There's No Place Like Home, Part 1/Theories

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• A clear reference to The Wizard of Oz
  • Also a clear reference to the Oceanic Six arriving back to civilization, as alluded to by the preview.
    • In the Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy clicks her heels and says "there's no place like home," she teleports from Oz back to Kansas. The title may also be a reference to "moving the island."
• "Membata" is Indonesian for "doubt" or "uncertainty". In the press conference, this island is described on the map as "uncharted," so the island may not even exist even in the world of Lost (it does not exist in the real world) and is just another part of the elaborate cover story. The odds of an island in that part of the world, so close to other islands which are heavily populated, being uncharted in the 21st century are astronomical.
• Who was the other person that is responsible for Jin's "death"?
  • He may really be dead.
  • She is probably referring to Widmore. She bought her father's company not only to get her revenge on him, but also to use the resources now at her disposal to go after Widmore.
  • She is referring to herself, and perhaps feels leaving Jin behind was her fault.
    • Yes! Good point -- Jin wouldn't have been on that plane if it weren't for her, no?
      • Wasn't it Jin's idea to honeymoon in America?
• No one "set" the odometer on the Camaro, they just happened to be the exact reading at the time Hurley saw them.
• This business Mr. Paik is discussing with his underlings when Sun arrives is actually Sun's purchase of the company. Mr. Paik probably had some sort of corrput scheme in place to prevent him from losing his controlling stake in the company, but Sun was able to get around it because she had knowledge of it, being his daughter.
• Ben was communicating with Richard Alpert and his gang of armed Others.
  • The mirror communication was between Ben and Alpert or another one of the group of Others. He told them the orchid plan, and they are going to ambush the station and kill all of the Keamy people, or at least disarm them. Ben knew the helicopter people would be at the orchid already.
• Keamy put the explosives on the boat, predicting that some survivors would try to board the boat and having the explosives in case something went wrong (or horribly right) with the Second Protocol.
  • The explosives are set to go off if Keamy dies. The device on Keamy's arm is a dead man's switch set to blow the explosives if is heart stops beating. The signal from this device to the explosives is also the source of the interference on the reef monitor.
• The explosives are part of Michael's mission to destroy the freighter.
  • He looked pretty surprised/concerned. Also, if Michael put the C4 there, it seems obvious that he would be able to deactivate/neutralize/defuse it.
    • Michael may not have been aware of it yet. Ben doesn't exactly lay out his plans for people in detail beforehand.
• Kate overheard the conversation Jack had with Claire's mother.
• Ben will find a way to talk himself into gaining the trust of his newest captors as well, just as he did with the survivors.
  • There's not enough time for him to do that. His plan will involve a lot of badassery, a la "The Shape of Things To Come."
• Ben had to move the island 15 years ago. He was eating crackers at the time.
  • Ben maybe moved a DHARMA polar bear to the tunisian desert 15 years ago. AND was eating crackers at that time...
• The interference is being caused by the time dilation.
• Sun is able to buy a controlling share of the company only with contributions from Hurley's money, hence why Hurley is the only one able to go to Jin's grave with Sun and is glad that he is the only one who can.