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.

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME.

Let's talk about LOST! The Shape of Things to Come.

Kate is on the beach washing up; She smiles over at Jack. {2 bottles}

Inside Jack's tent, he goes through a mega suitcase of meds. Kate asks if he has a prescription for that.
Jack-"Yeah, I wrote it myself."
{Note this RX bottle is a pop top bottle, not child proof top!}
Kate tells him he looks terrible. {Heard that before!} Jack explains he's taking antibiotic for a stomach bug.  Kate suggests he eat some crackers as they always make her feel better. {Pregnant perhaps?!}
Kate wonders why "they aren't back from the boat yet, Jack?"
Jack explains Sayid said the engines are down, "My guess is their trying to fix it, wondering why the hell they can't get in touch with us."But he's not worried; his gut says "We're getting off this Island."
Kate jokes about his sick gut.
Vincent barks.
Bernard calls out for help as Vincent frantically barks {No collar}.
Dr. Ray's body washes up on shore.
Bernard tells Jack and Kate that the dog was barking, "I didn't see him."
Dr. Ray, complete with sewn up left cheek, has a slit throat!
Daniel, Charlotte, Juliet, Sun and Jin run over to see what's going on.
Jack asks Daniel if he knows who this is.  Dan knows this is the boat's Doctor.

"We're all gonna die" Hugo proclaims, as he holds Aaron.
They're hanging out in Ben's house, where he, Sawyer and Locke are involved in a game of Risk!
Sawyer tells "Chicken little" to calm down, "The sky aint falling just yet."
Hugo-"This is exactly what he wants, for us to fight amongst ourselves. You're making a big mistake, Dude."
Locke-"It's his mistake to make, Hugo"
Sawyer states that he's "attacking Siberia."
Sawyer and Hugo roll the 5 die/dice.
Sawyer RED- 6-5-2 (13).
Hugo WHITE 3-2 (5)
Sawyer's happy with the roll.
Hugo-"I can't believe your just giving him Australia. AUSTRALIA'S THE KEY TO THE WHOLE GAME."
Sawyer-"Says you."
Sawyer rolls the 3 red dice 6-6-2 {Orange juice, coffee. Also note-All dice rolls happen in the NORTH section of the board. Greenland, etc.}

Alex, black blindfold and cuffed, is hostage of the tiny army.    Her captor removes the blindfold and demands she turn off the security fence.  Alex begs for them to be aware of a baby with them.  He doesn't give a shit and holds a gun to her head.  She disarms using the 1623 code.

In Ben's house the RISK game is interrupted by the black phone ringing. {Not Bat Phone.} John answers it.  A woman's recorded voice repeats CODE 14 J.
John automatically decides it must be for Ben.

Ben is playing piano; much like Jack did in this house. He is playing a very ominous tune.
The three amigos enter and Ben turns initially happy to see them.
John asks about that code.
Ben freaks asking where he heard that. Ben gets into protection mode, grabs a weapon from the piano bench and hands it to Sawyer and instructs the men to get over to the other house, "it's easier to fortify and we'll have better position on the tree lines."
John wants to know what he's talking about.
Ben- "They're here."
Ben's eyes are closed and he's shaking; opens eyes!

Laying on the dry/packed sand of the Sahara Desert. {No footprints around} He's wearing a Dharma parker belonging to Halliwax. Vapor escapes from him; he pukes. His right arm is injured.
He hears horses. {Horse's wearing pretty black and white decoration} Two men approach him with guns.
In their native language they appear to be commenting and questioning on how this man got there as they note there are no footprints. Ben asks if they speak English, but he speaks Arabic/Turkish to them. (I think Turkish)
One man searches Ben and finds something in Ben's pocket; it's a baton/night stick.
Ben clubs one guy, acquires his rifle and then shoots the one on the horse. The other man says he surrenders.
Ben-"Oh, so you do speak English."
Ben knocks him out with the rifle. In Indian Jones style, Ben mounts the horse and heads off, triumphant!

Laundry hangs on the line. (Remember Ben gave Juliet a washer and dryer.) Sawyer guesses code 14 J aint for the pizza boy.
Ben explains it's the early warning system; somebody tripped the panic switch at the security fence. He also knows one of his people's been captured.
Ben's also upset they debated 5 minutes before getting him. So much for their head start.
Inside Ben's house they prepare for protection.
Sawyer wants to go grab Frenchy and the kids if their gonna hunker down. Ben tells him not to bother as he's sent them away to somewhere safe. Sawyer wants to get sleeping Claire.
Ben feels there's no time for that, but Sawyer will make time.
Everyone is armed.
Ben informs John it's very important that he survives what's about to happen here, "I need you to stay close to me." {Why? No. really…why?}
Ben explains the people that are coming won't risk hurting him. If John wants to live Ben's his best chance.

Jack covers Dr Rays body/head, "His throat was slit. Know anything about that?"
Miles- "No, he was fine when I last saw him."
Jack asks when.
Dan-"When? When" is kind of a relative term."
Of course they don't know anything about it. No luck fixing the sat phone either; the 'mic/mike' was smashed. Best case scenario they'd only be able to broadcast tone squelch "Beeps and Boops."
Bernard comments that it still can be used as some sort of a telegraph. Dan feels if he had some strips of ferrous metal, a 9 volt battery clip and some wiring maybe he can set it up, so Kate lets him know about the salvage from the plane.
Dan and his mullet leave with Kate.
Jack asks Bernard if he's got a second.

Ben and John hunker down, blocking entrances into the house. John asks Ben if he's scared of these people.
Ben-"That's right John, I am."
Hugo enters the room holding Aaron. John warns him to stay away from the window. Hugo is very concerned about Sawyer getting back in.
Ben-"He's not."

Sawyer runs into Doug on his search for Claire.
Doug carries firewood and questions Sawyer about him having a gun. Sawyer tells him to get back inside and wait… Doug is shot! Two more Lostie's come out to look and they are shot!
Sawyer ends up in a shootout!  He takes cover behind a picnic table and yells out for Claire.  He makes a run for it {And doesn't fucking get hit!} The house is blown up!

Ben arrives nonchalant at a lovely hotel in Tunisia. He's dusty and dirty. He rings the desk bell. The counter clerk named Narjiss. We learn this is not his first time in Tunisia, but it's been a while. She asks his name.
Ben-"I'm actually a preferred guest, it should be under Dean Moriarity."
He shows a passport. She checks her ledger and then looks at Ben with prudence.
Ben-"Today's date is?"
Narjiss-"October the 24th Sir." {10-24}
Ben jokingly comments verifying it's "2005".
She confirms, 2005.
Ben takes the keys and on his way up the stairs he sees Sayid on the news. Sayid is surrounded by press. Sayid's wife had been killed.

Aaron is crying. Hugo looks out the window at the destroyed house.  In the other room John demands that Ben tell him what's going on. Ben tells him the technical term is "Shock and Awe."
They are trying to frighten Ben into surrendering.
John asks why they stopped shooting.
Hugo asks if that is Claire's house {He doesn't know?}
John again tells him to get the baby away from the window.
Hugo brings Aaron in the back room.
Ben tells John he needs to survive this because there is only one person who can help them now; Jacob. And they have to go to him together. John reveals he doesn't know where the cabin in.
Ben-"I know. But Hurley does."

Sawyer rummages through the wreckage searching for Claire.  There she is under a tarp/blanket, relatively unharmed but knocked out.
Sawyer picks her up she says "Charlie? Where's Aaron?"
{Was she just with Charlie?}
Sawyer carries her back to Ben's house.
Hurley prepares a laundry basket as a crib for Aaron. He hears Sawyer yell for them to open the front door but Ben won't open the door. So Hurley breaks open a window to let him in with Claire.
Sawyer tells John "She got her bell rung, but she's gonna be all right."
Hurley carries Claire off.
John closes the black out curtains. Sawyer asks Ben why "They" started shooting not saying what they want.

Ben-"Those people were murdered to make you angry, James. So you'd be more likely to come storming in here and throw me to the wolves."
James grabs Ben and tells him that sounds like a great plan.
Conveniently the doorbell rings and they all look to the door.
Ben loudly states, "I wouldn't if I were you."
They cautiously let Miles in.
Sawyer-"Who the hell let you out?"
The guilty people are those who gave him a walki talki. They have a hostage and they wan to talk.

A funeral procession in Tikrit, Iraq. Mourners are holding framed photos of Nadia. This area is guarded by American soldiers. A jeep with the word "PRESS" written on it pulls up.It's Ben, outfitted with a fancy camera and groovy hat! He makes his way up stairs to a roof area where he photographs a man across the street drinking, and snaps shots of the procession. He photographs Sayid, who is 2nd on the right side line of the casket carriers. Sayid conveniently turns his head and sees Ben. Ben realizes he's been spotted so he tries to get away quickly and is tackled by Sayid.

Sayid-"You vultures. You follow me to Tikrit, you spy on me!"
He sees it's Ben!
Ben tells him he's there "to find the man who murdered your wife."
Sayid-"How did you get here?"
Ben tells him he came across the Syrian border.
Sayid wants to know how he got off the island.
Ben-"Your friend Desmond had a boat. Remember, the Elizabeth. I followed a heading to Fiji. Then I chartered a plane."
Sayid-"Why now?"
Ben-"You remember the name Charles Widmore, don't ya? The man who tried to convince the world that your plane was on the bottom of the ocean."
Sayid wants to know what that has to do with him and Nadia.
Ben goes on to say there was a man at her procession who goes by the name of Ishmael Bakir, one of Widmore's men. Ben shows him a photo of this man behind the wheel at a traffic light. Bakia was last seen five days ago in L.A., caught by a traffic camera, speeding away from the corner of La Brea and Santa Monica. That's three blocks from where Nadia was killed.
Sayid is heartbroken, "Why would these people want to murder her?"
Ben doesn't know, but they did. Sayid crumbles the photo as Ben watched Sayid to see if he's "taken the bait".

Sawyer pats down Miles.
John asks Miles how many of them are there. Miles thinks maybe six but he's not sure. Sawyer asks how he's not sure, he came over on the same boat with them.
Miles-"They told me they were just security."
Security for Ben; once they got him to escort him to the mainland.
Ben-"Well Miles. Sounds like you're not gonna collect your 3.2 million dollars."
Miles tells him to take it (walki).
Ben refuses to talk to them.
Miles reveals they have a hostage. Ben informs him "they've badly miscalculated. Because every single one of his people is prepared to die in service to this island."
Miles admits they have his daughter.
Ben takes the walki, says "Hello."
The voice on the other end confirms he's speaking with Benjamin Linus. This is Martin Keamy, an employee of Charles Widmore.
Sawyer asks "Who's Charles Widmore?" {Sawyer seems to never know who anyone is!}
John-"Later."
Keamy instructs Ben to look out his east window so they can talk about this face to face.
At the window, Ben is told to look to the left.
Ben sees Keamy.
Keamy explains his terms, "You're gonna step out the front door, put your hands above your head, you're gonna walk straight to me. Once I have you in my custody, and I promise you that no one else in that house will be harmed."
They both know that once they have Ben there's nothing to stop them from killing everyone on this island. After all Ben knows what kind of guy Keamy is.
Ben-"Martin Christopher Keamy, former first Sergeant United States Marine Corp. Served with distinction from 1996-2001 but since then you've worked with a number of mercenary organizations, specifically in Uganda. So I know exactly what kind of man you are Mr. Keamy. And we can dispense with the formalities."
Keamy whistles to have cuffed Alex brought out.
Frightened Alex kneels on the ground with his gun pointed to her head.
Keamy tells Ben to get his ass out there right now or "I'm gonna kill your daughter."
Ben wants to present a counter proposal. To have Keamy and his friends turn around, walk back to their helicopter and fly away, forget they ever heard of this island.
Keamy isn't budging, he gives Alex the walki so she can say goodbye to her daddy.
Alex cries, tells Ben they are serious mentioning they killed Karl and her mother.
Ben assures her he has this under control and that everything is gonna be okay.
Keamy takes the walki back and gives Ben 10 seconds!
During this countdown Ben exclaims she is not his daughter, that he stole her as a baby from an insane woman, "She's a pawn, nothing more. She means nothing to me. I'm not coming out of this house. So if you want to kill her, go ahead and do it…"       Without hesitation Alex is shot!
Ben is shocked!

Sawyer looks out the window, he "doesn't see him.    He just left her body there and disappeared into the jungle."
Locke knows they won't be gone long, "it'll be dark in 20 minutes and then they're gonna come for him."
Sawyer suggests they just hand Ben over to them. John feels that still would keep them from getting killed. James aint got no intention of dying.
Ben is still stunned and in a bit of shock, "HE CHANGED THE RULES."
John wonders Who?! What Rules?!
Sawyer tells John he knows he's right, their best chance is to toss Ben out and fend for themselves.
Stunned Ben walks to the bookcase and reveals the hidden room/closet. He closes himself in.

There's Sawyer again yelling for someone to "Open this damn door!"

Hidden behind the hanging clothes, Ben reveals another fake wall/panel that opened, reveals an ancient door with hieroglyphics.
Ben heads through that entrance.

Ben in a Tea/Coffee house. {Mirror over the bar.} Ben is drinking tea/coffee while keeping his eye on Ishmael. Ishmael leaves so Ben follows him through a crowded market area.
In a back alley Ishmael sneaks up behind Ben, pulls a gun and tells him to "walk." He wants to know who he is and why is he following him. {He doesn't know this is Ben?} Ben introduces himself and informs Ishmael he needs him to take a message to Mr. Widmore. Ishmael gets shot from behind by Sayid! Sayid empties his gun w/silencer into the man!
Ben tells Sayid they are finished there, that he should turn around, walk away, "Morn your loss, get on with your life."
Ben tells him to go home. Once you let your grief become anger it will never go away, "I speak from experience."
Sayid tells him he spent the last eight years of his life searching for the woman he loves. He finally found and married her, then he buried her yesterday, "So don't tell me this is not my war. Benjamin. Who's next?"
Ben lets Sayid know he will be in touch.

Sawyer still bangs on the door, telling Ben to open it.
Claire, Aaron and Hugo come out from the back room. Claire's a bit wobbly, "But I'll live."
Miles-"I wouldn't be too sure about that."
Ben re-emerges from the hidden lair covered in black soot. Ben takes the walki and instructs the rest that in a minute they have to run from the house as fast as they can, when he gives the order he wants them to head straight for the tree line. They want to be as far away from the guys with guns as possible. Rumbling begins! The orange juice glass shakes! {Very familiar! Hmmm!}
Outside a huge aggressive train-like version of the black smoke comes from behind the house.
Ben instructs them to get outside.
Through the Flashing of the smoke monster we see it grab the soldiers.
Hugo-"You just call that thing?"
Ben just has them to head for the trees and he'll catch up; he's going to say goodbye to his daughter.

At her body, Ben cries.

Back at the beach Dan sends a message via Morse code to the freighter.They might actually have a signal... "What happened to the doctor?"
A reply in Morse code comes back.
Dan looks troubled and tells them that the freighter didn't exactly say what happened to the doctor, your friends are fine and the helicopters coming back in the morning.
Jack looks to Bernard for translating the code.
Bernard tells him Dan's lying. The message said "What are you talking about? The doctor is fine."
Yes, Bernard knows Morse code.
Doctor Jack asks what does that mean, the doctor is fine. Jack wants to know what's with the lies. He grabs Dan and asks, "Were you ever gonna take us off this Island?"
Dan- "No."
Juliet has no reaction.
Jack starts to get pains. Our doctor is sick.

Lighting up their torches, Sawyer tells Miles which direction his chopper buddies went and if he wants to catch up. Miles wants to stay with them for now. Ben joins them.
John-"Sorry about your daughter."
Ben thanks him.
John continues about Ben lying to him, "You told me you didn't know what the smoke monster was." {Not really}
Ben tells him he can ask Jacob all about it when they get to the cabin.
Sawyer-"Jacob? Who the hell's Jacob?"{Really?!}
He the man who's gonna tell them what to do next.
Sawyer is frustrated and proclaims he's done with all of this he should have never followed these wackos in the first place. They all decide to leave Locke and head back to the beach; Hurley too.
Locke pulls a gun on James.
Sawyer wonders-"Have you lost your mind?"
John tells him Hugo stays with them. Sawyer pulls a gun on John, "Not a chance!"     Hurley reluctantly will go with them to find the cabin. Upset Hurley wants them to put their guns down.
Sawyer-"You don't have to do this."
Hurley-"You guys go back to the beach. I will catch up sooner or later."
Sawyer- to John, "You harm so much as one hair on his curly head, I'll kill you."
John- "Fair enough."
John hands Ben a torch and asks "Which way?"
Ben-"Follow me."

A taxi pulls up to a fancy building in London, England. {Taxi license R838VLW. Parked car LLO4BAV} Ben is dressed very sharp, all in black, tells the doorman that he is there to see Mr. and Mrs. Kendrick in 4E. They're expecting him, even at this hour, "Feel free to call up."
Ben has his trusty baton with him. The doorman doesn't call up and just lets Ben go on.
In the elevator he removes his black gloves and uses a key to get him to the penthouse suite.

He enters Charles Widmore's bedroom,"Wake up Charles."
Charles- "I wondered when you were gonna show up. I see you've been getting more sun."
Ben-"Iraq is lovely this time of year." {Although it sounds like he says your rock. lol.  Note Ben stands in the complete dark of the room, NOT in the lit area of the doorway. We have half light-half dark}
Ben asks when he started sleeping with a bottle of scotch by the bed. {MacCutheons}
Charles admits, "When the nightmares started."
He pours a drink and asks if Ben is there to kill him.
Ben-"We both know I can't do that."
Ben his there because "You murdered my daughter."
Charles-"Don't stand there and look at me with those horrible eyes of yours. And lay the blame for the death of that poor girl on me. When we both know very well I didn't murder her at all, Benjamin. You did."
Ben-"No. that's not true."
Charles-"Yes, Benjamin. It is. You creep into my bedroom in the dead of night, like a rat, and have the audacity to pretend that you're the victim. I know who you are, Boy. What you are. I know that everything you have, you took from me. So, once again I ask you, why are you here?"
Ben-"I'm going to kill your daughter. Penelope, is it? And once she's gone, once she's dead, then you'll understand how I feel. And you'll wish you hadn't changed the rules."
Charles says he'll never find her, "That Island's mine, Benjamin. It always was. It will be again."
Ben-"But you'll never find it."
Charles "Then I suppose the hunt is on for both of us."
Ben tells him to sleep tight and closes the door behind him.



The Shape of Things to Come is a GREAT EPISODE!

Things to note…Questions to ask…
* "AUSTRALIA'S THE KEY TO THE WHOLE GAME." Who visits Australia often?! CHRISTIAN.  Jack.
* Here we see the "game" element/layer.
"HE CHANGED THE RULES."   You know I LOVE that this is a living-breathing CHESS game!  A gentleman's game, complete with gentlemen rules and guidelines! They are AWARE of what they are involved in. That means the parties involved all had an "understanding" in how to engage in this " War game" (so to speak).
* How many times has this "game" been played? Is the "prize" this Island?  Has it changed hands according to who wins the war? Is this how Ben acquired it? Widmore claims it was his before and it will be again. Or does that have nothing to do with who "Has" the Island?
* Who is Ben a preferred guest of?
* Do they have DeLorean cars in Iraq?
* Could Kate be pregnant? I'm just asking!
* What is Ben? Really…
* Ben wears a scarf thingy around his neck in the Flashes.
* How often has Jack been hitting the "prescription suitcase"?   The drug suitcase could be bottomless!
* Vincent is always around to draw attention to the "Issue" at hand. Convenient, huh?! Nope!
* There's NO delay in the Morse code transmission, just as there was no delay in the radio transmission previously.
* I'm not so sure this is the exact passport of Ben's that Sayid finds in the Economist.
* Sayid is part of the casket carriers. Do husbands carry the casket there?
* Freighter soldiers have walki's not Sat-phones.
* New DHARMA LOGO. {Cone? Spiral?} Is it connected to the Airport we saw when Juliet left Miami? HALLIWAX  JACKET. Cold.
* All of a sudden Ben NEEDS John and Hugo to go to the cabin.   Is Ben to 'deliver' John and Hugo to Jacob? Are they brothers/related?
* Of the remaining Locke camp, they all choose to abandon his side.  Reluctantly Hugo stays to help them find the cabin.
* I have the urge for a cup of tea.
* Ben heads into yet another secret underground area that is closed off by a door with hieroglyphics on it. {Timer in Hatch} ANCIENT. How/Why does he have access to it?
* The title is also the title of H.G. Wells book.
* No Footprints. How did Ben appear in the desert?
* The traffic light photo is in the same area Hurley was having is run in/chase with the police.
* What's with the $3.2 million mention again? Code for something? Morse Code.
* Along with 14J, could 4E be a code too?  A chess game move, maybe? Game codes.
* The reason for pushing the button every 108 minutes was to deal with the electromagnetic build up. Since there is NO button to push is maintaining this build up not an issue anymore?  Was the 108 minutes really a timer for something else?  Does it have anything to do with the Smoke Monster or just the game?
* "Time Issues" …Ben tells Widmore he'll never find the Island.  Ben's daughter has been killed by Widmore's side, if Widmore got his "pawns" to the Island he obviously knows where it is.   So when is this Flash from? If this is after Alex is killed, as we see it, depending on how fast Ben got to Widmore, there are no holiday decorations in the lobby of Widmore's building. So how long could Ben have waited to see Charles? Is this a different time?
* Sayid tells Danielle when he is her prisoner that Nadia was dead.
* Why is Ben so intent on calling Alex his daughter?
* The word PRESS on Ben's car in Iraq.  Press what? The button?
* The freighter people=Security?  Nope, Just MORE PAWNS/soldiers.
* Could Charlie have been removed from the playing field because he could be considered a "Hanging Pawn"?
* Mental health.  Carriers of emotional pain.
* Head
* Why did the smoke monster toss Eko around the jungle? Why did Eko need to be removed?
* Narjiss anagram- Jar Sins-Jars Sin- Jars Ins. That was fun.
* "Dharma" food drops have always been made.  Widmore products are also delivered to the "Island".  Of course you need to keep rations/sundries, etc., supplied to your soldiers.
* Could the smoke monster have anything to do with removal of people from the playing field or transporting them somewhere else?  What is the purpose of it? What is it protecting/securing?  It could just a metaphor.





I loved this episode. To hear things I've been hinting at from the clues was very exciting. Ben is very talented at manipulating people into doing things by making them thinks it's their idea. He is the ultimate Con Man.

Ben has killed people but it seems he is not be able to kill certain people so he gets others to do the actual killing of someone for him.  Now Sayid is "hooked" and committed to eliminating Widmore's pawns.   This bit of convincing others to kill for him includes getting Locke to kill Anthony Cooper.  But remember, in that case Locke couldn't kill Anthony either.  So Richard cleverly shows Locke a "loophole" or a "cheat" to get the task done. Locke gets Sawyer to do it.
Good vs. evil. Light vs. dark.  Who are the Good Guys and who are the Bad?  I think it was finally made more clear to everyone in this episode.

Remember the Karen mantra, People (and things)aren't who/what you think, so be careful which side you are picking!

The shape of things to come. The shape of the "Island" or the shape of those who can/will transform? Hmmm.

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! 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. I'll only note things that I feel "could be" clues in bold.

S5 promo details and questions.

 Season 5 details and questions.

Details of the promo:

Plane coming apart.
Black Smoke
AFTER 108 DAYS
Wreckage on the beach.
Sawyer walking on the beach.
Locke to Jack in the jungle- "Do you think we crashed on this place by coincidence?"
Locke standing in the jungle grass.
EVERYTHING THEY LIVED FOR
Locke-"It's Destiny."
Sawyer kisses Kate on the helicopter. He jumps out.
DIED FOR
Jin franticly waves at the helicopter.
Sun sees the freighter blow up.
PRAYED FOR
Sayid kneels, eyes closed, assumed praying by the helicopter. Opens his eyes.
FINALLY HAPPENED
Helicopter lifts off.
Kate to Ben "So we can go?"
Ben turns to answer her.
Kate- "Off the island?"
Helicopter leaves the island.
6 WERE RESCUED
Oceanic 6 walk off the transport plane. Hurley waves, Sun holding Sayid's hand, Kate with Aaron, Jack.
THE REST
Group of Richard/Ben's people in the jungle.
Bright flash of light. Locke, Richard shield their eyes. Sawyer and Juliet shield their eyes.
The "Island" disappears. Seems to submerge under the water.
VANISHED
Hurley- "It's gone."
Locke/Bentham in the coffin.
Ben (dressed in black) to Jack-"Did he tell you what happened to them?
Bearded Jack –"He told me, some very bad things happened."
Flash of the Dharma logo over Jack.
Charlotte looks at Daniel (her nose is bleeding)
John on the ground, a rifle pointed at him.
Bearded Jack continues "And he said that I had to come back."
Juliet wipes soil/vines off a hatch in the ground.
Daniel Faraday wearing a hardhat touches rock wall in a cave.
Ben tells Jack "The island won't let you come alone."
Locke.
Richard with a torch in the dark.
Bloody hand holds compass.
IN 2009
Ben to bearded Jack- "You have to do it together, all of you."
THE OCEANIC 6
Kate by plantation shutter window.
Sun.
Clean shaven Jack fixes his tie in a mirror.
Sayid "We need to get to the SAFE HOUSE."
Hurley in bathrobe with a gun (on a balcony).
Sayid beats up some dude in a kitchen.
Hurley "We never should have left that island."
WILL RISK EVERYTHING
Sun locked in a guarded office/room. Bangs on it "Open this door!" She looks back.
(sounds like a gun cocks)
Kate- packs a gun in a bag. Older Aaron asks "Where r going, mommy?"
Kate-" We're going on vacation, baby."
TO RETURN
Kate holds Aaron's hand, walks away.
Sawyer, Shirtless in the jungle
Jack- "Everyone we left behind, They('d) die too if I didn't come back."
Juliet in blue shirt in the jungle
Group of people in the beach area.
Night. Group of people, including shirtless Sawyer, in the jungle.
Long haired Daniel, with backpack, walks toward a hatch door, in the jungle.
Yellow hazmat suit guy with a gun outside the door, gun on Daniel.
Yellow (drug) plane falls.
DESTINY CALLS
Ben- "Well thank god for second chances."
Jack in a white tank tee shirt, looks up.

The LOST logo: City under the water....


Things to note...Questions to ask...
* Where did the island go?
* Why is Charlotte's nose bleeding?
* What hatch is Juliet uncovering? I think there are many hatches all over the place. This would include hatches or stations all over the world. I.e. England, New York, Miami, L.A., Norway, Finland, Tunisia, etc...
* What hatch/station is Daniel at with the armed person in the yellow suit?
* If it was going to be so bad for the Oceanic 6 to leave, why the fuck did Ben let them leave?
* All of this coincidence? HELL NO!
* What is the SAFE HOUSE? WHERE IS IT?
* Hurley with a gun...WOW!
* Ben is convincing bearded Jack they all have to go back.
* Are any of what we saw dream sequences? What is real?
* The compass.
* 108- Is it time to re-set the game/clock?
* The Dharma Initiative logo showing up!
* Where is Desmond and Penny? And Frank, for that matter...
* Who is "Them"?
* Jack says "Everyone we left behind, They('d) die too if I didn't come back. He didn't say go back.
* Second chances...Is this the second time? hmmmmm?!
* Is it possible Ben letting the Oceanic 6 get off that island, be part of another bigger test?
* Is the purple bright light part of "Time Travel" occurring? Or is it telling us the "Island" is in "Movement"? Or something else all together?
* Why do we now see 2 reasons for the bright purple light? We had it when the Swan imploded, and again when Ben turned the wheel (that sticks).
* They all are part of the "Island". How old are some of these people? Are the natives the ones who are being used by Dharma? Are there really natives?
* Who are the "Scientists"? Are they connected to Dharma?
* Does any of this protecting that island have to do with a monster or something created?   Even protecting a "special person" or something...I'm just asking! Cause I know you're asking that question too.

We have been mis-led with promos and coming attractions before. I am not assuming anything by watching this promo. But I can't wait to find out what it all really means!!

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.