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September 8, 2009

...And Found.

Let's talk about LOST! ...And Found.

Claire and Sun are on the beach wringing out clothes. The waves are crashing.
Sun-“It’s been four days.”
Claire feels that’s not that long, "They said it could take up to two weeks to find a current. I mean, Michael knew what he was doing. I doubt anything would have…”
Sun realizes her wedding ring is missing. This is very upsetting to her. She is panicked and is speaking in Korean.
Claire-“What?”
But Sun is focused on looking for it and speaking in Korean.
Sun tells Claire, “My wedding ring, it's gone.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Sun is sitting in front of the mirror and puts a jeweled hairpin in her hair. Her mother comes in and asks if she plans on wearing that. {They speak only in Korean}
Sun wonders what’s wrong with her attire.  Mom picks up a pair of beautiful shoes/pumps and takes them away.
Shoe-less Sun yells out that she likes those shoes. Her mother likes them too, but tells Sun she’s to wear another pair, “He might be shorter than you...“
Mother brings her a pair of flats. Sun feels this is ridiculous.
Mother-“If you'd found a husband in college we wouldn't need a matchmaker.”
Sun-“I went to college to get a degree.”
Mother-“And after four years of college, you're ‘silver’. Don't you want to find a husband before you turn ‘bronze’?”
Sun feels she’ll find a husband when the time is right.
Mother-“Well, your father says the time is now.”

Jin and his friend are in an apartment. Jin is putting on a tie while Tai Soo reads a "Destiny book". {They speak only in Korean.}
Tai-“I'm telling you, man, this year love will find you.”
Jin-“Well if the destiny book says it, it must be true.”
Tai-“My grandma used this book to meet my grandfather. It never fails.”
Jin-“What kind of woman? I mean, what she look like, so I'll know when I see her?”
Tai-“Orange.”
Jin, in front of the mirror, questions, “Orange?”
Tai-“Yes, love will look... orange.”
Jin-“I can't take care of a woman, I can barely take care of myself!”
Tai-“You could always let a woman take care of you.”
Jin puts on his shoes, “That's not what a man does. A man needs a goal in life. He works harder than anyone. He gets promoted. Then he'll be respected...not like the son of a fisherman.”
Tai feels it’s only a job interview.
Jin knows it’s a very important job interview. He asks Tai how he looks, “Stunning, huh?”
Mr. Stunning forgot to cut the tag off the tie. Jin couldn’t cut the tag off it because then he couldn’t return it, “This tie cost a fortune.”
Jin playfully slaps Tai with the tie.
Tai-“So, Jin, what should I do if Love calls?”
Jin smiles, “Tell it to wait.”     He heads out the door.
{Flash Whoosh}
Jin, Michael and Sawyer, who is sleeping, sit in the dark Arrow Station. The Tailies are huddled and whispering about the three Castaways. {What is so secret that these people cannot speak openly in front of the Lostie's? Why are they still treating them like prisoners? They're all supposed to be in the same situation, apparently NOT! The Tailies are made up of different group of people for sure.}
Michael, in his orange shirt, feels compelled to go over to Jin and tell him in English, “It’s okay. Sun...you'll be with her again. Soon, OK. {He wakes Sawyer and whispers} Hey, I think they're trying to figure out what to do with us.”   {Jin understands him}
Sawyer thinks they’re going to eat them. Ana, with her big sticks, tells them all to get up, “We’re moving out.”
Michael-“Moving out where?”
Ana-“You’re going to help us get food and water.”
Sawyer questions if they work for her now. Ana feels they’re going to do it because they have a long walk ahead of them.
Sawyer-“A long walk where?"
Ana Lucia-“Back to where you came from."


As they exit the Arrow Station, Ana Lucia makes sure all is clear.  Sawyer whispers to Michael that he thinks they should stage a prison break here. Michael wants to figure out what the hell is going on over here before he makes any decisions about anything.

Ana Lucia speaks loudly as she tells everyone to listen up, “We need to gather as much food and water as we can. You travel in pairs. You move as fast as you can. Don't make any noise.”
Michael wants her to take a minute to explain to them what the hell is going on over here that’s got them all so on edge.
Ana Lucia-“You know what? That's a great idea, maybe we can swap stories on the road.”
The big dude is going to go scout before they move.
Sawyer whispers under his breath that he thinks she needs to be slapped.  Ana directs Cindy to go with Michael. {Cindy and Libby have big sticks that look more like hockey sticks or a shepherd's staff.} Bernard and Ana will gather the fish, but Jin would like to help as he knows how to fish. Jin will go with them as per Sawyer’s encouragement.

At the beach Sun is frantically looking for her wedding ring. Jack sees her behavior and asks her if she’s okay. Upset Sun confesses she lost her wedding ring.
Jack-“When was the last time you saw it?”
Sun doesn’t know as she’s gotten used to it.
Jack-“I lost my wedding ring once. It's crazy where you’ll look when you want to find something bad enough. I went through the garbage outside the house…emptied the bags and everything. I even took apart the pipes in my bathroom because I was convinced that it had gone down the drain in the sink.”
Sun-“What did your wife say?"
Jack-“She never knew.”   {Jack is capable of deception and secret keeping}
Sun-“How is that?"
Jack-“I went to a jeweler and I had a replica made, that's how. {He looks at his left hand} Yeah, now it's just rattling around in my sock drawer back home.   Um, I can help you look. {He doesn't admit divorce or anything else. But I'm sure we need to know that so when he does get back to 'Sarah' he can wear his ring again, for a little while anyway! lol}
Sun-“No, thanks. I'm sure it will turn up."

Jin is picking off and tossing the pointy parts of a urchin into the water. {Bait}
Ana Lucia and Bernard are struggling with a net. Ana yells over to Jin for some help. Jin shakes his head no. {He understands English!}
Ana Lucia-“You want to eat? Help us!” {She gestures eating} Jin replies in Korean.
Ana Lucia-“Does it look like I speak Korean?”
Jin throws his net into the water and pulls in a bunch of fish. He is proud, “Fish.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Jin sits in an office for his job interview with Kim Kwan-Hak, General Manager. {They speak only in Korean. The scene is bathed in Orange.}
Mr. Kim looks over Jin’s application and notes he worked at the Asiana Hotel as a busboy. Jin shares that he became a waiter.
Mr. Kim-“They don't promote from within.”
Jin-“No, sir. Not usually. I believe I was one of the few exceptions."
Mr. Kim-“What village are you from?”
He says it’s obvious Jin’s not from the city.
Jin-“Namhae. On the south coast.”
Mr. Kim-“No wonder. I thought I smelled fish on you.”
He pulls the price tag off of Jin’s tie, ”This was sticking out.”
Jin thanks him.
Mr. Kim picks up the phone and tells whomever that, “Mr. Kwon will be joining us.”
He tells happy Jin, “You will start immediately. You work rain or shine. You don't ask for a raise or time off.” {What is he, a frickin robot?} A man knocks on the door and enters presenting Jin with a uniform. {Black suit, white gloves, top hat and a rose.}


Mr. Kim-“And Mr. Kwon... The Seoul Gateway is one of the finest hotels in the country. Do not open the door for people like you.” {What a mutha fucker! That dude needs an attitude adjustment.}
Jin-“Yes, sir. I understand. I will do my best. Thank you, sir.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Orange shirt wearing Michael and Libby walk through the jungle. Libby apologizes to him. Michael asks what for.
Libby-“You know, about throwing you and your friends into the pit.”
Michael-“Friends.”
Libby-“What?”
Michael just never thought about it like that; he guesses one of them is his friend. Libby guesses not the redneck. Michael confirms not the redneck.  Libby doesn’t think she’s ever seen someone so scared in her life, and she knows about scared.  Michael asks if that’s why she threw them in the pit, “Because you were scared?”
Libby confesses they have trust issues.
Annoyed Michael-“Huh, how about that? Where the hell are all the fruit?”
Libby states they picked these trees pretty clean. Sometimes you can find them on the ground.”
Michael is looking deep into the jungle and asks, “Why don't you head inland? That's where all the fruit is on our side.”
Libby-“We don't go that way.”
Michael wonders why.
Scared Libby informs him, “Because that's where They come from.”

Sawyer is sitting, dozing off.
Ana Lucia, Bernard, Cindy and Jin sort through the fish and fruit.  A huge piece of metal/knife is stabbed in a piece of wood next to Sawyer. He jolts awake and is informed by the big dude that this is for his protection for when they travel. {Are they taking too many steps while holding the ball?! Lol}
Sawyer asks him, “Did you make this? {he nods yep} So what's your name, anyway?”
The big dude’s name is “Mr. Eko.” {Watch how Eko delivers his name. Very dramatic} Sawyer wonders if that’s like Mr. Ed.


Libby runs over to Ana Lucia to tattle on Michael, “He just left.”   He said something and then went into the jungle, “He's gone.”
Jin listens.
Ana tells everyone they’re leaving now, “Let's go.”
Sawyer questions her.
Ana informs him that his buddy ran off into the jungle. Jin communicates with Sawyer in Korean.
Bernard-“What's he trying to say? What's he saying?”
Jin goes on in Korean and blurts out “Walt! Walt!”
Sawyer looks pissed.
Ana Lucia-“Let's go. We're moving out now. Cindy, water. Libby, can you carry the radio?”
Libby has the radio.
Sawyer-“Wait, you have a radio? Does it work? Can you use it?”
Sarcastic Ana thinks that’s a great idea, “You going to slow us down?”
Jin is very upset about Michael being out there. Ana wants them to get going before Michael can tell Them where they are. Jin again tries to communicate to Sawyer about Michael.
Sawyer-“What are we supposed to do, wait for him?  He ain't coming back without his kid. Walt! He ain't coming back without Walt. You really think he's going to find him? In case you haven't noticed it's every man for himself, Chewie. Mike's got to worry about Mike. And I've got to worry about me."
Pissed off and motivated Jin starts to leave and Eko tries to stop him but Jin punches Eko.  So Eko head butts him, knocking Jin to the ground.   Jin gets up, they have a short stare down and then Eko moves out of the way so Jin can go.
Eko-“You're going the wrong way. {points in opposite direction} That's where he's going. Toward Them.”
Eko hands Jin a handmade weapon {looks like a hockey stick or a wooden shepherd's staff}.
Concerned Ana asks Eko what he’s doing.
Eko-“I'm going to help him find his friend.”
Ana informs him they can’t wait for him and Eko doesn’t expect them too.

Hurley and Sun walk along the beach. Hurley tells Sun all she’s gotta do is retrace her steps. He asked her what she did yesterday.
Sun-“I woke up, washed up, walked with Shannon, picked some fruit, cut it up to feed Vincent. And then I was...”
Hurley thinks that’s it, “BINGO!”
Sun and Hurley wait around to see if Vincent ate the ring.   Vincent looks like he’s eating something but he’s also nosing around in the ivy.  Hurley asks Sun if Seoul is the good Korea or the bad. Sun says the good one. Hurley wonders if she went to Olympics. Sun just feels this is ridiculous waiting for...”The dog did not eat my ring.”
Hurley knows dogs will eat anything, “When I was a kid, my dog Buster. I had a drawer where I’d throw in all my change, right? I guess there was some ‘Smarties' in there. So like the next day Buster craps out a buck thirty five in nickels.”
Sun is not amused. Sun owned a dog. Jin gave Sun a puppy named Bopo. Bopo means a kiss. {In Italian it would be Bacci, just thought you'd like to know that.LOL}
{Flash Whoosh}
Sun and her wealthy mother get out of a fancy chauffeur driven car. {They speak only in Korean} Mother is instructing her to keep her hands in her lap, “In fact, don't speak unless they ask you a direct question.”
A woman greets them, mentions how beautiful Sun is, “You're going to love him! He's handsome... well educated... and his family owns this hotel, and twelve others.”
They enter the grand hotel. The doorman bows down and welcomes them to the Seoul Gateway. The doorman is happy Jin.

Sun and her mother are sitting at a table with her "date," Jae Lee, and his mother. Mrs. Paik compliments their hotel.
Mrs. Lee understands that Sun attended Seoul National University. Indeed she did, but it’s certainly no Harvard. The two manipulating mother's give the two some time to get to know each other. Sun looks uncomfortable. {Orange drinks} Jae asks Sun who’s pressuring her more, her mother or father.
Sun-“My father... via my mother. What about you?”
Jae-"My father...via my mother...via my aunt...via my grandmother. What did you study?”
Sun studied Art history. Jae doesn’t know anything about art. He studied Medieval Russian Literature, but somehow ended up in hotel management. {HUH? Medieval Russian Literature. Why? Is that a big money making career? LOL.}
Jae confesses he usually dreads these set-ups, but today is different. It is different for Sun too. She smiles.
{Flash Whoosh}
Mr. Eko and his big stick lead Jin on their trek to find Michael. Eko stops and is listening to something. Jin hears it and wants to run to it thinking it’s Michael, but Eko wants him to wait. Jin runs off and hears what sounds like someone walking in the jungle. He sees the trees move and a huge boar charges at Jin, knocking him down. Jin jolts up as he sees a dead man with a stick through his chest.

Eko reveals his name was Goodwin. Jin, who is covering his mouth and nose from the smell wonders, “Others.”
Eko nods yes.
As they continue their search, Eko breaks off a piece of aloe and Jin wonders, “Michael?”
Eko says no, it’s for his cut.
Eko-“So, you're married? Your ring. You have a wife?” {Again, Jin understands}
Jin-“Yes. You?”
They drink from the funky canteen.
Eko-“Worse. Your wife, what is her name? Her name?"
Jin-“ Sun."
Eko-“She was with you? On the plane?” {Eko uses a hand gesture to indicate plane}
Jin nods yes.

Sun is in her garden looking through the soil for her ring. She gets totally angry and starts ripping up plants in frustration. {Roots} She sits down and cries.
Locke wanders by in all his Locke-ness {I love Locke!} and asks her, “Bad day? {Hands her a handkerchief made blue plaid cloth } It's clean.”
Sun thanks him.
Locke-“You mind if I sit?”
Sun gestures for him to sit and blots her tears.
Sun-“Did you see me?”
Locke-“Rip apart your garden? No. {Sun chuckles, obviously he saw her} Sometimes I wish I had a garden to tear apart.”


Sun-“I don't think I have ever seen you angry.”
Locke chuckles- “Oh, I used to get angry all the time. Frustrated too.”
Sun seems intrigued by that and asks, “You are not frustrated anymore?”
Locke smiles and shares, “I'm not lost anymore.”
Sun-“How did you do that?”

Locke-“Same way anything lost gets found...{He replants a plant right in front of her}…I stopped looking.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Sun looks into her compact mirror while she sits alone waiting on “someone” to arrive at the restaurant.
Jin is the happy doorman at the hotel. {Fu/Foo Dogs outside the entrance} A car horn beeps and he runs to escort the person out. Jin welcomes Mr. Jae Lee. Jae asks Jin if he can borrow that {his pinned on rose} because he has a date. Jin is happy to help out. As Jin opens the door for him, Jae asks {They speak only in Korean} “Your name is...?”
Jin-“Jin Soo Kwon, sir.”
Jae Thanks Mr. Kwon. Jin is pleased.


Jae is sitting with Sun in the restaurant, he’s in the middle of telling her a story.
Jae-‘...then the card slips out of the door and there I am in the hallway, wearing only a towel!”
Sun is amused, “I thought that only happened in movies.”
Jae-“I had to convince the maid I owned the hotel... but she didn't believe me! How embarrassing!”
Sun can’t believe how normal Jae is. Jae thinks she’s great too. {He is wearing the rose}
Jae-“So... I'd really like for us to keep seeing each other. Our parents will be so thrilled. No more ‘matchmakers.’ No more pressure. We can be free. Can I tell you a secret? {She says yes} When I was at Harvard, I met an American woman... I haven't told my father yet, but... in six months, I'm going to move there and marry her. {She looks disappointed} Wait... you didn't think...”
Sun says of course not; she is very happy for him. The manager comes over asking if there’s anything else they need; coffee or dessert.
Sun-“No, thank you. In fact, I have an appointment.”
Sun thanks Jae for lunch and exits.
{Flash Whoosh}
Eko and Jin are still searching. Jin starts to walk in a different direction {Left} but Eko corrects him, “No, not that way. Over here.”
He found a footprint, “A round heel. This is fresh. These tracks...”
Jin -“Michael.”
Eko feels yes its Michael, “They don't leave tracks.”



Eko is hot on the trail of the tracks but stops to look and listen. {He’s looking up}
Jin asks “Where?”
Eko literally covers Jin’s mouth to silence him.
Eko-“Shhh”


We follow along a ground level view to find Jin and Eko hidden in the thick brush with only their eyes showing. They watch several sets of dirty, muddy barefoot people quietly walking by single file, with the last one dangling a teddy bear hanging from either wire or vine. {They made no sounds, and only slight sound when stepping down on twigs}
Jin and Eko get up from their hiding place, and Jin leads to follow the passersby to get to Michael but Eko tells Jin no, they don’t have him, “They came from that way {points} Your friend went that way {pointing in other direction}, crossed ahead of them... very lucky.”
Jin-“You, go back. I go.”
Eko refuses, “No, we go together.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Happy Jin is welcoming and opening the door at the hotel. As he bows, Sun walks right out the door; they never see each other. A “common poor” man asks Jin if his son can use the hotel bathroom because it’s an emergency; he really has to go.
Jin is sorry and explains it is for hotel guests only and mentions there’s a bathroom down the street. He asks the fidgety boy if he can hold it. The boy says no, giving puppy dog eyes, so Jin lets them in. The boy’s father calls Jin a good man.
Mr. Kim sees this and goes right up to Jin asking what he told him about who he lets inside. Jin apologizes.
Mr. Kim-“Consider this your first warning.”
Jin tries to reason with the manager by having compassion for the little boy.
Mr. Kim-“He can piss in the gutter for all I care. You people are used to that. If you want to keep your job go find them and get them out of here!”
Jin takes off his gloves and hat. Mr. Kim wonders what he’s doing. Jin hands over the hat and gloves and thanks him for the opportunity.
{Flash Whoosh}
Ring-less Sun sits on the beach rubbing her finger, staring out to the water. Kate walks over, remarks about how pretty the Ocean is and mentions Hurley shared that Sun lost her wedding ring.
Sun-“I was just sitting here telling myself it's silly to be so upset about it...it is just a thing.”
Kate-“Well, they've only been gone a few days, and....”
Sun- “Don't! I'm sick of everyone saying he's alright. He's not alright. Claire found the bottle. The one with the messages inside. The one from the raft.”
Kate asks where it is.
Sun-“I buried it.”

The Tailies and Sawyer continue their trek. Only Sawyer is getting weaker so he sits. Ana gives him water and remarks that if he keeps slowing them down they’re going to leave him behind.
Sawyer-“Go ahead, leave me behind.”
Ana- “See ya.”
Sawyer has a question for her, “Now that your tracker's gone how are you going to find our camp without me?”
Ana Lucia-“Walk across the island, follow the beaches. And Eko's coming back.”
Sawyer asks if she’s married. Ana says no.
Sawyer feels that’s too bad as she seems suited for it.
Ana asks if he’s married then asks if he’s gay. He answers no to being married.
Sawyer stands up-“Funny. Let's go. What are we waiting for?”

Jin and Eko stop at the stream. Jin sips water from his hand while Eko fills up the canteen. Eko tells Jin to wait here as they lost his trail. He'll go back and find it. He heads off.
Jin is alone and Michael appears on the other side of the stream. Michael asks Jin what he’s doing, “Go back.”
Jin-“Michael!”
Michael yells for Jin to “Go back, man!”
Jin looks back to the direction Eko went then turns to see Michael run off. Jin takes his stick weapon and runs after Michael into the jungle.
Michael is calling out for Waaaaalt. Jin calls out to Michael.
Michael-“Go away! I'm not going back without him! Walt! I'm here! Where are you, man? {He yells louder} Walt!! {Jin tries to quiet him} What, you worried they're going to hear me? {Michael yells even louder} Let them take me! Come! Come take me!”
Eko appears and tells him shouting is not a good idea, “You need to come back with us now.”
Michael {pointing at Eko} is not leaving him/Walt out here.
Eko approaches and Michael and Michael raises his big stick prepared to hit Eko.
Eko- "I know they took your son. But you have no idea what these people are capable of. They will not be found if they don't want to be.” {Eko has 2 tied whiskers on his chin}
Michael is getting upset, “They took him right out of my hand… right out of my hand! I'm not going back without him.”
Jin, in English -“You find Walt, Michael.”
So the three stick carrying men head off.


Sun digs up the bottle of messages.
Kate-“Can I see it?"
She empties out the messages and is looking at them. {Probably wanted to see if anyone wrote a note about the fugitive Kate is on the island HA!}
Sun-“Kate! Those are private. Kate, stop. What are you doing?!”
Kate gets quiet-“We didn't, uh... I didn't say goodbye.”
Sun-“Sawyer?”
Kate looks down and smiles, “Sun.”
Kate nods her head in the direction she wants Sun to look. Sun picks up her wedding ring; she is relieved it is found. She cries and puts in on.
In the jungle Jin looks at his ring.
{Flash Whoosh}
Jin, dressed in dark and light is walking along a canal by a bridge in Seoul. A woman wearing an orange dress walks by him and he checks her out. As he turns back around he literally turns right into Sun and she drops her purse. He hands it back to her.
They look into each other's eyes...
DESTINY.
Sun on the beach crying and happy. You can see how relieved she is, but also how much in love she is with Jin!




...And Found is a GREAT episode. These poor lost people are trying so desperately trying to find something and even find themselves.   But through all of the challenges they face on the "Island" are there a few of them who don't want to be found or come face to face with a truth.  After all they will not be found if they don't want to be, they have to want it...they have to want to change.

Things to Note...Questions to ask...  
☯  Kwan. Kwon.
☯  Games. Bingo. Olympics.
☯  Art. Movies.
☯  Replica. Match. Pair.
☯  Silver. Bronze.
☯  Ring-Circle-Loop.
☯  Shoes. Feet.
☯  Orange-the color or the fruit? Locke uses orange slices to make big smiley faces. Michael wears an Orange shirt. Orange drinks.
☯  Rose. Roses.
☯ Jae is in the family business. Jack is in the "family business"
☯  Learn. University
☯  Prison.
☯  Language. Linguistics. Communication. Via. Radio.
☯  Language barriers seem to not interfere with communicating with each other. Besides, I think Jin may understand them all anyway. I know, I'm crazy like that!
☯  Eko has something “Worse” than a wife! WTF does that mean?!
☯  They symbol of the "Rose"... Is it a hint to our Rose on the "Island"? Rose (The Castaway) appears to all of us to be calm, at peace, all knowing about Bernard. She is different in all her behaviors from the rest of them. She is special. Why would this be? I've always questioned her. That may upset a few of you, I know. But when we got to the "Further Instructions" episode in season 3 and I detailed my Locke/Boone vision findings, it involved the remaining, living Losties, all of them except for Rose. Again, I wonder why?
☯  Why don’t the Others leave tracks? Are they not real?
☯ Locke tells Charlie in a previous episode that he was trying to track Desmond, but he didn't leave much of trail. Was Locke not really looking for Desmond, or does Desmond not leave tracks?
☯ Heart. Soul/Seoul. 
☯ Locke is a bald man that gives Sun some insight. Jae is a bald man who gives Sun a push in a different direction, right into Jin's path.
☯  Eko is Jin’s guide in the jungle. 
☯  Name. {Nahme} Identity.
☯  Sawyer calls Michael, Mike.
☯  Clues to doors and doorways, and to guarding 'said' doors. Who is guarding the doorways of the "Island" and on the "Island"?

Here's where I start to really look at the Tailies very differently. When we are first introduced to them I was apprehensive to say the least. Now at this point I find myself to really read between the lines with them and also read their body language. I know, you want to tell me to chill out, don't 'read' that much into stuff but I can't help myself.   The obvious two sections of two groups of people from two sides of the "Island"... TWO SIDES! Please really watch the Tailies. Look at them and how they are around each other, the words they say to each other, etc. When they speak to each other, they say things that can be taken as 'I know what I'm doing here, I know why I'm here, but I don't like it!' I think that our tail section people are aware of more than they let on.

Vocabulary and Research... 
♦ Replica-Italian-from Latin replicare (“to copy”)
  - is a copy that is relatively indistinguishable from the original.
  -is a client-server data replication system for Plan 9 from Bell Labs. The server stores changes to its file system in a log; the client updates itself by reading that log and applying any changes.
  -Replica=copy-imitation-model-duplication-reproduction-mock up-carbon copy
♦ Tie (Draw)a finish to a competition with identical results, particularly sports.
♦ Crook: A tool with a bend in it. 2). A shepherd's staff.  
- aka A crosier-staff of office (pastoral staff). Symbol of the Bishop or Apostle.
♦ Orange:
 - Hindu swamis traditionally wear orange robes.
 -Orange is used to symbolically represent the second chakra.
 -Orange represents the Noachide Law against blasphemy.
 -In the U.S. and Canada, orange regalia is associated with the field of engineering.
 -In baseball many Foul Poles are orange.
 -Orange is often quoted as a word that doesn't rhyme with any other word in the English language.
♦ Fish can refer to a poor chess or poker player.
- Buddhist symbolism: A pair of Golden Fish. Representing conjugal happiness and freedom.
- Phishin is an Internet crime
-FISh (programming language), an array programming language. Its strategy is to perform what it calls "static shape analysis" on all programs before executing them. This "shape computation" reduces higher-order functional programs to simple imperative forms.
-Files transferred over shell protocol-is a network protocol that uses Secure Shell (SSH) or Remote Shell (RSH) to transfer files between computers and manage remote files.
♦  (Fu) Foo Dogs: they are Asian imperial guardians. They are powerful mystic protectors that have stood in front of Chinese imperial palaces, temples, emperors tombs, government offices and the homes of government officials and the wealthy from the Han Dynasty. They were originally introduced to Han China as the Buddhist protector of Dharma.
♦  Rose- A rose is a beautiful flower. Some consider this flower to be the most beautiful and fragrant flower of all. With all its beauty it has thorns!
 -Another meaning for the word rose in its past tense is, Rise. Rise (Get up, Ascend, appear above the horizon, gain a higher position, origin, area of higher ground). Yes, I went a little extreme here with showing the past tense of the word, but it could be clues. wink, wink.
♦ Sun-The sun is a shining celestial body around which planets revolve. It gives us light; it is a huge star.




At this point should they all feel as Locke feels? He knows he's where he belongs, the "Island" and he actually states that he's not lost anymore.    It may be taking the rest of them a little longer to realize it.  They are not lost...well, they are lost but they're exactly where they're supposed to be.  This is especially true for Jack.
Sun and Jin, are they really truly and completely in love? Are they soul mates destined to be together forever?

Is it coincidence or chance that they literally bumped into each other or did fate and destiny cause their paths to cross? Was their meeting part of a bigger motive?   Is there such a thing as destiny being written out, predetermined?

Although my research may nudge me in one direction I can't help but WANT them to be in love and destined to be together regardless of how or why they bumped into each other.
Destiny.

Love to all who are "LOST"™



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

Exodus. Part 1

Let's talk about LOST!   Exodus. Part 1


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We get a shot of two Oceanic tickets. Walt opens the curtains in his hotel room to reveal the backdrop of Sydney Australia.  He looks down at the harbor.

Walt turns on the TV and blasts the volume The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers show. {Vincent is sitting on his bed}
Walt is defiant to Michael as Michael tries to get Walt to go back to sleep and lower the volume. Michael looks at the clock-radio, its 5:23 am.
Walt turns up the volume; Brian lets him watch it as loud as he wants.
Michael, who is not Brian, grabs the remote and turns off the TV. Walt storms out of the room with leashed Vincent.
Michael goes after him and Walt just taunts him yelling, “Get away from me…You're not my father… You're not my father!" {Can Walt feel that he is not his 'father'?}
Walt attempts to get on the elevator; 3rd floor.   Michael grabs his arm and pulls him back to toward the room.
Michael-“I don't like this either, but you're getting on that plane”
Walt-“No, I'm not!”
A dude wearing black and white asks what’s going on.
Michael- “It's okay, I'm his father.”
Walt yells, “No, you're not. You're not my father. You're not my father!”
{Flash Whoosh}
Michael and Walt are sleeping on the beach. Vincent is right beside Walt.
Walt wakes up and heads over to pee by a tree; not waking anyone else.  He hears something {Like bird wings flapping} and then armed Danielle appears and quietly strolls into camp.   He quietly keeps an eye on her, following her.  Danielle and Walt make eye contact and Walt runs to wake up Michael.
Walt-“Dad! Dad, wake up! …Somebody's here.”
Danielle makes her way closer. The rest of the camp starts to wake up and Vincent is barking. Michael yells for her to stop “Stay right there. Who is that?”
Sawyer comments it must be the French chick. Sayid wants everyone to calm down, “It’s alright.” Danielle just gazes at the crying baby.
Sayid asks Danielle {who is in a zombie stare} what she’s doing there.
Danielle-“The Others are coming.”
She goes into the story of her arrival on the island while the Lostie’s listen intently as if she’s telling a wonderful scary ghost story.
“Our ship went aground on this island 16 years ago. There were six of us. My team.  6.   At that time…I was already 7 months pregnant. I delivered the infant myself.   The baby and I were together for only 1 week…when I saw black smoke.  A pillar of black smoke 5 kilometers inland. That night…they came. They came and took her.  Alex.  They took my baby.  And now…they're coming again. They're coming for all of you.”
Jack-“Whose coming?”
Danielle-“The Others. You have only three choices: {at Charlie} run, {at Michael} hide, {at Jack} or die.”

Jack walks on the beach with Locke and tells him, “This is a woman who blew up her own shelter. And now she's talking about seeing black smoke and hearing whispers. I mean, she's not playing with a full deck.”
Locke feels that doesn’t mean what she’s saying isn’t true.
Jack-“Well, if you want to focus on the ‘what if’ be my guest, but I've got to stick with what's tangible. And right now that's the launching of the raft."
Jack asks Michael how things are going with the raft.   Michael wanted to get off today but realistically after they get the rudder done they’ve still have to lay the rails to get it down to the water. Jack wonders if it would save time if they laid the rails while Michael was finishing the rudder.
Michael claims, “Manpower shortage.”
Jack needs 20 minutes to gather everybody and have them collect palm tree logs and then move the raft.
Michael guides everyone in the execution of the raft moving.  He tells them to use the levers as they need leverage to get it on the rails. On his count…1…2…3….Lift and PUSH!
Michael coaches them to “Push! Push! Push! Use the levers, use the levers. Good, good. 1…2…3…lift!”
The raft gathers a bit of speed and the mast breaks off.   Michael can’t believe it and he is pissed! {He gives a nasty look to Sawyer.}
Sawyer-“What are you looking at me for? It's not my fault."
Michael blames him for missing a lever.
Sawyer blames Michael for not keeping the raft going straight. Walt calls for dad’s attention, pointing out a pillar of black smoke inland. {Dog barks in the background.}

Jack wonders-“How many of them are there?”
Danielle has told them all she knows as she is rubbing a red cloth on her rifle.
Sayid-“There has to be more you tell us. How did you know?”
Danielle feels they have a bigger problem. “I can vanish into the jungle, but I'm just one person. You have 40 people. Where will you hide them?”

Hurley, Danielle, Jack, Locke and Sayid arrive at the hatch.  Danielle touches the hatch in amazement and asks, “What is this?”     But they were hoping she could tell them what it is. She claims to never having seen anything like it before.    Hurley feels the question is how they know they can all fit in there.
Locke-“No handle on the outside means there must be another way in. Another entrance means space.”
Sayid-“This is a mistake. We don't know anything about these Others. We're reacting with no information, no intelligence. This hatch might even be theirs. Black smoke on the horizon doesn't mean they're... “
Danielle feels it means they're coming.
Locke- “You booby-trapped your shelter with explosives. You have any more?”
Danielle-“Dynamite. At the Black Rock, in the Dark Territory.
Hurley-“Well, that's three reasons to go right there.”
She feels if they’re to make it back by sunset they have to leave within the hour. Locke seems pleased as he shares a look with Jack.

Jack sits in the Sydney airport bar. He has a glass of clear liquid with a stirrer.
He meets Ana Lucia {Ana is wearing a white shirt with a round brown circle, 2 necklaces, brown leather jacket, ring on left ring finger.}
Ana orders a Tequila and tonic with a wedge of lemon and asks Jack, “Why were you yelling? The girl…at the check-in counter. You were yelling at her.”
Jack asks if he knows her. Ana reveals she is on his flight.
Ana Lucia-“L.A.. So your dad died, huh?”
Jack thought she didn’t hear what he was yelling about but she claims she was just being polite. Jack shares his dad died of a heart attack
Ana Lucia-“Not a drinker, huh?”
Jack-“No, no, not really.”
Ana Lucia, who is wearing a ring asks Jack- “No ring because you're single or because you don't like wearing one?”
Jack-“You asking me if I'm married?"
Ana Lucia-“Are you married?"
Jack-“No. No, not anymore.” He orders another tequila and tonic.
Ana Lucia- “I didn't think you were listening.”
Jack asks her name and wonders why she’s drinking tequila and tonics at ten to noon. {He checks his watch for the time. 11:50 am. Also, we don’t get her last name.}
Ana admits she hates flying and they stuck her all the way in the back of the plane where the wheels come down right under your damn feet. She asks him where he’s sitting.
Jack looks at his ticket to check it- “23B.”
Ana Lucia-“42F. Wanna trade?”
Just then her cell rings and she’s gotta talk. She tells him they’ll have the next drink on the plane.
Jack-“42F.”
Ana Lucia-“42F, right. And Jack, the worst part's over.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Jack-“Look… I know you're all scared. And I know everybody has a lot of questions. All I can tell you right now is that we do have a plan. We've got to go into the jungle to get some supplies. We'll be back in a few hours. In the meantime, do everything you can to help Michael get that raft on the water. And after that, go to the caves. We'll be back as soon as we can. Promise.”
Arzt feels it was a nice speech but the plan’s a little flawed, “But, hey, nobody's perfect.
Arzt-“Yeah, your plan. You're going to go into the jungle and get some
dynamite and blow open a hatch and then you're going to hide everyone inside. You want to keep a secret don't tell the fat guy. Jack wonders what Arzt wants.
Arzt- “God knows how long that dynamite has been out there. And from what I can tell Madam Nutso doesn't seem too concerned with how to handle it. So, unless you want to blow up, I'm coming with you.”
Jack says okay; grab some water bottles; they’re leaving in half an hour.

Michael and the Castaways are working on the raft.   He feels they can salvage the cable but need new bamboo for the mast. Jin checks out the rails under the raft and says something in Korean to Michael. Michael seems to understand him and answers, “We need to fix the rudder before we even start to think about that.”
Jin says something else in Korean. Sawyer asks if they need some help but Michael and Jin just walk right by Sawyer.  Sawyer tells them this wasn’t his fault and they should put him to work.  Michael feels they can just work faster this way.  Jin communicates in Korean to Michael and Michael replies, as if understanding, “Alright, alright. What do you think I'm doing over here?”
{Flash Whoosh}
Sawyer is at a Sydney police station.
Calderwood-“You remember me? Three nights ago? You were hauled in here thrashing and fighting. As you were being escorted by you kicked my desk.    And you broke my mug. … Sadly for you, breaking my mug was not the most significant mistake you made that evening.
Sawyer-“C'mon, Doctor. I got into a bar fight. Isn't that a badge of honor in this country?”
Calderwood- “Do you know who you head-butted in that bar? You head-butted the Honorable Warren Truss. Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry. One of the most important... “
Sawyer cuts him off, “He head-butted me!”
Calderwood has witnesses he did no such thing. He opens a file folder and reads Sawyers record-“James Ford, assault, wire fraud, identity theft, bank fraud, telemarketing fraud...” {Wow! Is he just a total fraud?}


Sawyer wonders if this is going somewhere. Calderwood feels he’s a blight, a stain, a scavenger. “You're a conman who prays on the weak and the needy. Tell me something, James, how do you live with yourself?”
Cocky Sawyer does just fine.



Calderwood feels he’s not even worth what it would cost them to incarcerate you. “Which is why you're being deported. Your plane leaves this afternoon. And, James, you're banned from ever setting foot in Australia again.”
Sawyer-“Don't you worry; I ain't ever coming back here.“
Calderwood-“Best not, mate."
{Flash Whoosh}
Shirtless Sawyer is very focused on chopping down bamboo.
Jack walks up to Sawyer and asks, “A lumberjack?”
Jack had never asked Sawyer what he did back in the real world, so he’s taking a wild guess. {Sawyer is unwinding some wire or twine.}
Sawyer-“Something I can help you with, Doc, because I've got work to do.”
Jack hands him a gun; he’s the only one on the raft who knows how to use one. Sawyer wonders what he needs a gun for.
Jack-“Just in case.”
Sawyer-“You think we're going to run out of food or water? Am I supposed to put the kid out of his misery?"
Jack-“Just in case.”
Sawyer wonders what Jack will do with the rest of them.   Jack, with the silver case, will give them to Sayid.
Sawyer-“Going into the jungle after the boom sticks, huh?”
By the time they get back the raft and crew will be in the water, so this is pretty much goodbye. Jack wishes Sawyer “Good luck.”    As Jack walks away Sawyer calls his attention and shares some info with him.
“About a week before we all got on the plane…I got to talking to this man in a bar in Sydney. He was American, too. A doctor. I've been on some benders in my time, but this guy… he was going for an all time record. So, it turns out this guy has a son. His son's a doctor too. They had some kind of big time falling out. The guy knew it was his fault… even though his son was back in the States thinking the same damn thing. See, kids are like dogs, you knock them around enough… they'll think they did something to deserve it. Anyway… there's a pay phone in this bar, and this guy, Christian… tells me he wishes he had the stones to pick up the phone, call his kid…tell him he's sorry… that he's a better doctor than he'll ever be.  He's proud. And he loves him.   I had to take off, but… something tells me he never got around to making that call.  Small world, huh?”
Jack is very emotional, “Yeah.”
Sawyer-“Good luck, Jack.”


Cuffed Kate and Marshal Ed Mars are at the airport security office.   An airport security officer unlocks the silver case and asks Mars if he’s gonna be armed and wonders why  he need five guns.   Mars will be armed with an ankle holster. The airport officer reveals the toy plane is in the case and wonders about it.
Marshal-“That's a good story; you want to tell it, huh, Kate? This belonged to her childhood sweetheart who she got killed a couple of years ago when she was on the run. Poor guy; had a wife, a 2 year old kid. What was his name? Hmm? Well, somewhere along the way during the 3 years that I was chasing her, she starts calling me, at my house. And whining on about her mitigating circumstances, but what she's really doing is taunting me. {He taunts her with the toy} So, I tell her that I've got what’s-his-name's little toy airplane in a safe deposit box in New Mexico. So, she somehow figures out which bank, which safe deposit box. She seduces some idiot to rob the damn bank, and then she puts a bullet in her new friend because she's done using him. But she leaves all the money. She just takes the plane. Because that's the one thing in the whole world that Kate does care about. She has no attachments, and I think she's telling herself she needs it to atone for killing her boyfriend…what’s-his-name. God, Kate, c'mon, what was his name?”
Kate attacks the Marshal up against the security glass, “Tom, its Tom, you son-of-a-bitch.”
Mars elbows her in the face, knocking her to the ground and declares, “And that… is why I need 5 guns.”
He uses his foot to pulls the toy plane out of Kate’s reach.
{Flash Whoosh}
On the beach Kate walks up to Jack.  She was thinking of going with him; for old time sake. Jack notes that she wouldn’t be there for the raft launching, but Kate’s okay with that as she’s never been very good at goodbyes.   Jack tells her to grab her stuff.
We get a shot of the column of black smoke rising up through the jungle.

Charlie is gathering messages to put in a bottle. {Thank heaven they have a wine bottle.} He thanks a dude for putting his message in the bottle and tells him he’ll keep it safe. “Hey, Locke, do you have a message? It's going on the raft. You know: 'Dear mom, everything’s fine. I'm on the island, unless, of course, the black smoke people turn up. Love, your name here'  For when they get rescued they can contact your family.”
Locke thinks the idea is sweet.
Hurley gives Charlie his message and is adamant about him not looking at it, although Charlie does take a peek.  Charlie asks Arzt if he wants paper but Arzt “Gave at the office.” {Note: we don’t actually see Charlie put Hurley’s note into the bottle. Silly, I know.}
Hurley says his goodbyes and wishes good luck to Michael and Walt.
Jack hugs Michael and Michael says, “See you soon.”
Jack-“Yes, you will.”
He tells Walt to look after his dad. Jack shakes Jin’s hand and wishes him luck. Jin replies back in Korean. Kate looks around for Sawyer.

Jack leads the team out to the Dark Territory. {Note: You can see Charlie ask Jin something about the bottle of messages.}
When they take a rest Danielle {Danielle in the lead} takes off  her sweater revealing
scratches on her left arm.   Locke asks how she got them.  Danielle claims they’re from a bush.
Locke-“Mean bush.”
Danielle-“We've got to keep moving. {I think maybe, they know each other, and she's willing to help Locke out.}
Hurley asks exhausted looking Arnzt…
Arzt-"No, not Arnzt.Arzt. A-R-Z-T, Arzt.”
Hurley feels the name's hard to pronounce.
Arzt-“Yeah, well, I know a bunch of 9th graders who pronounce it just fine”
Hurley-“How about I just call you by your first name?
Arzt-“How about you don't“
Hurley-“Why not? I remember it from the plane's manifest. I think Leslie's a bitchin' name.”
Arzt-“Arnzt is fine.”
Danielle leads them past a stream of running water and on to a piece of black fabric hanging on a branch. Danielle states,”Le Territoire Fonce.”
Jack translates, “The Dark Territory.”
Danielle tells them the Black Rock is not far, “This is where it all began…where my team got infected. Where Montand lost his arm. We must move quickly.”
Arzt gets freaked and announces he’s going back. Sure he wanted to help, but that was before Montand lost his frickin arm. Arzt tells them to be careful with the dynamite.

Michael is correcting Jin on the raft.
Michael- “No, no, no. This one goes there. That one goes there.”{Han Solo, anyone?!}
Sawyer with his bamboo pole-“Hey, Chief! Cut and measured to length. Perfect mast.”
Michael thanks him.
Sawyer-“Well, alright. Now, are we going to get off this rock or stand around talking about it?”

The team walks through the rainy Dark Territory; they hear weird noises.  Just then Arzt comes running, telling them to “Run!”   
The mechanical sound of the monster is heard! Everyone runs except for Locke who stops Hurley. Locke tells him to just be still.
Hurley-“Dude, we've got to book.”
Calm Locke is listening and tells him to “Wait. It's headed the other way.”
Hurley looks amazed at Locke. The monster sounds are mechanical, metal, whizzing, winding, clicking, growls, grunts, and the sounds (like) giant footsteps or even huge doors closing.
Danielle hides Jack and Kate.  
The rain stops.
Danielle feels they’re safe now. Freaked out Kate asks her what that thing was.
Danielle-“It's a security system.
Jack- “Security system? What does that mean?”
Danielle-“Its purpose is that of any security system’s… to protect something.”
Kate- “Protect what? {Listen to the sounds in the background}
Danielle-“The Island.”

Hurley and Locke meet up with Danielle, Jack and Kate wonders where "Arnzt" is.
Arzt walks over and corrects Hurley, “It's Arzt, you idiot.”
Hurley thought Arzt was dead. Arzt just wants to get the dynamite.


Shannon is at the beach folding Boone's clothes. Walt asks her why she’s folding his clothes. Shannon claims it’s because she’s anal. Walt thinks Shannon should take Vincent because he’ll take care of her.
Shannon-“What makes you think I need a dog to take care of me?"
 Walt-“Vincent took care of me when my mom died… and nobody would talk to me. They pretended like nothing happened. So I had to talk to Vincent. He's a good listener. You could talk to him about Boone, if you want.”
Shannon will take Vincent but only until he gets them rescued. Walt hands her the red leash. {They touch hands in the transaction. I don’t know why I’m noting that.}
He kisses Vincent on the head.
{No Flash Whoosh. Only the sound of Airplane engines}
Shannon lounges on a seat in the airport doing word seek puzzle. An announcement is heard- Flight 338 to Fiji will be delayed. Please check the board for flight details.
Sayid asks her if she would mind watching his bag for a moment, he’ll be right back.
Shannon- “Sure, whatever.”
She doesn’t even really look at him. Boone walks over and informs her he couldn't get them into first class; maybe she shouldn't have yelled at the gate agent.
Shannon- “What? You're on his side, now?”
Boone, with a bruise on the left side of his face tells her one day she’s going to appreciate everything he does for her. Sarcastic Shannon cannot wait for that day.
On the escalator up Shannon suggests he try again with the gate agent. Boone wants her to “let it go.”
Shannon is not being pathetic enough to not want to sit next to some crying baby for the next 15 hours. Annoyed Boone feels she can be a bitch. She gets really pissed off.
Shannon-“Oh, you want to play? I will get you thrown off this flight.”
Boone wonders how she’s going to do that.
Shannon-“I can do whatever I want. I could tell them..."
Boone-“Tell them what? Who's going to believe you? You're not even capable of..."
Shannon informs him, “You have no idea what I'm capable of.”
Shannon walks up to a security guard and tells him some Arab guy left his bags in the chairs downstairs and just walked away; he went towards the shops. Security asks if she can describe him. Security runs off and arrogant Shannon asks Boone, “How’s that?”
{Flash Whoosh}
At the raft Sayid tells them he salvaged a few things for them from the Beechcraft. “This is the plane's radar emitter. It needs to be mounted on the mast or the top of the cabin.”
Sawyer will do it.
Sayid also tells Michael to conserve power, turn it on only once every hour or so. It will show you any ships within the horizon line, approximately 25 miles. The same with the radio transmitter. He then gives Michael a flare gun and informs him this was in the plane's toolbox. “There's only one flare. Choose wisely when you use it.”


On their trek, Danielle stops to reveal they are here, “This is the Black Rock.”
We see a grand old ship in the middle of the jungle with vines growing over it.


In the Airport: Jin sits at a table reading the newspaper.
Sun carries a tray with two coffees and food. Jin wonders what took her so long. {They communicate only in Korean.}
Sun-“I'm really hungry now. There were a lot of people in line. There really wasn't much to choose from, so I just got some simple things for us.”
Sun actually places the napkin on Jin’s lap
A woman at the next table tells the man she’s with, “If you ever catch me doing anything like that for you, shoot me.”
The man tells her, “Don't knock it. Their divorce rate's 20 times lower than ours.”
Sun hears and understands them. She accidentally knocks a drink over onto Jin. She tries to help but Jin heads off to the bathroom.
The woman at the next table remarks, “My god, it's "Memoirs of a Geisha" come to life.
The guy says, “Hey, volume.”
She tells him to relax, they don't speak English.
{Flash Whoosh}
At the raft Sun gives Jin a list of simple English words written out phonetically to help him communicate with the guys on the raft. He sounds out the word “starboard”.
Jin cries and apologizes to her. Sun is sorry too. They truly do seem to be in love.


Jin-“No, don't you understand, Sun. I'm in this place because I'm being punished. I made you suffer. You don't deserve any of this.”
Sun doesn’t want him to go.



Jin-“I have to go because I'm going to save you. Stay with Jack. He'll keep you safe.
Sun-“Who will keep you safe?”
They cry and hold each other tight. They love each other.


Shannon gives Charlie a message for the bottle. {Her purple notebook looks like it has the name Angela on it.}



Everyone is gathering around to see the raft launch. They all say their goodbyes.
Walt shares an intense eye to eye moment with Vincent and hugs him tight.
Jin even kisses Claire’s baby on the head.
Sun and Michael share an awkward hug goodbye.
Charlie gives the bottle of messages to Sawyer; they share a look. Sawyer puts the bottle in the cooler and looks back at the empty beach camp. {Note Sawyer’s hair is not in a pulled back pony tail.}
Everyone helps to push the raft out into the water. Everyone rejoices! Walt waves and yells goodbye to Vincent. Vincent swims out toward the raft but Walt commands him to go back. They hoist the sail. Michael is proud they did it.
Jin and Sun share a very long eye contact goodbye. There is lots of waving!

We get an ominous shot of the pillar of black smoke.




Things to Note...Questions to ask... 
✈ Hear. Listen. Volume.
✈ Bar. Drink. Drunk. Liquor. "Whine"=wine.
✈ Jail. Punishment.
✈Time. Timer.
✈ Batteries. Radio. Cable.
✈ Dynamite.
✈ Quest. Carry. Retrieve. Puzzle. Game. Cost. Worth.
✈ Languages. Linguistics. Understands. Messages. Communication.
✈ Michael and Jin understand each other.
✈ Written "Characters".
✈ Attachments. File. Folder. Logs. List. Record. Toolbox.
✈ Plane.
✈ Suffering.  Longing. Lonely. Scared. Help. Heal. Love. Attachments.
✈ Nutso. Not playing with a full deck.
✈ According to his conversation with Ana, Jack is not a "drinker", yet we know he drinks on the flight and asks Cindy for more alcohol. Not to mention we see he drinks in the “Flashes” -1/2 bottle of vodka in 'Do No Harm'.
✈ What the hell is the deal with Vincent?!
✈ Hasn't Jack, Sayid and Hurley been to the dark territory already? In 'Numbers' they go to Danielle's for a battery. Was that near there?
✈ Notice in a few episodes that people are there one moment and not the next! Vanished; Disappeared.

Vocabulary and Research…
* Exodus: Mass Departure.
- Exodus is the 2nd book of the Torah, Tanakh and the Old Testament.
* Mast(Hieroglyph) An Egyptian language triliteral.
* Mate-Friend-Pal-Buddy-Chum.
* If Artz name had an 's' instead of 'z' his name anagrams to Star. And in German Arzt translates to “Doctor’.

On this journey it seems that these lost and flawed people really need to find what they are looking for!
Until part 2...

Love to all who are "LOST"™

Exodus Part 2
A few photos to ponder...or not.














Posted on MySpace July 18, 2007.

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

Man of Science, Man of Faith.

Let's talk about LOST! Man of Science, Man of Faith.








Beeping.
An eye opens as the man takes a deep breath. We see computer with a green blinking icon.


A man jumps off the top bunk, pushes himself in a rolling office desk chair and pushes keys on a computer keyboard, presses EXECUTE. {Something resets.}
In a red/rose colored room he puts a record {Album}on the turntable, {the song Make Your Own Kind of Music plays. Lava lamp is on} and proceeds to cleans up his very messy space. {Washes dishes} He exercises on a red exercise bike, does pull ups from a pipe, sit ups, showers, dries laundry (Note: new washer and dryer) and mixes up a fruity drink in the blender.
He gives himself an injection, something explodes and the needle scratches across the record!
















He gets dressed in a Dharma jumpsuit, uses a combination to unlock a room stocked with weapons, grabs gun, pushes controls on a piece of electronics {disabling something/power} and looks through a sophisticated "scope" with many lens and mirrors {A looking glass of sorts.}

The camera takes us on a ride up the long shaft to reveal
Locke and Jack are looking down into the rabbit hole, uh, I mean hatch!

















Hurley is zoned and repeating the numbers. {Like Lenny in Santa Rosa.}
Kate asks if he’s okay.
Hurley-“Huh? Yeah, awesome. I just have to pee. {Kate walks over to the hatch} Great idea, dude, go look into the burning death hole.”
The three look into the hatch but can’t see anything. Kate asks what it is.
Jack-“It doesn't matter what it is. We blew the door so we could get everyone inside this thing so we could be safe. That plan is not going to work. We'll never get everyone down in time.“
Curious Locke drops a rock into the hatch. There is shallow water down there; sounds like a puddle.
Kate-"40 feet down?"
Locke-“50 tops. If we could use the wire we pulled from the fuselage… rig up a harness...”
Jack tells Locke we’re leaving now; Hurley thinks that’s a good idea.
{So you blow open the friggin hatch and he wants to go back to camp! WTF, JACK? You spent all that time figuring a way into it, trip to the black rock, Arzt dies, monster tries to take Locke and you want to wait to go in?! Jackass.}
Locke doesn't want to leave as they went through a lot to get there.
Jack-“The ladder's broken. You gonna to lower 40 people down there one by one? They're waiting for us to come back and tell them what to do, so let's forget about the harnesses.”
Jack seems uppity and Locke suggests they calm down. {Listen to the sounds in the background.}
Jack the boss, tells him, “Look, if you want to go exploring in the morning that's fine, but tonight we're done. I'm going to go get the dynamite that we didn't use and we're heading back to the caves. How about you pack it up, John."
Locke is taken aback at Jack’s attitude but says “Sure. Of course.”
He asks Jack why he doesn’t want to go down there.
{Flash Whoosh}
{Listen carefully to the dialog here.}
A woman being wheeled in to the emergency room.
The EMT gives info to the medical staff- “Female, late 20's, no ID, she coded twice on the way over here.”
Nurse-“Where's the other one?” {It sounds like she asks ‘who’}
EMT- “Right behind us. They're on their way.” (Fire Department had to use the jaws.)
Intern- “What do we got here?”
Nurse-“Female. Late 20s... Auto accident."
Intern-“What the hell is that thing?”
{Jack hasn’t even "seen" the patient at this point and answers the interns question as he’s walking through the door.}
Jack- “A piece of the steering column. All right, let's go. Keep that collar steady. Page my father?”
The intern already did.
Jack wants the info on the patient.
Jack’s told, “Her tire blew, car jumped the divider, went head-on with an SUV.“
The patient’s BP is dropping.
Jack-“Pericardial’s pierced. Was she driving?”
EMT- “Yes, alone.”
Jack-“Where's the driver of the SUV?”
As if on cue a man is wheeled in and an EMT enters giving info on- “Adam Rutherford, 57, chest trauma, no breath sounds.”
Jack directs the intern to tube Mr. Rutherford while he…The intern says he can’t intubate, Jack has to.
A nurse informs Dr. Shephard, “his breathing's deteriorating.”
Jack opts to work on the injured woman; he pulls the steering column out of her chest.
Nurse-“88 over 52, no radial pulse.”
Jack-“I know. I know…sac's flooded. Where's it...”
He’s handed a big syringe. {Listen to the voices in the distant background, you can hear “5 gage…Pupils dilated…Dropping. Doctor, we're losing him.}
As Jack continues he gets the woman’s BP to stabilize and we hear the flat line sound of Adam Rutherford's heart monitor.
Nurse- “Time of death 8:15am.“


Jack-“Okay, get me a blood gas and a C-spine. Get her up to ICU and keep her immobilized.”
The female patient very weakly whispers something.
The intern asks, “Did you hear that?...What did she say?”
Jack heard her and states matter of fact, “She said she has to dance at her wedding.
{Flash Whoosh}
All the survivors are gathered at the dark caves. Charlie is telling a few that no one is out there, “No one is coming.”
One survivor is concerned because of what the French woman said.
Charlie-“The French woman is missing a bloody wing nut, you know. I mean, I mean, it was all bollocks. It's a ghost story. She set the fire herself.“
Sayid listens to Charlie.
Shannon asks if anyone has seen “Vincent…the dog. Anyone seen him? Has anyone seen the dog?” {Is there another Vincent that is not a dog?}
She tells Sayid, “I lost the damn dog.”
She heads out to look for him and Sayid follows.

Locke smiles as he looks down into the dark hatch. Hurley asks him why he lit the fuse.
Locke-“Why wouldn't I light the fuse?"
Hurley-“Ah, maybe because I was running towards you, waving my arms, yelling "don't do that?"
Locke laughs, ”Well, you've got a point there. I guess I was just excited to get inside. I mean, that's why we came here, isn't it?  That's why we went all the way out to the Black Rock, and why we got the dynamite to blow the hatch.   And we did it so that we could get inside, Hugo.”
Jack comments, “And to save everybody's lives.”
Jack asks Locke, “Or maybe it was just our destiny, right, John?”
Locke-“Maybe.”
Kate has the guys take a look at the hatch door that is right near them; "QUARANTINE" is stenciled on the inside of the hatch door.

Shannon is calling out for Vincent.
Sayid doesn’t think this is a good idea.  Shannon saw him 5 minutes ago and besides Sayid said there isn’t anyone out there.
Sayid clarifies, "I said we didn't see anyone. The dog will come back on his own. He always does.” Shannon feels watching that dog was the one thing anyone has ever asked her to do and if something happens to him…"
Sayid-“When was the last time you slept or had something to eat? You're exhausted.”
Shannon-“I can't tell that kid that I lost his dog because I was exhausted.”
A dog barks in the distance. They see Vincent sitting quiet and still in the middle of the jungle. Sayid will go circle around behind him but the dog runs away.
Shannon runs after Sayid, calling out for him. “Where are you?”
She trips over something, finding herself alone in the middle of the jungle hearing whispers. Then Shannon sees an image of Walt, dripping wet.  She asks Walt what he’s doing here.
Walt-“Shhhh.”
Then some backwards dialog comes out of his mouth.
Sayid calls out for Shannon and Vincent barks.    Shannon looks away from Walt and then back to him, but he has disappeared.
Sayid-“Shannon! What is it? What?“
Shannon looks panicked.

On their walk to the caves Kate asks Locke “Why do you want to get down there so bad?”
Locke corrects her,”-ly. Why do I want to get down there so badly.  Jack thinks I'm crazy, doesn't he?”
Kate-“Why, because you want to drop into a hatch that's been locked from the inside by a foot-thick steel door that says “quarantine?"
Locke-“Well, look at the bright side… damage is done.”
Kate-“The bright side?
Locke-“And if Jack thinks I've lost it, I can't blame him, really.  Then again, 5 hours ago I was pulled into a hole by what appeared to be a column of black smoke. Did you see it, Kate? {She did.} Then I guess we're both crazy. Wonder what Jack thinks he saw?”
{It was daylight when that happened.}

Jack and Hurley are together on their walk back to the caves; they trail Locke and Kate. Hurley suggests Jack go ahead so Locke doesn’t make time with his girl, “Joke, dude.”
Jack isn’t in the mood.
Hurley-“Really? Wow, usually you're, like, Mr. Ha-ha. {Jack laughs.} There you go. Life's not so bad, right?   I mean, sure the Others are coming to, like, eat us all, and every once in a while someone blows up all over you, but you do get to sleep in every morning.” {They’ve stopped walking.}
Jack inquires about Hurley mentioning the numbers are bad.   Hurley feels that’s a long story, but Jack has time to hear it.
Hurley-“You'll think I'm crazy.“
Jack-"Try me."
Hurley-“A while ago I was in this kind of psych ward, and there was this guy, Leonard…and all the time I knew him all he ever said were these numbers… 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42, over and over and over again.   And they kind of got stuck in my head.  So, when I got out, well, actually a couple of months after I got out, I was buying a frozen burrito and I thought, hey, I should play the lottery.   And I guess those numbers were still stuck in my head so I played them. And I won… 114 million dollars. That's when it started happening.   My grandpa died, my house caught on fire, the chicken joint that I worked at got hit by a meteor… well, actually meteorite.   Okay, so tonight I see the same freaking numbers on the hatch thing …just written on the side.  And that's why I tried to stop it, because that thing is cursed, man.“
Jack-"You were in a psych ward?"
Hurley-"I'm not crazy."
Jack-"I'm not saying you are."
Hurley-"So, what? That's it? That's all?"
Jack-"What do you want me to say?"
Hurley-"How about you believe me, man?"
Jack-"Hurley, they're numbers."
Hurley-"What's that thing where doctors make you feel better just by talking to you?"
Jack-"Bedside manner."
Hurley-"Yeah, that. Yours sucks, dude."
{Flash Whoosh}
Jack is writing while standing over the hospital bed of the injured woman whom is just waking up. {There are 2 other sleeping patients in the room.}
The woman, Sarah, asks what happened to him. “The other car that I hit…the other driver was older.”
Jack reveals her he died in the E.R.
Sarah tells the Doctor she can’t feel anything.
Jack-“I know.“
Sarah-“What's happened to me?” {Jack’s eyes are dark.}
Jack informs her in a calm unemotional and detached manner, “You have a fracture dislocation of your thoracic lumbar spine with multiple crushed vertebrae. Your back is broken. Your spleen is ruptured and bleeding into your abdomen and that has to be stopped. I'm going to perform surgery and repair as much damage as possible. But even the most optimistic result puts the likelihood of retaining any feeling or mobility anywhere below the waist at "extremely unlikely".
Doctor Christian Shephard observed all this through a glass window. He asks Dr. Jack if he may have a word.
As they walk down the hall Jack wonders what he did wrong.
Christian-“You did something wrong?”
Jack-“You're frowning.”
Christian-“My face is always this way.”
Jack is really interested to hear what dad has to say.
Christian-“You might want to try handing out some hope every once in awhile. Even if there's a 99 percent probability that they're utterly, hopelessly screwed, folks are much more inclined to hear that 1 percent chance that things are going to be okay.
Jack-“Her spines crushed. I tell her that everything's going to be okay, that's false hope, dad."
Christian-“Maybe, maybe, but it's still hope.”
Dad gives him a ‘buddy smack’ on his arm and the both walk away in opposite directions.
{Flash Whoosh}
In the caves, crying Shannon is trying to tell everyone she knows what she saw, “It was Walt.”
Sayid wants her to lower her voice as to not upset the rest of the group.
Shannon-“I heard whispers.“
Claire- “Where?”
Shannon-“Everywhere.“
Charlie wonders, “What …what whispers? Who?”
Shannon doesn’t know, “Them.”
Sun asks her if she thinks something happened to the raft. Sayid tells her nothing happened to the raft, “Walt is with your husband, with Sawyer…”
Upset Shannon knows what she saw!
Charlie announces that the dynamite hatch team is back.
Jack stands front and center of the group and makes a speech. “Uh, Locke found, uh, a hatch in the ground… about a half a mile from here. We left to, to blow it open so that we could hide inside, so all of us could hide inside, in case... But that doesn't matter now because it's not going to work. There's no way for all of us to get down in there tonight.”
Charlie asks Jack where Dr. Arzt is.
Jack reveals he didn’t make it.
Shannon asks if he saw them, “Did you see the Others?”
Charlie blurts out there are no Others, “We've already had this conversation.” {That's right, they're all Others.}
Charlie insists there’s no one out there and Shannon insists Charlie doesn’t know because he didn’t see anything
Jack- “Hey! Everything's going to be okay.  Let's just take it easy.   We're going to be alright.  We're going to stay here tonight, okay, together.  We've still got 4 guns.  We'll put lookouts at all the entrances.  We're all going to be safe as long as we stay together.  The sun comes up in 3 hours {remember that} and we're all going to be here to see that happen.  I promise. {Locke interrupts the speech} John, what are you doing?”
Locke-“I'm getting some cable.”
Jack-“What for?”
Locke tells him it’s for the hatch, “I’m going in.”
Jack wonders if that’s the smartest thing to do right now.
Locke-“I doubt it. In fact, you're right. The safest thing is to stay here, wait for morning, wait for these Others to see if they ever show up.   Wait for the brave folks on the raft to bring help.  But me, I'm tired of waiting.  Nonchalant Locke heads out with a lot of cable.   Jack and Kate share a look.

Jack sits off by himself in a fixed stare. Kate walks over and asks him if he believes it.
Jack-“Believe what?“
Kate- “That everything’s gonna be okay.”
Jack believes it.
Kate- “Kind of unlike you, the whole glass half-full thing."
Jack-“There's a glass?”    {Yes, of course there’s a glass! A big looking glass!}
They laugh.
Kate-“You did a good thing saying, what you said, And taking care of everybody and just giving them something to count on. If you weren't here, Jack...I'm going to the hatch. I understand why you can't go. They need you here. I get it. I do. But Locke's going into that thing whether you like it or not. And if he falls and breaks his neck... Live together, die alone, right?”
Jack-“Right.”
Kate walks away.
{Flash Whoosh}
Jack Shephard M.D. chats with Sarah's fiancé, Kevin, in Jack's office.
Jack tells him his fiancé was seriously injured. It could take as long as 10, maybe 12 hours. “I won't know how extensive the damage is until I get inside.”
Stunned Kevin {Wears black} comments she was going for a dress fitting and to look at tablecloths. Jack asks when the wedding is.
Kevin-“Its 8 months.”
Jack is sure Sarah will have recovered by then.
Kevin asks what does "recovered" mean.
Jack-“There will be ongoing physical therapy, but if she works really hard...”
Kevin’s concern is if she’ll be able to make love.
Jack-“You need to know that there's a chance Sarah might very well need professional care for the rest of her life.”
Kevin-“Like, she won't be able to go to the bathroom by herself?”
Jack is taken aback by his attitude.

Jack bursts open the O.R. door. Sarah is getting prepped  and so is Jack.
Sarah quietly tells Jack to, “Come here. Come here. I want to tell you a little secret. Come on… Closer… It's okay. I know I'm not going to be dancing anymore. I can still roll around at my wedding. And you're invited, okay.“
Handsome focused Jack states matter of fact, “I'm going to fix you.”
Sarah goes to sleep.
Jack realizes the staff heard him make this statement.


Locke is at the hatch. {Makes a noose loop cable w/exposed wires.}
He smiles as he knows Kate has arrived.
Kate expected to find him half way down there by now.
Locke-“I was waiting for you.”
Locke wants her to go down first as she's lighter, and belay her; he can lower her down and bring her back up just as easily.  Kate feels he left out the part where, "you just want to see if I get eaten by something."
Locke-"Yeah, well, that too."
He ties the cable rig around Kate and asks, "Not too tight?"
She starts climbing down the ladder, "Wait, what do I say if I need to stop?"
Locke-"Stop."
Kate is afraid.
As he lowers her down one of the trees holding the cable breaks, dropping Kate lower. {So much for being lighter. lol}
There is a scream! Locke holds on tight as to not drop her!
Kate yells up that she dropped the light.
Focused John continues to lower her down; his hands are bleeding.   On her way down she sees a mirror and a light revealing an opening.    She starts using Jack's "count to five" exercise {She counts to four}
The light goes out and then back on, as if something was closing and opening.
Kate yells for John to stop; she thinks there's something down... All of a sudden a bright light goes on and a scream can be heard.   Locke calls out for Kate but she doesn't reply.    The cable-vine seems to get pulled from his hands as if someone is on the other end pulling it; the light goes out.
Locke calls down into the dark hatch for Kate.

Back at the caves, Jack is fired up.   He loads a gun. {Jack always has access to a gun.} Hurley wonders if he's kidding, "You're going back?"
Hurley asks what about all the things Jack said "Wait until morning, watch the sunrise."
Well, Jack changed his mind.

Jack runs through the dark jungle with his torch arriving at the hatch. He tugs on the cable-vine {it seems secure}, calls out for Kate and Locke. There's no reply from them so Jack drops his torch to the bottom, {Sounds like it hits a puddle}.    He wraps his hands for protection {Knowing they will get torn up otherwise.} and slides down the secure cable-vine.
{Flash Whoosh}
At night Jack is running the steps at an empty stadium.  Up and down, up and down. {I wonder how many times he's runs the steps, how often?}
Another man{w/tiny pony tail} joins in 1 row over.   There's a little competition between them for a moment as the man quickens his pace to pull ahead of Jack. 
 Jack trips!
The man with the tiny ponytail and Scotch accent asks, "You alright, brotha?"
He tells Jack to take it easy; keep the weight off. "Does this hurt?" {Jack nods no. The man checks his right ankle.} You haven't sprained it then. I don't fancy your chances of catching up with me tonight, though."
Out of breath Jack says, "I wasn't trying to catch up."
Ponytail man-"Aye, of course you weren't."
Jack wonders what he knows about sprains, anyway.
Ponytail man-"I was almost a doctor once."
Jack-"Small world."   {Especially in their world! lol}
Ponytail main-"You a doctor then? {Jack nods yes}
Ponytail man offers Jack his water bottle. So what's your excuse?"
Jack-"Excuse?"
Ponytail man-"For running like the devil's chasing you. My excuse - I'm training."
Jack- "Training for what?"
Ponytail man-"For a race around the world. Impressive, I know. So your excuse better be good, brother."
Jack-"Just trying to work a few things out."
The amused ponytail man asks,"Ah, a girl, right?"
Jack-"A patient."
Ponytail man, "Ah, but a girl patient. What's her name?"
Jack-"Her name's Sarah."
Ponytail man-"What'd you do to her then?"
Jack-"Do to her?"
Ponytail man- "You must have done something worthy of this self-flagellation."
Jack-"I told her... I made a promise I couldn't keep... I told her I'd fix her and... couldn't. I failed."
Ponytail man-"Well, right. Just one thing... what if you did fix her?"
Jack-"I didn't."
Ponytail man-"But what if you did?"
Jack-"You don't know what you're talking about, man."
Ponytail man-"I don't? Why not?"
Jack-"Because with her situation that would be a miracle, brother."
Ponytail man-"Oh, and you don't believe in miracles? {Jack laughs} Right. Well then, I'm going to give you some advice anyway. You have to lift er up."
Jack-"Lift it up?"
Ponytail man-"Your ankle. You've got to keep it elevated. It's been nice chatting."
Jack hands the ponytail man back the water bottle and introduces himself, "Jack."
Ponytail man-"Jack, I'm Desmond. Good luck, brotha. See you in another life, yeah?"
Desmond runs down the stairs.
{Flash Whoosh}
Jack lands on the bottom of the hatch shaft.    He finds a turned on flashlight and the mirror in a partial puddle, he looks around and walks through an opening.   He notes a floodlight and huge pipes, plumbing pipes and dripping water running through a "walkway".
{Note a pair of shoes left outside of the doorway.}
He readies his gun while looking around and noting there's electric power to this underground cement and steel place.
He sees a painted mural with 108 and other images on it.
Jack examines a portion of a wall and the key around his neck is pulled by a magnetic force. A looking glass/mirror/camera adjusts to get a better look at Jack.
All of a sudden the song Make Your Own Kind of Music turns on, loud! {Making the scratch skip sound before the tune kicks in.} A bright lights turns on!
Nervous Jack enters computer room and looks around.
There are clicking sounds of the very old computers. {Reel to reel computer data storage system.}
You can hear Kate yelling for Jack in the background! But  Jack doesn't hear her.
He checks out the old computer screen with it's blinking green 'ready/input/go' icon.
He's just about to push EXECUTE and the record scratches to a stop!




"I wouldn't do that."    It's nervous Locke standing there.
Jack points the gun at him wanting to know where Kate is. Just then a gun is pointed at Locke's head by the hidden Hatch Man.


 Jack is sitting in Sarah's hospital room. {# 8 is on equipment next to him. Time on the clock 6:12-ish} She wakes up asking if she's alive.    Jack confirms she's alive.
Sarah informs him he smells; smells like he ran far.
Jack says he showered, "I mean, I guess I just didn't cool. I... I wanted to get back down here and check on you. It was a Tour de Stade." {French}
He explains it's when you run all the steps in every section of an empty stadium up and down. He does this because he's intense.    Jack admits he didn't finish because he hurt his ankle.
Sarah asks for Kevin, her fiancé.  Jack didn't see him.
He breaks the news to Sarah.
Emotional Jack-"Sarah, the... the damage to your back was extensive. I did everything I could but your spinal column... I just...I couldn't repair it. {He cries.}You're going to be paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of your life. {Just like Locke} I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Sarah."
Sarah-"You're yanking my chain, right?"
Jack-"No."
Sarah can wiggle her toes. Jack examines her asking if she can feel "this".
Sarah has feeling.
They both cry.
{Flash Whoosh}
The unseen Hatch Man tells Jack,"Move and I kill him. Put the gun down."
Jack asks where Kate is and Locke tells him it's okay. The Hatch Man demands Jack drop it but Jack only wants to know about Kate.
Locke-"She's fine, just put down the..."
Jack-"I'm not putting anything..."
A shot is fired by the Hatch Man, "Do you want him to die? Put it down!"
Jack-"Is this what you were talking about, Locke? Is this your destiny? All roads lead here?"
Locke-"Jack, calm down."
The Hatch Man moves behind Locke, tells Jack, "Lower your gun or I'll blow his damned head off, brother."
Jack recognizes that voice and word. The Hatch Man shows his face revealing it's the man Jack met at the stadium.
Jack is stunned-"You."





Man of Science, Man of Faith is a GREAT episode!!!
The connections of the residents of the "Island" really start to show themselves here in season 2. The connections and relations are all over the place.

Let's look at Jack's "Flash":   A woman with no I.D. and coded twice is brought into the hospital.    Is Jack the only doctor in the whole emergency department?   Maybe he is... But he no doubt chooses to work only on the woman who coded twice.   Adam also codes.  Of course, Shannon's father is the other man in this part of their story.
This episode shows us Sarah was supposed to be a "cripple".     Are we seeing a real miracle or a manipulated part of their story?     If Jack knows without doubt that he did not fix her, what changed to fix her?   Are there really miracles?   Does Desmond know what's he's talking about? Hmm?!
We could be talking about metaphors; using "cripple" for emotional crippling as opposed to physical crippling.

On to Walt showing himself in a place no one expected him:  How often has Walt traveled through the "universe": to go hang out somewhere?   Is he able to do this telepathically, physically or is it really even Walt?  There's no denying  we're told Walt is special, but how? WAAAAAALLLLLLT!!! {I just had to do that, LOL!}

The shoes outside of the doorway in the hatch: {We know who the shoes belong to.}  But why take your shoes off there.   Shoe removal is a practice done by the Asian culture, or when one may enter certain temples. If I were to go and research ancient cultures and civilizations would I find the practice of removing shoes in either a holy place or home or place of honor. Greek, Egypt, Rome, Indian, Asian, Mayan, how about cultures of today. What I'm getting at here is... a coincidence the shoes are removed, a subconscious act, a place of honor or simply because his feet hurt.

Let's note that the Lava Lamp is on in the hatch and is on every time we see it.  A reference to a volcano perhaps or a metaphor?

Here's one...It's dark at the hatch, Locke tells Kate 5 hours ago I was dragged by the monster.  It was daylight then.  At the caves, 1/2 a mile away from the hatch, Jack says the sun comes up in 3 hours...Could we be missing a few hours here or am I over thinking this part?

As we head into season 2 we're still eye color watching, and let's add to that the plaid shirt phenomenon! That's right, Season 1 and 2 so far are filled with men wearing plaid shirts!  Dharma street wear? lol!   Note all the times someone is wearing plaid! Yuk! Even Jack is guilty of this bad fashion statement.

Things to Note...Questions to ask...
* Crazy. Psych ward. Head. Emotions. Alone. Crippling pain. Hope.
* Desmond's injections a vaccine or a hallucinogen?
* Desmond is in control of the computer and mechanics of the hatch. Who is this guy, really?!
* Electronics. Computer. Cable. Wires. Numbers. Data. Driver.
* The image/audio of Walt is run backwards.
* Tube
* NO I.D.
* Jack chooses to work on female and not to intubate male, leaving Adam to die.
* T.O.D. 8:15am {the watch on nurse says 11: 14 Jack’s watch says 12:38.}
* Note Jack's hospital badge; his hair is longer
* Jack trips. Shannon trips. 
* Kate uses Jack's Count to Five method.
* Jack goes from emotionally cold and by the book deliverer of news to Sarah before her surgery to a total emotional wreck after.
* Jack can hear weak whispering Sarah in the E.R. but doesn't hear Kate in the hatch.
* The caves are a ½ a mile away from the hatch and not once in that few weeks even with Locke and Boone out there did anyone stumble upon them.
* A "Glass".

Vocabulary and Research...
* Belay- Nautical to stop doing something, or not follow an earlier instruction.
* Dharma- The start of the Eight Fold Path.  The teachings of Buddha.  A journey to enlightenment.




Remember everything we see in an episode is there for us to see for a reason! Unless it's those times the writers send us a crap clue for a laugh. Funny guys,  gotta love them!
I wonder if John {or anyone else} stopped following instructions he'd gotten earlier.

Yes, Jack is a man of science; things based on facts and data. Locke is a man of faith, no questions asked. Can you be a person who believes in both? I wonder…

Love to all who are "LOST"™

Posted on MySpace July 23, 2007.

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