I couldn’t hear them when they said who it was that shot a scene in New York. Anybody know?

Ok my theory has been long to come up but I couldn’t find a way to make all the peaces fit in a simple way. Should I start by the flashbacks? The factions? I think I have a good idea now, I am going to use the corners of the jigsaw to bring it into one understandable way. So now here is my plan:
1_”How can you possibly not understand? You’re mine!”
2_”That island’s mine”
3_”You speak to me as if I were your Brother”
4_Constants and Variable

The 3rd corner is the most important one relatively to The Brig and The Man Behind The Curtain (and the 1st corner is important toward this one also) so I will try to finish it by Friday and to bring the first two tonight.
Then I when all the corners will be connected there will remain to look at the greater picture and conclusion:

5_”What about you?”

Such a well done episode. The Epitome of Lost’s charm.

We learn why Danielle got the Dynamite in previous epi.

Bittersweet moments aplenty: my favorite when Naomi says to Charlie ” you’re not really dead” whilst Desmond looks meaningfully on.

Best line: Rose to Jack “I like you better since you got back, Jack – you’re almost an optimist.”

Lingering question: why aren’t boats ever guarded on this Island?

I loved the Master Classes, thanks so much for sharing them. I’ve been enjoying the Season 3 re-watch as well.

And I’m looking forward to the rest of Yann’s theory!!

Thanks again,
Mike

Now what my theory is about: a game between Jacob and AJ. The purpose of this game? Bigger than we think and bigger than AJ thought.

AJ told Jacob: you keep bringing people to this Island to prove me wrong, but eventually all they manage to do is to kill each other.
We know the Others are on the Island. Are they from the Black Rock and the first group that managed to survive together and thus the utopia that Jacob wanted? Maybe. We don’t know yet. They might have been on the Island before and Richard could be a proof of that or he was the sole survivor of a preceding group and Jacob made him immortal, his “spoke man” and he was the one that united the Others from the Black Rock.
Now what we know is that a military group came to the Island but got killed by the Others.
Then, with the intel of “where is the Island” a student group known as The Dharma Initiative managed to come to the Island. They thought the Island could be used to change the world and avoid it’s already announced doom due to the Valenzetti equation. Confrontation and peace between the two groups followed. The truce was: you do what you want but don’t try to come to our part of the Island. Dharma installed barracks on the Island and surrounded the camp with a sonic fence to protect themselves from the Hostiles (and without knowing they also protected themselves from smokey) but they did not follow the truce conditions and wanted to take the whole Island for their research, the “Swan” being the main problem. The “Arrow” has been built simultaneously to prepare an attack on the Others. Finally the “Tempest” has come to mind as a way to remove all threats in one swoop. But the planed backfired due to information from inside (Ben, who wanted an other life as he asked Richard) and the Others took measures before the Dharma Initiative. Leading to the purge.
Rousseau’s Le Petit Prince then landed on Island. Smokey took some of them toward the temple. They then came back completely changed, tried to kill Rousseau but failed. Rousseau became a bit mad due to that and changed the message in the radio tower asking for help but nobody noticed. She gave birth and Ben, on Widmore orders, pretends to kill her and took her baby, asking her to disappear and run the other way from the Whispers.
Ben brought Kevin to the Island to “save the world” by pushing a button every 108minutes with Razinski (who was trapped inside the Swan station and thought the whole Island was on quarantine. A fake vaccine was brought to him that he had to inject himself. This way he thought that he was still working for Dharma and he had no need and couldn’t check what was going on on Island). However Razinski killed himself because he couldn’t stand doing that anymore (and because he was the one responsible for the Swan and the Incident that happened and thus the button). Kevin found Desmond that had crashed on Island. He brought him to the station and gave him the vaccine, told he was saving the world, working for Dharma and removed a piece of the orientation video explaining he could use the computer to communicate with the rest of the Island (Hid it inside a book, one he took from the library probably). This way he was trapped and alone with him. During that time he continue the work on the Blast Door, wrote some quotes in Latin (does it ring a bell now?). He tried to repair Desmond’s boat and leave the Island without anyone noticing. But Desmond found out that the quarantine was fake and killed Kevin by accident. He came back late to push the button and thus crashed Ocean 815.
End of part1