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| Current Questions (Season 5) | |
| When Locke, Charlotte, Faraday, Miles, Juliet, and Sawyer were fleeing in an outrigger who was in the other outrigger shooting at them? | |
| What was in the guitar case that Jacob left in the cab with Hurley and he subsequently brought to the island? | |
| Why does Locke want to kill Jacob? Is it related to Jacob's plea to "help me"? | Turns out that isn't the real Locke, his body was found in a coffin by Alannah's group. Locke appears to be the loophole used by anti-Jacob to succeed in killing Jacob. |
| How did Locke come back to life after the Ajira plane crash? | He didn't. |
| When the Ajira plane was crashing we heard the numbers transmission. How is that possible when the transmission was changed by Danielle? | |
| In Namaste, Sawyer states that Daniel Faraday is no longer with them. So where is he? | He arrives back on the sub with other scientists. Presumabley he also left by sub sometime between 1974 and 1977. |
| How does Jin end up in a Dharma uniform? | Jin, Sawyer, Miles and Juliette join Dharma after Locke finally stops the island skipping |
| What happened to Sun/Sayid/Ben after the return to the island? | Sayid is in 1977 with Sawyer, Sun and Ben are in 2007/8 with Locke |
| How did Ben get roughed up before taking the Ajira flight? | The enhanced version of the episode told us that Ben went after Penny. In "Dead is Dead" we see Ben shoot Desmond and go after Penny. He hesitates when he sees their child and Desmond manages to attack Ben and toss him in the water. |
| What did Kate do with Aaron before returning to the island? | She left him with Claire's mother. |
| When did Sawyer/Juliet/Daniel/Miles/etc end up after Locke "fixed" the donkey wheel? | Last we saw them was Jin dressed as a Dharma security officer with a gun pointed at Jack et al. I turns out they first went waaaay back to the time of the statue (briefly) then jumped up to 1974 where they stuck. |
| What did the smoke monster/security system do to Danielle's crew to cause her baby-daddy to try to shoot her? | |
| What group of people owned the 2 boats the Losties found when they flashed to the future (when they found the deserted camp and Vincent's leash)? | These boats were likely used by the 316ers to get from the small island to the large island. |
| What happened to Rose, Bernard and Vincent (and any other remaining Losties)? Are they flashing around in time apart from Locke's group? | They retired on the island. |
| How did Charles Widmore go from being an Other lackey to a wealthy man? Charles spent 30 years on the island then was tricked into leaving according to his story to Locke. Is this true and if so, what happened? | |
| Is the gun-toting other woman named Ellie, Eloise Hawking? Is she also Daniel's mother? | Eloise Hawking is definitely Daniel's mother. She is also the one who, at age 17, met up with Daniel at Jughead. |
| Who is Jill, the woman Ben met in the meat market? | |
| What was Dan doing wandering around while the Orchid was under construction? | He went to warn Pierre Chang about an incident that was going to happen at the Swan. |
| Who are the British soldiers who threatened to chop off Juliet's hand? Did they chop off Marvin Candle's hand? | The turned out to be the Others, circa 1954, working for Richard of course. Charles Widmore is one of them. |
| Why is Charlotte getting nosebleeds and headaches? And Miles? And Juliet? | Flashy disease. |
| Ms. Hawking told Ben they have 70 hours to get back? What happens after 70 hours? | That was the window of opportunity found by the swinging pendulum and mathematical equations. Whatever. |
| Is Locke really dead? Ben avoided the question from Jack, and then we saw Hurley's dad watching Expose (the episode about the Medusa spiders) | He was dead (killed by Ben), but luckily the island brought him back to life. |
| Current Questions (Seasons 1-4) | |
| What happened to Faraday and the other people in the zodiac? | They made it back to the island in the zodiac. |
| What is the story behind Charlotte? Was she born on the island? | Yes, we heard her story of life as a Dharma child just before she died. |
| Why did Mr Abaddon encourage Locke to go on the walkabout? | He was likely instructed to by Charles Widmore. |
| When Richard the ageless visited Locke as a child, what was the meaning of the items he showed to Locke? Why did the knife make Richard angry? Was that sand in the bottle the same as the sand surrounding Jacob's cabin? | |
| What happened to Clair when she went off with Christian? Why did they leave Aaron behind? | Claire now seems to have a new personality and is in kahoots with Christian in the cabin. |
| Who staged the fake plane crash? Ben says Widmore and Widmore says Ben. | The season 5 recrap episode voiceover states that Widmore staged the fake crash. Widmor admitted to Daniel that he staged the fake when he visited Daniel to recruit him for the freighter. |
| How do the freighters know about the gas and how to find the Tempest station? | Since Charles Widmore is a former resident of the island, he likely knew the locations of the stations. |
| How did Harper (Goodwin's wife) appear and disappear so quickly in the woods? What's up with the whispers again? | Note that Harper's diploma has a Hanso Foundation logo. |
| In The Constant, Dan gives Desmond a formula/frequency message to pass to himself in 1996. Where did Dan get that info? In season 5, Dan also tells Desmond to look up his mother in Oxford. | |
| Why is Miles trying to extort 3.2 million dollars from Ben? Where did that number come from? Who does Miles think Ben is and what can Ben do? | 3.2 million is double the 1.6 million that Widmore paid for Miles to help find Ben by talking to the dead people. |
| Both Naomi and Ilsa wore bracelets. What do the initials RG stand for? | |
| What's up with the 31 minute time wrinkle discovered by Dan? | In The Constant, we witness Desmond jumping back and forth between 1996 and 2004 in consciousness. We also have the dead freighter doctor showing up on the island long before he is killed on the freighter. Not only that, but he shows up one day before the helicopter which left at the same time he was killed on the boat. In season 5 the island starts bouncing around in time/space like a yoyo. |
| What is up with Jacob's missing cabin? | They found it again with the help of Horace the mathematician's map. |
| What's up with the bending of light noted by Dan on the island? | Just part of the general island wackiness. |
| Why did Dan cry when he saw the news of flight 815 on tv? | His mind was all whacked out at the time due to his experiments. He needed to return to the island to heal his brain (according to Widmore) |
| How did a polar bear with a Dharma collar end up in Tunisia? | It was used to push the wheel to move the island. |
| Who is Matthew Abaddon, the man who visited Hurley in the hospital, and was Locke's orderly pre-crash? | So far we know he put together the helicopter group led by Naomi. He worked for Charles Widmore. Ben ended up killing him. |
| When Hurley came upon Jacob's cabin, we saw Christian sitting in the chair and another person peeking out the window? Who was peeking and how could Christian be there? | |
| What is the black smoke? | In season 4, we see Ben summon the smoke monster to attack Widmore's snipers after they killed Alex. |
| What is the flashy thing the smoke monster did to Juliet when her and Kate were handcuffed? | |
| Why can't the smoke fly over the security fence? | |
| Why do trees explode/vanish? | |
| How does the island heal people? | We have had hints that the electromagnetic fields of the island may have healing powers. If the island does heal people, why doesn't it heal Ben's tumor? |
| What causes the pregnant Other women to die? It is only women who conceive on the island that have a problem. | |
| What is the story behind the skeletons (Adam and Eve) with the black/white rocks? | |
| What is the sickness that infected Danielle's group? | The smoke monster/security system made them turn against Danielle and she ended up shooting them. |
| What's the deal with the injections? Do they really have any effect since Danielle says her crew was infected? Could they be connected? | Note when Ben and his father first arrived at the island we saw someone being injected in the registration area. |
| Does the squawking bird actually say Hurley's name? | |
| How did an enormous slave ship get to the middle of an "island?" | In season 4, The Constant, we learn that the Black Rock disappeared but its log was in the hands of a Hanso. It was auctioned off to daddy Widmore. The ship may have ended up on the island after the island was "moved". |
| What is the significance of Widmore? Pen Widmore was Desmond's girlfriend. | Widmore was videotaped by Ben(?), shown beating one of Ben's men. Ben claims Widmore is looking for the island but Ben has no idea how Widmore knows about the island.Widmore purchased the log of the Black rock in 1996. Widmore Labs made the pregnancy test used by Sun. They also manufactured (or sponsored) Henry Gale's balloon. Widmore Construction had a sign on a building behind Charlie's music video set. This building looks a lot like a set of blocks on Aaron's table when he lived with Kate off-island. Widmore sponsored the boat race that Desmond was in. Widmore was an Other in 1954, under the leadership of Richard. Widmore also funded Daniel's research at Oxford and took care of the needs of the woman that Daniel messed up (Teresa something or other). |
| What do the hieroglyphics on the countdown clock symbolize? | |
| What is the (Pala?) ferry mentioned in the Pearl video? | |
| What happened to Marvin Candle's hand? | |
| Why does the same apparent person use two different names - Marvin Candle and Mark Wickman? He used yet another name in the Orchid video. | |
| Why are the hatches abandoned? What sort of project failure occurred? Is it related to the conflict between the Dharma people and the hostiles? | |
| How did the hatch implode if Locke and Desmond ended up outside in the jungle? | |
| The polar bear's cave contained a dump truck, bones, old rags with a Dharma logo and an old monitor. Where did these items come from? | |
| Why was the orientation film chopped into pieces and why was a piece of the film and an eyeball hidden in the bible at the Swan station? | |
| What is the connection between Desmond's monk mentor and the jewellry shop woman? They are shown together in a badly photoshopped image on the monk's desk. | In season 5 we meet Ms Hawking again. She pinpointed the location of the island and informed Ben that he had 70 hours to get everyone back. |
| Why was blood taken from Jack and Kate? They also took Michael's blood in season 2. Sawyer's blood could have been taken during his fake surgery where they faked implanting the device in his heart. | |
| The Others had nice clean clothes when they were in their own village. Why did they wear rags and why was Mr. Friendly in disguise when they captured Walt, then Michael and the other Losties and why did they have the fake village? | |
| Who is Jacob and what is his list? | Jacob turned out to be from at least the time of the Black Rock. |
| What is up with Jacob and his cloak of invisibility? | |
| What is the ring of powder around Jacob's house? | Probably keeps out the smoke monster. |
| How/why has Juliet's shoulder been dislocated 4 times? | |
| What happened to Annie, Ben's childhood friend? We didn't actually see her body after the gas attack. | |
| Why does Richard never seem to age? | |
| Is Christian really dead? What happened to his body? | |
| Why was Desmond naked when he woke up in the jungle after the blast? | |
| Was Libby stalking Hurley?
Why was Libby in the hospital with Hurley? How was she released from the hospital? Why was Libby in Australia and why was she on the flight? |
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| What was in that wacky paste Locke put on Boone's head? | |
| Who ran Michael over, injuring him?
Why was that 2000 poster stuck on the file cabinet (with black tape) in Michael's hospital room, when it was 1996 when Michael broke his leg? |
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| What happened to the body of Eko's brother? It was entombed in the plane but is now gone. | |
| What is Vincent's true role and why does he seem to be in places right before/after something of importance occurs? | Poor Vincent isn't getting much air time anymore. |
| Does Walt have powers over nature as has been implied?
Why did Walt appear soaking wet and speak in reverse? Is this related to Ms. Klugh's question about Walt appearing where he doesn't belong? Why did Walt tell them the button is bad? How to explain teenaged Walt who appeared to Locke in the bone pit? |
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