IGN's Top 50 LOST Loose Ends

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Lift up your head and look to the North

8:3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
(King James Bible, Ezekiel)

I Do (S:3,E:6)

"O ye friends of God in His cities and His loved ones in His lands! This Wronged One enjoineth on you honesty and piety. Blessed the city that shineth by their light. Through them man is exalted, and the door of security is unlocked before the face of all creation. Happy the man that cleaveth fast unto them, and recognizeth their virtue, and woe betide him that denieth their station." (Baha'u'llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 22)

0) Not a lot of easter eggs in this one. But, plenty of emotion.

1) "Lift up your head and look to the North." Is that where the other island is, or One-Eyed Jack? Notice that it said John underneath the scripture. Is that for the gospel of John, or a message to Locke? Check out the picture I added to see what's North.

2) So this is the marriage that Kate was speaking of when she was playing the drinking game with Sawyer. "What you see is what you get." Not with Kate. There was a comedian at the DC Improv, she spoke of irony. Irony is: Kate marrying a cop. Especially one that investigates fugitives. I'm telling you...we should go back to ancient Roman times and brand fugitives on the forehead with "FUGI" (et tu Brute?) so they can't dupe anyone else.

3) I also remember Kate telling Sun last season that she's used a pregnancy test before.

4) So Carl was Alex's boyfriend. Guess he wasn't a kidnapped tailie (though that theory could still work). Loved the slingshot. I had to try hard to keep from giggling. When Ben asks about Alex, he's told that Alex has been taken home. Is that to the Other neighborhood on the main island? And, did Benry raise Alex? He seemed to show some inkling of care for her. Something tells me that we're not far from an Alex/Rousseou reunion when LOST comes back from it's 12 year hiatus.

5) What's with Sawyer's willingness to die? One would expect him to fight for his life when death is imminent. But, he chose instead to let it happen (even though it didn't), possibly thinking it would save Kate.

6) Jack's story to Kate when she was sewing him up in the Pilot episode: "Well, fear's sort of an odd thing. When I was in residency my first solo procedure was a spinal surgery on a 16 year old kid, a girl. And at the end, after 13 hours, I was closing her up and I, I accidentally ripped her dural sac, shredded the base of the spine where all the nerves come together, membrane as thin as tissue. And so it ripped open and the nerves just spilled out of her like angel hair pasta, spinal fluid flowing out of her and the terror was just so crazy. So real. And I knew I had to deal with it. (crying). So I just made a choice. I'd let the fear in, let it take over, let it do its thing, but only for 5 seconds, that's all I was going to give it. So I started to count, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Then it was gone. I went back to work, sewed her up and she was fine."

7) Best line of the show: "Who said I was going to operate? I just wanted you to know how you are going to die!"

8) Desmond in the Promo saying something to the tune of: "You don't want to know what happened to me in there." So...Desmond knows? This one should be good.

9) So, one of the Others says that Jack wasn't even on Jacob's list. Who's Jacob? Is that Jacob Vander-something, Hanso Board Member?

10) Anyway...long time til Feb 7th. But, 16 straight weeks!?!? I'll have my work cut out for me. Time to get some rest.

The Cost of Living (S:3,E:5)

4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
4:11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
4:12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
4:13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
-King James Bible, Genesis


1) We start with a flashback of Eko as a child, stealing from the church to feed his brother Yemi. He's caught by a nun and told to confess his guilt to the priest so that he can be absolved of his sin. Both at this time, and in the end of the episode, Eko refuses to confess his guilt. Eko says he did not choose the life he was given and that he is not sorry for the things he has done, saying that he did his best with what was given to him. The smoke proceeds to then throw Eko around...smashing him into trees and finally into the ground...fatally injuring Eko. Does this mean that the smoke was acting in a just manner? The image of Yemi says, "You talk to me as if I am really your brother." Could this mean that he wanted Eko to talk to him as if he's a priest? Maybe Eko only cares about getting forgiveness from his brother, and not from a greater being (like God).

2) So...with Eko gone, the only Tailie left is Bernard. Talk about being on the wrong side of a divide. If you're a tailie...your chances of stayin' alive are slim.

3) The writers kept saying that the "Smoke" has been around, we just haven't noticed it. Well...guess you can say that when Jack saw his father, it was the Smoke. When Kate saw the horse, it was the smoke. Boone, in the Sweat Lodge. Maybe the bird that keeps saying Hurley's name is the smoke too.

4) Still doesn't seem like Nikki and Paulo are making a smooth transition into the story. I guess change is tough, even for someone watching a TV show.

5) IT WASN'T AN ALIEN!!! Thank God! So it was a dude with an eyepatch. But, how the heck does he know he's being filmed? Maybe the camera had one of those red lights on it. Dude was pretty quick to cut that thing off. Gotta love the foreshadowing by Locke: "He'll be expecting us." A lot of people speculating that it's Razinsky (Kelvin's hatch-mate that supposedly blew his brains out). Kelvin mentioned that Razinsky did splicing. The splice of film that was found, was found with the glass eye. Could it be that Razinsky is still alive?

6) I liked the part where Benry asks Jack if he believes in God. Then he says, two days after he was diagnosed with the tumor, a spinal surgeon drops out of the sky. Juliette's little video at the end there makes me a little suspicious about whether her and Benry are in on a bigger plan. There is one thing that I found interesting though. Benry said that they chose Juliette to talk to Jack, because she resembled his wife. So...did Jack really just fall out of the sky...or did they have him pegged before he even left Australia on flight 815?

7) To Kill a Mockingbird...eh? Funny how the plot of that book could be present in this sub-plot. Is Juliette actually leading the others in a mutiny against Benry? Is Benry "wrongfully accused" and is actually a good guy? Is Juliette the "bad guy"? Is Jack playing the role of Atticus Finch?

8) Next Episode is titled "I Do", and has flashbacks about Kate's life.