Season 2, Episode 7: "The Other 48 Days"

Goodwin wanted to know if Ana was a mother. She hesitated before saying no. (Also in previous episode when Sawyer asked if she was married, she hesitated before saying no.) - I think there is more to this! Maybe we will find out soon in her flashbacks if she really is/was a mother or a wife, and maybe something happened to her husband and children??

Goodwin says the kids are okay, that they are better off now. He also says they didn't take Nathan because he was a bad person, emphasizing they are only taking the "good" ones. Maybe the others truly think they are trying to "save the world" (remember what Desmond said) and are in fact trying to save the "good people." Notice all the people they have not taken (original survivors) have all done "bad" things in their lives. They are trying to take the children who are good and pure. Question is, how do they know who is good vs evil?

Goodwin ran out of the jungle right after they crashed. Desmond told us in a previous episode that as soon as his boat crashed, Kelvin ran out from the jungle and took him to the hatch. How did they get there so quickly? Are the "others" waiting for them? Almost like they were expecting the crash? Or maybe they caused the crash? IF the "others' are part of the Dharma group, maybe they pulled the plane in (as well as Danielle's boat and Desmond's boat) with some kind of electromagnetic field.

Lots of religious references in this episode...Echo at first says he will pray for them, he stops speaking for 40 days (vow of silence?), they find a Bible in the hatch, Goodwin and Ana share an apple (he gives her a bite), Goodwin is impaled with the staff...

When they try the radio, they here BOONE's distress call when he was in the plane (in the tree.) However, Ana turns it off, thinking it is the "others" trying to get to them. Everyone else wants to try the radio and truly believes the messages if from other survivors of flight 815. In particular, Bernard...who has HOPE that there could be other survivors out there. Ana says it's not them. She has lost all hope. (symbolic of the others taking away her hope) - Hope is a big theme in the show. (Remember Locke says he wants to find "hope" in the hatch.) All of the other survivors are going on purely on hope. Remember Claire and Shannon finding the bottle washed up with the messages, but choose NOT to tell everyone else because they would lose hope. But Ana seems to be the only one who has totally lost hope (she said "they took a lot of things") - they took away her hope.

In the "bunker" that the new survivors find, we see it also has Quarantine written on the INSIDE (same as the hatch) and also has the Dharma logo. Although it is not furnished like the other hatch. But it does have electricity. It also has a trunk which holds...a bible, a radio, and a glass eye! I am not positive here, but didn't the dead man that Locke and Boone find in the jungle (Nigerian drug smuggler) have a patch over his eye? He was also dressed like a priest. Maybe he was living in the "bunker" (hence the glass eye and the bible, and the radio could have been from their plane) He could have been killed in the jungle by the "others." Or the others could have brought his plane down as well.

More “Lord of the Flies” theme last night...there have been SO many references to LOTF in this show. The dividing of the two groups, one is more civilized where the other is more savage. Last night, I think Ana's character is a perfect example of the whole theme of LOTF. Basically, we see that at the beginning, she is in fact a "good" person. She willingly helps everyone from the crash, gives CPR to the little girl, and promises she will get her home to her mom. She also runs to help Bernard in the tree. She seems to be humanitarian, always trying to help people. However, as soon as the people are taken, we see a change in Ana - basically when that happened, Ana lost all sense of goodness, of humanitariansm, really. She throws Nathan in the pit and the other survivors comment that "we are not savages." She says "a savage would cut off his finger, which I'll do tomorrow" - clearly she has become a savage. Then in the very last scene, after shooting Shannon, the look on her face is just pure evil. She LOOKS like a savage. As Locke explained in an earlier episode last season, sooner or later they will all turn on eachother and become savages.