PLEASE NOTE the following notes were posted on MySpace Feb 16, 2008
THIS IS NOT MY USUAL DETAILED EPISODE POST. I WILL DETAIL THIS EPISODE IN ORDER OF ALL EPISODES.
I have NOT re-watched The Economist to detail this episode yet. These are a few things that stuck out to me; things we need to think about. I'll build upon them with my upcoming research.
The Economist is a GREAT episode! WOW! I think by now it's pretty obvious that a number of clues I've bold typed for us since the beginning are indeed constantly brought up.
I was thrilled to see hints to the "Powers that be", persons with power and endless money and resources always have a hand in everything we see. What great secrets are being kept by these powerful people?
'Ben' obviously can travel "to" and "from" that "island" whenever he wants. He wears many masks and could he have different identities too.
Sayid claims to be one of the Oceanic 6. His role happens to be an extension of torturer as he is now a hit man. Yet the word diplomat is associated with him. I find that very important and interesting.
Now that we see that "Ben" can come and go, how does that affect what everyone else's "realities" are? Hmmm?!
Sayid being one who discovers this secret in Ben's closet!
Things to note…Questions to ask...
* I've asked this before, I'll ask it again…How old is 'Ben?' How old is everyone else?
* Finally, acknowledgment to time running different; here time runs slower. Wow, imagine that.
* Desmond gets on the copter even though he knows it's not Penny's boat. WTF?!!!!
* Jack doesn't go on the copter. He feels he's the only one who can rescue the Losties, so why not follow through on the rescue?
* Frank says Sayid "cheated." {He traded Miles for Charlotte}
* Frank bleeds Yankee blue. Tie to New York, The Bronx. Rose is from the Bronx.
* Sayid closes Naomi's and Elsa's eyes.
* Told NOT to talk to Minkowski.
* Regina translates to Queen in Italian.
* Game room.
* Locke makes tea for Sayid. Mikhail brought Sayid and Kate tea in another episode.
* Hurley says 'Oh great. The ship sent us another Sawyer.' {WoooHooo!}
* Elsa wears a similar silver bracelet.
* Daniel's clock on island 2:24:03…The freighter timer 3:16:23.
* Chicken
* Languages.
* Zoned out.
* Mirrors. Broken Mirrors.
* Naomi's dead body. Come on!
* Recruitment. Recruiting.
* Masks. I.D. Passports.
* We've seen that Red Cross symbol before.
* Pager. Beeper
* Old fashioned….How old?
* Numbers
* Colors- Red. Black/Dark. White/Light.
* Sawyer talks about Ben….'shoot off his toe'…Statue clue?
* A German guy is mentioned in an early episode involving the tail section. Germany.
* Note Ben's Passports and Money/pound notes.
* A bigger war!
* Vet. Dogs. Vincent.
* HURLEY.
* Where does the cabin go?
* Kate and Sawyer play house…For how long?
* 'Ben' is still in control of things, but who's 'Ben's' boss?
* Cold. Ice. Chill. Are these clues to the listening station? Or a symbol of the cold hearted side of a person? Or a clue to the 'island' itself?!!
* Ship? Think about it.
* What are the initials on the bracelet?
* "I have work to do."
* Are there people who look identical, but are different?
* Are they really ever out of the "force field/confines" of the "island"? {I think not}
* What is real...what is NOT?
Vocabulary and Research...
* Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, (1906-1983-) was an English economist, mathematician and statistician.
* Hermann Minkowski (June 22,1864– January 12, 1909) was a Lithuanian-born German mathematician. In geometry, the Minkowski sum, also known as dilation, of 2 sets A and B in Euclidean space is the result of adding every element of A to every element of B, i.e. the set. In physics and mathematics, Minkowski space (or Minkowski space time) is the mathematical setting in which Einstein's theory of special relativity is most conveniently formulated. In this setting the 3 ordinary dimensions of space are combined with a single dimension of time to form a 4-dimensional mannifold for representing a space time.
-Oskar Minkowski (January 13, 1858-July 18, 1931) Sanatorium Fürstenburg an der Havel, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany was a famous scientist of German, Jewish and Polish descent.
-Rudolph Minkowski (May 28,1895-January 4, 1976) was a German-American astronomer. His father was the physiologist Oskar Minkowski Hermann Minkowski.
* Espionage is usually part of an institutional effort (i.e., governmental or corporate espionage), and the term is most readily associated with state spying on potential or actual enemies, primarily for military purposes, but this has been extended to spying involving corporations, known specifically as industrial espionage.
The reason I use the word espionage is because Frank asks if Sayid is a diplomat….Diplomatic immunity?!
-Another word for espionage or words associated with it…intelligence, reconnaissance, secret service, shadowing, tailing, undercover operations, undercover work, underground activities, agent, beagle, detective, double agent, emissary, espionage agent, foreign agent, informer, inside man,intelligencer, investigator, lookout, mole, narc, observer, operative, patrol, picket, plant, scout, secret agent, sleeper, sleuth, snoop, spook, spotter, undercover agent, watcher. ALL OF THOSE FIT OUR STORY!
* A pager (beeper) is a simple personal telecommunications device for short messages. A one-way numeric pager can only receive a message consisting of a few digits. Paging was invented by Multitone Electronics in 1956 at St. Thomas' Hospital in London to alert doctors attending emergencies. In the world of paging there are 2 distinct categories of system in operation. There are on-site paging systems that are used in hospitals to convey the same urgent information. The other type is wide area paging, which offers similar features as on-site paging, but provides the radio coverage across a city, region or country rather than in just one hospital building. Pagers are still in use today in places where mobile phones typically cannot reach users, and also in places where the operation of the radio transmitters contained in mobile phones is problematic or prohibited. One such type of location is a large hospital complex. Pagers also have privacy advantages. Since a one-way pager is a passive receiver only (it sends no information back to the base station), its location cannot be tracked.
* An economist is an expert in the social science of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are many sub-fields, ranging from the broad philosophical theories to the focused study of minutiae within specific markets, macroeconomic analysis, or financial analysis, involving analytical methods and tools such as econometrics, statistics, economics computational models, financial economics, financial mathematics and mathematical economics.
* Michael Faraday, (Sept 22, 1791– Aug 25, 1867) was an English chemmist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of that time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
* In electromagnetism, Maxwell's equations are a set of 4 equations that were first presented as a distinct group in 1884 by Oliver Heaveyside in conjunction with Willard Gibbs. These equations had appeared throughout James Clerk Maxwell's 1861 paper entitled On Physical Lines of Force. Those equations describe the interrelationship between electric field, magnetic field, electric charge and electric current. Although Maxwell himself was the originator of only one of these equations (by virtue of modifying an already existing equation), he derived them all again independently in conjunction with his molecular vortex model of Faraday's "lines of force".
* An electromagnet in its simplest form, is a wire that has been coiled into one or more loops, known as a solenoid. When electric current flows through the wire, a magnetic field is generated. It is concentrated near (and especially inside) the coil, and its field lines are very similar to those for a magnet. The orientation of this effective magnet is determined via the right hand rule. The magnetic moment and the magnetic field of the electromagnet are proportional to the number of loops of wire, to the cross-section of each loop, and to the current passing through the wire. If the coil of wire is wrapped around a material with no special magnetic properties (i.e., cardboard), it will tend to generate a very weak field. However, if it is wrapped around a "soft" ferromagnetic material, such as an iron nail, then the net field produced can result in a several hundred- to thousand fold increase of field strength.
* Permanent magnets occur naturally in some rocks. I.e.. Lodestone.
- You can use magnets in magic.
* Tea. Tea leaf can be used in fortune telling.
* Crystal ball/sphere can be used in fortune telling or is a symbol of divine light, celestial powers.
* Dog. In Greek mythology Cerberus, 3 headed dog, guarded gates of the realm of the dead and acted as a spirit guide. Dogs are also a symbol of faithfulness and protectiveness, of blind love and obedience.
* Silver is a symbol and link to the moon. It's bright but it tarnishes. Symbolizing the corruptible side of human nature, which needs cleaning.
Can I share something with you? Let me tell you what pissed me off….Daniel radio's the 'boat'…there is NO DELAY in communications with the boat, yet there is a delay in the payload arriving. Anyone care to explain that!? Don't tell me it's a plot hole.
They show us an episode with Hurley and Sayid listening to "In the mood" on the radio and Sayid comments it could be coming from any place. Hurley comments it could be coming from any time. So, how come radio waves delay isn't the case here?!!
Are we starting to see things pan out from clues I've highlighted and talked about? Yep, and it's all so damn exciting!!
We're still seeing things/people completely tied to the "island" and that magnet keeps pulling them back!
Past, Present and Future…..
They all are connected! Always have been...Always will be!
Love to all who are "LOST"™
Posted on MySpace Feb 16, 2008
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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? 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.
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December 31, 2009
September 8, 2009
...And Found.
Let's talk about LOST! ...And Found.
Claire and Sun are on the beach wringing out clothes. The waves are crashing.
Sun-“It’s been four days.”
Claire feels that’s not that long, "They said it could take up to two weeks to find a current. I mean, Michael knew what he was doing. I doubt anything would have…”
Sun realizes her wedding ring is missing. This is very upsetting to her. She is panicked and is speaking in Korean.
Claire-“What?”
But Sun is focused on looking for it and speaking in Korean.
Sun tells Claire, “My wedding ring, it's gone.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Sun is sitting in front of the mirror and puts a jeweled hairpin in her hair. Her mother comes in and asks if she plans on wearing that. {They speak only in Korean}
Sun wonders what’s wrong with her attire. Mom picks up a pair of beautiful shoes/pumps and takes them away.
Shoe-less Sun yells out that she likes those shoes. Her mother likes them too, but tells Sun she’s to wear another pair, “He might be shorter than you...“
Mother brings her a pair of flats. Sun feels this is ridiculous.
Mother-“If you'd found a husband in college we wouldn't need a matchmaker.”
Sun-“I went to college to get a degree.”
Mother-“And after four years of college, you're ‘silver’. Don't you want to find a husband before you turn ‘bronze’?”
Sun feels she’ll find a husband when the time is right.
Mother-“Well, your father says the time is now.”
Jin and his friend are in an apartment. Jin is putting on a tie while Tai Soo reads a "Destiny book". {They speak only in Korean.}
Tai-“I'm telling you, man, this year love will find you.”
Jin-“Well if the destiny book says it, it must be true.”
Tai-“My grandma used this book to meet my grandfather. It never fails.”
Jin-“What kind of woman? I mean, what she look like, so I'll know when I see her?”
Tai-“Orange.”
Jin, in front of the mirror, questions, “Orange?”
Tai-“Yes, love will look... orange.”
Jin-“I can't take care of a woman, I can barely take care of myself!”
Tai-“You could always let a woman take care of you.”
Jin puts on his shoes, “That's not what a man does. A man needs a goal in life. He works harder than anyone. He gets promoted. Then he'll be respected...not like the son of a fisherman.”
Tai feels it’s only a job interview.
Jin knows it’s a very important job interview. He asks Tai how he looks, “Stunning, huh?”
Mr. Stunning forgot to cut the tag off the tie. Jin couldn’t cut the tag off it because then he couldn’t return it, “This tie cost a fortune.”
Jin playfully slaps Tai with the tie.
Tai-“So, Jin, what should I do if Love calls?”
Jin smiles, “Tell it to wait.” He heads out the door.
{Flash Whoosh}
Jin, Michael and Sawyer, who is sleeping, sit in the dark Arrow Station. The Tailies are huddled and whispering about the three Castaways. {What is so secret that these people cannot speak openly in front of the Lostie's? Why are they still treating them like prisoners? They're all supposed to be in the same situation, apparently NOT! The Tailies are made up of different group of people for sure.}
Michael, in his orange shirt, feels compelled to go over to Jin and tell him in English, “It’s okay. Sun...you'll be with her again. Soon, OK. {He wakes Sawyer and whispers} Hey, I think they're trying to figure out what to do with us.” {Jin understands him}
Sawyer thinks they’re going to eat them. Ana, with her big sticks, tells them all to get up, “We’re moving out.”
Michael-“Moving out where?”
Ana-“You’re going to help us get food and water.”
Sawyer questions if they work for her now. Ana feels they’re going to do it because they have a long walk ahead of them.
Sawyer-“A long walk where?"
Ana Lucia-“Back to where you came from."
As they exit the Arrow Station, Ana Lucia makes sure all is clear. Sawyer whispers to Michael that he thinks they should stage a prison break here. Michael wants to figure out what the hell is going on over here before he makes any decisions about anything.
Ana Lucia speaks loudly as she tells everyone to listen up, “We need to gather as much food and water as we can. You travel in pairs. You move as fast as you can. Don't make any noise.”
Michael wants her to take a minute to explain to them what the hell is going on over here that’s got them all so on edge.
Ana Lucia-“You know what? That's a great idea, maybe we can swap stories on the road.”
The big dude is going to go scout before they move.
Sawyer whispers under his breath that he thinks she needs to be slapped. Ana directs Cindy to go with Michael. {Cindy and Libby have big sticks that look more like hockey sticks or a shepherd's staff.} Bernard and Ana will gather the fish, but Jin would like to help as he knows how to fish. Jin will go with them as per Sawyer’s encouragement.
At the beach Sun is frantically looking for her wedding ring. Jack sees her behavior and asks her if she’s okay. Upset Sun confesses she lost her wedding ring.
Jack-“When was the last time you saw it?”
Sun doesn’t know as she’s gotten used to it.
Jack-“I lost my wedding ring once. It's crazy where you’ll look when you want to find something bad enough. I went through the garbage outside the house…emptied the bags and everything. I even took apart the pipes in my bathroom because I was convinced that it had gone down the drain in the sink.”
Sun-“What did your wife say?"
Jack-“She never knew.” {Jack is capable of deception and secret keeping}
Sun-“How is that?"
Jack-“I went to a jeweler and I had a replica made, that's how. {He looks at his left hand} Yeah, now it's just rattling around in my sock drawer back home. Um, I can help you look. {He doesn't admit divorce or anything else. But I'm sure we need to know that so when he does get back to 'Sarah' he can wear his ring again, for a little while anyway! lol}
Sun-“No, thanks. I'm sure it will turn up."
Jin is picking off and tossing the pointy parts of a urchin into the water. {Bait}
Ana Lucia and Bernard are struggling with a net. Ana yells over to Jin for some help. Jin shakes his head no. {He understands English!}
Ana Lucia-“You want to eat? Help us!” {She gestures eating} Jin replies in Korean.
Ana Lucia-“Does it look like I speak Korean?”
Jin throws his net into the water and pulls in a bunch of fish. He is proud, “Fish.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Jin sits in an office for his job interview with Kim Kwan-Hak, General Manager. {They speak only in Korean. The scene is bathed in Orange.}
Mr. Kim looks over Jin’s application and notes he worked at the Asiana Hotel as a busboy. Jin shares that he became a waiter.
Mr. Kim-“They don't promote from within.”
Jin-“No, sir. Not usually. I believe I was one of the few exceptions."
Mr. Kim-“What village are you from?”
He says it’s obvious Jin’s not from the city.
Jin-“Namhae. On the south coast.”
Mr. Kim-“No wonder. I thought I smelled fish on you.”
He pulls the price tag off of Jin’s tie, ”This was sticking out.”
Jin thanks him.
Mr. Kim picks up the phone and tells whomever that, “Mr. Kwon will be joining us.”
He tells happy Jin, “You will start immediately. You work rain or shine. You don't ask for a raise or time off.” {What is he, a frickin robot?} A man knocks on the door and enters presenting Jin with a uniform. {Black suit, white gloves, top hat and a rose.}
Mr. Kim-“And Mr. Kwon... The Seoul Gateway is one of the finest hotels in the country. Do not open the door for people like you.” {What a mutha fucker! That dude needs an attitude adjustment.}
Jin-“Yes, sir. I understand. I will do my best. Thank you, sir.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Orange shirt wearing Michael and Libby walk through the jungle. Libby apologizes to him. Michael asks what for.
Libby-“You know, about throwing you and your friends into the pit.”
Michael-“Friends.”
Libby-“What?”
Michael just never thought about it like that; he guesses one of them is his friend. Libby guesses not the redneck. Michael confirms not the redneck. Libby doesn’t think she’s ever seen someone so scared in her life, and she knows about scared. Michael asks if that’s why she threw them in the pit, “Because you were scared?”
Libby confesses they have trust issues.
Annoyed Michael-“Huh, how about that? Where the hell are all the fruit?”
Libby states they picked these trees pretty clean. Sometimes you can find them on the ground.”
Michael is looking deep into the jungle and asks, “Why don't you head inland? That's where all the fruit is on our side.”
Libby-“We don't go that way.”
Michael wonders why.
Scared Libby informs him, “Because that's where They come from.”
Sawyer is sitting, dozing off.
Ana Lucia, Bernard, Cindy and Jin sort through the fish and fruit. A huge piece of metal/knife is stabbed in a piece of wood next to Sawyer. He jolts awake and is informed by the big dude that this is for his protection for when they travel. {Are they taking too many steps while holding the ball?! Lol}
Sawyer asks him, “Did you make this? {he nods yep} So what's your name, anyway?”
The big dude’s name is “Mr. Eko.” {Watch how Eko delivers his name. Very dramatic} Sawyer wonders if that’s like Mr. Ed.
Libby runs over to Ana Lucia to tattle on Michael, “He just left.” He said something and then went into the jungle, “He's gone.”
Jin listens.
Ana tells everyone they’re leaving now, “Let's go.”
Sawyer questions her.
Ana informs him that his buddy ran off into the jungle. Jin communicates with Sawyer in Korean.
Bernard-“What's he trying to say? What's he saying?”
Jin goes on in Korean and blurts out “Walt! Walt!”
Sawyer looks pissed.
Ana Lucia-“Let's go. We're moving out now. Cindy, water. Libby, can you carry the radio?”
Libby has the radio.
Sawyer-“Wait, you have a radio? Does it work? Can you use it?”
Sarcastic Ana thinks that’s a great idea, “You going to slow us down?”
Jin is very upset about Michael being out there. Ana wants them to get going before Michael can tell Them where they are. Jin again tries to communicate to Sawyer about Michael.
Sawyer-“What are we supposed to do, wait for him? He ain't coming back without his kid. Walt! He ain't coming back without Walt. You really think he's going to find him? In case you haven't noticed it's every man for himself, Chewie. Mike's got to worry about Mike. And I've got to worry about me."
Pissed off and motivated Jin starts to leave and Eko tries to stop him but Jin punches Eko. So Eko head butts him, knocking Jin to the ground. Jin gets up, they have a short stare down and then Eko moves out of the way so Jin can go.
Eko-“You're going the wrong way. {points in opposite direction} That's where he's going. Toward Them.”
Eko hands Jin a handmade weapon {looks like a hockey stick or a wooden shepherd's staff}.
Concerned Ana asks Eko what he’s doing.
Eko-“I'm going to help him find his friend.”
Ana informs him they can’t wait for him and Eko doesn’t expect them too.
Hurley and Sun walk along the beach. Hurley tells Sun all she’s gotta do is retrace her steps. He asked her what she did yesterday.
Sun-“I woke up, washed up, walked with Shannon, picked some fruit, cut it up to feed Vincent. And then I was...”
Hurley thinks that’s it, “BINGO!”
Sun and Hurley wait around to see if Vincent ate the ring. Vincent looks like he’s eating something but he’s also nosing around in the ivy. Hurley asks Sun if Seoul is the good Korea or the bad. Sun says the good one. Hurley wonders if she went to Olympics. Sun just feels this is ridiculous waiting for...”The dog did not eat my ring.”
Hurley knows dogs will eat anything, “When I was a kid, my dog Buster. I had a drawer where I’d throw in all my change, right? I guess there was some ‘Smarties' in there. So like the next day Buster craps out a buck thirty five in nickels.”
Sun is not amused. Sun owned a dog. Jin gave Sun a puppy named Bopo. Bopo means a kiss. {In Italian it would be Bacci, just thought you'd like to know that.LOL}
{Flash Whoosh}
Sun and her wealthy mother get out of a fancy chauffeur driven car. {They speak only in Korean} Mother is instructing her to keep her hands in her lap, “In fact, don't speak unless they ask you a direct question.”
A woman greets them, mentions how beautiful Sun is, “You're going to love him! He's handsome... well educated... and his family owns this hotel, and twelve others.”
They enter the grand hotel. The doorman bows down and welcomes them to the Seoul Gateway. The doorman is happy Jin.
Sun and her mother are sitting at a table with her "date," Jae Lee, and his mother. Mrs. Paik compliments their hotel.
Mrs. Lee understands that Sun attended Seoul National University. Indeed she did, but it’s certainly no Harvard. The two manipulating mother's give the two some time to get to know each other. Sun looks uncomfortable. {Orange drinks} Jae asks Sun who’s pressuring her more, her mother or father.
Sun-“My father... via my mother. What about you?”
Jae-"My father...via my mother...via my aunt...via my grandmother. What did you study?”
Sun studied Art history. Jae doesn’t know anything about art. He studied Medieval Russian Literature, but somehow ended up in hotel management. {HUH? Medieval Russian Literature. Why? Is that a big money making career? LOL.}
Jae confesses he usually dreads these set-ups, but today is different. It is different for Sun too. She smiles.
{Flash Whoosh}
Mr. Eko and his big stick lead Jin on their trek to find Michael. Eko stops and is listening to something. Jin hears it and wants to run to it thinking it’s Michael, but Eko wants him to wait. Jin runs off and hears what sounds like someone walking in the jungle. He sees the trees move and a huge boar charges at Jin, knocking him down. Jin jolts up as he sees a dead man with a stick through his chest.
Eko reveals his name was Goodwin. Jin, who is covering his mouth and nose from the smell wonders, “Others.”
Eko nods yes.
As they continue their search, Eko breaks off a piece of aloe and Jin wonders, “Michael?”
Eko says no, it’s for his cut.
Eko-“So, you're married? Your ring. You have a wife?” {Again, Jin understands}
Jin-“Yes. You?”
They drink from the funky canteen.
Eko-“Worse. Your wife, what is her name? Her name?"
Jin-“ Sun."
Eko-“She was with you? On the plane?” {Eko uses a hand gesture to indicate plane}
Jin nods yes.
Sun is in her garden looking through the soil for her ring. She gets totally angry and starts ripping up plants in frustration. {Roots} She sits down and cries.
Locke wanders by in all his Locke-ness {I love Locke!} and asks her, “Bad day? {Hands her a handkerchief made blue plaid cloth } It's clean.”
Sun thanks him.
Locke-“You mind if I sit?”
Sun gestures for him to sit and blots her tears.
Sun-“Did you see me?”
Locke-“Rip apart your garden? No. {Sun chuckles, obviously he saw her} Sometimes I wish I had a garden to tear apart.”
Sun-“I don't think I have ever seen you angry.”
Locke chuckles- “Oh, I used to get angry all the time. Frustrated too.”
Sun seems intrigued by that and asks, “You are not frustrated anymore?”
Locke smiles and shares, “I'm not lost anymore.”
Sun-“How did you do that?”
Locke-“Same way anything lost gets found...{He replants a plant right in front of her}…I stopped looking.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Sun looks into her compact mirror while she sits alone waiting on “someone” to arrive at the restaurant.
Jin is the happy doorman at the hotel. {Fu/Foo Dogs outside the entrance} A car horn beeps and he runs to escort the person out. Jin welcomes Mr. Jae Lee. Jae asks Jin if he can borrow that {his pinned on rose} because he has a date. Jin is happy to help out. As Jin opens the door for him, Jae asks {They speak only in Korean} “Your name is...?”
Jin-“Jin Soo Kwon, sir.”
Jae Thanks Mr. Kwon. Jin is pleased.
Jae is sitting with Sun in the restaurant, he’s in the middle of telling her a story.
Jae-‘...then the card slips out of the door and there I am in the hallway, wearing only a towel!”
Sun is amused, “I thought that only happened in movies.”
Jae-“I had to convince the maid I owned the hotel... but she didn't believe me! How embarrassing!”
Sun can’t believe how normal Jae is. Jae thinks she’s great too. {He is wearing the rose}
Jae-“So... I'd really like for us to keep seeing each other. Our parents will be so thrilled. No more ‘matchmakers.’ No more pressure. We can be free. Can I tell you a secret? {She says yes} When I was at Harvard, I met an American woman... I haven't told my father yet, but... in six months, I'm going to move there and marry her. {She looks disappointed} Wait... you didn't think...”
Sun says of course not; she is very happy for him. The manager comes over asking if there’s anything else they need; coffee or dessert.
Sun-“No, thank you. In fact, I have an appointment.”
Sun thanks Jae for lunch and exits.
{Flash Whoosh}
Eko and Jin are still searching. Jin starts to walk in a different direction {Left} but Eko corrects him, “No, not that way. Over here.”
He found a footprint, “A round heel. This is fresh. These tracks...”
Jin -“Michael.”
Eko feels yes its Michael, “They don't leave tracks.”
Eko is hot on the trail of the tracks but stops to look and listen. {He’s looking up}
Jin asks “Where?”
Eko literally covers Jin’s mouth to silence him.
Eko-“Shhh”
We follow along a ground level view to find Jin and Eko hidden in the thick brush with only their eyes showing. They watch several sets of dirty, muddy barefoot people quietly walking by single file, with the last one dangling a teddy bear hanging from either wire or vine. {They made no sounds, and only slight sound when stepping down on twigs}
Jin and Eko get up from their hiding place, and Jin leads to follow the passersby to get to Michael but Eko tells Jin no, they don’t have him, “They came from that way {points} Your friend went that way {pointing in other direction}, crossed ahead of them... very lucky.”
Jin-“You, go back. I go.”
Eko refuses, “No, we go together.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Happy Jin is welcoming and opening the door at the hotel. As he bows, Sun walks right out the door; they never see each other. A “common poor” man asks Jin if his son can use the hotel bathroom because it’s an emergency; he really has to go.
Jin is sorry and explains it is for hotel guests only and mentions there’s a bathroom down the street. He asks the fidgety boy if he can hold it. The boy says no, giving puppy dog eyes, so Jin lets them in. The boy’s father calls Jin a good man.
Mr. Kim sees this and goes right up to Jin asking what he told him about who he lets inside. Jin apologizes.
Mr. Kim-“Consider this your first warning.”
Jin tries to reason with the manager by having compassion for the little boy.
Mr. Kim-“He can piss in the gutter for all I care. You people are used to that. If you want to keep your job go find them and get them out of here!”
Jin takes off his gloves and hat. Mr. Kim wonders what he’s doing. Jin hands over the hat and gloves and thanks him for the opportunity.
{Flash Whoosh}
Ring-less Sun sits on the beach rubbing her finger, staring out to the water. Kate walks over, remarks about how pretty the Ocean is and mentions Hurley shared that Sun lost her wedding ring.
Sun-“I was just sitting here telling myself it's silly to be so upset about it...it is just a thing.”
Kate-“Well, they've only been gone a few days, and....”
Sun- “Don't! I'm sick of everyone saying he's alright. He's not alright. Claire found the bottle. The one with the messages inside. The one from the raft.”
Kate asks where it is.
Sun-“I buried it.”
The Tailies and Sawyer continue their trek. Only Sawyer is getting weaker so he sits. Ana gives him water and remarks that if he keeps slowing them down they’re going to leave him behind.
Sawyer-“Go ahead, leave me behind.”
Ana- “See ya.”
Sawyer has a question for her, “Now that your tracker's gone how are you going to find our camp without me?”
Ana Lucia-“Walk across the island, follow the beaches. And Eko's coming back.”
Sawyer asks if she’s married. Ana says no.
Sawyer feels that’s too bad as she seems suited for it.
Ana asks if he’s married then asks if he’s gay. He answers no to being married.
Sawyer stands up-“Funny. Let's go. What are we waiting for?”
Jin and Eko stop at the stream. Jin sips water from his hand while Eko fills up the canteen. Eko tells Jin to wait here as they lost his trail. He'll go back and find it. He heads off.
Jin is alone and Michael appears on the other side of the stream. Michael asks Jin what he’s doing, “Go back.”
Jin-“Michael!”
Michael yells for Jin to “Go back, man!”
Jin looks back to the direction Eko went then turns to see Michael run off. Jin takes his stick weapon and runs after Michael into the jungle.
Michael is calling out for Waaaaalt. Jin calls out to Michael.
Michael-“Go away! I'm not going back without him! Walt! I'm here! Where are you, man? {He yells louder} Walt!! {Jin tries to quiet him} What, you worried they're going to hear me? {Michael yells even louder} Let them take me! Come! Come take me!”
Eko appears and tells him shouting is not a good idea, “You need to come back with us now.”
Michael {pointing at Eko} is not leaving him/Walt out here.
Eko approaches and Michael and Michael raises his big stick prepared to hit Eko.
Eko- "I know they took your son. But you have no idea what these people are capable of. They will not be found if they don't want to be.” {Eko has 2 tied whiskers on his chin}
Michael is getting upset, “They took him right out of my hand… right out of my hand! I'm not going back without him.”
Jin, in English -“You find Walt, Michael.”
So the three stick carrying men head off.
Sun digs up the bottle of messages.
Kate-“Can I see it?"
She empties out the messages and is looking at them. {Probably wanted to see if anyone wrote a note about the fugitive Kate is on the island HA!}
Sun-“Kate! Those are private. Kate, stop. What are you doing?!”
Kate gets quiet-“We didn't, uh... I didn't say goodbye.”
Sun-“Sawyer?”
Kate looks down and smiles, “Sun.”
Kate nods her head in the direction she wants Sun to look. Sun picks up her wedding ring; she is relieved it is found. She cries and puts in on.
In the jungle Jin looks at his ring.
{Flash Whoosh}
Jin, dressed in dark and light is walking along a canal by a bridge in Seoul. A woman wearing an orange dress walks by him and he checks her out. As he turns back around he literally turns right into Sun and she drops her purse. He hands it back to her.
They look into each other's eyes...
DESTINY.
Sun on the beach crying and happy. You can see how relieved she is, but also how much in love she is with Jin!
...And Found is a GREAT episode. These poor lost people are trying so desperately trying to find something and even find themselves. But through all of the challenges they face on the "Island" are there a few of them who don't want to be found or come face to face with a truth. After all they will not be found if they don't want to be, they have to want it...they have to want to change.
Things to Note...Questions to ask...
☯ Kwan. Kwon.
☯ Games. Bingo. Olympics.
☯ Art. Movies.
☯ Replica. Match. Pair.
☯ Silver. Bronze.
☯ Ring-Circle-Loop.
☯ Shoes. Feet.
☯ Orange-the color or the fruit? Locke uses orange slices to make big smiley faces. Michael wears an Orange shirt. Orange drinks.
☯ Rose. Roses.
☯ Jae is in the family business. Jack is in the "family business"
☯ Learn. University
☯ Prison.
☯ Language. Linguistics. Communication. Via. Radio.
☯ Language barriers seem to not interfere with communicating with each other. Besides, I think Jin may understand them all anyway. I know, I'm crazy like that!
☯ Eko has something “Worse” than a wife! WTF does that mean?!
☯ They symbol of the "Rose"... Is it a hint to our Rose on the "Island"? Rose (The Castaway) appears to all of us to be calm, at peace, all knowing about Bernard. She is different in all her behaviors from the rest of them. She is special. Why would this be? I've always questioned her. That may upset a few of you, I know. But when we got to the "Further Instructions" episode in season 3 and I detailed my Locke/Boone vision findings, it involved the remaining, living Losties, all of them except for Rose. Again, I wonder why?
☯ Why don’t the Others leave tracks? Are they not real?
☯ Locke tells Charlie in a previous episode that he was trying to track Desmond, but he didn't leave much of trail. Was Locke not really looking for Desmond, or does Desmond not leave tracks?
☯ Heart. Soul/Seoul.
☯ Locke is a bald man that gives Sun some insight. Jae is a bald man who gives Sun a push in a different direction, right into Jin's path.
☯ Eko is Jin’s guide in the jungle.
☯ Name. {Nahme} Identity.
☯ Sawyer calls Michael, Mike.
☯ Clues to doors and doorways, and to guarding 'said' doors. Who is guarding the doorways of the "Island" and on the "Island"?
Here's where I start to really look at the Tailies very differently. When we are first introduced to them I was apprehensive to say the least. Now at this point I find myself to really read between the lines with them and also read their body language. I know, you want to tell me to chill out, don't 'read' that much into stuff but I can't help myself. The obvious two sections of two groups of people from two sides of the "Island"... TWO SIDES! Please really watch the Tailies. Look at them and how they are around each other, the words they say to each other, etc. When they speak to each other, they say things that can be taken as 'I know what I'm doing here, I know why I'm here, but I don't like it!' I think that our tail section people are aware of more than they let on.
Vocabulary and Research...
♦ Replica-Italian-from Latin replicare (“to copy”)
- is a copy that is relatively indistinguishable from the original.
-is a client-server data replication system for Plan 9 from Bell Labs. The server stores changes to its file system in a log; the client updates itself by reading that log and applying any changes.
-Replica=copy-imitation-model-duplication-reproduction-mock up-carbon copy
♦ Tie (Draw)a finish to a competition with identical results, particularly sports.
♦ Crook: A tool with a bend in it. 2). A shepherd's staff.
- aka A crosier-staff of office (pastoral staff). Symbol of the Bishop or Apostle.
♦ Orange:
- Hindu swamis traditionally wear orange robes.
-Orange is used to symbolically represent the second chakra.
-Orange represents the Noachide Law against blasphemy.
-In the U.S. and Canada, orange regalia is associated with the field of engineering.
-In baseball many Foul Poles are orange.
-Orange is often quoted as a word that doesn't rhyme with any other word in the English language.
♦ Fish can refer to a poor chess or poker player.
- Buddhist symbolism: A pair of Golden Fish. Representing conjugal happiness and freedom.
- Phishin is an Internet crime
-FISh (programming language), an array programming language. Its strategy is to perform what it calls "static shape analysis" on all programs before executing them. This "shape computation" reduces higher-order functional programs to simple imperative forms.
-Files transferred over shell protocol-is a network protocol that uses Secure Shell (SSH) or Remote Shell (RSH) to transfer files between computers and manage remote files.
♦ (Fu) Foo Dogs: they are Asian imperial guardians. They are powerful mystic protectors that have stood in front of Chinese imperial palaces, temples, emperors tombs, government offices and the homes of government officials and the wealthy from the Han Dynasty. They were originally introduced to Han China as the Buddhist protector of Dharma.
♦ Rose- A rose is a beautiful flower. Some consider this flower to be the most beautiful and fragrant flower of all. With all its beauty it has thorns!
-Another meaning for the word rose in its past tense is, Rise. Rise (Get up, Ascend, appear above the horizon, gain a higher position, origin, area of higher ground). Yes, I went a little extreme here with showing the past tense of the word, but it could be clues. wink, wink.
♦ Sun-The sun is a shining celestial body around which planets revolve. It gives us light; it is a huge star.
At this point should they all feel as Locke feels? He knows he's where he belongs, the "Island" and he actually states that he's not lost anymore. It may be taking the rest of them a little longer to realize it. They are not lost...well, they are lost but they're exactly where they're supposed to be. This is especially true for Jack.
Sun and Jin, are they really truly and completely in love? Are they soul mates destined to be together forever?
Is it coincidence or chance that they literally bumped into each other or did fate and destiny cause their paths to cross? Was their meeting part of a bigger motive? Is there such a thing as destiny being written out, predetermined?
Although my research may nudge me in one direction I can't help but WANT them to be in love and destined to be together regardless of how or why they bumped into each other.
Destiny.
Love to all who are "LOST"™
Posted on MySpace August 3, 2007
Disclaimer: I never claim to know everything about the show and my thoughts by no means make me right! The things I share here are my views and/or opinions. I don't claim to catch every single detail either! You all know I hate spoilers! And I stand clear of reading certain sites as to not take me off my own course of research. The one thing I don't need to do here is rehash all of the obvious clues from an episode, we all know what they are. Understood? Good! Let the fun begin! I'll only note things that I know come up as clues later, but need to be noted when they first show up and things I find that will be of importance! It will get very exciting as we progress into the story.
Claire and Sun are on the beach wringing out clothes. The waves are crashing.
Sun-“It’s been four days.”
Claire feels that’s not that long, "They said it could take up to two weeks to find a current. I mean, Michael knew what he was doing. I doubt anything would have…”
Sun realizes her wedding ring is missing. This is very upsetting to her. She is panicked and is speaking in Korean.
Claire-“What?”
But Sun is focused on looking for it and speaking in Korean.
Sun tells Claire, “My wedding ring, it's gone.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Sun is sitting in front of the mirror and puts a jeweled hairpin in her hair. Her mother comes in and asks if she plans on wearing that. {They speak only in Korean}
Sun wonders what’s wrong with her attire. Mom picks up a pair of beautiful shoes/pumps and takes them away.
Shoe-less Sun yells out that she likes those shoes. Her mother likes them too, but tells Sun she’s to wear another pair, “He might be shorter than you...“
Mother brings her a pair of flats. Sun feels this is ridiculous.
Mother-“If you'd found a husband in college we wouldn't need a matchmaker.”
Sun-“I went to college to get a degree.”
Mother-“And after four years of college, you're ‘silver’. Don't you want to find a husband before you turn ‘bronze’?”
Sun feels she’ll find a husband when the time is right.
Mother-“Well, your father says the time is now.”
Jin and his friend are in an apartment. Jin is putting on a tie while Tai Soo reads a "Destiny book". {They speak only in Korean.}
Tai-“I'm telling you, man, this year love will find you.”
Jin-“Well if the destiny book says it, it must be true.”
Tai-“My grandma used this book to meet my grandfather. It never fails.”
Jin-“What kind of woman? I mean, what she look like, so I'll know when I see her?”
Tai-“Orange.”
Jin, in front of the mirror, questions, “Orange?”
Tai-“Yes, love will look... orange.”
Jin-“I can't take care of a woman, I can barely take care of myself!”
Tai-“You could always let a woman take care of you.”
Jin puts on his shoes, “That's not what a man does. A man needs a goal in life. He works harder than anyone. He gets promoted. Then he'll be respected...not like the son of a fisherman.”
Tai feels it’s only a job interview.
Jin knows it’s a very important job interview. He asks Tai how he looks, “Stunning, huh?”
Mr. Stunning forgot to cut the tag off the tie. Jin couldn’t cut the tag off it because then he couldn’t return it, “This tie cost a fortune.”
Jin playfully slaps Tai with the tie.
Tai-“So, Jin, what should I do if Love calls?”
Jin smiles, “Tell it to wait.” He heads out the door.
{Flash Whoosh}
Jin, Michael and Sawyer, who is sleeping, sit in the dark Arrow Station. The Tailies are huddled and whispering about the three Castaways. {What is so secret that these people cannot speak openly in front of the Lostie's? Why are they still treating them like prisoners? They're all supposed to be in the same situation, apparently NOT! The Tailies are made up of different group of people for sure.}
Michael, in his orange shirt, feels compelled to go over to Jin and tell him in English, “It’s okay. Sun...you'll be with her again. Soon, OK. {He wakes Sawyer and whispers} Hey, I think they're trying to figure out what to do with us.” {Jin understands him}
Sawyer thinks they’re going to eat them. Ana, with her big sticks, tells them all to get up, “We’re moving out.”
Michael-“Moving out where?”
Ana-“You’re going to help us get food and water.”
Sawyer questions if they work for her now. Ana feels they’re going to do it because they have a long walk ahead of them.
Sawyer-“A long walk where?"
Ana Lucia-“Back to where you came from."
As they exit the Arrow Station, Ana Lucia makes sure all is clear. Sawyer whispers to Michael that he thinks they should stage a prison break here. Michael wants to figure out what the hell is going on over here before he makes any decisions about anything.
Ana Lucia speaks loudly as she tells everyone to listen up, “We need to gather as much food and water as we can. You travel in pairs. You move as fast as you can. Don't make any noise.”
Michael wants her to take a minute to explain to them what the hell is going on over here that’s got them all so on edge.
Ana Lucia-“You know what? That's a great idea, maybe we can swap stories on the road.”
The big dude is going to go scout before they move.
Sawyer whispers under his breath that he thinks she needs to be slapped. Ana directs Cindy to go with Michael. {Cindy and Libby have big sticks that look more like hockey sticks or a shepherd's staff.} Bernard and Ana will gather the fish, but Jin would like to help as he knows how to fish. Jin will go with them as per Sawyer’s encouragement.
At the beach Sun is frantically looking for her wedding ring. Jack sees her behavior and asks her if she’s okay. Upset Sun confesses she lost her wedding ring.
Jack-“When was the last time you saw it?”
Sun doesn’t know as she’s gotten used to it.
Jack-“I lost my wedding ring once. It's crazy where you’ll look when you want to find something bad enough. I went through the garbage outside the house…emptied the bags and everything. I even took apart the pipes in my bathroom because I was convinced that it had gone down the drain in the sink.”
Sun-“What did your wife say?"
Jack-“She never knew.” {Jack is capable of deception and secret keeping}
Sun-“How is that?"
Jack-“I went to a jeweler and I had a replica made, that's how. {He looks at his left hand} Yeah, now it's just rattling around in my sock drawer back home. Um, I can help you look. {He doesn't admit divorce or anything else. But I'm sure we need to know that so when he does get back to 'Sarah' he can wear his ring again, for a little while anyway! lol}
Sun-“No, thanks. I'm sure it will turn up."
Jin is picking off and tossing the pointy parts of a urchin into the water. {Bait}
Ana Lucia and Bernard are struggling with a net. Ana yells over to Jin for some help. Jin shakes his head no. {He understands English!}
Ana Lucia-“You want to eat? Help us!” {She gestures eating} Jin replies in Korean.
Ana Lucia-“Does it look like I speak Korean?”
Jin throws his net into the water and pulls in a bunch of fish. He is proud, “Fish.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Jin sits in an office for his job interview with Kim Kwan-Hak, General Manager. {They speak only in Korean. The scene is bathed in Orange.}
Mr. Kim looks over Jin’s application and notes he worked at the Asiana Hotel as a busboy. Jin shares that he became a waiter.
Mr. Kim-“They don't promote from within.”
Jin-“No, sir. Not usually. I believe I was one of the few exceptions."
Mr. Kim-“What village are you from?”
He says it’s obvious Jin’s not from the city.
Jin-“Namhae. On the south coast.”
Mr. Kim-“No wonder. I thought I smelled fish on you.”
He pulls the price tag off of Jin’s tie, ”This was sticking out.”
Jin thanks him.
Mr. Kim picks up the phone and tells whomever that, “Mr. Kwon will be joining us.”
He tells happy Jin, “You will start immediately. You work rain or shine. You don't ask for a raise or time off.” {What is he, a frickin robot?} A man knocks on the door and enters presenting Jin with a uniform. {Black suit, white gloves, top hat and a rose.}
Mr. Kim-“And Mr. Kwon... The Seoul Gateway is one of the finest hotels in the country. Do not open the door for people like you.” {What a mutha fucker! That dude needs an attitude adjustment.}
Jin-“Yes, sir. I understand. I will do my best. Thank you, sir.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Orange shirt wearing Michael and Libby walk through the jungle. Libby apologizes to him. Michael asks what for.
Libby-“You know, about throwing you and your friends into the pit.”
Michael-“Friends.”
Libby-“What?”
Michael just never thought about it like that; he guesses one of them is his friend. Libby guesses not the redneck. Michael confirms not the redneck. Libby doesn’t think she’s ever seen someone so scared in her life, and she knows about scared. Michael asks if that’s why she threw them in the pit, “Because you were scared?”
Libby confesses they have trust issues.
Annoyed Michael-“Huh, how about that? Where the hell are all the fruit?”
Libby states they picked these trees pretty clean. Sometimes you can find them on the ground.”
Michael is looking deep into the jungle and asks, “Why don't you head inland? That's where all the fruit is on our side.”
Libby-“We don't go that way.”
Michael wonders why.
Scared Libby informs him, “Because that's where They come from.”
Sawyer is sitting, dozing off.
Ana Lucia, Bernard, Cindy and Jin sort through the fish and fruit. A huge piece of metal/knife is stabbed in a piece of wood next to Sawyer. He jolts awake and is informed by the big dude that this is for his protection for when they travel. {Are they taking too many steps while holding the ball?! Lol}
Sawyer asks him, “Did you make this? {he nods yep} So what's your name, anyway?”
The big dude’s name is “Mr. Eko.” {Watch how Eko delivers his name. Very dramatic} Sawyer wonders if that’s like Mr. Ed.
Libby runs over to Ana Lucia to tattle on Michael, “He just left.” He said something and then went into the jungle, “He's gone.”
Jin listens.
Ana tells everyone they’re leaving now, “Let's go.”
Sawyer questions her.
Ana informs him that his buddy ran off into the jungle. Jin communicates with Sawyer in Korean.
Bernard-“What's he trying to say? What's he saying?”
Jin goes on in Korean and blurts out “Walt! Walt!”
Sawyer looks pissed.
Ana Lucia-“Let's go. We're moving out now. Cindy, water. Libby, can you carry the radio?”
Libby has the radio.
Sawyer-“Wait, you have a radio? Does it work? Can you use it?”
Sarcastic Ana thinks that’s a great idea, “You going to slow us down?”
Jin is very upset about Michael being out there. Ana wants them to get going before Michael can tell Them where they are. Jin again tries to communicate to Sawyer about Michael.
Sawyer-“What are we supposed to do, wait for him? He ain't coming back without his kid. Walt! He ain't coming back without Walt. You really think he's going to find him? In case you haven't noticed it's every man for himself, Chewie. Mike's got to worry about Mike. And I've got to worry about me."
Pissed off and motivated Jin starts to leave and Eko tries to stop him but Jin punches Eko. So Eko head butts him, knocking Jin to the ground. Jin gets up, they have a short stare down and then Eko moves out of the way so Jin can go.
Eko-“You're going the wrong way. {points in opposite direction} That's where he's going. Toward Them.”
Eko hands Jin a handmade weapon {looks like a hockey stick or a wooden shepherd's staff}.
Concerned Ana asks Eko what he’s doing.
Eko-“I'm going to help him find his friend.”
Ana informs him they can’t wait for him and Eko doesn’t expect them too.
Hurley and Sun walk along the beach. Hurley tells Sun all she’s gotta do is retrace her steps. He asked her what she did yesterday.
Sun-“I woke up, washed up, walked with Shannon, picked some fruit, cut it up to feed Vincent. And then I was...”
Hurley thinks that’s it, “BINGO!”
Sun and Hurley wait around to see if Vincent ate the ring. Vincent looks like he’s eating something but he’s also nosing around in the ivy. Hurley asks Sun if Seoul is the good Korea or the bad. Sun says the good one. Hurley wonders if she went to Olympics. Sun just feels this is ridiculous waiting for...”The dog did not eat my ring.”
Hurley knows dogs will eat anything, “When I was a kid, my dog Buster. I had a drawer where I’d throw in all my change, right? I guess there was some ‘Smarties' in there. So like the next day Buster craps out a buck thirty five in nickels.”
Sun is not amused. Sun owned a dog. Jin gave Sun a puppy named Bopo. Bopo means a kiss. {In Italian it would be Bacci, just thought you'd like to know that.LOL}
{Flash Whoosh}
Sun and her wealthy mother get out of a fancy chauffeur driven car. {They speak only in Korean} Mother is instructing her to keep her hands in her lap, “In fact, don't speak unless they ask you a direct question.”
A woman greets them, mentions how beautiful Sun is, “You're going to love him! He's handsome... well educated... and his family owns this hotel, and twelve others.”
They enter the grand hotel. The doorman bows down and welcomes them to the Seoul Gateway. The doorman is happy Jin.
Sun and her mother are sitting at a table with her "date," Jae Lee, and his mother. Mrs. Paik compliments their hotel.
Mrs. Lee understands that Sun attended Seoul National University. Indeed she did, but it’s certainly no Harvard. The two manipulating mother's give the two some time to get to know each other. Sun looks uncomfortable. {Orange drinks} Jae asks Sun who’s pressuring her more, her mother or father.
Sun-“My father... via my mother. What about you?”
Jae-"My father...via my mother...via my aunt...via my grandmother. What did you study?”
Sun studied Art history. Jae doesn’t know anything about art. He studied Medieval Russian Literature, but somehow ended up in hotel management. {HUH? Medieval Russian Literature. Why? Is that a big money making career? LOL.}
Jae confesses he usually dreads these set-ups, but today is different. It is different for Sun too. She smiles.
{Flash Whoosh}
Mr. Eko and his big stick lead Jin on their trek to find Michael. Eko stops and is listening to something. Jin hears it and wants to run to it thinking it’s Michael, but Eko wants him to wait. Jin runs off and hears what sounds like someone walking in the jungle. He sees the trees move and a huge boar charges at Jin, knocking him down. Jin jolts up as he sees a dead man with a stick through his chest.
Eko reveals his name was Goodwin. Jin, who is covering his mouth and nose from the smell wonders, “Others.”
Eko nods yes.
As they continue their search, Eko breaks off a piece of aloe and Jin wonders, “Michael?”
Eko says no, it’s for his cut.
Eko-“So, you're married? Your ring. You have a wife?” {Again, Jin understands}
Jin-“Yes. You?”
They drink from the funky canteen.
Eko-“Worse. Your wife, what is her name? Her name?"
Jin-“ Sun."
Eko-“She was with you? On the plane?” {Eko uses a hand gesture to indicate plane}
Jin nods yes.
Sun is in her garden looking through the soil for her ring. She gets totally angry and starts ripping up plants in frustration. {Roots} She sits down and cries.
Locke wanders by in all his Locke-ness {I love Locke!} and asks her, “Bad day? {Hands her a handkerchief made blue plaid cloth } It's clean.”
Sun thanks him.
Locke-“You mind if I sit?”
Sun gestures for him to sit and blots her tears.
Sun-“Did you see me?”
Locke-“Rip apart your garden? No. {Sun chuckles, obviously he saw her} Sometimes I wish I had a garden to tear apart.”
Sun-“I don't think I have ever seen you angry.”
Locke chuckles- “Oh, I used to get angry all the time. Frustrated too.”
Sun seems intrigued by that and asks, “You are not frustrated anymore?”
Locke smiles and shares, “I'm not lost anymore.”
Sun-“How did you do that?”
Locke-“Same way anything lost gets found...{He replants a plant right in front of her}…I stopped looking.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Sun looks into her compact mirror while she sits alone waiting on “someone” to arrive at the restaurant.
Jin is the happy doorman at the hotel. {Fu/Foo Dogs outside the entrance} A car horn beeps and he runs to escort the person out. Jin welcomes Mr. Jae Lee. Jae asks Jin if he can borrow that {his pinned on rose} because he has a date. Jin is happy to help out. As Jin opens the door for him, Jae asks {They speak only in Korean} “Your name is...?”
Jin-“Jin Soo Kwon, sir.”
Jae Thanks Mr. Kwon. Jin is pleased.
Jae is sitting with Sun in the restaurant, he’s in the middle of telling her a story.
Jae-‘...then the card slips out of the door and there I am in the hallway, wearing only a towel!”
Sun is amused, “I thought that only happened in movies.”
Jae-“I had to convince the maid I owned the hotel... but she didn't believe me! How embarrassing!”
Sun can’t believe how normal Jae is. Jae thinks she’s great too. {He is wearing the rose}
Jae-“So... I'd really like for us to keep seeing each other. Our parents will be so thrilled. No more ‘matchmakers.’ No more pressure. We can be free. Can I tell you a secret? {She says yes} When I was at Harvard, I met an American woman... I haven't told my father yet, but... in six months, I'm going to move there and marry her. {She looks disappointed} Wait... you didn't think...”
Sun says of course not; she is very happy for him. The manager comes over asking if there’s anything else they need; coffee or dessert.
Sun-“No, thank you. In fact, I have an appointment.”
Sun thanks Jae for lunch and exits.
{Flash Whoosh}
Eko and Jin are still searching. Jin starts to walk in a different direction {Left} but Eko corrects him, “No, not that way. Over here.”
He found a footprint, “A round heel. This is fresh. These tracks...”
Jin -“Michael.”
Eko feels yes its Michael, “They don't leave tracks.”
Eko is hot on the trail of the tracks but stops to look and listen. {He’s looking up}
Jin asks “Where?”
Eko literally covers Jin’s mouth to silence him.
Eko-“Shhh”
We follow along a ground level view to find Jin and Eko hidden in the thick brush with only their eyes showing. They watch several sets of dirty, muddy barefoot people quietly walking by single file, with the last one dangling a teddy bear hanging from either wire or vine. {They made no sounds, and only slight sound when stepping down on twigs}
Jin and Eko get up from their hiding place, and Jin leads to follow the passersby to get to Michael but Eko tells Jin no, they don’t have him, “They came from that way {points} Your friend went that way {pointing in other direction}, crossed ahead of them... very lucky.”
Jin-“You, go back. I go.”
Eko refuses, “No, we go together.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Happy Jin is welcoming and opening the door at the hotel. As he bows, Sun walks right out the door; they never see each other. A “common poor” man asks Jin if his son can use the hotel bathroom because it’s an emergency; he really has to go.
Jin is sorry and explains it is for hotel guests only and mentions there’s a bathroom down the street. He asks the fidgety boy if he can hold it. The boy says no, giving puppy dog eyes, so Jin lets them in. The boy’s father calls Jin a good man.
Mr. Kim sees this and goes right up to Jin asking what he told him about who he lets inside. Jin apologizes.
Mr. Kim-“Consider this your first warning.”
Jin tries to reason with the manager by having compassion for the little boy.
Mr. Kim-“He can piss in the gutter for all I care. You people are used to that. If you want to keep your job go find them and get them out of here!”
Jin takes off his gloves and hat. Mr. Kim wonders what he’s doing. Jin hands over the hat and gloves and thanks him for the opportunity.
{Flash Whoosh}
Ring-less Sun sits on the beach rubbing her finger, staring out to the water. Kate walks over, remarks about how pretty the Ocean is and mentions Hurley shared that Sun lost her wedding ring.
Sun-“I was just sitting here telling myself it's silly to be so upset about it...it is just a thing.”
Kate-“Well, they've only been gone a few days, and....”
Sun- “Don't! I'm sick of everyone saying he's alright. He's not alright. Claire found the bottle. The one with the messages inside. The one from the raft.”
Kate asks where it is.
Sun-“I buried it.”
The Tailies and Sawyer continue their trek. Only Sawyer is getting weaker so he sits. Ana gives him water and remarks that if he keeps slowing them down they’re going to leave him behind.
Sawyer-“Go ahead, leave me behind.”
Ana- “See ya.”
Sawyer has a question for her, “Now that your tracker's gone how are you going to find our camp without me?”
Ana Lucia-“Walk across the island, follow the beaches. And Eko's coming back.”
Sawyer asks if she’s married. Ana says no.
Sawyer feels that’s too bad as she seems suited for it.
Ana asks if he’s married then asks if he’s gay. He answers no to being married.
Sawyer stands up-“Funny. Let's go. What are we waiting for?”
Jin and Eko stop at the stream. Jin sips water from his hand while Eko fills up the canteen. Eko tells Jin to wait here as they lost his trail. He'll go back and find it. He heads off.
Jin is alone and Michael appears on the other side of the stream. Michael asks Jin what he’s doing, “Go back.”
Jin-“Michael!”
Michael yells for Jin to “Go back, man!”
Jin looks back to the direction Eko went then turns to see Michael run off. Jin takes his stick weapon and runs after Michael into the jungle.
Michael is calling out for Waaaaalt. Jin calls out to Michael.
Michael-“Go away! I'm not going back without him! Walt! I'm here! Where are you, man? {He yells louder} Walt!! {Jin tries to quiet him} What, you worried they're going to hear me? {Michael yells even louder} Let them take me! Come! Come take me!”
Eko appears and tells him shouting is not a good idea, “You need to come back with us now.”
Michael {pointing at Eko} is not leaving him/Walt out here.
Eko approaches and Michael and Michael raises his big stick prepared to hit Eko.
Eko- "I know they took your son. But you have no idea what these people are capable of. They will not be found if they don't want to be.” {Eko has 2 tied whiskers on his chin}
Michael is getting upset, “They took him right out of my hand… right out of my hand! I'm not going back without him.”
Jin, in English -“You find Walt, Michael.”
So the three stick carrying men head off.
Sun digs up the bottle of messages.
Kate-“Can I see it?"
She empties out the messages and is looking at them. {Probably wanted to see if anyone wrote a note about the fugitive Kate is on the island HA!}
Sun-“Kate! Those are private. Kate, stop. What are you doing?!”
Kate gets quiet-“We didn't, uh... I didn't say goodbye.”
Sun-“Sawyer?”
Kate looks down and smiles, “Sun.”
Kate nods her head in the direction she wants Sun to look. Sun picks up her wedding ring; she is relieved it is found. She cries and puts in on.
In the jungle Jin looks at his ring.
{Flash Whoosh}
Jin, dressed in dark and light is walking along a canal by a bridge in Seoul. A woman wearing an orange dress walks by him and he checks her out. As he turns back around he literally turns right into Sun and she drops her purse. He hands it back to her.
They look into each other's eyes...
DESTINY.
Sun on the beach crying and happy. You can see how relieved she is, but also how much in love she is with Jin!
...And Found is a GREAT episode. These poor lost people are trying so desperately trying to find something and even find themselves. But through all of the challenges they face on the "Island" are there a few of them who don't want to be found or come face to face with a truth. After all they will not be found if they don't want to be, they have to want it...they have to want to change.
Things to Note...Questions to ask...
☯ Kwan. Kwon.
☯ Games. Bingo. Olympics.
☯ Art. Movies.
☯ Replica. Match. Pair.
☯ Silver. Bronze.
☯ Ring-Circle-Loop.
☯ Shoes. Feet.
☯ Orange-the color or the fruit? Locke uses orange slices to make big smiley faces. Michael wears an Orange shirt. Orange drinks.
☯ Rose. Roses.
☯ Jae is in the family business. Jack is in the "family business"
☯ Learn. University
☯ Prison.
☯ Language. Linguistics. Communication. Via. Radio.
☯ Language barriers seem to not interfere with communicating with each other. Besides, I think Jin may understand them all anyway. I know, I'm crazy like that!
☯ Eko has something “Worse” than a wife! WTF does that mean?!
☯ They symbol of the "Rose"... Is it a hint to our Rose on the "Island"? Rose (The Castaway) appears to all of us to be calm, at peace, all knowing about Bernard. She is different in all her behaviors from the rest of them. She is special. Why would this be? I've always questioned her. That may upset a few of you, I know. But when we got to the "Further Instructions" episode in season 3 and I detailed my Locke/Boone vision findings, it involved the remaining, living Losties, all of them except for Rose. Again, I wonder why?
☯ Why don’t the Others leave tracks? Are they not real?
☯ Locke tells Charlie in a previous episode that he was trying to track Desmond, but he didn't leave much of trail. Was Locke not really looking for Desmond, or does Desmond not leave tracks?
☯ Heart. Soul/Seoul.
☯ Locke is a bald man that gives Sun some insight. Jae is a bald man who gives Sun a push in a different direction, right into Jin's path.
☯ Eko is Jin’s guide in the jungle.
☯ Name. {Nahme} Identity.
☯ Sawyer calls Michael, Mike.
☯ Clues to doors and doorways, and to guarding 'said' doors. Who is guarding the doorways of the "Island" and on the "Island"?
Here's where I start to really look at the Tailies very differently. When we are first introduced to them I was apprehensive to say the least. Now at this point I find myself to really read between the lines with them and also read their body language. I know, you want to tell me to chill out, don't 'read' that much into stuff but I can't help myself. The obvious two sections of two groups of people from two sides of the "Island"... TWO SIDES! Please really watch the Tailies. Look at them and how they are around each other, the words they say to each other, etc. When they speak to each other, they say things that can be taken as 'I know what I'm doing here, I know why I'm here, but I don't like it!' I think that our tail section people are aware of more than they let on.
Vocabulary and Research...
♦ Replica-Italian-from Latin replicare (“to copy”)
- is a copy that is relatively indistinguishable from the original.
-is a client-server data replication system for Plan 9 from Bell Labs. The server stores changes to its file system in a log; the client updates itself by reading that log and applying any changes.
-Replica=copy-imitation-model-duplication-reproduction-mock up-carbon copy
♦ Tie (Draw)a finish to a competition with identical results, particularly sports.
♦ Crook: A tool with a bend in it. 2). A shepherd's staff.
- aka A crosier-staff of office (pastoral staff). Symbol of the Bishop or Apostle.
♦ Orange:
- Hindu swamis traditionally wear orange robes.
-Orange is used to symbolically represent the second chakra.
-Orange represents the Noachide Law against blasphemy.
-In the U.S. and Canada, orange regalia is associated with the field of engineering.
-In baseball many Foul Poles are orange.
-Orange is often quoted as a word that doesn't rhyme with any other word in the English language.
♦ Fish can refer to a poor chess or poker player.
- Buddhist symbolism: A pair of Golden Fish. Representing conjugal happiness and freedom.
- Phishin is an Internet crime
-FISh (programming language), an array programming language. Its strategy is to perform what it calls "static shape analysis" on all programs before executing them. This "shape computation" reduces higher-order functional programs to simple imperative forms.
-Files transferred over shell protocol-is a network protocol that uses Secure Shell (SSH) or Remote Shell (RSH) to transfer files between computers and manage remote files.
♦ (Fu) Foo Dogs: they are Asian imperial guardians. They are powerful mystic protectors that have stood in front of Chinese imperial palaces, temples, emperors tombs, government offices and the homes of government officials and the wealthy from the Han Dynasty. They were originally introduced to Han China as the Buddhist protector of Dharma.
♦ Rose- A rose is a beautiful flower. Some consider this flower to be the most beautiful and fragrant flower of all. With all its beauty it has thorns!
-Another meaning for the word rose in its past tense is, Rise. Rise (Get up, Ascend, appear above the horizon, gain a higher position, origin, area of higher ground). Yes, I went a little extreme here with showing the past tense of the word, but it could be clues. wink, wink.
♦ Sun-The sun is a shining celestial body around which planets revolve. It gives us light; it is a huge star.
At this point should they all feel as Locke feels? He knows he's where he belongs, the "Island" and he actually states that he's not lost anymore. It may be taking the rest of them a little longer to realize it. They are not lost...well, they are lost but they're exactly where they're supposed to be. This is especially true for Jack.
Sun and Jin, are they really truly and completely in love? Are they soul mates destined to be together forever?
Is it coincidence or chance that they literally bumped into each other or did fate and destiny cause their paths to cross? Was their meeting part of a bigger motive? Is there such a thing as destiny being written out, predetermined?
Although my research may nudge me in one direction I can't help but WANT them to be in love and destined to be together regardless of how or why they bumped into each other.
Destiny.
Love to all who are "LOST"™
Posted on MySpace August 3, 2007
Disclaimer: I never claim to know everything about the show and my thoughts by no means make me right! The things I share here are my views and/or opinions. I don't claim to catch every single detail either! You all know I hate spoilers! And I stand clear of reading certain sites as to not take me off my own course of research. The one thing I don't need to do here is rehash all of the obvious clues from an episode, we all know what they are. Understood? Good! Let the fun begin! I'll only note things that I know come up as clues later, but need to be noted when they first show up and things I find that will be of importance! It will get very exciting as we progress into the story.
Exodus. Part 1
Let's talk about LOST! Exodus. Part 1
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We get a shot of two Oceanic tickets. Walt opens the curtains in his hotel room to reveal the backdrop of Sydney Australia. He looks down at the harbor.
Walt turns on the TV and blasts the volume The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers show. {Vincent is sitting on his bed}
Walt is defiant to Michael as Michael tries to get Walt to go back to sleep and lower the volume. Michael looks at the clock-radio, its 5:23 am.
Walt turns up the volume; Brian lets him watch it as loud as he wants.
Michael, who is not Brian, grabs the remote and turns off the TV. Walt storms out of the room with leashed Vincent.
Michael goes after him and Walt just taunts him yelling, “Get away from me…You're not my father… You're not my father!" {Can Walt feel that he is not his 'father'?}
Walt attempts to get on the elevator; 3rd floor. Michael grabs his arm and pulls him back to toward the room.
Michael-“I don't like this either, but you're getting on that plane”
Walt-“No, I'm not!”
A dude wearing black and white asks what’s going on.
Michael- “It's okay, I'm his father.”
Walt yells, “No, you're not. You're not my father. You're not my father!”
{Flash Whoosh}
Michael and Walt are sleeping on the beach. Vincent is right beside Walt.
Walt wakes up and heads over to pee by a tree; not waking anyone else. He hears something {Like bird wings flapping} and then armed Danielle appears and quietly strolls into camp. He quietly keeps an eye on her, following her. Danielle and Walt make eye contact and Walt runs to wake up Michael.
Walt-“Dad! Dad, wake up! …Somebody's here.”
Danielle makes her way closer. The rest of the camp starts to wake up and Vincent is barking. Michael yells for her to stop “Stay right there. Who is that?”
Sawyer comments it must be the French chick. Sayid wants everyone to calm down, “It’s alright.” Danielle just gazes at the crying baby.
Sayid asks Danielle {who is in a zombie stare} what she’s doing there.
Danielle-“The Others are coming.”
She goes into the story of her arrival on the island while the Lostie’s listen intently as if she’s telling a wonderful scary ghost story.
“Our ship went aground on this island 16 years ago. There were six of us. My team. 6. At that time…I was already 7 months pregnant. I delivered the infant myself. The baby and I were together for only 1 week…when I saw black smoke. A pillar of black smoke 5 kilometers inland. That night…they came. They came and took her. Alex. They took my baby. And now…they're coming again. They're coming for all of you.”
Jack-“Whose coming?”
Danielle-“The Others. You have only three choices: {at Charlie} run, {at Michael} hide, {at Jack} or die.”
Jack walks on the beach with Locke and tells him, “This is a woman who blew up her own shelter. And now she's talking about seeing black smoke and hearing whispers. I mean, she's not playing with a full deck.”
Locke feels that doesn’t mean what she’s saying isn’t true.
Jack-“Well, if you want to focus on the ‘what if’ be my guest, but I've got to stick with what's tangible. And right now that's the launching of the raft."
Jack asks Michael how things are going with the raft. Michael wanted to get off today but realistically after they get the rudder done they’ve still have to lay the rails to get it down to the water. Jack wonders if it would save time if they laid the rails while Michael was finishing the rudder.
Michael claims, “Manpower shortage.”
Jack needs 20 minutes to gather everybody and have them collect palm tree logs and then move the raft.
Michael guides everyone in the execution of the raft moving. He tells them to use the levers as they need leverage to get it on the rails. On his count…1…2…3….Lift and PUSH!
Michael coaches them to “Push! Push! Push! Use the levers, use the levers. Good, good. 1…2…3…lift!”
The raft gathers a bit of speed and the mast breaks off. Michael can’t believe it and he is pissed! {He gives a nasty look to Sawyer.}
Sawyer-“What are you looking at me for? It's not my fault."
Michael blames him for missing a lever.
Sawyer blames Michael for not keeping the raft going straight. Walt calls for dad’s attention, pointing out a pillar of black smoke inland. {Dog barks in the background.}
Jack wonders-“How many of them are there?”
Danielle has told them all she knows as she is rubbing a red cloth on her rifle.
Sayid-“There has to be more you tell us. How did you know?”
Danielle feels they have a bigger problem. “I can vanish into the jungle, but I'm just one person. You have 40 people. Where will you hide them?”
Hurley, Danielle, Jack, Locke and Sayid arrive at the hatch. Danielle touches the hatch in amazement and asks, “What is this?” But they were hoping she could tell them what it is. She claims to never having seen anything like it before. Hurley feels the question is how they know they can all fit in there.
Locke-“No handle on the outside means there must be another way in. Another entrance means space.”
Sayid-“This is a mistake. We don't know anything about these Others. We're reacting with no information, no intelligence. This hatch might even be theirs. Black smoke on the horizon doesn't mean they're... “
Danielle feels it means they're coming.
Locke- “You booby-trapped your shelter with explosives. You have any more?”
Danielle-“Dynamite. At the Black Rock, in the Dark Territory.
Hurley-“Well, that's three reasons to go right there.”
She feels if they’re to make it back by sunset they have to leave within the hour. Locke seems pleased as he shares a look with Jack.
Jack sits in the Sydney airport bar. He has a glass of clear liquid with a stirrer.
He meets Ana Lucia {Ana is wearing a white shirt with a round brown circle, 2 necklaces, brown leather jacket, ring on left ring finger.}
Ana orders a Tequila and tonic with a wedge of lemon and asks Jack, “Why were you yelling? The girl…at the check-in counter. You were yelling at her.”
Jack asks if he knows her. Ana reveals she is on his flight.
Ana Lucia-“L.A.. So your dad died, huh?”
Jack thought she didn’t hear what he was yelling about but she claims she was just being polite. Jack shares his dad died of a heart attack
Ana Lucia-“Not a drinker, huh?”
Jack-“No, no, not really.”
Ana Lucia, who is wearing a ring asks Jack- “No ring because you're single or because you don't like wearing one?”
Jack-“You asking me if I'm married?"
Ana Lucia-“Are you married?"
Jack-“No. No, not anymore.” He orders another tequila and tonic.
Ana Lucia- “I didn't think you were listening.”
Jack asks her name and wonders why she’s drinking tequila and tonics at ten to noon. {He checks his watch for the time. 11:50 am. Also, we don’t get her last name.}
Ana admits she hates flying and they stuck her all the way in the back of the plane where the wheels come down right under your damn feet. She asks him where he’s sitting.
Jack looks at his ticket to check it- “23B.”
Ana Lucia-“42F. Wanna trade?”
Just then her cell rings and she’s gotta talk. She tells him they’ll have the next drink on the plane.
Jack-“42F.”
Ana Lucia-“42F, right. And Jack, the worst part's over.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Jack-“Look… I know you're all scared. And I know everybody has a lot of questions. All I can tell you right now is that we do have a plan. We've got to go into the jungle to get some supplies. We'll be back in a few hours. In the meantime, do everything you can to help Michael get that raft on the water. And after that, go to the caves. We'll be back as soon as we can. Promise.”
Arzt feels it was a nice speech but the plan’s a little flawed, “But, hey, nobody's perfect.
Arzt-“Yeah, your plan. You're going to go into the jungle and get some
dynamite and blow open a hatch and then you're going to hide everyone inside. You want to keep a secret don't tell the fat guy. Jack wonders what Arzt wants.
Arzt- “God knows how long that dynamite has been out there. And from what I can tell Madam Nutso doesn't seem too concerned with how to handle it. So, unless you want to blow up, I'm coming with you.”
Jack says okay; grab some water bottles; they’re leaving in half an hour.
Michael and the Castaways are working on the raft. He feels they can salvage the cable but need new bamboo for the mast. Jin checks out the rails under the raft and says something in Korean to Michael. Michael seems to understand him and answers, “We need to fix the rudder before we even start to think about that.”
Jin says something else in Korean. Sawyer asks if they need some help but Michael and Jin just walk right by Sawyer. Sawyer tells them this wasn’t his fault and they should put him to work. Michael feels they can just work faster this way. Jin communicates in Korean to Michael and Michael replies, as if understanding, “Alright, alright. What do you think I'm doing over here?”
{Flash Whoosh}
Sawyer is at a Sydney police station.
Calderwood-“You remember me? Three nights ago? You were hauled in here thrashing and fighting. As you were being escorted by you kicked my desk. And you broke my mug. … Sadly for you, breaking my mug was not the most significant mistake you made that evening.
Sawyer-“C'mon, Doctor. I got into a bar fight. Isn't that a badge of honor in this country?”
Calderwood- “Do you know who you head-butted in that bar? You head-butted the Honorable Warren Truss. Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry. One of the most important... “
Sawyer cuts him off, “He head-butted me!”
Calderwood has witnesses he did no such thing. He opens a file folder and reads Sawyers record-“James Ford, assault, wire fraud, identity theft, bank fraud, telemarketing fraud...” {Wow! Is he just a total fraud?}
Sawyer wonders if this is going somewhere. Calderwood feels he’s a blight, a stain, a scavenger. “You're a conman who prays on the weak and the needy. Tell me something, James, how do you live with yourself?”
Cocky Sawyer does just fine.
Calderwood feels he’s not even worth what it would cost them to incarcerate you. “Which is why you're being deported. Your plane leaves this afternoon. And, James, you're banned from ever setting foot in Australia again.”
Sawyer-“Don't you worry; I ain't ever coming back here.“
Calderwood-“Best not, mate."
{Flash Whoosh}
Shirtless Sawyer is very focused on chopping down bamboo.
Jack walks up to Sawyer and asks, “A lumberjack?”
Jack had never asked Sawyer what he did back in the real world, so he’s taking a wild guess. {Sawyer is unwinding some wire or twine.}
Sawyer-“Something I can help you with, Doc, because I've got work to do.”
Jack hands him a gun; he’s the only one on the raft who knows how to use one. Sawyer wonders what he needs a gun for.
Jack-“Just in case.”
Sawyer-“You think we're going to run out of food or water? Am I supposed to put the kid out of his misery?"
Jack-“Just in case.”
Sawyer wonders what Jack will do with the rest of them. Jack, with the silver case, will give them to Sayid.
Sawyer-“Going into the jungle after the boom sticks, huh?”
By the time they get back the raft and crew will be in the water, so this is pretty much goodbye. Jack wishes Sawyer “Good luck.” As Jack walks away Sawyer calls his attention and shares some info with him.
“About a week before we all got on the plane…I got to talking to this man in a bar in Sydney. He was American, too. A doctor. I've been on some benders in my time, but this guy… he was going for an all time record. So, it turns out this guy has a son. His son's a doctor too. They had some kind of big time falling out. The guy knew it was his fault… even though his son was back in the States thinking the same damn thing. See, kids are like dogs, you knock them around enough… they'll think they did something to deserve it. Anyway… there's a pay phone in this bar, and this guy, Christian… tells me he wishes he had the stones to pick up the phone, call his kid…tell him he's sorry… that he's a better doctor than he'll ever be. He's proud. And he loves him. I had to take off, but… something tells me he never got around to making that call. Small world, huh?”
Jack is very emotional, “Yeah.”
Sawyer-“Good luck, Jack.”
Cuffed Kate and Marshal Ed Mars are at the airport security office. An airport security officer unlocks the silver case and asks Mars if he’s gonna be armed and wonders why he need five guns. Mars will be armed with an ankle holster. The airport officer reveals the toy plane is in the case and wonders about it.
Marshal-“That's a good story; you want to tell it, huh, Kate? This belonged to her childhood sweetheart who she got killed a couple of years ago when she was on the run. Poor guy; had a wife, a 2 year old kid. What was his name? Hmm? Well, somewhere along the way during the 3 years that I was chasing her, she starts calling me, at my house. And whining on about her mitigating circumstances, but what she's really doing is taunting me. {He taunts her with the toy} So, I tell her that I've got what’s-his-name's little toy airplane in a safe deposit box in New Mexico. So, she somehow figures out which bank, which safe deposit box. She seduces some idiot to rob the damn bank, and then she puts a bullet in her new friend because she's done using him. But she leaves all the money. She just takes the plane. Because that's the one thing in the whole world that Kate does care about. She has no attachments, and I think she's telling herself she needs it to atone for killing her boyfriend…what’s-his-name. God, Kate, c'mon, what was his name?”
Kate attacks the Marshal up against the security glass, “Tom, its Tom, you son-of-a-bitch.”
Mars elbows her in the face, knocking her to the ground and declares, “And that… is why I need 5 guns.”
He uses his foot to pulls the toy plane out of Kate’s reach.
{Flash Whoosh}
On the beach Kate walks up to Jack. She was thinking of going with him; for old time sake. Jack notes that she wouldn’t be there for the raft launching, but Kate’s okay with that as she’s never been very good at goodbyes. Jack tells her to grab her stuff.
We get a shot of the column of black smoke rising up through the jungle.
Charlie is gathering messages to put in a bottle. {Thank heaven they have a wine bottle.} He thanks a dude for putting his message in the bottle and tells him he’ll keep it safe. “Hey, Locke, do you have a message? It's going on the raft. You know: 'Dear mom, everything’s fine. I'm on the island, unless, of course, the black smoke people turn up. Love, your name here' For when they get rescued they can contact your family.”
Locke thinks the idea is sweet.
Hurley gives Charlie his message and is adamant about him not looking at it, although Charlie does take a peek. Charlie asks Arzt if he wants paper but Arzt “Gave at the office.” {Note: we don’t actually see Charlie put Hurley’s note into the bottle. Silly, I know.}
Hurley says his goodbyes and wishes good luck to Michael and Walt.
Jack hugs Michael and Michael says, “See you soon.”
Jack-“Yes, you will.”
He tells Walt to look after his dad. Jack shakes Jin’s hand and wishes him luck. Jin replies back in Korean. Kate looks around for Sawyer.
Jack leads the team out to the Dark Territory. {Note: You can see Charlie ask Jin something about the bottle of messages.}
When they take a rest Danielle {Danielle in the lead} takes off her sweater revealing
scratches on her left arm. Locke asks how she got them. Danielle claims they’re from a bush.
Locke-“Mean bush.”
Danielle-“We've got to keep moving. {I think maybe, they know each other, and she's willing to help Locke out.}
Hurley asks exhausted looking Arnzt…
Arzt-"No, not Arnzt.Arzt. A-R-Z-T, Arzt.”
Hurley feels the name's hard to pronounce.
Arzt-“Yeah, well, I know a bunch of 9th graders who pronounce it just fine”
Hurley-“How about I just call you by your first name?
Arzt-“How about you don't“
Hurley-“Why not? I remember it from the plane's manifest. I think Leslie's a bitchin' name.”
Arzt-“Arnzt is fine.”
Danielle leads them past a stream of running water and on to a piece of black fabric hanging on a branch. Danielle states,”Le Territoire Fonce.”
Jack translates, “The Dark Territory.”
Danielle tells them the Black Rock is not far, “This is where it all began…where my team got infected. Where Montand lost his arm. We must move quickly.”
Arzt gets freaked and announces he’s going back. Sure he wanted to help, but that was before Montand lost his frickin arm. Arzt tells them to be careful with the dynamite.
Michael is correcting Jin on the raft.
Michael- “No, no, no. This one goes there. That one goes there.”{Han Solo, anyone?!}
Sawyer with his bamboo pole-“Hey, Chief! Cut and measured to length. Perfect mast.”
Michael thanks him.
Sawyer-“Well, alright. Now, are we going to get off this rock or stand around talking about it?”
The team walks through the rainy Dark Territory; they hear weird noises. Just then Arzt comes running, telling them to “Run!”
The mechanical sound of the monster is heard! Everyone runs except for Locke who stops Hurley. Locke tells him to just be still.
Hurley-“Dude, we've got to book.”
Calm Locke is listening and tells him to “Wait. It's headed the other way.”
Hurley looks amazed at Locke. The monster sounds are mechanical, metal, whizzing, winding, clicking, growls, grunts, and the sounds (like) giant footsteps or even huge doors closing.
Danielle hides Jack and Kate.
The rain stops.
Danielle feels they’re safe now. Freaked out Kate asks her what that thing was.
Danielle-“It's a security system.
Jack- “Security system? What does that mean?”
Danielle-“Its purpose is that of any security system’s… to protect something.”
Kate- “Protect what? {Listen to the sounds in the background}
Danielle-“The Island.”
Hurley and Locke meet up with Danielle, Jack and Kate wonders where "Arnzt" is.
Arzt walks over and corrects Hurley, “It's Arzt, you idiot.”
Hurley thought Arzt was dead. Arzt just wants to get the dynamite.
Shannon is at the beach folding Boone's clothes. Walt asks her why she’s folding his clothes. Shannon claims it’s because she’s anal. Walt thinks Shannon should take Vincent because he’ll take care of her.
Shannon-“What makes you think I need a dog to take care of me?"
Walt-“Vincent took care of me when my mom died… and nobody would talk to me. They pretended like nothing happened. So I had to talk to Vincent. He's a good listener. You could talk to him about Boone, if you want.”
Shannon will take Vincent but only until he gets them rescued. Walt hands her the red leash. {They touch hands in the transaction. I don’t know why I’m noting that.}
He kisses Vincent on the head.
{No Flash Whoosh. Only the sound of Airplane engines}
Shannon lounges on a seat in the airport doing word seek puzzle. An announcement is heard- Flight 338 to Fiji will be delayed. Please check the board for flight details.
Sayid asks her if she would mind watching his bag for a moment, he’ll be right back.
Shannon- “Sure, whatever.”
She doesn’t even really look at him. Boone walks over and informs her he couldn't get them into first class; maybe she shouldn't have yelled at the gate agent.
Shannon- “What? You're on his side, now?”
Boone, with a bruise on the left side of his face tells her one day she’s going to appreciate everything he does for her. Sarcastic Shannon cannot wait for that day.
On the escalator up Shannon suggests he try again with the gate agent. Boone wants her to “let it go.”
Shannon is not being pathetic enough to not want to sit next to some crying baby for the next 15 hours. Annoyed Boone feels she can be a bitch. She gets really pissed off.
Shannon-“Oh, you want to play? I will get you thrown off this flight.”
Boone wonders how she’s going to do that.
Shannon-“I can do whatever I want. I could tell them..."
Boone-“Tell them what? Who's going to believe you? You're not even capable of..."
Shannon informs him, “You have no idea what I'm capable of.”
Shannon walks up to a security guard and tells him some Arab guy left his bags in the chairs downstairs and just walked away; he went towards the shops. Security asks if she can describe him. Security runs off and arrogant Shannon asks Boone, “How’s that?”
{Flash Whoosh}
At the raft Sayid tells them he salvaged a few things for them from the Beechcraft. “This is the plane's radar emitter. It needs to be mounted on the mast or the top of the cabin.”
Sawyer will do it.
Sayid also tells Michael to conserve power, turn it on only once every hour or so. It will show you any ships within the horizon line, approximately 25 miles. The same with the radio transmitter. He then gives Michael a flare gun and informs him this was in the plane's toolbox. “There's only one flare. Choose wisely when you use it.”
On their trek, Danielle stops to reveal they are here, “This is the Black Rock.”
We see a grand old ship in the middle of the jungle with vines growing over it.
In the Airport: Jin sits at a table reading the newspaper.
Sun carries a tray with two coffees and food. Jin wonders what took her so long. {They communicate only in Korean.}
Sun-“I'm really hungry now. There were a lot of people in line. There really wasn't much to choose from, so I just got some simple things for us.”
Sun actually places the napkin on Jin’s lap
A woman at the next table tells the man she’s with, “If you ever catch me doing anything like that for you, shoot me.”
The man tells her, “Don't knock it. Their divorce rate's 20 times lower than ours.”
Sun hears and understands them. She accidentally knocks a drink over onto Jin. She tries to help but Jin heads off to the bathroom.
The woman at the next table remarks, “My god, it's "Memoirs of a Geisha" come to life.
The guy says, “Hey, volume.”
She tells him to relax, they don't speak English.
{Flash Whoosh}
At the raft Sun gives Jin a list of simple English words written out phonetically to help him communicate with the guys on the raft. He sounds out the word “starboard”.
Jin cries and apologizes to her. Sun is sorry too. They truly do seem to be in love.
Jin-“No, don't you understand, Sun. I'm in this place because I'm being punished. I made you suffer. You don't deserve any of this.”
Sun doesn’t want him to go.
Jin-“I have to go because I'm going to save you. Stay with Jack. He'll keep you safe.
Sun-“Who will keep you safe?”
They cry and hold each other tight. They love each other.
Shannon gives Charlie a message for the bottle. {Her purple notebook looks like it has the name Angela on it.}
Everyone is gathering around to see the raft launch. They all say their goodbyes.
Walt shares an intense eye to eye moment with Vincent and hugs him tight.
Jin even kisses Claire’s baby on the head.
Sun and Michael share an awkward hug goodbye.
Charlie gives the bottle of messages to Sawyer; they share a look. Sawyer puts the bottle in the cooler and looks back at the empty beach camp. {Note Sawyer’s hair is not in a pulled back pony tail.}
Everyone helps to push the raft out into the water. Everyone rejoices! Walt waves and yells goodbye to Vincent. Vincent swims out toward the raft but Walt commands him to go back. They hoist the sail. Michael is proud they did it.
Jin and Sun share a very long eye contact goodbye. There is lots of waving!
We get an ominous shot of the pillar of black smoke.
Things to Note...Questions to ask...
✈ Hear. Listen. Volume.
✈ Bar. Drink. Drunk. Liquor. "Whine"=wine.
✈ Jail. Punishment.
✈Time. Timer.
✈ Batteries. Radio. Cable.
✈ Dynamite.
✈ Quest. Carry. Retrieve. Puzzle. Game. Cost. Worth.
✈ Languages. Linguistics. Understands. Messages. Communication.
✈ Michael and Jin understand each other.
✈ Written "Characters".
✈ Attachments. File. Folder. Logs. List. Record. Toolbox.
✈ Plane.
✈ Suffering. Longing. Lonely. Scared. Help. Heal. Love. Attachments.
✈ Nutso. Not playing with a full deck.
✈ According to his conversation with Ana, Jack is not a "drinker", yet we know he drinks on the flight and asks Cindy for more alcohol. Not to mention we see he drinks in the “Flashes” -1/2 bottle of vodka in 'Do No Harm'.
✈ What the hell is the deal with Vincent?!
✈ Hasn't Jack, Sayid and Hurley been to the dark territory already? In 'Numbers' they go to Danielle's for a battery. Was that near there?
✈ Notice in a few episodes that people are there one moment and not the next! Vanished; Disappeared.
Vocabulary and Research…
* Exodus: Mass Departure.
- Exodus is the 2nd book of the Torah, Tanakh and the Old Testament.
* Mast(Hieroglyph) An Egyptian language triliteral.
* Mate-Friend-Pal-Buddy-Chum.
* If Artz name had an 's' instead of 'z' his name anagrams to Star. And in German Arzt translates to “Doctor’.
On this journey it seems that these lost and flawed people really need to find what they are looking for!
Until part 2...
Love to all who are "LOST"™
Exodus Part 2
A few photos to ponder...or not.
Posted on MySpace July 18, 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.
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We get a shot of two Oceanic tickets. Walt opens the curtains in his hotel room to reveal the backdrop of Sydney Australia. He looks down at the harbor.
Walt turns on the TV and blasts the volume The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers show. {Vincent is sitting on his bed}
Walt is defiant to Michael as Michael tries to get Walt to go back to sleep and lower the volume. Michael looks at the clock-radio, its 5:23 am.
Walt turns up the volume; Brian lets him watch it as loud as he wants.
Michael, who is not Brian, grabs the remote and turns off the TV. Walt storms out of the room with leashed Vincent.
Michael goes after him and Walt just taunts him yelling, “Get away from me…You're not my father… You're not my father!" {Can Walt feel that he is not his 'father'?}
Walt attempts to get on the elevator; 3rd floor. Michael grabs his arm and pulls him back to toward the room.
Michael-“I don't like this either, but you're getting on that plane”
Walt-“No, I'm not!”
A dude wearing black and white asks what’s going on.
Michael- “It's okay, I'm his father.”
Walt yells, “No, you're not. You're not my father. You're not my father!”
{Flash Whoosh}
Michael and Walt are sleeping on the beach. Vincent is right beside Walt.
Walt wakes up and heads over to pee by a tree; not waking anyone else. He hears something {Like bird wings flapping} and then armed Danielle appears and quietly strolls into camp. He quietly keeps an eye on her, following her. Danielle and Walt make eye contact and Walt runs to wake up Michael.
Walt-“Dad! Dad, wake up! …Somebody's here.”
Danielle makes her way closer. The rest of the camp starts to wake up and Vincent is barking. Michael yells for her to stop “Stay right there. Who is that?”
Sawyer comments it must be the French chick. Sayid wants everyone to calm down, “It’s alright.” Danielle just gazes at the crying baby.
Sayid asks Danielle {who is in a zombie stare} what she’s doing there.
Danielle-“The Others are coming.”
She goes into the story of her arrival on the island while the Lostie’s listen intently as if she’s telling a wonderful scary ghost story.
“Our ship went aground on this island 16 years ago. There were six of us. My team. 6. At that time…I was already 7 months pregnant. I delivered the infant myself. The baby and I were together for only 1 week…when I saw black smoke. A pillar of black smoke 5 kilometers inland. That night…they came. They came and took her. Alex. They took my baby. And now…they're coming again. They're coming for all of you.”
Jack-“Whose coming?”
Danielle-“The Others. You have only three choices: {at Charlie} run, {at Michael} hide, {at Jack} or die.”
Jack walks on the beach with Locke and tells him, “This is a woman who blew up her own shelter. And now she's talking about seeing black smoke and hearing whispers. I mean, she's not playing with a full deck.”
Locke feels that doesn’t mean what she’s saying isn’t true.
Jack-“Well, if you want to focus on the ‘what if’ be my guest, but I've got to stick with what's tangible. And right now that's the launching of the raft."
Jack asks Michael how things are going with the raft. Michael wanted to get off today but realistically after they get the rudder done they’ve still have to lay the rails to get it down to the water. Jack wonders if it would save time if they laid the rails while Michael was finishing the rudder.
Michael claims, “Manpower shortage.”
Jack needs 20 minutes to gather everybody and have them collect palm tree logs and then move the raft.
Michael guides everyone in the execution of the raft moving. He tells them to use the levers as they need leverage to get it on the rails. On his count…1…2…3….Lift and PUSH!
Michael coaches them to “Push! Push! Push! Use the levers, use the levers. Good, good. 1…2…3…lift!”
The raft gathers a bit of speed and the mast breaks off. Michael can’t believe it and he is pissed! {He gives a nasty look to Sawyer.}
Sawyer-“What are you looking at me for? It's not my fault."
Michael blames him for missing a lever.
Sawyer blames Michael for not keeping the raft going straight. Walt calls for dad’s attention, pointing out a pillar of black smoke inland. {Dog barks in the background.}
Jack wonders-“How many of them are there?”
Danielle has told them all she knows as she is rubbing a red cloth on her rifle.
Sayid-“There has to be more you tell us. How did you know?”
Danielle feels they have a bigger problem. “I can vanish into the jungle, but I'm just one person. You have 40 people. Where will you hide them?”
Hurley, Danielle, Jack, Locke and Sayid arrive at the hatch. Danielle touches the hatch in amazement and asks, “What is this?” But they were hoping she could tell them what it is. She claims to never having seen anything like it before. Hurley feels the question is how they know they can all fit in there.
Locke-“No handle on the outside means there must be another way in. Another entrance means space.”
Sayid-“This is a mistake. We don't know anything about these Others. We're reacting with no information, no intelligence. This hatch might even be theirs. Black smoke on the horizon doesn't mean they're... “
Danielle feels it means they're coming.
Locke- “You booby-trapped your shelter with explosives. You have any more?”
Danielle-“Dynamite. At the Black Rock, in the Dark Territory.
Hurley-“Well, that's three reasons to go right there.”
She feels if they’re to make it back by sunset they have to leave within the hour. Locke seems pleased as he shares a look with Jack.
Jack sits in the Sydney airport bar. He has a glass of clear liquid with a stirrer.
He meets Ana Lucia {Ana is wearing a white shirt with a round brown circle, 2 necklaces, brown leather jacket, ring on left ring finger.}
Ana orders a Tequila and tonic with a wedge of lemon and asks Jack, “Why were you yelling? The girl…at the check-in counter. You were yelling at her.”
Jack asks if he knows her. Ana reveals she is on his flight.
Ana Lucia-“L.A.. So your dad died, huh?”
Jack thought she didn’t hear what he was yelling about but she claims she was just being polite. Jack shares his dad died of a heart attack
Ana Lucia-“Not a drinker, huh?”
Jack-“No, no, not really.”
Ana Lucia, who is wearing a ring asks Jack- “No ring because you're single or because you don't like wearing one?”
Jack-“You asking me if I'm married?"
Ana Lucia-“Are you married?"
Jack-“No. No, not anymore.” He orders another tequila and tonic.
Ana Lucia- “I didn't think you were listening.”
Jack asks her name and wonders why she’s drinking tequila and tonics at ten to noon. {He checks his watch for the time. 11:50 am. Also, we don’t get her last name.}
Ana admits she hates flying and they stuck her all the way in the back of the plane where the wheels come down right under your damn feet. She asks him where he’s sitting.
Jack looks at his ticket to check it- “23B.”
Ana Lucia-“42F. Wanna trade?”
Just then her cell rings and she’s gotta talk. She tells him they’ll have the next drink on the plane.
Jack-“42F.”
Ana Lucia-“42F, right. And Jack, the worst part's over.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Jack-“Look… I know you're all scared. And I know everybody has a lot of questions. All I can tell you right now is that we do have a plan. We've got to go into the jungle to get some supplies. We'll be back in a few hours. In the meantime, do everything you can to help Michael get that raft on the water. And after that, go to the caves. We'll be back as soon as we can. Promise.”
Arzt feels it was a nice speech but the plan’s a little flawed, “But, hey, nobody's perfect.
Arzt-“Yeah, your plan. You're going to go into the jungle and get some
dynamite and blow open a hatch and then you're going to hide everyone inside. You want to keep a secret don't tell the fat guy. Jack wonders what Arzt wants.
Arzt- “God knows how long that dynamite has been out there. And from what I can tell Madam Nutso doesn't seem too concerned with how to handle it. So, unless you want to blow up, I'm coming with you.”
Jack says okay; grab some water bottles; they’re leaving in half an hour.
Michael and the Castaways are working on the raft. He feels they can salvage the cable but need new bamboo for the mast. Jin checks out the rails under the raft and says something in Korean to Michael. Michael seems to understand him and answers, “We need to fix the rudder before we even start to think about that.”
Jin says something else in Korean. Sawyer asks if they need some help but Michael and Jin just walk right by Sawyer. Sawyer tells them this wasn’t his fault and they should put him to work. Michael feels they can just work faster this way. Jin communicates in Korean to Michael and Michael replies, as if understanding, “Alright, alright. What do you think I'm doing over here?”
{Flash Whoosh}
Sawyer is at a Sydney police station.
Calderwood-“You remember me? Three nights ago? You were hauled in here thrashing and fighting. As you were being escorted by you kicked my desk. And you broke my mug. … Sadly for you, breaking my mug was not the most significant mistake you made that evening.
Sawyer-“C'mon, Doctor. I got into a bar fight. Isn't that a badge of honor in this country?”
Calderwood- “Do you know who you head-butted in that bar? You head-butted the Honorable Warren Truss. Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry. One of the most important... “
Sawyer cuts him off, “He head-butted me!”
Calderwood has witnesses he did no such thing. He opens a file folder and reads Sawyers record-“James Ford, assault, wire fraud, identity theft, bank fraud, telemarketing fraud...” {Wow! Is he just a total fraud?}
Sawyer wonders if this is going somewhere. Calderwood feels he’s a blight, a stain, a scavenger. “You're a conman who prays on the weak and the needy. Tell me something, James, how do you live with yourself?”
Cocky Sawyer does just fine.
Calderwood feels he’s not even worth what it would cost them to incarcerate you. “Which is why you're being deported. Your plane leaves this afternoon. And, James, you're banned from ever setting foot in Australia again.”
Sawyer-“Don't you worry; I ain't ever coming back here.“
Calderwood-“Best not, mate."
{Flash Whoosh}
Shirtless Sawyer is very focused on chopping down bamboo.
Jack walks up to Sawyer and asks, “A lumberjack?”
Jack had never asked Sawyer what he did back in the real world, so he’s taking a wild guess. {Sawyer is unwinding some wire or twine.}
Sawyer-“Something I can help you with, Doc, because I've got work to do.”
Jack hands him a gun; he’s the only one on the raft who knows how to use one. Sawyer wonders what he needs a gun for.
Jack-“Just in case.”
Sawyer-“You think we're going to run out of food or water? Am I supposed to put the kid out of his misery?"
Jack-“Just in case.”
Sawyer wonders what Jack will do with the rest of them. Jack, with the silver case, will give them to Sayid.
Sawyer-“Going into the jungle after the boom sticks, huh?”
By the time they get back the raft and crew will be in the water, so this is pretty much goodbye. Jack wishes Sawyer “Good luck.” As Jack walks away Sawyer calls his attention and shares some info with him.
“About a week before we all got on the plane…I got to talking to this man in a bar in Sydney. He was American, too. A doctor. I've been on some benders in my time, but this guy… he was going for an all time record. So, it turns out this guy has a son. His son's a doctor too. They had some kind of big time falling out. The guy knew it was his fault… even though his son was back in the States thinking the same damn thing. See, kids are like dogs, you knock them around enough… they'll think they did something to deserve it. Anyway… there's a pay phone in this bar, and this guy, Christian… tells me he wishes he had the stones to pick up the phone, call his kid…tell him he's sorry… that he's a better doctor than he'll ever be. He's proud. And he loves him. I had to take off, but… something tells me he never got around to making that call. Small world, huh?”
Jack is very emotional, “Yeah.”
Sawyer-“Good luck, Jack.”
Cuffed Kate and Marshal Ed Mars are at the airport security office. An airport security officer unlocks the silver case and asks Mars if he’s gonna be armed and wonders why he need five guns. Mars will be armed with an ankle holster. The airport officer reveals the toy plane is in the case and wonders about it.
Marshal-“That's a good story; you want to tell it, huh, Kate? This belonged to her childhood sweetheart who she got killed a couple of years ago when she was on the run. Poor guy; had a wife, a 2 year old kid. What was his name? Hmm? Well, somewhere along the way during the 3 years that I was chasing her, she starts calling me, at my house. And whining on about her mitigating circumstances, but what she's really doing is taunting me. {He taunts her with the toy} So, I tell her that I've got what’s-his-name's little toy airplane in a safe deposit box in New Mexico. So, she somehow figures out which bank, which safe deposit box. She seduces some idiot to rob the damn bank, and then she puts a bullet in her new friend because she's done using him. But she leaves all the money. She just takes the plane. Because that's the one thing in the whole world that Kate does care about. She has no attachments, and I think she's telling herself she needs it to atone for killing her boyfriend…what’s-his-name. God, Kate, c'mon, what was his name?”
Kate attacks the Marshal up against the security glass, “Tom, its Tom, you son-of-a-bitch.”
Mars elbows her in the face, knocking her to the ground and declares, “And that… is why I need 5 guns.”
He uses his foot to pulls the toy plane out of Kate’s reach.
{Flash Whoosh}
On the beach Kate walks up to Jack. She was thinking of going with him; for old time sake. Jack notes that she wouldn’t be there for the raft launching, but Kate’s okay with that as she’s never been very good at goodbyes. Jack tells her to grab her stuff.
We get a shot of the column of black smoke rising up through the jungle.
Charlie is gathering messages to put in a bottle. {Thank heaven they have a wine bottle.} He thanks a dude for putting his message in the bottle and tells him he’ll keep it safe. “Hey, Locke, do you have a message? It's going on the raft. You know: 'Dear mom, everything’s fine. I'm on the island, unless, of course, the black smoke people turn up. Love, your name here' For when they get rescued they can contact your family.”
Locke thinks the idea is sweet.
Hurley gives Charlie his message and is adamant about him not looking at it, although Charlie does take a peek. Charlie asks Arzt if he wants paper but Arzt “Gave at the office.” {Note: we don’t actually see Charlie put Hurley’s note into the bottle. Silly, I know.}
Hurley says his goodbyes and wishes good luck to Michael and Walt.
Jack hugs Michael and Michael says, “See you soon.”
Jack-“Yes, you will.”
He tells Walt to look after his dad. Jack shakes Jin’s hand and wishes him luck. Jin replies back in Korean. Kate looks around for Sawyer.
Jack leads the team out to the Dark Territory. {Note: You can see Charlie ask Jin something about the bottle of messages.}
When they take a rest Danielle {Danielle in the lead} takes off her sweater revealing
scratches on her left arm. Locke asks how she got them. Danielle claims they’re from a bush.
Locke-“Mean bush.”
Danielle-“We've got to keep moving. {I think maybe, they know each other, and she's willing to help Locke out.}
Hurley asks exhausted looking Arnzt…
Arzt-"No, not Arnzt.Arzt. A-R-Z-T, Arzt.”
Hurley feels the name's hard to pronounce.
Arzt-“Yeah, well, I know a bunch of 9th graders who pronounce it just fine”
Hurley-“How about I just call you by your first name?
Arzt-“How about you don't“
Hurley-“Why not? I remember it from the plane's manifest. I think Leslie's a bitchin' name.”
Arzt-“Arnzt is fine.”
Danielle leads them past a stream of running water and on to a piece of black fabric hanging on a branch. Danielle states,”Le Territoire Fonce.”
Jack translates, “The Dark Territory.”
Danielle tells them the Black Rock is not far, “This is where it all began…where my team got infected. Where Montand lost his arm. We must move quickly.”
Arzt gets freaked and announces he’s going back. Sure he wanted to help, but that was before Montand lost his frickin arm. Arzt tells them to be careful with the dynamite.
Michael is correcting Jin on the raft.
Michael- “No, no, no. This one goes there. That one goes there.”{Han Solo, anyone?!}
Sawyer with his bamboo pole-“Hey, Chief! Cut and measured to length. Perfect mast.”
Michael thanks him.
Sawyer-“Well, alright. Now, are we going to get off this rock or stand around talking about it?”
The team walks through the rainy Dark Territory; they hear weird noises. Just then Arzt comes running, telling them to “Run!”
The mechanical sound of the monster is heard! Everyone runs except for Locke who stops Hurley. Locke tells him to just be still.
Hurley-“Dude, we've got to book.”
Calm Locke is listening and tells him to “Wait. It's headed the other way.”
Hurley looks amazed at Locke. The monster sounds are mechanical, metal, whizzing, winding, clicking, growls, grunts, and the sounds (like) giant footsteps or even huge doors closing.
Danielle hides Jack and Kate.
The rain stops.
Danielle feels they’re safe now. Freaked out Kate asks her what that thing was.
Danielle-“It's a security system.
Jack- “Security system? What does that mean?”
Danielle-“Its purpose is that of any security system’s… to protect something.”
Kate- “Protect what? {Listen to the sounds in the background}
Danielle-“The Island.”
Hurley and Locke meet up with Danielle, Jack and Kate wonders where "Arnzt" is.
Arzt walks over and corrects Hurley, “It's Arzt, you idiot.”
Hurley thought Arzt was dead. Arzt just wants to get the dynamite.
Shannon is at the beach folding Boone's clothes. Walt asks her why she’s folding his clothes. Shannon claims it’s because she’s anal. Walt thinks Shannon should take Vincent because he’ll take care of her.
Shannon-“What makes you think I need a dog to take care of me?"
Walt-“Vincent took care of me when my mom died… and nobody would talk to me. They pretended like nothing happened. So I had to talk to Vincent. He's a good listener. You could talk to him about Boone, if you want.”
Shannon will take Vincent but only until he gets them rescued. Walt hands her the red leash. {They touch hands in the transaction. I don’t know why I’m noting that.}
He kisses Vincent on the head.
{No Flash Whoosh. Only the sound of Airplane engines}
Shannon lounges on a seat in the airport doing word seek puzzle. An announcement is heard- Flight 338 to Fiji will be delayed. Please check the board for flight details.
Sayid asks her if she would mind watching his bag for a moment, he’ll be right back.
Shannon- “Sure, whatever.”
She doesn’t even really look at him. Boone walks over and informs her he couldn't get them into first class; maybe she shouldn't have yelled at the gate agent.
Shannon- “What? You're on his side, now?”
Boone, with a bruise on the left side of his face tells her one day she’s going to appreciate everything he does for her. Sarcastic Shannon cannot wait for that day.
On the escalator up Shannon suggests he try again with the gate agent. Boone wants her to “let it go.”
Shannon is not being pathetic enough to not want to sit next to some crying baby for the next 15 hours. Annoyed Boone feels she can be a bitch. She gets really pissed off.
Shannon-“Oh, you want to play? I will get you thrown off this flight.”
Boone wonders how she’s going to do that.
Shannon-“I can do whatever I want. I could tell them..."
Boone-“Tell them what? Who's going to believe you? You're not even capable of..."
Shannon informs him, “You have no idea what I'm capable of.”
Shannon walks up to a security guard and tells him some Arab guy left his bags in the chairs downstairs and just walked away; he went towards the shops. Security asks if she can describe him. Security runs off and arrogant Shannon asks Boone, “How’s that?”
{Flash Whoosh}
At the raft Sayid tells them he salvaged a few things for them from the Beechcraft. “This is the plane's radar emitter. It needs to be mounted on the mast or the top of the cabin.”
Sawyer will do it.
Sayid also tells Michael to conserve power, turn it on only once every hour or so. It will show you any ships within the horizon line, approximately 25 miles. The same with the radio transmitter. He then gives Michael a flare gun and informs him this was in the plane's toolbox. “There's only one flare. Choose wisely when you use it.”
On their trek, Danielle stops to reveal they are here, “This is the Black Rock.”
We see a grand old ship in the middle of the jungle with vines growing over it.
In the Airport: Jin sits at a table reading the newspaper.
Sun carries a tray with two coffees and food. Jin wonders what took her so long. {They communicate only in Korean.}
Sun-“I'm really hungry now. There were a lot of people in line. There really wasn't much to choose from, so I just got some simple things for us.”
Sun actually places the napkin on Jin’s lap
A woman at the next table tells the man she’s with, “If you ever catch me doing anything like that for you, shoot me.”
The man tells her, “Don't knock it. Their divorce rate's 20 times lower than ours.”
Sun hears and understands them. She accidentally knocks a drink over onto Jin. She tries to help but Jin heads off to the bathroom.
The woman at the next table remarks, “My god, it's "Memoirs of a Geisha" come to life.
The guy says, “Hey, volume.”
She tells him to relax, they don't speak English.
{Flash Whoosh}
At the raft Sun gives Jin a list of simple English words written out phonetically to help him communicate with the guys on the raft. He sounds out the word “starboard”.
Jin cries and apologizes to her. Sun is sorry too. They truly do seem to be in love.
Jin-“No, don't you understand, Sun. I'm in this place because I'm being punished. I made you suffer. You don't deserve any of this.”
Sun doesn’t want him to go.
Jin-“I have to go because I'm going to save you. Stay with Jack. He'll keep you safe.
Sun-“Who will keep you safe?”
They cry and hold each other tight. They love each other.
Shannon gives Charlie a message for the bottle. {Her purple notebook looks like it has the name Angela on it.}
Everyone is gathering around to see the raft launch. They all say their goodbyes.
Walt shares an intense eye to eye moment with Vincent and hugs him tight.
Jin even kisses Claire’s baby on the head.
Sun and Michael share an awkward hug goodbye.
Charlie gives the bottle of messages to Sawyer; they share a look. Sawyer puts the bottle in the cooler and looks back at the empty beach camp. {Note Sawyer’s hair is not in a pulled back pony tail.}
Everyone helps to push the raft out into the water. Everyone rejoices! Walt waves and yells goodbye to Vincent. Vincent swims out toward the raft but Walt commands him to go back. They hoist the sail. Michael is proud they did it.
Jin and Sun share a very long eye contact goodbye. There is lots of waving!
We get an ominous shot of the pillar of black smoke.
Things to Note...Questions to ask...
✈ Hear. Listen. Volume.
✈ Bar. Drink. Drunk. Liquor. "Whine"=wine.
✈ Jail. Punishment.
✈Time. Timer.
✈ Batteries. Radio. Cable.
✈ Dynamite.
✈ Quest. Carry. Retrieve. Puzzle. Game. Cost. Worth.
✈ Languages. Linguistics. Understands. Messages. Communication.
✈ Michael and Jin understand each other.
✈ Written "Characters".
✈ Attachments. File. Folder. Logs. List. Record. Toolbox.
✈ Plane.
✈ Suffering. Longing. Lonely. Scared. Help. Heal. Love. Attachments.
✈ Nutso. Not playing with a full deck.
✈ According to his conversation with Ana, Jack is not a "drinker", yet we know he drinks on the flight and asks Cindy for more alcohol. Not to mention we see he drinks in the “Flashes” -1/2 bottle of vodka in 'Do No Harm'.
✈ What the hell is the deal with Vincent?!
✈ Hasn't Jack, Sayid and Hurley been to the dark territory already? In 'Numbers' they go to Danielle's for a battery. Was that near there?
✈ Notice in a few episodes that people are there one moment and not the next! Vanished; Disappeared.
Vocabulary and Research…
* Exodus: Mass Departure.
- Exodus is the 2nd book of the Torah, Tanakh and the Old Testament.
* Mast(Hieroglyph) An Egyptian language triliteral.
* Mate-Friend-Pal-Buddy-Chum.
* If Artz name had an 's' instead of 'z' his name anagrams to Star. And in German Arzt translates to “Doctor’.
On this journey it seems that these lost and flawed people really need to find what they are looking for!
Until part 2...
Love to all who are "LOST"™
Exodus Part 2
A few photos to ponder...or not.
Posted on MySpace July 18, 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.
Special
Let's talk about LOST! Special.
Open eye.
Michael calls out looking for Walt.
Charlie walks up asking Michael if he’s seen Claire’s bags.
Michael-“Have you seen my son?”
Charlie- “You seen her bags?”
Michael- “Claire’s?”
Charlie- “Her luggage. It’s not been brought back here. No one seems to know what happened to it.”
Michael apologizes, he doesn’t know; he’s just looking for Walt. Charlie hasn’t seen Walt. Jack {Key around neck} walks up carrying firewood. Michael asks Jack if he’s seen his boy out there.
Jack says no, “He was at the caves.”
Michael shares Walt took his dog for a walk and he told him to stay close as usual.
Michael-“You listened to your old man when you were 10, right?”
Jack claims to have listened a little too well.
Hurley comes over to tell the two dudes he has a new tourney lined up. They’re playing for the last of the deodorant sticks, “You dogs up for some golf?”
Michael has to go find his kid. “If Walt shows up tell him I said stay here until I get back.”
Michael continues his search.
Hurley mentions to Jack that Michael seems to hate being a dad.
Jack-“Nah. It’s just…a lot of hard work.”
Michael continues calling out for Walt.
Hurley scoffs and says, “Nah. He hates it.”
“Walt!” Michael is pissed. He continues his search through the jungle.
{Flash Whoosh}
“This is the one.” Michael and Susan are in the store looking at baby cribs. He’s excited he’s found “My baby’s crib.”
Susan looks at the price tag and remarks it will look great in the alley they’ll be living in. “This is three months rent.”
Michael wants the best for this kid but Susan insists they can't afford this. Michael feels their baby in this crib is a happy kid. {Note the store has items corresponding to the island.}
Michael tells Susan he talked to Andy and he can send some work Michael’s way.
Susan-“Construction? What about your art?”
Michael assures her he’s not giving it up, just taking a break until she finishes law school. “Pass the bar, get hired by some fancy ass high paying law firm.”
He’ll get back to painting eventually. Meanwhile Susan can support him and Walt in the manner to which they soon will be accustomed. Michael wants to name him after his dad.
Susan- “Walter. Walter Lloyd.”
Michael- “Lloyd? Oh, all right. That's why you won't marry me. It's not that you think marriage is too prosaic; you just want him to have your last name.”
Susan- “Hey. You want me to agree to Walter or what?”
{Flash Whoosh}
In the jungle Locke hands Walt a knife.
Boone and Vincent {Collar/leash.} are watching.
Walt throws the knife at the tree and it doesn’t penetrate it.
Walt-“Man, I suck!”
Locke-“You can do better than that.”
Boone-“You might want to take it easy on him.” {On whom?}
Locke explains-"See this knot Walt…I want you to aim for it. Right here. Focus on it…alright? Picture it…in your mind's eye. You know what that is, the mind's eye?”
Walt knows it’s like a picture in your head.
Locke tells him to do it again but, “See it. See it before you do it. Visualize the path. See it. See it.” {It's kind of like using the force, like a Jedi. Also note Locke touches Walt’s hand.}
Walt focuses. We get a shot of Vincent. Walt throws the knife and sticks his mark! Boone is impresses and Locke knew Walt had it in him.
Walt-“It was weird. I actually saw it in my mind or something, like it was real.”
Locke- “Who's to say it wasn’t?”
Michael comes upon them and he’s pissed! He takes the knife from Walt and tells him to take Vincent and go back to camp now.
Michael- “You gave my boy a knife.”
Locke- “You should’ve seen what…”
Michael-“Don’t tell me what I should’ve seen, man! We were back home I’d call the police on your ass! Encouraging a kid to sneak away from his parent, giving him a knife like this!”
Locke- “Walt knows his own mind.”
Michael pulls the knife on Locke. “Ah, don’t talk to me about my son like you know him.” Locke needs Michael to calm down.
Michael-“You keep playing my son against me…and I’m gonna have a p…”
Boone tackles Michael and holds the knife to him, “The man said calm down.”
Michael punches Boone and says, “What are you his attack dog?”
Michael was the one waving the knife around and Boone was just trying to make sure Michael didn’t hurt someone.
Locke knows it’s been difficult for Michael to bond with his son. “You know why he’s formed an attachment to me? Cause I treat him like an adult and you still treat him like a boy.”
Michael- “He’s 10 years old!”
Locke says he’s been through more than most people in their entire lifetimes and Michael hasn’t spent enough time with him to see it, “He’s different.”
Michael (concerned)-"What did you say?" {Did Michael realize Locke is on to the wonders of Walt?! Maybe he realized at that moment Walt and Locke share something. Maybe Michael realized where he really is and what's going on. I think it's at that moment Michael realizes he has to make that raft; he's got get Walt off the island!}
Locke-“And we’re not back home, Michael. As long as we're here I think Walt should be allowed to realize his potential.”
Michael warns Locke to stay away from him and his son. {This scene was very important!}
{Note the huge painting is heads.}
“You’re not taking him.” Toddler Walt plays on the floor with Michael. {Does he have Legos?}
Michael tells Susan she can go if she wants too but she’s not taking his son. Susan wants to take Walt to Amsterdam. She's got a great job offer and is leaving with him. Michael thought her position with the legal clinic was a good fit. This is offer is a huge opportunity for her as she’s always wanted to do international law. Susan says that she loves Michael but they need time apart. Michael knows they’ve talked about a lot of things, “You said you wanted to live on a boat.”
Susan mentions they’ve been through so much in such a short time. Michael understands they’ve got problems; he down with going to counseling. Susan had already made up her mind and took it; after all he hasn’t worked in months. Michael had already told her construction slows in the winter. But Susan knows she is the one who can provide for Walt. Michael doesn’t want to be away from Walt; there are laws against this kind of thing. Susan already knows the courts would side with her.
The two are not married. Susan says it’s not goodbye forever; she just needs some time. Michael is getting emotional.
{Flash Whoosh}
Walt is sleeping. {With his hand on his head} Michael watches him. Sun asks Michael if he’s alright.
Michael-"I just don't know how to talk to him, how to get him to understand, I’m on his side. Locke says I should stop treating him like a child. I missed his whole childhood, so…This can’t happen…He can’t grow up here….Can’t grown up in this place.” {He can’t talk to Walt but he can communicate with Sun- a woman who is supposed to be speaking Korean.}
“Once I realized these equations were coordinates latitude and longitude, I assumed the French woman was trying to determine the location of the island. But it was incomplete; her notations fragmented.”
Shannon- “Except for the fish song.” {Is the fish song not nonsense?!}
Jack- “The what?”
No one explains the fish song to Jack.
Sayid just continues on with, “But when I lay the pages down like this I realized it wasn’t showing the location of the island…I think it’s a location on the island, specifically here…”
Jack asks where they are in relation to the triangle. Sayid admits the map in not in scale so he doesn’t know.
Jack states they’re not even sure it’s a map of this Island. Sayid admits they’re not sure but thinks it this may be the transmitter sending out the distress call and its power source.
Michael wonders what they’re doing now. “Looking for an excuse to get chased down and killed by whatever lives in the jungle?”
Michael feels they can’t keep doing this; building water filtration systems and playing golf, making a sweet little home here. “We need to get off this Island.”
Shannon-“You think any of us want to be here?”
Michael says no and that no one wants to get off this island as badly as he does right now.
Michael suggests building a raft because “No one’s coming.” He feels they can use the seats from the fuselage, ax, a whole bunch of trees; bamboo.
Sayid thinks the chances of surviving the rough waters, the odds of finding a shipping lane and Shannon’s seasickness would make this a waste of time. Michael sarcastically tells them to stay there, grow old together, “Good luck to ya. But I’m doing this. My son and I are leaving.”
In the caves Walt is reading the Spanish version of the comic The Green Lantern and Flash- Faster Friends. Vincent is at his side.
Walt is sounding out the Spanish words. Michael wants Walt to help him with something but Walt wants to enjoy the comic. Michael remarks Walt is reading a comic book in Spanish but doesn’t speak Spanish. Walt likes the pictures. Michael is intrigued Walt likes the art. Michael shares with his son that when he was a little older than Walt he used to trace comic books. “Taught myself about perspective, you know what that is? Perspective?”
Walt doesn’t even acknowledge dad so dad grabs the comic from him. He needs Walt’s help and needs him to go with him; because he sees what happens when he doesn’t keep an eye on him.
{Flash Whoosh-Sounds like a train.}
Michael is talking to Susan on a pay phone in New York City. He wants to talk to 21 month old Walt. Susan comments Walt doesn’t use the phone.
Michael will do all the talking, “I just want him to hear my voice. I miss him.” {Two pay phones}
Michael hears Susan say to someone on the other end of the phone say “Shhhh. It’s Michael.”
Susan tells Michael it’s not a good time to talk but Michael is ultimately informed by Susan she’s been seeing Brian Porter; the guy who hired her.
Michael feels she lied when she said she needed time to think about “us”. She says it wasn’t like that. Michael is pissed off, “I’m coming to Amsterdam.”
Susan doesn't want him to because it’s over between them.
Michael yells-“I’m not coming for you! I’m coming for Walt! I’m getting my son back!” Michael slams the phone down, crosses the street and gets hit by a car.
Kate walks over to chat with Charlie on the beach. He is going through Claire’s things/bags, “Who brought them here?”
Kate- “I did.”
Charlie is looking for Claire’s diary. She kept a diary in the side pocket.
Charlie-“Someone’s taken it.”
“What are we looking for again?” asks Walt. Michael needs any long piece of metal or long tubing, anything that looks like it would work as a frame.
Walt- “A frame for what?"
Michael- “You’ll see soon enough.”
They look through the wreckage as Michael instructs Walt to separate the cushions, the plastic, the tarp, “Put everything you find in different piles so we can take stock.”
Walt-“Am I being punished?”
Michael feels, “This is us taking control of our destiny.”
Walt-“Feels like punishment.”
Kate and Charlie head over to Sawyer’s tent. He doesn’t answer the call at the tent door so Charlie says, “I can just go inside…”
Sawyer- “Trick or treat.”
Sawyer is sitting a few feet away.
When something goes missing they figure it’s got to be Sawyer who took it.
Kate asks if he has the diary or not. Just like a magician he presents a diary, “You mean this one?”
Charlie wants it. Sawyer doesn’t think that’s a good idea because maybe Missy Claire doesn’t want Charlie to read it.
Charlie-“I wasn’t gonna read it.”
Sawyer wonders if Charlie’s curious about what she wrote about him. Sawyer mentions “good literature is kinda scarce around here.”
They assume Sawyer read the diary.
Sawyer reads a passage aloud. “Dear Diary. I’m getting really freaked out by that has-been pop star. I think he’s stalking me.”
He reads on- “Diary, the little limy runt just won't let up.”
Charlie punches him in his bicep wound, knocking the diary away.
Charlie acquires the diary.
Sawyer punches Charlie in the face. Charlie feels he hits like a ponce. Kate stops them from really getting into it. Charlie walks away.
Kate asks Sawyer if he really read it. Sawyer just hadn’t gotten around to it yet.
Walt is “listening” to something. Distant voices become clearer.
Michael rummages through the wreckage. Walt gets excited when he sees Locke and Boone emerge from the jungle and head into the caves. Michael never even notices them. {Locke is eating something.} Walt tells his focused dad he’s going to get some water. Michael would like Walt to bring him some. Walt doesn't acknowledge him at all.
Michael-“Please and thank you. Gotta work on that.”
Dad is displeased with Walt’s lack of manners.
In the cave Shannon wonders if Boone and Locke are just going to keep coming back without any food.
Boone is disconnected from her. Shannon wants to know what’s going on with him, “Could you be acting any weirder?”
Boone- “Shannon. You’ve been a functioning bulimic since Jr. High. I thought you’d be excited about dropping a size or two.”
Shannon feels since Boone isn’t having any luck hunting maybe he should help Michael build the raft. She was thinking maybe she should help Michael so she can finally get the hell out of there. “Why don’t you help me?”
Unimpressed Boone replies, “No thanks.”
Locke is going through his silver case and Walt walks over to him.
Locke- “Your father doesn’t want us spending time together.”
Walt feels dad isn’t the boss of him. Locke tells the child, “But he’s your father. And he cares about you and you need to show him respect. Now I’m serious Walt. You’re not to come to me anymore.”
Just then Michael enters and he is pissed!
“Damn it! What is wrong with you?!”
Locke-“I was just coming to see…”
Michael told Locke to stay away from his son. Walt tries to interject but Michael doesn’t want to hear from him.
Locke- “I was just giving him this pencil to give to you. I thought you could use it. Consider it a peace offering.”
{Pen or pencil?}
Michael quietly speaks in Locke’s ear. “I catch you with my son again…I’ll kill you.”
Locke picks up his silver case and walks away.
Walt calls Michael "a jerk!"
“Mr. Locke didn’t do anything wrong, he’s my friend.”
Michael- “He’s not anymore. I’m looking out for you!”
Walt feels Michael doesn’t care about him and he never cared about him. “You only show up after my mom died. Where were you when I was growing up? Huh? NOWHERE!”
Michael-“Listen, Walt. It’s complicated.” {Remember that for later}
Walt doesn’t even care, “You’re not my father.” {That’s right.}
Michael- “You wanna hate me? You wanna punish me for something I can’t change? Fine. But you will listen to me.”
Michael throws the comic in the fire! He demands Walt “get over there. And you stay there. Now!”
Walt walks over by the waterfall and Vincent.
Michael looks at the burning comic book with the polar bear.
{Flash Whoosh}
Michael is drawing with a pencil.
He's been in a hospital for three months. His nurse never knew he had a kid. Michael explains he'll be two next week and lives in Amsterdam with his mom. Michael mentions he never knows what to write.
The nurse suggests a joke. “How about what's black, white and red all over?”
Michael guesses a newspaper.
Nope.
The nurse's answer is a penguin with a sunburn.
Nurse-"Trust me, mother of four talking here. He'll get a kick out it."
Susan comes to see him. She hadn't heard from Michael in two months, she had to call Andy to find out about the accident.
Michael- "Yeah, well considering how our last conversation went."
Susan tells him Walt is at home.
Susan pushes Michael in a wheelchair down the hallway. The nurses feel he will make a full recovery but Michael informs Susan he needs a year of physical therapy. Susan will cover all his medical expenses. She already spoke to the hospital administrator and all his bills will go to her.
Susan goes on to reveal she is going to marry Brian, he wants to adopt Walt and they will move to Italy at the end of the month. Brian is taking over the firm's Rome office.
Michael- "You're kidding me right?"
Susan- "Consider what's best for Walt. You can keep holding on if you want, but ask yourself why you're doing that. Is it really for him? Or is it for you?" {I find this line to be very telling! Are we NOT talking about a child here? Or are we talking about my Darth Vader action figure that I've been holding on to since I'm a kid? lol}
{Flash Whoosh}
Hurley walks up to Michael and says -"Uh, dude. You're kid is gone."
Walt just grabbed the dog and took off.
Michael knows where he's gone.
Locke is sharpening his knife.
Michael asks Locke where he is, "I'm not in the mood for your games, man. Where's Walt?"
Locke tells him Walt's not here but Michael thinks he's lying.
Boone-"Hey man. He's not here. Look around."
Well, Michael wasn't talking to Boone.
Locke- "I told him this morning that he couldn't be around me anymore. Trying to respect your wishes." They realize Walt is gone.
Locke tells Michael "Let's go find your boy."
Kate and Charlie arrive at the caves with Claire's bags. Charlie feels Kate didn't really have to help, "I could have managed. I've had my share of manly encounters."
Kate thought he could use the company.
Charlie tells Kate "It's weird. I barely knew her...barely know her, Claire. She's missing over a week. Everyday she's gone it feels like bits of me are crumbling or something.
Kate thinks its right he keep her stuff safe until she gets back. Kate touches Charlie's leg and leaves.
Charlie retrieves Claire's blue diary and contemplates a peek. He's so tempted that he picks it up and puts it down a few times before thumbing through the pages. He fights temptation and puts the diary back in the bag, zips it up and walks away from it.
Walt walks Vincent through the jungle. {On a red leash} Something "growls".
The dog barks and Walt looks around because they hear something walking through the jungle. Walt doesn't see anything just hears it. Vincent starts freaking as if he sees something and Walt asks him what's wrong. Vincent runs off, breaking the collar and leash off of him! {Why doesn't the damn dog stay? Did somebody/something call him away? I would think a good, loyal dog would protect its family} Walt drops the collar and leash to run after Vincent.
{Flash Whoosh}
Walt is lying on the floor staring at Vincent, although it could appear as if he's "listening" to him.
Susan is telling Brian about someone who is "trying to weasel his way out anything not to let the case move forward. He was arguing it wasn't his jurisdiction."
Brian- "Oh, you're kidding me."
Susan- “I wish I was. Same argument third time in a row. Barkley said it was an immigration issue."
Brain- "Barkley, that's classic."
Susan- "He thinks because I'm new to Australian law that I'm some kind of yokel or something"
Susan wants Walt to do get back to his homework. Walt told her he needs help. Mom the lawyer can tell when someone's stalling.
Susan and Brian are distracted in their own conversation and not paying attention to Walt. {There is a blue binder near Walt and he holds a pencil}
Walt asks "Who cares about birds of Australia, anyway? We're in Australia."
Brian asks Susan if she's okay. Susan admits she's feeling kind of flu-ey
Walt- "Shouldn't we be studying birds of Egypt or something?
Brian- "You haven't been sleeping much lately. Maybe you need to take a personal day."
Walt just continues talking about the bird he picked; the Bronze Cuckoo. It's funny. Wanna see?
Susan asks Brian what about Barkley?
Walt continues on- "I mean, it doesn't look funny, just the name"
Susan- "Sleeping in late that's too much. . ." {The nanny is sitting in the room.}
Walt is getting annoyed; tries to get Brian's attention-"Hey, Brian, look, look. You're not looking. You're not looking." {We hear bird chips and wings flutter.}
All of a sudden a bird flies in to the closed glass door. Walt wonders if it's dead. Brian says it is and just looks at Walt. Walt isn't really fazed by the bird incident; he just goes back to reading his bird book.
{Flash Whoosh}
Walt is alone in the jungle calling out for Vincent. We can hear noises of something moving around in the jungle. The sound of low growls is heard.
Brian Porter knocks on Michael's door. {Peephole} The men seem to not know each other. Brian breaks the news to him about Susan's death-YESTERDAY! {She dies yesterday, in Australia, he files all the way to N.Y. to see Michael and leaves Walt with the nanny...WOW!!}
Turns out Susan had a blood disorder and was sick for one week. Apparently Michael hadn't talked to her in a while. Brian informs him before Susan died she wanted Michael to have custody of Walt. Michael seems surprised at this and feels he hasn't been his father in nine years. Brian goes on about how he didn't want to be a father; he didn't know how. Brian presents a yellow envelope containing money for travel expenses, two tickets; 1 round trip, 1 one way, so Michael can go and get Walt. Michael feels the idea for Michael to have custody is really Brian's idea and not Susan's.
Brian's a wreck right now, he just lost the woman he loves and he can't be Walt's father, he's not his son.
Brian tells him there's something about him. Sometimes when he's around things happen; he's different somehow.
{Flash Whoosh}
Michael finds Vincent's red collar and leash. He and Locke hear Walt yell for help. Locke points Michael in the direction to go.
Michael goes to Australia. The nanny mentions Walt will be home from school any minute. She also gives him a yellow envelope with some of Susan's effects and a box with cards/letters. The nanny thinks Walt should have it. She just walks away leaving him alone.
In the distance you can hear the nanny tell Walt someone is there to see him. Michael walks down a long hallway to Walt.
Michael is running through the jungle, Walt is calling out for his dad's help and there are loud growls.
A polar bear is trying to claw his way into where Walt is hiding in the banyan trees. {This is the second time we see a polar bear.}
Locke stops Michael from just rushing over {actually covers his mouth, tells him to "shhhh" and directs them... "up here."
Walt plays with Vincent and a ball. {Wearing a vest.} The birds are singing.
Michael- "Hey Walt."
Walt- "Who are you?"
Michael tells Walt he's his father. {I know!! Walt looks at him like he has three fucking heads!} Michael shares that he and Susan loved it each very much when they had him. Walt asks where Brian is.
Michael- "He's not here."
Michael's there to bring you home with me."
Walt isn't going anywhere with him.
Michael- "I know this is really hard to understand all of this. See Brian... Brian loves you very much. And he wants you to stay with him, but it's not his choice. It's mine. I'm your legal guardian. And a, it's not like he's going to disappear from your life. He'll still call you, write to you, come to see you whenever he can. And you know, you'll still have your dog.
Walt- "But Vincent isn't mine. He's Brian's."
Michael- "Brian said you could have him."
The polar bear is trying to get to Walt. Michael calls out to Walt as he and Locke walk across a tree limb {like a tight rope walker} that allows them to pass over the polar bear action. Michael slips but Locke saves him!
Walt is crying as the bear continues to reach Walt. Michael tells Walt to hang in there. Michael climbs over to the tree with Walt. {What is with the white smoke there for a second?} Locke tosses Michael a knife to give to Walt for protection.
Walt stabs at the bear.
Michael wraps leafless vines around and yells up to Locke, "Okay, Locke now!"
Locke works hard to pull Walt out. The polar bear returns and Michael stabs him; the bear runs off. {Locke watches the bear run off.} Michael climbs up the tree and is reunited with Walt. They hug; everybody is happy! Michael is glad Walt is safe.
Walt is concerned that Vincent ran off again.
Locke- "He found his way back to you once, Walt. He will again." {Indeed}
Michael and Locke share a smile.
At night in the caves Michael gives Walt a present; every card and letter of the past eight years! {NOT 9 years}
Walt said he likes to look at pictures. Walt's never seen these before and wonders why his mom never gave them to him.
Michael feels although she didn't give them to him, she never threw them out either and that deep down she must have wanted him to have them. They both feel the "penguin" joke is dumb.
Charlie sits engrossed in Claire's blue diary. Something on the page gets his attention and he heads over to talk to Jack and Sayid. "You have to hear this." They're surprised he's reading her diary.
Charlie- "Yeah, I know, I'm bloody scum. Just listen to this. "I had that weird dream again the one with the black rock I can't get away from. I try to leave it but it won't let me."
Sayid -"Black rock?"
Jack-"It's just dreams, Charlie."
Charlie- "No, Sayid mentioned black rock before."
Sayid- "The French woman said something about her team returning from the black rock. The triangle on the map. Maybe it's the triangle on the map."
Charlie- "Maybe it's where Claire was taken. Maybe she's there?"
Jack-"Maybe. Charlie, we all want to find Claire, but there's no sense going out into the jungle in the middle of the night."
Locke is blowing into the whistle he made to 'call' Vincent. {We hear the high pitch whistle.}
Boone- "I don't think that whistles working, John."
Locke- "You can't hear everything, Boone. The sooner you learn that, the better."
There's a noise that Boone actually hears.
Boone whispers loudly, "Vincent. Vincent. Is that you?"
Locke readies his knife as they wait to see what's coming out of the jungle.
I guess the whistle it works on Claire too because she walks out of the jungle! {Damn Locke is good! Keep your eye on Locke.}
Locke- "Claire."
Special is a GREAT episode!! Just what is the tie or connection with Walt and Michael? What is his role? Is he really his father, biologically or as a figurehead? In name only? WHAT?! I feel that Michael may be more of a protector/guardian than a father. Walt wasn't supposed to be Michael's and wasn't supposed to be with Michael.
So Walt is different. What does he share with Locke really?
Bottom line is Michael's got to get Walt off the “Island” before the shit hits the fan! I think Michael knows all about Walt and the "Island"! There, I said it!
Things to Note...Questions to ask...
* Eyes
* Michael and Jack wear plaid shirts.
* Bar. {Jack and Christian}
* Black. White. Red.
* What is the deal with dog/dogs? Vincent.
* Understand. Teach. Learn. Language. Linguistics. Communicate. Talk.
* Picture. Art. Drawing. Frame. Pencil/pen.
* Read. Write. Wrote.
* Diary is a journal.
* Attachments. Literal, computer or metaphor?
* Pictures in your head. Hmmm.
* “Lifetimes.” Plural! Who has more than one lifetime? Hmm.
* Claire and a connection with the Black Rock. Maybe they all have a connection with it.
* Feelings of being punished.
* Game. Puzzle. Trick. Joke. Kid/kidding
* Therapy.
* Anagram for TARP is TRAP.
* Bags=baggage. It seems like they it's a metaphor for emotional baggage. They seem to find their own bags.
* Susan hadn't heard from Michael in two months, Walt was 21 months the night of the accident and he will be two next week.
* Brian Porter and Susan are a black and white couple. Vincent's leash is red.
* The bird that flew into the glass door doesn't really look like any of the birds in the book.
* Again be observant to when the "Flash Whoosh" is there and when it's not.
* I've been excited to talk about this, yet also afraid to talk about this. Reason being you all know I think outside the box with this show and I could be way out there on some things( I know that), but this could make me look like a fully fledged patient at Santa Rosa's! LOL!
The comic is in Spanish.
Let's talk about the basic idea/story of the comic. I have kept these clues as part of my thoughts since the first time I saw them.
I see many common elements between this comic book story and the "Island". MANY! Some of which I know you're going to say I'm nuts! But I see more than just the polar bear bearing a resemblance to our island.
We are shown an alien, the dome around land, bug, polar bear. Okay, that comic story/series is about two halves of a super hero (Flash and Green Lantern) put together to make a superior super hero. The old and new of both halves create the new being, a better world.; Two halves brought together to make a whole.
I'm paraphrasing here, but this is the idea: A reference to parallel earth, they want to mix a part of each reality to create a perfect world, and identity crisis.
The alien: The alien in the story comes to earth, and gets sick with cancer; they hide him away in a ship.
The dome: Could our island be in a "dome" or something "dome-like"? Something that is "containing" them?
Bug: Walt shows us the page with the bug on it. So does the "Island" have a bug?
Polar bear: Many have felt that the polar bear was manifested by Walt. Nope, I don't think so.
Besides that the "polar bears" were already there in that "environment".
Vocabulary and Research…
* Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Lloyd Dawson KCB CBE DSO RAF (6 May 1902 – 1994) was a senior commander in the RAF in the 1950s. He was the last RAF commander in Palestine, before the creation of the State of Israel. He died in 1994.
* Crib- in cryptanalysis, is a known or suspected plaintext. The term originated at Bletchley Park, the British WWII decryption operation.
* The usage "crib" was adapted from a slang term referring to cheating— example: "I cribbed my answer from your test paper."
-A "crib" originally was a literal or interlinear translation of a foreign-language text — usually a Latin or Greek text — that students might be assigned to translate from the original language.
* Triangle- Trinity.
* In semantics: a triangle is the structure of every system composed with three reciprocally connected/interrelated abstract or real objects
*The phrase "mind's eye" refers to the human ability for visual perception, imagination, visualization, and memory.
*The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul is a 1981 book composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. It is a collection of essays and creations about the nature of the mind and the self, tied together with commentary by the editors.
-The Mind's Eye series consists of several art films rendered using computer generated imagery of varying levels of sophistication. The series began in 1990.
* New Amsterdam- was a 17th-century Dutch Colonial settlement that later became the city now known as New York City. Whenever the Dutch went to new places they would name each colony with the word "new".
* Stalling (gaming) obstruction of the flow of play while leading in a timed game.
You've heard me say many times before that we are given a clue and then it gets dropped for a while…then BAM! There it is again! This is not the last time we got a comic or super hero clue. Just wait, it comes back around.
Every single episode tells us to LOOK, SEE and LISTEN because answers are right in front of our eyes! I guess that's going to become my catch phrase. Also, answers are in their eyes. So think about what could actually be going on in their “heads/minds”.
The comic book.....Is it a clue or just entertainment? I think it's a clue and for fun! It’s Michael who stares at the burning comic book with the polar bear page showing.
I sometimes feel that there's a bit of "Mr. John Locke" in most of the centrics even when they're not "his". Weird, huh?
Perspective…it’s all about perspective.
Thanks for reading my blog and experiencing my LOSTNESS, as crazy as it can sometimes be. I really appreciate it. You guys ROCK!!
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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? 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.
Open eye.
Michael calls out looking for Walt.
Charlie walks up asking Michael if he’s seen Claire’s bags.
Michael-“Have you seen my son?”
Charlie- “You seen her bags?”
Michael- “Claire’s?”
Charlie- “Her luggage. It’s not been brought back here. No one seems to know what happened to it.”
Michael apologizes, he doesn’t know; he’s just looking for Walt. Charlie hasn’t seen Walt. Jack {Key around neck} walks up carrying firewood. Michael asks Jack if he’s seen his boy out there.
Jack says no, “He was at the caves.”
Michael shares Walt took his dog for a walk and he told him to stay close as usual.
Michael-“You listened to your old man when you were 10, right?”
Jack claims to have listened a little too well.
Hurley comes over to tell the two dudes he has a new tourney lined up. They’re playing for the last of the deodorant sticks, “You dogs up for some golf?”
Michael has to go find his kid. “If Walt shows up tell him I said stay here until I get back.”
Michael continues his search.
Hurley mentions to Jack that Michael seems to hate being a dad.
Jack-“Nah. It’s just…a lot of hard work.”
Michael continues calling out for Walt.
Hurley scoffs and says, “Nah. He hates it.”
“Walt!” Michael is pissed. He continues his search through the jungle.
{Flash Whoosh}
“This is the one.” Michael and Susan are in the store looking at baby cribs. He’s excited he’s found “My baby’s crib.”
Susan looks at the price tag and remarks it will look great in the alley they’ll be living in. “This is three months rent.”
Michael wants the best for this kid but Susan insists they can't afford this. Michael feels their baby in this crib is a happy kid. {Note the store has items corresponding to the island.}
Michael tells Susan he talked to Andy and he can send some work Michael’s way.
Susan-“Construction? What about your art?”
Michael assures her he’s not giving it up, just taking a break until she finishes law school. “Pass the bar, get hired by some fancy ass high paying law firm.”
He’ll get back to painting eventually. Meanwhile Susan can support him and Walt in the manner to which they soon will be accustomed. Michael wants to name him after his dad.
Susan- “Walter. Walter Lloyd.”
Michael- “Lloyd? Oh, all right. That's why you won't marry me. It's not that you think marriage is too prosaic; you just want him to have your last name.”
Susan- “Hey. You want me to agree to Walter or what?”
{Flash Whoosh}
In the jungle Locke hands Walt a knife.
Boone and Vincent {Collar/leash.} are watching.
Walt throws the knife at the tree and it doesn’t penetrate it.
Walt-“Man, I suck!”
Locke-“You can do better than that.”
Boone-“You might want to take it easy on him.” {On whom?}
Locke explains-"See this knot Walt…I want you to aim for it. Right here. Focus on it…alright? Picture it…in your mind's eye. You know what that is, the mind's eye?”
Walt knows it’s like a picture in your head.
Locke tells him to do it again but, “See it. See it before you do it. Visualize the path. See it. See it.” {It's kind of like using the force, like a Jedi. Also note Locke touches Walt’s hand.}
Walt focuses. We get a shot of Vincent. Walt throws the knife and sticks his mark! Boone is impresses and Locke knew Walt had it in him.
Walt-“It was weird. I actually saw it in my mind or something, like it was real.”
Locke- “Who's to say it wasn’t?”
Michael comes upon them and he’s pissed! He takes the knife from Walt and tells him to take Vincent and go back to camp now.
Michael- “You gave my boy a knife.”
Locke- “You should’ve seen what…”
Michael-“Don’t tell me what I should’ve seen, man! We were back home I’d call the police on your ass! Encouraging a kid to sneak away from his parent, giving him a knife like this!”
Locke- “Walt knows his own mind.”
Michael pulls the knife on Locke. “Ah, don’t talk to me about my son like you know him.” Locke needs Michael to calm down.
Michael-“You keep playing my son against me…and I’m gonna have a p…”
Boone tackles Michael and holds the knife to him, “The man said calm down.”
Michael punches Boone and says, “What are you his attack dog?”
Michael was the one waving the knife around and Boone was just trying to make sure Michael didn’t hurt someone.
Locke knows it’s been difficult for Michael to bond with his son. “You know why he’s formed an attachment to me? Cause I treat him like an adult and you still treat him like a boy.”
Michael- “He’s 10 years old!”
Locke says he’s been through more than most people in their entire lifetimes and Michael hasn’t spent enough time with him to see it, “He’s different.”
Michael (concerned)-"What did you say?" {Did Michael realize Locke is on to the wonders of Walt?! Maybe he realized at that moment Walt and Locke share something. Maybe Michael realized where he really is and what's going on. I think it's at that moment Michael realizes he has to make that raft; he's got get Walt off the island!}
Locke-“And we’re not back home, Michael. As long as we're here I think Walt should be allowed to realize his potential.”
Michael warns Locke to stay away from him and his son. {This scene was very important!}
{Note the huge painting is heads.}
“You’re not taking him.” Toddler Walt plays on the floor with Michael. {Does he have Legos?}
Michael tells Susan she can go if she wants too but she’s not taking his son. Susan wants to take Walt to Amsterdam. She's got a great job offer and is leaving with him. Michael thought her position with the legal clinic was a good fit. This is offer is a huge opportunity for her as she’s always wanted to do international law. Susan says that she loves Michael but they need time apart. Michael knows they’ve talked about a lot of things, “You said you wanted to live on a boat.”
Susan mentions they’ve been through so much in such a short time. Michael understands they’ve got problems; he down with going to counseling. Susan had already made up her mind and took it; after all he hasn’t worked in months. Michael had already told her construction slows in the winter. But Susan knows she is the one who can provide for Walt. Michael doesn’t want to be away from Walt; there are laws against this kind of thing. Susan already knows the courts would side with her.
The two are not married. Susan says it’s not goodbye forever; she just needs some time. Michael is getting emotional.
{Flash Whoosh}
Walt is sleeping. {With his hand on his head} Michael watches him. Sun asks Michael if he’s alright.
Michael-"I just don't know how to talk to him, how to get him to understand, I’m on his side. Locke says I should stop treating him like a child. I missed his whole childhood, so…This can’t happen…He can’t grow up here….Can’t grown up in this place.” {He can’t talk to Walt but he can communicate with Sun- a woman who is supposed to be speaking Korean.}
“Once I realized these equations were coordinates latitude and longitude, I assumed the French woman was trying to determine the location of the island. But it was incomplete; her notations fragmented.”
Shannon- “Except for the fish song.” {Is the fish song not nonsense?!}
Jack- “The what?”
No one explains the fish song to Jack.
Sayid just continues on with, “But when I lay the pages down like this I realized it wasn’t showing the location of the island…I think it’s a location on the island, specifically here…”
Jack asks where they are in relation to the triangle. Sayid admits the map in not in scale so he doesn’t know.
Jack states they’re not even sure it’s a map of this Island. Sayid admits they’re not sure but thinks it this may be the transmitter sending out the distress call and its power source.
Michael wonders what they’re doing now. “Looking for an excuse to get chased down and killed by whatever lives in the jungle?”
Michael feels they can’t keep doing this; building water filtration systems and playing golf, making a sweet little home here. “We need to get off this Island.”
Shannon-“You think any of us want to be here?”
Michael says no and that no one wants to get off this island as badly as he does right now.
Michael suggests building a raft because “No one’s coming.” He feels they can use the seats from the fuselage, ax, a whole bunch of trees; bamboo.
Sayid thinks the chances of surviving the rough waters, the odds of finding a shipping lane and Shannon’s seasickness would make this a waste of time. Michael sarcastically tells them to stay there, grow old together, “Good luck to ya. But I’m doing this. My son and I are leaving.”
In the caves Walt is reading the Spanish version of the comic The Green Lantern and Flash- Faster Friends. Vincent is at his side.
Walt is sounding out the Spanish words. Michael wants Walt to help him with something but Walt wants to enjoy the comic. Michael remarks Walt is reading a comic book in Spanish but doesn’t speak Spanish. Walt likes the pictures. Michael is intrigued Walt likes the art. Michael shares with his son that when he was a little older than Walt he used to trace comic books. “Taught myself about perspective, you know what that is? Perspective?”
Walt doesn’t even acknowledge dad so dad grabs the comic from him. He needs Walt’s help and needs him to go with him; because he sees what happens when he doesn’t keep an eye on him.
{Flash Whoosh-Sounds like a train.}
Michael is talking to Susan on a pay phone in New York City. He wants to talk to 21 month old Walt. Susan comments Walt doesn’t use the phone.
Michael will do all the talking, “I just want him to hear my voice. I miss him.” {Two pay phones}
Michael hears Susan say to someone on the other end of the phone say “Shhhh. It’s Michael.”
Susan tells Michael it’s not a good time to talk but Michael is ultimately informed by Susan she’s been seeing Brian Porter; the guy who hired her.
Michael feels she lied when she said she needed time to think about “us”. She says it wasn’t like that. Michael is pissed off, “I’m coming to Amsterdam.”
Susan doesn't want him to because it’s over between them.
Michael yells-“I’m not coming for you! I’m coming for Walt! I’m getting my son back!” Michael slams the phone down, crosses the street and gets hit by a car.
Kate walks over to chat with Charlie on the beach. He is going through Claire’s things/bags, “Who brought them here?”
Kate- “I did.”
Charlie is looking for Claire’s diary. She kept a diary in the side pocket.
Charlie-“Someone’s taken it.”
“What are we looking for again?” asks Walt. Michael needs any long piece of metal or long tubing, anything that looks like it would work as a frame.
Walt- “A frame for what?"
Michael- “You’ll see soon enough.”
They look through the wreckage as Michael instructs Walt to separate the cushions, the plastic, the tarp, “Put everything you find in different piles so we can take stock.”
Walt-“Am I being punished?”
Michael feels, “This is us taking control of our destiny.”
Walt-“Feels like punishment.”
Kate and Charlie head over to Sawyer’s tent. He doesn’t answer the call at the tent door so Charlie says, “I can just go inside…”
Sawyer- “Trick or treat.”
Sawyer is sitting a few feet away.
When something goes missing they figure it’s got to be Sawyer who took it.
Kate asks if he has the diary or not. Just like a magician he presents a diary, “You mean this one?”
Charlie wants it. Sawyer doesn’t think that’s a good idea because maybe Missy Claire doesn’t want Charlie to read it.
Charlie-“I wasn’t gonna read it.”
Sawyer wonders if Charlie’s curious about what she wrote about him. Sawyer mentions “good literature is kinda scarce around here.”
They assume Sawyer read the diary.
Sawyer reads a passage aloud. “Dear Diary. I’m getting really freaked out by that has-been pop star. I think he’s stalking me.”
He reads on- “Diary, the little limy runt just won't let up.”
Charlie punches him in his bicep wound, knocking the diary away.
Charlie acquires the diary.
Sawyer punches Charlie in the face. Charlie feels he hits like a ponce. Kate stops them from really getting into it. Charlie walks away.
Kate asks Sawyer if he really read it. Sawyer just hadn’t gotten around to it yet.
Walt is “listening” to something. Distant voices become clearer.
Michael rummages through the wreckage. Walt gets excited when he sees Locke and Boone emerge from the jungle and head into the caves. Michael never even notices them. {Locke is eating something.} Walt tells his focused dad he’s going to get some water. Michael would like Walt to bring him some. Walt doesn't acknowledge him at all.
Michael-“Please and thank you. Gotta work on that.”
Dad is displeased with Walt’s lack of manners.
In the cave Shannon wonders if Boone and Locke are just going to keep coming back without any food.
Boone is disconnected from her. Shannon wants to know what’s going on with him, “Could you be acting any weirder?”
Boone- “Shannon. You’ve been a functioning bulimic since Jr. High. I thought you’d be excited about dropping a size or two.”
Shannon feels since Boone isn’t having any luck hunting maybe he should help Michael build the raft. She was thinking maybe she should help Michael so she can finally get the hell out of there. “Why don’t you help me?”
Unimpressed Boone replies, “No thanks.”
Locke is going through his silver case and Walt walks over to him.
Locke- “Your father doesn’t want us spending time together.”
Walt feels dad isn’t the boss of him. Locke tells the child, “But he’s your father. And he cares about you and you need to show him respect. Now I’m serious Walt. You’re not to come to me anymore.”
Just then Michael enters and he is pissed!
“Damn it! What is wrong with you?!”
Locke-“I was just coming to see…”
Michael told Locke to stay away from his son. Walt tries to interject but Michael doesn’t want to hear from him.
Locke- “I was just giving him this pencil to give to you. I thought you could use it. Consider it a peace offering.”
{Pen or pencil?}
Michael quietly speaks in Locke’s ear. “I catch you with my son again…I’ll kill you.”
Locke picks up his silver case and walks away.
Walt calls Michael "a jerk!"
“Mr. Locke didn’t do anything wrong, he’s my friend.”
Michael- “He’s not anymore. I’m looking out for you!”
Walt feels Michael doesn’t care about him and he never cared about him. “You only show up after my mom died. Where were you when I was growing up? Huh? NOWHERE!”
Michael-“Listen, Walt. It’s complicated.” {Remember that for later}
Walt doesn’t even care, “You’re not my father.” {That’s right.}
Michael- “You wanna hate me? You wanna punish me for something I can’t change? Fine. But you will listen to me.”
Michael throws the comic in the fire! He demands Walt “get over there. And you stay there. Now!”
Walt walks over by the waterfall and Vincent.
Michael looks at the burning comic book with the polar bear.
{Flash Whoosh}
Michael is drawing with a pencil.
He's been in a hospital for three months. His nurse never knew he had a kid. Michael explains he'll be two next week and lives in Amsterdam with his mom. Michael mentions he never knows what to write.
The nurse suggests a joke. “How about what's black, white and red all over?”
Michael guesses a newspaper.
Nope.
The nurse's answer is a penguin with a sunburn.
Nurse-"Trust me, mother of four talking here. He'll get a kick out it."
Susan comes to see him. She hadn't heard from Michael in two months, she had to call Andy to find out about the accident.
Michael- "Yeah, well considering how our last conversation went."
Susan tells him Walt is at home.
Susan pushes Michael in a wheelchair down the hallway. The nurses feel he will make a full recovery but Michael informs Susan he needs a year of physical therapy. Susan will cover all his medical expenses. She already spoke to the hospital administrator and all his bills will go to her.
Susan goes on to reveal she is going to marry Brian, he wants to adopt Walt and they will move to Italy at the end of the month. Brian is taking over the firm's Rome office.
Michael- "You're kidding me right?"
Susan- "Consider what's best for Walt. You can keep holding on if you want, but ask yourself why you're doing that. Is it really for him? Or is it for you?" {I find this line to be very telling! Are we NOT talking about a child here? Or are we talking about my Darth Vader action figure that I've been holding on to since I'm a kid? lol}
{Flash Whoosh}
Hurley walks up to Michael and says -"Uh, dude. You're kid is gone."
Walt just grabbed the dog and took off.
Michael knows where he's gone.
Locke is sharpening his knife.
Michael asks Locke where he is, "I'm not in the mood for your games, man. Where's Walt?"
Locke tells him Walt's not here but Michael thinks he's lying.
Boone-"Hey man. He's not here. Look around."
Well, Michael wasn't talking to Boone.
Locke- "I told him this morning that he couldn't be around me anymore. Trying to respect your wishes." They realize Walt is gone.
Locke tells Michael "Let's go find your boy."
Kate and Charlie arrive at the caves with Claire's bags. Charlie feels Kate didn't really have to help, "I could have managed. I've had my share of manly encounters."
Kate thought he could use the company.
Charlie tells Kate "It's weird. I barely knew her...barely know her, Claire. She's missing over a week. Everyday she's gone it feels like bits of me are crumbling or something.
Kate thinks its right he keep her stuff safe until she gets back. Kate touches Charlie's leg and leaves.
Charlie retrieves Claire's blue diary and contemplates a peek. He's so tempted that he picks it up and puts it down a few times before thumbing through the pages. He fights temptation and puts the diary back in the bag, zips it up and walks away from it.
Walt walks Vincent through the jungle. {On a red leash} Something "growls".
The dog barks and Walt looks around because they hear something walking through the jungle. Walt doesn't see anything just hears it. Vincent starts freaking as if he sees something and Walt asks him what's wrong. Vincent runs off, breaking the collar and leash off of him! {Why doesn't the damn dog stay? Did somebody/something call him away? I would think a good, loyal dog would protect its family} Walt drops the collar and leash to run after Vincent.
{Flash Whoosh}
Walt is lying on the floor staring at Vincent, although it could appear as if he's "listening" to him.
Susan is telling Brian about someone who is "trying to weasel his way out anything not to let the case move forward. He was arguing it wasn't his jurisdiction."
Brian- "Oh, you're kidding me."
Susan- “I wish I was. Same argument third time in a row. Barkley said it was an immigration issue."
Brain- "Barkley, that's classic."
Susan- "He thinks because I'm new to Australian law that I'm some kind of yokel or something"
Susan wants Walt to do get back to his homework. Walt told her he needs help. Mom the lawyer can tell when someone's stalling.
Susan and Brian are distracted in their own conversation and not paying attention to Walt. {There is a blue binder near Walt and he holds a pencil}
Walt asks "Who cares about birds of Australia, anyway? We're in Australia."
Brian asks Susan if she's okay. Susan admits she's feeling kind of flu-ey
Walt- "Shouldn't we be studying birds of Egypt or something?
Brian- "You haven't been sleeping much lately. Maybe you need to take a personal day."
Walt just continues talking about the bird he picked; the Bronze Cuckoo. It's funny. Wanna see?
Susan asks Brian what about Barkley?
Walt continues on- "I mean, it doesn't look funny, just the name"
Susan- "Sleeping in late that's too much. . ." {The nanny is sitting in the room.}
Walt is getting annoyed; tries to get Brian's attention-"Hey, Brian, look, look. You're not looking. You're not looking." {We hear bird chips and wings flutter.}
All of a sudden a bird flies in to the closed glass door. Walt wonders if it's dead. Brian says it is and just looks at Walt. Walt isn't really fazed by the bird incident; he just goes back to reading his bird book.
{Flash Whoosh}
Walt is alone in the jungle calling out for Vincent. We can hear noises of something moving around in the jungle. The sound of low growls is heard.
Brian Porter knocks on Michael's door. {Peephole} The men seem to not know each other. Brian breaks the news to him about Susan's death-YESTERDAY! {She dies yesterday, in Australia, he files all the way to N.Y. to see Michael and leaves Walt with the nanny...WOW!!}
Turns out Susan had a blood disorder and was sick for one week. Apparently Michael hadn't talked to her in a while. Brian informs him before Susan died she wanted Michael to have custody of Walt. Michael seems surprised at this and feels he hasn't been his father in nine years. Brian goes on about how he didn't want to be a father; he didn't know how. Brian presents a yellow envelope containing money for travel expenses, two tickets; 1 round trip, 1 one way, so Michael can go and get Walt. Michael feels the idea for Michael to have custody is really Brian's idea and not Susan's.
Brian's a wreck right now, he just lost the woman he loves and he can't be Walt's father, he's not his son.
Brian tells him there's something about him. Sometimes when he's around things happen; he's different somehow.
{Flash Whoosh}
Michael finds Vincent's red collar and leash. He and Locke hear Walt yell for help. Locke points Michael in the direction to go.
Michael goes to Australia. The nanny mentions Walt will be home from school any minute. She also gives him a yellow envelope with some of Susan's effects and a box with cards/letters. The nanny thinks Walt should have it. She just walks away leaving him alone.
In the distance you can hear the nanny tell Walt someone is there to see him. Michael walks down a long hallway to Walt.
Michael is running through the jungle, Walt is calling out for his dad's help and there are loud growls.
A polar bear is trying to claw his way into where Walt is hiding in the banyan trees. {This is the second time we see a polar bear.}
Locke stops Michael from just rushing over {actually covers his mouth, tells him to "shhhh" and directs them... "up here."
Walt plays with Vincent and a ball. {Wearing a vest.} The birds are singing.
Michael- "Hey Walt."
Walt- "Who are you?"
Michael tells Walt he's his father. {I know!! Walt looks at him like he has three fucking heads!} Michael shares that he and Susan loved it each very much when they had him. Walt asks where Brian is.
Michael- "He's not here."
Michael's there to bring you home with me."
Walt isn't going anywhere with him.
Michael- "I know this is really hard to understand all of this. See Brian... Brian loves you very much. And he wants you to stay with him, but it's not his choice. It's mine. I'm your legal guardian. And a, it's not like he's going to disappear from your life. He'll still call you, write to you, come to see you whenever he can. And you know, you'll still have your dog.
Walt- "But Vincent isn't mine. He's Brian's."
Michael- "Brian said you could have him."
The polar bear is trying to get to Walt. Michael calls out to Walt as he and Locke walk across a tree limb {like a tight rope walker} that allows them to pass over the polar bear action. Michael slips but Locke saves him!
Walt is crying as the bear continues to reach Walt. Michael tells Walt to hang in there. Michael climbs over to the tree with Walt. {What is with the white smoke there for a second?} Locke tosses Michael a knife to give to Walt for protection.
Walt stabs at the bear.
Michael wraps leafless vines around and yells up to Locke, "Okay, Locke now!"
Locke works hard to pull Walt out. The polar bear returns and Michael stabs him; the bear runs off. {Locke watches the bear run off.} Michael climbs up the tree and is reunited with Walt. They hug; everybody is happy! Michael is glad Walt is safe.
Walt is concerned that Vincent ran off again.
Locke- "He found his way back to you once, Walt. He will again." {Indeed}
Michael and Locke share a smile.
At night in the caves Michael gives Walt a present; every card and letter of the past eight years! {NOT 9 years}
Walt said he likes to look at pictures. Walt's never seen these before and wonders why his mom never gave them to him.
Michael feels although she didn't give them to him, she never threw them out either and that deep down she must have wanted him to have them. They both feel the "penguin" joke is dumb.
Charlie sits engrossed in Claire's blue diary. Something on the page gets his attention and he heads over to talk to Jack and Sayid. "You have to hear this." They're surprised he's reading her diary.
Charlie- "Yeah, I know, I'm bloody scum. Just listen to this. "I had that weird dream again the one with the black rock I can't get away from. I try to leave it but it won't let me."
Sayid -"Black rock?"
Jack-"It's just dreams, Charlie."
Charlie- "No, Sayid mentioned black rock before."
Sayid- "The French woman said something about her team returning from the black rock. The triangle on the map. Maybe it's the triangle on the map."
Charlie- "Maybe it's where Claire was taken. Maybe she's there?"
Jack-"Maybe. Charlie, we all want to find Claire, but there's no sense going out into the jungle in the middle of the night."
Locke is blowing into the whistle he made to 'call' Vincent. {We hear the high pitch whistle.}
Boone- "I don't think that whistles working, John."
Locke- "You can't hear everything, Boone. The sooner you learn that, the better."
There's a noise that Boone actually hears.
Boone whispers loudly, "Vincent. Vincent. Is that you?"
Locke readies his knife as they wait to see what's coming out of the jungle.
I guess the whistle it works on Claire too because she walks out of the jungle! {Damn Locke is good! Keep your eye on Locke.}
Locke- "Claire."
Special is a GREAT episode!! Just what is the tie or connection with Walt and Michael? What is his role? Is he really his father, biologically or as a figurehead? In name only? WHAT?! I feel that Michael may be more of a protector/guardian than a father. Walt wasn't supposed to be Michael's and wasn't supposed to be with Michael.
So Walt is different. What does he share with Locke really?
Bottom line is Michael's got to get Walt off the “Island” before the shit hits the fan! I think Michael knows all about Walt and the "Island"! There, I said it!
Things to Note...Questions to ask...
* Eyes
* Michael and Jack wear plaid shirts.
* Bar. {Jack and Christian}
* Black. White. Red.
* What is the deal with dog/dogs? Vincent.
* Understand. Teach. Learn. Language. Linguistics. Communicate. Talk.
* Picture. Art. Drawing. Frame. Pencil/pen.
* Read. Write. Wrote.
* Diary is a journal.
* Attachments. Literal, computer or metaphor?
* Pictures in your head. Hmmm.
* “Lifetimes.” Plural! Who has more than one lifetime? Hmm.
* Claire and a connection with the Black Rock. Maybe they all have a connection with it.
* Feelings of being punished.
* Game. Puzzle. Trick. Joke. Kid/kidding
* Therapy.
* Anagram for TARP is TRAP.
* Bags=baggage. It seems like they it's a metaphor for emotional baggage. They seem to find their own bags.
* Susan hadn't heard from Michael in two months, Walt was 21 months the night of the accident and he will be two next week.
* Brian Porter and Susan are a black and white couple. Vincent's leash is red.
* The bird that flew into the glass door doesn't really look like any of the birds in the book.
* Again be observant to when the "Flash Whoosh" is there and when it's not.
* I've been excited to talk about this, yet also afraid to talk about this. Reason being you all know I think outside the box with this show and I could be way out there on some things( I know that), but this could make me look like a fully fledged patient at Santa Rosa's! LOL!
The comic is in Spanish.
Let's talk about the basic idea/story of the comic. I have kept these clues as part of my thoughts since the first time I saw them.
I see many common elements between this comic book story and the "Island". MANY! Some of which I know you're going to say I'm nuts! But I see more than just the polar bear bearing a resemblance to our island.
We are shown an alien, the dome around land, bug, polar bear. Okay, that comic story/series is about two halves of a super hero (Flash and Green Lantern) put together to make a superior super hero. The old and new of both halves create the new being, a better world.; Two halves brought together to make a whole.
I'm paraphrasing here, but this is the idea: A reference to parallel earth, they want to mix a part of each reality to create a perfect world, and identity crisis.
The alien: The alien in the story comes to earth, and gets sick with cancer; they hide him away in a ship.
The dome: Could our island be in a "dome" or something "dome-like"? Something that is "containing" them?
Bug: Walt shows us the page with the bug on it. So does the "Island" have a bug?
Polar bear: Many have felt that the polar bear was manifested by Walt. Nope, I don't think so.
Besides that the "polar bears" were already there in that "environment".
Vocabulary and Research…
* Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Lloyd Dawson KCB CBE DSO RAF (6 May 1902 – 1994) was a senior commander in the RAF in the 1950s. He was the last RAF commander in Palestine, before the creation of the State of Israel. He died in 1994.
* Crib- in cryptanalysis, is a known or suspected plaintext. The term originated at Bletchley Park, the British WWII decryption operation.
* The usage "crib" was adapted from a slang term referring to cheating— example: "I cribbed my answer from your test paper."
-A "crib" originally was a literal or interlinear translation of a foreign-language text — usually a Latin or Greek text — that students might be assigned to translate from the original language.
* Triangle- Trinity.
* In semantics: a triangle is the structure of every system composed with three reciprocally connected/interrelated abstract or real objects
*The phrase "mind's eye" refers to the human ability for visual perception, imagination, visualization, and memory.
*The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul is a 1981 book composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. It is a collection of essays and creations about the nature of the mind and the self, tied together with commentary by the editors.
-The Mind's Eye series consists of several art films rendered using computer generated imagery of varying levels of sophistication. The series began in 1990.
* New Amsterdam- was a 17th-century Dutch Colonial settlement that later became the city now known as New York City. Whenever the Dutch went to new places they would name each colony with the word "new".
* Stalling (gaming) obstruction of the flow of play while leading in a timed game.
You've heard me say many times before that we are given a clue and then it gets dropped for a while…then BAM! There it is again! This is not the last time we got a comic or super hero clue. Just wait, it comes back around.
Every single episode tells us to LOOK, SEE and LISTEN because answers are right in front of our eyes! I guess that's going to become my catch phrase. Also, answers are in their eyes. So think about what could actually be going on in their “heads/minds”.
The comic book.....Is it a clue or just entertainment? I think it's a clue and for fun! It’s Michael who stares at the burning comic book with the polar bear page showing.
I sometimes feel that there's a bit of "Mr. John Locke" in most of the centrics even when they're not "his". Weird, huh?
Perspective…it’s all about perspective.
Thanks for reading my blog and experiencing my LOSTNESS, as crazy as it can sometimes be. I really appreciate it. You guys ROCK!!
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? 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.
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