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Episode 319 - "The Brig" Secret Clue

Welcome back to the Lost Secret Clue, where we dig deeper to find the clues and secrets you might've missed to fuel your theories! This week's episode, 'The Brig', gave us some fantastic answers while also providing us with new clues and mysteries to mull over. The children with the Others reappeared, Sawyer has a tape of Juliet-incriminating material and some mysterious looking ruins that could very well be related to the four-toed statue from last season...

The biggest answer this episode was, without a doubt, the confirmation that Locke's biological daddy, Anthony Cooper, was the same conman that destroyed Sawyer's life as a child. While this connection was something we've long suspected, nothing could've prepared us for the brutal, distressing showdown that would occur between the two. After forcing Cooper to read the letter Sawyer had written after his parents death and his blatant lack of compassion towards, Sawyer grabbed the chains keeping Cooper tied up and choked the life out of him!

While this was shocking enough, Cooper's tale of how he came to the island was particularly interesting. He claimed that, while driving down Interstate 10 through Tallahassee, someone hit him from behind, forcing him into the lane divider at 70mph. He was then loaded into an ambulance where a paramedic smiled at him while he was placed under, before waking up tied to the chair we saw him on in 'The Man from Tallahassee.' Cooper truly believed that he was now in hell, or some variation, and many of his actions could be taken as a man begging for death. Now that Sawyer is free from the man that has caused him constant pain and sorrow throughout his life, will he become a man without purpose - and will he ditch his assumed moniker?

Locke's position with the Others took a dramatic turn this episode. As we watched him become integrated with their society, it became apparent that they upheld him as someone particularly "special". The flight stewardess Cindy told him that the Others were staring at him because they were so excited he was now with them, while Richard explained that Ben had humiliated Locke in public simply to reduce his image in their eyes, as if proving Locke were not special. In fact, Richard's conversation with Locke held some interesting nuggets of info - he is questioning Ben's leadership, feeling that he is wasting everybody's time with his pregnancy-focused projects and that they should be working together on greater goals. He advises that Locke do away with his father, one way or another, if only to prove to the Others that he is indeed special. Could we perhaps be witnessing another rebel emerging from the Others, a la Juliet with Jack?

We learnt a great deal about the parachutist, named Naomi, in this episode. She tells Sayid that her company was hired by Penelope Widmore, who she's never met, to patrol a particular set of co-ordinates to retrieve a Desmond Hume. She and her crew had come to believe they were on a wild goose chase after three days of encircling the co-ordinates, however, while returning alone to her ship in a helicopter she spotted land right before her controls went haywire and she was forced to bail out. Her ship is anchored 80 miles from the island and she hopes to contact them using her satellite phone, a dream quickly crushed by Sayid.

Naomi goes on to explain what the outside world believes what became of Flight 815 - the plane was discovered in a 4 mile deep ocean trench near Bali, complete with bodies of all the survivors. This was later proved and confirmed to the world by small, investigative robots with cameras sent down to survey the wreck. This story was also believed by Anthony Cooper, who told Sawyer the same broad details. Could this explain why the general populace of the real world, as well as loved ones and family, have moved on and seem not to be searching for the survivors?

What reason could Rousseau have for coming to retrieve the dynamite? The last we saw, Rousseau had spied her daughter Alex for the first time - could she be planning an insanely dangerous rescue mission to retrieve her long lost kin? Finally, a surprising clue was hidden inside the file on Sawyer Richard gave to Locke - the report on his past has pages submitted by Interpol. Considering the Others have information on the cold-blooded mistaken murder of Frank Duckett, the man James believed to be Sawyer, from the night before the flight, it begs the question: why are the French keeping a tab on Sawyer? Just how far reaching is Dharma, Hanso and the information networks they rely upon?