Your Voice: Could It Be Daniel in the Coffin?
Submitted by Herb Scribner
We have been thinking since the Season 3 finale last year about who is in the coffin. We’ve theorized high and low, up and down, left and right, North, South, East, and West. The high bidders for being the one in the coffin are, at least as far as I can see, Michael, Ben, or Locke. Hell, I myself have made bets with my sister (a fellow avid Lost viewer) about who’s in the coffin, and I placed my money on the three mentioned above. She, on the other hand, selected Christian, Jacob, and Claire, and as far as we can see she is way off the map. But maybe that is the key to this. The answer is off the map. The answer isn’t one we could see in plain sight. And while this may have been discussed before, I believe it is in fact Daniel Faraday in the coffin.
Everyone remembers the S4 flashback with good ol’ Dan, when he was mysteriously crying in front of the television screen when news of Oceanic Flight 815 had crashed. We also were introduced to his caretaker. I believe, simply, he was crying because he had time-jumped, much like Desmond did in "The Constant," and Danny has been doing so for many years. Once, he time-jumped to a time (which I say is around Season 5 or Season 6) when he was murdered. Here is how events could play out.
A) Daniel and Charlotte need to get off the island (There’s No Place Like Home: Part 1), and have spent their time on the island by lying to the Losties.
B) Jin, Sun, Desmond, Michael, and the red shirts tell Daniel to take the latest group back to the island, because the freighter has a bomb.
C) Daniel brings them back, and ultimately brings Aaron, Jin, Sun, Desmond, and Michael back to the island.
D) When they are brought back to the island, Jin and Sun decide to go to Jack and that is the only way back home.
E) Jin and Sun ask Daniel if he can ferry them to the side of the island Jack is on. Daniel tells them No.
F) Daniel and Charlotte take the small boat to escape, leaving Losties behind on the island.
G) As Jin and Sun go through the jungle and get to the Orchid, Jin is shot and killed.
H) The O6 eventually leave the island, as do Daniel and Charlotte on the boat.
I) Off island, Sun sees Daniel as being responsible for the murder of Jin, and kills him herself. (Daniel would have time jumped to see this murder)
J) Daniel, who has only the caretaker, has his funeral in a run-down African American neighborhood.
This would answer why Daniel was crying, because he knew his death was coming. It would explain who the other man was that is responsible for Jin’s death, and it would give us an answer to who is in the coffin.
This would work for the coffin because no one would know who Faraday is (he spent his life teaching in Oxford) and none of the O6 would visit him because of the way he and Charlotte betrayed the Losties.
Just an idea. . .
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Interesting.
Comment by Robert — May 26, 2008 @ 6:19 pm
Nice theory… A couple questions though.
1. Who is Daniel’s caretaker? Wasnt his wife the one who asked him what was wrong?
2. Why is Jack so upset about his death? Link to the island?
What does make sense is that his obituary may be more prominant because of his professor status at Oxford. I noticed that when Jack saw it, it caught his eye as it must have stood out a little.
Comment by Tom Nahas — May 26, 2008 @ 6:41 pm
As for question 1, I believe it was confirmed by the Enhanced version of Confirmed Dead that it was his caretaker that was with him. Question 2, Jack COULD be upset because he knows Daniel knows about time situations and that junk, and might know answers to certain questions surrounding a possible time period that Locke moved the island to.
Comment by Herb — May 26, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
I’m pretty sure Damon and Carlton had said that we knew the character that was in the coffin by the time “Through the Looking Glass” aired.
Comment by oren — May 26, 2008 @ 8:59 pm
That doesn’t make much sense at all….in many ways….
1) i think the writers made it clear that no more time jumping will happen with daniel..
2)jack doesn’t care too much for the freighter people. And even though Daniel knows about physics, doesn’t mean he can’t die, i don’t think he’s like locke or jack with an “Island purpose”.
3) i would assume if you die, you don’t flash to it….you just have 2 years you flash between…. if your dead, you don’t flash anymore…don’t think that point makes sense.
4)don’t think he left behind a son
5)we don’t know if jin is dead or not yet
6)”no one would know who Faraday is (he spent his life teaching in Oxford) ”
YOU DON’T THINK MAYBE THE HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS HE HAD WOULD CARE IF HE WAS DEAD
oxford is a school for people not just in england, but Americans too.
and many more reasons i don’t feel like typing anymore.
Comment by tivnuts — May 27, 2008 @ 12:03 am
Thanks for the spoiler jackson brown.
I hope you get hit by a bus.
Comment by Burial — May 27, 2008 @ 5:04 am
WHY ISN’T ANYONE MODERATING THE COMMENTS SECTION!??! I FKN READ A THEORY BLOG POST AND NOW I’M SPOILED FOR THE FINALE? I’M NEVER READING THETAILSECTION BLOG AGAIN.
Comment by mike — May 27, 2008 @ 6:13 am
Not to worry, Burial. Jackson Brown is just trolling–nothing has been confirmed.
Comment by Tim — May 27, 2008 @ 6:17 am
Get over it. It is not Locke. Casket is to small to fit him. Probably not Faraday either. That is to far fetched and why would Jack care about him anyway since he barely knew him? Not to mention that in the obit it said he was survived by a son. Faraday has no kids that we know of.
My guess would be Micheal.
The Island no longer needed him and let him die.
Comment by Ray — May 27, 2008 @ 7:29 am
IF nothing happens to jackson browne for being a douche bag, then this website has officially jumped the shark, and I’ll never come here again.
Comment by tivnuts — May 27, 2008 @ 7:49 am
They don’t even have the finale edited yet. They shot three different casket scenes just so this wouldn’t happen. There won’t be any real spoilers until Thursday.
Comment by LeeP — May 27, 2008 @ 9:06 am
yea why do people have to be f****** cheaters. its an awesome show, let it unfold naturally
Comment by jacob — May 27, 2008 @ 9:25 am
i have 5 cee notes that say Mr. Lockes is in the box, any takers?
Comment by oogie — May 27, 2008 @ 10:03 am
My guess is that Locke is in the coffin. The name in the obit is very similar to Locke’s, which I think is the killer clue. Kate wouldn’t care as much about his death, after all, because he banished her from New Otherton.
Also, though I suspected it was Michael when I saw the finale last year, I now feel like the writers are building toward Michael’s death on the freighter. So my overall theory is that Locke is living in New York, perhaps raising Walt in Michael’s absence, and either kills himself or is murdered.
That would change the game a lot. And I’d miss the guy.
Comment by Ed Holden — May 27, 2008 @ 10:11 am
There are MASSIVE SPOILERS on a well known lost site that are provided by a VERY reliable source (i.e 100% accurate and obviously works within the industry) That site has the good grace to make sure it is MODERATED and that spoilers are to be kept in specific locations only. So, this means i can use it in confidence of not reading something i don’t want to and i avoid reading the spoilers until AFTER a show airs and i find they are always correct. (hence the reliability of the source) Yes 3 endings were filmed but the decission to which is to be aired has long been since made. Do you really think they decide on the date of air?
The idiots above have obviously been on said site and read the “massive spoiler” thread and come here and decided to ruin it for every1 else who would rather wait.
Nice 1 tailsection staff. I won’t be coming here again if you can’t be bothered to watch over your site.
Comment by Burial — May 27, 2008 @ 10:12 am
Yes, I believe they make the decision the day of the edit. The Powers that Be said that they hate people who spoil things, so how do you know they didn’t release a fake spoiler just to keep people at bay? They didn’t decide that Charlie was going to die in the hatch until the Wednesday they were editing the finale. They also shot two endings for Charlie. I remember reading online that TV Guide posted the Oceanic 6 two weeks before we found out, and they were all wrong. They listed Claire and Desmond as two of the 6, so don’t listen to spoilers. If they were real spoilers, Cuse and Lindelof would have had the site shut down a long time ago. And don’t think they don’t have that kind of power…
LeeP
Comment by LeeP — May 27, 2008 @ 5:26 pm
I think it is still Aaron in coffin and not any adult. People have speculated that Aaron grows up to be Jacob, because we have been told Jacob is a character we have seenm but he has not spoken yet. I think Jacob is the dog, the smoke monster, maybe the polar bear. I think Jacob is integrated into all the physcial parts of the island and is not Aaron. The coffin looked to the small side. And I think his death happened in such a way that it brought out the truth of who he was. So Kate did not want to go to the funeral. SO only Jack shows up.
Comment by Mick — May 27, 2008 @ 8:31 pm
That makes no sense, cuz we know that Jack knows that Claire was his sister. So jack’s a dr and i’m sure can figure out that then that makes Aaron his newphew. So that would make Jack family. And a baby wouldn’t have a big obbit like that seeing as how he would only be survived by Kate.
Comment by lisa — May 27, 2008 @ 11:01 pm
Some of these ideas seem a little far-fetched, even for Lost. The one about Aaron is really out there. But the initial post and reading through the ideas of others has helped me finally develop a theory of my own.
I think it is Miles. In his flashback, he was ghostbusting in Los Angeles before being a Freightie. He has standoffish attitude that generally puts people off, so there probably wouldn’t be many people at his funeral. He’s a short man, so that could explain the size of the coffin. While reading the obituary, Jack was upset about it, but at the time he seemed to be upset for the most part. So, the obituary probably just pushed him over the edge. Once at the funeral home, he seems mildly upset like his connection to the person really wasn’t all that deep. Kate, really didn’t seem to care, so I don’t think it was anyone from the plane crash. She says, “Why would I go to that?” like she did not have much of a connection with the deceased at all and may have even been betrayed by the person.
Just a few cents to add to the collection…
Comment by stan — May 28, 2008 @ 6:13 am
None of these comments make any sense at all. There is absolutly no way that it would be locke(he would never leave the island), its also not Aaron(come on duh), and its not daniel or ben or even michael becuase the coffin was too small. I beleive it is a character that we have not seen yet.
Comment by Aaron — May 28, 2008 @ 7:57 am
What if their isn’t anyone in the coffin, but it is just a cover up to get people to stop searching for someone? If someone can cover up an airline crash with a fake plane full of bodies, why not one man. Say Ben runs an ad about Locke’s death so that Abbadon stops searching for him, but much more complex than I just stated.
I like the idea of Miles in the coffin. It has to be someone who Jack needs something from, most likely to get back to the island or in Miles case, can communicate with the dead. Although, Jack doesn’t really need Miles as he seems to communicate with Christian Sheppard all right without Miles.
Ben would be the most logical choice at this point. It would set up the next season. He would fall out of favor with the island and we would see how he sets himself up for his demise. That would leave season six for Locke to take control and fulfill his destiny. Amirite?
Comment by Blutoschmooto — May 28, 2008 @ 8:30 am
what if Locke moving the island was his destiny all along, not being the leader? Then when the island moved(remember they said it was really dangerous) Locke died and somehow landed in present time LA.
Comment by LeeP — May 28, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
I think its Michael in the coffin. Fits with the African american neighborhood. Why significant? Because Michael’s death would mean the island let him die. Would mean the island is done with Michael, and, by extension, the other 815 survivors. Jack is distraught because Michael’s death means the island doesn’t need him anymore.
Just another theory to throw out there.
Comment by BMH — May 28, 2008 @ 6:00 pm
The commenter was right, and obviously went to another site that posted the spoilers… i will never be returning to this site again.
Comment by mike — May 30, 2008 @ 8:35 am