Across the Sea.

Let's talk about LOST! Across the Sea.

Because I am tied up for the next couple of days I cannot write out my detailed notes as usual, but I will as soon as I'm home. This episode was so wonderful that I needed to get some thoughts down.

Profound metaphors galore!

Coming out of this episode found me with the hope that fans would relate to the metaphors of the story and find some of their answers within the magical images set before us.  The first answer I need to put before you, even though it is out of order in relation to the episode, is the confirmation of a game.  The confirmation has been given to us many times, although many fans choose to ignore it's there.
Note that viewers are led to believe (via neighboring episodes) that the Boy in Black represents the Man in Black, the "Smoke Monster"... Locke.

Game On!

Our answer came quite simply by the boys and it will not get any clearer than this.
Jacob- "What is it?"
Boy in dark- "It's a game. You play it."
Jacob- "How do you know?"
Boy in dark- "I just know." The boy in dark assigns the pieces determining who is which color.
The boy in dark-Black and Jacob-White.
Jacob wants his brother to teach him how to play and he will, but he has to promise not to tell "mother" because she'll take it away.  Jacob wants to play.  The boy in dark has insight to things being "off" with this woman who is raising them.  The Senet game is played according the rules the boy in dark instituted.  When Jacob tries to cheat/illegal on a move in the game, the boy in dark calls him out on it explaining when he/Jacob makes up his own game everyone else will have to follow "your rules."

In current time we have MIB/Locke playing by Jacob's rules.
It's interesting "Mother Island" claims she left the game there for the intuitive boy in dark to find.

Down the Rabbit Hole

I jumped out of my chair when we saw Queens of a chess board (of sorts).  The red-orange (pregnant and limping) queen, Claudia, emerges from under the water to gaze at the beautiful "Island."
Claudia delivers two sons (twins) via the assistance of a stern and forbidding looking woman with no name who lives in the caves.  This woman claims to be there solo and also arrived there by accident.  We are in the midst of the women speaking another language {Latin?-the language of the "enlightened" and Claudia w/Spanish and an Italian mix} which they apparently understand and then automatically in an instant switch to the very comfortable modern English.  Claudia has many questions but "Mother Island" feels "Every question I answer will simply lead to another question. You should rest. Just be grateful you're alive", so enough said.  Well, other than her telling Claudia that if there's other people on the "Island" she will find them.

"It" is coming

Claudia is told she delivered two boys, but she wasn't prepared with more than one name option for her "son". {She only refers to a single "him"}
"Mother Island" kills the natural mother with a rock. {Eko kills Others with a rock.}

There must be something more

The boy in dark finds the "planted" Senet game and is excited to have something to engage his brain and entice him into dreaming about life outside of the confines of the "Island".

Eyes in the Back of my Head

While “Mother Island” weaves her new fabric Jacob enters the cave; she knows without turning around that it is Jacob who entered and not the "other" boy.  She also knows he isn't telling the truth about what they/two boys were doing.  Jacob firstly mentions his brother is down at the beach staring out at the ocean. And then mentions they we just walking.

Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places

She asks Jacob if he loves her and he obviously has reservations about her, but says yes anyway.

When "Mother Island" sits with the boy in dark it is revealed Jacob told her what he found and mommy claims that's because Jacob doesn't know how to lie.   Are you fucking kidding me?! We literally just saw Jacob do it!   “Mother Island” tells the curious boy "He's not like you... You're... special."   Mama lets the boy in dark keep the game as she claims it really came from her.  The boy in dark's imagination had hoped it came from somewhere else... from across the sea.
“Mother Island”- "There is nowhere else. The island's all there is."
But the inquisitive mind of the boy in dark wants to know where "we" came from.  Mama claims the boys came from her and she from her mother; all reproducing without the mention of a man.
* A reminder from Emily Locke- “I want to tell you that you’re special. Very special. You are part of a design. You do realize that, don’t you? That our meeting, me finding you… this is a sign of things to come. Great things.”

The boy in dark inquisitively notes the word "dead" when mother mentions her mother is dead, and he wonders what that is.  Mama touches him and confidently tells him, "Something you will never have to worry about."

We then see Jacob and his brother chase a boar through the jungle. The boy in dark says "Hurry up! He's getting away!"  The boys lose the boar but in the distance hear it squeal out in pain.  Quietly they sneak a peek to find men with their kill. The boys hide.

The human doesn't see things as they are, but as he is.

The upset duo informs “Mother Island” that they saw people who looked like "us", and want to know where they came from. Mother insists "They're not like us. They don't belong here. We are here for a reason."   By the way she says that line while looking directly at the boy in dark/John Locke.  The boy in dark takes full advantage of asking questions, "What reason?"  Her only answer is "It's not time yet..."
She blindfolds the boys and leads them on a trek through the jungle while admitting she knew about the people and didn't tell them because they're dangerous and she didn't want to frighten “you.” "Mother Island" explains the thing that makes all men dangerous, "They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt and it always ends the same", yet she was every bit of that as well.  Again the boy in dark/Lock the "thinker" wants to know where they came from.  Mother only says "another part of the island. And you're never to go looking for them. If they found you they would hurt you." {Apparently that's not true because he ends up living with them for 30 years. But I understand the sentiment- as people will be people, with big egos and selfish behavior, etc.}  The boy in dark knows "We’re people. Does that mean we can hurt each other?"   Mom conveniently made it so they could never hurt each other.   But evidently that's not true either.  She feels that's just what people do.   It is apparent that this woman has no faith in "men"/people.  That's why Hurley/Hugo even feels he can trust the dead more than the living because living people can hurt you.

"Mother Island" brings them to the place, the reason they're here ... The light.  They are at a flowing stream that flows right down into a tunnel with the warmest most beautiful bright light anyone has ever seen or felt.

Trust Issues x 10

"Mother Island"  warns them not to go in there and to make sure no one ever finds it.  "A little bit of this very same light is inside of every man. But they always want more."
Jacob- "Can they take it?"
"Mother Island"- "No, but they'll try. And if they tried, they could put it out. And if the light goes out here, it goes out everywhere."
She claims to be the protector of the light, but can't protect forever.  One of the boys will have to carry on.  It sounds like "Mother Island" is keeping the light trapped in an effort to thwart people from having it, and breaking hearts. She really is protecting her own broken heart.

Dream within a Dream

The boy in dark can see the image of his dead birth mother, while Jacob cannot.   She wants to show the boy where he came from. "It’s across the island a place you've never seen."   He learns that 13 years ago the day before he was born their ship wrecked.   Dead Mama enlightens him to their being many things across the sea. "You come from across the sea too."  {Dead mama-manifestation of the smoke monster- "Mother Island". Hmmmm...}

“I've looked into the eye of this island, and what I saw was beautiful.” 

The boy in dark won't live a lie so he gathers his and Jacob’s things and wants to leave and never come back.  He reveals "Mother" lied about EVERYTHING including her loving them. This infuriates Jacob and he beats him up.  But the boy in dark confronts "Mother Island" sharing that he now knows the truth and he's going to go home; the boys don't belong there.   Mama tells the boy in dark that no matter what he's been told he could never leave this island, but the boy knows that's not true; one day he will prove it.   He walks away from the two.  When the boy in dark looked at the light he saw the "truth" and wanted to live his life according to the truth, not the crap "Mother Island" was feeding him.  His thoughts were to be formed on the basis of fact, science, logic, reason, "gut feeling/clarity", and freedom, and he wasn't going to be influenced by this woman, her "Island" traditions or any other dogma.
The boy in dark/MIB/Locke is an enlightened "freethinker".

“The fear of loss is a path to the Dark Side” 

"Mother Island" admits to Jacob she killed their birth mother because she would have taken them back to her "bad people" and she couldn't let that happen, as she needed him to stay good.
Jacob-"Am I mother?"
"Mother Island" says yes.  Jacob feels she loves "him/Boy in Dark" more than him. Clever mom claims to love them in different ways.  Jacob will stay with this insane murdering baby napper of a woman and this makes her happy.

Big Boys Play Games Too

Jacob and his brother have been having secret covert sessions to play the game.  Jacob says mother never asks about Man in Black, but that's a lie.  Jacob "watches" the little villagers and their behavior to see if they are really bad.  He doesn't think they're so bad.
MIB-"It may be easy for you to say... Looking down at us from above. Trust me I've lived among them for 30 years, they're greedy, manipulative, untrustworthy, and selfish."  But he puts up with their ways because they're a means to an end.  He tells his brother, "I'm leaving, Jacob."  He proves the magnetic field of the island to Jacob by throwing his dagger at the well.  He explains he and the smart men discovered that metal behaves strangely.  They dig, explore and invent.  MIB begs Jacob to go with him but Jacob declines.  Jacob is loyal, I'll give him that.  But is his loyalty based in ignorance and fear?   "Island Mother" kept him close at hand seemingly because in my opinion he was the one amendable for coercion.  That is a concept we only thought pertained to Castaway John Locke.  Her sheltered mind was limited by her ignorance, pain and fear.

To everything there is a season

Everything dies! 
Jacob is the one that doesn't want to leave this island, "It's my home." (He's comfortable there- used to the way things are.)
"Mother Island" approaches the work site and appears down in the well where MIB is heating coals. He shares with her his time with the villagers learning and exploring a way to find the light that she didn't want him to have and share.  He explored the idea of "What if I can get to it from someplace else?"   He removes a small piece of stone to let in a bit of the beautiful light that shines on the wheel.  The special man knows how to do all this. They even invented a wheel that will help him on his quest to get back to where he belongs.

MIB/Locke says goodbye to his mother. She bids him goodbye; but smashes his head against the stone wall; knocking him out.
  
There is no Choice...You Must Believe in Free Will

Mom wakes sleeping Jacob, "It's time."   She's letting MIB/Locke go.
In the night she leads Jacob to the tunnel that houses the light.  When asked what's down there she replies, life, death, rebirth... it the source, the heart of the island. {Hmmm...Enlightenment!} She wants Jacob to promise her he'll never go down there because it would be worse than dying. She gives him some wine as some sort of promissory communion to accept the responsibly of protecting the light, and finding his replacement when the time comes.  Jacob doesn't want the responsibility but knows he's got the gig by default.  When he drinks the liquid she poured she claims, "Now you and I are the same."   Well, now that Mother and Jacob are the same... the evil, flawed shoe must fit.

Free will is the purported ability of agents to make choices free from constraints. 

MIB/Locke regains consciousness outside of the well in the daylight and not inside the well where he was knocked out by the "mother".   Mother has destroyed the well.  He sees black smoke rising in the distance and discovers the village is burned and his people are killed.

The Game Continues

Jacob notes that a storm is coming and will see "Mother Island" back home.  Mom sets off to the caves where she finds her stuff is destroyed and the Senet game is there.  {Locke destroyed a few things while on the "island" too. His reason was to keep the people/Jack who needed to be there, to stay until they are ready to go home.}

MIB/Locke Slays the Monster!  (He let go of the metaphoric monster that caused part of his life long suffering)

He plunged the knife into "Mother Island" before she could speak a word, all in retribution for her terrible act of killing the other "Island" residents, trying to kill him, stopping him from leaving and to stop her from continuing her bad ways.   "Mother Island" thanks him.   Jacob walks in seeing the aftermath and not understanding beats up MIB/Locke.  MIB/Locke doesn't fight back with Jacob.

Jacob brings/pulls MIB/Locke to the beautiful light and throws him face down into the stream that floats him unconscious into the light.   It is important to note that Jacob actually tells MIB/Locke "Don't worry brother, I'm not going to kill you" before he throws him down onto the rocks.  Black smoke is released.   Jacob is sad and confused.  He finds his brother dead on some rocks at a stream.  Jacob cries.

Jacob lays the dead woman and the man with the white/black stones to rest in the caves- together.   "Goodbye brother."  Jacob only bids his brother goodbye- not the woman who raised him.

They are all guilty of everything "Mother Island" told the young boys.

All aboard the Crazy Train 

Mental Health and issues with reality!
"Mother Island" was indeed insane and evil. Don't try to tell me she wasn't!  She stole two newborns and killed their birth mother so she could keep them and mold them to her own distorted beliefs. She lied, manipulated, controlled and sheltered them from the truth.  She destroyed, burned and killed the village and its residents.   She also felt that the other "Island" people would want the "Island" light so "she" kept the light hidden, claiming to be its protector and hoping it would never be found.   In this episode I saw a woman who lost faith in a man/men, people and herself.  She seems to be trapping her own "light" in an effort not to get hurt again.  But in her stealing the boys and trying to make her own little emotional safe haven, "MIB/John Locke the Curious" was going to expose her for what she really was.  Unfortunately the scars of this entire mothering experience left MIB/John Locke with pain and confusion and even more motivation to finally close that unhappy chapter of his past and finally leave this place.

ASS U ME

See how the viewer can assume certain things and yet when the truth is revealed it really means something else.  How about that!  There's a plethora of this in our story.  You can assume who the "monster" is in this episode, who is the next Jacob, who is the next MIB, what the “Island” is, who is on what side, who is really Jacob, which baby was whom, and all those wonderful fantastical things, but we were shown under no uncertain terms not to assume anything!   With the reveal that Adam and Eve where really “Mother Island” and her stolen child was one of the greatest bits of information we've ever gotten.

Things to note...Questions to Ask...

* Mental Health issues.
* Push
* Children
* MIB/Locke owns the dagger.
* In House of the Rising Sun, "Adam and Eve" are laid to rest in two separate alcoves.
* Boy in Dark/MIB/John Locke is an enlightened free thinker, independent and wants to live in truth, while Jacob doesn't seem very bright and is fine to live under the unhealthy thumb of "Mother Island"
* Jacob does illustrate anger and vengeance. He is more of a follower than a leader.
* Jacob is a liar.
* Wine.
* Do you think that we'll find that John Locke was an alcoholic too?
* Am I the only one who finds it weird that the "boys" aged and then stopped aging at a certain point? * "Mother Island" is evil.  Mom burned the village and its people. {Fire- Smoke- we've seen this  relate to Kate. But fire is a form of cleansing.}
* Children without "fathers".
* People who look the same but are different. Where did we come from?  Do I entertain the "alien" word again or do we chalk it up to created images within the experience?
* Magic healing paste.
* Different languages.
* Ship.  Wheel.
* Are we to believe there is only a finite amount of "light"?
* Imagination. Make believe. Create. The mind creates positive and negative thoughts and beliefs.

* In addition to us already being aware that Locke's mother was crazy, John Locke tells Eko in The Cost of Living, that he saw a bright light and it was beautiful.  And in Deus Ex Machina we learn about Locke's love of playing games with his brother.

Vocabulary and Research...

* Across the Sea is the fifth song from Weezer's second album, Pinkerton. The song appears on Come On and Kick Me!: The String Quartet Tribute to Weezer and Only in Dreams: Classical Music Inspired by Weezer.  The song was written by Rivers Cuomo at the same time I was very depressed and very lonely, thoughts of becoming a monk and mommy issues.

* The Other is a 1972 psychological horror film about twin brothers who have fun with their shenanigans but the end reveal is that one of the twins has really been dead the entire time.

* Senet, a board game a from pre-dynastic and ancient Egypt. The oldest hieroglyph representing a Senet game dates to circa 3100 BC.  The full name of the game in Egyptian meaning the "game of passing."  The Senet game board is a grid of thirty squares, arranged in three rows of ten .  A Senet game has two sets of pawns (at least five of each and, in some sets, more).

* Claudia: was a Vestal Virgin, who conceived Romulus and Remus.  In Roman mythology Vesta pertains to a Roman goddess, the Sacred fire of Vesta, and the Temple of Vesta.  The College of the Vestals and its well-being was regarded as fundamental to the continuance and security of Rome. They cultivated the sacred fire that was not allowed to go out. The goddess of the hearth and home, collecting water from a sacred spring, preparation of food used in rituals and caring for sacred objects in the temple's sanctuary.  By maintaining Vesta's sacred fire, from which anyone could receive fire for household use, they functioned as "surrogate housekeepers", in a religious sense, for all of Rome. They were also put in charge of keeping safe the wills and testaments of various people such as Caesar and Mark Antony, and guarded sacred objects. The Vestals were freed of the usual social obligations to marry and bear children, and took a vow of chastity in order to devote themselves to the study and correct observance of state rituals that were off-limits to the male colleges of priests.


“Enlightenment is imagining figures of light, but making the darkness conscious.”  
You know that for me this story of struggle with deep, deep emotional pain, confusion and the need to be free of it, is happening under the guise of a game. It is about Dharma, walking your path, finding what you lost and enlightenment.  Clues to all of these things, including truth, balance and enlightenment were right in our faces.

The Wheel
The Light = the Truth. LOVE and HOPE

I find it disgusting that this woman took away every aspect of innocence and hope with the child/children.  She was not nurturing, caring and both boys knew she did not know how to love.  She was selfish (because she lived in fear)... The Fucking End!

Again we seem to get hints to the concept of two halves really being parts of the whole and then again two completely independent people.  I can see traits that seem exclusive to the Jacob we already know, yet here we get a clearer picture of him, and traits that what were thought to be exclusive to Boy in Dark/MIB {Locke} are not, but are shared by both.  The reference to there being "two" boys seems to come predominantly from "Mother Island."  If you re-watch you can see the natural mom, even though was told there are two, only refers to one- "him."  There are other times within the episode they are really referred to in a singular manor.

"A little bit of this very same light is inside of every man. But they always want more." 

Nowhere does "Mother Island" say the light is evil incarnate!  She only mentions if the light goes out here, it goes out everywhere.  When Jacob asks "mother" about what's down there, she tells him it's life, death, rebirth... it the source, the heart of the island.  That my friends, is some more enlightenment talk for ya!   Light is the good part of man and this Queen Bitch is keeping it from them. I feel like I'm leaning toward someone having to do this all over again, hence we need another plane to crash.

"Only when you are ready to open your eyes, ears, mind and heart, in the LIGHT you will find TRUTH." -Karen Mauro


 Love to all who are "LOST"™

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

Everybody Hates Hugo.

Let's talk about LOST!    Everybody Hates Hugo.


(Click the pics!)



Someone puts the needle on a record. The song ‘My Conversation’ is playing.
Hurley stands in amazement in the food pantry inside the hatch.

He eats opens a candy tin and ferociously eats an APOLLO BAR, Ripple chips, opens a cardboard box containing a steak dinner, a perfectly prepared ice cream sundae. Walt is pictured on the milk carton as a "missing child".




Handsome Jin stands in the doorway and speaks in perfect English to Hurley “Hi there, Hurley.” Hurley sounds a little surprised, “Jin, you’re here.” {As opposed to where?}
He sure is!



Hurley-“Dude, you speak English.”
Jin-“No, you're speaking Korean.”
Hurley speaks Korean- “I am?”



Hurley stands up and out of nowhere appears a man in a chicken suit standing next to Jin. {This is the guy who manages the store where Hurley bought the lotto ticket}


Hurley asks in Korean-“What's he doing here?”
The 4 minute countdown beeping can be heard in the background.
Jin-“Everything's going to change."
Hurley, in Korean-“What?”
Jin-“Everything's going to change. Have a cluckity-cluck-cluck day, Hugo.”





The dude in the chicken suit says "Hurley" only it’s Kate's voice.

Hurley jolts awake. He was sleeping on his shift at the computer in the hatch.
3:44 on the timer.
Kate walks over and asks, “You feel asleep?”
Groggy Hurley states he was just resting his eyes.   Kate touches the post it note and tells him the numbers are right there.    Hurley remembers the numbers and he enters them into the computer.  Kate informs him Locke went back to the beach so she’ll be taking the next shift.
Kate-“Jack told me about your job.At least we have jobs again, right?”
Unimpressed Hurley says, “Hurray for us.”
He presses EXECUTE and the timer resets.

Sawyer, Michael and Jin are in the pit.
Sawyer-“Aint life grand.”
He really needs a cup of water right now.  Jin says something in Korean in Sawyer and gestures to lift him up again.
Frustrated Sawyer-“No way. No more human pyramids. Just forget it.”
Michael yells for their captors to let them out of there. Sawyer wants him to “NO! Just chill!” But Michael feels every minute he spends down there is another minute his boy is still out there.
Sawyer-“Well, let me break it down for you, Mikey. Right now, Rambina and her buddies are trying to figure out what to do with us. Until they make up their damn mind there ain't nothing we can do.” Jin speaks Korean pointing out Sawyer’s wound is getting worse. Sawyer remarks maybe Jin should pee on it. Just then, the stick hatch lid is lifted and a rope is dropped in. The big dude asks Jin in English to please grab the rope, but Sawyer advises him not to.
Armed bitch Ana Lucia demands he climb the rope or she’ll shoot his friend, so Jin climbs up the rope; Michael’s next. But first Sawyer warns Mike that she’s bluffing, “The gun’s only got 1 bullet, she aint gonna waste it...”
Sawyer gets pegged in the head with a rock! “Ow, son-of-a-bitch. Ow, God.”
The big dude pulls Michael up. {Note Ana carries a big stick.}
Sawyer-“You want me, hot lips, you're going to have to come down here and get me...” They shut the hatch on him.
Sawyer-“Bitch.”

Hugo is dressed in his Mr. Clucks attire, stands watching the TV announcing the winning lotto numbers. {Note, we see different a versions of the lotto ticket! On top of th TV' photographs and scale}
Mary Jo-“4, 8, 15, 16, and 23, with the mega number 42. Whoever has those numbers has won, or will share in, a near record jackpot.”
Lotto Announcer-“That's right, Mary Jo, because this is the 16th week without a winner.”
Hugo faints and Hurley's mom runs in to get him.
Carmen-“Hugo? Hu.. Hugo! Hugo, wake up. Wake up.” {She slaps his face} Hurley tells mom to stop; he just slipped.
Carmen- “Slipped sitting down? Is it your heart?”
Hugo insists he’s fine but mom feels he’s lying. “I always know because you don't look me in the eye.”
Hugo says he’s not lying as he literally can’t look her in the eye. Mom asks what happened.
Hugo quietly folds the lotto ticket to hide it. He lies saying it must be something he ate.
Carmen-“Yes, it must be something you ate because you eat basura, and you don't exercise.”
Hugo says he does exercise.
Carmen-“Falling down is not exercise. The only time you move is to lift a drumstick from the bucket. Every day it's the same thing, Hugo you work, you eat chicken. You have to change your life, Hugo. You think someone else will change it for you? Maybe if you pray every day, Jesus Christ will come down from heaven, take 200 pounds and bring you a decent woman, and a new car. Yes, Jesus can bring you a new car.”
Hugo- “Maybe I don't want to change. Maybe I like my life.”
The phone rings.
Carmen-“Oh that must be Jesus. {Leaves the room to answer the phone} Hola. Momento. {Yells to Hugo} Yes, it is Jesus. He wants to know what color car you want.”
{Flash Whoosh}
At the beach Hurley splashes ocean water on his face. Charlie walks over with the baby needs to have a chat, “Don't worry, mommy's off for a walk, so it's just you, me and the baby. Spill it.”
Hurley-“Spill what?”
Charlie wants to know about the hatch and what’s in it.
Hurley-“Nothin, really.”
Charlie- “You’ve been out there an entire day and night...looking at nothing?”
Hurley-“Well, I guess it's kind of like a bunker, you know, from WWII, only newer.“    He doesn’t know what’s in it.
Charlie asks yet somehow he knows it’s a bunker?
Hurley-“Well, I guess someone told me?”
Charlie- “You're going to lie to me? You're going to lie to the baby?”
Hurley-“Dude, look, I'd never lie.” {He doesn’t look him in the eye.}
Charlie-“Oh, and the time you told you were worth 150 million dollars?
Hurley corrects him, “It's 156 million.” {He looks him in the eye.}
Pissed off Charlie says, “I'm sorry, I must have confused it with the 900 trillion I am worth myself. And this baby's made of chocolate lollipops. So, if you'll excuse us, I'm going to flap my wings and fly off this island.” He walks away. {Now that’s an important statement!}

Rose is hanging laundry while humming a tune {I believe it's My Conversation}. Hurley walks over and notes she’s doing laundry.   Rose asks him to hand her the dirty clothes, so he hands her a black suitcase. Hurley asks her if she wants to know what’s happened out there; about what’s in the hatch. Rose, now washing clothes, feels that’s his business and whatever it is it’s not going to help get this laundry done.
Hurley-“Well, actually, it sort of is.“


Hurley leads Rose through the jungle, “It's around here somewhere.”
Hurley finds the somewhat hidden entrance and he and uneasy Rose go inside. It’s dark.

In the corridor near the painting on the wall Rose wonders, “Someone actually lived down here?”
Hurley confirms it. Rose asks what it’s for.
Hurley-“It's kind of a long story.”
Jack comes out from a room and wonders who else Hurley told.
Hurley-“No one. I swear. Dude, it's a big job. I needed...help.“ {Lie. He told Charlie.}
Rose and Jack wave hello to each other. {There is a magnet hum}
Hurley-“She's cool. She won't tell anyone.”
Rose looks around, “Honey, I don't even know what I would say.”


The waves crash on the shore of the beach. While Claire is on her peaceful walk the bottle of messages wash up right in front of her. {How fucking convenient is that?!}

Jack, Rose and Hurley are in the pantry.
Rose questions. “All of this is food?"
Jack feels it’s only a matter of time before they have to tell everyone what they found down there.
He asks Hurley, “So, do you know what to do?”
Hurley-“Inventory of all of it, and figure out how we make it last.”
Jack-“And in the meantime, nobody gets anything. No exceptions. That's your responsibility, Hurley. Okay?”
The 4 minute warning of the countdown timer beeps; Rose asks what that is.
Hurley-“You don’t wanna know.”
Hurley and Rose work together on the inventory. Rose counts items and writes the list. {The song Up on the Roof is playing}
Hurley comments on the Dharma Initiative salad dressing-Ranch composite, “Sounds tasty.”
Rose laughs and hums the tune along with the song.
Hurley opens a tin of candy, “Apollo bars? Ever hear of these?” {He just ate these in his “Dream”.}
Rose-“Um, umm. But candy is candy. That's what Bernard always says. Talk about a sweet-tooth. That man has a mouth full of sweet-teeth. {Oh really Rose? Kind of a strange thing for a dentist when they know how bad candy is for the teeth! Lol. Or just the man has eaten many Apollo bars?}
Hurley-“Bernard, that was your husband?”
Rose-“Is my husband.”
Hurley-“ Oh, but, I thought he was in the back of the plane. {Rose gives him a hell of a look. Almost as if ‘don’t doubt me.’} I'm sorry, I didn't mean...”
Confident Rose says it's okay, “Don't feel bad. Bernard is fine. I know it. You want to get the canned tuna?“
Hurley shares with her that he feels everyone is going to hate him.
Rose-“Now that's just plain silly. You're about the only one on this island that everybody loves.”
Hurley-“Well, that'll change. {Okay, that was it for me! Listen to me...Everybody loves Hurley, BUT, Everybody hates Hugo! Do you see it?!!}
Kate pops her head in asking if they saw any shampoo. Rose points her in the direction of it. Hurley tells Kate she can’t take it but she grabs shampoo and soap anyway and leaves.
Rose feels, “It's just one bottle.”
Sad and disappointed Hurley says, “That's where it starts.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Hurley, on shift at Mr. Clucks, stares at his lotto ticket. Johnny asks Hugo if he’s okay. Hugo crumbles up the ticket and pockets it. He gets called into Randy's office.


Last night's surveillance tape shows Hugo eating chicken while reading a comic book {I think}. Randy informs him he owes the company for an 8 piece dark meat combo.
Hugo states he didn’t eat 8 pieces.
Randy-“You want to watch the whole tape? Oh, and while you're here, how many times do I get to tell you those napkins cost money, alright? It's two per customer. Two. We are not made of money here at Mr. Clucks, Reyes. I'm not made of money. Are you made of money? Because if you're made of money … maybe you don't want to work here. So get it together. What, is that a problem, Reyes?”
Hugo removes his visor and hair net and tells Randy, ”Dude, I quit.”


In the parking lot stressed out Hugo is breathing into a Mr. Clucks paper bag. Johnny comes out asking if he’s okay.
Hugo says he’s fine.
Johnny-“Randy's losing his brain in there.”
Hugo-“You should get back in there or he'll have you scrubbing johns for the rest of the week.”

Johnny doubts it as he quit too. “Looks like we've got ourselves a day off. Who needs money when you've got good looks?”
{Flash Whoosh}
Locke walks through the jungle. He picks up a piece of fruit up from under a tree and starts to cut into with his big knife. “You can come out now. I saw you back at the rock, and then at the mangrove tree. In fact, I walked in a big circle. I'm not sure how you didn't realize it.” {Rock. Black Rock?}
Charlie walks out of the jungle. “Alright, you don't have to insult me.”
Locke asks why he’s following him.
Charlie seems annoyed, ”Yeah. Quite simply, John, there are a lot of secrets around here, and I'm tired of being at the bloody kid's table. I got Claire's baby back. I didn't go swanning off to the Black Rock on the bloody A-Team mission, but I would have if... someone had asked me. I think I'm entitled to some sodding answers around here.”
Locke nonchalantly asks what he wants to know. {Could Charlie be hanging around those places when nobody realizes it? Does he follow other Castaways around? Does he spy? If he does, how can he not be spotted? Hmm? I wonder about such things! LOL}


In the hatch Sayid is hammering on the wall with a large piece of metal, trying to break through a door. Jack asks how it’s going.
Sayid- "It's not. On the other side of this door there's more concrete. I'd say it's at least 8 to 10 feet thick.“
Jack shows Sayid what happens when the key around his neck is pulled by the magnetic force.
Sayid-“Interesting. Good thing this is titanium. Almost no magnetic attraction. But we're not going to get in up here.”
Sayid lifts up a grate in the floor and they look down.
Sayid-“Perhaps we can go under it.”

The big dude shows up at the pit and throws the rope down to Sawyer. Sawyer won’t do anything until he knows if his friends are okay.
Michael appears up top,” So, we're friends now, huh?”
Ana demands Sawyer do it now or the rope comes up.
Sawyer gets pulled up top, says “Howdy boys. Thanks for the rescue.”
Michael informs Sawyer everything’s cool because they talked and they believe they were on the plane too.
Sawyer-“Swell, I guess we can all sue Oceanic together.”
Ana sees that Sawyer is hiding a rock to use as a weapon. She gives him 3 seconds to drop it. When he doesn’t drop it she elbows him in the face.
Sawyer- “Ow! You didn’t say 3.”
The bitch stomps on his bullet wound!
Ana Lucia-“Shut up. When I tell you to do something, you do it. I say move, you move. I say stop, you stop. I say jump, what do you say?”
Sawyer-“You first."
The bitch stomps on his bullet wound again. “You don't like the rules, I toss your ass back in the pit right now, you understand?”
Sawyer understands. Ana informs them they’re moving out and Sawyer asks to where.
Ana-“What did I just tell you?"
Sawyer-“Sorry, forgot. Just one thing, though...you hit me again, I'll kill you.”
Ana Lucia-“Let's go.”
Sawyer’s in a lot of pain.
They all head off into the jungle.

Charlie and Locke talking in the jungle. Charlie is curious about the whole button pushing every 108 minutes.
Charlie-“But how is that possible? I mean, didn't he sleep?”
Locke doesn’t know as he didn’t have a chance to ask him.
Charlie wonders after all this time, where Des went.
Locke-“Don't know. I tried to track him, but he didn't leave much of a trail. I guess he figured he found his replacements.” {Let’s remember that for later. When we learn about 'the Others'}
Charlie-“Meaning us?”
He feels this sounds a bit nutty.
Locke-“It is what it is, Charlie.”
Charlie wonders what happens if they don’t push it.
Locke-“We're not going to find out. I'm setting up a system. I'm still working on it, but it looks like it's going to be two person shifts every 6 hours or so.”
Charlie-“Shifts? Pushing a button?”
Locke-“Oh, and there's a record player.”
That seems to please them both.
Charlie asks what Hurley’s been doing there and Locke shares that Hurley’s in charge of the food. Locke smirks at that.

Hurley sits against a tree on the beach. Charlie comes over to have a serious chat, “Hey mate? Where you been? “
Hurley’s been around.
Charlie reveals to him that he knows...{Listen to this important dialogue.}


Charlie-“I know about the food. Locke told me everything."
Nervous Hurley says, “Yeah, well, Locke's lying.
Charlie-“Oh yeah, is he lying about the button we have to push every 108 minutes or the Island will explode?“

Hurley blurts out, “It's not going to explode.”
With that, Charlie knows that Hurley knows.

Hurley-Look, Jack put me in charge. Look, I don't even want...”
Charlie asks if there’s peanut butter, “Nutty, creamy, staple of children everywhere.”
Hurley reveals there is a couple of jars of it.
Charlie-“Brilliant. How about you give us one? It's for Claire.”
Hurley can’t do it. Charlie feels like Hurley is saying no to a nursing mother.
Charlie-“Oh, it's exactly like that. You know, I never thought this would happen but it did. You've become one of them.”
Hurley-“One of them?”
Charlie is getting worked up, “Them. The man...management. I thought we were friends. You've changed, man.” {Hurley in a role of fucking importance! I've been saying forever Hurley is important!...Somehow.}
{Flash Whoosh}
Hugo and Johnny are in the record store singing out loud "You all everybody" {Ah, a lovely ditty! Only it sounds like they're singing ‘You Are Everybody’}
They are out of sync, out of tune and each other, and use wrong words with how the song really is.
The band Drive Shaft’s CD is in the $2 Sale Bin and in the "One hit wonders" category.
Hugo goes to check out the headphones. He walks up to the cute girl at the counter.
Starla- “Hu-go”
Hugo-“Star-la.“
Starla wonders why the chuckle heads aren’t at work. Johnny informs her they are exploring other opportunities. {Big red sign "COMICS"}
Starla-“You quit?”
Hurley admits he did. {Johnny's wearing a Led Zeppelin shirt from 1977, the one with the winged man on it. That was the image for Swan Song Records, I believe.}

Johnny-“He's mixing it up today. He's off the rail. Somebody get a straitjacket.”
Hugo asks Starla for a set of headphones to try on.
As she takes the pair of the wall she tells Hugo, “You're messing with my world view here, Hugo. You're my rock. I mean if you quit your job the next thing you know bees will stop making honey, and flowers will die, and, hell, the whole damn thing will fall apart.”
{Hugo never hears her say that last part because his headphones are already plugged in.}
Hugo speaks loudly so Starla takes the headphones off of him.
Hugo-“Sorry. Uh, well...hol...The Hold Steady is playing the Troubadour this weekend, and I was wondering… maybe Friday...“
Starla has to work but offers Saturday as an option. Hugo thinks that’s totally cool.
As they’re walking out of the record store Johnny says to Hugo, “Dude, you've been crushing on this girl for months and doing nothing. Today you're fricking Fabio. Seriously, man, what has gotten into you?”
Hugo knocks into a tower display of CD’s.
Hugo-“Nothing, I just wanted to ask her out before..."
Johnny-“Before what?”
Hugo replies, “Nothing.”


Sayid and Jack are making their way through underground ducts.
Sayid-“This is the last duct. I believe we're under the area where we began. They poured concrete all the way down here, too.” {Perhaps they went in a circle.}
Sayid hammers against the wall with the piece of metal, noting the wall’s just as thick.

Jack wonders if there’s a way around it.
They crawl under huge pipes/tubes.
Jack wonders what it is.
Sayid-“My best guess? There's a geothermal generator behind this wall. That's the power source. Careful with these pipes, they're very hot.”
They discover it’s blocked. Jack asks Sayid what he thinks about that.
Sayid-“What do I think about what, Jack?"
Jack-“This place...the computer? What do you think is going on?”
Sayid-“The last time I heard of concrete being poured over everything in this way was Chernobyl.” {I think the ducts maybe sealed up for more than magnet bull, it may have something to do with the monster.}
They hear a loud noise; they head in the direction it came from to check it out.
Jack climbs up through a grate in the floor {Steam} opens a door to find Kate coming out of the shower. He remarks about her taking a shower. Surprised Kate had to see if it worked. Jack asks her how it was.
Kate-“Uh, pressure sucked, it kind of went cold at one point, and it smelled a little bit like sulfur but...it was a shower.”
She tells him he could use one. {Ha! Like Sarah suggested in MOS MOF.} Kate will leave the shampoo for him. Jack smiles as she walks away.

The tail section group and the three Lostie’s trek through the jungle. A woman steps on a twig, loses her balance and Michael helps her. The woman introduces herself to Michael. This is Libby.
Libby-”How many of you...you know, on the other side of the Island?”
Michael-“When we left, around 40. How many of you survived?”
Libby-“23 of us.” {But that's not what's left now} The big dude with the stick asks Sawyer if he’s alright.
Sawyer-“Now you give a damn"
Big Dude- “I said I'm sorry. It was a misunderstanding.” {Why is he wearing palm leaves around his neck?}
Sawyer-“A misunderstanding is when you bring me lemonade instead of iced-tea.”
Ana Lucia-“I said no talking.”
Sawyer sarcastically says, ”He was talking to me.”
Ana Lucia stops and announces, “We're here.”
Sawyer-“What are you going to do, beam us up?”


There is a door hidden behind the jungle vines. Ana Lucia knocks on the door in a pattern- 2 sets of 3 raps.
{WTF? Hello… secret knock?! Plus, how the fuck was it originally discovered by the Tailies? How would they know it was there?}

A man opens and they enter.
They walk down a long corridor with large pipes/tubes. There is a woman sitting in the corner on the floor in one of the rooms, she gets up and has whispering heated dialogue with the man who answered the door. {Keep in mind through this whole show that Bernard is a Tailie; he is one of them.}
Michael whispers to Libby, “I thought you said there were 23 of you."
Libby-“There were.”
The Lostie's seem concerned.
This is the Arrow Station.

Sun is working in her garden. Claire with Aaron and Shannon with Vincent on the leash, walk over to Sun. Sun asks Claire, “What’s wrong?”
Nervous Claire tells Sun. “I, uh ... I found something out in the water, and I told Shannon about it, and we thought you should know about it. {Shannon presents the bottle to Sun} It's the messages from the raft. We thought you should decide what to do.”

In the hatch armory Locke checking out a huge gun. Hurley walks in and asks Locke why he told Charlie. Locke told him “Because he asked, Hugo.”
{The dialogue between these two is very informative and important! It is very revealing!}
Hurley is getting annoyed. “Yeah, well you shouldn't have. You should have listened to me about coming down here, period. Now it's all going to change, everything."
Locke-“Change is good, Hugo."
Hurley-“You know, people say that, but it's not true, man. Trust me, I know. And guess who gets to be the bad guy...who has to say, no you can't have peanut butter for the cute blond and her poor island baby. You know who? It's me! You know what? I'm not going to do it. Find someone else to deal with the chow, man.”
Locke-“No, we all have our jobs, Hugo. My job is to convince people to push a button every 108 minutes without them knowing why or for what. Wanna trade?"
Hurley-“I don't want to do this, man!"
Locke-“Yeah, I've had a lot of jobs I didn't want to do. I still did them. I'm sorry, Hugo, you don't get to quit."
Hurley- ”Okay, then.”
Hurley treks through the jungle. He retrieves wrapped dynamite he had hidden away in a tree.
{Flash Whoosh}
“Be careful!” Johnny tells Hugo.
Hugo is being careful. They are stealing garden gnomes and have acquired a van full of them. {Note the cute gnome dressed for the beach and the large cell phone!}


They’re on someone’s lawn and Johnny feels, “This is genius.”
Hugo directs Johnny, “A little to the left, dude, and more of an angle.”
Someone opens the front door of a house and yells “Hey!” Hugo and Johnny run. It’s Randy’s house.
They’ve left him a little gnome lawn message. CLUCK YOU.
Johnny yells “Freedom!” out of the van window. {Johnny’s driving}
Hugo laughs, “Dude, what are you doing?"
Johnny-“Freedom! So, anything else you want to do tonight you better let me know now. Cause our day off is just about over, Huggy Bear. In about 10 hours we’re going to have to find ourselves some new employment. I hear Pizza Bin is hiring, or we could try our luck at, ah, Gyro-Rama. But I do kind of dig the chick who works at the Bin.”
Happy Hugo wants Johnny to promise that no matter what happens, they will never change, “This will never change.”
Johnny-“Okay. Oh, I know what this is about. I know why you've been acting so weird lately. You're getting that, uh, that, uh, stomach stapling surgery thing, aren't you?"
Hugo-“I'm not getting surgery.“
Johnny-“Awe, c'mon man, it's cool. I mean, I could still be all surprised and be like, ooh, my, Hurley, wow, is that you?"
Hugo-“Listen, Johnny, I'm serious. Promise me that you and I will always stay the same.”
Johnny-“I'll do you one better. Not only will I stay gold, Pony boy, I will drink to it. {looks in his empty wallet} Can I borrow 2 bucks?”
{Flash Whoosh}
Hurley is in pantry rigging the dynamite with a wire/fuse. Rose walks in asking what he’s got there. Hurley’s honest and says it’s dynamite. Rose wonders what he’s going to do with it.
Hurley-“I'm sorry, but I can't let it happen again.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Hurley and Johnny pull into the parking lot of the convenience store gas station combo. A news crew is outside interviewing the guy who was in the chicken suit in Hurley’s dream. Johnny wonders why. Hugo looks a little panicked and says they shouldn’t go there, “They jack the prices here.” {Jack}
Curious Johnny gets out of the van thinking maybe somebody got shot.
Hugo looks down at his winning lotto ticket.
{No Flash Whoosh}
Rose asks him why he’s doing this. Hurley tells her to just get out of there. Rose is concerned he’s going to hurt somebody.
Hurley-“Not if I do it from outside the door. It's thick, and I'll make sure there's nobody around first. So, please, will you just go?”
Rose-“Uh-uh, you haul me off of the beach and you dragged me into this place, the least I can get is an explanation before you blow it up.”
Hurley-“You don't get it. This is going to mess it all up."
{Flash Whoosh}
Hugo looks at his lotto ticket and folds it. Johnny yells over to Hugo in the van, “Dude, somebody won the lottery!”
Hurley raises his voice at Rose, “Let me tell you something, Rose. We were all fine before we had any {pulls chips off the shelf} potato chips. But now we've got these potato chips and everybody's going to want them. So Steve gets them, and Charlie's pissed, but he's not pissed at Steve, he's pissed at me!”
The clerk points at Hugo in the van. “That's the guy! That's the guy!”
Johnny stares at Hurley, looking hurt and shocked/surprised.
{At this point the events of Hugo’s “Flash” is running in slow motion and with distant voices but is literally overlapping with the Hurley “Island” events.}
As the camera crews surround Hugo in the van with their flashing cameras, video cameras and microphones Hurley’s dialogue with Rose is heard and the images switch from Hugo in the van to Hurley in the pantry...
“And I'm going to be in the middle of it. And then it's going to be, well, what about us, why didn't I get any potato chips? C'mon, help us out, Hurley. Why did you give Kate the shampoo? And why didn't I get the peanut butter? {Image of Johnny here} Then, they'll get really mad and start asking, why does Hugo have everything. Why should he get to decide? Then they'll all hate me... {Hurley in the pantry} I don't know what to do.”
Rose compassionately touches his arm. {The images continue back and forth.}
On the beach Hurley tells Jack the inventory is done and "this is the only way."
Jack asks if he's serious. Hurley shares that there's enough food in there to feed 1 guy, 3 meals a day for another 3 months, "We have 40 people, it's just not going to work. You put me in charge, this is what we're doing." Jack says okay. Hurley seems relieved.
{This helps my time line work. Remember in the season 3 finale I had things changing for them in a total of 4 months time-maybe just a little longer}
We see Hurley give Charlie the peanut butter to give to Claire and passes out food to the camp. Charlie even hugs Hurley. Everybody loves Hurley!
Sun buries the bottle of messages.

Jin, Sawyer, Michael sit in the Arrow Station while the Tailies chat in the background. The man who opened the door asks the three Castaways, "Um, excuse me. Hi. Back where you guys, uh, where you came from...is there a woman named Rose there?"
Sawyer-"Black chick in her 50's?"
The man nods yes and asks "Is she, is she okay?"
Michael confirms she's okay and introduces himself.
The man is relieved, "Thank you, Michael. I'm, I'm Bernard."
Michael-"Okay, it's okay. She's good."
We see Rose take an APOLLO BAR put it in her pocket; still holding Bernard's wedding ring and smiling. She is the only person who is completely at ease with being on the island and knows her husband is there and is fine!




Everybody Hates Hugo is a great episode! This episode I find to be on "Karen's List of Important Episodes". Not that they're all not important because they are! But this one, WOW!! Talk about the clue in the title!
My first question is “who” put the needle on the record? My other question is what the hell is wrong or isn’t working in this place and who friggin broke it or will break it?

It is very interesting that Hurley opens a cardboard box to a picture perfect meal! It’s obvious this box contained something he was desirous of and “poof” there it is.

In this episode we see not only how “Island” events and “Flash” events blur together for sure, but that things crossover to what is going on with other players in "Island" events.
Are you listening to what is going on?

Things to Note...Questions to ask...
☯  Hugo is capable of lying.
☯  What is real and what is not?
☯  I'm interested in the hatch entrances.
☯  I know they’ve been on an “Island” and food is a great find, but when they eat Apollo Bars they are in ecstasy!
☯  A record is something that contains recorded information and data.
☯  Jobs. Roles. Teams: A team- B team. Missions. Trade. Flying.
☯  Game. Rules. Lotto. Bluff. Jackpot. Deal. Gamble.
☯  Worth.
☯ Up. Down.
☯ Right. Left.
☯  Remember. Forget.
☯  Language. Communication. Linguistics.
☯  Rose knows that nothing is supposed to be given out from the inventory, yet she allows Kate to take it.
☯  Play on words- GNOMES-GENOME
☯ Computer. Buttons. Headphones. Write. Record.
☯ Rose writes the list.
☯ The number 10 is shown a lot.
☯ The conversation between Charlie and Hurley is important. So, who knows about any explosions or anything that will happen if the button isn't pushed? They know more about what's going on than us!
☯ The rant Hurley has in front of Rose in the pantry is not about potato chips! 
☯ Jack puts Hurley in charge of an important job.
☯ Making wishes. Granting wishes. Wishful thinking.


Vocabulary and Research...
♦ Record- Data Storage device that contains data (more specifically audio data)
 - Record- (computer science) a data structure
  -Record (database) other name for a relational database row
  -Boot record- record used to start an operating system
♦ Gyro- a combination form meaning "circle", "ring", "spiral"; used in the formation of compound words. 
- an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in all directions
♦ Gnome- From Ancient Greek(gnome),(“thought, opinion”), from the base of (gignoskein),(to know)
 - The 'genome' of an organism is its whole hereditary info and is encoded DNA, this included genes and the non-coded sequences of DNA.
 - A small owl of the Western United States.
 - Gnome (rhetoric)saying or maxim providing instruction in compact form
 - GNOME-is desktop environment software for computers running Linux and Unix-like operating system
 - Gandalf NOvice prograMming Environment, a former experimental programming environment from Carnegie Mellon.
 - Gnome (Dungeons & Dragons) a race; in Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
 - G-Nome- A video game.
♦  Composite character, a character in an adaptation of a work formed from two or more characters from the original work.
 -Digital compositing or optical film compositing, a common 2-D visual effects technique.
♦  Mate- Short for checkmate winning/losing situation in chess.
 -One of a pair; partner
Synonyms: acquaintance, alter ego, analog, assistant, associate, bedmate, bride, buddy, chum , classmate, cohort, colleague, companion, compeer, complement, comrade, concomitant, consort, coordinate, counterpart, coworker, crony, double, duplicate, familiar, friend, groom, helper, helpmate, intimate, match pal, peer, playmate, reciprocal, roommate, schoolmate, sidekick, spouse, twin.
 ♦  "Up on the Roof" is a song recorded in 1962 by the Drifters. 







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I have to share this with you...
In the 1970's I had a toy. This toy had such a stupid name that I not only remember the name, but say the name almost every day!
It has become a big joke with my husband.
The toy was called "Hugo-Man of 1,000 Faces"!
I just thought I'd share that with you! lol!


Back to the matter at hand...
If we take the 'food/potato chips' out of the equation, we have something more, something big. Hurley's role on the Island must be of importance. We may find him to be in charge of something very big with major decisions being left to him.   Is Hurley the one mixing things up here, or is it someone else like Locke?   Whatever it is it could have/had him being hated by the rest.   What could it be? This is something I made a big deal about when I shared my findings in the Locke/Boone vision in Further Instructions.
Bottom line question with Hurley is...What does Hurley know?

As small as a part Rose and her “husband” seem to be playing, I wouldn’t count them out as important “pieces” to the game.
On a whole we have many reference to things already have happened before and history about to possibly repeat itself; or at least of things seemingly written out and known.

I sometimes feel like these people all got their roles by “luck of the draw”.

Imagine me, you  and twenty friends are going to put together a role playing game...The outline of story is written with key action and dialogue, but we supply the rest of it. We acquire our roles literally by luck of the draw. We put all the names and roles of the men in one hat and the girls and their roles in another hat, each sex blindly picks a role and job and that's what character you play out for the duration of the game. But what the hell do I know?

Everybody loves Hurley, BUT, Everybody hates Hugo.

Just be careful what you wish for.

Love to all who are "LOST"™


Posted on MySpace July 30, 2007

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

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.

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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.