For the record, Deel Twee is “Part Two” in Dutch. It just sounds cool… I think.

Also, my Scott gave me a program to capture screen shots so now I can use my own!

1. I think that the Others (from Claire’s new memory) are coming on and off of the island by an underground rail system. Listen carefully when Claire & Co. approach where the new hatch is. You hear what sounds like thunder. But, when has there been thunder before when it rained? Also, the *thunder* rolls on and on. I think that “if” there is thunder, there is also the sound of the rail system. This would also explain why Danielle says that when the Others are coming she sees black smoke. When the train is approaching the island it’s probably above ground and she sees the smoke from it.

2. I also maintain that they are doing some type of mining so they could also be using the rail system much in the way a coal mining company uses railways.

3. Vincent, get away from Hurley!

4. The baby’s rash, real or red herring? Remember this guy?

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From Solitary 1 x 09:

SULLIVAN: Doc, what do you think this is, this, this, this, uh, rash. It’s bad, right, like some kind of a tropical disease?

JACK: It’s hives.

SULLIVAN: What’s that? Is that like poison ivy?

JACK: It’s a common rash, Sullivan; it’s brought on by heat and stress.

SULLIVAN: Okay.

JACK: Just try to relax; it’ll clear up.

SULLIVAN: Right.

JACK: Try to keep your mind off it.

SULLIVAN: Okay, [to Sun who has a poultice] What is that? Is it like aloe? Isn’t that for sunburn, or something?

HURLEY: Try to keep your mind off it? What else has that guy got to do but stress?

JACK: I’ve got enough on my plate without having to treat hypochondriacs.

This conversation adds to the ambiguity of the cause of the rash. If this guy had it clear back in Season One and just now the baby is getting a rash, we could assume that it is nothing. However, there could be an incubation period, especially if Ethan was injecting the baby with the virus.

5. The bottles that Ethan took out of the fridge to inject into the baby had the label of RX-1. Check out this thread from Fuselage.com:

“Basically it means Rx1 is a form of pneumonia which is not dangerous. Vaccines are injections of the same stuff that makes you sick but they - the bacteria - are either dead or inactive (like Rx1) and they’re injected into your body so that your immune system recognizes it and creates anti-bodies that remain in your body so it can fight the disease when you’re actually infected.”

6. Also, in the refrigerator, we see all sorts of other bottles. There is the greenish liquid we see injected into Claire, but I also see a pink, blue and clear liquid. Then, in the second pix below, we can see all sorts of other bottles, too. So I assume that Claire and the baby are not the only experiment going on here on the island. For instance, there was something in the water Ethan gave to Claire to keep her docile.

7. So if this is indeed a vaccination, can The Others be helping baby Aaron? Remember that Goodwin told Ana that the Others weren’t bad and Zeke told Jack that Walt was “just fine.” Maybe The Others are releasing some type of virus onto the island and they are protecting the children.

8. Danielle. Remember that she told Sayid in Season One that around two months when they were coming back from the Black Rock they ran into “Them” and they were the carriers of the virus. Well, they have been on the island for about two months and now she tells Claire that if the baby is sick, she knows what needs to be done. Which it appears she is telling Claire she must kill the baby since she says she killed her team.

9. I got a kick out of the Stephen King reference. I think this was just the writer’s way of “shouting out,” if you will, to the viewers. There is much talk out there that the show is following some type of pattern from The Dark Tower Series.

10. Claire’s flashback. First, I thought it interesting that we did not see the usual flashback. However, I wonder if Claire is crossing memories much like Libby told her could happen. She went as far as to tell Danielle she wanted Ethan to have the baby so he would be safe. The psychic told Claire she had to send the baby to the couple in LA so he would be safe. We haven’t seen the conversation she had with the first adoptive family, but I would think that it was similar to some of the dialog she had with Ethan. Also, this screen shot has Claire now and Claire then in the same shot. I don’t remember seeing this type of shot before in this show, which makes me think that this is just a visualization of the concept of Claire mixing her memories.

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11. Con. Ethan conned Claire much in the way Sawyer described the way he cons women. Ethan put it into her mind that it was her idea that they should keep the baby. She trusted him enough to even let him feel the baby kick. It was almost as if he had feelings for her, also. Ethan told Claire that he was going to miss her when she was gone. Weird. Crossover memory, perhaps?

12. So we know the guy outside the door was Zeke. But who is the “him” he is referring to? Hanso? Candle? Is it the same “Him” that Desmond referred to (Are you Him?)?

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13. Smoke and mirrors. Much like the Wizard of Oz, we find out that things are not what they seem. We know that this set of Others are putting on disguises for our survivors. But why? I think that they are doing it to keep the survivors under their control, keep them afraid of the monster in the woods, if you will. If The Others have drawn a boundary or a line in the sand, it keeps the survivors in a certain territory on the island and probably in an area that is set up with listening devices as well as speakers (remember the whispers).

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14. The new hatch observations. My first reaction to this hatch is the obvious, the way it looks which is very different that the Swan. Primarily, what we see is a hall with a few doors but the edges of the hall are rounded, why? Could this be like what they did in the X-Files that they had a car where they were doing their medical experiments? This goes along with my rail theory.

15. So where did the hallway lead to that Ethan passes with Claire? Was it the way out (the hall that Kate & Co. entered the hatch through)?

16. What happened at the hatch? The main hallway looks like there was something earth moving that ransacked the place with the wires hanging down. I am thinking that maybe when Locke didn’t press the button at “0″ that some type of reaction did start to happen. Maybe it shook the ground hard enough to kick up dust (thus the outlines on the wall where the animals were in the nursery) and would also explain the refrigerator being knocked over and the wires hanging down from the ceiling. The other option is that the hatch has been there so long and that is why the outlines were on the wall and maybe a different set of Others (the children, perhaps) attacked them and when they found that they were gone, tore the place apart.

17. Lastly, what is the Escape Hatch? If the entrance Ethan leads Claire away from is the way out, why have an Escape Hatch? Could it just be that they are in an old rail car and this is left over? Could they even be in a completely different hatch that Claire was taken to? When they come back to the hatch, where is the Escape door? I couldn’t see it in the screen caps. This would explain why the place looks so torn apart because it is indeed NOT where Claire was taken.

18. I saw five people in the “surgery” room. There is talk on the internet that the man sitting who is looking at the camera is Henry. I have made the pix bigger but cannot tell if it is him. But I do still contend that Jack’s dad is alive and that he is part of this team. I don’t think that he died in Australia, but rather, it was an elaborate set up so that people back home would think that he was dead so he could go on to the Hanso project. What did Jack’s dad have left back home once his license was stripped from him? And why oh why if they are getting ready to perform a surgery and they are in surgery garb is the DOOR OPEN!!!??? Is this another con? Do they want her to see this? Is that why the man on the end looks out - to make sure she sees what is going on?

19. The song that the airplane mobile was playing was the same song that Claire asked the adoptive family in season one to sing to the baby. She said that her dad used to sing it to her when she was young. “Catch A Falling Star.” Another crossover memory? How else would this happen?

20. Did you notice the picture in the nursery on the wall of the steamboat? Look familiar?

21. What about this. The reason that “HE” is so set on having a list is because this experiment has gone wrong and the plane was supposed to somehow land, not crash. Now the Others don’t know exactly who has survived and so that have to send in a mole to make this list. Everyone that is there is not necessarily supposed to be there and that is why some of them have died. That is why the “good ones” were taken as they are the ones that the Others want. Maybe those who have died where not wanted by the Others. If memory serves, Boone and Shannon were moved on the plane. I remember that Joanna (the girl who drown) was bumped onto this flight because of illness. Maybe the Others don’t want them there because they don’t need them.

22. I think that Eko is building a structure that we will not see until the end of the season. He (OBVIOUSLY) knows way more about the island that we think (Hello, his conversation with Henry?). He must know what they might need, OR he is just smart enough to know that they are not going to be rescued and that eventually they will need “real” shelter outside of their tents. I sure hope that he’s not building a church. That for one is too obvious and two, I believe in the separation of Church and Lost….

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23. There is a distinct alarm going off in the background when Claire has escaped Ethan and the gang and we can see them coming for her. Would they have an alarm on the door?

24. I’m still on the fence over Henry and his Otherness. It seems even more obvious from Eko’s confession and Henry’s manipulation of Locke that he is truly an Other, but I take issue with the fact that the writers are spoon-feeding us this info. I’m just suspicious.

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25. Is this Alex? I can tell you that it is supposed to be Sawyer who finds her in the jungle (visions of the girl coming back to the hatch and Sawyer being there to scavenge) and he convinces her to join them. Again, could be a red herring or she could be a mole. Planted to make Claire think that she saved her.

26. Why was the bootie left behind?

27. I like this visual. It reminded me of when Locke and Jack were first looking down the hatch with Desmond.

Oh boy, here it is Wednesday and I’m just now posting on last week’s episode. This job search stuff is really interfering with my Lost duties!

1. The smoke. I’m just jumping right into this since it seems to be the topic of the most interest. Here is what I think, right or wrong, logical or crazy. Since we know that there are electro magnetic experiments on the island, it stands to reason that this cloud contains some sort of electricity. I keep reminding myself that the writers say that everything can be explained so it makes sense to me that the electricity in the “cloud” somehow stimulates the brain thus causing Eko and Locke to “see” familiar images to them in the smoke. I don’t think that Charlie could see what Eko was seeing because there was no projecting of his thoughts or reading his mind. I’m no expert on electricity (unless you count the hours of Sesame Street and/or other educational TV I watched with my daughter) but my guess is that it stimulates a brain response much like people describe when they have a near death experience. Eko and Locke saw their lives flash before their eyes
2. What was Eko doing in Australia? Hunting down his “cargo” perhaps? Maybe that was the destination of the plane and he was hoping to find it and to also put his brother to rest. Remember he was wearing a suit that could just be another “disguise” much like the priest outfit was to him
3. I thought it was an interesting pair, putting Charlie and Eko together. They both have brother issues. They both have a religious past. They both have a connection to the “cargo.” Black and white again.
4. Why did the writers choose Psalm 23? They could have picked a lot of passages from the bible, so why this one? I don’t know, I was asking you!
5. I also found the opening scene interesting, showing how the “others” came for the children. We don’t know what is happening to the children on the island yet, but are the writers leading us astray? Goodwin said that the children were “fine” and “better off” – could this be true?
6. Michael on the computer. What did it say? All we saw was Michael ask “Walt” (who we all assume is not Walt) where he was and the reply “You need to come …” Scott and I discussed and his theory is that it says “ … alone.” This makes sense because we see tonight that Michael heads out on his on. WHY would he considering the hunters that he has on his side? I think that the writing was definitely on the computer and it appears that the “others” want Michael for something. Maybe his construction background? But I do think that he is not seeing things. Remember Kate’s horse was there, Sawyer’s boar, Walt, Jack’s dad (OK, we don’t know he’s there yet, but I think that Jack’s dad will make another appearance).
7. Is Hurley going to get some loving? I hope so!
8. Again we see the redemption and second chances theme at work here with Eko. I don’t know that they were brought to this island by some mystical force offering them chances, but I do think it speaks to the “real” John Locke’s theory of tabula rasa – their minds are again “blank” if you will, and they now see their experiences on the island through their experiences while they are there. I found this info on Locke (the philosopher) and I think it speaks to the “smoke” experience. “Locke maintained, because the primary world affects the sense organs mechanically, thus producing ideas that faithfully represent reality
9. Shooting ranch dressing. Had it gone bad? Ranch is good on so many foods that I found it a shame that they chose this. There has to be so many things for targets on the island, did they have to shoot the ranch?
10. Locke teaching Michael to shoot the gun. Maybe Michael was being taught how to see with his mind’s eye much like Locke taught Walt in using the knife. I think that these skills are going to come in real handy soon when Walt tries to escape the Others.
11. How much hunting could Locke had done with his “dad?” We only saw them go twice – or was it implied? No matter, there just wasn’t enough time for Locke to have learned that much about guns from his dad. I sense more back-story coming!! Michael asked Locke how he knew so much about guns and he says that his dad taught him. Hm
12. Could Eko possibly have a connection to Hanso? Eko was a businessman of sorts. Could that be why he was in Australia? I keep reading that Eko has a connection so I am wondering what it is.
13. Burning fuselage in the middle of the jungle, no matter how wet the area is, seems like a bad idea to me. There also seemed to be quite a bit of fuel still in it so why stand so close as it burns! Just an observation, although as I type this I wonder if the amount of fuel suggests the location of the island in respect to Nigeria. Food for thought
14. Tonight is Jack’s back-story. I already commented on the Hunting Party in a previous post, but just to recap there is an old Western movie where a man’s wife is kidnapped and he goes on a “revenge mission” if you will. TV Guide says we will see a surprise return of someone tonight also. Could it be Sara or Jack’s dad? Maybe more practically it will be Desmond or Ethan. Anyway, I wonder if Sara was nabbed back on the mainland?

For anyone who works with me, you will understand that this is enough said …. thanks Eko.

So my title’s aren’t always witty. Maybe never.

1. OK, so where did Locke get the crossword puzzles? Was he scavenging Sawyers “stuff?’ Would Desmond have such pop culture material lying around? Anyone slow down and scan any other questions on the page he was working on?
2. Locke was working on item #42. Something about Enkido’s friend. The answer was Gilgamesh. Did some research and turns out Gilgamesh was some mythological king and Enkido was sent by the “gods” in answer to Gil.’s people’s prayers to “tame” his arrogance. Gil. And Enk. End up friends but in the end Enk. Dies. There are some parallels being drawn to Lock and Eko but I’m not sure this isn’t just a red herring thrown in by our friends, the writers.
3. Ana’s mother was the captain of the police force. Another mother issue to go with our theme this season. Ana was a “to be” mother.
4. Numbers: 8 Adam 16 (Ana’s call number on her police car), 3 blocks to the crime. 4 bullets. Ana was shot 6 times. 4 left from the tail section.
5. My theory: Ana shoots Jason (revenge). She realizes that her cop days are done and resigns from the “force.” She takes on being a bounty hunter. This would make sense with her personality. Heck, she just came back from being shot and her baby killed and throws a tantrum when mommy doesn’t want her to jump right back on the street. So let’s say Ana gets a bounty on Kate. Makes sense she would follow her to Australia. Maybe she is so happy in the airport because she was a cohort of the marshal and ½ the reward for Kate is probably still good money.
6. Here’s an idea: What if the guy that Ana shoots (Jason) turns out to be the “wrong guy?” Maybe this will give her a connection to Sawyer (remember, he gets a false lead and shoots the wrong guy, too).
7. Did you notice that Ana was shot in “Echo Park?”
8. I think we are going to see this week that Kate’s crime is what I have been saying since last season – she killed her dad in a mercy killing, but with poison. Again, a clue when we see her with Sawyer and she knows how to get the dying man to take the pill. Those of you who I’ve chatted with weekly know that there are many examples to make us think Kate killed her dad (the only man she ever loved, per her words) but I think that she was misunderstood and “everyone” thinks that she just murdered him in cold blood. When we see the scene this week where Sawyer wakes up and grabs her it could be two things: 1) He is just hallucinating. Or 2) The reason Kate looks in the bottle is because she confessed her “crime.” Sawyer, being the funny guy he is, read all the notes. He knows Kate “killed” her dad and freaks (much like her mom did) when he wakes and finds her hovering over him. I could see her note: “ I killed my father out of mercy and love. Please understand…” or something like that.
8. Did you notice that Jason was wearing a red shirt when Ana shot him?
9. I wonder if we’ll see Ana’s back-story with her boyfriend Danny? I didn’t catch much, if anything, about him and wonder if there is a crossover there with our survivors.
10. Off subject: I just learned that the hotel owned by Sun’s father was called “The Swan.”
11. BYW, epi 2.11 is called “The Hunting Party.” I think that the two groups join here to hunt down Walt and the other children that were taken. This is supposed to be Jack-centric, which I have a hard time believing since we’ve got a lot of other characters yet to explore this season.
12. Ana’s partner (the actor) is also listed for this week’s epi, What Kate Did. Does he perhaps arrest her or we are surely going to see crossover!
13. Upcoming epi for Eko to be called “ The 23rd Psalm.” Better get reading! Supposed to reveal why Eko is so religious (duh!).
14. Is there more to the Jack/Ana Lucia relationship? My sis thinks there is a possibility that Jack and Ana could have been playing some sort of romantic “game” in pretending they didn’t know each other in the airport. Was the look at the end of last week disbelief? I don’t think so but there is “always” room for speculation and far-fetchedness (is that a word) in this show!
15. OK, I’m now reading that the writers are telling us we are also seeing some flash forwards. Wha … ??? So maybe some of them do escape the island, is that what they are telling us? Does this now cause me to go on Zoloft to slow down the enormity of the theories that I could create with this information? (lol) Ana did tell Sayid that they never caught Jason… maybe in her new training as a bounty hunter she tracked him down (FLASH FORWARD) and killed him.
16. I’m thinking that we are going to see that Eko was a priest. Perhaps his brother stole his garb and it was him up in the tree from the drug plane (remember, Locke and Boone stumble across the “priest” in the tree?).

The episode aired on Wed. and at first my excuse was that I was tired. Here it is SUNDAY and I am still obsessing and reading about various ideas and observations. I have formally decided that I cannot possibly find everything about The Other 48 Days. So here are some of my thoughts…

1. I found it interesting that the producers labeled the days for us. Why? They have been evasive so far about creating ANY type of timeline, why give us one now? Are they trying to create a parallel for us between the ways the two groups organized themselves during this time? I just don’t see the point in doing this now.
2. Libby says on day one that she went through a year of med school. Why tell us this? Because the producers know that we are out there going, “Hey, we already know she is a psychologist, how does she know how to dress a wound?” Or are we going to see a possible crossover with Jack?
3. Remember the guy who Libby fixes his leg? His RIGHT leg? (Recurring theme, for those of you who haven’t been in all of my other threads).
4. Where did the chicken come from? We have seen boar (makes sense on an island), polar bears (exotic, possible talk of a circus plane crashing on island), but a chicken? A domestic animal? Cluckety Cluck!
5. Poor Canada … getting such a bad rap on this show. Ethan said he was Canadian. Nathan says he was too. Libby says something about being in Canada for a company retreat.
6. We still don’t know who gave Nathan the banana when he was in the hole. We are led to believe it was Eko because he doesn’t want to see him starve, but we don’t know. And where did the banana come from? This was on day 23 so wouldn’t a banana on the flight be looking pretty brown by now? If you left bananas on your counter just sitting there for 23 days they would be brown, let alone through a plane crash and tossed around on an island.
7. I am sure everyone saw the door to the tailies hatch said “Quarantine.”
8. The box they find in the hatch. Seems like the items in the box were more military-esque than what we saw in Desmond’s compound. Blankets, a bible, a glass eye (HUH?), and a radio. Why a radio? Desmond didn’t have one (that we know of). Is this where the Army knife came in? I don’t suspect much about the knife right now because anyone can go to Army surplus stores.
9. The glass eye. The only theory I have, and I found this on thefuselage.com, is that it belongs to Marvin Crandle. BUT, we have seen many episodes start with an eye so maybe it is just a token to those on the island from whoever has put them there. Much like some people would carry a cross, a Buddha, a troll doll. Just kidding. Plus, speaking of eyes, there is much speculation out there that Eko was blind before the crash. Much like Locke, he found something mystical and healing on the island.
10. I have seen SO FREAKING much out there on all of the religious symbolism of 40. Here are a few: God gave Moses a staff and he was on an exodus through the desert for 40 years. Mr. Eko carries a staff, he did not speak for 40 days, Eko (or I have seen EK) is the biblical abbreviation for Exodus. The 40 days of Lent are a significant period. Noah floated in his ark for 40 days and nights; the chosen people wandered in the desert for 40 years, Jonah led the citizens of Nineveh through 40 days of penance. In the Eastern Orthodox Church when someone dies you mourn for 40 days also. Was Eko not speaking in honor of those that died? 40 days is also when it used to be considered that a soul enters a fetus in pagan religions…. Moses fasted for 40 days before receiving the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Jesus spent 40 days fasting in the wilderness in preparation for his ministry. Allah, the Most Exalted, the Most Glorified, has stated this fact in the Qur’aan: During the first 40 days of gestation, all the body parts and organs are completely, though consecutively, formed.
11. The magic bullet theory. JFK conspirators take note! We have witnessed another instance of a single magic bullet! How could Ana Lucia POSSIBLY have shot Shannon? MAYBE you could have convinced me at the end of last weeks show, but now that I have seen the previews for next week, I cannot accept that one bullet shoots Shannon and then goes on to shoot a warning shot at Sayid. Do we see the shot actually come from Ana Lucia? We DO when she shoots at Sayid in the preview but never when Shannon is “shot.” Maybe Sawyer comes out of his near death state to tell everyone that there was only one bullet, in essence saving her from being an outcast from the group, even as much as he seems to hate her. But, Michael did know that there was only one bullet because he and Sawyer have the discussion on the raft and again when they are in the hole.
12. Also, on this note, if you pause the scene where she supposedly shoots Shannon you can see a bloody knife stuck in a tree. Could Shannon have been stabbed first?
13. Black and White. We see this theme again. Bernard and Rose. Locke and Eko (who, from reading about upcoming episodes, befriend one another).
14. I need to go back and watch this, but it is being said that when the tailies find their hatch you can see the radio tower behind the hatch.
15. Why didn’t the tailies hear any whispers before they went to the other side of the island? Why didn’t they see the smoke? What about the “monster” and the rain? They didn’t know that the whispers meant the others were near, but Sayid did because he has heard them before (remember his quest when he found Danielle?). Could it be much like we have two groups from Flight 815 that there are two groups of “others?” Yes, the “others” did attack our group, much like they did to the tailies. But the “others” killed the original group members because they wanted Claire back. The “others” that attacked the tailies did not kill, they just took the people.
The conversation with Goodwin and Ana Lucia was also very interesting. When she asks him why the “others” would keep attacking them if they were good, he states that maybe they aren’t attacking them. I wondered last season if when they took Walt they were taking him somewhere to “protect him” from the sickness, perhaps? Goodwin also states that they are choosing whom to take because they are Good. Does that mean that our original group is not good, except for Claire and Walt?
16. I saw the way the tailies landed on the island as a type of baptism in the water. Just symbolism.
17. It makes sense that Bernard strapped himself in when he was going to the restroom. But, how did he end up in tact, still strapped in, in his seat after the crash? The rest were thrown and in the water.
18. If Nathan was not an Other, what WAS he doing out in the woods for 2 hours? WAS he an Other? Maybe Goodwin knew that Nathan would have hurt Ana Lucia and he was in some weird way protecting her? He did seem to be a little flirty with her. Or, maybe Goodwin was worried that if Ana Lucia cut off his finger that Nathan would rat him out as well as tell all of their secrets, including where the children were?