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The Incident......................Page 2 The List.................................................Page 2 The Constant and the Variable.............Page 3 The Timeline........................................Page 4The Nemesis......................Page 5 The Man with Many Names...............Page 5 The Tale of the Compass....................Page 5 The Monster........................................Page 6 The Conversation............................... Page 7The OtherS(tuff).................Page 8 The Leaders........................................Page 8 The Tidbits and the Questions...........Page 9 The Future..........................................Page 10It’s the oldest game in the world.

Two players, two sides, one is light, one is dark.

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In one of the final moments of Season 5 we see Ben, accompanied by Esau, in Jacob’s quarters. Here he mentions that, as he was never able to see or talk to Jacob, Richard brought him notes and lists from Jacob. We hear such a list mentioned at the end of Season 2 when Michael betrays his fellow Lostees and turns them over to Ben. Tom (an Other) says something to the effect of Jack not being on Jacob's list.

We also know that Jacob brings people to the Island. In the opening scene of the last episode we see that he has brought the Black Rock to the Island, and from his conversation with Esau, this wasn’t the first time. One can assume that he also brought the Oceanic flight to the Island. In the Season 5 Finale we see Jacob visit a number of our Lostees at some point before their journey to the IslandIsland or before their return to the Island. As with the people of the Black Rock, Jacob brought these people to the Island, these specific people. Now, I know you, you say to me “Kyle, Jacob visited Jack just like he visited Kate and Hurley and the other Lostees. Wouldn’t this make Jack part of Jacob’s list?” In response I tell you to carefully consider the impact that Jacob had on meeting each of the Lostees.

• SAWYER Jacob visits Sawyer after his parent’s funeral. Jacob gives Sawyer a pen, a pen that he uses to continue his writing to the real Sawyer (Anthony Cooper, Locke’s dad, the guy who conned Sawyer’s parents). Jacob needs Sawyer to retain this anger, for it is this anger that leads Sawyer to Australia in search of the con man.

• SAYID Jacob visits Sayid shortly after his return from the Island; Jacob’s actions lead directly to Nadia’s death. Her death sends Sayid on a violent rampage that will result in Ilana bringing him back to the IslandIsland in handcuffs (reminder--Ilana works for Jacob).

• SUN AND JIN Jacob visits Sun and Jin, he tells them that their love will last forever even when they’re apart--a notion that leads Sun to the Island on two separate accounts

• HURLEY Jacob visits Hurley just hours before Flight 316 leaves for Guam to convince him to go back to the Island.

• KATE Jacob visits Kate as a child and keeps her out of trouble--which allows her stay on the shady side of things--which leads her to Australia after killing her biological father.

• LOCKE Jacob visits Locke immediately after Locke’s father, Anthony Cooper, pushes him out of the window from several stories up--this is the accident that paralyzes Locke. After Locke appears to have died on impact, Jacob touches Locke and gives him life.

So what impact does Jacob have when he visits Jack? He gives Jack a candy bar...a candy bar! How does this help Jack get to the Island? It doesn’t (although it is an Apollo candy bar)--Jacob is there to see Christian, not Jack.

At the time Christian was the Leader of the Others (more on this later...). Jacob was making plans to bring him back to the Island. Anyway, for the same reason that Esau wanted Ben to kill Locke (more on this later too), Esau wanted Ben to leave the Island and kill Christian. This is exactly what Ben does. Consequently, Jack was never supposed to come to the Island, it was supposed to be Christian.

The point? Jack was never on Jacob’s list. Why am I telling you this?

1) because I like you, you’ve always been nice to me2) because it so beautifully sets up the next point

I don’t have to ask. You brought them here.

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The Constant & The VariableDr. Shephard or: How I Learned to Stop Overanalyzing and Love the Bomb “Whatever happened, happened.” These are the words of Daniel Faraday as he, Locke, Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, and Charlotte are skipping through time. Whatever actions the Lostees took in the past were always supposed to happen. For instance, Sayid was always supposed to shoot young Benjamin Linus; and in turn, Kate was always supposed to deliver Ben to the Others, where he would become the loathsome individual that we know today. This applies to everyone--they are constants--whatever action they take is the action that was always taken--except for Jack, this does not apply to Jack, he’s the variable. Daniel explains this concept to Jack as they are traveling through the jungle to see Daniel’s mother, Eloise. Daniel always claimed that whatever happened, happened because the Lostees were always supposed to crash on the Island and a handful were supposed to travel back to 1977. What Daniel failed to initially consider was the possibility of variables. Jack was never supposed to be on Oceanic Flight 815 (wasn’t on Jacob’s list). So while the actions of everyone else are as they’ve always been, Jack presents a new element, a variable.

Need more proof that Jack is a variable? I’m glad you asked.

For that we look to Eloise Hawking. Consider that “whatever happened, happened”--and what happened in 1977 is that Daniel, in trying to share his findings with his mother, his findings about how to change the course of the Island, is killed by his mother. Now, Daniel doesn’t know this reality. He only knows the impact that the Incident had on the Island. So Daniel thinks he can be the variable, he can change things--when in reality, Daniel is a constant--he always tried to share his findings with Eloise.

When Daniel does try to share his journal with Eloise, she shoots him, she shoots him dead, Daniel’s last words are:

“You knew this was going to happen, but you sent me here anyway.” So how does this further prove that Jack is the variable? Well, you see, from 2004-2007,

Eloise sends two people to the Island, Daniel and Jack. She sends Daniel to the Island on the freighter--she does this knowing full well that eventually, in 1977, she will kill him. So why would she send her son to the Island knowing this fate? Because, whatever happened, happened. Daniel, as a constant, was always supposed to go to that Island, there’s nothing Eloise could have done to prevent it--and she knows he’s supposed to be there because he was there in 1977. Ok, so in reality, the only way to prevent her son’s untimely death is to do what? She can’t tell her 1977 self not to shoot Daniel--no, she must introduce the variable into the equation. Thus, in 2007, she sends Jack back to the Island. She knows Jack can be the variable because in 1977 she shoots Daniel, who she recognizes from 1954 when he told her to bury the bomb--he also gives her a journal, a journal with her handwriting in it, although she has yet to write it. To say the least, Eloise was a little curious--so she reads the journal, interprets it, and realizes the importance of her actions going forward. So how does she know Jack is the variable? Well, he’s not a part of the Dharma Initiative in 1977 as are the other Lostees (not sure if she had any access to Jacob’s list)--so we can exclude Sawyer, Kate, and Hurley from contention on this basis, and we can eliminate Locke and Sun because they weren’t in the DI in 1977. Thus, ifJack is not a constant, he must be the variable.

Need even further proof that Jack is the variable? “He walks among us, but he is not one of us.” BOOM--he walks among us like a constant, but he’s not one of us--he’s a variable! Now, Eloise must send the other Lostees back to the Island with Jack for two reasons.1) They are supposed to reenact the

original crash as much as possible in order to successfully make it to the Island

2) In addition to the variable, the constants need to be there--Kate, Sayid, and Hurley.

Come to think of it, maybe reason 1 is just a lot of nonsense to ensure reason 2 occurs. So what does all of this mean? It means that Jack can change things--he can alter the course of the Island. Consider this, in 2007 Penny asks Eloise, what is going to happen next. Eloise responds that for the first time in a very long time she doesn’t know. Why? Because she just sent Jack, the variable, back to the Island. She doesn’t know what’s going to happen next because she hasn’t encountered this reality with Jack in 1977. Need more clarification? GREAT! Check out the timeline on Page 4.

“THEN I REALIZED, I WAS FOCUSING TOO MUCH ON THE CONSTANTS; I FORGOT ABOUT THE VARIABLES”

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The Timeline1977 (Take 1)

1. Daniel, Miles, Sawyer, Juliet, and Jin travel to 1974 after Locke turns the wheel and leaves the Island

2. Daniel leaves the Island while the others stick around and join the Dharma Initiative

3. Three years pass before Daniel returns to the Island4. Realizing now that he has not properly considered the

variables, Daniel thinks that he might be able to set the Island on a new course going forward

5. Although he thinks he may be able to set a new course, Daniel prepares just in case he can’t. He tells Pierre Chang (aka Dr. Marvin Candle) that he needs to evacuate the Island of all non-essentials. He does this because the Incident is occurring that afternoon. This is why the women and children (such as Charlotte and Miles) are evacuated. This is the only reason they are evacuated--this is the way it always happened--because Daniel always warned Dr. Chang--Daniel is a constant. He also tells Charlotte that she can never come back to the Island. Again, he is always the scary man who tells her this (as she reveals just before she dies). He’s got to try, and just in case his plan works, he never wants Charlotte to come to the Island in any capacity...after all “this place is death.”

6. Daniel then, trying to enact his plan, goes to the only person on the Island who could understand his logic--his mother, Eloise.

7. As Eloise believes Daniel to be a threat to Richard, she shoots him in the back. After shooting her son, Eloise realizes two things:

a. She recognized this man, he is the one who told her what to do with the bomb in 1954 when the Lostees were traveling through time

b. The journal that Daniel had with him, the one with all of his concepts that he was going to show her, well, she soon realizes that her handwriting appears in the journal. The troubling part about this is that she has not written it yet.

8. The Incident occurs just hours later; in time Eloise comes to understand the concepts that are contained in the journal and who delivered them to her.

Side Note: We know that Eloise is pregnant with Daniel here. Which, she’d have to be, because any conception that occurs after the Incident does not end well (we know that the radiation from the bomb alone didn’t cause this problem--we know this because of Ethan).

1982-20041. Eloise tells young Daniel that he needs to give up other

pursuits to focus on his studies...his time traveling type studies2. As a graduation gift Eloise gives Daniel the journal, with a

hand-written inscription. Which of course she writes so that she will see it in 1977.

3. Jack gets a tattoo that reads “He walks among us, but he is not one of us.” Because he’s a variable!! Get it?....Forget it, I’ll draw you a picture

4. In the episode when Desmond is skipping through his past, Eloise tells him that it’s his destiny to go to the Island--she convinces him to go. Why? Because it’s Desmond that brings down Oceanic 815 by not pushing the button in time.

She needs him to be on that Island to fail to push that button so that it will bring the Lostees, particularly Jack, to the Island.

5. Desmond does fail to push the button, bringing Oceanic Flight 815 to the Island

6. After Charles invites Daniel to the Island (on the freighter) Eloise encourages Daniel to go. So you ask yourself, why would Eloise send her only son the Island, knowing full well that she’s going to kill him? Well, we’ll get to that.

20071. Eloise sends Jack back to the Island2. Eloise tells Penny that for the first time in a very long time

she honestly doesn’t know what is going to happen next. Why is this? Because she just sent Jack, the variable, back to the Island. And for me that’s additional proof that the bomb does not cause the Incident--because the Incident is what happens the first time through, Eloise knows that--it’s why she wants to send Daniel and Jack back and have them correct things---and now that she’s done so, she doesn’t know what’s going to happen, how could she? It’s not the way it originally went down--she sends them back hoping that the plan will work, but she doesn’t know, she hasn’t experienced an Island with Jack in 1977.

1977 (Take 2)(we’re picking up at 8 from 1977, 1-7 from Take 1 stay the

same....or you might say they remain constant)8. Jack is there now, he wasn’t there the first time around--

how very variable like of him9. Jack convinces Eloise to help her carry out Daniel’s plan10. Jack, with the help on constants such as Sayid, Eloise,

Richard, Juliet, Kate, etc., now playing new roles, as their constancy has been altered by the variable, help Jack to detonate the bomb at the site of the Incident, thus altering the course of the Island’s future

So why would Eloise send Daniel to the Island knowing that she would kill him? Because, whatever happened, happened--so Daniel’s going back to the Island no matter what. And when he goes back to the Island she’s just going to shoot him. So theoretically, if Daniel’s plan works, as carried out by the variable, Jack, then the Incident never occurs, which means Desmond doesn’t have to push the button every 108 minutes, which means Oceanic 815 never crashes, which means that Daniel is never recruited for the freighter, which means Daniel is never in 1977, which means Eloise never has to shoot him.

Also, I mentioned that Eloise was pregnant with Daniel in 1977. Now, you might say, “Isn’t the bomb going to possibly kill Eloise, not to mention our Lostees?” And to you I say, why are you asking so many questions?! Actually--

1. If the blast works the Lostees will be just fine. For example--take Juliet--if anyone is dying from this blast it’s her--if the blast works and prevents the Incident, well--everything that is described above happens and Juliet never comes to the Island to solve the pregnancy problem, which is caused by the Incident.

2. As far as Eloise, and therefore Daniel, is concerned---when Eloise is helping Jack with the bomb, the group is about to storm through Dharmaville---just before they do so Richard knocks Eloise out and says he needs to protect their leader---Richard is fully aware of what Jack is attempting to do--he’ll protect her

3. Remember, the whole atomic bomb is not detonated, just a piece of it, the whole Island may not be blown away

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The Man with Many Names

We have known this man by three names now: John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, and Esau... oh yes, and a forth, the Monster. So let’s take a few minutes to discuss the man in all of his identities.

To recap: Locke must save the Island, Christian tells him that to do so he must move the Island, Ben convinces Locke that he should stay and lead his people (The Others) while Ben moves the Island, Ben’s moving of the Island doesn’t take and Locke is sent hurdling through time, at one point Locke lands in 2007, where Richard tells him that he must leave the Island, collect the others, send them back to the Island, and oh yeah--he’s going to have to die to make this happen. So Locke leaves the Island--where he becomes Jeremy Bentham, tries to bring the Lostees back to the Island, dies--and in doing so brings everyone back, then once back on the Island he is no longer John Locke, but Esau instead.

It is Christian who initially tells Locke that he must leave the Island and he must pay for this act with his life. So this brings about the question, who is Christian? We know that Esua assumes the form of Locke one Flight 316 (the return flight). We also know that Locke plays the role of Christian on this flight--Locke is in the coffin on Flight 316 just as Christian is in the coffin on Flight 815, Jack must get something of Christian’s for Locke to wear on the return flight, and oh yeah--they both seems to be resurrected after the crash. So can we project that Esau took the form of Christian just as he took the form of Locke? To full understand this relationship we need to consider the role of the compass.

The Tale of the Compass The year is 2007. John Locke has just arrived from 2000 or so, where he has been shot by Ethan in the leg. Richard appears from seemingly nowhere to help Locke with his wound. Richard then tells him that he’s going to have to leave the Island and bring everyone back, that it will cost him his life, and in giving Locke the compass, tells him that the next time they meet Richard will not recognize him so Locke should give him the compass. The next time they meet is 1954. As predicted, Richard does not recognize Locke so Locke gives Richard the compass and tells him that he, Richard will give this compass to him, Locke in the future. Locke also tells Richard that this compass will be given to him because he is their future leader. Richard responds to this by informing Locke that their leaders are selected at a very young age. To this Locke says that he’ll be born in two years and Richard should come check him out. This is why we see Richard in the hospital with Locke as an infant. We also see Richard in Locke’s house as a boy. He’s there to test Locke, to see if he’s ready. Richard lays out various items on the table for Locke to choose from, among these items is the compass. Richard asks Locke “Which of these items belong to you?” Locke doesn’t choose the compass, he wasn’t ready. Ok, so Locke wasn’t ready then, he was ready after becoming paralyzed--Jacob brings him back to life, Abaddon sends him on the walkabout, John ends up on the Island, then leaves then Island and comes back as Esau, which brings us back to 2007. Esau has just arrived in the Others’ camp and asks Richard if he still has the compass from 1954. Richard says that he does and then follows Esau and Ben into

the jungle. When who should appear but John Locke, traveling through time. Esau tells Richard to go give Locke the compass and tell him about leaving the Island. So you see--Richard never thought Locke should leave the Island--this is important knowledge--he works for Jacob. So if Jacob didn’t want Locke off the Island then who did? Well, Esau and Christian are the two who told Locke that he had to leave. In fact, Esau, through Richard, just told him so. As mentioned, Locke and Christian mirror each other in returning to the Island. There is reason to believe that Esau used Christian’s body before he used Locke. So really what we’re seeing here is Esau being the only one who tells Locke to leave the Island. Now, this does cause some issues. One, Locke and Christian’s bodies are both functioning on the Island in 2008, how would that be so? Also, why wouldn’t Esau be able to use Christian’s body to find his loophole? Oh wait--got it--solved the loophole mystery. The Leader of the Others is the only person who can kill Jacob.

That’s why Esau, through Ben, kills Christian--he was the leader of the Others--unfortunately for Esau, when Flight 815, which carried both Christian and Locke, crashes onto the Island, Christian is no longer the leader. Why? Because John Locke has arrived. So to execute this loophole, Esau needs to assume the form of Locke--which apparently must be done in death off the Island--as it was with Christian. So Esau, as Christian, tells Locke that he has to move the Island, then when Ben does it instead, sending the Lostees through time, Esau again tells Locke that he has to move the Island, through Richard this time, via Locke’s body of course.

We know that Ben kills Locke. Giving this parallel between Locke and Christian, we can also assume that Ben killed Christian. Why? Well, I don’t think Ben really knows why, but Esau told him to. Ben never saw Jacob, he never heard from Jacob, he never knew Jacob. So Ben turns to Jacob’s nemesis--Esau--and that’s who he has been taking orders from for the past few years.

This also pretty well confirms that Jacob was not at the hospital to visit Jack. Christian was the leader of the Others--Jacob was there to see him.

So what about the Monster?Ok, let’s talk about the Monster....

“You came to see me in the cabin. You asked me how to save the Island and I told you you had to move it. I said you had to move it, John.”

Christian Shephard

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Alright, so the episode “Dead is Dead” shows us why Esau, as Locke, is the Monster. In this episode Ben is going to be judged by the Monster. Here’s how we know Esau is that Monster:

1) Ben lies about why he needs to be judged by the Monster, but Esau knows exactly why he needs to be judged--for allowing Alex to die. Later in the episode, Ben admits as much--Esau was spot on--he knows Ben’s sins, he knows Ben’s heart.

2) Ben: "You don't have the first idea what this Island wants"     Esau: "Are you sure about that?"

3) When Ben summons the Monster, Esau disappears into the jungle. Ben then expects the Monster in its black smoke form, to burst out from the jungle--much as it did when he summoned it to kill the mercenaries who killed Alex. Instead who should walk out but John Locke, err...Esau.

4) When Esau appears from the jungle he tells Ben that he knows where the Monster is and leads him underneath the Temple

5) Once in the Temple, Locke disappears, leaving Ben all alone, when who should appear? Oh yeah, the Monster.

6) The Monster, in the form of Alex, tells Ben that he must follow every word that John Locke says. Esau of course

wants Ben to follow the lead of Locke because Esau is in fact Locke and needs Ben to kill Jacob.

7) As soon as the Monster disappears, who should appear? Esau

A note about EkoThe Monster appears as Yemi to Eko. Eko is being judged for allowing his brother to die. Much like Ben is being judged for allowing Alex to die. In both instances the Monster appears as the deceased. The difference is that while Ben asks for forgiveness, Eko does not. He is all “I did what I had to do to survive, and for that I am not sorry.” And then Yemi is all “Why do you speak to me as if I am your brother?” And then he beats Eko against a tree.

A note about LockeIn Season 1 the Monster tries to swallow Locke. There could be a few reasons for this. Maybe Esau wants to kill Locke to restore Christian as the Leader? Or maybe Esau wants to engulf Locke so that he might control Locke. Remember, we see a member of Rousseau’s crew who has been infected by the Monster. So it is possible that Esau is trying to get some loophole action there. The problem with both of these is that Locke tells Eko that what he saw in the Monster was beautiful. Eko responds with “That’s not what I saw.” Is it possible Jacob can go black smoke too? I mean, if Locke is the Leader of the Others, wouldn’t Jacob be the one to appear beautiful to him? Then again, maybe Esau was just using that to entice Locke.

The Monster

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Jacob is life.  Jacob resides in the shadow of the statue--a statue to that symbolizes life. He brings people to the Island. Richard says he doesn't age because Jacob made him that way. We also see Jacob give Locke life after Locke falls to his should-be death. Jacob is life.

Esau is death. He wants to kill Jacob. His actions lead to the deaths of Christian and Locke. Esau tells Richard that after the meeting with Jacob they're going to have to "deal with" the survivors of the flight that just crashed---just like he dealt with the survivors of Rousseau’s expedition. As the Monster, Esau appears as Yemi and Alex (both deceased), he kills the pilot of Flight 815, he kills Eko, and he kills the mercenaries. Esau is death.

Jacob Esau

The ConversationEsau: Morning.

Jacob: Morning.

Esau: Mind if I join you?

Jacob: Please. Want some fish?

Esau: Thank you. I just ate.

Jacob: I take it you're here 'cause of the ship.

Esau: I am. How did they find the Island?

Jacob: You'll have to ask 'em when they get here.

Esau: I don't have to ask. You brought them here. Still trying to prove me wrong, aren't you?

Jacob: You are wrong.

Esau: Am I? They come. They fight. They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same.

Jacob: It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.

Esau: Do you have any idea how badly I wanna kill you?

Jacob: Yes.

Esau: One of these days, sooner or later... I'm going to find a loophole, my friend.

Jacob: Well, when you do, I'll be right here.

Esau: Always nice talking to you, Jacob.

Jacob: Nice talking to you, too.

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We know that Eloise is the Leader in 1977. Richard claims that he must protect her as the Leader. We also know Widmore claims that he was the Leader for three decades. Widmore was on the Island in 1954, we also see him leave the Island once Ben has reached adulthood (so let’s say 1997 on just to be safe). So if Eloise was the leader in 1977 and we know that Widmore left at some point between 1997 and 2004, he must have served as the leader prior to 1977. As best as I can tell, the leadership goes something like this:

Charles Widmore, until mid 70sEloise Hawking, mid 70s until ?Christian Shephard, ? until 2004John Locke, 2004-2007

Then again, was Widmore ever really the Leader of the Island? Or was he a Leader like Ben was a Leader? It is Widmore reiterates to Locke that he has to go back to the Island, although he does not claim he has to die, he says that there is a great war coming and if Locke is not back the wrong side will

win? What side is that? When Miles is being recruited by Naomi for Widmore’s freighter crew, a group led by Bram tries to sway Miles to come over to their side, the self-described “good side.” Turns out, these guys work for Jacob. So if Widmore’s intentions are against Jacob, maybe he’s just as dark as Ben. Consider this, in all the times that Richard reaches out to bring Locke to the Island, Locke never came. So who does push him towards the Island, Abaddon, who works for Widmore. So maybe Jacob did choose Locke for the Island, but maybe Widmore, and Abaddon, and Esau had other plans. One final note about Widmore, as the Leader of the Island he tells a young Benjamin Linus to kill Rousseau and Alex. Ben refuses, steals Alex, and takes her as his own. When Widmore is leaving the Island he tells Ben that he better hope that the Island didn’t want Alex dead because if it did, it would kill her. Come to find out, Alex does meet her end on the Island, as does Rousseau. But--the men who killed these two, they were sent by Widmore--so not sure if the Island wanted them dead or Widmore wanted them dead.

The Leaders

“You’re the one who wanted her dead, Charles, not the Island.” Benjamin

“I hope you’re right, Benjamin, because if you aren’t, and it is the Island that wants her dead, she’ll be dead. And one day, you’ll be standing where I’m standing now. You’ll be the one being banished and then you’ll finally realize that you cannot fight the inevitable.” Charles

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• The dead Lostees who appear to Hurley, they seem to want Hurley to go back to the Island. Why? Because if Jack’s plan works then they don’t die on the Island

• I mentioned Christian's shoes that Jack got for Locke's corpse. He got these shoes from his grandfather, who appears to be living in an assisted living facility. Why is this so? He appears to be of good health and sound mind; plus, he keeps trying to escape--so who or what is keeping him here? Also, his grandfather just happens to have these shoes of Christian's lying around exactly when Jack needs something of Christian's to give Locke? Suspicious. 

• Still not sure why Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid flashed to 1977, but Sun stayed in 2007.

• Esau implies that it was a mistake for Ben and the Others to live in the Dharma Initiative houses

• In 2007, Sun shows Richard a picture of the 1977 class of Dharma recruits, including Kate, Jack, and Hurley. Richard says he watched them all die. Why does he say this? Because he did watch them die, in the Incident or maybe in the Purge, but he didn’t watch Jack die. He doesn’t point this out to Sun because he doesn’t know Jack--as he wasn’t around the first time in 1977.

• When Miles and Charlotte are evacuated off the Island, why isn’t Ben evacuated too? Was he still recovering from Sayid putting a bullet in him? The moms of Miles and Charlotte accompanied their child to the sub, Ben’s mother had died, is this why he didn’t leave? Did he hide? He had

just recently become an Other after all--probably didn’t want to leave the Island.

• Rose and Bernard, WTF? When they are told that Jack is trying to blow up the Island they don’t care--which I can even accept--how zen of them--they even gave a nice little speech--but after Sawyer and Kate start walking off Bernard asks Juliet if she wants to stay for tea--he specifically asks her--and as she’s the one that sets the nuke off, this is quite interesting. Do they know something the Lostees don’t? They were unaccounted for during all that time skipping--did they see something?

• Kate telling Jack to never ask about Aaron was much ado about nothing. She just wants to bring Claire back to be with Aaron, as she is supposed to be, she knows that Aaron isn’t supposed to be with her. She told Jack to never ask because she was pissed at him. That’s it.

• "What lies in the shadow of the statue?" "He who will save us all"---enough to make you wonder about a Jacob resurrection

• Why does Esau want the Others to come with him on his journey to visit Jacob?

• Daniel tells Desmond that rules of constancy don’t apply to him--why is this? Must have something to do with him blowing up the hatch, but the real question is--Eloise tells Desmond that the Island is not through with him yet. Why is this? What could there be left for him to do? I don’t know, but I guarantee you that we’ll see him there this season.

The Tidbits and the Questions

The ReasonJack's explanation to Sawyer about why he wants to blow up the Island is still one of the dumber things I've ever heard in my life. He wants to hit reset by blowing up the Island---why? because he says he screwed up things with Kate and it's too late to change them. When Sawyer points out that Kate will be in handcuffs and a stranger to Jack when the plane lands in LA, Jack says "if it's meant to be, it's meant to be"---WHAT?! how is it any more meant to be when she's in prison and doesn't know you than it is when she's 100 yards away and is your former fiance? AND THEN---Juliet, who's idea it was to come back to the Island and stop Jack from killing a lot of people, she changes her mind completely and now wants to blow up the Island--why? Because of the way Sawyer looked at Kate (presumably when Bernard said that all he cares about was being with Rose, the one he loves)---Now I never have an issue with Lost, ever---but this was just downright goofy---and all for Kate? really? is she that spectacular to make two people want to denote a nuclear bomb? Who wrote this part of the script, John Hinckley Jr.?

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How should I know??!! Eloise Hawking doesn’t know, how should I know?

What an unbelievable show--we’re a week out from the season premiere--and it’s not that nobody knows where it’s going--it’s that nobody knows where it’s starting! Is it 1977? 2007? 2004? Did Jack blow us back to the stone age? Who’s alive? Who’s dead? Nobody knows.

Drawing from the theories I have presented, specifically about the Variable, and the bomb, and the Incident, Oceanic Flight 815 should be arriving in Los Angeles safe and sound. Kate should be going to jail, Locke should be wheeling himself around, Claire should be giving Aaron up for adoption, Arzt should arrive in one piece, and all the average looking people should arrive in 6 hours (they all took the next flight). Trouble with this is that we’ve still got 18 hours of storyline go go--this occurrence would be an awful storyline--what? they have to get back to the Island again?

Jacob’s dying words to Esau are “They’re coming.” Now, who is he referring to and why does he want Esau to know this?

We have the people who are working for Jacob--the Pallbearers--the ones carrying Locke’s body around--Ilana, Bram--and Lapidus is with them too. So why would Jacob want Esau to know this? He wouldn’t--doesn’t add up. It appears that their role is to show Richard that Locke isn’t really Locke (and way to be timely with it!). Jacob must be referring to the Lostees--they’re coming--they’re coming from 1977 and they’re bringing hell with them--ok, maybe not hell, but Miles, they’re bringing him--he’s a pretty fiery little guy.

Then again, off the Island Jacob does seem to know Ilana extremely well, and she sure does know a lot about the Island. Bram also asks Ilana if she thinks Lapidus is a candidate. A candidate? Not sure why, but to me that seems like a long term position--maybe more than one can fit into a lifetime. Maybe they play a much larger role than we have been led to believe. On the other hand, Richard didn’t know who they are. Neither did Esau. Hmmm.....

Ok, so my official prediction--

Jacob is not dead, not forever at least. The Pallbearers role could not be simply to carry Locke’s body around and arrive five minutes too late, their has to be more to their mission. They have to show Richard Locke’s body, not so Ben won’t kill Jacob, but for what happens after, for the coming war. Yeah, “they’re coming”--the Pallbearers are coming. Maybe they don’t belong to Jacob and they don’t belong to Esau. Maybe they are a separate entity, maybe they bring the end along with them. When Jacob visits our Lostees he seems to have some physical contact with them, but with Ilana, when he visits her, he wears gloves and makes sure he doesn’t touch her--because she brings the end, and it only ends once--Jacob wasn’t ready for that.

As far as our Lostees are concerned, I just don’t know, they have to be on the Island, but not sure how they’ll get there.

I don’t know, watch out for Walt though.That’s all I got. Have a great final season.

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