Let's talk about
LOST! There's No Place Like Home. pt1.
A view of blue sky and white puffy clouds. {Note the
Set Alt- is all zeros!}
The
Pilot and
Co-Pilot mention they have a little
"Chop" ahead.
The Pilot tells the Co-Pilot to put the
rabbit's foot away.
Co pilot {Rubbing
rabbit's foot w/ left hand} replies that they need this "
Thing".
He's is very nervous about the
cargo they have
back there, "
Bad Mojo."
Karen Decker is asked to
head back there and let them know we're
landing. Karen heads back and says hello to an
unseen passenger. She tells the group they're coming in for a
landing.
JACK IS SLEEPING.
Karen tells them it's a
military facility just
west of
Honolulu; it's
completely private,
"Your families are already here."
Jack
wakes up. The
six don't look very happy.
Karen goes on to say there's a lot of
Press who want to speak to them, but as far as
Oceanic is concerned they don't have to speak to any
reporters.
Jack tells Karen "We'll talk to them."
She asks if that's alright with all of them.
Jack answers for all
six and says it's fine, "
We all agreed. We just want to
get it over with."
Karen reveals, "They're referring to you as the
Oceanic 6. That's not the best
branding as far as we're concerned, but it's
catchy. We'll see you on the
ground."
Jack talks to the group, "
We all know the story, if we get any questions that we don't want to answer or that we can't answer, let's just keep our mouths shut."
Jack tells them it's okay; they'll think they're in
shock.
Sun admits they are in
shock. Jack feels then it should be easy.
The
plane lands on the
Island. {
Barbers Point} The
six seem apprehensive and unsure.
The
Hatch/ramp opens on the plane and people gather to see them.
Hurley exits
first. The
six meet their
families for a
reunion. {
Five Parents.}
Kate has no one.
Sayid has no one, but Hurley includes him in his family reunion.
Sun, looking distant and stand-offish, meets her emotional parents but only hugs her mother.
Jack hugs his crying mom. {She's wearing
green, wedding ring.}
Night on the beach:
Rose-"It was Sayid and Desmond in the helicopter, right? I mean It had to be. Why else would they
drop that
thingamabob right over us?"
Sun asks why they wouldn't just
land. Jack doesn't know, but tells them this
thing is
tracking the
chopper, so if they were on it, they want us to know where they're going.
Sun-"It's a
phone. Can't we just
call?"
Jack asks Charlotte and Daniel if they could, Dan nods yes.
Jack hands him the phone and warns, "Don't try anything stupid."
Dan understands. He
presses a bunch of things on the
sat phone and discovers it's being used
only as a monitor.
We can hear dialog between
Keamy and
Frank; they're
five clicks from the
site. Keamy wants Frank to "Put her
down!"
Keamy also announces that as soon as they
hit the ground, they
deploy to the
Orchid, "
Heads down." {
Watch Juliet and Kate.}
Juliet claims she doesn't know what the
Orchid is. They also note they didn't hear Desmond or Sayid either.
Jack takes the sat phone from Dan and asks Kate if she wants to "
Take a walk." {Of course she does!} He'll get the
guns, she'll get some
water.
Juliet freaks out, as Jack just had
surgery and she needs him to
rest; she's worried about his
sutures. Jack feels he can't just sit around.
Juliet-"
Recovery is not just sitting around."
Jack
has to do this because he "
promised those people he'd get them off
this island."
Juliet angrily walks away telling him not to
bleed to
death.
Jack-"I'll see you in a
couple of hours."
Daniel is very worked up. He gets out his
notebook and looks up
his notes about the
Orchid.
Dan
whispers to Charlotte that they're going to the Orchid, they're using the secondary protocol, "We HAVE to get off
this Island, right now."
Daylight:
Jack has the
sat phone monitor/tracker, tells Kate they're
catching up; the
chopper must have
landed. Kate suggests they
take a break.
Jack is
bleeding; only he calls it
suppurating, discharge. His body is
fighting off
infection around the
stitches. They drink some
water.
Kate-
"You know when most people are lying and they can't look you in the eye, you do the exact opposite."
A branch snaps and they draw their guns.
Miles nonchalantly walks out of the jungle, "Hey,
long time, no see."
Sawyer's behind him
carrying Aaron. Sawyer wants to know who he's "talking to
up there, Genghis?"
Sawyer's surprised/happy to see Kate. He tells them they lost
Claire; she just
walked off in the middle of the night, "We looked for her for
a day, but she was
just gone."
Jack's troubled. Claire didn't
walk back to the beach.
Sawyer asks what they're doing out there, "What's that
phone for?"
Jack explains it to him.
Sawyer explains to Jack he better
hope it aint Sayid, "Because if he's with those animals who
blew up half of New Otherton you do not want to tussle with them...
They" tried to kill them. Just like Locke said "
they" would.
Jack mockingly asks if they're
supposed to just
turn around and
hide because it seems that didn't to work out to well for him. Aaron's crying.
Sawyer says, "I'm sorry
Doc, maybe this is
Deja vu. But
didn't you just do the whole run through the jungle with a walki plan?"
Jack claims the helicopter is the
only way off the island.
Sawyer wonders, "
What's with you and getting off the Island? You're like a damn
broken record."
Kate questions these two
fighting each other now. Jack says he put Sayid and Desmond on that chopper, it was
his call, his responsibility and he's going after
it whether they're on
it or not. Kate doesn't want him to go by
himself. Sawyer tells Kate to
take care of the baby {
Jack and Miles share a look here} and all should
head back to the beach.
Sawyer w/gun-"That son of a bitch is
stubborn. Hold up! You don't get to
die alone."
Sawyer goes with Jack.
Kate holds Aaron. The
Oceanic six sit at the
dais table.
Karen gives the
fabricated specifics about the Oceanic
6. "Based on the
wreckage, our best estimate of the
crash site is here. {
Map of Indonesia. Note
3 Oceanic logos.} From there, the survivors were
carried by the ocean's
current to
here. An
uninhabited island in the lesser
Sunda islands known as
Membata. As you've all
read in your
briefing books, on day
103 a
typhoon washed up the remnants of an Indonesian
fishing boat,
including basic supplies and a survival raft. {WOW! How else would they have survived?!} On day
108 the remaining
six survivors, including
Miss Austen's baby, which she
gave birth to on the island of
Membata, used this
raft to journey
here, an i
sland called
Sumba. They then came ashore near a
village called
Manukangga. This
photo was taken by the local
fisherman who
found them. {I'm glad he had a camera!lol!} Once it was discovered
who they were, they were
transported to Honolulu by the
U.S. Coast
Guard.
{us?} As you can
imagine this has been an extraordinarily trying experience. They have however agreed to answer a few questions."
Karen
introduces the
survivors of
Oceanic 815. The reporters snap pictures and begin their questioning. The first
reporter {
Press Pass written in
Orange} asks
Dr. Shephard what it was like when the plane
hit the ocean and how he survived. Jack tells him it happened really fast. He
remembers the
impact and
remembers the plane
filling up with water. A few of them got out through the
emergency door before it
went down. They didn't
swim to the island, they had
cushions, some
life jackets, they were
in the water for
over a day before the
current took them in. "By then there was only
8 of us left." {
Watch Sun.}
Another reporter comments that they look pretty
healthy considering they were on an island for more than
100 days. Hurley thinks the comment was directed at him. The reporter mentions that he was worth more than
150 million dollars at the time of his
"death", "How does it
feel to know you're gonna
get all that money back?"
{This is an example hint for "dead" yet not really "dead"}
Hurley doesn't want it back; that money was
bad luck.
A
Korean reporter asks Sun a question in
Korean. Someone yells out for a
translation.
Sun
translates-"She asked if my husband was one of the people who
died on the island." Apprehensively Sun replies "The answer is
no.
He never made it off the plane."
The reporter w/the
orange Press Pass asks Miss Austen what it was like
giving birth on the island.
Kate-"
Scary."
He asks
how old her son Aaron is.
Kate-"He's just a little over
five weeks." {WTF?!}
The reporter states "That would have made you
six months pregnant when the
U.S.
Marshall Service apprehended you in
Australia for an outstanding murder warrant. Is that correct?"
Karen interjects telling him Kate's legal issue is
off the table. The female
reporter asks Sayid, considering the circumstances of their survival, could there be any
others yet to be discovered.
Sayid-"No. Absolutely not."
With the
briefing over, Jack tells Kate she
did good. Karen informs Sayid that there's a woman outside who says she knows him wasn't on the
list of
family members. Her name is
Noor Abed Jaseem.
Sayid heads out the
rose colored hanger doors to find a waiting
Nadia outside with a
patrol car and
officer. They kiss and cry.
Sayid is on the
zodiac raft making his way
back to the beach. {Sea Turtle on the beach.
EKO'S CHURCH.} Sayid tells the beach camp Desmond is on the freighter and that he's going to start taking people
back to the freighter
six at a time. They have to go right now before the helicopter
gets back to the boat. Juliet asks why.
Sayid-"Because the men on that chopper have every intention of killing us all."
Juliet's upset because Jack and Kate just went running after it.
Hurley, John and Ben on their trek. Hurley wonders when
someone is going to tell him where they're going. Ben tells him they're going to a
place called the
Orchid it's a greenhouse.
He heard John, "we're going there, to
move the Island."
Ben will accomplish this
task "Very carefully."
Hurley-"If you could
move the island whenever
you wanted, why didn't you just
move it before the
psychos with guns got here?"
Apparently doing it is both
dangerous and
unpredictable. "It's a
measure of last resort."
Ben
retrieves a
foot locker from an
army duffel hidden under broken rock. Ben allows John to open it. There are
Dharma soda crackers, a
mirror, rope and
binoculars. Hurley eats one of the
15 year old crackers. Ben uses the
mirror to communicate a
code/message to someone in the hills. John looks through the
binoculars. Ben gets a
reply from his
communications.
Ben-"Alright. Now we can go."
John wants to know what did he tell them.
Ben-"
None of your business, John."
Daniel tells Sayid if he wants to run into the jungle after that chopper he should, but in the meantime they need to get people off of
this Island. Dan can start
ferrying people
back and forth. By the time Sayid
gets back Dan can have "Most of these people on our boat."
Sayid gives Dan a
compass and says, "I
trust you know the bearing."
Juliet is sure to have
Sun go out on the
first trip.
Kate, Aaron and quiet Miles walk out of the jungle right into the "ferrying scene". Sayid is aware that Jack thought he was on the chopper. Kate gives Sun baby Aaron to take along with her and Kate and Sayid will head after Jack. Dan starts ferrying.
On the
raft, Jin is proud to tell Sun "I told you I'd get you off the Island."
Pregnant Sun at
Paik headquarters. {Dressed in her signature
Blk/white,
wedding ring.} She heads
up stairs to talk to her father.
Mr. Paik is in a heated discussion with
two men about 'How could this happen' and whoever did this used
five different
banks.
Sun interrupts his
business; father just lets her know there's "Some
complications with the company. Nothing you'd
understand."
He asks how the pregnancy is. She confronts him about him ruining her husband's life.
Paik's pissed; he wants her
respect. Sun informs him she received a very
large settlement from Oceanic so this
morning she bought
controlling interest in his company,"So you will now
respect me."
He wants to know why.
Sun explains, it's because of him that she and Jin were on that plane.
Two people are responsible for his death and
Paik is one of them. Sun will have her baby and then they'll talk about
plans for the
future of
"Our company."
Hurley pulls up to his fancy house in an old dilapidated
Pinto. He picked up some
chicken from
Mr. Clucks. The front door
ajar.
Inside he calls out for Mom, Dad, Mr.
Tron and Lady
Tron. {
Grandfather clock.} No one's around. He picks up a
coconut from the floor. {
Hears whispers.} Cautious and nervous Hurley picks up golden Jesus to check things out.
He wonders, "Why am I doing this?"
Hurley opens the
double door to the outside and, "
Surprise!"
Friends and family are there to throw him a
surprise birthday party; "
Island" theme of course. Hugo thought there might have been a prowler and that's why he had golden Jesus.
Mrs. Reyes tells him, "Hugo. Jesus Christ is not a
weapon."
{Kid with
42 on his shirt}
Kate, Aaron, Sayid
w/wedding ring and Nadia are
guests at this party.
Jack is running late. {
Jack is running late!}
Mr. Reyes asks if Hugo and friends are talking about
building a fire or boar hunting.
Dad had a
present for Hugo and Hugo makes it clear he doesn't want anything bought with "The money."
Dad tells Hugo to "
Relax. I got this
before you gave us the money."
It's the
Camaro Z28; Dad
fixed it. After the
crash dad worked on it as a
memorial to Hugo. "When I was
fixing it up, it was almost
like I was with ya. But now
you're back.
And it's all yours."
Dad gives him the
key w/ rabbit foot key chain.
Inside the car, Hurley freaks because
the numbers are displayed on the dash! Hurley wants to know if dad did this; if this is a
joke. Dad calls it a
coincidence.
Freaked out Hugo says -"No!
Not a coincidence.
No! I don't want this!"
Hugo runs away.
Hugo asks Ben if the
greenhouse thing does what he says it will, he
understands it's
dangerous and
unpredictable, but suppose it works and they
move the island, "Doesn't that mean the dudes with the guns
move too?"
Ben admits it does and he's
working on that problem. Hugo's upset because he
wants off it! John tells him it's a little late for that. Ben stops and asks for the
binoculars and tells them to get lower to the ground as they are at the
Orchid. Ben shares with John that
Widmore knows about
this place and knows what
they need is inside. John thought Ben had no idea what Widmore wanted.
Ben admits to
not being entirely truthful.
John-
"When were you ever entirely truthful?"
Ben has John take a look through the b
inoculars, "
Watch the plants at the back." {
Hint to things being hidden in plain sight.
Ben-"They're already here."
The raft approaches the freighter.
Dan announces, "
We're back!"
He tells Desmond Sayid went after Jack and the chopper. Desmond helps the passengers out and Dan will head
back for the next group.
Jin and Sun
hear Michaels voice. {He says he
fixed the.}
Desmond tells Hendricks that the
engines work so, "
Take us to the island."
Desmond wants him to be sure to follow the
bearing exactly, 305.
Hendricks says he's getting
R.F. interference with the
fathometer and he can't see the reef.
Desmond asks how that's possible with the
radio room down.
Something on this boat is broadcasting. Hendricks won't go closer than
five miles off the
coast if they don't turn it off.
Desmond will locate it.
Sawyer asks Jack if he cut himself
shaving. {Th
e monitor is beeping.} Jack tells him Juliet took out his
appendix a
couple of days ago. Sawyer feels like
he missed a lot while away.
Jack
says,
"We're here."
They hear noise/rattling from the chopper.
Frank is
cuffed inside.
Frank tells Sawyer to get a
tool box from the
back compartment so he can get him out of the
cuffs. Frank admits to
dropping the phone on the beach so they could
find them and he
could fly them out of there. Lapidus tells Jack that Sayid and Des were
smart to keep their asses on the boat; that's the
safest place to be, "Because when the boys I brought over here come stomping out of this jungle, you're gonna wanna be long
gone."
The boys are at the
greenhouse, "
Perched up there waiting to snatch Linus."
Jack confirms that once they cut him free that he'll
fly them out of there.
Frank also confirms that once the boys have Ben, nothing
good will come to the people with him.
Sawyer is concerned and tells Jack that Hugo is with Ben, "Son of a bitch."
A
photo of
Christian Shephard is displayed in the
church. Jack is speaking at the
memorial service. Kate holds Aaron,{
How old is Aaron here?} Hurley, Sayid and Nadia are also there.
Jack shares that
10 months ago he wrote on the
back of a
cocktail napkin in the
airport in
Sydney what he was going to say at his father's
funeral and he doesn't
remember what he wrote. Jack tells us his father couldn't stand eulogies, "They only
good thing about
a wake is the
free booze, he'd say."
Jack feels it's not much of
a wake because he
won't even be able to bury him.
Jack says "Good bye, dad. I loved you. I miss you."
Jack tells his mom he'll
be at the house later; {Mom w/
wedding ring.} they love each other. Mom is so glad
he's home. Kate tells Jack he
did that well.
Jack
-"I had a lot of practice." {Huh?}
A blond woman asks to speak with
Mr. Shephard. {Not
Dr. Shephard?} She tells Jack she
believes that
Christian was in
Australia to see
his daughter. The woman mentions she was still in the
hospital so she never saw him. Jack is shocked! Jack could check dads
phone records if he doesn't
believe her claim. The woman also goes on to say the daughter was on
flight 815, probably sitting a few rows from him. They were
in the air for
six hours and never knew they were
related. She was one who
died when the plane hit the water; her
name was
Claire.
Jack is really, really shocked!
The woman comments to Kate that her son is beautiful. Jack just looks at Aaron.
Sun asks Michael how he
got back to
New York.
Michael-"Uh, Walt and I uh, uh, we took
Ben's boat and we followed
his bearing. A couple of days we came to an
island,
you know, with people, sold the boat, we
hopped a
cargo ferry back to the states, didn't tell anybody
who we were."
He says he
DOES NOT WORK FOR BEN. He's trying to
make up for what he did, "
trying to help you out here. Translate what I said."
Jin admits he
understands.
Desmond busts open the door and screams for Michael; he needs him.
Des leads Michael, Jin and Sun to a room filled with
C-4. {
Wow how convenient!} Jin says something in
Korean to Sun.
Jin-"Now!"
Sun leaves.
Kate tells Sayid the
tracks aren't Jacks or Sawyers, "They're
different tracks,
fresh and they're
doubling back behind us."
Sayid yells out, "Whoever you are come out now!"
Richard comes out,
hands up, tells them to
relax and to
drop their guns.
Sayid-"Take one more step." All of a sudden they are surrounded by armed Others; dressed in the brown drab garb.
Richard takes their guns.
John, looking through
binoculars says, "I see
two of them. But not the one who killed Alex."
Ben says he's there.
Ben hands is baton to John and wants him to
listen very carefully because he won't have time to
repeat it...Ben goes on to quickly ramble exact
instructions, "You're gonna go into that
greenhouse through that
hole there, once inside you're gonna turn
left go about 20
paces until you see a
patch of
Anthuriums on your
left, they're in a
alcove against the
north wall face that wall reach down with your
left hand you'll find a
switch that
activates the elevator. The
elevator takes you down to the actual
Orchid station."
John wants to know what he's supposed to do about the
armed men inside. Ben will take care of them. John wonders how.
Ben
-"How many times do I have to tell you, John I always have a plan."
Ben walks toward the Orchid.
Sun exit's the
ship door to the
deck.
Jack and Sawyer walk away from the chopper.
Richard leads the posse with Kate and Sayid.
John and Hurley watch Ben.
Ben enters the greenhouse; hands raised.
Keamy comes out... "My name is Benjamin Linus. I
believe you're looking for me."
Keamy points the gun between Ben's eyes, but opts to
knock him out instead.
I won't rehash the same info as my "
Follow the Yellow Brick Road" blog. Head back there for that additional info.
Could the Oceanic six be six who are being discharged from duty? Did they get tossed out? Or did they just want off that badly? Debriefing? Another level?
Are they the next big shots in charge of the "Island"? Could they be in line to take over the family business? Or is there something extra that makes them different, separate from the rest?
Is John on his way to
bringing the family back together?
Things to note…Questions to ask...
* HERE-HERE-HERE-HERE-HERE-HERE.
* Desmond has to shut off another radio signal!
* Deja vu. Broken record. Repeat.
* It's Business.
* EYE Color.
* Numbers.
* The pilots badge has a
rainbow on it.
* They bring the Oceanic six to a private military airport, yet it's filled with reporters.
* Clothes shades of
blues and
greens
* Sun wears
black and
white in her "
flashes".
* Catchy Brand Name…"Oceanic 6".
* Kate is raising Aaron as her own. Kate delivered Aaron at birth.
* Underground. Underwater. Under-Over. UP THERE.
* Jack's eye contact issues when lying or telling the truth.
*
Map. Click.
*
Mirror.
*
Dead. Not Dead. Life, Death, Rebirth. Literal or metaphor?
* Daniel is privy to the Tempest, Orchid and Secondary Protocol.
*
The Others don't leave tracks.
* "He never made it off the plane" -Sun. What/which plane?
* Is Patch, Charlie and Eko inside the Orchid? Or just repeated "Island" data (so to speak)
* Did the Oceanic 6 have to drink the juice to get back?
* Could the whole "Island" be a "Green house", Biosphere Or a Moon Pool?
* Is the "island/Islands" in a "
container"? Is it really in a cold place? Is it only 5 miles off shore somewhere?
* Is the "Island" hidden by 'Plates' or rocks? Is it underwater? Beside moving, can it fly?
* Why wait all that time to have Christian's memorial service?
* The Set Altitude on the plane's dash was on all zeros! Hmmm....
simulation...
Vocabulary and Research…
* Suture- An album by American coldwave band Chemlab.
- The suture is an external feature of the shell of a snail, a shelled gastropod mollusk.
- A suture is in structural geology a major fault zone through an orogen or mountain range.
- Sutures separate terrains: tectonic units that have different plate tectonic
metamorphic and paleogeographic histories.
* A
greenhouse (also called a
glasshouse or
hothouse) is a building where plants are cultivated.
- Operation Greenhouse was the fifth American nuclear test series, the second conducted in 1951.
* Mahâbhûta: is Pali for the "Great Elements." The 4 Great Elements (Pali: cattâro mahâbhûtâni) are earth, water, fire and air. Mahâbhûta is generally synonymous with catudhâtu, which is Pâli for the "4 Elements." In early Buddhism, the 4 Elements are a basis for understanding and for
liberating oneself from suffering.
I still feel this could be called Further Instructions Part 2!
Check out my past notes for the connections. Read
Further Instructions or Instructing Further and
Tricia Tanaka is Dead notes.
The Wizard of Oz motif is all over this episode. Dorothy thinks she leaves home to go to Oz. In Oz, without her realizing it, she is surrounded by her friends and family who are in costume/disguise; playing other characters. She tries very hard to get back home.
The reality is it was all in her head. She never left home and her family was always there with her. I see the same thing with the Losties. The "Island"="home". Surrounded by their friends and family the whole time. Watching.
Love to all who are "LOST"™
{Click the pics!}
Karen saying hello to an unseen passenger-
Rainbow in patch-
Daniels notebook-Orchid- but also note the
Bug-
Set Alt...(zeros)
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Disclaimer: I never claim to know everything about the show and my thoughts by no means make me right! Things I share here are my views and/or opinions. I don't claim to catch every single detail either. I hate spoilers! I stand clear of reading certain sites, as to not take me off my own research. The one thing I don't need to do here is rehash all of the obvious clues from an episode, we all know what they are. Good! I'll only note things that I know come up as clues in bold.
