Flashing Back to All the Best Cowboys...,Whatever the Case...,Hearts and Minds

Hi Losties!It is important for you to have access to my original detailed notes for each of the episodes. These episodes contain some very important things that set a thread for all the other episodes.
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All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues
Whatever the Case May Be
Hearts and Minds


When I first shared my notes with LOST fans years ago I was always careful to present the episode and its potential clues in a very neutral way, always including the many ways one could look at a clue and never outright told anyone what to think or which way to lean. I also was cautious not to publically go too deep into certain ideas I personally entertained. Well with this re-watch I find I am much more comfortable to voice my opinion on the story and its clues and with no holds barred, confidently reinforcing some of the important layers and their clues.

An important point I have never ignored is that Jack and the Castaways are in an unreal world. {Unreal world as opposed to a real world.}  One definition of "reality" is something that truly exists is real.
Jack, John and the Castaways are experiencing things that resemble an authentic environment even if it's via the sleeping/conscious mind. Therefore these experiences are real to Jack, John and the Castaways, as this is the way they perceive it.
For me there is no doubt their adventurous journey to enlightenment is happening in conjunction with drugs, lucid dreaming, and the possible added element of computers and/or machines.  In other words, an altered state of consciousness.

One of the layers of the LOST story is about the Castaways being trapped by their emotional past and their needing to come to terms with moving forward from it.   It is important to know anything that the mind creates is a "trap".  Unless you stop blaming others, including yourself, for the state you are in, you are not awake.


A few important things I wanted to add to my original note for All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues are: 
✈ We know Jack is stubborn and definitely angry, and although we tend to see Jack motivated and in control on the "Island" and with his friends, he really is always on the verge of snapping.

✈ In this episode Jack's "Island" adventure has him trying to find Claire and Charlie but in "reality" he is literally running in circles trying to find answers, his father and himself.

✈ In the hospital scruffy Jack with different color eyes, wasn't called down to do the surgery yet Christian was called away from a restaurant after having a few.  When I first saw this episode it passed my mind that it is possible that between Jack and Christian its Christian that is the lesser evil.

✈ Amping up her stress

✈ L-Limits-License-Life

    A- Alcohol

    T- Time 

✈ Locke follows his gut. Locke feels "it"!  With that it's time for a quick lesson on Chakras. We have hints to Chakras throughout the story.  Locke even teaches Walt to use his mind's eye to visual things.

Chakras: word that translates as "wheel" or "turning".   The Chakras are said to be "force centers" or whorls of energy permeating, from a point on the physical body

Chakras are typically depicted in two ways:
1. Flower-Like: a specific number of petals are shown around the perimeter of a circle
2. Wheel-Like: a certain number of spokes divide the circle into segments that make the chakra resemble a wheel or chakra.  Each chakra possesses a specific number of segments or petals.

7 primary Chakras:
Muladhara-Base or Root Chakra (ovaries/prostate) RED
Swadhisthana- Sacral Chakra (last bone in spinal cord *coccyx*) ORANGE
Manipura- Solar Plexus Chakra (navel area) YELLOW
Anahata -Heart Chakra (heart area) GREEN and "High Heart" is TURQUOISE
Vishuddha- Throat Chakra (throat and neck area) BLUE
Ajna- Brow or Third Eye Chakra (pineal gland or third eye) VIOLET
Sahasrara-Crown Chakra (Top of the head) WHITE

Whatever the Case May Be
Here is an excerpt from my posted notes for Whatever the Case May Be.  Be sure to head over to read about this very interesting case.
Faith comes back around. Rose is a supporter of faith. She's trying to give Charlie some hope. She's trying to help him come out of another dark place. Remember Locke helped him get out of a dark place with his heroin addiction.
What else comes back around? It's very simple...everything. Karma.
I wonder if it really is better on Rose's side.

I can't help but note and question if the "Island" residents are under some sort of therapy/treatment with this Island adventure.  After all, all these people are feeling "blue" and  need some kind of help.
It does seem like hints may be telling us computers are involved in some way.

Hearts and Minds
I love the episode Hearts and Minds.  It gives us a clear clue to drugs and altered states of consciousness playing a role in the "Island" journey.

Locke gave Boone an experience that he believes is vital to his survival on that "Island".  Boone questions the "reality" of  his "very real feeling experience".
Locke is very clear in stating “It was only as real as you made it.”

The point to this enlightening experience was for Boone to confront his feelings for Shannon and his freedom of letting her go.
Boone's experience includes the "monster" and all of its mechanical sounds.   But you must remember, there's no such thing as monsters.

Until next time...
Love to all who are "LOST"™

The Hunting Party.

Let's talk about LOST! The Hunting Party.
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Christian and Jack are analyzing/diagnosing an MRI.
Christian is whispering his findings to Jack. {About where it’s rooting.}



Mr. Busoni says in Italian, "You don't need to talk in whispers" as Jack and Christian talk about his case.
He has a spinal tumor and knows he doesn’t have a chance.


Christian tells Mr. Busoni via Gabriella translating, that he is not a candidate for surgery. Christian, who is doing all the talking at this point, won't even try.   He feels Mr. Busoni isn’t looking for a surgical procedure; he’s looking for a miracle.
Mr. Busoni says he "didn't come all this way for you sir, I came for him", speaking of Jack.
Gabriella, his daughter, had consulted many medical journals before going there to see Jack.  She knows he is the one who fixed a woman with a crushed spinal column and now she walks; a miracle. That was a very different case, under very different circumstances.
Gabriella asks Jack to try.
Jack looks over the MRI very intensely. And then as if he found a way through the maze he turns to Gabriella to say although he agrees with Christian’s assessment of the risks he will try. Jack will have to admit her father in the next couple of weeks and run some tests. Then we get another beautiful close up of the MRI. {Jack's determination and excitement in his eyes when looking at the MRI, He's done this kind/type of surgery before…Ben.} The family is happy, Christian, not so much.
{Flash Whoosh}
At the hatch a noise jolts Jack awake. He was on the bottom bunk. Jack calls out for Locke who isn’t in the computer room. Jack finds John knocked out in the armory. Michael has a gun, he's going after Waaaaaalt and no one is going to stop him. “That is my right. That is a fathers right!”

Michael demands Jack stay in there with unconscious Locke and  he  {looks back a few times} threatens to "shoot your damn computer".
He is getting worked up and he tells Jack, "That thing is not what you think it is anyway. You don't understand, man. You don't have any idea!"  {Oh really! What is it?!}
Jack offers to do this together.
Michael says no and that he has to do it now, “I have to do it alone."
Michael closes the door on them. {Note Jack wearing the key around his neck.}

Locke wakes up in the armory. Jack does a quick exam of Locke's eyes/head, asking if Locke feels sick or nauseated. {When Jack tests Locke "eyes" Locke doesn't follow his finger.} Jack informs him Michael knocked him out.   Locke says he’s OK.
Jack looks for a way out and asks Locke for a boost up; but they can't get out from the overhead air vent.
Locke-"It's no use. I bolted it shut from the inside…No point changing the combination if you can get in through the air vent.”
Jack-(sarcastically) "That's really good thinking John." {Locke gives him a weird look like, do you really think it was a good idea? Or was he not even looking at Jack but at something else?}

Locke let Michael in because he wanted a gun for shooting practice. Locke is concerned about the button. Jack claims Locke was knocked out for about 20 minutes. {Did Jack time it while he was still sleeping?}
Locke and John are on shift for the next four hours; there’s nobody going down there. {On shift together!}
Jack-"Better hope Sawyer shows up to get his band aid changed.”

Sawyer is sleeping in his airplane seat on the beach. Kate tosses a banana on him to wake him up.
Kate-“Morning.”
She jokes she couldn’t find any rocks to throw at him. Sawyer tells Freckles there’s a nicer way to wake a man up. Kate lets him know it’s time to get his bandages changed. She can’t do it because she isn’t Sawyer’s nurse and Jack’s got the bandages. {Well, whose nurse is she?} Kate gives him a hand up and they share a moment of closeness.

Kate and Sawyer enter the hatch.
Sawyer- “This place still creeps me out." {Libby said a similar line about Nathan.}
Kate -"You'll get used to it." {You'll get used to it!?!}
They realize no one is there. The locked in duo call out for them. The beeping starts on the countdown clock for the computer.
The guys behind the door yell, “In here! In the armory!” and “Michael locked us in here!” yet when Sawyer asks what he said Kate says “I got it” as if someone mentioned the button, and automatically heads in to reset the computer.
Sawyer hopes Doc has the combo. Locke is the one who calls out the combination "Right two times to 25- Left two times to 29- Right once to 40. "
Kate resets the timer.
Sawyer opens the door, “Howdy, boys.”
Jack has a gun; they’re going after him. {Sing the following words to the Monty Python tune of Spam! Guns, Guns, Guns, Guns. Lol!}
Locke reluctantly takes the handgun from Jack. Sawyer is troubled by Michael going after Walt so he grabs a gun and is going with them.
Jack’s concerned because Sawyer’s still on antibiotics. Sawyer feels it’s a good thing he’s traveling with his doctor then.
{Flash Whoosh}
Mr. Busoni is sleeping in his hospital bed. Jack is looking in on him; checking the monitors and chart. Gabriella comes in with her coffee.
She lets Jack know her home is a hotel room, “I like it more here.”
Jack thinks she needs to find a better hotel. Gabriella wants to know how her father’s doing. Jack informs Gabriella that “His counts aren’t where I’d like them to be. "
Thorough Jack has been running tests on him for a month. Beautiful Gabriella confesses that she doesn't believe in miracles. Jack isn't too sure of them either. Gabriella bets his wife feels differently. She knows that the woman he fixed was his wife; she’s thorough too. “She must be a very special person to let you work until 4:30 in the morning.”
Jack looks at his watch, “I completely lost track.”
Before he rushes off Gabriella thanks him.

Jack enters his bedroom; removes his tie. Sarah isn’t sleeping.
Jack- "Sorry to wake you." {The Big Ben clock shows 5:15} Jack gives her an update about his patient. “About the same.”
He kind of apologizes for…{For what?}
Sarah feels, "That's the price of being a miracle worker."
Sarah gets up because she's going to the gym and then she has to grade some papers. She also tells him she was late so she "got a pregnancy test, not to worry it's negative."
Jack asks if she wants to talk about it but apparently there's nothing to talk about. Jack lies down. {They are distant from each other at this point.}
{Flash Whoosh}
In the jungle Locke is looking at a boot print track that may belong to Michael. Kate points out another one a little farther away. Locke thinks that sounds like a trail. Kate wonders if Jack has a gun for her. Jack {Key around neck} tells her she’s not going; she’s stay behind to take care of the button. Kate doesn’t want to stay behind; after all, she can track and carry a gun.
Jack forcefully tells her, “You’re not coming! You’re staying. Alright?”
Sawyer quietly notes the exchange with them.

On their trek to find Michael, Sawyer asks Jack “What did she do?”
Apparently she didn’t do anything.
Sawyer sarcastically feels Jack yelling at her “really makes a lot of sense.”
Jack-“Why don’t you go back and see if I hurt her feelings.”
Sawyer’s just sayin'…
Jack- "Yeah. I know… you love her."
Sawyer - "What’d you say?" surprised at that comment.
Locke asks Sawyer if any of this looks familiar from when he was coming back and also asks him “When you were coming across the island, what side was the ocean on?”
Sawyer, who remarks "How can I forget this place", determines a direction and points to it.


Locke-“You came from the East. Michael’s headed North.” {In season 3, Locke is given direction to head North too}
Evidently Michael is not going back to where he came from; he's heading somewhere else.




At the beach aggravated Kate is having a chat with Hurley about the Walt situation.
Sun wants Jin to wear a hat because the sun’s very strong today. He feels he doesn’t need one. He’s been paying attention to the chat between Kate and Hurley. Sun puts the hat on him anyway.
Jin tells Sun in Korean, “I think something’s wrong.”
Hurley walks over, compliments Jin on his cool hat and informs Sun and Jin that Michael took off, stole some guns and he “went all commando. Said he was going after Walt.”
This concerns Jin. Hurley has delivered the info and heads off for the hatch.

Jin is packing up his backpack, if he hurries he can catch up with them.
Sun doesn't want Jin to go and help find Michael and Walt. She shares her feelings about how worried she was about him when he was on the raft. She didn’t know if he was dead or alive, “I was out of my head.” She won’t go through that again. Jin is concerned for his friend, Michael.
Sun-“I am your wife.” {Wife trumps friend!}  Jin puts his backpack down.

In the jungle Sawyer asks the Doc if they can slow down and take a break a minute; yet Locke is the one in the lead. Jack asks Locke if he thinks Michael's heading north and does he think he’s lost. Locke says that Michael's trail is as straight as the interstate, "The path of a man who knows where he's going."
Locke- "Where are you going, Jack?"
Jack- "What?"
Locke- "Let’s say we catch up with him, Michael, what are you going to do?"
Jack- "I'm going to bring him back"
Locke- "What if he doesn't come back?"
Jack- "I'll talk him into coming back"
Locke explains that this is the second time he's gone after Walt; he suggests that Jack let him go.
Jack asks -"You think we should just let him go, write him off?"
Locke-"Who are we, to tell anyone what they can or can't do?" {Locke is open to Michael's free will here; Jack wants him back. Why does Jack feel the need to bring him back? Or not let him go?}
{Flash Whoosh}
Jack has paperwork for Gabriella to sign. Jack explains to her that it's not too late to go back; the tumor’s aggressive, “but your father can lead a normal life for at least another year.”
Gabrielle- "Go back? Go back where? Home? Have you changed your mind Jack?”
Jack has not changed his mind. Gabrielle signs the paper. She tells Jack that even if you don't succeed, you’re giving us a chance.   She leaves as Christian walks in to tell Jack ITR reports need to be signed by Jack, as chief resident.    Jack senses Christian has something on his mind.
Christian-"Careful. There's a line, son. You know it's there. And pretending it's not...that would be a mistake."
Jack- "I guess you would know."   {Yes Jack, Christian has crossed many lines}
Christian feels that may be okay for some people, but not for Jack.
{Flash Whoosh}
In the jungle Locke, Sawyer and Jack actually have to climb up a vine rope to get to the top of a huge hill. Sawyer asks Locke if he's sure Mike went this way.
Locke-"Why do you ask?"
Sawyer tells Mr. Clean that he'd probably would have gone around Mount Vesuvius.
At the top Locke nonchalantly asks Sawyer, "Why'd you pick that name?"
Sawyer-"Ain’t it obvious? All you need's an earring and a mop!"
Locke- "NO. Your name. Why did you pick Sawyer?'
Sawyer- "What do you man ‘pick’?"
Locke- "After the census, Hurley gave me the flight manifest... your name is James, right? James Ford."
Sawyer-"What's it to you?"
Locke-"Just an interesting name to choose, is all. Who'd you get it from?"
Sawyer-"Who says I got it from anybody?"

Seven shots ring out and Jack calls out for Michael and takes off running. Locke calls out after him.
{Important! That whole conversation between Sawyer and Locke takes place right in front of Jack, and not even once does he interject into that conversation with surprise that Sawyer's name isn't Sawyer or anything! It's almost like he is absent.}


The three men go running through the jungle until Locke happens to see a tree has a "score" mark on it.
Jack feels "He's close."

Jack confirms with Sawyer that "These people are two day across the Island."
Sawyer-"Yeah, and they took Cindy less than a mile from our camp."
Locke points out three shell casings. {One for each of you!}
Blood hound Locke sniffs the casing and declares its Michael's.
Sawyer wonders if the boys are deaf, "I heard at least seven shots. {asks Locke}You heard it, Daniel Boone, what's your count?"
Locke-"Yeah, seven sounds about right."
It's getting dark and Sawyer wants to know which way Mike went. Locke checks out the ground and trail.
Jack asks Sawyer if he's out there for Michael or...is this payback for gettin shot."
Sawyer-"Why are you out here, Doc? You got your reasons and I got mine."
{Flash Whoosh}
Frustrated Jack bangs on the lockers! Christian tries to calm him down with reason, "He was a sick old man on a table for seven and half hours. His heart gave out. It's nobody's fault."


Jack has to go tell "her" but Christian already did. "Lest you forget, I am still chief of Surgery."
Jack is annoyed and wonders where she is.


Christian-"Maybe you should go home."
Pissed Jack-"Where is she?"
Christian-"She's gone. Jack, go home."

Gabriella catches up with Jack as he's about to get in his car to leave for the night. Jack seems relived to see her. Gabriella thanks him for "trying".
She cries, Jack hugs her and them she kisses him. {Kate kisses Jack; he isn't much of a kiss initiator! LOL} Jack backs off!
{Flash Whoosh}
It's night for the three men out in the jungle. Jack lights a few torches.
Sawyer asks Locke, "What do you mean you lost it?"
Locke-"He's a man, not a boar. The sign's more subtle. I need light to follow ."
So Jack presents him with light!
Locke does seem to have a different attitude and suggests they head back as he's lost the trail. Jack feels you don't just lose a trail; Locke just doesn't want to find him.
Locke-"Yeah, that's right, Jack. I've been running in the jungle toward the sound of gunfire because I don't care about Michael."   He starts to walk away.
Jack-"Don't turn around on me, John."
Locke-"You're not going to get him to come back and you know it."
Jack-"You know what happens if we just turn around and go back? We're never going to see him again. And that's going to be on us... on you... and on me." {Why would that be?}
A voice replies; a man standing in the dark, just a shadow-"You're exactly right, Jack. But if I were you, I'd listen to Mr. Locke."
This is Mr. Friendly.
Armed Jack asks-"Who are you?"
Sawyer knows him as the son of a bitch who shot him on the raft. The three caballeros point their gun at the man in the shadow and he wants them to point the gun down. A shot is fired and it grazes Sawyer's ear.
Mr. Friendly-"It'd probably be best if we just keep our hands at our sides, gentlemen."
Jack asks where Michael is.
Mr Friendly-"Don't worry about Michael. He's not going to find us."
Jack-"What do you want?"
Mr. Friendly suggests John build them a fire because it's time they all had a talk. {Hmmm. He's knows John.}

Down in the hatch Hurley and Charlie are going through some record albums. They come across an album by Geronimo Jackson. Shocking as it may be, Charlie, who considers himself an expert on all things musical, never heard of them.
Hurley gives him different to play, "Let's give her a rip."
Charlie puts the needle on the record.
Hurley wonders what the story is with that Libby chick. Hurley finds her kinda cute in a "I've been terrorized by the Others for 40 days" kind of way. He thinks he has a chance with her as it's the classic desert island scenario, "If I ever had a shot, this is it."
Charlie is really only thinking about Claire and wonders, "You think Claire's missed me yet?"
Hurley remarks that it's only been a day.



Sayid walks in on the boys and listens for a second and says, "This music is quite depressing."

Hurley-"We can change it, dude! Have you ever heard of Geronimo Jackson?"
Sayid has not, he wonders where Jack and Locke are. The boys inform Sayid that everyone's gone after Michael who ran after Waaaaaaalt.
Sayid-"Who's everyone?"

In the dark jungle the Lostie's hang out by the fire with Mr. Friendly. {The following is very important so bear with me.}
Mr. Friendly-"Just sit down, Jack. Nobody's going to hurt you. I come in peace."
Locke-"How do you know our names?"
Friendly smirks. {So now we know that these people know who they are.}
Jack-"You took Walt."
Mr. Friendly-"Walt's fine. He's a very special boy."
Jack-"Look, you said you wanted to talk...Talk."
Mr. Friendly-"Let me ask you something. How long you been here on the island?"
Jack-"50 days."
Mr Friendly-"Oh, 50 days. That's what, almost two whole months, huh? Tell me, you go over a man's house for the first time, do you take off your shoes? Do you put your feet up on his coffee table? Do you walk in the kitchen, eat food that doesn't belong to you? {He looks at Locke.} Open the door to rooms you got no business opening? You know, somebody a whole lot smarter than anybody here once said, 'Since the dawn of our species man's been blessed with curiosity.' You know the other one about curiosity don't you, Jack? This is not your island. This is our island. And the only reason you're living on it is because we let you live on it.
Jack smiles-"I don't believe you.
Mr Friendly-"You don't believe what?"
Jack-"I think you've got one guy up there with a gun. I think there's more of us than there are of you. I think if you had any real strength, you wouldn't have had to send a spy. Ethan." {Exactly! Jack doesn't realize who Ethan really was.}
Mr Friendly-"That's an interesting theory. Light 'em up!"  
Torches are lit all around them.
Mr Friendly-"We've got a misunderstanding, Jack, your people, my people. So listen carefully. Right here, there's a line. You cross that line, we go from misunderstanding to something else. Now, give me your weapons, turn around, go home.
Jack-"No."
Locke-"Jack, maybe..."
Jack-"No!"
Mr Friendly-"I hoped it wouldn't come to this. {yells} Bring her out, Alex!"
Kate is brought out, hands tied, a bag over her head and mouth gagged. {black gag}
Mr Friendly-"She was following you. Like I said... curiosity."
He pulls the bag off her head. Jack is pissed and Sawyer makes and aggressive move toward Mr. Friendly but he in turn puts s gun against Kate's neck/throat.
Mr Friendly-"Don't! Jack, the decision you gotta make right now is this...can you live with the fact that I shot this woman right in front of you when you could have saved her life by giving up and going home? Or are you going to give me your guns, turn around and walk away. It's your call, Jack."
Sawyer-"You touch a hair on her head, I'll..."
Mr Friendly-"Shut up! I'm going to count to 3. 1, 2..."
Jack-"Stop." and throws his weapons down. Mr. Friendly wants all of their weapons.
Sawyer warns Mr. Friendly, "You and me ain't done, Zeke."
Mr. Friendly gathers up the guns and shoves Kate at Sawyer and he holds her. The torches go out at the same time and Mr. Friendly backs away into the dark jungle.
Locke curiously looks around.



Sawyer unties Kate.
Kate tries to explain her being there to Jack but he doesn't want to hear it.

Jin sits alone watching, looking at the ocean. Sun comes over to talk. Jin mentions he couldn't sleep.
Sun-"Are they back?"
Jin-"Not yet."
He shares with "Honey" that he doesn't like being told what to do. Sun in turn shares with him that was her life for four years and she didn't like it either.
Jin-"Right." {Touche!}
He knows she didn't like it. He moves in closer to her as it seems they are "getting closer".

Locke, Sawyer, Jack and Kate make their way back to camp. Kate tries to explain to Jack that he told her not to go she just...{What? Doesn't like being told what to do?!}...made a mistake. Jack doesn't respond to her; she just wants him to talk to her for a second.
Kate-"I'm sorry."
Jack-"Yeah. I'm sorry too." and he walks away from her.
{Flash Whoosh}
Jack comes home to Sarah cleaning up dishes off the table. Sarah asked him how it went and Jack informs her, "He died."
Sarah-"I'm sorry."
Jack-"Yeah, me too."
Sarah's mom was over playing a bridge game; apparently is on a streak. Jack shares he didn't eat because it's late and walks over to help Sarah do the dirty dishes. Sarah feels he doesn't have to do that.
Jack-"It's therapeutic...cheaper than a shrink."
Sarah inquires how the daughter took it, "What's her name, Gabriella?"
Sarah is distant.
Jack-"She kissed me. Yeah, she...she kissed me and I kissed her back. {He starts tearing up. Who is he talking about here, Gabriella or Kate?} I, I don't know. I don't know how it happened. I made a mistake. I made a mistake and this is my fault. It's my fault that you and me... I haven't been here. {Jack wasn't there…Emotionally or Physically? Both? Hmmm?!} Sarah, I mean, we don't even talk anymore. I hate what's happening to us and I promise you that things are going to be different. I'm going to, I'm going to work less. I'm going to be here for you. Okay? I'm going to fix this. We're going to go back to the way things were. I'm going to fix this. I'm going to fix this.
Jack hugs Sarah but doesn't hug him back.
Crying Sarah is leaving him and Jack is shocked.
Sarah-"I was already leaving you. That's why my mother was here. She was helping me pack. I've been seeing someone... someone else. I have to... I can't stay."
Jack tries to talk.
Sarah-"You, you will always need something to fix. Goodbye."
Hurt Jack is left alone and crying.
{Flash Whoosh}
The "Michael Mission Team" arrives back at camp and although Kate tries to reach out to Jack he's not interested. {He's hurt}
Locke tells James he'll see him later.
Sawyer sees that Kate feels rejected by Jack and tells her, "Don't beat yourself up, Freckles. If he'd told me to stay behind, I'd have done the same damn thing."

Charlie sees Locke walk over to Claire and the baby; this bothers Charlie. {Why does he have such a problem with Locke and those two?}
Locke says to Aaron in a playful manor, " What's the matter? What's the matter with your little foot? Hi. Hi."
Claire-{to Aaron}-"Who's that?" The baby fusses
Locke-"Uh oh...you don't like old Uncle Johnny.

Vincent is bothering Ana Lucia who tries to get rid of the dog because she only has enough fruit/food for herself. {Dog has no collar} Jack comments about her finding a new friend.
Ana-"Progress. I hear you were out looking for Michael."
Jack confirms.
Ana-"He ran off looking for his kid again? {Jack nods} Not much you can do about that then."
Jack-"Is it true that you killed one of them?"
Ana-"One of who?"
Jack-"Them. Sayid tells me that you're a cop."
Ana-"I was a cop."
Jack-"Can I ask you something?"
An-"Shoot."    {Brilliant choice of words.lol}
Jack-"How long do you think it would take to train an army?" {Who's going all commando now?}





The Hunting Party is a GREAT episode!
There is so much to take in with this episode.
First we have to deal with the MRI date. We have heard rumor that it was a possible production error and I could live with that if the rest of the clues from following episodes didn't show me that time line fits into situations that include the MRI date. You will see upcoming clues I present tell us that there is "life" for Jack off/after "that Island" or at least another go around of all experience/events on "Island" and off "Island" or "Flashes".

What does this all mean? It means that I may need a friggin straight jacket at some point, that's what it means!   Do we ignore a time line that can work?  Do we believe everything else we see except for that MRI date?   Are we to figure out how all the puzzle pieces fit into this story but omit the MRI date? That everything else can work except for that one clue that actually gives us a date?!

Now, if I'm not correct and I just over thought things and made a clue fit in where it wasn't supposed to go, or I fell victim to the writers trickery, then I am wrong and I'll admit that. If I am correct, what could it mean? It could mean that we see more "flashes"- forward/backwards, out of order and other "go-arounds" than the writers and producers want us to realize.

Things to note...Questions to ask...
✈ Choices. Decisions.
✈ Time. Timer. Countdown. Dates.
✈ They are telling us to look at the MRI not once, but twice. The date on the MRI is 11/16/05. Prop error? I call fucking shenanigans! "Flash" of "life" after/off "that Island", different level, or another go-around?
✈ Locke was knocked out for about 20 minutes. OK let’s break it down: Jack heard the noise and it woke him up, he has dialogue with Michael, and that took how long? Jack didn't try to wake up Locke right away? Why did 20 minutes pass? Jack let him stay knocked out for that long? Did Jack feel Locke needed a nap?
✈ What does Michael know about the computer? What is it that he understands that Jack or Locke doesn't understand about "that thing"?
✈ Jack uses the word Shrink, as does Ana Lucia.
✈ Depressing. Hurt. Mental state.
✈ Remember. Forget. Amnesia.
✈ Eyes. Eye color.
✈ Tests. Exam. Grade.
✈ Game. {Bridge game} Bet. Chance. Beat. Score.
✈ Military. Army. Commando.
✈ Two sides.
✈ Computer. Button. Monitors. Rip. Record.
✈ Reset.Reboot.
✈ Sleep. Unconscious. Wake up
✈ Head. Hat. Headed. Head injury.
✈ Manifest.
✈ A straight line = The path of a man who knows where he’s going.
✈ Languages. Communication. Translate.
✈ Story. Written out. Scripted. Scenario.
✈ In Whatever the Case May Be, Sayid asks Shannon "Could you at least try?"
✈ MRI. Image. Negative.
✈ Gone doesn't mean "dead".
✈ What is real and what is not?
✈ Are the hints to "root" and "spine" steering us to "Chakras"?
✈ I feel like I want to say that Jack's "Flashes" concern "one" of the "Lostie's" actual health condition.
✈ These Others know everything the Castaway's have done, where they go, do, eat, etc.
✈ Apparently Jin and Sun aren't the only ones who don't like being told what to do- neither does Kate.
✈ This episode is an example of when I feel Jack and John are two halves of a whole and/or when one of them speaks to each other they're speaking to themselves. I know it sounds weird but it's a vibe I get. There are also times I feel like all the Lostie's are reflected aspects of only one person.
✈ Being told to go "Home". Where/what is "Home"?  

Vocabulary and Research...
♦ Record- records data.
♦ Boot- an alternative name for the ping-pong virus.
   2). various torture devices applied to the feet or legs.
   3). the German and Dutch word for boat.
   4). to kick something/someone, to evict, to be terminated, to punish.
♦ Re-boot- Re-starting a computer.
♦ Hunting: Pursue or try to find food or sport. Act of hunting.
♦ Party: Organization, Participant, Company of person’s especially with a purpose.
   2). Social gathering.
♦ Hunting Party: Natural Clique. Paleolithic tribal hunter gatherer. (Pre historic)
-Hunting Party by Elizabeth Moon. It is a Space Opera/Military Sci-Fi.
♦ Traveling: A term used in Basketball.
♦ Mount Vesuvius is a volcano located in Naples, Italy.
♦ Home: a place of residence or refuge and comfort. Since it can be said that humans are generally creatures of habit, the state of a person's home has been known to physiologically influence their behavior, emotions, and overall mental health.
-Home (Sports): is a term referring to both the city and stadium, arena, or field where an athletic team plays games at their venue, whilst when the team plays elsewhere then they are considered the away team. The home term can refer to either the sponsoring institution or the place where it is franchised
-Home Plate: the final plate in baseball.
-Home or home key: a key on a computer keyboards.
-Home- Marker on a game board.
♦ Pousette Dart Band- The song "Fall on Me" from the band’s second album Amnesia.



Before I continue…I have paid very close attention to things in this story almost to a fault. I am guilty of over analyzing things, I do admit to that. But there are clues and situations that are so obvious that they stand out front and center.
The following time line is directly from one of my older notes. I always keep clues of time issues, time/events out of order, time on the "Island" etc., in the back of my mind.
I felt this episode is a look at "life" either after this "Island's" events or simply another go-around in the game. Besides that I more often than not feel like "Island" events and "Flashes" are blurred together. Call me crazy!

***TIME LINE***
This works only if I'm correct with the dates. We still don't know anything about "time" on the "Island" being different or anything like that. There is a possibility that "time" does run different on this “Island” and that would change things yet again. We do know Ben references the proper amount of days the Lostie’s have been on that “Island” in one of the episodes.

Okay, here we go...PLANE CRASH 9/22/04. The call to the boat appears to have been made about four months or so after the crash. The newspaper Jack has in the finale is dated 4/5/07. If they do go “home” after the call Jack makes to the freighter that would get them there early 2005. That would give Jack approximately two years to "fall apart". That would also include the Hunting Party episode and the desperate Jack we see in A Tale of Two Cities. OK, I know you want to say, but Karen, Christian is alive and he's still married to Sarah. I'll just say...yes.

Even though I'm noting "time" here I must ask with time issues running ramped through the layers of the story... is "time" even really relevant?

Next issue: Locke knows Sawyer’s name is really James Ford. When he mentions how he knows this Locke says he got the info off the manifest from Hurley. It’s amazing to me that out of all the people that supposedly were on that plane, including some that died, he knows which name belongs to Sawyer! WOW!
Locke knows Hurley's name is really Hugo; he calls him that all the time.  Why now, after we're going to talk about real names, does he not refer to Hurley as Hugo when talking to Sawyer? Does he not want Sawyer to know Hurley's real name or want Sawyer to know that he knows it? How come Jack doesn't care either way? How much does Jack know about the "Island"?

Why are they on that "Island"? Surely it’s not a coincidence.

Then we have the hunt: Who is hunting who? Is Michael hunting Walt and only Walt? Is Jack hunting Michael and only Michael? Who the hell is Kate hunting? Are they hunting for or survival or strictly for sport?
But I must ask who the hunters are and who is the prey?

What is this episode really about? It's about looking for something…for someone...and to go home.

Love to all who are "LOST"™

Posted on MySpace August 15, 2007.

Blurring of "Island" events and "Flash" events.













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 of f 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.

Left Behind.

Let's talk about LOST! Left Behind.

Kate sits up against the pool table holding a pool cue in the Others game room.  She is cuffed and seems antsy.    The game Mouse Trap is by the window. She sees Juliet walk by the window. Kate is going to sneak attack Juliet with the pool cue.
Juliet enters. Almost as if prepared for Kate's attack Juliet ducks and flips Kate to the ground! Juliet was only bringing her something to eat. {Sandwich. Broken Plate.} Juliet is wearing the same blue top as the day she's to leave with Jack.
{Flash}
The song Walking After Midnight is heard. We see open rural farmland. "Kate's" car is broken down. Her car gets lifted for a tow and is told her fan belt is shot. The tow guy tells her it will take "Two days. Maybe three." {For a friggin' fan belt? Doesn't he have any at the Service Station?}
Kate comments on that same thing!
He says, "Welcome to Iowa." {Is she new to Iowa?!! Her cap has a cowboy on it. Cowboy up! Sawyer reference}
They drive off. {Johnny's towing. 24 hrs}
Her name is Lucy.

The tow truck pulls up to the Service Station where we see a woman selling/scamming 18 karat gold jewelry to a guy in a plaid shirt. We hear her claim they retail for 500 bucks. The guy tells her "Those don't look real. I'm not buying them."
The Con something about going out of business and insists they're real. {Note blue seats on the porch; very Sawyer.  Iowa license plate 41g ncj in the windshield.}
Johnny offers Lucy a lift into town. The guy in the plaid shirt tells him to call the cops; he knows he's getting scammed. "Those are fake necklaces and you're a rip off artist."
Again the con insists they are real. Lucy comes to her rescue and plays along with the con; buying one of the necklaces.
Lucy claims her father owns s a jewelry shop, "I think I can spot a fake."
For 60 bucks she'll take the one on the end. With the transaction complete and everyone leaves.   Lucy asks the con for her money back. {Kate in cap, army jacket and back pack.}
Lucy helped her, "Just one girl watching another girls' back. I guess."
The con- "Or you're stranded here and for some reason you don't want that guy calling the cops." {BINGO! Yeah the con knows.}
She'll give Lucy a ride into town for a drink.

Cuffed Kate fiddles with the white pieces/markers of the backgammon game. John comes in with his right hand bandaged.
Kate- "Did they capture you too?"
John says yes, but only temporarily. {Two guards outside. Broken plates still there.} John came to say goodbye because he's leaving with them.
Kate-"What the hell is going on? I mean, what are they doing to you? Are you brainwashed? Where did Jack go?"
{Yes! Where did Jack go?! Maybe he's off somewhere having a Flash/back/forward/memory while he's sleeping!?}
John says Jack didn't go anywhere, "He's going to have to stay behind like you."
Kate tells him he can't trust them. If they told him they were going to take him home they're lying.
John- "I don't want to go home, Kate. I want you to know I made a strong case for you. I told them that you were a good person. Reliable, smart. Honest. And then they told me who you were and what you had done. Let's just say forgiveness isn't one of their strong suits… Good Luck."
Kate asks where he's going.
John tells the guards, "Coming out."
Kate stops him and asks about Jack, Sayid and Rousseau, but John doesn't answer her.

Sawyer is sitting in his old blue airplane seat, Watership down, looking out to the water. {Again, looking like he stepped out of Everyman for Himself.}
Hurley kicks his foot and tells Sawyer not to look at him and pretend they're not talking.
Hurley- "I'm not supposed to be here." {WOW!!} He tells Sawyer there's been some chatter, "After Paulo and Nikki and everything. Tomorrow there's gonna be a vote."
They're going to vote whether or not to banish him from the camp. There was debate about where to banish him; the consensus was ½ a mile down the beach.  Sawyer looks around to see the camp functioning as if nothing is wrong.   Hurley is telling him this because there may be a way to fix it, to make amends.
Sawyer- "I don't do amends."
Hurley tells him to ask himself about all the good stuff that comes with being part of this society. Sawyer can't even feed himself. He uses their latrine, drinks the water that Steve brings every morning to the trough. {Horse drinks out of that.}
Sawyer looks at a watch and says "You know how for 3 days 10 hrs and 15 minutes I ain't allowed to use nicknames? Well you, sir, Hugo are Rotund, annoying and you're ruining my damn view! How's that for amends?"
Hurley tells him he's making a big mistake.

Flies gather around the sandwich on the floor from Juliet and Kate's tiff. Cuffed Kate is {waking up} lying on the floor. She eyes the old sandwich and takes a bite of the white bread. {Why would Kate voluntarily sleep on the floor with the broken plate and old food? She could have napped on the sofa. So…Time line? Flashes in order? When is this scene really from?!!!}
The commotion from outside makes her go to the window to check it out. She sees the Others with their back packs and bags, putting on gas masks and they are armed. The door to the game room opens and one of them tosses a gas can in with Kate. She tries to escape it, fight off the gas but it knocks her out.

In a bar we get a shot of a pool table.
Lucy and Cassidy are in a bar chatting and doing shots.
Cassidy asks her name. She tells her it's Lucy. Cassidy asks her "real name" but Lucy doesn't answer. Cassidy directs her the next time somebody asks you, you don't think about it, not even for a second. Lucy chose that alias. She explains 'Lucy's a saint'.  She memorized them all from Sunday school; they were all probably rattling around in her brain. Lucy shares why a Sunday school girl is afraid of cops. She tells Cassidy that a few months ago she killed her step father and she escaped from the marshal who arrested her for it.
Cassidy asks why.
Lucy- "Cause he was a bad guy." {Who is she talking about, the marshal or step father?} She also reveals she's in Iowa to talk to her mother.
Cassidy- "If you did, what you just said you did, the feds are gonna be watching her. 24/7."
Lucy/Kate-"What? You wanna help me?"
Cassidy will. {Of course she will. She has to.}
Because Cassidy fell in love with the wrong guy and then gave him her life savings. He conned and embarrassed her; he was a bad guy. She will help Lucy get the meeting with her mom because one of them deserves something good.

(Click the pic)
Kate is waking up in the jungle. She opens her eyes looks up and sees PALM TREES! A second after blinking she is seeing DIFFERENT KIND OF TREES!! {We were just shown two versions; Two DIFFERENT THINGS!}
Kate jolts up discovering  her left wrist is cuffed to Juliet's right wrist. Kate looks bewildered.

Sawyer is fishing. He looks over to Jin and Sun who are fishing a little further away. He smiles at Sun but she's not having it! "I ain't gonna get the Korean vote."
Sawyer's inexperience as a fisherman is obvious. He catches and cleans a fish. {Catfish?} Sawyer heads over to Hurley who is doing his laundry. Sawyer tells him he's "Ready to make amends. Change the vote."
Hurley tells him he stinks, "Is that fish? Did you try to gut one on yourself? How have you not learned that by now? We've been here like, three months?"
Sawyer wants to get going on the making amends thing. Hurley wants him to apologize for calling him all those names.
Sawyer- "I'm really sorry I called you rotund."
Sawyer wants to spread the love! {Spread the love my way!}

Kate gingerly takes the pocket knife from Juliet's front pocket. {How convenient that it's right there!} Juliet jolts awake instinctively ready for defense. She grabs Kate's wrist, "What the hell am I doing here?"
Both say they don't know what they're doing there.
Kate uses the knife to try to get out of the cuffs. Juliet recalls she was making a cup of tea and a canister came in through the window.
Kate asks her what she did to piss him off. Juliet tells her she's wasting her time as the knife is too big and she needs something smaller like a safety pin. {A safety pin! YES!}
Kate- "We're going back."
Juliet- "What? They did this to us. Why would we go back?"
Kate,- "You say THEY like you didn't lock me in a cage and watch me break rocks all day. We're going back to your village because my friends are probably gassed just like us."
Kate tells her, her people are packed up and gone; Locke said goodbye and told her they were taking off.
Juliet asks to where.
Kate- "Welcome to the world of not knowing what the hells going on."
{Flash}
Lucy/Kate pulls a case on wheels and knocks on the door 5x {Door F.}
Diane, Kate's mother answers the door and looks at her. "Go, Go, Go!"
Guns, Marshal Mars yells at Lucy/Kate- "Get down. On the ground! Let me see those hands!" Marshals swarm the place.
Mars- "Long time no see, Austen."
Mars turns her over and reveals it's not Kate! {Decoy} She says she's just selling bibles. Mars opens the case grabs the red bible. {Of course.}
Kate sits in a car watching this through binoculars.

Cassidy knocks on the hotel room door 5x. {Coffee} Cassidy takes off her wig and tells Lucy she was questioned for ½ hour. They confiscated her case, "It's a good thing I know how to lie."
Lucy, drinking coffee, "At least we know what we're up against."
{We're? Also note five spoons in the cup. I know, I'm insane.}
Cassidy tells her there were six guys waiting to take her down. Lucy will figure it out.
Cassidy- "That marshal. I don't know what you did to him, but if he ever gets his hands on you, it's gonna be you or him." {Interesting!}
Lucy tells her it's OK if she changed her mind about helping.
Cassidy will help her; but if she's going to keep lying to federal agents for her so she can have a chat with her mother, she needs to know that's there's a pretty good reason. {No she doesn't.}
Lucy tells her he used to get drunk and beat up my mom. So I blew up his house. Made it look like an accident; A gas leak. She took out an insurance policy on the house for her; Set her up for life. Mom gave her up, chose him over me. "So the reason I have to talk to her is…Someone, I love, who's supposed to care about me, betrayed me. And I wanna know why!"

Kate’s looking for a trail at night. She’s cuffed to Juliet. Kate starts to walk away and Juliet tugs her back.
Juliet- "It's gonna rain. Don't you think we should wait till morning?"
Kate pulls her and says "No."
They walk through the jungle in the dark.
Kate asks her why they would handcuff "You to me, and drag us out into the jungle?"
Juliet shares that Ben has a thing for mind games.
Kate-"Is that why he left you behind?"
Juliet is not in the mood to talk.
Thunder and rain starts up. Kate wants to keep moving so she doesn't lose the trail in the rain.
Juliet- "I hope you're not dragging me all the way back there with you for him…..I hope you're not going back for Jack." {She made a rhyme! lol}
Juliet tells her she was standing right there when he told Kate not to come back, "And now that you ruined his chance to get off the Island…"
Kate punches her right in the face! They fight in the rain and mud! Kate gets Juliet's arm behind her back, "Are you done?"
Juliet starts screaming in pain.
Kate apologizes; she didn't mean to…The monster is released!
Juliet- "What the hell is that?"
Juliet informs Kate her shoulder is dislocated. {Left one.} Kate has them hide in a banyan tree but the monster is right there! Juliet looks at it and it starts flashing bright light at her. She shields her eyes but does look at it again. It flashes some more and then seems to recoil away! It's gone.
Juliet asks Kate if they're safe.
Kate- "You tell me."

Night on the beach:
Claire is tending to the baby. A few feet away Sawyer tells Hurley, "I aint kissing no damn baby."
Hurley coaches Sawyer- "Claire's like really influential. If she votes for you to stay, then you're home free, Dude....Moms love it when you show an interest in their babies."
He suggests a nice gesture to her would be to call her Claire, give her a blanket for Aaron and say something nice about the baby.
Sawyer heads over, says hi to Claire and Aaron. He just came by to say, "Your baby's not as wrinkly as he was a couple of weeks ago."
Claire finds this cute and true. Sawyer gets thumbs up from Hurley.

Back in the banyan trees Juliet asks Kate if it's gone and are they safe.
Kate asks her if she's serious, "You've never seen that before?"
Juliet- "If you don't believe me, you can always pull my other shoulder out of its socket."
Juliet tells Kate this is the 4th time her shoulder's been dislocated. Kate has to pop it back in.
Kate doesn't want to!
Juliet- "You're gonna. Right now if feels like there's broken glass under my skin and if it weren't for you, I would be on my way home right now."
Kate shares Jack told her not to come back to protect her. Juliet admits that they have cameras on the cages so Jack saw her and Sawyer. The reason Jack told Kate not to come back is because she broke his heart, "So, grab my wrist, push up and twist!"
Kate does. {Could this be the 4th time she and Kate have run this scenario?}

Desmond and Sawyer are out very early boar hunting. {Looking very army-like.}
Des explains getting up early, "This is when they break cover to eat."
Sawyer- "Looks like they picked a day to sleep in."
Desmond asks him his angle.
Sawyer hasn't spoken three words to him and suddenly he wants to be his hunting partner.
 Sawyer- "My angle is, I got hearts and minds to change. And politics is all about bribes. Since money don't mean squat on this Island, I gotta give the people something they like. And people like meat."
Desmond shoots a boar.

It's Daylight and the ladies are still hiding in the tree.
Juliet is awake; Kate jolts awake. Juliet's shoulder is awesome so they move on.
{Flash}
Cassidy is sitting in a diner. She's wearing glasses.
Diane is the waitress who serves Cassidy a huge bowl of soup. {Blue name tag.} Cassidy purposely knocks the soup onto Diane.
Diane washes up in the rest room. {View via the mirror. Note wedding ring.} Kate is there to see her. Diane calls her Katherine. She wants to know what she's doing here.
Kate wants to know why she told them what she did to Wayne.
Diane hoped she came there to say she was sorry but Kate is not sorry. "He treated you like a dog."
Diane explains that you can't help who you love and for good or bad, she loved him.
Diane- "And you burnt him alive. You turned on the gas and you lit a match. You murdered him in cold blood."
Kate says she did it for her. Diane says she did it for herself.
Diane- "I have to go back to work. Because you are my daughter I'm not gonna tell the two men sitting who are sitting at the table who have been following me for the last month that you are here. But I swear to god Katie if I ever see you again, the first thing I will do is yell for help. Goodbye." Diane leaves and Kate cries. {View via the mirror.}

On their trek back Kate asks Juliet, "Did he say that to you?...That I broke his heart."
Juliet- "He didn't have to."
Kate- "You don't know anything about him."
Juliet- "I know where he was born. I know what his parent's did for a living. I know that he was married, and to who he was married to. I know why he got a divorce. I know how his father died. I know his height, his weight. His birthday, and his blood type. What do you know about him, Kate."

They take a few steps and "Monster" sounds! Kate tells Juliet to run.
They run and fall into mud and then get up and run right to the security fence. Kate stops dead in her tracks because she knows what happens when you step through those things so she suggests we will go along side them.
Juliet- "No Kate, they're off, we don't need to… we can go around, they're off!"
The monster is getting closer. Juliet takes the key to the cuffs from her back pocket and un-cuff's herself. She runs to a keypad on one of the pylons, uses both hands to finger in the code {16, 23. So is the full code 4 8 15 16 23 42?}
The monster is closer!
Juliet tells Kate "You're gonna wanna be over here."
Kate is petrified, Juliet is not.   Kate joins her on the other side of the fence.   Juliet activates the fence and  the smoke monster literally bangs into the invisible fence.     Juliet stands there and looks directly at it.
The "monster" "runs away".    Kate's pissed.
Juliet claims, "We don't know what it is. But we know that it doesn't like our fences."
Kate's not interested in that; she's mad that Juliet had a key. {Juliet must know LOTS about the smoke monster!}
Juliet piles on the crap about the people she lived with for the past three years left her behind too. They gassed her, "I thought that maybe, maybe if I could make you think that we were in it together. Maybe I wouldn't get left behind again." {GO RE-READ THAT WHOLE BIT!} 
Kate takes the key from her, removes her cuff and walks away.

Pig Roast at the beach: {boar roast actually.} Sawyer is cooking. Everyone's eating and drinking, having a nice day. Charlie tells Sawyer this is wonderful.
Sawyer-"Some Dharma A-1 and Paprika. I hope you remember this little barbecue at your meeting later."
Charlie- "What meeting?"
Hurley told Sawyer about the vote.
Charlie-"Since when does anyone around here vote?"
Sawyer realizes he was conned so he confronts Hurley, "There never was gonna be no vote."
Hurley- "Wasn't it nice, just being nice?"
Sawyer- "You tricked me into being decent. That's gotta be the lamest cons in the history of cons!"
Hurley tells him it wasn't a con, "If you're gonna be our temporary leader you need to do some damage control."
Sawyer-"Leader? What the hell are you smoking?"
Hurley- "Jack's gone. Locke's gone. Kate and Sayid. You're all we got."
He goes on to say when Nikki and Paulo died they all looked to him. Even though he tried to steal the diamonds they wanted to look to him {WTF? No. When Sawyer wanted to help investigate things, Hurley was suspicious of him.} "Look around. You made everyone happy. Just for today, they can eat boar, laugh and forget that they are totally screwed. And you did that for them, Dude. You."
 Sawyer- "What if I don't want to be the leader?"
Hurley explains that he didn't think Jack wanted it either. Sucks for you, dude." {So does being in the leadership role suck?! It isn't a good place to be? Interesting!}
We see that the camp is enjoying their day; Laughing, eating, drinking and sharing.
Sun sees Sawyer hold Aaron and Sawyer smiles at her but she's still not having it.

Kate and Juliet arrive at the abandoned barracks.
Juliet mentions Sayid's in one of those backyards, she'll get him. Juliet tells Kate to go get Jack. Kate enters the 'house' Jack is in. {Note 2 canisters, broken dish? Pillows. He gets 2 canisters!}
Jack is unconscious in the hallway. Kate tells him to wake up and Jack jolts awake! He asks, what happened.
Kate informs him they all left, "Because of me. I'm so sorry. I should have listened to you. I never… I wanted to come back to help you. But you didn't need me to. And now because of me, you can't go." She cries, "I'm so sorry. I am so sorry."
Confused Jack asks- "They just…left?…Even, Even Juliet?"
Kate says no they left her too.
Jack asks why.
Kate- "You know her better that I do….Now what?"
Jack-"Now we go back."
{Flash}
At the service station: Cassidy brings Lucy back. {Hmmmm!}  Lucy looks at 'her car' in the garage {plate –Missouri 4ON DVB} and thanks Cassidy for everything.
Lucy- "So, this guy who ripped you off. Will you give me his name? Tell me where I can find him?…You almost got arrested for me, Cassidy. I want to help you."
Cassidy tells her she's pregnant and "It's his. The baby's his. And I still love him."
Kate tells her to call the cops; have him locked up.
Cassidy asks her if she'll ever forgive her mom for calling the cops?
Lucy-"No. No I won't."
Cassidy- "Thanks Lucy."
Lucy- "My name's Kate."
Kate gets out the SUV.

Back at the barracks Jack heads straight to Juliet to ask if she's OK. Sayid tells Jack he checked all the houses, "Everyone's gone. No weapons. No trail. It's like 50 people disappeared into thin air."
Jack, still the leader tells them they "should take what they can find and head out while we still got light."
Sayid-"She's not coming with us."
Jack gives him a look, "Yes, she is."
Sayid- “Why?”
Jack-"Because they left her behind too."
Jack, Juliet, Sayid and Kate, all with their back packs, leave the barracks.





Left Behind is a Great Episode!!!!
Talk about literally being bound to pain and broken hearts. This episode brings us back to Hearts and Minds.  That episode showed us that Locke knows how to use of the land/island (magic paste/hallucinogen) and bring "experiences" to people; experiences that are vital to their survival on the "island".

Things to Note…Questions to ask…
* EYES! I'm sure by now I have you all on a mission of watching everyone's eye color change or intensify. Everyone on "Island" and Flashes.
* Different versions of things. Different Times on the "Island"?
* FARM: Plant, nurture, harvest.
* Juliet always has something in her "back pocket".
* Different diner for Diane?
* Juliet on the "Island" for  three years and Desmond for three years. Did they come together, or should we just throw out the whole three years crap out because one or both of them have always been there?  There, I said it.
* Alright, Juliet proves she knows details about Jack. How did she acquire such detailed details? When the "crash" happened Ben tells Mikhail he wants files on everybody.  If someone were to acquire a file on you, your personal life, they still would not get intimate details to your life.  So, with that said, is it possible that these files on Jack and the Losties are already filled, just waiting to be pulled out of a file drawer/box from somewhere on the "Island"?   I'm just asking!!!   Their whole life, whether it's scripted, planned out, lived already and notes taken/kept, what ever, it's already in a complete A-Z biography for each person.
* Plates. Broken Plates.
* REAL-FAKE
* Things made to look like an accident.
* Gas. Going to sleep. Knocked out.
* Coaching. Guiding.
* Decoy people- Decoy props- Decoy Costumes-Fakes!
* Clues to things having to be rehearsed/memorized. Drills/exercise.
* Cassidy admits to knowing how to lie. Juliet knows how to lie. Maybe they had the same teacher.
* What did Kate do to the marshal? What did Kate really do?
* Sawyer should know how to fend for himself especially if he's lived that "Island" life before.
* Juliet's shoulder dislocated. Jack's shoulder dislocated in The Moth.
* "What did you do to piss them off?" is also mentioned in Hearts and Minds regarding Locke.
* Juliet involved in the plan to gas the barracks. So how would that fit in to her plan to "leave" with Jack?
* Jack knows what Ben considers to be home. Maybe that's what Jack considers to be home too.
* Coincidence that Kate and Cassidy are in the same scene/set up?  Coincidence that Kate and Juliet are in the same set up? Come on!
* John doesn't want to go "HOME",  yet is moving on.
* Hurley feels there is good stuff that comes with being part of this society!
* Is Kate on the light/white side?
* How far back does Jack and Juliet's relationship/connection really go?
* Games. Chess, Mouse trap, Backgammon.
* Kate waking up in the jungle and seeing the different trees.  It was very important for me to show you this because it shows us, "flashes/Island" time being either out of time order or different from another "Island" visits, or both.  Return "visits" to the "Island", YES.  The same storyline on the "Island" over and over.  Are things slightly different every time they have these return "visits"?    Remember, in addition to the tress here we have the "Charlie don't swim, then he does swim" example, two different lotto tickets for Hurley, and the list goes on.
* Now for fun, what if we throw the possibility of twins or replicas.  Two identical looking sets of people…Imagine witnessing the exact set of scenarios played out by two identical looking sets of people. Which team makes the better decisions? lol.  The wreckage of Oceanic flight 815 will be found.   Maybe there be a set of identical looking people in it.
* The eye color changes have to fit in somewhere with either return visits, consciousness/altered/hallucination state or twin/replica. Which one do you think it is?
* Monster Time: There are so many sounds associated with the monster. Is there a possibility that it gets released from somewhere?  There must be a place he/it lives?   One of the sounds we hear is almost like a giant heavy door/gate of some sort that gets opened.  Then there are the other sounds like, gears, metal, giant footsteps, growls, grunts, breathing, clicking, etc..  Do the hatches have anything to do with the monster?  Is there only one monster?  If the smoke monster morphs, what determines if it's in the mood to morph to fool someone or stay in smoke state? What about it's flashing bright light?  Scanning images from the person it's confronting?  Is it taking pictures/images from the person or is it putting images in? Maybe just checking things out or making the person take a look at the things they need to confront.  Besides, you already know that I think it connects to someone in particular.(wink, wink)
* There are certain things in our story that remind me of episodes of The Twilight Zone.  LOST deals with many of the same topics; "time" being a large part of it.
* Ben and mind games...I'm sure he's isn't the only one with this gift of mind games.
* Politics. Government. Vote. We have political issues abound. I think we've established by this point that there always two sides involved. Politics has made its presence known on the island. Government has been brought to the surface. Even in a Utopian society you need rules. Rules need people to govern them.

Vocabulary and Research...
* Apollo- In Greek and Roman mythology, is one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian deities. Apollo has been recognized as a god of LIGHT and the sun; truth, prophecy, archery, medicine, healing; music, poetry, the arts; and more. Apollo has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis.
* Mars was the Roman god of war, and the son of Juno and Jupiter. As the word Mars has no Indo-European derivation, it is most likely the Latin form of the agricultural Etruscan god Maris. Initially the Roman god of fertility and vegetation and a protector of cattle, fields and boundaries.
The two names I mention here all encompass major themes, issues in our story. This also included some islander's traits, roles or jobs in our story too.
* The Etruscans: Believed to be one, if not the, world's oldest civilization. They were a people of unknown origin living in Northern Italy, who were eventually integrated into Roman culture and politically became part of the Roman Republic. As distinguished by its own language, the civilization endured from an unknown prehistoric time prior to the foundation of Rome until its complete assimilation to Italic Rome in the Roman Republic. Like the Egyptians, the Etruscans believed in eternal life.
Then we have other ancient civilizations that have similar ties to what we see in the show.
The MU civilization. Hypothetical lost continent located in the S. Pacific before it sank beneath the waters, similar to Atlantis and Lemuria. In either case, the issue of Plate Tectonics fits in here.
* Left – Simple past tense and past participle of leave. The left side. The west side of the body when one is facing north. Opposite of right side.(politics). The ensemble of left-wing political parties. Port Is a Synonym.
* Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days. A Christian series of books.
* Chatter in the speech sense - to talk noisily or conversationally. Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
-An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
-The sound made by a MAGPIE.
-In electronics, the unwanted bouncing of switch or relay contacts.
-In signal intelligence, encrypted electronic signals to be subjected to Traffic analysis.
-Project CHATTER (1947-1953), a U.S. Navy truth serum project.
-Mukesh Chatter, technology entrepreneur.
* Hearts and Minds was a euphemism for a campaign by the United States military during the Vietnam War, intended to win the popular support of the Vietnamese people.
-Hearts and minds was a Justice League episode/story.
* Latrine is also a term common in the US Military which a civilian might call a bathroom or toilet. Called Head in watercraft.
* Buck(s)- The male of various species of animal, including human male.
-Examples of slang words for Buck(s)- an aboriginal male.
* A marker or button that indicates the dealer in the card game Poker.
* A repetition of an old joke, story, or fact.
-Cash.
-A buck converter a type of electronics power supply.
-A kind of knife: Buck knife.
-A chicken (bucker), from the sound a chicken makes.
-A type of shoe.
Other interesting Buck(s) facts…
-Pearl S. Buck is a famous author.
-An abbreviation for Buckinghamshire.
-Buck Grangerford is the name of Huck Finn's friend. (Tom 'Sawyer' connection)
-Buck Rogers is a science fiction hero from the 1930s and 1970s.
-Cameron "Buck" Williams is a character in the Left Behind series.
-Buck Cluck is the father of the film version of Chicken Little.
* 3- The trinity. The number combines 1+2. That includes ALL life and experience. Birth-Life-Death. Mind-Body-Soul. Past-Present-Future. Man-Woman-Child.
* 5- The 5 human senses. Or, on a human figure, a line joining the head to outstretched arms and legs forms a pentagram. Or simply that Muslims pray 5x a day.



Left behind? Who? We know the “Island” has "magnetic" properties so let's imagine in a sense the "Island" is one big giant magnet constantly pulling them all back.  They always come back!

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.