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Lost - The Television Show - My Questions and Answers - part 2

Note: Major LOST spoilers below

This is PART 2. See Part 1.

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TV - Lost

Characters/Key/Thoughts

Key:

  • *-* after episode number indicates how much I enjoyed the episode
    • before episode number indicates completely answered questions for the episode
  • ** before episode number indicates that I’m guessing the other questions won’t be answered.
  • ? indicates question
  • – general comment
  • – #.##, (Season.Episode) answers to questions
  • MiB/Flocke = Man in Black/False Locke
  • FF = Flash Forward
  • FB = Flash Back
  • N = Now
  • OW = Old World
  • NW = New World

Season 4

4.1 *** Hurley

  • FF:
  • ? why did Hurley say that he shouldn’t have gone with Locke?
  • ? who was that black guy?
  • —5.X, he works for Charles Widmore.
  • ? who is the ‘they’ that the black guy refers to?
  • —5.X, probably the others
  • ? how could the other looney guy see Charlie (since he was dead)?
  • ? why does Hurley think that the island wants them back?
  • ? who is Hurley ‘supposed to help’?
  • —5.2, the people who were left on the island
  • ? what did Hurley mean about the Oceanic 6?
  • —4.14, they’re the ones that got off the island
  • ? who are the Oceanic 6?
  • —4.14, Hurley, Sun, Jack, Kate, Aaron, Sayid
  • N:
  • ? was Locke the guy in Jacob’s house?
  • —6.X, I don’t remember this episode, but I’m guessing yes…

*4.2 * New peeps (Miles, Dan, Charlotte, Frank)

  • ? who are the four new people working for?
  • —4.6-8, Charles Whitmore
  • ? why do they want Ben?
  • —4.4, Miles wants Ben to extort him for money.
  • ? how was there a Dharma polar bear in Tunisia?
  • —5.X, that’s one of the exit points for the ‘teleport’ machine… so somehow a polar bear was obviously teleported.
  • ? who does Ben have on their boat?
  • —4.8, Michael

4.3 *** Sayid

  • FF:
  • ? who did Sayid kill in the beginning of the episode? (one of the people that was after his boss?)
  • —4.9, guesstimate, most likely Widmore’s people
  • ? who are the people that are after Sayid’s boss (Ben)?
  • —4.9, guesstimate, most likely Widmore’s people
  • —do they work for/with the black guy?
  • ? why does Sayid work for Ben?
  • —4.9, Ben helped find Sayid’s wife’s killer (who worked for Widmore). Now Sayid wants revenge.
  • N:
  • ? why did the payload arrive 35 minutes late?
  • —4.X/5.X, the island moves through time(?)
  • ? why could they only leave the island to the boat at a certain direction? (similar to Walt/Michael leaving in one direction)

*4.4 **** Kate

  • —it looks like it must be ~2 years later
  • FF:
  • ? what happened to Claire (Kate adopted Aaron!)?
  • —4.11, Claire left with Christian. still haven’t seen her since 4.14
  • N:
  • ? why were the testing Dan’s memory?
  • —Podcast Feb 28, 2008, testing possible memory loss on the island

4.5 * Desmond

  • —please, if they’re going to do time-travel, don’t make it retarded.
  • —interesting that Penny’s dad bought the journal from the Black Rock (ship from season 1).
  • ? how does having a ‘constant’ keep Desmond in the future?
  • ? how did Desmond ‘lose’ all his memories (when he time-traveled). is his mind stuck in 1996 version?

*4.6 **** Juliet

  • N:
  • ? how/where did Daniel get the map of the island? (how did they know from the little sketches where the power station was?)
  • —5.3, Whitmore was an other and gave it to them
  • ? how did Daniel+ know that Ben used the gas before?
  • —5.3, Whitmore was an other and told them
  • ? who does Ben have as a spy on the freighter?
  • —4.8, Michael

*4.7 **** Sun/Jin

  • FF
  • ? how did Jin die?
  • —4.14, when the freighter blew up
  • ? when did Jin die?
  • —4.14, when the freighter blew up
  • —5.5/X, Jin’s not dead.
  • N
  • ? is Michael Ben’s man on the boat?
  • —4.8, yes
  • ? who delivered the message to Sayid/Desmond? Why not trust the captain?
  • —4.8, Guesstimate, Michael
  • ? did Ben really set up a ‘fake’ Oceanic 815 flight for the real world to find?
  • —4.8, No, it was Charles Widmore that did that.

*4.8 **** Michael

  • N
  • ? who was shooting at Danielle, Alex, and Carl?
  • —4.9, Widmore’s people

4.9 *** Ben

  • FF
  • ? how did Ben get to the Sahara?
  • —5.7/X by using the time-travel/teleporting machine
  • ? why can’t Ben just kill Widmore?
  • —guesstimate: the island won’t let him
  • N
  • ? why would the people really want to go back to the beach?
  • —5.X, supposedly to help those that were left on the island
  • ? why does Jack still trust Daniel?
  • ? how did Ben call the monster?

RANDOM:

  • ? Jacob/Widmore relationship?
  • ---Widmore was an Other

4.10 Jack

  • FF
  • —Sawyer is still on the island
  • ? what did Kate need to do for Sawyer?
  • —5.11, Kate promised to take care of Sawyer’s daughter.
  • N
  • ? how did Claire see her dad (Jack’s dad)?
  • —6.X, Jack’s dad (Christian) was actually Smokey (MiB)
  • ? where did Claire disappear to?
  • —4.11, apparently went with her dad Christian (to the cabin!!!)

4.11 ** Locke

  • FB
  • ? How/why did the Others from the island see Locke early (Richard Alpert saw him twice (still didn’t age!), black guy saw him once)?
  • —5.X, b/c Locke told them that he was supposed to be their leader.
  • ? Why was the knife not his as kid? How did this make him “fail”?
  • N
  • ? How did the doctor get to the island (dead) a day ahead of actually dying? (time-shifting stuff)
  • —5.X, the island moves through time.
  • ? Why were Christian and Claire at the cabin?
  • —6.X, because Christian was the MiB/Smokey
  • ? How can Christian speak on Jacob’s behalf?
  • —6.X, he can’t really, but he hates Jacob and is his brother (6.15)
  • ? How does Widmore know were Ben is going to go?
  • —5.3, Widmore was an other
  • ? Why did the (Widmore’s) “secondary protocol” have a Dharma Initiative logo?
  • —5.3, Widmore was an other
  • ? What is Widmore’s involvement with the Dharma Initiative?
  • —5.3, Widmore was an other

*4.12 **** Mix

  • FF
  • ? why is the Oceanic Six who it is? (Jack, Kate, Aaron, Sun, Sayid, Hurley?)
  • —4.14, they were in the helicopter when the island moved.
  • ? how did the O6 come up with their story?
  • —4.14, they had a week on Penny’s boat to come up with it
  • ? why did the O6 need to come up with a story?
  • —4.14, to protect the people still on the island
  • N
  • ? what exactly did Ben communicate (to the others)?
  • —4.12, guesstimate, probably something about making Locke their leader

*4.13 **** Mix

  • N
  • ? who is Jeremy Bentham?
  • —4.14, Locke
  • ? what did Sawyer say to Kate?
  • —5.11, something about taking care of his daughter.
  • ? what did Miles mean when talking to Charlotte about coming back to the island?
  • —5.4/5.5, she was brought to the island when she was super young when her parents were in Dharma
  • ? what did Charlotte mean talking to Dan about finding out where she was born (on the island?)
  • —5.4/5.5, she was brought to the island when she was super young when her parents were in Dharma
  • FF
  • ? why did Jeremy Bentham (Locke) visit Walt?
  • —5.7, Originally to tell him that he needs to go back to the island, but instead to make sure he was okay.

4.14 ** Mix

  • N
  • ? what happened to the people on the raft (Dan)?
  • —5.1, they’re okay… they just went back to the island.
  • ? where did the island go?
  • —5.3, it is traveling (through time/space)
  • FF
  • ? why must they all go back to the island?
  • —5.1, to save the people who didn’t leave the island
  • ? how did Ben get off the island (time-travel/teleporting)?
  • —5.X, by using the same time-travel/teleporting machine as Locke did in 5.7
  • ? how did Locke get off the island?
  • —5.7, Locke used the time-travel/teleporting machine to get off
  • ? how did Locke die?
  • —5.7, Ben killed him
  • ? why did Claire (in dream) tell Kate not to take Aaron back to the island?
  • ? what horrible things happened on the island after Jack left?
  • —5.X, people started to die (just Charlotte as of 5.7) as the flashes took them through time

RANDOM: in FF, who is off the island?:

  • —Hurley, Jack, Kate, Aaron, Sayid, Ben, Sun, Jin (dead), Locke (dead)

Season 5

5.1 *** Mix

  • FF
  • ? why does Sun want to kill Ben? (I don’t think that’s what Whitmore wants, as I think he has the power to do that himself)
  • —5.X because she blames Ben for Jin’s death
  • ? why did Locke choose the name Jeremy Bentham?
  • —5.7, Charles Whitmore gave Locke the passport, etc. to be “Jeremy Bentham”
  • FB
  • ? how was the “time-travel machine” there before the Dharma people were there?
  • ? how did Richard know to go back in time to visit/see Locke growing up?
  • —5.3, Locke time-traveled into the past and let him know that he was Richard’s leader and told him when he would be born
  • N
  • ? why is the same thing that happened to Desmond happening to Charlotte?

5.2 *** Mix

  • N
  • ? who is attacking the people at the beach? (I’m guessing it was the others, who thought they were Dharma people)
  • FF
  • —Hugo wasn’t supposed to get arrested (says Ana Lucia), but he did… great.
  • ? why did Sayid (who works for Ben) tell Hurley to do the opposite of what Ben said?
  • ? who were the lawyers working for to (scare+) Kate? (Ben, or Whitmore?)
  • —5.4, Ben
  • ? who was the white-haired woman at the end? (same woman from Desmond’s ring episode? 3.8)
  • —5.5, Faraday’s mom

*5.3 **** Desmond

  • N
  • —interesting that Charles Widmore was an ‘other’!
  • ? what happened to the young Widmore to make him angry at Ben (taking over leadership?)
  • —5.7, Ben tricked him to leave the island
  • —5.12, didn’t really trick him. Widmore had affairs with people off the island (on the mainland), thus broke the rules and was banished.

5.4 ** Mix

  • N
  • ? who was trying to shoot at the people in the boat at the island (shoot at Sawyer, Locke, etc) (1954)
  • ? why/how does being on the island longer make people have nose bleeds?
  • —Jin is alive!

*5.5 * Jin/Mix

  • N
  • —Charlotte died

*5.6 **** Jack

  • -N
  • ? how did Hurley know about the plane?
  • —5.16-17, he was told about it by Jacob.
  • ? how did Sayid know about the plane?
  • —5.10, he didn’t… he just happened to be with the bounty hunter on the same plane.
  • ? who was the woman with Sayid?
  • —5.10, a bounty hunter to take Sayid to the family of the man he killed on the golf cart.
  • ? is Sayid arrested?
  • —5.10, no, just with a bounty hunter.
  • ? what happened to Aaron (what did Kate do with Aaron)?
  • —5.11, she left him with Aaron’s grandma (Claire’s mom)
  • ? what happened to Ben (injuries)?
  • —5.12, he went after Penny and Desmond beat him up.
  • ? how is Mrs. Faraday (Eloise Hawking) involved with everything?
  • —5.14, she’s an Other and Daniel’s her kid.

5.7 *** Locke

  • FB
  • ? Why did Ben really kill Locke? (over leadership of the Others?)
  • —5.12, Ben said b/c he ‘needed’ to be dead
  • ? Why were Walt/Aaron not required to go back with them?
  • N
  • ? Where were they (Locke + Caesar) on the island?
  • —5.12, they’re on the second island (where Ben was S03).
  • ? Who do the boats on the island belong to?
  • —5.X, supposedly Ben had left them there (hidden)
  • FF
  • —interesting that the people in the flash-forward ended up with Jin in the past in the Dharma Initiative

*5.8 * Sawyer

  • N
  • —timeline stopped in the 70s during the Dharma Initiative
  • —the people in the FF ended up with the people from N in the past. craziness!

*5.9 *** Mix

  • N
  • —5.8, not everyone is in the 70s though… Ben, Sun, and (Locke?) are still in the N
  • NP (Now, Past)
  • ? what happened to Daniel Faraday?
  • —5.14, he worked for Dharma a physicist and was working from their main HQ
  • ? why can’t they warn the Dharma people about the gas?
  • —5.10, Sayid did when drugged.

5.10 * Sayid

  • —mehpisode
  • —NP
  • ? where did Sayid run off to after shooting young Ben?
  • —5.16-17, somewhere… but he saved Jack and Kate.

*5.11 *** Kate

  • —wow, can’t believe Kate told so many people the ‘truth’ of where they were.
  • —can’t believe that Sun would blindly follow Ben and Locke.

*5.12 **** Ben

  • N
  • ? what did the woman back on the second island mean: “what stands in the shadow of a statue?”
  • —5.16-17, probably just a code. They work for Jacob.
  • ? how did the island revive Locke? Or why can people see him?
  • —5.16-17, it didn’t really revive him… someone else (the man-in-black) currently looks like Locke

5.13 * Miles

  • —Daniel is back!
  • —Dr. Chan is Miles’ dad? Craziness.
  • FB
  • ? same people took Miles’ that said: “what stands in the shadow of a statue?” Who are they?
  • —5.16-17, they work for Jacob.
  • NP
  • ? how did the guy die that Miles delivered?
  • —5.13, Tyler’s smart: the electromagnetic field killed him by messing with his filling.
  • ? what did they do to the body that Miles delivered at the Orchid?

5.14 ** Daniel

  • —Don’t believe that Sawyer, Mr. Wit, would let the Dharma guy slowly walk over and open his closet to reveal the kidnapped guy.
  • —Daniel Faraday is Widmore’s and Eloise Hawking’s kid.
  • —there really aren’t any “variables” (humans-free will?) since Eloise shot Daniel and knew that she would shoot him in the future.
  • ? why did Eloise tell Daniel to go to the island, knowing that she was going to shoot him?

*5.15 **** Mix

  • N
  • ? why does Locke want to kill Jacob?
  • —5.16-17, because he’s not the real John Locke (doesn’t explain the why though)
  • —6.X-9, because he’s the MiB (dunno how), and he wants to kill Jacob so he can get off of the island
  • NP
  • ? what was Kate’s “reason” for coming back (if she’s now only going to end up leaving on the sub?)
  • —5.16-17,

5.16-17 *** Mix/Jacob

  • —Jacob was a real person on the island! (and he wasn’t alone… one of the guys wanted to kill him).
  • —the people who said “what stands in the shadow of a statue” work for Jacob.
  • —interesting that Jacob “met” each of the people from Oceanic 815 before they came to the island.
  • —looked like Jacob is the real reason Locke survived his fall (appears that he healed him)
  • ? what’s in the crate that Jacob’s people are carrying?
  • —5.17, it was John Locke.
  • ? did Jacob really die?
  • —6.1, so he tells Hurley.
  • ? did Juliet making the bomb go off “fix” everything?
  • —6.1, potentially.
  • ? who is Locke currently (the man-in-black?)
  • —5.17/6.1, guesstimate, so it appears.
  • ? why does the man-in-black want to kill Jacob?
  • —6.9, so he can get off of the island.
  • ? does the smoke-monster work for the man-in-black?
  • —6.1, the smoke-monster is the MiB.
  • ? how did Locke/MiB not know where Jacob was living? (he needed to be led to Jacob)
  • ? what’s the big deal with the compass that Locke/Richard keep giving to one another?
  • ? what was with the ash around Jacob’s cabin?
  • —6.1, the smoke-monster can’t enter it
  • ? what did Jacob mean when he said “they’re coming” to the man-in-black (Locke)?
  • —6.8, guesstimate, talking about Widmore’s people?

Season 6

6.1-6.2 ** Mix

  • —what the~?

  • —My guess is that there are now two parallel “worlds” going on… one where the bomb was successful and one where it wasn’t. My thoughts are that at some point, the two different timelines/worlds are going to meld into one, or at least they’re going to have the same “ending” such that you can’t “escape fate”.

  • NW (new world)

  • ? what happened to Jacob/etc if the nuke went off?

  • ? how did the island sink?

  • ? what’s up with the money Jin had?

  • —6.10, Jin had it to pay to Keamy to kill Jin (not that he knew that though)

  • ? where did Jack’s dad’s body go? (note: it also disappeared in season 1 from the coffin)

  • OW (old world)

  • ? who’s the old Chinese guy (Others)?

  • —6.3, Dogan, a leader of the Others.

  • ? what is the temple’s healing powers?

  • ? what’s up with Jacob’s bodyguards? (did they not know about the smoke monster?)

  • ? what did MiB/FLocke mean when he said to Richard “you look good out of those chains”?

  • —6.7, guesstimate, it appears that Richard was brought to the island on the Black Rock (boat)

  • —6.9, Richard was brought to the island on the Black Rock

  • ? what did Juliet mean when she said “it worked”? How does she know?

  • ? what did MiB/FLocke mean when he said he wanted to go “home”?

  • —6.9, he wanted to get off of the island

6.3 Kate

  • —kind of epic failisode
  • OW
  • ? what was in the box Sawyer was looking in?
  • —guesstimate, memories of him and Juliet
  • ? so did Sayid really die? Do the others think he’s coming back as Smokie?
  • —6.X, guesstimate, pretty sure that he died and came back as X

6.4 *** Locke

  • ? who was the kid with bloody hands that Flocke chased?
  • —was he Jacob re-incarnated?
  • —6.15, pretty sure he was Jacob in some shape or form.
  • —was he referring to Jacob when he said you can’t kill him. It’s against the rules?
  • —6.15, his mom made it so he couldn’t kill him (somehow?)
  • NW
  • ? how did Locke end up in the wheelchair?
  • —If he remained with his would-be wife, then he didn’t end up stalking his dad (much), or he didn’t find out that his dad just wanted his Kidney, which means that he didn’t get pushed out of the eight stories to get paralyzed.
  • OW
  • ? was it actually Jacob who wrote the names on the wall in the cave that Flocke showed Sawyer?
  • ? why does each name have one of the corresponding numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42?
  • ? what is Flocke recruiting for?
  • —6.6, supposedly to leave the island

6.5 ** Jack

  • OW
  • ? who did Jacob want to find the island?
  • —guesstimate, Charles Widmore (6.7, Widmore is back…)
  • NW
  • —interesting that entire timelines can change due to one different incident
  • ? how/with whom/etc did Jack have a kid?

*6.6 **** Sayid

  • —epic fight sequence
  • NW
  • ? why did Keamy have Jin tied up?
  • —6.10, because he was supposed to kill Jin (since Sun’s dad knew about Jin and Sun’s romantic involvement)
  • OW
  • —interesting how Dogan got to the island.
  • ? what’s Flocke’s real plan? To really kill everyone on the island?
  • —6.7, he says that he wants to get everyone off the island

6.7 *** Ben

  • NW
  • —interesting that Ben’s dad was still in Dharma… but they left.
  • —Alex is in history club :)
  • ? why/how did Ben and his dad leave the island?
  • OW
  • ? how did Widmore find the island?
  • ? where has Richard been?
  • ? why did Richard say to Hurley not to believe Jacob?
  • —6.7, because he thinks his life had no reason
  • ? why does Richard want to die?
  • —6.7, because he thinks his life had no reason

*6.8 **** Sawyer

  • NW
  • —Sawyer’s a cop working with Miles (for a little bit, then not so much). Awesome.
  • —Sawyer’s still looking for Anthony Cooper.
  • OW
  • —It appears that Flocke wants to get all of the candidates off the island (or killed?)
  • ? who are the people on Hydra island?
  • —6.8, Charles Widmore’s people
  • ? what’s in the locked room on the submarine?
  • —6.10, Desmond

6.9 ** Richard

  • NW
  • OW
  • ? why does Richard believe that everything Jacob said is a lie?
  • —6.9, because he feels like he wasted his life.
  • ? does Richard really think they’re in hell?
  • —6.9, perhaps
  • OW FB
  • —the MiB (Smokey) thinks that the other man (Jacob) is the devil.
  • —the MiB wants Richard to kill Jacob the same way that he had Ben do it.
  • —both the MiB and the Dogan said to not let X speak and to stab them immediately.
  • —so Jacob wants to keep the MiB on the island because the MiB is evil and he doesn’t want him to “spread”.

6.10 * Sun and Jin

  • —They’re not married! Hmm…
  • NW
  • ? why aren’t Sun and Jin married?
  • —6.10, but they are still together.
  • OW
  • ? what do Widmore’s people want with Jin?
  • —6.10, to ask him if about the pockets of energy (electromagnetic)
  • ? where are the people on the beach (Richard+) leaving to?
  • —6.10, to blow up the plane to stop the MiB from leaving the island

6.11 ** Desmond

  • NW
  • —interesting that in this world Daniel “Widmore” is a musician and not a quantum physicist
  • ? why/how does Desmond work for Widmore?
  • ? why didn’t Desmond put on the brakes when Charlie drove him off the pier?
  • ? how did Desmond have the “flash” of Charlie signing “not penny’s boat”?
  • ? how does Eloise know what Desmond wants?
  • ? what is Desmond not ready for yet (according to Eloise)?
  • OW
  • ? who is Widmore’s son that he lost to the island?
  • —6.11, someone in Driveshaft (as told in the NW?) Daniel Faraday, duh (not in Driveshaft)!
  • ? what does Charles need Desmond for on the island?
  • ? what does Desmond want the flight manifest (passenger list) for?
  • —6.12, to tell everyone on the plane that their life should have been different

6.12 ** Hurley

  • —poor Sayid (and the fact that he’s basically a robot now)
  • NW
  • —interesting that Hugo is visiting Libby verses being in the facility himself
  • ? does Libby really know Hugo? In what way?
  • —6.12, similar to what Desmond figured out in 6.11
  • ? why did Desmond drive over Locke? Did he ‘remember’ that Locke pushed him down the well in OW?
  • OW
  • —Hugo blew up the Black Rock. Awesome.
  • ? what was in the bag that Hugo looked at (after Ilana blew up with Dynamite)?
  • ? who was the boy that Locke/Desmond saw? Why didn’t Locke want to pursue him this time?
  • —6.15, it was the MiB as a boy.
  • ? why did Locke push Desmond down the well?
  • —6.13, he wants him dead, but why?

*6.13 **** Mix

  • NW
  • ? who/how was the lawyer looking for Claire?
  • —6.13, Claire was Jack’s father’s other kid.
  • OW
  • ? did Sayid kill Desmond?
  • —6.14, no.

*6.14 *** Jack/Locke

  • —Everyone is together again… one big family.
  • NW
  • —interesting that Locke’s dad can’t walk, talk, etc. due to Locke.
  • OW
  • ? did Widmore really plant the C4?
  • —6.14, if so, then Locke did a good job of using it.

6.15 ** MiB/Jacob

  • FB
  • ? what is the light that they see?
  • ? how did the light create the smoke monster?
  • ? is the smoke monster just evil incarnate that most of the time uses MiB’s body?
  • ? why would the smoke monster care to get off the island?

*6.16 *** Mix

  • —okay

6.17 ** Mix

  • —so the flash sideways is actually another reality which happens and the people there remembered everything that had happened on the island and until they died on the normal timeline.
  • ? how did Ben get out from under the tree?
  • ? why did shutting off the light make Locke/Jack vulnerable (to hurting each other, bullets, etc)?
  • ? where was Mr. Echo (and Walt, Michael, etc) at the end of the FS?