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September 8, 2009

Man of Science, Man of Faith.

Let's talk about LOST! Man of Science, Man of Faith.








Beeping.
An eye opens as the man takes a deep breath. We see computer with a green blinking icon.


A man jumps off the top bunk, pushes himself in a rolling office desk chair and pushes keys on a computer keyboard, presses EXECUTE. {Something resets.}
In a red/rose colored room he puts a record {Album}on the turntable, {the song Make Your Own Kind of Music plays. Lava lamp is on} and proceeds to cleans up his very messy space. {Washes dishes} He exercises on a red exercise bike, does pull ups from a pipe, sit ups, showers, dries laundry (Note: new washer and dryer) and mixes up a fruity drink in the blender.
He gives himself an injection, something explodes and the needle scratches across the record!
















He gets dressed in a Dharma jumpsuit, uses a combination to unlock a room stocked with weapons, grabs gun, pushes controls on a piece of electronics {disabling something/power} and looks through a sophisticated "scope" with many lens and mirrors {A looking glass of sorts.}

The camera takes us on a ride up the long shaft to reveal
Locke and Jack are looking down into the rabbit hole, uh, I mean hatch!

















Hurley is zoned and repeating the numbers. {Like Lenny in Santa Rosa.}
Kate asks if he’s okay.
Hurley-“Huh? Yeah, awesome. I just have to pee. {Kate walks over to the hatch} Great idea, dude, go look into the burning death hole.”
The three look into the hatch but can’t see anything. Kate asks what it is.
Jack-“It doesn't matter what it is. We blew the door so we could get everyone inside this thing so we could be safe. That plan is not going to work. We'll never get everyone down in time.“
Curious Locke drops a rock into the hatch. There is shallow water down there; sounds like a puddle.
Kate-"40 feet down?"
Locke-“50 tops. If we could use the wire we pulled from the fuselage… rig up a harness...”
Jack tells Locke we’re leaving now; Hurley thinks that’s a good idea.
{So you blow open the friggin hatch and he wants to go back to camp! WTF, JACK? You spent all that time figuring a way into it, trip to the black rock, Arzt dies, monster tries to take Locke and you want to wait to go in?! Jackass.}
Locke doesn't want to leave as they went through a lot to get there.
Jack-“The ladder's broken. You gonna to lower 40 people down there one by one? They're waiting for us to come back and tell them what to do, so let's forget about the harnesses.”
Jack seems uppity and Locke suggests they calm down. {Listen to the sounds in the background.}
Jack the boss, tells him, “Look, if you want to go exploring in the morning that's fine, but tonight we're done. I'm going to go get the dynamite that we didn't use and we're heading back to the caves. How about you pack it up, John."
Locke is taken aback at Jack’s attitude but says “Sure. Of course.”
He asks Jack why he doesn’t want to go down there.
{Flash Whoosh}
{Listen carefully to the dialog here.}
A woman being wheeled in to the emergency room.
The EMT gives info to the medical staff- “Female, late 20's, no ID, she coded twice on the way over here.”
Nurse-“Where's the other one?” {It sounds like she asks ‘who’}
EMT- “Right behind us. They're on their way.” (Fire Department had to use the jaws.)
Intern- “What do we got here?”
Nurse-“Female. Late 20s... Auto accident."
Intern-“What the hell is that thing?”
{Jack hasn’t even "seen" the patient at this point and answers the interns question as he’s walking through the door.}
Jack- “A piece of the steering column. All right, let's go. Keep that collar steady. Page my father?”
The intern already did.
Jack wants the info on the patient.
Jack’s told, “Her tire blew, car jumped the divider, went head-on with an SUV.“
The patient’s BP is dropping.
Jack-“Pericardial’s pierced. Was she driving?”
EMT- “Yes, alone.”
Jack-“Where's the driver of the SUV?”
As if on cue a man is wheeled in and an EMT enters giving info on- “Adam Rutherford, 57, chest trauma, no breath sounds.”
Jack directs the intern to tube Mr. Rutherford while he…The intern says he can’t intubate, Jack has to.
A nurse informs Dr. Shephard, “his breathing's deteriorating.”
Jack opts to work on the injured woman; he pulls the steering column out of her chest.
Nurse-“88 over 52, no radial pulse.”
Jack-“I know. I know…sac's flooded. Where's it...”
He’s handed a big syringe. {Listen to the voices in the distant background, you can hear “5 gage…Pupils dilated…Dropping. Doctor, we're losing him.}
As Jack continues he gets the woman’s BP to stabilize and we hear the flat line sound of Adam Rutherford's heart monitor.
Nurse- “Time of death 8:15am.“


Jack-“Okay, get me a blood gas and a C-spine. Get her up to ICU and keep her immobilized.”
The female patient very weakly whispers something.
The intern asks, “Did you hear that?...What did she say?”
Jack heard her and states matter of fact, “She said she has to dance at her wedding.
{Flash Whoosh}
All the survivors are gathered at the dark caves. Charlie is telling a few that no one is out there, “No one is coming.”
One survivor is concerned because of what the French woman said.
Charlie-“The French woman is missing a bloody wing nut, you know. I mean, I mean, it was all bollocks. It's a ghost story. She set the fire herself.“
Sayid listens to Charlie.
Shannon asks if anyone has seen “Vincent…the dog. Anyone seen him? Has anyone seen the dog?” {Is there another Vincent that is not a dog?}
She tells Sayid, “I lost the damn dog.”
She heads out to look for him and Sayid follows.

Locke smiles as he looks down into the dark hatch. Hurley asks him why he lit the fuse.
Locke-“Why wouldn't I light the fuse?"
Hurley-“Ah, maybe because I was running towards you, waving my arms, yelling "don't do that?"
Locke laughs, ”Well, you've got a point there. I guess I was just excited to get inside. I mean, that's why we came here, isn't it?  That's why we went all the way out to the Black Rock, and why we got the dynamite to blow the hatch.   And we did it so that we could get inside, Hugo.”
Jack comments, “And to save everybody's lives.”
Jack asks Locke, “Or maybe it was just our destiny, right, John?”
Locke-“Maybe.”
Kate has the guys take a look at the hatch door that is right near them; "QUARANTINE" is stenciled on the inside of the hatch door.

Shannon is calling out for Vincent.
Sayid doesn’t think this is a good idea.  Shannon saw him 5 minutes ago and besides Sayid said there isn’t anyone out there.
Sayid clarifies, "I said we didn't see anyone. The dog will come back on his own. He always does.” Shannon feels watching that dog was the one thing anyone has ever asked her to do and if something happens to him…"
Sayid-“When was the last time you slept or had something to eat? You're exhausted.”
Shannon-“I can't tell that kid that I lost his dog because I was exhausted.”
A dog barks in the distance. They see Vincent sitting quiet and still in the middle of the jungle. Sayid will go circle around behind him but the dog runs away.
Shannon runs after Sayid, calling out for him. “Where are you?”
She trips over something, finding herself alone in the middle of the jungle hearing whispers. Then Shannon sees an image of Walt, dripping wet.  She asks Walt what he’s doing here.
Walt-“Shhhh.”
Then some backwards dialog comes out of his mouth.
Sayid calls out for Shannon and Vincent barks.    Shannon looks away from Walt and then back to him, but he has disappeared.
Sayid-“Shannon! What is it? What?“
Shannon looks panicked.

On their walk to the caves Kate asks Locke “Why do you want to get down there so bad?”
Locke corrects her,”-ly. Why do I want to get down there so badly.  Jack thinks I'm crazy, doesn't he?”
Kate-“Why, because you want to drop into a hatch that's been locked from the inside by a foot-thick steel door that says “quarantine?"
Locke-“Well, look at the bright side… damage is done.”
Kate-“The bright side?
Locke-“And if Jack thinks I've lost it, I can't blame him, really.  Then again, 5 hours ago I was pulled into a hole by what appeared to be a column of black smoke. Did you see it, Kate? {She did.} Then I guess we're both crazy. Wonder what Jack thinks he saw?”
{It was daylight when that happened.}

Jack and Hurley are together on their walk back to the caves; they trail Locke and Kate. Hurley suggests Jack go ahead so Locke doesn’t make time with his girl, “Joke, dude.”
Jack isn’t in the mood.
Hurley-“Really? Wow, usually you're, like, Mr. Ha-ha. {Jack laughs.} There you go. Life's not so bad, right?   I mean, sure the Others are coming to, like, eat us all, and every once in a while someone blows up all over you, but you do get to sleep in every morning.” {They’ve stopped walking.}
Jack inquires about Hurley mentioning the numbers are bad.   Hurley feels that’s a long story, but Jack has time to hear it.
Hurley-“You'll think I'm crazy.“
Jack-"Try me."
Hurley-“A while ago I was in this kind of psych ward, and there was this guy, Leonard…and all the time I knew him all he ever said were these numbers… 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42, over and over and over again.   And they kind of got stuck in my head.  So, when I got out, well, actually a couple of months after I got out, I was buying a frozen burrito and I thought, hey, I should play the lottery.   And I guess those numbers were still stuck in my head so I played them. And I won… 114 million dollars. That's when it started happening.   My grandpa died, my house caught on fire, the chicken joint that I worked at got hit by a meteor… well, actually meteorite.   Okay, so tonight I see the same freaking numbers on the hatch thing …just written on the side.  And that's why I tried to stop it, because that thing is cursed, man.“
Jack-"You were in a psych ward?"
Hurley-"I'm not crazy."
Jack-"I'm not saying you are."
Hurley-"So, what? That's it? That's all?"
Jack-"What do you want me to say?"
Hurley-"How about you believe me, man?"
Jack-"Hurley, they're numbers."
Hurley-"What's that thing where doctors make you feel better just by talking to you?"
Jack-"Bedside manner."
Hurley-"Yeah, that. Yours sucks, dude."
{Flash Whoosh}
Jack is writing while standing over the hospital bed of the injured woman whom is just waking up. {There are 2 other sleeping patients in the room.}
The woman, Sarah, asks what happened to him. “The other car that I hit…the other driver was older.”
Jack reveals her he died in the E.R.
Sarah tells the Doctor she can’t feel anything.
Jack-“I know.“
Sarah-“What's happened to me?” {Jack’s eyes are dark.}
Jack informs her in a calm unemotional and detached manner, “You have a fracture dislocation of your thoracic lumbar spine with multiple crushed vertebrae. Your back is broken. Your spleen is ruptured and bleeding into your abdomen and that has to be stopped. I'm going to perform surgery and repair as much damage as possible. But even the most optimistic result puts the likelihood of retaining any feeling or mobility anywhere below the waist at "extremely unlikely".
Doctor Christian Shephard observed all this through a glass window. He asks Dr. Jack if he may have a word.
As they walk down the hall Jack wonders what he did wrong.
Christian-“You did something wrong?”
Jack-“You're frowning.”
Christian-“My face is always this way.”
Jack is really interested to hear what dad has to say.
Christian-“You might want to try handing out some hope every once in awhile. Even if there's a 99 percent probability that they're utterly, hopelessly screwed, folks are much more inclined to hear that 1 percent chance that things are going to be okay.
Jack-“Her spines crushed. I tell her that everything's going to be okay, that's false hope, dad."
Christian-“Maybe, maybe, but it's still hope.”
Dad gives him a ‘buddy smack’ on his arm and the both walk away in opposite directions.
{Flash Whoosh}
In the caves, crying Shannon is trying to tell everyone she knows what she saw, “It was Walt.”
Sayid wants her to lower her voice as to not upset the rest of the group.
Shannon-“I heard whispers.“
Claire- “Where?”
Shannon-“Everywhere.“
Charlie wonders, “What …what whispers? Who?”
Shannon doesn’t know, “Them.”
Sun asks her if she thinks something happened to the raft. Sayid tells her nothing happened to the raft, “Walt is with your husband, with Sawyer…”
Upset Shannon knows what she saw!
Charlie announces that the dynamite hatch team is back.
Jack stands front and center of the group and makes a speech. “Uh, Locke found, uh, a hatch in the ground… about a half a mile from here. We left to, to blow it open so that we could hide inside, so all of us could hide inside, in case... But that doesn't matter now because it's not going to work. There's no way for all of us to get down in there tonight.”
Charlie asks Jack where Dr. Arzt is.
Jack reveals he didn’t make it.
Shannon asks if he saw them, “Did you see the Others?”
Charlie blurts out there are no Others, “We've already had this conversation.” {That's right, they're all Others.}
Charlie insists there’s no one out there and Shannon insists Charlie doesn’t know because he didn’t see anything
Jack- “Hey! Everything's going to be okay.  Let's just take it easy.   We're going to be alright.  We're going to stay here tonight, okay, together.  We've still got 4 guns.  We'll put lookouts at all the entrances.  We're all going to be safe as long as we stay together.  The sun comes up in 3 hours {remember that} and we're all going to be here to see that happen.  I promise. {Locke interrupts the speech} John, what are you doing?”
Locke-“I'm getting some cable.”
Jack-“What for?”
Locke tells him it’s for the hatch, “I’m going in.”
Jack wonders if that’s the smartest thing to do right now.
Locke-“I doubt it. In fact, you're right. The safest thing is to stay here, wait for morning, wait for these Others to see if they ever show up.   Wait for the brave folks on the raft to bring help.  But me, I'm tired of waiting.  Nonchalant Locke heads out with a lot of cable.   Jack and Kate share a look.

Jack sits off by himself in a fixed stare. Kate walks over and asks him if he believes it.
Jack-“Believe what?“
Kate- “That everything’s gonna be okay.”
Jack believes it.
Kate- “Kind of unlike you, the whole glass half-full thing."
Jack-“There's a glass?”    {Yes, of course there’s a glass! A big looking glass!}
They laugh.
Kate-“You did a good thing saying, what you said, And taking care of everybody and just giving them something to count on. If you weren't here, Jack...I'm going to the hatch. I understand why you can't go. They need you here. I get it. I do. But Locke's going into that thing whether you like it or not. And if he falls and breaks his neck... Live together, die alone, right?”
Jack-“Right.”
Kate walks away.
{Flash Whoosh}
Jack Shephard M.D. chats with Sarah's fiancé, Kevin, in Jack's office.
Jack tells him his fiancé was seriously injured. It could take as long as 10, maybe 12 hours. “I won't know how extensive the damage is until I get inside.”
Stunned Kevin {Wears black} comments she was going for a dress fitting and to look at tablecloths. Jack asks when the wedding is.
Kevin-“Its 8 months.”
Jack is sure Sarah will have recovered by then.
Kevin asks what does "recovered" mean.
Jack-“There will be ongoing physical therapy, but if she works really hard...”
Kevin’s concern is if she’ll be able to make love.
Jack-“You need to know that there's a chance Sarah might very well need professional care for the rest of her life.”
Kevin-“Like, she won't be able to go to the bathroom by herself?”
Jack is taken aback by his attitude.

Jack bursts open the O.R. door. Sarah is getting prepped  and so is Jack.
Sarah quietly tells Jack to, “Come here. Come here. I want to tell you a little secret. Come on… Closer… It's okay. I know I'm not going to be dancing anymore. I can still roll around at my wedding. And you're invited, okay.“
Handsome focused Jack states matter of fact, “I'm going to fix you.”
Sarah goes to sleep.
Jack realizes the staff heard him make this statement.


Locke is at the hatch. {Makes a noose loop cable w/exposed wires.}
He smiles as he knows Kate has arrived.
Kate expected to find him half way down there by now.
Locke-“I was waiting for you.”
Locke wants her to go down first as she's lighter, and belay her; he can lower her down and bring her back up just as easily.  Kate feels he left out the part where, "you just want to see if I get eaten by something."
Locke-"Yeah, well, that too."
He ties the cable rig around Kate and asks, "Not too tight?"
She starts climbing down the ladder, "Wait, what do I say if I need to stop?"
Locke-"Stop."
Kate is afraid.
As he lowers her down one of the trees holding the cable breaks, dropping Kate lower. {So much for being lighter. lol}
There is a scream! Locke holds on tight as to not drop her!
Kate yells up that she dropped the light.
Focused John continues to lower her down; his hands are bleeding.   On her way down she sees a mirror and a light revealing an opening.    She starts using Jack's "count to five" exercise {She counts to four}
The light goes out and then back on, as if something was closing and opening.
Kate yells for John to stop; she thinks there's something down... All of a sudden a bright light goes on and a scream can be heard.   Locke calls out for Kate but she doesn't reply.    The cable-vine seems to get pulled from his hands as if someone is on the other end pulling it; the light goes out.
Locke calls down into the dark hatch for Kate.

Back at the caves, Jack is fired up.   He loads a gun. {Jack always has access to a gun.} Hurley wonders if he's kidding, "You're going back?"
Hurley asks what about all the things Jack said "Wait until morning, watch the sunrise."
Well, Jack changed his mind.

Jack runs through the dark jungle with his torch arriving at the hatch. He tugs on the cable-vine {it seems secure}, calls out for Kate and Locke. There's no reply from them so Jack drops his torch to the bottom, {Sounds like it hits a puddle}.    He wraps his hands for protection {Knowing they will get torn up otherwise.} and slides down the secure cable-vine.
{Flash Whoosh}
At night Jack is running the steps at an empty stadium.  Up and down, up and down. {I wonder how many times he's runs the steps, how often?}
Another man{w/tiny pony tail} joins in 1 row over.   There's a little competition between them for a moment as the man quickens his pace to pull ahead of Jack. 
 Jack trips!
The man with the tiny ponytail and Scotch accent asks, "You alright, brotha?"
He tells Jack to take it easy; keep the weight off. "Does this hurt?" {Jack nods no. The man checks his right ankle.} You haven't sprained it then. I don't fancy your chances of catching up with me tonight, though."
Out of breath Jack says, "I wasn't trying to catch up."
Ponytail man-"Aye, of course you weren't."
Jack wonders what he knows about sprains, anyway.
Ponytail man-"I was almost a doctor once."
Jack-"Small world."   {Especially in their world! lol}
Ponytail main-"You a doctor then? {Jack nods yes}
Ponytail man offers Jack his water bottle. So what's your excuse?"
Jack-"Excuse?"
Ponytail man-"For running like the devil's chasing you. My excuse - I'm training."
Jack- "Training for what?"
Ponytail man-"For a race around the world. Impressive, I know. So your excuse better be good, brother."
Jack-"Just trying to work a few things out."
The amused ponytail man asks,"Ah, a girl, right?"
Jack-"A patient."
Ponytail man, "Ah, but a girl patient. What's her name?"
Jack-"Her name's Sarah."
Ponytail man-"What'd you do to her then?"
Jack-"Do to her?"
Ponytail man- "You must have done something worthy of this self-flagellation."
Jack-"I told her... I made a promise I couldn't keep... I told her I'd fix her and... couldn't. I failed."
Ponytail man-"Well, right. Just one thing... what if you did fix her?"
Jack-"I didn't."
Ponytail man-"But what if you did?"
Jack-"You don't know what you're talking about, man."
Ponytail man-"I don't? Why not?"
Jack-"Because with her situation that would be a miracle, brother."
Ponytail man-"Oh, and you don't believe in miracles? {Jack laughs} Right. Well then, I'm going to give you some advice anyway. You have to lift er up."
Jack-"Lift it up?"
Ponytail man-"Your ankle. You've got to keep it elevated. It's been nice chatting."
Jack hands the ponytail man back the water bottle and introduces himself, "Jack."
Ponytail man-"Jack, I'm Desmond. Good luck, brotha. See you in another life, yeah?"
Desmond runs down the stairs.
{Flash Whoosh}
Jack lands on the bottom of the hatch shaft.    He finds a turned on flashlight and the mirror in a partial puddle, he looks around and walks through an opening.   He notes a floodlight and huge pipes, plumbing pipes and dripping water running through a "walkway".
{Note a pair of shoes left outside of the doorway.}
He readies his gun while looking around and noting there's electric power to this underground cement and steel place.
He sees a painted mural with 108 and other images on it.
Jack examines a portion of a wall and the key around his neck is pulled by a magnetic force. A looking glass/mirror/camera adjusts to get a better look at Jack.
All of a sudden the song Make Your Own Kind of Music turns on, loud! {Making the scratch skip sound before the tune kicks in.} A bright lights turns on!
Nervous Jack enters computer room and looks around.
There are clicking sounds of the very old computers. {Reel to reel computer data storage system.}
You can hear Kate yelling for Jack in the background! But  Jack doesn't hear her.
He checks out the old computer screen with it's blinking green 'ready/input/go' icon.
He's just about to push EXECUTE and the record scratches to a stop!




"I wouldn't do that."    It's nervous Locke standing there.
Jack points the gun at him wanting to know where Kate is. Just then a gun is pointed at Locke's head by the hidden Hatch Man.


 Jack is sitting in Sarah's hospital room. {# 8 is on equipment next to him. Time on the clock 6:12-ish} She wakes up asking if she's alive.    Jack confirms she's alive.
Sarah informs him he smells; smells like he ran far.
Jack says he showered, "I mean, I guess I just didn't cool. I... I wanted to get back down here and check on you. It was a Tour de Stade." {French}
He explains it's when you run all the steps in every section of an empty stadium up and down. He does this because he's intense.    Jack admits he didn't finish because he hurt his ankle.
Sarah asks for Kevin, her fiancé.  Jack didn't see him.
He breaks the news to Sarah.
Emotional Jack-"Sarah, the... the damage to your back was extensive. I did everything I could but your spinal column... I just...I couldn't repair it. {He cries.}You're going to be paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of your life. {Just like Locke} I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Sarah."
Sarah-"You're yanking my chain, right?"
Jack-"No."
Sarah can wiggle her toes. Jack examines her asking if she can feel "this".
Sarah has feeling.
They both cry.
{Flash Whoosh}
The unseen Hatch Man tells Jack,"Move and I kill him. Put the gun down."
Jack asks where Kate is and Locke tells him it's okay. The Hatch Man demands Jack drop it but Jack only wants to know about Kate.
Locke-"She's fine, just put down the..."
Jack-"I'm not putting anything..."
A shot is fired by the Hatch Man, "Do you want him to die? Put it down!"
Jack-"Is this what you were talking about, Locke? Is this your destiny? All roads lead here?"
Locke-"Jack, calm down."
The Hatch Man moves behind Locke, tells Jack, "Lower your gun or I'll blow his damned head off, brother."
Jack recognizes that voice and word. The Hatch Man shows his face revealing it's the man Jack met at the stadium.
Jack is stunned-"You."





Man of Science, Man of Faith is a GREAT episode!!!
The connections of the residents of the "Island" really start to show themselves here in season 2. The connections and relations are all over the place.

Let's look at Jack's "Flash":   A woman with no I.D. and coded twice is brought into the hospital.    Is Jack the only doctor in the whole emergency department?   Maybe he is... But he no doubt chooses to work only on the woman who coded twice.   Adam also codes.  Of course, Shannon's father is the other man in this part of their story.
This episode shows us Sarah was supposed to be a "cripple".     Are we seeing a real miracle or a manipulated part of their story?     If Jack knows without doubt that he did not fix her, what changed to fix her?   Are there really miracles?   Does Desmond know what's he's talking about? Hmm?!
We could be talking about metaphors; using "cripple" for emotional crippling as opposed to physical crippling.

On to Walt showing himself in a place no one expected him:  How often has Walt traveled through the "universe": to go hang out somewhere?   Is he able to do this telepathically, physically or is it really even Walt?  There's no denying  we're told Walt is special, but how? WAAAAAALLLLLLT!!! {I just had to do that, LOL!}

The shoes outside of the doorway in the hatch: {We know who the shoes belong to.}  But why take your shoes off there.   Shoe removal is a practice done by the Asian culture, or when one may enter certain temples. If I were to go and research ancient cultures and civilizations would I find the practice of removing shoes in either a holy place or home or place of honor. Greek, Egypt, Rome, Indian, Asian, Mayan, how about cultures of today. What I'm getting at here is... a coincidence the shoes are removed, a subconscious act, a place of honor or simply because his feet hurt.

Let's note that the Lava Lamp is on in the hatch and is on every time we see it.  A reference to a volcano perhaps or a metaphor?

Here's one...It's dark at the hatch, Locke tells Kate 5 hours ago I was dragged by the monster.  It was daylight then.  At the caves, 1/2 a mile away from the hatch, Jack says the sun comes up in 3 hours...Could we be missing a few hours here or am I over thinking this part?

As we head into season 2 we're still eye color watching, and let's add to that the plaid shirt phenomenon! That's right, Season 1 and 2 so far are filled with men wearing plaid shirts!  Dharma street wear? lol!   Note all the times someone is wearing plaid! Yuk! Even Jack is guilty of this bad fashion statement.

Things to Note...Questions to ask...
* Crazy. Psych ward. Head. Emotions. Alone. Crippling pain. Hope.
* Desmond's injections a vaccine or a hallucinogen?
* Desmond is in control of the computer and mechanics of the hatch. Who is this guy, really?!
* Electronics. Computer. Cable. Wires. Numbers. Data. Driver.
* The image/audio of Walt is run backwards.
* Tube
* NO I.D.
* Jack chooses to work on female and not to intubate male, leaving Adam to die.
* T.O.D. 8:15am {the watch on nurse says 11: 14 Jack’s watch says 12:38.}
* Note Jack's hospital badge; his hair is longer
* Jack trips. Shannon trips. 
* Kate uses Jack's Count to Five method.
* Jack goes from emotionally cold and by the book deliverer of news to Sarah before her surgery to a total emotional wreck after.
* Jack can hear weak whispering Sarah in the E.R. but doesn't hear Kate in the hatch.
* The caves are a ½ a mile away from the hatch and not once in that few weeks even with Locke and Boone out there did anyone stumble upon them.
* A "Glass".

Vocabulary and Research...
* Belay- Nautical to stop doing something, or not follow an earlier instruction.
* Dharma- The start of the Eight Fold Path.  The teachings of Buddha.  A journey to enlightenment.




Remember everything we see in an episode is there for us to see for a reason! Unless it's those times the writers send us a crap clue for a laugh. Funny guys,  gotta love them!
I wonder if John {or anyone else} stopped following instructions he'd gotten earlier.

Yes, Jack is a man of science; things based on facts and data. Locke is a man of faith, no questions asked. Can you be a person who believes in both? I wonder…

Love to all who are "LOST"™

Posted on MySpace July 23, 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.

April 6, 2009

Whatever Happened, Happened.

Let's talk about LOST! Whatever Happened, Happened.

Phil is radioing Jin, who is still unconscious.
Through the static Phil asks, “Jin are you there? Can you hear me?"
Jin wakes up and responds to the call.
Phil asks where he’s been, “The Hostile escaped. We’re searching the East grid.”
Jin tells Phil the Hostile is headed north; he knows this because “he” attacked me.
Jin sees young Ben lying face down on the ground and turns him over; all the while Phil is still trying to get Jin’s attention via the radio. Ben has blood on the right side of his chest.
Ben weakly asks Jin, “Please. Help.”
Jin puts Ben in the Dharma van and drives off.

Horace- “Okay everybody. Listen up. We don’t know yet if another attack is coming. So everybody needs to be ready for your security assignments. Make sure you’re in contact with your team leaders. LaFleur’s got search parties out; but the Hostiles got a good jump on us.”
Hurley and Jack move a burned sofa.
Horace {with a flashlight} goes on to tell the people they’re pretty sure he used the fire as a diversion in order to escape.
Hurley whispers, asking Jack if he’s talking about Sayid.
Jack asks Horace, “If he was locked up, how can he start the fire?”
Horace- “Who are you?”
Jack- “Jack. Jack Shephard. I’m new.”
Horace tells Jack the way “he” started the fire is he had help. Somebody torched that van and that somebody let him out of his cell. And since the security cameras didn’t pick up any Hostiles crossing the perimeter “That means it was one of us.” {Security cameras didn't see Ben let Sayid out?} The crowd looks nervous. Horace tells Baxter he wants a full report on clean up, ASAP. {Clean up on aisle 2. lol}
Kate leans against a tree, looking distant.
Roger gets her attention. He knows she’s in the motor pool. {Seems like Kate forgot that for a second. Lol} He asks her to run the winch for him but she has no idea what he’s talking about.
Roger- “No worries. Just throw this lever. When I tell you to stop just (whistle) pull it up. Simple.”
Crank her up! The winch pulls the burned van from the burned house.
Roger chats with Kate, “So they just stuck you in the motor pool when you got here.”
Yep.
He remarks that the same thing happened to him, “I guess they couldn’t sucker anybody into gettin on that sub if they told us we were gonna be grease monkeys and janitors.”
Kate feels you gotta start somewhere. He asks her name and welcomes her aboard.
They shake hands, “I’m Roger. Roger Linus.”
Kate realizes who this is.
Jin pulls up with young Ben. Everyone starts to gather around. Jin carries Ben; rushing to get him help.
Roger is upset, “That’s my kid. That’s my kid!”    He runs, following Jin.
{Flash}
Kate drives down a residential street. Patsy Cline, “The only this different” plays on the radio. She pulls into the driveway of a cute home.
Kate {Red hair tie} takes the infant out of the backseat baby carrier, “Hi handsome. Did you have a good sleep?”
She sings, “Catch a falling star” to the baby as she slowly walks up to the front door.
Ding dong.
Cassidy opens the door. Kate says hello to her, but it looks like it takes Cassidy a second to realize who is in front of her. They hug and share a peck on the cheek.
Cassidy- “Oh my god, I saw you on the news. I told all my friends ‘I know that woman.”
Kate introduces Aaron.
Cassidy- “You survived a plane crash. It’s amazing. I never thought I’d see you again. What are you doing here?”
Kate- “Sawyer sent me.”
Cassidy fans a wad of cash in a white letter envelope, “Sawyer. So that Son of a bitch is still alive.”
Kate- “He was when I left.”
Cassidy states, he asked Kate to “come here” and give her an envelope full of money.
Kate- “He told me where to find you and to and…said to take care of Clementine. His daughter”
Cassidy, a bit sarcastic, says “Well she’s asleep in her crib right now. Want me to wake her up?”
Kate regretfully says she shouldn’t have bothered Cassidy when she could have just sent it. Cassidy asks why she told her all this, “Why’d you trust me?”
Kate feels Cassidy's daughter had a right to know her father cared.
Cassidy- “Why didn’t he come back with the rest of you?”   {The rest of you. Hmmm...}
Kate explains the helicopter they were on was running out of gas, so he jumped so they could make it to the boat.
Cassidy with bitterness in her voice, “What a coward.”
Kate knows that isn’t true, “He was trying to do the right thing.”
Cassidy feels he was trying to get away from Kate. Cassidy shares with Kate that she told him he had a daughter and he didn’t even lift a finger to call her, “So now I’m supposed to think he’s a hero because he told you to come here and help us? Hell, I bet this money isn’t even his, is it?”
Kate mentions to her “they” gave them a settlement after the crash “and I didn’t need it all...”
Cassidy doesn’t need her to explain, “You got the same look on your face I did when he ditched me...All I have for you is sympathy.”
Cassidy asks if Kate’s son is Sawyers.
Nope.
Kate- “I was pregnant before I met him.”
Kate gets fidgety and nervous while Cassidy watches Kate’s actions reveal there’s more to that story.
Cassidy- “That’s not your baby, is it? Kate, you just told me you and your friends cooked a whole story for the whole world about what happened on that island. So you tell me the truth about that. Why are you lying to me about him?”
Kate- “Because I have to.”



Kate walks away from the burned Dharmaville house. {Does this house look like it's in the middle of Dharmaville?}
Le Fleur {Monitor control} checks out surveillance.
Kate heads downstairs to the security station and asks LaFleur what happened.
LaFleur is pissed, “What the hell are you doing here?”
Kate- “That kid who was shot was Ben. Was it Sayid? Did he shoot him?”
He tells her she needs to keep her mouth shut and stop asking questions, “Cause putting any attention on your self is the last thing I need right now. So scram. I don’t want you around here.”
Kate just wants to know what’s going on. Horace hurries in to speak to LaFleur and is surprised to see her there. Jin, Phil and Miles are there with him.
LaFleur makes up a story as if he is new to “Kate” from the motor pool and was questioning her about seeing anything suspicious, but she didn’t. He tells her she can run along.

Horace asks LaFleur if he checked out the Hostile’s cell yet.
Nope; he’s been busy trying to keep the town from burning down. Horace suggests they do it.
At the cell they discover its door has been unlocked and the keys are still in it.
Horace- “He didn’t break out. Somebody let him out.”
These are janitor’s keys. They only have three janitors there, Roger, Willie and the new guy, Jack. {Watch LaFleur.}
LaFleur comments Jack as the guy he brought in from the sub. He recruits Miles to go with him to talk to Jack.

Daylight:
LaFleur instructs Miles to find Jack, Kate and Hurley quickly and put them in a house “and sit on em.” {Like chickens/eggs!}
LaFleur doesn’t want them talking to anybody else, “things are starting to spin out of control here.”
LaFleur heads over to the infirmary and is met by nervous Roger.
Roger asks him if he knows who did this to his son.
LaFleur-“Not yet, but we’re working on it.”
Roger doesn’t know how Ben is doing because Juliet told him to wait outside.
LaFleur- “Let me see if can get an update for ya.”
On his way in LaFleur asks Roger if he has his keys with him. Roger searches himself for the keys and realizes he doesn’t have them; “I must have left em at the house.”
LaFleur tells him it’s alright, “don’t worry 'bout it.” {Watch Roger here.}

Beeping Monitors.
Juliet and an assistant work on bleeding Ben. If she can’t stop the hemorrhaging they’re just gonna have to pack the whole tract.
Le Fleur enters covering his mouth with a surgical mask, “Where’s the Doctor?”
Juliet- “The Looking Glass Station til Friday.” {WTF?! WHO?!}
Juliet tells Jim Ben’s not doing well, “He’s still bleeding in there somewhere, I can’t fix it.”
LaFleur reassures her it’s alright.
Juliet tells him it’s not alright, someone needs to get in there and find the damage that bullet did and fix it. (She whispers) He needs a real surgeon.”
He storms out of there {on a mission}


At the house, Jack asks Miles if he’s telling them they’re under house arrest.
Miles- “No. You’re all free to leave whenever you want. But, I’ll shoot you in the leg.”
Jack- “And who’s idea was this?”
Miles- “Who do you think?”
Kate feels Sawyer’s just doing his job.
Hurley sits at the table looking over his left hand.
Miles asks Tubby what the hell he’s doing. Hurley is checking to see if he’s disappearing, “Back to the Future, man. We came back in time to the island and changed stuff. So if little Ben dies he’ll never grow up to be big Ben who’s the one who made us come back here in the first place. Which means we can’t be here and therefore, Dude, we don’t exist.
Miles- “You’re an idiot.”
Is he?!
Miles tells him it doesn’t work like that,“You can’t change anything. Your maniac Iraqi buddy shot Linus that is what always happened. It’s just we never experienced how it all turns out.”
Hurley- “This is really confusing.”
Miles tells him to get used to it, “But the good news is that Linus didn’t die. So that means the kid can’t either. He’ll be fine.”
Kate remarks it didn’t look like he was gonna be fine, “What if you’re wrong.”
Miles-“Well, if I’m wrong then I guess we all stop existing and none of it matters then anyway, does it?”

LaFleur barges in the house wanting Doc/Jack to go with him.
Nonchalant Doc asks him “Where?”
LaFleur tells him the kid is losing blood and they aint got none to put back in him. They need Jack to show them where the kid sprung a leak. Jack is not going with him. LaFleur is very concerned, “If you don’t come with me, Jack, that kid's gonna die.”
Kate looks at Jack as if to be asking, ‘Why aren’t you helping?’
Jack-“Then he dies.”

From the jalousie window, Kate watches LaFleur walk over and talk to Roger outside the infirmary. She is pissed off at Jack. {He’s making sandwiches.} Kate feels “he’s” just a boy. You can’t just let him die.”
Jack- “You heard Miles. We can’t change what’s already happened. This has nothing to do with me.”
{He’s right. This part has nothing to do with him. Unless all this has everything to do with Jack.}
Kate- “Unless you’re the one who’s supposed to save him.”

Jack calmly and quietly replays the event that will happen in 30 years, “That boy’s gonna be a man that locks me in a cage because he needs surgery, and your gonna come in and you’re gonna beg me to operate on him cause he’s threatening to murder Sawyer. I’ve already done this once...I’ve already saved Benjamin Linus, and I did it for you, Kate...I don’t need to do it again.”
Kate- “This is our fault. We brought Sayid back {They did? I thought Ilana brought him back. WTF?!} We caused this.”
Jack- “When we were here before I spent all of my time trying to fix things. But, did you ever think that maybe the Island just wants to fix things itself? That maybe I was just...gettin in the way.”
Kate shakes her head in disbelief. She reveals she doesn’t like the new Jack, she liked the old Jack who wouldn’t just sit around and wait for things to happen.
Jack-“You didn’t like the old me, Kate.”
Yep, Kate walks out.
Miles, who seemed to have been resting his eyes, yells out to her, “Where you going?!” But Kate slams the door behind her.

Little Ben gasps for breath/air as he sleeps in the infirmary. Julie tells the boy to relax, he’s okay. {Where was this kid shot??}
A nurse tells Juliet that one of the new people are here, she heard the Ben needed blood, “says she’s a universal donor.” {So is Jack.}
Juliet draws Kate’s blood. She calls Kate very brave.

Juliet mentions that James told her Jack wouldn’t help but he didn’t say why.
Kate- “If I understood why Jack does what he does I sure as hell wouldn’t be sittin here.”
Juliet asks her if something happened “off Island” with her and Jack. {Come on! “OFF ISLAND” You don’t find that to be a weird way to put it?!}
Kate reveals they were engaged, “Does that count?” {Watch Juliet’s face.}Roger bursts in wanting to know what’s going on with his kid.
Juliet explains “Kate’s giving us some fresh blood so we can transfuse Ben.”
Roger insists he’s not waiting outside, so Kate suggests he keep her company, “Make sure I don’t pass out.” 

Juliet approves.
Roger is upset feeling that Ben stole the keys, “Le Fleur asked me where my keys were. That bastard doesn’t ask any questions he doesn’t know the answers to. Which means my son stole my keys so he could bust that animal out of jail.”

Sad Roger feels the kid did that because of him. He asks Kate if she has kids.
Nope, she doesn't.
Roger thought he “was gonna be the greatest father ever. {You know?} I guess it didn’t work out that way.”
Kate asks if Ben’s mother is still around. He shares she’s dead, “She died the day he was born.”
Kate-“I’m sorry.”
Roger- “Yeah. Me too…I tried to do what I thought she’d want me to do. But...I guess a boy just needs his mother." {Watch Kate’s face}.

Little Ben starts gasping! Beeping/alarms!
Juliet yells Ben’s going into Hypoxic shock. She yells for someone to “get him/Roger out of here.” Ben needs more oxygen. {Juliet puts a muzzle type oxygen mask over the nostril type oxygen he was getting.}
A nurse shuffles Roger out, but Kate didn’t have to leave.

Hurley- “Let me get this straight...all this already happened.”
Pacing Miles tells him yes.
Hurley-“So this conversation we're having right now, we already had it.”

Excited Miles claps his hands in a manner of someone who's playing charades and his opponent got the answer correct/bingo!, “Yes!”
Hurley-“Then what am I gonna say next?”
Miles doesn't know.
Hurley declares, “Ha, then your theory is wrong!”
Miles is frustrated, “For the thousandth time, you Dingbat, the conversation already happened. But not for you and me. For you and me, it's happening right now.” {But, you just said yes to that question a second ago. lol}
Hurley-“Okay, answer me this...If all this already happened to me, then why don't I remember any of it?” {Note, Jack walks by unfazed by the time travel talk, but Miles does see Jack head down the hall}
Miles- “Because once Ben turned that wheel, time...isn't a straight line for us anymore. Our experiences in the past and the future occurred before these experiences right now.” {Go ahead Miles, try to convince yourself of that. Lol}
Hurley is confused, “Say that again.”
Miles takes his gun from the back pocket of his jumpsuit and tells Hurley to please shoot him.
Hurley-“Ah ha! I can't shoot you because if you die in 1977 then you'll never come back to the island on the freighter 30 years from now.”
Miles- “I can die! Because I've already come to the island on the freighter. Any of us can die. Because this is our present.”
Hurley- “But you said Ben couldn't die cause he still has to grow up and become the leader of the Others.”
Miles- “Because this is his past.” {Isn't it little Ben's present?”}
Hurley- “But when we first captured Ben and Sayid like- tortured em, then why wouldn't he remember getting shot by that same guy when he was a kid?”
Miles, looking as if Hurley did indeed enlighten him to something replies, “Huh...I hadn't thought of that.”
Hurley-“Huhs” him back,as if to say...see.


Roger paces outside the infirmary while Kate sits on the ground. She is in thought and troubled. Juliet comes out to tell Roger “He's stable.... He's got some fresh blood running through him, which is a good thing”
She needs Roger to go to the medical station for additional supplies. She gives him a piece of paper (list). {She's always sending people to the medical station for more supplies. What's that about?}
Kate listens.
Roger sincerely thanks Juliet, “I know that you're doing everything you can to save him...”
He leaves. Juliet reveals that Ben isn't any better but is stable, “But I can't, um, I can't fix it.”
Kate- “What about the sub? Can we take him somewhere?”
No, it's gone, it won't be back for a couple of months.
Kate wonders, “But he can't die, right?”
Juliet says matter of fact, “He is going to die. He is in a medical situation that is not resolvable.”
Kate rambles on about them not just sitting there and doing nothing. There's got to be someone who can help him, “We have an entire ca...”
Juliet just silently stares, waiting for Kate to say, “What?”
Juliet- “Maybe there's something “they” can do.”
Kate- “They”


Juliet-“The Others.”
Juliet and Kate, gurney Ben to the van. {He's wearing his converse!} Together they lift Ben into the van. 
Juliet-“Okay. Let's go.” She wants to go along but Kate tells her no, “If something goes wrong or we get caught it doesn't matter for me, but you got a whole life here. And besides, if Sawyer knew I got you involved this, he'd kill me.”
Juliet wants to know how Kate's gonna manage.
Kate gets into the driver's seat, “I'll manage. Don't worry.”
Juliet tells Kate Sawyer's gonna find out Ben's gone and she'll have to tell him what happened. As usual, Juliet will give Kate as much as a head start as she can. She wishes Kate, “Good luck.”

Flash to the pier {Yet again}.
Kate carries Aaron to the car as Ben is telling Sun about the 'someone here in Los Angeles who {Illusion-Canton Rainer} who can show them how to get back to the Island'.
Kate-“Is that's what this is about?” She turns to Jack, “You knew about this... and that is why you're pretending to care about Aaron, to convince me to go back.”
Jack yells, “I wasn't pretending anything.”
Kate- “This is insane, you guys are crazy...Jack, Don't!” She gets in the car.
In the car, Aaron from the backseat tells mommy he's thirsty, “I need some milk.”


In the supermarket, Kate and smiling Aaron hold hands walking down the aisle. {Price check on two over the speaker.}
Kate asks him if he wants chocolate milk or regular milk.
Aaron- “Juice box.” {There is juice right there.}
Kate- “You don't want milk anymore?”
Aaron- “Juice box.”
Kate asks the stock boy where's the juice boxes, {Tims-Long Beach.} tells her aisle five. {He only looks at Kate.}
Kate's cell rings. {Check stand 3} Jack is calling but she doesn't answer it. Aaron literally disappeared! Kate starts to panic. She asks the juice stock boy if he's seen her son. He looks at her as if she wasn't there with a kid! Kate hurries looking for Aaron down the aisles. {We get a view via a mirror. Love that!}
Kate tells the manager, “I've lost my son. He's 3, he's a little blond boy.”
The manager tells her not to worry, he'll make an announcement.
Kate- “No. You'll have to seal off the store...”
She sees Aaron walking hand in hand with a woman, who from the back, looks like Claire. She calls out to Aaron. The Claire look-a-like asks Aaron, “Is this your mommy?”   She found him in the fruit section, {Of course!} he looked lost and she was getting ready to make an announcement.
Kate hugs Aaron tight and thanks the woman.
Kate all teary eyed, comforts Aaron {or is she comforting herself?} “Mommy's got you.” {Kate looks up.}


Kate drives the van to the sonar fence. Ben is gasping and coughing. {Did he say 'mom' or 'um'?} “Tell my dad I'm sorry I stole his keys.”
Glasses wearing LaFleur pulls up behind her van. She knows he has to stop her but she can't just let that kid die. But he's not there to stop her, he removes his glasses {now he's Sawyer} “I'm here to help you.”

Aaron and Kate walk up to Cassidy's front door. {No soliciting sign.} Aaron rings the bell.
Clementine answers the door, “Hi, Auntie Kate.” {WTF?!}
Kate- “Hi, Clementine. Is your mommy home?”
Clementine will go get her.
Surprised Cassidy asks, "They're going back, to the island. Why in god's name would they wanna do that?”
Kate, crying doesn't know why, “Jack says that we weren't supposed to leave.” Cassidy mumbles, “Well, Jack sounds like a piece of work.”
Cassidy thinks Kate looks exhausted, “Drink this, curl up on my bed, take a nap. I'll watch your fella.” {Pours liquor in a coffee mug}
Kate- “I lost him.”
Kate shares the story of her and Aaron in the supermarket, that she turned around for one second and he was gone. She wipes tears from her eyes, “And you know the crazy thing is, is that, as scared as I was, I wasn't surprised. All I could think was, 'it's about time.' Why would I feel that way? I mean, why would I expect him to be taken?”
Kate takes a sip from her mug.
Cassidy enlightens her, “Because you took him, Kate.”
Kate justifies it, “No, I...Claire was gone. She left him. I had to take him, he needed me.”
Cassidy-“You needed him...Sawyer broke your heart. How else were you supposed to fix it?”

Sawyer enters a code on the keypad on the pylon. He asks Kate if she figured out how she was gonna carry him out there by herself.
Kate- “The line's just right over there, right? The Other's are on the other side.”
Sawyer- “They aint right on the other side. We better get movin.”
She wants to know why he's helping her.
Sawyer- “When I found out Ben was gone, Juliet told me what you were up to...I asked that exact damn question, 'Why you helpin Ben?' And she said, 'No matter what he's gonna grow up to be, it's wrong to let a kid die.”
So that's why he's doing this. He picks up Ben, “I'm doin it for her.”
They cross the sonar fence.

Juliet storms into the house and asks Miles and Hurley “Where's Jack?”
They boys are playing Dominoes; they think Jack is in the shower.
Hurley- “Is he in trouble?”
Juliet only says she needs to talk to him, “You two mind giving us some privacy.”
As Miles and Hurley leave the house Miles asks her, “Hey, ask him more questions about time travel.”
She slams the door; she apparently isn't bothered with “time travel”.


Jack is showering. {Yummm. Mirror} He steps out of the shower and Juliet has been standing there waiting for him.

Juliet tells dripping Jack, “I needed you...That kid was bleeding out, you're a surgeon, and I needed you.”
Jack- “That kid is Ben.”
Juliet- “It's not Ben yet. He's just a kid.” {Interesting!} Jack's reflection in the mirror. He says he's sorry, “I can't help you.”
She's not asking for his help; he made it pretty clear he's not interested, “It's up to Sawyer and Kate now.”
She informs him, “She's trying to save him. And I sent James after her to help because they actually care.”
Jack tells her he came back there “because I cared, because I was trying to save you.” {Trying to save Juliet?! Huh?}
Juliet- “We didn't need saving! We've been fine for three years. You came back here for you...Please do me the courtesy of telling me why.”
Jack- “I came back because I was supposed to.”
She wants to know, supposed to do what. Jack doesn't know yet.
Juliet- “Well you better figure it out.” And Juliet walks out. {Making room for me! Lol}

Sawyer carries Ben through the jungle. Kate offers to take him for a while. Kate tells Sawyer, “His father said that you think that Ben broke Sayid out.”
Sawyer- “A kid'll do almost anything if he's pissed off enough at his folks.”
Kate asks is that why he asked her to take care of his daughter. Out of breath puts sleeping Ben down carefully. Sawyer asks if she did. Of course she did. Kate gives Ben some water. Sawyer wants to know “What's she like?” {Clementine.}
Kate- “Oh. She's beautiful. Looks just like you when she smiles. She's growing up fast {Waaaaaalt fast? Lol} Already has a little attitude.”
He bets Kate and Cassidy had a lot to talk about.
Kate- “She had an interesting theory on why you jumped off the chopper.
Sawyer- “Yeah. What's that?”
Kate- “She thought you were worried about what would happen if you didn't.”
He looks up at her, “You and me would've never worked out, Kate. I wasn't anymore fit to be your boyfriend than I am to be that little girl's father.”
Kate compliments him on doing alright with Juliet.
He smiles, “Yeah. I've
done a lot of growing up the past 3 years.”
“HANDS UP!”  A rifle is pointed at them. They are surrounded by armed, ugly earth tone clothes wearing Hostiles, uh, or Others.
The lead guy tells them not to move, “This is a violation of the truce.
You're over the line.
Sawyer knows; he tells the dude, “This kid's been shot. That's both of our problems. So unless you wanna go to war, you're gonna take us to Richard Alpert, and you're gonna do it now.”

Kate knocks on a motel room door. {4x} Mrs. Littleton answers. “I'm Kate Austen.” 

Mrs. Littleton knows who she is and invites her in. Littleton tells Kate “Your friend Dr. Shephard came here last night. Going on and on about some person named Aaron. When I asked him who that was, he ran out of here like the room's on fire.”
Kate blurts out, “He's your grandson...And your daughter Claire is alive.”
Littleton looks baffled; Claire died in the plane crash.  Kate reveals Claire survived and was eight months pregnant and she's the one who gave birth on the Island, not her. “We
lied. There were other survivors too we just left them behind.”
Upset Littleton asks why would she leave her there.
Teary eyed Kate, “Because she disappeared and she left the baby behind, we looked everywhere but...that's when I started taking care of Aaron.  And when we were rescued we didn't...We had to decided what to do with him. And I knew that she had wanted him to be adopted but I couldn't. I had to protect him. So I said he was mine.”
Littleton- “Why would you lie? Why didn't you come to me in the first place?”
Kate-“Because I needed him....I'm sorry.”
Kate shows her a picture of sweet, kind and good Aaron on a swing.
Littleton- “Where is he?”
Kate-“Um, I checked in two doors down.
He's asleep. Kate knows this is a lot for her to handle, “But... when you're ready, he's waiting for you. I told him that you're his grandmother. That you'll take care of him while I'm gone, and that I'll be back soon.”
Littleton asks where she's going.
Kate- “I'm going back to find your daughter.”
Kate watches over sleeping Aaron;
she's crying. Kate kisses his forehead and opens the door, cries, “Bye-Bye baby.”

Sawyer carries
Ben while the Hostile Others march them to Richard. Sawyer tells Kate not to worry, “We got em right where we want em?”
The head dude tells Sawyer to shut up and keep moving.
“Hello there, James.” It's Richard greeting him.
Sawyer- “Where the hell'd you come from?”
Richard- “You asked my people to bring you to me, here I am.” {How'd he know that? MAGIC!}
Richard-“Is that Benjamin Linus?”
Sawyer- “You two know each other?”
Richard asks what happened to him.
Kate- “He was shot.”
Richard asks who might she be.
Sawyer- “She's with me.”
Richard asks Kate, “Why are you here?”
Kate- “Cause we need you to
save his life. Can you?”
After a few seconds of contemplating Richard tells them if he takes him, “He's not ever gonna be the same again.”
What Richard means is “he'll forget this ever happened, and that his innocence will be gone. He will always be one of us.” 
Then Richard slyly asks, “You still want me to take him?”
Kate-“Yes.”
Richard takes sleeping Ben from James. The head dude feels Richard “shouldn't do this without asking Ellie, and if Charles finds out....”
Richard- “Let him find out. I don't answer to either of them.”
Kate asks where he's taking Ben.
Richard just heads into the jungle. Sawyer pulls on Kate to lead her away.

Richard arrives at the temple wall with it's overgrown vines. He leans back against a doorway and with the bright light shining on him he looks up and enters carrying Ben.

Ben sleeps while John Locke watches over him. They are in the makeshift infirmary on the Hydra Island. Ben slowly wakes up and seems surprised to see John sitting there.
John says, “Hello Ben. Welcome back to the land of the living.”
John is happy.




Whatever Happened, Happened is a GREAT EPISODE!! Here again we see that experiences seem blurred. What is real and what's not? We have the same "key words/dialog and action" happening “on Island” as is happening “off Island”.

Things to note…Questions to ask....
♟ In The Cost of Living, Ben wants Jack to want to save his life.

♟Cassidy part of the con/game or a guide?
♟ I guess Claire's mother recovered from her major head trauma/coma. Ha!
♟ Kate being a universal donor could have helped to save Boone.
♟ "We brought Sayid back.” Could this be the “him” Claire mentions to Kate in her vision?
♟ Sayid always shot Ben, just as Juliet was always the doctor that delivered Ethan. She was always the Doctor that took care of shot Ben. Then wouldn't that mean Kate and Sawyer always delivered young Ben to Richard.
 
♟ WHERE IS THE DOCTOR? {Who? Jack?}
♟ Who’s the Dr. at the Looking Glass til Friday? Christian? 
♟ Who is watching via mirror/looking glass?
♟ It's OK for mechanic Juliet to be a Doctor now?
♟ Miles tells Hurley, “It doesn’t work like that”
regarding "time travel". Desmond tells Hurley and Charlie, “It doesn't work like that” regarding his “Future-Flashes”.
♟ Disappear- Appear-Magic.
♟ Kid-Kiddo. {A word Christian uses} Kidding-Joke.
♟ Unconscious. Knocked out. Sleep. Wake up. Mind. Mental. Maniac. Idiot. Worry. HEAD.
♟ Grow up. Change. Evolve. Mature. Enlightenment.
♟ They have security cameras everywhere. Wouldn’t they have seen Ben let Sayid out and who started the flaming van?
♟ Are certain things “Triggers”? I.E. songs, photos, key words, etc..
♟ Catch a falling star was sung by Christian to Claire and is the airplane mobile tune in the medical station.
♟ Fire issues seem to surround Kate.
♟ Welcome aboard” -“ship” talk for on or in a vessel.
♟ In the chopper Sawyer was able to whispers ALL that info about Cassidy, where to find her and said to take care of Clementine. Or does Kate have access to “chat” with him?
♟ Mirrors-Grocery story. Bathroom. {See, reflect, self}
♟ Aisle (isle)-Key=Island.  They're never out of the "confines" of the “island”.
♟ Healing properties of the Island??? The "Island" may only be able to encourage healing of emotional and/or spiritual hurt.
♟ Kate gives Aaron to Mrs. Littleton. Kate gives little Ben to Richard.
♟ Kate's blood flows through Ben's veins. How about that!
♟ Old you. New You= Reborn.
♟ Game. War. Levels/Layers. Mission. Quest. Health. Participants/players.
♟Perimeter is a circle.
♟ Time Travel... NO.

Vocabulary and Research...
♦ Winch. Used on ships.
♦ Domino-nicknamed bones, cards, tiles, tickets, stones, or spinners.  European-style dominoes are traditionally made of ivory, bone, or a dark hardwood such as ebony, with contrasting black or white pips. The game's name comes from the pieces' resemblance to Venetian Carnival masks known domini, which were white with black spots. These masks were so named, in turn, because they resembled French priests' winter hoods, being black on the outside and white on the inside. The name ultimately derives from the Latin dominus, meaning "lord" or "master." The oldest domino sets have been dated from around 1120. A few domino games are: 42 Dominoes, Chicken Foot,Connect
♦ Closure: The resulting framework offers solutions to the central questions of contemporary philosophy: the character of language and meaning, of the individual and consciousness, of truth and reality. provide an account that overcomes the problems of self-reference inherent in other philosophical systems.
♦ K ing's Indian Defense-a chess opening.
♦ Temple- a part of the head.
♦ Temple, a variety of tangor, a hybrid of an orange and a tangerine.
♦ SPIRAL-The spiral is an ancient symbol reflecting the universal pattern of growth and evolution. The spiral pattern appears again and again in the natural world from the milky way galaxy to snail shells. The living spiral does not begin or end, it is an ongoing process of innocence, discovery, community, and the essence that connects all things.
♦ Spiral Dynamics is a theory of human development. Spiral Dynamics argues that human nature is not fixed: humans are able, when forced by life conditions, to adapt to their environment by constructing new, more complex, conceptual models of the world that allow them to handle the new problems. Each new model includes and transcends all previous models. According to Beck and Cowan, these conceptual models are organized around so-called
Memes: systems of core values or collective intelligences, applicable to both individuals and entire cultures. In spiral dynamics, the term v Meme refers to a core value system acting as an organizing principle, which expresses itself through memes (self-propagating ideas, habits, or cultural practices).
The spiral approach is a technique often used in teaching or textbooks where first the basic facts of a subject are learned, without worrying about details. Then as learning progresses, more and more details are introduced, while at the same time they are related to the basics which are reemphasized many times to help get them into long term memory. This principle is somewhat similar to the inverted pyramid method used in writing news stories, and the game 20 questions.
♦The spiral model is a software development process combining elements of both design and prototyping-in-stages. Also known as the spiral lifecycle model, it is a systems development method (SDM) used in information technology (IT).





We saw a chapter into Kate's journey, or should I say, experience. It seemed a bit to me as if Aaron wasn't really with Kate in the supermarket. Could some of the “people” in their experiences not really be there?   Doesn't the possibility exist they aren't even real.   Richard just showing up to receive Ben was very magical.

Kate had some "guidance" from Cassidy to face the truth and to let go.   She's grown a bit.   Sawyer admits to growing up a bit too.  These people are lost and need to find themselves.  Again I must reiterate my “feeling” that certain (not all) events/experiences seem individualized and we are seeing "some" things from different perspectives.   Remember, everyone’s perspective is different. That means everyone’s perception of the truth is different.
Could any of what we've seen been bits of anyone else's perspective or was all of what we've seen just Kate's?
The moral here...”Whatever happened, happened.” You can't change it, so learn from it, let it go and move forward.

Love to all who are “LOST"™

DISCLAIMER: I never claim to know everything about the show and my thoughts by no means make me right! Things I share here are my views and/or opinions. I don't claim to catch every single detail either. I hate spoilers! I stand clear of reading certain sites, as to not take me off my own 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. Good! I'll only note things that I know come up as clues in bold.

February 15, 2009

This Place is Death.

Let's talk about LOST! This Place is Death.

Sun {wearing wedding ring} sits in her car at the marina, watching Ben chat with Jack, Kate and Sayid. Sun’s phone rings; it’s her mom.
Sun explains she’s still in L.A., “Finishing up what I came to do.”   Sun will be on a plane tomorrow. {I’m sure you will! But to where?}
Ji Yeon talks to Sun on the phone.
Sun shares with her, “I met a new friend for you in America. His name is Aaron.” {He's sleeping.}
Ji Yeon misses mom and wants her to come home.
Sun-“I will be soon.”
She ends the call and turns her attention back to the group. She gets out of the car with her gun in hand.
Upset Kate asks Ben why he doesn’t leave her and her son alone.
Ben-“Because he’s not your son, Kate.”
Sun pulls the gun on Ben and tells Kate to move away.
Sun informs Kate that Aaron’s in the car; Kate runs to retrieve him.
Jack says to Sun, “I know you think you’re helping...”
Sun feels if it wasn't for Ben Jin would still be alive.
Ben-“I didn’t kill your husband, Sun.”
Ben says he didn’t kill him, neither did anyone else.   Ben goes on to say Jin is alive and he can prove it. Sun accuses him of lying.   Ben, who never takes his eyes off her, says he’s not. {This reminds me of when Ben was prisoner in the armory and he was full of lies as Henry Gale.}

Jin, weathered from his journey, looks across the island beach and the water.  The French team zeros in on a voice on the radio. 8 15 16 23 42  {It SOUNDS LIKE HURLEY/HUGO}.
Pregnant Danielle asks Jin if he’s all right.
He asks and she confirms she is Danielle Rousseau.   He asks her where she’s from.  Danielle tells him they sailed from Tahiti on November 15.
Jin-“NO! What year?”
Apparently it's 1988.
Jin tells her group that he needs to find his camp and they wonder, what camp?
Robert-“You were on this island before?”
Jin {in English} asks if they “See helicopter?” {Motioning his finger in a circular copter propeller motion.}
Montand mocks Jin, first the boat, then the helicopter; next he feels Jin will mention a submarine. Montand knows which way to go.  He tells Robert the signal is strong; there must be an antenna on the island. If they go there they can call for help. {Jin looks like he understands them for a second and realizes they’re wasting their time.}
Robert asks Jin if there’s an antenna on the island, a radio tower. {Uses hand gestures and draws in the sand to communicate. His drawn radio tower looks like the Eiffel Tower. Lol}
Jin tells them yes, but he needs to go to his camp “Because maybe the helicopter go there.”
Danielle asks him if he knows where his camp from their location, but Jin looks “lost”.
No he can’t, but he thinks he can find it from the radio tower.
Danielle-“Then go with us to the radio tower. “Then we find your camp.”
OK.
Robert- “That’s settled. Let’s get moving.”
Montand looks annoyed and Danielle’s face shows concern.{Watch Jin.} She asks Jin if he’s ready to go, and he is.
Danielle- “Who are you hoping to find?”
Jin-“My wife.” {Danielle looks worried}


Jin and the French team walk through the jungle.  All the while the radio is broadcasting {Man/Hurley’s voice} repeating, 4 8 15 16 23 42... Apparently Montand gives them direction. Danielle gets a pain. Robert tells her he knew it was a mistake, “You’re 7 months pregnant.”
Danielle says she’s fine, “She just gave her a little kick."
They cutely bicker about the baby being a girl.  {Alexandra}
Robert says it’s a boy {Alexander}.  Jin watches them.
Robert will get her water.
The group realizes Nadine isn’t there. Montand comments that this is what happens when you bring women, “She’s probably off chasing butterflies.”
Jin hears something...growling, clicking; he tells them it’s,“Monster.”
Danielle asks who saw Nadine last; she was right behind them.
Danielle suggests they go back to find her. Jin insists they must go.
Montand tells Jin to “Shut up.”
They call out in search for Nadine. Robert instructs Brennan and LaCombe to spread out and search. The Smoke Monster pops up! They look up and Nadine falls from above.
Jin tells them to “RUN!”
They end up in a group. Smokey drags Montand to a hole in the ground that seems to be going under a wall. The group grabs Montand’s arm in an effort to pull him out. His arm gets torn off and he is pulled in. The group hears Montand call for help from below. He tells them he’s hurt and that thing is gone. Robert wants to go in and get him but Jin stops him.
Robert-“Do not leave anyone behind.”
So the men head in.
Danielle wants to go in too but Jin stops her, “No! No! You don’t go-with baby.”
She picks up a rifle to cover the hole.
There's a high pitch buzz, bright light...Jin looks up {Danielle does not experience this}. Thumping!Jin grabs his head.  Danielle asks him what’s wrong but he keeps on grabbing his head. FLASH!
Jin is alone at the wall.
He looks up and around to see the wall appears to be an ancient ruin. {Glyphs}
He wants to look down the hole but kicks Montand’s torn off decaying arm. {Complete with watch.}
Jin drinks water from one of the giant leaves in the enchanted forest.
He looks around a sees a pillar of black smoke rising in the distance.
He makes his way to the beach to find it is set up with makeshift shelter and a campfire burning. Belongings are strune about. He finds a music box playing. {Dancers}
The flies are bothering him. {The violin case is open.}He discovers two bodies; they appear to have been shot.
Jin hears Danielle yelling at someone. He watches from behind leaves.
Danielle is yelling at Robert, saying he is not Robert, he’s someone else, “That thing has changed you.“
She and Robert are armed.
Robert loves Danielle but wonders why she is acting this way.
Danielle insists the monster made him sick.
Robert tells her it’s not a monster; it’s a security system guarding that temple. He loves her and wants her to put the gun down. He doesn’t want anything to happen to her or their baby.
She concedes.
Robert cocks his rifle, pulls the trigger but nothing happens! Danielle shoots him between the eyes.
Jin jumps out! Surprised Danielle says to Jin, “You! You disappeared.”
Jin- “No!...”
She feels Jin’s sick too. He’s a carrier.
Jin runs and Danielle shoots at him. Jin grabs his head…Flash.
Jin wakes up to Sawyer pointing a rifle at him. They are together again and in the "same time"! Jin asks where Sun is.

Miles asks where that guy came from; he thought he was on the boat. {Jin}
Daniel says the blast must have thrown him in the water, {Convenient. huh?!} “He’s been moving with every flash, just like us.”
Sawyer tries to explain the flashing to Jin. “Every time the sky lights up, we move through time.”
Jin looks like he’s crazy. He wants Charlotte {who is not bleeding} to translate for him.
Sawyer thinks Jin was asking Miles for help. Miles is from Encino. Lol!!
Charlotte says Jin wants to know how he’s sure his wife is off the island.
Locke observes the translations.
Sawyer’s surprised Red speaks Korean.
Locke- “Tell him I’m sure. But none of it will matter if we don’t make it to the Orchid.”
Red translates that he’s sure; they need to go to a Station called the Orchid. She also tells Jin the Orchid is a way off the Island.
Locke is planning to bring back everyone including Sun.  He explains they have to bring her back, because she never should have left.

Sun, holding the gun on Ben says she spent the last three years believing her husband was dead.
Ben tells her there is someone in Los Angeles who can help, who can show her proof. This is the same person who will show them how to get back to the island.
Kate is pissed; that's what this is about. She accuses Jack of pretending to care about Aaron because he knew about this, “To convince me to go back there.”
Jack wasn’t pretending anything.
Kate claims this is insane and they’re crazy.
Jack tries to stop her from leaving.
Sayid walks away as he wants no part of this. If he sees Jack or Ben again, “it will be extremely unpleasant for all of us.”
Ben tells Sun they can be there in 30 minutes and she’ll have proof that he’s alive, “Or you can shoot me and never know.”
Sun- “Let’s go.”

Jin asks Locke how far.
It’s just over the next ridge. {Walk by muddy creek}
Jin wants to know how Locke will leave the island.
Locke’s not sure, but Jin wants to go with him.
Locke tells Jin, “No. No. It doesn’t work like that. It’s a one man job.”
Of course Jin wonders why.
Locke doesn’t know why, it just is. He promises to bring Sun back.
Charlotte looks like shit but walks on. She doesn’t want a break; she just wants to get there.
Dan asks her if she speaks any other languages.
She-“Just Klingon.” {Alien}
She asks Dan is this gonna work. Dan feels it does make empirical sense that if this started at the Orchid that’s where it will stop. “But as far as bringing back the people who left in order to stop these temporal shifts, that’s where we leave science behind.”
They sky lights up, magnet hum. They look up... OH NO! They grab their heads. Flash! Instantly it's night. Magnetic hum and buzz...here it comes again! They all grab their heads… Flash! Instantly it's day.  Charlotte falls over; her eyes are open but nobody‘s home and her nose is bleeding.   Juliet’s nose is bleeding, and so is Sawyer’s.
Dan tries to get her wake her/conscious. She wakes speaking Korean to Jin.
Sawyer wants to know what she said.
In English Charlotte says, “Don’t let them bring her back. No matter what. Don’t let them bring her back. This place is death.”

Ben drives Sun to his destination; Apparently there’s traffic.
Jack apologizes to Sun for leaving Jin behind, “Everything was just happening so fast, I knew he was down below, we should have waited for him.”
Sun wants to know why he’s telling her this now, “Or are you going to ask me not to kill Ben if he’s lying about my husband?“
Ben’s getting pissed.
Jack- “What he just did to Kate, if you don’t do it Sun, I will.”
Ben slams on the breaks and turns to them, claiming to be helping them. “And if you had any idea what I’ve had to do to keep helping keep you safe, to keep your friends safe, you’d never stop thanking me. . .You wanna shoot me then shoot me.  But let’s get on with it. What‘s it gonna be?”
Sun just tells Ben to, ‘Drive.”

Jin hands Dan the flask.
Charlotte-“Why can’t daddy come with us?”
Charlotte is “somewhere else.”
Dan-“Charlotte, can you hear me?”
Charlotte- "You know what my mum would say about me marrying an American. (She looks right at Dan) I know more about ancient Carthage than Hannibal himself.”
Dan doesn't have any idea what she's talking about.
Locke says they need to keep moving.
Dan needs help to carry her. {Carrier} 
Locke feels she’s gonna hold them up.
Dan-“We can’t just leave her.”
Sawyer notes the flashes are getting closer together.  He says to Dan, “Maybe when your nose starts bleeding, you’ll realize we gotta get out of Dodge now. We’ll come back for her just as soon as we can.” {Watch Juliet!} There’s no way Dan will leave her behind. FLASH!!! {No warning}.
Charlotte tells them to go! “Ohhh, Turn it up. I love Geronimo Jackson.”
Juliet tells Dan they’re running out of time.
Dan tells them to go and he’ll stay with Charlotte.
Sawyer asks John, if we don’t even know when the hell we are, what happens if the Orchid aint around anymore?”
John looks as if he never thought of that.
Charlotte tells them to look for the well, “You’ll find it at the well.”
They move on, leaving Dan and Charlotte behind.

On their trek Miles get a nosebleed.
Locke with his big knife leads them to the Orchid; what’s left of it, anyway.
Juliet wonders what the odds that they would end up in the same time, “as this thing.” FLASH!  No Orchid. Locke leaves, as if he instinctively knows where to go. Through the jungle he finds the well. {Ruins} A rope hangs into the well.
Miles wonders how Charlotte knew the well was there.
Charlotte tells Dan she’s been there before. He looks baffled. She goes on to tell him she "grew up on the Island. There was this thing, this Dharma Initiative, and then I moved away, with my mum. Just my mum, and I never saw my dad again.  And then when I got back to England wh- when I asked my mum about this place, yeah, that she would say it wasn’t real and that I’d made it up. That’s why I became an Anthropologist, to find this island again. It what I’ve been searching for my whole life.”
Dan asks why she’s telling him this.
It’s because she remembered something now, “When I was little, living here, there was this man, this crazy man, he really scared me, and he told me that I had to leave the island and never ever come back. He told me that if I came back, I would die.”
Dan, very caring, “Charlotte. I don’t understand.“
Charlotte's crying, “Daniel. I think that man was you.”

Sawyer questions Locke, “You going down there?”
Yep, he is!
Sawyer- “What exactly are you hoping to find?”
Locke says he's looking for a way off the island.
Sawyer-“Expecting a subway?”
Locke-“Goodbye James.”
He’ll see them when he gets back.
Jin stops him to tell him not to bring Sun back.
Locke- “No. I have to bring them all back. That‘s how it works.”
Jin- “How you know?”
Locke- “I just know.”
Jin threatens to cut the rope.
Locke says if he does that, “you’ll kill every one of us.”
Jin-"This Island is bad. You don’t bring Sun back. You promise. You promise you don’t bring my baby.”
John gives his word.
Jin- “Promise, John.”
John promises. He tells Jin that he won’t go to Sun, but she may find him and if she does, what does he tell her.
Jin wants Sun to believe he is dead. {Which he is not}.
Jin- “You say I wash up. You bury me.”
Jin removes his wedding ring and wants John to give it to her as proof. {Proof of a lie.}
John will be back as soon as he can. He grabs the rope, ready to go.
Sawyer-“Are you sure you don’t want us to lower you down?“
Adventurous John feels "Where would be the fun in that?"
Juliet thanks John for whatever he’s attempting to do actually works. John descends into the hatch, uh, I mean, well. A Flash is starting. They all look up. The light is coming from deep in the well. Sawyer tries to help John, “Hold on!”
Locke falls into the well.

Sawyer is left holding the rope and only the rope.  The well is gone.
He is upset Locke is down in there.
Juliet tells “James. We can’t help him.”

Dan tells Charlotte to “Hold on. Stay with me.”  He’s got a plan.
He tells her when “we were back at the hatch I talked to Desmond "I told him to find my mother. She can help us Charlotte, she will help us.”
Charlotte asks how can his mother help them.
Dan feels she just can.
Charlotte is bleeding and coughing. In a moment she looks at Dan, “I’m not allowed to have chocolate before dinner. Umm” gasp.
Dan cries, “Charlotte."


Locke broke his leg; he calls up for James, “Can you hear me? Can anyone hear me?”
John hears footsteps, “Who’s there?”
A man, Christian, with his back to John, lights a lantern.
John asks him what he’s doing down there.
"Christian" is there to help John the rest of the way. {Boone wanted to help Locke find his way. So he can bring the family back together.}
John doesn’t understand.
Christian reminds him that “You came to see me in the cabin, you asked me how to save the island and I told you to move it. I said that you had to move it, John.”
John explains that Ben said he knew how to do it. Ben told him “to stay here and lead his people.”
Christian- “And since when did listening to him get you anywhere worth a damn? The good news is that you‘re here now. Are you ready to go?”
John doesn’t know what to do once he gets there.
Christian tells him there’s a woman living in Los Angeles, once you get all of your friends together, it must be all of them, everyone who left, and once you’ve persuaded them to join you, this woman will tell you exactly how to come back.”
Her name is Eloise Hawking.
John’s concerned what if he can only convince some of them.
Christian-"I believe in you, John. You can do this.”
John shares with him that, "Richard, said I was going to die.”
Christian- “I suppose that’s why they call it sacrifice.”
John is ready.
Christian tells him on the other side of this column here is a wheel, slipped off its axis, all you have to do is give it a little 'push'.”
John asks him to help him up.
Christian-”No sorry I can’t.”
Determined John gets up, sees the “stuck” wheel; there's a magnet hum, bright light blinks in.
Christian watches him, “Good luck, John.“
Through his pain, John grabs on and “pulls” the wheel back. {You can hear the metal sounds/clanks.} The light gets bright.
Christian-“Say hello to my son.”
John- “Who’s your son?"

Sun, Jack and Ben pull up to a church with a lamp post in front.  Ben asks Sun’s permission to get something out of his pocket. He gives her Jin wedding ring.
Ben tells her John gave it to him.
Jack comments to Ben, "You said John never came to see you.”
Ben- “That’s true Jack. I went to see him.”
Jin gave the ring to John before he left the Island.
Why didn’t Locke tell her himself? Ben suggests maybe he never have a chance before he died. Ben goes on to apologize for waiting to get there to give her the ring, but those “people back on the island, Jin included, need our help. There is a woman in this church and she can tell us how to get back to your husband, but we’re running out of time, Sun. So I need you to decide right now, will you come with me?”
She looks at the ring and says, “Yes.”

Desmond walks up to the group in front of the church and asks what they are doing there. Jack is shocked to see him while Ben is surprised.
Ben-“I assume the same thing you are.”
Desmond- “You’re looking for Faraday’s motha too?”
Ben looks...{Des thinks he's looking for Faraday's mom}
They enter the church where Ben says hello to Eloise.
She is lighting white candles, “Hello Benjamin. I thought I said all of them.”
Ben tells her this is all he could get on short notice.
Eloise supposes that will have to do for now, “All right. Let's get started.”





This Place is Death is a GREAT EPISODE!!! Are you ready to leave the science part behind?

Things to note...Questions to ask...
* Eye color changes.
 * Hurley’s voice repeating the numbers. Any other familiar voices?
* Smokey Sounds- Growl, Roar, Clicking, Metal gears, Crank.
* Flash-Bright light-Sounds- Magnet hummm- Buzzing. Head pain-Nose Bleed.
* Charlotte mentions Carthage. In the episode ?, Eko mentions "salting the earth".  This occurred at the end of the Third Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage.
* Under. Down. Subway. Submarine.
* What place is death? The one I saw babies born on?
* Marrying Americans. I wonder if Ji Yeon would ever marry Aaron in the future?
* Jin is alive. Nobody killed him. He’s NOT dead! If he’s not dead, how can you bank on anyone else assumed dead is DEAD?!
* How can Jin find the radio tower? He stayed behind to ambush the Others. Danielle led the castaways to it.
* Lamp post outside church. Dharma Station. Christian holds a lantern. {Light}
* Christian wasn’t wearing a parker. I guess it’s not cold.
* Jin has a red star on the back of his shirt.
* Charlotte and Claire don't want certain people brought back to the Island.
* Charlotte’s last words were about eating chocolate before dinner. (Apollo bars)
* Boar/animals didn’t eat Montands' arm or the other bodies.
* Is there a chance Danielle gave birth to a boy?
* Charlotte dies...eyes open.
* Rings. Wedding rings, Drive Shaft "Band" Rings...circle-loop.
* It’s like we’re seeing the same test/experiment/journey run over and over and over.
* This time limit, running out of time, etc...does this have to do with the game part of the story. Maybe they’re on a schedule to catch a train, or submarine.
* Limbs- Montand arm. Ray’s Arm and Candles arm, did they lose their arms in similar "run ins" with Smokey?
* Smoke Monster underground. Christian and John underground. John-sacrifice.
* John always allows Ben to take control of everything.
John seems to fall for Ben’s "jive talking." Is Ben taking control of John’s tasks and such because he’s just a Sith Lord? Or is Ben saving John’s butt because he knows John has an issue listening and following instructions? John seems to not be able to complete tasks properly or do the right thing. Even when heading into the well he does not let Sawyer lower him in.  It would have been easier and John may not have gotten hurt.  Do you ever think the poor man keeps on taking the hard way to accomplish things?   I don't think John is really listening to instructions.














Vocabulary and Research…

* Temporal-for relating to time. -Of limited time; not perpetual. -Of or relating to the material world; not spiritual. - Lasting a short time only.
* Temporal database is a database with built-in time aspects, e.g. a temporal data model and a temporal version of structured query language.
* Temporality is a term often used in philosophy in talking about the way time is.
* Temple- indicates the side of the head behind the eyes. The bone beneath is the temporal bone. This use of temple is a separate etymology than the word "temple" for "place of worship". Both come Latin, but the word for the place of worship comes from templum, whereas the word for the part of the head comes from Vulgar Latin 
*tempula, modified from tempora, plural form ("both temples") of tempus, a word that meant both "time" and the part of the head. Due to the common source with the word for time, the adjective for both is "temporal" (both "pertaining to time" and "pertaining to the temple").
* The Temple- a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. (1920)
* Sleep temples
(aka dream temples or Egyptian sleep temples) are regarded by some as an early instance of hypnosis over 4000 years ago, under the influence of Imhotep.
* Sleep temples
were hospitals of sorts, healing a variety of ailments, perhaps many of them psychological in nature. The treatment involved chanting, placing the patient into a trance-like or hypnotic state, and analyzing their dreams in order to determine treatment. Meditation, fasting, baths and sacrifices to the patron deity or other spirits were often involved as well.
* Sleep temples
also existed in the Middle East and Ancient Greece. In Greece, they were built in honor of Asclepios, the Greek god of medicine. The Greek treatment was referred to as incubation, and focused on prayers to Asclepios for healing. A similar Hebrew treatment was referred to as Kavanah, and involved focusing on letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
* Sir Mortimer Wheeler
unearthed a Roman Sleep temple at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, in 1928, with the assistance of a young J.R.R. Tolkin.
* Incubation
is the religious practice of sleeping in a sacred area with the intention of experiencing a divinely inspired dream or cure. Incubation was adopted by certain Christian sects and is still used in a few Greek monasteries.
* A votive offering/deposit
is an object left in a sacred place for ritual purposes. Such items are a feature of modern and ancient societies and are generally made in order to gain favor with supernatural forces. Votive offerings have been described in historical Roman era and Greek sources, although similar acts continue into the present day, for example the modern day practice of tossing coins into a wishing well or fountain.
Today votives can be lit candles, or offered flowers, statues, vestments, jewelry, personal items, and of course monetary donations.
* A potential well is the region surrounding a local minimum of potential energy. Energy captured in a potential well is unable to convert to another type of energy (kinetic energy in the case of a gravitational potential well) because it is captured in the local minimum of a potential well. Therefore, a body may not proceed to the global minimum of potential energy, as it would naturally tend to due to entropy.
* The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, normally shortened to The WELL, is one of the oldest virtual communities in continuous operation.
* "Essence," in metaphysics, is often synonymous with the soul.
* Axis
- In anatomy, he second cervical vertebra (C2) of the spine is named the axis (from Latin axis, "axle") or epistropheus.
* Consciousness basis-

John Locke considered personal identity (the self) to be founded on consciousness (viz. Memory), and not on the substance of either the soul or the body. Chapter XXVII "On Identity and Diversity" in AN Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) has been said to be one of the first modern conceptualization of consciousness as the repeated self-identification of oneself. Through this identification, moral responsibility could be attributed to the subject and punishment and guilt could be justified

According to Locke, personal identity (the self) "depends
on consciousness, not on substance" nor on the soul. We are the same person to the extent that we are conscious of our past and future thoughts and actions in the same way as we are conscious of our present thoughts and actions. If consciousness is this "thought" which "that goes along with the substance ... which makes the same person", then personal identity is only founded on the repeated act of consciousness: "This may show us wherein personal identity consists: not in the identity of substance, but... in the identity of consciousness". For example, one may claim to be a reincarnation of Plato, therefore having the same soul substance. However, one would be the same person as Plato only if one had the same consciousness of Plato's thoughts and actions that he himself did. Therefore, self-identity is not based on the soul. One soul may have various personalities.

In philosophy
, essence is the attribute or set of attributes that make an object or substance what it fundamentally is, and which it has by necessity, and without which it loses its identity.


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We're no stranger to carriers. But carriers of what? Maybe it's just "baggage".





 





I believe we do see metaphoric examples of death and re-birth. Not that things (always) physically die and come back, but more like a major ending to something and a new beginning has to happen. There are many layers in front of us, testing, experiments, medical, physical, military, family lineage, DNA, games, tricks, lies, manipulation, birth, death and so much more.   But we are reminded on a weekly basis that this show has a huge metaphor layer as well.  I never wavier too far off that principle when detailing the episodes. Locke again is faced with a challenge and is crippled going into it...{Again!}

We see that some are "Stuck" in a lost "place". Some can't move forward. Some even deal with "replaying" the negative experience over and over again when they really need to "let it go." And we all know that even if we feel we can't move forward, sometimes life "pushes" us to make a move forward. And usually it's all for a reason.
Destiny... Everything happens the way it’s supposed to happen. If we are all destined for something can we really change anything?  Of course we need to take control of our own actions, decisions and even career paths. But in the end, no matter how much we want to or how badly we want things to be different, are our paths written out? Are we the cause of our own suffering...our own joy?

“The what it was to be.”- Aristotle

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