Dead is Dead.

Let's talk about LOST! Dead is Dead.

A middle aged man {Widmore} gallops on horseback through the jungle. He arrives at “tent village” of Richard and the Others. He confronts Richard, who is at a wash basin, about bringing one of “them” to “our” Temple, “What have you done, Richard?”
Richard wants him to calm down; this has nothing to do with him, “He’s just a boy. He was dying.” Widmore-“Then you should have let him die.”
Richard states Jacob wanted it done, “The island chooses who the island chooses, you know that.”
Yes of course.
Widmore-“What’s his name?”

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Widmore enters the tent that is housing sleeping Ben; his chest is bandaged.

Widmore pulls up a seat next to the cot. A fire burns in a golden bowl. Ben opens his eyes.
Widmore-“Hello Benjamin.”
Ben’s first question is, “What happened?”
Widmore tells him he was injured.
Ben- “How?”
Widmore- “You don’t remember.”
Ben- “Where am I?”
Widmore tenderly tells him he’s among friends and they’re going to take care of him.
Ben wonders, “My dad…is he here?”
Widmore assures the boy he'll be back to him soon enough.
Ben- "No. No. I don't want to go..." Ben tried to get up but is in great pain.
Widmore- “OK. Easy. Easy.”
Ben adamantly reveals he doesn’t want to go back, he wants to stay, “I want to be one of you.”  {John always wanted to stay on the "island"}
Widmore- “Just because you’re living with them, doesn’t mean you can’t be one of us.”  He goes on to share with Ben he should be dead, “But this island…It saved your life.”
Ben- “Who are you?”
The man introduces himself to Ben, “I’m Charles. Charles Widmore.” {Is the only thing Ben can’t recall is the getting shot part and going with Richard?!}








In the Hydra Island makeshift infirmary:
Ben is sleeping.
John- “Ben.”
That was enough to jolt Ben awake.
John- “Hello, Ben. Welcome back to the land of the living.”
Ben seems surprised to see John alive.    Ben shares with John he knew that this would happen.
John- “Then why were you so surprised to see me?”
Ben looks delighted, “Because it’s one thing to believe it, John… It’s another thing to see it.”
Curious John asks, then why was he trying to run away to the main island. Ben explains to John he broke the rules, “I came back to the island. I was going to answer for what I’d done. I was going to back…to be judged.”
John’s eyes light up in amusement, “Judged...By whom?”
Ben tells John they don’t even have a word for it, “But I believe you call it the monster.” {Intriguing, huh?!}

On the beach of the Hydra Island, the Ajira survivors are moving a very large silver crate. A fire burns.
Ilana says, “Morning” to Ben. He asks her what’s in the crate.
Ilana- “Just some stuff we need to get moved.”
Ben offers one of the men “a hand.”    The guy declines his offers, “We got it.”
Ben, whose ‘good gesture of the day’ is done, bids the group a good day, and walks away. {He has a bag/satchel}
{Flash.}
It is night and young Ben and young Ethan watch from behind the bushes. Ethan eagerly asks Ben, “Do you want me to do it?”
Ben-“Shhhh.”
Ethan tells Ben he can do anything he wants him to.  Ben is annoyed; he whispers to Ethan to shut up and stay “here.”
Ben draws his gun and walks up to the “palm leaf tent”.  There are crates and wreckage all over the beach. Smoke rises from where a fire has burned out.    Ben enters the tent. A baby cries startling Ben and he knocks down a music box.  The music and commotion wake Danielle.  She reaches for her rifle, Ben shouts, “Don’t! Don’t do it.”
Danielle proclaims, “You’re the one who infected us all, aren’t you?”
Then she says something in French about him being infected or something.
Ben walks over to the baby.  Danielle is freaking out; she doesn’t want him near her baby.
Ben says to the baby, “Shhhh. It’s Okay. It’s Okay baby.”
He takes the baby. {Baby napper!!!}
Danielle pleads with him not to take her Alex.
Ben- “Do you want your baby to live?”
Danielle asks why he’s taking the baby, she attempts to go after him. Ben shoots one shot into the ground, “Be grateful you’re still alive. Now you listen to me…If you try to follow me, or if you ever come looking for me, I’ll kill you. And if you want your child to live, every time you hear whispers, you run the other way.”
Ben takes the baby.

Ben looks through desk drawers in his Hydra Island office. He’s wearing reading glasses. He finds the red picture frame that contains the picture of him and Alex. “What’s that?”
Out of nowhere, there is John, standing in his black suit. He startled Ben. Ben tells him it’s something sentimental. He folds the picture and puts it in his right pocket.
John-“So this is your old office, Huh? I never pictured you leading your people from behind a desk. Seems a little…corporate.”
John sits behind the desk; puts his feet up. He looks around.
Ben-“Was there something that you needed, John?”
John was hoping that they could talk about the elephant in the room. Referring to the fact that Ben killed John. {Really?!}
Ben- “It was the only way to get you back to the island. Along with as many of those who left as possible. You do remember, John, that’s why you left in the first place, to convince them to come back. But you failed. And the only way to bring them together was by your death, and you understood that, that’s why you were about to kill yourself when I stopped you.”
John- “If all I had to do was die, Ben, then why did you stop me?”
Ben tells John he had critical information that would have died with him, “And once you’d given it to me {Ben rolls his eyes} Well I just didn’t have time to talk you back into hanging yourself. So I took a shortcut. And look at ya, John. I was right. You’re here, you’re back. So are the rest of them. I don’t know where yet, exactly. But, they came. It worked…. and that’s why I did it.  Because it was in the best interest of the island.”
John nonchalantly says, “I was just hoping for an apology.”
John tells Ben he’s decided to help him do what he said he is on his way to do…”Be judged.”
Ben- “That’s not something you want to see, John.”
John feels if everything Ben’s done is in the best interest of the island… “Then, I’m sure the monster will understand.”
John smiles, “Let's go.”

At the beach Ben and John uncover one of the outrigger boats.  Caesar asks them what they're doing. {3 guys w/ Caesar.}  John tells him they’re taking a boat over to the main island.  Ben gives Caesar a “look”. Caesar says to John, “I don’t think so, my friend.”    John asks if these are his boats.
Caesar-“Are they yours?”
John was under the impression the boats were found there, he’s gonna borrow one. He’s happy to leave the other boat for him in case he wants to follow “us”.

Caesar asks Ben if he’s going with him/John.   Ben, giving the impression he was forced, “He didn’t really give me a choice.”
Caesar thinks. “I’m sorry, but I’m calling the shots here. And I said you’re not taking anything. What you are going to do is to sit down and tell us how you know so much about this island, my friend.”
John bangs sand out of the black shoes {3x}, “You’re in the habit of calling people ‘friend’, but I don’t think you mean it.” {Puts the shoes in his pack} John will not step away from the boat, he’s gonna take it, “And you’re gonna let me, my friend.”
Caesar reaches for his gun, “You’re not taking any…” Ben stole his gun. {How? When?} “Are you looking for this?”  
Ben shoots Caesar with one shot! Ben tells the other three dudes he and this gentleman, are taking the boat, “Does anyone else have a problem with that?”
Ben tosses the gun to John, “Consider that my apology.”

Ben and John arrive at the dock on the main island.
Ben- “Home sweet home.”
John notices they aren’t the first ones “to tie up here.”
Ben reveals that would be Sun and Lapidus. He showed them were the boats were and Sun thanked him by hitting him on the head with a paddle.     John puts on the black shoes and asks Ben if she’s the one who hurt his arm.  He noticed Ben was favoring it on the way over.   Nope, someone else hurt his arm.
John-“You just make friends everywhere you go, don’t you?”
Ben- “Well I found sometimes that friends can be significantly more dangerous than enemies, John.”
John asks him if that’s why he shot an unarmed man in the chest. The man was unarmed because Ben had stolen his gun; the same gun Caesar was going to use to kill John. Ben couldn’t let that happen.
John, tying up the shoes, sees some humor, “No sense in me dying twice, Right?”
Ben- “You’re welcome.”
Ben stands on the dock, looking around and waiting for John.
John asks, “We’re going to your old house, aren’t we?”
Yes they are. It’s the only place Ben can summon “it”.
As they walk down the dock Ben explains to John, “The Monster. Once it arrives I’ll either be forgiven…or I won’t.”
John thinks he’s lying.  Ben is stunned; lying about what?
Lying about being judged for leaving the island and coming back because it's against the rules. John doesn't think Ben cares about rules. He thinks Ben is going to be judged for killing his daughter. {Check out Ben’s face!}
{Flash.}
Ben carries infant Alex back to camp with Ethan following.  Ageless Richard and troop eat around a fire. Older/Grey Widmore {Wearing a watch} asks Ben, “Did you do it?”
Ben tells him he had a complication.
Widmore- “Is that a baby?”
Widmore gave Ben orders to exterminate that woman. Ben feels she’s no threat to them; she’s insane. Besides, Charles never told Ben she had a child.
Ben- “What was it I was supposed to do?”
Charles commands “Kill it!”
Upset Ben tells him this isn’t an “it”, this is a child. Charles finds it may be difficult for Ben to understand but every decision he’s made has been about protecting ‘this’ island.
Ben asks if killing this baby is what Jacob wants.
Ben presents the baby to Charles, “Then here she is…You do it.”
Charles smirks and walks away. Ben looks tenderly at the baby. Ben and Richard share an odd look.

The broken Processing Center sign swings. We see the playground in Dharmaville. John asks Ben whose idea was it to move into the houses. {Not barracks?}
John notes Ben’s people were living in the jungle, then after he murdered the Dharma folk he relocated there. John wondered if the move was Ben’s idea.
Ben- “Do you disapprove, John?”
John feels it just doesn’t seem like something the island would want.
Ben-“You don’t have the first idea what this island wants.”
John’s eyes light up and asks, “Are you sure about that?”
Just then a light goes on in Ben’s old house. It’s Alex’s room. They see a figure walk across the window. John prompts Ben, “Well, I suppose you better go over there and check it out.”
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Ben heads into the dark disheveled house. {Looks like Chinese/Asian characters on-umbrella stand. Things look like they are stopped in time.}
 The Risk game and red plates are on the table. He slowly walks down the hall and opens the bedroom door.  

There is Sun. {Note the painted pics on the wall the two people.}
Ben- “Sun.”
Frank comes out and asks what he’s doing there. Ben explains this used to be his house. He wants to know what the two of them are doing there. {John is still outside.} Frank hands Ben a framed photo of the Dharma recruits from 1977. He is surprised to see Sun’s friends were in the Dharma Initiative.
Sun wonders, “You don’t know about this?”
Of course he didn’t know.
Ben asks where they got the photo and who gave it to them.
Frank, {He casts some mean shadows. lol} “We met some crazy old man outside.”
Sun reveals the man said his name was Christian, “He told us to come in here and wait.”
Ben asks, wait for what?
Sun-“He said if I ever wanted to see my husband again, I had to wait here for John Locke.”
Frank- “Considering he’s dead, we aint holding our breath.”
Ben suggests Frank look outside. Sun and Frank look out the windows to discover John Locke standing there, waiting.
John gives them a friendly wave.






Sun and the men stand in Ben’s old living room, catching up. {Note: Masks} Sun feels what John is saying is impossible.
John- “But here I am.”
He shares with her, he doesn’t know how or why, but he’s sure there’s a very good reason for it.
Frank- “As long as the dead guy says there’s a reason, then I guess every thing's gonna be just peachy.”
Frank continues, “Forget about the fact that the rest of your people are supposedly 30 years ago, now the only ones who are here to help us are a murderer and a guy who can’t seem to remember how the hell he got out of a coffin.”
Frank wants him and Sun to go back to the plane, he’ll see if can fix the radio and get some help. John informs Sun if she leaves with Frank she’ll never find her husband again.
John- “I’m all the help you need.”
John has a few ideas on how to find Jin/them. Frank is sorry to say he’s leaving with or without her. Sun explains to Frank if there’s any chance of finding her husband, then she has to stay.
Frank understands but tells her to watch her back. Frank leaves.
Sun asks John, how they find Jin. John reveals that Ben has something he has to do first. Ben knows.
John tells Ben, “You better get to it then.”
Ben pulls the bookcase away from the wall revealing his dressing room of many identities; ultimately revealing the entrance into the underground labyrinth.
Ben pushes open the hieroglyph stone door and lights a lantern. He heads down a few steps and then crawls through a small tunnel. Ben arrives at a space tall enough for him to stand upright and puts his hand in the muddy puddle. He pulls up, what can only be described as a plug/stopper that contains the water in the basin. (Like pulling the stopper out of the drain in a sink} The muddy water drains away in a spiral, revealing a small hole.
Ben tells the hole, “I’ll be outside.”

Ben pushes Alex on the swing. She tells daddy she wants to go again.
Richard- “Wow, Alex! Any higher you’re gonna fly right off the island.”
Ben gives a bizarre look with that comment. Richard is there to inform Ben the sub’s about to leave. Alex tells daddy she wants to go higher.
Richard tells Ben, “You don’t have to see him off.”
Ben adamantly feels he has to.
Alex-“Higher, Higher, Daddy!”

Cuffed/roped hands Charles is led to the sub. Ben walks down the dock to say goodbye. Charles remarks Ben’s there to gloat. Ben doesn’t want Charles to act as if he didn’t bring this on himself.
Charles- “Are you quite certain you want to do this, Benjamin?”
Ben-“You left the island, regularly. You had a daughter with an outsider. You broke the rules Charles.” {So did you!} Charles wants to know what makes Ben think he can take what’s his.
Ben- “Because I won’t be selfish. Because I‘ll sacrifice anything to protect this island.”
Charles reminds him he wouldn’t sacrifice Alex. Ben feels Charles was the one who wanted her dead, not the island. Charles hopes Ben is right; because if he isn’t, and it is the island that wants her dead, she’ll be dead. And one day Ben will be standing where Charles is now. Ben will be the one being banished and he’ll finally realize that he can’t fight the inevitable.
Charles steps right up to Ben, “I’ll be seeing you, boy.”

Sun sits on the porch of the Dharma house. {It’s dark} Ben comes out of the house asking her where John went. Sun relays that he had something to do. Ben appearing concerned asked did he say what it was.
No, he didn't.
Sun feels “Jack must have lied…about Locke being dead. I don‘t know why he would, but, that‘s the only explanation.”
Ben tells her Jack didn’t lie, John was dead.
Sun, “Just because he was in a coffin doesn’t mean that he couldn’t have faked his dea…”
Ben-“Trust me. I’m sure.”
Sun feels Ben knew this would happen to Locke if they brought him back here.
Ben- “Sun, I had no idea it would happen.”
Ben’s seen this island do miraculous things; he’s seen it heal the sick, but never once has it done anything like this. {Oh really…} Ben informs her, “Dead is dead. You don‘t get to come back from that. Not even here.”   So the fact that John Locke is walking around ‘this island’, scares the living hell out of him. They hear a noise coming from the jungle. Ben suggests Sun may want to go inside.
Sun asks why.
Ben- “Because what’s about to come out of that jungle, is something I can‘t control.”
It’s John Locke, “Any luck?” {I felt like Ben was telling a spooky story. One like your uncle would tell you when you were a kid.}
Ben tells John it hasn’t shown up yet. Ha! Last time they didn’t have to wait that long.
Ben-“It’s not a train, John. It doesn’t run on a schedule.”
John is a bit anxious to get this thing moving, so he suggests if it’s not gonna come to them, he supposes they’re gonna have to go to it.
Be- “It doesn’t work that way. I only know how to summon it. I don‘t know where it actually is.”
John reveals, “I do.”
Ben looks a bit stunned.

John is crafting some torches with sticks and burlap.   He mentions to Sun he realizes how strange this all must be; it’s weird for him too.
John-“Me. Here. I assure you, Sun, I’m the same man I’ve always been.”
Ben is ready with his bag; he tells John to lead the way. John smiles.







Ben calls Charles from the Long Beach dock. He called via his cell phone! Charles asks where he got the number. Of course Ben says it doesn’t matter. What matters is, he’s going back to the island today. {Passes a boat called Savage.}
Charles- “The island won’t let you come back. Trust me. I spent almost 20 years trying to return.”
Where Charles failed Ben will succeed.
Ben has to do something first…Kill Charles’s daughter.
Ben- “In fact, I’m looking at our mutual friend right now.”
We see Penny on board their boat named, “Our Mutual Friend.”
Charles-“Don’t you dare.”
Ben ends the call.

Daylight on their trek through the jungle, Ben asks John, “How is it that you know where you’re going?” 
 John-"I just know.”
Ben wants to know how “the knowing” works; he wonders if it came “upon him gradually or did you wake up one morning suddenly understanding the mysteries of the universe?”
John accuses Ben of not like having to ask questions he doesn’t know the answers to, “Blindly following someone in the hopes they will lead you to whatever it is you’re looking for.”
Ben admits he doesn’t like it at all.
John- “Well, now you know what it was like to be me.”
Sun tells the men they should keep moving. John agrees.

Ben thinks he knows where they’re going, “It’s the same place they brought me as a child. It’s where the island healed me.” {Does he remember?} John, who’s unimpressed, hopes it’s as generous this time around. They arrive.
Sun-“What is it?”
Ben- “It’s the wall around our temple.”
Sun- “What temple?"
John smiles; he is pleased. Ben tells her it’s about a half a mile from here, “We built this wall to keep people like the two of you from ever seeing it.”
They walk up to the wall and John announces they’re not going into his temple, they’re going under it. John wants Ben to go down first.  Nervous Ben asks Sun a favor. He’d like her, if she can ever get off this island, to find Desmond Hume for him, and tell him Ben says he’s sorry.
Sun- “Sorry for what?”
Ben looks like a fraidy cat, “He’ll know.” Ben heads below.
{Flash}
Ben is at the dock; observes Penny on deck of their boat.  As focused Ben walks up and draws his gun, he walks right past Desmond,who was hidden from Ben because he was removing groceries from the back of the car.
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Desmond sees Ben, “Hey! What ya doing here?!”  
Ben shoots Desmond!


Penny sees this. Ben tells her not to move, “Not another word.”
She is shocked. Ben, holding the gun on her, “Hello Penelope. My name is Benjamin Linus.” He apologizes that she’s caught up in the middle of this thing, but her father… Penny reveals she has no relationship with her father.
Ben-“Your father is a really terrible human being. He’s responsible for the killing of my daughter. That’s why I’m here.”
From below, Ben hears little Charlie call up for his mommy. This distracts Ben for a second. Penny yells for Charlie to go back inside. She begs Ben, “Please don’t hurt my son.”
Ben is emotionally fixed on little Charlie and he lowers his gun. Desmond tackles him from behind and beats the shit out of him. {Mostly with his left hand} The gun falls in the water. {We get the POV from under the water of Ben falling in to the water. Love that!}

Frank arrives back on the Hydra Island. It’s a bright sunny day. A passenger yells out for Captain Lapidus and informs him, “They found guns….Ilana and three of the others. They said they were in charge now.”
Frank calls out for Ilana, who is on the beach tending to the large silver crate. He asks her what’s going on. She draws her rifle and asks him, “What lies in the shadow of the statue?”
Frank has no idea what she’s…Ilana knocks him in the head. Things are a little blurry for Frank. Ilana says to get everyone else, tell them it’s time. And she wants Frank tied up, “He’s coming with us.”
Her goon is happy. Frank faints.

Underground, John lights two torches and he leads Ben.   Ben reveals to John he was right about why he needs to be judged. He explains, Widmore’s men gave him a choice to either leave the island or let his daughter die, “All I had to do was walk out of the house and go with them. But I didn’t do it. So you were right. John, I did kill Alex. And now I have to answer for that.”
Ben appreciates John showing him the way, but he thinks he can take it from there. {Ben just gave his confession to John. Interesting.}
Ben’s moves on, “I’ll meet you outside, If I live.”
Ben falls through the ground revealing another chamber. John will go find something to get Ben out of there. Ben shakes his head no and tells John to wait.
Ben walks around. He seems amazed at this ancient place. There are hieroglyphs on the pillars. Ben walks up to an ‘alter’ of sorts.  Its artwork depicts a dog headed/human god kneeling in front of "smoke". {It reminds me a bit of the pic young John had hanging in his foster home.} The clicking sounds of the smoke monster can be heard. Smoke starts to come out of the rock plate with all the holes. Ben backs up from it, but the smoke surrounds him.
Flashes of Ben’s memory are projected. You can see his remorse and broken heart. The smoke monster heads back to where ever it came from. Ben’s torch lights up on its own. “Daddy.” It's Alex.
Ben is moved to see her, “I’m so, so sorry. It was all my fault.”
Alex-“I know.”
She grabs him, pushes him up against a pillar, “Listen to me you bastard. I know that you’re already planning to kill John again. And I want you to know that if you so much as touch him, I will hunt you down and destroy you. You will listen to every word John Locke says and you will follow his every order. Do you understand?” Alex demands he’ll say he’ll follow him.
Ben swears he’ll follow him. Ben closes his eyes and whimpers.
Alex is gone.

John calls down the hole for Ben. He’s made a rope out of vines.
John asks what happened.
Ben, looking up at John, “It let me live.”





Dead is Dead is a frigging AWESOME episode! I'm glad I've kept my eye on John Locke all these years.

Things to note...Questions to ask...
* Eyes. Watching. See.
* Roots.
* Linguistics. Learning. Chinese "characters" and Hieroglyphs a form of communication.
* Mental health. Insane. Deranged. Crazy.
* "Shhhhhh". Out cold. Sleeping.
* Charles AND Ben had been going back and forth, to and from the "Island".
* Why is Ethan Goodspeed/Rom in the woods with Ben, Richard and gang?
* Jack, Kate, Hurley, Juliet, etc. in The Dharma Initiative.
* Widmore tells Ben he’s among friends. Caesar calls Ben, John and others “friend”. Hmmmm. Everyone is friends.
* Acting. Making up stories and lies. Cons. Blindly following.
* Ben infected who with what??? Or what with what? What is he?
* The "Island" saved/spared Ben’s life at least twice.
* What’s in the crate? Hmmm… Could it be a casket/body? Friggin' Dracula? A bomb? Food or medical supplies? Guns? I'm just asking!
* "What lies in the shadow of the statue?" Is this a legit question or more like "What did one snowman say..."
* Ben shoots unarmed Caesar in the chest. Ben was an unarmed child shot in the chest.
* All "John" was looking for was an apology from Ben. And at Ben's judging, the "monster" heard Ben's apology. That's all I'm saying!!!
* Bird sounds are heightened in this episode. Weird, huh?
* Spiral of the water was what jumped out at me. Is it this spiral that’s important?{Orchid} Funnel.
* The "Island" won’t let you come back…“ {Not 'go back'?!} Never out of the “confines of the "Island"
* Here, “John” is the one moving certain things along. Is it always John?
* The "monster"-shape shifter?   But could any part of the "monster" experience just be an "image".
* Is John bringing the family back together?
* Whatever is to be, will be. Inevitable.
* Where’s the corporate people?
* Ben, having a moment of second thoughts going through with the murder of Penny on the boat, reminds me very much of Sawyer not going through with his con, when the child ‘showed up’.
* Do you ever get the feeling these people are in jail/confinement? What if they’re prisoners/patients/test subjects involved in an ‘alternate way’ to see if they can be reformed/rehabilitated?
* Could Ilana and a bunch of them all be original Others?
* Ben and Charlie are BABY NAPPERS!
* Flashes of memory. {Flash Memory}

Vocabulary and Research…
* Labyrinth is also known as a Pattern/ the Pattern.
* IT, the villain {Brain} in science fiction novel A Wrinkle in Time.
* IT, an evil force haunting a small town in Stephen King's horror novel It. It is a shape shifter.
* Flowers for Algernon is a Sci-Fi story. The titular Algernon is a lab mouse who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence by artificial means.
* Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel.
* Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel first published in 1976.
* Alchemy is both a philosophy and a practice with an aim of achieving ultimate wisdom as well as immortality.
* In Buddhism The Seven Jewels of Royal Power: Characterize different qualities of a king, which he must have for staying in power.
  The Precious Queen
  The Precious General
  The Precious Horse
  The Precious Jewel
  The Precious Minister or Householder
  The Precious Elephant
  The Precious Wheel.



Dead is Dead is indeed a great episode!! We see role changes. We see how Ben and Widmore’s opposition was forged.  We see “John” lead Ben.
For me this episode was deep, and yes I see a lot of the “metaphor” theme running through it. Coincidentally I just re-read Siddhartha. It's a wonderful story about a spiritual man who continued on his own journey to find "himself".  There are many elements in the book that tied together certain themes in the LOST story.

This episode brought me back to The Wizard of Oz again. Some things I want to mention from the book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz... At The Emerald City the Guardian of the gates gives Dorothy and friends special glasses to keep the brilliance of the Emerald City from blinding them and the Wizard can change his appearance for different people.   Dorothy gets home, actually "dropped" right back in a Kansas field/prairie after clicking her silver shoes together three times. In the movie version we all grew up with, Dorothy's traveling adventure takes place while she is unconscious and is being watched over by her friends and family.

John and Christian's black shoes...Tap your heals together three times and say... "There's no place like home."

Love to all who are “LOST"™

Some Interesting Photo's to ponder.
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Those boys love to make a fashion statement!












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.

Stranger in a Strange Land.

Let's talk about LOST! Stranger in a Strange Land.

"Show me the way to go home. I'm tired and I want to go to bed. I had a little drink about an hour ago, and it went straight to my head" …Sawyer is singing on the outrigger with Kate and Karl; they are heading back to their island.
Kate tells him to stop because they have to go back for Jack. She wants him to turn the boat around.
Sawyer wants to know if she lost her mind, "We just got away!"
Kate's one good reason for wanting to go back is "Because we can't leave Jack behind!"
Sawyer-"Yes we can. Cause that's what he asked us to do."
He asks her what she thinks Captain Bunny Killer's gonna do if he catches them.
Karl interjects, "Kill you. God loves you as he loved Jacob" {Loved? NOT LOVES?}
Kate looks surprised and confused.
Sawyer- “Sorry kiddo. Jack's on his own." {Christian calls younger people kiddo.}

Jack is sleeping sitting up in the corner of his glass cell. Tom comes in and tells him it's "Time to get up."
They're moving him someplace else.
Jack wants to know "Where?"
Tom doesn't answer; only gives an interesting look.    Jack assumes "that look" means they're going to kill him. "You just helped me save his life. If you're going to kill me, at least show me the respect of not calling it "moving." .
Jack misconstrues the word "moving" for "killing".
Tom wonders, "Now why would we kill YOU?"
Jack- "Because you're done with me."
After all they're the kind of people who would take a pregnant woman, would hang Charlie from a tree or drag our people out of the jungle, and would kidnap children. Insulted Tom walks over to the glass and knocks 3x on it with his ring, "You see this glass house you're living in Jack? How bout I get you some stones?"  {Video camera red light blinking. Also the door into Jack's cell is already open. There's a guard there. After Tom's line, you hear the door open and two guards walk in}
Jack is cuffed.
On his walk in the hallway he passes a cuffed Juliet. She is escorted by two guards and Isabel. {Jack looks like he's checking out her ass! LOL!}
Juliet is put in the room.

On a beautiful tropical beach with palm trees Jack is at a tiki hut. He has a backpack and a kite. He buys two sodas with $10 from the island kid who calls him Doctor Jack. The boy says something to Jack in his native language but Jack replies "You know I can't understand a word you're saying, right?"   The boy watches.  
 Jack walks away.

Jack sets up on the beach and tries to assemble the kite but he's having trouble with it. {Spinal surgeon can't put a kite together. LOL}
A pretty Thai woman picks up her shoes comes to his assistance. They fly the bird shaped kite together. She is extra friendly and has shiny red nails! lol {How this chick doesn't fall out of her top is friggin' magic! Note Jack's necklace.}
She acknowledges that he's not from around here. Jack introduces himself but doesn't say where he's from. Her name is Achara.

Red food button in the cage.
This cage now belongs to pacing Jack. Tom brings him an un-grilled cheese sandwich; Juliet grills them. Tom folds the plate and passes it through the bars to Jack. Jack asks who that woman was.

Tom reveals, "That would be the sheriff."
Jack-"You have a sheriff?"
Tom- "Not literally, Jack."
Jack wants to know why Juliet is being moved into his room.
Tom explains, "She's in trouble, Jack."
Tom, with authority, tells Jack, "Don't try anything stupid! You stay put in this cage."
Jack-"You say that like you're not watching me from that camera right there."
Tom recalls Ben telling him that Jack got into the surveillance room. Tom looks around to see if the coast is clear, "Let me ask you something…You risk your neck to cut them loose, they run away and don't ever look back…"
Jack cuts him off and thanks him for the sandwich.
Tom walks away like, Yeah… Okay.

On the outrigger Sawyer states he'd never thought he'd be glad to get back to this rock again; he is paddling into shore.
Kate wants him to keep going, they can circle around; sooner or later they would get to camp and tell Locke and Sayid what happened.
Sawyer-"Oh we will huh? You got a map you ain't showin' me Magella?"
They don't have food or water, and he can't steer in the dark. Kate says she'll steer but Sawyer go ashore and they'll make camp. says no; tells her she'll Sawyer also tells her she can contribute by building a campfire while he carries the kid.
Kate doesn't answer, but Sawyer says "Good. Glad we agree."
Damn! Kate is burning a hole right through him!
The three of them sit near a campfire. Sawyer offers Kate fruit to eat. Pissed Kate says, "No James. I aint hungry."
Karl tells them they shouldn't fight.
Sawyer wonders, "When the hell did you wake up?"
Karl tells them they shouldn't fight because their lucky to be alive.
Kate questions him about the island they were on, "Is that where your people live?"
Karl says no, it's just where they work.
Kate wants to know what they're working on.
Karl replies "Projects."
Sarcastic Sawyer remarks, "Like the steal the kid off the raft project? That was a humdinger."
They don't actually live on that island; they live “here on this island.”
Kate asks what they did with the people they took; the kids.
Karl reveals they give them a better life.
Kate-"Better than what?"
Karl- "Better than yours." {Aint that the truth?!}
Karl sits and stares at the stars and tells them there isn't go to be any moon tonight; it'll be dark. Karl shares him and Alex used to lie in his backyard at night and make up names for the constellations. He point to the sky and tells them they can't see it yet, but right there will be Ursa Theadorus, "The teddy bear." {Make them up? Aren't they named already?! Look in a book!}
Sawyer is amazed they have backyards.

Jack pushes the big red food button in the cage twice.
Juliet, carrying a file, is escorted by two guards.
Jack-"I thought you were locked up?"
She tells him they let her out to examine Ben. Ben's vitals are low and he has a fever. Juliet shows him a picture she took 10 minutes ago of Ben's stitches; they are infected.   Jack doesn't want to go look at him.
Juliet is asking for him to look as a personal favor to her. {A personal favor?! What?}
Jack-"This is because he said he'd let you go home."
Juliet says no, it's because she's in trouble, "I just killed someone. That's why they put me in your room." {That's why she gets put in that room. Is that the reason Jack got put in that room?}
Jack asks who {she killed}.
Julie- "It's complicated."

Jack will simplify it; he's not going to help him and he won't help her. Juliet gets escorted back. Jack just watches them.

A waiter brings Jack a bowl of food. (Note the shape is wheels}
Achara gives him some tentacle thingy to try. The waiter, who is her brother calls Jack very brave (for eating).   Achara says her brother likes him; after all, Jacks' a very likable guy. She thinks it's very sad that he never learned how to fly a kite. Jack explains that his dad worked a lot and he really wasn't the type. She cuts him off and says she's not interested in his father because some things are personal. That's good because Jack's pretty tired of talking about him.
Achara wonders, "So you're in Phuket to find yourself?"
Jack smiles, "Why would you say that?"
Achara- "Because you're an American."
A man comes over speaks to her in her language and gives her a white letter size envelope filled with money. They bow to each other and then he leaves.   Jack is intrigued. She smiles and shares, "I have a gift."
Jack- "Must be one hell of a gift."

Jack sits in the corner of the cage. Isabel the sheriff says something in Chinese; actually she is reading his tattoos. "The 5 and the stars are very cute. But the Chinese I find…bit ironic…..What it says….You do know what it says?"
Jack knows what it says.
Isabel- "Chinese is a very complicated language. It's fairly common for things to get lost in translation."
Jack insists he knows what it says. She formally introduces herself to him. {Bows like the Asian culture.} She wants him to go with her because she'd like to ask him a few questions. {This is one weird chick! She gives a mischievous yet flirty look to him.}

Jack and Isabel walk down a hall.
Alex is being escorted by a guard. Isabel tells Alex to check on her father. {Note Jack is not cuffed}
Juliet has one hand cuffed to the chair. {This office has file boxes/files and lockers.}
Isabel offers Jack a seat, "As you may have gathered, we don't live on this little island. In fact, most of us don't even like coming here." {WHY? Also note the red file on the desk.} Isabel has her two hands on an open notebook in front of her.
Tom is in the room, as well as an armed guard.
Isabel has been investigating an incident. She was hoping Jack could help her “clear up a few of the inconsistencies."
As Isabel looks directly at Juliet, {She is VERY dramatic and exaggerated in her way of speaking} "Now correct me if I'm wrong Tom. You said in the midst of a surgical procedure, Jack made several comments indicating that Juliet had asked him to kill Ben." Tom says yes.
Isabel asks Jack if Juliet did indeed ask that of him.
Jack hesitates; doesn't answer. He gives a little amused laugh and says "No. No. I was lying. I would have done anything to get my friends out. And turning you people against each other was my best chance of creating chaos." {Check out Juliets' expression here. Did that answer from Jack give her the idea she had an ally?}
Isabel is mad. She wants to know why he is lying for her.
After some silence by all, Jack announces he wants to go back to his cage.

Pretty shoes enter an exotic room. It's Achara holding a lantern; enters Jacks hut. {They don't have real hotels in Phuket? lol}
Jack's bed has a mosquito net. {'BUG' protection}
Jack hears the footsteps and asks who's there?
Achara- "Who do you think? {Well, who else goes to his place in the middle of the night?}
Jack-"What time it is?"
Achara kisses him tells him it's late. They kiss.
Jack comments that she tastes salty {Too bad. Kate tastes like strawberries.} She went for a swim in the ocean.
Jack-"Washing the day off ya, huh?"
As they're making out she asks him if there's something he'd like to ask her. Jack feels that it "might be nice if after a month of you coming and going whenever you want to find out something about you."
She stops and tells him that "There are things that happen here that you could never understand."
Jack-"Like your gift."
Yeah, like her gift. They make out, yada, yada, yada. Jack is having fun with her.

Jack jolts awake in his cage. There are a bunch of people standing bizarrely outside of his cage. They are talking amongst themselves. Jack gets up and asks, "WHAT?!"
A woman who knows his name comes over to talk to him.
Jack- "Do I know you?"
He remembers, "815. You were the stewardess."
She smiles and says, "Cindy."
Jack, very confused, "What are you doing here with them? I thought you were taken, you were captured."
Cindy-"They're not. It's not that simple."
Jack wants to know what they are doing there.
Cindy- "We're here to watch, Jack."
Emma comes over and whispers in Cindy's ear. Emma smiles at Jack. Cindy asks how Ana Lucia's doing on the little girls behalf.
Pissed off Jack yells, "Are you serious? If you've got something to watch, Cindy, go watch it! GO!" {A little boy has a teddy bear he gives it to Emma.} They appear to be startled and confused by his outburst. The little boy lags behind to look at Jack. Jack watches them leave.

A campfire has burned out. Kate is sleeping.

She wakes up.
Sawyer is sleeping. Kate tells him to wake up. {Note white smoke rising from the extinguished campfire.}
Karl is gone. They hear crying coming from a few feet away. It's Karl.
They both look like they feel bad for the kid. Kate offers to talk to him, but Sawyer will go, "Boys only."
Sawyer punches Karl in the shoulder in a "guy gesture" so Karl would cowboy up. {Yeehaw!!}
Sawyer says, "Crying in the jungle. I thought you people were supposed to be tough."
Karl shoves him and says that he is tough.
Sawyer- "Sure you are Bobby."
Karl doesn't know what the Brady Bunch is. Sawyer, in his own Sawyer way, tells Karl that he has been with a lot of girls; some were worth the trouble, some were not. Every now and again there's one you name dumb stars with. {Sweet}
Karl loves Alex more than anything. Sawyer tells him to go back to where ever the hell there yards are and get her back."
Karl- "If I get caught, they’ll kill me this time."
Sawyer tells him at least it'll be worth it.

Jack drinks water from a silver cup. {Not a silver spoon?}
Alex throws a rock at the camera near his cage. With anyone "watching" Alex talks to Jack. "They're not watching anymore, so you can tell me the truth." She wants to know why he saved Ben's life, after all this time, after all he did to him as his people.
Jack should hate him.
Alex wonders why Jack fixed him up even after his friends got away.
Jack- "You're his daughter."
Alex doesn't answer.
Jack wants to know where Juliet is. Alex shares she's with the rest of them; they're gonna read her verdict.
Jack- "Her verdict?"
Alex informs him they all know what it's gonna be because their pretty strict about killing one of their own. "Eye for an eye."
Jack asks who she killed.
Alex-"The man who was gonna murder your friends….No wonder you're so worried about her. If it wasn't for you she never would have done it. That was three questions! Your turn, Jack."
He tells her he saved her father because he said he would.
Jack asks "Is he still in charge? Ben, Your father? Will that woman Isabel do what he says?"
Alex says yes.
Jack wants out of the cage.

A Dr. has a needle aimed at Ben's infection. Jack enters just in time {or on cue.} Happy Ben announces, "The cavalry has arrived at last."
Jack looks at the infection and says he'd be more impressed with them if they had a good surgeon.
Ben tells Jack, "We had an excellent surgeon, Jack. His name was Ethan."
Jack explains how bad Ben's infection is and that he needs to be closely monitored from here on out. There may be nerve damage and other complications, "You may not walk again."
Ben doesn't care for his bedside manner, but Jack feels Ben is stuck with him.
Ben-"Am I?"
Jack goes on to say that he needs a doctor, someone to stay with him and bring him back to good health. Ben realizes that Jack will want something in return.
Ben-"I've already given you a ticket off this island, Jack. What's it gonna cost me this time?"
Jack explains that his people are in a room deciding to execute Juliet. So Ben will stop it. {Ben doesn't care at all.}
Ben informs Jack, "Juliet doesn't care about you, Jack. Doesn't matter what she's done, no matter what you think, she's one of us."
Jack just wants to know, "Do we have a deal or not?"
Ben asks "Does Isabel have a walkie?"
Alex tells him they're already in the meeting. Ben wants something to write on.

In some red light district in Phuket. {Lovely red glow} Jack is spying/stalking on Achara. {She's wearing a red dress.}
Jack is drinking.

He follows her into a tattoo parlor. {RED EVERYWHERE} Candles are everywhere. Her reflection in the mirror.
Achara- "You're following me."
She strikes a match; this is where she works.
Jack-"A tattoo parlor. This was your big secret? The envelopes? Your gift?"
She is not a tattoo artist. She is able to see who people are, "My work is not decoration. It is Definition." That's her gift; she marks people.

Jack wants to know who he is but she won't do it because he is an outsider and she's not allowed.
So you can sleep with me... ?
Jack-"Do you see who I am, Achara?"
Achara-"Yes."
Jack-"Who am I?"
Achara enlightens him-"You are a leader, a great man. But this, this makes you lonely, and frightened, and angry."
Jack demands-"Now, put it on me. Put it on me!"
Achara-"No. This, this is against my people."
Jack forces her; he presents his left shoulder to her.
Achara-"There will be consequences, Jack."
Jack-"There always are."

A close up of Jacks Tats; running in slow motion.
Jack and Alex run to interrupt the meeting. Alex tells Jack, “You shouldn't be here" and she knocks on the metal door 3x.
Tom answers; seeing Jack is there.
Jack can see Juliet sitting front and center in the room. There is a Hydra Logo on the podium. Tom grabs Jack; he's pissed that Alex brought him there. Isabel comes to the door and tells Tom to let him go. She reads the note from Ben.
Isabel-"Ben has commuted Juliet's sentence.  Execution is off the table. He says the rules don't apply. He has however ordered her to be marked."
Jack and Juliet share a look.

Jack comes out of his hut on the beach. {Dressed in a similar shirt as the other flash.} The kite is wrapped up in the backpack.   He attempts to buy two sodas from the little boy, but the child backs away from him in fear. Five guys, including Achara's brother, check out Jacks marking and they beat the shit out of him. {Everybody was Kung-Foo Fighting!}
The brother tells Jack to “leave this beach. You will get out of this country!"
Achara stood by, watching.

Juliet visits Jack in his cage; she looks awful. She made him a grilled cheese sandwich {Four toothpicks. Did those toothpick frillies changes from yellow to red? OMG! I'm losing my mind! Is the light playing tricks on my eyes! Aaaahhh!}
She heard he only likes them grilled. Jack missed the toothpicks too. Juliet folds the plate to get it through the bars to him.

Jack wants to see her tat that they put on her lower back. He tenderly applies aloe to her tat. {Tat looks like it could be a hydra, maybe. Maybe not} Jack tells her he helped her "Because he told you he would let you go home; he told me the same thing. We're gonna make sure he keeps his word."
Juliet wonders how?
Jack- "Together."
Juliet tells him that they'll be coming for him in a few minutes.   His friends know where they are, "so we have to leave this island and go back to where we live."
Jack- "Go where?"
Juliet- "Well, Ben calls it home."

Sawyer tells Kate he let Karl go. {Again, I am drawn to the rising smoke.} Kate is mad because Karl could had led us back to where they live. Sawyer cut him loose because he's a target! They also bicker about Ben. In charge Sawyer wants to get moving.
Pissed off Kate asks, "Should I walk beside you or 10 paces behind you? You've gotten so good at telling me what to do, I can't think for myself anymore."
Sawyer tells her not to take it out on him because she feels guilty; and not about Jack either. He's "talking about you and me. I know you did it because you thought I was a dead man. So don't beat yourself up cause the doc's left behind."
She's not beating herself up. They move on.

Isabel and her notebook escort Jack and Juliet to the beach. Ben is on a stretcher.
Tom is the official umbrella holder.
Isabel says out loud, "He walks amongst us, But he is not one of us."
She says that's what his tats say.
Jack-"That's what they say. It's not what they mean."
As they're loading Ben on a little rowboat we see a bigger boat out in the water.

Sawyer lights a torch for Kate in the jungle. Sawyer really loves her.
Karl is sitting by a campfire and looking up at the stars.
We see the stars in the sky.
Alex is looking up at the stars from a boat.
Juliet stands in the front of the boat for her ride.   Jack comes up to stand next to her.





Yep! STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND IS A GREAT EPISODE! I remind you that this show gives us clues in a subliminal fashion, this includes "play on words."

I can't help but feel we were possibly shown clues or hints to Jack's father here.  Jack and his connection, struggle and pain with his father and himself always runs a thread through the story.  But there is no doubt we are shown many other important connections to important people.
Speaking of people...what the hell is up with Cindy, the kids and the people who are hanging around to look at "Caged Jack"?  What's the purpose of that? Didn't that feel weird? Are they really there? I'm just fucking asking!

There is a "prison" theme going on in this story.  Again is it literal or a metaphor for Jack and his friends feeling imprisoned by their deep seeded emotional pain.   Are they being judged or judging themselves?

Things to note…Questions to ask... 
☯ RED. Symbolizes the color of life. Blood, fire, danger, passion and war. Warning signs are always posted in red.
☯ CANDLES… Marvin Candle, Wickmund, Halliwax=  Light.
☯ EYES:  Even though I've noted eye changes since season 1, I wonder if the "eye changes" are associated with the hydra or the island they "work" on.  The eye changes happen with Castaways and Others. Is it just from an altered state of consciousness, level, mate?
☯ Circle-ring-around
☯ Deals being made. Rules. Strategy. Game.
☯ Thai- I see "ties" to Jack's father in this episode.   The word tie also could refer to attach.
☯ "Now why would we kill YOU?"   Could Jack be exempt from certain things on the island? Treated differently or special? If this is the case, why would that be? Christian, perhaps?
☯ Apparently being 'Marked" is a worse fate than execution!
☯ Something or someone (maybe a few/all) that transform or morph/change. Literally, figuratively or metaphorically.
☯ Even though Jack made Kate promise to never come back for him, Ben and the Others know she will. So they move out before she even decides to go back for Jack.
☯ Ben calls the "Island" "home".    That's home.    If Juliet knows that, is that where her sister is? Why would she think Ben's version of home would mean anything other that what he calls home. They're all home.
☯ Guilty. Juliet guilty. Kate feels guilt.
☯ The people Cindy was with at Jack's cage…WHO/WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY?
☯ Remember that Waaaaaaalt wasn't the only child associated with flight 815. True the two with Cindy were with the 'Tail section', but they are two more children.
☯ The Brady Bunch is a story about a blended family. Two separate families that come together to make one new family. The Brady's have six kids!
☯ Isabel calls it a little Island yet Ben says it's roughly the size of Alcatraz. That would make it about 18.86 acres. Alcatraz was also known as "The Rock." The earliest recorded owner of the island of Alcatraz is one Julian Workman.
☯ I still wonder if there are other 'little Islands' that are the "settings" for other important parts of this story.
☯ I still question if Jack is getting "special" treatment with the Others.
☯ I would crack up if we see another flash of when Claire was kidnapped by Ethan. If the view into the delivery room with the masked doctor’s showed us that one of those masked doctors is Jack!
☯ Jack has a backpack in his Flash. Standard "Island" requirements.
☯  Jack wears a necklace in this episode.  He wears the gun case key around his neck as a necklace in season 1 and 2.
☯ Other than Tom taking Waaaaaalt off the raft, he's been very cordial and friendly to the Losties. Like he knows them.
☯ The sheriff is not literally a sheriff.
☯ Does Karl have any parents? Where are his parents? Why aren't they out looking for him? Why would this be? Hmmmm....
☯ Languages. Chinese is hard to understand. Things can get Lost In Translation.
☯ Is one of the rules of the game must be to never leave anyone behind?
☯  And just for laughs, let's imagine that there is some sort of creating/breeding/fertility stuff going on, etc. There's a problem with the females and pregnancy. Why don't they just find a way for the guys to carry the babies! Yeah! That would solve everything! Hehehehehe!! Maybe there's nothing going on with fertility issues at all.
☯ Bug. Infected. People or computer?
☯ Sleep. Wake up!

Vocabulary and Research…
♦ Strange is a hamlet on the western outskirt of King City located in King Township, Ontario, Canada.
♦ Strange is a 6 part American comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics. A medical student named Stephen Strange, while in Tibet, meets a sickly, apparently mute young man and later an old man while going to a monastery called "The Garden of Fountains”, asks him why he wants to become a doctor. Later he hears the young man started talking after Stephen gave him a watch, hoping he would return later in life.
♦ Doc Strange
- His civilian identity is Doctor Thomas Hugo Strange, a scientist operating in the U.S. He operated under the name 'Dr. Strange', later 'Doc Strange' during the Golden Age of Comic Books. A scientist who developed a serum called Alosun, which is described in the comics as a distillate of sun atoms. Ingestion of this serum gives him superhuman strength, the ability to fly, and invulnerability.
♦ Dr. Stephen Vincent Strange is the Sorcerer Supreme, responsible for defending the universe from mystic threats. He is a master of the mystic arts, using his abilities to battle evil magicians and other supernatural villains.
♦ Hugo Strange first appears as a scientist who uses a stolen "concentrated lightening" machine that he uses to generate a dense fog, allowing him to rob banks unseen. In his second appearance he escapes from the "city asylum" (later known as Arkham Asylum) with "5 insane patients" and uses them as test subjects, turning them into hulking zombies by administering a powerful artificial growth hormone.
♦ Adam Strange is an archaeologist suddenly teleported from Peru, Earth to fictional planet Rann through the "Zeta Beam." Called on to protect the planet from extraterrestrial threats using high-tech weaponry.
♦ Strangers- a novel by Dean Koontz, 1986. About a group of people who are brought together by their different and equally strange maladies. These people meet in the middle of the Nevada 'high-desert' to try and figure out what was done to them, who could have done it, while at same time being watched by the people who have done this.
♦ Stranger in a Strange Land is a science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein. The novel is about Valentine Michael Smith, who is raised by Martians on Mars until his young adulthood, at which time he returns back to Earth. Valentine, the child of 2 astronauts, is the centerpiece in a political struggle.
♦ A watch is a small clock for wrist or pocket.
-Act of guarding or observing. A period of guard duty. Or to keep vigil
♦ Hydra- We all know the examples I gave when we were introduced to the hydra. But let not forget in mythology it was an ancient nameless serpent-like water beast that had 9 heads. One head were cut off, 2 more sprang up in it's place. They hydra was the offspring of Typhoon and Echidna. It was said to be the sibling of Nemean Lion, the Chimaera and Cerberus. It guarded the entrance the underworld.
♦ Hydra- Also means a persistent or many-sided problem that presents new obstacles as soon as one aspect is solved.
♦ Hydra is a chess machine.
-Hydra constellation, moon.
-Hydra Transformer in the transformers universe.
♦ The Hamsa  is a palm-shaped amulet  popular throughout the Middle East and North Africa.  The hamsa is often incorporated in jewelery and wall hangings, as a defense against the evil eye and means "Five".  It is believed to originate in ancient practices associated with the Phoenicians of Carthage.
An Islamic alternative name for this charm : “Eye of Fatima or the hand of Fatima” , regarding to Fatima Zahra, Prophet Muhammad’s daughter. The other meaning in Jewish is Miriam’s hand , as regards Miriam, the sister of Aaron and Moses. It is a sort of “protection of the hand” or “The hand of God“.
♦ Achara is a Sanskrit term for Right conduct, custom, practice, external observance of established rules and laws.



Jack, along with the rest of them are trying to find out who they are.  He literally asks out loud "Who am I...Do you see who I am?"  
Jack is living in a glass house…I wonder who else is in a "glass" hatch, uh, I mean house! Hmmm?

Isabel is not literally a sheriff and Jack is only "walking" among "them", but isn't one of them...is he the only "real person" on this adventurous journey?
Stranger in a Strange Land…Is Jack really a stranger in a strange land?

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.