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Doc’s LOST Part Two - The Key

Lost News — March 7, 2007 at 8:00 am by DavidHume

Okay folks, here is part two of my LOST ‘Story’ Synopsis.  Again, I don’t consider this a theory because I know there is no chance it is correct, but it is an idea that works and explains a few loose threads that we have now, as well as set up an end game.  Hope you guys like it!

In the last part, I pretty much set up the basis for my ’story’:  a flight attendant named Jacob, and the twin that he never had. How is it possible for Jacob to have a twin he never had?  Doesn’t even make sense, right?  Here’s my ‘idea’…


It all begins with Desmond turning the key, and his Journey through time.   By simply becoming conscious of his journey, Desmond changed things slightly.   The most devastating thing to happen was the strike he took at the pub that sent him back to the present.   We can assume that the rest of his life was played out the same, but in fact it was not.   Even though Desmond’s consciousness eventually traveled back through time to arrive back on the island, the changes that he made during his trip back created a separate time-line governed by a very different Desmond.  We’ll come back to him, and Penny, in part three.

In this alternate time line, the universe continued to course correct based on Desmond’s changes, but even the slightest changes have very different outcomes.  In this case, in the alternate time-line, oceanic 815 crashes on the island, but the survivors were shuffled somewhat.  Most of our favorites survived, still, with the exception of John Locke.  Without John Locke, the survivors have a much harder run of things.  They run out of food and must turn to cannibalism to survive. Instead of the reasonable and intelligent coming into control, the aggressive take over the beach.  After several months, a sickness begins to pass through the camp.  People are hallucinating, and hearing voices.  Some are worse off than others, and some are not affected at all.  The madness grows until a group of them become obsessed with voices coming from the ground.   Eventually they are able to read each others minds, and some can project.  Now, they have found the Swan station with their abilities, and know of the power within. 

As the sickness tightens its grip, a strange presence begins to sweep through the camp. A murderous black cloud that begins to sweep through and pick off the most ‘advanced’ of the sick. 

The ones that are not affected decide they need to get away from the beach, but before they can escape the affected find out their plan and the normals are killed, except one.  Jacob. Jacob is a flight attendant that no-one knew in the other time-line because in that time line, he was in the tail section and was amongst one of the first to be ‘kidnapped’ by the others.  And for good reason, which I will explain in the next segment.

Jacob escapes as the maddened group becomes preoccupied with a threat.  They have read the mind of a man locked away in the hatch, and in doing so, they have determined something very troubling to them.  The man is aware that he has made changes to the universe which can only be corrected one way,  by the turning of a key.  This man, Desmond,  has purposefully stranded himself on this island for that sole purpose.  When that key is turned,  the alternate time-line will collapse and they will never have existed because the man knows where he went wrong in disturbing time, and he wants another chance to make things right.

This is unacceptable to the maddened survivors.  The horror of their crash, and their struggle to survive is no longer relevant for they have become gods.  There can be only one solution,  they will prevent the man from turning that key, and then they will use the power within the hatch to infiltrate the primary time line and escape their tenuous tangent universe…

To Be Continued….

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