Faster Than a Speeding Bullet!

Here's your Reader's Digest version of the last few posters over at DamonCarltonandaPolarbear.com

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The URL: TrustMeLeaveItBe.com

"Kate says something similar to this URL to Jack in Something Nice Back Home "I'm gonna ask you... to trust me. Trust me. Just leave it be."

But I feel like I've heard 'Trust Me Leave It Be' from someone else and I can't put my finger on it.

Frame 10 proved to be a bit of confusion. The powers that be did a great job of making fans feel lost!

I encourage you to head over to LostArgs.com to review the chain of events that occurred with things getting lost in translation. I know you'll find it very interesting.

POSTER: By Rob Jones titled The Swan Station.

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This clue shows up:

...but then we get a "corrected" date and a message...
"No Time Traveling Needed."


















"Widmore Publishing"
The URL is ItookacoupleofflyingLessons.com
This line is said by Jack to Kate in Pilot.


POSTER: By Drew Millward titled Walt's Kidnapping.
















According to the action as it unfolded by LOSTARGS the poster sold out in 1 minute!

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You can read the play by play of the day from fellow Lostie Jopinionated.

The URL reveal is nooysterhere.com

Jin said this line to Bernard in The Whole Truth.






 
POSTER: By Daniel Danger titled "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."














This was my very favorite LOST poster and I wanted this one terribly! Of course I didn't get it. Apparently it sold out in 10 seconds!


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This clue's font/colors connects to a 2007 movie called Ping Pong Playa.


















































WARNING!
THE FOLLOW VIDEO CLIP FOR THE URL REVEAL FROM SPiN N.Y. club MAY CONTAIN SPOILER SHOTS!!






The URL is didyouburyit.com was creatively revealed on a ping pong ball at the club.

This is said by LaFleur to Richard-"The hydrogen bomb with "Jughead" written on the side. Did you bury it?" - In LaFleur.



   
POSTER: By Nate Duval titled The Barracks.


















 
Here's just a quick mention that Paul Scheer made an appearance on the Carson Daly Show. He chatted very briefly about being a huge LOST fan and about his presenting Damon and Carlton with the velvet painting he created at this year's Comic Con. Paul felt that the fans needed it. The show is important to him and it was a way of "giving back".

He shares about his blog with all his LOST stuff and how he was contacted by Ronie Midfew Arts, {BTW, does Paul say MIFDEW?!!} and how they struck a deal to create original LOST artwork.

The past few poster experiences have left me thinking there may be some nonsense going on over at Ronie Midfew Arts. I have concerns they may not be running a tight ship over there.

It sparks my curiosity when we head over to the site and mysterious things are going on like words are misspelled, and banners with wrong date or erroneous information, etc.

"Mistakes" had been corrected right away, but not before we all got a good look at it.

You would imagine such a prestigious and influential corporation would not allow such immature grammar and language rules to be broken. Isn't there someone who checks and edits any and all copy before it is executed for publishing?

Somewhere down the line there is a breakdown of communication. Or maybe this is a strong case of "It's all in the details and they're wrong."

As far as my quest for one of these unique and glorious works of LOST art, as I said in my last post, I just can't seem to beat the odds on a purchase.

Maybe if the Flash himself was here working my computer keyboard when the sale starts, he'd be the faster finger and beat these unbelievable sales that seem to be over in a flash!

Congratulations to those Losties who have been able to purchase posters and to those who got a little extra something with their purchase. I love to hear about when a fan gets that surprise sent to them. It's so damn exciting!!! It's LOSTASTIC!!

Until the next posters...

Love to all who are "LOST"™

Expose.

Let's talk about LOST! EXPOSE

Blurred/jostled visual of Nikki running through the jungle with her bag. She stops to dig a hole and bury something, covers it and runs off!

In a strip club we’re introduced to sexy pole dancing Nikki. She begins her dance on stage 3; in a white coat and hat. She is the 'Pride of St. Paul', Corvette. She strips down to her diamond bikini. From her pole she keeps her eye on a man who heads into a back office.
In the office that man opens a suitcase filled with cash.
Corvette says "That's the money for the orphanage. Which means Mr. LaShade, you're the Cobra." {LaShade,Shady}
The Cobra turns around from his 2 video monitors and says "Sorry baby. It's just business."

Corvette realizes, "All this time it was you."
He has to eliminate her. She karate chops a thug, says her catch phrase, "Razzle Dazzle."
The Cobra shoots her 2x anyway. {1 of the pics on the wall looks similar to the one on the Girls of Fiji magazine from Sawyers stash!!}
Cobra fires 1 more shot into her. Autumn and Crystal run in.
Cobra-"Bad news. Corvette was working for the Cobra. But fear not, he will pay."
This was the last shot filmed for the TV show, EXPOSE.
"CUT."
Billy Dee Williams gives Nikki a hand up. {Note: silver platter} She walks through the sound stage. This was a series wrap on Corvette.{Note the sign says EXPOSE. Season 4}
Howard tells her, "You know you don't need to die. We can bring you back next season."
She only had a guest starring role but they could have her come back. He suggests Corvette could have been wearing a bullet proof vest...Bullet proof breast. Her work is done there, but she will not be leaving Sydney, "I love you."
He loves her too.

Hurley and Sawyer play Ping Pong.
Hurley wins, "Best out of 5."
Sawyer-"Now we're going best out of 7."
Nikki falls out of the jungle; collapses and the guys run over to her. Nikki in her lack of breath says something but they can't make out what she said. Sawyer tells Hurley to get some water; Get help. Sawyer gets up to look into the jungle to see if anything else is going on. Hurley never got up to get the water.
Sawyer- "What are you doing? Get moving!"
Hurley-"Dude. Nikki's dead."
Sawyer-"Who the hell's Nikki?"

84 Days Ago

Nikki and Howard are eating breakfast frittatas prepared by his new chef Paulo. {Note: crystal knick knack on the table.} Howard introduces Paulo to his new fan, Nikki. She compliments his cooking.
Paulo feels "The secret is the shaved truffles. Lucky for you they're in season." {Paulo white uniform, black shoes.} Paulo showed up at Howard's door every day until he would hire him.
Howard- "He is the Wolfgang Puck of Brazil."
Howard presents Nikki with the bread basket, "Here try one of these homemade rolls." He gives her a diamond bracelet that was hidden in the basket.
Nikki- "It's beautiful." {Nikki's black nails}
Howard tells her he realizes it's not a ring, not yet, "But when my wife..." He stops right there as he's having a heart attack.

Nikki calls out for Paulo. He checks Howard's pulse and declares "He's gone."
Nikki doesn't waste a second; she rips the key from around his neck. Annoyed Nikki tells Paulo, "I would have loved it if you could have figured out a way where I didn't have to eat the same food as him."
They head into the closet to open the safe.
Paulo questions, "So, nobody else knows about this thing?"
Nikki- "Everything in here is way off the books."
She removes a panel with neckties to reveal the safe. Paulo wants to light up a cigarette but she reminds him that they don't want to leave any evidence behind. "We poisoned him Paulo. Let’s not poison ourselves."
Once inside the safe she recovers a Matryoshka doll and proudly says “Razzle Freakin Dazzle"

Hurley, Sawyer, Charlie, Jin and Sun sit around Nikki's body. They’re trying to figure out what happened to her. Hurley tells them she has no gunshot wound, no knife wound, no polar bear bite. {These are the fatal injuries he mentions!}
Sun wonders, "Maybe it was something she ate?"
Charlie-"Maybe she was poisoned?"
Sun suggests checking the food supply to see if anyone else is sick. Charlie wearing the big cross on his chest shirt; checks Nikki's nails; she has gunk under her finger nails.
Charlie asks Sawyer where he found her. {Sawyer's reaction was of "Oh yeah. That makes sense"}
But he tells Charlie –"Right here. She stumbled out of the jungle, face planted, said something like ply wood, and then, sayonara."
Hurley thinks she said “Power lines.”
Sawyer doesn't know what she said, "She was 5 seconds from dying. She probably seeing the light at the end of the tunnel."
"Paulo lies!"
Hurley feels confident that she said "Paulo lies."
He tells Sawyer, "That's her husband or boyfriend or whatever. They live down the beach."
Sawyer wants to know where he is because if he lies, "That might be a good place to start."

80 Days Ago



 In the airport Paulo reads the newspaper aloud to Nikki about the death of English ex pat Howard L. Zuckerman. Headline- Famed Tube Tycoon Dies Of Heart attack. He was the creative force behind hit shows like EXPOSE, STRIKE TEAM ALPHA, and DOCTOR KINCAIDE, ESQUIRE. {2 glasses champagne.} They are pleased they have gotten away with murder.

Paulo is chewing nicotine gum because he quit smoking. {Quit smoking! Paulo wearing is Brazil Sweatshirt/jacket. Opens an EXPOSE script bag to get gum. Brazilian passport. Nesting doll} They toast their new life together.
Shannon and her step Brother Boone make their way through the airport. Shannon is complaining about there being no place to sit. Boone offers her a chair from the restaurant. Pissed off Shannon says, "Good call Boone. Let's just leave. You already screwed us out of seats in first class, why would you be able to find them here?" {By the way, I see Dustin Watchman walking by. Hi Dustin!}
Boone asks permission from Nikki and Paulo for one of their chairs, they say yes.
Shannon has a fit and accuses Boone of flirting with random guys, and walks away.

On the beach Shannon is screaming for Boone! It's the day of the 'Crash'.
Nikki is searching the site for Paulo/bag. We see many familiar and similar images from 'Crash' day; Jin, Jack with Claire, Boone trying to revive Rose, Locke, {whom has contact with Nikki in this version}
Explosions and Nikki's meeting with Arzt.
Arzt is heard asking, "Are we alive? Did we survive? Look at me. Am I okay? Am I okay?" {Apparently he doesn't know the answer to this trick question.}
Boone asks Nikki if she has a pen.
Boone obviously on a quest asks, "Does anybody have a pen?"
Nikki sees Paulo staring out at the water. Her first question to him is, "Where's the bag?"

In the jungle Paulo lays on the ground with his eyes open. Sawyer tells Hurley,”This is the trail."
Hurley asks him what he knows about tracking. {Damn if you’re around someone long enough or often enough, you’re bound to eventually pick it up!}
Jin, Sawyer and Hurley find Paulo.
He's just like Nikki; no wound. Jin says something to Hurley in Korean, trying to show him something and Hurley seems to understand him and replies back.
Sawyer finds a right sneaker in a tree and Paulo's pants are undone.
Sawyer- "Maybe he stepped on something."
Jin looks through the back pack. Sawyers peers into the jungle; he doesn't admit he sees anything to Hurley.
Jin opens Paulo's water bottle and cautious Sawyer runs over tells him, "NO!" and pours it out. Hurley freaks because that's evidence!
Sawyer- "Two people are dead. Did you ever think they might have been poisoned?"
Hurley feels Sawyer's messing up the crime scene.
Sawyer- "Crime scene? There a forensics hatch I don't know about?" {Yes Sawyer. More hatches.}
Jin tells him to stop, "Monster."

75 Days Ago

Nikki and Paulo are fiddling with a pile of suitcases; they're talking about the monster.
Nikki says {as did Danielle} there’s no such thing as monsters. Apparently she's told him this many times. Paulo wonders if it was a dinosaur.
Nikki- "It's not Jurassic Park, Paulo. It's the South Pacific." {Well maybe it Jurassic Park!} He asks her what it was after all she saw the trees move. She doesn't care; she wants him to start focusing! They've been there for 6 days, the coast guard is going to get there any second, and she just wants the script bag.
Ethan asks them if they lost their luggage. He found some stuff, pants or a sweatshirt; he can help them find some that fit. {WTF? And yes, he's wearing the Wisconsin sweatshirt. Is he the wardrobe master?}
Nikki share with Ethan that Paulo lost his nicotine gum. Ethan cleverly and conveniently points them inland where they may have more luck. He explains the plane split apart so some of the stuff may have rained down in there. Paulo doesn't want to go into the jungle.
Arzt the 'town crier' tells everyone,”Boone! Boone took the water."
We witness Jack's Live Together, Die Alone speech, again.
Remember, he found water in the valley.

At Nikki's body:
Hurley, Jin and Sawyer carry Paulo's body to the cemetery; Hurley announces he's with Jin on the "Monster".
Sawyer comments sarcastically, "Yeah. Because that makes the most sense."
Hurley-"Locke said when Eko died his last words were, you’re next. And Nikki and Paulo were with them. He was talking about them."
Sawyer tells him he wasn't saying that about them. He was saying it as in 'You're all next.' The way Sawyer sees it they need to "find out whatever we can about these Jabonies...Nina and Pablo."
Hurley tells him to show respect; he knows their names.
Sawyer- "Whatever Hugo."
They head off to their tent; they better get some shovels too. The 2 bodies are left there uncovered, staring at the sky. {Damn, dry eyes! Visine, anyone?!}

57 Days Ago


Nikki is going to flirt her way in her “red top” to get info from Dr.Arzt. He has built himself a fucking LAB; complete with a shit load of peanut butter jars and containers! He's studying millipedes or centipedes and all kinds of creepy crawlies.
Nikki- "You're a scientist
Arzt proudly replies, "And and educator."
Since they got there HE discovered 20 new species, "I'm gonna be the next Charles Darwin."
Nikki picks up a blue topped jar that's holding the very dangerous Latrodectus Regina, Medusa Spider! {Oooooh-aaaaahhh} Her pheromones are very strong; one whiff and every male of the species would be there in seconds. {Is this one of his discoveries? There's no such thing as a Medusa Spider as far as we know. Is this an 'Island' discovery? He says "They call it the Medusa Spider." And if it's so dangerous, shouldn't it be in a jar with a RED top?! LOL}

Nikki asks him to explain trajectories so she can figure out where her luggage may have landed. He adjusts his handsome necktie obviously honored she asked him for help. He is going to draw a map. {Of course!}

Nikki and Paulo trek out into the jungle using a Jr. High school teachers hand drawn map. Nikki accuses Paulo of being jealous of Leslie.
Sarcastic Nikki says, "His spiders turn me on… I had to sleep with him."
Paulo brings up that she slept with Zuckerman, but Nikki reminds him she did that for "Us."
Paulo apologizes to her, "I don't trust that guy. We should have gone to Ethan. He would have helped."
Nikki points out the drug plane that's hanging off the cliff.
Paulo-"Another plane. Looks like it's been here a while."
She tries to get him to go up there, "Maybe there's a radio or something."
Paulo-"Are you insane. If I go up there, that thing's gonna fall."
{Paulo knows it's gonna fall. Boone and Locke didn't?! Where is the common sense?}
She tells him he's not gonna fall.
Paulo asks her if she wants him to die. "Come on. Let’s keep moving."

Nikki now points out the hatch that in the ground. {She's 2 for 2!} Paulo uses a rock to help open it; he wants to go check it out.
Nikk-"So, our carry on bag fell from the sky, opened a man hole, crawled inside, closed the doors behind itself? You don't' wanna climb up to a plane, but you wanna climb down a ladder into a dark tunnel. I don't think so."
Sawyer rummages through Nikki and Paulo stuff. Hurley tells him to be careful.
Sawyer- "Why? They don't live here anymore."
Charlie informs them Sun checked the food, "They're eating the same as us and no one else is sick. Could be a virus."
Hurley-"Dude. Monster." {Very interesting! Hmmmm}

Arzt's bug collection is in Nikki and Paulo’s tent. Butterflies {morphing bug}.
Charlie-"He collected all kinds of creepy crawlies before he exploded.
Hurley- "They must have been friends." {Very interesting. Hmmm?}
Charlie finds Nikki's EXPOSE script. Hurley claims it's only the most awesome hour of TV, ever! He flips through the pages very excited! It's like Baywatch, only better.
Hurley explains-"It's about Autumn and Crystal, two strippers that solve crimes with the help of their suave, smooth talking club owner, Mr. LaShade." {IMPORTANT NOTE- Hurley shows the cast list. Nikki is mentioned, but so is RICK LAPIDUS! Could that be a relative of Frank Lapidus? His name came up in find815!} Her big break must have been in Australia. Hurley reads the reveal that Mr. LaShade is the Cobra. The Cobra is this big bad guy; his identity has been shrouded in mystery for 4 seasons! Sawyer finds a walkie talkie, the same ones the Others use. Sawyer says they must have been working with the Others.




48 Days Ago


Shannon, Kate and Arzt are on the beach.
Artz-"Excuse me. Are you my mother? Because she knows what's best for me. Other than that, I decide."
Nikki {L.A. shirt} and Paulo ask the group what's going on.
Shannon tells her, "Kate and her two boyfriends found a case of guns that fell out of the plane. They decided they didn't really need to tell the camp."
Kate says the case is locked and the key is around Jack's neck; they're safe.
Artz tells Kate, "You're all out of control. The pigs are walking. Huh. The pigs are walking!" {Animal farm} Nikki wants to know where they found the case.

Nikki wants Paulo to dive in the water and find the script bag. She calls him a wuss.
She is manipulating him, "As you had no trouble reminding me I slept with Howie Zuckerman so the least you can do is go for a swim and Kate said they found the case on the bottom.”
Paulo asks her if she didn't need him so bad to get the bag, would they still be together.
Nikki tells him that bag is worth 8 Million Dollars, "Just dive in, Paulo."{Paulo, there's your answer} He dives in and passes the two bodies that are still in the seats and he sees the bag wedged between rocks. He returns to the surface but lies to Nikki telling her there was no bag.
Nikki-"There's nothing down there?"
Just dead bodies. {She is carrying a bag} He dives under.

The staring and still bodies of Nikki and Paulo at the graves:
Charlie, Jin, Sun and Hurley wonder if they were working with the Others. How?
Sawyer-"Like Michael."
The Others could be out there waiting to "get us."
Hurley tells him very nonchalant that he was with the Others two weeks ago. They're on the total other side of the island." Then who dragged Sun into the jungle?
Sun-"The Others came into our camp. They grabbed me; put a bag over my head. And if I hadn't gotten away, they would have killed me."
Sawyer has a gun and he offers to go see if "I can see any sign of them. I'll do a perimeter sweep." Sawyer says he got the gun off one of 'them' and he was gonna let the camp know about the gun, “Right Now."
Hurley asks what a perimeter sweep is.
Charlie asks Sun if they should "Cover them up?" Yes.

32 Days Ago

Paulo is on the beach at night with the script bag. He pops two pieces of Nicotine gum. {It's been 32 days! Does he still need the nicotine gum that badly?} He starts digging a hole.
Locke happens upon him and say, "Nice night."
Paulo hides the nesting dolls behind him and says he's doing nothing.
Locke says it looks like he's digging a hole, "Every man's entitled to his secrets Paulo, but can I give you a piece of advice?...You should put the shovel away and save yourself some trouble...Things don't stay buried on this island. The beach is eroding. Winter's coming. High tide. Whatever it is your hiding, make sure you pick a spot that won't wash away. See you back at camp."

Paulo climbs down the ladder into the Pearl Station. {Has a flashlight} He hides the nesting dolls in the toilet tank that's filled with water. {Number 22}
A voice is heard asking, "Who left this open?"
It's Ben and Juliet dressed in 'Others' garb with no shoes.
Juliet tells Ben that Tom was down here a couple of days ago. We hear Ben reply to her, "Have him cover it with a plank."
Paulo, hiding, shuts the bathrooms pocket door and watches them through the crack.
Ben tunes monitor 5 and we see Jack in the Swan hatch. Juliet remarks that's Shepherd; he's cute. Ben and Juliet have the 'surgery' conversation. Ben feels he can convince him to do the surgery, "The same way I get anybody to do anything. I find out what he's emotionally invested in, and I exploit it.” {Hmmm…Like taking Walt from Michael, maybe?}
Juliet- "We just grab all three of them? Ford and Austen too?"
No.Ben says they need to "Come to us." They're going to do that, using Michael of course.
Juliet- "This place gives me the creeps."
And they leave.
Paulo takes the walkie they left behind.{With all the camera's everywhere, wouldn't they know where everyone was wandering about to and from?!}

Hurley tells Desmond about Nikki and Paulo. He wants Des to use his psychic powers to see what happened. Of course he can't because it conveniently doesn't work like that. He only sees Flashes. {Yeah, so does everybody else!}
Hurley- "As far as superpowers go, yours is kind of lame.”
Desmond says he saw her with his mate this morning, "Your boy Sawyer."
Nikki was yelling at him, right before she died. {At this point it seems like Des's 'power' really only works when he knows it can get him closer to Penny. Manipulating Charlie gets him closer to Penny.}

Vincent {No collar} is sniffing around the blanket covered bodies of Nikki and Paulo.
Hurley-"Vincent! Dude!" The dog pulls the blankets off of them.
Charlie feels that Des seeing Sawyer and Nikki fighting doesn't prove anything. Hurley wonders why Sawyer is gung-ho about investigating this.
Sun states Sawyer's not a murderer, "He went all the way across the island to help Michael."
Sun insists it's the Others. Charlie comes clean about Sun's abduction. He tells her it was he who took her not the Others. After Locke hit him he just wasn't himself. Sawyer told him he could get even by helping steal the guns so they just made it look like the Others, "I didn't mean to hurt you." She walks away. Charlie is sorry.

9 Days Ago

Locke asks the group at the beach kitchen/pantry who wants to go to the Pearl Station. The computer there could help find "Our people." Nikki wants to go.
Inside the Pearl Station we see the gang talking about the monitors.

Paulo is in the bathroom retrieving the nesting dolls from the toilet tank.
We can hear Dr. Mark Wickmund's voice coming from the video.
Nikki talks about connecting to other hatches, etc.. Paulo opens all the nesting dolls to get to the little pouch; he hides the pouch down his pants. He throws the pieces of the nesting dolls back into the tank; flushes the toilet to complete the illusion he actually used the toilet.
Sawyer returns to the graves and the Losties. Hurley demands the gun from him; it's not even loaded.

Hurley tells him to quit lying, Desmond saw him with Nikki.
Sawyer-"Oh, I see what this is. Villagers got themselves some torches."
Sawyer did not kill them but admits he went at it with Nikki this morning because she wanted a gun. He didn't tell them because of the dirt under her nails. She was digging a hole. He saw a fresh mound of dirt near Paulo; she was burying something. Sawyer explains if you take the time to dig a hole right before you die, then what you're hiding probably pretty damn good. Sawyer throws the pouch of diamonds to Sun. He says he had nothing to do with those two.

12 Hours Ago

Nikki and Paulo sit and look out toward the water. Thanksgiving was 2 weeks ago and they missed it. They're gonna miss everything.
Paulo says they're going to find us, “We'll get rescued.”
She's surprised by his optimism. Paulo tells her it's how you look at things, "Like the bag. Maybe not finding it was good for us." Finding it may have torn them apart. He's going to go get them some breakfast. When he gets up, there's his nicotine gum!
Upset Nikki tells Sawyer she wants a gun. He's sitting reading a book, glasses on. "I don't have the guns. The A team took em all."
She knows he kept guns for himself.

Sawyer still wouldn't give her one, "Judging by the fire you're breathing, I got a feeling no good would come of it."
Nikki demands, "Sawyer. Give me a gun."
Des watches all of this.
Sawyer tells her to cool herself off, "And who the hell are you?"

Sawyer at Nikki's grave whispers,”Thanks for nothing" and closes her eyes. {What's he thanking her for?!}
As Sawyer digs a grave, Sun comes over and tells him Charlie told her everything.
Sawyer asks if she'll tell Jin.
Sun-"No...Because then we'd have to dig another grave." {Sawyer has no shirt on! YEAH!} Sun gives him the pouch of diamonds because they are worthless here. She slaps him.

At the graveside service for the two, Hurley does the talking,”We didn't know you very well. And it appears; you killed each other for diamonds. But I know there are good parts to you too. {Check out Sawyer here.} You were always nice to me. And you were a member of the camp. And, I really loved EXPOSE."
Good bye.

Sawyer takes the diamonds out of the pouch and pours them over their bodies, "Rest in peace Nikki and Paulo."

8 Hours Ago

Nikki leads Paulo into the jungle because she has a surprise! She found the diamonds, right here! She knows he has them but he says he doesn't. To prove it she shows him the nicotine gum. She takes out the peanut butter jar with the Medusa Spider and throws the spider at him.
She gives him a spider lesson. They call it the Medusa Spider because one look from Medusa would turn anyone into stone. One bite from this spider will paralyze you for 8 hours. It won't kill you. Only slow your heart rate down to the point even a doctor would have a hard time hearing it beat.
Paulo falls to the ground and becomes paralyzed; it bit him on the neck.
Nikki searches his body, throws the shoe that land in the tree, and finds the diamonds down his pants.
Paulo says he's sorry, he was afraid of losing her. If they “found the diamonds then you wouldn't need me anymore."
The smoke monster sounds!! Then lots of spiders arrive; one bites Nikki’s leg. Knowing what is to come from the bite she runs to bury the diamonds before paralysis kicks in. She runs and Nikki falls out of the jungle into the Ping Pong game.
Nikki- "Paralyzed."

At their graves, Sawyer and Hurley are shoveling dirt onto the bodies. Nikki and Paulo’s EYES OPEN!! The men continue cover the bodies!

EXPOSE IS A GREAT EPISODE! There, I said it! A lot of clues and info in this episode.

Things to Note…Questions to ask...
✈ EYES
✈ Again talk of being dead, but NOT really being dead! Reappearing after supposedly being dead. There it is, again and again and again and again!!!
✈ Sound stages, scripts, props, costumes, cast. Isn't it possible that things are elaborately designed to create illusions and scenes to fool whoever they want to fool?!! Including a death scene?! 
✈Sawyer doesn't know who Nikki is here. Yet when he returns to the island we know he hugs her. Here Nikki is comfortable saying his name when demanding the gun.
✈ Layers!
✈ Brazilians speak Portuguese.
✈ Role. Roll. Play on words.
✈ Does Arzt have a scientific name for a bug that is an undiscovered species?
✈ Fun props to Star Wars! Woooohoooo!
✈ Apparently it's been said it's Gary Troup that gets sucked into the engine the day of the 'crash'.
✈ Shannon and Boone again get mistaken for a 'couple' not 'siblings'
✈ Sit/Seat/Sitting/Chair, why do these always come up in a specific manor?
✈ Jabonies. {Jabronies} Sounds like the word, similar to the one used by Pro-Wrestler 'The Rock'.
✈ Team 'A'. 'Alpha'
✈ JARS/ CONTAINERS. PEANUT BUTTER JARS! WHERE DID THEY ALL COME FROM?
✈ The cobra's most recognizable feature is its hood.
✈ Nicotine, drugs. Addiction
✈ Bug! Bugs! Bugs! Spiders!
✈ Clues to Orphanage. Orphans who need a family!
✈ Eggs. Hatch. Nesting. Carry
✈ Babies. Yes. Babies. And mothers.
✈ Down, down, down…Tunnel, Tube.
✈ Who is the Cobra on the "Island"?
✈ Cold coat weather or Hot Bikini weather? Are we going somewhere with this?
✈ Morphing/transforming.
✈ Regina Queen in Italian. This is not the first time we have hints/clues to Queen. In chess, the Queen is a VERY important player. We cannot look over the importance of a woman in our story. There has to be one just as important as the king. Who could that important woman be? Hmm?!
✈ Since season 1, I have been saying Michael has a connection to the Others/Island.
✈ Here we have proof of something that can cause temporary paralysis. Makes me think of dear ol John.
✈ I read a similar Stephen King story in "Autopsy Room 4". It's the first short story in the collection Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales. A golfer gets bit by a snake. Paralyzed, wakes up in the autopsy room. Yada, Yada, Yada.

Vocabulary and Research...
✦ Nicotine is an alkaloid found in the nightshade family of plants, predominantly in tobacco and coca, and in lower quantities in tomato, potato, eggplant and green pepper. Nicotine is named after the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum, which in turn is named after Jean Nicot, French ambassador in Portugal, who sent tobacco and seeds from Brazil to Paris in 1560 and promoted their medicinal use. As a nitrogenous base, nicotine forms salts with acids that are usually solid and water soluble. Nicotine easily penetrates the skin. Nicotine causes mood-altering effects and feelings of relaxation, calmness, and alertness. It is even reported to produce a mildly euphoric state.
✦ EXPOSE-to uncover, make visible, bring to daylight, introduce to. Or, to subject photographic film to light thus ruining it or taking a picture if controlled.
-Exposé -publication of some disreputable facts. Exposed. Presentation.
✦ A matryoshka doll  (Russian nested doll) is a set of dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside another. However, the concept of nested objects was familiar in Russia, having been applied to carved wooden apples and Easter eggs; the first Fabergé egg in 1885, had a nesting of egg, yolk, hen, and crown. Matryoshkas are also used metaphorically, as a design paradigm, known as the "matryoshka principle" or "nested doll principle". It denotes a recognizable relationship of "similar object-within-similar object" that appears in the design of many other natural and man made objects. An example is the Matrioshka brain.
✦ Medusa- In Greek mythology, "guardian, protectress" was a monstrous chthonic female character; gazing upon her could turn onlookers to stone. Her hair of writhing serpents. She was beheaded by the human hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head as a weapon until giving it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield.
✦ Medusa is a fictional superhero published by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in Fantastic 4. Medusa belongs to the race of Inhumans, a species of prehistoric earthlings mutated by the Terrigen Mists produced deep under the Inhuman city-state of Attilan, presently located in the oxygen-rich Blue Area of the moon.
* Medusa, New York.
* Medusa, the name of a secret organization in the classic Bourne series of novels.
* Medusa(ship), one of the most infamous shipwrecks of the Age of Sailing.
* Medusa, a proposed type of nuclear pulse propulsion using a solar sail as its "pusher plate"
✦ SPIDER- is predatory invertebrate animals that have 2 body segments, 8 legs, no chewing mouth parts and no wings. They are classified in the order Araneae, one of several orders within the larger class of arachnids. Trigonotarbids, spider-like a rachnids, were among the oldest known land arthropods. Like spiders, they were terrestrial, respired through book lungs, and walked on eight legs with two additional legs adapted to use around their mouth. However, they were not true spiders, not even ancestral to them, but represented independent offshoots of the Arachnida. True spiders (thin-waisted arachnids) evolved about 400 million years ago, and were among the first species to live on land.
* Spider Myths occur in many cultures. In general it represents the the Sun, or the Great Mother as a weaver of destiny. (Peter BenjaminParker) Spider-Man is a fictional superhero. A bite from an irradiated spider causes a variety of changes in Peter Parker's body, giving him superpowers.
-Bug-Computer "Bug".

✦ The Spider Protocol is a classified scientific project of the Hanso Foundation run by Thomas Mittelwerk. It seems to be based in Sri Lanka, and is strongly implied to be the operation shown in Rachel Blake's Sri Lanka video, involving killing 30% of a control group with a virus in order to somehow help Mittelwerk in his zealotry at tempts to solve the Valenzetti equation.
✦ Manifest File that can contain information about the files packaged in a J A R File.
✦ 1). Jar is a container. 2). to vibrate or shake.
In Buddhism- Known as a Treasure Vase or Bumpa: Representing inexhaustible treasure and wealth.
-Jar, Norway, a center in the municipality of Bærum
-Canopic jar used in ancient Egyptian burial.
✦Diamond is a symbol of power and wealth.
✦Diamond Sutra is a short and well-known Mahāyāna sūtra from the Prajñāpāramitā, or "Perfection of Wisdom" genre, and emphasizes the practice of non-abiding and non-attachment. The Diamond Sūtra, like many Buddhist sūtras, begins with the famous phrase "Thus have I heard".
A list of vivid metaphors for impermanence appears in a popular four-line verse at the end of the sūtra:
All conditioned phenomena
Are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, or shadows;
Like drops of dew, or flashes of lightning;
Thusly should they be contemplated. 

✦Razzle Dazzle Dazzle camouflage, also known as Razzle Dazzle or Dazzle painting, was a camouflage paint scheme used on ships.
✦Also term Razzle Dazzle to imply a trick or illusion to fool or dazzle someone.





Expose. For anyone who thought this was a throw away episode I hope I showed you some of the fun and clever ways the creative team still handed us a shit load of very important clues and information!

Love to all who are "LOST"™

Apparently Arzt can't decide if he's a married man or not. Note the disappearing wedding ring.

















Posted at MySpace February 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.

Enter Seven Seven.

Let's talk about LOST!   Enter  7  7.







Sawyer walks the beach camp and talks to the Lostie’s who are moving a Ping Pong table. Hurley tells him Jin found it when he was out looking for firewood. They made legs and paddles for it and all they need now is a ball.
Sawyer-"Found it?"
Hurley-"It must have landed in the jungle when the hatch exploded."
Sawyer- "I thought the hatch collapsed." {What, not imploded?!  COME ON!}
All Hurley knows is the sky turned purple; after that he "don't ask questions. I just make myself a salad and move on."
Sawyer can see "That's working for ya."   Sawyer asks him if he's seen Kate.
Hurley-"She's not back yet? Hmm."
Hurley asks around to see if there's anything they can use for a ball.
Sawyer sees Paulo walking with the Guns and Ammo magazine that belongs to him. {Word ammo is shown in Paulo hand.}
Paulo says it was in the magazine stack, "We share things now." {Implying a different time, perhaps? Or Sawyer was gone so long they got to change the rules?}
Sawyer calls Paulo, Zorro. Sawyer knows it was in his stuff, “Stuff you all decided to have yourselves a little party with while you thought I was dead." {But clearly is not dead}
Paulo tells him if he wants it that bad, then take it. The magazine is wrapped and hiding toilet paper. Sawyer tells him to keep it.


Sayid, Kate, Locke and Danielle are on their trek. Sayid informs them they need to eat. Locke asks him if they're still on course.
Sayid checks the trusty compass, "We're still heading North on a bearing of 3 0 5. Yes."
Locke is sensing a lack of confidence.
Sayid-"We've been walking for two days following a compass bearing provided by the carvings on a stick."
Sayid questions him about chancing on where the Others are. {Eyes}
Locke-"My bearing is the only bearing we've got. {His bearing!? It is Eko's bearing!}
Sayid is going to find some fruit, "Then we're going to have a rational conversation regarding our next move."
While Sayid picks fruit he hears clanking and comes upon a cow, (Bell and all), grazing.    A person whistles, calling the cow.  Sayid follows the cow to a little blue farmhouse with a satellite dish on top and a pen containing cows; there is a horse too.   The man with the eye patch is there.

Nikki and Sun tie up the net for the Ping Pong table.
Sawyer asks them if "Looking for something like this?" {Yellow cat ball}
Hurley's excited because now they get to play.
Sawyer-"Ah-ah-ah. We need to do a little quid pro quo first. I know I've been gone a while, you all thought the general store was having a going out of business sale. But now I'm back and I want what's mine."
Nikki says it wasn't really yours to begin with.
Sawyer-" 'A', it was mine when I took it. 'B', who the hell are you? And 'C', because I'm fair, I'm going to let you play me for it."
Hurley-"Play Ping Pong?"
Sawyer calls him Avalanche and tells them to put up their best player; one game. And when he crushes them they all have to bring him back every piece of his stash. He aint gonna lose. If he does, he tells them to 'name it'. Sun and Jin converse in Korean. Sawyer thinks Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon got something good. {I guess Sun isn't going to only speak to Jin in Korean like she said in Tricia Tanaka is Dead.}
Sun comes up with, "No nicknames for anyone for a week."
Sawyer agrees. He wants them to pick their player, he'll be back in an hour, “Then let the slaughter begin."

Sayid is looking through binoculars at the little farmhouse. {We can see Speakers.}
Locke-"Are you sure it's completely isolated?"
Sayid has circled the house there's nothing but jungles surrounding it.
Locke checks out the satellite dish, "That dish still work?"
Sayid comments that a satellite dish of that size would have broadcasting capabilities of thousands of miles. He asks Danielle "You once mentioned a radio tower. Is this it?"
She says she's "never been here before."
Kate to Sayid, "The man in the house, you said you've seen him before."
Sayid- "On a video feed from the Pearl Station." They wonder who he is; there's only one way to find out. Sayid gives Kate his rifle and unarmed he will go visit the man; they will cover him from there.
Danielle decides to leave, "I have no interest in that man inside the house. I have survived on the Island precisely by avoiding these types of encounters. I'll wait for you by the stream, for those of you who survive."

Vegetables are being cut up while Arabic music plays. This is Najeev; a cook in a restaurant. Another man tells him in Arabic that there's a man outside who wants to speak to him. {Pic of some sort sea serpent on the wall.} He exits the kitchen and heads outside to the dining courtyard to meet the man.
They are in an Arabic restaurant in Paris.
The man/Sami asks him if he "cooked this?"
Najeev says yes. Sami compliments him and asks him where he's from. Najeev says he's Syrian. Sami calls him out on this.
Sami, in their native language tells him, "You are as much of an Iraqi as I am, young man."
Suspicious Najeev asks what he wants.  Sami thinks he's an excellent cook and offers him employ at his restaurant; at 2 times the pay.
Najeev questions the motive, "You're offering a stranger a job because of a single meal?"
Sami tells him he's offering it "because we are outsiders here." And because his chef just quit. {Yeah.}

Sayid, with both his hands up in 'look, I'm un-armed' {or 'surrender'} approaches the house.  Locke and Kate are armed and ready.  Sayid sees that the horse is saddled; He also notes a gray cat. {Red barrels.} He stops and looks at the cat, then one shot fired at Sayid; he's down.
Kate wants to run to his rescue but Locke stops her, "Not yet! Do you want to get shot too?"
Patch fired his rifle from a window.
He yells, "I didn't cross the line! We had a truce. This is my land. You said I can stay here."
Sayid-"No. I am not who you think I am! My name is Sayid Jarrah. I was on a plane that crashed here months ago...I'm unarmed. I swear!"   {There are 7 +2 horseshoes hanging on the wall outside. Faded red large urn/vessel.}
Patch comes come out and there's a shootout!
Locke tells him to "Drop the rifle! Drop it right now!...Back up. Back up."
Patch is wearing a Dharma jumpsuit with a Flame logo patch on it. He asks if they really crashed here.
Sayid confirms over 40 of us did. Locke heads inside first to make sure it's okay.
Kate-"Who are you?"
Patch-"My name is Mikhail Bakunin. And I am the last living member if the Dharma Initiative."
They enter through double doors. {Red everywhere. Red glow is a nice touch.}
Mikhail has experience treating gunshot wounds. He spent some time in Afghanistan; and he has experience with field medicine in the Soviet Army.   He asks Kate to bring the medical kit from the kitchen.
Kate looks at Sayid for approval; he tells her it's alright. {Lantern and candles on the coffee table} Mikhail takes a bottle of Dharma Swan vodka from a table {Note two Dharma Merlot bottles.}
Sayid asks him how she got there.
Mikhail doesn't know where to begin. Said tells him to begin with the Dharma Initiative.
Mikhail-"I grew up in Kiev and joined the Soviet Army. I was stationed at a listening post in Vladivostok. {In the meantime Locke is looking around the place. Lamps are lit all over. Kate is looking around the kitchen. Dharma food everywhere. Jars.}  After the cold war, after we lost the cold war, my unit was decommissioned. I was dismissed from my life in the military. And after years of conducting unpleasant actions against our enemies, {Locke finds the type written pages} I found myself wanting to do something good. So I replied to a newspaper advertisement, 'Would you like to save the world?' it read. That's how I met them. The Initiative {Kate open refrigerator -meat.} Very secretive. Very rich. And very smart."
He goes on to tell Sayid he came to the Island "11 years now. I liked computers, communications equipment, and being alone, like a lighthouse keeper. So they put me in this station. They called it the Flame. {Locke finds the computer equipment, parts, mother boards, etc.} He tells Sayid the purpose of the Flame is to communicate with the outside world {Of course! As if Sayid should know that.}


Locke comes across the computer with the chess game; a computer voice, READY TO PLAY? Y/N in a red box.
Locke notes a camera's blinking red light, watching him. He presses Y; he's ready to play!
The computer shows it's his move.
Sayid asks Mikhail what happened to the Dharma Initiative.
Mikhail- "They're all dead, of course. They foolishly initiated a war against the Hostiles. A purge, they called it."
He survived by not participating in it. {He sterilized his instrument.}
Sayid-"And the Hostiles allowed you to stay here?"
Mikhail continues his story- "After it was over four men appeared in the yard. They offered a truce. They said to imagine a line that extended all the way around the valley. As long as I did not cross it, I would be left alone. Then they took two cows and I never saw them again." {He puts on his glasses for his 1 eye}
Kate wonders why they weren't interested in the satellite dish in the yard. Mikhail says it hasn't functioned for years. Sayid asks who the Hostiles are. Mikhail doesn't know, "But they were here for a long time before we were. A very long time." {Pulls out the bullet he put into Sayid.}

Najeev walks down the street in Paris to the restaurant. {Another Arabic restaurant.} He meets Sami. Sami introduces Najeev to his wife who is in charge of the kitchen; her name is Amira. {A mirror. Clever! lol}
They shake hands. Amira's hands are badly scarred. Sami asks her if she's sure this is him. She says yes.
Najeev-"Look. I don't know who you think I am."
Then there's a fight and Sami kicks Najeev in the face/head, knocks him out.

The bloody bullet is removed and Sayid is stitched up. Mikhail scolds the cat in Russian; it’s pulling at the thread/yarn of the rug. He calls the cat Nadia. "I told Nadia to be polite because you are my guests." He says he named the cat Nadia, after Nadia Comaneci; the greatest Athlete the worlds ever known. They have the same birthday.  He finishes work on Sayid, speaks some Russian and offers them iced tea. Patch will check on their friend.

Locke is playing computer chess. He pushes X H 3 on the keyboard. CHECKMATE YOU LOSE.

Mikhail opens the door and tells Locke, "Ha. Don't waste your time. For 10 years I've tried to defeat that game. It was programmed by three Grand Masters. And it cheats."
Locke-"Hmm. Well I've played a lot of computers and I'm pretty sure they don't know how to cheat. That's what makes being human so distinctly wonderful."
The Computer indicates-“YOUR MOVE.”

Kate bandages up Sayid.
Mikhail heads into the kitchen.
Kate tells Sayid her concern, "It doesn't make any sense. Why would they let him stay here?" With all the stuff/equipment.
Sayid feels it makes perfect sense. The reason they let him stay there is because he is not Dharma, "He is one of them."
Kate-"He shot you and you just let him? Why are we still sitting here?"
Sayid tells her they are still sitting because he's certain 'he' is not alone.

Sawyer plays their one draft pick, Hurley. Are they playing with a mercy rule? If Hurley is up 11-0 then he automatically wins. "Either one of us."
Hurley asks Sawyer, “Do you want to volley for serve?"
Sawyer tells him to be his guest. Right away 1-0, Hurley.

Mikhail serves the iced tea off a silver platter; He grows the tea himself.
Sayid feels "Any tea is good tea."
It's been a long time since they've seen ice. {Mikhail can make ice cubes but not wash that disgusting jumpsuit? What is wrong with this picture?!}
Sayid asks about the series of thick wires as he walked around the station.
Mikhail-"This is the hub. But they go underground to various stations around the island."
He also admits that there are cables that go into the Ocean, "There is an underwater beacon that emits sonar pings to help guide in the vessels."
Sayid asks if he means submarines.
Mikhail says yes; The Initiative used one to bring them there. He imagines the Hostiles have either destroyed or commandeered it by now.
Sayid tells Kate, "That explains how they were able to get around my position and capture our sailboat."
Mikhail is surprised about their sailboat.
Sayid-"Until we lost it to your Hostiles."
Sayid shares that at least they were able to kill one of them.
Mikhail stops to ask outright, "Why are we continuing to playing this little game? When we all know it has moved to the next stage." {That means FIGHT! And SO MUCH MORE!}
Then Kate is there with the gun on Mikhail, then she kicks him in the face knocking him out.
Locke opens the door to see.
Sayid-"Get some rope."

Sayid is chained up, being held prisoner in the kitchen. He wakes up. The door opens; it's Sami with a black bag. He also brings Sayid a silver bowl with water.
Sami- "You were a torturer in the Republican Guard."
He goes on to question him about recognizing people he tortured. Does he recognize one of his victims; His wife?
Sayid says NO! Sami has confused him with someone else. Sami tells him Amira was arrested for harboring an enemy of the state. She was held for three months for questioning; her arms bear the scars of those questions, "So I assure you Najeev, I am not confused."
He says his name is not Najeev, “I'm Sayid Jarrah. I was in the Republican Guard and yes I was an interrogator... but I have never seen your wife."
He goes on to say maybe she saw him at the same facility.   Sayid says does not know her; he remembers every face of everyone he's interrogated.
Sami says Amira remembers your face, "She remembers it so well that she recognized it from a mere glimpse when we walked by the restaurant where you worked!"
Sayid shakes his head no. Sami wants him to admit what he did, and if he doesn't he will leave the room in that bag.

Kate, Locke and Sayid tie up knocked out Mikhail. Sayid informs them the horse outside is still saddled; the stirrups are set up for someone much shorter than Mikhail, proving someone else is there with him. Sayid says they sent someone out here to Mikhail because they lost communications.
Locke suggests, "Maybe when the sky turned purple."
That would also be Sayid's guess.
Locke says they must be hiding pretty good, as he checked every nook and cranny of this place.
Sayid pulls back the rug to reveal a hidden door/hatch,
"Not every nook and cranny, John." {I suddenly want an English muffin!}

Sayid is chained in the kitchen. Amira is escorted in by Sami. Sami asks if he's ready to tell the truth. He beats Sayid. Sayid swears he doesn't know her as he would never torture a woman.   Sayid won't confess to something he didn't do. Sami shares with him his wife confessed to something she didn't do, "When you poured a pan of boiling oil over her arms."
Sami beats him.
Amira stops the beating.



Kate and Sayid head down the trap door.


The chess game beckons Locke "YOUR MOVE".
Kate and Sayid see that the area is wired with C4.

Locke chooses to leave Mikhail and play some more.
Sayid enter another area where there are file boxes, binders-Food drops, Operations manuals.


Locke plays chess. CHECKMATE. YOU WIN! He's happy!

Then the computer shows...Manual over ride achieved. (On the screen is Marvin Candle with a fake left arm. Coffee cup, Dharma binders and files/file boxes.) He's instructing person/computer commands for Video: For pallet drop- enter 2-4. For station Uplink-enter 3-2. For mainland communication- enter 3-8. Locke seems overwhelmed. Locke pushes 3-8!
Candle-"The satellite dish is inoperable. Communications are down. For sonar access, enter 5-6. Locke pushes 5-6. Candle says Sonar is inoperable. Has there been an incursion on this station by the Hostiles? If so, enter 7-7."
Locke is about to push 7 7 and gets a knife put to his neck by Mikhail. He tells Locke, "Keep your voice low and your hands in front of you."


Kate holding her lantern comes upon the rack of Dharma jumpsuits.



She gets attacked and there is a FIGHT!
Sayid pulls the rifle on the attacker, it's Miss Klugh.
Kate recognizes her and punches her. " It's her!" she tells Sayid; she was there at the dock and she knows where Jack is. Sayid asks her if there are any more of them here.
Sayid yells, "John, we're coming up!"
Outside of the house Mikhail is holding a gun to John. Sayid and Kate walk their prisoner outside.
Mikhail deals-"This is simple. Send her over to me and I will release him. Then we all go our separate ways."
Locke tells them not to listen to him, If he wanted him dead he would have killed him already, "Do not let her go!"
Mikhail threatens to execute him. There is bickering!
Lock-"I'm the only thing keeping him alive.”    {OMG!!WHAT?!!!!!!}
Klugh and Mikhail converse in Russian.
John-"Don't let her talk to him!"
There's more bickering!!
Klugh-"Just do it Mikhail!"
So Mikhail shoots her. There is struggle for the gun and a fight. Sayid has the gun on Mikhail. Mikhail wants Sayid to finish it, "Kill me."
Nope!

Sawyer sits on his broken seat fixing a pair of glasses. Hurley beat him in their game. Sawyer feels hustled.
Hurley shares that "My mom had a table in her basement. I played a lot at the instit… this place I hung out for a while. I got kinda good."
Hurley continues, "It doesn't look like that last slam caused any long term damage to your forehead. And you got three points, better than zero."
Hurley returns three of his porn magazines, cause Sawyer's the kind of guy that needs stuff. Sawyer wonders if he's a shrink now. Hurley knows he's worried about Kate, "She'll be okay, dude."
Sawyer thanks him for the pep talk; just about calls him a nickname...Hurley, “It’s Hurley or Hugo, if you want."
Sawyer-"Get bent, Hugo."

Locke looks at the computer screen.
Kate grabs a box of Marshall Bullets and asks, "Are you ready to go Locke?"
He'll be there in a minute.
Locke watches the video feed.
Candle:"Has there been an incursion by the Hostiles? If so, Enter 7 7"

Now it is dark outside. Sayid is with a tied up Mikhail; he is calling for Danielle. {Watch Mikhail's face as Sayid calls out for Danielle. Wow!}
Sayid asks Mikhail if he ever was a member of the Dharma Initiative or was everything he said a lie. Mikhail tells him he was never a member, but everything else he told him was true; he tells him he moved into that Station after the Purge.
Sayid-"The purge. In which a group of scientist attacked your people."
Mikhail tells him to believe whatever he wants, but that's what happened.
Danielle comes up the rear with her gun pointed at Mikhail's back. She asked if he killed Sayid's friends. Sayid tells her no; they are collecting whatever maybe useful from the farmhouse, "And now we have our ticket to where the others live. Where we'll find your daughter and Jack. And finally perhaps, a way home."
{Again, when Danielle speaks from behind Mikhail, watch his face!}
Mikhail-“There is nothing you can do to me that would make me lead you there.”
Sayid-"I didn't say you were our ticket, Did I?"
Sayid takes out a map shows it to Mikhail. It shows electrical and data cabling running from the Flame to a place called the Barracks. We learn it's comprised of houses and dormitories with water and power large enough to accommodate an entire community. Sayid wants to visit this place.
Mikhail threatens, "There will come a time when your guard is down. And when it is I will not hesitate a moment before killing you. You should know this before..."
Danielle conveniently cuts off Mikhail in mid sentence! She tells Sayid he's making an excellent point, "You have a map. Why keep him alive?"
Mikhail smiles.

Sayid is chained to the kitchen. {He is on the ground with his silver bowl, looking very animal-like.}
Amira comes in with her gray cat. She tells Sayid the story of when she and hubby first arrived to Paris and she was afraid to leave her apartment.  She would stare out the window into the alley. She goes on to say how children trapped the cat in a box and how she rescued the cat from bad children who were lighting firecrackers and drop them in the box.  She heard the cat howl from three stories up.  Amira now had a reason to leave the apartment; she brought the cat home. The cat sits, sleeps, purrs with her.  Everyone once in a while the cat will bite or scratch her because he forgets that he is safe now. She forgives him for this. She knows what it's like to never feel safe. What she wants from Sayid "acknowledging what you did to me. That is was you who questioned me. That tortured me. That you remember me."
Sayid straightens up and proclaims, "I remember you. I remember your face. Your face has haunted me ever since I left Iraq. {He cries} I am sorry. I am so sorry for what I did to you."
They both cry and Amira forgives him. When her husband returns she will tell him that she made a terrible mistake; that it was not him and he will release him. Sayid asks her why she's letting him go. Amira tells him that we are all capable of doing what the children did to the cat. But she will not do that; she will not be that.

Danielle tells Sayid they should kill Mikhail because he will kill them.
Sayid- "No. He is my prisoner. I will decide his fate.”
Kate and Locke join them. Locke tells them he just played the chess game again.
He turns to Mikhail and says, "And now I realize why you didn't want me to beat it."
Sayid-"Meaning what?"
BOOM! The farm house blows up!
Locke looks surprised.
Sayid- "What have you done John? That place was our only hope of communication with the outside world."
John tells him that the computer said if there was an incursion by the Hostiles, I should enter 7 7. So I entered 7 7.
Sayid said they should go as the explosion may attract attention.
As they are walking away from the Flame Sayid sees the gray cat.













ENTER 7 7 is a friggin' GREAT AND IMPORTANT EPISODE!

I have to start with something I find REALLY BIG. You’re all going to call me crazy, but...Opening with Sawyer! He looks like he walked right out of the Flash for Every Man for Himself"!! Did he? His hair is long, top pony tail, blue button down shirt, scruffy. It's not exact. But very similar!    Of course he's missing the prisoner number on his shirt.  So that makes me ask...Why would this be, hmmm???  I just find the whole 'I just walked right out of my prison flash' look, fucking AMAZING!!!!! He had the same hair style in Exodus. I've said this before and I'll say it again... Events are blurred together.

The next big thing is LOCKE!  Is he a "Grand Master" or creator of a game?  I can't help but feel not only the game element here but also the literal "connection" to computers.








Things to Note...Questions to ask... 
♜ They are all in a living, breathing, moving Chess game. Games. Computers are involved.   Have I been watching a frickin' video game play out?
♜ Nadia, the cat and the girlfriend- The world’s greatest athlete, Comaneci was born November 12, 1961. She won five gold medals in 1976, in Canada. The Russian name Nadia means Hope.
♜ The cat:  An image-prop to trigger an action? The cat's are eerily the same. Hint to people looking similar, yet are different? Or are they really the same?
♜ Mikhail:  What's the real story? How long is he really there? How old is he? He may be just a "bit" player.
♜ Three verbal different versions of the hatch incident:  Imploded, Exploded, Collapsed.
♜ Again, someone is surprised about the sailboat!
♜  Eye patches remind me of pirates.
♜  Ping Pong- The action of the ball being hit back and forth. Over and Over.
♜ Computer. Wires. Logs. Manuals. Video feeds. Files. Programmed. Codes. Cheats. Hub. Uplink. Satellite dish. Game.
♜  Cheat is a loophole.
♜ Grandmasters. {Perhaps we saw them in this episode.} Games.
♜  Where's the beef? There must be livestock somewhere to have all that meat! Mikhail aint eatin boar! Maybe he's not eating at all. Or livestock as in...?
♜  Stations and Hatches with more access to go even further under/underground/underneath.
♜  Clue to the possibility of "A. B. C."
♜  I'm noting a few new clue words lately- ice, avalanche, cold. This raises new questions for me.
♜  Is Locke a Grand Master? After all, he beat the computer game.
♜  Locke enters 7 7 with the prompt of a Hostile incursion. Why? Who is the Hostile?
♜  In Star Wars there is an event called Great Jedi Purge WooooHooo!
♜  A group of scientist attacked Mikhail's people.  Is that an answer to the Hostile question? Because Mikhail said to Sayid he didn't know who the Hostiles were. It was Sayid who says "group of scientists"
♜"...with the outside world."   Telling us they are "inside"something.
♜ EYES- Again, why the eye color changes?   Now that I've gotten this far with the whole eye thing, we need to investigate a pattern (If any) on eye changes. Or point blank clue to look alike/replica, altered state of consciousness?
♜  Are we being clued in to the possibility that there are people who look the same, but are different?!  If so, how are they being separated from each other?  Are they on different "Islands"? If there are look a likes, it would be very easy to mistake someone for the other someone.   Maybe that wasn't really Miss. Klugh either. Maybe the images of certain people are cloned to fill in certain roles.
♜  When is the "Flash" from?   Sayid spends time in Paris, France and cannot understand Danielle's 16 year loop recording? Come on!!

Vocabulary and Research...  
♦ Hostiles: An antagonistic person or thing. An enemy in warfare. Another word for Hostile is alien, adverse inhospitable, malevolent, malicious, militant, opposed, opposite, unwelcoming, unfriendly.
♦ Satellite- Are used for many things. This we know.
   Here's a few to note:
- Artificial satellite, an object placed into orbit by human endeavor. Or, Object orbiting a celestial object.
- Satellite campus, which is physically detached from the main campus.
- Satellite- A species of moth.
- Fictional Satellite weapon. Golden Eye is the 17th spy film of the James Bond series.
♦ Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin-was a well-known Russian revolutionary. He studied philosophy and frequented radical circles. Bakunin's political beliefs rejected governing systems in every name and shape, from the idea of God downwards, and every form of external authority. He wrote seminal work such as Statism and Anarchy and God and the State.
♦ Chess: is a recreational and competitive game played between 2 players. The tradition of organized competitive chess started in the 16^th century.  One of the goals of early computer scientists was to create a chess-playing machine, and today's chess is deeply influenced by the abilities of current chess programs and by the possibility to play online. Chess is played on a square board of 8 rows (called ranks and denoted with numbers 1 to 8) and 8 columns (called files and denoted with letters a to h) of squares. The colors of the 64 squares alternate and are referred to as "light squares" and "dark squares". The chessboard is placed with the light squares at the players' right, and the pieces are set out as shown in the diagram, with each queen on its own color. The pieces are divided, by convention, into White and Black sets. Each player, referred to by the color of his pieces, begins the game with 16 pieces: these comprise one king, one queen, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, 2 knights and 8 pawns. White moves first. The colors are chosen either by a friendly agreement, by a game of chance or by a tournament director. The players alternate moving one piece at a time (with the exception of castling, when 2 pieces are moved simultaneously). Pieces are moved to either an unoccupied square, or one occupied by an opponent's piece, capturing it and removing it from play. With one exception (en passant), all pieces capture opponent's pieces by moving to the square that the opponent's piece occupies. Chess games do not have to end in checkmate — either player may resign if the situation looks hopeless. Besides casual games without exact timing, chess is also played with a time control, mostly by club and professional players. If a player's time runs out before the game is completed, he automatically loses. Games also may end in a draw (tie).
♦ HUB- The center of a wheel, normally incorporating a bearing.
 - Connecting computers.
♦  SEVEN-
 - The code for international direct dial phone calls to Russia and Kazakhstan.
 - "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information" is a 1956 paper by the cognitive psychologist George A. Miller. In it Miller showed a number of remarkable coincidences between the channel capacity of a number of human cognitive and perceptual tasks. Working memory is generally considered to have limited capacity. Example- In the novel Watership Down the rabbit characters use the word hrair to refer to any number too large to count. For rabbits, this is any number greater than four, whereas, for humans,hrair would be greater than 7 plus or minus 2.
In organization theory the limit has a similar meaning: the maximum number of projects that one can be involved in simultaneously before chaos starts to ensue.
- In The Dark Tower series by Stephen King there are 7 books.
- 7 Sages.
- 7 wonders of the ancient world.
- The legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus tells of the falling asleep of seven young men in a cave, who wake up after a great deal of time has passed.
- The 7 Seas.
- The number of chakras.
- The number of basic principles of the Bushido.
- The number of points on a sheriff's star.
- Septimal time.
* In Buddhism The Seven Jewels of Royal Power:
The Precious Queen
The Precious General
The Precious Horse
The Precious Jewel
The Precious Minister or Householder
The Precious Elephant
The Precious Wheel.
♦ Purge: To rid of whatever is impure or undesirable, cleanse, purify. To free, clear, remove, empty.
Synonyms-abolition, catharsis, clarification, cleaning, clean up, coup, wash.




The Flame is known as the Hub, so this must mean it is this the center of the blast door map; the "?"?

Sayid seems to have looked into "Amira" {a mirror}.  Has he faced the truth about something that has haunted him or something that motivates him?
"Because he forgets that he is safe now..." Is it possible that they have forgotten they are safe now? Shouldn't they feel safe being home?!


Love to all who are "LOST"™


Posted at MySpace on January 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.