Bill’s Lost Site

Locke is seen giving Henry Gale some reading material. The book is Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov”. From Wikipedia:

The Brothers Karamazov is generally considered one of the greatest novels by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky and the culmination of his life’s work. It has been acclaimed all over the world by authors as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Andrew R. MacAndrew, Konstantin Mochulsky, Albert Einstein, and Pope Benedict XVI and is often regarded as a masterpiece of literature and one of the greatest novels ever written. The book is written on two levels: on the surface it is the story of a patricide in which all of the murdered man’s sons share varying degrees of complicity but, on a deeper level, it is a spiritual drama of the moral struggles between faith, doubt, reason, and free will. The novel was composed mostly in Staraya Russa, which is also the main setting of the book. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger, and completed in November of 1880. He died less than four months after publication. Click HERE for the full excerpt.

So, maybe there is a message in the text of this book that the writers want us to know.

However, folks over at the Fuselage have a different opinion.

It isn’t so much what Dostoevsky wrote that may be so important. Rather, the focus should be what is inside the book that Dostoevsky didn’t write. Did Locke smuggle something in to Henry through the book (ala Shawshank Redemption) or did Locke highlight certain pieces of text that would somehow assist Henry? Remember, just a few episodes before we saw Locke rifling through books - obviously looking for something. Did he find what he was looking for and share that with Henry?

We saw in this last episode that the medical bunker had a small door labled “Escape Hatch”.

Should we view the Escape Hatch a similar way to Emergency Exit? And if so, why didn’t they just call it the Emergency Exit?

Also, if it exits to the outside I don’t see the reason. The doors that Claire and the group walked through were about 20 feet away from the Escape Hatch. Seems awfully redundant to have 2 sets of doors leading outside that are right next to each other.

The Escape Hatch door was also very small, about 2/3rd’s of the size of a regular door. It almost reminds me of a laundry shoot - you open the door and slide down. Which actually brings me to my real point:

I think that the bunkers are connected underground. I also believe that there are additional points of entry/exit on to the surface of the island from these underground tunnels. That would explain why the “Others” don’t appear to leave tracks (they don’t travel on the surface very often). My guess is that they can travel pretty quick as well, meaning that the tunnels are wide enough for vehicles to be used.

Finally, the real reason why I believe this theory is that if the “Others” are screwing around with some disease that is air-borne my guess is that they would want a system that would allow them to live 100% underground if necessary. However, at this point it is all just speculation.