The Little Prince.

Let's talk about LOST! The Little Prince.

It's night on the Searcher.

Jack looks out onto the water while Kate holds Aaron wrapped in a blue blanket.
Jack whispers “Hey” to Kate, but he doesn’t have to whisper because Kate informs him that when Aaron is out, he’s out.
Jack remarks that at least one of the can sleep. It’s going to take more than two nights for Kate to get used to sleeping in a normal  bed. They have a conversation about what to do about Aaron. Jack did not know Claire was flying to L.A. to give him up for adoption.
Kate comes up with the lie/story about Aaron; she will say Aaron is hers. Kate will say to everyone she was six months pregnant when she was arrested and she gave birth on the island, “No one would ever know.” {Ass!}
Jack tells her there are other ways to do this. Kate feels that after everyone they’ve lost she can’t lose him too.
Jack tells her Sawyer isn’t dead. She concurs, “But he’s gone.”
She says goodnight to Jack.
Jack-“If we’re gonna be safe, if we’re gonna protect the people we left behind, tomorrow morning I’m gonna have to convince everyone to lie. If it’s just me, they’re never gonna go for it. So I’m gonna turn to you first. Are you with me?”
Kate looks into his eyes and replies, “I have always been with you.”


THREE YEARS LATER

Kate looks in the mirror and adjusts the black outfit she borrowed from Sun.
Sun-“How does it fit?”
Of course, it’s perfect. Sun asks Kate, if she's sure she wants to do this. Kate reminds Sun it was her idea.Aaron wants “mommy” to put ketchup on his eggs. Kate explains to him that she is going to do an errand, then, they can go home. Sun tells Kate not to worry about them, there’s candy in the mini bar, 100 channels on the TV, “We’re going to be just fine here.”
Kate thanks Sun, she doesn’t know what she would have done if she wasn’t there. Sun feels that’s what any friend would do. Kate heads out, “I will be back soon.”
Honey/Aaron will be good for Sun. Sun wishes Kate “Good Luck.”

Derek delivers a large white envelope to Sun.
Sun opens the envelope {Century Grand Hotel. S. Kwon. #3136} it contains surveillance notes {Surveillance Data Investigations, Inc.} and black and white photos of Ben and bearded Jack at the funeral parlor. {White hearse and van} A golden yellow box of candy chocolates conceals a big ass gun under the tray.

Miles fills up a flask with water at the creek and he runs it back to a passed out bloody Charlotte. Juliet checks Charlotte’s
eyes and tries to wake up her up. Sawyer wants to know what the hell’s wrong with her, “She’s been out for 10 minutes.”
Juliet feels if Dan has something to tell her, now is a good time.  Dan doesn’t know what she means. He cleans up Charlotte’s face.
Sawyer interjects, “She wants to know why your girlfriend had a seizure.”
Juliet tells Sawyer to give them some space.
Sawyer feels she’s like that because the sky keeps lighting up and that Dan knew this would happen and he didn’t say squat about it.
Juliet calmly tells James to go away.
Juliet quietly asks Dan if he knew this would happen.
Dan thought it might, “I think it’s neurological. Our brains have an internal clock, a sense of time. The flashes…throw the clock off. It’s like really bad jet lag.” {WTF?! Really?!}
Juliet informs him that really bad jet lag doesn’t make you hemorrhage. She wants him to tell her why this isn’t happening to the rest of them.
Dan doesn’t know, “But thank god it’s not.”

Looking out an office window down at a city street is Kate.   She is there to offer a “deal” to Mr. Norton. She offers to relinquish the blood samples but first she wants to talk to his client. He reveals that he is seeing his client later today so he will pass along her offer, but his client won’t go for any “deals” with her. Kate’s in no position to be making any deals as he has a signed court order compelling her to let them confirm that she’s the child’s mother; he can have the sheriff make her do it.  But his client wants to handle the exchange of custody quietly.   Upset Kate just wants to know who is doing this to her.
Norton- “You did this to yourself.  Now it is time you prepare yourself, Ms. Austen. You are going to lose the boy.”

Juliet is still checking Charlotte’s eyes.
Locke quietly tells Sawyer {he has a gun and knife} that they have to go back to the Orchid. He feels that where all this started, maybe that’s where it will all stop. Sawyer looks at Dan and Juliet; still caring for passed out Charlotte and tells Locke, “That greenhouse is a long ways away.”
Locke suggests they take the zodiac raft and cut around the horn of the Island and get to the Orchid in half the time. Locke doesn’t know exactly at all what to do when they get there but he does know that Ben used it to leave the Island. {Did he?}
Locke believes if he can do the same thing, “I believe I can save us.”
Sawyer asks how is he gonna do that.
Locke, speaking softly, “This is all happening because they left. I think it’ll stop if I can bring them back.”
Sawyer-“Bring who back?”
Locke-“Jack, Sun, Sayid, Hugo, Kate.”
Sawyer tells Locke the boat blew up and that chopper was probably on it.
Locke-“They’re not dead, James.”
Says who?! That doesn’t matter.
Locke- “All that matters is they gotta come back.  I have to make them come back.  Even if it kills me. {He kind grins when he says that line.} Don’t you want them to come back, James? Don’t you want her to come back?”
Sawyer, being pig headed tells Locke it doesn’t matter what he wants.
Miles announces to them that Charlotte is waking up.
Charlotte wakes up a bit frightened. She doesn’t recognize Dan, “Who are you?”
Dan is sad, “It’s me. It’s Daniel.”
Then the bulb in her brain goes on, she remembers him, “My head. What happened?"
Dan tells her there was another flash and she passed out. Charlotte feels a bit dizzy but then tells him, “I’m fine.”
Miles sarcastically says, “Hooray, everything’s back to normal. Now what?”
Sawyer tells them they’re going to the Orchid. Miles watches a bit baffled, as Sawyer takes the lead.

Jack flashes the tiny flashlight into Sayid’s eyes.  Dilation is almost back to normal. {Background voice mentions an oncologist on call in the I.C. U... HA! I see you too!}
Sayid wants the I.V. out of his arm and they can go.
Jack informs him he was unconscious for over 42 hours; he had the equivalent of 3 doses of horse tranquilizers in his system. Sayid is concerned if he sent that man to Hurley’s house, “We have to leave now.”
Jack tells him to relax. “Ben is not going to hurt Hurley. Ben is on our side.”
Come on!... The only side he’s on is his own!
Dr Ariza, the director of clinical services enters to have a word with Jack. {Note poster behind her “ A New Generation”}
Jack tells Sayid he’ll be right back.
Dr. Arzia asks Jack, “What do you think you are doing here?”
Jack explains he was treating a patient; it was an emergency. He apologizes.
She reminds him he was suspended on charges of substance abuse. Emergency or not, he has no business being there. Jack understands and takes full responsibility for his actions.
Dr Arzia tells him the hospital takes full responsibility for his actions and that makes them liable for them.
Jack’s phone rings; it’s Hurley calling him from jail.






Hurley's dressed in an orange jumpsuit, surrounded by other inmates.
Jack smiles knowing its Hurley. Hurley wanted to make sure Sayid got to him; that his dad dropped him off.
Jack lets him know Sayid is with him and he's fine. Hurley is totally cool, “I’m in L.A. County Lockup. And tell Sayid I did exactly what he said. I’m totally safe. Ben’s never gonna get me now.”
Jack asks him what he’s talking about. The call is disconnected.
Ben shows up right at the doorway Jack is standing at.
Ben-“Good! You’re here. How’s Sayid?”

A male nurse enters Sayid’s emergency treatment room, “I got your meds for ya.”
Cautious Sayid tells him he thinks he has the wrong room.
The nurse- “Nope! Room 133. Right?”
He’s got the orders right there. He also tells Sayid not to worry; he won’t need to give him an injection, he’ll just put it in his I.V. line. The nurse turns around, sporting a dart gun ready to fire at Sayid. But Sayid is not in the bed!    The nurse shoots two purple darts. Sayid attacks him and they fight!
Sayid tries to strangle the nurse while asking him “Who are you? Who are you working for?”
Sayid chokes him harder yet wants him to “talk.” The nurse manages to inform Sayid about the address in his pocket.
Sayid breaks from the nurse, grabs the dart gun and shoots two purple darts into him.Sayid searches the nurse’s pockets, tosses the keys, and in his wallet finds the paper with the address on it.
Ben and Jack barge in! Oh Shit! Friendly Ben says hello to Sayid. Jack asks what happened.
Sayid- “Do we know anyone who lives at 42 Panorama Crest?”
Jack reveals that’s Kate’s address.



Worried Jack exits the elevator; dialing up Kate on his cell. Kate answers. {“Flashing lights” on ambulance}
Jack asks if she’s OK; is she at home. He will explain everything, “once you’re out, you gotta get Aaron…”
Kate reveals she’s not at home and Aaron’s at a hotel with Sun.
Kate is sitting in her car.{Staking out Mr. Norton.}
Jack-“Sun? Sun’s in L.A.” {Listen to that!}
Kate shares that Sun’s there on business. “Jack, this really isn’t a good time. I’m so sorry that I even picked up the phone. I’m not…”
Jack warns her not to hang up on him.   He wants to know where she is, he needs to see her.

Ben and Sayid walk up behind Jack.
Kate informs Jack, “I’m downtown. Wilshire and Olive.”
Jack's on his way.
Jack tells Ben he’s going to Kate now while Ben will go deal with Hugo.  They are very hurried.
Sayid- “Sorry Ben. I’m not letting you get anywhere near him.”
Ben tells him he has friends in trouble, “Let's get them to safety and save the dirty linen for later.”
Sayid takes the keys from Ben, “I’ll drive.”
Ben instructs Jack after he gets Kate to meet them at the Long Beach Marina’s, slip 23, “And Jack, Hurry. We’re running out of time.”
Jack gallops off on, uh, I mean in his Bronco.

Night in the jungle:
Sawyer asks Locke what’s he gonna say to Kate to make her come back.
Thunder rolls overhead.
Locke hasn’t figured that out yet.
Sawyer shares with Locke that Kate was pretty excited to hop on that chopper and get the hell out of there. Locke looks as if that doesn’t make sense.
They see a light beam shining up toward the sky.
{Like from the hatch}
Miles asks, “What the hell is that?”
Locke- “Whatever it is, we better stay clear of it.”
He starts to walk away but Sawyer shows him in the proper direction to the beach, “Now you wanna take the scenic route?”
Dan asks Locke if he knows “when” they are. John’s only response is, “We need to keep moving.”
John looks at the light.




Dan asks Charlotte about her headache.
Charlotte says it’s better, “Nothing like sore feet to take your mind off your head, eh?”
Dan tells her not to worry cause when they get back to the beach they’re gonna take the zodiac around the Island and she can rest. Charlotte feels that sweet, but he doesn’t need to baby her. She’s fine.
Miles gets a nosebleed. Juliet asks if he’s okay. Miles is peachy.
Screams ring out through the jungle.
Miles- “Now what?”
Nobody move! Sawyer’s gonna check it out.
John seems to want to stop him but James “Got this.”
James observes Claire delivering Aaron in the jungle; Kate is her midwife. You can hear Kate’s dialog “You can’t stop this from happening…and Claire’s, it knows I don’t want it. I was gonna give it away. Babies know that stuff… and Kate’s whole “this baby is all of ours/us” speech.
Kate needs her to push. {What? the button? Lol}
Breathe and push…. You can see Sawyer just long for her. {It’s so damn sweet!}
The light starts to glare, humming…Flash! It’s daylight.
Sawyer looks over to the area he saw Kate and Claire, and of course they are not there.
Whispering John asks what happened, “Did you see something out here, James?”
He replies, “It don’t matter. It’s gone now.”

Kate stills sits in her car waiting to follow Norton.
Clean-shaven {Just needed a change}Jack arrives to talk to her. They are both happy to see each other. Kate says to Jack, she doesn’t know why he called; she can’t be dealing with this right now. He asks her what’s going on, she says it's nothing, of course.
Kate wants him to “just go.”
Jack- “Please. Just tell me.”
She reveals that somebody wants Aaron, “There’s a lawyer in there his clients they know we’re lying. They know I’m not his mom. And they’re gonna take him away.”
Jack-“Who’s gonna take him away?” {the Others. lol}
Then she spots her target. Kate’s gotta go so she tells Jack to “Get in or don’t.”
Jack gets in.

Locke asks Sawyer if he’s ready to tell him who he saw back there. {How does he know it’s a “who”?}
Locke-“You and I both know “when” we were before the flash, James. So who was it you saw? Charlie? Shannon? Yourself?”
Sawyer wants to know how Johnny Boy knew “when we were”.
He asks, “That light in the sky was from the hatch, wasn’t it?”
Locke tells Sawyer, “The night that Boone died {Locke looks back} I went out there and started pounding on it as hard as I could. I was confused. Scared. Babbling like an idiot. Asking, why was all this happening to me?”
Sawyer- “Did you get an answer?”
Locke- ”Light came on and shot up into the sky. At the time I thought it meant something. ” But it didn’t mean anything, it was just a light.
Sawyer- “Why did you turn us around then. Don’t you wanna go back there?”
Locke- “Why would I wanna do that?”
Sawyer- “So you can tell yourself to do things different. Save yourself a world of pain.”
Locke says no, he needed that pain, ”to get to where I am now.”


Dan walks, looking up. Miles tells Dan about his nosebleed.
Upset Dan asks when. Miles doesn’t want to “freak out the Others.” {LOL!}
Miles wants Dan to tell him why this happened to him and Charlotte. Dan doesn’t know. He thinks it might have something to do with the duration of exposure, with the amount of time you’ve been on the island. Miles says that doesn’t make any sense, “Those Yahoo’s have been here for months. I’ve been here before two weeks ago.”
Dan- "Are you sure about that?”
Miles looks confused.
Sawyer yells “Hello.” The camp’s back. Finally!
Sawyer asks if anyone wants a Dharma beer. He calls out for Rose and Bernard but nobody’s home. The camp is disheveled and old; cans are empty and rusted.
Locke wonders how long ago this happened. He finds what he considers “Vincent’s” rope leash but no Vincent.
Sawyer wonders, “Where’s the rest of the dog? Where’s the rest of our people?”
Dan announces the zodiac’s gone too.
Charlotte-“Maybe your people took the boat.” {Raft?} Why would they do that?
Miles-“To get away from whoever came in those.”, pointing at an outrigger/canoe.
Dan notes they’re pretty old.
Miles- “Not that old.” {So, are they old or not?} He finds an Ajira water bottle in the canoe. The fucking knows it all, Juliet informs them its an airline based out of India. They fly everywhere. {Friggin Juliet!!!}
Sawyer- “Great. Maybe they got a flight out of here to Vegas….Who came in these? Other Others?” {LMFAO!!!!}
Juliet- “Don’t look at me.” {Huh?!}
Dan’s question is, when are they coming back?
Locke suggests they not wait to find out. They take the boat and row away.
Rowing along, not motoring along, Miles asks, “How far is this place?”
John points, “It’s around that point. Not more than a couple of hours.”
Juliet asks a sad looking Sawyer if he’s all right. He shares that he saw Kate last night in the jungle, before the last Flash; she was delivering Claire’s baby.
Juliet comments, “That was two months ago.”
Sawyer- “Time travel’s a bitch.”
Shots are fired at them. “Get Down!”
“Paddle!”
Miles thinks they want their boat back! He asks Juliet if these are her people. They are not so she asks if they’re his. Sawyer tells them to shut up and keep paddling. Sawyer’s paddle gets a bullet hole, ”Little help! Little help! {Is that an Indian name? lol!} He gets another paddle.
Juliet fires back at the other boat. The other boat is getting closer.
The hummm starts, the light changes…Sawyer yells, “Thank you lord!”  
Flash! It's pouring rain in the dark!
Sawyer-“I take that back!”
Locke tells them to paddle back to the shore.

Dark rain clouds are moving in.
Kate and Jack followed Norton to a hotel. Jack tries to reason with her about Norton meeting his client doesn’t mean they’re here in L.A., he could have told her that to throw her off.
Kate says emphatically, ”Well, they’re in that hotel right now.”
Jack asks if that person who wants Aaron is sitting in that hotel, then what. He wants her to go with him, go get Aaron and put their heads together and figure something out.
Kate sees a woman open the door to let Norton in. {Red folder} they see its Claire’s mother.
Norton heads back to his car in the pouring rain, while Jack and Kate watch and wait. They are visibly upset and concerned. Jack stops Kate from putting the car in gear.
Kate cries because, “She knows all about Aaron and that’s all that matters.”
Jack will go in and talk to her; maybe he can explain to her why they did it, get her to understand why.
Jack feels “She’ll listen to me. I can fix this, Kate. I can fix it…Aaron is my family too.”
Jack heads out into the rain.

Claire's mom looks deeply at a red framed photo of Claire in a red dress.  There's a knock at her door.
Ms Littleton is surprised to see Dr. Shepherd. She hasn’t seen the drenched Doctor since his father’s funeral.  Jack reveals he knew she was there because he followed her lawyer. He did this because he understands the need for her to do this, but he needs her to know that everything they Kate and I have done was for Aaron.
Ms Littleton-“Who's Aaron?” She’s not following him; she has no idea what he’s talking about. Jack inquires about what she’s doing in L.A..

Jack runs back to Kate’s car and tells her to drive and call Sun, tell her to bring Aaron to the Long Beach Marina; they have to go now!
He tells her that Littleton isn’t there for Aaron, she doesn’t know Aaron exists. She still thinks Claire is dead. She sued Oceanic and is in town to pick up her settlement. Kate questions the coincidence that her lawyer is the same one who is trying to take her son. So who is trying to take Aaron?

Sayid and Ben drive the CANTON-RAINIER carpet van.
Ben asks Sayid why he took it upon himself to rescue Hugo.
Sayid had to make sure Hurley was safe. Ben directs him to pull into a parking garage. They are met by Mr. Norton, who presents Ben with a folder of info. He tells Ben “they don’t have any solid case against Reyes.  The M.E. said that the man found outside Santa Rosa was killed before Reyes escaped.” That’s good news to Ben. There will be a pre-lim hearing in the morning. The judge will never let it past that, and Reyes will be a free man.
Sayid asks “Who was that?”
Ben- “That’s my lawyer.”

The “time traveling Islanders” pull their boat up on to the beach. It is dark.

Miles- “Remind me never to do that again.”
Dan asks where they are. Locke feels it’s hard to say until it gets light. There are flashes of lightning and thunder cracks.
Juliet wants a chance to finish her conversation with Sawyer.
He asks, “What conversation was that?”
The one before they started shooting at us, “Where you were about to tell me how it felt to see Kate again.”
He was about to tell her anything.
Juliet- “Why don’t you tell me now?” {As if she really cares. HA!}
Sawyer explains he was close enough to touch her. If her wanted, he could’ve walked right up to her and talked to her. {Why didn’t he?}
Sawyer-“What’s done is done.” He tells Juliet her nose is bleeding.

Charlotte calls everyone over to take a look. “Wreckage. It‘s like it just happened.”
Locke turns over a little locker with the French word stenciled on it. “Besixdouze”
Locke asks if anybody speaks French. {We know Charlotte does!}
An octagon shaped raft floats in the dark rain. {passengers are men and 1 woman? They speak French, but we don’t get subtitles. Interesting huh?!}

Robert-”Mais j'te l'ai dit, on aurait jamais dû suivre ces maudits chiffres !” ( But j'tehave said - We never should have followed those damn numbers!)
Montand- ”Mais c'est pas ma faute, Robert. C'est Brennan qui devait tenir le sonar! (But it's not my fault, Robert.  It was Brennan who hold sonar!)
Brennen-“Mais je le faisais, Montand! Je vous l'ai déja dit, les instruments ont mal fonctionné!” (But  I did, Montand!  I've already said, the instruments have malfunctioned!)
Rousseau-“Un homme à la mer!” (Man overboard!) {I thought that meant sea?}
Other Man- “Quoi?” (What?)
 “Mais je pensais qu'on était tous là!” (But I thought we were all there!)
“On est tous là ! Il n'est pas des nôtres. Alors qui est-ce?“ (We're all here! It is not ours.  So who is it?)

They need to paddle fast as they’re drifting with the current. They see a man floating, only him, no boat…Nothing “Les vagues vont nous amener jusque sur la côte.” (The waves will lead us to the coast.)
“Le vent va passer par ici.” (The wind will pass through here.)
“Au nom de dieu, Brennan ! Ta gueule !” (In the name of god, Brennan! Shut up!)
“Allez, tirez-le dans le radeau.” (Come on, pull the raft.)
“Aide moi.” (Help me.)
"Il est lourd!" (He's heavy!)
“Tiens, il respire encore.” (He's still breathing.)
It’s Jin!!


Night:
Jack and Kate arrive at the dock; they’re the first ones there.   Kate asks him why he called her today. Jack said because he was worried.
Kate wonders why he was worried, “Why today?”
He shows her the handwritten note with her address on it.   He explains this note came out of Sayid’s attacker's pocket.
Kate asks what Sayid is doing there, but of course Jack’s answer is, it’s not important. What is important is that she and Aaron get to “some place safe.” But safe from who?
Jack doesn’t answer.

Ben and Sayid show up Ben says hello to Kate. Kate is stunned. Ben smiles.
Jack tells her it’s okay. He’s with me.”
Jack knows it’s gonna be hard for her to understand, “He’s here to help us. To help everyone that we left behind. We all need to be together again.”
Kate-“It’s him.”
Kate feels it’s him {Ben} trying to take Aaron away.”
Jack says no.
Ben-”No Jack. She’s right. It was me.”
Now Jack’s stunned.
Ben-“Sorry.”
Kate asks Ben who the hell he thinks he is. Why doesn’t he just stay away, “Leave me and my son alone.”
Ben-“Because he’s not your son. Kate.”

Sun watches them from her car. Aaron is sleeping in the back seat. She takes her gun and...
Daylight:
Jin unconscious, dries on the beach.   He wakes.  He sees one of the French men has a violin case. They have guns, walkie/radio. You hear…4... 8...

Montand- “Robert... Regarde, le signal vient de l'île” (Look, the signal's coming from the island.)
Robert- “Tu peux déterminer la source?“ (Can you find the source?)
electronic voice on radio: 15... 16...
Montand-“Bien sûr que oui. Regarde.” (Yes, of course. Look.)
Robert- “Tu crois que l'île est habitée?” ( You think the island is inhabited?)
Montand-“J'sais pas.” (I don't know.)
Rousseau- “Ça va? Comment tu te sens? “  (Ok, how do you feel?)
Jin-“No understand.”
Rousseau-“You speak English?”
Jin-“Little.”
Rousseau-“Are you okay?”
Jin-“Yes.”
Rousseau-“How did you get here?”
Jin-“Boat.”
Robert-“Qui est-ce? “ (Who is it)
Montand-“On s'en fout qui c'est. Qu'est ce qu'il fait ici? “ (We do not care who it is. What is he doing here?)
Rousseau-“Il dit qu'il est venu en bateau.” (He said he came by boat.)
Robert to Jin- “What boat?”
Jin-“It's gone. Sink.”
Rousseau-“It must've been caught in the same storm as ours.”
Montand-“Who are you? How long you in the water?”
Jin-“I don't know.”
Montand-“How do you not know how you wound up in the middle of the ocean, huh?”
Rousseau-“Montand! Laisse-le, il est en état de choc. On a de l’eau à lui donner?” (Montand! Leave him alone, he's in a state of shock. We have water to give him?)
Robert-“Ouais.” (Yeah.)
Robert comes back with water.
Robert-“Tiens.” (Here.)
Rousseau-“Merci, Robert.” (Thank you, Robert.)
Jin drinks. She asks him his name. “Kwon Jin-su. Jin.”
Rousseau-“Hello, Jin. I'm Danielle. Danielle Rousseau.”





The little prince is a GREAT episode! So much was going on. The calm before the storm!
I was thrilled to see a few clues addressed, especially the whole dead not dead, just being gone from there. So if that's the case with examples here, i.e. Claire, Jin, Sawyer, Christian, will we indeed see Boone and Shannon and many more "goners".
Even Sawyer was under the possible impression that Kate and the rest of the O6 were "blown up".


Things to note…Questions to ask…
* Assumed dead…but isn’t. Gone. Vision of Kate and Claire, then it’s gone. Jin. Claire.
* EYES!
* Memory loss. Head. Neurological. C.T. Scan, Connected/Disconnected.
* Generations. Blood. Cell. Feet.
* Reincarnation {anagram. Come back to "life"}
* Dan, Charlotte’s daddy?
* I.V. or Roman numeral IV=4.
* Charlotte’s headache and nose gets better.
* Claire was an observer and saw herself in her own Vision/Memory.
* Does Dan know what he’s talking about…Really?!
* These people all have people. I want some people too!
* Missing from the birthing scene that Sawyer watches is Jin and Charlie. What was that all about any way?
* Could he be seeing a “real replay” of past events? Or could it be a projected image”, similar to the projection invention like from the book, The Invention Of Morel?
* Jin arrives alive, just as he did when the Others blew up the raft and he landed in the Talies side of the "Island".
* This is supposed to be Danielle Rousseau from 16 year prior? Give me a fucking break!
* Kate is Aaron's "mom/guardian and risks losing him. Michael was Waaaaaalt's dad/guardian and lost him too.
* Yahoo... As in computers or on-line?
* Locke-"Light came on and shot up into the sky. At the time I thought it meant something. But it didn't mean anything, it was just a light."
* John has to bring the family back together. "Further Instructions".

Vocabulary and Research…
*  {Chief} Little Prince or Tustenuggee was an 18th century chieftain and longtime representative of the lower Creeks from the 1780s until his death in 1832. During the early 1800s, he and Big Warrior shared the leadership of the Creek National Council. Little Prince is first recorded in 1780 living as a chieftain at  Broken Arrow
* The Little Prince ( French:Le Petit Prince), published in 1943, is French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s most famous novella, he wrote while renting a house in N.Y. on Long Island. The novella includes a number of drawings by Saint-Exupéry himself, which are reproduced in most versions.
-Astronomy- An asteroid, a small asteroid moo, Petit-Prince was named from the book.
* Reincarnation- Literally "to be made flesh again", is a doctrine or metaphysical belief that some essential part of a living being survives death to be reborn in a new body. This essential part is often referred to as the spirit or soul, the "higher" or "true" self, "divine spark", or "I". According to such beliefs, a new personality is developed during each life in the physical world, but some part of the self remains constant throughout the successive lives. Belief in reincarnation has ancient roots.
* A canton is a type of administrative division of a country.
- The name Rainer comes from the Germanic name Reginar, composed of the two elements ragin ("advice") and heri ("army").
- A circadian rhythm is an approximate daily periodicity, a roughly-24-hour cycle in the biochemical, and physiological or behavioral processes of living beings, including plants, animals, fungi, and cyan bacteria. Circadian rhythms are endogenously generated, and can be entrained by external cues, called Zeitgebers. The primary one is daylight.

The rhythm is linked to the light-dark cycle. Disruption to rhythms usually has a negative effect. Many travelers have experienced the condition known as jet leg, with its associated symptoms of fatigue, disorientation and insomnia.


I explored the wonderful world of Virtual Reality in past compositions. But a couple of thing came up in this episode that made me have a flashback to a few of those things.

- Computed tomography (CT) a medical imaging method employing tomography. Digital geometry processing is used to generate a 3 dimensional image of the inside of an object from a large series of 2-dimensional x-Ray images taken around a single axis of rotation. The word "tomography" is derived from the Greek tomos (slice) and graphein (to write). CT produces a volume of data, which can be manipulated, through a process known as windowing.
- Tomography is used in medicine, archeology, biology, geophysics, oceanography, material science, astrophysics and other sciences. In most cases it is based on the mathematical procedure called Tomographic Reconstruction.
- Virtual- the term has been defined in philosophy as "that which is not real" but may display the full qualities of the real.
- Virtual reality (VR) is a technology, which allows a user to interact with a computer, simulated environment, be it a real or imagined one. It’s immersible, highly visual, 3D environments. In the book The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, identifies 7 different concepts of Virtual Reality: simulation, interaction, artificiality, immersion, telepresence, full-body immersion, and network communication.
- Therapeutic use for VR: Is it’s various application to various forms of exposure therapy, ranging from phobia treatments, to newer approaches to treating PTSD {post traumatic Stress Disorder}. Also notable examples would be various zoophobias and acrophobia, as a step between basic exposure therapy such as the use of simulacra and true exposure. A much more recent application is being piloted by the U.S. Navy to use a much more complex simulation to immerse veterans (specifically of Iraq) suffering from PTSD in simulations of urban combat settings. While this sounds counterintuitive, talk therapy has limited benefits for people with PTSD, which is now thought by many to be a result of changes either to the limbic system in particular, or a systemic change in stress response.
- Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (better known by the recursive acronym CAVE) is an impressive virtual reality environment where projectors are directed to three, four, five or six of the walls of a room-sized cube. The name is also a reference to the allegory of the Cave in Plato’s Republic where a philosopher contemplates perception, reality and illusion.
- Mixed reality (MR) (encompassing both augmented reality and augmented virtuality) refers to the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualizations where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time.


Okay, you’re going to be pissed off at me because I have to play fair and show you a possible alternative to what we could be seeing.  Yes, I’ve hinted to this in the past, many times actually.  Then the “Powers That Be” introduced “Time Travel” into the mix.  We were told “time travel”, but only the conscious mind travels, yada, yada, yada.  I’ve been logically keeping an open mind to all of this, all the while being a detective that always keeps my clues very middle of the road and showing you two sides whenever possible.  With all that said, I must say that the clues I seem to be perceiving are still there.   So how were all those logical clues going to fit into the illogical world of time travel?  Holy Shit, Losties, I’m gonna lose my friggin' mind over all this!
That brings me to…
Time skipping due to “traveling through time”.  Is it possible that the hints we have to head, C.T. Scans/MRI, Radiology {which are equipped with a giant magnet} and hints to books such as The invention of Morel, and all the mind fucks that I've mentioned in past posts, hypnosis, lucid dreaming, brainwashing, drug hallucination, illusion, Santa Rosa,  altered state of consciousness, merged/altered reality, etc..
Are some of the things we see intertwined with a form of three dimensional recreations?  I’m not saying all of what we see is due to that, but too many of the clues still point us in the way of things going on in their heads/minds.
In this episode we do touch on the concept of living your life over, and doing things differently, could possibly save you a lot of regret and pain.   But in reality we can’t do that.  Here John Locke says he wouldn’t go back because he needed all that pain to get him where he is now.  We all have moments in our lives we wish we could “do over” but we can't.  But lessons are learned from those “past events." We can flashback and reflect on them, but hopefully not make the same mistakes again. And the adage "Everything happens for a reason" is sometimes not understood at the time, but at some point in the future, when an event or experience presents itself, and we "Get it."

Back to the matter at hand... Who is the Little Prince? Aaron? Charlie Hume? Jin? Hurley? or Jack? Or is it a player to be named later?

Either way, a big storms a brewin'!


Love to all who are "LOST"™

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

The Lie.

Let's talk about LOST! The Lie


Three Years Ago:

Frank takes two bottles of brew from the fridge (Skulls). Up on deck of The Searcher, Hurley is heard saying, “Dude, they’ll find out.”
Jack tries to convince him, “Not if we stick to the story.”
Sayid doesn’t know, “It could be a risk.”
Jack insists it’s the only way they have to do this. Kate holds Aaron. Wobbly Frank hands Desmond one of the bottles and asks him, “They’re still at it, huh?”
Jack tells the group that they’re running out of time; they need to make a
decision now.
Frank cools his neck with the bottle.
Jack wonders if they’re all Okay with this. Sayid feels this is a decision that will affect the rest of their lives; he’s not taking it lightly.
Jack makes the rounds asking if everyone is “in”. He even apologizes to Frank for getting dragged into this, but he still needs to know if he’s with them.
Frank will roll with whatever they decide.
Jack asks Hurley, “What about you?”
Hurley- “I don’t we should lie, Dude.”
Jack tells him they have to protect the people, “we left behind,Hurley.”
Kate and Sun are shown. In a subtle manner Sun reacts to Jack’s statement. Desmond and Penny sit with the group.
Hurley wonders how lying protects them.
Jack-"It protects them from Charles Widmore…The guy hired a boat load of people to kill all of us. He faked a plane crash, you think telling him the truth, he’s just gonna, he’s gonna leave them alone?"
Hurley turns to Penny and asks, “Look. He’s your dad, right? Can’t you, like, call him off?” {Like a dog?}
Penny informs Hurley there’s no calling her father off.
Hurley- “But, he’ll never find them. The Island disappeared. It’s gone. We all saw it. Bloop.”
Jack implies no one would believe any of that; they’d think Hurley was crazy. Hurley feels they would be believed if someone backs him up.
He reaches out for Sayid’s support. “Sayid, come on. They’ll think I’m nuts if I tell the truth, but what if we all do? And if we can stick together, they can make them believe us.”
Hurley doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life lying. Neither does Sayid; but he doesn’t believe they have a better choice.
Sayid-“I’m sorry Hurley, but we have to lie.”
This upsets Hurley, “You know what, Dude? I’m gonna remember this. And someday you’re gonna need my help and I’m telling ya right now, you’re not gettin' it.”


Daylight:
Hurley speeds away with a sleeping Sayid in the blue SUV. He tries to “wake up” Sayid as he’s driving. In the erratic driving he tries to put on Sayid’s seatbelt. Hurley knocks over a bunch of trash. There’s a lot of eye blinking (open/close).
A police car siren from behind prompts him to pull over. Hurley frantically asks  sleeping   Sayid, “No. no, no, no, no! What do I do?”
He’s panicking, shaking sleeping Sayid and asks “What am I supposed to do?”
Hurley pulls over. {4DOQ678} Part of a cop is seen in side view mirror. Hurley closes his eyes and tells himself to stay calm.
Three knocks on the window; Hurley rolls it down.
Anna Lucia removes her sunglasses, “What the hell were you thinking?”
Hurley’s a bit stunned.
Anna tells him he was driving like a maniac, “And why’d you pull over? “
Hurley stumbles over his words, “I just thought…”
Anna- “You didn’t think. What if I were real? What if a real cop stopped you? They already have pictures of you covered in blood with a gun in your hand.”
He tells her it's ketchup.
Anna-“Bro. You need to pull it together.You’ve got a lot of work to do.”
He does?
Anna starts with the basics. “First off you need new clothes. Then you need to go to a safe place and take Sayid to somebody you trust. You getting all this?” {She literally shoved him.} Hurley gets it. Ana tells him to get to it, and stay away from the cops. She points her finger right at him, “Do not get arrested.”
Hurley thanks Anna Lucia.
Anna puts on her sunglasses turns to Hurley and says, “Oh yeah. Libby says hi.”
Hurley looks in the side view mirror, the cop car  is gone.
Sayid slept through the whole visit. Hurley takes Anna Lucia’s recommendations.

Back at the beach Bernard and Rose bicker over the correct way to start a fire. {Don’t they know how to start a fire by now?}
Rose likes the rubbing two sticks together technique. Bernie’s tool looks more like a bow (bow and arrow).
Frogurt in his red shirt, doesn’t care about building a fire; he’s concerned about the sky lighting up. Rose explains they are trying to focus on what they can control; he should either help or be quiet.
Vincent is there.
Frogurt gives Sawyer his plaid shirt; since they’re/he’ll be dead by sundown and won’t need it. Frogurt wants to be called Neil.
Juliet fiddles with the zodiac raft. She explains the convenience of the raft not disappearing with the time jumping due to the fact that “whatever they had it with them when they moved was a long for the ride.” (Pretty friggin convenient! Then why doesn’t the tents and everything else count?}
Look whose back! Dan strolls out of the jungle and he hugs Charlotte.

Sawyer welcomes Dr. Wizard back.
Miles corrects him, “I think it’s Mr. Wizard.”
Sawyer wants to know what Dan was up to for the two hours he was gone.
Dan says he “was really lost.”
Dan doesn’t know when the sky’s gonna light up again. Sawyer asks if he at least has a plan.
Juliet interjects, “I think we should take the zodiac, head to a shipping lane.”
No, they can’t just sail out into any course. For them to leave Dan needs to calculate a new bearing. To do this he needs to determine “where” they are now in time. Miles is going to find them something to eat.
Juliet-“I guess we’ll get the water.


{Shhhhh}
Hurley throws water in Sayid’s face in an effort to wake him up. He fears he can’t do this on his own. Sayid does not wake up. Hurley borrows some money from Sayid’s wallet. He puts a pair of sunglasses on the sleeping Sayid, “Wait right here.”
Inside the convenience store Hurley shops for new clothes. {I love my Wirehaired. Cheap Trick’s Dream Police plays in the background, “…They’re looking for me. Every single night. They’re driving me insane. Those men inside my brain….”}
Hurley purchases a I HEART MY Shih-Tzu' tee shirt.
The female clerk behind the counter notes his appearance, “Rough night?”
Yeah.
She notes his wasted friend in the car. The girl thinks Hurley looks familiar. Hurley feels he just has one of those faces.
She says he’s lying.
Hurley-“I don’t believe in lying.”
The girl behind the register/counter remembers him as the lottery winner and guy who crashed in that plane. She’d like for him to purchase a ticket so that if he wins again they would get a commission. “Good luck.”
The Action 8 News is on the TV behind her. Hurley hurries out of there; tells her to “Keep the change.”
Back in the car, Sayid still sleeps.
Hurley, sporting his new tee shirt tells sleeping Sayid, “We’re out of here.”
He drives through/between the “SELF” gas pumps of the station and leaves.
He just misses Kate pulling in.

Kate turns off the car and takes her sunglasses off. She is troubled. Kate looks at a map.
Aaron’s in the backseat coloring,“Mommy, I wanna go home.”

Kate- “Look at your book, baby.”
She pulls up Jack Shephard 323-555-0156 (Contact) on her cell phone {Note search JA} she decides not to make the call. Her phone rings. As per her side of the conversation with the unknown caller, “I can’t believe it’s you.”
She and Aaron are going to meet a friend in L.A..

Ben unscrews the AC duct to retrieve something wrapped in plaid he’s been hiding there. He packs it in a duffle bag. {It looks like the same plaid shirt we see on "the island"}
Jack, clean shaven and in a suit, exits the bathroom searching for his pills. Ben took the liberty of flushing them down the toilet for him. Jack lies saying he was going to do that. You can see Jack needs the pills.
Ben tells Jack that he’s checking out.
Jack-“Where are we going?”
Ben- “You’re going home. And find yourself a suitcase, if there’s anything in this life you want, pack it in there, because you’re never coming back.”
Jack- “Good.”
Ben will pick him up in six hours. He informs Jack that John’s casket is outside in a carpet van, “I need to move it somewhere safe.”
Jack- “Safe? He’s dead, isn’t he?”
Ben- “I’ll see you in six hours, Jack.” {Good answer!}

Mr. Reyes makes an interesting sandwich; pepperoni and caviar. A green bottled drink completes his meal. He sits in a cozy chair and watches Expose.
The background dialog: “It looks like the scorpion is taking over all Cobras' business. You want me to work with Tsunami the Dragon Lady of Van Nuys…..I’m here to capture the Scorpion. If you’ve got a problem with that you can go work stage 3...”.
There’s frantic knocking at the back glass slider door.   It’s casual Hurley carrying sleeping Sayid. Hurley asks if Dad’s seen the news. Dad hasn’t; he just got up. and mom’s out shopping.
They lay Sayid on the red couch. Dad/Dave checks Sayid’s eyes and confirms, “Oh man. He’s out.”
Concerned that Sayid may not be breathing, dad checks him. Sayid is barely breathing, but alive. Hurley explains Sayid was shot by a dart.
Dave- “A dart? What were you in the zoo or something?”
Hurley- “No. We were at the safe house."
Dad- “THE SAFE HOUSE?!”
Hugo explains Sayid took him there to protect him, then the two guys jumped out, shot him with darts and now, “He’s in a coma or something.”
Dave feels this doesn’t make sense, “What are you doing out of the mental institution?”
Hurley- “Sayid pulled me out!”
He shares they’re both in danger; but doesn't know from whom. The front gate calls up to the house; it’s the L.A. P.D. They want Mr. Reyes to open the gate.    Dad wants to know what kind of trouble he's in. Dave covers for Hurley but wants the truth in return.   Hurley watches the cops and his father chat from behind glass panes in a door. {Yellow/ red/orange}
The two men leave a "calling" card with Dave and leave.
Dave questions Hurley, “You killed three people?”
Nope, Sayid did.
Sayid sleeps on the pool table.
Hurley proclaims, “He saved me.”
Dave suggests they call a lawyer; as they move sleeping Sayid to the couch. Hurley feels they can’t go public because someone is after them; although Hurley doesn’t know who.
But Sayid knows, “He can explain.”
They drop sleeping Sayid on the red couch. Obviously Sayid isn’t explaining anything. Dave feels they need to get Sayid to a hospital.
Hurley’s upset, “Did you not hear me?! People are trying to kill us.
If we go to a hospital, they’ll find us! …like the Godfather. It’s the last place you go, everyone knows it! They smother you with pillows, and make it look like an accident.”
He tries to shake Sayid awake  again.
Dad knows the shaking isn’t going to work, “We need a doctor.”
Hurley-“I think I know what to do.”


Elevator doors open; Kate and Aaron get on at L.
Aaron asks “Mommy, can I push the button?”
Kate-“Sure you can Sweetie. We’re going all the way to the top, Okay. So I want you to press 3-1. {31 floors. No smoking} There's total excitement over the button pushing accomplishment of this golden child.   Arriving at their destination, Kate rings the doorbell. Sun answers.

A female butcher chops meat in the shop. Ben enters and takes a “number” from the “next customer” caller. {342} The lady butcher, Jill, says hello to Ben, “If it’s a Porterhouse you're looking for, we’re out.”
No, no Porterhouse. He does however have something very important in his van and he needs her to watch it for him. Curious Jill wonders, “Is it what I think it is?”
Yep.
Jill assures “He’ll be safe with me.”
Ben asks if Gabriel and Jeffery checked in yet.
Jill tells him yes; everything is moving right on schedule.
Jill-“How’s it going with Shephard?”
Ben- “He’s with us.”
Jill’s a bit shocked and wonders if Ben bribed him with some pills. Ben defensively says, “Cut the man some slack. He’s been through a lot. We all have.”
Of course they have. Jill apologizes.
Ben tells her to “Keep him safe, Jill. Because if you don’t everything we’re about to do won’t matter at all.”

Night:
Bernard is still at it with his “bow” to start a fire.   Sawyer looks annoyed. Vincent sits.
Dan sits away from the group.
Finally, Bernard ignites a flame and then inadvertently blows it out. Rose is pissed. Annoying Frogurt asks “I thought you said you knew how to start a fire.”
Rose has words with Neil and tells him he needs to take a “time out.”
Bratty Frogurt huffs away. Rose supports Bernard in another fire attempt.

Charlotte brings Dan fruit she found in the jungle. Dan quickly picks up his notebook and tool; pretending like he’s in the middle of working on something. {Which he wasn’t} There were only two pieces of fruit in the jungle. {lol}
Charlotte can’t shake her bloody headache. She also reveals that her memory is fading. She shares with Dan that couldn’t remember her mother’s maiden name. Dan tells her they’ve all been under a lot of stress.
Charlotte- “Daniel. Do you know what’s happening to me?”
Miles comes out of the jungle announcing “Dinner is served.”
He found a three hour old dead boar. Miles asks who has a knife. Frogurt sarcastically answers back, “….You need a knife. It’s over by the Cuisinart next to the stove.”
Miles asks what his problem is.
Frogurt’s problem is they don’t have a knife; they don’t have anything. And it wouldn’t even matter if we did 'cause Bernie the Dentist can’t even start a fire.”
Sawyer tells Frogurt to ease up.
Frogurt insists it Neil, “You inbred. And I’m not gonna ease up!”
Because he’s tried, hungry and they’re all screwed. {Sounds like a bratty kid!} Juliet tells him to calm down, they’ll get through this.
Frogurt’s freaking out, “How are any of us gonna get through this. Didn’t you hear what I just said?! WE CAN’T EVEN GET FIRE!”
Frogurt, literally on cue, gets shot with a flaming arrow.
Flaming arrows rain down on the beach.  The rest run for safety.   Charlotte falls and Dan helps her up.
Juliet frantically tries to put the flame out on a man who was shot. Sawyer tells her he’s dead {She says No}. They run, but she wants to go back to that guy. {Why did she want to help this dude so badly?} There’s nothing she could have done. {The beach now has plenty of fire.}

Hurley looks out the window. He sees that the cops are on a stakeout.
Dave-“You just escaped from a mental institution! There’s dead bodies everywhere! Of course they’re on a stakeout! They think you’re crazy enough to come back home.”
Dad asks Hurley if he's crazy. Dad feels either he is crazy or he’s lying to him.
Hurley reveals he’s not crazy and he has “a really good reason I’m lying to you.”
Why?
Mrs. Reyes loudly asks “Why’s there a dead Pakistani on my couch?”
He’s not dead, although he appears to her to not be breathing. Hurley freaks out! Dave tells Carmen it’s okay, they have a plan.
Hurley checks Sayid; he’s kind of breathing. Carmen wants to know why Hurley's all over the news. Hurley promises to her that every thing’s gonna make sense.
Mom tells him it better!

Mr. Reyes drives down the road right past the officers. {Camaro in garage.}

Kate pours tea for Sun. Sun is in L.A. on business. Sun shows Kate a photo of infant Ji Yeon.; she’s with her grandmother in Seoul.
Aaron sleeps on the couch. Sun would like Kate to meet her. It would be nice to see Ji Yeon and Aaron play together.
Troubled Kate tells Sun, ”Somebody knows we’re lying.”
Kate shares the story about the two men who came to her house asking for a blood sample for paternity.
Sun asks who the lawyers represent. Kate doesn’t know who their client is.
Sun-“Then they’re not interested in exposing the lie.” Because if they were, they would just do it; they wouldn’t go to her in private.
Sun- “They don’t care that we’re lying. They just want Aaron.”
Sun advises she “take care of them.”
Sun-“Wouldn’t you do anything you had to in order to keep Aaron?”
Kate-“What kind of a person do you think I am?”
We "Flash" to Kate offering to retrieve Jin on the freighter and Jack preventing Kate from doing so.
Sun-“The kind of person who makes hard decisions. Like you did on the freighter.”
Kate did what she had to do. If Kate hadn’t, they probably all would have died instead of just her husband. Sun doesn’t blame Kate.
Sun wonders, “So. How’s Jack?”

Mr. Reyes tells Jack, “Hugo said I can trust you.”
Dave pulls back a colorful blanket/carpet to reveal sleeping Sayid. He tells Jack Sayid got hit with some dart, “Must have been some drugs or something.” {Really?!}
Dad informs Jack that Hurley’s at their house, “freaking out.”
The two men move Sayid to Jack’s car so he can take him to the hospital.
Concerned Dave tells Jack, “No. Hugo said whoever did this will come back after him."
Professional Jack insists he will do what’s best for Sayid.
Dave says fine, but in return after all this is over he’s to stay away from Hugo. “Whatever it is you talked him into, something tells me you don’t have his best interest at heart. So stay away from my son.” {Jack is showing signs of needing a fix.}

Jack pulls up to the hospital with Ben on the cell phone.
Jack-“You’ll never guess who just showed up at my door.”
TADA….Sayid!

Carmen asks Hugo, “Who is Sayid? I thought he was your friend.” {Gives him a bottled drink.} Sayid is his friend, but he’s got this double life where he does crazy Ninja moves and spy stuff; but Sayid’s a good guy.
Mom reminds him a good guy doesn’t kill any men. Carmen tells Hugo he’s in terrible trouble. If the news thinks he did this, then everyone does. She asks why this is happening. How could anybody want to hurt him. She wants the truth.
Hugo breaks,“We lied, Ma….All of us. The Oceanic 6, we lied about what happened after the crash.”
Carmen asks what did happen.
Hugo- “Okay. See we did crash. But it was on this crazy island. And we waited for rescue and there wasn’t any rescue. And then there was a smoke monster. And there were other people on the island, we call them the Others, and they started attacking us. And we found some hatches, and there was a button you had to push every 108 minutes or… well I was never really clear on that. But, the Others didn’t have anything to do with the hatches, that was the Dharma Initiative. They’re all dead, the Others killed them, and now they’re trying to kill us. And then we teamed up with the Others because some worse people coming on a freighter. Desmond’s girlfriend's father sent them to kill us. So we stole their helicopter and we flew it to their freighter, but it blew up and we couldn’t go back to the island because it disappeared. So then we crashed in the Ocean and we floated there for a while until a boat came and picked us up. And by then there were 6 of us. That part was true. But the..but the rest of the people, who were on the plane. They’re still on that island.”
Carmen believes him, but she doesn’t understand him.
He tells her a lot of people died and now this bad stuff is happening because…”well, um, we shouldn’t have lied.”

In the dark Sawyer gets something jammed in his bare foot. They should keep moving as they have to hook up with everybody at the creek.
Juliet-“It’s a long creek James. Which part?”
The wet part of course! He’s sorry his plan isn’t up to Other’s stan….
They hear/see people walking in the dark jungle.
Sawyer asks Juliet, “Who are those people? Are they yours? Did they shoot the arrows?”
Juliet- “I don’t know. You want me to crawl out there and ask them?”
They are grabbed by the armed people!
Jones demands to know, “What are you doing on our island?”

Jack puts Sayid in a treatment room at the hospital. {Oxygen tank shows #’s 2 4 6 8 10 12 15} Jack puts ECG leads on Sayid's chest and tries to revive him.   He gives him a shot but nothing’s bringing him back to being conscious. Jack flashes the light in Sayid's eyes. That does the trick in bringing Sayid back!
Sayid jolts awake and impulsively chokes Jack. The choking stops.
Jack pours some cold water and tells Sayid he’s fine and in the hospital, “Hurley’s father brought you to me. Sayid, you’ve been attacked.”
Sayid is concerned about Hurley and who else might know that he’s with the parents at their house.

A sleeveless hot pocket is cooking in the microwave.   Ben surprises Hugo with a visit. Ben just appears!
Startled Hugo throws the hot pocket at him. Hugo’s freaking! Ben is there because he knows he’s in trouble. The police didn’t see him come in.{Some stakeout, huh?!} Ben can get him out of there.
Hugo shares that Sayid warned him about Ben.
Ben tries to convince him to go with him to Jack and Sayid. “How else would I know that they’re together?”
Hugo- “No. You’re playing one of your mind games. They’d never trust you.”
Ben agrees in their defense, “I’m not an easy person to trust. But they came around when they realized that we all want the same thing…..To go back to the island. Come with us Hugo. And this will be over. You can stop hiding. You can stop worrying about the stories and the deceptions. If you come with me, you won’t ever have to lie again. Please, let me help you.”
Hugo- “Never, Dude.”
Hugo runs away from Ben purposely into the waiting arms of the police. He confesses to the murder of four people, uh three people. He just wants to get out of there. Hugo smirks.

Jones wants to know “What you’re doing? How many there are? And how you got here.”
Jones tells Sawyer to tell him everything or he’ll cut off her other hand. The first one/hand isn’t negotiable; it’s just to illustrate how serious he is.
Sawyer tells him to chill out, “We’re not supposed to be here. Something’s happening to the island, there are these flashes.“
As they near cutting off Juliet’s hand, Sawyer says he’ll tell them whatever they want to know. Sawyer and Juliet over take them; a knife is thrown!
There’s Locke, “James. Juliet. Nice to see ya.”





We discover Mrs. Hawking is working on equations on a chalk board. A pendulum swings back and forth. An old Computer beeps. {Dharma notebooks on shelf}
Upstairs in a church, Ben lights candles.
She’s had luck.
Ben explains to her he’s having some difficulty. Hawking informs Ben he only has 70 hours. Ben feels that’s not enough time; but 70 is what he’s got. Ben’s concerned because he lost Reyes tonight., “So what happens if I can’t get them all to come back?"
Mrs. Hawkings- “Then god help us all.”





Things to note…Questions to ask…
✦ Shhhh(tzu)…Sleep. Knocked out…Drugged up. Dreaming.
✦ Time limit.
✦ The light Jack flashes in Sayid’s eyes seems to have finally awakened him.
✦ Appears to be dead…But is NOT!
✦ The “Island” residents are able to interact with people/events when time is “skipping“. They are not just observers.
✦ Lady/Jill butcher. Charlie’s father- butcher.
✦ Hurley does the opposite of what Ben asks him to do. But Anna Lucia told him not to get arrested.
✦ Frogurt’s shirt that Sawyer wears looks a lot like the plaid fabric worn by Pierre Cheng.
✦ Family ties are all over this episode. Lineage. Aaron. Ji Yeon.
✦ Jack believes that Widmore is behind everything. Is there more to the story? Who is really behind everything? What are we really seeing?
✦ The sky now lights up, it doesn’t turn purple.
✦ Language. Linguistics. Learning. Growth. Enlightenment.
✦ Island. Disappeared. Gone. Bloop. Is it really gone?
✦ Crazy. Mental Health. Maniac. Memory loss. Headache.
✦ Anna Lucia… gone… not gone. Libby says hi. Anna has physical contact with Hurley, as did Dave and Charlie, and possibly Eko.
✦ Real. Not real. Play a role. Ketchup looks like blood.
✦ The color blue surrounds Hurley when he's with Sayid. His parent's house-red
✦ Where does Frank fit in all of this?
✦ If Frogurt dies in the bow and arrow incident, what is the time frame he is really with Hurley in the missing pieces clip? More time out of order? Or things are changed? Because we are told that “What ever happened, Happened”.
✦ What makes some of these people such special cargo? Bred? Inbred.
Cattle, beef, meat, butcher. Live stock.
✦ Some people seem more like guides/advisors or persons there to put certain things in play.
✦ DNA. Eggs (yoke and white. Eggs-embryo.) Test. Biology. Parentage. Heart.



Vocabulary and Research...
✦Dramaturgy: is a sociological perspective stemming from symbolic interactionism. I don’t do this, but this is too interesting to not pass along, and it was too much for me to transcribe…Head to this link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_(sociology)#Performance
✦ Blue: is a color. Blue can be a state of mind.
- In Hinduism, Blue is used to symbolically represent the fifth, throat chakra. Many of the gods are depicted as having blue-colored skin, particularly those associated with Vishnu, who is said to be the Preserver of the world and thus intimately connected to water.
-The Missing Shade of Blue is an example introduced by the Scottish philosopher David Hume to show that it is at least conceivable that the mind can generate an idea without first being exposed to the relevant sensory experience. It is regarded as a problem by philosophers because it appears to stand in direct contradiction to what Hume had previously written.
✦ Zeno's paradoxes are a set of problems generally thought to have been devised by Zeno of Elea to support Permenides’s doctrine that "all is one" and that, contrary to the evidence of our senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion.
✦ Godfather: - A man present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child; A male godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.
-A small post which is used in repairing a fence. For instance attached to and supporting an existing broken fence post.
-A mafia leader.
✦ The Believers is a novel by Zoe Heller.
✦ Bloop- The Bloop is the name given to the ultra-low frequency underwater sound detected by the U.S. N.O.A.A. several times during the summer of 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown. The sound, traced to somewhere around South American southwest coast, was detected repeatedly by the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array, which uses U.S. Navy equipment originally designed to detect Soviet submarines. According to the NOAA description, it "rises rapidly in frequency over about one minute and was of sufficient amplitude to be heard on multiple sensors, at a range of over 5,000 km." According to scientists who have studied the phenomenon it matches the audio profile of a living creature but there is no known animal that could have produced the sound. If it is an animal, it would have to be, reportedly, much larger than even a Blue Whale.
- Bloop- In the ARG for the movie, the Bloop was also linked to
Cloverfield monster.

- Because the Bloop noise originated near the location of the fictional sunken city of R'lyeh from H.P. Lovecraft’s story “The Call of Cthulu, Bloop has been linked to Cthulhu by the authors fans.





The Lie is a GREAT EPISODE!!

There is more than one lie going on here. There are many lies at work. Who could be lying besides the obvious people? Cheng? Ben? Mrs. Hawking? Dan? Sun? Who else?
I’ve wondered this before... is it possible that Hurley is the one seeing more clearly at this point. I guess I have to wait and see how it plays out.

Excuse me now I believe I have to go find myself.

Love to all who are "LOST" ™

The Butcher is next door to the funeral parlor.








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

Because You Left.

Let's talk about LOST! Because You Left.




8:15. The Alarm is beeping. Pierre Cheng and wife are waking up; the baby also has been woken up.
It’s "his" turn to tend to the baby.
Cheng feeds the baby and readies himself for the day.
We pass through imagery that is very much like meeting Desmond in the Swan hatch".  {Shaving, brush teeth, etc}
Record on the record player skips; the needle is stuck ("If you can’t make a record").

Dharma folk, dressed in regular clothes go about their daily chores.
Cheng opens a door to reveal a film crew (Dressed in Dharma jumpsuits) and film set.
The Doc proclaims he doesn’t need a script.
Dharma orientation film #2, take 1.
A dude looking like Sawyers stand in is behind the camera. “Action.”
Dr. Marvin Candle introduces the orientation film for Station 2, The Arrow.
This Station’s primary objective is to develop defensive strategies and gather intelligence on the islands hostile indigenous population.
Eric, a construction worker storms in announcing to Dr. Cheng, they have a problem down at the Orchid.
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The Orchid is being constructed; Dharma vans and workers are busy.
Cheng takes the elevator down. He looks focused (or pissed).
The Foreman tells Candle, “We were cutting through the rock, right on your specs. That’s when the drill melted. 3 meters from the margin line on the plans.”
They went through six carbon drill bits then the last one just fried. He goes on, ”Then my operator grabbing his head and freaking out….”
They sonar imaged the wall; there’s an open chamber behind the rock. There’s something in there.
{Five holes are drilled}
The Foreman suggests laying charges to get to whatever is inside the wall. Cheng won’t have it!
Cheng tells the foreman if they can harness the limitless energy, they can manipulate time.
Foreman asks “What? We’re gonna go back and kill Hitler?”
Cheng- “Don’t be absurd! There are rules! Rules that can’t be broken.”
Cheng tells him not to drill any further; he doesn’t want to risk releasing the energy. A bloody nosed worker is being placed on a stretcher.
Cheng bumps into Faraday (Wearing an Orchid logo hardhat).
Cheng tells him to “Watch yourself!” 
 Faraday- “Sorry sir. It won’t happen again.”
The foreman says to Faraday, “Did you hear that? Time travel. How stupid does that guy think we are?”








Inside the funeral parlor, Ben, dressed in black, tells Jack to close that up now, let's get him in the van; it’s out back.
Jack asks where they are taking him.
Ben tells him they’ll worry about that "once they pick up Hugo.”
Jack- “Hurley is locked away in a mental institution.”
Ben- “Which should make recruiting him considerably easier than the rest of your friends.”
Jack feels "They" are not his friends anymore.
Ben-“Well that’s the spirit.”
Jack-“How did we get here? {He asks this to Kate in the jungle too.} How did all this happen?"
Ben- "It’s because you left."

At the Motel Jack is shaving {Mirror. Watch. Cut on right side forehead. Football game on the TV}
Ben is laying out clothes.
Jack asks "So once we get Hurley, then what?"
Ben- "Then we get Sun. Sayid. And Kate of course."
Jack- "I don't see that happening. When was the last time you saw him? I mean Locke."
Ben- (sighs) "On the Island. In the Orchid Station. {The Orchid Station is shown.} Below the greenhouse. I told him I was sorry for making his life so miserable. And then he left. So obviously John's visit to you made an impression. What did he say to make you such a believer?"
Jack- "Sawyer. Juliet. Everyone from the boat…everyone we left behind. John said that they'd die too if I didn't come back." {not 'go' back?}
Ben- "Did he tell you what happened to them after the island moved?"
Jack- "No. No he didn't."
Ben- "Then I guess we'll never know."

3 Years Earlier:
Ben pushes the frozen wheel. The “island” residents are experiencing buzzing and humming and bright light. The island disappears.

John stands in the rain and looks at his right hand. {Was he holding something?}
He’s confused and calls out for “Richard?….Anyone?” {JOHN’S EYES.}

On the zodiac raft, Frogurt asks what happened. "What was that light?"
Faraday- “We must’ve been inside the radius.”

Shirtless Sawyer asks Juliet, “What the hell was that?”
She doesn’t know. Sawyer asks where the freighter is.
Juliet comments, “Maybe it went down.”
Sawyer- “Can’t be, a minute ago it was coughing “black smoke” now there’s nothing."
The helicopter was heading for that boat.

Bernard is calling out for Rose; he can’t find her.   Rose comes running out from the “church”. They all shouldn’t be panicking, but the camp is gone.  We see the camp residents looking around, lost. The kitchen and tents, gone. {Note bright flowers.}
Bernard, “…gone. Everything but us.”
Faraday in his tie, tells them it’s not gone. Charlotte hugs Faraday. Sawyer doesn’t know who Faraday is.
Miles informs Sawyer, “That’s Dan. He’s our physicist.”
Dan tells them they have no time. {lol! No time!}  He wants Juliet to take them to something man made, anything built, any kind of a landmark. She suggests a Dharma station that's 15 minutes away.
Sawyer asks, “You mean the hatch? The one we blew up?”
Dan feels that’s perfect. They need to get moving before it happens again.
Dan tells Sawyer, The camp isn’t gone; It hasn’t been built yet.

Kate’s house: 

Cartoons on the TV. Coffee.
Aaron who is watching the cartoon says, “Choo choo, tunnel.” {N.Y. train-subway?} (Eggs, funny pages.)
Kate thinks Choo choo knows better than that, “He’s goes into that tunnel, he’s never coming back out.“
The doorbell rings. Kate tells Goober to watch is cartoons; she'll get the door. There are two men at the door (Dan Norton) from the law firm Agostoni and Norton. They claim to have a court order for Kate to relinquish hers and Aaron's blood. This of course, is an effort to determine their relationship. Mr. Norton isn't at liberty to divulge the identity (ID) of his client.
Kate's not having any of that so she demands they get off her property.
He threatens to have to come back with the sheriff. She tells him to come back with the sheriff; she shuts the door.
Kate kicks into her “on the run“ mode. Packing clothes, large amount of cash (in a yellow envelope) and guess what else?....A gun! (Really)
Aaron asks her where she's going. Kate tells the boy they're going on vacation.
There's an interesting photo of Jack with a blond young child (in vibrant color).
Kate takes the keys and tells Aaron to "Say bye bye, baby."

Sawyer tells Juliet he jumped off the helicopter to make sure she, uh, they got back to the boat.
Dan needs the two of them to pick up the pace.
Shirtless Sawyer wants Dan’s shirt, but Dan feels they have more pressing matters than that; they should keep moving.
Sawyer calls a “time out”.
Dan wants him to trust him, but Sawyer doesn’t know him.
Dan tells him he doesn’t have time to explain things, “You have no idea how difficult that would be for me to try explain this, this phenomenon to a Quantum Physicist. That would be difficult. So for me to try to explain whatever is happening..”
Sawyer slaps him! And he threatens Charlotte for interrupting.
Dan explains the “Island” like a record, spinning on a turntable, now, that record is skipping. Whatever Ben did down at the Orchid Station, “I think it may have dislodged us.”
Dis-lodged them from time.
Juliet- “So, that’s our camp is gone. Because the island is moving through time?” {Aren’t we all moving through time? lol}
Dan-“Either the island is, or we are.”
This baffles Sawyer.
Dan- ”It’s just as likely we’re moving. Your people and us.”
Not everyone in the group is accounted for...Locke.

Locke climbs up the hillside, walks through the grass and hears a motor rumble. He sees the Nigerian drug plane (Black smoke) fly over his head, and apparently crashes. He picks up a Virgin Mary statue.
John carries the statue through the jungle to the drug plane. There it sits above him. Black smoke pours out of the plane.
John calls outt7 to see if anyone is in there. He climbs up the roots.
John is shot at; hit in the right leg. It’s Ethan with a rifle, “Who are you?” ….” How many others on board?’"
Locke tells him he didn’t come on that plane (Drug plane).
Ethan- ”Wrong answer.”
Locke tries to chill out Ethan by revealing that he knows him, “I know who you are. Your name, your name is Ethan.”
Ethan seems intrigued, “Who are you?”
Locke, “My name is John Locke. I know this is gonna be hard to understand but Ben Linus appointed me as your leader.”
Ethan finds that ridiculous, “Goodbye John Locke.”
Then as Ethan aims…bright light…whooooosh! {Convenient, huh?} John’s in the dark.

Shirtless Sawyer and the gang are in the dark. They look around as if hearing something {perhaps?} Sawyer asks the Wiz kid, “When are we now?”
Dan tells him, they either in the past or the future. {Oh, friggin brilliant! We can only ever be in the past or the future. There is no present. Constant motion. NOW.}


Sun descends an escalator in the airport on her way to L.A.. She’s on the phone. {In the background you can hear ‘Flight 23 Paris to boarding at gate 15. Sun still wears wedding ring.}

She checks in at the Oceanic counter.

It’s evening. The attendant scans her passport; this apparently sends up a red flag.
She asks Ms. Kwon to wait there.
Sun is taken to a guarded room.
Sun bangs on the door to be let out, “Open this door! Open this door!”
Mr. Widmore appears, tells her to save her breath. “They only do what I tell them to do.”
Widmore had her brought in.
He’s insulted that Sun had the audacity to approach him in broad daylight, in front of his business associates. In public! Apparently she didn’t show him any r-e-s-p-e-c-t. {sing it!}
Widmore- ”I will be respected, Sun.” {The time on the clock approx- 9:22} That’s fair. Since she’s worried about her plane, he’ll get down to business. He wants to know about their common interests.
Sun- “To kill Benjamin Linus.”

Ben watches the news about the guy shot in his car outside Santa Rosa hospital. A private health care facility outside L.A.. {action 8 news} They misidentify the shooter as Hugo Reyes, who escaped the hospital earlier that evening.
Jack’s ready to “Go get um.”
Reyes lived at the facility for 2 years. Why Hugo would murder is a mystery.
Ben informs Jack, “Looks like we have a change of plan.”
Jack looks troubled.

Night, at the Rainbow drive in:
Sayid hands Hurley over his fast food order. {chicken}
Hurley offers Sayid a fry and suggests, “Maybe if you eat more comfort food, you wouldn’t have to go around shooting people.”
They pull up to a motel looking building.
Hurley asks who the dude was that Sayid shot outside Santa Rosa.
Sayid doesn’t care, he was armed and watching Hurley, that made him an enemy.  Sayid isn’t taking any risks after “Benthem died.”
Hurley-“You mean Locke.”
Yes, he means Locke. Hurley feels he too needs a cool code name.
Dog barking...
Hurley in his Santa Rosa attire and eating a sandwich, asks Sayid when he became so paranoid. Sayid reveals, "If you spent the last 2 years doing the things I was doing, you'd be paranoid too."
He was working for Benjamin Linus.
Hurley is surprised that, "He's on our side now?"
Sayid tells Hurley if he ever has the misfortune of running into him, whatever he tells you, just do the opposite.
Sayid discovers there is a breach (tape) into the room. He protectively shoves Hurley to wait here.
Sayid gets into it with the two guys who were inside the room. Sayid throws one guys off the balcony.
Inside the room while fighting with the other guy, Sayid gets shot with a dart.   Sayid fakes being "out" then hits the guy with a pan.
They struggle some more.
The dishwasher conveniently opens with knives conveniently pointed up, and the bad guy falls on top of them.
Hurley, still outside, stares at the gun on the ground.  He picks it up and looks over the balcony. As a crowd gathers below him, a man takes a photo of Hurley holding the gun. Someone yells "The guys got a gun...Run...get out of here."   They scatter. {like bugs}
Hurley helps a weak Sayid out to the car.
Hurley comments, he thought it was supposed to be a safe house, "I never should have left that island."

Juliet leads the gang in the dark.
Charlotte asks Miles, “Do you think he’s looking for us?"
Miles- “Who?”
Widmore.
Miles shares that it took him like 20 years to find this place the first time. I’ll start holding my breath now.”
Juliet reveals the imploded hatch. {or exploded} It was the hatch.
Sawyer- “Blown up, just like we left it.”
Dan determines the “now” as after your people crashed on the island.” {Wow! He’s a fucking genius!} With that, it’s possible that the camp is back on the beach again, so Sawyer is going back, shirtless.
But Dan tells him it’s pointless. They don’t know when the next flash is coming, because by the time Sawyer got back to the beach the camp could be gone again.
But what if it aint?! What if the helicopter hasn’t taken off yet. They could warn them; Stop them from flying to the boat.
Dan rains on this parade, “It’s not the way it works.”
Sawyer-“Who says?” {Yeah! Who says?}
Dan- “You cannot change anything. You can’t. Even if you try to, it wouldn’t work.”
Why?
Dan explains time is like a street. "We can move forward and reverse on that street, but we cannot ever create a new street. If you try to do anything different, we will fail, every time. What ever happened, happened.”   {Is this the same as “the computer is only meant for entering the code, nothing else, BS?}
Sawyer asks Danny boy how he’s knows so much about this.  Danny boy knows about this because he spent his entire adult life {how long has that been?} studying space time.  He knows all this because “this journal contains everything he’s ever learned about the Dharma Initiative. This is why I’m here. I know what’s happening.”
Sawyer wants to know how they can stop it.
Guess what? You can’t stop it.
Sawyer, “Then who can?”

John, shot, in the dark jungle, lays on the ground.  He sees the over turned plane on the ground.
He limps his way over to it. {lots of cobwebs on it.} Virgin Mary statues {unburned} and skeleton are inside. John tourniquets his leg and leans against the plane.
A torch is approaching!
John readies himself with the knife.
It’s Richard. John asks what’s happening.
Richard-“What’s happening is you’re bleeding to death.” {Hmmmm}
Richard takes out an old {looks like Dharma} first aid kit, prepared to remove the bullet.  He tells John he knows about the bullet because John told him.
John says he didn’t tell him.
Richard-“Well, you will.”
John reveals it was Ethan who shot him.
Richard-“Well, what goes around, comes around.”    Ageless Richard wears spectacles.
John- “When am I?”  {When are you, what?}
Richard tells him that’s all relative.
John asks Richard, “The noise, when the sky lit up, Where did “you go?”   {Hugo. lol}
Richard-“I didn’t go anywhere. You did.”
The bullet is painfully removed.
Confused John doesn’t understand. He wants to know how Richard knew where to find him. Of course Richard wishes he had time to explain, “But you’re gonna be moving on soon and we need to go over a couple of things before you…”
He tells John he’ll need to clean out the wound every couple of hours and keep as much weight off the leg as he can.,“The island will do the rest, John.”
Richard tells him to pay attention, “The next time we see each other I’m not gonna recognize you.”
He hands John a compass.
John- “What does it do?”
Richard-“It points North, John.”
Again, Richard wishes he had more time to be more sensitive about this because it’s a lot to swallow.  “You need to know it in order to do what you gotta do.”    He’s just gonna say it…”The only way for you to save the island, John is to get your people back here. The ones who left.”
John thinks the chopper and boat thingy may have "killed" them.
Richard also explains they are fine and they’re already home. “So you have to convince them to come back.”
To accomplish this feat, John’s gonna have to die.
Bright light….Whoooosh!...
...Daylight. John, shielding his eyes, holds the compass. The drug plane is again perched up above him. {puffing black smoke}

Dark:
The gang looks  into the imploded hatch.
Miles- “What was this thing before you guys blew it up?”
Juliet tells the tale, “It was a Dharma Station…A man named Desmond was living down in it. He was pushing a button every 108 minutes to save the world.”  { Really?!}
Noise….Bright light…. Sawyer, “Son of a…..Whooosh!
Daylight…..Sawyer, “Bitch.”
Juliet sees the hatch is back! She says to Sawyer, “I guess you haven’t found it yet.”
She uncovers its window.
Frustrated Sawyer has had enough. He’s going in through the back door to get supplies. Dharma food, beer and clothing.   Dan tells James to wait. It’s not a good idea.
Sawyer- “The sky can flash all it‘s wants. I aint starting over, Dilbert. I aint rubbing 2 sticks together to start a fire and I aint damn boar.”
He’s getting Desmond to let him in one way or another.  Dan tells him that won’t work because Desmond didn’t know him when he first came out of the hatch. That means they never met. “Which means you can’t meet.”
Sawyer- “This would all be fascinating if I was listening to you.”
Dan asks how he knows it’s Des in there, “It could be anybody.”
Sawyer don’t care.
Dan tells him it won’t work.
Sawyer thinks it will. Sawyer starts banging on the door, “Open the damn door…. It’s the ghost of Christmas future.”
Dan- “No one is gonna answer you.”
Sawyer continues to bang and yell. Dan tells him he’s wasting his time, “If it didn’t happen, it can’t happen. YOU CAN’T CHANGE THE PAST, James!”
Sawyer grabs him, “Everybody I care about just blew up on your damn boat. I know what I can’t change.”
Juliet suggests they get back to the beach, “It’s been a long day.”
Juliet looks sad/troubled.
Miles asks why they’re going back to the beach if there’s nothing to go back to.
Juliet sarcastically says, “So stay here.”
Miles thinks she’s flirting with him.
Charlotte gets a nose bleed. She hasn’t had one since she’s little.
Dan looks in her eyes but she insists she’s fine. He doesn’t like the sight of blood. {me neither!} It’s a good thing he’s a physicist then. He stays behind to retrieve his pack from the hatch crater.
Charlotte- “Don’t Dillydally” and goes on ahead. {Ha! He wouldn’t think of it. Lol}

Dan flips through the pages of his notebook. Eureka! Dan knocks on the Swan’s back door, 5 knocks. He whispers, “Please let this work. Please….”  
5 more knocks.
Out busts out a Yellow Haz-mat suited Desmond. Complete with rip in left leg and sportin' a rifle. Des pulls the gun on Dan wants him to explain why he’s been banging on the door for the last 20 minutes. {did Des hear Sawyer?} “Are you him?”
Desmond wants to know if Dan is his replacement. Nope.
Desmond- “Do I know you?"
Dan- “In a way, but that’s not important.” {WTF?} What is important is what he’s about to say to Desmond.
Dan-“You’re the only person who can help us because Desmond, the rules, rules don’t apply to you. You’re special. You’re uniquely and miraculously special.”
What the heck is he talking about???
There's a noise/high pitch buzz…they both look up into the trees. Dan goes on  telling Desmond if the helicopter got off the Island and he got home…Desmond doesn’t know what he’s talking about…Dan tells him to listen or people are gonna die. “My name is Daniel Faraday. And right now me and everyone else you left behind, we’re in serious danger. You’re the only person who can help us. I need you to go back to Oxford University, go back to where we met. I need you to go there and find my mother. Her name is…” Bright light…..Whoooosh!

Desmond sleeping and sweating; he wakes up. Penny asks if he’s alright.
Desmond- I was on the Island.”
Penny reminds him he’s been off the island for 3 years. He’s safe now. It was just a dream. Upset Des bolts up, ”It wasn’t a dream It was a memory.”
Desmond runs up on deck. {looks like Greece} They’re leaving to go to Oxford.




Because You Left is a GREAT EPISODE!

The "skipping"... is this the first time we’ve seen this? I’ve always felt like things were not in time order.  Is this the same thing, only heightened?  When see things like, Artz has a structure built to house his named jarred bug collection, Mikhail not dying, Richard not aging, Charlie in the front of the plane, but ends up on the beach, two versions of the bearing map in the helicopter, etc..
Does this “skipping” happen "off the "Island" too?   Why do we see two versions of Hurley’s lottery ticket? Why would Jack’s name be spelled differently?  If that’s “time travel” then it is showing things being changed (slightly).   But those changes/differences seem more like by-products of the dream state/altered state, the imagery of the experience, or even perception, happening in their heads/minds.
You know I NEVER throw out the metaphor possibilities in the story.

Let's use our brain power, Losties!

Things to Note…Questions to ask….
* Is there a glitch in the matrix? A bug in the system?
* Fake. Staged. Sets, cameras, script, etc. Fake names/ID
* Eye color.  Why would ageless Richard need glasses?
* Cheng, stage name Marvin Candle, wears (wedding ring) Swan logo while filming the Arrow orientation video. Both arms appear to be normal.
* Flash…Dream…Memory...Consciousness.
* RULES. Things cannot be changed. What ever happened, happened.
* The computer screen at the airport shows "adobe Photoshop"
* The zodiac makes it through the “skipping”, but not the tarps/tents/kitchen, etc….
* RAINBOW Drive In.   There was a rainbow patch on the pilot’s sleeve in S4. Somewhere over the rainbow.  We must be over the rainbow!
* X-ray/Sonar of the wheel.
* Cartoon. Comic references, names.
* Train in a tunnel. New York subway? Connecting Stations.
* Who is the baby with Pierre?
* ID-identity. No and/or new  identity.
* It seems they need to get their (moral) compasses to point North.
* The ID of the client wanting the blood work. Could it be Ben? Something like this would encourage Kate to be on the run again, make her want to go back to the "Island". Or is it someone else?
* Sheriff.
* Faraday reads his journal, realizing he is the one who is to knock on Desmond’s door.
* A Christmas Carol. A story about redemption; about becoming a better person. Scrooge experiences “life” through different time periods of his life. Past, Present, Future. This happens when he is sleeping in dreams and memory.
* Charlie killed Ethan in “Homecoming”.   How did John play into that? Did he kill Ethan?
* How come Richard didn’t go anywhere but John did?  That’s a pretty personalized fucking time travel.
* Richard tells John he wouldn’t recognize him. Really?!   This guy knows him forever! But John recognizes Ethan and the drug plane and Richard.
* Widmore is attached to Oceanic/Airline.
* When Locke takes Boone to the drug plane (and has a vision of himself in a wheelchair) Locke can’t walk.
* There are inconsistencies with these friggin' rules of “time travel”.    Faraday better go read some more playbook/strategy guide notes.
* Is the healing power of the "Island" due to said “time travel”?
* Jack isn’t the only one who left.  Desmond, Hurley, Sayid, Kate, Aaron and Ben all left.
* Starting over.
* Wouldn’t Widmore be privy to the “time travel” talents of the “Island”?
* Game.
* If there’s time travel, then there always was time travel.

Vocabulary and Research…

I thought about this “time travel” element a lot.  Maybe I didn’t think about it enough. I don’t know… it all gets so blurry and confusing.  I thought about the mad scientist angle, that maybe we are seeing a machine at work here, like Morel’s invention (from the book The Invention of Morel). A machine that can use projectors, records, etc and replicate people/reality.  Computers would work in conjunction with that. I thought about the “Back to the future” angle.   Checked out more research on time/space, food poisoning and spirits.   Maybe it’s reanimation or reconstitution.   I know we’re dealing with a unique LOST story, but that didn’t change the fact that I needed to keep some things in mind.   The “time travel” experiences of the Losties were bizarre.   There are verbal and physical interaction with people from the past, items disappearing while other items stayed, who remembers/recognizes people/things, who does not, who is effected by the Flashing, who is not.
Are there still mad scientists involved here?   
Can't the “Island” residents just be crazy inmates or fugitives, prisoners living in psychiatric facility being manipulated, tricked and tested?   But this all would still serve a purpose...finding what you lost.

That brings us back to consciousness. The conscious and subconscious mind.

Let's touch on things pertaining to memory/the mind. Because I have scheduled my lobotomy already and I can’t back out now.
* In psychology, memory is an organism's mental ability to store, retain and recall information. Traditional studies of memory began in the fields of philosophy, including techniques of artificially enhancing the memory.
* Telescoping effect: the tendency to displace recent events backward in time and remote events forward in time, so that recent events appear to be more remote, and remote events, more recent.
* Misinformation effect: that misinformation affects people's reports of their own memory.
* Misattribution: when information is retained in memory but the source of the memory is forgotten.
* One of Schacter's Seven Sins of Memory, Misattribution was divided into Source Confusion, Cryptomnesia and False Recall/False Recognition.
* A mnemonic device is a memory aid. Commonly met mnemonics are often verbal, something such as a very short poem or a special word used to help a person remember something, particularly lists, but may be visual, kinesthetic or auditory.
* The word mnemonic is derived from the Ancient Greek word mnemonikos ("of memory") and is related to Mnemosyne ("remembrance"), the name of the goddess of memory in Greek Mythology. Both of these words refer back to("remembrance").
* Mnemonics in antiquity were most often considered in the context of what is today known as the Art of Memory. The major assumption in antiquity was that there are two sorts of memory: the "natural" memory and the "artificial" memory.
* Mnemonic verses are a type of mnemonic using rhyme, meter and meaning to help in remembering facts.
* In Mathematics: Matrix multiplication, a common mnemonic uses the song "Oh, My Darling Clementine". Row by column, row by column. Multiply them line by line. Add the products, form a matrix. Now you're doing it just fine!
* Echoic memory: Echoic Memory, the auditory version of sensory memory, refers to the phenomenon in which there is a brief mental echo that continues to sound after auditory stimuli has been heard. 3-4 seconds.
* rTMS: Repetitive Tran cranial Magnetic Stimulation: a noninvasive method to excite neurons in the brain: weak electric currents are induced in the tissue by rapidly changing magnetic fields (electromagnetic induction). This way, brain activity can be triggered with minimal discomfort, and the functionality of the circuitry and connectivity of the brain can be studied.

More bits…
* Metrodorus of Scepsis. Remember, Jack was experiencing scepsis after Juliet performed her appendectomy on him.
* Dharmachakra, “Wheel of Dharma”. Sometimes translated as wheel of doctrine or wheel of law. The symbol represents Dharma law in Hinduisn and the Buddha’s teaching of the path to enlightenment. The Dharmachakra symbol is represented as a chariot wheel with 8 or more spokes. The 8 spokes represent the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism.



Remember, we have heard straight from the horses mouth that we’re dealing with the conscious mind. WTF does that mean, really?!
All this skipping... the universe has a way of course correcting. Does history repeat itself? Could the word "universe" really mean "Island", which in turn may relate to something else completely. Yep!

Moral of the story…You can’t change the past. You can only learn from it.

Love to all who are "LOST" ™

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