Lets clarify the plot to all the people who havn't been focused on what they've been watching.

Adam and Eve – its not the real Adam and Eve from the bible, its merely what John Locke had called the corpses that Jack and Kate found in the cave as seen again as a reminder on this episode to hopefully trigger some peoples minds (obviously not).

As your aware now, the male and female corpses are the remains for Jacob's Brother and 'Mother' which elegidly is actually a foster parent as their real mother was murdered by her, which we all know.

Jacob's brother has no name purely because their mother didn't expect a second baby and didn't have a name for him nor did she have time to think of one before getting her head smashed in with a grapefruit lol.

I hate calling him MIB so i'm gonna call him Adam instead, Adam to start isn't special, he just doesn't realise that the island is a place where disturbed souls can live to help those they care for – thus why he seen his dead mother and spoke to her, she's apart of the 'whispers' gang if you get me.

Jacob didn't see her merely because she had nothing to worry about for him and therefore has no need to speak to him.

Adam, now realising of the truth about who he really is, is in disgust and wants to leave the island because it isn't his home, his mother was never born on the island and the foster parent, which im gonna call Eve, is bad in his eyes and to do the opposite of what she says would seem good to adam.

You following me so far? good for those of you that are

So Adam, now joining up with the people / others / humans on the island, gets to experiance life in more depth, he gets to experiance the true nature of human beings, thus him explaining to Jacob on this episode that you can't trust them and they're manipulative etc..

To us viewers, they're just another group of human beings, but because Eve had brought both Jacob and Adam up to only know about the positive good things in their lives at the time, all these negative bad things are new to Adam.

Adam telling Jacob not to tell Eve about the game and the thought of lying to her isn't bad nor does it make him evil or classed as black, he is human like jacob, like us, and we all lie it's in us to do so, so Adam lying doesn't make him any different to Jacob, the only reason Jacob doesn't lie because he's been mother faithful to Eve's up bringing of him thus its would be terribly bad for him if he dared to lie to her.

Make sense?

So, on track, Adam now wants to leave the island, along with the other people he has now became to live with, they all search the island from head to toe for a way off, it may not have been mentioned on there but we all know from watching LOST that making a raft or a boat or some form of transport to float on water won't get you away from the island as you'll end up back on the same island only in another area.

This is due to the magnetic field in the core of the island. This magnetic field is what keeps the island hidden, its the reason why you can't leave or enter as you please there has to be moments in time to occur for it to be possible as explained in Season 5.

Jacob and Adam could kill each other at any time, but the fact that Eve said they can't cause harm to each other, gave them the belief that they couldn't so why bother trying?

We've seen Jacob lay into Adam in two occasions on this episode, causing similar bloody noses. I'd like to remind you all that Jacob accidentally killed Adam just before Adam went into the light (lol reminds me of poltergist with the black women 'don't look into the light!').

Re-watch that bit, you'll notice that Adam bangs his head (for a second time) on a rock in the river which kills him. Now your probably thinking, nah he would've been knock unconcious, yes i agree but bear in mind, probably 30minutes ago he had just had his head smashed into a rock wall by Eve, that knocked him unconcious, a second bang to the head was fatal.

So with Adam now dead, (murdered accidentally by Jacob through anger if you prefer), he enters the light. The light being say the egg of a womb, and Adam being the sperm, his dead body / corpse is engulfed by the light which gives birth to the Smoke Monster.

This creature, in my opinion, is the islands 'animal'. To put this into perspective, read the following: Polar bears are found in antartica and thats where they're from. Camels are found mainly in africa in warmer climates. Pandas in china and Koala bears in austrailia – i know these animals exist everywhere now but upon discoring the species these are the places they were found. So the Smoke Monster is just this Islands' Creature. So if your still confused:

The island is China, and the Smoke Monster is a Panda – does that make sense? good!

Ok moving on…

The wheel, (probably the first invented wheel in time, or probably not lol), and it's purpose is invented by that of the people on the island. Obviously they're clever people, probably ancient scientists. They've figured out that if they can channel the source in the island, the core, that they will be able to jump into a loophole, open a window to be able to get off the island.

Now as you've seen on the episode, Eve fills in the well, the hold dug up by the people where the wheel and the energy source is found. It hasn't been blown up from inside, just packed in with soil.

Now to make sense of this wheel and how it was made again from this continue on:

It probably won't be explained in the show but i don't think it needs to anyways, all you need to know is, whoever these clever people were on the island they were obviously able to off the island eventually or if not able to explain there genious invention to the Dharma Initiative, heck these people could be the birth or the Dharma Intiative.

Over time they eventually dig up the hold again, and get to work to be able to get the wheel in place. And eventually the Dharma people we see in lost, like the chinese guy in the instruction videos, find the wheel and do tests on it with rabbits etc… which we all knowby now anyways i don't need to explain them anymore.

So this wheel is the traditional way off the island and also the beginning of twisting time, moving the island etc etc.

Erm what else to clear up?…..

Ah yes :

Adam may have left the island if he didn't die, but couldn't as he did die. The Smoke Monster on the other hand, can leave once the protector of the island is killed off, who was Jacob. The reasons why Eve and her previous family (if they deemed to exist) were protectors of the island too was to protect the light from being taken by outsiders basically but once touched by an outsider (Adams body) it has destroyed the light and created this creature that has to leave.

OK so that bit doesn't make sense fully but it's purely because i myself am not 100% sure why yet.

Back to our crew: Jack, Kate, Hugo and Sawyer along with Desmond, Richard Alpert and Widmore, as well as Ben Linus and Miles who are all basically our remaining characters, well apart from Locke if you wanna count his appearance potrayed by that of the smoke monster.

So all these people are a vital key to finally determine the fate of this creature.

I truly believe the reason why we keep seeing these 'flash sideways' parallel universe like sysmptoms is because we are going to find out that Desmond is going to turn that wheel – huh? you say – lets go back a few episodes, the smoke monster threw desmond down into the well dind't he? *Yes but sayid came and saved him* – yes maybe so but i doubt desmond would've climbed out unaware of the wheel. So with desmonds magnetic brain and bizzare make-up of a person, i truly believe that he will turn the wheel, causing a + / – reaction between his magnetic current and that of the islands current…

Sorry i had to make another paragraph, walls of text are gay . continued …this will cause desmond to leave the island but not in the same time zone. No desmond is actually going to end up on this parallel universe that we see brining along with him his experiances and parts of time from the one we see.

Confused??

ok heres some naff illustrations:

Lost Time Zone 1 (what we have been watchin all the time) LTZ1

Lost Time Zone 2 (what we are seeing on this Season, the Time Zone where the island is under water, the plane never crashed) LTZ2

So, LTZ1 – Desmond is normal up until he forgets to press enter in time and causes the hatch to go googoo gaga, then from here he has transformed into a magnetic energy. From this when he turns the wheel (i do hope he does as it makes alot of sense) This energy of his will jump into LTZ2 with him.

The H-Bomb IS the cause of the two universes, alternative Time Zones, however desmond is the reason why the characters from each zone bump into each other and are both remembering things from LTZ1.

You get me?? Anyways i'll leave that theory of mine to sizzle until the remaining episodes are shown. It makes sense to me even if you disagree.

I could go on and on and on explaining all of this, but end of the day i think it is ignorant of you as a true viewer if youhavn't been following the series properlly and purely from that thought i don't think you should be spoon fed the purpose of the show. Start over again and take in what is being said and what is going on this time.

Goodluck all and may these remaining episodes be the best things ever since sliced bread

YJK

the thing i'm curious about is what jacob did after the moment presented in the episode; how did he find out what there was to do and who gave him instructions about finding candidates etc? was it his mother before dieing?

Have you never heard of non-identical twins?????

Seriously?

you have forgot about walt? he returns to the island… do you have any info on him? lol

I just have ONE thing to say unlike below where an essay (of interesting perspective) was written….If MIB and Jacob were friends all along, until the very moment that MIB turned into the black smoke because Jacob pushed him into the light and his remains were found a few mins later by Jacob, then when exactly did the conversation take place on the beach in which MIB said to Jacob 'I will find a loophole, and when I do, I will kill you'….in his OWN body…..get me?????

lets just clear this up a bit, correct me if I am wrong
1-the black smoke came into being with the brother with no name from contact with the light source (as far as we know)
2-when the real mother gave birth, the fake mother did not know it was going to be twins from her reaction, how significant is this?
3-the fake mother was the previous protector, does the black smoke exist at this point, assuming is doesn't(refer to 1) who burnt the village down and filled in the well
4-do all the protectors have a black smoke inside them? does the light absorb the 'goodness' in people and give out the hate/darkness is that why it needs a protector
5-what does the light source got to do with magnetism and time travel
6-I've seen that wine being drunk in a previous episode? significant?

Still don't know how the candidate system works with the lighthouse and gaps in time to travel from/to the island

the black smoke takes the bodies of the people who died on the island,as it does with lock's body,therefore it takes MIB/adam's body and in this body it treathens jacob.the black smoke was only released from that cave when jacob's brother got in.

It happend after Jacob pushed him… few days/months/years later.

Video's been removed from mega video please change link!

i cant get any of the videos to work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

how does this sound?
the light is the 'heart' of the island – a living source of energy. fake-mother is the protector of the light. she understands the need to ensure man does not discover the light, for fear the energy may be extinguished. if the light goes out on the island, it goes out everywhere. her role as protector is not indefinate, so there must be a successor. in jacob and the mib she sees the potential to nurture a future protector of the island – so she kills their real mother and passes the children off as her own (the protector does not need to be 'good' just 'devoted to the cause'). the fake-mother does not know for certain which child has the potential to protect the island, so has to wait for a sign indicating who her successor may be. although it is jacob she recognises as honest and with moral integrity – these are not necesserily the qualities needed by the islands protector. it is the mib who may be the natural heir but he rebels. he feels wronged and lied to by his fake mother and seeks the answers of his true existence from the 'others'. he does not identify with the island, has no desire to protect it and sees the 'others' as his 'people' and the only way he has of getting off the island. in order to leave the island the mib recognises that he and the 'others' must use the light/energy source and fake-mother knows that she must disable these attempts at any cost to ensure the island stays protected. she cannot bring herself or is unable to harm mib, so kills and destroys those helping him. she recognises this as the start of the end for her, so must initiate jacob as island protector before her 'other' son can kill her.

Did that sound like a half decent breakdown? Of course there are more questions that need answering. What is the light/energy? How did fake-mother get to the island? How are 'candidates' decided? Who will be the island's protector? Who should be the island's protector?

I have my theories!

i think it could be the wine he drank, coz the mother said that he is “like her/ her” now.. so maybe that's where he got his knowledge of what to do without her telling him.
He's been pretty naive the whole time… I know he's kind of good hearted etc… but this didn't get him popularity with his fake mum anyway, which kind of diminishes the importance of being good/pure hearted as a virtue on this island; maybe it's not the characteristic you need to run this place.

the game that locke and walt play is not the same game that jacob and adam play it's different but still with white and black stones. However the one walt and locke are playing was brought by locke who taught walt how to play it in the first episodes of the first season.

Why does the Smoke monster wanna leave the island, Adam wanted to leave the island! If Adam is Dead then why does the Smoke Monster wanna leave the island. Adam and Jacob were cool with each other as they showed in this episode, but in Season 5 episode 17, Adam says that he will kill jacob one day and that expressed Anger. And why does he want to kill all the canidates. I think that Adam turned evil like saeed and cliere. He just wants to prove that he was right, like he said one day he will leave the island and go back to his people.

Sorry to disapoint you , but i thing your wrong on some things:(

dont tell me youre jose postman virtanen

I don't buy it. We will have a very very unsatisfactory ending (are already having one actually). Anyway still amusing to watch…

omfg the only thing I could think of was HOOOOOW HAWTT AND CUUUTE that little brown-haired boyy iiis ! <33 *I'm 14 and I c0uldn't really keep my eyes of him soooo cuute !!!

MIB can use any dead body.. like he is using locke's now and locke's body is still in the casket..

You want his number ?

lol

i told u all its jacob, n everyone were sure his dead,,

this is not a theory, it's the review of the episode

Adam is dead – the person you see in season 5 ep 17 is the Smoke Monster!! jeezus what is it with people like you who don't read FFS!!! The Smoke Monster is killing off the potential candidates because anyone of them are the reason why he is stuck on the island, what he doesn't know is that Walt is the candidate and until Walt arrives he hasn't got a chance of escaping!!

that's quite a lot of things he learnt…he speaks several foreign languages. oh yeah and what's with the first two minutes of the episode, talking in a foreign lang and then switching to english…. trying to suggest they were not speaking english at all, i suppose.

fix the episode please