We know that at some point 4 of our survivors are going to sail off into the ocean and discover something they aren’t expecting. The question remains, which 4 will it be?

The raft was Micheal’s idea, as he wanted to take action to get Walt and himself off the island. His background in architecture and construction made him the obvious man to take charge and build it. Now, assuming Walt and Micheal are two of the four the raft can carry, who is most likely to join them?

Jin & Sawyer?
Sawyer & Kate?

Someone else entirely?

My money is on Jin and Sawyer. Jin has been helping build the raft, and Sawyer effectively bought a ticket by providing supplies from his stash. I’m thinking Kate might be better off staying put, as it looks likely she’ll be headed straight for jail if she’s ever rescued. But she may see it differently. Who knows?

Thoughts?

Here’s more detail on the upcoming and last remaining episodes in the current season of Lost.

“THE GREATER GOOD”
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET)
Fans awaiting the fallout from Boone’s death get more questions than answers as Sayid puts his Republican Guard interrogation skills to good use to get the truth out of Locke. The hour, which reveals the heartbreaking events that put Sayid on Flight 815, also explains some of Locke’s more sinister maneuvers. And while some of his recent actions actually have been for the greater good of his fellow survivors, Locke may not have the chance to right the worst wrong once someone decides to take justice into their own hands.

“BORN TO RUN�
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET)
The truth about Kate continues to come out as the castaways draw battle lines in the sand. Fittingly it all starts with stormy weather. Realizing that the monsoon season will soon be upon them, Michael and Jin scamble to complete the raft in hopes of shoving off sooner than later. But dark clouds roll in after someone’s deadly move to secure themselves a seat on the boat casts suspicion on several survivors. Including Freckles herself. Though it looks as if she may be too busy recalling the tragic history of her toy plane to be bothered with such treachery.

“EXODUS, PART 1″
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET)
A castaway’s omen about the looming monsoon season triggers a war for seats on the nearly completed raft and a possible plot against one of its architects. Meanwhile, Jack and Locke reach a tentative truce over that mysterious hatch, though neither Sayid nor Walt are at peace with the pair’s plans for it; and more of Kate’s past is revealed after the threat of rescue pits her against an all-too-informed Sawyer.

“EXODUS, PART 2″
TWO HOUR SEASON FINALE
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET)
Jack suspects foul play when Michael becomes violently ill while building the raft. Meanwhile a secret from Kate’s past is revealed, the mysterious hatch is shown to a few of the survivors, and Walt gives Locke a warning.

ALL NEW EPISODE NEXT WEEK, 4th May!

After burying one of their own, tempers flare as the castaways’ suspicions of each other grow — and an unlikely survivor vows revenge. Meanwhile, Claire and Charlie struggle to calm her newborn.

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The episode airs on the 4th May.

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The wars are raging in the Lost fan world about whether the radio broadcast heard by Boone seconds before he fell says, “Hello/no we’re the survivors of Oceanic flight 815!” or “There were no survivors of Oceanic flight 815.”

When I originally watched the episode I thought it was the latter, but I read on the internet that it was the former. So I ripped the audio into Cool Edit and played around with it to attempt to make it understandable. I’m not the only one to do this, but previous versions have been accused of being “doctored”, so here’s a completely undoctored copy with a few frequency boosts to make it more audible. To me, it sounds like, “There were no survivors of Oceanic flight 815″ as the captions stated in the first place.

Here’s the audio: nosurvivors.mp3 (68kb).

Make your own decisions.

Update:
Interestingly, on the Official ABC Lost site in the “Video Gallery” (top left, under the menu) there is a recap for episode 1×19 “Deus Ex Machina” which includes the scene with Boone on the radio. Interestingly, the voice is obviously a completely different recording of the transmission to the one broadcast in the episode. This time it’s unmistakable. The voice says, “No, we’re the survivors of flight 815.”.

Here’s the audio: wearethesurvivors.mp3 (195kb).

Which one was intended for us to hear is unclear, as is whether the closed captioning on the episode, which reportedly said, “There were no survivors of Oceanic flight 815″, is right or wrong.

Possibly…
This could mean that there are another group of survivors on the island. Perhaps people from the tail section of the plane, who have also found a radio, and happened to be using it to broadcast on the exact frequency that the radio in the plane was tuned to at the exact time Boone was in the plane, are elsewhere on the island. It seems unlikely, but it sounds more plausible than some kind of alternate/parallel dimension theory.

Plus it’s good news for Rose. “My husband’s not dead…”

But as ever, we’re kept guessing. Which is it? Any ideas?

John Locke, mysteriously able to walk after the plane crash, but not before, is possibly the most interesting of all the characters on the show. Apparently leading a far from perfect life before the crash, working for a Box Company (Hurley’s?), paying to talk to his companion ‘Helen’ over the phone, and restricted to a wheelchair for the past 4 years.

Locke seemed tuned into the island ever since the early episode where he “saw into the eye of the island, and it was beautiful.” While we don’t know what the ‘eye of the island’ means, Locke seems to believe the island is telling him what to do.

After a preminition in the jungle Locke and Boone head off on an expedition which culminates in Boone being fatally injured.

Locke drops a dying Boone back at camp and then disappears… we later see him crying into the ‘hatch’ he’s kept a secret for so long, “Why are you doing this?!”. He hits the top of the hatch 4 times, and the light comes on….

What’s inside the hatch? Why does hitting it 4 times affect it? Are the numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42) a combination of some kind? Locke also hits the roof of his car 4 times when he’s upset in episode 1×19, ‘Deus Ex Machina’. Does this mean anything?

“The Philosopher of Freedom.”

“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.” - John Locke

There is endless speculation over the meaning behind the sequence of numbers that Hurley used to win the lottery in episode 1×18 ‘Numbers’. The numbers also appeared at the end of episode 1×19, ‘Deus Ex Machina’, on the outside of the ‘hatch’ that Locke and Boone discovered in the jungle.

Since the broadcast of these episodes, fans of the series have analysed the entire show for clues as to what the numbers mean and what significance they have with each of the characters on the island. A website with a list of every occurence of the numbers so far shows some interesting (and some not so interesting) connections involving these numbers.

There are numerous theories on messages boards across the internet where fans are examining the numbers and looking for patterns. There is even a website and discussion board dedicated to the topic at www.4815162342.com but so far no one knows exactly what they mean…. aside from 42 being the answer to life, the universe and everything.

We know that the numbers seem to have some significance to the past lives of the survivors. The question is how.. and why?