So to review, Jack gets his life saved by Locke, but Locke needs him dead in order to leave. The only reason he would save his life is to use the fact that he saved his life to convince Jack he is a “good guy.” Unlike all other scenarios this seems to be the only possible meaning.

Of course when Jack questions Locke’s intentions of saving him Locke tells him he could kill him at any time stating he doesn’t want to kill anyone, he just wants them to leave. Of course this is just a lie, I’m not sure what these specific rules are I just know he cannot kill any of the candidates by his own hand. As Jack has pointed out before he cannot die and it is fate that will not let someone else kill him.

Sticking with the notion that Jack knows he cannot die, while under fire he just stands right out in the open without fear of being shot. This carries into the events on the sub with the bomb and again Sawyer screwing up the plan by altering the state of the bomb. More importantly Jack had the faith to let the bomb count down…nobody else had this same faith.

One questions still lies on the killing scenarios if being candidates keeps Jack and them from being killed by Locke then what prevented Locke from killing Desmond? I believe it is not only the candidates he cannot kill, but the people that do not fear him or attempt to hurt him as well. If this was untrue then he would just smoke out and kill everyone in his path.

Then we finish out the episode with one of the saddest scenes and consecutive deaths of major characters. Sayid dies because he realized he was being used and gladly sacrificed himself to help Jack defeat Locke using Desmond. More importantly, Sun gets trapped and Jin stays behind to die with her, I guess their daughter wasn’t that important enough to return to. Although, I think it would be totally cool if the Kwon was actually their daughter and that is why they focused on the pair through the course of the candidates.

In the end Locke stands on the dock waiting for eveyone on the sub to die, but when he cannot leave he knows that someone lived and he must go back to work.

Alternate Timeline:

So this time in the alternate timeline we get to see the new relationship between Jack and Locke. Jack saves Locke’s life from being hit by a car and instantly goes into his typical fix mode. Being the same character from earlier seasons, he persists in discovering the reason Locke doesn’t want to walk again.

The course continues as Jack moves through other doctors leading himself to Rose’s husband who leads him in the direction he was looking for…Locke’s father. He finds Locke’s father in a nursing home in a practically catatonic state.

What we find is Locke is torturing himself on purpose because, he feels he is responsible for his fathers state and being paralyzed is his penance. The interesting contrast is Locke’s father is the famed “Tom Sawyer” the man who conned Sawyer’s parents ultimately leading to their murder suicide. At this point Locke’s penance isn’t his to carry, but his father’s. 

On a side note through the alternate timeline Jack seems to catch on to the odd coincidences between all the people he is running into, but doesn’t seem to have the memory recall that all the others have. However, when Jack tells Locke “I can help you John I wished you believed me” I believe Locke right at that moment had a memory recall and now he may be in that group.

Proven theories/questions:

1. Locke was paralyzed in the alternate reality by flying a plane. This also resulted in his father becoming a vegetable.
2. Locke doesn’t need a vehicle to leave the island he just needs all them to die so he can leave period.

New theories/questions:

1. No new questions they did a great job at answering questions in this one.

Yet again this episode managed to confirm all the theories out there of what was really going on since the start of the show. In the talk that Locke (the man in black) had with Jack we got confirmation that all the images of Christian that everyone was seeing on the island were to manipulate the people into doing what the man in black wanted. Specifically, after they arrived on the island the man in black instantly knew he had a plan for them, just like all the others that come to the island. Although his plan couldn’t happen if everyone in the plane crash died of dehydration, hence he appeared as Christian to Jack and led him to water. The man in black also admitted to manipulating Locke, referring that he was stupid enough to believe he was on the island for a reason and he played this stupidity to his benefit as he pushed Locke into doing these things. All this was revealed before driving it home that “John Locke was never a believer, he was just always a sucker.”

While they were all in camp we got to hear several references to people in the “Locke group” being on the “dark side” or “drinking the coolaid” this is the first reference to the “dark side” that I can remember thoughout the show. What is interesting about this is in the conversation Claire had with Jack, she seems to understand she is not on the side of good. More importantly she also makes statements about being “duped” into being on Locke’s side. If she is sure she was “duped” then why does she stay and why does she continue to do evil things?

Sawyer brought up the “dark side” as in Sayid was moved over to the “dark side” I think this was the first mention of the “dark side” considering the man in black.

After the mortar attack Locke starts the plan of attack, instead of waiting and planning he jumps to go to them immediately. What I don’t understand is again why Sayid has to go kill Desmond. Originally I thought that Locke was convincing others to kill for him because he was afraid (the man in black) that he would kill the wrong “candidate” and kill the Jacob replacement. As stated earlier it is against the rules to kill Jacob and hence his replacement. This event also contradicts a previous theory of mine involving Desmond being kidnapped on purpose, but with the added actions of sending the geophysicist to Locke to find him tells a different story.

Sawyer’s plan goes into action as he takes the boat meant for Locke to Hydra to fulfill his deal with Charles. What we get to see is another sacraficial moment pulling at Kate’s heart. Jack, knowing Locke is evil knows he cannot do what Locke wants so he jumps off the boat to stay on the island, leaving Kate behind. This reflects back to the moment Sawyer jumped out of the helicopter, where the reaction from Kate was almost identical.

Even with all this going on we are still left with one big question at the end of the episode. Why did Locke save Jack if he needs Jack to be gone to leave? Is this just another grasp at manipulation? Or is he just worried about hauling Jack’s corpse around to get it to the plane?

Alternate Timeline:

Staring out the alternate timeline we get to see another remembrance of the original timeline from the point of view of Sun recognizing Locke as she was wheeled into the hospital. What is important about this scene is the fear she expressed at seeing him. This holds credence to the theory that Desmond was trying to kill Locke when he hit him with his car.

Unsure as to what the intention was we got to see Desmond in his search to enlighten the memories of the people from the oceanic flight. But, in the process he leads Claire to Ilana who happens to be the attorney for Christian’s will. The obviously was not a coincidence and was most likely another attempt at reviving the memories of others.

Overall, the alternate timeline revealed more connections just as we would expect from Lost. What I expect next is that Jack will not only save the life of Locke, but restore his legs as well.

Proven theories/questions:

1. The image of Christian Jack say was the man in black showing him to the water on the island.

New theories/questions:

1. Why does Claire stay if she knows she is being manipulated and on the wrong side?

Starting out the episode we hear the booming and unforgettable voice of Dr. Chang, who we found to be the star of all our Dharma films. Introducing Hugo Reyes, we find that Hurley did not win the lottery in this alternate time, but used simple hard work to get to this place in his life.

Moving through this new timeline we also find that Hurley is just as misserable as the others. As in the original timeline he was misserable because, he was rich in this timeline he is miserable because he is alone. Then in walks a woman by the name of Libby, who we haven’t seen in the Lost franchise for over 4 years. Shortly into her reintroduction we find she is committed to the same hospital the original Hurley once inhabited, but find she is there voluntarily because she is having memories of a timeline that doesn’t exist.

Enter Desmond as he is bent on making the people from the Oceanic flight remember, his end result is still unknown. What is he going to do once everyone has these memories? Try to right the timeline? Either way thanks to his push on Hurley we have yet another person taken off the list of discovering their original timeline.

This event leads us into more fellow passengers who found the original timeline in their memories. Although with this episode the writers revealed one thing to us. The trigger for these memories is coming across the most impactful memories which happened in the original timeline. We observed this in several others now, Daniel’s view of Charolette, Charlie’s near death experience, Desmond’s view of Charlie dying, Libby seeing the man she fell in love with, and now Hugo’s kiss.

Back on the island I discovered something I never thought of Libby has never visited Hugo and I found myself wondering why. Instead he is visited by Michael, the man who killed is ever loved Libby and forced is life of loneliness. But in the typical Hurley fashion he trusts and takes the others on trip to go see the wizard, aka the man in black.

Along the way we get to see yet another lost character blow up due to mishandled dynamite, but she was such an unimportant character I really don’t blame the writers for getting rid of her. In the process we did get to hear yet another famous line from Ben which made me think about the personification of the island as some living being. “The island was done with her…I wonder when it will be done with us.”

Probably the most serious character development in the episode is Jack’s realization that he cannot control or fix everything and he must instead follow and support instead of lead and decide. He trusts in others, whom he never trusted before and found a new balance with his new mind set.

Another revelation of this episode is we finally know Locke’s hot button. He is afraid of people who are not afraid. This actually fits his character and his actions perfectly because, he uses other peoples fears to get them to do what he needs them to do. A man without any fear would be of no use to him since he would not be able to be manipulated.

In the end we are left with one question. Why did Desmond hit Locke with his car? I can think of two reasons:

1. He remembers the original timeline and thinks the original Locke is the evil Locke or he somehow blames the “bad things” on him.
2. It is just another attempt at trying to get yet another passenger on the flight to remember the original timeline.

Above all else of the things we got to see in this episode I have learned one thing…we all love Hugo.

Proven theories/questions:

1. Hurley did not become rich through the lottery.
2. The island voices are from trapped souls.
3. Locke (the man in black) is scared to death that Desmond is not scared of anything.

New theories/questions:

1. Trapped souls?

This episode managed to reveal so much I was struggling to hold on to all the information and theory behind it all, but I tried my hardest and this is what I came up with.

Firstly, this episode plays out a little different then the others and takes place almost entirely in the alternate timeline. So as to what happened in the begining the electromagnetic anomolies the female geophysicist was looking for obviously are going to play a role in the destruction or defeat of the man in black and Desmond is going to lead the attack due to his special ability to survive an electromagnetic explosion.

But the key to the begining of the episode is Charles’ mention that his son died on the island and I cannot recall if they ever mentioned his son before this moment. But in the end Daniel’s existence finally comes to us as Charles and Elois must have been together on the island in the original timeline which resulted in Daniel.

Desmond’s Timeline:

In Desmond’s alternate timeline the first things we notice are the obvious. He isn’t married, but seems to be pretty happy with the path of his life. He gets to be very important to his boss (Charles Whittemore), he gets to basically have whatever he wants, and has turned himself into a very dedicated individual in the process.

When Desmond goes to visit the Boss (Charles) we get to hear more of this son that he spoke of in the original timeline, which inevitably led us to wait for the reveal of who this person could be.

Desmond gets to take on the task of picking up Charlie only to reveal Charlie is the key to the alternate timeline. Revealing that when he almost died he had a vision of Claire that was so real he was convinced that this current life was a farce. This of course leading to more connections of incedents leading to Desmond connecting with the incident of Charlie dying to save him in the original timeline. Desmond now sees visions of the original timeline and how beyond all the hardships he was happy, compared to his current life where everything was easy, but one could argue he is not happy with his life choices.

Moving forward we get to see not only that Eloise is Charles Whittemore’s wife, but that Daniel is his son and Penny is Daniel’s half-sister. Queue the triumphant and surprising music.

This all inevitably leads to Daniel expressing to Desmond that he to had visions of the original timeline and discovered that he had set off a nuclear bomb to alter the timeline. To convince Desmond there is some reality to this he send him off to meet his sister Penny at the same stadium and in the same circumstance that Desmond met Jack in the original timeline. In the end Desmond is convinced enough that he is going to take it upon himself to convince all the others from the oceanic flight there is something they are missing out on as well.

This leads to my theory that Desmond is not the only one who has had these visions. We have seen it in the eyes of some of the other characters. Checking out old appendix scars and asking odd questions of their loved ones. This leads to think they too have had flashes of the original reality as with Eloise who obviously had a near complete flash of reality as shown with her reaction with Desmond. It will be interesting as to see what will happen as he begins to go around to the others from the flight and then find they too have experienced such things.

Proven theories/questions:

1. Daniel is Whittemore’s son.
2. Penny is Daniel’s half sister.
3. Eloise, Daniel, and Desmond all remember the original timeline.

New theories/questions:

1. What was the significance of the timeline merge?
2. Is there a trigger to remembering the alternate timelines?

Centered around the alternate reality of the Kwon’s, this episode provided us with movement leading to the how and the why.

Based on the statement Locke (the man in black) made that he can only leave the island if he can get all six of the oceanic six to go explained a very large concept we have all been struggling with. There is no magic as to how Jacob was keeping the man in black on the island, it was through his simple presence that prevented him from leaving.

I came to this conclusion by asking “why would he need all six of them to leave with him?” It is because he doesn’t know which one of the six is Jacob’s replacement and by having them on the island they are in turn keeping him there. Obviously, Locke doesn’t have time to figure out who it is because, that would be a matter of convincing even more people to kill each of them, which he doesn’t have the time. This means that Jacob had no special device to keep him on the island just his presence. Although, there are flaws in this theory, if it is indeed his presence then how was Jacob leaving the island to go interact with people? Given the fact that this series has gone down the route of astral projection with Walt, I’m sticking with that theory.

As with every episode we find ourselves in circumstances of “words matter.” When talking about the cave Locke stated that Kate was “no longer” on the cave wall. What does this mean? She could have been a candidate just like everyone else and she ended up being scratched off after she was “tested,” however Jacob was testing. This could simply mean that she did reside on the wall of the cave as some other random number and scratched off. I know this is a lot of thought for such a simple statement, but in the world of Lost “words matter.”

It was exhilarating getting to see the good old Dharma facilities which I missed so much as our new island geophysicist is looking for certain electromagnetic points. The interesting connection here is that Jin mapped these points and somehow they are going to work to Whittemore’s advantage, then they bring out Desmond who is the only one on the island that worked directly with the electromagnetic system at the Swan. This most likely is the key to Desmond being “the package.” The question remains is how is Desmond going to help them defeat the man in black?

Perhaps the most entertaining part of this episode was the writers own dig at their convoluted rule system them have devised in the several seasons the show has been on the air. Locke told Sawyer that himself and Sayid had to take a boat over to Hydra island to figure out what was going on and he couldn’t move forward from this statement until Sawyer got his chance to comment. Sawyer lambasted Locke over the fact that he is some mysterious puff of smoke and he should be able to just glide over the water to the other island. Locke obviously retorted with the fact that if he could do that before he would have just left the island already. Then in the most honest statement since the shows inception Sawyer stated that he just couldn’t keep up with all these crazy rules. This was obviously a play on how ridiculously complicated all these rules of the show have become with so little explanation to the why these rules are in place. If the characters of the show don’t understand them then how are the viewers supposed to? I just found it so refreshing that the writers would point out the pink elephant in the Lost room.

Kwon’s Timeline:

The obvious thing to mention in this timeline is the fact the Jin and Sun never got married and instead chose to have an affair behind Sun’s back. This inevitably let Sun’s father into putting a hit out on Jin for “shaming” his family and taking advantage of his daughter. Seeing how the show has portrayed Sun’s “mob” father in the past this event is of no surprise.

On top of all these events going on Sun still manages to get pregnant on the same timeline as the original timeline on the island.

Proven theories/questions:

1. Kate is definitely not a candidate.
2. Locke needs all 6 of them to leave the island before he will be able to leave.

New theories/questions:

1. What are they going to use the electromagnetic anomalies for?
2. What is Desmond going to provide to help Whittemore?

After six seasons of waiting we finally get to see what we all were waiting for. Who is this Richard guy and what the hell is he doing on the island?

Quickly we are revealed the truth about his unfortunate past in the Canary islands in 1867, where his wife dies and is refused help by a corrupt doctor. Just as she is taken from him he is taken from his home and put on death row only to be told by a priest that his sins will not be absolved before he is executed. But that just isn’t enough for Richards life, it has to get worse.

In comes the captian of the Black Rock. The slave ship we have become so accustomed to hearing about and seeing on our island since season one. The questions always ran through our minds of this ship’s origin and how it got so far into the island mainland. Well unfortunately, my theory was blown out of the water. I thought the ship was in the water as the island was transporting itself around the island and captured the ship right in the middle of a jump. But no, it couldn’t be that complicated, it had to be completely simple…a giant ass wave picked up the Black Rock and thrust it onto the island while taking out the Taweret statue.

On board Richard survives, but I still found myself wondering what else could happen to this guy? It seems that Richard had more horrible fate in his life than anyone else we encountered. Through simple manipulation from the man in black he was sent to kill Jacob whom he thought was the devil. In the end Jacob managed to recruit him to the side of good and help him fight the man in black.

We got to see many things in this episode, but more importantly we learned exactly the purpose of the island and Jacob’s escapades to bring so many people to the island. Again, so simply Jacob is trying to prove to the man in black that people are not as corruptable as the man in black thinks. Sadly, through Jacob’s own inaction he allowed all of those people to die.

Hell Island:

When this episode started I was dissapointed because I actually thought they were going to try to make this island really be hell, which of resulted in just not watching the rest of the series. The significance of the island being hell was meaningless. The man in black manipulates people however he deems neccessary. Meaning if Richard was an atheist he would have used some other method to manipulate him into killing Jacob to get his wife back. Then even if he didn’t have a wife it would be to retrieve his dog or something to that effect.

Proven theories/questions:

1. Jacob brings people to the island to prove to the man in black that people are not all corruptable.
2. The statue was knocked over by a giant wave that brought the Black Rock onto the island.
3. Richard is from 1867 and was blessed by Jacob to live forever because he was afraid of going to hell.
4. The man in black will use one’s failings to manipulate them into helping him get off the island.

New theories/questions:

1. Richard still had eye liner on when he was in the slaver ship. Where the hell did that eye liner come from?

This episode seemed to be a very transitional episode where deals were made, but no plans were actually revealed. We got a peek a little into Sawyer’s alternate timeline and got to see exactly how he was planning on manipulating himself off the island, but nothing significant really happened. Basically, it gave us insite to just how selfish Sawyer is.

Perhaps the only significant event in the show is Locke’s (the man in black) statement that he had a crazy mother and that is the reason he is the way he is. I don’t want to look too deeply into this statement because, as it has shown in the past the man in black will say anything to manipulate people. This could simply be a vehicle for him to manipulate Kate. However, if it is the truth this could lead to many other possibilities, one being maybe Jacob and Locke are brothers and that is why they are revealing a mother character for the man in black.

Sawyer’s Timeline:

In Sawyer’s alternate timeline the viewers received a direct address to the situation of choice. Sawyer managed to bring up the fact that he chose to become a cop instead of becoming a con-man. The interesting thing about this statement is this is the first time in the Lost universe that someone directly addresses the choices that alter time.

Interestingly enough, being a cop does not stop Sawyer from keeping his vendetta against the man who he finds responsible for his parent’s death (Locke’s Father). He continues his vendetta while still keeping everyone in the dark about his actions to find him.

Smaller Mentions:

The other characters who showed their face in this alternate reality include Miles, Kate, and Charolette.

Proven theories/questions:

1. The lies that Locke told Claire was to manipulate her into doing what he wanted. Just like everyone else.

New theories/questions:

1. Why did Locke stop Claire from killing Kate?
2. Who killed all the people on the Hydra island?
3. Who is Locke’s “crazy mother?” was he telling the truth to Kate?

In this episode our sad saga of the man you had come to fear continues. He manages to escape the temple unharmed only to have his secret murder revealed, then forced to dig his own grave. The saddest part comes in the end when Ben and Llana stand off to each other only for Ben to reveal he only wanted to go wil Locke because, nobody else would have him.

This plays into the perpetually sad story that follows Ben through the entire series he is always the outcast, never being loved or needed by anyone. So he supplemented these missing pieces with power and this is what fueled his tormenting behavior to everyone because, he was nothing without his power.

Maybe more a sutle reveal, but significant nonetheless was Richard revealing the intricacies of his existence on the island. The first thing revealed was his origin, which was on the slaver ship the Black Rock where he was held in chains in the bowels of that ship. This gives explanation to the statement made by the man in black about it being nice to see him out of those chains. The other siginificance of this short scene was the statement about Jacob’s touch and how that simple act is the reason Richard does not age and cannot die. This holds some questions concerning the Oceanic survivors all being touched by Jacob, does this mean they will not age and cannot die? Then why is Locke dead? Is the man in black the exception to the rule?

Concerning the statement made by Richard that he cannot die, I have a theory. I always assumed that when Richard said he could not die that he would just come back to life whenever someone shot him or tried to blow him up, this doesn’t seem to be the case. Instead, it seems that fate will not allow Richard to die, something will always intervene to stop the act that would cause death.

Lepedus (the pilot) and Ben’s interaction presented an interesting perspective on time travel. The statement by Ben that even though Lepedus still ended up on the island even though he missed the first crash hold credence to my theory. No matter how you alter the timeline the future result will always be the same.

Ben’s Timeline:

In Ben’s alternate timeline we learn that he is just as abused as he was in his original timeline, the difference is his behavior to these events. Instead, in this timeline he manages to play the role of the heroic teacher who does everything he can for his students. Then when presented the opportunity to obtain power he chooses to play the Hero and give up his future to improve the future of Alex, something he couldn’t do in the original timeline.

Ben’s father is also alive, but unlike his original timeline where he struggles constantly with a desire to rid his father from his life, he is struggling to keep him alive. In this scene they also speak about the Dharma initiative and how they decided to leave. What is interesting about this is they were still on the island when the bomb went off. Holding some validity to the island not actually being destroyed by the bomb.

Smaller Mentions:

The school teacher from the first season who got blown up by the dinamite shows an appearance as a science teacher at Ben’s and Locke’s school.

Alex’s mom still gets pregnant, but somehow ends up a student in an American school which happens to be the same school and class as Ben. Where Ben ends up still protecting her as if she was his own child.

Whittemore is the one coming to help everyone, the one Jacob was talking about.

Proven theories/questions:

1. The candidates are people who are in line to replace Jacob.
2. People who Jacob touches cannot die.

New theories/questions:

1. Are the Oceanic survivors who were touched by Jacob going to live forever?

Perhaps the most significant mention in this episode is the explaination of being “claimed.” According to the temple leader when one is “claimed” they are susceptible to certain influences of evil, hence the man in black. He described this concept as everyone has a scale in them with evil on one side and good on the other and Sayid and Claire both had their scales “tipped” to the evil side. This effect then makes their choices prone to evil conventions which resulted in tonights massacre.

So according to the temple leader (Dogen) Sayid had his scale “tipped” and felt he needed to die as a result. The events to follow how two different theories:

1. Dogen wanted to kill Sayid, so he send Sayid to go kill the man in black so the man in black would react to the attack by killing Sayid.
2. Dogen had a special knife he thought might kill the man in black, but was afraid Sayid would be influenced by him. So he sent Sayid into the jungle to attack him with the strict instructions not to let him speak first. The result I think he was looking for Sayid gets killed for attacking him or Sayid succeeds in killing him. Either way Sayid doesn’t get influenced.

I’m more prone to think Dogen took a last ditch effort at trying to kill the man in black and felt either way he would come out on top. He didn’t think he would turn Sayid and send him back to destroy his control at the temple.

The way the man in black influences people is very luciferesque, meaning I would assume that Lucifer would promise people the impossible if only they would join his cause. It seems all the man in black has to do is appeal to ones desires and bring out their dark side. Either way when he returned to the temple it was clear what side he had joined, when Ben showed up he also knew exactly what had happened to Sayid.

Seeing Ben in this episode made me realize that he has changed so significantly since his interaction with Jacob’s murder. He actually acted as part of a team in this episode and was actually concerned about saving Sayid to bring with them. However, when he found Sayid he could see the clear depiction of evil in his eyes, causing him to run for the hills.

In regards to Claire I have just a breif mention of her crazy ass as the writers have done a fantastic job at making her absolutely crazy. She has assumed a role one could only compare with the ramblings and killings of Rousseau. The question remains whether this is the result of the “evil” in her soul or this is a result of being consistently fed lies for 3 years by the man in black.

Sayid’s Timeline:

In Sayid’s timeline we find he continues to be miserable just like all the others in their alternate timelines. The love of his life still lies outside his grasp, being married to none other than his very own asshole of a brother who persists in treating her like crap. Then above all else Sayid doesn’t do anything to stop his brother’s destructive ways that is only hurting the one he loves. However, the significance of this timeline does not lay there it lays with Sayid’s innability to be good. Still in a completely alternate timeline he was still a tourturer and is still a cold-blooded killer.

Smaller Mentions:

 Kate has no clue what is going on with the fight between light and dark. So she is just following her “friends” around with evil Locke.

Proven theories/questions:

1. Being claimed means that the person is “prone” or moving towards evil.

New theories/questions:

1. Is there any way the man in black can be killed?
2. How was Dogen instilled with the ability to fend off the man in black?

So it appears that Jacob has a plan for everyone and as he told Hurley, he can’t always just hop in the back of a cab and tell them what to do. So Jacob sends them on to the lighthouse to signal whomever is coming to the island and to the audience reveals another revelation concerning “the numbers.”

It appears that every degree on the lighthouse corresponds to a specific “candidate” and it looks like Jacob spent his time trying to figure out who were the significant ones in these locations. This makes sense that he would only know people by their last names because, if he has a mirror he is looking into and sees a house he can only assume that the one he is looking for lives in the house and cannot specify, hence the last names. This lighthouse could very well be the GPS he was using to locate all of his candidates.

So we all knew that Christian had somehow manipulated Claire into leaving Erin in the Jungle and going with him, but it appears there was much more going on. The man in black was assuming the form of his father in order to convince Claire to trust him, so when he assumed the shape of others Claire would follow whatever he said. This would help since the man in black probably knew that at some point he would be stuck in a form, unable to change back to Christian. So just like all the other manipulations going on, the man in black was using Claire as his very own personal assasin, fueled by the anger of someone taking her child from her.

The interesting part of the Claire event is the anger over someone else raising her child. When she went to Sydney to see the psychic she didn’t believe nor care that the psychic said she would have to raise the child. Now, suddenly she does care? I find this very confusing.

As for the alternate timeline this one was just as revealing as the others, the obvious, Jack has a son. The less obvious is that Jack was married before, this really isn’t a big deal since he was married in the original timeline as well. I think the bigger mention is Jack’s misery is still present, just like Locke’s, Kate’s, and Claire’s. No matter how the timeline seems to work they are in exactly the same misery, they are just finding other avenues in which to produce it. In regards to his ex-wife in the alternate timeline I would like to see that ex-wife be someone who was not on the plane who was in the original timeline, Juliet perhaps?

The Appendix Scar

I titled this one because Jack’s appendix scar drives me into another theory. This scar could very well hold credence to my theory about the different timelines merging together. If Jack sustained a wound to his abdomen in the original timeline and they were merging this would make sense for the appearance of that scar and Jack’s confusion of its appearance. Either way the scar was an obvious plot placement either why would they mention it and go nowhere with it.

Timeline differences:

Jack has a son and he is an incredible musician, but to his dismay he had turned into the man he never wanted to be like.

The temple leader from the island was at the conservatory where Jack’s son was playing. As you can see even without the island their lives are still overlapping.

Smaller Mentions:

It has been a while since the Alice in Wonderland references and it was just refreshing to see that the writers added one in for a change.

Proven theories/questions:

1. The names on the cave walls were the family names of the housholds Jacob saw in the mirrors at the lighthouse.

New theories/questions:

1. Why does Claire suddenly care who is raising her baby after she left him in the jungle?

Things possibly modified in the timeline (in the airplane scene):

1. Jack having a son that hates him.