Through the Looking Glass

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. What is the Temple?
  2. How did Walt appear to Locke?
  3. Who is in the coffin?
  4. Is Ben right about Naomi?
  5. If the boat isn't Penny's, who does it belong to?
  6. How did Jack and Kate get off the island?
  7. Who else got off the island?
  8. How is Kate able to see Jack if she is a known fugitive?
  9. Why is Jack intent on returning to the island?
  10. What is the lie that Jack and Kate are telling?
  11. Who is the "he" Kate refers to?

Answers Given:
  1. Who are the women in the Looking Glass? They are Bonnie and Greta. They were sent to the Looking Glass by Ben to jam transmissions. Ben told the rest of the Others that they were on assignment in Canada.
  2. What are the Others making Kate and Sawyer work on? They were working on a runway.
  3. Why is Karl in the cage next to Sawyer? Ben didn't want Karl to get Alex pregnant.
  4. What will Penny do? She called out somehow to the area the signal she found came from.
  5. Will Charlie really die? Yes, Charlie dies so everyone else can leave the island.

Greatest Hits

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Who are the women in the Looking Glass?

Answers Given:
  1. Why is Rousseau getting dynamite? Rousseau was getting dynamite for Jack after Juliet told him that the Others were coming to the beach camp.
  2. Why has the signal been playing for 16 years and 8 months? Ben has been using the Dharma station the Looking Glass to block signals leaving the Island.
  3. Why has a rescue team not come yet? Along with the plane being several hundred miles off course, Ben has been blocking signals leaving the Island from the Looking Glass station.
  4. Where is the signal broadcasting from? Rousseau's distress call was broadcast from a radio tower on the island.
  5. Where does the cable lead to and from? The cable leads inward to the Flame station, while the other end leads to the Looking Glass station underwater.

The Man Behind the Curtain

Wednesday, May 9, 2007 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Who are the natives on the island?
  2. What is the white dust/ash around Jacob's cabin?
  3. How does Richard Alpert not appear to age between Ben's childhood and thirty years later?
  4. What is the true nature of Jacob?
  5. Why does Jacob not like technology?
  6. What happened to Annie in the purge?

Answers Given:
  1. Has Ben really been on the Island his whole life? No, he was born outside of Portland. He came to the island when he was a child.
  2. Who is Jacob? Jacob is Ben's superior. Only Ben talks to him.
  3. Who is the "magnificent man" Mikhail talks about who is above Ben? Mikhail was apparently talking about Jacob.
  4. Who is Roger? Roger is Ben's father.
  5. How is Mikhail alive? The power on the fence was at a low setting.
  6. What does Juliet want to tell Kate? Juliet wanted to tell Kate about the Others coming to the beach camp.
  7. What was the purge really? In the purge, Ben and the hostiles killed much of the Dharma Initiative with chemical gas.

The Brig

Wednesday, May 2, 2007 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. How did Anthony Cooper get the to Island?
  2. Why is Rousseau getting dynamite?
  3. What does Juliet want to tell Kate?

Answers Given:
  1. What is the "box" Ben describes? The box is a metaphor.
  2. Who is the parachutist? Her name is Naomi Dorrit. She comes from a freighter 80 nautical miles west of the island. She's part of a search and recovery team.
  3. What will Penny do? She sent Naomi and her team to rescue Desmond.
  4. Why does the parachutist have a picture of Desmond and how does she know him? She was sent by Penny to rescue Desmond.
  5. Who is the real Sawyer? The original Sawyer is Anthony Cooper, Locke's father.