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"Cabin fever"

What is it

• Cabin fever is just that: the claustraphobic feeling associated with staying in the same, small, contained place (like a boat) for too long
• The "cabin fever" is time distortion. People commit suicide because they know they will eventually die like Minkowski.
  • This would cause severe brain damage and could explain why Regina was reading the book unside down.
• Is caused by time travelers messing with events in the victim's past as a form of attrition.
• "Cabin fever" is an intentional pun by the captain--referring to Jacob's cabin.
• "Cabin fever" is "the sickness"; experienced by members of Rousseau's expedition.
  • Could have to do with coming to the island by sea, if both Rousseau's team and the freighter people are getting it.
• Don't trust the captain: It has nothing to do with the island. The entire crew have been out at sea for (presumably) months on a small boat, they're starting to lose it.
• Michael has sabotaged the freighter per Ben's instructions in order to keep it within a close proximity to the island, since Ben knew this would start killing the people on the boat.

Regina's suicide

• She was despondent over the death of Naomi. They had a bond. She was the R.G. on Naomi's bracelet.
• Regina's suicide is Ben's fault. Ben has the ability to communicate with others mentally. In support for this theory there is the fact that Ben passed Juliet a message through Harper when he was being held prisoner by Locke and was not in touch with his people. He was able to do this because he has the ability to communicate with others mentally, for he was not in touch with The Others any longer. Ben made Regina commit suicide by controlling her mentally, because Regina was easy to control in this way, and because Ben wants to prevent the Freighter from getting to the island. Thus, Captain Gault decides to "move to safer waters," because he cannot afford to lose any more people, and Ben achieves his goal temporarily in this way.

Blood on the wall

• It's Brandon's, for he is the only one we've known to die from the time distortion sickness but have not seen.
  • It's the blood of somebody who committed suicide just like Regina.
    • The blood splatter looks like a splatter from a gun shot to the head, perhaps Brandon shot himself or Captain Gault shot a disobeying crew member. It is no secret that uses extremist ways of getting to his goal.
• Michael was supposed to clean up the blood, but did not so that Sayid and Desmond would see it.
• The blood was left there on purpose, to deliberately discomfort Sayid and Desmond, almost as a threat.
• The tapping heard while Sayid and Desmond were in the sickbay was the occupant of their future room with the nasty bloodstain. I believe he may have banged his head on the wall till he died.
  • The direction of the blood spray (upward cone) as well as the concentration of spatter (dense at the bottom where cone peaks) and the upward angle it sprays at suggests that someone placed a gun in the person's mouth (whether it be suicidal or homicidal) and pulled the trigger.

Staged Oceanic 815

Who's responsible for it?

• Whoever did it, it has to be someone who knows that the survivors are alive and on the island, but cannot find a way out. It is Ben, or Widmore. Both have a motive and means: They both want the world to never find out about the island, and are powerful enough to engineer something like that.
• Charles Widmore. He placed the wreckage because he doesn't want anybody to find the island, and he wanted the world to stop looking for the plane. He is lying about the fact that Ben would be responsible for that, because he wants to have the survivors on his side: their collaboration can be useful to find Ben. Michael knows that Widmore is lying and that he does not intend to rescue them, and thus warns Sayid and Desmond with the letter saying that Captain Gault is not trustworthy.

• Ben. He staged the faked wreckage and ensuing "discovery." Ben staged the crash so the world would stop looking for the plane. He did this to protect the secrecy of the island. He is also a man of extensive means, as indicated by Miles' initial reaction to him, his secret room with copious amounts of cash, and his apparently extensive international travel (in "The Economist," in Miles' photo, his many passports). And he also has associate off-the island (they kidnapped Locke's father, they recruited Juliet, they gather information on people worldwide, etc.).
  • Ben's financial means come from gold he found on the Black Rock.
  • Ben was also the one who hired the Christiane I to search the Sunda Trench, using some artifact from the Black Rock (or a map: "from the coordinates we pulled off of our guy's map" from "Confirmed Dead").
    • Ben has simply guided them to finding it via the emails sent to Sam Thomas.
  • Widmore found the wreck and discovered something about the flight recorder that indicated to him it was a faked wreck.

• The Maxwell Group (i.e. Widmore Industries), who funded the expedition.
• Captain Gault freely told Sayid and Desmond that Widmore was in charge, but implied it was someone else entirely who had the extensive means to stage the faked crash. This seems to indicate that Widmore didn't know how 815 came to be in the Sunda Trench. He obtained the flight data recorder to find out what happened.
  • During the "Find 815" game, everything about Oscar Talbot (who works for the Maxwell Group, which is a division of Widmore Industries) illustrates that the mission to find the Black Rock was just a ruse in order to get a civilian to find the faked wreckage of Oceanic 815--probably to make it appear less like something that was staged and more like an unplanned discovery. Oscar is not surprised in the least about the presence of the wreckage, but rather seems to be pleased when Sam finds it as if that was the plan all along. Although it's not known how much of "Find 815" is considered canon due to the discrepancies in how the discovery of Oceanic 815 was shown between the game and the TV show, I believe we can safely say that the connection between Widmore and the fake Oceanic 815 can be surmised. Now perhaps we'll find out later that certain people under Charles Widmore are operating as rogues (similar to how Thomas Mittelwerk operated independently of Alvar Hanso), but we'll have to wait and see.
  • The dialogue is very carefully ambiguous as to whether the cover-up deals with the placement of a plane and bodies or simply the discovery of said plane. The captain refers to 324 bodies, but also states that it was "faking the recovery of a plane crash," indicating that either the recovery was faked in part or the physical plane and corpses were also part of the deception.
  • The Captain is lying about the whole thing. The second plane is in the trench through some kind of teleportation or time anomaly, like the bunny from the Orchid orientation video. It is flight 815, but from an alternate universe.
    • Frank Lapidus confirmed (in "Confirmed Dead") that the pilot in the wreckage was not, in fact, Seth Norris. If we can assume Frank is correct, this suggests that the wreckage was faked.
      • And because Frank is aware of this discrepancy, it's possible this his presence on this mission is so that he will either be killed or left on the island in order to shut him up. Although one has to wonder why they didn't just put a bullet in his head already...
        • Frank is only there because hes a good pilot. Maybe even good enough to be special. He is just able to successfully navagate through the tempest/maelstrom that leads to the island where others would surely fail.
• Although there are other companies involved in the cover up orchestrated by Charles Widmore, it was Paik Heavy Industries that physically planted the false plane in the trench.

Sunda Trench

• Due to the electromagnetic nature of the island, the last radio transmissions from the pilot actually appeared to be coming from the Sunda Trench, thousands of miles off course, which led to the search actually occurring there. This is related to the pilot's lines in the first episode, where he talks about being a thousand miles off course, and that they would be searching in the wrong place.
  • What the pilot meant is that because they crashed thousands of miles off course, the search would take place on-course, and thus be searching the wrong place from where they actually crashed. If the search were being conducted in the Sunda Trench, there is no way Ben (or whoever else) would be able to fake the crash site there without being discovered.

Charles Widmore

How did Widmore find the island?

• Charles Widmore found out about the location of the island because of Desmond going missing during the boat race. Desmond's disappearance caused Penny and Charles to begin a search. Whilst searching for Des, Charles discovered information about the island. Therefore, to stop the plane crash victims' families from searching for and discovering the island, the plane crash was staged by Ben (ordered by Jacob).
  • After years of Penny crying over Desmond, Widmore's guilt for using Libby and the boat race to get rid of him got the better of him. He used his resources to set up subsidiary companies that were used as a front to find Desmond (like The Maxwell Group) and was successful in making contact with Ben. After finding out about what the island could do and realising he could exploit it for his own means, Widmore double-crossed Ben and kept what he knew from Penny, leaving her to continue trying to make contact with the vague coordinates she was last given, while Widmore's workers were told to ignore and block her calls.
    • Ben and Widmore worked together until Widmore found out about "the purge" and was disgusted by Ben's actions, severing the partnership and swearing to apprehend him for his crimes.
      • Unlikely that Ben and Widmore worked together, because that would also imply a link between Widmore and Hanso. But if there were a link between Widmore and Hanso, then Widmore would not have had to bid on the Black Rock journal at an auction, he would have simply have gotten it from the Hanso (family).
        • There is a link between Widmore and Hanso. The journal was owned by a member of the family, not by the Hanso Corporation; that's why Widmore had to buy it. Check the theories page about the Black Rock journal.
        • The Hanso Foundation headquarters is located in the Widmore Building.
      • Widmore is not the type of man consumed by guilt over his daughter's estranged lover. The video Ben has of Widmore in The Other Woman shows that he is pretty ruthless.
        • We've seen lots of characters display very contrastive sides: violent or even homocidal one moment, vulnerable and sympathetic the next. With aslittle as we actually know about Widmore, it's probably unwise to characterize him based on a single event.

What's Widmore's interest in the island?

• Charles Widmore's interest in the island may include financial profit, but there is more to it: He is investing a lot of resources in finding the island and Ben, and he seems to have some sort of vendetta against Ben.
  • His interest in the island is not financial. Given that he spent £380,000 on a journal that may only give him small hints of the island's whereabouts, finding the island seems to be a much greater issue to him than money.
    • His real interest is finding Ben, and he knows Ben is on the island, but cannot find/reach it. The purchase of the journal is a simple guess that the Black Rock may have become a victim of the island's properties, as a stretch that it may lead to Ben's location.
    • The £380,000 to buy the Black Rock journal was a mere investment. Widmore assumes he will make millions once he is able to exploit the island.
  • Charles has some connection to the DHARMA Initiative and is seeking revenge on Ben.

Hurley

• In the flash-forward, Hurley asks Sun "Is anyone else coming?" When she replies "No", Hurley says that this is "Good" because this is an early sign of Hurley going crazy. He is glad that nobody else came because he's not always sure about who's real and who isn't.
  • It is more likely that he is glad he won't have to deal with people he lost trust in. Hurley is the member of the six that is more disturbed with the lies they are putting up.
    • Hurley has never liked lying. He's more of the gentle, truthful types.
• He is trying to make Sun feel better since she is obviously saddened as soon as he asks if anyone else is coming and she must reply no. Hurley has always been caring and in-tune with other people's feelings, so he is trying to lighten up the mood, and make Sun believe he is really excited to be able to spend time with just her.

Sun

• There is a six-week discrepancy between a conception date of 9/22 (the last possible day Jin could have been the father before dying, as the tombstone and Oceanic Six say) and a conception date of 10/26, which is when Juliet told Sun she had conceived (in D.O.C.) or even 11/4, which is the date Jin and Sun reconciled (in Exodus, Part 1). So Sun would have to have a story for the world when she is rescued, in terms of when she conceived and when she is due, because there is a big difference between delivering in mid-June (if she conceived with Jin before he "died") and delivering at the end of July (her probable true due date), bigger than the variation in normal pregnancies. This is accounted for by the time difference between the island and the world.
  • Sun has no reason to explain to anyone the DOC. In any case she appears to have gone into labour prematurely.
  • Perhaps it was the discrepancy between the conception date and Jin's date of death that made Abaddon's group realize the Oceanic Six story was a lie, which is why he later confronts Hurly in The Beginning of the End.
• Juliet lied to Sun about the conception date.
  • She said, "I think something is wrong," and the doctor said, "Your baby is in distress." Perhaps the pills, or the "time shifts" from getting off the island caused the complications.
• Sun was packing a bag to go to a private hospital so that nobody would notice the wrong length of time for giving birth.
• It is shown that a different doctor, unknown to Sun, delivered the baby. Perhaps someone related to the Dharma/Widmore/Others group.
  • Definately, Dr. Paik was replaced last minute by Dharma/Widmore/Others in order to save Ji Yeon, who would have died otherwise.

Bernard

• Bernard got into a minor argument with Rose that morning, then tried to talk to one of the many single male castaways about the difficulties of marriage, realized that single guys couldn't relate to his problems, so he looked for a married guy to talk to, and then realized that Jin was the only one.