White Rabbit.

Let's talk about LOST! White Rabbit.




A chain/chain link fence can be heard.
EYE.
The bully tells him to, “Stay down.”
Another bully is beating up a boy against a chain link fence.


The boy on the ground is told by the bully above him, “Your choice, man. You can walk away now and you won’t get your ass kicked.”
Seeing the other bully continue to punch the kid at the fence, the boy on the ground gets up and the bully prepares to knock him out, “You should’ve stayed down, Jack!”
Blackout....
...Black screen. “Jack! Jack! Jack!”
Jack is on the beach just staring out to the water; he’s somewhere else.
Finally he snaps out of it and realizes Charlie is calling for him.

Charlie tells him there’s someone out there, “The current...There’s someone out there, look! I woke up and just…I don’t swim! I don’t swim.”
You can faintly hear a woman calling for help. Someone is drowning and Jack dives in to help.
He can’t seem to locate the person in the water; the waves are blocking his view.  He dives under for a better look.
Jack comes up with Boone. He tells Boone he’s okay and to take deep breaths. "Just breathe. Just breathe.”
Boone-“Did you get her? There was a woman…”
Jack looks back and sees the drowning woman.
Boone-“We gotta go back.”
Jack is torn with concern.
Kate and Charlie take Boone from Jack and Jack heads back in for the “Someone else still out there.”   Kate looks confused.

Boone sits staring out to the water. He looks annoyed as he looks back at Jack.

Jack asks Kate, "What’d they say? Who was she?”
Kate reveals her name was Joanna. She wasn’t supposed to be on the plane. Joanna was scuba diving off the barrier reef, got an ear infection and the doctor grounded her for two days. She bumped her flight; that’s how she ended up with them.
Jack feels bad, “She was just swimming this morning, got caught in a riptide. We’ve been here 6 days and I never talked to her, I never said a word to her. There were 47 of us and I never said a single word to her.
Kate-“You tried.”
Jack-“No I didn’t…I thought I could bring him back and still have the time...and I was there, in the water…I didn’t try. I decided not to go after her.”
Beyond Kate Jack sees a man in a dark suit standing in the water. Then the man disappears.
Jack asks Kate if she saw the man standing in the water, “You didn’t see that?”
Kate asks him when the last time he slept was.

Vincent {collar} plays with a tennis ball on the beach.
Walt brushes his teeth with Aloe plant. Michael asks him who taught him that.
Walt-“Sun. The Korean lady.”
Michael advises Walt not to swallow the Ocean water; it will make him thirsty. Michael gets annoyed by the boy asking "why?"  
Sun is watching them from a distance.

Jin {Watch} comments about her lips, “You really need water.”
Sun tells him she’s all right and asks “When will someone tell them what to do?”
She doesn’t think anyone is coming.
Jin-“Someone will come.”
Sun-“The others, they ignore us…If we tried harder to communicate…”
Jin insists they’ll be fine. They don’t need anyone else as he’ll tell her what to do.
Sun is annoyed.





Shannon {wearing flip flops} asks Sawyer if he’s got it or what.
Sawyer who is sitting comfortably in a chair, reading looks up at her, “You’re in my light, Sticks.”

She wonders what they hell is lightsticks.
He clarifies “Light comma Sticks.” As in those legs of hers.
While she really loves her new nickname she wants… Sawyer tells her to calm down. He’s got her bug spray; It even has aloe. She’s concerned about sand fleas. She’s asks him how much. {She is scratching herself}.
Sawyer-“Your money’s no good here.”
Yep, he wants something; “5 grand.”
He was negotiating, “I can take an I.O.U... Something tells me you’re good…for it.”
Shannon is annoyed, throws the can at him and walks away. Sawyer smiles.

Kate is sorting clothes. Claire asks if she’s found a hairbrush in there; she’s looked through 20 suitcases and found "nothing".
Claire gets lightheaded, she blames the heat, “And I’m pregnant.”
Kate-“Really?”
Claire asks Kate if she’s a Gemini.
Yep, she is.
Claire thought so, “Restless. Passionate.” She goes on sharing that everyone thinks astrology is just a load of crap, “It’s just because they don’t get it. I can do you chart if you want to...or not.” Seeing as how Kate responded.

Hurley runs over to talk to Jack. He notices how he looks remarks, “Whoa! You look tired, brother.”
Hurley’s there to tell him they got a problem. There’s only 18 bottles in the red suitcase. {Water} People just took what they needed because they were supposed to be rescued but they weren’t.

Charlie-“Even if we divvied it up, split the bottle in half there wouldn’t be enough for 47 people.
Jack corrects him, “46. There’s 46 of us now.”
People are gonna freak out when they find out. Plus the boar’s running low until they catch another one. Hurley suggests they make a water finding stick. The guys are looking for Jack’s guidance but he doesn’t know what to do.
Hurley-“Maybe the dog can find water?”
Charlie suggests putting the suitcase in the tent; it's best if no one knows how little is left. Hurley’s going on about dogs finding pot and bombs, etc.
Charlie suggests a couple of things to Jack until Jack decides what to do.
Jack snaps, “I’m not deciding anything.”   This surprises the boys.
Hurley-“Why not?”  Jack just walks away from them.
{No Flash Whoosh here!}
The sound of ice cubes in a glass.
Christian,sitting in a chair having a cocktail, sees young Jack standing in the doorway.
Christian-“You wanna come in?” {You can hear the tic-toc of the clock}
Jack, with his bruised eye tells dad that a couple of guys jumped Marc Silverman.
Christian-“But they didn’t jump you”
He gets up to mix another drink and tells Jack he had a boy on his table today, about a year younger than Jack, “He had a bad heart. It got real hairy real fast. Everybody’s looking at your old man to make decisions. And I was able to make those decisions because at the end of the day…after the boy died…I was able to wash my hands and come home to dinner…You know, watch a little Carol Burnett, laugh till my sides hurt.  And how can I do that? Hmm? I mean, even when I fail…{He whispers} how do I do that, Jack?  Cause I have what it takes. Don’t choose, Jack. Don’t decide. You don’t wanna be a hero. You don’t want to try and save everyone. Because when you fail…you just don’t have what it takes.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Tired Jack just stares.
A voice says, “Why didn’t you leave me?”
Pissed Boone is talking to him. {White shirt, black cord with a cross}
Jack-“Not now, man.”
Boone feels he could have made it back, “I told you to leave me.”
Jack-“You were drowning.”
Boone feels Jack should have saved her.
Irritated Jack replies, “But I didn’t save her. And neither did you.”
Boone doesn’t let it go, “You think you’re all noble and heroic for coming after me? I was fine! You’re not the only one who knows what to do around here, you know that? I run a business!...Who appointed you our savior? What gives you the right…Look at me! Hey, I’m talking to you! Look at me, Jack!”
Something has caught Jack’s attention over Boone’s shoulder. It’s Christian. Jack follows Christian, who has turned and walked away.
Boone is pissed Jack ran off.

Jack runs after him into the jungle and stops when he sees Christian stand there with his back to Jack. As Jack reaches out to touch him Christian turns to face him.  Confused Jack falls back, “Dad?” Christian walks on.
{Flash Whoosh}
It's raining.
Jack looks out the window.{Reflection}
“Your father’s gone, Jack. Did you hear what I said?”
Jack, not fazed by his mother’s comment says, “He’ll be back.”
Mom tells him this time it’s different…I want you to bring him back.”
Jack seems amused, “He hasn’t talked to me in two months, mom.”
Mom mentions Jack hasn’t talked to him in two months.
Jack-“He doesn’t want me to bring him back” {Jack has no wedding ring; we're sure to see Jack's left hand here.}
His mom is pissed because Christian doesn’t have friends anymore, “Why do you think that is?...He was right about you…You don’t understand the pressure that he’s under…”
Jack understands pressure.
Mom calms downs, “Jack, please. You know how he gets. He doesn’t…he won’t take care of himself. You have to go after him.”
Jack apologizes, he can’t.
Mom’s pisses again, “I can’t…You don’t get to say I can’t. Not after what you did!”
Jack looks troubled.
Mom stresses, ”You bring your father home, Jack.”
They’re both a bit teary eyed.
Jack-“Where is he?”
Mom brings herself to say, “Australia.”
{No flash whoosh}
Jack gets up from the jungle floor and heads into the jungle.

Walt runs through the beach camp to Kate, informing her, “That pregnant lady fell down.”
Charlie and Michael carry unconscious Claire to a tent.  Kate asks if she’s breathing, “Let’s get her inside.”
Kate tries to wake her up.
Very slowly Claire comes around. Kate tells Charlie Claire needs water.
Kate tells Claire not to move; she thinks she has a fever.
Charlie discovers the suitcase with the water is gone, “Someone stole it!” {Note they have huge containers and coolers to store things in. Remarkable! Lol}

Kate, Sayid and John at the beach.
Locke-“Where is the Doctor?”  {All three are wearing white shirts}
Kate says no one knows, “No one can find him.”
Sayid notes that keeping the last of the water supply in one place is foolish.
Kate offers to go into the jungle to find fresh water.  Protective Sayid says she’s not going alone.
Locke-“When the others find out that the water is gone it’s gonna get ugly. And when they find out some one pinched it, it’s gonna get uglier…I’ll go. The camp needs you two here especially with the doctor gone. And besides, I know where to look.”
He smiles proudly. {Interesting hmmm? He knows where to look, why didn't he mention it earlier, before they were running out of water?}
Jack runs aimlessly through the jungle searching…
”Where are you?...Where are you?...Where are you?!”





“The maid said he hasn’t used the bed in the past three days.”


 He didn’t rent a car from the concierge either.
Jack is in Christian’s hotel room in Australia.
{Meds, ashtray, cigarettes, alcohol, USA TODAY}
{Mirror}



The manager doesn’t think Christian rented a car at all, “There was an incident a few nights ago, here at the hotel bar. I had to get security to escort your father to his room.”
Jack wonders what this has to do with renting a car.







Reluctantly the manager reveals that he didn’t think any rent agent would lease his father a car in his condition.
Jack gets defensive, “My father is the Chief of Surgery.”




The manager apologizes.




Jack picks up Christian’s wallet, “Who leaves a wallet?”  {No I.D.}

The manager suggests Jack talk to the police.
Confused Jack asks, “Where are you?”










In the jungle Jack still searches.
He’s sees Christian has his back to Jack again.
Jack takes off after him.









 Christian walks quickly into the jungle. {Many different sounds are happening. Do you hear any monster 'clicking' at all?}

Christian disappears. Jack continues to frantically search.
Christian appears behind Jack; again with his back to him.
Jack runs after him but ends up rolling down a hill and over a cliff!
He manages to hang on to a vine and tries desperately to climb up, but to no avail.   He starts slipping. A hand reaches over the side.  It’s Locke, right there to save him! {It’s a good thing he's out looking for water. Lol}
Locke asks Jack if he’s okay and Jack just breaks down in laughter.

Charlie brings sleeping sick Claire water.   Claire’s been out a couple of hours.   She drinks the tiny bit of water and thanks him for it. Charlie comments that there would be more water if someone hadn’t stolen it. Claire only asks if Jack’s back yet.
Charlie says no, “No one’s seen him. But I wouldn’t worry.  Good ol Mr. Locke’s gone in to the jungle to get some water for ya.”
Claire-“Great. Our only hunter’s gonna get eaten just so he can get the pregnant girl some more water.”
Charlie tells love not to worry, “You tell me who’d you rather meet in a dark alley?  Whatever’s out there or that geezer with his four hundred knives? I mean, who packs four hundred knives? Personally I can only have space for two hundred, three hundred at most.”
This makes Claire giggle.
She wonders “When are they gonna rescue us?”
Charlie, with his “Living is easy with eyes closed” tat and “LATE” on his left hand fingers, tells her with total reassurance, “Soon.”
Claire thanks Charlie; she feels people don’t seem to look her in the eye there.She thinks she scares them; the baby, “It’s like I’m this time bomb of responsibility just waiting to go off.”
Charlie-“You don’t scare me.”

Hurley runs over to tell Sayid and Kate that the Chinese people have water. Sayid asks Sun repeatedly and loudly where she got her bottle from.
Kate tells him “She’s doesn’t understand you.”
Sayid feels she absolutely understands him. He asks, “Did you steal this water?”
Sun replies in Korean.  Angry Jin confronts Sayid in Korean.
Kate tells Jin to take it easy, “We just want to talk, all right.”
Kate asks him about the water bottle, “Who gave you this?”
Angry Jin understands and points directly at Sawyer.  Kate is about to go over to Sawyer but Sayid stops her because he doesn’t see the water, “If you go after him now he’ll give you nothing. But if you wait, a rat will always lead you to its hole.”

Someone walks through the jungle. It’s Sawyer going to uncover his stash. He grabs a pack of cigarettes.  Kate {White shirt} tackles Sawyer {Black shirt}; she's ends up on top of him.
Sawyer says "It’s about time…I made this birthday wish 4 years ago" {HOLY SHIT!}
Sayid demands he give them the water now. Kate goes through his stash. Sayid knows he gave two bottles of water to the Koreans.
Sawyer didn’t steal it, “I don’t give nothin to nobody.”
Kate confirms its not there. Sawyer traded Mr. Miagi his water for a fish he caught. “We worked it out caveman style.”
Sawyer tells Freckles water has no value. It’s gonna rain sooner or later, after all he’s an optimist. Sawyer tosses Kate the Marshal’s badge seeing as she’s the new sheriff in town, might as well make it official.











 ''Locke lets water  drip off a leaf into his water bottle.
Jack- “How are they?...The others.”
Locke tells Jack they’re thirsty, hungry, waiting to be rescued, “And they need someone to tell them what to do.”
Jack feels he can’t because he’s not a leader.
Locke-“And yet they all treat you like one.”
Jack doesn’t know how to help them, “I’ll fail…I don’t have what it takes.”
Locke-“Why are you out here, Jack?”
Jack thinks he’s going crazy.
Locke informs him he’s not going crazy, “No. Crazy people don’t know they’re going crazy, they think they’re getting saner.
Locke sits and again asks Jack, “Why are you out here?”
Jack’s chasing something, someone.
Locke brightens up, “Ah, the White Rabbit. Alice in Wonderland.”
Jack scoffs, “Wonderland…Cause who I’m chasing…He’s not there.”
Jack confirms he sees him, “But he’s not there.”
Locke asks Jack if he came to him with the same things what would his opinion as a Doctor be. Jack would call it a hallucination, result of dehydration, post traumatic stress, not getting more than two hours of sleep a night for the past week, all of the above.
Locke says than Jack must be hallucinating, “But what if you’re not.”
Jack-“Then we’re all in a lot of trouble.”

Locke goes on to explain he’s just an “ordinary man. Meat and potatoes. I live in the real world. I’m not a real big believer in magic. But this place is different. Special. The others don’t wanna talk about it because it scares them. But we all know it. We all feel it. Is your White Rabbit a hallucination? Probably. But, what if everything that happened here, happened for a reason? What if this person that you’re chasing is really here?”

Jack feels that’s impossible.”  
John-“Even if it is, let's say it’s not.”
Jack asks what happens when he catches him.
John doesn’t know, “But I’ve looked in to the eye of this island…and what I saw…was beautiful.” He smiles.
John gets up to find some more water. He doesn’t want Jack to go with him because Jack needs to finish what he started.
Jack- ”Why?”
John-“Because a leader can’t lead until he knows where he’s going.” {Gotta love those Locke pearls!} John heads in to the jungle.

Night:
Jack sits staring into a camp fire. Footsteps echoing.
“The police found him in an alley in Kings Cross. Our tox screen showed a blood alcohol content, which for a man his size probably brought on myocardial infarction - a sizable and fatal heart-attack.”   Says the coroner. {We don't have a 'date' for this at all. We don't see Jack's left hand at all here, to see if there's a wedding ring on it, We don't know if Jack had been to Australia other times to retrieve his dad, we know now that Christian has reason to go to Australia every so often (Claire and Claire's mom) again keep it in mind}

The coroner does not appear to have a thick Australian accent. He leads Jack into the tiny shiny room with the body bag.
Jack ID's is dad, “That’s him.”
He cries. {This scene is bathed in blue}




Jack cries sitting by fire. We hear ice cubes in glass clanking and a figure walks behind Jack.

The sound of snapped twigs. Jack follows the sound.

He finds the caves with fresh running water! There are dolls strewn about. He takes one out of the water. {Now, this is the shit that freaks me out! In the caves, Jack sees a doll in the water, dolls around the ground, stuff, plane wreckage, Christian’s casket!! HOLD THE PHONE!!! I wasn't blown away by the casket being there (okay, maybe a little), I was AMAZED to see Oceanic plane wreckage in the cave- complete with Dharma logo/bagua on it, OLD OCEANIC PLANE WRECKAGE INSIDE THE CAVE! It's a friggin' CAVE, it didn't fall into it from their crash! WHO put it there? How many Oceanic planes with "possible" Dharma logo's crash on that island, in that exact spot and end up inside a cave!?!?!?}
A woman’s voice announces “Final boarding call for Oceanic airlines flight 1 2 5 Non- stop to Singapore leaving from gate14. All ticketed passengers…”
Jack is at the ticket counter where Krissy is telling him that they won’t put it on the plane, “Our policy says the body must have the proper documentation. There’s just no latitude.”
Jack pleads with Krissy to get the coffin to LAX.
Jack-“You can’t do this to me. I’m ready to go now.”
Krissy- “Perhaps another carrier…”
Jack yells “NO!...I want you to listen to me OK, because I’m asking you a favor.”
Jack is standing in front of her in the same suit he’s wearing to his father’s funeral; he’s asking her for a favor. Jack is getting emotional, “In 16 hours I need to land in LAX. And I need that coffin to clear customs because there’s gonna be a hearse waiting there. And I need that hearse to take me and that coffin to a cemetery. Why? Why, Krissy can’t I just bring him to a funeral home and make all the arrangements why can’t I really take my time with it? Because…because I need it to be done. I need it to be over. I just…I need to bury my father.”
Jin is on line. {Jack's eye color, dark navy blue, not his natural color.}
Inside the cave Jack opens the coffin. It’s empty! In anger he smashes up the coffin.
Each THUD is heard in the jungle.

Night on the beach, the survivors sit by campfires.
Three bottles of water are brought by sleeping Claire. Boone is giving Claire water.
Claire-“How did you get…”
Boone-“Shhh.”
Charlie exposes Boone as the thief.
Michael asks where Boone hid it. Charlie is upset because Claire could have died.
Boone says he tried to give some to her sooner but it got out of hand, ”No one would have understood.” They’re all pissed at him.

Jack yells for everyone to leave him alone. “It's been six days...and we’re all still waiting. Waiting for someone to come. But what if they don’t?   We have to stop waiting. We need to start figuring things out. A woman died this morning just going for a swim.   And he tried to save her and now you’re about to crucify him?   We can’t to ‘this’.  Every man for himself is not gonna work.   It’s time to start organizing. We need to figure out how we’re gonna survive here.   Now, I found water, fresh water up in the valley. I’ll take a group in at first light.   If you don’t want to come, then find another way to contribute. Last week most of us were strangers, but we’re all here now. And god knows how long we’re gonna be here. But if we can’t live together…we’re gonna die alone.”

Everyone shares water.
Sun thanks Jin for getting her water today.   Jin feels that’s what husbands do.
Walt is sleeping. Michael gives Vincent water.
Boone is sitting alone when Sawyer comes up and asks him how it feels, “Taking my place on top of everyone’s most hated list. Sucks, don’t it?”
Jack sits alone, Kate brings him water. She asks where he was today. He had to take care of a few things.
Kate-“That’s all I’m gonna get, huh?”
Jack reveals his father died in Sydney.
Kate is sorry.
Jack-“Yeah…I’m sorry too.”




White Rabbit is a GREAT episode totally revolving around emotions in life; past pain and how they may shape a part of our future self.  Is this foreshadowing for the season 3 finale?   Jack makes a decision; tries to save everybody, to be a hero and ultimately CANNOT live with it.

Things to note…Questions to ask…
Please note: The “Flash Whoosh" isn’t heard every time we change perspectives
* Boone, a licensed life guard is drowning.
* Water.
* Jack has 4 scratches on his face; 2 on each side. Kate has 4 all on the same side.
* Mirror. Window. Reflection. See. Look.
* Watch. Guard.
* Language. Communicate. Talk. Understand.
* Gone. Missing. Stole. Dead
* Sleep. Slept. Unconscious. Hallucinations. Light headed. Crazy. Magic.
* Eye color changes.
* Heart.
* ID. Identity.
* Roles. Husband, Hunter, Lifeguard, Doctor, Thief, Sheriff.
* Based on Mrs. Shephard’s chat with Jack, I feel we discover Christian makes these rash trips to Australia often. But how often?
* Where’s the Doctor? No one can find him…Which lost Doctor, Jack or Christian?
* “Where are you?” Jack asks this in the Flash and on the “Island”. Things are blurred together.
* Locke-“What if that person is really here?”
* Trading. Negotiate. Supply stash. Value. No Value. {Can't find a hairbrush}
* Do Sawyer and Kate know each other a long time? Have they done this before? He made this birthday wish 4 years ago. Interesting.
* This episode has a very weird amount of obvious breathing sounds.
* Locke knows where to look for water.
* OLD OCEANIC PLANE WRECKAGE ALREADY INSIDE THE CAVE.
* They are in a “wonderland” of sorts.
* The coffin is empty. Where’s his father? Is this a metaphor of some sort?

Vocabulary and Research…
* White Rabbit. Alice in wonderland is a story about Alice’s journey into the rabbit hole, where she meets strange people, bizarre happenings and a living-life size chess game. All this takes place not in reality but while she is sleeping.
* Watership Down- A heroic fantasy novel about rabbits. One rabbit is a “seer”. A couple of rabbits try to convince the rest to evacuate due to imminent destruction. The bunnies have many roles and there are themes of heroism, religion, political issues, exile, community and survival. {Water-Ship-Down}
* A divining rod (aka dowsing rod or witching rod) is an apparatus used in dowsing. Claims to be able to find ground water, oil, and other mineral resources by non-scientific means. Expert dowsers are allegedly capable of dowsing exact depth measurements of water veins, electromagnetism, currents and telluric phenomena. They are also allegedly capable of measuring blood toxicity, white cells, and sugar levels, and detecting human illness and health. Expert dowsers are allegedly not limited to any specific time and space, claiming the ability to dowse any material at any given time from any location.
* Astrological signs represent twelve equal segments or divisions of the zodiac. According to astrology, celestial phenomena reflect or govern human activity on the principle of " as above, so below”, so that the twelve signs are held to represent twelve basic personality types or characteristic modes of expression.
- Gemini (The Twins) (mutable, air, personal): It is the third astrological sign. Gemini is ruled by the planet Mercury. Gemini is considered a "masculine", positive (extrovert) sign. The tropical duration of Gemini is May 21 to June 20.
* Water. Chemical substance essential for the survival of all known forms of life. In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form/state, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor or steam..
-Water is a life force.




Jack is dealing with this "role" of leadership.  He doubts his abilities because of dear old dad. I always keep track of little things in "Flashes" because we're never told a time line.  In this case how many locations has Jack had to go to and get Christian from in his life, and how many times?  This seems to be a pattern with Christian. We don't know what Jack did to his father, but we do know he's still the chief of surgery when Jack goes to this hotel.  I feel Christian's dialog with young Jack is very telling and what Jack discovers in the caves is very telling (Not the fresh water either).   Jack is lost and is searching for something…something very deep. I think they all are.
So, is this why they’re all really there? But I must ask…is this place real or fantasy?


Here's the pic of Oceanic and possible Dharma logos.
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Love to all who are "LOST"™

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Disclaimer: I never claim to know everything about the show and my thoughts by no means make me right! The things I share here are my views and/or opinions. I don't claim to catch every single detail either! You all know I hate spoilers! And I stand clear of reading certain sites as to not take me off my own course of research. The one thing I don't need to do here is rehash all of the obvious clues from an episode; we all know what they are. Understood? 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 Man Behind the Curtain.

Let's talk about LOST! The Man Behind the Curtain.

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A woman is delivering a baby. The area is reminiscent to the "Island" jungle.   Hubby Roger is helping her.  She knows something is wrong.

A baby boy is delivered; she's in pain and there is a lot of blood. {Wedding ring on right hand.}
Roger is getting upset, “Emily. No one knows we're out here...We gotta get back. Can you hold on to the baby?"

Roger carries both of them; running through the woods to a main road. {Still looks like the "Island" jungle.} Across the road is a chain link fence and a sign that shows Portland 32.
Roger needs help!  A RED VW convertible pulls up. {It's Horace, wearing an army jacket and Olivia.} Roger explains they were hiking and she went into labor; she wasn't due yet and she's bleeding.
Horace-"How's the baby?"
Roger-"Fine. I guess."
Emily weakly tells him to, "Call him Benjamin."
She appears to die. Horace and Olivia just look at each other.

Ben, with his Harry Potters on, is in a tent holding a wooden carved doll. Richard asks him what he's got there. {Has Richard never seen the doll before? He knows Ben forever and this is the first time he's seen it?}
Ben tells him it's a birthday present today is his birthday, "You do remember birthdays, don't you, Richard?" {Lantern, Dharma whiskey, two glasses, books.}
Richard asks if Ben wants him to bring the tape back to Juliet.
Ben recorded the instructions for Juliet yesterday before they left, "I thought you already took it?"
Richard did not. Ben takes his walking stick and looks for Tom.

Tom is standing there with that GREAT dumbfounded look on his face. {YES, I must make a montage of theses precious TOM expressions!} Ben asks if he's seen his recorder but Tom doesn't move, apparently he's in shock.  Ben turns to see Locke carrying a large sack on his back.
Locke-"You said that if I killed my father, you'd tell me everything I wanted to know about the island. So why don't you start at the beginning."
We are looking at an empty tent with an empty chair; this leads into Ben's tent.

Ben pours two glasses of the Dharma whiskey. He tells Locke that he wishes it was a simple as taking out a dusty old book and opening it up.   Ben offers John the drink but he doesn't take it. {I love Ben's glasses on top of the open book. Files.} Ben tells him it's not that simple, "You probably think I'm the leader of this little community. But that's not entirely true. We all answer to someone, John." John wants to know who.
Ben-"His name is Jacob."
John wants to be taken to Jacob. Of course Ben says he can't do that and John's not surprised, "If you can't take me, maybe someone else will."
So John will go and ask Richard.
Ben gets a little protective, "He doesn't know where Jacob is. He doesn't talk to Jacob." Ben is the only one who talks to Jacob! No one else knows where he is.
Ben-"I was born here on this island. I'm one of the last that was. Most of these people you see, I brought them here. So, Jacob talks to me, John. He tells me, John what to do. Trusts me."
Conveniently, no one else has ever seen Jacob.
John-"You know what I think, Ben? I think there is no Jacob. I think you're people are idiots if they believe you take orders from someone else. You are the man behind the curtain. The Wizard of Oz! And you're a liar."
Ben wonders what he's based that theory on.
John feels if he was telling the truth then Ben's hand wouldn't be shaking. {WOW! That was a great moment!}
{Flash}
A young boy with glasses and an over the shoulder bag, walks down the dock from the submarine.
There are many other recruits with him.
This is young Ben. He's arrived with his father, Roger. {I LOVE that view of the island!} Roger sees workers dealing with Dharma boxes on pallets, three Dharma VW vans, one van has suitcases in front of it, barrels, boxes and crates in a little rowboat.
A welcoming sign, NAMASTE! THE DHARMA INITIATIVE.
The new arrivals are met by Dharma people; all dressed in tan jumpsuits and work clothes. The new arrivals are given leis. The workers have their first names and job title on the left side of their tops. {June and Casey}
Horace Goodspeed greets Roger. Horace's jumpsuit is gray and has the ARROW logo; he wears glasses. Everyone loves the words Namaste! {So do I.} Roger thanks him for the opportunity.
Horace-"And this must be Ben."
Roger tells Ben Mr. Goodspeed was there the day he was born…He's doing us a favor here, gave your old man a job."
Ben doesn't speak.
Horace feels, "That's okay. I bet he will when he has something to say. Right, Ben?... Hey, you hungry, kiddo?" {Kiddo! That's Christian's word!}
Horace tells him after he's done processing we'll have some lunch. He tells him he's gonna love it "here."

On an old TV a welcome video plays; hosted by…guess who? {Doesn’t give a name this time} Wearing a lab coat with the Swan logo on it. We see the barracks and someone hanging out their laundry, one riding a bike. The right handed host tells its residents for their own comfort and safety that they stay in their confines of their new living quarters, "Our barracks are surrounded by a high frequency sonar fence, to protect us from the Island's abundant and diverse wildlife. You are now a member of the Dharma Initiative."

Roger asks another new member, "What kind of wildlife you think this fence is protecting us from?"
The room has tables set up for Registration, Inoculations,  Assignments.
Someone calls out for "Roger Linus?"
While he goes with the jumped suited man, the video continues its instructions... "Every morning you will be given a new code, which will allow you to cross outside the fence, if you so desire. There are properties on this Island that exist nowhere else on Earth. Our mission is to study these properties for the betterment of mankind and advancement of world peace. Most of you will be working on the mainland. Should you be assigned to zoological studies...Three times a day..."
A young girl named Annie, dressed in a white shirt with her Dharma logo, introduces herself to Ben.  She offers him an Apollo bar; telling him they are allowed to eat as many as they want.
Roger-"Work Man? What’s this? 'Work Man'? I'm a janitor?...Goodspeed told me you people were doing experiments, changing the world. I didn't come here to clean up after ya."
Opal the nurse tells him, "If anything else opens up, you can feel free to apply for it."    Roger angrily takes his jumpsuit and Ben and walks away.

Charlie, Claire and Aaron are walking together. We hear Hurley's conversation with Desmond, "Dude, You know, this can't be worse that haggis."

Sawyer is hiding in the bushes and gets Sayid's attention. Sawyer tells Sayid he was with Locke, informing him-"He went back."
Sayid-"Back where?"
Sawyer says, with them,"Don't ask me where the hell it is cause it don't matter right now. What does matter is this." He shows him the tape recorder.

Rubber work boots are shown running through the jungle. It is Mikhail frantically calling for Ben! {Tom's face. HA!}
Ben comes out of this tent; still using the walking stick.
Ben-"Thought you were dead."
Mikhail-"I'm fortunate the pylons were not set to a lethal level."  {Wow! Now that's fucking luck.} Mikhail sees John and asks Ben, "What is he doing here? He's the one who tried to kill me!"
Ben-"He's with us now. Where have you been, Mikhail?"
Mikhail shares that he encountered several of his people in the jungle. They had an injured woman with them; she parachuted onto the island. Her helo crashed into the water. Ben "seems" surprised. John listens in.
Patchy-"She says her ship is approximately 130 klicks to the west of us. She has a radio telephone. {She said all that to him! Yeah.} He assumes they took her back to their camp.
Ben-"We'll be visiting their camp day after tomorrow. We'll take care of it."
Mikhail insists they have to go now!
John interjects, "Ben's not going anywhere with you." {Watch Ben's face this whole time! Love it!} He and I are going to see Jacob."
Ben is pissed and Richard stands in shock! Tom is...Dumbfounded! LOL!The camp is still.
Mikhail-"Please tell me this isn't true, Benjamin."
Ben gives his apologies to John as he has to deal with this now, "Our excursion will have to wait."
Patchy asks Ben, since when does he explain himself to him, an outsider. With that John beats the shit out of Mikhail! Ben calls for Tom and Richard to break up the fight but they just drink their coffee and watch. John asks Ben, "So when do we leave?"

Ben's reflection is seen in the stream. He and John are filling up a canteen and water bottle. John apparently had to beat Mikhail senseless to make his point. Alex's voice from behind, "Locke. I hear you're gonna go see Jacob. You're gonna need this." She gives him a ...say it with me...GUN! {Who would have guessed? Alex dark eyes.} Locke thanks her as Ben looks at her with that WTF?-look!
Alex-"Happy Birthday, Dad." And she heads back into the jungle.
{Flash}
Young Ben sits in a Dharma "Island" classroom. His teacher is Olivia; she is giving a demo on how a volcano works. {DVD NOD TO MY FRIEND THE ODI! YOU ARE A BLOODY ROCK GOD!!!} Annie asks the teacher, "Is that what happened to the volcano on this island?"
Olivia tells her, yes, but that was a long time ago, "Okay, let's get ourselves an eruption. Just add water and, voila! Now, I know it's not lava, but.." {Blackboard shows clue to 'tube'} Rumbling begins and everything starts to shake. {Arrow point, glass with water.} Loud Snap/Boom! The alarm sounds!
Olivia tells the kids to get into their positions. Young Ben is very nervous. Annie locks the back door with a chain and padlock. Olivia gets a rifle. You can hear screaming. Outside the window other members are armed and running. Annie takes Ben and his notebook into position and tells him not to worry, it's just the Hostiles.

Horace-"Hey man, I heard you ran into a little trouble."
Roger-"We're driving back from the Flame and we hear this huge explosion. {So what blew up?} The next thing I know there's a siren wailing and we're driving through a shootout." Young Ben peeks outside his bedroom door to take a look at the two men chatting. {He was petting his bunny friend.}
Horace-"Look. We're having some skirmishes with the natives." They're not sure who they are.
Roger-"Well, this ain't what I signed up for."
Horace tells him he did him a favor getting him work, "And don't forget about Ben. He's getting a quality education."
Roger doesn't give a damn about his education, "If I'm gonna get shot at, I want hazard pay. I want another 30 grand….And don't try to tell me you don't have it."
Ben hears tapping on the window in his room. It is his mother, Emily. Angry Roger wants Ben to go to bed. Sad and lonely Ben looks at a picture of his Mom and Dad and cries.

Sayid and Sawyer open the fabric door of Juliet's tent. {She has medicine bottles.} There's Kate asking what they're doing and reveals Juliet left with Jack. He took off right after she told him about Naomi.
Sayid-"And why would you do that, Kate?"
She says because she's hurt, because he's a doctor, and because he has a right to know.
Sayid-"Where is he now?"
Kate doesn't know.
Sayid-"Of coursed you don't." {That's what I'm saying!}
Kate tells him it might be time to tell everyone else about Naomi.
Sayid-"Play her the tape."

While Ben fills up his canteen he shares with John, "Something you should know, John, before we go, whether or not you think he's the Wizard of Oz, I can assure you that Jacob is very, very real. And we're going to go see him, and he's not going to like it. In fact I have a feeling he's going to be very angry. And that's why my hand was shaking because this is not a man you go and see. This is a man who summons you."
John-"Well, I guess there's a first time for everything." {As he eats his fruit}
As the two men set out, the camp watches them. {I think he makes eye contact with Mikhail and Richard. I'm not positive.}
{Flash.}
A cardboard box tied in a pretty blue bow.
Annie and Ben sit on the swings. {Not wearing Dharma uniforms.} Annie has given him a present; two wooden dolls.
Annie-"It's us. That's you, and that's me. Now we never have to be away from each other. Happy Birthday, Ben."
He thanks her. Ben is happy.

At night young Ben brings home his birthday present. Roger is passed out on the couch. Ben takes of Roger by taking off his shoes but this wakes him. "It's your birthday. Sorry I forgot. Kinda hard to celebrate on the day you killed your mom. She was just seven months pregnant. We went for a hike, but you had to come early. Now she's gone, and I'm stuck here on this island, with you. Happy birthday, Ben."
Hurt Ben runs out of the house crying.
He runs through the jungle to the sonar fence where he hears whispers. There is Mom standing beyond the fence. Ben wants to run to her but she stops him. 
"Mom."
Emily-"It's not time yet, Benjamin."
She just walks back into the jungle. The sad, hurt, lonely young boy cries out to her, "Mom!" 
Ben runs back to where he came from.

Ben with a flashlight and his bag of tricks lead John through the jungle. They stop at an ash line on the ground. Ben crosses it. John picks up some ash to check it out. 


Back at the beach:
Claire-"So the whole world thinks we're dead?"
Sayid-"That's not important right now." {WTF?!!}
Naomi-"I'm sorry, don't you people want to be rescued?"
Sayid says they kept her a secret to keep her safe. Safe from what?
Sayid-"Safe from Jack. He spent a week with the Others and he brought one of them back with him. Here, amongst us. And every time we try to get answers from this woman he prevents her from giving them."

Sun feels Jack would never do anything to hurt them; she also believes Juliet is a good person. Sawyer asks her what she's basing that on. As a matter of fact he knows about Juliet taking her to a medical station, "Mrs. Kwon."
Sawyer plays the tape for them. Jin asks Sun what's going on.
Jack shows up and asks him where he got that. Sayid asks where he's been. Jack wants to know where Sawyer got the recorder.
Sawyer-"You really think you're in a position to be asking us questions?"
Juliet tells them to turn the tape over. Sawyer wants her to stay out of it.
Juliet- "You want to burn me at the stake? Here I am. But first, turn the tape over, press play.
Ben's message plays. "I'm sending three teams to extract Kwon the night after tomorrow. We won't have time to run Austen's sample, so if you determine that she or anyone else is pregnant, mark their tents and we'll take them too. Good Luck." {Not Namaste?} 
Juliet explains to Sun the night she saw the baby on the ultrasound she told Jack what they were making her do. Jack didn't tell the rest of them because he hadn't decided what to do about it yet.
Sayid-"Yet?"
 Jack-"I think we've got some catching up to do."
{Flash}
Young Ben with back pack and his over the shoulder bag head to the sonar fence. He brought his pet rabbit to use as a guinea pig when he disarms the fence. 

 Ben enters numbers, {54439} sends the rabbit through. All is good. 

Ben picks up the bunny and runs away in to the jungle.
Young Ben hears whispers in the jungle. "Mom?” He runs through the jungle yelling, "Mom!" 
There are Whispers; he looks up to the tree tops. {DO the whispers come from above?}
A man appears behind him. It’s Richard, "I didn't mean to scare you. Wait. Are you lost? Wait!"
Ben wonders, "Are you one of them?"
One of who? The Hostiles. 

Richard asks the boy, "Do you even know what that word means? What's your name?"
The kid says "Ben." {'Richard' is dressed like a hippie. Unshaven. Doesn't sound native.} He asks Ben what he's doing in the middle of the jungle all by himself. Ben reveals he left home and he's looking for his mom.
Richard-"You think she's out here?"
Ben feels the man he won’t believe him.
Richard-"Try me."
Ben-"She's dead."
Richard-"Did she die here? On the island?"
Ben says no, when he was a baby.
Richard is intrigued, "Did you see her, out here, Ben...In the jungle?"
Ben-"She talked to me. She said that he couldn't 'come with her. She said it wasn't time yet.”
Richard tells him to go home, his people will be looking for him. Ben cries because he doesn't want to go back there; he hates it there. {Note the whole conversation Richard's two hands are up as if in a surrender gesture.} He asks the man to take him with him. Richard tells Ben maybe that can happen, if that's what he really wants. Richard wants Ben to think about it, "And you're gonna have to be very, very patient."

Night:
Ben with flashlight leads John up to a cabin/shanty/shack. {This seems a distance from the ash line.}

Ben-"We're here."
Ben tells John he'll want to turn off his flashlight, "Jacob feels the same way about technology that you do." {Interesting} They remove their packs. 
Ben lights a lantern. John notes the gun in his back waistband.
Ben-"Once I open this door, there's no turning back. Are you sure this is what you want?"
Yes, Already!!
Ben announces at the closed door, "Jacob. I'm here with John Locke. We're coming in now."
This is a very dark space. Six Jars in the window, painting of a dog, a table with chair. Ben appears to be talking to an empty chair.
Ben introduces John, "Aren't you going to say hello, John?"
John thinks Ben's got a screw loose. We can hear one side of Ben's conversation with Jacob, "I told you he wouldn't."
John asks, "Who?…What are you talking about?"
Ben-"You can't see him?…he's sitting right here…in this chair."
Ben to Jacob/chair-"Yes I know, but he insisted."
Ben says to John, "You wanted the secrets to the island. Well, here they are. This is the man who can answer every single…"
Ben to Jacob/chair-"I am not. He made me bring him here, did you think that that was my…Sorry, may I finish…"
John calls him crazy. {Ben doesn’t like that!}
John-"You don't know anything about the island, do ya? You just made it all up."
Apparently Jacob is speaking to Ben at the same time, "Jacob, please, I can't hear him if you're gonna talk over what he says..."
John tells Ben to shut up, "Are you putting on a show for me? Or do you, do you really think there's someone there?"
Ben insists-"I know there's someone there."
John tells him he doesn't know anything. Ben is sorry he feels that way, "And I'm sorry that you're too limited to see."
John calls him pathetic and starts to leave but he hears a voice say "Help me."
He turns to Ben and asks him what he said. But Ben didn't say anything. John insists Ben must have said something.
Nope!
John shines the flashlight at Ben and all of a sudden things start banging around, loud sounds, chains, crashing of glass, rumbling! The lantern falls off the table and starts a fire! The window breaks! Ben holds on to the chair and yells, "That's enough! You've had your fun!"

Ben gets thrown back against the wall!
An image of someone sitting in the chair is seen for a brief moment! John freaks and runs out!
Ben comes outside and hangs up the lantern. He looks like he just ran a marathon.
John asks Ben, "What was that?"
Ben-"That was Jacob."
Ben leads John through the jungle. It's daylight. "What did you hear in there, John? What did Jacob say to you?"
John-"He didn't say anything to me. You did."
John feels there is no Jacob and he won't be taken in by the little show he put on last night, "You’re a fraud. And it's time your people knew the truth. And this is not the way we came."
Ben tells him he's taking him back another way; there's something he wants to show him. But John feels he's seen enough. Ben decides to open up to John and reveals that some of the things he's told him and everybody are simply not true. For starters, "I wasn't born on this island."
John-"Then where did you come from?"
Ben says that's what he wants to show him.

Grownup Ben is dressing in front of the mirror. He wears the Dharma jumpsuit; he is also a Work Man. Ben looks at his watch and puts on his over the shoulder bag. He then looks at the female wooden doll that represents Annie and puts it in his bag. He is off to work with his father. They load the Dharma van with supplies and beer. Roger wonders what his problem is, "You're usually Chatty Cathy in the morning."
Ben-"It's my birthday. I don't know why I keep fooling myself, after one of these years; you're actually going to remember."
Roger-"I'll tell you what. All we gotta do this morning is run this stuff out to Pearl Station. Why don't we go up to the mesa and drink some beers. Have some, I don't know, father and son time."
Ben would like that.
The song 'Road to Shambala' is playing in the van. They pull over. Ben takes off his glasses. Roger likes the view; it's beautiful. Dad drinks a beer. Ben wants to know if Dad really blames him for Mom dying.
Roger-"What do I know?"
Ben's Timex Indiglo watch shows 4:00.

Dad notes that Ben keeps looking at his watch and asks if he's got a date.
Roger-"If it makes you feel any better, I will do my best to remember your birthday next year."
Ben-"I don't think that's gonna happen, Dad."
Ben shares with Dad that he's missed mom too, "But the difference is, that for as long as I can remember, I've had to put up with you. And doing that required a tremendous amount of patience. Goodbye Dad."
Roger doesn't really react. Ben puts on a gas mask and pulls the tab on the gas can. Roger bleeds and appears to die.

Ben, still with the mask on, walks back to the barracks and sees the bodies everywhere. Ben closes Horace's eyes. {He had respect for him.}
Other armed and masked people/natives come out. Richard looks at his watch and asks Ben if they should go and get his father's body. Ben wants him left out there. {Note the gas didn't kill the chirping birds. Or are they fake bird sounds? Hmmmmm}

John is overlooking a mass grave filled with skeletons of the apparent purge. Ben-"This is where I came from, John. These are my people. The Dharma Initiative. They came here seeking harmony. But they couldn't even coexist with the islands original inhabitants. And when it became clear that one side had to go, one side had to be purged, I did what I had to do. I was one of the people smart enough to make sure I didn't end up in that ditch. Which makes me considerably smarter than you, John."
John quickly turns and pulls his knife but he is shot by Ben! John is lying in the ditch.
Ben still wants to know what Jacob said to him.
Shot John asks-"Why did you do this?"
Ben-"Because you heard him. Now I need to know what he said."
John-"Help me."
Ben threatens him with the gun, "I'm not gonna ask you again, what did he say to you?"
John-"He said, 'HELP ME'."
This troubles Ben, "Well I certainly hope he helps you, John."
John gasps and Ben leaves.

The Man Behind the Curtain is a GREAT EPISODE!
It should be called, Another Drunk Father!!!
Who is Ben and where does he come from, really? We see his drunk father's involvement with the Dharma people, but that's not enough information for me.  Benjamin... born on the island? Another "Island"?  Is he original to the "Island"?   An elder, wizard, scientist, teacher, leader, all around great guy!  Are there two Ben's?   Why does Richard entrust Ben to lead in any capacity and for what reason?  Richard could have recruited Ben to purge everyone and then Richard's people could have gone on with their lives on this Island! Why bring new people to the Island?

Things to note…Questions to ask…
* I guess another position never opened up for Roger. His role was always to be Work Man or maybe he never progressed.
* John wants to be taken to Jacob but is led to this father.  

* Eyes.
* Mask. Masks.
* Jack has called Ben, Benjamin.
* "Kiddo" is a term Christian uses. Liquor, whiskey, beer, drunk.
* How old is Richard? He doesn't seem to age. How old is Ben….? Who are the natives? Who are the Hostiles? Are these different groups of people?
* Wood Dolls {they look more like Totems} representing people. Where's Annie now?
* Why would Richard, a native, have a watch? {Time} These people who live in the middle of the jungle have clothes, weapons and a watch...but no shoes!
* Apollo Bars. Do they contain a hallucinogen for the children?
* Kate uses the name Annie in Tabula Rasa.
* Why is Ben killing people on his birthday?
* Are the survivors of flight 815 there to take over the "Island", and Ben is just recruiting them to his side now? Or are they all already on the same side and he's not told his people that there are more 'team' members? Are the Losties native to this "Island"?
* This "Island":  So there must be at least 1 other "Island"….Many other "Islands"? Could one of these "Islands" be considered the "outside world" or "Home",  "L.A.","Miami, "Iowa", "Santa Rosa", etc.. Or are they going back and forth to these towns? Maybe they never leave them.
* The "birth place" of Benjamin looks very much like the "Island". Horace rescues the infant and family by the side of the road. Coincidence? I think not! Sign says Portland…….Couldn't that mean that Ben was "born" on the "Island".    The "Island" is NOT IN PORTLAND, or is it. Portland may be one ‘portal’ to the "Island".
* Portland: Is Ben's experience happening in Portland?
* What is the sonar fence really there for? 
* The ash line: Is it a protection line/circle? Magnetic discharge? Protection may be a metaphor. There are images/references to protective fence and even the dolls that look more like totems are for protection.  The "protecting" may not be just for external physical protection, it probably includes emotional/mental/spiritual  protection too.
* Emily is Locke's mother's name.
* John Locke drives a Red VW Beetle
* Ben has a thing for bunnies and books.
* Flame. Swan. Arrow. Pearl. Medical Stations.
* Dharma.  The start of the eight fold path.  The path to enlightenment.
* Purgation (Releasing) A releasing, a letting go of the details of your life. This is the act of shedding thoughts and distractions.  A time to open the heart and quiet the mind. Purging is a part required to reach Nirvana.
* What was the purpose of dark eyed Alex giving John the gun?
* Opal. Indiglo.
* Do the whispers come from above? Or "outside"?
* Six Jars/vessels/vase in Jacob's window. Could this represent six children? {Or jumping ahead to Oceanic 6?}
* PORT-LAND. Ships. Docks. Submarines.
* Technology.
* Is the way to travel safely to the island very deep, under the island and not above it? Or is there a 'tube' ? A distinct pathway? Under! Below!
* Why doesn't Richard appear to age but Ben and his father did? I find that very, very important. Regardless, I want whatever Richard is taking!


Vocabulary and Research...
* Hilo - Twist, double helix, intertwine.
- A method of making a lei by twisting two strands together to form a "rope."
- Double helix- DNA
- Lei- A wreath made of flowers worn around the neck. Among the flowers used are the plumeria, lehua blossom or the orchid.
- Low-energy ion scattering spectroscopy (LEIS), sometimes referred to simply as ion scattering spectroscopy (ISS), is a surface-sensitive analytical technique used to characterize the chemical and structural makeup of materials.
* Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish. There are many recipes, most of which have in common the following ingredients: sheep's 'pluck' (heart, liver and lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally boiled in the animal's stomach for approximately three hours. Ancient Romans were the first people known to have made products of the haggis type.
* Klicks- A fictional race of aliens. Arachnid-like aliens.
-Drive campaign setting of the ARPG.
- Point and Click, a gesture made with a computer input device such as a mouse
- Klick, a type of visual computer programming.
- Clicking sounds, used for human echolocation by the blind.
* A mesa (Spanish and Portuguese for "table") is an elevated area of land with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs. Mesas form in areas where horizontally layered rocks are uplifted by tectonic activity.
* Totem- is any supposed entity that watches over or assists a group of people, such as a family, clan, or tribe
* Timex had a slogan-It takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
Indiglo is electroluminescent lamps, emitting light {glow}, so that time could be seen on the watch. 



Go back a few blogs and refresh your memory on what I discovered for Hostile.

The Man Behind the Curtain is a very moving story about a young lonely hurt boy who grows up to be in charge of something very important. But we also learned that in the beginning he shares very similar issues with other residents of the "Island".   Is he really of the "Island"?   Or do we still need to ask where does Ben really come from? This episode made many connections to Jack and John.

We're still dealing with illusion, trickery and being fooled. But about what?

With the information in this episode and with Ben, it seems that on this "island" journey one must let go/purge, be born die and (celebrate birth) be reborn.

John accuses Ben of being the man behind the curtain, the Wizard of Oz. But I must ask...Did John see himself in the cabin and run out of there from shock or plain ol fear?    Who really is the man behind the curtain? Where is the Man Behind the Curtain?   Maybe he's been right in front of our eyes all along.

I really gotta get to making that TOM facial expression montage!

Love to all who are "LOST"™

Posted on MySpace February 29, 2008

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

Namaste.

Let's talk about LOST! Namaste.

Night on the Ajira flight that is in route to the “Island”.

Kate, Sun, Jack, Sayid {Sleeping Ilana}, Hurley, Caesar and Ben wait for the “event” that will "deliver" them to the "Island".
The co-pilot {Drinking coffee} asks Frank, “Wanna hear something crazy? Did you see the big guy, when we got on in L.A., sitting in 1st class, curly hair, guitar case?...He’s one of the Oceanic 6. The guy’s got nerves of steel, man. He survives a full on commercial airliner crash and now he’s back flying over the same South Pacific.”
Frank- “Maybe he doesn’t believe that lightening will strike twice in the same place.”
Turbulence shakes the drowsy passengers, getting their attention. Hurley, who is prepared with eye shades, looks up.
The co-pilot asks Frank if he’s all right.
Frank’s just fine. There's another big “shake”.
The co-pilot turns on fasten seatbelt/no smoking sign.
Jack looks a little excited.
Hurley suggests to Caesar, “You might wanna fasten your seatbelt”, and then he puts on his eye shades, holds on to the guitar case and relaxes his head back.
Concerned Frank says, “Oh no.”
The plane starts to shake, jump and makes noise.
In the cabin things are falling out of the overhead storage and passengers are getting tossed around. The co-pilot turns off “Auto Pilot” while Frank has the controls. A bright light is seen in the cabin. The plane seems to pitch and roll.

Now it's daylight and Frank says, "We’ve lost power!”
The system's/automated woman’s voice says- “Stall.”
The co-pilot affirms, “Restarting 1. Restarting 2. Altimeter reading 650.”
The plane is flying through clouds....
...The clouds clear to reveal the green mountains of the “Island.”
Frank pulls on the joystick and says, “Give me more power, I can pull us out of this!”
The co-pilot feels he’s gonna rip them apart.   Frank, holding on to the joystick  tells him to just do it! They see a convenient runway ahead and attempt a landing.   They have instrument failure, “We’re putting her down.”
The co-pilot of Ajira flight 3 1 6, “Mayday. Mayday.”
{You can hear …8 15 16…}
The nervous co-pilot feels Frank's coming in too steep.
Frank brings her in, “Reverse thrusters!”
They’re running out of runway.
Frank- “Hold on. Brace for impact.”
They’re sliding into home plate and hit the jungle greens.
Frank comes to; he’s bloody and his head hurts, right arm hurt, but he’s OK . The co-pilot isn’t so lucky; a tree speared him through the chest.   Frank exits the cockpit with a flashlight.
Caesar wakes up Ilana and in her haze she says to him, “Sarah/Jarrah.”
No, his name is Caesar. Ilana sees her prisoner is gone.
Frank stumbles into first class. Ilana is off balance too.
Sun calls out to Frank and asks, “What happened?” {Really?!}
Frank doesn’t know but he notices people are missing. “Where’s everyone else? Jack, Kate and Hurley. Where’d they go?” {Doesn’t wonder about Sayid.}
Ben announces from behind him, “They’re gone.”
Frank shines the light on Ben’s chest, even though there’s enough light in the cabin.
Frank-“Gone. Gone where?”
Ben-“How would I know.”


Thirty Years Earlier:
At the blue Dharma van  Jack, Hugo, guitar case, and Kate meet up with LaFleur on the day of their return. Jack smiles, seems happy to see the glasses wearing LaFleur.
Jack realizes LaFleur and Kate are seeing each other after a long absence.  Hugo drops the guitar case, walks over to La Fleur and says, “You’re alive.”
He's very happy and gives LaFleur a tight ape hug.
LaFleur is happy too, “Easy on the ribs there, Kong.”
Hugo actually missed the nicknames he used to be called by him.
LaFleur- “Missed you too, Hugo.”
Doc shakes Sawyer’s hand.
Kate and Sawyer hug, “It’s good to see you, Kate.”
Kate-“You too, James.”
LaFleur- “You’re really here. The son of a bitch actually did it! Locke said he was gonna bring you back. But...Where is he?”
Jack tells him John’s dead.
LaFleur is surprised, “Dead. How?”
Jack- “It doesn’t matter. He’s gone.” {It doesn't matter?! Why?}
No time for grieving, Hugo asks, “So, what’s up with you guys in the ol Dharma jumpsuits?”
Jin didn’t tell the ol gang about it. Jin, in great English, “No. I was waiting for you.”
LaFleur reveals, “We’re in the Dharma Initiative.”
Jack- “They came back to the Island?”
No, Jackass!
LaFleur-“No. We came back….And so did you. It’s 1977” 
They are silent for a second, then…
Hugo-“Oh…What?”
Jack tries to wrap his mind around this reveal, “You’re telling me you’ve been here living here with the Dharma Initiative for the past three years.”
LaFleur- “That’s right. How longs it been for you since the chopper?”
Kate- “Three years.” {Same time elapsed.}
A voice is heard over Jin’s radio, “Hey Jin. This is Miles. Where are you? Over.”
Jin tells LaFleur if he doesn’t report in soon, they’ll send out a patrol. “What should we do with them?”
Hugo- “Dude. You’re English is awesome.”
LaFleur says they’ll bring them back into the barracks in Dharmaville. They can’t be wandering around the jungle with the Hostiles.
Kate-”The Hostiles?”
LaFleur-“The Others.”
Hugo asks about everyone else from the plane; they could still be out there.
Jin- “What do you mean everyone else?”
Jack reveals they didn’t come back alone. “Sayid was on the plane, Lapidus, and Sun.”
Jin jumps in the Dharma jeep and speeds off to see Radzinski. After all, if a plane landed on the Island, he would know.
LaFleur yells for Jin to hold up, “We gotta think about this!”
But Jin speeds off.
La Fleur tells them to stay put. “Don’t go nowhere. Don’t do nothing until I can figure out how the hell to explain where you came from.”
Kate asks him besides him and Jin, “Who else is still here?”

Juliet, in her blue Motor Pool jumpsuit, runs down the stairs to see Miles at the security station. She asks if he’s seen James. She looks in on the monitors. Miles hasn’t heard from him, “And he isn’t answering his walkie either.”
Juliet takes the cup of coffee off the desk and tells Miles about Jin calling James this morning and he just ran off without telling her what was going on.
Miles- “Well. Let's see what we’ve got.”
He bangs on a screen. {static} Now with a clearer picture, “There he is.”

LaFleur is rummaging through his closet gathering Dharma jumpsuits and extra clothes. Juliet comes in.
He asks her if she’s seen his baggy sweatshirt, the one with the bulldog on it. It’s in the laundry. She asks James what’s going on.
He tells her they’re back.
Who?
LaFleur-“Jack, Hurley, Kate.”
Juliet- “What?” {Open your friggin ears!}
LaFleur whispers, “They came back, Juliet.”
He tells her they are here now, at the North Point, “Waitin' for me to tell em what to do.”
She seems stunned, “How did they…?”
He’s not sure, they said they were on a plane. “I don’t understand it anymore than you do. But they’re here. And I gotta find a way to bring em in before somebody else finds em and they screw up everything we got here.”
Juliet tells him a sub is coming in this afternoon.

Jin pulls up at the Flame Station. Radzinski is building a model of the Swan Hatch. {Blue prints, diagrams.} Jin storms in.
Radzinski- “Hey. You understand the concept of knocking?”
Jin checks out black and white TV monitors, presses buttons.{Muppets, News, Alka seltzer commercial}
Radzinski scolds Jin when he grabs the computer printout. “Thought you learned English.”
“Hands off! No body handles any of the gear in this station except me! Understand?”
Jin needs to check the radar logs to see if a plane landed on the Island.
Radzinski- “If a plane landed, here? What? So you think if a plane landed on our Island I’d be over there just building my model. That I wouldn’t have called any one? That I wouldn’t have put out an alert?”
Jin- “May be you missed it. Can you check with the other stations?”
Annoyed Radzinski just told him...
Jin grabs him and throws him against the wall, “Just check with the other stations.”
Radzinski sits at the control board sends out a bulletin via microphone announcement.
“Attention all stations this is a system wide broadcast from Radzinski at the Flame. Checking in to see if anyone’s seen a airplane over the Island. No one else has seen a airplane. But if you have could you call in to me please? Over.”
He asks Kwon what he’s all hot and bothered about. “Why is this plane so damn important?”
Jin-“It just is.”

Sun opens her hand revealing Jin’s wedding ring. She is standing on the beach with the rest of the Ajira passengers. {Shot of the landed intact plane.}
Ilana notices Sun looking around and asks her if she lost someone.
Sun tells her no, she was traveling alone. Frank yells out a call to the passengers, “Can I get everybody’s attention?”
Frank has them listen up, “Here’s where we’re at. The radio’s dead. So I haven’t been able to call in our situation, but that’s all right. Soon as they figure out we’re not where we’re supposed to be they’ll come looking for us. So the best thing we could do right now is stick together. Stick together, hunker down and just wait till help gets here.”
Caesar-“Where is here? What is this place?”
Frank doesn’t know where here is because this Island isn’t in his charts. Really. Caesar announces to the people, “Because there are some buildings over there and animal cages. Down the beach you can see a big Island across the water. So maybe you should get some new charts.”
Ben sits quietly listening to Caesar’s announcement and then heads out.
Right now Frank is trying to keep everyone there safe. He wants them to gather firewood.
Sun follows Ben into the jungle.
Caesar’s fired up! He tells the people if Frank wants to wait, let him! He says they should search the buildings, maybe they have a radio or food, “Who wants to help me?”
Frank follows Sun following Ben.

Sun follows sling arm Ben through the jungle; She’s lost him.
Ben, standing in the trees asks, “Why are you following me?”
Sun wonders where he’s going.
Ben tells her back to their Island of course, “You wanna come?”

Juliet quietly walks over to sleeping non Dharma jumpsuit wearing Amy. {Blue bassinet} She’s sleeping in a hammock. Juliet inadvertently wakes Amy while gingerly lifting the clipboard with the sub manifest.  She didn’t mean to wake her.   Juliet doesn’t want Amy to be working today.
Juliet- “Full load?”
Almost.
Amy tells her two of the recruits dropped out in the 11th hour. “They didn’t want to take the sedative for the trip. Can you tell Pierre for me?”
Juliet picks up the infant. Amy reveals that she and Horace decided to name the baby Ethan. Juliet gives the baby to his mama. Amy asks when Juliet and Jim are “gonna have one of these?” {1 of these?!}
Juliet doesn’t know, “The times gotta be right.”
She smiles and leaves with the manifest.

Jack taps the face of his watch 3x {No sense of time now.} as they wait for LaFleur to return.
Hugo sits alone.
Kate asks Jack if the woman who told him how to come back mentioned it would be 30 years ago. Jack tells her no, “She left that part out.”
Kate asks what their supposed to do now. Jack’s not sure yet.
Hurley announces, “Sawyer’s back!” {Indeed he is.}
Sawyer gives the three blind mice clothes, “All right. Listen. You’re all gonna be the second batch of recruits coming in off the sub pulling into port right about now so we ain't got much time.”
Sawyer notes the Doc’s suit isn’t exactly Island wear and gives him something to try instead. Jack questions how is saying they came in off the sub’s gonna work. Sawyer explains that everyone gets knocked out before the trip so no one meets each other until they process them. Jack says they need to find the rest of the people from the plane.
Sawyer- “If there was a plane, Jin will find it. So we got about 10 minutes to intake or you’re all gonna be camping in the jungle for a long time. There ain't another batch of recruits due in for six months.”
Jack asks Kate, “What do you think?”
Kate thinks they should listen to Sawyer. Hurley votes for not camping.
Sawyer removes his spectacles, “Trust me. Do what I say and you’ll be fine.”
Jacks nods “OK.”
Sawyer- “Let's move.”
They begin their change.

Jin watches the monitors {The Puppet, uh I mean Muppet show is on amongst other interesting shows.} Radzinsky just heard from the Looking Glass, they were the last to check in. They got nothing but an incoming sub. He suggests Jin go home and he’ll call him if something happens. Beeping starts. {Red light}
Radzinski hurries to the monitors, pushes Jin out of the way, “Move. Move. Outta my way.” Checking out incoming info, “Those bastards!”
Jin- “What do you see?”
Radzinski- “Grid 3 2 5. The motion sensor alarm was tripped. We got a Hostile inside the perimeter.”
Jin grabs the rifle and runs out. {Water tower 4} Radzinski comes out with his rifle, looking around.
Running through the jungle Jin comes upon someone. “Stop right there!"
It’s Sayid.
They are happy to see each other. Sayid doesn’t know where Sun is. Radzinksi pops up behind Jin and Jin goes into security mode; acting as if Sayid is a Hostile. Jin makes Sayid get down on his knees, “Say another word and your dead.”

In the passenger seat of the Dharma Van Hugo chats with Sawyer, “OK. So it’s 1977…And you guys are all members of the Dharma Initiative.”
Yep.
Hugo- “You do realize those dudes get wiped out, right?”
Sawyer gives him a look.
Hurley tells him he saw the pit where all the bodies got dumped. “Aren’t you gonna warn them? Aren’t ya gonna stop it from happening?”
Sawyer’s not there to play Nostradamus to these people, “Besides, Faraday’s got some interesting theories on what we can and can’t do here.”
Jack seems excited at the mention of Faraday, “He’s here?”
Sawyer-“Not anymore.”

“Ride Captain Ride, Upon Your Mystery Ship" by the band Blues Image. By the way, the band was formed TAMPA. Music plays at the Dharmaville celebration for the arrival of the new recruits. They even have Dharma balloons! A big blue banner welcomes recruits.
Sawyer pulls up with his three new recruits. He welcomes them with leis of shells and flowers. He shares a smile with Kate. Sawyer quietly tells them to listen up, Juliet has it worked out so their names are on the list, “So when you get in there just watch the little meet and greet video, wait for em to call your name. When they do, smile, step up take your jumpsuits and work assignments.”
Sawyer’s got their work assignments covered. He tells them to remember to act a little doped up cause they “just woke up from the sub.”
Nervous Hugo’s concerned if they start asking them questions they can’t answer “like, who’s President in 1977.” {WTF? He doesn’t know this answer?!}
Sawyer-“It’s not a damn game show, Hugo. Besides I’m gonna be in there to get your backs. All right?”
All Right. “Let's move.”
They head in to the PROCESSING CENTER.
Miles pulls up in a Dharma van asks LaFleur, "Where you been? I’ve been trying to reach you on the walki?”
He sees familiar faces and quietly mumbles, ”What the hell are they doing here?”
They’re new inductees.
Sawyer tells Miles to stop staring, he’ll explain everything later, “Tell me what your damn problem is.”
Miles tells him it’s Jin, “There’s a 14J at the Flame.”
Sawyer talks on the walkie like it’s a phone. "
Jin. You there?”
Jin-“James we have a problem. We found a Hostile.”
He was wandering in the jungle. Radzinski puts Sayid in the food pantry. LaFleur asks what’s he’s doing in our territory, it’s a violation of the truce. Jin steps outside and quietly tells LaFleur it’s Sayid. Sawyer quietly, “Son of a bitch!...Was anyone else with him?”
Jin-“No. He was alone.”

Ben and Sun continue their trek. Ben’s moving very quickly and she’s trying to keep up.
Sun-“Wait!”
Ben’s sorry, but waiting doesn’t interest him much right now. “There are three outriggers near here. I’m gonna take one. So you can come alone and help me row…” {He removes his sling. He is fine!}…”Or you can stay here.
Frankly it makes no difference to me.”
Sun- “Why are you leaving?”
Ben-“Why are you staying?”
She asks if Jin is on the main Island.
Ben-“Honestly, I don’t know. But that’s where I’d start looking.” {Honestly. Ha!} Frank still holding his flashlight calls out for Sun. Ben says hello to Frank. Frank asks Sun if she’s ok; he got worried when he could find her. {WTF? Lies! He’s been following her since the beach.} Sun’s fine, by the way.
Frank-“I saw him leaving. What are you doing out here?”
Sun reveals that Ben knows where there’s a boat and their going back to the main Island.
Frank-“You don’t think you can really trust this guy, do you?”
Ben looks deep in to her eyes. She says she has to trust him. Ben is pleased and moves on. {Watch Sun here. She seems proud of what she just pulled off.}
Ben “on a mission” seems strong. He uncovers an outrigger.
Sun’s ready.
Frank wants her to think about this, “This guy is dangerous.” He goes on to remind her the boat he “came here on was filled with commandos whose only mission was to get him.”
Ben-“And how’d that work out for everyone?”
No answer.
Frank just tells Sun not to do it. Sun asks Frank to come with them. Frank declines because he has a group of people he’s gotta look after.
Ben walks up to Frank, “That’s right Frank, a captain’s first responsibility is to his passengers. But I have people I have to take care of too. There’s a small dock about a half a mile due south across the water that leads directly to a town where I used to live. There are resources there. So if anyone can help you and the rest of the plane get out of here safely then…”
Sun knocks out Ben with an oar!
Frank-“I thought you trusted this guy.”
Sun-“I lied.”

A Dharma dude on a bike, the good Dr. {Swan logo} instructs the new Island residents to remain inside the confines of their new living quarters. The barracks are surrounded by high frequency sonar fence. Jack and Kate are watching the welcome orientation video in the processing room. Kate looks uncomfortable. The video goes on to say “You are now a member of the Dharma Initiative.”
Kate asks Jack how are they gonna do this. Phil calls out for “Jack Shephard.”
Jack takes a seat at the uniforms table.

Pierre Cheng, looking through papers, “Of course it isn’t here.”
Jacks file.
Annoyed Cheng- “How can they be any more disorganized on the other side {Of what? The glass?} Cheng apologizes and shakes Jack’s hand, “Namaste.”
Introduces himself and welcomes him to the Dharma Initiative. He asks Jack how his ride in was, and who was his shuttle driver {from the sub}.
Jack-“That was, uh, uh, ummm, it was LaFleur.”
Cheng mentions LaFleur is a good man and runs a very tight operation. Cheng also apologizes for all the disorganization. “The woman who was supposed to be processing you in had a baby last night, I get pulled out of my lab…”
He pulls out Jack’s card from the card file and gives him his job assignment/uniform. Cheng tells Jack according to his aptitude test he’ll be working in the shed. Janitorial work. This amuses Jack.
{For a second, it looks like Kate is going to walk out the door, but doesn’t}
Phil says hello to her. They haven’t called her name yet. He looks through his list of names for Kate Austen, and notices she’s not on the list or the sub manifest either.
Phil-"Who’s your recruiter?” {Uncomfortable Kate is keeping her on Jack} As Kate tried to “think”, Juliet comes in just in time with the new list for Phil.
Phil-“All righty then. She’s all yours.”
The ladies smile and Juliet apologizes for the mix up. “I’m Juliet.”
Kate introduces herself, they shake hands.
Juliet-“Hi Kate. Welcome to the Island.”

At the Flame, Jin waits for LaFluer’s arrival. Jin tells LaFleur that Sayid just came walking out of the jungle in handcuffs, alone and he didn’t say anything about the plane because he couldn’t talk to him. Radzinski thinks he’s a Hostile and he won’t leave Jin and Sayid alone. LaFleur tells Jin, “I got this.”
Inside LaFleur asks Radzinski, “Where is he?”
Radzinski locked him the storage room {food storage.} LaFleur wants the key.
Radzinski- “You need to know, LaFleur, he saw the model of the Swan. And he could’ve seen the survey of where we’re building it.”
Radzinski feels he’s a spy, “This whole thing is an act and we either play into it or we don’t. We can end this right now.”
Radzinski suggests- “We shoot him.”
LaFleur appreciates Quick Draws input but he wants to talk to him first, “Give me the damn keys.”
Jin brings Sayid out from the pantry.
Sayid’s surprised to see Sawyer. “My name’s LaFleur. I’m head of security. I want you to listen to real carefully to what I’ve got to say. And if you do that, you’ll be fine. Understand?”
Sayid nods yes.
LaFleur starts simple, “Identify yourself as a Hostile. The terms of the truce say you gotta identify yourself as a Hostile or we got the right to shoot you.”
Sayid understands where he’s going with this, “We do not refer to ourselves as Hostile but yes, I am one of them.”
Radzinski is thrilled. Good, they can proceed like a couple of gentlemen. LaFleur is taking him in to the barracks. LaFleur and Jin take Sayid. Radzinski wants to go with them, “This is a horrible mistake. I’m gonna talk directly to Horace about this.”
LaFleur-“Fine! Talk away.”

Two Islands in the moonlight:
Frank and Sun pull up to the dock. Frank wants Sun to remind him why the hell they’re doing this. Sun tells him that Ben said if her husband was on the Island, “The best place to start looking for him his here.”
Frank-“Oh I see. That’s some advice you took before you whacked him in the head."
Sun, Frank and his flashlight head on their journey. The dock has lamp posts knocked over, things are rusted and old. They hear a noise. Trees rustle and snap; the clicking noises of the smoke monster. Sun isn’t really scared.
Frank-“Tell me you saw that.”
Sun-“Probably just an animal.”
They move on.
They come upon Dharmaville. It’s old, a mess and boarded up. You can hear the swinging Processing Center sign move in the breeze. Frank is sorry to say but he “Doesn’t think we’ll find your husband here. Maybe we autta head back.”
They hear whispers and a light goes on in one of the houses. The front door with Dharma sign on it opens. There stands Christian, “Hello.”
Frank- “Who the hell are you?”
“My name’s Christian.”
Sun tells him she’s looking for her husband, “His name is Jin Kwon. Do you know where he is?”
Christian- “Follow me.”
The door opens, the light of the flashlight and Christian guide them in to the Processing Center. Sun- “What is this place?”
Christian shines the light on photos hanging on the wall, “72. 76. 78. Ah, here we go. 77.”
He takes the class {recruits} picture off the wall and tells Sun her husband is with her friends.
Sun-“What are you talking about? What friends?”
He just smiles. The door creaks open and a smoky mist enters. Christian shows her the photo. {Hugo looks so sad}
Christian-“I’m sorry but you have a bit of a journey ahead of you.” {It looks like there is a person hiding in the corner}

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“Ok. Are you ready? Everybody say, Namaste.”   The photographer snaps the New Dharma Recruits class photo.
Hugo asks Kate, “Nam-a-what?”
Dharma Lady tune plays in the background.
Phil tells them they "have the day off to get acquainted with their security protocol handbooks waiting in their new digs. Some of it may seem a little scary, but he assures them they “are perfectly safe here.”
Phil tells them to make themselves at home. They have hamburgers and punch. LaFleur radios Phil to tell him he’s coming in with a 14J.
Phil- “Roger that, Mr. La Fleur.”
Jack watches Phil and the situation. Phil gets the party crowd to “hold back. We have a minor security situation. They escort Sayid. Overzealous Radzinski shoves Sayid, “Move!”
Kate looks nervous.
Hugo- “I guess we found Sayid.”

Heading down stairs bathed in red-orange color, Sayid is led through the security monitor room, through double doors into a cell.
LaFleur tells Sayid he gets to hang out there until they can figure out what to do with him.
Phil asks-“What are we gonna do with him?”
LaFleur-“Bring the man some damn food. We’re not savages.”
LaFleur shuts the cell door, and gives Sayid the “eyes”, {Letting him know it will be OK/I got his back.}
Sayid doesn’t say a word.

Night:
Jack stops Phil outside the barracks and asks where he “James LaFleur lives.”
Phil points out his house but advises Jack not to call him James; he hates it. {Did Phil pick up on something here?}
Jack knocks on the door 4x and Juliet answers. Jack’s a bit stunned. They hug hello. He wanted to say hello to her earlier when he saw her helping Kate.
Juliet-“We’re not supposed to know each other.”
Jack-“I was looking for Sawyer. I guess I came to the wrong house.”
Nope, it's the right house.
Sawyer is reading a book, “Evening Doc.”
Jack smiles; he seems a bit amazed at it all. Juliet gives them time to talk. Sawyer tells Jack to take a load off and offers him a beer but Jack declines the beer.
Sawyer-“What can I do for ya, Jack?”
Jack doesn’t know where to start, “How bout Sayid.”
Sawyer-“I had no choice. He was running around the jungle, got caught by my people. Seein' as how he can’t tell the truth about how he got here I had to improvise.”
Jack-“Improvise.”
Yep.
Sawyer tells him for now Sayid is safe, which is all that matters. Sawyer sips his beer.
Jack wonders, “So where do we go from here?”
Sawyer’s working on it.
Jack-“Really. Cause it looked to me like you were reading a book.” {Silly Jack!}
Sawyer tells Jack he heard once how Winston Churchill read a book every night, even during the Blitz, “Said it made him think better. That’s how I like to run things. I think. I’m sure that doesn’t mean that much to you cause back when you were callin' the shots you pretty much just reacted. See, you didn’t think, Jack. And as I recall a lot of people ended up dead.”
Cocky Jack replies, “I got us off the Island.”
Sawyer-“But here you are, right back where you started. {Literally! Jack started over in the same starting position as the other time.} So I’m gonna go back to readin' my book, and I'm gonna think. Cause that’s how I saved your ass today and that’s how I’m gonna save Sayid’s tomorrow. All you gotta do is go home and get a good night's rest. Let me do what I do.”
Sawyer leads him to the door, opens it and Jack steps outside.
Sawyer-"Now ain’t that a relief?”
Jack-”Yeah.”
Pissed off in control Sawyer practically burns a whole into Jack with his eyes. He follows Jack out the door. Sawyer sees Kate {Half in her Dharma jumpsuit-half out of it} gives her a little wave. He feels for her. She gives a little wave back.

At the dark security station a young boy tells Phil he’d just gonna go in there “and deliver him a sandwich.”
The young boy in glasses enters the cell area and closes the door. He says hello to Sayid. {Sayid was laying down. Eyes closed} The kid holds the bag through the bars, “I brought you a sandwich.”
Cuffed Sayid takes the bag. The kid didn’t put mustard on it, “But if you’d like some, I could get some.”
Sayid-“This will be fine. Thank you.”
The kid asks, “Are you a Hostile?”
Sayid-“Do you think I am?”  {Does he?}
The kid-“What’s your name?” {The red light from camera blinks behind him}
Sayid-“Sayid. What’s yours?”
The kid-“I’m Ben.”
Sayid-“It’s nice to meet you Ben.”



Namaste is a GREAT episode. Hail, Hail the gangs all here! Why is Namaste such an eye opening episode...Come on Losties…THINK!

Things to note...Questions to ask...
* It is 30 years earlier.
* Change roles.
* Drugged up. Woozy. Sedatives. Sleep.
* Waves.
* Where is everyone who was left from Oceanic 815? Rose, Bernard, etc.
* Where is everyone Ben sent to the Temple in January 2005?
* The co-pilot only recognizes Hurley as one of the O6, not the rest of them.
* Jin’s command of the English language has shown tremendous growth.
* Who the hell are the Hostiles all ready?!! What constitutes a Hostile?! Is it anyone other than "yourself"? Is it a bad emotional trait to have.
* Phil tells Jack, James hates being called James. Yet James is what Juliet and Kate call him.
* Juliet was the Dr. who delivered Ethan. Ethan delivered Juliet to the island.
* Ethan Rom. Ethan Goodspeed. Which is it?
* Le Fleur tells Jack he needs to “Think”. He needed to “Think” to figure out what to do with the group when they arrived. It was Juliet's idea about blending them in with the new recruits, not his.
* Computers. Models. Joystick. Power. Game.
* Was Frank in Geronimo Jackson?
* I can’t help but note Juliet’s jumpsuit has a wrench. Is she the wrench in the system?
* Ben’s Sling- Amy’s Hammock.
* Sawyer got Jack the Job as Workman.
* Going down "deeper".
* Dead -"gone".
* Hugo is a chef. Sayid was a chef. Sayid's been locked up in a food storage room before...or is it 'will be'? Lol
* SHIP. Captains. Passengers. Sub. Dock.


Vocabulary and Research...
* Namaste- An Indian greeting (To bow to you/your form; Let there be a salutation to you).
- In Yoga-belief that there is a divine spark/light within each of us located in the heart chakra.  It is acknowledged one soul to the other soul.

* Check-A small crack in the glass, also known as a check, in the glass container industry. Also a term used in computing.
* Processing typically describes the act of taking something through an established and usually routine set of procedures to convert it from one form to another.
* Processing is an open source project. It is a programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts and visual design communities.
* -Conditionally Search And Replace: (in computing) SAR has long meant the initialism Search And Replace-the process used in some command line processing and in Text editors of searching for a word or string in a text stream, sometimes allowing the search object to include wildcard characters, and replacing the search string with a replacement string.
* CSAR-Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR or C-SAR)
 * ROM/Read-Only Memory, a class of storage media used in computers and other electronic devices. This tells the computer how to load the operating system.
* Random Oracle Model, a mathematical abstraction used in cryptographic proofs.
* ROM Image, a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip.
 * Stalling (gaming), obstruction of the flow of play while leading in a timed game.
* Manifest File that can contain information about the files packaged in a J A R File.
* Manifest Expression, in computer science, an expression referring only to surrounding loop counters.
* Manifestation- The Law of Attractions is a New Age thought that people can manifest reality using thought.
 * Blizt-
1). Very fast war.
2). Computing and computer games.
3). 5 minute chess game.
4). German for Lightning.
5). A play in American football.
* 14J- Carl Folsom Airport, Coffee County Alabama.
- U.S. Army: Job-Air defense tactical operations center operator.

* Lyrics- “Ride Captain Ride”
Seventy-three men sailed up from the San Francisco Bay
Rolled off of their ship, and here's what they had to say
We're callin' everyone to ride along to another shore
We can laugh our lives away and be free once more
But no one heard them callin', no one came at all
Cause they were too busy watchin' those old raindrops fall
As a storm was blowin' out on the peaceful sea
Seventy-three men sailed off to history
Ride, captain ride upon your mystery ship
Be amazed at the friends you have here on your trip
Ride captain ride upon your mystery ship
On your way to a world that others might have missed
Ride, captain ride upon your mystery ship
Be amazed at the friends you have here on your trip.




Metaphorically, in all this chaos we still seeing people on a journey of self discovery; finding yourself and finding and feeling unconditional love.  With this layer of the story {of which there are many} we still have hints to thinking, learning, growth, journey, moving forward, testing, etc.. And we also see people having to start back from where they started from.   Here we know Jack has had to go back to the same starting position at least twice.   Kind of like when you play a video game and you have to start a level all over again.

So, let's stick to the episode at hand. A little reminder of the teachings of human growth and enlightenment.
Aids to thinking:
1. Use of models, symbols, diagrams and pictures.
2. Use of abstraction to simplify the effort of thinking.
3. Use of metasyntactic variables to simplify the effort of naming.
4. Use of iteration and recursion to converge on a concept.
5. Limitation of attention to aid concentration and focus on a concept. Use of peace and quiet to aid concentration.
6. Goal setting and goal revision. Simply letting the concept percolate in the subconscious, and waiting for the concept to re-surface.
7. Talking with like-minded people. Resorting to communication with others.
8. Working backward from the goal.
9. Desire for learning.
Pitfalls: 1. Prejudice can lead to flawed thinking 2. Self-delusions: inability to confront relevant issues {roadblocks}.

Dharma or Concepts. Four Noble Truths. Noble Eightfold Path. Three marks of existence. Dependent Origination. Samsara. Nirvana. Skandha. Cosmology. Karma. Rebirth.




I still feel a major war game element here.  How is it tying into the other elements I note?  Are things done with computers, programming and drugs, while they are sleeping or unconscious, in an altered state?  It's possible things are affecting their brainwaves or consciousness.  Is what we are seeing strictly a game or is it a journey of growth and enlightenment experienced under the guise of a game or some other experiments or exercise?

A little flashback to share with you is the video that Sayid watches with Inman in “One of Them”.  On the top of the screen it says EYES ONLY-TOP SECRET, then it has property of DIA...Then, REEL 23108-42.

Just as I’ve suggested in the past...Always been part of Dharma and Dharma part of them...at least here on this "Island".
If “Time Travel” is happening, then it was always happening. And if what ever happened, happened, then this already happened.  The new recruits in the photo would mean they were there. But really...what the hell do I know?

Keep this in mind...Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sayid literally Enter 7 7.   Remember Locke is the one that enters the 7 7 command in the computer.

Love to all who are “LOST” ™


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