bad enough that everybody in this hospital thinks the only reason I got the residency is because you’re my father. But then y…you put me in a time out during my first major procedure, in front of my entire team. Dad, I know you don’t believe in me, but I need them to.”
Christian-“Are you sure I’m the one who doesn’t believe in you, Jack?” {Jack still has his mask tied on/around his neck} Christian walks away.
Jacob, with two Apollo Bars, asks Jack if one of these is his.
Jack walks over and tells him “The machine got stuck.”
Jacob- “I guess it just needed a little push.”
Jacob is sure to touch Jack when Jack takes the bar.




Sawyer wants Doc to sit while they chat.
Stubborn Jack reluctantly sits. Sawyer shares the story of his folks dying when he was eight years old. The con-man took his dad for everything he had and how dad killed mom then himself. Sawyer was hiding when this happened but heard the whole thing.
Jack- “I’m sorry.”
Sawyer-“That was a year agoRight now it’s July 1977. Which means that happened last year. So I could've hopped on the sub, gone back to the states, walked right into my house and stop my daddy from killin anybody.”
Jack asks why he didn’t.
Sawyer-“Cause, Jack. What’s done is done.”
Steadfast Jack says it doesn’t have to be that way.
Sawyer asks him what he screwed up so bad the first time around that he’s willing to blow up a damn nuke just for a second chance.
Jack says that’s not what this is about. “Three years ago, Locke told me that all this was happening for a reason. That us being here was our destiny.”
Sawyer rolls his eyes, “I don’t speak destiny. What I do understand is that a man does what he does cause he wants something for himself…What do you want, Jack?”
Jack tells Sawyer he had her and I lost her.   {In LaFleur, James tells Horace about having a shot at a girl but didn't take it.}
Sawyer- “Kate?”
Jack nods yes.
Sawyer feels if Jack wants her he can go get her; she’s standing right over there on the other side of those trees, “You want her back just go over there and ask her.”
Jack thinks it’s too late for that. He tells Sawyer his five minutes is up and starts to walk away.
Sawyer is pissed, “Jack! If what you’re doing even works you and Kate will be strangers and she’ll be in damn handcuffs.”
Jack- “If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be.”
Sawyer appears to concede that nothing he can say will change Jack’s mind, but punches him instead. “Who the hell do you think you are?”
They beat the shit out of each other! In the middle of the bout, Sawyer yells at Jack, “You think you can come here and do whatever the hell you want? I had a life here!”
The nasty fight continues.
Jack tells Sawyer, “Listen. You don’t get it.”
More fisticuffs! Sawyer chokes Jack and asks him if he’ll stop. Jack will not.
Sawyer looks like he could actually kill Jack but Juliet stops him. Sawyer tells her he wouldn’t listen. Juliet feels James that Jack is right, “We have to do this.” {Of course they do.}
Sawyer-“What are you talking about? You’re the one who told me to come back here and stop him. What happened?!”
Evidently Juliet changed her mind.

A young blond girl is pulling on the thread of a pillow. She’s crying. She asks her parents “Are we moving again?”
Her mom and dad are having a sit down with the two girls about their plans to divorce. {Rachel has dark hair. On the table is Mysteries of the Ancient Americas.}
Mom wants the girls to understand that she and dad still love each other but just because two people love each other doesn’t always mean they’re supposed to be together.
The blond girl asks what if you are supposed to be together.
Mom knows for sure that they’re not, “And when you’re a grown up, you’ll understand.”
The blond girl- “I don’t wanna understand.”
{This Flash looks very modern! Could this be just a look into hurt heart of child all grown up?} {Was that mom’s voice or Juliet’s voice?  AGAIN, This Flash is very modern.}

Sawyer is trying to get Juliet to stop, “We gotta talk about this!”
Juliet says there’s nothing to talk about, they just “have to let Jack do what he came here to do.”
Sawyer- “Well maybe you should have told me you had a change of heart before I brought him out in the jungle to kick his ass!”  But that really wouldn’t have stopped him. Juliet's glad that he finally got it out of his system.  He tries to get hold of her but she slaps him away.  Hurt and confused Sawyer needs her to tell him where all this is coming from, “I mean one minute you’re leading the great sub escape, now you’re on board with blowin up the damn island? I got a right to know why you changed your mind.”
Juliet admits she changed her mind when he looked at Kate.
Sawyer tries to reassure her, “I don’t care who I looked at. I’m with you.”
Juliet knows he would stay with her forever if she let him and that is why she will always love him. {WTF?! Let him!} She goes on, “What we had was just for a little while and just because we love each other doesn’t mean that we’re meant to be together. I mean maybe we were never supposed to be together. So if Jack can make it that none of you ever come here then he should. “ {Interesting choice of words. “Come here”, was meaning to where she is/always has been/always will be?}
He asks why she’s doing this.
Juliet- “If I never meet you, then I never have to lose you.” She walks away.

At the Swan site, they’re hosing down the drill.
Radzinski is looking over plans, “They can’t be like that!”
Cheng calls over to Radzinski to let him know his Gauss readings just jumped off the charts.
Radzinski’s excited they’re on top of pocket. Cheng says if they keep drilling and hit the pocket “All hell’s gonna break loose.”
Phil calls Radzinski to let him know the Hostile that shot the kid came back to the barracks, he attacked them and then he was rescued by the new recruits, they stole a van and took off. He doesn’t know where but Roger said that one of them had a bomb.
Radzinski is fired up, “That Hostile knows about the Swan! Get some men and some guns and get your asses out here right now. If they’re coming here we’re gonna be ready for em.”  {We've hear Jack say this before}

Bloody Jack is watching the action at the Swan from the trees on the ridge.
Kate runs over and asks him what happened. His talk with Sawyer didn’t go so well.  Kate wipes some of the blood from his face and asks him if he remembers when she sewed him up when they first got there.
Jack remembers, “It seems like a million years ago.”
Kate-“Or thirty years from now.”
Jack finally asks her why she made him promise to never ask about Aaron.
Kate says it’s because she was so angry with him for making her come back there.
Jack- “Is he why you came back?”
Kate- “I came back so he’d be where he belongs. With his mother.”
Jack excitedly shares if this works Claire will never come to the island and they’ll always be together just like they’re meant to be.
Kate reveals she was giving him up for adoption.
Jack feels they wouldn’t know that, “And whatever it is, it would be her choice. If you wanna save Claire this is the only way to do it….Nothing. Nothing in my life has ever felt so right. And, I just need you to believe that.”
They observe Cheng and Radzinsky argue about keeping the drill going.
Jack- “It’s about to happen.”
He turns to Kate and asks her if she’s with him on this.
Kate looks deep in his eyes and says yes.

{Click it!}


Hugo stands at the counter of the police station getting his personal effects returned to him by Officer Winter of the County Sheriff’s dept. Out of the plastic bag the officer notes 1 wallet, $227.00 cash, 1 ballpoint pen, 1 fruit roll up.
Hugo doesn’t think the officer understands this is a big mistake, “I killed a bunch of people.”

The officer shows him the discharge papers, “You’ve been cleared. So take your stuff and go.” {Is his birthplace Miami? If so, there's another tie to Miami}
Hugo shares that there are men with tranquilizer guns hunting me down like an animal, they wanna bring me somewhere against my will.
Undeterred the officer directs him to a cab stand right out front.
Hugo opens the door to a cab and sees it already has a passenger. It’s Jacob. {Dark clothes and guitar case.} Jacob’s only going a few blocks and will share. Hugo offers to share his cherry fruit roll up; Jacob declines.
Hugo-“So what were you in for?”
Hugo says he was in because he killed three people. Well, I didn’t really. I guess they figured it out.”
Jacob tells him he wasn’t in jail. He was sitting outside a prison because he was waiting for Hugo.
Hugo-“Oh. Then you must be dead.”
Jacob assures him he’s definitely not dead. Confused Hugo asks what he wants from him.
Jacob wants to know why Hugo won’t go back to the island.
Hugo-“Cause I’m cursed.”
Jacob-“Is that so?”
Yep. Hugo feels that’s why the plane crashed and his friends died. Libby. Charlie. And now they visit me and I can’t make it stop.”
Jacob-”What if you weren’t cursed? What if you were blessed?”
How do you mean, blessed? Jacob says you get to talk to the people you’ve lost, “It seems like a pretty wonderful thing to me.”
Hugo agrees it’s wonderful except for the part, “I’m crazy.”
Jacob’s got some news for him and he’s just gonna have to take his word on this, “You are not crazy.”
After a few seconds of thought Hugo asks, “Who are you, dude?”
Of course Jacob doesn’t answer, he only tells the driver, “I’m just up here on the corner.”
Jacob turns to Hugo and gives him the details on “Ajira flight 316 out of LAX, leaves in 24 hours. All you have to do is be on that plane.”
He touches Hugo, “It’s your choice, Hugo. You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to.”
Jacob exits the cab and Hugo tells him he forgot his guitar.
Jacob- “It’s not my guitar.”




Hurley brings water to bleeding Sayid and tells him everything’s gonna be fine when Jack changes the future, “Or the past. One of those.”
Miles doesn’t think Jin’s buddy’s gonna make it.
Jin-“He’ll make it.”
Jack and Kate return to the van. Hurley asks Jack what happened to his face.
Jack- “Nothing.”
Jack tells the group that they were just on a ridge where they can look down at the Swan site. He tells Sayid something just happened down there, “They hit something. Time for me to go.”
Sayid informs Jack it’s all set to go, “Remember, be careful. It’s rigged to explode on impact. According to Faraday’s plan you must get the bomb as close as you can to the source of electromagnets.”

Jack reassures Sayid this is going to work and it’ll save him.
Unfortunately Sayid feels “Nothing can save me.”
Jack hands Hurley his gun to hold for a second and Kate helps him with his bomb backpack.
He gives Kate a look that seems to convey his confidence in this task. As he runs off, she looks like she has second thoughts.
As Jack makes his way to the Swan site, Juliet and pissed Sawyer appear.  Determined Jack walks by them but not before saying confidently to Sawyer, “I’ll see you in Los Angeles.” {Watch Sawyer here.}



Night:
John is standing arms crossed staring at the broken statue. {Damn, how long was he staring at it?}

Richard asks him if he’s sure he needs to do this, “If you waited, Jacob will eventually come to you.”
John is tired of waiting, “Where is he, Richard?”
Richard takes a torch and leads John yet again.
Sun asks Ben what happened to the rest of the statue. Ben doesn’t know because it was like that when he got there.
Sun- “Do you expect me to believe that?”
Ben realizing his track record as the island liar says, “Not really.”
John gathers Ben. Richard freaks, “You can’t bring him in…Because only our leader can request an audience with Jacob. And there can only be one leader on the island at a time, John!” {How many are there right now?!}
John- “I’m beginning to think you make these rules up as you go along, Richard.  Ben is coming in with me. And if that‘s a problem I‘m sure Jacob and I can work it out.”
Strong Richard pushes open the rock entry for them. “Tell him I said hello.”
John pushes the rock the rest of the way. Ben looks down the "hall" at the flickering light.  John asks him if he’ll be able to do this, “I know it won’t be easy. But I know things will change once he’s gone. I promise.”
Ben takes his knife; he looks focused.

Jin tends to bleeding Sayid.

Juliet and Sawyer are at the van with the gang. Miles wants to ask LaFleur a question.
Sawyer- “There aint no more LaFleur.”
Miles- “Has it occurred to any of you that your buddy’s actually gonna cause the thing he’s trying to prevent.  Perhaps that little nuke is the incident. So maybe the best thing to do is nothing?
He’s glad they all thought this through.
They see Phil and a couple of guys in a jeep on the road to the Swan site.
Kate- “If they see Jack, they’re gonna kill him.”
Sawyer looks at Juliet, knowing they have to get involved. He asks Blondie what she thinks.
Blondie-“Live together, die alone.”  {No. Really. That’s what she said!}



Phil arrives at the Swan, this pleases Radzinsky that they got there fast, “You got time to set up a perimeter.“
Phil gives orders to some men to go to the ridge line.
Cheng is mad that Stuart brought men to the site instead of getting people away from the site.
Jack watches from the ridge.
Cheng watches the gages max out. {The water tank is above the site.}
Phil spots Jack on the ridge. This triggers a shoot out!  Stuart sees the Dharma van, "Who’s this?"
Hurley drives the Dharma van to the rescue. {Again.}
Team Jack has joined the shoot out. While his friends hold off and take out a few men, Jack makes his way to the well.
Sawyer manages to grab Phil, while Cheng grabs Stuart.  Phil commands his men to drop the guns.
Sawyer tells Doc he can come out now, “Hurry up and do your business…Turn that damn thing off!”
Cheng attempts to shut it down but to no avail, “Something’s pulling the drill down.”
Stuart says they hit the pocket.
Sawyer tells Jack to hurry up, “What are you waiting for? Drop it!”
Jack looks over at crying Kate, she gives him the OK.
Sawyer lets go of Phil and looks at Juliet. They smile lovingly at each other.
Jack drops the core into the wellThey all wait in anticipation. {Eyes closed.}  
NOTHING HAPPENS. 
The machine is still running.
Sawyer-”This don’t look like LAX..”
Everything starts getting pulled into the well. Steam/smoke rise up, chains are rattling. The rig starts to get pulled in and falls over; trapping Cheng’s left hand.
Miles-“Dad!”   He helps him out and tells him to get as far away from there as he can.
Jack gets hit in the back of the head with a red tool box.
Radzinsky and a few guys jump in the jeep and try to get away from the magnet‘s pull. {Reminds me of a Scooby Doo bit! Lol}
Phil attempts to shoot LaFleur but gets skewered instead.
Juliet is knocked down and pulled by chains into the well. {Around her waist} She hangs on while Kate holds on to the chains trying to save her.
Sawyer grabs her hand and in an extremely emotional scene they try to get the chains off.
Sawyer won’t let go of her, “Hold on! I got you! Don’t you leave me… “
Juliet says it’s OK.
Sawyer is desperately holding on to her.
Juliet is crying and holding on, “I love you...I love you, James.”
Sawyer- “No! You don’t let go!…”
Juliet falls into the well.
Sawyer falls apart.















Richard offers Sun water from his canteen. She asks for alcohol.   He wishes he had some.
Ilana, Bram, Frank and group arrive with the box/crate. She tells them not to shoot, “It’s OK. It’s alright.”
She puts her gun down and asks which one of them is Ricardos.
Richard {Actually} steps forward.
Ilana -“What lies in the shadow of the statue?”
Richard- “Ille qui nos omnes servabit.”
Ilana is relived. There’s something she needs Richard to see. The men open the box and tip it over; it’s John Locke’s body.
Richards- “Where did you find him?”
Ilana- “The cargo hold of the plane they came there on; in a coffin. {Note John’s body is very limp. Not a hint of Rigor mortis or having been embalmed}
Sun doesn’t understand; she asks if this is Locke, who’s in there? {In the statue}. They’re all concerned.

John leads knife wielding Ben into the room with the fire pit in the center.
Ben looks up over the burning fire; you can see through to the night sky. He walks over to look at a tapestry. {Egyptian-like}
Sitting in a rocking chair is Jacob. He asks Ben if he likes it; he did it himself. “It takes a very long time when you’re making the thread. I suppose that’s the point isn’t it?”
John- “Hello, Jacob.”
Jacob looks leaden, “Well you found your loop-hole.”
Indeed he did, “And you have no idea what I’ve gone through to be here.”
Ben is shocked, “Have you met before?”
John-” In a matter of speaking.”
John tells Ben to do what he asked of him. Jacob in a button down shirt talks to Benjamin, “Whatever he’s told you I want you to understand one thing…You have a choice.”
Hurt and broken Ben asks what choice?
Jacob- “You can do what he asks. Or you can go. Leave us to discuss our… issues.”
Ben now seems insulted, “So now after all this time you’ve decided to stop ignoring me. 35 years I lived on this island and all I ever heard was your name over and over. Richard would bring me your instructions, all those slips of paper, all those lists. And I never questioned anything. I did as I was told. But when I dared to ask to see you myself, I was told you have to wait. You have to be patient. But when he asked to see you, he gets marched straight up here as if he was Moses. So…Why him?! Hmm? What was it that was wrong with me? What about me?!”
Jacob-“What about you?”
Yeah, this breaks the camels/Ben’s back. Ben stabs Jacob twice.
Jacobs bleeding from the mouth says, “They’re coming.”
John-“What? I can’t hear ya.”
Jacob- “They’re coming.
John kicks Jacob into the fire pit. {Are we burning friggin vampires?!}

At the Swan site, Jack’s vision is blurred and hearing is muffled.
Kate is trying to get distraught Sawyer away from the well. Jack runs over to help her. Everything is getting pulled in.
We see at the bottom of the well all the debris managed to miss Juliet.  She is bleeding from her mouth and face up in a puddle of water. She’s crying.
Juliet sees the core of the bomb near her. She picks up a black rock and starts banging on the bomb. “Come on!! Come on you son of a bitch!!”   Bangs away.
WHITE FLASH!
White screen. L O S T


The Incident part 2 is a GREAT EPISODE!

Things to note…Questions to ask...
There is additional info in my posts for this episode at The Incident. Part 1. and The Incident. Preliminary LOSTNESS.
* Escape. Exit.
* Loop-holes have been used before a few times, this is not the first time.
* Does this John have all of John Locke’s memories?
* Metaphoric chains. Chains that bind you.  Hit the bottom.  Broken heart. Childhood hurt/pain. Anger. Can’t let go/move forward. Control. Communication. Disappointment. Abandonment. Emotional and/or physical Paralysis. Dishonesty. Power. Revenge. Lying. Stealing. Cheating.
* Stuck. On an island, in time, mentally, emotionally. They need a little push.
* Dead. Not dead. Un-dead.
* Tranquilizer. Alcohol. Crazy.
* Machines.
* Jacob is indeed “right here” {statute} when his “friend” comes to kill him.
* Jacob says to Jack the vending machine needed a little push. Christian told John to give the wheel a little push. The rock entrance to Jacob’s needs to be pushed.
* Is this game is on a timer? Are they candidates for the "game"? Is the "leader" the one with the high score?
* Rose has used the term "time out". Here Jack feels dad put him in "time out".
* How were Rose and Bernard able to keep hidden from Sawyer’s grid searches?
* Apollo Bars are dark chocolate.
* Why isn’t Juliet happy with having been in love and lost, than never having been in love at all?
* Why does Jacob meet with Hurley and send him to 1977?
* I perceived Christian telling Jack to calm down, not to be afraid and learn to count, as a way for him to get Jack to do just that; Focus and regain control.  I didn’t take it as him putting Jack in a time out. In Jack’s mind the bomb will reset things from the Oceanic flight and events they’ve experienced on the island. But what happens to everyone else’s lives and events associated with the island? Then there’s Jack’s line of “If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be” regarding Kate, then why reset anything. If they’re meant to be together anyway why erase anything? And what about Claire’s choice?
* Jack looks like a “Ghostbuster.” lol!
* Radzinsky asks yet again “Who’s this?” This is regarding Hurley.
* Richard: What is his role in all of this? Will be also be shown the truth about something? Something he has been misled about for a long time?
* “Ille qui nos omnes servabit.” {Possible Translation: “He quae we omnes being saved”. But those words also may translate to: He/she/it- who/what/which/that- us/we-omnes serves/servant/slave/creature.
* Following and believing in someone/something you’ve only “heard” about.
* The sounds at the Swan site {when everything was getting pulled in to the well} sounded very much like the sounds we heard associated with the monster.

* I'm being very careful about Jacob. I won't assume he's a positive force. Too many things tell me he just may not be what he wants us to think he is.  We do have hints to people misrepresenting themselves. Do we have another case of "Whatever/Whoever you think I am, I'm not" going on?

Here are a couple of other things from the past I wanted to keep fresh in my mind…
* Who ordered Richard and Ben to purge the Dharma Initiative? Did it come from Jacob?
* Why would Jacob want Waaaaaalt?

* From Dead is Dead: Ben is sleeping.
John- “Ben.” Ben jolts awake.
John-“Hello, Ben. Welcome back to the land of the living.”
Ben seems surprised to see John alive. Ben shares with John he knew that this would happen.
John- “Then why were you so surprised to see me?”
Ben looks delighted, “Because it’s one thing to believe it, John… It’s another thing to see it.”

* From The Man from Tallahassee:
1). Ben tells John he brought Anthony Cooper to the Island.
2). The sub maintains the illusion…
3). Ben-"We have two giant hamsters running in a massive wheel in our secret underground lair/lab."

* From The Cost of Living: When Eko was dying he whispered something to John. Sayid asks what he said.
Locke- "He said. We're next."

* Remember the original Blast Door map? We were shown 6 Stations (Question mark in the center} and it contained bits of info and dates (In Latin). Of course there are math notations as well. Here's some info I want to note as it seems things are amiss as the Lostie's relive 1977 again. Since we first were introduced to this map, we've learned of The Tempest, The Orchid, And the Looking Glass and the Lamp post.
According to the Blast Door Map, the Medical Station was abandoned in 1985. So how is Claire in the medical station with Ethan?
According to Hanso, D.I. was canceled in 1987 (funding cut).
Suspected Shut down 10/28/84.
The Purge- 12/19/1992
Other Blast Door Map dates/numbers: Station wide failure of Dharmatel Intra net-04/08/00, 08/15/01, 01/06/03 Complete Shutdown in effect.
Home of H.G. Delegation inspection 12/07/81
AH/MDG Incident of 1985 {Caduceus Station believed to have been abandoned due to this.}
Possible location of Zoological research facility 4/2/02
Kelvin and Desmond in the hatch 9/22/04


Vocabulary and Research…
* Lindos- is a town and an archaeological site on the east coast of the Greek island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese in southeastern Aegean Sea.
* Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss. A German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, electrostatics, astronomy and optics. He referred to mathematics as "the queen of sciences."
A few of the many things named after him: The Gauss crater on the moon. A type of magnetic gun. Gauss’s law of electric fields. Gauss a German research ship. Gauss unit, a unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic induction.





The LOST story has always been about these people being lost.  This is and has always been the basis of everything we witness.  Long time readers know my notes have always been based on this starting point.  Finding clues, using the unique ways the writers are telling us about these people's journey is the greatest, most creative way of showing us in a subliminal fashion just how deep the heart of finding enlightenment truly is.  The clues to how, where and when their journey is taking place are just an added element for us to explore.
I still believe the Castaways are "lost" and need to find themselves, add to that their journey to enlightenment via states of consciousness and seeming to be under the guise of a  game.
With that said, even though the story has taken us on an adventure through a portal to a possible other land, world, dimension and/or time or really deep inside the conscious mind, it’s still a heartfelt journey to finding yourself and finding your way home.

We do see two sides of so many things here but also keep in mind we all have two sides.   Don't count out the "mirror" theme. I wonder if next season will we see that the escape hatch has indeed been utilized to get the hell out of the loop. Would this bring us to the other side of the looking glass?

Love to all who are "LOST"™



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.

March 25, 2009

The Brig.

Let's Talk about LOST. The Brig.

John reads the contents of a red file by firelight. We hear the sounds of a gagged man struggling.
John tells him, "Save your breath. Nobody's gonna hear ya."
John burns the red file.

8 Days ago:
John sees that Anthony Cooper is gagged w/black gag and tied up.  Ben and Richard "showed" John that this is what came out of the "magic box."
Tom is there standing guard.
Ben informs John, "You brought him here."
John says he did not.
Ben warns John about getting to close to Anthony.  Tom has a zapper for protection from Anthony. John wants to know where he found him and why he brought him here. John will just ask Anthony how he got there.
Ben-"Be my guest."
John takes off Anthony's gag and Anthony bites John {Like a dog!} Tom Zaps Anthony!
Ben- "I warned you, John."
Tied up Anthony asks John in a very scary manor, "Don't you know John? Don't you know where we are?"    Bitten John and the guys leave the room, leaving prisoner Anthony.
John asks Ben what Anthony meant.
Ben-"We don't have time to deal with that now."
Tom closes the door from the inside; Richard appears to lock it from the outside. {Is there another way in and out of that room? Why would Tom want to be locked in with him?}
Ben informs John they're going to a new place, "Well, an old place, actually. Would you like to come with us?"
John- "Yes."
Ben tells him they're holding Kate a few buildings over from here; maybe he'd like to say goodbye.

Sawyer is sleeping, Kate is awake. She slips away from his loving arms but it wakes him.  Kate says she can't sleep if she's not in her own tent. {There is something seriously wrong with her!!!} He's fine with that; they'll go over to her tent. Apparently that not really what Kate wants.
Kate tells him "It's nothing personal, just old habits, you know?" She only lives five tents away; she can walk by herself. Sawyer has to pee anyway. Sawyer takes a gun with him. {If there's so much danger out there, why not walk her home or give her the gun?}
Sawyer catches Hurley and Jin by Hurley's tent. Coincidently they say they're going to take a leak too.
Sawyer is out in the jungle to pee. He hears noises and grabs his gun. Its Locke shinning is flashlight at Sawyer, "Hello James."
Locke asks Sawyer, "Wanna zip your pants up?"
Locke was looking for him. {His right hand is not bandaged.}
Sawyer- "Okay, Tarzan, so now that you're back from your blow up everything that can get us off the island tour, how bout you tell me why you joined up with the damn enemy?"
Locke says he didn't join them; he infiltrated them.
Sawyer- "You're undercover with the Others?"
Locke- "That's right."   And James should believe that because, "A few hours ago, I snuck into Ben's tent and kidnapped him. Tied him up and dragged him into the jungle.
Sawyer- "And you came all the way back here to tell me this because…"
Locke- "Because this is the same man who tortured you, beat you, humiliated you. And I want you, to kill him."
Sawyer tells him if he wants him dead then he should kill him. Both men say they are not murderers.
John informs Sawyer, "Except for the man you killed in Sydney. They got files on us, James. All of us."
Sawyer says the files got their facts wrong.
Locke-"Then I made a mistake coming to you. Please don't tell anyone I was here."
Sawyer follows an undeterred Locke into the jungle, barefoot and all!
This pleases "Locke."

3 Days Ago:
The Others tent city.
Everyone is wearing bland colored clothes. {Not the costumes} John is there; right hand bandaged and helping Cindy put up a tent. She has fabric tied around her neck. John was glad to help her. The people of the camp give him smiles as they pass by.
Cindy tells him, "Don't mind them. They're all just excited you're here." They've been waiting for him. Tom comes over tells John Ben asking for him.
Ben in the wheelchair in his very comfortable tent is listening to the tape recorded by Juliet- "Ben, its 6am on Saturday morning. Kwon is pregnant. The fetus is healthy and was conceived on island with her husband. He was sterile before they got here."
John arrives. {Bandage hand}
Ben shuts off the tape. Ben tells him Juliet is gathering information from John's former camp for them. She's determining if any of the women are pregnant; then they're gonna go in and take them.
John-"Take them?"
Ben-"This is not the first time we've done this, John. Trust me, no one will get hurt."
Ben asks John to pass him a walking stick. Ben believes he has John to thank for this because a week ago he couldn't move his toes. But the minute "he" showed up, he began to feel pins and needles. This is only the beginning, "I can't wait to show you what this island can do. But unfortunately, you're not ready, John."
John insists he is ready.
Ben feels "You're still crippled by the memories of the man you used to be before you came to this island. You'll never be free until you release the hold your father has over you. Why do you think you brought him here?"
John mocks the magic box.
Ben reveals the "Magic box is a metaphor, John. I can't show you anything until you can show me that you're ready and willing to be one of us. When people join us here on this island, they need to make a gesture of free will, of commitment. That's why you're gonna have to kill your father."
John looks outside the tent to see Anthony tied to a huge column, while the Others are all going about their business as if he's not even there.
Charlie is in the beach kitchen/pantry; he's packing a suitcase with fruit and water. He sniffs an old jar of jelly, {Preserves} peanut butter, pineapple, and bananas.
Jack asks him, “Hey when did you get back?"
Charlie- "Last night. Well, this morning actually."
Jack asks what they were doing camping. Charlie tells him they figured they'd explore a bit, "Male bonding."
Jack lets him know the next time they go out "Sign me up."
Charlie- "Yeah, next time. Sure."

Charlie gives Jin the suitcase to take into the tent. Charlie and Hurley tell Desmond they think Jack should be told about the parachutist and check out her wound.
Des asks the guys, "Can you give me your word that Jack can be trusted, he spent 10 days with those people and nothing happened to him, and that woman he's spending time with…? Aye, Juliet 2 weeks ago she had your friends in cages. Naomi. Now your heard everything that she said. If we keep her safe, she's our way off this island. So, given that, do you trust Jack? Or don't you?"
The guys don't answer.
Desmond continues, "Right. So we'd better bring in someone we can trust.

John and James walk through the jungle. James' bare feet are bloody. James asks what else is in the file they've got on him.
John tells him, not much, "That your parents died when you were very young. But it doesn't say why your father shot your mother, or why he turned the gun on himself. {James is still} That must have been hard for ya." There's also high school transcripts, criminal record, for the con jobs he was arrested for.
John guesses that's why he uses and alias, "Why did you choose the name Sawyer?"
James snaps and hits him with the gun; knocking him to the ground and holds John's knife to his neck, "How stupid do you think I am? I already been conned by Ben once! Maybe you heard about it? Bunny with a number painted on it? Think I'm just gonna follow you through the jungle..."
John tells him he has to trust him.  James demands to know where he's taking him and what he wants from him. John again insists he's doing exactly what he said, to kill Ben. James angrily asks John why he came back to get him to do it. Why won't he do it himself...And don't call him James!
John can't do it himself, “That's why I came back for you."
Sawyer-"I'll go to where ever you got him. But then we're bringing him back to our camp. I ain't killin nobody. Understand me?"
John says yes, "When you hear what 'he' has to say you'll change your mind."

Sayid is digging a hole.
Hurley-"Hey dude." {Sayid has a Band-Aid on left shoulder.} Hurley asks him if he can keep a secret.
Sayid and Hurley arrive at the tent. Charlie says Sayid gonna wanna hear what she has to say for himself; they still haven't told Jack .  Desmond is happy to see Sayid.
"Her" eyes are closed. Sayid introduces himself to her, "I understand your helicopter crashed onto the island."
She says, no, it crashed into the water. Her name is Naomi Dorrit. She tells him she took off from a ship, a freighter, 80 nautical miles west of "here".   She's part of a search and recovery team.
Sayid-"You told my friends the wreckage of flight 815 was discovered. Did you mean the partial wreckage?"
Naomi-"No. They found the entire plane off the coast of Bali.  In an Ocean trench 4 miles deep. They sent down these cameras and these little robots to survey the wreck. The bodies were all there."
Sayid says obviously they're not dead.  If she wasn't looking for them, then who was she looking for?
She says "Him." {Desmond} She goes on to say "My company was hired by a woman named Penelope Widmore. I don't know why, I never met her.  She gave us a set of coordinates. We'd be conducting a differential GPS grid search ever since."
Naomi-"Island? We were given coordinates in the middle of the bloody ocean. We thought it was a fool's errand. Til three days ago. I was flying back for the ship when all of a sudden the clouds cleared and I saw land.  The instruments started spinning, I realized I was going down so, I grabbed my chute and I bailed."
Sayid-"Did you actually see her helicopter?"
Desmond-"No."
She asks him if he thinks she's lying.  He takes it that there's no way of communicating with that freighter of hers.
Naomi-"What was your name? Sayid? {He says yes}Remind me not to rescue you, Sayid."

John and Sawyer stop by the stream. Sawyer cools his feet in the water. He questions John about him changing his mind about killing Ben when he hears what he's got to say, "Do you wanna give me a heads up?"
John-"It's not really my place to tell ya."
Sawyer tells him what he read in that file about the guy in Sydney, "I thought he was someone else. I made a mistake. I didn't mean to kill him."
John-"Well. Who'd you mean to kill?"
Sawyer-"Are we almost there?"
John-"Almost."

Three Days Ago:
Night in Other tent city.
Tents are illuminated by the lanterns inside them. Campfires burning.
Ben pokes at John with his walking stick! John's sleeping on the ground, not in a tent. "Wake up, John. It's time."
John follows him. {Right hand bandaged}
Ben takes John to where Anthony is tied to the column.
Ben gives John a knife, "I know it won't be easy, but the quicker the better."  He takes the gag out of Anthony's mouth.
Anthony says to Ben, "You're kidding me, right? You expect him to kill me?"
Ben says to John the hesitation that he's feeling is just the part of you that still feels like he has a perfectly good explanation for stealing your kidney, throwing you out an 8 story window. Don't you wanna be free from him?"
Anthony says the hesitation he feels is "because he's a spineless…."
John wants to think.
Ben- "Don't think, John."
Anthony tells Ben, "You're wasting your time, Bug Eye. Me and him have been through all this. All he wants is his daddy."
Now all the Others watch.
Anthony-"You really haven't figured it out yet, have you?"
Ben-"Let go of him, John."
John has the knife at Anthony's throat, "Why are you doing this to me?"
Ben says he's doing it to himself, "As long as he's still breathing, you’ll still be that same sad pathetic little man that was kicked off his walkabout tour, because you couldn't walk."
John can't do it.
Anthony-"I'll be here the rest of the week, John, if you change your mind."
Ben knocks out Anthony with his walking stick.
Ben takes the knife from John, says to his camp, "I'm sorry. He's not who we thought he was."
John is pissed! We see the faces of Richard, Cindy and the kids. {They are the only kids we see}

Locke leads Sawyer to the Black Rock.
Sawyer's surprised to see the ship, "Nice place you got here, Locke."{Locke!}
Locke tells him Ben's inside in the brig. Sawyer's ready.

Locke with his flashlight leads Sawyer the way. {We are looking down through a big hole. Note that they guys are wearing similar, not the same shirts}
Sawyer sees the skeletons and asks Locke, "Friends of yours?" {They just might be!}
Locke explains, "It's an old slaving ship. Mid 19th century. {Again, how does he know that?} His guess is they captured the slaves and brought them here to try and mine the island. There's dynamite in the boxes.
We hear grunts.
Sawyer-"Son of a bitch. You really kidnapped the little bastard. We aint killing him, Locke." {Again, calls him Locke!}
Locke-"Whatever you say, James." {He’s not supposed to call him James}
Locke opens the door. There's man, black bag over his head, cuffed. Sawyer leaves the knife outside the door and enters. Locke slams the door shut, leaving Sawyer in there alone with him. Sawyer bangs on the door, "Open the damn door!" {Sawyer still has his gun in the back waist of pants} Sawyer tells the bagged guy to shut up! He takes the bag off. This is not Ben! "Who the hell are you?"

Sayid tries to fix the phone.
Hurley-"Is that like a radio?"
Sayid-"It's like a radio, yes. But I've never seen equipment this sophisticated."
Hurley hopes he can make it work, "What about the other part? The part about they found the plane and we're all dead?"
Sayid tells him, one thing at a time. {WTF? Why?} Sayid gets the phone to turn on; it gets feedback and beeps.  There's not a single audible channel.  Whatever the interference is, it's blocking our ability to send our transmission. If we..." {The screen changes, locating channel}
Kate-"What's that? Is that a radio?" {She always has to know everything!}
Hurley lies and says he got it from the luggage. Sayid will explain it to her if she keeps it very quiet.


Sawyer's banging on the door for Locke to open it. Locke sits calm and content whittling . {Maybe he's making wooden dolls} Another door opens. It's Rousseau.
Locke-"What brings you to the Black Rock?"
She needs dynamite. All the while there is banging and yelling continuing from behind the door. "Crates are right over there" points with his flashlight. He tells her to be careful. She picks up a crate labeled "Explosives."
She doesn't ask what's going on there at all, she just gets what she came for and just leaves.

Two Days Ago:
John, right bandaged hand, sitting on a hillside overlooking the Other's tent city. He removes his bandage and sees he is healed.
Richard joins him; tells him "No matter how much time you spend on the island, you just never get tired of this view".
Richard formally introduces himself. {Richard is wearing a watch!}
Richard shares with John, "He wanted to embarrass you…Ben knew you weren't going to kill your own father. He put you in front of everyone in our camp just so they could all watch you fail….'Cause when word got back here that there was a man with a broken spine on the plane who could suddenly walk again, well... People here began to get very excited, because that could only happen to someone who was extremely special. But Ben doesn't want anyone to think you're special, John."
John wants to know why he's telling him this.
Richard reveals "Ben has been wasting our time with novelties like fertility problems. We're looking for someone to remind us that we're here for more important reasons….I want for you to find your purpose. And to do that, your father has to go, John. And since you're not gonna do it,.."
Richard takes out a red file and gives it to John; he suggests someone else.
John opens the file, "Sawyer? Why would Sawyer kill my father? He doesn't even know him." Richard tells him to keep reading. {File labeled Ford James aka Sawyer. The papers seem to be written in French or something. This is a lovely loophole, if I may say so!}

Sawyer is banging on the door. Cooper gagged. Sawyer removes the gag but wants him quiet. Sawyer through the door, he is very upset, "I'm pointing my gun at you, John Boy. You got three seconds to open this door."
John- "You're not gonna shoot anyone, James."
Sawyer counts 1, 2!
John- "If there were any bullets in that gun, why would hold a knife to my throat?"
Damn it!
Cooper-"I guess I didn't raise no dummies…It means that bald headed bastard outside the door is my son."
He claims to be John's father. {He didn't raise him!} "You do speak English?"
Sawyer is surprised, "How did you get here? To the island."
Anthony- "Island? Haha. Okay. I'm driving down I-10 through Tallahassee when, bam, somebody slams into the back of my car. I go right through into the divider at 70 miles an hour. {Not 88 mph?! Ha!} The next thing I know, the paramedics are strapping me to a gurney, stuffing me in an ambulance, and one of them actually smiles at me as he pops the I.V. in my arm. And then nothing, just black. And the next thing I know, I wake up in a dark room, tied up, gag in my mouth, And when the doors open, I'm looking up at the same man I threw out a window, John Locke, "My dead son."
Sawyer is confused. Anthony goes on to tell him John survived the toss out the window that permanently paralyzed him and also says John's dead because the plane he was flying on crashed in the Pacific.
Sawyer- "I got bad news for you Pops. 'Cause I was on that plane with your son. He sure as hell wasn't crippled. And we didn't crash in the Pacific. We crashed right here on this island." Anthony, "You sure it's an island?" {NO. It's a freighter. With a ward on it called Santa Rosa! LOL!!}
Sawyer- 'Well, what else is it?"
Anthony insinuates it is HELL.
Sawyer- "So, we're dead."
Anthony says they found their plane on the bottom of the ocean. One minute he's in a car wreck, the next he's in a pirate ship in the middle of the jungle, "If this isn't hell, friend…Then where are we?"
Anthony tells Sawyer he threw Locke out the window because he was becoming a nuisance, "I conned him into giving me one of his kidneys. He never got over it.
You can see Sawyer trying to comprehend everything that's going on. The word "con" gets to Sawyer.
Sawyer- "What's your name?"
Anthony now uses a slight southern accent, "Con man goes by many names, friend. I've been Alan Seward, Anthony Cooper, Ted MacLaren, Tom Sawyer. Lewis Jackson, Paul…{Tom Sawyer gets to Sawyer.} I was young and Huck Finn was taken. And the ladies love that one. Made me charming."
Sawyer- "How bout that?...Sawyer's my name too."

Yesterday:
Locke wakes up on the ground. {Just as if Ben never woke him the night before.} His back pack is his pillow. Everyone around him is packing up the tent city. {Wow! He can sleep through anything!}
John asks Ben what's going on. Ben, who is reading a book, tells John, "We're moving."
John asks where "we're" going?
Ben-"We are not going anywhere, John. You are going to stay behind. You both are going to stay behind."
John-"You're not taken him?" {Pointing to tied up Anthony/column}
Ben-"He's your mess, John. Why would we clean it up?"
John- "If you're trying to put me in my place or embarrass me."
Ben asks him where he would get a ridiculous idea like that." {Yeah right}
John-“You can't leave me. After everything…"
Ben- "Don't tell me what I can't do, John."
But John thought he was special. Ben tells him, everyone makes mistakes. {Not Ben} They will leave a trail, one that John can track, "And John, unless you're carrying your father's body on your back, don't bother.

Locke is still whittling. He's listening; it's quiet. Just the creaking and howl through the ship. Sawyer asks Anthony if he's ever been to Jasper Alabama.
Anthony- "Yeah. I've been to Jasper. Don't tell me I'm your daddy."
Sawyer-"No. you killed my daddy."
Anthony's face changes. Sawyer takes out the letter he wrote as a young boy to Mr. Sawyer, from his back pocket. He makes him read it. Anthony begins the letter. As he reads aloud, Sawyer is hypnotized.
Anthony mocks the letter, "So what. Is this supposed to be you? You wrote this letter? Hey, wait a second. Did you take my name because you were on some kind of revenge kick?"
Sawyer wants him to keep reading. He's getting very emotional.
Anthony- "Look I ran that con two dozen times. If your mother was one of the ladies…"
Sawyer tells him her name was Mary.
Anthony remembers her. He tells Sawyer she practically begged him to take her $38,000 and rescue her from her sorry little life. Sawyer with tears in his eyes wants him to finish the letter. Anthony says he only took her money. It's not his fault his dad overreacted. If his dad pulled the ol murder-suicide, then I'm sure he's down here somewhere. {I'm sure his is too} Sawyer yells for him to finish it! Defiant Anthony tears up the letter. Sawyer freaks and chokes him with the chain; apparently kills him.
Locke opens the door and thanks an emotional Sawyer.







Jack and Juliet sitting on the beach, eating.
Jack asks her if she's missing the cheeseburgers yet.
Juliet-"Only every second."
Kate comes over needing to talk to Jack in private. Jack tells her she can say anything in front of Juliet {WTF?} Kate's fine with her hearing, since no one wants to tell Jack, "There's a woman in Hurley's tent, who parachuted onto the island yesterday."
She explains that a woman jumped from her chopper before it crashed. {Watch Juliet here} The boat that she took off from is 80 miles off the coast and if she can find a way to contact it, we'll all be rescued. No one told Jack, because they don't trust him. {Juliet looks at Jack} Jack wants to know how. Kate said she had a phone radio thing and Sayid's trying to get it to work.
Juliet- "We should tell her."
Jack- "No…Not yet."
Jack walks away from them. The ladies just look at each other.

Sawyer pukes in the jungle.
Locke-"You can go back now."
Sawyer asks him why he did this.
Locke-"He ruined my life. And he ruined yours. And he had it coming. Juliet is a mole…She's working for Ben. He sent her back to find out which of our women were pregnant. Three days from now, there's gonna be a raid on the beach and they're gonna take them. They say they don't want anyone to get hurt."
Locke wants Sawyer to warn the camp. Locke can't warn the camp because, "I'm not going back."
Sawyer- "You're going back undercover?"
Locke-"No. I was never undercover, James. I'm on my own journey now."
Sawyer feels even though he's been trying to tell the camp that since she showed up, they won't believe him. Locke gives him the tape recorder with the notes on it that he stole from Ben, "They'll believe you now."
Sawyer asks if it's true he threw him out a window, "That you were a cripple?"
Locke-"Not anymore."
They both leave in separate directions.
Locke looks back, puts on his back pack and carries the 'sack o Anthony.'



THE BRIG IS A GREAT EPISODE!
Locke is told by Ben, as a gesture of free will and commitment that he has to kill his father.  Locke can't kill his father because he can't let go of him.  Locke recruits Sawyer to kill Anthony Cooper via a loophole provided by Richard.  While this "may" give Sawyer a chance to close this chapter of his book, it in turns opens up another chapter for Locke.   Locke is trying to con his way into knowing about the "Island."   Con? Yes, con.   He talks Sawyer into this deed, then takes the credit for and lies about the deed.  All to show Ben he is committed to being one of them. Is Locke really "One of Them?"
The beach camp is already starting to split up into sides.

Things to note...Questions to ask.
* WAKE UP!  Is everybody friggin' sleepwalking?!!!
* Hear. Listen. Look. See.  Be quiet-silent-don't speak.
* Let go-purge
* Is this really Anthony Cooper? Why is he there? Who really "brought" him there? Locke "brought" him.
* John sure does a lot of 'guessing.' Or is he really "Knowing?"
* Time.
* People on the island are starting to find out that the 'outside world' thinks their all dead from the crash of flight 815.
* "I was on that plane with your son. He sure as hell wasn't crippled. Sawyer seems pretty sure about that!
* Bug.
* Father. Dad. Daddy. Pops.
* Post hypnotic suggestion? Knowing how to use words to influence people.
* Why did Richard give Locke the red file on Sawyer? What angle is he playing there? Is her really trying to help Locke, or Ben?
* Anthony Cooper. Bottle of MacCuteons. Sawyer had a bottle of the stuff in his hidden stash.
* Does Desmond know that Jack won't make the right decision? Charlie and Hurley don't trust Jack.
* Sayid, band aid on left shoulder. Gunshot from Mikhail
* Naomi must know these island residents.
* Rousseau and Locke must know each other. They always seemed like they do. Share history, perhaps?
* John wants his daddy.
* John knows a lot about the Black Rock.
* Where exactly is Ben taking his people?
* They all stick their guns in their back waistbands of their pants.
* Ben can never be far away from his books.
* Anthony describes his trip to the island. From what we've seen, basically, that is how they get to the "island".   It really seems that they're never out of the "confines" of the "Island".
* Everyone is still conning everybody else!
* Robots. Cameras. Tape recorders. Books. Notes.
* Files. Retrieving (real life) documents, or 'scripted' lives?
* GPS. Tracking.
* Michael has used a very similar line to Locke. "Old Habits, You know?"
* Rose uses a similar line about "Fool's errand" in another episode.
* Watch out for Kate. She's a big tease with Sawyer. She uses and uses him! She always has her hands in everything. Island treks, investigations, searches, exploring with the guys when they want to check things out. Always has to be a part of everything! Here she finds out about Naomi, and then she runs to tell Jack, even though she said told Sayid she would keep it very quiet!
* Sawyer has his moment with "Mr. Sawyer."
* Black Rock.
* Journey. That's the truth! They're all on their own journey to enlightenment.

Vocabulary and Research…
* BRIG-In nautical terms, a brig is a vessel with 2 square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and maneuverable and were used as both naval war ships and merchant ships. While their use stretches back before the 1600s the most famous period of the brig was during the 1800's. A brig is also a type of ship which is derived from a brigantine.
-An abbreviation for the rank of Brigadier.
- A military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
- Military prison (This is in a building)
- The Brig Enterprise in the film Star Trek Generations.
- The Brig is a nickname for the Doctor Who character Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.
* Jasper is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow or brown in color. This mineral breaks with a smooth surface, and is used for ornamentation or as a gemstone. It can be highly polished and is used for vases, seals, and at one time for snuff boxes. Jasper can appear as an opaque rock of shades of red due to mineral impurities. Patterns can arise from the formation process and from flow patterns in the sediment or volcanic ash that was saturated with silica to form jasper, yielding bands or swirls in the rock.
* The Black Rock is a hybrid laying bird originating from America. They are bred from a Rhode Island Red cockerel and a Barred Plymouth Rock hen. The birds are notable for their handsome appearance and long and productive lifespan.
-Blackrock (geology), a type of limestone.
-Blackrock(comics), an adversary of Superman's in DC Comics.
-G. B. Blackrock, a character in the Transformers comic book series
-Black Rock is a British slave ship. The Black Rock was allegedly owned and run by the British trading group the New World Sea Traders. The slave trade had been outlawed in 1807, indicating the New World Sea Traders operated in the black market. The company owned a fleet of fifteen ships, including a frigate, two sloops, and three slave ships. The Black Rock may have been one of these slave ships, though they were sold in 1882, a year after the Black Rock disappeared, suggesting the company may have had actually sixteen ships pre-1881. The New World Sea Traders was owned and operated by Magnus Hanso, a former ship's captain who became a business entrepreneur. While no direct ownership has been stated, it is known that the Black Rock sailed out of slip 23 in Portsmouth docks, and Hanso's trading group managed slips 18 to 27.
* Guest Island is a glacial island in the Ross Sea approximately 100 kilometers off the coast of Ross Dependency, Antarctica. The island part of New Zealand.
* An alias is a pseudonym, an artificial, fictitious name. Stage name.
* Alias was a "Spy-fi" television series.
* Pins and needles Paresthesia or par aesthesia. Like when your arm or leg falls asleep. Funny, this is how Jack describes Ben's tumor symptoms too. Numbness. Chronic paresthesia indicates a problem with the functioning of neurons. Or poor circulation . Paresthesia can also be a symptom of vitamin deficiency and malnutrition, as well as metabolic disorders like diabetes, hypothyroidism. Also, it could be that Nerves below the head may be compressed where chronic neck and spine problems exist and can be caused by, amongst other things, muscle cramps which may be a result of clinical anxiety or excessive mental stress, bone disease, bad posture, unsafe heavy lifting practices or physical trauma such as whiplash. Another cause can be Radiation Poisoning.
* FILE- A column of the Chessboard. A specific file can be named either using its position in algebraic notation, a–h, or by using its position in descriptive notation. For example, the f-file or the king bishop file comprises the squares f1–f8 or KB1–KB8.
* File (formation) Military term for a single column of men one in front of the other.Ranks.
* A File (Unix), a Unix program for determining the type of data contained in a computer file.
* A File (hand file) is a hand tool used to shape material by cutting.




Metaphors Galore!!! WoooooooHoooooo!
I LOVE THAT! Come back. Came back. Go back. When did you get back? I'm going back. I'm back! Over and Over again!

The Brig.  Is the "Island" the "ship/vehicle" and they're all prisoners in the brig?  Or is someone a Brigadier General in charge of something big?
This all can't be about "Anthony" being tied up in a broken down pirate ship. Aye! Someone please tell me!
Love to all who are "LOST"™

Posted at MySpace on February 2008

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.