The phrase is repeated three times in the episode, once in the Whispers.

“It’ll come back around.”

The ironic part about the whole thing is how it was Locke who was warned by Sayid, Walt, and Hurley to not open the hatch. Sayid’s point about no handle on the outside was great observation. If he left the hatch alone or never found it then none of the future events would have occured, in a sense “curiosity killed the cat”.

A. Yet again, Vincent runs off right before Walt’s encounter with a polar bear that’s so big, so unnatural looking, that one can only assume it’s actually Smokey. Vincent = Smokey. I’m sticking with that theory until something happens to prove me wrong.

B. If I’m right, the scene where Locke is “holding court” with his little Cult of Boone, teaching Walt to throw a knife, with Vincent watching in interest…well, that scene takes on a whole different tenor if Vincent is Smokey/MiB. Kinda spooky. And weird how Locke is ready to respect Michael’s wishes…until he’s close to the MiB’s influence. Then, all of a sudden he’s running off at the mouth about Walt being allowed to “fulfill his potential.” Very odd.

–I’m certain Locke is receiving instructions (subconscious, visions, whatever you want to call them) from the Man in Black, the eventual Locke-alike. When it will rain. Where to go. How to make freak-out paste in a mango. Creating a bond with the island. Man in Black has known about Locke for about 50 years now, but from Locke’s perspective he only just arrived. Awesome.

–The conversation between Jack and Locke on the beach bears a number of similarities to the one between Jacob and the Man in Black. Jacks walks up and says “See any ships?” which put me in the mind of the Black Rock. Then Locke talks about humans being “the most dangerous predator.” Awesome mirroring of those two scenes.

–The Hatch. If you’re like me, and you believe Whatever Happened, Happened, then the last time we saw this spot in the overall chronology was in ’77, when the Incident occurred. Now it’s 27 years later, and the spot is completely overgrown, the Swan bleeding off the energy of the blast every 108 minutes. I really want to see what happened during the interventing time!

–If Locke is receiving subconscious instructions from Man in Black, then it’s likely he was led right up the Hatch. A sequence of events that eventually leads to Desmond turning the failsafe key. I’d always thought it was Ben’s goal to screw up the button-pushing and get the Swan blown up…but now I think that’s what the man in Black wants. But why?? What does it achieve? How does it counter Jacob’s Incident plan for those who were ‘chosen’ by him?

I’m having great fun with the rewatch.

Oh, as for the sickness and the quarantine…there is no sickness. Not a disease, anyway. The sickness was how they referred to people being dragged under the Temple and “converted” by Smokey. So, the Hatch quarantine could have been to prevent Dharma personnel getting co-opted by the enemy, but eventually they forgot what it really meant. Kelvin figured he hadn’t gotten sick, so it was sham…but he didn’t understand what was meant by “sickness.” None of us did until “This Place Is Death.”

There is a lot of strange stuff going on with Locke in season one. Looks, comments, behavior.
With all the knowledge from ‘Incident’ it is easy to see ‘Esau’ acting here already. And then there is the fact that Locke met smokey in the woods, stared down his throat, and discovered something wonderful.

But then, in season 2, why should Locke switch, and become so doubtful about everything? Did he fake it, to manipulate Eko?
If ‘Esau’ posessed Locke from early on, then it was his materpiece to trick Ben into strangling him.

It’s just that the Locke was Not-Locke theory REALLY pisses me off!

The injection shots were never mentioned, but it was mentioned in S3 by Juliet that death occured only when conception happened on the island not delivery, thats why Sun was happy it was Jin’s but sad that she would be kaput.

I asked this question to Lindelof and Cuse on “Ask Lost” a couple times, but, they never answered it on a podcast… hopefully because they really did do this, and don’t want to give to much info away? … Just hoping.

The fact is they showed Walt at least once per season, even in the shortened season 4 they managed to let us know he is around, why? Why do you think they all of a sudden jumped 3 years from season 4-5, so they can explain his real life growth spurt. In Season 2, when Michael is captive they ask him one question that didn’t make sense “Have you ever seen Walt in places he isn’t supposed to be?” but who do we know has that power to be in any place at anytime? Jacob. I’m not going to start theorizing this person is really this person, but Walt could be a “candidate” to replace Jacob now that he is dead and “dead is dead”.

A great ending IMO is for our losties destiny or purpose is a giant game of backgammon where the ultimate goal is to set things right for the next heir to the island’s throne. Season 2 they prob let Walt go because he most likely can come and go as Jacob does and IF he can’t there is always the never-seen-ajira-passenger who emerges and *poof* it’s Walt….which I really really hope not.

Sorry long post I like the mystery of Walt.

Also, NO NO NO Locke was not Titus in season 1. Lets all just let that one go. Locke did not know what Boone would see during the vision. Locke even says after Boone tells him of Shannon’s death “Is that what you saw?” Locke has always had a different kind of relationship to the Island and that may be because of Titus’ involvement and manipulation but in the end Locke did not become him ’till after the Ajira crash. And yes it is the stupidest theory out there.

Also, I really hope the walt mystery gets explained. Somebody needs to ask Darlton at comic con if it will!

It is especially one of Kate’s (and subsequently Evangeline Lilly’s) best moments. I buy her character completely while watching it, which I cannot say for most of her other scenes throughout the entire series.