My Serious, Logical Thoughts on Because You Left

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When Marvin Candle (not real name) wakes up it is 8:15 am. These are Hurley numbers and also the flight number of the plane that crashed. Candle puts on a record and its starts to skip. The skipping record foreshadows the people on the island skipping through time. In the cave we see the workman who was drilling into the "time room" I guess you could call it and starts bleeding and freaking out. The time travel quality of the island has deleterious effects. We have seen this before. When the radio operator and a friend went out into the boat near the island they eventually both died. Desmond almost died but made a phone call to Penny. She was his "constant" that saved him. Also note Faraday's female friend with the nose bleeds as they skip through time. She also is suffering from the time travel. Will she also die? LOST seems to mean now "lost in time". Years ago when someone posted that idea on the ABC board I did not believe it. And I have said for years that they were not lost in time. Well look where we are now? Skipping through time! There was actually a small clue of this some years ago. Sawyer was reading a book called "A Wrinkle in Time". Although we did not know it then it was actually foreshadowing what was to come. In the cave outside the time room we see Faraday. Is he still skipping through time with everyone else or is he on his own now? Is he part of DHARMA? Did he get a job there or just steal a uniform? What is his goal? Does he want to get into the time room perhaps to stop their skipping through time? Why else is he in there?

TITLE
"Because You Left." Why do bad things happed just because six people left? What does that have to do with anything. A partial answer comes from the episode "The Constant". In this episode which I alluded to earlier Desmond must contact Penny by phone just to stay alive. This phone call also stops him from skipping through time. Perhaps a similar thing is happening here. The six people are the island's constant. Without those six people everybody will keep skipping through time.

Note the name on Ben's coat when he turns the wheel. It is Haliwax. I am pretty sure that one of Marvin Candle's fake names is Edgar Haliwax. He mentions it in one of the orientation videos.

NEAL FOR REAL
Neal also named frogurt has been mentioned before. In the episode SOS Neal was mentioned as owning the frozen yogurt stand. We never actually saw him.

REINVENT THE WHEEL?
Who made the wheel that moves the island when you turn it? Was it a modern civilization? Was it a future civilization or a past one? What if it was a future civilization that had advanced time travel technology and they built the wheel? Or was it an ancient society like the one that built the four-toed statue. They didn't understand the technology but built the wheel because they were worshipping the island and this was part of their religion?

WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? (OR YOU CAN'T GET BLOOD FROM A KATE TURNIP)
Who hired the lawyers to get blood from Kate and Aaron? I know your first thought is Widmore. After all he is an extremely powerful man and yes that is a likely candidate but not the only one. As Sun mentioned whoever did it knows about the lie but is not interested in exposing it. They just wanted Aaron. Recall when mister abaddon visited Hurley in the institution he knew about the lie. He asked about the other survivors of the plane crash. So there are people who know. Abaddaon also was involved in sending the freighter people to the island hence it's Widmore. It may also be prudent to mention that Aaron is supposed to raised by Claire or very bad things will happen.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN, OF TIME AND SPACE
The island has moved not only in time but also in space. We know this because we see the plane from Africa crash on the island and also because in last year's season finale we see the island disappear. Now we have solved one of LOST's mysteries. How did a small plane from Africa end up crashed on the island? It's because the island went to the plane not the plane to the island. The island has a way of crashing planes and ships. Remember Danielle and her boat. The electronics went out when they got near the island. Probably something similar happened to the drug plane. Locke has seen the plane crash before in a vision in season one I think. In the general theory of relativity space and time are not separate but are combined together into one entity called spacetime.

QUESTIONS QUESTIONS
Why didn't Ethan remember Locke after he met him after crashing on the island? How did Alpert know where and when to find Locke? This one is partially answered. Locke will travel in time meet Alpert give him the compass and tell him Ethan shot him. But still Locke did not know the date he was shot so how did Alpert know the date to show up at the plane to treat Locke?

Sun wants to kill Ben and she assumes Widmore does also. But when Ben was in the bedroom of Widmore he says that he can't kill Widmore. Why? we don't know. It's like those two are playing a game with rules and one of the rules is that you can't kill the other. But Ben is allowed to kill the daughter of Widmore apparently. Ben has mentioned that the rules changed when his daughter was killed. So is Widmore allowed to kill Ben? Does this break the rules. Widmore has never said he wants to kill Ben. Notice how Sun has become this vindictive woman!

Why must Locke die to save the island? Is Locke really dead or is he just mostly dead? (See movie Princess Bride starring Cary Elwes(Saw)) We have seen drugs on the island when Locke drugged Boone and made him see visions. If Locke does know drugs then could he concoct something to make him look dead? When Locke's body is returned to the island will he be revived? What will happen if the six people don't return to the island? Will it be the end of the earth? What does the mother of Faraday have to do with this? Is the mother of Faraday the gray-haired woman we see in the vision of Desmond in the episode Flashes Before Your Eyes? If so she may be the key to saving everyone on the island. If the rules don't apply to Desmond then can he change time? What did Faraday read in his book that made him go to Desmond? Was it the phrase "Desmond Hume is your constant" that we saw previously in the episode The Constant?

TIME TRAVEL AND SUCH
Farady states that in time travel there are rules and you cannot change the future even if you wanted to when you go back in time. Time is like a string and you can travel to different parts of that string. This is different than time travel in back to the future and my novel Chaotic Planet Origin (available at www.qcms.biz). In those time can split onto different branches. See my novel. There's a whole chapter on just time travel called the Time Traveler's Handbook.

WHAT THIS EPISODE TEACHES US
The lesson to learn from this episode is always empty the dishwasher. Don't believe me? Just ask the guy Sayid killed.

ODDS AND ENDS
When Alpert says "what goes around comes around" refering to Ethan shooting Locke may be a reference to Charlie shooting Ethan. Ethan shoots Locke. Charlie shoots Ethan.

John Locke has now been shot twice on the island. Once by Ben and once by Ethan.

Q