Every man for himself.

Let's talk about LOST! Every Man for Himself.



We begin with a shot of the water and pan to Desmond sitting there; his wheels are spinning.
Claire is heard saying, "Aaron, Aaron."
Desmond watches them. {Campfires burning} He heads over to see Claire who is now writing in her diary. {With black pen, wearing 2 shirts}

Desmond tells her- "You've got a problem with your roof."
He feels Claire should move down to the beach just for tonight that way he can fix it; make some improvements. {Improvements!}
Aaron had just fallen asleep, but even so Desmond feels it will be worth it.
Charlie comes over and asks, "What cha doing brother?"  
Desmond explains his offer to fix the roof.
Charlie lets him know if the roof needs fixing he can handle it, "I'm quite handy. I was building a church before Eko exploded." {Eko exploded? Not imploded?!}
Desmond backs off and walks away.
Charlie seems a bit annoyed- "I don't know. Gonna have to get that guy another button to push." {I just want to ask…How friggin' hot is Desmond?}

Jack is in his glass cell where he has the privilege of having a TV monitor set up on the other side of the glass; there is a cartoon showing on the TV.    The eyes of the cartoon bird/vulture watch a Swan with 3 little swans. The big eyed vulture puts up his Out to Brunch sign and salts a baby swan.
There’s a knock at the door.
The video camera watches Jack. {Red light blinking.} We can see the refection of TV in Jack's glass cell.   Jack heads back to sit in the corner of his cell.    {Juliet trained him well.} 
Juliet comes bearing food/bottled water and she makes small talk with him.
Jack wants to know if he's going to keep on watching cartoons or is she going to tell him why he's there.
Juliet asks him if he likes blueberry.
Frustrated Jack asks, "Should I talk to Benjamin? {Benjamin} Should I talk to Benjamin? Because I'm starting to think you're just the person who brings me my food."
Juliet- "You can talk to him all you want. But he won't tell you anything."
Jack- "You work for him?"
Juliet-"No. I don't for him."
Jack- "He's in charge."





Juliet-"It doesn't work that way over here Jack. We make decisions together." 
Jack blurts out, "Cause when I was holding that broken plate at your neck, he seemed happy to let you die. I mean. It felt like he made that decision on his own."

Juliet looks hurt but insists Jack doesn't know what he's talking about; she "doesn’t answer to him." {Who do you answer to?}
Ben storms in because he needs Juliet, "The sub is back. We have a situation. So come with me now." {Sub? Submarine or substitute?}
They leave and curious Jack runs up to the closed door to listen.

We see a bloody body on a stretcher is being hurried through the jungle.

Sawyer and Kate are sleeping in their cages/cells.
Danny announces it’s- "Time for work."
They wake up.
Sawyer calls him Chinatown; making fun of Danny's bandaged hurt nose.   Pickett is looking for an excuse to "get" Sawyer.
Hot Sawyer thinking he’d get Pickett fired up says, "I thought I just did. What do I gotta do? Talk about your mother?"   {Fighting words! LOL}
Danny gets called via the radio; it's bad news.

Ben and Juliet come running over; It's Colleen who is on the stretcher.
Kate sees this and wonders, "What happened?"
Sawyer-"We happened…Been on this rock long enough to realize they aint in the business of shooting each other. We did it. Our team."
This makes Sawyer happy, "Damn right I'm smiling. Cause we just got our ticket outta here."
Sawyer is rigging things in his cage so he can retrieve fish biscuits/food/water. {Using a black rock.}
Kate, twirling a string around her finger wants to know what Sawyer is doing. 
He's thinking! {Is Kate trying to remember something?} 
A Recorded woman's voice announces "Warning".
His reward is food. The water pours out the spout and it makes a stream. {Sawyers eyes follow it.} Sawyer tells Kate the girl on the stretcher is broken nose man's girl.
Kate informs Sawyer that they call him Pickett. {Kate heard that name? When? They called Danny.}
Again we see the water stream into a puddle.
Sawyer tells Kate, "Watch and learn little lady."
He explains, “That there's 'juice' pumping into this box from somewhere. The next time somebody comes to pull me out, I'm gonna wait till they step in my little swimming hole and I grab um. Zap! They fall back from the shock. I grab the keys. Bet the bears never thought of that."
{He's so proud.}
Kate- "You're both going to get electrocuted."
Sawyer- "Yeah, but I felt the jolts. I can take it."  {He can take electric volts. Hmmm}
Kate is impressed by his smarts.
Sawyer-"Well wipe the stars out of your eyes, Sweetheart. Cause we're gonna do this."
Kate asks about Jack.
Sawyer-"What about him? We don't even know if he's here. Hell. We don't even know if he's alive. We gotta take care of us. It's every man for himself, Freckles."

Sawyer is in a boxing ring. He is in prison. The guard calls him Ford.
Sawyer has black gloves and his opponent has red.
It happens to be mandatory chow time. Sawyer chats with his boxing partner. Calls him "Old and dumb". {Sawyer's number is 840}
On their way down the steps they see that there's a fight below.  The guy being the punching bag is Munson. Rumor has it he ripped off the government for 10 mil but they never found the money.
Sawyer’s friends say, "If your buddy the warden didn't keep breaking up the fights, Munson'd be a dead man." {So Sawyer is already buddies with him.}
Sawyer-"That son of a bitch."

Later we see Munson {248} busy at a sewing machine.   Sawyer, who is making his rounds, says to Munson, "You've been here what a week and you're on tote bag duty? I've been here 9 months. I'm still pushing trash." 
Sawyer goes on to explain that the Warden isn't breaking up the fights because Munson is cute, it's because he's making a play for the 10 mil. 1st step, butter you up. Give you a plum job. Step 2, Warden will “reach out to your wife, use her against you. Text book con." {Is Sawyer speaking from experience here?!}
Sawyer is telling him all this cause the Warden has made his life a living hell for the past 9 months, "He gets that 10 mil you aint got, I just might have to kill myself."
The Warden comes over, eating an apple.  Sawyer asks what brings him over to the sewing shop. The Warden is sure to ask Munson if Ford is bothering him.
Warden-"Don't think I can't extend your stay, Ford. All it takes is one call. One call."
Ford shares a different type of eye contact with each man.

Sawyer in his cage comments about approaching Ben, “Oh yeah, the big Kahuna."
Ben stands close to Sawyers cage but not close enough to step into the puddle. "Lunch already?"
Ben asks Sawyer what he weighs; actually demands to know what he weighs.
Sexy Sawyer weighs 180 lbs-give or take. {Okay, I'll take} Ben asks how old he is.
Sawyer- "32.”
Ben-"Don't lie."
Sawyer-"35."
This pleases Ben.  Ben goes to open the cage and Sawyer pulls his arm; and with no shoes on tries to zap Ben.   Sawyer’s zapping bit is not working because they turned off the power.
Ben hits Sawyer and continues to beats him with his stick. {Little Ben really kicked some ass.}
Ben kicks him in the face knocking him out.

Sawyer starts to wakes up. {We hear, "Two days since the sky turned purple, we've been blind, our comms are all down, I can't get um back up again and in case you forgot Colleen's in critical..."}
Sawyer is now in a cell similar to Jacks. {How close is he to Jack?} He's strapped down to the table and he wants out! Jason and another guy are trying to inject Sawyer with a BIG needle.
Ben tells him-"It's for the pain."
Ben hates needles. {Huh?} Sawyer is struggling to get away.

We see Jack sitting in his corner eating but Jack can hear Sawyer's struggle through the intercom. {Yes, the intercom that's not supposed to be working!}

Back in Sawyer's "room" the two guys are trying to inject him. One guy explains to the other that "You have to go through the sternum, like in the movie." (Movie?} After counting to two they apparently plunge the needle into his chest. {Just like Jack did with injured Boone after he fell in the drug plane.}



Paulo is golfing with fruit. {Fruit in a basket} Desmond comes over and is going to borrow one of his clubs; Hurley said it would be alright. {Asked Hurley for permission?}
Paulo assumes - "Must mean you’re off to save the day."
{Does Paulo know what Des is up to? Paulo’s shirt has stars on the sleeve.}
Paulo tells Desmond to take the 5 iron. I never use it, "That way when you die in the jungle, doing whatever your doing, I don't have to go looking for it."
{Holy Shit! What does Paulo know?}
As Desmond walks away he suggests to Paulo that he "may want to square your shoulders a bit more."
Paulo asks if he plays golf.
Desmond replies he's “Scottish”.

Sawyer is still strapped to the table with two bandages on his chest. {They did not inject him directly in the center of the sternum where they pointed out (heart). They missed and hit off to the left side}
Tom comes in with a caged rabbit; number 8.
Ben rattles the bunny cage over Sawyer. He is rattling and shaking the cage to the point of what we see becomes blurred.
Ben yells at it, “Move, move, move, Come on, let’s move, Hippity hop!!” and the rabbit falls over.
Sawyer wonders if Ben just killed that bunny.
Ben asks Sawyer if he knows what a pacemaker is.    Ben explains that they stick them in the tickers of people who've had by-pass work whose hearts need just a little jump; a kick start. He goes on to tell him the rabbit had a small pacemaker set to deliver its kick start should it get too excited, or anxious or frightened. Or should it try to escape."
Ben then puts a 'watch'/'monitor' on Sawyer. Assuming Sawyer was telling the truth, his resting heart rate should be about 70 beats per minute. Your active heart rate however, that would be about 140", which will be the point that Sawyers pacemaker will cause his heart to explode. This is how Ben knows that he will start behaving now.

Ben frees Sawyer from his restraints and he explains the watch monitors your pulse. {94 bpm} "If you get within 15 beats of your danger zone, it will start to beep. If and when it beeps…you're gonna wanna relax yourself. Do some deep breathing…some yoga."
Sawyer asks if they want him dead why they don’t just shoot him, get it over with.
Ben says they are not killers. "If you tell Kate, what we did, what we put in you, that we're watching you, you tell her any of these things. We'll put one in her too."

Sawyer is returned to his cage. They each are given a bucket so they can wash up.
Tom, who is very courteous to Kate offers her other clothes; should the ones he left her doesn't fit. {Could Tom already know Kate? He acts like they know each other.}
As Sawyer rings out his sponge you can see his heart rate is 120.  Kate asked what happened. Sawyer lies says they just asked him questions. Kate wants him to turn around while she changes her clothes.  As he removes one bandage, he catches a glimpse of Kate's bare back.   His heartbeat hits 125, the beeping increases. {Time to take a cold shower, my man!}
Kate wonders what that is. He lies again and says it's his watch. She wants to know when he got a watch.
Sawyer-"Look, I don't tell you everything, now leave me alone, damn it!"
Sawyer does indeed douse himself with is bucket of water and his heart rate does slow down.

Sawyer is in the prison visitors room. Munson is across the room visiting with a woman with big boobs.   He and Sawyer make eye contact. Obviously there are video cameras around. {"No smoking in visitors area" sign.}
Cassidy comes to visit him; she calls him Sawyer.
Sawyer states, "It's James Ford.”
Cassidy was the person who had pressed charges. {He with cigarette. She's wearing 3 necklaces.} He's mad at her for putting him in there, but after all he conned her.
James just wants to know what she wants, "Come on. I've got license plates to make."
Cassidy shows him a picture of baby "Clementine"; his 'daughter. They are living in a university town in Albuquerque. She just wants him to write the child a letter.
He says the child isn't his.

Back in his cage Sawyer checks his watch and heart rate. {Resting heart rate?} Kate sees that there a possible way for her to escape the cage/cell.
Sawyer tells her to chill out, get the lay of the land.

Jack in his cell hears voices from the intercom. {The one that hasn't worked in years.} He hears "Everything's under control…You know what he's-doing- to Karl. He knows what he's doing….It was a mistake bring those two here." {Who is that talking?}
Juliet storms in and asks Jack for help with a gunshot patient.  Jack had assumed it was Sawyer's blood. Juliet needs his help.

A very loud buzzing alarm is going off.
Juliet and others are transporting a hooded/bag over the head Jack, so he can't see/blind where he’s been or going. The walk him right by Kate/Sawyer's cages.  Kate and Sawyer are calling out to him to get his attention, "Jack" ... "Doc".
Jack stops a moment, possible hearing them or something.

Jack is led to an area that has AREA OP 4 and AREA OP 5 with directional arrows on the wall.  Ben asks Juliet if she's lost her mind bringing him there.   But after all Jack’s a Doctor... Jack peers into the O.R. doors and goes straight into Doctor mode. {WHY is he helping these people?} He catches a glimpse of spine x-rays that are conveniently up, but they aren't Colleens. {X-rays show R with 2 marks/spheres inside of 2 circles}
Danny, whose shirt doesn't fit him, tells Juliet to tell him who did this, "He ought to know that!"
Check out how FOCUSED Jack is! Juliet is not a surgeon.
Jack says, "I know." {WOW! HOW?}

Ben, Tom and Danny watch from behind the glass observatory. Ben is very calm, just watching.
Colleen crashes. Jack needs the crash cart/paddles but conveniently it is broken.
Jack tried CPR.
Juliet seems very upset as she tells Jack they "haven't had anything happen/before".
Colleen is gone.” {Video cameras everywhere.}
We are shown Colleen's heart rate go from 60 to 109, 13, 39, 16}.
Jack calls Time of Death...He looks around; there is NO CLOCK {No sense of Time. Is she really dead? Weeeeeeeeee!}
LOOK AT BEN! He is amazing!





 

Very distraught Danny attacks and beats up Sawyer in revenge for Colleen’s death. During the beating he gets Kate to admit she loves Sawyer in order for the beating to stop. {Listen to Sawyers heart rate watch.}
Danny commands "Lock him up!






Ford sits reading Of Mice and Men.
Munson {248} comes to talk with him. {LOOK! it appears he is sitting in a vehicle parts like in auto shop or something. It reminds me of his set up on the beach!}
They men walk down a long hallway; video cameras are everywhere. Munson tells of his love for that woman... Ford tells Munson, "10 mil is a lot of greenbacks, killer.  It tends to change things. That's why you never get attached. 'Cause once you care, that's when they can come at ya." Everyone is involved in a con.
Munson-"What did yours want?"
Ford-"Something I ain't got."
Munson needs " him to move it, the money."
They both know he stole the money. "Lila hired a P.I. she's gonna find it. Do this for me. You have too."
Ford- "No. It's too dangerous. I'll be a walking target." {THAT’S IMPORTANT!}
Munson- "If you don't help me the Warden will get it all. He'll win."

In his cage Sawyer has a bucket of water and is cleaning himself up.   Kate is worried about sawyer so she climbs up and out of her cage. This upsets and concerns Sawyer, "Hang on a second Freckles. I told you the time aint right."
Kate-"You're the one who said we had to go." But that was before.
Kate realizes that they did something to him, enough for him to lie about it; and that scares her more than anything that they've ever done to them before. {HOLY SHIT!!}
Once at Sawyers cage, she wants to break off the lock and get the cage door open.
Sawyer wants her to wait, "You gotta leave me. RUN!"
Kate-"What did they do to you?"
He tells her to run, "It's everyman for himself."
The watch starts beeping.
Kate- "Why didn't you fight back?! Tell me the truth for once in your life!" {For once in your life!}
Sawyer- "If you really love me, go."
Kate tells him she only said she loved him so Danny would stop hitting him. {That comment was probably hurt worse than Danny's punches}
Kate climbs back in her cage, "Live together. Die Alone." {I wish I was a physically strong as Kate. I really do!}

Inside the video monitor room, Ben and Tom watch-everything. {Sawyer’s on camera 5. Ben controls number 2 controls} Tom tells Ben that Danny wants to kill Sawyer.
Ben feels, "Danny can wait."
Tom asks "Should I bring Shepherd back?"
Ben says no, he wants him to sit with her a while longer.
We see Jack on the monitor. {Why? Are you trying to get him to remember something? Punishment? What?}

Jack is cuffed to the gurney with the body still there.
Juliet comes in through double doors and apologizes to him for them putting handcuffs on him. She goes on to say that she is a fertility doctor and that she's not used to death. {That's because she creates life.} She tells him that the girls name is Cole, short for Colleen.
Juliet- "I should have come to get you sooner."
Jack-" It wouldn't have mattered. There wasn't any more you could have done. She was dead before you put her on the table." {WHAT?!}
Juliet is going to take him back now, "I'm sorry for bringing you here." {WOW!}
Jack grabs her hand and asks her whose x-rays are those, "They belong to a man about 40 years old. And whoever he is…He has a very large tumor on his L4 vertebra. And I just happen to be a spinal surgeon. So, you tell me. Juliet. Who am I here to save?" {How about yourself, Jack!}



The 5 iron has been made into a makeshift lightening rod at Claire's tent.
Desmond heads over to the 'kitchen' where Hurley is cutting up fruit.
Desmond looks at his own handy work.
Hurley asks Desmond “Is that, art?"
Desmond- "Nope. Just an experiment."
Hurley starts to walk away with his fruit salad but Desmond says maybe he should wait a minute. With that, Des gives him a 'wait and watch look'. Thunder/lightening/rain. A Flash of lightening hits Desmond's rod, saving Claire/Aaron and Charlie. {Yes, and Charlie.}

It’s night and Kate and Sawyer are asleep in their cages.
Ben is trying to wake up Sawyer.
Ben- "Pssst!, Psssst!"
Sawyer wakes up.
Ben –"Good morning. Let’s go for a walk.”

Ford is escorted by four guards through the game/play yard/field at prison. He is meeting the Warden. Two guards walk him down the steps. The Warden waits with two men in front of the Red boxing ring.
The warden shares with Ford that when they first brought him there he was just a dumb hick; now he knows better, "You're a dumb hick that knows how to steal."
One of the men with the Warden is Agent Freedmen from the treasury department. {This man's I.D. badge says State of Florida Department of Corrections}
Ford remembers who this man is; they know each other.
Ford reveals the "10 million's parked in a RED bronco parked in a 'store it quick' facility in Sawgrass. Right off 441. Unit 23C. That's where your money is."
The Warden tells him, as agreed the last 6 years of your sentence have been commuted, "As soon as the truck is recovered and the funds confirmed, your commission will be processed.”
Ford instructs them to set up a new account, it doesn't matter what bank. Make it in Albuquerque. Put it in the name Clementine Phillips. He wants to be sure she can never find out who the money is from.
Warden asks who she is.
Ford doesn't answer.
The warden congratulates him for lying and cheating his way out of prison, "You're a free man."

Ben and two guards are on a trek with Sawyer. It's not much further, just to the top of the next rise. There's something Ben wants him to see.
Sawyer quotes a line from “Of mice and men”... “Is it that place you always wanted, George?" He says to Ben, "Don't you read? It's from “Of mice and men” you'd like it, puppies get killed."
Nearing the top, Sawyers watch starts beeping. {125, 135}
Sawyer, looking a little woozy, comments to Ben about him killing him up there-his heart explode.
Ben tells him his heart will not explode, "The only thing we put inside you was doubt."
He confesses the watch is a heart rate monitor, nothing more. Ben takes out a white rabbit number 8 from his bag. {The beeping stops.} "We gave him a sedative, not a pacemaker."
Sawyer- "How do I even know it's the same bunny? That you didn't just paint an 8 on another one."
Ben-"You don't."
Sawyer punches Ben!
It turns out the rabbit wasn't the thing Ben wanted to show him.The reveal is another “island”.
Ben asks him if he's ever been to Alcatraz, take the tour? "You're standing on an island roughly twice the size of Alcatraz. And that over there, that's your island. The one you've come to know and love."
He just wanted him to know there's nowhere to run.
Sawyer- "You did all this just to keep me in a damn cage?"
Ben –“We did all this because the only way to gain a conman's respect is to con him. You're pretty good, Sawyer. We're a lot better."
Ben comments that it wasn't the pacemaker that kept him in line; it's when he threatened her.
Sawyer works so hard to show her that he doesn't care or need her, “A guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody. It don't make a difference who the guy is. Long as he's with you. I tell you. I tell you a guy gets too lonely and he gets sick.’ It is from 'Of mice and men'. "Don't you read?"
Ben nicely says, "Come on. Let’s get you back to your cage."



 








Every man for himself is a GREAT EPISODE!!!! Why? Because it is every man for himself.

Things to note...Questions to ask... 
✈ CONS! Con-Game, Manipulation. “Text book con”.   We see that the Castaway's can be easily manipulated; talked into things, believe things.  They are conned about animals/people being dead. A couple of them know how to play the con game as well, but there's always somebody better at the game. 
✈ Is Desmond about to CON anyone? Yep!
✈ What is going on in their heads?   “Going nuts“, “Out to lunch”..."..Goes nuts"...
✈ Heart. Heartbeat Heart rate. Monitor. Implant.
✈ Ben. The Warden.
✈ Sleeping, dreaming, sedatives. Are people really "dead"? {Where’s Eko?} Are all these events really happening?
✈ Watch. Being watched. Videotaped. Observation room/observatory. Monitor.
✈ What’s with all the fruit?
✈ Why is Jack made to watch cartoons? Is he a child?
✈  "A guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody...” Is this what happens to Jack, or anyone else who leaves the “Island“?
✈  References to plates again. Plates? Food? Or Plates on earth?
✈  The sub. If it's the submarine they're mentioning, it must only make little short trips around the Island. Like the 20,000 leagues under the sea ride at Disney!
✈  If the "Island" really has these 'magical' healing powers why doesn't it heal Colleen? Is she really dead? Maybe she was given the rabbit sedative.   Maybe it's a different rabbit, Uh I mean Colleen. lol. Remember Jack can't call her time of death! There is no sense of time!
✈  How sexy is Sawyer and Desmond? I know I adore Jack, but come on? Sawyer and Desmond... Yeah!!
✈ Sawyer- "Well wipe the stars out of your eyes, Sweetheart" The same line that is heard in Locke's vision in Further Instructions.
✈  LUNCH! I can't tell you how many times the reference to lunch comes up. It's making me crazy! Sure, brunch comes up. So does breakfast and supper. But LUNCH! What the hell is the deal with friggin' lunch?!!! Is it important? Is something getting put in their food and water? OMG! Lunch!! I'm hungry!
✈  The sky turned purple knocking out visuals and intercoms, etc. What/Where is it they can't see now?!  Who can't they talk to? I can hear voices coming out of the intercoms!
✈  Where are the voices from the intercom coming from? {Talking about Karl in room 23?}
✈  The whole dialogue between Desmond and Paulo with the golf club is interesting. Paulo never assumes Des is going to play golf with the club. He only states that he's taking it to go 'DO' something with it. How does Paulo know that? Come on LOST fans...Think...Think!!
✈ I still feel I need to revisit the song Le Mer for clues.
✈  I can't help but wonder…about Sawyer's hairstyle, clothes and surroundings in the “Flash”. It‘s all very much like “him” on the “beach“.  It is blurred/blended together.
✈  How is the "Island" hidden? Is there literally a dome/globe affect over it? Has it been there the whole time it's just no one can see it?
✈  Different "Islands",Two "Islands". Are there really two different "Islands"?   Maybe there’s more than two. Is it an illusion? If there is another island twice the size of Alcatraz how come they didn't even see it?
✈  Escape.
✈  Cheat 
✈ 23
✈  The Blue Danube is the second part of the Looney Tunes cartoon, A Corny Concerto with the "vulture". I seem to have to ask this a lot…Who’s conducting this orchestra?
✈ Electricity. Shock. Zapped by electric current. Lightening.
✈ Prison. Cell. Are they in prison? Are they prisoners? Or could it be a metaphor for self imprisonment.

Vocabulary and Research... 
♦ Cartoon: The original meaning was in fine art, and there cartoon meant a preparatory drawing for a piece of art such as a painting o tapestry. It is most often refers to a humorous single-panel drawing or gag cartoon.
♦  Photographic plates were one of the earliest forms of photographic film in which a light-sensitive emulsion of silver salts was applied to a glass plate.
♦  A plate: is a type of electrode that formed part of a vacuum tube. The plate is impressed with a positive charge so that it may capture and flow electrons within a circuit.
♦  In baseball and related games: home plate is the final base that a player must touch to score. Unlike the other bases, home plate is a pentagon and is hard, usually a slightly flexible hard plastic with beveled edges that rises only slightly above ground level.
♦  Plate tectonics: (Greek builder" or "mason") is a theory of geology that has been developed to explain the observed evidence for large scale motions of the Earth's lithosphere.
♦  Pacemaker (track) or pacer:, a competitor who enters a race with little or no intention of winning, but purely to set a fast pace for other competitors to follow.
♦  Coal: is a fossil fuel formed in swamp ecosystems where plant remains were saved by water and mud from oxidation and biodegradation. Coal is a readily combustible black or brownish-black rock. It is a sedimentary rock, but the harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rocks because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure. It is composed primarily of carbon along with assorted other elements, including sulfur. It is the largest single source of fuel for the generation of electricity worldwide. 
♦ Rock anagrams to Cork




Are things we see a fantasy, illusion, made up, razzle dazzle, trickery or magic?  Is it in their heads, a dream or experience, experienced in their conscious/subconscious mind?   Is everything just blurred together?
I still see clues to those lucid dreams/waking dreams {happening in the mind/consciousness} I mentioned. If it is a dream, whose dream is it?   Is it one big CON?
Here Sawyer is in prison, so I must ask, are there ties to other Castaways and prison?

Here's the most important thing I have learned through all of this...It's ALL in the details, and they are fucking wrong.

Love to all who are "LOST"™












   
Posted on MySpace Dec 20, 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? 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.

The Age of Enlightenment.

Ahhhh...the photograph. Flashes before your eyes.
A snapshot; a moment frozen in time.
You all know I love discovering these bits of photographic proof to things in our story. I have posted many pictures over my many compositions that show us clues, hints and even proof to some things, and I have many more to share!
I will always admit the possibility exists there is human/production error, and continuity errors that can occur. I expect that to happen. After all... we're all human!
Well, some of us are. Others are just...aliens. lol!
But in a project like LOST where everyone involved admits to going great lengths for details to just about everything, there are too many moments that are flashed before your eyes, there to show us "something"...or is it "anything" at all?

Here are a few more "shots" to question...

IF YOU FIND PICTURES/SCREEN SHOTS TO BE SPOILERS...DON'T READ ON!

(click the pics to enlarge them)







Readers of my notes/compositions know I have been on my soapbox about the vision from Further Instructions since day one. I really feel the visions/dreams and possibly memories of John Locke are always an important part of the story; by showing and telling where it is leading us.
Here is a shot from the episode ?
There are so many connections in this episode.
Eko and John have dreams/visions. These two men are connected.


In the dream/vision Eko follows Yemi up the roots to the top.
Yemi in a wheelchair. We then discover Locke dreamed this dream.
Here is the dream segment. The third photo is from season 5. (Sorry about the minor spoiler)

Locke sees himself in a wheelchair in his visions/dreams or even memories. Will we see that too? I believe we will.






In the pilot episode as Jack is running through the "crash" site, he passes in front of a dude that looks just like GOODWIN. What do you see?






The sign on the wall is fitting. Jack has to return another casket to the "Island". Hmm...











Aaron's door does have the rabbit on it when Jack reads to Aaron.
The rabbit artwork is there in the season 4 finale. Why?
Could it because of dream state/illusions/hallucination/wishful thinking, or just a different time line? Either way it's a trip down the rabbit hole.




This is from Missing Pieces, "The Envelope".
Juliet's freezer contains regular labeled foods, not Dharma packaged products. I found that interesting.







How many people are tied to Dharma?
This is another example of how "Flash" images
and "Island" images blend/blur together.










Claire's dream/vision or memory- She is not pregnant.









Another Claire memory or vision/dream/hallucination/illusion.
Here she is the observer in a "scene" of Ethan hanging out with Claire/self. When was Claire really with Ethan?
Is Claire Ethan's pregnant wife from years ago? Who the hell knows?




Anthony Cooper flies oceanic. How often?








The monitor used in the medical station by Ethan and Claire is different from the one used by Juliet with Sun in D.O.C..
Are things like this showing us the "Island" residents keep up on new products/technology?


If so, they'd have to get these items to the "Island". Is this giving us proof that these events have happened on the "Island"? Or are we seeing a glimpse of each person's perceptive being different.



Jack's name seems to have different spelling though time. Could the reason be due to lucid dreaming, manipulated imagery, or even playing a slightly different role? Or is it that Jack can't spell his name while "time traveling".  Hmm...


Love to all who are "LOST" ™


Disclaimer: I never claim to know everything about the show and my thoughts by no means make me right! Things I share here are my views and/or opinions. I don't claim to catch every single detail either. I hate spoilers! I stand clear of reading certain sites, as to not take me off my own research. The one thing I don't need to do here is rehash all of the obvious clues from an episode, we all know what they are. Good! I'll only note things that I know come up as clues in bold.

DSA Week 7. The Magic of 23.

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The Magic of 23.
"Where the magic happens."

Holy "Magic Tricks" Batman!!!
Boy, was I happy this week's DSA hints about "MAGIC".
Okay, you're reading this and saying to yourself, "Come on Karen! You're friggin' nuts! It was not about "magic", it was about us getting an inside look into LOST!"  And yes my friends, you are correct. But this is LOST (and I'm admittedly certifiable) and it is always filled with subliminal insight. If there are no clues to magic or illusion here we will just chalk it up to a lesson about magic.

Blink and you might miss it.
We are on the inside! We await Damon and Carlton’s “stage-ee” entrance from the other side of the glass. The glass window shows us the LOST writers offices are inside building 23.
They welcome us to building 23, “This is where the magic happens.”
Indeed it does!!

The clip “Fast Forwards” and skips just a bit.
We get a tiny tour of the hallways. They make special mention of a beautiful cast/LOST family painting created by an artist in Brazil; they are sure to point out Rousseau and Eko with his stick.

Fast Forward again; moving them along quicker.

They happen to have some DHARMA products. The table is filled with can goods of chicken soup and chilli; and  of course the famous ranch dressing, bottle water and peanut butter.   We’re told to keep Carlton away from the chilli.
Damon- “Talk about a rip in the space time continuum.”   He’ll just leave it at that. Lol!
By the way let's note...THERE IS NO DHARMA SHORTCAKE!! lol.

They introduce Mike, the backwards hat wearing production assistant. {Hi Mike!} He keeps them fueled and fed.
We peek into Greg Nations office; meeting Greg and Noreen.

Fast Forward.


Damon proudly shows us the Twilight Zone Pinball machine {game} that is a gift to the writers this year, for a job “Well done.” {Note the famous spiral image on the left}

Damon has the high score with 2477154940.

Damon plays and says- “Everyone else knows, to, to unseat me, would be the…”
Carlton- “...the demise of your role on the show.”
They both agree.

Fast Forward

We enter the magical WRITERS ROOM!!!!!!
Everyone is looking very natural.
Darlton introduces us to the writers assistants Rupa and Jim, who have to laugh at their jokes.
We are introduced to the beautiful Elizabeth Sarnoff, Eddy Kitsis, Melinda Sue Taylor, Paul Zbyszewski {SPA-CHEF-SKI.}
The poor guy only has two vowels in his name….well, sometimes three!
Eddy’s partner Adam Horowitz is missing from the group but is represented by a little green alien. And here’s Kyle Pennington.
Missing in action is Brian K. Vaughan.


We are then led to the wall of many characters on the show… The walls are filled with the actors headshots. Look closely at all those pictures!


First we are shown the characters that are still living. We aren’t to assume they are surviving long into season 5.
There is an UN-DEAD column behind the black lamp;  shown are Christian, Yemi and Kate’s horse.
Then the R.I.P. Column. {REALLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE in my book!}
Everyone who left the {Un-merry band already. I think that‘s what Damon says}.

Damon and Carlton bid the writers room thanks and say they will be back after they {the writers} finish the season.

The boys stand in front of a huge picture of beautiful ocean backdrop. They thank us for letting them show us where the magic happens or doesn‘t happen.
Damon-“…just reach into the hat and nothing comes out.”








Things to note…Questions to ask...
* Magic= Tricks, Cons, Illusions, Razzle Freakin Dazzle!
* Missing people.   Maybe BKV and Adam are hanging out with the the missing members of Geronimo Jackson.
* Dead...Not dead...Un-dead
* Game under glass.
* Written, staged, backdrops, painting.
* Family
* Ranch
* Languages/linguistics
* I'm going to ask this yet again...Are characters who are getting to close to answers, unseating someone, {or find what they're looking for} removed from the playing field?

Vocabulary and Research…
* Pinball is a type of arcade game, where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a playfield inside a glass covered case called a pinball machine. The primary objective of the game is to score as many points as possible. Secondary objectives are to maximize the time spent playing (by earning extra balls and keeping the ball in play as long as possible) and to earn free games (known as replays).
* Holma- {Language/Lingustics}
   Language affiliation- Afro-Asiatic.
   Language affiliation (details)- Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, Central Chadic, Bata-Gude group,  Bata-Subgroup.
Geographic locations- Nigeria (Adamawa State, North of Sorau on the Nigerian/Cameroonian border) and Cameroon.
Language situation- Moribund language: only a few elderly speakers are left
General presentation of the language- Nzanyi, a language of Cameroon, is mentioned as its dialect.
Number of speakers-4 people with a good proficiency amongst 5,000 people of the Holma ethnic group.
Socio-linguistic context – description- Holma was spoken by a small ethnic community of the same name. The Holma adopted the culture and language of the Fulani and the Holma language has been replaced by Fulfulde. Only a few old men are able to speak the language of their forefathers.

* Magic is a performing art that entertains people by creating illusions of seemingly impossible or supernatural feats, using purely natural means. These feats are called magic tricks, effects or illusions. EVEN CONS!

Hieronymus Bosch: The Conjurer, 1475-1480. Netherlandish painter of the 15th and 16th centuries. The artist's work is well-known for the use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives.

From 1756 to 1781, Jacob Philadelphia performed feats of magic, sometimes under the guise of scientific exhibitions, throughout Europe and Russia.

Categories of Magic effects
* Production- The magician produces something from nothing—a rabbit from an empty hat, a fan of cards from thin air, a shower of coins from an empty bucket, or the magician themselves, appearing in a puff of smoke on an empty stage -- all of these effects are productions.
•Vanishing -The magician makes something disappear. A vanish, being the reverse of a production, may use a similar technique, in reverse.
•Transformation- The magician transforms something from one state into another—a silk handkerchief changes color, a lady turns into a tiger. A transformation can be seen as a combination of a vanish and a production effect.
•Restoration- The magician destroys an object, then restores it back to its original state —a rope is cut, a newspaper is torn, a woman is sawn in half, a borrowed watch is smashed to pieces—then they are all restored to their original state.
•Teleportation- The magician causes something to move from one place to another. When two objects exchange places, it is called a transposition: a simultaneous, double teleportation.
•Escapology- The magician (an assistant may participate, but the magician himself is by far the most common) is placed in a restraining device (i.e. handcuffs or straight jacket) and/or a death trap, and escapes to safety.
•Levitation- The magician defies gravity, either by making something float in the air, or with the aid of another object (suspension)—a silver ball floats around a cloth, an assistant floats in mid-air, another is suspended from a broom, a scarf dances in a sealed bottle, the magician hovers a few inches off the floor.
•Penetration.-The magician makes a solid object pass through another—a set of steel rings link and unlink, a candle penetrates an arm,, a man walks through a mirror. Sometimes referred to as 'solid-through-solid'.
•Prediction- The magician predicts the choice of a spectator, or the outcome of an event under seemingly impossible circumstances.

Magic performances genres:
•A mentalist. {mind-reading}- Mentalism creates the impression in the minds of the audience that the performer possesses special powers to read thoughts, predict events, control other minds, and similar feats.
•Stage Illusionist. Typically within an auditorium. This type of magic is distinguished by large-scale props, the use of assistants and often, exotic animals.
•Platform Magic. (aka Cabaret magic or Stand-up magic) The use of small table top illusions is common. The term Parlor Magic is sometimes used but is considered pejorative. This genre includes the skilled manipulation of props.
•Micromagic. (also known as Close-up magic or Table Magic) is performed with the audience close to the magician, sometimes even one-on-one. It usually makes use of everyday items as props.
•Escapology is magic that deals with escapes from confinement or restraints.

PLUS…
•Theatrical Seances the aspect of magic that simulates spiritualistic or mediumistic effects. This is meant purely as theatre and not meant to "conjure up spirits."
•Children’s magic- performed for children. This type of magic is usually comedic in nature and involves audience interaction as well as volunteer assistants.
•Online magic tricks were designed to function on a computer screen. The computer essentially replaces the magician. Some online magic tricks recreate traditional card tricks and require user participation, while others, like Plato's Cursed Triangle are based on mathematical, geometrical and/or optical illusions.
•Mathemagic is an aspect of stage magic that combines magic and mathematics.
•Corporate Magic or Trade Show Magic uses magic as a communication and sales tool, as opposed to just straightforward entertainment.
•Street Magic is a form of street performing or busking that employs a hybrid of stage magic, platform and close-up magic, usually performed “in the round” or surrounded.
•Bizarre Magic uses mystical, horror, fantasy, and other similar themes in performance. Bizarre magic is typically performed in a close-up venue, although some performers have effectively presented it in a stage setting.
•Shock magic is a genre of magic that shocks the audience.



THE OATH-
"As a magician I promise never to reveal the secret of any illusion to a non-magician, unless that one swears to uphold the Magician's Oath in turn. I promise never to perform any illusion for any non-magician without first practicing the effect until I can perform it well enough to maintain the illusion of magic."


All kidding and magic lessons aside, Damon and Carlton make us all feel like we are one of the gang, and we love that!!!! I cannot say enough about the boys and all the writers!! They are the reason we are passionate about this story. They give us a reason to care about our beloved characters. They give the story meaning and heart (and confusion. lol).

The writers give us our escape from reality, and to me THAT is truly MAGICAL!

Passwords: LaFleur. Qilak. Adella Courey. Kapalaran. yksnizdar. emal. holma.


Love to all who are "LOST" ™

Disclaimer: I never claim to know everything about the show and my thoughts by no means make me right! Things I share here are my views and/or opinions. I don't claim to catch every single detail either. I hate spoilers! I stand clear of reading certain sites, as to not take me off my own research. The one thing I don't need to do here is rehash all of the obvious clues from an episode, we all know what they are. Good! I'll only note things that I know come up as clues in bold.

THE GLASS BALLERINA.

Let's talk about LOST! The Glass Ballerina.

A beautiful glass ballerina figurine is tumbling through the air. It crashes down and shatters in front of the fireplace.
A little girl runs away from the broken figure.

The little girl sits at the piano. {A metronome keeps tempo/time} SHE IS NOT IN TEMPO/TIME WITH THE METRONOME.
She hears the door open; she stops playing and stops the metronome.
Mr. Paik enters the room with the broken pieces of the figurine in a white bag/sac. The little girl backs away from him. This is Sun.
He asks the child if she broke the ballerina.
Sun- "NO."   She says that the maid broke it.
Mr. Paik tells her if the maid did it he'd be forced to fire her, so he asks her a second time.
Sun stands her ground  saying it was the maid's fault.
A frustrated Mr. Paik walks out.
He little girl appears to have no guilt over her decision to lie.

Sun looks in a mirror and splashes water on her face. She is on the boat. Jin knocks on the bathroom door, tells her to open the door. Sun isn't feeling well.
She says it’s, "Morning sickness."
We see a shot of the sailboat with black smoke rising up in the background.
Sayid is working on a map with an obvious marking pointing north. {Binoculars.}

Sayid is wearing a watch.
Sun translates Jin's request, "My husband says it’s time to leave. He doesn't think Jack and the others are coming. It's been over a day since we lit the fire. It should be here by now."
Sayid insists that Jack knows they are there, "He's counting on our signal."
He goes on to suggest that maybe, if Jack is North of there, the mountains would be blocking their signal and he wouldn't be able to see it.  They need to sail forward along the coast, clear the mountains and start another signal fire.  All along Sun is translating to Jin but Jin won't go for it.
Sayid tells Sun he “Told Jack I would light a fire. I'm not abandoning him."
When Sayid says that, Jin turns away.  Sun attempts to explain to Jin but he gets pissed, shakes her and says, "Sayid is not your husband." {Sayid doesn't even react.}
Sun says to Sayid, "My husband thinks we have to do as he says, because he's the only one who knows how to sail. But he's wrong." {Ah, another wonderful secret brought to you by, Sun!} She will help sail the boat. She defies Jin.

Jack is in his glass cell sleeping in the corner.
A video camera with red blinking light is watching him.
A man guarding him opens the door and Juliet enters bearing food on a tray.   Jack wakes up. She asks him if he's feeling better.  Juliet  made the soup herself. {Well if she isn't friggin' Martha Stewart!} She knocks on the door 2 times to signal the guard to open it and she leaves.
Jack sits in the corner never saying a word.
Juliet knocks twice on another door and Ben opens it, removes his glasses.
He has been watching everything and everyone via various locations video monitors.
Ben-"You never made soup for me."
Just then a woman climbs down a ladder; she asks if she's interrupting something, as she looks at them with a bit of suspicion.   Colleen reports to Ben that they have a situation.   Colleen informs them Ryan radioed in that "The Iraqi found the decoy village."
Ben feels that's good, that's what they wanted.    Colleen goes on to tell him that they have a sailboat. This shocks Ben! "How?"
Juliet is unimpressed as she feels that "Sailing in circles will keep them busy."
Colleen fears "They could find us."
All of this has worried Ben. A team could be put together within the hour. Colleen gives Juliet a dirty look and leaves.
Ben-"And Colleen, I want that boat."

Sawyer in his cage/cell picks up a black rock, trying to retrieve food like the bears.
We hear the fake sounds of nature/animals. Then fan fair music plays signaling he got food.
Kate wakes up in her cage/cell.
Kate- "Nice alarm clock."
Sawyer "I've woke up to worse."

Armed Others take Sawyer and Kate out of the cages; they are given lunch boxes.
As they walk to wherever, they are interrupted by Colleen.   She speaks privately to Danny and he gives her a kiss on the cheek. {They sure do have a lot of guns.} Sawyer watches them.

On the sailboat Sun sees Sayid load a rifle; he is focused!  Jin is looking through the binoculars. Sun apologizes to Jin for disagreeing with him in front of Sayid. Jin says she shouldn't have disagreed period.
Jin- "Why did you even come with us?"
Sun didn't want to be without him.

Sun is lying in bed. The man next to her is revealed to be Jae.   He asks her what's wrong.
Sun-"What's wrong is that I'm married."
He seems unimpressed with that answer; they kiss.
Sun tells him she’s sorry, "I can't." {Note the dark lamp on the table with the light lampshade. Red.}
Jae gives her a gift of PEARLS! Sun  can't wear them because Jin will ask where they came from.
Jae tells her in English he doesn't want to share her anymore, "Your English is excellent now. You can go to America."
There is a knock at the door. Surprised Sun says no one knows she is there.
Jae answers the door and a hotel worker in uniform lets in Mr. Paik.
Jae-"I'm sorry I didn't realize…”
Mr. Paik walks right into the bedroom and sees Sun in the bed wrapped in RED sheets. He tells her to get dressed and walks out.
Suns face initially shows shame, but then...

Sawyer and Kate are led to an area where many people are at work with building something. They are grating and pounding down the ground.
Danny instructs the two- "Alright here's the gig, see these rocks here, that's where you two come in. {He points to Kate} "You're gonna chop em loose, {points to Sawyer} "You're gonna haul em outta here."
Kate comments about her working in a dress.
Danny tells her it's up to her; she can take it off if she wants. Sawyer wouldn't mind one bit if she took it off! {Ah, true love. Uh...Or lust}
Danny goes on to instruct them if they need anything they must raise their hand and they get 10 minutes for lunch.
Like a student in school Sawyer raises his hand but Danny says "No Questions".
Sawyer (child-like) says "She got to ask a question.”
Danny not missing a beat says if they try to run off they will be shocked.
Sawyer mishears him thinking he says shot, 'without a warning?'
Danny continues, if they talk, touch, slacking- if they do anything at all that pisses him off, they will be shocked!
Kate says she's not getting to work until she sees Jack.
Without hesitation Danny walks up to Kate and shocks Sawyer! He tells her "That was a ¼ charge, anymore questions?"
Danny tells Sawyer when he's "able to walk, the wheelbarrow's right over there." (Wheelbarrow- 3 wheels.)
{FLASH}
Jin had been summoned to Mr. Paik’s office.
Paik informs Jin "We have a problem." He pushes a file in front of Jin.
Jin opens file to see there's a picture of Jae.
Mr. Paik goes on to tell Jin that this man has been stealing from him and he needs Jin to put an end to it. {Note the liquor in the bottle behind Paik. Also the unique statues and art.}
Jin asks what he stole.
Paik says that's not important. Jin is told that 'delivering a message' as usual will not suffice in this situation.   He NEEDS to put an end to it!
Jin tells him he cannot do that.
Paik says he can.
Jin replies that "It's not his job to..."
Paik-"Your job is what I say it is!"
Jin feels then he can’t work for him anymore.   Jin slams the file down and quits, bows to Paik and starts to walk away.
Upset Paik tells Jin - "You don’t get to quit! This man has shamed me."
Paik says that Jin is "married to his daughter that makes you my son" {as he touches Jin's right shoulder} my shame is your shame. I need you to restore our family's honor."
He picks up the file and gives it back to Jin.
Jin takes it and bows to Mr. Paik.

Jin is on the sailboat cutting the head off a fish with a cleaver.   Sun calls him to the deck. Jin climbs up through the hatch. Sun points out{with 2 friggin fingers, no less}.
Sayid gives Jin the binoculars to see the dock with a covered area at the end.
Jin-"Others."
Sayid comments that the docks decaying, overgrown, like it hasn't been used in quite some time, "Whoever built it they're not here now."
Sayid says they'll bring the boat in, tie it to the dock, build a fire on the beach, the visibility's excellent, Jack will see them for miles.
Jin- "Safe?" in English.
Sayid-"Of course it's safe." {As if Jin asked a silly question!}

Kate is chopping rocks in the dress. Sawyer wheeling away the rocks. There is a small fire burning. {Why?}
Sawyer is eying Kate's backside!
Juliet and Danny are under a covered shelter looking at what appears to be 'plans' or blue prints/diagrams.
Danny won't stand for Sawyer taking a breather so he demands he get back to work! Sawyer calls him boss. {Again}
Rocks are thrown and sounds come from the shrubs; someone is trying to get Kate's attention. It is Alex.
Alex tells Kate to be sure they don't see them talking.  Alex asks if they are keeping her in the cages. She also asks about another guy her age named Karl, was in there with her.
Kate says NO, it's just Sawyer and her. {Like this girl knows Sawyer?}
Alex happens to say, "You’re not even supposed to be in that cage."
Kate looks confused and asks her what she's talking about, who are you? {Kate's not supposed to be in there! What changed to make her be in there? Where was she supposed to be?}
Alex asks where she got the dress because it belongs to her.
Sawyer walks over.  Kate tells him to "Quit staring at her ass."
Danny yells for them to shut up!

At the dock, Sun carries a red container of gasoline.
The dock's sign says "PALA FERRY".
Sayid is preparing for start a fire. {Again}
Sayid tells her to help her husband; they need as much wood as they can find.
Su-"We're building quite a large fire."
Sayid says it’s so Jack will see the smoke.
Sun wants to know why he's lying to her.
Sayid-"And what would you know about lying Sun?"
She tells him that he's putting their lives in danger.
Sayid shares that he is "fairly certain that our friends have been captured. There are tracks all over the dock; they're fresh. As resent as yesterday."
Sun-"You said this dock was abandoned."
Sayid-"That would be part of the lying you mentioned."
Sun -"You're not building this fire for our people, you're building it for the Others."
Sayid-"I suspect that when they see the smoke, they'll send a scout party to investigate. By then it will be night. When they arrive, I'll ambush them. I'll take two of them hostage, and I'll kill the rest."
Sun- "Two?"
Sayid- "One to make the other cooperate."
Sun wants to help. Sayid is sorry, "But I'm going to have to ask you lie to Jin for another 20 minutes."
{Does Jin really understand English ?!}
Sayid explains to her once the fire is lit, it will be too late to go back. He tosses the red gas can.
{Flash}
Sun is looking at her reflection in a dark plate/dish. Jin enters through double doors; he has a file. Jin is troubled.
Sun looks pretty dressed in black and white. Jin sits at the table. {Note what appears to be 2 plates hanging on the wall- framed}
Sun lights a match; her hands shake. Candles are lit. Jin mentions he saw her father today and he called him son for the first time.
This surprises Sun, "Why would he do that?"
Jin- "He wants me to deliver a message."
Sun -"No. You don't."
Things aren't that simple.  Sun suggests they can start a new life. Jin feels if they run away her father would...{would what?}
Sun-"He won't know where we are. And you won't have to do this anymore."
Jin-“I do this for you, Sun.  I do it because your father expects it.  I do this because that's what it takes to be married to you."
Sun-"And what does it take to be married to you?"
Pissed off Jin takes the file and leaves to deliver the message.

Sayid is building his fire.  Jin is pissed; he wants the "GUN" from Sayid.
Sayid-"I don't think I understand." {Yeah, right.}
Jin calls for Sun and in Korean admits to her that he knows what they are planning. Sun shares with Sayid that Jin knows what they are doing; he knows it's a trap!
Sun-"He says he understands English better than I think he does {Fucking Finally! There it is!!!} He knows I betrayed him."
Demanding Jin says- "Gun."
Sayid gives him the gun. {WOW! Jin knows how to handle that gun! Does Sayid understand Korean?}
Sayid tells Sun she'd be safer on the boat.  He also tells her, if by chance they get past them there's another gun, it's inside the blue tarp beneath the Geiger counter.   Sun feels if the Others get past them that would mean her husband is dead and she wouldn't care anymore.  Sayid reiterates the gun is inside the tarp. {So does he know for sure, they will get past them?}

Danny is working on those blue prints again.
Sawyer is hauling rocks. Juliet and Sawyer share a look.  She tosses him some water in a canteen. He pours it out in defiance.
Sawyer is hurting for Kate; he hates to see what she is going through  . Sawyer walks over to her and plants a giant loving kiss!  {Kate's kiss here is very different than her kiss with Jack. She's not uncomfortable with this kiss like she obviously was with Jack. With Jack there was confusion and a sense of 'what am I doing?' The kiss with Sawyer was almost- "Right." Not that I'm an expert judging other peoples kisses! LOL}
Danny is pissed! They run over and knock Sawyer in the head with the butt of a rifle. Sawyer fights back and gets possession of a rifle.
Juliet calls him James as she has a gun pointed at Kate and Danny Shocks Sawyer! {Sawyer loves Kate.}
Night:
Sayid and Jin in the trees...waiting.
The fire is burning.
Sun is on the boat; she lights a fire for cooking.   Sun hears noises on deck. We see that people are indeed on deck.  Sun retrieves the gun from the blue tarp.
{Flash}
Gun on top of a picture/file of Jae, in the car.   Jin sits behind the wheel.

Jin looks in the rear view mirror at Jae talking to a doorman wearing a top hat.   Jin heads out after him.
Jin steps out of the elevator on the 2nd floor. {Ding!}
Jae is about to enter the double doors {number on the door 1516} has key card in his hand.   Jae's head is slammed into the door; then we see Jae get beat up inside the room.
Jin asks Jae, "Do you know who I am? Do you know why I'm here?"
Jae crying says he's sorry.
Jin tells him, then you know what I must do.  He pulls out a gun and puts gun and pillow against Jae's head. Jae is still apologizing.
Jin can't do it!
Jin tells Jae, "You will leave this country. Do you understand me? You will leave and never come back. Start a new life. And if I hear you've returned, if you have any contact at all, I will finish this. Am I clear? You don't exist!" {WOW!!}
Jae is left crying and Jin leaves.
We see Jin exit the building. He opens the car door, sits down. Jae crashes down upon the windshield of his car. Jae is holding the pearls.

Sayid and Jin in the trees. Sayid doesn't think they're coming.

On the boat with Others on deck, Colleen comes down the ladder {Again} into the cabin. Colleen silently notes the fire and the pot.  Sun is there holding the gun on her.   Sun wants to be let off the boat.  Colleen can't do that as it’s not her decision to make.  She tells Sun that 5 of her friends are up there.
Sun wants her to lower her voice.
Colleen tries to take a step ahead but Sun tells her stop or she'll shoot.
Colleen-"No you won't, Sun. I know you Sun Hwa Kwon, I know you're not a killer.  Despite what you may think, I am not the enemy, we are not the enemy. If you shoot me that's exactly what we'll become. {How would Colleen know all that? Hmmm?! YEAH!!!}
Colleen takes a few steps and again Sun threatens to shoot. The boat starts up and Sun shoots Colleen. {Sun kept her word here!}
There is a shootout on the boat.

Sayid and Jin hear this and run toward the boat. Sun tries to escape!

Jin is desperately calling out for Sun!
The boat is leaving! Shots are fired at Jin and Sayid.
Sun escapes through the boat hatch.
Tom sees her and shoots at her and Sun goes overboard!
Jin is yelling and swimming for her!  The boat leaves!  Jin fears the worst.  Sun finally answers him!
She is safe. They are together!
{Flash}
Emotional Sun is at Jae's funeral; she’s standing in front of a pagoda.
Mr. Paik tells crying Sun that she "shouldn't be here."
He is there because he does business with the young man's father. Paik shares with Sun he was told Jae jumped from a balcony. He must have felt great shame.  He tells her to go home to her husband.
Sun- "Will you ever tell Jin?"
Mr. Paik- "It's not my place to tell him."

Sun and Jin sit by the fire.  Jin tells her he doesn't know what he'd do with her- the both of them. {Referring to their unborn child}
Sayid comes over apologizes for "dragging you into this, "And please communicate to your husband that next time I will listen to him." {NEXT TIME!!!! And communicate with him yourself! HA!} They have a long walk ahead of them.

Night at the cages:
Sawyer and Kate get thrown into their cages. Weird animal sounds can be heard.
Kate asks what he was thinking! Sawyer says she was so damn cute swinging the damn pick ax, "Chain gang looks good on you, Freckles."
Sawyer gets up explains to her, "Two of those guards have some real fight in them. The rest of them, I ain't that much worried bout."
He goes on to detail the fighting style of the other guys, I.e. martial arts, etc... He tells her the zapper things have a safety on them. They talk about the look on their faces when Sawyer got the rifle. He figures they never saw any real action, "That blond who had a gun pointed at you, she would have shot you."
Kate asks why she called him James.
He admits that's his name and also admits she tastes like strawberries. {WTF? When did she have strawberries? The strawberries at the Ben breakfast? Didn't she have fish biscuits since then? LOL!} Awww, he tastes like fish biscuits.
He tells her that now they wait for them to make a mistake.

We see TV monitors. Ben has been watching!
Jack is on monitor 2.
Sawyer is on monitor 5.
There are 6 monitors.





Jack in his glass cell still sleeping in the corner. {He hasn't moved the whole time? The soup is still there.}
Ben is standing there, waking him up.
Ben brought his own chair.   Jack is out of it, groggy.
Amused Ben says to Jack-"You know what's crazy Jack? A week ago you and I were in exactly the opposite situation.  I was the one locked up and you were the one coming in for visits. And I know that you're angry that I lied to you about who I was but, hell, do you blame me? I mean let’s face it, if I'd told you I was one of those people that you and your friends have been calling Others all this time, it would have been right back to Sayid and his fists. Wouldn't it?
Jack-"What do you want from me?"
Ben-"I want for you to change your att…Perspective. And the first step in doing that would be for me to be decent enough to introduce myself honestly, so (he gets up, crouches down to Jack's level, extends hand to shake) Hi. My name is Benjamin Linus and I've lived on this Island my whole life."
Jack is not going to shake his hand.
Ben gets up and yells "Bring it in please."
Jack asks where Kate and Sawyer are. Ben says they're fine, they're close. {Close? Jack's not really underwater? Or That Kate and Sawyer are close-romantically?}

 

A TV is brought in room; it's behind the glass.
Ben has a remote in his pocket and tells Jack if he cooperates "We send you home."
Ben will tell him what he wants when the time is right, "Patience, Jack. Patience."
Jack asks if that's where he sent Walt and Michael.
Ben says yes.
Jack wants to know if you could leave the Island, why would you still be here.
Ben- "Yes Jack, Why would we be here?"
Jack thinks they're stuck there just like the Castaways.
Ben recounts- "Your flight crashed September 22, 2004.  Today is November 29, that means you've been on our Island 69 days.  And yes, we do have contact with the outside world." That how we know that George W. Bush was re-elected. Christopher Reeve {SUPERMAN!} has passed away. Boston Red Socks won the World Series.
Jack doesn't believe the Red Socks won 8 straight.
Ben shows him proof on TV!   Jack is shocked.
Ben taunts him- “That's home. {On the other side of the glass} If you listen to me. If you trust me. I will take you home."





The Glass Ballerina is a Great Episode!!!
Is Sun privy to her father’s business dealings?   Is she privy to business of the "Island"? Sun has shown us since the beginning that she is a secret keeper and liar.   She is capable of keeping her word as well as secrets. She is capable of at least pulling a trigger so she must be capable of throwing someone off a balcony.

Things to note...Questions to ask...
* Tarp...anagram=TRAP.   Escape. Exit.
* Sleeping. Wake up.
* Sun plays OUT OF TEMPO with the metronome, then STOPS it.
* Ben and the Others unaware of a sailboat? Could they not know about Kelvin or Desmond? Could this be a hint to another group of people on the island? How many groups of residents are on this island? Maybe they all just don't know what to call each other! LOL!
* "You never made soup for me.” Is this because they shared a romance and Juliet whips up an awesome soup? Or was Ben ever in the same position that Jack is in right now? Just a question...
* For a hot tropical place all these chicks love wearing 2 shirts!
* Everybody always has a backpack! Where the hell is the backpack store on the island? They need a place to carry all their collected items. Maybe it’s just a metaphor for carrying baggage.
* Jae's eyes are different.
* Jin understands English! Languages understood. I think Michael understands Korean. Could Hurley really know how to speak Korean? Maybe Sayid can speak French too! Or maybe one day he'll speak with a British accent! DAMN!
* Language/linguistics...learning
* What really happened to Jae? Did someone save Jin by finishing the job he was supposed to do? Did Jae kill himself? If not, someone had to be watching to know that Jin didn't see this job through. Did Sun do it?
* Where does Ben consider home? What is home to Ben? Where did Michael and Walt go? REALLY?
* "The outside world."...Proof that they are 'inside' something; in an “unreal world”.
* Video cameras everywhere, I mean everywhere around the "Island"!  Ben watches them. Is there anyone watching Ben? Who is watching the watchers?
* Fire. Signal Fire. Beacon. Light.
* The word Apollo- Apologize- Paulo. Sound kinda similar? lol
* Pearl necklace-Oysters and Pearls- Pearl Station
* Did we ever note how Suns hair got SO long in just 69 days. I'm just saying!
* Building something. Blue prints/Diagram/Plans.
* How long has Juliet been involved with the "Island", REALLY?
* Hints to children, child-like behavior and punishment.  Learning.
* Opposition.
* They are all in a LOOP! Circle.
* Fire wood, water, walk, silence, mirror, learn.
* Map=Key

Vocabulary and Research…
* Geiger counters are used to detect radiation, usually alpha and beta radiation, but also other types of radiation as well. The sensor is a Geiger-Muller tube.
*A Beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location. Beacons help guide navigators to their destinations. Types of navigation beacon include radar reflectors, radio beacons, and sonic or visual signals. Visual beacons range from small, single-pile structures to large lighthouses or light stations and are located on land or in water. Lighted beacons are called lights; unlighted beacons are called day beacons. Classically, beacons are fires lit at well-known locations on hills or high places, used either as lighthouses for navigation at sea, or for signaling over land that enemy troops are approaching, and alerting the defense.
* The Map. HM Melbourne Assessment Prison is an Australian remand and reception prison located in Spencer Street, Melbourne, Victoria. The prison is also known by the nickname 'The Map'.
- Map-In many programming languages, map is the name of a higher-order function that applies a given function to a sequence of elements (such as a list) and returns a sequence of results.
- Video games, a level (also known by many other names) is a discrete subdivision of a video game's virtual world or set of challenges.
- Map of the mind. A diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea.
- A pendulum is a mass (or bob) on the end of a string of negligible mass, which, when initially displaced, will swing back and forth under the influence of gravity over its central (lowest) point. The regular motion of a pendulum can be used for time keeping; pendulums are used to regulate pendulum clocks.
The most widespread application is for timekeeping. A pendulum whose period is 2 seconds is called the seconds pendulum since each swing takes one second. Clocks that keep time with the use of pendulums lose accuracy due to friction. Pendulums are also widely used as metronomes for musicians.
-A metronome is any device that produces a regulated aural, visual or tactile pulse to establish a steady tempo in the performance of music.
Also Click track.
Tempo is always measured in beats per minute (BPM); metronomes can be set to variable tempi, usually ranging from 40 to 208 BPM.
Beat
Rhythm



A very interesting thing I want to point out is that you can always exchange the Castaways usage of the word "dock or doc" for "Jack" and the story seems to connect right back to him.
The Glass Ballerina...Has something interrupted this ballet? Who exactly is choreographing this dance?

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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.