Season 4, Episode 5

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here we go...

40 miles - reference to 4o acres and a mule- had to do with slavery/land owners?

305- off track. 305 is an area code in miami where juliette is from. also, It is a triangular number and the sum of a pair of twin primes (149 + 151), twins- the bad twin the book, the 2 eggs, triangle- holy trinity (jacob locke ben & bermuda triangle reference, it's also been 3 years that penny has been looking for desmond)

also- USS Skate (SS-305) was a United States Navy Balao-class submarine named for the skate, a type of ray. Ray was the name of the doctor. I also think he was in a past episode or two. all the seasons under 'the doctor" were crossed out.

dude with the tattoos was the same dude in the barracks with desmond questioning why should he call penny. was that a bat tattoo? it was a circle with something in it.

Keamy- the actor who played him had a few interesting roles - Mystery Alaska, Without A Trace, The Dead Zone & The Butterfly Effect. (oh and big momma's house 2). also if you google keamy- keamy engineering in australia comes up and keamy eye & laser center!

Omar was Sayid's superior in the Republican Guard, some time after Desert Storm. He was the one who informed Sayid of his promotion in rank from a Communications Officer to an Intelligence Officer. He also forced Sayid to interrogate his love, Nadia, whom he ordered to be tortured. Sayid shot and killed him when he witnessed Sayid trying to help Nadia escape from being held prisoner by the Republican Guard.

Sayid does not recognize Omar at all. Is he experiencing the same issues as desmond with memory loss/time space continuum (see more info below) coming to and from the island. daniel said that going too and from the island, people get confused, but not amnesia.

PS- they are both from florida! 305 area code.

Who else said i'm not supposed to be here- hurley? locke? we think it's more than one.

Why did jack put sayid on speaker phone? i just thought that was weird.

Notice the use of side effects often. seems to be a recurring theme (pregnancy on the island..)

Ferris wheel mention- the ferris wheel in london is called the london eye, folks!

All Ray wanted to do was look in Desmond's eye. an eye is the window to the soul. remember the flashbacks with the eye opening sequences. I thought there might be a theory with who gets off the island had the eye flashbacks (those that had them are the oceanic 6 but i'm not sure i can prove it).

Desmond thinks it's 1996 (8 years ago from 2004- 8 is a number)

2.342 (23 and 42 are numbers) check this out:
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part002/part002-0342.html

11 hertz Probe Set HZ-11 for E and H nearfield measurements is a diagnostic tool for detecting trouble spots both in the fields of EMI and EMS. Its main application is in the diagnosis of radiated emissions from printed circuit boards, ICs, cables, leakage spots in shielded enclosures, and similar sources of lectromagnetic interference. The detected emissions can be displayed on test receivers, spectrum analyzers or oscilloscopes. Since the probes are passive when operated without a preamplifier, they can also be used to find EMI-sensitive components.

"If the numbers don't convince me tell me about eloise." Eloise was a psychiatric hospital located in Michigan. the DeGroots are from Michigan. Also, Libby & Hurley were in the Santa Rosa psych ward- the location has not been determined. The Eloise hospital sold it's land to the Ford Motor Company (Sawyer's last name is Ford- am i reaching?!?!?)

George Minkowski- Minkowski possibly refers to Hermann Minkowski, the early twentieth century German mathematician-physicist who described time as a fourth dimension.
Minkowski Spacetime is the most common frame of reference for spacetime, with three physical dimensions and a single time dimension, and it is used in general relativity. Closed timelike curves (CTCs) existing in Minkowski space explain many of the mysterious features of the island (why it can't be found/seen, etc.). CTCs were linked to the Lost universe through clues from the ARG Find 815.
This connection is posited as evidence by the proponent of the HEMA theory.
With the appearance of the character of Daniel Faraday, and The Maxwell Group all named after famous scientists, this could hint that the mysterious faction to which Minkowski belongs are more like scientists than the philosophers who currently inhabit the island.
Another possibility is the phenomenological philosopher and psychiatrist Eugène Minkowski, who studied the "subjectiveness of the lived Time", and was described as having made "the first serious attempt in psychiatry to reconstruct the other person's lived experience."

Daniel tells Desmond to be careful crossing the street. He almost got hit and Charlie saved him in a flashback.

Black Rock painting at the auction is the Black Rock ship on the island, which they said was lost at sea. bidding started at 150,000 pounds and ended at 385, 000 pounds by bidder 755. any reference here?

423 cheyne walk - penny's address ( 4 and 23 are numbers)
Cheyne-Stokes respiration (also known as periodic breathing) is an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by oscillation of ventilation between apnea and hyperpnea, to compensate for changing serum partial pressures of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
The condition was named after John Cheyne and William Stokes, the physicians who described it.
This abnormal pattern of breathing can be seen in patients with strokes, traumatic brain injuries, brain tumors, and congestive heart failure. In some instances, it can occur in otherwise normal people during sleep at high altitudes. It can occur in all forms of toxic metabolic encephalopathy.[1] It is a symptom of carbon monoxide poisoning, along with syncope or coma. This type of respiration is also often seen after morphine administration. Also, there are headaches from the time travel. And Daniel said there is prolonged exposure to radiation but "nothing to the head'

Could this also be the cause of bleeding from the nose? Didn't the marshall bleed from the nose?

79460893- there has to be some meaning to these numbers.

"if anything goes wrong desmond hume will be my constant". they will both remember each other when things go awry. also a Constants are real numbers or numerical values which are significantly interesting in some way. The term "constant" is used both for mathematical constants and for physical constants, but with quite different meanings.

Time Paradox- the creators of lost are all for this- see the EW article in one of the comments & wiki it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-space_continuum


Also- here's another random theory- is kate's mom karen degroot? (karen degroot was the founder of the dharma initiative) all members of lost have trouble relationships- could it be they were once on the island but don't remember?