The Future Of LOST
--Sometime shortly after the disappearance of Oceanic Flight 815, robot probes from the Christianne 1 are searching the seabed along the Sunda Trench for sunken trading ships (the Black Rock perhaps).
It’s stated that the ship’s magnetometers are picking up lots of anomalies. What could be causing them?
They are not searching for fight 815, but when they come upon an Oceanic jet they immediately assume it’s 815.
(That’s a big assumption to make so quickly… I would think that they would at least have to check with the airline and other experts before they make such a presumption. Could this be a clue that the discovery was manufactured?)
--News reports on the discovery of the ship leak out by the next morning. The body of the plane is complete, but broken into several pieces. All passengers are declared dead. Statements are made that it would be next to impossible to recover the bodies. Gruesome pictures of the bodies are shown.
(Seems weird that news organizations would be allowed to or would even want to air pictures of the bodies. I would think there would be some kind of standard that would not allow them to do that.)
--Daniel Farraday, in Essex, Massachusetts, becomes incredibly upset while watching reports of the discovery. Daniel is asked why he’s become so emotional… he replies that he doesn’t know.
(I haven’t got a clue either. Perhaps he knew someone on board.)
--Miles hears the news of 815’s discovery while in Inglewood, California. He arrives at the home of a woman with the last name Gardner. Miles has been summoned to exorcise a ghost from Ms. Gardner’s home. Miles “ghostbusting” talent is apparently real. He convinces the spirit of Ms. Gardner’s dead grandson to reveal the location of his money stash.
(Apparently the mechanism that Miles uses creates an environment conducive for spirit activity. Note that I think I saw pictures of young Mr. Eko on the wall of Ms. Gardner’s home!)
--Charlotte S. Lewis (C.S. Lewis??) sees a newspaper headlining the story of the discovery of the wreckage of flight 815. She does not believe the story. She seems to have had some prior connection to the Dharma initiative. She bribes her way onto an archeological dig. How does she know about the dig? “… People in our line of work are terrible at keeping secrets.” The dig has uncovered the skeleton of a polar bear. Charlotte finds a collar bearing the Dharma “Hydra” logo. It was buried with the skeleton.
(One of the “Hydra” station polar bears from the island? Teleportation? Time Travel?)
--Frank, the pilot, is in the Bahamas. He’s playing with a small toy airplane. He drops it in an aquarium and it sinks… flight 815? Frank notices that something is not quite right with the image that is being shown of the body of pilot Seth Norris. Seth’s not wearing his wedding ring, something Frank does not believe would ever happen. Franks smells something fishy. He calls the crash hotline and tries to report what he knows.
(This reinforces the idea that the crash has been manufactured to cover up reality. Who initiated the cover up and why? I think Dharma has gotten Oceanic to go along with the ruse. Why? Because they don’t want anyone getting anywhere near the island.)
--Naomi is meeting with Mr. Abbadon. They are meeting in some deserted offices/warehouse. Mr. Abbadon has hired Naomi to go on a mission, and he has provided her with a team. Naomi does not believe that these people will be able to carry out the mission. She says they have no field or military experience. She calls them the “head case”, the “ghostbuster” and “drunk”. Naomi seems to have complete knowledge of the goal of their mission. She asks what she is to do if she meets up with any survivors of Oceanic 815. Abbadon advises her that there were no survivors, but she insists and he deflects her question, “Just do what you were hired for.”
(So, I think that maybe Noami did some research or was given information about the 815 survivors by Dharma and she made up a cover story to tell anyone that she met from 815.
Naomi doesn’t think much of the four that Abbadon has picked, that they’re not the right kind of people to carry out the mission… then they had to have been chosen for a particular reason. In my previous post I mentioned some of the reasons I think each person was chosen.)
All of the above has happened during the 91 days that the 815 survivors have been on the Island.
Sometime in the future…
--Hurley is living in Los Angeles. He’s having trouble dealing with something. He sees the ghost of Charlie at a mini-mart. He’s arrested after a car chase with the police. At the station, he sees another vision of Charlie. This time an image of Charlie is swimming in the interrogation room mirror. On Charlie’s hand are written the words “They need you.” The hallucinations drive Hurley to request to be admitted to a mental institution.
(During the chase, Hurley is driving the car he and his dad were going to rebuild.
Hurley declares that he is one of the Oceanic 6. Therefore we know at least 6 of the survivors get off the island. Hurley, Kate and Jack are three of them.
Hurley’s arresting officer is Ana Lucia’s former partner. Hurley denies having met Ana on the plane. There’s got to be a reason that he wouldn’t want to mention knowing her.
Hurley MUST be in a bad frame of mind… he turns down the offer of a donut!
Who is the “They” Charlie is referring to? It has to be the people that did NOT get off the island.)
--While at the institution, Hurley is visited by Mr. Matthew Abbadan. He says he is an attorney from Oceanic Airlines. He’s a creepy dude. He says he’s heard about Hurley’s episode. He says Oceanic feels guilty about his troubles and wants to help his situation. They will move him to a nicer facility, one near the ocean. Hurley says he doesn’t want to be near the ocean. Hurley begins to get suspicious and asks Abbadan for a business card, which Abbadan does not have. Mr. Abbadan asks one last question, “are they alive?” before Hurley freaks out and Mr. Abbadan disappears.
(I believe Mr. Abbadan is actually from Dharma. He’s trying to determine what really happened on the island and if anyone is still alive.)
--Hurley has another vision of Charlie. Charlie says that he is dead, but that he is also “here”. He tries to convince Hurley that “they need you”, and that Hurley is hiding from the truth, that he knows what he need to do.
(At the beginning of the scene, another patient tells Hurley to be careful, that someone is watching him. Hurley turns to see Charlie. This is a misdirection… there is another man in the background that is looking at Hurley. I believe the patient was actually talking about that man, not Charlie. So, is Charlie really dead? Yes, I think so… but what did Charlie mean when he said he was “here”? It could be that Charlie is just Hurley’s conscience, egging him on to doing what is right, but I think it’s possible that this vision is a manifestation of the spirit of the island that has remained with Hurley, and that the island needs him to come back.)
--Later, Jack (who is also living in LA) visits Hurley. Jack seems to be in a fairly good place. He’s back to work at the hospital, trying to grow a beard. He is genuinely happy to see Hurley. Apparently, the Oceanic 6 have become celebrities. Hurley asks Jack if the reporters are leaving him alone, now… Jack says he only has to sign autographs every now and then. Hurley becomes suspicious of the reason for Jack’s visit. Jack admits that after he saw Hurley’s chase and had heard about Hurley’s mental trouble, that he was wondering if Hurley was going to “tell”. Hurley tells Jack that “I don’t think we did the right thing Jack. It want’s us to come back… it’s going to do everything it can…” Jack says “we’re never going back…” Hurley says “never say never!”
(What has happened to these people? Even though the six have escaped the island, they have obviously left people behind. They also had to have escaped under circumstances that they don’t want anyone else to know about.)
Farther into the future…
--Bearded Jack is also beginning to fall apart. Whatever happened to he and the others has been weighing too heavily on his mind and heart. He’s drinking; he’s taking oxycodone like candy. He’s driven to the point of suicide. He’s been using his Oceanic Air golden pass to fly as much as he can… he’s trying to get back to the island, wishing that every plane he is on will crash back there.
--Jack reads something in the paper that leads him to a funeral parlor. Someone he knows has died, but someone who is neither friend nor family. Who could it be? Someone without much of a life in the world… no one attends the funeral.
(I haven’t got a clue as to who this might be. I keep thinking that the coffin was too small to have an adult in it. Could it be Ben? He’s kind of short.)
--Jack talks to the chief of surgery at the hospital about his dad as if he were still alive.
(Is Jack now hallucinating as well? Or was he just in some drug/alcohol stupor and misspoke?)
--Jack becomes obsessive. His apartment is filled with charts and books, trying to find the island. In final desperation, he calls Kate and asks her to meet him. He shows Kate the obituary, and wonders why she was not at the funeral. She asks Jack why he would think that she would go. Jack expresses to Kate that he wants desperately to get back to the island. Kate warns him that “this is not going to change”… their new life. Jack tells her that he is “sick of lying”, that “we made a mistake. We were not supposed to leave.” Kate replies “yes, we were.” Kate can see that she won’t change Jack’s mind. She leaves.
(Kate seems pretty well put together in this scene, and at peace. She’s apparently OK with whatever has happened. She mentions that “he” is waiting for her. Perhaps that “he” is what is making the situation bearable for her. I think that she got off the island because she was pregnant and has had a baby.)
