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The Flash Forward

Jack's beard

• Jack grows a beard because he's become an alcoholic addicted to pain killers who doesn't take care of himself because he is depressed.
• Jack grows the beard out so that the public wouldn't notice him. After he got rescued, he gained a lot of media attention and because of the cover up about the island and also his guilt about leaving the island, he didn't want the attention.

Jack's depression

• By not being on the Island, Jack's life has lost all purpose and meaning, thus leading him to depression.
  • These decisions may eventually lead to the death of many of the Losties.
• The Island won't let Jack kill himself, exactly like the Island won't let Michael kill himself. When Jack went to jump off of the bridge, the Island caused the accident so that Jack would help the two in the crash instead of killing himself.
• Off the Island (sometime after he saw Hurley in the Clinic, but before the events in this episode) ("Something Nice Back Home"), Jack is visited by an apparition of his father who tells Jack that he has to go back to the island, much like when Hurley saw Charlie. This causes Jack to feel like he is losing his grip on his sanity and starts abusing drugs. This explains why he referred to his father in the present tense during "Through the Looking Glass".

On the Island

Frequency Jammer

• The musician who created the code of "Good Vibrations" is Charlie.
  • He's the only musician known to have been on the island.

Walt

Main article: Walt Lloyd/Theories

• Walt and Locke are special because they are the only two people (besides Ben and Jacob) who know that they aren't supposed to leave the Island.
  • When Walt appeared to John, he was just a manifestation of the Island; thus, it's the Island that's asking Locke to help, as he has some sort of "communion" with the Island.
• Walt's older appearance was due to the fact that he was using astral projection, a trait Beatrice Klugh asked Michael about, to project himself through time and space instead of just space.

Naomi

• Naomi's knowledge of Penny's search and ownership of the photograph are the result of espionage.
  • Naomi is working with DHARMA, which has waited however long to eradicate "the hostiles" who destroyed their initial mission.
  • Naomi is working for a joint enterprise between the Widmore Corporation, and the Hanso Foundation to keep Penny from rescuing Desmond and retake the Island.
• Naomi is using a fake cover story, and we now know that she is not there for Desmond. Naomi has met Ben before, probably in the real world, where Miles' photo of Ben was taken. When Ben says "I don't believe we've met" he is being sarcastic. He knows who she is, why she's there, and he wanted her dead. This would explain how she knew to get to the Island and why she is chosen by Abaddon to lead the "rescue" team.

Mikhail's Intention

• Mikhail wants the Island communications to be unjammed. He flooded the Looking Glass's communications room after the deactivation of the jamming equipment intentionally to insure that it would not be reactivated.

• • Intriguing hypothesis. From his conversation with Bonnie and Greta, he knew that if the station were flooded, the jamming equipment would continue to work:

"What would happen if the station were to be flooded?"

Answer: "Nothing, the casing for the equipment is waterproof - it will keep going forever."

We see Mikhail's body laying near Bonnie just before she is telling Charlie the code. While Mikhail may have been unconscious, or slipped away before she told it, there is a strong possibility that when he sneaks away, he knows Charlie knows the code. So the question is:

What does Mikhail think he is accomplishing by flooding the Looking Glass? - If he wants to make sure the jammer is still activated as Ben requested, flooding it only makes it impossible for him to go back in the station, call Ben to get the code, and reactivate the jammer. Without scuba gear (which Mikhail no longer has with him) it will now be impossible to go in and reactivate the jammer in time to stop the transmission to the freighter. Was this Mikhail's intention?

Mikhail's questions to Bonnie and Greta

Mikhail asks a series of important questions to Bonnie and Greta in this episode. Namely:

"Is it possible to turn this equipment off?"

Answer: "Sure. Ben gave us the code."

"You are the only ones who have it?"

Answer: "Yeah, why?"

"What would happen if the station were to be flooded?"

Answer: "Nothing, the casing for the equipment is waterproof - it will keep going forever."

"Then why do you need to be here?"

Answer: "Because Ben told us to."

"And you never asked why?"

Answer: "No, because I trust him and I trust Jacob. And the minute I start questioning orders than everything we are doing here falls apart."

These are excellent questions. If Ben sent them there to protect the station's jamming equipment from being turned off, why does he give them the code to turn it off? If he had not, no one who might infiltrate the station would have any way of figuring out the code. Further, the fact that both Bonnie and Greta are there make it possible for any intruder to hold the one hostage for the code from the other, or if one dies, the other can tell the code to the intruder (which is what ends up happening). Why did Ben give them the code to turn the jamming equipment off if their stated objective for going was not to turn it off?

Factions within the Others

Mikhail's conversation with Ben and implications for factions

When talking to Ben, Mikhail asks:

"The island told you it was necessary to jam your own people['s messages]?"

Ben: "Yes it did ... trust me. Trust Jacob, who told me to do this."

"Why would Jacob ask you to lie to your own people?"

Ben: "Because this island is under assault ... and we are meant to protect it..."

"So why didn't you trust me [Mikhail]?"

He then instructs Mikhail to kill Charlie, says that he can't risk the other Others finding out what he's done (presumably jamming the transmissions off the island) so Greta and Bonnie have to die too, and the jamming equipment needs to keep working at all costs.

• This implies that Ben lead the Others to believe that they were able to or had communicated off island, but in fact he had been jamming their transmissions.

Further implications of factions within the Others in this episode

• Tom refuses to kill Jin, Sayid and Bernard - he tells Ryan "Ben has lost it."
• Mikhail asks why Ben didn't trust him with the information about how the Others communications off island were being secretly blocked.
• Ben learns Juliet has betrayed him
• Ben learns Karl told the Losties the Others were coming for their ambush early
• Alex helps Rousseau tie up Ben
• Mikhail reports in front of Richard that Ben had told the Others that the Looking Glass had been flooded and was "inoperable."

Questions:

• As soon as Charlie unjammed the Looking Glass station, a call came in from Penelope. Is this who Ben was afraid members of the Others would talk to if they knew that the station was in fact operable? The Widmores?