Glass eye/Theories

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Glass eye

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Theories may be removed if ...

Stated as questions or possibilities (avoid question marks, "Maybe", "I think", etc).
More appropriate for another article.
Illogical or previously disproven.
Proven by canon source, and moved to main article.
Speculative and lacking any evidence to support arguments.
Responding to another theory (use discussion page instead).

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Malcolm - The police officer that Boone spoke to in "Hearts and Minds", (as Sawyer was brought into the police station in the background) possibly had a glass eye.
Radzinsky - Because the glass eye was found together with a missing splice of the Swan Orientation Film, it is likely that it belongs to the person who, according to Kelvin, removed the splice.
Marvin Candle - who some fans believe exhibited a lazy eye in the Swan Orientation Film
Mr. Paik - The way his eye tends to move and twitch in anger, along with its overall appearance, supports this.

Is a possible reference to the all-seeing eye shared by the three Graeae in Greek mythology.
Is a possible reference to "See no evil, Speak no evil, Hear no evil", with the Eye representing 'See', the Bible representing 'Speak', and the radio transmitter representing 'Hear'.

Because some characters in LOST are missing body parts (e. g. Martha Toomey or Dr Marvin Candle), this glass eye indicates that there is or was at least one more or less important one-eyed person.
Because a prosthetic body part is unlikely to be left behind by accident, it is possible that something in the eye (or the eye itself) is of significance. For example, it is possible that its owner had to abandon it, or is now deceased. Alternate theories include the possibility that the owner had a miraculous organ regeneration due to the island's healing properties, or that the eye is merely a prop similar to Tom's fake beard.
The mural in the Swan hatch is a clue, because there is an image of a man with his left eye missing and crossed out.