LOST - Wednesday 10/05/05 9:00 PM EDT

[Richards]

If nothing else, this episode really made me feel sorry for Desmond. Poor sucker, getting an hour and a half of sleep at a time for how long now? And probably just because some "free thinkers" wanted to see how long they could get their guinea pig to jump through hoops for them? The profanity filter's going to clean up the last half of the word, but the first word to come to me about his situation was "mind."

Johnathan

 

[Crothian]

If nothing else, this episode really made me feel sorry for Desmond. Poor sucker, getting an hour and a half of sleep at a time for how long now? And probably just because some "free thinkers" wanted to see how long they could get their guinea pig to jump through hoops for them? The profanity filter's going to clean up the last half of the word, but the first word to come to me about his situation was "mind."

Johnathan

I don't see why he did it. And did he say what happened to the other guy that showed him what to do.

 

[Dubya]

I have never read the book. I just read that the book was to have something to do with the show. I read it on the Lost TV forums.

here is a quote from the Lost TV forum

"I also noticed that Desmond was reading the book The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien which is about "the nature of time, death and existence" according to the description on barnes and noble. Interesting!"

 

[Richards]

And did he say what happened to the other guy that showed him what to do.

Only that he had died.

Johnathan

 

[reveal]

I have never read the book. I just read that the book was to have something to do with the show. I read it on the Lost TV forums.

here is a quote from the Lost TV forum

"I also noticed that Desmond was reading the book The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien which is about "the nature of time, death and existence" according to the description on barnes and noble. Interesting!"

Here's a better description.

http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7924

Here's the ending of the book in spoilers for those who decide to read it.

[sblock]The narrator eventually escapes from the police station (with the help of an army of one-legged men) and passes Mathers' house on his way home. At this stage the quest for the black box had almost been forgotten, but he makes one more attempt at recovering it. Inside the house – or to be more accurate, inside the walls of the house – he discovers the station of the third policeman of the title, Policeman Fox, who has custody of the black box. Fox reveals that the box does not contain money, but “omnium”, a substance MacCruiskeen once described as: “the essential inherent interior essence which is hidden in the root of the kernel of everything” (113), but which is literally everything one desires. Policeman Fox has been using it to take the muck off his leggings and to boil his eggs just right, but naturally the narrator has more grandiose visions of his future omnipotence. He gleefully returns home with the black box, where he finds a much older John Divney who is surprisingly disturbed by the narrator's appearance: “He said I was not there. He said I was dead. He said that what he had put under the boards in the big house was not the black box but a mine, a bomb. It had gone up when I touched it […] I was dead. He screamed at me to keep away. I was dead for sixteen years.” (203)

The shock of seeing his dead friend kills Divney, and the confused narrator turns back to the road. At this point the narrative also turns back on itself, replicating the narrator's first approach to the peculiar police station, only this time he is accompanied by John Divney. Both are doomed to the cyclical quest for the black box. The novel ends with Sergeant Pluck's habitual refrain: “Is it about a bicycle?” (206). [/sblock]

 

[Richards]

Actually, it looks like I misspoke. My wife said that the figure in the window looked like Locke's dad, not Jack's. (I'd swear she said Jack, though.) Locke's dad is pretty rich, so he'd certainly have enough money to be playing around with island genetic and psychological experiments if he wanted to. Plus, he likes using people, and I could see him setting up something like a "push this button every 108 minutes or the world explodes" kind of deal for kicks.

Johnathan

 

[Crothian]

Actually, it looks like I misspoke. My wife said that the figure in the window looked like Locke's dad, not Jack's. (I'd swear she said Jack, though.) Locke's dad is pretty rich, so he'd certainly have enough money to be playing around with island genetic and psychological experiments if he wanted to. Plus, he likes using people, and I could see him setting up something like a "push this button every 108 minutes or the world explodes" kind of deal for kicks.

Johnathan

I don't think it relaly looked like Locke's dad, that would have been some con

 

[David Howery]

Concerning the possible 'others': Rodriguez is definitely from the plane. I think the black guy who's so handy with the club is a Nigerian character being added to the cast (TV Guide had something about him a couple issues ago), and he probably has something to do with the crashed plane full of drugs. My guess is that he has been on the island for several years (do we know when the plane crashed?), and that Rodriguez and the others in the group are from the plane, and they all hooked up somehow in the past 40+ days....

 

[Fast Learner]

Munitions magnate, not munitions magnet. The latter would be handy on the battlefield, though.

 

[Fast Learner]

Google map of the Lost island? Check out those coordinates.

http://tinyurl.com/c2hxf

Hmm. Well, those are pretty mangled coordinates, what with the 23 being cut in half by a decimal point. It is in a good spot, though.

More likely, coordinate-wise, is somewhere in Africa, at 4 degrees, 8 minutes, 15 seconds, and 16 degrees, 23 minutes, 42 seconds. Even if you make either of them (or both) negative, it's still pretty much Africa or off its coast, between Africa and South America. Which makes much less sense.