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[Fire Walk With Me]

From ‘The Third Policeman’:

’Is this eternity?’ I asked. ‘Why do you call it eternity?’
‘We call it that,’ the Sergeant explained, ‘because you don’t grow old here. When you leave here you will be the same age as you were coming in, and in the same stature and latitude.’

To start this off, I want to explain why no one was looking for any possible survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, and what the Henry Gale impersonator meant when he said,
‘God can’t see this Island.’

Time has stopped. On the island, it is still September 22, 2004.

The survivor’s have become ‘stuck’ in time.

The Island isn't Purgatory... It's Eternity.

Okay, bear with me...

How did they get there? I like the idea of Vile Vortices. I think they definitely play a role in the where and why of the Lost Island, and I must give credit (and my applause) to forum member and brilliant Lost theorist PubClear, who's Theroy Accelarator first clearly introduced me to the idea.

Now, there are said to be twelve areas, each 72 degrees apart, that are spaced equally around the globe (with the exception of two points, located at the North and South Poles). Each is said to be the location of various anomalous events (strange skies and seas, spinning compasses, and unsolved vanishings and mysterious disappearances of ships, planes, and people). These areas I am referring to are the Vile Vortices.

Portals, or more simply, shortcuts from one place on the planet to another.

The LOST Island is the train station between these shortcuts. It is the resting point, and because time has opened itself up to allow for these shortcuts, and because these shortcuts are able to transport large objects from one side of the world to the other faster than the speed of light, forward momentum on the Island does not exist back in the real world. While the survivors are on the Island, time for them moves forward, they grow beards, they age, they die. But none of this has happened in the outside world - if Russo ever makes it back, the year will be 1988.

Trying to explain where and why the LOST island is where it is is like trying to describe a color to a blind man, and therein lies the mythology. But I believe it is located between two (or more) portals, and for some reason, pushing the button keeps the portals closed. And for some other reason (magnetisim), instead of passing through the portals to the other side, everything ends up trapped in the middle, on the Island. Remember the polar bears, the drug plane, the Elizabeth, Flight 815, Henry Gale from Minnesota, Russo and company, etc...

And what exactly happened when Desmond used the Dharma key? At one point or another, a group (or several groups) of people have discovered this anomaly (the portals, the Island), and over time, and for various reasons, these people have learned how to control it. These are the Others. Or the Dharma Initiative. Or both. They hold the key to Eternity. They are ‘The Policemen.’

The novel ‘The Third Policeman’ speaks of an ‘underground paradise.’ A place, when the book takes you there, bears striking resemblance to the Swan Hatch. When you leave this hatch, it is the same time of day as when you entered. Time inside the hatch doesn't exist. You don't get hungry, a cigarette burns forever, etc... I believe this 'Policeman hatch' is what may have inspired the mystery of the LOST Island.

I shall not recount the passages we walked or talk of the one with round doors like portholes or the other place where the Sergeant got a box of matches for himself by putting his hand somewhere into the wall.

In this underground eternity, you are able to wish for whatever you can imagine, ’But there is a limit and a boundary to everything within the scope of garden’s reason.’ You simply think of what you want, open one of many little doors on the walls, reach in and grab it. Now, think of Charlie’s guitar. And Kate's horse. Eko’s brother, Jack’s father, or Hurley’s Dave... Jin’s re-animated man juice (not my expression)! Everybody that crashed on Flight 815 has since received some sort of personal comfort, whether it be the cure to a psychological or physical problem, or an actual object or living thing. They find ways to resolve past issues that had been a torment in their lives for some time. Think of Sawyer, and the boar that seemed to be possessed by a man he had regrettably murdered.

Point being, in Eternity, you are never bored.

’Don’t go in there!’
The color fled from my face at the urgency of his tone. I turned my head around and stood rooted there with one foot before the other like a man photographed unknowingly in the middle of the walk.
‘Why?’
‘Because the floor will collapse underneath the bottom of your feet and send you down where nobody went before you.’
‘And why?’
‘The bag, man.’
‘The simple thing is,’ the Sergeant said calmly,’ that you cannot enter the lift unless you weigh the same weight as weighed when you weighed into it.’
‘If you do,’ said the Sergeant, ‘it will extirpate you unconditionally and kill the life out of you.’

But you can't take it with you... Not all of it anyway.

How do I think the series will end?

Our heroes sail off into the sunset, back through one of these vortices, perhaps located at the co-ordinates fake Henry Gale gave to Michael. They enter a thick, mysterious, colorful cloud of fog...

We hear the intriguing flashback sound zooming at us, and then…

CUT TO:

INT. OCEANIC FLIGHT 815 – SEPTEMBER 22, 2004

Jack sitting next to Rose, and he’s comforting her through some rather nasty turbulence. Then, in an instant, the shaking stops. The passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 relax a little. And Bernard comes back from the bathroom.

Kate finishes her sentence.

The plane lands in LA.

And because our heroes are strong, extraordinary people, (really though folks, this is what the fans would want to see!!!) they manage to bring their peace and enlightenment back with them. But that is all, they have no recollection or memory of time on the Island. But they are cured in many ways. Charlie, instead, flushes the heroin in the airplane’s bathroom. Claire decides to keep the baby, and name him Aaron. Boone and Shannon live happily ever after. And Locke wheels off into the sunset, perhaps the only one (except maybe Rose) actually blessed with the memory of 'time' on the Island.

Life goes on.

In closing, I want to drift back to ‘The Third Policeman’, and remember a story told by one of the Sergeants...

I heard of a man once that had himself let up into the sky in a balloon to make observations, a man of great personal charm but a devil for reading books. They played out the ropes until he disappeared completely from all appearances, telescopes and no telescopes, and then they played out another ten miles of rope to make sure of first class observations. When the time limit for the observations was over they pulled down the balloon again but lo and behold there was no man in the basket and his dead body was never found afterwards…

But they were clever enough to think of sending up the balloon again a fortnight later and when they brought it down the second time lo and behold the man was sitting in the basket without a feather out of him…

My Other Theories:

Cheyenne Mountain:
http://www.4815162342.com/forum/viewtopic2.php?t=12025&highlight=utopia

Death Takes a Vacation:
http://www.4815162342.com/forum/viewtopic2.php?t=16769

Last Game Show:
http://www.4815162342.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14275&highlight=
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[warsman11]

Good theroy but if they are frozen in time how come there is night and day?

[Rogue Other]

Cool! Bravo! That was really interesting. You should write for TV shows or movies or books- I'd like to see some of the other stuff you come up with!

I mean, that'd be a great way to end Lost... finishing the sentence... brilliant!

Unfortunately, with the Penelope and the Portuguese guys... I'm afraid that's not gonna happen.

[kn1x0r]

good theory... fun to read too.


the writers have said that one of the main focuses of season 3 would be love, and the relationships forming on the island.

how does this effect your theory? I'd like to think they wouldn't waste time with claire and charlie hooking up if it doesnt carry back over to the "real" world

or are you suggesting that everyone will "wake up" on the flight, remember what just happened to them?

a little confused there... but like i said. nice thread
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[mmajury]

still looking for Desmond in real time? You could state as it is still 2004 when the Ports and Penny are looking for him, but why then did it coincide with the time elasping and Locke and Desmond disrupting the timer enough that it was picked up by the Ports? I think Penny and her hired pilots are in real time, which then negates your theory. But, hey my theory went down, maybe, in flames.
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[Button Pusher]

That's an interesting theory. I don't quite buy it, but then nobody seems to have a theory I buy into. I must say, though, that I like your idea for an ending.

[blackfly]

Nice theory and I love the ending. It also plays into the idea of it being a "Philadelphia Project" type island. The only problem is that if time actually stopped, no one could actually do anything. Time can be considered the car we drive from birth to death. Without the car, we would never reach our destination. (discount walking, it's a metaphor )
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[Fire Walk With Me]

[jbpsudmb]

I thought Desmond discovered that there was a time/date stamp on the print-outs of all the times the numbers were entered...

[saviorself]

[preinhart]

If you don't get hungry in Eternity, why the food drop?

[Sawyer/James]

Good call
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The toys are not inlcuded

[ghtx]

I like the theory, and it makes sense after just reading "The Third Policeman" (though not much really makes sense after reading that book). The only problem that I have with the theory is the fact that, just like if the island were purgatory, if the island is "Eternity," then dying on the island doesn't really matter. You say, for example, that Boone and Shannon (and presumably Ana Lucia and Libby) will come back to life at the end. The producers, I recall, in negating the purgatory theory, also said something to the effect of: if someone dies on the island, they really die. The producers don't want everyone to think that it's a dream so that we don't really care if they die. The producers might be lying, but if not, then that throws a monkeywrench into the "Eternity" theory.

[Fire Walk With Me]

[Delphi]

It's an interesting theory and seems to gain a lot from the book, but what would be the point of saying its eternity? It still leaves open the same questions of what, why, how and where.

One part of the book I did think could be relevant was the description of the police station; The police station is two dimensional outside, but three dimentional inside.

Could this effect be achieved on an island using huge magnets to warp space-time, in order to hide a powerful weapon from the outside world?

Does the island need to be out-of-this-world, (e.g. eternity, purgatory) or could it somply be an effect of advanced technologies?