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September 8, 2009

Do No Harm.

Let's talk about LOST!    Do No Harm.





“Come on! Outta the way!” yells Jack.



In the caves the, group is moving badly injured Boone. There’s a bit of commotion. We hear things like, “Fell down a cliff” and “He was with Locke” and “He’s bleeding a lot”.
Kate is pressing on Boone’s chest. {over his heart} Jack needs Boone kept steady; slow and gentle. Boone’s leg is bad. Jack needs Kate to press harder on Boone; she is trying. {Note: we hear a loud heartbeat.}
Boone is having hard time breathing.
Jack calls to Sun to get him a pair of scissors from the second drawer in the cart.
Jack mentions there are diapers in the first drawer.
Kate is helping but Jack informs her “Sun’s gonna switch places with you.”
He calls for Sun, “I need...”
Sun- “Yes. I understand.”
Jack directs Hurley, who looks a bit in shock and queasy to grab me that first class seat from up there, also, I need that mesh. We need to create some kind of sterile...Hurley, I swear to god, if you faint...“
Hurley- “No...first class, mesh. I'm cool. Lord in heaven.”
Jack tells Kate to “Get to the beach. Ransack Sawyer's stuff. I want his alcoholrubbing, scotch.”
Boone's lung collapses. Jack pours peroxide on Boone’s chest and takes a very long “needle” {It friggin looks like an antenna} and plunges it into Boone’s lung.

Kate is shocked by what she just saw.
Jack assures Boone- “Good job. Gonna put a tube in that and you’re gonna be just fine.”
Hurried Jack asks Kate what she is still doing here, “The alcohol, Kate! If you want him to live get to the beach, now!”
Boone is struggling to get air.
Jack works on him with the tube.
Jack exhales strongly...
{Flash Whoosh}


Jack is tying Silverman’s black bow tie.
They joke about clip on ties and real ties. Jack asks Silverman if he’s nervous. Silverman wonders what he has to be nervous about. Jack feels it’s a big responsibility, which Silverman feels he can handle.
Jack- “Maybe. But I know that you don't like to get up in front of crowds.”
Marc feels he’ll be fine...after about eight beers.
Jack- “She'll bust you, man.”
Silverman- “I'll brush my teeth.”
Jack- “She'll bust you. {They turn and look into the mirror.} You can still back out, Marc.”
Marc-“Nah, it's just a stupid speech. I'll make you proud.”
The tailor comes out carrying another tuxedo.
Tailor- “Okay, groom's turn.”
Marc- “You can still back out, Jack.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Jack is ripping Boone's pants to get to check out his leg.   Jack determines it’s a closed fracture; he thinks he can set it.
Sun asks Jack if he can sew Boone’s chest wound.
Jack notes he's lost a lot of blood and wonders how far Locke had to carry him. Boone says I'm going to die.
Jack-“Boone, listen to me. Listen! You are not going to die. I'm going to fix this, okay? I am going to save you.

Claire walks on the beach. Jin works on the raft while Sawyer, Michael and Walt cook fish over an open fire. Collarless Vincent is there too.
Michael teaches Walt to flip em or they’ll burn.
Sawyer asks Mamacita if she wants any fish.
Claire declines as she’s not really hungry. {A pregnant woman not really hungry, what’s that about?} She then asks how long you think till it’s ready. {She looks over to Jin working on the raft with the ax.}
Michael answers “Maybe a week, maybe less. You okay?”
Claire’s fine; she’ll see them later.
Sawyer smiles- “She likes me.”
Michael calls over to Jin and tells him to take a break and eat some fish.
Jin waves him off.
Sawyer feels that man's got what he calls an overzealous work ethic.
Michael- “Try obsession. He wants off this Island bad, man.”
Sawyer- “Can't say I blame poor Kato. His lady speaks English all this time and he didn't have a clue? I'm surprised he didn't try to swim out of here. Hell, I would've...”
Kate runs up to Sawyer and tells him she needs all of his alcohol. Now!


Sawyer opens a suitcase, unwraps a towel that hides all forms of liquid alcohol. Kate relays the Locke said he fell off a cliff while they were out hunting boar.
Sawyer- “Boar they never seem to get.”
Sawyer packs her bag full of the bottles.
Kate- “Is that it?”
Sawyer-“Afraid so. You need anything else? I could come with you.”


Kate-“Too many cooks already, but thanks.”
She takes off running.

Jack is sewing up Boone’s chest while Boone is still wheezing and mumbling “I'm sorry.”
Jack determines he needs blood; a blood transfusion.
Sun wonders how he’s going to do that. Jack doesn’t know but he’ll figure it out after he sets the leg. Stressed Jack takes out a bottle of peroxide and nurse Sun relieves him of that task, “Let me. Get some air.”
Charlie asks Jack “How is he?” Jack doesn’t know yet.
Charlie- “What happened out there? Where's Locke? Do you think that...“
Jack doesn’t know.
Charlie questions, “What, he just took off?“
He asks where Shannon is.
Jack doesn’t know. They walk toward the waterfall.
Charlie- “Well, she's his sister. You don't “
Jack- “I don't know where she is! “
{Flash Whoosh}
“And here she is…the future Mrs. Jack Shephard.”
Marc introduces and toasts Sarah.
Sarah takes the mic- “Thank you. Wow, can I get another microphone? I think this one's been drinking. A little over two years ago, I blew a tire out...flipped over the center divider into oncoming traffic, and was hit head-on by an SUV.   My back was broken. They all said it was irreparable. And then there was Jack. And he promised he would fix me. Because that's the kind of guy he is. Because you are the most committed man I have ever known. Because you fixed me… I will dance at our wedding. To Jack, my hero, Jack."


Jack is examining Boone's leg. Sun enters holding a small stick for Boone.
Jack feels they're beyond herbal remedies but she shows him it's a stick for him to bite on {Looks like a horse bit.}
Sun holds Boone's shoulders and Jack pulls on the leg.   Boone screams out in great pain. Hurley is nearby and plugs his ears from the scream.




Kate is running through the jungle to get back to the caves. She trips and falls, landing on the bottles; breaking a few of them. {Not all of them.} Kate hears something in the jungle and comes upon Claire; in labor.
Claire wants to be left alone.
Kate-"You're having the baby."
Claire says she's fine; she just needs to catch her breath.
Kate insists she's having her baby.
Claire-"No it's not. It's just gas pains. It's fine."     She is adamant she is not having bloody contractions!
Kate wants to get Claire to Jack; she calls out for help.

Jin, who is working on the raft with the ax, hears a call for help. He looks around the beach camp and there's no one there!
Jin runs into the jungle to investigate. He stops and listens to a voice in the distance..."Please help!"
He takes off running and comes upon Kate and Claire.
Kate sends him to retrieve Jack-Doctor from the caves.
Claire doesn't want Kate to leave her. Kate promises she won't leave "honey".
Kate gives Jin the backpack with the alcohol to take with him.

"Ask him again." Jack knows Boone is in shock but he needs Sun to ask Boone the question again. Jack is sharpening a stick into aneedle.
Sun-"Boone. Can you hear me? What is your blood type?"
Jack is frustrated that his crafted stick won't penetrate his skin. He explains to Sun veins are like wet noodles, first you have to find one then you have to have a hallow needle sharp enough to pierce it, "I've got bamboo!"
Jack decides none of it actually matters because he doesn't know Boone's blood type or that his injuries... Boone cuts him off, "A negative."
Jack-"Boone. What did you say?"
Boone-"Shannon...the plane."
Jack needs Sun to get Charlie.
"Ask everyone you can find, everyone, what their blood type is. A negative, okay?...And find his sister. Find Shannon."

Shannon and Sayid are walking together.
Shannon-"Where are we going?"
Sayid-"This way."
Shannon-"Are you lost?"
Sayid-"No, absolutely not. Those trees look really familiar. It's this way... I think."
Shannon seems nervous, "Did you just say I think?"
Sayid leads her to a surprise; a beautiful romantic set up of fruit, flowers and water.

In the caves Charlie tells frustrated Jack, “I found an A.”
Jack- “Positive or negative?”
Charlie says she doesn’t know but he also found two B positives and one AB negative, “At least he thinks so.”
Jack-“Did you find any O negative?”
Charlie- “Sun said A negative!”
Jack wonders where Sun is and Charlie shares they split up and he thought she’d be back here. Charlie also tells Jack he asked the whole sodding camp what their blood types are and nobody knows what theirs is. Charlie doesn’t even know his own bloody blood type.


Sun enters with a cooler; she didn’t find Shannon but she found something for Jack. She shows him a spiny sea thingy and breaks off one of the spiny things, “A hollow needle sharp enough to pierce a noodle.”
Jack thinks it’s perfect.
Charlie- “Not to rain on your proverbial parade but I thought you said we needed someone who was A negative.”

Jack-“Or O negative.”
Charlie-“Right, which judging by your tantrum, no one is.”
Jack- “Someone is.”
Charlie-“You?! Why'd you make...”
Jack-“O negative is universal donor. It's in the ballpark, it's not a match. My blood could put him into anaphylactic shock...stop his heart.”
Charlie- “You mean he'll die?”
Jack-“He's not going to die.”
Jack preps the tube and needle.
{Flash Whoosh}
Jack plays the piano in the hotel lobby. He is drinking. Sarah comes down in her pj’s. {Number 44 on front left side of shirt.} She lets him know two girls are checking him out; one’s kinda cute, the other one is trashy. The couple plays the song Heart & Soul with Sarah taking the easy part of course.
Sarah-“You know you really don't have to do this if you don't want to.”
Jack asks how she knows he hasn’t. Sarah knows he hasn’t. She hits wrong notes, “Oh, sorry. It was a silly idea. I just...I read too many bridal magazines. I think it rotted my brain.”
Jack wants to and is going to; he just has to figure out the right way to say it.
Sarah-“They’re just vows.”
Jack-“Just vows?”
He notes a taxi pull up and a woman gets out.
Sarah- “Hey. He’s going to come.”
Jack knows.
Sarah- “So, you stay down here as long as you need to. And when you're I’ll be...upstairs.” She cannot wait to marry him, “Jack Shephard.”
Sarah gets up and walks away. {Huge number 44 on her back}

“Jack! Jack!” {Flash Whoosh}
Jin asks Hurley for “Jack! Doctor!"
Hurley points him in the direction of Jack.
Jin enters the treatment area and sees Sun and Jack transfusing his blood to Boone.
Jin speaks Korean to Jack. Sun translates that Claire is with Kate and she’s in labor. Mind you Jin seems annoyed Sun is the translator. Claire’s contractions are coming every two minutes; she’s okay but in pain.
Jack asks a list of questions to Sun to translate: Is she nauseous? Can she stand? Is there any bleeding? Did her water break?
Sun translates-“No, none of that, but she can't move.”
Charlie says they should go, “What do we need? Towels, bandages, hot water? How do we take hot water?”
Jack, who is literally being drained, is sure he’ll figure it out. He wants Sun to tell Jin to take Charlie with him and go back to Claire. Charlie wants to know how to look out for that dilating thing.
Jack is getting a bit woozy- “Charlie, listen to me. Okay, Charlie, look at me. Tell Kate to wait until the contractions are 60 seconds apart, you got that?   Now, she's going to need to make sure that Claire pushes, but not too hard, not too fast, just until the head is clear.   And then, as hard as she can. When the baby is out make sure she clears its nose and its mouth.
Charlie-“Yeah, but, you'll be there by then, right?”
Jack needs to stay there, “Now, you tell Kate she's going to have to deliver this baby.”

It is getting dark in the jungle. Claire tells Kate, “They’ve stopped.”
Kate, who is sitting by the fire, thinks that happens.
Claire is happy they’re not coming anymore and insists she’s fine. Claire stands up and wonders “What is that?”
Kate thinks her water just broke.
Claire freaks, “I can’t have the baby now.”
Kate encourages her to hold on because Jack is coming.

Jack is still giving Boone blood. He puts his head very close to Boone’s mouth to listen. {For breathing or words?} Jack walks away then Boone speaks! He knows he screwed himself up pretty bad; his leg hurts. Jack doesn’t want him to move and asks if he can breathe okay. Boone reveals that a plane fell on him when he was out with Locke.
Jack-“Locke said you fell from a cliff.
Boone clarifies “It fell...the plane. It’s because of the hatch. We found a hatch.”
Boone tries to stay conscious, “Locke said... John said, John said not to tell. About the hatch.”
Jack-“What did Locke do? What hatch? What...”
Boone complains his leg hurts and appears to pass out; then whispers, “Shannon. Shannon. Shannon.”

Shannon and Sayid are making out on the beach. Shannon decides she needs to come clean about a few things and reveals some things to Sayid.
Shannon-“My brother, Boone. He's not really my brother. He's my step-brother. Our parents got married when we were like 8 and 10. He's kind of in love with me.”
Sayid- “In love with you? And how do you feel towards him?”
Shannon-“I'll always feel something for him. But am I in love with him in that way? No. Not at all. We're here for god knows how long...and so is Boone.”
Sayid suggests maybe they should go back but Shannon doesn’t want to go back. She wants to take it slow. Sayid’s okay with that; he had hopes but no expectations.

Claire is in pain. Jin and Charlie show up. Charlie informs Kate Jack couldn’t come because he’s pouring his own blood into Boone’s arm right now. Kate wants to take Claire to Jack before it’s too late. Jin motions for them to be quiet.
Charlie tells Kate she has to deliver the baby; Jack talked Charlie through it; it's relatively simple. Kate feels she can’t do this; actually she’s adamant she can’t deliver this baby.
Charlie-“Well somebody has too.”
Jin calmly speaks to Claire in Korean.
Claire tells him-“You know I was out there for over a week…days I can't remember. I mean, what if, what if they did something to the baby? I'm not ready for this. I'm not... I'm so scared. I'm scared.”
Kate walks up behind Claire and tells her, “I'm, I'm scared too. But we're going to get through this together. Okay?”


Drained and woozy Jack checks out Boone’s closed eyes. {Opens the lids}
Sun walks in, checks out Boone and declares “It’s not working.”
Jack-“The blood's not the problem. It's the leg. All the blood's pooling there. Compartment syndrome. He didn't get this injury from a fall. Something crushed his leg.”
Sun rips the transfusion tube out of Jack’s arm, “You've given him enough.”
Jack walks out and calls out to Hurley. {Does he have diapers?}
Hurley asks if he’s okay, “You're looking kind of Goth.”
Jack needs Hurley to get Michael from the beach.
{Flash Whoosh}
Jack is sitting at the edge of the hotel pool with his feet in the water, drinking from a half empty bottle of alcohol. {Important!}
Christian finally arrives, “Hey kiddo.”
Jack looks up to see dad. Christian takes his socks and shoes off to join Jack in the fantastic water. He shares with Jack about the screaming kid next to him in first class, “How does that happen, huh? What you got there?”
Christian takes swig of Jack’s bottle. Jack is definitely buzzed.
Jack-“Oh, Sarah wants us to write our own vows.
Christian reading from a piece of paper, “My hearts skips beats at the sound of your voice. My skin warms... to the touch of your fingers. Where you go, I will go, etc. etc. This is, this is very nice.”
Jack-“Those aren't my vows. Those are hers. I stole them out of the room. Can't write mine.”
Christian feels that’s because Jack’s a doctor not a writer. He compliments Sarah's beauty and then asks Jack if he loves her.
Jack-“Absolutely.”
Dad wonders then why he’s sitting out there.


Jack has concerns. “What if I can't be the husband, or the father, that I want to be? What if I asked her because I saved her life? ... Should I marry her, dad?”
Christian-“Commitment is what makes you tick, Jack. The problem is you're just not good at letting go.”
{Flash Whoosh}
Boone is going downhill fast. Sun is tending to him.
Jack and Michael's conversation can be heard even though they are in the distance at a cargo container. Michael wonders if Jack is saying Locke lied.
Jack feels Boone didn’t fall; his leg was pinned under something heavy.
Michael- "Okay, Jack, wait. The cargo container? We've got to do this? What about the ax?"
Jack- “We can’t use the ax.”
Sun wonders what they’re doing. Jack explains the right leg is filling with blood. If he doesn’t stop it he won't be able to save him, “The leg is dead.”
Jack tests the amputating ability of the cargo container door with a log.
Jack confirms, “There's no other choice.”

In the jungle Kate decides it’s about time Claire starts to push. Claire holds her breath.
Kate-“And, don't hold your breath, honey. You won't be able to push if you...Claire? Claire, what are you doing? Oh, no, no, no, Claire, you need to push, right now. Don't do this, Claire, okay? You can't stop this, this is happening. Your baby is coming and I need your help.” {What?!}
Claire- “It's not going to want me….It knows I don't want it, that I was going to give it away. Babies know that stuff.“
Kate-“Do you want this baby now? Hmm? Do you want it to be healthy and safe? {Claire nods yes} Okay. Then the baby knows that, too. You are not alone in this. We are all here for you. This baby is all of us/ours. But I need you to push, okay? Okay? Alright. 1, 2, 3, push. Good. Good, push.” {That's a very interesting statement to make about a woman's child.}
Charlie and Jin are nearby watching. Charlie looks like he's wants to go to Claire but Jin stops him. Jin knows better.

Sun gives Boone some water but he ends up coughing up blood. Michael and Jack move Boone to the stretcher on 3. Jack counts, 1, 2, 3.
Sun is asking why he’s doing this, “He’s bleeding inside. You’re not helping him! You can’t save him, Jack! You can’t...”
Jack-"Don't tell me what I can't do."
They move Boone. Jack uses a belt as a tourniquet for Boone’s leg; pour more alcohol on the wound. Jack puts a green towel over the leg and feels Michael doesn’t need to see this.
Michael-“You need me, shout.”
Jack and Sun look at each other for a few seconds and then she walks away. Jack tries to gather strength and courage to cut off Boone’s leg and he moves the door just a bit. {Listen to the sound it makes.}
“In sickness and in health...”{Flash Whoosh}
“...in good times and bad. I risk it all because I love you.”
The minister thanks Sarah and asks Jack to go on with his vows. Jack seems very lost in thought for a few seconds and is very emotional. He snaps out of it when the minister says his name.
Jack-“I didn't write any vows. I've been trying to for a month but, I couldn't. So I started to wonder why that was. And as time went on it only got worse... because I'm, because I'm not good at letting go. Or maybe I'm afraid of what'll happen if I fail. But I know one thing. I would've never been able to write anything as beautiful as what you just said. And last night, Sarah, when you were talking about the accident… you got it all wrong. I didn't fix you. You fixed me. I love you, Sarah, and I always will.”
They kiss.
{Flash Whoosh}
As Jack is about to cut Boone's leg off...
Boone- “Wait...Wait.”
Jack-“I have to, if I don't...”
Boone- “I'm all mashed up inside. You know it."
Jack-“This is our best chance.”
Boone-“There's no chance. Really. I mean, look where we are.”
Jack- “I'm not going to let you give up.”
Boone-“I know you made a promise. I'm letting you off the hook...Let me go, Jack.”
Jack cries-“I’m sorry.”
Boone-“Don't be.”

Kate- “Watch, watch, watch. Breathe...c'mon breathe. Breathe. Okay. Okay. Ready? You got another one I see its close, c'mon. That's really good. C'mon, I think its close... Okay, good, good, good. I can see it. I can see the top of its head. I can see it. I can see it, okay... You're almost there...You're so close, you're so close. Ready, ready? C'mon, one more... Go Push, push, push, push, push…. Oh, you have a little boy.”
Kate hands her the baby.
Claire is happy, “I have a son.”
Charlie and Jin are very happy and hug!
Claire tells her little one to “Shhhhh.”

Jack lays Boone down. Jack is worn out.
Boone struggles for a breath.
Boone whispers, “Tell Shannon...tell Shannon... tell her. . . “
Jack closes Boone's eyes.

Claire brings her new baby to the beach camp to meet everyone.
Hurley taps Jack on the shoulder to let him know happy Shannon is walking up the beach with happy Sayid. Jack walks over to talk to her. {Vincent has a collar on.}
Shannon is at the caves crying over Boone's body.

Jack is alone on the beach with a backpack; he looks like he may have been crying.
Kate walks up to him.
Jack-“Beautiful, healthy baby.”
Kate-“Wanna talk about it?”
Jack-“Talk about what?”
Kate- “Boone died, Jack.”
Jack-“He didn't die. He was murdered.
Kate- “What? Jack, where are you going?”
Jack gets focused- “To find John Locke.”    He is a man on a mission.





Do No Harm is a GREAT episode!!
Unfortunately it’s game over for Boone.
Even though we are seeing a "Jack" centric, John Locke is not completely absent from it.
I'll never stop telling you to keep your eyes on their eyes. You'll get sick of hearing me say that.

Things to Note...Questions to ask... 
  Jack sits with a bottle of vodka talks about drinking beers with Marc, we see him drink at the rehearsal dinner, and at the piano. He must be quite the drinker.
  Alcohol. Liquor.
☯  Speech.
Sawyer hides all forms of liquid alcohol together. For example, he doesn’t have the rubbing alcohol with medical.
Blood. Blood type. Boone: A negative. Jack: O negative. B negative.
☯  Jack tells Kate to ransack Sawyer's stuff. The boar ransacked Sawyer’s stuff in Outlaws.
☯  At the rehearsal dinner Sarah mentions her accident was two years ago, 2001. So this event must be 2003.
☯  WTF does Kate mean by "This baby is all of ours/us" really?
☯  Be aware of play on words and phrases.
☯  Emotional pain. Physical pain.
☯  Heart Heartbeat. Heart & Soul.
☯  Brain. Mind.
☯  Breath. Breathe. Air.
Write. Written. Read. Log.
☯  Language. Understanding language. Translate.
☯  Time. Timer.
Jack- “Is she nauseous? Can she stand? Is there any bleeding? Did her water break?” Sun translates the response-“No, none of that, but she can't move.” Wow! Claire doesn’t have any other labor symptoms besides pain and she can’t move. Lol!
☯  It seems pretty important that Kate is the one who delivers the baby.
☯  Life
☯ Death.

Vocabulary and Research...
♦  Ax- In computing: Accumulator eXtended (x86 registers in computing.)
♦  Ax- In rallying: a leg is each day of the whole event.
♦  Commitment- 1). Responsibility. 2). Loyalty. 3). A previously planned engagement. 4). Institutionalize someone. 5). Court order confining someone to prison.
Yin Yang- is used to describe how seemingly disjunct or opposing forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, giving rise to each other in turn.  The concept lies at the heart of many branches of classical Chinese science and philosophy, as well as being a primary guideline of traditional Chinese medicine, and a central principle of different forms of Chinese martial arts and exercise.
According to the philosophy, yin and yang are complementary opposites within a greater whole. Everything has both yin and yang aspects, which constantly interact, never existing in absolute stasis.
   - Yin and yang can also mean good and bad.
♦  Fix, slang for a shot of drugs eg. heroin or a mixture of liquor, citrus, and sugar
   -Fix,a planned setup (interchangeable with the same use of "rig") of an event so as to influence the outcome.
♦  Factor IX (or Christmas factor) is one of the serine proteases of the coagulation system.




We learn a lot about Jack's personality; commitment in particular.   He really is a dedicated man, a man of his word, and a man who doesn't want to give up, or is it “let go”.    He's very afraid of failure. These are all very strong personality traits.   We saw that at some point in his life Jack and Christian were comfortable having heart to heart talks.   Jack really did realize on his wedding day that he did indeed love Sarah.
But more importantly to note is it seems to me this is an "alcohol" episode. I got the sense that Jack was taking a look at himself with everything he experiences here, like he was looking head on to himself being an alcoholic.   I know, call me crazy.   But, Jack could very well have a problem with alcohol and needs to deal with some heartfelt issues and then learn to let go of them.

So, move or don’t move...the choice is yours.

I'll want to leave you with this Zen proverb...“Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life - after that you cannot be deceived”

Love to all who are "LOST"™

PS: As we approach the end of season one and I review all these notes I've kept since the beginning, I'm still amazed at how new the show still feels for me. Even when I re-watch I NEVER tire of it. There's always something new to see and a new way to look at something. The way the show draws you in and wraps you into it is absolutely surreal. We talk about all the things that made us fans and what we love about the show, there's just so many reasons. I agree with all of your reasons and I'm very guilty of obsessive behavior. I love this fantastic, smart show!!! Maybe one day I will share with you all how and why I became the obsessed LOST fan you see today, an active participant in the show, why it's such a part of my life and why it's it held near and dear to my heart.

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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 team6.   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.

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Open eye.
Michael calls out looking for Walt.
Charlie walks up asking Michael if he’s seen Claire’s bags.
Michael-“Have you seen my son?”
Charlie- “You seen her bags?”
Michael- “Claire’s?”
Charlie- “Her luggage. It’s not been brought back here. No one seems to know what happened to it.”
Michael apologizes, he doesn’t know; he’s just looking for Walt. Charlie hasn’t seen Walt. Jack {Key around neck} walks up carrying firewood. Michael asks Jack if he’s seen his boy out there.
Jack says no, “He was at the caves.”
Michael shares Walt took his dog for a walk and he told him to stay close as usual.
Michael-“You listened to your old man when you were 10, right?”
Jack claims to have listened a little too well.
Hurley comes over to tell the two dudes he has a new tourney lined up. They’re playing for the last of the deodorant sticks, “You dogs up for some golf?”
Michael has to go find his kid. “If Walt shows up tell him I said stay here until I get back.”
Michael continues his search.
Hurley mentions to Jack that Michael seems to hate being a dad.
Jack-“Nah. It’s just…a lot of hard work.”
Michael continues calling out for Walt.
Hurley scoffs and says, “Nah. He hates it.”
“Walt!” Michael is pissed. He continues his search through the jungle.
{Flash Whoosh}




“This is the one.” Michael and Susan are in the store looking at baby cribs. He’s excited he’s found “My baby’s crib.”
Susan looks at the price tag and remarks it will look great in the alley they’ll be living in. “This is three months rent.”
Michael wants the best for this kid but Susan insists they can't afford this. Michael feels their baby in this crib is a happy kid. {Note the store has items corresponding to the island.}
Michael tells Susan he talked to Andy and he can send some work Michael’s way.
Susan-“Construction? What about your art?”
Michael assures her he’s not giving it up, just taking a break until she finishes law school. “Pass the bar, get hired by some fancy ass high paying law firm.”
He’ll get back to painting eventually. Meanwhile Susan can support him and Walt in the manner to which they soon will be accustomed. Michael wants to name him after his dad.
Susan- “Walter. Walter Lloyd.”
Michael- “Lloyd? Oh, all right. That's why you won't marry me. It's not that you think marriage is too prosaic; you just want him to have your last name.”
Susan- “Hey. You want me to agree to Walter or what?”
{Flash Whoosh}



In the jungle Locke hands Walt a knife.
Boone and Vincent {Collar/leash.} are watching.
Walt throws the knife at the tree and it doesn’t penetrate it.
Walt-“Man, I suck!”
Locke-“You can do better than that.”
Boone-“You might want to take it easy on him.” {On whom?}
Locke explains-"See this knot Walt…I want you to aim for it. Right here. Focus on it…alright? Picture it…in your mind's eye. You know what that is, the mind's eye?”
Walt knows it’s like a picture in your head.
Locke tells him to do it again but, See it. See it before you do it. Visualize the path. See it. See it.” {It's kind of like using the force, like a Jedi. Also note Locke touches Walt’s hand.}
Walt focuses. We get a shot of Vincent. Walt throws the knife and sticks his mark! Boone is impresses and Locke knew Walt had it in him.
Walt-“It was weird. I actually saw it in my mind or something, like it was real.”
Locke- “Who's to say it wasn’t?”
Michael comes upon them and he’s pissed! He takes the knife from Walt and tells him to take Vincent and go back to camp now.
Michael- “You gave my boy a knife.”
Locke- “You should’ve seen what…”
Michael-“Don’t tell me what I should’ve seen, man! We were back home I’d call the police on your ass! Encouraging a kid to sneak away from his parent, giving him a knife like this!”
Locke- “Walt knows his own mind.”
Michael pulls the knife on Locke. “Ah, don’t talk to me about my son like you know him.” Locke needs Michael to calm down.
Michael-“You keep playing my son against me…and I’m gonna have a p…”
Boone tackles Michael and holds the knife to him, “The man said calm down.”
Michael punches Boone and says, “What are you his attack dog?”
Michael was the one waving the knife around and Boone was just trying to make sure Michael didn’t hurt someone.
Locke knows it’s been difficult for Michael to bond with his son. “You know why he’s formed an attachment to me? Cause I treat him like an adult and you still treat him like a boy.”
Michael- “He’s 10 years old!”
Locke says he’s been through more than most people in their entire lifetimes and Michael hasn’t spent enough time with him to see it, “He’s different.”
Michael (concerned)-"What did you say?" {Did Michael realize Locke is on to the wonders of Walt?! Maybe he realized at that moment Walt and Locke share something. Maybe Michael realized where he really is and what's going on. I think it's at that moment Michael realizes he has to make that raft; he's got get Walt off the island!}
Locke-“And we’re not back home, Michael. As long as we're here I think Walt should be allowed to realize his potential.”
Michael warns Locke to stay away from him and his son. {This scene was very important!}



{Note the huge painting is heads.}
You’re not taking him.” Toddler Walt plays on the floor with Michael. {Does he have Legos?}

Michael tells Susan she can go if she wants too but she’s not taking his son. Susan wants to take Walt to Amsterdam. She's got a great job offer and is leaving with him. Michael thought her position with the legal clinic was a good fit. This is offer is a huge opportunity for her as she’s always wanted to do international law. Susan says that she loves Michael but they need time apart. Michael knows they’ve talked about a lot of things, “You said you wanted to live on a boat.”
Susan mentions they’ve been through so much in such a short time. Michael understands they’ve got problems; he down with going to counseling. Susan had already made up her mind and took it; after all he hasn’t worked in months. Michael had already told her construction slows in the winter. But Susan knows she is the one who can provide for Walt. Michael doesn’t want to be away from Walt; there are laws against this kind of thing. Susan already knows the courts would side with her.
The two are not married. Susan says it’s not goodbye forever; she just needs some time. Michael is getting emotional.
{Flash Whoosh}
Walt is sleeping. {With his hand on his head} Michael watches him. Sun asks Michael if he’s alright.
Michael-"I just don't know how to talk to him, how to get him to understand, I’m on his side.    Locke says I should stop treating him like a child. I missed his whole childhood, so…This can’t happen…He can’t grow up here….Can’t grown up in this place.” {He can’t talk to Walt but he can communicate with Sun- a woman who is supposed to be speaking Korean.}














“Once I realized these equations were coordinates latitude and longitude, I assumed the French woman was trying to determine the location of the island. But it was incomplete; her notations fragmented.”



Shannon- “Except for the fish song.” {Is the fish song not nonsense?!}
Jack- “The what?”
No one explains the fish song to Jack.
Sayid just continues on with, “But when I lay the pages down like this I realized it wasn’t showing the location of the island…I think it’s a location on the island, specifically here…”
Jack asks where they are in relation to the triangle. Sayid admits the map in not in scale so he doesn’t know.
Jack states they’re not even sure it’s a map of this Island. Sayid admits they’re not sure but thinks it this may be the transmitter sending out the distress call and its power source.
Michael wonders what they’re doing now. “Looking for an excuse to get chased down and killed by whatever lives in the jungle?”
Michael feels they can’t keep doing this; building water filtration systems and playing golf, making a sweet little home here. “We need to get off this Island.”
Shannon-“You think any of us want to be here?”
Michael says no and that no one wants to get off this island as badly as he does right now.
Michael suggests building a raft because “No one’s coming.” He feels they can use the seats from the fuselage, ax, a whole bunch of trees; bamboo.
Sayid thinks the chances of surviving the rough waters, the odds of finding a shipping lane and Shannon’s seasickness would make this a waste of time.   Michael sarcastically tells them to stay there, grow old together, “Good luck to ya. But I’m doing this. My son and I are leaving.”



 In the caves Walt is reading the Spanish version of the comic The Green Lantern and Flash- Faster Friends. Vincent is at his side.
Walt is sounding out the Spanish words. Michael wants Walt to help him with something but Walt wants to enjoy the comic. Michael remarks Walt is reading a comic book in Spanish but doesn’t speak Spanish. Walt likes the pictures. Michael is intrigued Walt likes the art. Michael shares with his son that when he was a little older than Walt he used to trace comic books. “Taught myself about perspective, you know what that is? Perspective?”
Walt doesn’t even acknowledge dad so dad grabs the comic from him. He needs Walt’s help and needs him to go with him; because he sees what happens when he doesn’t keep an eye on him.
{Flash Whoosh-Sounds like a train.}
Michael is talking to Susan on a pay phone in New York City. He wants to talk to 21 month old Walt. Susan comments Walt doesn’t use the phone.
Michael will do all the talking, “I just want him to hear my voice. I miss him.” {Two pay phones}
Michael hears Susan say to someone on the other end of the phone say “Shhhh. It’s Michael.”
Susan tells Michael it’s not a good time to talk but Michael is ultimately informed by Susan she’s been seeing Brian Porter; the guy who hired her.
Michael feels she lied when she said she needed time to think about “us”. She says it wasn’t like that. Michael is pissed off, “I’m coming to Amsterdam.”
Susan doesn't want him to because it’s over between them.
Michael yells-“I’m not coming for you! I’m coming for Walt! I’m getting my son back!” Michael slams the phone down, crosses the street and gets hit by a car.

Kate walks over to chat with Charlie on the beach. He is going through Claire’s things/bags, Who brought them here?
Kate- “I did.”
Charlie is looking for Claire’s diary. She kept a diary in the side pocket.
Charlie-“Someone’s taken it.”
“What are we looking for again?” asks Walt. Michael needs any long piece of metal or long tubing, anything that looks like it would work as a frame.
Walt- “A frame for what?"
Michael- “You’ll see soon enough.”
They look through the wreckage as Michael instructs Walt to separate the cushions, the plastic, the tarp, “Put everything you find in different piles so we can take stock.”
Walt-“Am I being punished?”
Michael feels,This is us taking control of our destiny.”
Walt-“Feels like punishment.”


Kate and Charlie head over to Sawyer’s tent. He doesn’t answer the call at the tent door so Charlie says, “I can just go inside…”
Sawyer- “Trick or treat.”
Sawyer is sitting a few feet away.
When something goes missing they figure it’s got to be Sawyer who took it.
Kate asks if he has the diary or not. Just like a magician he presents a diary, “You mean this one?”
Charlie wants it. Sawyer doesn’t think that’s a good idea because maybe Missy Claire doesn’t want Charlie to read it.
Charlie-“I wasn’t gonna read it.”
Sawyer wonders if Charlie’s curious about what she wrote about him. Sawyer mentions “good literature is kinda scarce around here.”
They assume Sawyer read the diary.
Sawyer reads a passage aloud. “Dear Diary. I’m getting really freaked out by that has-been pop star. I think he’s stalking me.”
He reads on- “Diary, the little limy runt just won't let up.”
Charlie punches him in his bicep wound, knocking the diary away.
Charlie acquires the diary.
Sawyer punches Charlie in the face. Charlie feels he hits like a ponce. Kate stops them from really getting into it. Charlie walks away.
Kate asks Sawyer if he really read it. Sawyer just hadn’t gotten around to it yet.

Walt is listening” to something. Distant voices become clearer.
Michael rummages through the wreckage. Walt gets excited when he sees Locke and Boone emerge from the jungle and head into the caves. Michael never even notices them. {Locke is eating something.} Walt tells his focused dad he’s going to get some water. Michael would like Walt to bring him some. Walt doesn't acknowledge him at all.
Michael-“Please and thank you. Gotta work on that.”
Dad is displeased with Walt’s lack of manners.

In the cave Shannon wonders if Boone and Locke are just going to keep coming back without any food.
Boone is disconnected from her. Shannon wants to know what’s going on with him, “Could you be acting any weirder?”
Boone- “Shannon. You’ve been a functioning bulimic since Jr. High. I thought you’d be excited about dropping a size or two.”
Shannon feels since Boone isn’t having any luck hunting maybe he should help Michael build the raft. She was thinking maybe she should help Michael so she can finally get the hell out of there. “Why don’t you help me?”
Unimpressed Boone replies, “No thanks.”
Locke is going through his silver case and Walt walks over to him.
Locke- “Your father doesn’t want us spending time together.”
Walt feels dad isn’t the boss of him. Locke tells the child, “But he’s your father. And he cares about you and you need to show him respect. Now I’m serious Walt. You’re not to come to me anymore.”
Just then Michael enters and he is pissed!
“Damn it! What is wrong with you?!”
Locke-“I was just coming to see…”
Michael told Locke to stay away from his son. Walt tries to interject but Michael doesn’t want to hear from him.



Locke- “I was just giving him this pencil to give to you. I thought you could use it. Consider it a peace offering.”
{Pen or pencil?}
Michael quietly speaks in Locke’s ear. “I catch you with my son again…I’ll kill you.”

Locke picks up his silver case and walks away.
Walt calls Michael "a jerk!"
“Mr. Locke didn’t do anything wrong, he’s my friend.
Michael- “He’s not anymore. I’m looking out for you!”
Walt feels Michael doesn’t care about him and he never cared about him. “You only show up after my mom died. Where were you when I was growing up? Huh? NOWHERE!”
Michael-“Listen, Walt. It’s complicated.” {Remember that for later}
Walt doesn’t even care, “You’re not my father.” {That’s right.}
Michael- “You wanna hate me? You wanna punish me for something I can’t change? Fine. But you will listen to me.”
Michael throws the comic in the fire! He demands Walt “get over there. And you stay there. Now!”
Walt walks over by the waterfall and Vincent.
Michael looks at the burning comic book with the polar bear.
{Flash Whoosh}
Michael is drawing with a pencil.

He's been in a hospital for three months. His nurse never knew he had a kid. Michael explains he'll be two next week and lives in Amsterdam with his mom. Michael mentions he never knows what to write.
The nurse suggests a joke. “How about what's black, white and red all over?”
Michael guesses a newspaper.
Nope.
The nurse's answer is a penguin with a sunburn.
Nurse-"Trust me, mother of four talking here. He'll get a kick out it."
Susan comes to see him. She hadn't heard from Michael in two months, she had to call Andy to find out about the accident.
Michael- "Yeah, well considering how our last conversation went."
Susan tells him Walt is at home.
Susan pushes Michael in a wheelchair down the hallway. The nurses feel he will make a full recovery but Michael informs Susan he needs a year of physical therapy. Susan will cover all his medical expenses. She already spoke to the hospital administrator and all his bills will go to her.
Susan goes on to reveal she is going to marry Brian, he wants to adopt Walt and they will move to Italy at the end of the month. Brian is taking over the firm's Rome office.
Michael- "You're kidding me right?"
Susan- "Consider what's best for Walt. You can keep holding on if you want, but ask yourself why you're doing that. Is it really for him? Or is it for you?" {I find this line to be very telling! Are we NOT talking about a child here? Or are we talking about my Darth Vader action figure that I've been holding on to since I'm a kid? lol}
{Flash Whoosh}
Hurley walks up to Michael and says -"Uh, dude. You're kid is gone."
Walt just grabbed the dog and took off.
Michael knows where he's gone.

Locke is sharpening his knife.
Michael asks Locke where he is, "I'm not in the mood for your games, man. Where's Walt?"
Locke tells him Walt's not here but Michael thinks he's lying.
Boone-"Hey man. He's not here. Look around."
Well, Michael wasn't talking to Boone.
Locke- "I told him this morning that he couldn't be around me anymore. Trying to respect your wishes." They realize Walt is gone.
Locke tells Michael "Let's go find your boy."

Kate and Charlie arrive at the caves with Claire's bags. Charlie feels Kate didn't really have to help, "I could have managed. I've had my share of manly encounters."
Kate thought he could use the company.
Charlie tells Kate "It's weird. I barely knew her...barely know her, Claire. She's missing over a week. Everyday she's gone it feels like bits of me are crumbling or something.
Kate thinks its right he keep her stuff safe until she gets back. Kate touches Charlie's leg and leaves.
Charlie retrieves Claire's blue diary and contemplates a peek. He's so tempted that he picks it up and puts it down a few times before thumbing through the pages. He fights temptation and puts the diary back in the bag, zips it up and walks away from it.

Walt walks Vincent through the jungle. {On a red leash} Something "growls".
The dog barks and Walt looks around because they hear something walking through the jungle. Walt doesn't see anything just hears it. Vincent starts freaking as if he sees something and Walt asks him what's wrong. Vincent runs off, breaking the collar and leash off of him! {Why doesn't the damn dog stay? Did somebody/something call him away? I would think a good, loyal dog would protect its family} Walt drops the collar and leash to run after Vincent.
{Flash Whoosh}
Walt is lying on the floor staring at Vincent, although it could appear as if he's "listening" to him.
Susan is telling Brian about someone who is "trying to weasel his way out anything not to let the case move forward. He was arguing it wasn't his jurisdiction."
Brian- "Oh, you're kidding me."
Susan- “I wish I was. Same argument third time in a row. Barkley said it was an immigration issue."
Brain- "Barkley, that's classic."
Susan- "He thinks because I'm new to Australian law that I'm some kind of yokel or something"
Susan wants Walt to do get back to his homework. Walt told her he needs help. Mom the lawyer can tell when someone's stalling.
Susan and Brian are distracted in their own conversation and not paying attention to Walt. {There is a blue binder near Walt and he holds a pencil}
Walt asks "Who cares about birds of Australia, anyway? We're in Australia."
Brian asks Susan if she's okay. Susan admits she's feeling kind of flu-ey
Walt- "Shouldn't we be studying birds of Egypt or something?
Brian- "You haven't been sleeping much lately. Maybe you need to take a personal day."
Walt just continues talking about the bird he picked; the Bronze Cuckoo. It's funny. Wanna see?
Susan asks Brian what about Barkley?
Walt continues on- "I mean, it doesn't look funny, just the name"
Susan- "Sleeping in late that's too much. . ." {The nanny is sitting in the room.}
Walt is getting annoyed; tries to get Brian's attention-"Hey, Brian, look, look. You're not looking. You're not looking." {We hear bird chips and wings flutter.}
All of a sudden a bird flies in to the closed glass door. Walt wonders if it's dead. Brian says it is and just looks at Walt. Walt isn't really fazed by the bird incident; he just goes back to reading his bird book.
{Flash Whoosh}
Walt is alone in the jungle calling out for Vincent. We can hear noises of something moving around in the jungle. The sound of low growls is heard.

Brian Porter knocks on Michael's door. {Peephole} The men seem to not know each other. Brian breaks the news to him about Susan's death-YESTERDAY! {She dies yesterday, in Australia, he files all the way to N.Y. to see Michael and leaves Walt with the nanny...WOW!!}
Turns out Susan had a blood disorder and was sick for one week. Apparently Michael hadn't talked to her in a while. Brian informs him before Susan died she wanted Michael to have custody of Walt. Michael seems surprised at this and feels he hasn't been his father in nine years. Brian goes on about how he didn't want to be a father; he didn't know how. Brian presents a yellow envelope containing money for travel expenses, two tickets; 1 round trip, 1 one way, so Michael can go and get Walt. Michael feels the idea for Michael to have custody is really Brian's idea and not Susan's.
Brian's a wreck right now, he just lost the woman he loves and he can't be Walt's father, he's not his son.
Brian tells him there's something about him. Sometimes when he's around things happen; he's different somehow.
{Flash Whoosh}
Michael finds Vincent's red collar and leash. He and Locke hear Walt yell for help. Locke points Michael in the direction to go.

Michael goes to Australia. The nanny mentions Walt will be home from school any minute. She also gives him a yellow envelope with some of Susan's effects and a box with cards/letters. The nanny thinks Walt should have it. She just walks away leaving him alone.











In the distance you can hear the nanny tell Walt someone is there to see him. Michael walks down a long hallway to Walt.


















 Michael is running through the jungle, Walt is calling out for his dad's help and there are loud growls.
A polar bear is trying to claw his way into where Walt is hiding in the banyan trees. {This is the second time we see a polar bear.}
Locke stops Michael from just rushing over {actually covers his mouth, tells him to "shhhh" and directs them... "up here."

Walt plays with Vincent and a ball. {Wearing a vest.} The birds are singing.
Michael- "Hey Walt."
Walt- "Who are you?"
Michael tells Walt he's his father. {I know!! Walt looks at him like he has three fucking heads!} Michael shares that he and Susan loved it each very much when they had him. Walt asks where Brian is.
Michael- "He's not here."
Michael's there to bring you home with me."
Walt isn't going anywhere with him.
Michael- "I know this is really hard to understand all of this. See Brian... Brian loves you very much. And he wants you to stay with him, but it's not his choice. It's mine. I'm your legal guardian. And a, it's not like he's going to disappear from your life. He'll still call you, write to you, come to see you whenever he can. And you know, you'll still have your dog.
Walt- "But Vincent isn't mine. He's Brian's."
Michael- "Brian said you could have him."

The polar bear is trying to get to Walt. Michael calls out to Walt as he and Locke walk across a tree limb {like a tight rope walker} that allows them to pass over the polar bear action. Michael slips but Locke saves him!
Walt is crying as the bear continues to reach Walt. Michael tells Walt to hang in there. Michael climbs over to the tree with Walt. {What is with the white smoke there for a second?} Locke tosses Michael a knife to give to Walt for protection.
Walt stabs at the bear.
Michael wraps leafless vines around and yells up to Locke, "Okay, Locke now!"
Locke works hard to pull Walt out. The polar bear returns and Michael stabs him; the bear runs off. {Locke watches the bear run off.} Michael climbs up the tree and is reunited with Walt. They hug; everybody is happy! Michael is glad Walt is safe.
Walt is concerned that Vincent ran off again.
Locke- "He found his way back to you once, Walt. He will again." {Indeed}
Michael and Locke share a smile.




At night in the caves Michael gives Walt a present; every card and letter of the past eight years! {NOT 9 years}
Walt said he likes to look at pictures. Walt's never seen these before and wonders why his mom never gave them to him.
Michael feels although she didn't give them to him, she never threw them out either and that deep down she must have wanted him to have them. They both feel the "penguin" joke is dumb.

Charlie sits engrossed in Claire's blue diary. Something on the page gets his attention and he heads over to talk to Jack and Sayid. "You have to hear this." They're surprised he's reading her diary.
Charlie- "Yeah, I know, I'm bloody scum. Just listen to this. "I had that weird dream again the one with the black rock I can't get away from. I try to leave it but it won't let me."
Sayid -"Black rock?"
Jack-"It's just dreams, Charlie."
Charlie- "No, Sayid mentioned black rock before."
Sayid- "The French woman said something about her team returning from the black rock. The triangle on the map. Maybe it's the triangle on the map."
Charlie- "Maybe it's where Claire was taken. Maybe she's there?"
Jack-"Maybe. Charlie, we all want to find Claire, but there's no sense going out into the jungle in the middle of the night."






Locke is blowing into the whistle he made to 'call' Vincent. {We hear the high pitch whistle.}
Boone- "I don't think that whistles working, John."
Locke- "You can't hear everything, Boone. The sooner you learn that, the better."
There's a noise that Boone actually hears.
Boone whispers loudly, "Vincent. Vincent. Is that you?"
Locke readies his knife as they wait to see what's coming out of the jungle.
I guess the whistle it works on Claire too because she walks out of the jungle! {Damn Locke is good! Keep your eye on Locke.}
Locke- "Claire."






Special is a GREAT episode!! Just what is the tie or connection with Walt and Michael? What is his role? Is he really his father, biologically or as a figurehead? In name only? WHAT?! I feel that Michael may be more of a protector/guardian than a father.   Walt wasn't supposed to be Michael's and wasn't supposed to be with Michael.
So Walt is different. What does he share with Locke really?
Bottom line is Michael's got to get Walt off the “Island” before the shit hits the fan! I think Michael knows all about Walt and the "Island"! There, I said it!

Things to Note...Questions to ask...
* Eyes
* Michael and Jack wear plaid shirts.
* Bar. {Jack and Christian}
* Black. White. Red.
* What is the deal with dog/dogs? Vincent.
* Understand. Teach. Learn. Language. Linguistics. Communicate. Talk.
* Picture. Art. Drawing. Frame. Pencil/pen.
* Read. Write. Wrote.
* Diary is a journal.
* Attachments.  Literal, computer or metaphor?
* Pictures in your head. Hmmm.
* “Lifetimes.” Plural! Who has more than one lifetime? Hmm.
* Claire and a connection with the Black Rock. Maybe they all have a connection with it.
* Feelings of being punished.
* Game. Puzzle. Trick. Joke. Kid/kidding
* Therapy.
* Anagram for TARP is TRAP.
* Bags=baggage. It seems like they it's a metaphor for emotional baggage. They seem to find their own bags.
* Susan hadn't heard from Michael in two months, Walt was 21 months the night of the accident and he will be two next week.
* Brian Porter and Susan are a black and white couple. Vincent's leash is red.
* The bird that flew into the glass door doesn't really look like any of the birds in the book.
* Again be observant to when the "Flash Whoosh" is there and when it's not.

* I've been excited to talk about this, yet also afraid to talk about this. Reason being you all know I think outside the box with this show and I could be way out there on some things( I know that), but this could make me look like a fully fledged patient at Santa Rosa's! LOL!
The comic is in Spanish.
Let's talk about the basic idea/story of the comic. I have kept these clues as part of my thoughts since the first time I saw them.
I see many common elements between this comic book story and the "Island". MANY! Some of which I know you're going to say I'm nuts! But I see more than just the polar bear bearing a resemblance to our island.
We are shown an alien, the dome around land, bug, polar bear. Okay, that comic story/series is about two halves of a super hero (Flash and Green Lantern) put together to make a superior super hero. The old and new of both halves create the new being, a better world.; Two halves brought together to make a whole.

I'm paraphrasing here, but this is the idea: A reference to parallel earth, they want to mix a part of each reality to create a perfect world, and identity crisis.
The alien: The alien in the story comes to earth, and gets sick with cancer; they hide him away in a ship.
The dome: Could our island be in a "dome" or something "dome-like"? Something that is "containing" them?
Bug: Walt shows us the page with the bug on it. So does the "Island" have a bug?
Polar bear: Many have felt that the polar bear was manifested by Walt. Nope, I don't think so.
Besides that the "polar bears" were already there in that "environment".


Vocabulary and Research…
* Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Lloyd Dawson KCB CBE DSO RAF (6 May 1902 – 1994) was a senior commander in the RAF in the 1950s. He was the last RAF commander in Palestine, before the creation of the State of Israel. He died in 1994.
* Crib- in cryptanalysis, is a known or suspected plaintext. The term originated at Bletchley Park, the British WWII decryption operation.
* The usage "crib" was adapted from a slang term referring to cheating— example: "I cribbed my answer from your test paper."
-A "crib" originally was a literal or interlinear translation of a foreign-language text — usually a Latin or Greek text — that students might be assigned to translate from the original language.
* Triangle- Trinity.
* In semantics: a triangle is the structure of every system composed with three reciprocally connected/interrelated abstract or real objects
*The phrase "mind's eye" refers to the human ability for visual perception, imagination, visualization, and memory.
*The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul is a 1981 book composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. It is a collection of essays and creations about the nature of the mind and the self, tied together with commentary by the editors.
-The Mind's Eye series consists of several art films rendered using computer generated imagery of varying levels of sophistication. The series began in 1990.
* New Amsterdam- was a 17th-century Dutch Colonial settlement that later became the city now known as New York City. Whenever the Dutch went to new places they would name each colony with the word "new".
* Stalling (gaming) obstruction of the flow of play while leading in a timed game.





You've heard me say many times before that we are given a clue and then it gets dropped for a while…then BAM! There it is again! This is not the last time we got a comic or super hero clue. Just wait, it comes back around.

Every single episode tells us to LOOK, SEE and LISTEN because answers are right in front of our eyes! I guess that's going to become my catch phrase. Also, answers are in their eyes.  So think about what could actually be going on in their “heads/minds”.

The comic book.....Is it a clue or just entertainment? I think it's a clue and for fun!  It’s Michael who stares at the burning comic book with the polar bear page showing.
I sometimes feel that there's a bit of "Mr. John Locke" in most of the centrics even when they're not "his". Weird, huh?

Perspective…it’s all about perspective.

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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.