Looking Glass Station - Underwater Hatch

Had this last frame filled in some real sh*t wouldv’e hit the fan. Locke just made it. The mechanical sounds in the background right before Locke enteres the numbers and the way this scene was shot was awesome.

Utilizing a heiroglyphic phrase dictionary, the only five symbol phrase that fits the sequence means “to cause to die.” Spooky.

“One diligent poster discovered that the symbols correspond to constellations.”

Here are the main theories on the hatch and the button from Life on the Rocks.

* The hatch is a missile silo. The button is a dead-man’s switch, so if anything goes wrong and there’s no one left to man the control room, you get doomsday.

* The hatch is the control center for the island and the button is a dead-man’s switch for a self-destruct sequence. The Dharma Initiative installed it to keep the project out of the hands of interlopers.

* The hatch is the control center for the island and, when all the factors are in place and all the players are positioned, it powers up the other five stations on the island to begin the “grand experiment.”

* The hatch is the control center for the island and some faction created the button to keep the experiment from being powered back up. They keep a couple of people down there to man the switch and push the button so that the start-up sequence isn’t initiated.

* The hatch is the control center for the island and the switch is in place to keep another “incident” from occurring.

The possibilities are endless.

Read more for this guys Wizard of Oz parallels. crazy.

“Gary Troup’s manuscript for Bad Twin made its debut on ABC’s Lost on wednesday night as the reading material of character Hugo “Hurleyâ€? Reyes. After he mentioned that he had found the manuscript in a suitcase, the conversation moved on, but it won’t be the last time Lost fans will see the book.”

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from Amazon’s description:

About the Author
Bad Twin is the highly-anticipated new novel by acclaimed mystery writer Gary Troup. Bad Twin was delivered to Hyperion just days before Troup boarded Oceanic Flight 815, which was lost in flight from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles in September 2004. He remains missing and is presumed dead.

Paul Artisan, P.I. is a new version of an old breed — a righter of wrongs, someone driven to get to the bottom of things. Too bad his usual cases are of the boring malpractice and fraud variety. Until now.

His new gig turns on the disappearance of one of a pair of twins, adult scions of a rich but tragedy-prone family. The missing twin — a charismatic poster-boy for irresponsibility — has spent his life daring people to hate him, punishing himself endlessly for his screw-ups and misdeeds. The other twin — Artisan’s client — is dutiful and resentful in equal measure, bewildered that his “other half” could have turned out so badly, and wracked by guilt at his inability to reform him. He has a more practical reason, as well, for wanting his brother found: their crazy father, in failing health and with guilty secrets of his own, will not divide the family fortune until both siblings are accounted for.

But it isn’t just a fortune that’s at stake here. Truth itself is up for grabs, as the detective’s discoveries seem to challenge everything we think we know about identity, and human nature, and family. As Artisan journeys across the globe to track down the bad twin, he seems to have moved into a mirror-world where friends and enemies have a way of looking very much alike. The P.I. may have his long-awaited chance to put his courage and ideals to the test, but if he doesn’t get to the bottom of this case soon, it could very well cost him his life.

Troup’s long-awaited Bad Twin is a suspenseful novel that touches on many powerful themes, including the consequence of vengeance, the power of redemption, and where to turn when all seems lost.