White Rabbit.

Let's talk about LOST! White Rabbit.




A chain/chain link fence can be heard.
EYE.
The bully tells him to, “Stay down.”
Another bully is beating up a boy against a chain link fence.


The boy on the ground is told by the bully above him, “Your choice, man. You can walk away now and you won’t get your ass kicked.”
Seeing the other bully continue to punch the kid at the fence, the boy on the ground gets up and the bully prepares to knock him out, “You should’ve stayed down, Jack!”
Blackout....
...Black screen. “Jack! Jack! Jack!”
Jack is on the beach just staring out to the water; he’s somewhere else.
Finally he snaps out of it and realizes Charlie is calling for him.

Charlie tells him there’s someone out there, “The current...There’s someone out there, look! I woke up and just…I don’t swim! I don’t swim.”
You can faintly hear a woman calling for help. Someone is drowning and Jack dives in to help.
He can’t seem to locate the person in the water; the waves are blocking his view.  He dives under for a better look.
Jack comes up with Boone. He tells Boone he’s okay and to take deep breaths. "Just breathe. Just breathe.”
Boone-“Did you get her? There was a woman…”
Jack looks back and sees the drowning woman.
Boone-“We gotta go back.”
Jack is torn with concern.
Kate and Charlie take Boone from Jack and Jack heads back in for the “Someone else still out there.”   Kate looks confused.

Boone sits staring out to the water. He looks annoyed as he looks back at Jack.

Jack asks Kate, "What’d they say? Who was she?”
Kate reveals her name was Joanna. She wasn’t supposed to be on the plane. Joanna was scuba diving off the barrier reef, got an ear infection and the doctor grounded her for two days. She bumped her flight; that’s how she ended up with them.
Jack feels bad, “She was just swimming this morning, got caught in a riptide. We’ve been here 6 days and I never talked to her, I never said a word to her. There were 47 of us and I never said a single word to her.
Kate-“You tried.”
Jack-“No I didn’t…I thought I could bring him back and still have the time...and I was there, in the water…I didn’t try. I decided not to go after her.”
Beyond Kate Jack sees a man in a dark suit standing in the water. Then the man disappears.
Jack asks Kate if she saw the man standing in the water, “You didn’t see that?”
Kate asks him when the last time he slept was.

Vincent {collar} plays with a tennis ball on the beach.
Walt brushes his teeth with Aloe plant. Michael asks him who taught him that.
Walt-“Sun. The Korean lady.”
Michael advises Walt not to swallow the Ocean water; it will make him thirsty. Michael gets annoyed by the boy asking "why?"  
Sun is watching them from a distance.

Jin {Watch} comments about her lips, “You really need water.”
Sun tells him she’s all right and asks “When will someone tell them what to do?”
She doesn’t think anyone is coming.
Jin-“Someone will come.”
Sun-“The others, they ignore us…If we tried harder to communicate…”
Jin insists they’ll be fine. They don’t need anyone else as he’ll tell her what to do.
Sun is annoyed.





Shannon {wearing flip flops} asks Sawyer if he’s got it or what.
Sawyer who is sitting comfortably in a chair, reading looks up at her, “You’re in my light, Sticks.”

She wonders what they hell is lightsticks.
He clarifies “Light comma Sticks.” As in those legs of hers.
While she really loves her new nickname she wants… Sawyer tells her to calm down. He’s got her bug spray; It even has aloe. She’s concerned about sand fleas. She’s asks him how much. {She is scratching herself}.
Sawyer-“Your money’s no good here.”
Yep, he wants something; “5 grand.”
He was negotiating, “I can take an I.O.U... Something tells me you’re good…for it.”
Shannon is annoyed, throws the can at him and walks away. Sawyer smiles.

Kate is sorting clothes. Claire asks if she’s found a hairbrush in there; she’s looked through 20 suitcases and found "nothing".
Claire gets lightheaded, she blames the heat, “And I’m pregnant.”
Kate-“Really?”
Claire asks Kate if she’s a Gemini.
Yep, she is.
Claire thought so, “Restless. Passionate.” She goes on sharing that everyone thinks astrology is just a load of crap, “It’s just because they don’t get it. I can do you chart if you want to...or not.” Seeing as how Kate responded.

Hurley runs over to talk to Jack. He notices how he looks remarks, “Whoa! You look tired, brother.”
Hurley’s there to tell him they got a problem. There’s only 18 bottles in the red suitcase. {Water} People just took what they needed because they were supposed to be rescued but they weren’t.

Charlie-“Even if we divvied it up, split the bottle in half there wouldn’t be enough for 47 people.
Jack corrects him, “46. There’s 46 of us now.”
People are gonna freak out when they find out. Plus the boar’s running low until they catch another one. Hurley suggests they make a water finding stick. The guys are looking for Jack’s guidance but he doesn’t know what to do.
Hurley-“Maybe the dog can find water?”
Charlie suggests putting the suitcase in the tent; it's best if no one knows how little is left. Hurley’s going on about dogs finding pot and bombs, etc.
Charlie suggests a couple of things to Jack until Jack decides what to do.
Jack snaps, “I’m not deciding anything.”   This surprises the boys.
Hurley-“Why not?”  Jack just walks away from them.
{No Flash Whoosh here!}
The sound of ice cubes in a glass.
Christian,sitting in a chair having a cocktail, sees young Jack standing in the doorway.
Christian-“You wanna come in?” {You can hear the tic-toc of the clock}
Jack, with his bruised eye tells dad that a couple of guys jumped Marc Silverman.
Christian-“But they didn’t jump you”
He gets up to mix another drink and tells Jack he had a boy on his table today, about a year younger than Jack, “He had a bad heart. It got real hairy real fast. Everybody’s looking at your old man to make decisions. And I was able to make those decisions because at the end of the day…after the boy died…I was able to wash my hands and come home to dinner…You know, watch a little Carol Burnett, laugh till my sides hurt.  And how can I do that? Hmm? I mean, even when I fail…{He whispers} how do I do that, Jack?  Cause I have what it takes. Don’t choose, Jack. Don’t decide. You don’t wanna be a hero. You don’t want to try and save everyone. Because when you fail…you just don’t have what it takes.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Tired Jack just stares.
A voice says, “Why didn’t you leave me?”
Pissed Boone is talking to him. {White shirt, black cord with a cross}
Jack-“Not now, man.”
Boone feels he could have made it back, “I told you to leave me.”
Jack-“You were drowning.”
Boone feels Jack should have saved her.
Irritated Jack replies, “But I didn’t save her. And neither did you.”
Boone doesn’t let it go, “You think you’re all noble and heroic for coming after me? I was fine! You’re not the only one who knows what to do around here, you know that? I run a business!...Who appointed you our savior? What gives you the right…Look at me! Hey, I’m talking to you! Look at me, Jack!”
Something has caught Jack’s attention over Boone’s shoulder. It’s Christian. Jack follows Christian, who has turned and walked away.
Boone is pissed Jack ran off.

Jack runs after him into the jungle and stops when he sees Christian stand there with his back to Jack. As Jack reaches out to touch him Christian turns to face him.  Confused Jack falls back, “Dad?” Christian walks on.
{Flash Whoosh}
It's raining.
Jack looks out the window.{Reflection}
“Your father’s gone, Jack. Did you hear what I said?”
Jack, not fazed by his mother’s comment says, “He’ll be back.”
Mom tells him this time it’s different…I want you to bring him back.”
Jack seems amused, “He hasn’t talked to me in two months, mom.”
Mom mentions Jack hasn’t talked to him in two months.
Jack-“He doesn’t want me to bring him back” {Jack has no wedding ring; we're sure to see Jack's left hand here.}
His mom is pissed because Christian doesn’t have friends anymore, “Why do you think that is?...He was right about you…You don’t understand the pressure that he’s under…”
Jack understands pressure.
Mom calms downs, “Jack, please. You know how he gets. He doesn’t…he won’t take care of himself. You have to go after him.”
Jack apologizes, he can’t.
Mom’s pisses again, “I can’t…You don’t get to say I can’t. Not after what you did!”
Jack looks troubled.
Mom stresses, ”You bring your father home, Jack.”
They’re both a bit teary eyed.
Jack-“Where is he?”
Mom brings herself to say, “Australia.”
{No flash whoosh}
Jack gets up from the jungle floor and heads into the jungle.

Walt runs through the beach camp to Kate, informing her, “That pregnant lady fell down.”
Charlie and Michael carry unconscious Claire to a tent.  Kate asks if she’s breathing, “Let’s get her inside.”
Kate tries to wake her up.
Very slowly Claire comes around. Kate tells Charlie Claire needs water.
Kate tells Claire not to move; she thinks she has a fever.
Charlie discovers the suitcase with the water is gone, “Someone stole it!” {Note they have huge containers and coolers to store things in. Remarkable! Lol}

Kate, Sayid and John at the beach.
Locke-“Where is the Doctor?”  {All three are wearing white shirts}
Kate says no one knows, “No one can find him.”
Sayid notes that keeping the last of the water supply in one place is foolish.
Kate offers to go into the jungle to find fresh water.  Protective Sayid says she’s not going alone.
Locke-“When the others find out that the water is gone it’s gonna get ugly. And when they find out some one pinched it, it’s gonna get uglier…I’ll go. The camp needs you two here especially with the doctor gone. And besides, I know where to look.”
He smiles proudly. {Interesting hmmm? He knows where to look, why didn't he mention it earlier, before they were running out of water?}
Jack runs aimlessly through the jungle searching…
”Where are you?...Where are you?...Where are you?!”





“The maid said he hasn’t used the bed in the past three days.”


 He didn’t rent a car from the concierge either.
Jack is in Christian’s hotel room in Australia.
{Meds, ashtray, cigarettes, alcohol, USA TODAY}
{Mirror}



The manager doesn’t think Christian rented a car at all, “There was an incident a few nights ago, here at the hotel bar. I had to get security to escort your father to his room.”
Jack wonders what this has to do with renting a car.







Reluctantly the manager reveals that he didn’t think any rent agent would lease his father a car in his condition.
Jack gets defensive, “My father is the Chief of Surgery.”




The manager apologizes.




Jack picks up Christian’s wallet, “Who leaves a wallet?”  {No I.D.}

The manager suggests Jack talk to the police.
Confused Jack asks, “Where are you?”










In the jungle Jack still searches.
He’s sees Christian has his back to Jack again.
Jack takes off after him.









 Christian walks quickly into the jungle. {Many different sounds are happening. Do you hear any monster 'clicking' at all?}

Christian disappears. Jack continues to frantically search.
Christian appears behind Jack; again with his back to him.
Jack runs after him but ends up rolling down a hill and over a cliff!
He manages to hang on to a vine and tries desperately to climb up, but to no avail.   He starts slipping. A hand reaches over the side.  It’s Locke, right there to save him! {It’s a good thing he's out looking for water. Lol}
Locke asks Jack if he’s okay and Jack just breaks down in laughter.

Charlie brings sleeping sick Claire water.   Claire’s been out a couple of hours.   She drinks the tiny bit of water and thanks him for it. Charlie comments that there would be more water if someone hadn’t stolen it. Claire only asks if Jack’s back yet.
Charlie says no, “No one’s seen him. But I wouldn’t worry.  Good ol Mr. Locke’s gone in to the jungle to get some water for ya.”
Claire-“Great. Our only hunter’s gonna get eaten just so he can get the pregnant girl some more water.”
Charlie tells love not to worry, “You tell me who’d you rather meet in a dark alley?  Whatever’s out there or that geezer with his four hundred knives? I mean, who packs four hundred knives? Personally I can only have space for two hundred, three hundred at most.”
This makes Claire giggle.
She wonders “When are they gonna rescue us?”
Charlie, with his “Living is easy with eyes closed” tat and “LATE” on his left hand fingers, tells her with total reassurance, “Soon.”
Claire thanks Charlie; she feels people don’t seem to look her in the eye there.She thinks she scares them; the baby, “It’s like I’m this time bomb of responsibility just waiting to go off.”
Charlie-“You don’t scare me.”

Hurley runs over to tell Sayid and Kate that the Chinese people have water. Sayid asks Sun repeatedly and loudly where she got her bottle from.
Kate tells him “She’s doesn’t understand you.”
Sayid feels she absolutely understands him. He asks, “Did you steal this water?”
Sun replies in Korean.  Angry Jin confronts Sayid in Korean.
Kate tells Jin to take it easy, “We just want to talk, all right.”
Kate asks him about the water bottle, “Who gave you this?”
Angry Jin understands and points directly at Sawyer.  Kate is about to go over to Sawyer but Sayid stops her because he doesn’t see the water, “If you go after him now he’ll give you nothing. But if you wait, a rat will always lead you to its hole.”

Someone walks through the jungle. It’s Sawyer going to uncover his stash. He grabs a pack of cigarettes.  Kate {White shirt} tackles Sawyer {Black shirt}; she's ends up on top of him.
Sawyer says "It’s about time…I made this birthday wish 4 years ago" {HOLY SHIT!}
Sayid demands he give them the water now. Kate goes through his stash. Sayid knows he gave two bottles of water to the Koreans.
Sawyer didn’t steal it, “I don’t give nothin to nobody.”
Kate confirms its not there. Sawyer traded Mr. Miagi his water for a fish he caught. “We worked it out caveman style.”
Sawyer tells Freckles water has no value. It’s gonna rain sooner or later, after all he’s an optimist. Sawyer tosses Kate the Marshal’s badge seeing as she’s the new sheriff in town, might as well make it official.











 ''Locke lets water  drip off a leaf into his water bottle.
Jack- “How are they?...The others.”
Locke tells Jack they’re thirsty, hungry, waiting to be rescued, “And they need someone to tell them what to do.”
Jack feels he can’t because he’s not a leader.
Locke-“And yet they all treat you like one.”
Jack doesn’t know how to help them, “I’ll fail…I don’t have what it takes.”
Locke-“Why are you out here, Jack?”
Jack thinks he’s going crazy.
Locke informs him he’s not going crazy, “No. Crazy people don’t know they’re going crazy, they think they’re getting saner.
Locke sits and again asks Jack, “Why are you out here?”
Jack’s chasing something, someone.
Locke brightens up, “Ah, the White Rabbit. Alice in Wonderland.”
Jack scoffs, “Wonderland…Cause who I’m chasing…He’s not there.”
Jack confirms he sees him, “But he’s not there.”
Locke asks Jack if he came to him with the same things what would his opinion as a Doctor be. Jack would call it a hallucination, result of dehydration, post traumatic stress, not getting more than two hours of sleep a night for the past week, all of the above.
Locke says than Jack must be hallucinating, “But what if you’re not.”
Jack-“Then we’re all in a lot of trouble.”

Locke goes on to explain he’s just an “ordinary man. Meat and potatoes. I live in the real world. I’m not a real big believer in magic. But this place is different. Special. The others don’t wanna talk about it because it scares them. But we all know it. We all feel it. Is your White Rabbit a hallucination? Probably. But, what if everything that happened here, happened for a reason? What if this person that you’re chasing is really here?”

Jack feels that’s impossible.”  
John-“Even if it is, let's say it’s not.”
Jack asks what happens when he catches him.
John doesn’t know, “But I’ve looked in to the eye of this island…and what I saw…was beautiful.” He smiles.
John gets up to find some more water. He doesn’t want Jack to go with him because Jack needs to finish what he started.
Jack- ”Why?”
John-“Because a leader can’t lead until he knows where he’s going.” {Gotta love those Locke pearls!} John heads in to the jungle.

Night:
Jack sits staring into a camp fire. Footsteps echoing.
“The police found him in an alley in Kings Cross. Our tox screen showed a blood alcohol content, which for a man his size probably brought on myocardial infarction - a sizable and fatal heart-attack.”   Says the coroner. {We don't have a 'date' for this at all. We don't see Jack's left hand at all here, to see if there's a wedding ring on it, We don't know if Jack had been to Australia other times to retrieve his dad, we know now that Christian has reason to go to Australia every so often (Claire and Claire's mom) again keep it in mind}

The coroner does not appear to have a thick Australian accent. He leads Jack into the tiny shiny room with the body bag.
Jack ID's is dad, “That’s him.”
He cries. {This scene is bathed in blue}




Jack cries sitting by fire. We hear ice cubes in glass clanking and a figure walks behind Jack.

The sound of snapped twigs. Jack follows the sound.

He finds the caves with fresh running water! There are dolls strewn about. He takes one out of the water. {Now, this is the shit that freaks me out! In the caves, Jack sees a doll in the water, dolls around the ground, stuff, plane wreckage, Christian’s casket!! HOLD THE PHONE!!! I wasn't blown away by the casket being there (okay, maybe a little), I was AMAZED to see Oceanic plane wreckage in the cave- complete with Dharma logo/bagua on it, OLD OCEANIC PLANE WRECKAGE INSIDE THE CAVE! It's a friggin' CAVE, it didn't fall into it from their crash! WHO put it there? How many Oceanic planes with "possible" Dharma logo's crash on that island, in that exact spot and end up inside a cave!?!?!?}
A woman’s voice announces “Final boarding call for Oceanic airlines flight 1 2 5 Non- stop to Singapore leaving from gate14. All ticketed passengers…”
Jack is at the ticket counter where Krissy is telling him that they won’t put it on the plane, “Our policy says the body must have the proper documentation. There’s just no latitude.”
Jack pleads with Krissy to get the coffin to LAX.
Jack-“You can’t do this to me. I’m ready to go now.”
Krissy- “Perhaps another carrier…”
Jack yells “NO!...I want you to listen to me OK, because I’m asking you a favor.”
Jack is standing in front of her in the same suit he’s wearing to his father’s funeral; he’s asking her for a favor. Jack is getting emotional, “In 16 hours I need to land in LAX. And I need that coffin to clear customs because there’s gonna be a hearse waiting there. And I need that hearse to take me and that coffin to a cemetery. Why? Why, Krissy can’t I just bring him to a funeral home and make all the arrangements why can’t I really take my time with it? Because…because I need it to be done. I need it to be over. I just…I need to bury my father.”
Jin is on line. {Jack's eye color, dark navy blue, not his natural color.}
Inside the cave Jack opens the coffin. It’s empty! In anger he smashes up the coffin.
Each THUD is heard in the jungle.

Night on the beach, the survivors sit by campfires.
Three bottles of water are brought by sleeping Claire. Boone is giving Claire water.
Claire-“How did you get…”
Boone-“Shhh.”
Charlie exposes Boone as the thief.
Michael asks where Boone hid it. Charlie is upset because Claire could have died.
Boone says he tried to give some to her sooner but it got out of hand, ”No one would have understood.” They’re all pissed at him.

Jack yells for everyone to leave him alone. “It's been six days...and we’re all still waiting. Waiting for someone to come. But what if they don’t?   We have to stop waiting. We need to start figuring things out. A woman died this morning just going for a swim.   And he tried to save her and now you’re about to crucify him?   We can’t to ‘this’.  Every man for himself is not gonna work.   It’s time to start organizing. We need to figure out how we’re gonna survive here.   Now, I found water, fresh water up in the valley. I’ll take a group in at first light.   If you don’t want to come, then find another way to contribute. Last week most of us were strangers, but we’re all here now. And god knows how long we’re gonna be here. But if we can’t live together…we’re gonna die alone.”

Everyone shares water.
Sun thanks Jin for getting her water today.   Jin feels that’s what husbands do.
Walt is sleeping. Michael gives Vincent water.
Boone is sitting alone when Sawyer comes up and asks him how it feels, “Taking my place on top of everyone’s most hated list. Sucks, don’t it?”
Jack sits alone, Kate brings him water. She asks where he was today. He had to take care of a few things.
Kate-“That’s all I’m gonna get, huh?”
Jack reveals his father died in Sydney.
Kate is sorry.
Jack-“Yeah…I’m sorry too.”




White Rabbit is a GREAT episode totally revolving around emotions in life; past pain and how they may shape a part of our future self.  Is this foreshadowing for the season 3 finale?   Jack makes a decision; tries to save everybody, to be a hero and ultimately CANNOT live with it.

Things to note…Questions to ask…
Please note: The “Flash Whoosh" isn’t heard every time we change perspectives
* Boone, a licensed life guard is drowning.
* Water.
* Jack has 4 scratches on his face; 2 on each side. Kate has 4 all on the same side.
* Mirror. Window. Reflection. See. Look.
* Watch. Guard.
* Language. Communicate. Talk. Understand.
* Gone. Missing. Stole. Dead
* Sleep. Slept. Unconscious. Hallucinations. Light headed. Crazy. Magic.
* Eye color changes.
* Heart.
* ID. Identity.
* Roles. Husband, Hunter, Lifeguard, Doctor, Thief, Sheriff.
* Based on Mrs. Shephard’s chat with Jack, I feel we discover Christian makes these rash trips to Australia often. But how often?
* Where’s the Doctor? No one can find him…Which lost Doctor, Jack or Christian?
* “Where are you?” Jack asks this in the Flash and on the “Island”. Things are blurred together.
* Locke-“What if that person is really here?”
* Trading. Negotiate. Supply stash. Value. No Value. {Can't find a hairbrush}
* Do Sawyer and Kate know each other a long time? Have they done this before? He made this birthday wish 4 years ago. Interesting.
* This episode has a very weird amount of obvious breathing sounds.
* Locke knows where to look for water.
* OLD OCEANIC PLANE WRECKAGE ALREADY INSIDE THE CAVE.
* They are in a “wonderland” of sorts.
* The coffin is empty. Where’s his father? Is this a metaphor of some sort?

Vocabulary and Research…
* White Rabbit. Alice in wonderland is a story about Alice’s journey into the rabbit hole, where she meets strange people, bizarre happenings and a living-life size chess game. All this takes place not in reality but while she is sleeping.
* Watership Down- A heroic fantasy novel about rabbits. One rabbit is a “seer”. A couple of rabbits try to convince the rest to evacuate due to imminent destruction. The bunnies have many roles and there are themes of heroism, religion, political issues, exile, community and survival. {Water-Ship-Down}
* A divining rod (aka dowsing rod or witching rod) is an apparatus used in dowsing. Claims to be able to find ground water, oil, and other mineral resources by non-scientific means. Expert dowsers are allegedly capable of dowsing exact depth measurements of water veins, electromagnetism, currents and telluric phenomena. They are also allegedly capable of measuring blood toxicity, white cells, and sugar levels, and detecting human illness and health. Expert dowsers are allegedly not limited to any specific time and space, claiming the ability to dowse any material at any given time from any location.
* Astrological signs represent twelve equal segments or divisions of the zodiac. According to astrology, celestial phenomena reflect or govern human activity on the principle of " as above, so below”, so that the twelve signs are held to represent twelve basic personality types or characteristic modes of expression.
- Gemini (The Twins) (mutable, air, personal): It is the third astrological sign. Gemini is ruled by the planet Mercury. Gemini is considered a "masculine", positive (extrovert) sign. The tropical duration of Gemini is May 21 to June 20.
* Water. Chemical substance essential for the survival of all known forms of life. In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form/state, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor or steam..
-Water is a life force.




Jack is dealing with this "role" of leadership.  He doubts his abilities because of dear old dad. I always keep track of little things in "Flashes" because we're never told a time line.  In this case how many locations has Jack had to go to and get Christian from in his life, and how many times?  This seems to be a pattern with Christian. We don't know what Jack did to his father, but we do know he's still the chief of surgery when Jack goes to this hotel.  I feel Christian's dialog with young Jack is very telling and what Jack discovers in the caves is very telling (Not the fresh water either).   Jack is lost and is searching for something…something very deep. I think they all are.
So, is this why they’re all really there? But I must ask…is this place real or fantasy?


Here's the pic of Oceanic and possible Dharma logos.
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Love to all who are "LOST"™

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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.

The Incident. Part 1.

Let's talk about LOST!   The Incident part 1

*For my notes I call the graying haired man in the dark and gray clothes, Mr. X.*

A blond/light haired man {White shirt, dark pants} removes a fish trap {Cone shape} out of the ocean. He cuts and cooks two filets on rock, then sits and eats as he looks out to the distant water where an old ship can be seen.  A graying dark haired man joins the blond man and bids him good morning. {Dark shirt, gray pants.}
Blondie asks the man if he wants some fish.
Mr. X declines as he just ate.
The Blond assumes this man is there because of the ship.
Mr. X-“How did they find the Island?”
The Blond-“I don’t know. You’ll have to ask them when they get here.”
Mr. X doesn’t have to ask because he already knows. “You brought them here. You’re just trying to prove me wrong, aren’t you?”
The Blond- “You are wrong.”
Mr. X- “Am I? They come, fight, they destroy, they corrupt. It always ends up the same.”
The Blond- “It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.”
Mr. X turns to the blond and asks, “Do you have any idea how badly I want to kill you?”
The Blond-“Yes.”
Mr. X- “One of these days, sooner or later I’m going to find a loop-hole, my friend.”
The Blond-“Well when you do, I’ll be right here.”
The gray haired Mr. X says, “Always nice talking to you Jacob.”
Jacob- “Nice talking to you too.”
Mr. X walks away and we see the complete statute standing there.

A light and dark blue pickup trucks outside the Ames Central convenience store.
A boy {w/ toy plane} and girl {w/backpack. Really?!}
The girl has a “plan” to execute but the boy won’t do it. She has to do the deed herself so she makes the boy be her lookout. {Plate XA7 023. Iowa Cattleman sticker}
Patsy Cline music plays. {The Grocer and a customer have conversation about the crops coming in real good this year; Frank bought the ol…Ames Road.}
The girl steals a New Kids on the Block lunch box while the boy ‘looks out’.
The Grocer grabs the girls arm; she’s caught.
He has her open her bag and asks “Where did you get it?” {Doesn’t he know?!}
He recognizes her as Diane Austen’s kid, Katie. He’s calling her mom and then the cops because he doesn’t tolerate stealing here. A man/Jacob tells the Grocer there’s no need to do that; he’ll pay for it. {I.D. required. And 6 pack of beer cost $4 bucks.}
The Grocer guesses if somebody pays for it, there’s no harm done.   The Grocer hands Jacob the lunch box and tells Katie he doesn’t want to see her in there ever again without her parents.
Jacob hands Katie the lunch box and squats down to her level and asks, “You’re not gonna steal anymore, are you?”
Little Katie shakes her head no.
Jacob touches her on the nose in a cute little gesture, “Be good, Katie.” And he walks away.

On the sub Kate and Juliet are cuffed sitting opposite of cuffed James.
Captain Bird welcomes everyone aboard via the intercom. They will be performing system checks off shore before heading out into the open ocean and submerging to their operational running depth.
Mitch is handing out sedatives.
The captain says they will be escorted to their sleeping berths, “Have a nice rest. See you on the other side.”      {Berth=birth. }
In the glow of red light Kate tells Juliet and James “We have to get out of here.”
James- “Outta here? We’re underwater.” {That’s what I’ve been saying!}
He asks Kate what she’s doing here, “How did you get caught?”
Kate- “I came back to get you.”
James asks what for and Juliet asks where Jack is.
Kate informs her Jack is on his way to blow up a Hydrogen bomb.
James-“Why the hell would he do that?”
Kate-“Does it matter? We have to stop him.”
James tells Kate he’s gonna have to pass. He heard what Kate said but he feels she just doesn’t get it. He goes on to tell her he and Juliet were happy in Dharmaville til they all showed up, “But now that’s all over. So we’re gonna drink our OJ and take our chances in the real world.
Jack wants to blow up the Island...Good for Jack.” {Static voice over intercom}

In the cave with the bomb, Jack asks if there's anything in there that says how they’re supposed to move a 10 ton bomb across the Island.
Sayid, who is reading the journal, corrects him; it’s 20 tons.
Sayid- “Fortunately it seems Faraday never intended to freight the device in its entirety…He left detailed instructions on how to remove the Plutonium core… and how to detonate it."
Jack shares with Sayid that Faraday said he needed to wipe out some kind of pocket of energy, “Is only part of the bomb gonna be enough to do that?”
Sayid-“The core itself is a thermonuclear weapon it will be more than enough.”
He hands Jack the journal.
Richard tells Sayid they “sealed that thing up 20 years ago and we put it underground because it was emitting radiation.”
He asks Eloise if it sounds like a good idea; after all she’s pregnant.
Eloise feels that is the reason they have to help them see this through.
She asks “Once the core is removed, then what?”
Sayid shares then they have approximately two hours to take it to the Swan site.
When Faraday returned to the Island he was very explicit about his timetable.
Jack says they better get moving. {Richard and Eloise share a very interesting look together}

Pissed off Radzinsky pulls up to the Swan site wanting to know who stopped the damn drill.
Cheng admits he did; because when they passed 70 meters the drill temp went up 60 degrees and he didn’t want it to melt.
Radzinsky feels that’s why they have a truck full of water, “So cool it down and turn it on.” {Gage} Cheng tells Stuart that they just evacuated the Island of all nonessential personnel; they’re on the verge of a possible insurrection, “Do you really think this is the ideal time for your experiments?”
Stu has been working on this project for six years, designing a station that will be able to manipulate electromagnetism in ways they only dreamed of.
Cheng-“Have you thought about the consequences of drilling into that pocket? We have no idea what…”
Radzinsky cuts him off, “If Edison was only worried about the consequences we’d all still be sitting in the dark. I came to this Island to change the world, Pierre.  And that’s exactly what I intend to do. LET’S GET IT STARTED!”
He starts up the drill. {The camera brings us down deep into the well.}


Thirty Years Later.

John leads the exodus to Jacob. He holds up his water canteen and tells everybody to take 5; they still got a ways to go to get to Jacob.
Sun asks Ben who Jacob is. Ben tells her he’s in charge of this Island.
Sun-“You said John was in charge.”
Ben-”No, I said he was the leader.  A title that I discovered is incredibly temporary. But everyone answers to someone and the leader answers to Jacob.”
Sun asks what he’s like.
Ben doesn’t know, “I’ve never met him.”
Richard seems as if he wants to say something to John.
John notices that Richards' been staring for the last 10 minutes, “Is there something you’d like to ask me?”
Richard shares that Ben told him he strangled John.
That indeed is John’s recollection.
Richard also shares Ben was sure he was dead, “He saw your coffin loaded onto that plane that you came back on. How are you alive?”
John comments that Richard has been on this Island a lot longer than he has and thinks if anyone should have an explanation to it, it should be Richard.
Richard admits to being on this Island a long time and he’s seen “things” that he can barely describe, “But I’ve never seen someone come back to life.”
John. “And I’ve never seen anyone who doesn’t age, it doesn’t mean it can’t happen.”
Richard says he’s that way because of Jacob and if he had to guess “he’s the reason you’re not in that coffin anymore.”
John agrees completely, “And that’s why I’m doing this. So I can thank him. Once I’ve done that, we’re gonna need to deal with the passengers from the Ajira flight that brought me here.”
Richard-“What do you mean deal with them?”
John- “You know what I mean.”
He yells to the group “LET'S GO!”
Richard looks concerned.

Ilana is rowing the outrigger with Bram and friends as Frank sleeps. They are carting the large silver cargo crate.
On shore Ilana tells the men to untie the crate.
Bram asks her why they brought the “Yahoo” along {Frank}.
Ilana feels they might need him.
Bram- “For what? He didn’t know the answer to the question.”
Ilana-“That doesn’t mean he’s not important.”
Bram asks if she thinks he’s a candidate.
Ilana lets Bram know that Frank is awake; he’s been pretending to sleep so he can listen to their conversation. Bram wonders how long he’s been listening.
Frank-“Long enough to wonder what the hell I’m a candidate for…Who the hell are you people?”
Ilana- “We’re friends.”
Frank remarks they "smack all their friends in the head with a rifle and kidnap them.”
Ilana- “Only the ones we like.”
They all share some water. The men take the crate off the outrigger. Frank asks what’s in the box.
Bram says it’s Ilana’s call to make if they reveal the contents. {AA823. Ajira. Cargo.}
The men open the lid, Frank sees inside and says, “Terrific.”

A white church is hosting a double funeral.
This beautiful sad little boy is James. He watches the men close the doors on the two coffins and were loaded into the cars.
The boy sits alone. {Crows in the background}
He has a notebook and a pen that won’t write.
Jacob, in a dark blue suit asks, “Need a pen, son?”
He digs in his jacket pocket and gives the boy the pen, “You can keep it.”   He touches the boy’s finger when giving him the pen.
Jacob looks at the child with compassion, “I’m very sorry about your mother and father, James.”
Jacob walks away with his hands in his pants pockets.

James continues writing his letter. {‘AND I KNOW...’}
A man walks over to James as Jacob is walking away {He never asks who that man was. Did he not see him?} and tells Jimmy they need to get going to the cemetery. He also asks what he’s writing.
Jimmy- “Nothing.”
The man takes the notebook and reads aloud what the boy wrote. {Dear Mr. Sawyer. You don’t know who I am, but I know who you are and I know what you done.}
He says to the boy, “Listen to me Jimmy. I know you’re angry at the man that did this to your momma and daddy and hell you got every right to be. But you gotta move on, Boy. They’re gone, and there ain't nothing you can do to change that. What’s done is done. Now promise me you’re not gonna finish that letter.”
Jimmy promises.
The man, “Let’s go say goodbye.”

On the sub Sawyer tries to get what Kate says straight. “Jack sets off the nuke which somehow resets everything, so flight 815 never crashes, it just lands in L.A. safe and sound and none of this ever happens.”
Kate’s concern is if Jack does this he can kill everyone on the Island.
Sawyer heard that part, “You aint hearing me, Kate. I made a choice and I’m stickin to it. I decided to leave and I’m leavin.”
Mitch comes in with their sedatives and Juliet knocks him out, takes his gun and corrects James saying “We decided to leave this Island, we did. And now we’re going back.”
Juliet takes Mitch’s keys and un-cuffs her and Kate.
Juliet-“We can’t just let those people die…You want out? You wanna stay here and whine about it?”
James is pissed but tells her to unlock the damn cuffs.

Captain Bird- “Galaga to base. The system check is complete. We’re locked on departure bearing and ready to leave the island.”
The voice on the other end says, “Roger that, Galaga. Have a safe trip See you on the return.”
The trio with a gun tells the Captain to surface the sub.
Juliet puts the gun against his throat tells him once they’re gone proceed on course and whatever he does do not take those people back to the Island.
Captain- “What if Horace tries to contact me? What am I supposed to say?”
Sawyer shoots the speaker, “You aint home.”
The Captain turns some knobs {Gage} surfaces the sub.


Underground Jack asks Sayid if he’s done with Faraday’s journal. Sayid tells him to take it as Sayid works on getting to the core. Jack checks the mag for the gun and Richard takes a sledgehammer.
Richard asks Jack about John, “Over 20 years ago a man named John Locke…He walked right into our camp and he told me he was going to be our leader.  Now, I’ve gone off the Island three times since then to visit him. But he uh…never seemed particularly special to me.”
Jack- “You said you had a question.”
Richard- “You know him. Locke?”
Jack says he knows him “And if I were you, I wouldn’t give up on him.”

Richard leads John’s group to Jacob.
John asks Ben why he hasn’t told Richard about John’s plans to see Jacob.
Ben assumed John wanted to keep his plans for murdering Jacob a secret.
John laughs, “When did that ever stop you?”
Ben started thinking differently after his dead daughter threatened to destroy him if he didn’t do everything John said.
John asks where did this happen.
Ben reveals it happened in the cavern beneath the temple when they went to see the monster.
John confirms that Ben is willing to do whatever he says, no matter what it is.
Ben begrudgingly says yes.
John-“Well then. I guess I won’t have to convince you after all.”
Ben-“Convince me to do what?”
John, “I’m not gonna kill Jacob, Ben. You are.” {John gives him one hell of a dirty look.}

Sayid lovingly asks Nadia, “Paris or Rome? Florence?”
It doesn’t matter to Nadia her as long as they’re together.
It matters to Sayid; it’s their anniversary, they have to find the perfect place.
Nadia just wants to find her sunglasses.
The traffic light at the corner changes from red to green allowing them to cross. {LaBrea}
Nadia digs through her bag looking for the sunglasses. As they begin to cross the street a lost man {Jacob, brown shirt} shows Sayid a map and needs help with directions, “Are you from Los Angeles?”
Sayid- “What are you looking for?”
Nadia turns to show Sayid she found them/sunglasses and is hit by a car. The car speeds off.
As she lies dying in the street she tells Sayid to “Take me home. Take me home.”
She dies.
His hand with his wedding ring wraps around her hand with wedding ring.

Sayid is wrapping the bomb.
He puts the core on his back {backpack} “Time is short. Let’s go.”
Richard, sledgehammer and his lantern lead the way. {The tunnels are lit up. So is the wall.}
He knocks on the wall until he finds a hollow spot then uses the sledgehammer to break through the highlighted wall. {Right through the Pyramid-Triangle stone}

This wall opens conveniently into the basement of a Dharma house. {Richard is very strong. Lol}
Jack offers to go in first but Eloise interjects, “Jack, don’t misunderstand who’s in charge here. I’ll go first. Because if someone at that house is a threat you might hesitate. But I won’t.”
She cocks the gun. Richard looks concerned.
Eloise tells Sayid once they give the "all clear" then they bring the bomb, “We don’t want any accidents…”
Richard knocks out pregnant Eloise! Richard tells Jack he’s “Protecting our leader.”
He tells Jack to get back and says that she’s gonna be angry when she wakes up but that’s a lot better than being dead. “She ordered me to help you, we helped you. Now you’re on your own. I’m taking her out the way we came in.”
Sayid and Jack move on.

Jack opens the basement door to the Dharma house.
The buzz alarm is heard outside along with chaos.
They can hear announcement over the PA. “All residents…We are in a code Black. Report with your weapons to your security assignments immediately. If you come in to contact with a Hostile you are authorized to use deadly force.”
They walk by a baby’s room.
Jack asks Sayid “How the hell are we gonna get out of here?”
Sayid-“We hide in plain sight.”   He puts on Horace's jumpsuit.

Outside amongst the chaos Sayid and Jack walk past the Dharma folk. Phil is giving perimeter instructions to a group of people to go to the pylons.  {Perimeter=circle}
From out of left field aging Roger Linus yells to Sayid accusing him of the man who shot his kid.
Sayid-“Don’t fire that weapon. I’m carrying a nuclear device…”
Roger shoots Sayid {WTF?! Nothing happens to the bomb.}
Jack snaps!! He fires at Roger! There’s a huge shootout.
Jack carries shot Sayid while shooting at the Dharma folk. {Killing a few}
To their rescue comes the blue Dharma Van driven by Hurley. {Jin and Miles are in the van too.}

The sub is submerging.
Kate, Sawyer and Juliet are on the raft headed back to the Island. Juliet looks back at the disappearing/descending sub.   Sawyer comments by the look of the sun the north shores gotta be over there.
Kate disagrees, “The sun’s over there, that’s gotta be the west coast.”
Sawyer-“Really? What? You got a compass?”
Kate-“No, do you?”
{Are they seeing the sun in two different places? Two different perspectives or does one have no sense of direction?}

On shore Kate thanks Juliet for backing her up at the sub.
Sawyer announces “I got no idea where the hell we are.”

A dog barks. {I jump up and down with excitement!!} Vincent runs over to Sawyer and {no collar-no attachments}
Sawyer is happy to see him, "How are ya, boy? I haven’t seen you since the flaming arrows three years ago!"
Juliet wonders how he survived alone out here.
Rose-“Oh hell no… Bernard!” {She has Vincent’s leash. Bernard runs out of the jungle looking like bearded mountain man with a walking stick.}
Rose is disappointed, “They found us.”
Bernard- “Son of a bitch.”

Hurley drives the Dharma van while Jack puts the bomb down and tends to bleeding Sayid. Miles asks if that’s a bomb.  {It's a core, damn it!!}
Jack tells Sayid, “Try not to move. I need to stop the bleeding.”
Hurley asks about Sayid but Miles tells him to keep his eyes on the damn road.  Hurley wonders if they should pull over, “I don’t know where we’re going.”
Jack tells him to head to the Swan, “If you wanna save Sayid take us to the Swan.”
Hurley- “Swan it is.”
Jin asks Jack what’s at the Swan. Jack tells him he thinks he found a way to get him back to his wife.

Rose and Bernard lead the trio to their cabin. Apparently they’ve been living out there in the jungle for the past three years by themselves.
Sawyer is sorry they got left behind, “Didn’t you hear me shout out meet at the creek?”
Bernard comments that with the chaos, flaming arrows raining down around us killing everyone we knew, “Sure we heard ya.”
Sawyer tells him they spent all sorts of time looking for them, “I sent Jin out searching the Island, grid by grid.”
Rose- “Yeah. We know.”
Rose knows they joined up with the Dharma Initiative.
Sawyer mentions he could have brought them in, “Why didn’t you find a way to tell us you were out here?”
Rose- “Because we’re retired.” {From what? The D.I.?} They’ve been scavenging Dharma food and living out in a hut by themselves.
Bernard- “People try their whole lives to get themselves a nice quiet place near the ocean where they can live in peace. We did it. That’s what we made for ourselves.”
Sawyer hates to rain on their parade but, “Your condo’s about to go KA-BLOOEY.”
Jack has a bomb.
Rose doesn’t care, “It’s always something with you people. Now you say Jack’s got a bomb and what, you guys are gonna go try and stop him, right?”
That’s right. {Kate takes off her dark Dharma jumpsuit}
Rose {looking at Kate}, “We traveled back 30 years in time and you’re still trying to find ways to shoot each other?”
Juliet says they just need to know “which way the Dharma barracks are from here so we can stop Jack. Or you’re gonna be dead. We all will.”
Bernard isn’t bothered by that, “So we die. We just care about being together. It’s all that matters in the end.”    {And that's the truth!}
Juliet looks at Sawyer but he looks at Kate. Kate doesn’t look at anyone.
Juliet sees all of this.
Rose-“The barracks are 5 miles that way.” {Points}
Sawyer says his goodbyes to Rose and Bernard. {Touching each of them}
Kate thanks them.
As they walk away Bernard asks Juliet specifically, “You sure you don’t want some tea?”
Juliet stops, “Maybe another time.” {Her hand on tummy. Plus, does Bernard know what’s next for her?}
Juliet follows Kate and Sawyer.

Ilana and crew carry the cargo crate. Frank wishes they never showed him what was in the box. He asks Bram what they’re gonna do with it.
Bram shares they need to show it to somebody, “So they know who they’re up against.”
Frank wonders what exactly are they up against.
Bram- “Something a hell of a lot scarier than what is in this box, Frank.”
He tells Frank not to worry, “as long as you’re with us, you’re fine.”
Frank feels that would be reassuring if he knew who they were, “Friend.”
Bram, in his dark tee shirt says, “We are the good guys.”
Frank- “In my experience, the people who go out of their way to tell you they’re the good guys are the bad guys."
Ilana-“We’re here.”
The cabin.
Bram notices the ash has been compromised.
This concerns Ilana. She goes in to take a look.


 One eye.
Ilana’s head is bandaged like a mummy; only one eye can see out.
She is in a very old run down clinic.
The Russian speaking nurse brings her water and tells her there is someone there to see her. Ilana sips from a straw.
The nurse explained her condition to the visitor but he insisted on seeing her anyway. She feels it would be good for Ilana to have a visitor.
Black gloved Jacob pulls up a chair by Ilana’s bed. {He’s wearing all black and dark blue, over coat and scarf.} He speaks Russian to her. He’s sorry he couldn’t make it sooner. {Why does he have a fucking schedule to keep?! But they must know each other.}
One eyed Ilana says she’s very happy to see him. {LOL!}
Jacob switches to speaking English, “I’m here because I need your help. Can you do that? Will you help me Ilana?”
Ilana says yes.
Ilana and rifle enter the charred cabin.  The only thing untouched it’s the painting of the dog. She takes a piece of tapestry off the wall. {It was held by machete.} She heads outside and tells Bram “He wasn’t there; hasn’t been in a long time. Someone else has been using it.” {Who? Christian? Mr. X.?}
She tells the guys to “Burn it.”
Frank is concerned this will torch the whole jungle.
Ilana shows Bram the piece of tapestry.
Bram- "Well, I guess we know where were going.” {Statue.}
The cabin goes up in flames.

Jacob sits on a bench reading Everything That Rises Must Converge. Behind him a body falls from above. Jacob nonchalantly puts a page marker in his book and walks over to sprawled out, face up John Locke. {Woman says call 911}
Jacob touches John’s left shoulder and John takes in a breath and opens his eyes.
Jacob tells John, “Don’t worry. Everything’s gonna be alright. I’m sorry this happened to you.”
John looks at Jacob.
Jacob walks away. {Jacob was waiting for John to fall from above and land on the ground!}

John and followers end up at their old beach camp that is in ruins.
John-“Home Sweet Home.”
John tells the group Richard says they should get to where they’re going by nightfall. They should take this opportunity to rest up, “Catch your breath. Considering what I have planned for ya, you’re gonna need it.”
Ben sits alone in thought. John comes over asks him if everything’s alright.
Ben- “I was enjoying some alone time.”
John-“You see what’s behind ya?”
Ben looks back, “It’s a door. How ‘bout that?”
John-“It’s not just a door, Ben. It’s the door to the hatch. Where you and I first met.”
John asks if he minds he ask a question.
Ben- “I’m a Pisces.” {The Fish}
John asks what happened that day at the cabin when he first took him to meet Jacob.
Ben-“You clearly already know that I was talking to an empty chair, John. That I was pretending. Which is not to say that I wasn’t as surprised as you were, when things started flying around in the room.”
John wonders why he went through all that trouble to make something like that up.
Ben- “I was embarrassed. I didn’t want you to know that I had never seen Jacob. So yes, I lied. That’s what I do.“
Ben asks why he wants him to kill Jacob.
John squats down, “Because…Despite your loyal service to this Island you got cancer. You had to watch your own daughter gunned down right in front of you. And your reward for those sacrifices…You were banished. And you did all this in the name of a man you’ve never even met. So the question is Ben, why the hell wouldn’t you wanna kill Jacob?”
Ben is in pain. John walks away.

Sun walks over to Claire’s old tent and turns over Aaron’s cradle/crib. {Made by Locke} She finds Charlie’s Drive Shaft ring. {Different color blanket.  Ring=Circle}

Sun holds Jin’s wedding ring. They are getting married. {Different dress. Different time?} She tells Jin she’s loved him since the first day they met, “I love the man you will become…” {How friggin handsome is Jin?!} She makes her promise and puts the ring on him.
Jin wrote his vows down.  {Jack was supposed to write his vows when marrying Sarah.}
Jin- “We will never be apart. Because being apart from you would be like the sky being apart from the earth. With this ring, I make my promises.”
They kiss. {Where’s Mr. Paik? When the fuck is this from?}
On the receiving line Auntie asks the happy couple when they will start a family.
Sun-“Maybe on our honeymoon.”
Jacob is next in line. {Dark suit} In Korean he says, “I’d like to offer you my blessing. Your love is a very special thing. Never take it for granted.”
He touches them both.
Sun asks Jin who that was.
Jin- “I don’t know. But his Korean is excellent.”

The Dharma Van speeds toward the Swan. Hurley tells them they’re about five minutes away.
Sayid- “You can’t stop the bleeding.”
Jack needs fresh dressings. Miles asks Jack about the bomb supposedly blowing them back in time.
Jack- “We not going back in time.”
Miles- "Right, because that would be ridiculous.”
Sayid says he needs to modify the bomb so it detonates on impact, “Jack we need to be there at the moment of the incident, or all of this will be for nothing.”
Hurley stops the van because Sawyer, Kate and Juliet are standing in front of it, blocking their way.





Things to note…Questions to ask... (So far)
* White, Black…what about the GRAY area?
* The “highlight colors” in this episode Blue, Purple and Gray.
* I feel the statue is fun but not real/imaginary. {only has 4 toes etc.} Even though I think the statue is hinting to a particular idol, it did seem to me the statue had a bit of additional "features" or a combination of features. As per a recent article for Popular Mechanics an Egyptologist mentions that “the pointy ears are a result of the imagination, and that, in actuality; the statue's sandals are Roman, not Egyptian.”
* When I hear certain words throughout the story I feel connected to other people.  Here with words like steal and kid, I'm brought to Christian and Jack. This happens to me often. especially I find I reference this with words like kiddo and bar.
* Time. Timer. Time Table. Time is short. Long time. Another Time. Alone Time. Years have passed.
* Life. Death. Berth/Birth. {Rebirth}  Zen Buddhism
* Richard and company did not seal up the bomb they only hid it.
* Does Richard love Eloise? Whose baby is she carrying?
* Moral compass. Map. Direction. Levels.
* Alcohol. Sedatives. Knock out. Sleep. Rest. Awake.
* Illusion. Pretending. Game.
* Cool things down. Don’t melt. Officer Winter
* Melt. Fire. Temperature went up.
* New Kids on the Block- New generation to the island?
* In 1977 Richard tells Jack he went off the island 3 times to visit John Locke. {Since 1957. Keep in mind we are given a few different birth dates for John, November 15, 1946 - March 30, 1956. And May 30th, 1956}
* Events out of order…
* Knowing that the Jacob and Mr. X need to catch their own food, cook and eat it, was a very important bit of info. If they were "supernatural beings" I would imagine there would be no need for "food" or warmth and shelter. We’ve seen Jacob with money, current clothes, traveling by taxi. This is one of the main reasons why I feel we need to be careful not to be distracted by certain things.
* Jacob speaks Russian. Mikhail spoke Russian. {So did Miss Klugh}
* Charlie Pace.
* Jacob and Ben are connected in Nadia’s death.
* Gates. Hell. Underworld. Underground. Underwater.
* How was Ilana able to find the cabin right away?
* People/Being’s hiding in plain sight. Misrepresenting themselves. Who else isn’t who/what we think? Hmmm.
* Rose and Bernard’s hut looks like a cabin. Rose and Bernard, dark and light. Retired and living in a cabin filled with love and peace. They found their place. Balance.
* LOOPHOLE. We've seen these used before.



Vocabulary and Research...
* The name "Jacob" is related to Jewish history and culture. In the biblical story of Jacob, Jacob tells a lie to his father Isaac, in order to steal the first-born birth-right from his older brother Esau. According to classic Jewish texts, Jacob lived a life that paralleled the descent of his offspring, the Jewish people, into the darkness of exile.
- Jacob the Liar is a novel written by Jurek Becker in 1969.
* Swan-Cygnus. An adult female is a Pen.
* Gage-Something, as a glove, thrown down by a medieval knight in token of challenge to combat. Also a medieval name meaning defining one.
* Gage Creed. Character in Stephen King’s Pet Semetary. After being buried in the Pet Semetary he is reanimated back to life.
* An electromagnet is made from a coil of wire which acts as a magnet when an electric current passes through it, but stops being a magnet when magnetic field disappears {current ceases}. Often an electromagnet is wrapped around a core of ferromagnetic material like steel, which enhances the magnetic field produced by the coil.
* The Incident-The Incident was a Royalist plot to kidnap a group of Scottish nobles.
-Incident Management (IcM) refers to the activities of an organization to identify, analyze and correct hazards.
- L. Ron Hubbard used the term Incident in a specific context for auditing in Scientology and Dianetics: the description of space opera events in our Universe's distant past, involving alien interventions in our past lives.
* Sobek (in Greek Suchos) was the deification of crocodiles, as crocodiles were deeply feared in the nation so dependent on the Nile. Sobek also came to symbolize the produce of the Nile and the fertility that it brought to the land; its status thus became more ambiguous.
* A loophole is a weakness or exception that allows a system, such as a law, or security, to be circumvented or otherwise avoided. Loopholes are searched for and used strategically in a variety of circumstances, including taxes, elections, politics, the criminal justice system, or in breaches of security.
* A gray area is a term for a border in-between two or more things that is unclearly defined, a border that is hard to define or even impossible to define, or a definition where the distinction border tends to move. There are several flavors of grey areas:
- A gray area of definitions signifies a problem of sorting reality into clearly cut categories.
- A gray area of ethics signifies an ethical dilemma, where the border between right and wrong is blurred.
* Tapestry is a form of textile art, woven on a vertical loom. It is composed of two sets of interlaced threads, those running parallel to the length (called the warp) and those parallel to the width (called the weft).
* The teaching of Buddha.  Hints to chakras, purification, Karma, suffering (4 noble truths) convergence of practices (Bindu-part of mediation) Life, death and rebirth. Circle.
* In philosophy of mind, dualism is a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, which begins with the claim that mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical.
* The Bennu bird serves as the Egyptian correspondence to the phoenix, and is said to be the soul of the Sun-God Ra. Some of the titles of the Bennu bird were “He Who Came into Being by Himself,” “Ascending One,” and “Lord of Jubilees,”   The name is related to the verb “weben,” meaning “to rise brilliantly,” or “to shine.”  The Bennu bird was the mythological phoenix of Egypt. Because the Bennu represented creation and renewal, it was connected with the Egyptian calendar.
Indeed, the Temple of the Bennu was well known for its time-keeping devices.
The Bennu was pictured as a gray, purple, blue, or white heron with a long beak and a two-feathered crest.
* The Ancient Egyptians believed that a human soul was made up of five parts: the Ren, the Ba, the Ka, the Sheut, and the Ib.
* A person's ren (rn 'name') was given to them at birth and the Egyptians believed that it would live for as long as that name was spoken.
* A person's shadow, was always present. It was believed that a person could not exist without a shadow, nor a shadow without a person, therefore, Egyptians surmised that a shadow contained something of the person it represents. For this reason statues of people and deities were sometimes referred to as their shadows.
* The Ka was the Egyptian concept of life force, that which distinguishes the difference between a living and a dead person, with death occurring when the ka left the body.
* The Akh (3ḫ meaning 'effective one'), was a concept that varied over the long history of ancient Egyptian belief. It is besides Ka and Ba one of the central elements, aspects of immortal personality, even after the death of the physical body. In this sense, it was a sort of ghost.
* In Egyptian mythology, Duat (or Tuat) is the underworld. The underworld is a generic term approximately equivalent to the lay term afterlife, referring to any place to which newly dead souls go.
This was the region through which the sun god Ra traveled from west to east during the night, and where he battled Apep.. It also was the place where people's souls went after death—for judgment. The structure of Duat and the dangers faced there by the souls of the dead are detailed in texts such as the Book of Gates and the Book of the dead. The Duat was located beneath the earth where Osiris presided over the dead. It was believed that the sun on its journey through the Duat, brought light and revitalization to the deceased, including Osiris, and with whom they were to arise in the morning.
* The most famous scene from the discussions of Duat is the Weighing of the Heart, in which the dead were judged by Anubis, using a feather, representing Ma’at, the goddess of truth and justice. She was responsible for maintaining order in the universe after having eliminated the emptiness of chaos at the beginning of creation.
* The Book of Dead.
* The Book of Gates.
* The Books of Breathing.
* The Book of Caverns.
* The Book of the Earth.



I know how long these two posts will be. There is just so much to explore.
In the meantime, watch out for wolves in sheep’s clothing and other people who find loopholes as really a way to cheat their way out of something.  I've always said to be careful, people and things are not what you think they are.

Which side of the chess board are you on? Light or Dark?  Dark doesn't mean it's automatically the bad side and Light doesn't automatically make it the good side. Think about it.
Time to use the "escape hatch".

The Incident part 1 is a great episode about heart.

Love to all who are “LOST”™

For additional insight and research go to The Incident. Preliminary Lostness.

3 1 6.

Let's talk about LOST! 3 1 6.

Jack's eye opens. He wakes up in the bamboo forest; holding a torn section of paper with “I wish” on it. 
In the distance you can hear Hurley calling for help. Jack drops the paper.
Jack runs to the edge of a waterfall.  Below is Hurley holding on to a guitar case.  Jack dives in and rescues him. They get to a point in the water where Jack tells Hurley “We can stand.” 
They both look around, “It really happened.”
Yep, they’re back! Jack sees Kate lying on rocks. Jack wakes her up. He confirms to her that they’re back.
Kate- “What happened?”

46 Hours Earlier:
Mrs. Hawking lights her white candles in the church. {Doubting Thomas painting.} She questions Ben, “I thought I said all of them.” 
Ben replies this was all he could get on short notice.
Eloise guesses it will have to do “for now. All right, let's get started.”

She leads the group to the back of the church then down the spiral staircase. {Caution sign warns high voltage.}
Down in a dark lower level she opens a door; {Much like a door/hatch on a ship/freighter.} this is the Lamp Post station. She lights up the room.
A giant pendulum swings across a map floor. There are old computers and a board that shows longitude-latitude numbers, yet looks more like an old departure board in an airport. There is a blackboard with equations and variables and a U.S. Army Op 264 TOP SECRET military photo of an island {Dated 9/23/54- EYES ONLY} Eloise tells the group this place was called The Lamp Post by the Dharma Initiative, “This is how they found the island.”

Jack asks Ben if he knew about this place. 
Ben- “No. No I didn’t.”
Jack asks Eloise if he’s telling the truth. 
Eloise-“Probably not.” 
Jack walks over to look at the military photo to take a closer look. Eloise has a blue flight book; she apologizes to the group if this is confusing but she turns to Jack and wants him to pay attention.  She goes on to explain the room they are standing in was constructed years ago over a unique pocket of electromagnetic energy.  That energy connects to similar pockets all over the world. And the people who built this room however were only interested in one.”
Sun- “The Island.” 
Eloise- “Yes. The Island.  They gathered proof that it existed. They knew it was out there somewhere {Over the fucking rainbow!} but they just couldn’t… {Desmond bends down to take a closer look at the map on the floor.} ...Then a very clever fellow built this pendulum on the theoretical notion that they should stop looking for where the Island was supposed to be, and start looking for where it was going to be. {What good pupils they are! She continues on}  This fellow presumed and correctly as it turned out, that the Island was always moving, “Why do you think you were never rescued?”     While the movements of the island seem random, this man and his team created a series of equations, which tell them with a high degree of probability where it is going to be at a certain point in time.  {Jack looks at the blackboard filled with variables.}  Windows, as it were, that while open, provide a route back. Unfortunately these windows don’t stay open for very long. {Desmond is annoyed.} “Yours closes in 36 hours." 
Eloise hands the blue flight plan binder to Jack. 
Desmond asks in disbelief, “Am I really hearing this? That’s what this is about? You’re all going back to the Island, willingly?”
Sun confirms they are, “Why are you here, Desmond?”
Desmond tells them he came there to deliver a message.  
He tells Eloise, “Daniel Faraday. Your son… sent me here. He wanted me to tell you that he and all the people on the Island need your help.  He said that only you can help him. He didn’t say Jack, he didn’t say Sun, he didn’t say Ben, he said you.”
Eloise replies in a very caring granny manner, “But I am helping, dear.“ 
Desmond considers the message delivered. 
Eloise is sorry to tell this to Desmond, “But the Island isn’t done with you yet.” 
Desmond freaks; says this woman cost him four years of his life. Four years he’ll never get back, “Because you told me that I was supposed to go the Island. That it was my bloody purpose!”
She nods her head “yes.”  
Desmond says to Jack, “You listen to me brotha, and you listen carefully. These people here are just using us. They’re playing some kind of a game, we are just the pieces. What ever she tells you to do, ignore it.”
He tells Eloise he’s done with the Island. 


Eloise informs Jack, “The binder in your hands shows all the air routes that fly over the coordinates where I believe the Island will be in little more than a day from now.   There’s a commercial airliner flying from L.A. to Guam that’s going to go right through our window.    Ajira Airways flight 3 1 6.   If you have any hope of the Island bringing you back, it must be that plane. You all need to be on it. It must be that flight.” 
Ben watches Eloise work. She continues to tell them if they want to return "you need to recreate as best you can the circumstances that brought you there in the first place. That means as many of the same people as you are able to bring with you." {She talks directly at Jack.} 
Jack-“What if we can’t get anyone else to come with us? What if we’re it?” 
Eloise-“All I can tell you is the result will be unpredictable.”
Jack-“So that’s it? We just get on that flight and we just hope that it works. That‘s all.”
No, that’s not all; at least not for him.

Happy Eloise brings Jack to her church lady office.  {Virgin Mary statues} 
Jack wonders- “Ben, Sun.“
Eloise says they heard what they needed to hear; this doesn’t concern them. She rummages through her very disorganized and cluttered desk looking for something.   She pulls out a crinkled envelope from under a bunch of papers and tells Jack it’s John Locke’s suicide note {Addressed to Jack.}
Jack didn’t know. Eloise tells him obituaries don’t see fit to mention when people hang themselves. {Hanging Charlie.}  
Troubled Jack asks, “Why would he kill himself?”
Eloise-“There are many reasons. I’m sure. But the only one that matters is this…he is going to help you get back. John is going to be a proxy. A substitute.”
“For who?” Jack wonders. 

She reminds him again that he needs to best recreate the conditions of the original flight. “Which is why you need to give John something of your fathers.” {Check out Jack’s shadowy shadow on the wall. Lol} That’s what Jack has to do.
Upset Jack tells her, “My father is gone. My father has been dead for three years. You want me to…and to give it to Locke, he’s in a coffin!”
Eloise nods her famous “yes” nod. 
Jack- “This is ridiculous!”
She tells him to stop thinking about how ridiculous it is and start asking himself whether or not he believes it’s going to work, “That’s why it’s called a leap of faith, Jack.”

Ben appears to be kneeling in prayer/meditation in a pew.    Jack puts the envelope in his jacket pocket. Ben tells Jack that Sun left, and a friend is looking after “it”- Locke’s body/the coffin. He’ll pick it up on his way to the airport. 
Ben walks over to light a white candle and asks what she said to him.  Jack now in the prayer/meditation position in the pew, “Nothing that matters. Who is she? Why is she helping us? How does she know all this?”
Ben- “Thomas the Apostle.”
Ben tells the story of Jesus, Judea and Thomas.  Thomas was not remembered for his bravery.  He claim to fame came later, doubting/refused to acknowledge the resurrection. “He just couldn’t wrap his mind around it.”   The story goes that he needed to touch Jesus’ wounds to be convinced.”
Jack- “So was he?”     {Jack never heard this story before?} 
Ben- “Of course he was. We’re all convinced sooner or later, Jack.” 

Ben has to leave as he made a promise to an old friend; just a loose end that needs tying up. “See you at the airport, Jack.”
Jack looks up and then over to the painting of Thomas touching the open wound.
 
Jack sits in a colorful bar staring at his drink. 

His cell rings, “Hello. Yeah. This is him. He did what?”

Jack talks a man at an “Retirement/old folks home.”   The man explains to Jack this is the 4th time he’s left, “He has to follow the rules or he’ll have to move to our fully assisted facility.”  
Jack understands.
They enter a common room where a special magic show is being performed for the residents. The magician introduces his “Fraidy-cat” rabbit." {This things eyes are scary!} Jack says hey to Ray, his grandfather.  The magician is doing a card trick with a woman.   Jack asks Ray why he "took off" this time.
Jack- “At least tell me where the bus was headed.” 

Ray tells him “It doesn’t matter, anywhere I go is somewhere better than here.”

Inside Ray’s self sufficient room, Jack sees Ray packed a bag. {But didn’t pack his meds.} 
Ray mentions, “One of these times I’m actually gonna get away. They won‘t ever find me either.” 
Jack explains if he takes off again they’re gonna throw him outta there.
Ray- “But what will I do without my magic shows?”
Jack helps granddad unpack.  
Ray asks Jack, “So how are you, kiddo? Are you seeing anyone special?“     Ray asks Jack about the girl he brought by with him that time; the pretty one with all freckles, “What was her name?”   
Jack reveals he and Kate are not together anymore.  
Ray looks at the bright side; more time for Jack to come visit him. Jack tells granddad he’d love to, but he’s going away. 
Ray-“Where’s away exactly?” 
Jack- ”Somewhere better than here.” 
Ray- “Touché.”

Jack finds a pair of handsome dark shoes under Ray’s plaid shirt.  
Jack- “Are these yours granddad?“
Ray tells him those shoes belong to Jack’s father. His mom sent Ray a box of his stuff after he died, “Must have gotten mixed in when I packed for a quick getaway.”
Jack- “These shoes…can I take them?”
Ray-“Be my guest.” {Be his guest!}

Jack enters his dark apartment. He looks in the fridge and cupboards then pours drink. He hears a door close. In the dark he makes his way to the bedroom where he discovers Kate lying on the bed. She looks distraught, “Are you still going back to the island?”
Yep, he thinks he is. Kate is going with him. Jack asks what happened.
Kate tells Jack if he wants Kate to go with him, he is never to ask questions, never ask about Aaron again. Jack understands. They kiss and…

Morning.
Jack prepares the breakfast of champions, orange juice {2} and coffee. Jack seems happy and content. Kate seems disconnected.
Jack removes the black shoes from the table.
Kate refers to the shoes, “Those don’t much sense for the island. You might consider hiking boots” 
They giggle. 
Jack explains they were his fathers. {A chief of staff without nice shoes. Go figure.} “When I went to pick up his body in Sydney my dad didn’t have any nice shoes. My mother wanted to have the funeral as soon as I landed back in L.A., but I thought, who the hell is gonna see his feet? {Watch Kate this whole time} And so I had these old white tennis shoes and I just said use these. Put these on him. Cause he wasn‘t worth a nice pair of shoes to me, or the time it would take to go out and get um.”
Kate asks why he doesn't get rid of em, “Why hold on to something that makes you feel sad?” 

The phone rings. {Saved by the bell} Kate tells him to go ahead; she’ll see him at the airport.
Jack answers the phone;  it’s Ben. “Hello Jack. Are you there?” 

Yep. Ben is calling from a pay phone at the marina. He also appears to have been beaten up although Ben calls it sidetracked.  He needs Jack to pick up Locke’s body and take it to the airport. “The coffin is at Simon’s Butcher Shop. Corner of Grand and Hayes.”
Jack- “What’s happened to you?” 
Ben wants him to just do it.

Jack arrives at Simon's in his dark suit and back pack. {Smoking Prohibited by Law on the door} It’s locked up. He looks in the window and bangs on the door.{5x}   Butcher Jill comes out and lets Jack in. Jack tells her Ben sent him. 

Jill reveals “I know who you are Dr. Shephard.”   She leads him to the back with hanging meat, “What’s in the bag?”   I think she realizes it was out of place to ask.

Jill- “Ben said to give you the van. I gotta pull it around back. Give me about five minutes.” She leaves through the creaky door. Jack heads over to see Locke.

Jack opens the top half of the coffin  revealing Locke.  Then opens the lower half, revealing Locke wearing black loafers   Jack removes them and replaces them with handsome black lace up shoes. {Right foot first.} “Wherever you are John, You must be laughing your ass off that I’m actually doing this. {He ties shoe} Because this, this is even crazier than you are.”  
Jack puts John’s envelope in John’s left side of his jacket. “And here. You can have that back. I‘ve already heard everything you had to say, John. You wanted me to go back, I’m going back.”
Jack closes the coffin and tells him to “Rest in peace.”

Jack talks to the agent at the Ajira counter. {color- Red} Jack is asked the reason he’s transporting Mr. Bentham to Guam.
Jack- “These are his wishes. He wanted to be buried there.” 
The agent asks who will be the recipient of the deceased upon arrival, is there a funeral home or…? 
Jack- “Me. I’ll be escorting the body.”  
Jack claims his relation to the deceased, “He was a friend.” 
The agent informs Jack, due to the increased security measures they are required to open the casket and perform a screening. He assures Jack it’s all done with the care. Jack understands.
Jack sees Kate walk by. He has feelings for her. Jack signs a form and is given his boarding pass. A man on the Ajira line gives Jack his condolences, “I’m sorry you lost your friend.”
Passengers are asked to remove their jackets, sweaters,  jewelry and footwear to pass security. {Jewelry?!} Remove laptops and electronic devices from their cases… Jack watches the people at the security scanners. {Looking for Kate, perhaps.} 
Sun arrives and Jack is happy to see her. Jack thought she might change her mind, but here she is. Sun tells him if there is any chance Jin is still alive, “I have to be on that plane.”
They see {Oceanic sign} Sayid is being escorted by a woman. He is in custody.
They board Ajira.

The preliminary boarding call for flight 3-1-6. {Honolulu and Guam} departing from gate 15. {sounds like eight fifteen} 
The Agent also announces for anyone on the standby list that they’ll have plenty of seats available.
Hurley reads the Spanish version of Y: The Last Man. He runs up to the counter to tell the agent “There are no standbys.” 
She sees there are 78 seats open. 
Hugo Reyes admits to buying those 78 seats, “They’re not open, they’re mine. Check and see.” 
The agent asks why he doesn’t want the travelers to get to their destinations. Hugo looks at the waiting travelers and tells the agent, “It doesn’t matter why. They can take the next plane.”
Jack meets up with Hurley, “What are you doing here? How did you know about the…”
Hurley tells him all that matters is that, “I’m here, right?”
Jack is glad that he’s there. Hurley looks troubled, “OK then. Let's do this. After you.”

Jack leads the way. 
He boards. {Row 8 on his left.} Jack and Sayid see each other.   It seems that Sayid wants to talk to Jack, but he can’t.   Sun is in her seat looking at her wedding ring on her hand.   Jack sees Kate, wearing her incognito sunglasses; she made it.   Jack finds his seat. Hurley boards with a guitar case; he puts the case at the seat to his left.
The staff, assuming “that should be everybody“; Ben runs up, arm in a sling, “Hold up! Wait please. Thank you for not closing it.” 
Ben boards; he makes eye contact with Sayid. Upset Hurley jumps up, “Wait! What’s he doing here?…No, No! He can‘t come!”
Jack tells Hurley if he wants to get back this is how it has to be. 
Hugo- “No one told me he was gonna be here.” 
Ben-“Who told you to be here, Hugo?” 
The stewardess asks if every thing’s OK.   Jack assures everything is fine.   Hurley will be fine, although he is visibly concerned.  The stewardess give Jack, seat 8C and envelope found by security while screening his cargo.  She informs them to take their seats; they will be pushing back for takeoff.

Ben asks Jack what that is {envelope}. 
Nothing. 

Ben and Jack take their seats, separated by the isle.  Jack looks back to the passengers sitting in the section behind them and asks Ben, “And the other people that are on this plane, what’s gonna happen to them?”
Ben- “Who cares?”  
Ajira takes off.

They fly through the air. {Note the faces of our Castaways; Mixed emotions.} Jack sits next to sad Kate, “It’s pretty crazy, huh?” 
Kate-“Which part?” 
Jack- “Hurley, Sayid, being… on the same plane. How did they end up here?”
Kate says they bought a ticket.
Jack- “You don’t think that it means something. That somehow, we’re all back together?”
Kate-“We’re on the same plane, Jack. Doesn’t mean we’re together.” {WOW!! That is a VERY important statement.}
The pilot welcomes the passengers via the p.a.. The pilot is Frank J. Lapidus.   Jack is shocked. Lapidus tells the passengers to relax, sit back and enjoy the in flight movie.
Jack tells the stewardess he needs to talk to the pilot, his old friend; know he’s on board. She will but tells him to sit down because he can’t be near the cockpit door when it’s open.
Jack understands. The stewardess phones Lapidus with the request.

Clean shaven Frank comes out of the cockpit, “Well, hello Doc. Small world. What are you doing going to Guam?” 
Jack- “What are you doing here, Frank?”
Frank tells him he picked this gig up about eight months ago, “I fly this route all the time. Sometimes I take the big birds to New Delhi.”
Frank notices Sayid, Hurley and Kate, “Wait a second. We’re not going to Guam, are we?”

Night:
The plane is still en route.  Ben sits reading Ulysses.   Anxious Jack asks Ben, “How can you read?” 
Ben- “My mother taught me.” 
Ben smiles and tells Jack he can read because it beats what he’s doing. Jack is “waiting” for something to happen.
Jack- “And what is gonna happen?” 
Ben- “You tell me Jack. You’re the one who got to stay after school with Miss Hawking.”
Jack asks Ben if he knew that Locke killed himself.     Ben of course says he did not know. {LMFAO!! Perhaps Locke isn‘t "dead", wink, wink} 
Jack takes out the envelope, “They found this stuffed in his pocket. I‘ve been trying to get rid of it, but it‘s like it‘s following me. I know this sounds crazy but, it feels like John needs me to read it.”
Ben- “Why don’t ya then?….Is it because you‘re afraid.”
Jack- “Afraid of what?” 
Ben-  “Afraid that he blames you? That it’s your fault he killed himself?” 
Jack says it wasn’t his fault. 
Ben-  “No, Jack, it wasn’t your fault.”
Ben gives him some privacy.
Jack opens the letter by tearing one end open.
The loose leaf letter reads…
Jack,
I wish you had be lie ved me.
JL.
The plane starts to shake and rumble, waking Kate and Sayid. {Metal sounds.} Hurley came prepared with eye shades; he tells the man sitting next to him to fasten his seatbelt. Hurley puts on his eye shades. 

They all fasten their seat belts. Metal sounds, beeping, buzzing, alarm, bright light!
Woosh!…
Jack wakes up on the ground in the bamboo forest.   He gets up and looks at the torn piece of the letter {I wish}
Hurley calls out for help. Jack runs to him in the waterfall. Hurley holds onto the guitar case.
Jack wakes up Kate on the rocks. 
Kate- “The plane. Where’s the plane?” 
Jack doesn’t know, after that light he woke up in the jungle. 
Kate- “So, this is it? It’s just us?”
Jack isn’t sure, “Do either of you remember crashing?” 
Hurley- “Crashing. No. One second being tossed around, the next thing I know I’m in the lagoon.”
Kate-“Where’s Sun and Sayid? Where‘s Ben?” 
Jack tells them to spread out and search the jungle, “If we come across anybody from the plane we’ll….” They hear an engine {music-Yeah your kisses, feel so right….you had another man….last night.} A Dharma van pulls up {Shiny and clean} An armed man gets out. {Sheriff star on jumpsuit} 
It’s Jin! He seems to grin at the three in the water.






 
316 is a GREAT episode!  Something that jumped out at me as soon as I heard it was the line spoken by Eloise to "student" Jack...“Which is why you need to give John something of your fathers.”   This brings me back to House of the Rising Sun,  when John told guitar-less Charlie that "The island might give you what you’re looking for, but you have to give the Island something"...and John is the one who holds out his hand (as the representative of the Island or the Island itself).   Since the beginning I have felt and connected John to the "Island" and the "monster".    Ask yourself this question, is John the literal connection to the "Island" or just the proxy/substitute?    I know what I feel and think about it.


Things to note…Questions to ask…   
✈ Grandpa Ray. Mom. Dad. Lineage   
✈ 316 is tied to Locke and Eko. Guitar case- Charlie  
✈ Magic tricks, games, cons.  
✈ "Fraidy-Cat Rabbit"= Jack  
✈ Exercises, Tests, School, Learning, Equations and Variables.  Student.
✈ Recreate the circumstances. I call Fucking Shenanigans! Different airline. Jack puts the black shoes on Locke, not white tennis shoes, Sayid was the prisoner, Hurley reads graphic novel instead of comic book. Jack has a letter. Sawyer had a letter on Oceanic. And so many more things.  
✈ How many times has Jack had to recreate the original flight?  Jack is starting from the same starting position we've seen him in before.
✈ Locke’s suicide note wasn’t much of a suicide note.  
But I noted the word believed me was written be lie ved. 
✈ Bentham is noted as the deceased not John Locke.
✈ Jack wakes up in Bamboo forest.  Hurley's in the water, Kate on a rock. Is this how it was last time?   
✈ The Lamp Post…Can you say Narnia?  
✈ Who built the pendulum?  
✈ Who is the co-pilot?  
✈ Resurrection.  {Come alive again-rebirth}
✈ Jack asks Ben how can he read? Ben says his mother taught him. His mother died in childbirth.  
✈ The butcher shop, not across the street from the funeral parlor????  
✈ Jack living in a different apartment/home.  
✈ Jack calls his grandfather "Ray", and didn’t pursue the issue of knowing Aaron’s whereabouts. For so much family connections, there is too much of a “family” disconnection going on.  
✈ Ray describes Kate with freckles. They both like to be on the move/run. Kate stayed with “Ray” in Australia. Granddad Ray calls Jack “Kiddo”, a word Christian uses.
✈ Hurley says Ben can’t come!!!  
✈ Funny, the word “gig” is a common word used by us musicians.
✈ Hurley puts eye shades when the turbulence starts. He knew what to expect.  
✈ Follow the rules…Widmore.  
✈ WINDOWS.

Vocabulary and Research…
* Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of humans and animals that can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine until resuscitation may be possible in the future.

* Resurrection -published in 1899 was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy. He intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church.
- Resurrection is a Forgotten Realms fantasy novel by Paul S. Kemp and R.A. Salvatore. It is the 6th book of the War of the Spider Queen hexology.
- Alien: Resurrection (movie)
* Proxy- A substitute authorized to act for another person. Example: Deputy is a proxy for the Sheriff.
- (software) An interface for a service, especially for one that is remote, resource-intensive, or otherwise difficult to use directly.
- (sciences) A measurement of one physical quantity that is used as an indicator of the value of another.
* Fabricated or induced illness or factitious disorders, originally and more commonly known as Munchausen syndrome or Münchausen syndrome by proxy, are insidious disorders in which injury is deliberately and gradually inflicted upon a person usually for gaining attention or some other benefit.
* Windows-The word Window originates from the Old Norse ‘vindauga’, from ‘vindr – wind’ and ‘auga – eye’, i.e. "wind eye".
- Biology: Oval window and round window, two membranes between the middle and inner ear.
- Window period, in medicine, the time between first infection and detect ability
- Atmospherics: Atmospheric window, those parts of the electromagnetic spectrum that are not absorbed by the earth's atmosphere.
- Tectonic window is a geologic structure formed by erosion or normal faulting on a thrust system.
- Optical window’s and Astronomical window’s
- A computer program.
* Odysseus or Ulysses, in Greek mythology was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer’s epic poem, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's lliad and other works in the Epic Cycle.
* A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the base pitch of the tone moving upwards or downwards, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or lower.
* New Delhi- is home to The Bahá'í House of Worship, also known as the Lotus Temple due to its Lotus flower-like shape

A picture for you to ponder: click to enlarge.





 
This was such a great episode. For me it had a Wizard of Oz feeling to it. It’s time for me to start bringing philosopher Immanuel Kant into the John Locke layer of the LOST story. We will get more into him, his work and purpose over the next few weeks. Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher. He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and of the late Enlightenment. His most important work is the Critique of Pure Reason, an investigation into the limitations and security of reason itself.

You know, whenever I hear the smoke monster pull someone it sounds like something being cranked, gears, chains.  I sometimes visualize it as an anchor being pulled up/lowered, or sometimes giant gates being opened or closed. {lol}  Taking some of the things I keep in mind about what "may" be going on in the story, I wanted to test something out. I gave my son a word association type test the other day. I wanted to see if he, without being a LOST viewer, perceived the same "visual" as I did. I only gave him certain clue words that are used in direct association with the "island". Then I asked him what I described. Keep in mind, this tiny experiment was only for me to question one single layer of the story, nothing more.
The words I gave him were: Cabin-Wheel-Hatches-Medical Station-Kitchen-Church/chapel-Armory-Brig-Anchor-Deck-Dock.
My son’s answer was…a military ship or aircraft carrier.
Maybe it’s time to revisit The Helgus Antonius. The container/hospital ship operated by the Hanso Foundation.

I am compelled to dig deeper into Kate’s comment “We’re on the same plane, Jack. It doesn’t mean we’re together.”    I find this line very important, giving us a huge bit of information.

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.