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The Flash Forward
Jack's beard
- Jack grows a beard because he's become an alcoholic addicted to pain killers who doesn't take care of himself because he is depressed.
- Jack grows the beard out so that the public wouldn't notice him. After he got rescued, he gained a lot of media attention and because of the cover up about the island and also his guilt about leaving the island, he didn't want the attention.
Jack's depression
- By not being on the Island, Jack's life has lost all purpose and meaning, thus leading him to depression.
- These decisions may eventually lead to the death of many of the Losties.
- The Island won't let Jack kill himself, exactly like the Island won't let Michael kill himself. When Jack went to jump off of the bridge, the Island caused the accident so that Jack would help the two in the crash instead of killing himself.
- Jack felt he might be able to finally kill himself after he saw the obituary of Michael, who was the person inside the coffin.
- Off the Island (sometime after he saw Hurley in the Clinic, but before the events in this episode) ("Something Nice Back Home"), Jack is visited by an apparition of his father who tells Jack that he has to go back to the island, much like when Hurley saw Charlie. This causes Jack to feel like he is losing his grip on his sanity and starts abusing drugs. This explains why he referred to his father in the present tense during "Through the Looking Glass".
On the Island
Walt
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- Walt and Locke are special because they are the only two people (besides Ben and Jacob) who know that they aren't supposed to leave the Island.
- When Walt appeared to John, he was just a manifestation of the Island; thus, it's the Island that's asking Locke to help, as he has some sort of "communion" with the Island.
- Walt's older appearance was due to the fact that he was using astral projection, a trait Beatrice Klugh asked Michael about, to project himself through time and space instead of just space.
- In Season 4 flash-forwards, Jack will ask Walt to do this to keep them on the island.
Naomi
- Naomi's knowledge of Penny's search and ownership of the photograph are the result of espionage.
- Naomi is working with DHARMA, which has waited however long to eradicate "the hostiles" who destroyed their initial mission.
- Naomi is working for a joint enterprise between the Widmore Corporation, and the Hanso Foundation to keep Penny from rescuing Desmond and retake the Island.
- Naomi is using a fake cover story, and we now know that she is not there for Desmond. Naomi has met Ben before, probably in the real world, where Miles' photo of Ben was taken. When Ben says "I don't believe we've met" he is being sarcastic. He knows who she is, why she's there, and he wanted her dead. This would explain how she knew to get to the Island and why she is chosen by Abaddon to lead the "rescue" team.
Mikhail's Intention
- Mikhail wants the Island communications to be unjammed. He flooded the Looking Glass's communications room after the deactivation of the jamming equipment intentionally to insure that it would not be reactivated.
