Orientation

Let's talk about LOST!    Orientation.

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Jin is yelling about the Others to Sawyer and Michael. {His hands are free.}
 Sawyer goes to attack the Big Other but he knocks him out, hits Michael with a big stick and then hits and drags Jin into the jungle.
The Others are literally dragging the three Castaway's through the jungle in three individual nets. They toss the three men down into a pit; a dug out hole in the ground. Groggy Michael wants to know where his boy is.   The big dude closes a hatch door made of sticks on them.

In the Swan hatch Desmond fires a shot. “Do you want him to die? Put it down.”
Jack-“Is this what you were talking about, Locke? Is this your destiny? All roads lead here.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Locke appears bored as he sits in at an anger management group meeting. Francine goes on about her pain that her mother stole $30 from her again and she wants it back.   Apparently her mother drinks. Locke scoffs. The lady Chief of the meeting asks if Locke has something to say, “John, you've been coming here for a month now...”

Amused Locke doesn’t think $30 is worth getting angry about.
The Chief-“Well, Francine feels like 30 dollars..."




Locke-“Francine feels a little too much, if you ask me. You all do. I mean, seriously…So-and-so never called me back, my mother stole 30 dollars from me.  I never even knew who my parents were.  A couple of years ago my uh, my birth mother found me, and uh, she told me I was special. {He gets teary} And… and through her I met my real father. Great news, right?! {He gets fired up} Well, he pretended to love me just long enough to steal my kidney because he had to have a transplant.  And then he dropped me back in the world like a piece of trash just like he did on the day that I was born. {He yells} You want your damned 30 dollars back? I want my kidney back!”

Locke is outside trying to light a cigarette but can’t.    In frustration he tosses it to the ground.
A woman from the meeting walks up to him and says, “Probably a good idea. You know if you get kidney cancer you've only got one.”
John thinks that’s funny and apologizes for ruining her meeting.
Helen-“Oh hell, you just said everything I've always wanted to say in there.   Most of the time I want to stand up and scream: get over it, freaks.”
John wonders why she doesn’t.
Helen-“I have to keep a cork in. Once I get all hot and bothered there's no stopping me. I guess you won't be coming back next week, huh?”
John, “No, not likely.”
Helen feels that’s too bad as she likes bald guys.
John replies he’s not bald. Flirty Helen can wait. They introduce themselves to each other.
{Flash Whoosh}
In the Swan hatch Jack wants to know where Kate is.   Desmond demands Jack lower his gun or he’ll blow Locke’s damned head off.
While Jack demands to know where Kate is, we see her crawling through the AC vent, remove a grate and lower herself into a dark room.    She opens the sliding door to the main living area to let in light and sees she’s in a stocked weapons storage vault/Armory.    Kate loads a rifle and quietly makes her way over to the three men arguing over putting down the gun.    Kate comes up behind Desmond and knocks him down with her rifle, a gun accidentally fires and hits the computer; it’s smoking.










Jack tells Desmond not to move but Locke is compassionate to Desmond being unarmed.
Jack yells-“He just had a gun pointed at your head!”
Desmond freaks out seeing the damaged computer, “Oh… What did you do? What did you do? We're all going to die. We're all going to die.”

Desmond explains to Jack if he doesn’t let him up and fix the computer they’re all gonna die.    Jack won’t let him up and tells him to “Stop moving or I swear to god…”
Desmond- “Look at the wall. {Timer 98 to 97} You see that? That's a timer. It's counting down. I've got to enter the code. I've got to push the button.”
Jack-“Or what?”
Concerned Locke feels Jack should let him up."
Jack- “Don't tell me what to do! {he asks Desmond} Or what? What's going to happen?”
Desmond looks up at Jack and asks, “Do I know you?”
{Funny, Jack recognized Desmond when he saw him. Did Desmond forget that? It supposedly was only moments ago!}
Jack makes sure Kate “has” Desmond “covered” and lets Desmond get up.      Desmond runs over to the computer and pushes an on-off switch a few times to evaluate things.   Locke just looks at Jack.
{Flash Whoosh}
Helen is sleeping as Locke is quietly putting his shoes on.  Helen wakes up and wonders where he’s going.
Locke- “Nowhere, I… I … I just have trouble sleeping in a strange bed. No, it has nothing to do with you, Helen, I promise. I really like you. I'm sorry, I'll call you later.”
Helen is insulted.

It's daybreak and Locke is sitting in his red beetle in front of Cooper's house drinking coffee. He watches the guard at the house via the rear view mirror.   Cooper gets in the car and says “Morning” to John. John is stunned.
Cooper-“John, I know you like to drive through my neighborhood.   And I know that every now and then you like to park outside my house.   Now, I thought it might all stop when I moved, but uh, here you are. Now, I admit at first I thought it was funny… now it's just annoying. So how about you tell me what the hell it is you want.”
John is obviously in emotional pain so he asks Cooper “Why?”
Cooper-“There is no 'why'. Do you think you're the first person that ever got conned? You needed a father figure and I needed a kidney, and that's what happened. Get over it. And John, don't come back. You're not wanted.”
John takes a sip of coffee and breaks down; he’s deeply hurt.
{Flash Whoosh}
Desmond is looking through his bookshelf for something but also turns something electronic on; lights go on {you can hear it power up.}
Locke looks around.


Locke-“I don't think you need that, Kate {to Desmond} Whatever you're looking for, maybe I can help.”
Des-“Can you fix a computer? {Locke gives the ‘I don’t know’ gesture.} Then you can't help me, can you?”
Kate-“Sayid can fix a computer."
Locke thinks that a good idea, “Get him. Go and get Sayid."
Jack-“Can you get back up that rope?”
Kate- I won't have to, there's got to be a front door in this place.” {Really?}
Desmond- “Down the corridor to the left. Be persistent, the wheel sticks. {Desmond finds his jar of parts} Got ya.”
Desmond and Locke run to the computer.
Kate persistently turns the sticky wheel that opens the door.

Jack takes the jar hostage in an effort to get Desmond to come clean. “Now, you're going to tell me what's going on.”
Locke tells Jack they don’t have time for…"
Jack-“We're taking a time out.”
Desmond pleads with him.
Jack-“Look, you want to get to work you're going to tell me how you got here."
Desmond-“It was three years ago. I was on a solo race around the world, and my boat crashed into the reef, and then Kelvin came."
Locke-“Kelvin?"
Desmond-“Kelvin… he comes running out of the jungle, hurry, hurry, come with me. He brings me down here.  The first thing he does because there's beeping already, he types in the code, he pushes the button, and it stops. What was all that about, I say. Just saving the world, he says.”
Jack-"Saving the world?"
Desmond-"His words, not mine. So I started pushing the button, too. And we saved the world together for awhile and that was lovely.  Then Kelvin died…and now here I am all alone. The end.“
Jack hands Desmond the jar and the timer clicks down to 84.
Jack says to Locke, “Don't tell me you believe this. This is crazy. You think that makes sense, pushing a button? You're going to take his word for it?”
Locke feels his word is all they have.
As calmed down Desmond works on the computer he tells the guys they don’t have to take his word for it, “Watch the film.”
He directs them to the bookcase, “Top shelf, behind ‘Turn of the Screw’, projector's in the pantry.”
Locke hurries to get going on that!

 Locke finds Turn of the Screw, tosses it, then finds the film reel tin marked "Orientation" and shows it to Jack.

At the beach Hurley plays catch with no collar Vincent near the water. He runs over to help Sayid who is dragging a metal crate along the beach.
Hurley-"Dude, I've got to say, I didn't think we were going to get through the night. And I wasn't even here for that baby stealing part."
Sayid assures him it was very exciting.
Hurley feels it's about time things are finally returning to normalness. {Normalness, here on this "Island"? Could anything be considered normal? Maybe there really is a normalcy to the Island that Hurley knows about? Hmmm?!}
Kate calls out for Sayid.
Hurley-"Uh, crap"
Kate informs Sayid they need his help.

In the pit Sawyer whispers asking Jin in English, "What do you know? What did they do to you? Who the hell are they? Who the hell are they?"
Jin-"Others." {Mentions something in Korean.} Michael asks Jin if he saw Walt.
Sawyer-"The Others? How many? How many?"
Jin communicates in Korean and gestures that he was blindfolded.
Michael translates the gesture, "He was blindfolded."
Sawyer suggests there could be a hundred of the out there, "Push me up."   He's going to try to get them out of there.
They push Sawyer up and he tries to open the stick hatch, but they've got it weighted down with something; it's tied off somewhere. Sawyer wants to be lifted higher.
A knife pokes through the stick hatch and Sawyer falls. The big dude looks down at and throws an unconscious woman in.
Michael-"It's a girl." {She has scratches on her face.}

Locke is setting up the film on the reel to reel projector. Jack wants to know what was going on down here before I showed up.
Locke-"Kate was tied up, Desmond had a gun on me. I think you pretty much caught the gist of it."
Jack whispers,"Desmond."
Locke shares Desmond wants to know a lot about them; how they got there and if they were "sick."
Jack-"You didn't ask anything about him?"
Locke-"He was the one with the gun."
Jack-"You sure seem calm for someone who believes the world's going to end in the next 45 minutes."
Confident Locke feels, "He'll fix it."
Jack-"You understand that what he's saying. It's, it's insane. It's impossible."
Locke-"Why is it insane?"
Jack-"Because the last time I saw a computer that was going to save the world, it didn't look like that." {That is not a general statement, that is specific!}
Locke-"Is the reason you're so upset because he said he recognized you? {Jack doesn't answer.} Because that would be impossible."   {Nothing is impossible.}

They watch the film...John smiles.
The DHARMA Initiative 3 of 6
Swan-DHARMA logo
Orientation Station 3 The Swan.
Marvin-"Welcome, I'm Dr. Marvin Candle, and this is the orientation film for Station 3 of the DHARMA Initiative.   In a moment you'll be given a simple set of instructions for how you and your partner will fulfill the responsibilities associated with the station.   But first, a little history.
The DHARMA Initiative was created in 1970, and it is the brainchild of Gerald and Karen DeGroot, two doctoral candidates at the University of Michigan.   Following in the footsteps of visionaries such as B.F. Skinner {The film glitches/skips/edit} imagined a large scale communal research compound where scientists and free thinkers from around the globe could pursue research in meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology, electromagnetism, and Utopian social {Edit} Danish industrialist and munitions magnate Alvar Hanso whose financial backing made their dream of a multi-purpose social science research facility a reality.
You and your partner are currently located in Station 3, or the Swan, and will be for the next 540 days.   Station 3 was originally constructed as a laboratory where scientists could work to understand the unique electromagnetic fluctuations emanating from this sector of the island.   Not long after the experiments began, however, there was an incident.  And since that time the following protocol has been observed: every 108 minutes the button must be pushed.  From the moment the alarm sounds you will have 4 minutes to enter the code into the microcomputer processor {Edit} induction into the program.   When the alarm sounds, either you or your partner must input the code.   It is highly recommended that you and your partner take alternating shifts. In this manner you will stay as fresh and alert {Edit} utmost importance that when the alarm sounds the code be entered correctly, and in a timely fashion.
Do not attempt to use the computer {Edit} for anything {Edit}. Congratulations. Until your replacements arrive, the future of the project is in your hands.
On behalf of the DeGroots, Alvar Hanso and all of us at the DHARMA Initiative, thank you. Namaste. And good luck."
The Hanso Foundation, 1980. All Rights Reserved.

Locke states, "We're going to need to watch that again." {I love Locke!}

Locke and Helen are at a restaurant. Helen gives John a gift. "It's a present. It's been 6 months, sort of an anniversary, right?"
John didn't get her anything. Helen doesn't mind as her gift only cost a buck. John opens the small box and reveals it's a key to Helen's place.
Helen thought he might be tired of knocking.   John doesn't know what to say.  Helen tells him there's a condition that comes with the key... "When you stay over, you stay over."
She reveals she followed him last night, "To that house that you go to. Is it your father's house?"
John wonders why she would follow him.
Helen-"Well, you sneak off in the middle of the night. I... I just needed to know where you were going? I care about you, John,"
John seems a bit insulted-"Well, yeah, but what I do is my business. It's personal."
Helen-"I wasted 20 years of my life being angry. I told myself I would get over it, but I couldn't do it alone. I needed to find help. You help me John. And I can help you. You just have to promise me that you're not going to go to that place anymore."
John agrees and puts the key in his pocket. They kiss.
{Flash Whoosh}
Locke is re-loading the film in the projector.
Jack-"You're going to watch that again?"
Locke-"Aren't you?"
No, Jack is not.

In the pit Ana Lucia wakes up and appears scared. Concerned Sawyer asks "Sister" if she's alright.
Ana Lucia-"Who are you?"
Michael explains they crashed there; they were on a plane, Sydney to Los Angeles."
Sawyer-"40 of us made it."
Ana Lucia-"Flight 815?"
Sawyer-"You were on it, too?"
Michael-"What? You were in the back? It broke off mid-air. How did you..."
Ana Lucia-"I don't know. I don't know. The plane came apart, and... and somebody's fricking hardside came out of the overhead and knocked me out. I woke up underwater and made my way to the top...swam to shore."
Sawyer asks if she's been out there by herself  the whole time.
Ana Lucia-"Trying to find food... making my way hoping to find somebody. And then, yesterday, they found me."
Michael asks who they are.
Ana Lucia-"You tell me."
Michael inquires if she saw a boy about 10 years old, "They took my son."
Ana introduces herself and says she didn't see him.
Sawyer- "Sawyer. This is Mike. The quiet Korean guy is Jin. We're about to be the best thing that ever happened to you."
Ana Lucia asks, "How's that?"
Sawyer-"Because next time Shaft opens the cage {shows the gun } he's going to get a surprising little howdy doody."

Desmond is working on fixing the computer. Jack asks Desmond if he's in contact with the people that made the film; is he in contact with anyone?
Desmond-"Do you think I'd be here if I was?"
Jack wonders how Desmond "Didn't know about the crash, about us?" {Really! He didn't hear a crash?!}
Focused Desmond-"I push this button every 108 minutes. I don't get out much."
Jack-"So, these replacements?"
Desmond-"Kelvin died waiting for his replacements."
Jack asks if that's so, "Where does his food come from? You really think this is happening?"
Desmond-"Why wouldn't it be?"
Jack-"It says "Quarantine" on the inside of the hatch to keep you down here. To keep you scared. But you know what? We've been up there for over 40 days and no one's gotten sick. You think that this is the only part of it that's true?   Do you ever think that maybe they put you down here to push a button every 100 minutes just to see if you would?  That all of this, the computer, the button...it's just a mind game? An experiment?" {Every 108 minutes Jack, not 100!}
Desmond-"Every single day. And for all our sakes, I hope it's not real.   But the film says this is an electromagnetic station.   And I don't know about you, brother, but every time I walk past that concrete wall out there, my fillings hurt. {Although it sounds like he says his feeling hurt. Plus it's a good thing a dentist landed in a tree on the other side of the island!}
{Timer-49 00} Right. {He flips the switch on the computer, it blows and the power goes out. A generator supplies minimal power} Oh no!"
 

Locke asks what happened.
Desmond starts to freak out and declares "It's over" and packs food, the serum and pneumatic injector. {The Third Policeman book is shown.}
Locke- "What are you doing? Are you leaving? Desmond? Wait. We can...we can fix the computer. Sayid is coming. He knows..."
Desmond-"Give him my best." {WTF?!}
Jack sees that Desmond leaves the photo of he and Penny behind.
Locke is upset. "Wait, wait, wait! Where are you... You can't leave. Where are you going?" {It's almost like Locke is asking those questions to himself.}
Desmond, bailing out the door with the sticky wheel tells Locke, "As far as I can run, brother." {There's another door beyond that one.}
Jack goes to follow him. Locke asks Jack what should they do.
Jack-"Nothing. We do nothing. It's not real. None of it's real."
Locke-"This isn't... this isn't what was supposed to happen!"
Jack-"What was supposed to happen?"
Locke-"Please, don't leave me here."
Jack-"Bye, John. You're on your own."
Locke-"Jack!"
Jack exits.

Timer-47 00
Locke tries put part of the computer together but knocks over a red toolbox. As he picks up the tools he's getting angry and frustrated, "Why is this happening like this? What do you want? What do you... What am I supposed to do?!"    Locke is near tears.

Helen is sleeping while John lies wide awake staring at the ceiling.

John splashes water on his face and looks at himself and at his kidney scar in the mirror.

John is sitting in his car in front of the gated house drinking coffee.    Another car bumps into the back of his and Helen gets out.   John is stunned.   Fired up Helen grabs Locke's keys out of the ignition and runs over to the gate as panicked John begs her to wait, but Helen throws his keys over the gate anyway.
John-"Why are you doing this?"
Helen-"He's not coming out of this house, John because he doesn't care. I know why you're here, why you keep coming here.   You're scared. You're scared of moving forward...with me, with us. You're going to have to choose. Him or me."
John-"No, no, no, it's not that simple."
Helen feels it is.
John-"I, I, I can't. I can't."
Helen-"Yes, you can."
Angry John feels, "No, I can't! I don't know how."       He gets teary.
Helen-"Because you don't know what's going to happen. None of us do. That's why it's called a leap of faith, John. You don't have to be alone."
She holds out her hand and John takes it.
{Flash Whoosh}


Alone Locke is crying. Kate comes in calling out for Jack.
She enters the computer room and just by saying John's name he snaps out of it.
Hurley and Sayid are with Kate. Hurley seems amazed by the room.
Sayid-"What is this place?"
Kate asks where Jack is.
Locke-"Jack's gone. {to Sayid} I need your help."
Timer shows 24 00.
{23 minutes lapsed.}
Kate is in the corridor looking around. She asks Sayid what it looks like.
Sayid-"It's a breaker box. There has to be one. Follow the conduit lines."
Hurley-"Cool, okay, great. What's a conduit line?"
Kate points out tubes and tells him to follow those.
Hurley finds the pantry. "Whoa!"
Kate-"Did you find it?"
Hurley-"Uh, uh, depends on what you mean by it?" {Kate already found that!}

In the pit Sawyer tells Ana Lucia,"Alright, here's what we're going to do.  Jin plays dead, you call for help."
Ana Lucia-"Sick prisoner, are you serious?"
He wonders if she has a better idea.  She just wants to know where he got the gun and how'd he get it on the plane. Sawyer shares there was a federal marshal on the plane.
Sawyer-"Yeah, I'm lucky. Mike, let's get this thing going..."
Sawyer didn't use the gun while they were being grabbed because he was too busy getting hit in the face with a club. He wonders why "Cupcake" is so interested.  Michael immediately changes the subject, "C'mon, let's just...we gotta.."
Ana Lucia grabs the gun and elbows Sawyer in the face.
Ana Lucia yells,"Back up! Back up. Coming out. Coming out!"
The big dude lifts the stick hatch, lowers a rope and pulls Ana Lucia up. He asks what happened and who they are. He ties down the hatch made of sticks.

Desmond trips and falls down a hill as he runs through the jungle. Jack appears and pulls his gun on Desmond, "Stop."
Desmond thinks Jack stopped him for the code. Jack doesn't know what Desmond is referring to.
{Are we sure Jack wasn't a policeman or a soldier in a previous incarnation of his life? The dude always has a gun! lol!}
Desmond-"Listen carefully. If by some miracle you manage to get the computer working again you've got to enter the code: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42, hit execute. Again- 4, 8, 15..."
Jack just tells him to shut up. "Nothing is going to happen. Some man takes you down there, shows you a movie, and you push a button on, on faith alone? Nothing is going to happen!"
Desmond-"In about 15 minutes you're either going to be very right, or very wrong, brother. You want to shoot me? Shoot me. but I'm not hanging around..."
Jack-"Why are you running?! You don't even know what you're running from!"
Desmond-"I remember you...running...I know you. I met you... Los Angeles. I was training, yeah? You twisted your ankle..."
Jack-"Stop."
Desmond-"You're a doctor, right? There was this girl...you were worried...you said, you said you failed her. That was you."
Jack feels that doesn't matter.
Desmond wonders if the girl is okay; what happened to her? How can Jack say it doesn't matter?
Jack blurts out, "I married her!"   He cries.
Desmond-"Right, and you're... you're not married to her anymore, then?"
He picks up his pack and tells Jack, "See you in another life, yeah?"


The timer- 5:00
Locke asks Sayid if he can fix it.
Sayid-"This man, whoever he was, replaced the motherboard. The power transformer is blown."
Locke-"Don't you need to know why?"
Sayid-"All I need to know is that the timer is counting down to something. And that this computer needs to be repaired. I'm sure you'll tell me why once I've done so."

Kate finds the breaker, flips the switch and the lights turn on.
The alarm sounds and the timer passes 4 minutes and starts its beeping sequence.
Hurley seems concerned, "Oh, what's that?"
Locke is panicked, wanting Sayid to work faster, "You have to..."
Sayid-"I know what I have to do.   Reconnected the processor.   Replaced the transformer."    He turns it on and Kate wonders what happens now.
Locke-"There was a code. He made me enter it."
Concerned Hurley asks, "What code?"
Sayid-"Do you remember what it is?"
Locke-"4, 8..."
Hurley's getting worked up, "Wait a minute..."
Locke-"15, 16..."
Hurley-"Dude, I'm serious, stop."
Locke-"Hugo, this is not the time or the place."
Hurley-" Yeah, well, I think it is."
Locke-"23..."
Hurley-"What is this thing? You don't even know what it does. We need..."
Locke-"32..."
Hurley-"You know what? Forget it, go ahead, do your thing."
Jack appears, "It's not 32. It's 42. He just told me, Desmond. The last numbers 42."
Locke-"You're sure."
Jack-"Yeah, I'm sure."
Locke enters 42, and is about to press execute but suggests Jack do it, "You have to do it."
Jack-" You do it yourself, John."
Locke-"No, you saw the film, Jack. This is a...This is a two person job, at least."
{This has been a 2 person operation, Kelvin dies. Does Desmond take on this task completely by himself? He did it as a 1 man operation.}
Sayid-"This argument is irrelevant."
Jack doesn't want Sayid to interject.
Adamant Jack insists, "No. It's not real. Look, you want to push the button, you do it yourself."
Locke-"If it's not real, then what are you doing here, Jack? Why did you come back? Why do you find it so hard to believe?"
Jack-"Why do you find it so easy?!"
Locke-"It's never been easy!"
The timer shows 1 04. A 'warning' type alarm sounds.
Kate-"Maybe you should just do it."
Jack-"No. It's a button."
Locke-"I can't do this alone, Jack. I don't want to. It's a leap of faith, Jack."
Timer 00 27.
Jack goes to the computer and pushes the button with 1 second to spare.
The timer resets to 108 00.
Locke sits down at the computer, "I'll take the first shift."
Jack exits.
The timer counts down.

Orientation is a great episode!  A very interesting episode.
Faith vs. free will.   Desmond continued to push the button believing he's saving the world. Jack still needs fact/proof of what is to be before he acts upon this button thingy. As humans, how do we choose between making a decision based on facts/proof or faith?   If a person only believes in one or the other, is every single decision made in life based solely on those factors?
Even though this episode shows us that pushing the button could be important... is it real?
Let's look beyond something here, let's take the "button pushing" out of the equation for a moment. The dialogue that is coming out of Jack's mouth could be the truth.   Are the things they are experiencing real or really happening?   Are they part of a psychology, human behavior study, an experiment, a project, an adventure/journey...a game? I think YES!!

Things to Note...Questions to ask... 
✈ Real. Not Real.
✈ This is the third time we’ve seen the scene with Locke, Desmond, Jack and Kate inside the hatch.
✈ Replacements.
✈ Marvin Candle gives a brief history of the D.I.. Why would he need to do that? Wouldn't the men in that station already be privy to the "background"?
✈ Marvin "Candle" =Light.
✈ Timer. Time out. Reset.
✈ Micro computer processor. Motherboard. Power transformer. Tools. Button. Stick. Shift. Execute. Code. Program.
✈ Words. Written. Script.
✈ Projector. Film. Stereo. Speakers.
✈ Operation. Partner. Team. Worth. Fail.
✈ Jack asks Des “What’s going to happen?”   And in Adrift Locke asks Des, “What’s going to happen?”
✈ What is with Desmond and the electronics?  And why doesn't he give Sayid a chance to fix the computer before declaring "it's over" and running off?
✈ Desmond leaves the photo of him and Penny behind!
✈ The computer needs to be fixed.
✈ I feel like Desmond is rambling about a story or retelling a story.
✈ Does Desmond get back in his boat at this point?  Did he run for days then get in his boat? We know he sails around for 2 weeks- That would mean the Lostie's would only have had access to the Swan for about 2 weeks.
✈ Faith. Fact
✈ Head. Crazy. Insane.
✈ Feelings. Hurt. Alone. Fear. Scared. Anger. Frustration. Failure. Uncertainty.
✈ Kate finds the pantry then Hurley enters the pantry.
✈ Hurley is not a fan of the hatch and computer, I wonder why.
✈ We get lots of info from the film even though it is edited. Obviously someone doesn't want people to know ALL the information.
✈ How many lives can these people have?
✈ Jack is the first man in the room to push the EXECUTE button.
✈ Please watch the Orientation film again. Listen to it, but look at what is being shown to us. Plus, do you see Michael anywhere in there?  I'm not saying that it is for sure (yeah), but if you look in two scenes you can see a man with a very large afro, who looks like- in profile- like Michael. The camera is very careful to show us 'just enough' of this person, but not enough to be positive. Maybe it's a look alike/replica. If it is Michael, that would support my thoughts of him being "connected" to the "Island".

Vocabulary and Research...
♦  Code- In communications a code is a rule for converting a piece of information (for example, a letter, word, phrase or gesture) into another form or representation (one sign into another sign), not necessarily of the same type. In communications and information processing, encoding is the process by which information from a source is converted into symbols to be communicated.
- Code (cryptography) device for hiding the meaning of a message.
- Code (computer programming) or machine code, any sequence of statements and/or declarations written in some human-readable computer programming language.
- Coding theory, branch of mathematics and computer science dealing with data transmission.
-Decoding is the reverse process, converting these code symbols back into information understandable by a receiver.
-CODE- Computationally Oriented Display Environment.
♦  Cheat Code-Creates an advantage beyond normal game play, usually to make the game easier. Cheats include advantages such as invulnerability ("God mode") or an infinite amount of some resource such as ammunition. Cheats may also create unusual or interesting effects which do not necessarily make the game easier to play, such as making enemies tougher, or giving characters (including enemies) different appearances, such as large heads. Cheats often take the form of "secrets" placed by game developers, usually to reward dedicated players. Cheats may be activated from within the game itself (a cheat code implemented by the original game developers); or created by third-party software (a game trainer) or hardware.
♦ Orientation (Mental)- Function of the mind.
- Orientation (Housing)-The position of a building with respect to the sun, a concept in building design.
-  Orientation (Computer vision), an image processing concept related to one-dimensional characterization of a local image.
♦  Orienteering, a sport involving map orientation.
♦  Conduit- is an open source synchronization program for GNOME.
- Someone who coveys information (prophet or spokesperson)or in secret (mole or informant)
- Something that conveys information such as TV, computer or website.
♦  Channels for carrying water or other fluids.
♦  Electrocardiography (ECG or EKG) is a transthoracic interpretation of the electrical activity of the heart over time captured and externally recorded by skin electrodes. It is a noninvasive recording produced by an electrocardiographic device.
The etymology of the word is derived from electro, because it is related to electrical activity, cardio, Greek for heart, and graph, a Greek root meaning "to write".   The electrical waves can be measured at electrodes placed at specific points on the skin.





Since the previous episode I've wondered if all roads lead to Desmond or the Swan.
Jack and Locke watch the orientation film as an introduction to the Swan, but it's really their orientation to the "Island".
Jack and John sit together to watch the film...I sometimes feel like we're seeing two halves of the same person.   And sometimes I feel like the other Lostie's are aspects of  Jack, John and/or each other.  Weird, I know.

We witness the Islanders pursue goals within the "Island" setting.  What if all this, this journey, is more of a live action role playing game, integrating the use of computers and projectors in some way?

Feeling pain, whether it is deep emotional pain, mental, spiritual, or even physical, these are the demons John, Jack and the gang are fighting.    Their hearts are heavy indeed, but one of the goals seems to be to learn how to get over past issues and move forward.

But on to the matter at hand...here is their orientation into this part of their journey.

Love to all who are "LOST"™

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

Outlaws

Let's talk about LOST! Outlaws.

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A little boy’s eye opens. His mom wakes him up, “He’s here.” A man’s voice can be heard in the distance banging on the door in anger and demanding the door to be opened.
Mom hides him under his bed, “He’ll think you’re still with your grandparents, okay?”
It’s important for the boy to listen to mommy. She wants him under the bed, don’t make a sound and don’t come out no matter what happens. She hugs him and they both say I love you. All the while the man is trying to get in the door.
Mom-“Let’s go. Down you go.”
The boy hides under the bed.
He hears mom yelling for Wayne to “stop it” and wanting to know what’s wrong with him. A shot rings out!
The man comes in to the boys room (The boy has tears in his eyes. We see the man’s cowboy boots.) and sits on the bed, shoots/kills himself.

Sawyer jolts awake. It is night in his beach tent. He seems disoriented for a moment. He hears noises; snorting and grunting. Something is in his tent with him and knocks things over. Sawyer uses a flashlight to shine some light on the thing and discovers it’s an ugly ass boar.
He attacks it with a stick but it runs away, taking the tarp with it. Sawyer chases it as it runs through the beach camp and into the jungle.
Sawyer stops and looks around in the dark jungle and hears whispers. They sound like layers of different voices. One voice stands out, "It'll come back around”.

It’s daylight on the beach and Sawyer is cleaning up the mess the boar made.
Sayid wanders over and wonders, “Boar took your tarp?”    It was dark but Sawyer’s pretty sure it was a boar. Sayid thought the boar vacated this area. Sawyer tells the genius they got some bad info. {That info came from Locke.}
Sayid asks what it was doing inside his tent.
Sawyer-“It was staring at me. Then it came at me so I hit it and it ran off into the jungle.” with his tarp.
Sayid jokes, “Perhaps he wanted to go camping.”
Sayid happens to be enjoying himself at Sawyer’s expense. Sawyer tells Mohammad to laugh it up, as he closes up the suitcase housing some of his stash, “But I come back, find my stuff’s gone…I’m coming after you.”
Sayid smirks as this amuses him; Sayid walks away.
Sawyer calls him back and in all seriousness asks him what he heard after he ran into the French woman in the jungle.
Sayid- “I was injured. I was exhausted. My mind was playing tricks.”
Sawyer-“What did you hear?”
Sayid-“I thought I heard whispering.”
Sawyer- “What was it sayin?”
Sayid asks why, “Did you hear something?”
Sawyer seems to have second thoughts about this and tells Sayid to “Forget it. I didn’t hear anything.” Sawyer turns and marches off. {In to slow motion, I might add!}

{Flash Whoosh}

A door opens Sawyer and a woman enter making out. She asks him what he’s still so afraid of. Sawyer remarks he’s not the one trembling. They kiss in the dark room.
A voice in the dark says “Okay. This is really awkward.” Hibbs is sitting in a chair, in the dark waiting for him. He needs to have a chat with Sawyer alone. So Sawyer sends the lady down to the bar to get a drink. She wonders who that is and doesn’t want to leave Sawyer there. Sawyer will go get her and explain as soon as he gets rid of Hibbs. “I’ll come find you. Promise.”

Hibbs compliments Sawbucks on the women he gets.   Sawyer pushes him against the wall and recalls with certainty he told Hibbs if he ever saw him again he would kill him.
Hibbs showed up to make things right, “We both know you ain’t the killing type.”
Hibbs wants to make things even for the Tampa job.
He presents a large yellow envelope containing the known whereabouts to the man who ruined Sawyer’s life.
Hibbs makes himself a drink and offers Sawyer one. He asks Sawyer if he remembers old man Parks; ran capper for us on that gig in Atlanta. Sawyer remembers; he looks through the file, papers and photo.
Hibbs-“He's been working the wire at an off track parlor down in Sydney. So last week one of his regulars gets a little too sauced starts running his mouth off about his glory days as a grifter. That guy, Frank Duckett, real hard luck case. Gambling addict, alcoholic, runs a shrimp truck. Back in the day this guy Duckett was quite the hustler.  He ran the romance angle, hooked the wife and took the husband for all the money. He was pretty good at it too from what I hear. Till sadly one of his marks in despair took a gun, shot up his wife and blew his own head off.   All in front of their little boy. I paid Tony to pull his jacket.  Turns out Frank Duckett used to be named Frank Sawyer. A name I believe you appropriated for yourself.”
Sawyer looks at the photo intensely and asks, “This is him?”
Hibbs-“That’s him.”
{Flash Whoosh}
In the jungle Kate thanks Jack for the loner. {Both are wearing purple.} They are putting the guns back into the beat up silver case.   Kate asks if anyone’s curious where they came from.
Jack shares the others knew there was a marshal on the plane and he guesses they assumed he was traveling alone. “Protecting them from terrorists. Sounds like a good theory to me.”
Jack locks up the silver case with the key, hides the silver case under a black rock and covers it with grass.   He got all the guns back except for one.   Jack will give Kate three guesses to guess who still has a gun.
Kate guesses Sawyer on the first try and says she can get it back. After all she speaks his language.
Jack chuckles- “We’ve done this before, Kate and if I remember it right, you made out with him and he never even had what you said you could get.“
Kate only made out with him because torturing him didn’t work.  Jack chuckles again and says to let Sawyer keep the gun; it’s not worth it.   Jack doesn’t want Kate to owe Sawyer anything.

In the caves pregnant Claire sits next to Charlie and reveals she had some dreams last night; actually more like memories and Charlie was in them.   Charlie is busy working on something. Claire asks if he wants to go for a walk.
Charlie doesn't appear to be as interested and makes up an excuse, “Sorry. I have to do…something.” He says he’ll see her later but he seems a bit annoyed.  Claire waves goodbye to him.

Sawyer is out in the jungle looking for the boar.  He comes upon his blue tarp. He angrily carries it back to camp. On his way he hears whispers again. "It'll come back around." The boar grunts and sorts behind him and chases Sawyer. Sawyer throws the tarp down as he runs.
Sawyer ends up in the mud with the boar running past him. “Son of a bitch!”

Later Sawyer, packing a knife and cleaning up the mess the boar made, tells Kate that the boar did all this. Last night it wrecked his tent and this morning when he went to get his tent back it attacked him from behind and runs off into the jungle like a coward.
Kate is amused, sharing that a boar wouldn’t attack you for no reason.
Sawyer thanks the boar expert, “This one did. It’s harassing me.”
He gets his gun; he's getting even! Kate tells him to listen to himself and suggests telling Locke about the boar and he’ll go kill it. Sawyer says no, because this is his fight.
Kate offers to help him track the boar {Because she knows how.} She thinks he’s going to get himself lost or worse. Since Kate really doesn’t care, he excuses himself as he has some revenge to attend to. Sawyer walks away.
{Flash Whoosh}

Sawyer is in Australia. He walks down the dock and into what appears to be a machine/metal shop. {The open door’s sign says Do Not Enter.} There is welding going on.
Sawyer walks right up to a guy in the back of the shop who knows Sawyer is Hibbs’ mate.  This contact did a few jobs with Hibbs back in the States. He is preparing a gun for Sawyer.  The contact informs Sawyer of a few disclaimers…”
Australia doesn’t allow citizens to carry handguns. You get nicked with this…”
Sawyer-“I’m not gonna rat you out.”
They exchange the gun for cash.
The contact goes on to say, “Secondly, you know, I've been doing this for awhile and a man who buys a compact 357 with hollow point loads… he's not looking to scare or steal. He's looking to kill. But when it comes down to it if he finds he doesn't have what it takes to do the job. . .”
Sawyer tells him his sales pitch needs some work.
All this dude is saying is you look a man in the eye and point a gun at him, you find out who you really are. “And should you find you’re not a killer…there’s no refund.”
Sawyer feels that won’t be a problem.


Hurley is helping appreciative Charlie carry Ethan’s body.
Charlie-“I killed Ethan, I can bury him.”
Hurley- “Yeah. Until he rises from the dead.”
{Note: this line is said by Hurley but Hurley’s mouth isn’t moving in the shot. It could be an editing/ADR mishap...or not. But I’m noting it just the same.}
Hurley- “Dude, I know how this works. This is gonna end with you and me running through the jungle screaming and crying. It catches me first because I’m heavy and I get cramps.” {Watch Charlie’s face here.}
Charlie starts digging the grave.  Hurley quietly asks Charlie if he’s alright but Charlie doesn’t distract from his focused digging, never acknowledging Hurley.

At the beach Hurley asks Sayid if he ever got that Gulf war syndrome.
Sayid-“That was the other side.”
Hurley wonders what is the one where you’re like, “Shell shocked.”
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Hurley- “Yeah. That’s it. Did you ever have that?”
Sayid wonders why he’s asking.
Hurley’s worried about Charlie, “I mean he killed a guy. Shot him in the chest four times.”
He suggests Sayid talk to him.

Sawyer walks through the jungle trying to track the boar.   Kate is right behind him.
She informs him based on the tracks he’s been following Boone for about an hour.  She supposes it could be Charlie. {Why? Boone and Charlie make the same tracks?!}
Kate offers to help track this boar but she wants Carte Blanche. (Blank check.) Apparently over the last few hours Sawyer has managed to follow the tracks of humans, birds, a rock slide, himself, basically everything except boar.   He has no idea what he’s doing.
Kate-“Anytime I want something from your stash, medicine, soap, whatever, I get it. No questions asked...Take it or leave it.“
Sawyer- “Alright, you got a deal.”

At night Sawyer and Kate sit around a campfire. Sawyer takes out a little bottle of booze and starts drinking it.   Kate wonders where he got that.
Sawyer- “Plane.“
Kate- “Jack was looking for the liquor cart.” {Oh really!!!}
Sawyer- “It's a good thing I found it instead then, huh?”
Kate asks if he’s got any more.
Sawyer- “I've got a lot more of everything.  But you ain't got Carte Blanche yet.”
Kate- “Is that a no?”
Sawyer tells Sassafras if she wants to drink, she’s got to play.
Kate- “Play what?”
Sawyer- “I never.”
Kate doesn’t know what that means.  Sawyer calls it a way to get to know each other better.
He gives an example, “I know you've never been to college.”
Kate- “And how do you know that?”
Sawyer- “If you had, you'd have heard about I Never.   It's simple.   You say "I never" and then you finish the sentence.  If it's something you did you drink, if it's something you never did, you don't drink.”
Kate feels that makes absolutely no sense.
Sawyer- “Learn by example. I never kissed a man. Now you drink 'cause you've kissed man. Your turn.“
Kate- “I never implied that I've been to college when I never have.”
Sawyer drinks.
Sawyer- “I never been to Disneyland.”
Kate doesn't drink.
Sawyer- “Ah, that's just sad.”
Kate- “I never wore pink.”
Sawyer drinks, claiming the 80’s. He never voted democrat. Kate doesn't drink.
Kate- “I never voted.”
Sawyer drinks.
Sawyer “'I’ve never been in love.”
Kate “You've never been in love?“
Sawyer- “I ain't drinking, am I?”
Kate drinks.
Kate- “I've never had a one night stand.”
Sawyer drinks.
Kate- “Bottoms up, sailor.”
Sawyer-“I've gotta drink for each one?”
Kate- “Your turn.”
Sawyer- “I've never been married.”
Kate cutely drinks a small sip.
Kate whispers- “It didn't last very long. I never blamed a boar for all my problems.”
Sawyer drinks.
Sawyer –“I never cared about having Carte Blanche because I just wanted to spend some time with the only other person on this island that just don't belong.“
Kate drinks.
Kate- “I never carried a letter around for 20 years because I couldn't get over my baggage.“
Sawyer drinks. That question rubbed him.
Sawyer-“I never killed a man.”
They both drink.
Sawyer- “Well, looks like we got something in common, after all.”
The mood has changed. {These are some fucking magical tiny bottles of liquor. They never run out of alcohol!}

A shot rings out.  The little boy is hiding under the bed.   The door opens and the cowboy boot wearing man enters.  All of a sudden the man is now the grunting boar. “It’ll come back around.” {Sounds like a gunshot possibly combined with a Flash Whoosh}
Sawyer jolts awake. Kate asks if he’s OK; he was shaking.
He’s fine. “I was just having a …”
They see the area is a mess. Sawyer can’t believe this. There are hoof marks everywhere. {And white smoke from extinguished campfire.} The boar went through his stuff and ate it, but not Kate's stuff. {Was the boar extra courteous because Kate was there sleeping, that he didn’t grunt, snort, growl or make any noise as not to disturb her?! WTF?!}
Sawyer swears that hog is gonna suffer.
They hear something in the jungle so angry Sawyer grabs his gun.
It’s Locke eating fruit. He waves, “Morning. What happened to your campsite?”
John sits and prepares coffee.  Kate wonders what he’s doing all the way out there.
Locke’s looking for salvage from the crash. He found scraps of metal and a few bags of coffee. He picked up their path about a mile back and thought he’d say howdy.
Sawyer puts his cigarettes back into the cigarette pack. He discovers the boar peed on his shirt. “Took my shirt out of the bag and peed on it. And you say this ain’t personal.”
Kate shares with Locke Sawyer thinks the boar they’re after has a vendetta against him.
Sawyer-“That’s three times it’s got me.”
Kate thinks it’s got his scent, “Maybe it doesn’t like your cologne.”
Locke tells a story over his good coffee. “My sister, Jeanie, died when I was a boy.  Fell off the monkey bars and broke her neck.   And my mother, well, my foster mother, she blamed herself of course.   She thought she wasn't watching close enough.   So, she stopped eating, stopped sleeping. The neighbors started talking, afraid she might do something to herself I guess. {Sips his coffee} Oh, that's good.  Anyway, about six months after Jeanie's funeral this golden retriever comes padding up our driveway walks right into our house sits down on the floor and looks right at my mother there on the couch.  And my mother looks back at the dog.   After about a minute of this, of them both staring at each other like that my mother burst into tears.   Beautiful dog.   No tags, no collar.  Healthy and sweet.   The dog slept in Jeanie's old room on Jeanie's old bed and stayed with us until my mother passed five years later.  Then, disappeared back to wherever it was she came from in the first place.
Kate- “So, you're saying the dog was your sister?”
Locke- “Well, that would be silly.  But my mother thought it was, thought that Jeanie had come back to tell her the accident wasn't her fault.  Let her off the hook.”
Locke smiles.
{Flash Whoosh}

Daytime:
Sawyer arrives with his gun and heads out to the Shrimp Shack.  Duckett is serving a customer at the window. “Good to go.”
Duckett tells Sawyer- “Only two choices.  Shrimp and mild sauce and shrimp and hot sauce.”
Sawyer just stares at him.
Duckett waits and whistles to get Sawyer’s attention. Sawyer snaps out of it and will go with the hot. Duckett prepares the shrimp and Sawyer prepares his gun. Duckett remarks that he is a fellow American and asks where Sawyer’s from.
Sawyer- “Tennessee.”
Duckett loves the south. He tells Sawyer “For what it’s worth…run a special at the truck here, half price for all American’s”
Sawyer is focused but is shaking with the gun in his hand. Duckett reveals his name is Frank. Sawyer seems to soften a moment and reveals his name is James. {Note white smoke from the pan.}
Frank turns to give James his order but James is gone. You hear a car pull away.

Sawyer is downing shots.  He is in a bar; a soccer/football game on the TV.
Sawyer tells the bartender, “Again.”
The bartender-“Are you sure about that, Mate?”
A drunk further down the bar says- “You tell em, cowboy.  These bastards think American’s can’t hold their liquor.”   {He changes his American accent to Australian.}
{All the dialog is important here.} The drunk hates to hold his hand out but claims to have misplaced his wallet.   Sawyer tells the bartender to set em up.  The drunk drinks to him and asks the cowboy his name.
The drunk is Christian Shephard. “To Sawyer. May he find whatever he’s looking for at the bottom of a glass.”
He asks what brings him to Sydney.
Sawyer- “Business.”     {Note the ship wheel behind Christian}
Christian shares that they call Australia down under is because it’s as close you can get to hell without being burned.
Sawyer has the bartender leave the bottles and Christian pulls up a seat next to Sawyer. We find out Christian was the chief of surgery back in the States.
Sawyer- “So we’re in hell, huh?”
Christian-“Don't let the air conditioning fool you, son. You are here, too. You are suffering. But, don't beat yourself up about it.   It's fate.   Some people are just supposed to suffer.  That's why the Red Sox will never win the damn series.   I have a son who's about your age.   He's not like me… he does what's in his heart. He's a good man… maybe a great one.  And right now, he thinks that I hate him.   He thinks I feel betrayed by him.  But what I really feel is gratitude, and pride because of what he did to me.  What he did for me.  Ah, it took more courage than I have.  There's a pay phone over here. I could pick it up and I could call my son. I could tell him about all this. I could tell him that I love him. One simple phone call and I could fix everything.
Christian- “Because I am weak. This…this business that you have will it ease your suffering?
Sawyer-“Yeah.”
Christian-“Then what are you doing here?“
Sawyer- “It ain't that simple.“
Christian- “Of course it is. Unless you want to end up like me, of course it is.“







Back at the Shrimp Shack, it’s night and pouring rain. Duckett is closing up shop for the night and taking out the trash.
Sawyer sits in the car watching him. Sawyer takes the gun out of the glove box and checks the bullets. {Of course there’s bullets! You didn’t friggin use any yet ya dumb ass!}

Charlie is sitting on the beach breaking coconuts open by pounding them on a spear. Sayid tells him he’s developing quite a talent.
Charlie gets that Sayid is there to check up on him.
Sayid states “You killed a man.”
Charlie-“A man who killed one of us. Who kidnapped Claire. Who strung me up and left me for dead. He deserved to die. I'd do it again in a minute. Pardon me, if I'm fresh out of bad feeling.”
Sayid- “When I was in the army in Tikrit in Iraq, the man who lived next door was a policeman. One day his car was rigged with a bomb. It killed his wife and three young children instead. They caught the man who did it. I volunteered to be on the firing squad and I did my duty without a single ounce of remorse. Then for no reason, I found myself waking up at night, replaying what I did in my head.”
Charlie- “It looks like you're the one who needs checking up on.”
Sayid- “All I'm saying is that what happened with Ethan will be with you for the rest of your life.”
Charlie softens a bit and asks, “Any suggestions?”
Sayid- “You're not alone. Don't pretend to be.”

Sawyer and Kate walk through the jungle. He takes comfort in knowing someday this is all gonna be a real nice shopping complex; maybe even an auto mall.  Kate discovers a wallow. {Mud hole}
Sawyer- “What the hell’s a wallow?”
Kate- “A boar’s wallow?  It’s his den where he sleeps.”
Sawyer hears the squeals of a baby boar and captures it.
Now Sawyer knows “daddy’s gotta be around here.  Here piggy, piggy, piggy!!”
Sawyer taunts, calling for the “piggy” while Kate is trying to get him to put the baby down; she fears he’s gonna hurt it.
Kate-“Not funny!” and she kicks him. The baby boar runs away.
Kate- “You’re sick!”
Sawyer didn’t hurt it.
Kate walks away and tells him to “Find your own way home.”
Sawyer-“No problem!”
{Flash Whoosh}
In the pouring rain Sawyer marches over to Frank, who is putting out the trash.  Sawyer draws his gun and calls out for “Sawyer!” and shoots Frank.  As Frank is dying, {Hand over his heart and bleeding}
Sawyer kneels down in front of Frank and reads his “Sawyer letter” out loud. “Dear Mr. Sawyer.”
Frank-“Who?”
Sawyer- “You used to go by the name of Sawyer.”
Frank doesn’t know what he’s talking about. “You didn’t have to…tell Hibbs I would have paid.”
Sawyer wonders how he knows Hibbs.
Frank-“You don’t know what you’re doing, do ya?”
Sawyer realizes this is really about this guy borrowing money from Hibbs.
Frank-“I was gonna pay…It’ll come back around.”
Sawyer realizes the Con man got conned.

Sawyer walks through the jungle.   He seems lost.
He calls out for Kate and comes face to face with the big ugly ass daddy boar. Sawyer draws his gun and aims at the grunting boar; he’s staring at it.   Kate quietly watches from the sideline.
Sawyer and the boar stare each other down. Sawyer seems to snap out of his stare and soften a bit.
He lowers his gun, sees Kate there and says, “It’s just a boar. Let’s get back to camp.”




Sun and Jin are on the beach with the net.
Claire sits alone, watches Walt play ball with no collar Vincent.
Michael is working on the raft.
Smiling Charlie walks over to Claire and offers to take that walk with her.

Jack is in the jungle cutting up fire wood.   Sawyer walks up behind him, draws his gun, “Stick em up.”
Jack-“You trying to be funny?”
Sawyer smiles, “Yeah. I was fresh out of pies to throw at ya.”   He returns the gun to Jack the sheriff. {Because Jack's the gun guy now}
Jack asked him for the gun two days ago and Sawyer told him to “stick it”.
“I made a deal with your girlfriend.”
{This line is said off camera.  Who said this?  Was it Sawyer? It could be another ADR issue but this kinda felt like Jack heard this line but Sawyer didn’t say it then. I know, I’m crazy. Watch it again. 
Jack doesn’t correct the “girlfriend” line, so does he consider Kate his girlfriend here?}
Jack-“What did she give ya? Kate…what did she give ya?”
Sawyer–“Nothing she wasn’t willing to part with.”
Jack-“That’s why the socks will never win the series.”
Sawyer asks him what he just said.
Jack-“I said that’s why the Red Sox will never win the series.”
Sawyer asks what the hell’s that supposed to mean. Jack shares it’s just something his father used to say. “Going through life knowing that people hated him.  Instead of taking responsibility for it, he just put it on fate. Said he was made that way.
Sawyer asks if his daddy…a doctor too.
Jack-“Was. He is dead. Why do you want to know about my father?”
Sawyer- “No reason.”    And walks into the jungle.




Outlaws is a GREAT episode!

WOW!!!  An episode about Sawyer, but we learn about Jack and Christian too.   Sawyer is a hurt lost little boy all grown up.  He's really not a killer {I know he "killed" Duckett and a polar bear} but he's a con man, not a killer.   He is a product of his circumstances.   Things do haunt him, that's true.   He feels he needs see this revenge through but is it for closure?  Maybe. Or it's just his role to play?  Either way he comes face to face with what kind of man he really is.

We learn a few things about Sawyer and Kate when they play "I never". They both killed someone. {Hmmm} Do we have any other outlaws on the "island"?

Christian's drunken conversation with Sawyer is very interesting. He is a "father" who loves his son. But what "things" is he talking about?   Is it really about what we assume it is, or is it something else? If love, pride and forgiveness are important then make the damn phone call and fix it, it's that simple! If it's about something else like a secret he can't reveal to Jack, then that would explain his "weakness" to reach out to him.  There's something he can't tell Jack! {Remember, Christian IS capable of being tender with Jack, we saw it in All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues. YEP!  Christian apologizes to Jack.}

Things to Note...Questions to ask...
* “It’ll come back around.”- Circle-Loop-Karma.
* Con. Grifter.
* Game. Gambling. Deal.
* Mental Health/state.
* Afraid. Scared. Hurt. Alone. Loner.
* Hear. Learn.
* Purchase. Deal. Disclaimers. Refund. Pay. Paid. Business.
* Anagram for Stare is Tears.
* Hurley-“Until he rises from the dead.” What is he trying to say here?! Is Ethan not what we think?!
* Hurley- “I mean he killed a guy. Shot him in the chest four times.” In Homecoming Charlie fired six shots!
*It is important to note that although Charlie looked distant and distracted, he says he'd do it again {Kill Ethan}.
* Jack and Christian don't use the term "World Series" when talking about the Sox. They only say "series."
* "Island" events/dialog/imagery and "Flash" events/dialog/imagery are mirrored and blurred.
* I wonder if there are words or something that triggers “Flashes”.   At this point it seems that sleeping/consciousness and certain events/actions are tied together.



Vocabulary and Research…
* Staring is a prolonged gaze or fixed look. In staring, one object or person is the continual focus of visual interest, for an amount of time. Staring can be interpreted as being either hostile, or the result of intense concentration or affection. Staring behavior can be considered a form of aggression, or an invasion of an individual's privacy
Staring conceptually also implies confronting the inevitable – ‘staring death in the face’, or ‘staring into the abyss’.
- This has been the subject of psychoanalytical studies on the nature of scopophilia.
- The Psychic Staring Effect is concept of 'non-visual detection of staring'.
* Con Man- Confidence tricks exploit typical human qualities like greed, dishonesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, or naive expectation of good faith on the part of the con artist.
The victim is known as the mark, and any accomplices are known as shills.
Con's are AKA bunko, con, flim flam, gaffle, grift, hustle, scam, scheme, or swindle.
* Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-(PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more traumatic events that threatened or caused great physical harm. It is a severe and ongoing emotional reaction to an extreme psychological trauma. This stressor may involve someone's actual death, a threat to the patient's or someone else's life, serious physical injury, an unwanted sexual act, or a threat to physical or psychological integrity, overwhelming psychological defenses.
Also been recognized in the past as railway spine, stress syndrome, shell shock, battle fatigue, traumatic war neurosis, or post-traumatic stress syndrome.
Diagnostic symptoms include re-experiencing original trauma(s), by means of flashbacks or nightmares; avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma; and increased arousal, such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, anger, and hyper vigilance.




Baggage and trying to come to terms with it.  Wallowing in past hurt and mistakes.  Are the Lostie's sick people who are just trying to find their way home?
Facing your own demons can feel very much like being in hell. Are they purposely on this “Island” because they are suffering?
Is the "Island" inadvertently playing therapist or is it outright with intention playing therapist?


Love to all who are "LOST"™



Posted on MySpace July 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 Man from Tallahassee.

Let's talk about LOST! The Man from Tallahassee.



"Name."
A form is being filled out at a Government Disabilities Office.
Johnathan Locke sits speaking with his case worker.


He states his name as "John Locke", he is single, and he doesn't have a girlfriend. {The form shows-Johnathan Locke 168 San Juan St. 201 Tustin}

The case worker asks him if his parents are living, to which he replies, "I was raised in foster care. I never really knew my parents."
She asked if he ever thought about seeking out his biological parents.
John- "I don't see how that's relevant."
She tells him it's relevant "Mr. Locke, because if the government is going to continue to pay your disability insurance, I have to figure out whether or not your condition has improved." {Yeah, still, how is the question relevant?}
She asks him how his appetite is.
He says it's fine.   She notes he stopped submitting his therapy bills for reimbursement; he stopped going because it's "Waste of time."
She stamps his file with 'Benefits Suspended' in red and explains it's just a temporary suspension and that benefits will start again when he resumes his sessions; then he can re-apply.
He asks her if she thinks he's temporarily disabled.
She says-“Depression can be temporary, yes. And since you see fit to stop going to therapy I guess your all better."
John-"I guess I am."
She calls "Next."
John walks out of the office. {Note file boxes along the wall, things of red that stand out. Coffeecup, red handbag hanging on the cubby wall, pens, pencils, etc.}

Locke with his gun ready, Kate and Sayid in hiding, watching Jack play football in the yard with Tom.
Danielle walks away from the trio.

You hear a door open, and Juliet calls out to "Jack".   She is happy to see him. They toss the ball around.
Kate informs the guys, "She's the one who helped me and Sawyer escape." {Juliet whisper-It's gonna be tomorrow}
Sayid realizes that Danielle is not there with them. Kate lets John know that Danielle's gone, but he's focused on the barracks.

Juliet and Jack seem very comfy cozy with each other.
John, Kate and Sayid observe Juliet knock on a door.  John looks through binoculars
for a closer look.   Juliet wheels out convalescing Ben in a wheelchair.   They watch Jack speak with Ben and then they shake hands.
John-"This is going to be more complicated than we thought."
Kate loads her rifle; she's pissed!  She tells Sayid, "We came here to rescue Jack, and that’s what we're gonna do."
Sayid-"Obviously the circumstances have changed. He may not want to be rescued."
Kate-"That is NOT Him, that’s not Jack! They must have done something to him. When they captured us they drugged us."
Sayid remarks he didn't appear to be drugged.
Kate-"They kidnapped him, held him prisoner, he wouldn't just forget that!"
Sayid agrees, but until they know why, they're putting their lives at risk.
Kate-"I'm not leaving him!"
Sayid feels they may not have a choice
Locke-"It's Jack. The first time I saw he was risking his life pulling people out of burning air plane wreckage.   He's shaking hands with the others I'm sure he's got a good reason. We just have to go down there and find out what it is."
Locke suggests they wait till its dark and approach Jack when he's alone. "And if he wants out, we get him out."


{Flash}
John is in his room/home playing with his food. He is watching EXPOSE on TV. {The show talking about the cobra. Character, Autumn says 'I can't find him' then something about winged victory.  Locke's food tray is FILLED with symbols from the "island" coffee pot, sailboat, arrow, circle w/dot in the middle, sheriff star/badge, cowboy boot, keyhole, circle w/2 lines, kite, something that looks like 7UP}

His drinking glass has fruit design. There is two knocks at the door. John opens the door and points out that he has a sign 'No Soliciting' in red.

The young man's name is Peter Talbot and he needs to speak with him.Peter thinks his mother may be in some trouble.
John-"You've got the wrong John Locke."
Peter asks how many kidneys he has.
John makes instant coffee {YUK! 1 dark mug. 1 light mug. His room has red flashlight, map, red thermos, Picture of flags, framed patches, Chinese food containers, radio.}
Peter tells John about his mother meeting a man two months ago; Love at first sight and the man's name is Adam Seward, a retired computer entrepreneur from Ontario.   He said that Adam had something special that his mother went gaga for right out of the gate, so she agrees to marry the guy. Something in Peter's gut said "he's after something" so he had to check him out. {In the distance you hear an alarm/siren.}
Peter feels this has to do with Locke because he donated 1 of his kidneys to Seward. Only his name was different back then. It used to be Anthony Cooper.
Peter shows Locke a picture of Seward and his mother. All Peter could find were his medical records.   {Wow! Different names and this guy finds Locke via medical records! Come on!}
Peter figures if someone gave the guys their kidney how bad could he be?  "Right?"
Locke tells Peter he was an anonymous donor;  he never met him.
Locke's sorry, "I can't help you."

Locke is looking through binoculars.  He, Kate and Sayid are watching.   Juliet has walked Jack home. {Where is Danielle ALL this time?}
Locke-"Sayid you guard the front. I'll go around and cover the back. You head in through the side door."
Kate is surprised she's going in alone.   Locke feels it's better if she's the first one he sees. They put their plan into action.

Kate heads in a side door.   She hears someone playing piano. She peeks around the corner and sees it is Jack playing. {4 candles/cups on top} Jack turns around and sees her. {Picture of the island} He asks her what she's doing here. She informs him she came to get him.
Jack tells her to get out, "Go! Now! They're watching me!"
Kate's not leaving him. She notes the camera too late as the door gets broken in and the Others take over. Jack tells them not to hurt her.
Ryan-"Step back Doc."
As they have Kate on the ground.   Sayid is caught and brought in too.
Ryan- "Who else is with you?"
Jack is just standing there.
Kate-"It was just us."

Ben is sleeping.
He wakes up. His window is open and so is the closet door. He raises his hospital bed up. He thinks someone is there.
Ben-"Alex?"
He turns his light on.   Locke is there with his gun drawn.
John-"Shhhh. Keep your voice down."
{Ben's room is filled with countless books, Tribal/ancient masks and a big picture of the stars/constellations/skies and a picture of island.}
Ben says he can tell him where Jack is.
John- "I'm not looking for Jack. I'm looking for the submarine."
Ben is not sure what John means.
John-"The one you use to travel to and from the island. The one your man Mikhail told me about before I killed him."
Ben doesn't flinch!
Alex calls out "Dad? Who are you talking to?"
Ben- "Alex don't come in here."

John opens the bedroom door and there's a knock on the house door so John grabs Alex!
From outside the house door we hear Tom, "Ben. Are you awake?"
John hides with Alex in the closet. {Ben always keeps his cool}
Tom comes in to tell Ben about Austen and Jarrah, "They're here. Somehow they found us... We captured them. We're holding them over at my place."{Everybody has a place!}
Tom offers to help Ben get out of bed.
Ben instructs Tom to separate them, and he wants to know how they found "us."
Tom- "What about Juliet and Shephard, tomorrow morn..."
Ben says to let him worry about that. All the while John is watching them.

Ben tells Richard, "I want you to bring me the man from Tallahassee."
Richard-"What do you need him for?"
Ben tells him to just bring him. {Him, a real person?}
Richard leaves and John comes out of the closet. "The man from Tallahassee? What is that? Is that some kind of code?"
Ben tells him unfortunately they don't have a code for '"there's a man in my closet with a gun to my daughters head. Although we obviously should." {Rock on Ben!}
John tells Ben that Sayid had a pack with him and he wants it. Alex will go and retrieve it. Ben informs John that his daughter currently hates him, so holding him hostage may not be his best option. Alex will go get John's bag.
{Flash}
A door to shop opens and we see John enters the flower shop. He tries to blend in to the shop without much notice.   Adam Seward is there with his intended; they are picking out centerpieces for the tables.
Adam/Anthony sees John. {Gee. What kind of flowers can we spot? Hmm?...I love flowers!} The sign says the name of the shop is the Tustin Ranch Florist. {I love how red always jumps out at us!}
Adam says hello.
John-"Is it gonna be a big to-do. Or just two of you and a preacher? I guess you couldn't invite me, huh? That would make for awkward introductions."
Adam/Anthony- "How did you even know?"
John explains he knows because her son came to me and asked why I gave you a kidney. He's on to you. But he doesn't have any proof. So he came to me hoping I would vouch for you."
John-"You're conning her, aren't ya? You’re gonna marry her for her money. Right?"
Anthony asks John what he wants. {NOTE: All of a sudden they are in front of the red flowers that are seen on the island!}
John wants him to end it with her, "You make people think that you're their family and then you leave their life in ruins. And I am not going to let you do it again."
John demands he call off the engagement or he will tell her the truth! John also demands that Anthony leave.
Anthony-"Okay. You got it."

John sits casually with his foot up at the end of Ben's hospital bed; he has his gun. Ben pulls himself up to adjust himself. He asks John if he would help him get into his 'chair', "No tricks. I promise. I just want some dignity."
Ben goes on to say that John of all people should understand what it means to want some dignity. John gets up and gets the wheelchair.
Ben wonders how he expects John to pilot "our" submarine. "I mean, it's a complicated piece of machinery. You don't just press submerge."   {Yes you do.}
John will figure something out, "For all you know, I was a commander in the Navy."
Ben-"What's in the pack, John? If you met Mikhail that means you were in the communications station. Which means you found the explosives."
John doesn't say anything.
Ben-"So you're not planning to pilot the submarine anywhere, are you? You're planning to destroy it."
John doesn't respond at all; no reaction.
Ben-"I know you John Locke."
John-"You don't know me at all."
Ben-"I know you were born in California. I know you were raised in foster care. I know you wasted a big part of your life in Tustin pushing papers that manufactured industrial boxes. I know you spent the four years prior to your arrival on this island in a wheelchair. And I know how you ended up in it. Tell me John. Did it hurt?"
John-"I felt my back break. What do you think?"

Kate is cuffed in the game room.
She is trying to get out of the cuffs; she attempts this while on a pool table.
Tom opens the door and nicely says, "I didn't think I'd see you again so soon, Kate."   He also speaks to someone out of view, "Be careful in here."
Tom motions to his "ears/hearing" to Jack {being bugged/watched -or to listen}. He lets Jack in to see her. {Note all the games and the black and white check table cloth} Jack pulls up a folding chair keeping distance from her. They both establish they haven’t been hurt by "them".
Kate looks around the room and asks, "What is all this?"

Jack-"This is where they live."  {In a game room?!}
Jack lets her know that the people they took, the kids, their all safe.
Kate wonders if he's with 'them' now.
Jack is quiet- "I'm not with anyone, Kate."
She walks over to him and asks, "Why are you acting like this?"
Jack- "There's no wa...Yu...There's no way I could..."
Kate tells him she came back to help him.
Jack- "I told you NOT to come back here for me!"
Kate didn't think he meant it.   They both start to get mushy and teary eyed. Kate walks over and touches his hand with her cuffed hand. Kate kneeling down in front of him, "What did they do to you, Jack?"
Jack-"I made a deal with them. They're gonna let me go.”
Kate-"Where?"
Jack-"Home...First thing in morning. I can bring back help. It's our best chance."
Kate feels he can't trust these people; they are liars. Jack trusts them because she told him to, when she asked him to save Sawyer's life.
Kate gets curious, "What did they tell you?"
The door opens, it's Juliet telling Jack they need to go. Jack tells Kate he wishes she hadn't come back there for him.
He whispers in Kate's ear, "But I will come back here for you."
Jack leaves the game room.
{Flash}
John pulls up in his red Volkswagen beetle to his apartment.   He was a bag of cleaning supplies. Two detectives meet him. Detective Mason and Detective Reed questions him about knowing Peter Talbot.   John lies and says he doesn't know him.  They remind him Peter was in his apartment two days ago.   John says he was a solicitor.
The Talbot family is worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $200 million. Locke's name and address was in his pocket.
Peter Talbot is dead.

John peeks out Ben's window. {Red curtains}
Ben tells him, "It wasn't easy being in that hatch with you all that time.  Knowing you had no business walking around.  Knowing I couldn't even ask you about it without telling you who I really was."
John-"So ask me now. Now that I know who you really are."
John closes the curtains.
Ben excitedly wheels himself over to John, "Was it immediate? It started the moment you got here?"
John says 'yes' as he's looking at items/books in the room, "You're wondering why it hasn't happened for you. You're not recovering as fast as you'd like.   How long it's been since Jack fixed you?   A week?   Now that I think about it, how’d you get sick in the first place?"
Ben asks him if he's afraid it will go away, "Is that why you want to destroy the submarine? Cause you know if you ever leave this island you'll be back in the chair?"
Locke picks up Ben's Harry Potter glasses and peeks through them and asks "You got anything to eat?"

Sayid is cuffed to the swing set in the playground. {The cuffs against red. The swings are fenced in.}
Alex comes to retrieve the pack from Sayid. {Convenient the Others didn't take the pack from their prisoner!  Pack- like a pack of dogs.}
Ryan is standing guard and drinking coffee tells her to "Go home kid. You know you're not supposed to be here."
Alex-"My father sent me to get his pack."
He gives her the pack {Complete with Eko's stick}
Sayid- "You're Alex, aren't you?"
He mentions "You look like your mother."
Alex says her mother is dead.
Sayid- "I'm sure that's what they told you."
Ryan hits Sayid and tells him to keep his mouth shut. {Sayid's watch says 6: something}

John wheels Ben into the living area of his house. {There are artifacts, tribal masks, statues, artwork, books and pictures. Book ‘A brief history of time’, a painting of a woman, family pictures, large vases/vessels and a Ganesha}

Ben turns on the lights and John asks where they get electricity.
Ben- "We have 2 giant hamsters running in a massive wheel in our secret underground lair/lab."
Ben lets John have leftovers to eat.   Locke checks out the eats. {Dharma onions, canned pork, beer. Fresh orange juice, milk, tomatoes, watermelon, chicken on a red plate}
Ben has a cute White and Red kitchen. {Note Red coffee pot and the butterfly encased in glass.}
Ben looks near picture of Alex. {Clock says 3:25. It's hard to see exact}
Ben tells John he already ate most of the dark meat. John now appreciates chicken.
Ben- "I know you think you need to do this John, but if you blow up my submarine I have a big problem with my people." {Big Shit}
Ben continues, "I was born on this Island. Not many of my people can say that.   Most of them were recruited and brought here.   And as much as they love this place, as much as they'd do anything to defend it, they need to know they can leave if they want to. The sub maintains that illusion."
John-"So you're lying to them."
Ben-"No! There here because they want to be here.  Some of them are just not ready to make a full commitment yet. {Commitment to what?!} But you John, you've already made that commitment.  And now you have a choice.   Because if you stop and if you think, I can show you things. Things I know you want to see very badly. Let me put it so you'll understand.   Picture a box.  You know something about boxes, don't you John?   What if I told you that somewhere on this Island, there's a very large box, and whatever you imagined, whatever you wanted to be in it, when you opened that box, there it would be. What would you say about that, John?"
John helps himself to a glass of water and tells him he hopes "That box is big enough to imagine yourself up a new submarine."
John is angry because Ben's cheating, "You and your people- communicate with the outside world whenever you want to, you come and go as you please, you use electricity and running water and guns.  You're a hypocrite. A Pharisee. You don't deserve to be on this island.   If you had any idea what this place really was, you wouldn't be putting chicken in your refrigerator!"
Ben reminds John he's only been there for 80 days; Ben's been there his entire life! "So how is it you think you know this Island better that I do?"
John-"Because you're in the wheelchair and I'm not."

John peeks out Ben's window. {On Ben's desk, more butterflies encased in glass and an old land line telephone} Alex comes in it's 12:35 a few seconds later it's 4:12 a few seconds or so. {What's that about?}
John takes his pack. He tells Ben how its gonna work; Alex is going to take him to the sub. Once they're there he'll let her go. Ben offers to take him so Alex doesn't have to.

Ben reveals that he and Jack made a deal. In less than an hour "he's leaving this island on that submarine and it's a one way ticket. The anomaly wiped out our communications, we have no way of contacting the outside world. Which means when that sub leaves it can never come back.    So whether you destroy the submarine or whether you let it go, the end result is the same. No one will find this Island."

John leaves with Alex.
Alex tells John, "You know he's manipulating you, right?"  That's what her father does. He manipulates people. He makes you think it's your idea, but it's his {Now, There's an answer!} John will keep that in mind.
Alex directs John, "The submarine is down there at the end of the dock."
He lets her go. Danielle happens to be nearby hiding in the bushes and she is crying.
John opens the hatch to the submarine. {Red lighting} He goes in.

Ben puts the leftover chicken back in the fridge.   Jack comes in as he needs to ask Ben for one last favor; Juliet is with him {Isn't it the friggin middle of the night? Yummy bananas.}
Ben- "You don't knock?"
That amuses Juliet.
Jack needs him to let his friends go, "After I'm gone."
Ben-"And if I said no would that stop you from leaving?"
Jack says of course it would.
Ben knows Jacks friends are only there to rescue him. "But you seem to be doing a good job of rescuing yourself. I suppose there's no reason to keep them here."
Jack asks him if he has his word on that. They shake hands, "You have my word. I'll let them go just as soon as you've left the Island."
Ben and Juliet share a moment of 'goodbye'.
Juliet thanks him for keeping his promise. {Time on clock? And WHAT PROMISE?}
Jack and Juliet leave. {Ben's expression here!}

John is soaking wet, walking down the dock; no pack.
Juliet and Jack get escorted by guards down by the dock.
They connect with John.  The guards pull guns on John; make him "Get down!"
John puts his hands up in surrender. {Tom and his facial expressions! He always looks so surprised at people's behavior! I crack up!}
Jack asks John what he's doing there.

John-"I'm sorry, Jack."
BOOM!! {There's Toms face again!}
{Flash}
There's banging/knocking on the door.
John is at Anthony's fancy apartment. {Not a house}
John comes in freaking out, "What did you do? Tell me you didn't do it...Tell me that you didn't kill that kid." {Picture of Apollo theater on wall} Of course Anthony plays stupid.
John implies Anthony would kill him because the kid was on to him.
Anthony- "I've been doing this a long time. I'm not sweating some rich kid." {There's a beautiful bottle of MacCutcheons}
John's pissed because he told Anthony to leave. Anthony tells him he didn't end it because he wanted to make some money before he skipped out and then all this happened, "Peter died and everything just went straight into the tank."
{He pours two shots of MacCutcheons} His intended has called off the wedding.
Anthony explains there's no profit in it, "I'm a con man, not a murderer."
She called off the wedding, "She couldn't deal with it..."
So, John suggests if he was to call her that's what she'd say.  Dad shows him the phone. John takes the phone asks what's her number.

Dad pushes John out the window!

Badly bruised and injured John lays in a hospital bed.  The same two detectives from before tell him the news that his father's gone.  He fled to Mexico shortly after their encounter. "He could be anywhere in the world right now."
A physical therapist comes, "Mr. Locke has work to do today."
He has the detectives leave.
Therapist- "John, John, John. We have got ourselves quite a day ahead of us, my friend."
He has opened the blinds on the windows. {He wears red}  The therapist is trying to motivate him to get him out of bed.
John is very sad and depressed, broken- "I don't want to."
Therapist-"I don't remember asking."
He brings in a wheelchair and tells John that he'll get used to it.
John feels he can't do this.
The therapist explains he "fell eight stories and survived. I don't want to hear about what you can't do. Let's go."

He lifts John up and out of the bed carries him to the chair. {John expression. It tells us lots! He's in so much emotional pain.}   John cries.

John is cuffed to a pipe. He is sleeping standing up. He jolts awake.

Richard wheels Ben in, "Well John, you've really gone and done it now."
John-"You don't have to pretend you’re disappointed anymore. We both know you wanted it to happen. That's why you left the C-4 in Sayid's bag.   Because you wanted me to make it happen."
{John's catching on!}
Ben reminds him when earlier John called him a cheater, when he said Ben didn't deserve to live on this Island.
Ben tells him he was thinking of a way to stop Jack from leaving. "Because to let him go would be a sign of weakness, of failure, of defeat. People would see that. They would know it. And that, John would be the end of me.  But to kill him, that would be cheating."    If his people hear him make a promise and he breaks it that would be the end of him too.  Then John came striding out of the jungle, "To make my dream come true."
Yeah, yeah, start talking about the magic box again!  Ben's going to show him what came out of it. They lead him down a hallway.

Ben tells John he must have misunderstood him when he asked if it hurt. It's obvious when a person's back smashes into a hard surface after being thrown from a building it's gonna sting a little. {John's trying to work the kinks out of his shoulders}
Ben reveals he wasn't asking him about the physical pain. "I wanted to know what it felt like when your own father tried to kill you. He's the reason you destroyed the submarine, isn't he?  You're afraid. You're afraid of him and this is the one place he can never find you.  This is the one place he can never get to.  Ben makes like he doesn't know how it happened, "But you seem to have some communion with this Island, John, and that makes you very, very important."
Ben tells him in time you'll have a better understanding of things.  Ben wants to help him, "Because I'm in a wheelchair and you're not. Are you ready to see?"
Richard uses a key to open the door and reveal a tied and gagged Anthony Cooper to John.

 

John-"DAD?" {Jack says this line in White Rabbit and Michael sees it on the computer when he thinks he's communicating with Walt.}




The Man from Tallahassee is a Great episode! There's so much to talk about here.

Things to Note…Questions to ask…
* Biological Parentage. John Locke was raised by another. How many of them were raised by someone other than 'natural' parents? Hmm?! How many of them think they have "natural" parents?
* Something going on with DNA, conception, breeding...Creating "Life"".
* Alex. Who are her 'parents' really? I'm not buying Ben/Danielle.
* We talk about twins and things like that…But what about look alike robots? Like in the Terminator movies! Lol. Anything is possible at this point! So...Replicas.
* Mental Health. People in therapy. Depression. Santa Rosa. Mind.
* Yes. We're still keeping our eyes on their 'eyes'!
* How old are people? "Born there"
* Codes. Pirates have codes! Lol!
* Deals. Strategy. Capture.
* Time. Timer.
* John owns a lot of ugly plaid shirts!
* Ben has countless books. How long does it take to acquire that many?
* The 'Submarine' is a complicated piece of machinery. You don't just press submerge. {That's important!}
* Was the blown up "submarine" really the 'submarine' to get back and forth to the "Island"? No. I don't think so.
* Kate and Jack share something for sure. But what? When? What time? What time line? Could they have been a couple at one time? Or will they be in another time.
* There are clues to change of circumstances/season.
* John's accident: Was it real or not? Was John really paralyzed at all? Emotionally he was for sure.
* Again we have an example of someone being led to believe another person to be dead, but they are not!
* All the time difference in Ben's house. I know time must run differently on the island, but this is just friggin crazy. Why do we see a few variations of time in that situation?
* The "Island" is still getting food drops from Dharma. Why? Wouldn't Dharma realize their people have been dead for years?
* I need to make a slide show or video montage of Tom and his dumbfounded facial expressions! Can I get a Hell Yeah?!
* Has John been in a wheelchair before? Will he be again?
* Ben sure does have a lot of tribal masks! Masks represent other faces, other realities. They are also very important in other cultures for 'dance'. Could that be a hint to his interests in the Ancients and Cultures? Age? Or could it be a clue to Ben being the master of disguise. Can Ben change his appearance or identity? Who else can?
* Ben is cheating. CHEATING!
* People speaking persuasively and convincingly. That's a talent!
* Peter Talbot: (1620-1680), was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin from 1669 to his death. For fun, his name anagrams to A BETTER PLOT! LOL!



Vocabulary and Research...
♦ Tustin Ranch is a community located in the city of Tustin, California in Orange County, California. The Tustin Ranch was formerly a citrus ranch. The Tustin Market Place is on Jamboree Road in the heart of the Ranch. It is also home of the annual running competition in Tustin called Dinosaur Dash.
♦ The name "Tallahassee" is a Muskogean Indian word often translated as "abandoned fields," "old fields" or "old town."
♦ Ganesha: is the elephant head/human body statue on Ben's table. Ganesha overcomes obstacles and is the god of new ventures.
♦ Cobra-Snakes: Known for living in underground lair allies it with the underworld and it associated with the primal waters from which all life was created. The serpent symbol is widespread in the agricultural community where it's used to represent the fertility of the soil.
♦  RISK: is a strategic board game. It was released as La Conquête du Monde (The Conquest of the World), in France. Risk a game for 2-6 players, played on a board depicting a stylized Napoleonic-era political map of the Earth, divided into 42 territories, which are grouped into 6 continents. Players control armies, with which they attempt to capture territories from other players. The goal of the game is to control all the territories—or"conquer the world"—through the elimination of other players. Using area movement, Risk ignores realistic limitations, such as the vast size of the world, and the logistics of the game. The game comes with 6 sets of armies, each of a different color. Individual sets of armies are denoted by 3 different tokens. Infantry tokens represent a single army unit, cavalry represent 5 army units, and artillery 10 units. The 3 token types are purely a convenience measure for ease of representing a specific army size. Also included is a total of 56 Risk cards. 42 of these depict territories, in addition to a symbol of an infantry, cavalry, or artillery piece. Also included are 2 wild cards. 12 Mission cards also come with the game, but are used only in Secret Mission Risk. You use 5 die. The 2-player game differs in that the players use Risk cards to determine where armies are placed. No official alliances or truces exist in the game, although players often form unofficial treaties or "gentleman's agreements" to safeguard themselves from attacks while they concentrate their forces elsewhere, or to eliminate a player who has grown too strong.
- Risk- is a comic book character appearing in publications from DC Comics.
- Risk-is a sci-fi short story by Isaac Asimov, issue of Astounding Science Fiction, and reprinted in the collections The Rest of the Robots (1964) and The Complete Robot (1982).
♦ A retriever is a type of gun dog that retrieves game for a hunter. Labrador Retriever (Lab for short), is a type of gun dog. The most popular breed of assistance dog in the U.S., Australia, as well as being widely used by police and other official bodies for their detection and working abilities The early Labrador originated on the island of Newfoundland. The original forebears of the St. John's dog have variously been suggested to be crossbreeds of the black St. Hubert's hound from France, working water dogs from Portugal, old European pointer breeds and dogs belonging to the indigenous peoples of the area. From the St. John's Dog, two breeds emerged. Ancestral chocolate and butterscotch-yellow colors were noted in the original St. John's dogs as early as 1807, when the Canton< shipwrecked carrying a number of St. John's dogs for the Duke of Malmesbury. 2 dogs were later found, 1 black and 1 chocolate, evidence that chocolate had been a color in the original St. John's dogs. The first recognized yellow lab was Ben of Hyde, born 1899.
- Retrievers: in Dungeons and Dragons- A construct is either an animated object of some sort, or an artificially crafted creature. Most construct are mindless automatons, obeying their creator's commands absolutely. This makes them immune to bribery and absolutely trustworthy, although some take their orders literally and fail to consider their intent. A few constructs, however, such as Inevitables, are as intelligent as living creatures. As they lack a metabolism or internal organs, constructs are immune to many effects, such as poison, fatigue, exhaustion, disease, ability drain, level drain, death effects and critical hits.
♦ Submarine: is a watercraft that can operate independently underwater. There is also a submarine called a midget.
♦ Communion: 1). A joining together of minds or spirits. 2).The sacrament of Holy Communion. 3). the relationship between Christians as individuals or Churches.
- Communion: is a book by Whitley Strieber. The movie based on the story of Whitley who experiences "lost time" and terrifying flashbacks, which hypnosis undertaken by later links to an encounter with aliens. (go ahead, giggle.)
♦ Winged Victory: is a 1934 novel by English World War I fighter pilot Victor Maslin Yeates. The main character plans to leave the Royal Air Force when his service is up and live on a West Country farm with his friends.
- Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace is a 3rd century B.C. marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre.
- Winged Victory- is a play and later, a film.



I was researching sub-words of MacCutcheons, I came across ESCUTCHEONS OF SCIENCE. When I wanted to search a few names within that title, I inadvertently misspelled the name 'Christian' (Shepherd) and came across this- Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch mathematician who patented the first pendulum clock, which greatly increased the accuracy of time measurement. He laid the foundations of mechanics and also worked on astronomy and probability. Alma mater University of Leiden
College of Orange. Huygens achieved note for his arguments that light consisted of waves, which became instrumental in the understanding of wave-particle duality.



Ben is always in control of the game. He never panics or wavers.  Every action he has is a strategy for things/game to continue on.   He will con and manipulate people and events.  But, he has spoken the truth about many things, so we need to listen to him carefully.  Ben also seems to have found a way to cheat.
We're led to believe that John was imagining and wanting to see Anthony Cooper the minute he 'looked inside the box/room'?   No! That's what Ben was wanting.  We did see John sleeping standing up then Ben and Richard come in to get him.  Did John have a manipulated Flash/dream/memory about Anthony, orchestrated by Ben?  Now Ben can reveal Anthony, making it seem like John wished him there, but maybe he didn't, maybe it was Ben who wished him there.  Did Ben contribute to this reunion because he knew John needed to face something, i.e. his father and his past emotional pain.

It seems as if John is finding ways to keep Jack on the "Island" on purpose, almost as if he knows Jack has to stay there for a reason, like...until he finds what he's looking for.  Plus I have that whole "two halves of a whole" feeling going on here again with Jack and John. Sometimes I feel like the Castaways' are all aspects of Jack. Weird, I know. Call me crazy! 

If there are illusions, tricks and props literally used in making people on the "Island" believe things, then how is anyone, including us, the outside world viewer, supposed to know what is real and what is not/manipulated/fake/staged/Razzle Dazzle!    This trickery would include things we see happening with "Flashes" and life on the "Island".    We see in the "Flash", imagery that is directly tied into things and events on the "Island".   I don't know, maybe I've got it all backwards.

That brings me to the 'underground place'. Who is in this underground place? Could Christian be in there? I'm just asking!!!

The Man from Tallahassee. Who is it really? Things and People are NOT who/what we think!

Love to all who are "LOST"™

Posted at MySpace on January 31, 2008.

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.