Dharma Secret’s LOST-n-Found: A Blog Dedicated to the T.V. Show Lost

Although a majority of the people on flight 815 have no link to the island what so ever, there are a select few who were manipulated, via different means, to be on the flight. After the crash, those whom were manipulated onto the plane were either kidnapped by the Others, and brought to the DI facility to be used for whatever it was that they were brought to the island for, or left to stay with the survivors for various reasons.

Jack: Although it is unknown as to what Jack’s place is in this puzzle, it is apparent that the DI wanted to make sure that he survived the crash which was made evident in the first scene of the Pilot when you could see in the reflection of his eye that a Smoke Cloud placed him in the bamboo grove away from the crash.

Shot with the reflection.

Shot without the reflection taken a few frames later.

Charlie: Based on the fact that Ethan tried to kill him, it is fairly certain that Charlie, like a majority of the passengers on the ill fated flight 815, was an innocent bystander who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Much to the dismay of the DI, however, he will prove to be major contributor in foiling their plans, especially in the way of Claire and her baby.

Clair: Claire, on the other hand, was in fact meant to be on the island. It is most likely that Claire was unknowingly was a part of the DI’s Eugenics program. Based on similarities between the drawings on the wall of the Hatch, and the paintings in Thomas’s loft, many have theorized that her boyfriend, Thomas, once lived on the island.

Screen cap of the wall in the hatch

Screen cap of the paintings in Thomas’s loft

Thomas, a possible Dharma Initiative Remote Viewer (DIRV), was paired with Claire by the DI’s Eugenics program. His objective was to go to Australia to seek out Claire, and start a relationship with her. At first, this was just a mission to Thomas. He was just doing as he was directed, but he soon found that he was falling in love with Claire. He knew that if Claire got pregnant then the DI would want her baby.

Thomas did what he could to prevent Claire from getting pregnant, but unfortunately, she did. He then tried to hide her pregnancy from the DI, but it didn’t take long for the DI to find out. Once they found out that Claire was pregnant, the DI directed Thomas to break up with Claire. Obviously crushed, Thomas did as he was told, and left Claire to whatever plans the DI had for her. Claire was now torn. Not knowing what to do, she tried to put her unborn child up for adoption. Not wanting to lose the baby, the DIRV did what they could to manipulate Claire’s decision (i.e. the pens at the lawyer’s office not working).

The first thing that the psychic that Claire and her friend went to see was that the DI touched her life. The psychic’s first impulse was to distance him self from her as much as possible. Somehow or another, the psychic has avoided being detected by the DI. When he sees that the DI is manipulating events around Claire and her baby, he fears being discovered by the DI and stops the reading. Unfortunately for the psychic, the DI did discover him. Desperate to not be taken by the DI, the psychic makes a deal to deliver Claire and her baby to them. The DI gives him money and a plane ticket for Claire, which he reluctantly, yet dutifully does. When he performs the second reading, the sees more of what the DI is and what they may have planned for her baby to which the psychic warns that she should not let her baby be raised by “an Other” (a play on words in which the dialogue was structured to lead the audience into believing that he meant “Another”).
Then, in Maternity Leave, probably the biggest evidence that the DI was watching, and manipulating Claire’s life was the mobile over the crib that played “Catch a Raising Star”. This was the song that Claire requested that the people at the adoption agency sing to her baby in Raised by Another.

Although this is a theory, and it is all speculation on my part, I am certain of one thing. Whether my theory is right or completely off the mark (which it probably is), I am positive that Thomas will make an appearance on the Island.

Walt: Throughout season one, Walt has shown an ability to influence things around him. He reads a book about birds, and a bird flies into the window. Michael tells him that he will look for his dog Vincent as soon as it stops raining, and then the rain eerily stops. Locke, possibly recognizing Walt’s innate ability, tells him to visualize in his head the knife going into the tree, and it does. He constantly gets favorable rolls, at will, while playing backgammon with Hurly. Walt sees a polar bear in a comic book, and a polar bear appears to trap him in a banyan tree. However, I DO NOT think that Walt has the ability to conjure up these things out of the thin air. It was confirmed by the black light map on the blast door, which was revealed in Lockdown, that polar bears were used for experimentation by the DI.

Picture taken from EW Article without over laid translations.

Picture with translation overlay.

When the bird flew into the window in Special, Walt may have somehow summoned a nearby bird. Later in the episode, Walt may have just summoned a nearby polar bear just like how he did earlier with the bird. As a means to having a constant crop of psychics for various endeavors, Walt and the other children (including Clair and her unborn baby) were lured to the island for their innate psychic abilities.

As stated on the Hanso Foundation site, one of the active projects is an Accelerated Remote Viewing Training Facility. It could be possible that Walt had this innate ability, and the Others are currently trying to develop it. As a side effect of whatever they are doing to Walt to get this to fully manifest, Walt has developed the ability of Astral Projection. Even though Walt is physically with the Others, he “Projects” a copy of himself to individuals at the camp. Because this ability is new to Walt, this explains why the sightings are so random and why he appears to be speaking backwards.

The messages appearing to Michael on the computer could also be a form of Walt projecting himself. Walt isn’t at another terminal typing, but is astral projecting his thoughts onto the computer for Michael to see. Since he is not concentrating on projecting an image of himself, the message on the screen is concise and un-jumbled. This means that, either, there was never any writing on the computer to begin with so there was nothing for Jack to see, or that Walt was Remote Viewing the Hatch and was manipulating the computer to type for him. When he saw that Jack was coming, he removed the messages from the screen.

Michael: If Walt does in fact have an innate psychic ability, then it is entirely possible that Michael may have lived his entire life with the same ability. Since he didn’t nurture his gift as a child, Michael may have lost the potential to develop his potential into an active, usable ability. However, since it appears that Walt was born with such a strong psychic ability, Michael may have been brought to the island to be used in the DI’s Eugenics program to actively breed psychic children.

After the season one finale, Michael took it very hard that he was not able protect his son when Walt was abducted by the Others. With no other viable option to getting Walt back, Michael did the only thing that he could, which was to seek out and somehow join the Others. After Ethan, and Goodwin’s failure to acquire the “list”, Michael’s knowledge of the camp, the survivors, and their capabilities would be very valuable information to the Others.. With Michael now among their ranks, the Others no longer needed to fear Jack and the survivors. Michael’s defection could easily be an equitable trade for the life of his son. This is how Zeke knew Jack, Sawyer and Locke’s names in The Hunting Party. Notice that since Michael disappeared in The Hunting Party, there have been no Walt sightings, no Smoke sightings or whispers in jungle. It is possible that since Michael is now an Other, the Others now know everything that they needed to know about the survivors, and they are no longer as big a priority as they once were. Hence, Zeke really had nothing to lose in offering Jack a truce. Jack and survivors were eliminated as a threat, and left to dwell on their side of the island.

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Although a majority of the people on flight 815 have no link to the island what so ever, there are a select few who were manipulated, via different means, to be on the flight. After the crash, those whom were manipulated onto the plane were either kidnapped by the Others, and brought to the DI facility to be used for whatever it was that they were brought to the island for, or left to stay with the survivors for various reasons.

Jack: Although it is unknown as to what Jack’s place is in this puzzle, it is apparent that the DI wanted to make sure that he survived the crash which was made evident in the first scene of the Pilot when you could see in the reflection of his eye that a Smoke Cloud placed him in the bamboo grove away from the crash.

Shot with the reflection.

Shot without the reflection taken a few frames later.

Charlie: Based on the fact that Ethan tried to kill him, it is fairly certain that Charlie, like a majority of the passengers on the ill fated flight 815, was an innocent bystander who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Much to the dismay of the DI, however, he will prove to be major contributor in foiling their plans, especially in the way of Claire and her baby.

Clair: Claire, on the other hand, was in fact meant to be on the island. It is most likely that Claire was unknowingly was a part of the DI’s Eugenics program. Based on similarities between the drawings on the wall of the Hatch, and the paintings in Thomas’s loft, many have theorized that her boyfriend, Thomas, once lived on the island.

Screen cap of the wall in the hatch

Screen cap of the paintings in Thomas’s loft

Thomas, a possible Dharma Initiative Remote Viewer (DIRV), was paired with Claire by the DI’s Eugenics program. His objective was to go to Australia to seek out Claire, and start a relationship with her. At first, this was just a mission to Thomas. He was just doing as he was directed, but he soon found that he was falling in love with Claire. He knew that if Claire got pregnant then the DI would want her baby.

Thomas did what he could to prevent Claire from getting pregnant, but unfortunately, she did. He then tried to hide her pregnancy from the DI, but it didn’t take long for the DI to find out. Once they found out that Claire was pregnant, the DI directed Thomas to break up with Claire. Obviously crushed, Thomas did as he was told, and left Claire to whatever plans the DI had for her. Claire was now torn. Not knowing what to do, she tried to put her unborn child up for adoption. Not wanting to lose the baby, the DIRV did what they could to manipulate Claire’s decision (i.e. the pens at the lawyer’s office not working).

The first thing that the psychic that Claire and her friend went to see was that the DI touched her life. The psychic’s first impulse was to distance him self from her as much as possible. Somehow or another, the psychic has avoided being detected by the DI. When he sees that the DI is manipulating events around Claire and her baby, he fears being discovered by the DI and stops the reading. Unfortunately for the psychic, the DI did discover him. Desperate to not be taken by the DI, the psychic makes a deal to deliver Claire and her baby to them. The DI gives him money and a plane ticket for Claire, which he reluctantly, yet dutifully does. When he performs the second reading, the sees more of what the DI is and what they may have planned for her baby to which the psychic warns that she should not let her baby be raised by “an Other” (a play on words in which the dialogue was structured to lead the audience into believing that he meant “Another”).
Then, in Maternity Leave, probably the biggest evidence that the DI was watching, and manipulating Claire’s life was the mobile over the crib that played “Catch a Raising Star”. This was the song that Claire requested that the people at the adoption agency sing to her baby in Raised by Another.

Although this is a theory, and it is all speculation on my part, I am certain of one thing. Whether my theory is right or completely off the mark (which it probably is), I am positive that Thomas will make an appearance on the Island.

Walt: Throughout season one, Walt has shown an ability to influence things around him. He reads a book about birds, and a bird flies into the window. Michael tells him that he will look for his dog Vincent as soon as it stops raining, and then the rain eerily stops. Locke, possibly recognizing Walt’s innate ability, tells him to visualize in his head the knife going into the tree, and it does. He constantly gets favorable rolls, at will, while playing backgammon with Hurly. Walt sees a polar bear in a comic book, and a polar bear appears to trap him in a banyan tree. However, I DO NOT think that Walt has the ability to conjure up these things out of the thin air. It was confirmed by the black light map on the blast door, which was revealed in Lockdown, that polar bears were used for experimentation by the DI.

Picture taken from EW Article without over laid translations.

Picture with translation overlay.

When the bird flew into the window in Special, Walt may have somehow summoned a nearby bird. Later in the episode, Walt may have just summoned a nearby polar bear just like how he did earlier with the bird. As a means to having a constant crop of psychics for various endeavors, Walt and the other children (including Clair and her unborn baby) were lured to the island for their innate psychic abilities.

As stated on the Hanso Foundation site, one of the active projects is an Accelerated Remote Viewing Training Facility. It could be possible that Walt had this innate ability, and the Others are currently trying to develop it. As a side effect of whatever they are doing to Walt to get this to fully manifest, Walt has developed the ability of Astral Projection. Even though Walt is physically with the Others, he “Projects” a copy of himself to individuals at the camp. Because this ability is new to Walt, this explains why the sightings are so random and why he appears to be speaking backwards.

The messages appearing to Michael on the computer could also be a form of Walt projecting himself. Walt isn’t at another terminal typing, but is astral projecting his thoughts onto the computer for Michael to see. Since he is not concentrating on projecting an image of himself, the message on the screen is concise and un-jumbled. This means that, either, there was never any writing on the computer to begin with so there was nothing for Jack to see, or that Walt was Remote Viewing the Hatch and was manipulating the computer to type for him. When he saw that Jack was coming, he removed the messages from the screen.

Michael: If Walt does in fact have an innate psychic ability, then it is entirely possible that Michael may have lived his entire life with the same ability. Since he didn’t nurture his gift as a child, Michael may have lost the potential to develop his potential into an active, usable ability. However, since it appears that Walt was born with such a strong psychic ability, Michael may have been brought to the island to be used in the DI’s Eugenics program to actively breed psychic children.

After the season one finale, Michael took it very hard that he was not able protect his son when Walt was abducted by the Others. With no other viable option to getting Walt back, Michael did the only thing that he could, which was to seek out and somehow join the Others. After Ethan, and Goodwin’s failure to acquire the “list”, Michael’s knowledge of the camp, the survivors, and their capabilities would be very valuable information to the Others.. With Michael now among their ranks, the Others no longer needed to fear Jack and the survivors. Michael’s defection could easily be an equitable trade for the life of his son. This is how Zeke knew Jack, Sawyer and Locke’s names in The Hunting Party. Notice that since Michael disappeared in The Hunting Party, there have been no Walt sightings, no Smoke sightings or whispers in jungle. It is possible that since Michael is now an Other, the Others now know everything that they needed to know about the survivors, and they are no longer as big a priority as they once were. Hence, Zeke really had nothing to lose in offering Jack a truce. Jack and survivors were eliminated as a threat, and left to dwell on their side of the island.

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