LOST "Three Minutes" Airdate: May 17, 2006

NOTE: Uuuuuugh... I am so far behind. I started this blog last Thursday morning thinking that I would be able to finish, and now it's Wednesday morning...the day of the finale. I totally lost steam as the weekend went on, but hopefully I will finish today.
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Three minutes was the amount of time that Michael was given with Walt. This episode could have been also been titled, " They're Not Who They Say They Are...They're Pretending." Well then who the hell are these "Others?" As I piece together the few clues that I have gathered, the "Others" are clean-cut, well dressed, doctors/scientists who like to dress up in rags and pretend to be castaways. But why the charade? Is it part of a bigger psychological experiment? It's seems this blog entry will pose more questions than answers... but, then again, what's new?

One question I had prior to this episode was answered concerning how they would explain Walt's growth and voice change during his hiatus as he hit puberty. It appeared to me that his voice was over dubbed using a younger sounding kid, or maybe they recorded stuff with him last year before he disappeared. Also, I forgot that Hollywood can make you as short or as tall as they want. Take Tom Cruise, he always looks taller than his co-stars, and he is a little dude.

As Micheal was taken to the Other's beach side camp, he sees the rock with the hole in the middle that Walt tells him about via the computer (if that was in fact Walt conversing with him).


It looks like some sort of symbol. Has anyone run across any explanation of this rock?


The Others' base camp is very primitive, but why? Why the masquerade? Is it part of standard Dharma/Hanso operating procedure to create the illusion that the Others are castaways whenever the initiative is compromised? When Alex (Roussea's daughter)and Michael are in the woods,

She tells Michael that he's [Mr. Friendly/Zeke] just delivering a message and he has to scare them to do it. Fear. The Others are using fear as a weapon/defense to keep the survivors at bay. Take the torch scene as an example:

"Light 'em up!!!" Just before the meeting with Mr. Friendly and the Flight 815 survivors, he instructs Pickett to get the torches ready. I only counted about 6 Others. So the whole torch scene was yet another illusion to instill fear, huh?



The woman in charge of the Others camp calls her self Miss Clue (or is it Klugh?) I don't see her listed in the IMDB list of characters, so I'm not 100% sure of how she spells her name. It might be important (ie. Ethan Rom = Other Man). She seemed to know a lot about Michael's relationship to Walt, as well as info on the other survivors. I wonder if she heads up the black smoke project that we haven't seen since it read Eko's mind. She also says "for someone who wants his son back so badly, you don't seem to know a lot about him." That was after she drills him with several scientific/medical questions regarding Walt. That comment was similar to something the attorney said to Michael in another episode. I need to back track and see if I can locate exactly what was said.

A little later, when Michael gets to see Walt (who starts spilling the beans about the Others), Miss Clue threatens Walt with, "You don't want me to put you in the room again, do you?" What is this "room" and where is it? Do you think it could be the hatch that was guarded by the two armed men?

And are they guarding the door to keep people out, or keep what ever is behind it in? If you recall, there was some sort of monster that pulls the pilot out of the plane in the very first episode. Maybe they have some sort of genetic animal mutation experiment gone wrong held captive. I have a feeling that the room Miss Clue (Klugh) spoke about will be important in the finale.

Also during the scene with Walt and Michael, Walt breaks away from Pickett and runs to Michael to hug him. He whispers something muffled into Michael's ear. I played the audio file over and over and over and it sounds like he says, "They're mutants." I'm sure it's just me over analyzing the show again, but there was just something that stood out in that portion of audio.

After they take Walt away, Clue knows she has broken Michael and he is willing to do anything to get Walt back. In comes the list:


I can understand why they would want Jack, Kate, & Sawyer. They have somewhat moved into a leadership role among the survivors, but why would they want Hurley/Hugo? Is it because of his connection with Leonard in the nut house? Or are they wanting to experiment on someone who is feeling hurt and rage inside because they just lost someone they love?

A few other things (as I try to wrap this up and get back to work)

Check out the gun that Pickett uses to shoot at Michael in the clearing.


It's a German Luger.

There have been some theories posted in the forums that the entire Hanso Foundation may be some sort of Natzi/Neo-Natzi run program. I even thought at one time that the Dharma Initiative may be an American Military run project because of some subtle clues in earlier episodes. The Luger would not have been standard US military issue obviously, so that sort of debunks that theory of mine. The Luger would not have been issued at all recently because it's such a rare gun. Sure, collectors can still find them and there have been some replicas produced. I wonder if the Others ran across a secret stash on the island that has been there since WWI & II? Hmmmmmmm...?

Did you notice that Eko's cross did the same thing that Jack's key did earlier in the season as he entered the hatch?

The big magnetic field was pulling on it. I'm still not sure what that means. Eko seems content on moving into his new "bachelor pad" as Charlie gets pissed at him for not finishing the church. Charlie did complete his 12 steps as he threw the heroin into the ocean, and it looks like he has made amends with Claire.

I'll give you one guess who's on the boat, brotha.

I'll give you another guess as to who the original owner of the boat is/was. We will find out in the first hour of the season finale through the flashbacks of the guy who is on the boat.

I know I said when I started this blog that I wanted to stay away from spoilers, but I just couldn't take it anymore...I had to know how this season ends. I read a few different endings on several spoiler sites. I'm not sure which one to believe, but if any of the info I read holds true, the season finale will be one hell of an episode. And like the promo says, we will get the answers to a few of questions:
1. What happens when the countdown runs out and they don't push the button?
2. Why did Oceanic Flight 815 crash?
3. Who are the Others?

Here's to tonight!