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Multiple Languages

• She was speaking multiple languages simply because she did not know which one would be understood or responded to, and she was unconscious and out of it.
• She was trying to speak to Mikhail only because she is from DHARMA and saw him wearing a Dharma jumpsuit. This is based on the fact that we know she speaks English and didn't use it and when Hurley understood her Spanish she changed languages again.
  • If Dharma is still running off the Island it is possible that they are aware of the destruction of the Flame and the Swan and sent Naomi to investigate.

Connections to other Characters

• She is connected to Ruth, Desmond's ex-fiancee (an allusion to the Biblical story of Ruth and Naomi).
• It is hinted in The Official LOST podcast that she could possibly have a anagram for her name. (Raid Monitor being a prominent choice.)
  • Others include, "No Midair rot","It radio norm", "Ram it indoor","I maroon dirt", and of course, "I triad moron"
• She came for Desmond, as she has his picture and knows his name.
  • Her mission was simple: "Find Desmond". She had already stated that she is just an employee of the firm that Penny hired, and she had never met Penny, so there is nothing for Desmond to ask.
• Connected to Libby. Both work for Charles Widmore and are in charge of getting/keeping Desmond on the Island.
• She and Henry Gale were both looking for the Island. Ben probably interrogated the original Henry, knew that he was "looking" for Desmond, and killed him because he found out that they were looking to exploit the island and kill everyone there. Naomi would have had a similar story that Mikhail may have found out about through translation, so therefore Ben knows about her being "One of the Bad Guys".
• It will be revealed at some point in a flashback that Naomi was somehow connected to Nadia.
  • We know Nadia spent time in Manchester, Charlie saved her from being mugged there. And Naomi said she was from there a couple of times.
• Naomi was secretly working for Charles Widmore and was hired to find and kill Desmond. She didn't while she was on the Island because she was initially incapable, and later wouldn't have been able to escape the survivors camp.
• Walt met Naomi when he was in Australia, and that's why Abbadon later chose Naomi for the mission to the island. Abbadon may be Walt and they may even be related.

The helicopter

• She crashed because of remaining electromagnetic fields around the Island.
  • They never showed an actual helicopter, just some noise and a splash in the ocean. Nor an extra one on the boat. And Frank is the pilot, and was on the 2nd heli. So he did not crash or arrived on a "first" one. They parachuted Naomi as a scout. Why stage a crash, I do not know. Gain trust maybe.
• She was flying in the helicopter used for Periodic Resupply Drop (P.R.D.) shown in the Sri Lanka Video.
  • The helicopter drop was launched from the Hanso supply ship the Helgus Antonius, mentioned in Find 815. This is the "freighter" 80 miles west of the Island she subsequently claims the helicopter launched from.
  • The helicopter shown in the Sri Lanka Video would be unable to deliver a load of supplies the size of the one found by the castaways in "Lockdown". Furthermore, Naomi's equipment - particularly the oxygen mask - is inconsistent with the model (and age) of the helicopter shown. However, more modern vehicles, such as a CH-46, can indeed handle such a load. The problem in the theory lies with the parachute; helicopter-delivered equipment is not parachuted to the ground, it is lowered by winch and released. A parachuted supply drop is, by modern standards, solely a fixed-wing aircraft job, most often given over to a C-130 Hercules or similar plane.
    • The C-130 is a propeller driven plane; therefore, could make a "helicopter" type-sound similar to the one heard just before the crash.
• The helicopter and the parachute jump were two separate events coinciding at the same time. The parachute jump came from another aircraft at a much higher altitude. The night camouflaged this.
• She purposefully ditched her helicopter in the sea as it would attract much less attention from the Others if she arrived by parachute instead of helicopter. It might also have been very difficult to find a place to land a chopper in the dark and she didn't want to be seen.

Others' Others

• In addition to the Losties, the Others may have their own set of Others to deal with, not just the natives or Dharma Hostiles.
• The natives or hostiles from the Island itself could be trying to infiltrate the rest of the earth, release the Monster, or escape their timewarp/alternate reality and that is why they are described by the first set of others as "bad guys."
• She is in the second group of Others which wants to ruin Ben and his group of Others.

Future

• The producers of the show once said in a podcast that they do not like alternate timelines or parallel universes.
• Naomi is from the future, which explains her satellite phone, whose touch capability seen in the iPhone, a technology mass-produced for consumers in 2007. (Events on the Island are still taking place in 2004.)
  • Even Sayid, who is very intelligible with technology, says he's never seen anything that sophisticated.
    • I don't see why Sayid would know of a technology that can communicate in real-time between 2 different timeframes. No offense, but he was a communication officer in Iraq in 1991... Maybe a wealthy millionaire from England living in 2004(even so), would have better equipment.
  • Time passes differently on the Island, as seen with Daniel's experiment. ("The Economist")
    • "The Constant", however, confirms that the year outside the Island is 2004 as well.
  • The ambiguous mark of the phone implies that it is a specially designed piece of technology (used by Hanso, DHARMA, Widmore, or any other possible organization), but not a future one. Ex: The FBI and CIA have technology not available to the public.
• She talks about Drive Shaft's greatest hits album being all over the charts, even though Charlie had only been "dead" for three months. It would be difficult for Drive Shaft to release a new Greatest Hits album of previously recorded material that soon.
  • It wouldn't take that long, the material would all be previously recorded works. Plus there would be a great incentive to release the material as quickly as possible to capitalize on the free publicity from news coverage.
    • Even so, she was speaking in past tense, seems fast in 3 months to learn about the death(even if they did not wait until they found the fake plane), put together an album, have a huge success and say "it WAS a big deal"... Inside the 3 months ?
      • If they waited until they found the fake plane, it is impossible or a writing error.

A Very Bad Person

• The importance of Locke apparently killing Naomi cannot be stressed enough. Locke is not a murderer. This theme was stressed throughout Season 3. He could not bring himself to kill Eddie Colburn and save his loving "family". He could not bring himself to kill his father who destroyed his mind, body and spirit. He could not bring himself to kill Jack who was going to make the call. Yet he put a knife in Naomi's back with no hesitation whatsoever. If you consider these things, you might conclude that Naomi was a very evil person, even more so than Anthony Cooper.
  • Locke changed when Walt showed up. What Walt had to tell him was so incredible that Locke now has new meaning in his life and will do anything to achieve his end. Murdering Naomi signals this dramatic change in personality.
  • An argument could be made that Locke never got to know Naomi. He knew his father, Jack, and Eddie very well when forced to make a decision whether or not to kill them. He knew nothing about Naomi except the idea that she is trying to wreck the island.
  • He killed Naomi so Jack would take him seriously.
  • He did not murder either Colburn or Cooper because killing them did not serve a feasible purpose. He killed Naomi because he didn't want anyone to leave.
    • Eddie Colburn was not a bad guy just a cop and Cooper was his dad. Killing an anonymous woman on an Island is a lot easier than to kill a policeman or your own father. Locke did believe that Naomi was there to hurt'his' Island though so in his eyes she was a bad person.

"In case anything happens to me."

• Jack asked her why she just didn't use the satellite phone, but she replied with "in case anything happens to me."
  • Naomi showed Jack how to use the satellite phone because she knew he was the most determined to get off The Island.
  • Naomi knows that The Others will want her dead but she needs Minkowski to reach The Island so she gave the phone to someone else just in case.
    • Minkowski was just the communications officer. She simply gave the phone to Jack because he is the leader, she saw that on the beach and she knows he will call the boat if something does happen to her. Jack is a survivor from Flight 815, why would she suspect he wouldn't want to get off The Island if he had a chance to ?

Penelope

• In the few moments that Charlie was talking to her she said "What boat? I'm not on a boat," which was a fair question and a true statement, and considering she didn't know who Charlie was, where he was transmitting from, or how he got the frequency they were talking on it's safe to say she was confused by the whole conversation. It's still quite possible that Penny hired Naomi, just like Naomi said she did, and the writers threw the Penny/Charlie exchange in there to throw off the viewers and to add a layer to the misinformation that the Losties are acting upon.
  • That would work, except when Charlie was in The Looking Glass, he pushed the button for 'incoming' transmission, not outgoing. She was sending the signal TO the Island, not the other way around.
  • True, Charlie pushed a button labeled "Incoming Transmission", but Penny asked him, "How did you get this frequency?" so she was obviously under the impression that Charlie had initiated the transmission. The writers apparently intended some ambiguity there.
• Penny was supposed to land on the Island, but since Desmond saved Charlie from the arrow, Naomi ended up there instead.
  • If so, Desmond is not only able to change the future, but also the past.
    • By saving Charlie, Desmond changed the course of the future, and the past off the Island. Before, Penny's people had found the Island first ("Live Together, Die Alone"), and there would have been rescue, but now an opposition (Paik?) have found the Island and will only cause more harm.
  • Desmond saving Charlie from the arrow means that he is able to turn off the "switch" blocking radio communication from the Island. He is a musician and the other Losties would be unlikely to enter the code unless given the exact numbers. If Desmond had not saved Charlie then it is likely that they would never be able to get the phone to work.
• Frank said that Naomi was 'upper management' so I would imagine Penelope would at least be familiar with her name if she did indeed send the boat.
• It's possible that Naomi found out about Penelope and Desmond due to communications from her trying to reach Desmond, we know that communications from her had reached the freighter, as mentioned in "The Constant", they destroyed the equipment on the ship to stop anyone trying to communicate with her, as they don't want anyone to find them out in the pacific ocean on their secret mission. Somehow, they managed to get hold of a photo of Penelope and Desmond, and Namoi took it with her in case they come across him on the island.
• Penelope is looking for Desmond. She knows he was out in a boat race in the Pacific and that he said he would be back after a year, but he disappeared for 3 years. She said that with money and determination, you can find anyone. Somehow, as she is a powerful person, she learned of the System Failure that brought Flight 815 on The Island from the science team we see at the end of Season 2, who recorded the electromagnetic anomaly from the implosion of The Swan. So, as her lover is lost in that part of the globe, she would think it's Des's doing, trying to let Penny know where he is, and asked the science team to let her know if it happens and record where it happens. And they do tell her. Then she hires Abaddon to retrieve Desmond. But somehow, as he evidently is the wealthy one, Charles Widmore knows about it and with further investigation, for reason unknown yet, wants The Island for himself. So Naomi is there to kill Desmond along with the rest of the people on The Island. So Penny and Naomi don't have to know each other, as Naomi is obviously hired by a 3rd party.
  • After all, it's Lost... It would be perfectly in par with everything that Desmond would be stranded on and willing to defend The Island from his nemesis, Charles Widmore.