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. Did you know that you can’t play the trumpet in Korea? Check out the sign in the distance:

2. So, the big news, Sun is expecting. Like we didn’t have enough to speculate about already, now we have *even more!* If Jin is truly sterile, here are our possibilities for daddy material:

a. Arificial insemination. Maybe after Dr. What’s His Face told Sun that Jin was the problem, she decided that they needed a baby so that he could stop working for her dad. Or maybe she saw this as an opportunity before she left him so that she could move to the States and raise baby on her own.

b. Mr. Teachherenglish a.k.a Jae Lee. They did leave us hanging in the last flashback when he asks her why she is there in the hotel room with him. Sun gets that look, you know the one, in her eyes.

c. The Others, Hanso, or the DeGroots. Remember that Claire was supposed to be on the pill and she got pregnant. Who knows who else may end up preggers. Hope Sawyer has extra tests! Maybe they are trying to breed super immune babies.

d. Simply put … Jin. Maybe it truly is a *miracle* and that is all there is to it. Sun and Jin are both in a more relaxed environment and it is not unheard of that someone who thought they could not conceive ends up pregnant.

3. Kate took a pregnancy test? Maybe during her brief marriage to Tom. What were the results, where is the baby?

4. It’s probably just a red herring, but Locke told Ana that she was running like the devil was chasing her. Almost the same phrase Desmond used when he met Jack on the bleachers. Coincidence? How often do *you* hear that phrase in every day conversation?

5. Why does Locke come to Ana to extract “the truth” from Henry? I think he does it purposely in this game he is playing with Jack. He tells Ana that it is because she is the most qualified to tell if Henry is being truthful. Sure he does. I think that Locke would trust Sayid much more over Ana, especially since she has only been with them for one week. OK Locke in the bathroom the same time as Jack? That is just too Brokeback Mountain for the general viewing public.

6. So how does Rose know it is Saturday? I thought it was sweet that they were arguing on the beach because he forgot her birthday. Who on earth would be able to keep track like that? Apparently Rose knows time much like she knew Bernard wasn’t dead.

7. OK, so could Sawyer pull off a con in these glasses? Sexy.

… and his reading material has left alot to be desired:

8. Does anyone on the island know the story of the Wizard of Oz? First, we have Henry GALE who flies his BALLOON across the ocean. Now he says he buried his wife under the balloon because it was the closest thing to HOME that they had. Get a clue!

9. The pregnancy test that Sun has was from Widmore Labs. Henry’s construction co. was Widmore. Connection… YES! Maybe Widmore is an anagram? More importantly, who the HECK carries a pregnancy test on the plane? Were these planted in the wreckage by the Others? Did Sawyer go back to the medical hatch where Claire was taken and ransack the place?

10. I just loved the scene where Hurley walks up on Sun in the jungle. BUSTED!

11. What are Charlie and Sayid working on? Charlie said to Sayid something regarding the pole was awfully long for a table and Sayid responded that they would cut it in half. Looks like some sort of building?

12. Are Sayid or Ana wondering where Charlie got the gun? Why doesn’t anyone here ask questions? “Gee Charlie, I thought that Sawyer had all the guns secured. How did you get one?”

13. So Jack tells Sun that he advises her to tell Jin the truth, the Whole Truth but then proceeds to tell Kate that “everything is fine.” OK, so why isn’t anyone else taking shifts in the hatch? If only Jack and Locke essentially know about Henry (take out the Sayid and Ana incidents) wouldn’t Sawyer, Kate, or anyone who had signed up to press the button know that Henry was in the hatch?

14. OK so it starts to rain when Sayid and co. wake up the next day in the jungle. All of the experiences on the island where it started raining have not ended with a rainbow. Next week looks like trouble as Ana and Charlie are standing below the balloon and we see only Sayid back in the hatch pulling a gun on someone. Remember Henry’s little ambush speech? Oh, he is going to so suffer if this does happen.

15. Notice Sun was wearing a red shirt last episode. This has also not turned out to be a good omen for whoever was wearing the shirt.

16. Didn’t Locke say last season that the island giveth and the island taketh away when Boone died and Aaron was born? So if Sun is indeed pregnant then what or who will be taken?

17. Why did the producers play Sawyer and Bernard backwards when Jin was there and they were discussing Sun’s pregnancy? Obviously they were trying to convey that Jin could not understand but remember that the “whispers” in the jungle are backwards also.

18. Someone on one of the boards pointed out that about 2 months passes each season. So this would mean that Sun would be preggers for six seasons? Either timelines are going to be sped up, she is going to be further along than we speculate, or something tragic has to happen.

19. I thought in the beginning of the season when they found the pantry full of food that Hurley agreed with Jack to divy the food out to everyone? So why did Locke tell Henry that the pantry is full? And how fair is it that Locke and Jack are eating cereal and the rest of the survivors only have fruit and maybe some boar?

And what about the mysterious code on the box:(9)FFTR731?

20. I wasn’t sure what, if anything, was being implied with the reflections of Sun. Check it out:

21.  Check it out, Locke is listening to Jeronimo Jackson!

22. So Claire and the gang are back from the medical hatch. Did anyone ask where they were? Did Claire and company think that maybe it was important to mention to a DOCTOR that there is a MEDICAL hatch here on the island (I’m thinking that the operating room could come in handy now and then). And shouldn’t they be going back again to scour the place for goods? What about the disguises Kate found? Couldn’t they use the lockers or things potentially inside for their camp?

1. What Kate Did? What did she do? She blew up her dad. No Wait! It’s her step dad. No Wait! It’s her dad again. Geesh. I’m still not convinced that we know if Wayne was her dad or the army guy or heck, mom was pretty crazy back in the 60’s, maybe Locke’s dad has a connection here (tee hee hee)
2. Anyway, if Kate’s “only” crime (I say that lightly) was that she blew up some drunk, crazy guy in a trailer, then why send out a US Marshall, no, multiple US Marshal’s for the girl? Wouldn’t the local cops be after her instead? Think about this logically. If some kid blew up their dad here in Ft. Fun would they call in the Feds or would they send the local police to find her? There could be many reasons for this and it either implies that Kate has done more than just this one crime OR Wayne was way more than just “some drunk.”
3. Flash Forward NEW THEORY! Reading online has sparked a new theory. What if the plane crash is something that happens in the future? Kind of like Claire seeing the psychic and being told her future. The flash backs are all actually happening right now! That means that the whole plane crash is a FLASH FORWARD! Look at the clothes that Kate wore. Very modern. Someone online went as far as to tell who the designer of Kate’s shirt and pants were and they are very modern.
4. Some random thoughts- Kate tells Sawyer/Wayne that she is not good. Goodwin told Ana Lucia that they chose who to take because they are good. Are the middies (original survivors) all not good and that is why they aren’t taken?
5. So flash back (haha) to the beginning of the episode. Hurley gives the big thumbs up to Jin for shagging his wife. We see Sun look over at Sayid and he is digging. BUT look at where Sayid is digging. I pointed this out last night to (my) Scott and we looked later when Kate is sitting by the graves and it is not the same spot. Plus, why oh why would you dig graves RIGHT NEXT to where people are bunking (and other things, wink wink)? So I wonder what he was digging there?
6. A Ghost In The Machine. Popular term for the soul in the body. There were references to ghosts in this epi (Kate asks Sayid if he believes in ghosts). But, I think that this goes hand and hand with the whole transference issue that was brought into play. You put the ghost in the machine, you transfer to that person. Here’s how it ties to Lost: Kate transferred Wayne into Sawyer. Wayne was the “ghost” in Sawyer. I do not believe that the horse represented Wayne. Kate looked at the horse much like Locke looks at the monster. I believe that we don’t know yet who or what the horse represents to her, but I would say its safety since the horse saved her from the Marshall (car accident). Sawyer transferred his guilt over his crime to the boar. Locke seems to be transferring his (whatever) to the monster (handicap, anger at his dad?). Jack cutting the wood. Jack saving Boone (we don’t know the why of that yet, maybe something with Sara?). Look at Charlie and Aaron. Is there something there?
7. I think that the computer chat and Michael also has something to do with this ghost in the machine. I’m not saying that Michael is seeing things, neither was Kate, Shannon or Sayid. But he is so desperate to find Walt that he is going to believe that Walt is there. I personally do not think that it is Walt typing. No way. Yes, the kid keeps making appearances, but I would imagine that the “others” that had Desmond in the hatch also had some type of video surveillance on him. The “others” know that Walt belongs to Michael so maybe they are messing with him. Mean? Yes, very. But they made the plane crash, stole the children all showing us that they are not very nice people!
8. Speaking of Michael …. I said to (my) Scott last night, “How does Michael know about computers?” This guy was supposed to be an artist. So, he knows about computers, blast doors, building rafts, etc… Is he going to be the McGuyver of the island?
9. Not talking to the outside on the computer. Remember when Desmond asked Locke “Are you him?” Then the joke about the snowman? I think that Desmond was chatting with someone and that is why he wondered if Locke was Him.
10. Video splice. These two pieces so don’t fit together. If you pull up screen shots from the two different tapes it becomes clear. Yes, the subject is the same but the dr. is not. His hair, lapel, tie and the lighting are different. These are very subtle differences, which leads me to believe that whoever shot this video had to go back and shoot it again and change that part. Who knows what the original video said. And who would splice all that stuff out anyway? Why was that part of the video in the hatch.
11. Next episode is Merged. This is where we are to see island flashbacks, before the survivors of 815 where there. I wonder who we will see there?
12. The Hunting Party. Interesting title. I found online that there is a 1971 western movie of the same title (this is real life we are talking about now- haha!). In the movie a man goes around killing out of revenge for his wife’s abduction. Interestingly, this epi. is Jack centric. Clue?
13. BTW, there is talk that there isn’t another new epi until January! Can this be true! I thought it was in two to three weeks!
14… 3 appearances of the horse, 23 seconds left when Locke gets in the hatch after Kate left. Pix of Sam Austen in Vietnam 4 mths before Kate was born. Kate was five when parents divorced. Kate is 24. Horse appeared 3 times. Numbers at 51 when “Walt” appears. 3 graves.
15. Rose. Remember in the 1st season when Rose hears the monster and she says it sounds familiar? Someone laughs and asks her where she is from and she says the Bronx? The subway maybe makes the same sound? UNDERGROUND!!?? Obviously the “others” are milling around underground.
16. The monster, the rain, the caves, the others, Them, Danielle, Desmond’s escape, the tower, the cord into the water, the shark, the others on the boat, gas, Jack’s dad, what is the monster protecting?, the black rock, soooo many more items that haven’t even been touched or have been forgotten, for now. Hopefully, we all won’t be watching this show in another season or so and be in for a huge disappointment when they put this all together. I think this all goes back to our imaginations, though. Just like the survivors think they are seeing a monster and it’s really just a machine, sometimes you think there is a monster in your closet that ends up just being a coat. Being deserted like that would probably make you pretty speculative.
17. I missed Sawyer on the island. I think that his dialog is just so funny! He cracked me up when he saw the horse. Too hilarious!