I received over 400 entries to the best theory contest. They were all over the place, some were serious ideas about the show, some were entertaining nonsense, while others rehashed theories that have been proposed over and over again. There were a ton really great entries... but here is your winner... Bryan Glaus from Madison, WI! Brian's entry was truly one of a kind and one I never saw coming. It falls under the nonsense category, but is incredibly creative and a fun idea:

My theory is that Jack, Ben and all of the rest of the folks return to the island and they form an alliance with the Others to protect the Island from Widmore. But suddenly one day, Jack disappears. The next day its Sayid, then Sun until one by one everyone from their camp is gone except Sawyer (who has become the ultimate hero), Kate (the bombshell), Juliet (the smart girl who might be really good looking if you gave her a chance), Hurley (the dopey sidekick) and Vincent the dog. The all pile into the 70's DHARMA bus on a mission to find their kidnapped friends and Charles Widmore. Upon finding Widmore they will set up an elaborate plan to capture Widmore using Hurley and the dog as bait. Something will go horribly awry, but in the chaos they will still manage to capture Widmore. At the very end they will have Widmore tied up and realize he is wearing a mask... Widmore is really Jack in disguise who is trying to take over the island to turn it into a theme park. Then the Harlem GlobeTrotters show up and give Hurley and Vincent a Scooby snack, revealing that the entire series had been one giant episode of Scooby Doo, with Sawyer as Fred, Kate as Daphne, Juliet as Velma, Hurley as Shaggy and Vincent as Scooby Doo. The only clue we are ever given to this suprise ending is Hurley's line to Kate about how she totally Scooby Doo'ed him.

Bryan wins a huge Lost prize package compliments of WISN Channel 12 in Milwaukee including, Lost: The Game, A Lost Puzzle, an Oceanic Airlines Shirt, an Apollo Bar Hat, a t-shirt with The Looking Glass Station logo, a Lost mug, and more. I will post some of the other great entries later today. I'll also randomly select some of the entries I post to take home consolation prizes. Thanks to all who entered!

I am pleased to announce that a new SethIsLost.com online store will be launching next fall prior to the start of Season 5. There will be a full line of t-shirts, I might expand to other merchandise as well. I am still in the process of designing the collection, as well as the online store. But here are a couple of items that will be available:




I have a VERY limited number of each of these designs already printed. Shirts are $23 plus shipping, or save now with the "Numbers" special: 2 shirts for $42. Since the actual online store section of the site won't be completed until fall if you want to purchase one of these limted t-shirts, email me at sethislost@gmail.com. If you are not one of the lucky few to get the one of the advance release T-shirts, worry not... they will still be available when the sethislost.com online store launches in the fall!

Keep emailing me your entries for the Lost theories contest, the deadline for entry is June 5th and the winner will be posted next week. Also, I will be watching the season finale for the 3rd time tonight and the season finale recap will be posted soon. STAY LOST!

Seth discusses the mindblowing season finale with Bob & Brian.

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Keep sending your entries for the "Theory" contest. And check back for the finale recap. I'll post it sometime early next week... I have to watch the episode 2 or 3 more times so I can try to figure out what in the hell is going on.

You can't talk about Lost without getting into all sorts of radical theories. So come up with you best crazy theory and if it is truly unique I'll hook you up with a Lost Prize Package thanks to our friends at Milwaukee's home for Lost, WISN Channel 12, one of America's leading ABC stations.

I don't need to get a bunch of theories about timeloop or purgatory... get really creative... or sarcastic... or ridiculous. It can be a serious theory about the show or it can be something fun like this one that was just posted to the comments section:

"All this rig-a-ma-roll about the special powers of the island is nothing. The focus should be on how Sayid could jump in that Zodiac, travel to the island (which I believe was 90 miles from the freighter), have Faraday return 90 miles to the ship with a load of survivors and then turn around and return to the island to rescue some more, ALL WITHOUT NEEDING MORE GAS FOR THE OUTBOARD MOTOR! They have solved the Earth's gasoline crisis! Perpetual, continuous self-creating fuel. That, is the real power of "LOST". "

Try not to make it a novel, one paragraph should do. I'll read the entries and pick a winner along with some other entertaining entries and post them on the site. You can send your entries to me at sethislost@gmail.com or leave it posted to the comments section of this entry. Deadline for entry is June 5th, 2008 at noon Central time. I'll have the winner posted by June 9th. Good luck and thanks to my friends at WISN Channel 12 for the cool Lost gear for the prize package!

I know some of you are upset with me for not being active on this site over the last two weeks. I had good reason. 2 weeks ago when I appeared on the Bob & Brian show I mentioned that some A-hole leaked the secret plot twist in the Lost finale, better known as the frozen donkey wheel. I promised that this site would remain spoiler free, and so it has… no thanks to another major A-hole who tried to ruin the surprise for me. As we predicted on the morning show someone emailed it to my comments section, fortunately I was able to avert my eyes before getting to any information and the surprise is still safe.
 
But the close call did force me into an internet ban as not to further risk exposure. So without the aid of the internet to prepare for the season finale, I decided to turn to my DVR. I barricaded myself in my living room with a bucket of Mr. Cluck Fried Chicken and a case of Apollo Bars (ok, so it was Popeye’s and Milky Way bars) and watched Season 4 from start to finish in one day... all glorious 12 hours. Below you will find an episode by episode recap of all of the questions that are still unanswered in each episode. Some of the questions will be ones whose answers will have significant impact on the series (like why the Oceanic 6 are lying?) and other questions will be of the less than serious variety (like why after more than a week on the island is Daniel Faraday still wearing his neck tie?) It will be a long read, but should adequately prepare you for the big finale and take less time than re-watching all 12 hours.
 
Before I start the episode by episode breakdown, I want to share with you one answer Damon and Carlton did share with us in their most recent podcast. A fan asked them about the concept of the island not letting someone die. The person noted the number of times that Michael tried to kill himself, but the island wouldn’t let it happen because he had work to do. This fan went on to ask if when Jack was going to jump from the bridge the island made the car crash by him preventing him from jumping. The fan also noted that when Ben is in Charles Widmore’s bedroom that could be the reason that Ben can’t kill him, because the island wouldn’t let it happen. The producers were shockingly forthcoming in their answer and basically confirmed that indeed was the case. Keep that thought in mind as you ponder all of the questions below and take note of how often that can be the simple answer to a previously tricky question.
 
Episode 4.1 “The Beginning of the End”
Hurley Flash-forward
 
Ultra-Brief Recap: Survivors split into 2 groups behind Jack and Locke. Jack calls the freighter for help and takes his group to the beach. Locke’s group goes to New Otherton.
 
Unanswered questions:
 
- During his flash-forward why did Hurley tell Jack he is sorry for going with Locke?
- Charlie visits Hurley and tells him he has to go back because “they need you”. What exactly does that mean?
 
Ok, so the easy answer on that one is that he is talking about everyone else not in the Oceanic 6. What happened to them is obviously going to be a major theme as we move forward.
 
Episode 4.2 “Confirmed Dead”
Flashbacks of “The Scientists”
 
Ultra-brief Recap: The survivors encounter Daniel, Miles, Charlotte and Frank and start to get a better understanding of what their mission is. In the flashbacks we see each of them hearing that Flight 815 was found and we also get a little bit of their backgrounds.
 
Unanswered Questions:
 
- We have seen that Keamy and his men are an unrelenting force to be reckoned with and they seem to know how dangerous Ben is, so why would they send a bunch of scientists and a ghost buster as the first people to go extract Ben off the island?
- Why is Daniel Faraday crying upon learning of the crash?
- How is it that Miles can talk to the dead and why does that ability make him a good fit for this mission?
- We see that Abbadon was the person who assembled Naomi and the team of scientists. At the time it was easy to assume that he worked for Widmore, but in a later episode he shows up in Locke’s flashback, so who is he really working for?
- Frank Lapidus was supposed to be flying 815 on the day it crashed, so why wasn’t he?
 
Episode 4.3 “The Economist”
Sayid Flash-forward
 
Ultra-brief Recap: Sayid and Kate go to Locke’s camp and trade Miles for Charlotte which earns Sayid and Desmond a trip to the freighter. In the flash-forwards we learn that Sayid is working as a hitman for Ben and that Ben has the ability to get off the island.
 
Unanswered Questions:
 
- Sayid took the bracelet off of Naomi’s wrist and it had an inscription from “R.G.”. In his flash-forwards after we see him kill Elsa she is wearing a very similar bracelet. So who is Elsa’s boss? Signs point to the idea that Widmore is the boss of both Elsa and Naomi but since we have seen that different people on the freighter seem to have different intentions, we don’t exactly know who is working for whom.
- Why is Sayid working for Ben? This of course was partially answered later in the season when we find out that Nadia’s murder pushes Sayid into this role. But there are still questions surrounding those circumstances that we’ll get into when we look at that episode.
 
Episode 4.4 “Eggtown”
Kate Flash-forwards
 
Ultra-brief Recap: Kate decided to stay at Locke’s camp in order to find out that the freighter people know about her. In her flash-forwards we find out how he avoids going to prison for her crimes and we also see that she is raising Claire’s baby.
 
Unanswered Questions:
 
- Why does Miles ask Ben for precisely 3.2 Million dollars in exchange for telling Widmore that Ben is already dead?
- Kate’s mother says that she has been given 6 months to lives by her doctors for the last 4 years, yet somehow she is inexplicably still alive. Is this a case of the island not letting her die?
- At the end of the episode we see Charlotte helping Faraday with a sort of test, trying to remember 3 simple playing cards. What is Faraday’s condition?
 
Episode 4.5 “The Constant”
Desmond Time Traveling between 1996 and 2004
 
Ultra-brief Recap: Sayid and Desmond take the helicopter back to the freighter and when it goes off of the 305 heading Desmond gets unstuck in time. Faraday tells him to find his “constant”, which ends up being Penny who he is able to talk to on the phone, which saves him and keeps her searching for the island.
 
Unanswered Questions:
 
- Why is Keamy so upset that Frank brought Desmond and Sayid back to the freighter?
- Why is it that Desmond doesn’t remember anything about 2004 when he is jumping back and forth, but Minkowski does seem to know who he is and what is going on?
- How did Penny find out about the island?
- We see Widmore bidding on the journal of the First Mate of The Black Rock, what is its significance?
- In 1996 Faraday references that in 2004 he would remember his meeting with Desmond but he clearly does not, and we had the question about his memory problem before. Later we see in his journal that if anything goes wrong Desmond Hume will be his constant. So does that mean that Faraday used his machine on himself to unstick himself in time?
 
Episode 4.6 “The Other Woman”
Juliet Flashbacks
 
Ultra-brief Recap: Faraday and Charlotte go to shutdown the poison gas station and Ben sends Harper Stanhope to Juliet to tell her to stop them. In Juliet’s flashbacks we see how crazy and obsessed Ben is with her.
 
Unanswered Questions:
 
- In the flashbacks Harper Stanhope has a diploma on her wall from the Hanso Foundation, which started the Dharma Initiative. Yet Ben supposedly killed all of the Dharma people in the purge, so what is the lingering relationship between Dharma and the Others?
- How was Harper able to communicate with Ben?
- The Tempest is not a power station, as Juliet first told Jack. So where exactly all of the power on the island come from?
- Who was Harper referring to when she told Juliet “you look just like her”? Was is Ben’s mother or was it his childhood friend Annie?
- Why does Charles Widmore really want the island?
 
Episode 4.7 “Ji Yeon”
Sun Flash-Forwards/Jin Flashbacks
 
Ultra-brief Recap: Juliet tells Jin that Sun had an affair to keep her from leaving the beach. We find out that she has her baby off the island but that Jin never made it off and could be dead. Sayid and Desmond meet the captain and learn more about the fake wreckage of 815.
 
Unanswered Questions:
 
- Someone, presumably Michael, slips a note to Desmond and Sayid that say’s “Don’t trust the Captain”. Yet later we see the Captain add odds with Keamy and helping Sayid and Desmond. So why shouldn’t they trust the Captain? Of course that may be a moot point as the Captain is now dead.
- Sun’s baby appears to be born early, muck like Ben and Locke were both born prematurely. Is Sun’s baby “special”?
- What specifically is causing the Cabin Fever on the boat that causes Regina to throw herself overboard?
- Who staged the wreckage of Flight 815? The Captain implies it was Ben, but in the next episode Tom tells Michael that it was Charles Widmore.
- When Hurley visits Sun and her baby, why does he seem happy that none of the other Oceanic 6 members are coming?
- Is Jin really dead?
 
Episode 4.8 “Meet Kevin Johnson”
Michael Flashbacks
 
Ultra-brief Recap: Michael explains how he came to be on the boat to Sayid and Desmond. Michael wants to kill himself but the island won’t let him. At the end of the episode Karl and Rousseau are killed by Keamy who takes Alex hostage.
 
Unanswered Questions:
 
- After Michael tries to kill himself by crashing his car he wakes up in a hospital and looks at his surroundings, confused as to what is happening and screams when he sees Libby. Then he wakes up again, also in the hospital, but if you look closely all of the surroundings around him are different. So was he “dreaming” when he say Libby or could he possibly been time traveling back to the time he was hit by the car when Walt was a baby?
- How does the island prevent Michael from killing himself and why?
- When Michael first board’s the freighter as Kevin Johnson, Miles says to him “Your name isn’t Kevin…” How does Miles know this?
 
Episode 4.9 “The Shape Of Things To Come”
Ben Flash-forward
 
Ultra-brief Recap: Keamy’s team attacks Locke and Ben at New Otherton. Keamy kills Alex which prompts Ben to summon the smoke monster? In Ben’s flash-forward he uses Nadia’s murder to recruit Sayid?
 
Unanswered Questions:
 
- How did Ben end up lying in the Tunisian desert wearing a parka with the Orchid logo and what happened
 to his arm?
- Why does Ben say that Keamy and his men won’t risk hurting him?
- Keamy and his men shot and killed all of the nobodies that were with Locke’s group in New Otherton, yet somehow Sawyer was able to run around, dodge bullets and get Claire to safety? Is the reason he wasn’t shot because the island was protecting him, much like it wouldn’t let Michael die?
- When Ben checks into the Tunisian hotel as “Dean Moriarity” and says he is a preferred guest, the desk clerk gives him a look of alarm. Why?
- Sayid starts working for Ben because Ben tells him Widmore’s man killed Nadia. What reason would they have for killing Nadia? Is Widmore really the one responsible or did Ben actually do it and blame Widmore knowing that it would push Sayid into working for him?
- Why did Ben wait to summon the smoke monster as a measure of last resort? He did it right after Alex was killed and he says Widmore “changed the rules”. Was not using the smoke monster as a weapon part of those rules?
- Widmore is sleeping alone… who is Penny’s mother and does that have to do with the history between Ben and Widmore?
- Widmore tells Ben, “Everything you have you took from me.” What does he mean by that?
- Widmore says Ben won’t find Penny, is she somehow being hidden and protected like the island is protected?
 
Episode 4.10 “Something Nice Back Home”
Jack and Kate flash-forward
 
Ultra-brief Recap: Jack needs his appendix removed. Claire walks off with her dead father in the middle of the night leaving Aaron in the jungle. Jack and Kate are raising Aaron in the future until we see Jack start his downward spiral.
 
Unanswered Questions:
 
- Why did the island let Jack get sick?
- Why does Charlie tell Hurley that Jack isn’t supposed to be raising the baby?
- When the smoked monster attacked Keamy’s men why didn’t it just kill all of them?
- Since Claire left the baby in the jungle, what exactly are they feeding that kid?
- Is Claire dead or alive?
- What does Jacob want with Claire?
 
Episode 4.11 “Cabin Fever”
Locke flashbacks
 
Ultra-brief Recap: Locke, Ben and Hurley finally find Jacob’s Cabin and are told to move the island. In Locke’s flashbacks we see that Richard Alpert has been recruiting him for the island since birth. On the freighter we see a large divide between Keamy and his men and the rest of the people on the boat including the Captain and the scientists.
 
Unanswered Questions:
 
- In Locke’s dream Horace Goodspeed says he has been dead for 12 years, which would mean the Purge was 12 years ago. But Ben kidnapped Alex 16 years ago, that timing doesn’t seem to make sense. It’s more evidence that begs the question, are the current “Others” more related to the Dharma Initiative than we originally thought?
- When Locke is a baby born prematurely the nurses say he has survived every infection and illness. Is this another case of the island intervening and not letting him die?
- Is Richard ageless? How did he know about Locke’s special ability as far back as birth?
- When Locke meets up with Abbadon in rehab, he tells him to go on a walkabout. Then he says “When you and me run into each other again, you will thank me.” What does that mean and once again makes us wonder who exactly Abbadon is working for.
- Christian tells Locke that Aaron is “where he is supposed to be.” Yet we have been told before that Claire must be the one who raises him. So why is Claire willing to leave him at what would appear to be Christian/Jacob’s orders?
 
Episode 4.12 “There’s No Place Like Home Part 1”
Oceanic 6 flash-forward
 
Ultra-brief Recap: Jack and Sawyer are going to the Orchid to get Hurley. Locke and Hurley are together at the Orchid after Ben turns himself in to Keamy. Kate and Sayid are captured by the Others. Sun and Aaron are on the freighter where Desmond and Michael find a huge bomb.
 
Unanswered Questions:
 
- Why are the Oceanic 6 lying about what happened to them and who set up this cover up?
- How does Faraday know about the Orchid station and secondary protocol? Keamy had to use his key and the Captain’s key to get it out of a safe.
- In the Oceanic 6’s story they say 8 of them got off the place but 2 died. Who are the 2 that “died”? Why even say 8 got off? wouldn’t there be fewer questions if only those 6 got off the plane?
- Who did Ben signal with the mirror? My guess is that is was Richard. It makes the most sense, plus if you look at the map that Ben drew for Alex in episode 4.7, it looks like the temple is up in the mountains.
- What are Sun’s plans for her father’s company?
- Sun blames 2 people for Jin’s death. Her father is one, who is the other?
- What exactly does the Orchid do and how can it be used to move the island?
- Why did they feel the need to show is the shot of Ben giving Locke his collapsible baton? We have never seen him with it before except in flash-forwards and in that flash-forward he is wearing a jacket from the Orchid and is injured. What does that have to do with the events currently happening on the island?
- What is causing the radio interference on the boat? Is the thing on Keamy’s arm set to detonate the bomb on the boat?
- Where are the Others taking Kate and Sayid?
 
OK… so that was a lot of questions. Some are significant and some are not. Hopefully we’ll get some good answers tonight. Enjoy all 3 hours of Lost tonight and tomorrow make sure to tune in to Bob & Brian to listen to our discussion.

Seth discusses Episode 4.12 "There's No Place Like Home Part 1" on the Bob & Brian Show.

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Check back soon... I'll have my full recap of the episode posted this weekend.

Wow… lots to get through so let’s jump right in. Locke’s flashbacks have an impact on so many levels so let’s look at them one by one. His first flashback, dealing with his birth, has a few interesting points. The first one is pretty obvious… Richard Alpert was present for his birth, continuing the mystery of is he ageless? But if also begs the questions of how did he know about Locke and his “special” nature before he was even born. I have a theory that is pretty far out there, but may actually have something to it. They never refer to Locke’s father by name in this episode; they only refer to him as “him”. What if Anthony Cooper isn’t really his father? Other than Ben, we have seen 3 children in the show that are of particular interest to Jacob and the Others: Locke, Walt, and Aaron. Think back to one of Locke’s earlier flashbacks, his mother claimed that he was immaculately conceived. Then remember back to the time Michael was captured by the Others while he was searching for Walt. Ms. Klugh asks him if he knows for sure that he is Walt’s biological father. Then there is the Claire flashback when she finds out she is pregnant. Her boyfriend was certain that it was a mistake because they had been using protection. What if all of them were in some way “immaculately” conceived and Jacob is their father? Yeah I know it’s a stretch, but something to think about. There was one other thing about Locke’s birth that we’ve seen a parallel of in Ben’s life. Both of their mothers were names Emily, both of them were born prematurely, and both of their mothers called out what the baby was to be named. They had eerily similar births.
 
Locke’s second flashback, showing him living in foster care, also has a couple of interesting notes. I don’t know what it means that young Locke drew that picture of the smoke monster, but just seeing it sent a chill down my spine. The test that Richard gives him is similar to the test that is given to determine of a child in Tibet is a reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. It appeared to me that the item Richard wanted him to choose was “The Book of Laws”, but of course he chose the knife which is a nod to the life he always dreamed of leading.
 
That life is alluded to further when we see teenage Locke after being stuffed in a locker. It seams as if Richard is once again attempting to bring Locke to the island, but this time under the guise that he is attending a science camp put on by Mittelos Labs. Locke’s aversion to science (you know, the whole science vs. faith thing) is shown in that scene, as his desire to be an “adventurer”. There was an easter egg hidden in that scene. You can see a picture of Geronimo Jackson in John’s locker. Geronimo Jackson is a fictional band that was started by Gerald and Karen DeGroot, the founders of the Dharma Initiative.
 
Locke’s last flashback might be the most intriguing. Don’t get me wrong, seeing Richard Alpert present at his birth was mind bending, but I found Matthew Abbadon’s conversation with him more interesting. Up until now we had Abbadon pegged as someone working for Widmore, because we saw him as the person who assembled Lapidus, Faraday, Naomi, Charlotte, and Miles for this mission. Up until this week it appeared as all of the people on the freighter were on the same mission, which is obviously no longer the case (more on that later). So who is Abbadon really working for? I would say it’s incredibly likely that he is working for the Others. And the more that time passes the more I think the others still have a strong connection to Dharma. Here is why I think Abbadon is an Other. Every flashback in this episode had to do with Locke’s recruitment to the island. All of those scenes were about him going there, but only at the right time. So in this flash we see Abbadon telling Locke to go on walkabout. Of course it was his walkabout trip that brought him to Australia and ultimately to the island. If you believe my theory you also have to believe that Abbadon and others have knowledge or at least a sense of what is going to happen in the future. But in the world of Lost that isn’t too far fetched, is it?
 
Back on the island, we follow Locke as he, Hurley and Ben are in search of Jacob’s Cabin. They got help finding it when Horace Goodspeed showed up in one of Locke’s dreams. I still don’t quite know what it means, but Goodspeed was building a cabin as a “retreat” away from the D.I. as he calls it. So was he building Jacob’s Cabin? I don’t quite get it but if I did, it wouldn’t be Lost. There were a few other interesting points about Goodspeed’s appearance. He said he has been dead for 12 years, but that doesn’t seem to make sense. Ben kidnapped Alex 16 years ago, what would have been 4 years before the purge when he was still part of Dharma. I can think of 2 explanations. One would be that it has something to do with all of the time warp stuff going on. The other would be that there is definitely an unexplained relationship between Dharma and the Others. I think either is likely. The other interesting thing about Goodspeed was his nose bleed. As he is talking to John (and repeatedly cutting down the same tree that keeps reappearing) his gets a nose bleed. This could be in reference to 2 different things. When the purge took place a nose bleed was the main physical side effect we saw caused by the gas… well besides death that is. But we have seen nose bleeds like that in another circumstance as well. Both Minkowski and Desmond got a nosebleed when they were unstuck in time.
 
With the aid of the Goodspeed dream, Locke and the crew are able to find the cabin which surprisingly contained Christian Shephard and a very eerily calm looking Claire. This has raised a HUGE debate among Lost nerds… is Claire dead? I whole heartedly say no. However I had lunch last Friday with one of this site’s sponsors who is whole heartedly behind the idea that she IS dead. And this guy is a pretty astute Lost viewer as well. We both had strong arguments behind out positions. I will explore both arguments more later this week in the Ask Seth posting… so if you have strong feelings one way or another leave a comment or shoot me an email. Regardless of Claire’s life status, a clear mission was given to Locke… move the island. Now how does one go about moving an island? We have no way of knowing yet, but my first guess would be that it has something to do with teleportation. I am lead to that guess because I have found out that we will FINALLY be seeing The Orchid station this week and all hints on that station have been about teleportation. Of course the survivors finding The Orchid could have nothing to do with moving the island, so time will tell on that one.
 
The rest of the real action in “Cabin Fever” took place aboard the freighter where we were able to get a clearer idea of what people’s real intentions are. Up to this point we have been lead to believe that the Captain was not to be trusted, yet all of his actions have been to help the survivors. It even seems as if he has some compassion for Michael, considering he did not take harsher actions against him. Then there is Keamy. The casting department for Lost deserves an award because that guy plays a dickhead better than anyone I have ever seen. His stand off with Frank and the Captain seem to indicate that there are no clear lines of loyalty on that boat. So who are the ones that really work for Widmore? It might look at first glance that its Keamy and his men, but they also now seem as if they would even destroy the island to accomplish their mission and Widmore clearly wants possession of the island, not to see it destroyed. The "who is working for who" on that boat is something that I can’t really wrap my head around so I am hoping we get some answered by the end of the season.
 
So at the end of the episode we see the Doc getting his throat cut by Keamy, which forced Frank to fly him and his men back to the island. Interesting thing about that is, we have seen the island time out of sync with freighter time before. But previously the island always seemed to be behind the boat. This is the first time we have seen time on the island shift to being ahead of time off the island. Regardless, Keamy’s actions leave Frank with little choice but to bring him to the island to carry out their secondary protocol. Did you happen to notice that the binder for secondary protocol had Dharma symbols on it? Frank refused to do nothing though, as he tossed his sat phone out to Jack and the folk on the beach. Apparently he wants Jack to follow them. My guess would be because they are going to where Ben is going which would be “the only safe place on the island”. Apparently there is someplace (I am going to guess it’s the Temple) where they will be safe from whatever it is that Keamy has strapped to his arm. I think it is some type of detonator. But not just an ordinary detonator… if it was there would be no reason for the Captain to think twice about shooting Keamy while he is wearing it. This is a complete shot in the dark, but I am guessing it is rigged to Keamy so that if anything happens to him, what ever it is detonating will still go off so his mission can be accomplished even if he is dead.
 
So yeah, I realize there are a lot of leaps of faiths, maybes, and remote possibilities in what I just wrote, but if you think about it… for as great as that episode was it left a lot of situations in ambiguous states. Lets just hope we get some serious answers in the season finale, which starts this Thursday and will conclude on May 29th. Keep your emails and comments coming. Stay Lost…

Seth, Bob & Brian discuss Episode 4.11 "Cabin Fever"

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We didn't get through nearly as much material this week as last week, so look for a full recap of the episode to be up soon.

There is one thing I forgot to touch on from Episode 4.10 that could have a major impact on tonight's episode 4.11 and it has to do with Claire. I was reminded about it by this email I received today:

How do we know that Claire is not dead already? She could have died in the explosion that we saw a couple of episodes ago. Now what we the viewers are seeing and what Sawyer and Miles are seeing is the island creating her like it did with Yemi. Plus Miles was acting real strange around her and seeing he can communicate with the dead, she could be dead already. Just a theory I thought of while reading your blog about Claire.   - Scott C.

Scott was right to notice something a little strange in the scene where the 3 of them are walking through the jungle. When Sawyer asks if she is doing alright she says she is ok then says "at least I am not seeing things any more". The comment may have seemed a little misplaced. That is because there was a scene cut from that episode where Sawyer asks her how she knew to get out of her house before it blew up, because she was supposed to be napping. She says that she had a vision, in a dream where someone came to her and told her she is in danger.

So I am fairly sure she is still alive. Considering that later in the episode Christian Shephard (who we know is connect to Jacob in some way) comes to lead her off into the jungle I would think that her "vision" that saved her life was also in some way connected to Jacob. When I picked Claire for my DeathWatch at the very beginning of the season, I wrote that it was because she isn't involved in any major story lines other than her relation to Jack, which could have been resolved even with Claire dead. It would appear that Damon and Carlton are remedying that situation and making her much more involved.

My original DeathWatch picks are still in play though. We have yet to officially lose a MAJOR character this season. Lots of people have died, just none of our principles. My picks in order of likelihood were 1) Jin 2) Sawyer 3) Claire... it would appear that my Sawyer and Claire picks won't happen, but Jin is still in play. I made those picks in January. Now that you all have the benefit of having seen most of season 4, send me an email at sethislost@gmail.com or leave a comment on this post and pick one major character you think is most likely to be killed before the end of the season and why. I'll post the most popular responses.