Bernard has bad teeth for a dentist. Convenient to have a dentist on a *semi* deserted island, but would you want him touching your mouth?

I have a theory.  In this theory Rose and Bernard have just shown us the path to the rest of this show and the ending.  Here is where I see Lost ending….

In the book “The Lost Chronicles” JJ Abrams states (and I paraphrase here from memory) that this show will end.  They will not leave us hanging (of course, unless they jump the shark and ABC decides to kill it).  We will see what happens to the survivors.

Rose does not want to leave the island.  Much like Locke, she has found her peace, her Garden of Eden if you will.  Now that Bernard knows the WHY he is also OK with never leaving this island.  The stage is now set.

Sun … she is now pregnant.  A miracle.  Will she want to leave?  Will Jin want to go knowing that he wants this family so badly, he certainly doesn’t want to go back and face Sun’s father so why not settle here?

Claire.  She was warned that Aaron should and cannot be raised by another.  We know she doesn’t get along with her mother and Thomas (baby-daddy) doesn’t want anything to do with her.  What does she have to go back to?  Add the relationship with Charlie back to the equation and neither of them will want to leave.

Eko.  Building a new life as the priest.  Knows now the fate of his brother.  Maybe he will find his life here.

Hurley.  Hello??? Libby and Darmalars.  Need I say more?

Locke.  This is a given.  He is out of the wheelchair and is The Great White Hunter (to quote Charlie).  What does he have to go back to?  Helen is gone.  His dad betrayed him.  His mom is nuts.  He will be the pride of the pack here on the island.

At this point in the story we could argue that the rest of the characters that I haven’t mentioned have plenty of reasons to return home.  But we only know some of their past.  We didn’t know even one little bit about Rose last week and now we know that she will never leave the island.  Who knows what other revelations we might encounter over the next season or so.

So here is how I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to see Lost close. 

A Coast Guard ship spots the island.  The survivors see it coming.  As the boat approaches the shore the survivors are hiding in the trees, watching.  The soldiers on the boat are searching.  Maybe they see some of the remaining fuselage down the shore. 

No one is coming out from the trees.  Their hearts are beating fast, pupils dialated, palms are sweaty, yet no one moves out.  Minutes go by, maybe a soldier steps ashore.  Stillness.

Vincent comes bounding out from the trees.  He’s Sawyer’s dog now.  He is Sawyer’s companion (maybe he’s the only one who can stand him or he hasn’t isolated himself from).  Long pause.  Sawyer steps out from the trees.  Sawyer cannot stay here.  His life is the con and he craves it back.  Sawyer now looks like one of the so-called “Others” we have gotten to know.

The soldier is surprised and pulls his gun.  Sawyer puts up his hands and in his suave way calms him and explains who he is.  The soldier asks where everyone else is.  Sawyer pauses.  A long, long, thoughtful pause.  He is waiting to see if anyone else emerges.  Nothing.  Sawyer states two words, “They died.”

Soldier, Sawyer and Vincent board the Coast Guard ship.  Sawyer doesn’t look back as the boat leaves but lifts his hand in adieu.

Like any great show, we don’t have all the answers in the end.  What we are left to speculate is how the survivors who are now left behind will live their remaining days here.  Will they become the illusive “Others” to anyone else landing here?  At this point our survivors will know all the secrets of the island and may carry out many of the same actions we are now seeing from the current “Others.”  Nothing is told.  We just have to sit ….. and wonder.

THE END.

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1. Let’s just get this out of the way. Bernard is a dentist. How convenient. Next Ted McGinley will show up as the crazy jungle neighbor who happens to be Claire’s uncle who is in love with Kate. OK, OK, maybe I’m still smarting from the Charlie fiasco but still, come on!

2. Bad Twin. Hurley is reading this manuscript by the fire. Seems like we have some “red herrings” in this episode and I don’t think that this is an exception. No, they can’t exactly have product placement on the island, but knowing the fans of this show, where else would you go but Amazon.com to look this up?

3. OK astute readers, remember our friend Josh Holloway telling us at the end of Season One, before the beginning of Season Two, to pay attention to the “twins” on the sea-billy’s boat? Here is where I’m going with this… what if Ethan has a twin? I’m shooting a long shot here so don’t ring the buzzer yet. I watched “All The Best Cowboys…” from Season One again and Ethan reappears to beat the crap out of Jack. He appears to be much stronger than the Ethan we see back at the camp. The “second Ethan” appears to be way more muscular than the ‘original’ Ethan. Plus, remember the screen shot where Charlie is burying Ethan? It appeared that he was breathing. No, this doesn’t seem logical so it could be that we were being set up to believe that the reappearance of “Ethan” is a resurrection, when in fact it is just his twin. So why bring this up now? I don’t know outside of the manuscript making me remember Josh’s comments…

4. “You run. I con. Tiger don’t change their stripes.” But do they? So Sawyer pulls a “long con” on the survivors. Or did he? Was it really in the best interest of everyone to have the guns in the hands of a raving, magic potion dispensing lunatic (Locke) and a gungho, god complex surgeon (Jack)? Was Sawyer doing them a favor? Jack has been resisting the role of leader from the start anyway and Sawyer seems OK taking it over. Well, at least the role of the sheriff. Every town needs one, right? Someone to uphold the law. Doesn’t it seem more like this than Sawyer holding the guns “hostage” if you will, from the group? Didn’t Locke even refer to something about not wanting everyone to have guns because they would just shoot each other with them?

5. Seems appropriate to bring up the #5 here. Cassidy tells Sawyer that even a 5 year old could tell his necklaces were fakes. More importantly, Sawyer counts to FIVE before going back into the house. Again, astute reader, JACK is the man who told Kate that he counts to FIVE before going into a stressful situation. Kate counts to five on Jack’s advice before ascending into the hatch. Coincidence?

6. Back to Sawyer. He tells Charlie that he hasn’t done a good thing in his life. Oh really? What about the fact that Sawyer backed off of the original con that we saw when he realizes that the people have a kid? What about the fact that he shoots The Marshall out of mercy? Remember how remorseful he seems when he shoots the wrong guy in Australia? What about how he tells Jack about his dad right before he shoves off on the raft? I think that Sawyer may be setting himself up as a martyr from the group to try and infiltrate the “Others” (since it’s not secret they are being watched) and then he can get to Walt. I truly think that Sawyer is still reeling over losing Walt and takes a huge amount of responsibility for his kidnapping and wants to get him back. What better way than to join the Others? If nothing else, Sawyer is comfortable in the role of “the most hated” and wants to get back to what he knows and the control that comes with this.

7. I was wondering if Sawyer sent Cassidy to the same hotel that we see Kate changing plates, etc. in Season One. But, from my research it seems that Cassidy was headed to Sioux City, Iowa to the Sage Flower Motel and Kate was in Cedar Rapids. Anyone know more than this or find a connection? We did see Kate’s mom waiting on Sawyer and Gordon so we know that they were at least close in proximity.

8. Everyone seems to be a con on this island or have been conned. Hurley cons Sayid into fixing the radio (or at least hooking it up). Locke is conning Claire and Charlie (the entire HOW of this is yet to come). Eko has conned the group into believing that he is a priest. Locke is conned by his dad. Claire is conned into keeping the baby and flying to LA. Desmond, or so he says, is conned into the hatch. On and on.

9. Locke says he is alphabetizing the books. Hello? I think he is looking for more film.

10. The music. Sayid picks up ratios station WXR which I now know is the call letters for the Coast Guard radio station in Kodiak, Alaska from 1945. Also, the song was Glen Miller “Moonlight Serenade.” RED HERRING! RED HERRING! Come on, like Hurley believes that they are stuck in the time loop (like I insisted they were in from Season One). Nope, won’t believe it. Like the book Locke was holding, “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” Check it out. I’m beginning to believe less and less in these obvious clues and just think that we are being mislead, my friends.

11. Combination on the safe was 7-33-18. Usually people pick numbers that mean something to them. Was Locke 7 when his sister died? 33 when dad took his kidney? 18 when Helen first appeared? Hm. Thinking we will see lots more of this in the future.

12. Why was there a girly entertainment mag in the hatch? No, dirty minds, not that kind of dirty mag. The “Elegance” magazine that Kate brought to Sawyer with the lady on the cover who had feathered hair. It definitely had a 70’s flair to it (remember Geronimo Jackson?). Red Herring or clue?

13. Did Sawyer really lose his glasses on the raft? I have read that there are screen caps (somewhere) showing him wearing his glasses in a future epi. I highly doubt at this point that Jack will make him another pair unless Scott/Steve ends up being an optometrist. Yowza!

14. Sawyer taking the guns has pretty much disbanded Jack’s army, right? I am wondering if Ana LuLu knows where the guns are. She was a cop back in “real life” (man, I’m sick if I’m referring to their character lives as real life). ANYWAY, wouldn’t she have had to have some type of detective training as a cop? She would *have* to know how to investigate so maybe she finds the guns or even followed Sawyer and knows where they are. But for all intents and purposes as it stands, the army is on hold.

15. There is talk that the lady in Desmonds photo is Cassidy.

I think that she is the chick that Jack’s dad killed on the operating table in “All The Good Cowboys …” Check it out:

16. Vincent. Damn Dog. Shows up every time there is trouble and he aint no Lassie! Where there is Vincent, there are problems. Sun gets kidnapped right after Vincent shows up AND it rains. How does he know? Is Vincent the mole? Plus, if it was Charlie that nabbed her then how did Vincent the calamity sniffing dog know?