As best we can tell so far, she died of nuclear bomb in 1977. She hasn’t shown her face yet in the “How in the hell are they going to climb back up that cliff if all the ladders fell down?” timeline. And she seems to be pretty chill with it. I mean, she’s gotta die from something, right?
“Well, I guess I should put some pants on.” = Awesome line of the night.
While this episode did have a little more revelation factor to it, I still just can’t connect with the 2004 timeline at all.
That’s incorrect. In the no-island timeline, she works at the temp agency. In the still-got-an-Island timeline, we can assume that she’s still hanging out at that shack or whatever with Bernard.
Well, you can assume, yes, but you don’t know that, because nobody else from that period that wasn’t in the van have turned up yet either. Given the writers’ propensity for doing weird crap, I am reluctant to pencil that in as confirmed until we see them. Sort of like 24, but in reverse.
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For me it was Lapidus’ “weirdest damn funeral I’ve ever been to.” He’s my new favorite character now that Faraday is gone.
All the characters that were time traveling before would have “leaped” into the future away from the nuke. Vincent will never die.
They had the numbers, and they had passenger names next to the numbers, but what do the numbers mean? What is their significance? I still don’t get it.
Re: numbers.
From what we learned last night, it would appear that Blackie and Jacob go through this struggle every now and again where Blackie tries to manipulate people into freeing him from the Island and Jacob tries to find a replacement. On the ceiling in the cave, we saw a bunch of names with numbers next to them - I think the highest number was in the 200s. Some have names scratched out, which seem to correspond to people we know have died. (Farrady’s name was scratched out, and I believe we saw Juilet’s last name also scratched out.)
So it looks at the start of each Jacob / Blackie go-around, Jacob goes and touches a few hundred people who are candidates to take over his position. These people find themselves drawn to the Island via a series of coincidences and choices.
Hugo’s numbers seem to relate specifically to the six people still left alive who could take over Jacob’s place.
DT1
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For me, it was Ben saying a few words for Locke at his burial and ending with, “I’m sorry I murdered him.”
That was really just a brilliant scene all around. I really loved Ben’s eulogy.
Jazar
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The odd temp agency worker was a Fortune Teller in the other Lost Universe / Timeline.
Anyone else think it’s significant that Kate’s name wasn’t in the cave?
That looked like a pretty big cave to me, and we only saw a section of the ceiling. Her name could be on there somewhere.
Considering each name corresponds to one of the lottery numbers and they’re all accounted for, along with the fact that they went out of their way to show each of them, I doubt hers would be anywhere on there. I’m trying to remember but did Jacob visit and touch Kate as he did with the others?
How is Ben a teacher in the sunk island timeline? He didn’t leave the island when the bomb went off, did he?
DT1
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Yes, when he caught her stealing a lunchbox as a child.
I assume that Ben will have an episode in which we learn what happened with his life. That seems like kind of a big meatball to leave hanging out there.
Wader
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Wouldnt he have been evacuated with all the kids on the sub? Or was he in the temple at that time? I forget the timeline… They take him to be healed, did they ever return him?
I don’t think he got back in time for the evacuation. The last we saw of him, he was getting stuffed into the temple wall. I figure Richard must’ve used the temple pool to heal him just about the time the bomb was going off.
Jacob touched Kate during a childhood shoplifting incident, didn’t he?
OK. So Jacob needs/wants a replacement to take over his duties as Island Protector. He traveled around touching various people, subtly manipulating their lives so that they’d wind up on the Island. He’s been crossing names out as people either die or somehow prove themselves unworthy.
Is that why the Oceanic Six had to return to the Island? Because most of them were still on Jacob’s active candidate list, and if one of them doesn’t become the new Jacob, Smokey will escape and wreak havoc upon the world?
That’s what the show seems to be implying, because that’s what The Lockeness Monster is trying to convince Sawyer to reject. Whether that’s actually the case is up in the air, however, and who the hell Little Blond Kid Who Might Be a Young Jacob is and why he has any authority over what they do is still up in the air.
