HIATUS WEEK ONE
HIATUS WEEK ONE: November 15th, 2006
Supplement to Episode 306: I Do
A running list of the number of “I do’s” from this episode:
* I do – Want to invest in marriage (Kate purchasing and buying wedding veil and dress)
* I do – Want to do it (Kevin to Kate in the opening scene and visa versa)
* I do – Want to get married (Kate to Kevin at the altar)
* I do – Want to kill Sawyer (Picket to Sawyer for Colleen’s death)
* I do – Want to do it (Kate to Sawyer – Cage love scene)
* I do – Love you! (Sawyer to Kate after cage love scene)
* I do – Want to know what killed Eko (Sayid to Locke)
* I do – Want to bury Eko in the jungle (Locke making the decision himself)
* I do – Want to stop running (Kate to Edward Marsh and Kate by committing to the marriage.)
* I do – Want to warn you (Alex to Kate – “They’re going to kill your boyfriend)
* I do – Have an answer (Eko’s Jesus stick – “lift up your eyes and look north”)
* I do – Want you to see the monitor of Kate and Sawyer (Ben allowing Jack to “escape” from his cell again.)
* I do – Want to “fix” you (Jack to Ben on his surgery, finally)
* I do – Want to leave the island (Jack to Ben for doing the surgery)
* I do – Want to live (Ben on his upcoming surgery)
* I do – Want Alex here (Ben to Juliet before the surgery)
* I do – Want Ben to die (Juliet during the operation)
* I do – Want Ben to live (Tom after Jack’s coup)
* I do – Want to play mind games (Jack to the Others during the coup)
* I do – Want to follow orders (Juliet to Jack before the surgery)
Bonus Section 1
Focus has changed from the Swan Station over to the Pearl Station this season. The Swan Hatch, now a large hole in the ground, is no longer a location of importance but the Pearl appears to be presenting a number of new questions. Because of that I have switched my attention to it and have prepared the following information.
The Pearl Station
A note about the Pearl Station: I have always believed that the sequence of events on the island in season two dictated that the Pearl Station was actually the Hatch depicted as the question mark “?” on the Blast Door Map as seen by John Locke in the episode “Lockdown.” Visual evidence seems to confirm this as Locke spotted the question mark in the ground under the drug-runners plane. We, as viewers, have also seen this image and there is no doubt that a question mark was found in the dirt near the plane wreckage. I am convinced that the Pearl Station is the “?” as depicted on the Blast Door Maps. However, a group of loyal posters and viewers maintain that the Pearl Station may not be the “?” If the question mark is not the Pearl Hatch then it remains an unknown Station to date and may play a prominent part in future events. Some believe that the eye patch man may be located in the “?” Station but I strongly disagree.
Locke and Eko located the Pearl Station when they went in search of the question mark using the Blast Door Map as a guide in the episode “?”. Locke was familiar with the area near the smuggler’s plane and lead Eko here. In a dream sequence Yemi tells Locke/Eko to climb the cliff next to the plane and when at the pinnacle views the circle in the vegetation near the plane. This circle, combined with the fallen plane, formed a question mark. However, the question mark was only formed after the plane fell from the cliff, which was after Radzinsky and Kelvin drew the blast door map. In fact, the station marked as "C4?" is likely to be the Pearl Hatch, as the word "The Pearl?" is written next to it on the map.
The function of the Pearl Station (DHARMA Initiative # 5) is to observe the inhabitants of the Swan Station using a “Remote Viewing” system. The purpose of the Pearl appears to be to study the movements and daily activities of the individuals located in the Swan Station. It is presumed that this activity may have actually been the experiment as the filled notebooks were found later in an abandoned heap elsewhere on the island. That it is a research facility primarily used for experiments in psychology there can be no doubt. The question is exactly who is being experimented upon?
The architectural components of the Pearl Hatch include an octagonal-shaped concrete vertical shaft leading down into the hatch with a metal ladder attached to the shaft wall and one large octagonal room at the bottom of the shaft. On one wall are nine numbered video monitors, which are currently being fed static. These presumably are to feed live surveillance footage of other areas of the island. On another wall is a table or desk, which contains a computer and dot matrix printer, a pile of computer-paper, and a stack of Dharma notebooks. A bookshelf or cabinet is also found near (or on) this same wall. A pneumatic tube for sending the notebooks out of the station is anchored to the wall. A working bathroom, which has a sliding pocket door, is located in another wall. There are two lounge type chairs with trays located in the center of the room facing the monitors. This station has sustained some damage, either through neglect or lack of use. The paint and walls appear to be warped and moldy, there are missing ceiling tiles and loose wires and there is a rather large rock in the room. There are no living quarters found in this station as it was intended for eight-hour shifts only.
Also, just as the pneumatic tube requires power to operate so do the monitors at the Pearl Station. While we are aware that all the Stations still have electricity we continue to wonder where the poser supply originates. Could the solar power generated at the Others village be piping electricity to the different Stations?
Pearl Orientation Video
Mr. Eko discovered the Pearl Orientation videotape (U-matic tape) in a bookshelf while he and John Locke were exploring the Station. According to this orientation film (see transcription below), the initiates of the Pearl Station live for three weeks inside the station and monitor the occupants of the other stations in eight-hour shifts. After each shift they make their way to the barracks by way of the Pala Ferry. When an observation notebook is filled it is to be placed inside the pneumatic tube. A man who introduces himself as Dr. Mark Wickmund hosts this orientation video, however, he looks to be the same person as Dr. Marvin Candle from the Swan Orientation film.
Pearl Orientation Transcription
Dharma theme music plays
“The DHARMA Initiative
5 of 6 Orientation
The Pearl DHARMA Logo
Orientation - Station 5 - The Pearl
Hello. I am Dr. Mark Wickmund and this is your orientation film for station five of the DHARMA Initiative.
Station five or, the Pearl, is a monitoring station where the activities of participants in DHARMA Initiative projects can be observed and recorded, not only for posterity but for the ongoing refinement of the initiative as a whole.
As Karen DeGroot herself has written, “Careful observation is the only key to true and complete awareness.”
Your tour of duty in the Pearl will last three weeks and during this time you and your partner will observe a psychological experiment in progress.
Your duty is to observe team members in another station on the island. These team members are not aware that they are under surveillance or that they are subjects of an experiment.
Working in eight-hour shifts you and your partner will record everything you observe in the notebooks we provided. What is the nature of the experiment, you might ask? What do these subjects believe they are accomplishing as they struggle to fulfill their tasks? You, as the observer, don’t need to know. All you need to know is that the subjects believe that their job is of the utmost importance. Remember, everything that occurs, no matter how minute or seemingly unimportant, must be recorded.
Each time a notebook is filled with the fruits of your diligent observation, roll it up and insert it into one of the containers provided. Then, simply place the container in the pneumatic tube and… presto! It will be transported directly to us.
At the end of your eight-hour shift proceed to the Pala Ferry, which will take you back to the barracks to prepare for your next tour. On behalf of the DeGroots, Alvar Hanso, and all of us here at the DHARMA Initiative, thank you. Namaste and good luck.
© The Hanso Foundation
1980 All Rights Reserved.”
The Monitors
The monitor rack consists of nine screens configured in a 3x3 array and numbered one through nine.
1 – 4 – 7 This configuration represents the # 15 (diagonals 7,5,3 and 9,5,1
2 – 5 – 8 and centers 4,5,6 and 8,5,2) which is one of the numbers.
3 – 6 – 9
Each monitor has three dials in a vertical column. The upper two are of similar designs, but the third dial (lower) is very different and about twice the size.
0
0
O
In activating the monitors, Locke used the large dial to activate screens one through three and the upper smaller dial to turn on screen seven. Screen seven received a live video surveillance feed from the kitchen of The Swan station, showing Jack walking by. This image pans in another direction when John Locke next looks at it. The other six screens displayed only static. Screen five was used to display the Pearl Orientation Video. Above each bank of monitors, mounted on the wall, are three speakers (circa 1960’s). When working, these probably transmitted audio from the station that was being monitored at the time.
The Hydra Station has a small room with a similar group of monitors, which may be linked to the Pearl but are recording very different areas of the island.
It is revealed in the episode “The Cost of Living” that the Pearl Station is designed to monitor several different stations at once. While inspecting the wiring to the monitors, Sayid manages to patch a signal from a station, which appears very similar to the Swan Station. It is also revealed that the resident of this station, a man wearing an eye-patch and a jumpsuit with a Dharma logo, is aware that he is under observation.
The Computer
There is a Dharma brand computer present similar to that found in the Swan Station. There is also a dot matrix printer located next to the printer. The screen displays the message prompt “Print log? Y/N” when Locke first discovers it. When he types “Y” to the prompt the printer begins to print off a repetitive log that consists of a repeating series of numeric codes, interspersed by the word “accepted” and later “system failure.” (i.e. “accepted 922044:16 system failure”, etc.) The log numbers indicate the exact time the “Execute” key is depressed after entering the numbers into the Swan Station computer. It appears that everything that is entered into the Swan’s computer is logged. The Pearl's computer actually bears the logo of The Swan. In keeping with the rest of the vintage Apple hardware, the printer is an Imagewriter II, first produced in 1985.
The Pneumatic Message Tube
There is a still a working pneumatic tube in the Pearl station but because a pneumatic delivery system requires a compressor to force the air through the tube then there has to be power coming from somewhere. Where does the power supply for the pneumatic tubes in the Pearl Station come from? The personnel stationed at the Pearl were supposed to insert their completed logbooks into a message capsule and send them up the tube. Their logbooks would then be delivered to what was described as 'us' in The Pearl's Orientation video. The actual location turned out to be a dump where the tubes were simply piling up, without anyone of the DHARMA initiative checking on them. Locke took his sketch of the Blast Door Map and sent it up through these transport piping; it also ended up in an empty field, which was discovered in episode, “Live Together, Die Alone” by Sawyer, Kate, Jack and Hurley.
The Notebooks
The notebooks all contain the Pearl Station logo on the front cover and there appears to be huge number of them considering the large pile found by Kate, Jack, Sawyer and Hurley. It is evident that while a huge amount of daily activity has been recorded in the notebooks it is also apparent that no one is actually using or reading the information in them.
The Lounge Chairs
There are two leather lounge chairs each with a writing table and a magnifying viewing lens mounted on an adjustable arm assembly to the side of the chairs. There is a small bank of controls on the arms of the chairs. On the left arm of the left chair, a rocker switch similar to older style power windows can be seen. On the right arm of the right chair, Locke used the conventional stove dial to brighten the lights in the room. On the dial these words can be read, starting on the right and moving counterclockwise: “HIGH”, “MEDIUM”, “WARM”, and “OFF”.
The Alternative One
Kenosha, Wisconsin
November 16th, 2006
P.S. I am looking for suggestions on what to include in next week’s Bonus Section. If anyone has any ideas or subjects you’d like me to discuss please feel free to e-mail me.
4 8 15 16 23 42
The Alternative One – dharmapoet@wi.rr.com
Supplement to Episode 306: I Do
A running list of the number of “I do’s” from this episode:
* I do – Want to invest in marriage (Kate purchasing and buying wedding veil and dress)
* I do – Want to do it (Kevin to Kate in the opening scene and visa versa)
* I do – Want to get married (Kate to Kevin at the altar)
* I do – Want to kill Sawyer (Picket to Sawyer for Colleen’s death)
* I do – Want to do it (Kate to Sawyer – Cage love scene)
* I do – Love you! (Sawyer to Kate after cage love scene)
* I do – Want to know what killed Eko (Sayid to Locke)
* I do – Want to bury Eko in the jungle (Locke making the decision himself)
* I do – Want to stop running (Kate to Edward Marsh and Kate by committing to the marriage.)
* I do – Want to warn you (Alex to Kate – “They’re going to kill your boyfriend)
* I do – Have an answer (Eko’s Jesus stick – “lift up your eyes and look north”)
* I do – Want you to see the monitor of Kate and Sawyer (Ben allowing Jack to “escape” from his cell again.)
* I do – Want to “fix” you (Jack to Ben on his surgery, finally)
* I do – Want to leave the island (Jack to Ben for doing the surgery)
* I do – Want to live (Ben on his upcoming surgery)
* I do – Want Alex here (Ben to Juliet before the surgery)
* I do – Want Ben to die (Juliet during the operation)
* I do – Want Ben to live (Tom after Jack’s coup)
* I do – Want to play mind games (Jack to the Others during the coup)
* I do – Want to follow orders (Juliet to Jack before the surgery)
Bonus Section 1
Focus has changed from the Swan Station over to the Pearl Station this season. The Swan Hatch, now a large hole in the ground, is no longer a location of importance but the Pearl appears to be presenting a number of new questions. Because of that I have switched my attention to it and have prepared the following information.
The Pearl Station
A note about the Pearl Station: I have always believed that the sequence of events on the island in season two dictated that the Pearl Station was actually the Hatch depicted as the question mark “?” on the Blast Door Map as seen by John Locke in the episode “Lockdown.” Visual evidence seems to confirm this as Locke spotted the question mark in the ground under the drug-runners plane. We, as viewers, have also seen this image and there is no doubt that a question mark was found in the dirt near the plane wreckage. I am convinced that the Pearl Station is the “?” as depicted on the Blast Door Maps. However, a group of loyal posters and viewers maintain that the Pearl Station may not be the “?” If the question mark is not the Pearl Hatch then it remains an unknown Station to date and may play a prominent part in future events. Some believe that the eye patch man may be located in the “?” Station but I strongly disagree.
Locke and Eko located the Pearl Station when they went in search of the question mark using the Blast Door Map as a guide in the episode “?”. Locke was familiar with the area near the smuggler’s plane and lead Eko here. In a dream sequence Yemi tells Locke/Eko to climb the cliff next to the plane and when at the pinnacle views the circle in the vegetation near the plane. This circle, combined with the fallen plane, formed a question mark. However, the question mark was only formed after the plane fell from the cliff, which was after Radzinsky and Kelvin drew the blast door map. In fact, the station marked as "C4?" is likely to be the Pearl Hatch, as the word "The Pearl?" is written next to it on the map.
The function of the Pearl Station (DHARMA Initiative # 5) is to observe the inhabitants of the Swan Station using a “Remote Viewing” system. The purpose of the Pearl appears to be to study the movements and daily activities of the individuals located in the Swan Station. It is presumed that this activity may have actually been the experiment as the filled notebooks were found later in an abandoned heap elsewhere on the island. That it is a research facility primarily used for experiments in psychology there can be no doubt. The question is exactly who is being experimented upon?
The architectural components of the Pearl Hatch include an octagonal-shaped concrete vertical shaft leading down into the hatch with a metal ladder attached to the shaft wall and one large octagonal room at the bottom of the shaft. On one wall are nine numbered video monitors, which are currently being fed static. These presumably are to feed live surveillance footage of other areas of the island. On another wall is a table or desk, which contains a computer and dot matrix printer, a pile of computer-paper, and a stack of Dharma notebooks. A bookshelf or cabinet is also found near (or on) this same wall. A pneumatic tube for sending the notebooks out of the station is anchored to the wall. A working bathroom, which has a sliding pocket door, is located in another wall. There are two lounge type chairs with trays located in the center of the room facing the monitors. This station has sustained some damage, either through neglect or lack of use. The paint and walls appear to be warped and moldy, there are missing ceiling tiles and loose wires and there is a rather large rock in the room. There are no living quarters found in this station as it was intended for eight-hour shifts only.
Also, just as the pneumatic tube requires power to operate so do the monitors at the Pearl Station. While we are aware that all the Stations still have electricity we continue to wonder where the poser supply originates. Could the solar power generated at the Others village be piping electricity to the different Stations?
Pearl Orientation Video
Mr. Eko discovered the Pearl Orientation videotape (U-matic tape) in a bookshelf while he and John Locke were exploring the Station. According to this orientation film (see transcription below), the initiates of the Pearl Station live for three weeks inside the station and monitor the occupants of the other stations in eight-hour shifts. After each shift they make their way to the barracks by way of the Pala Ferry. When an observation notebook is filled it is to be placed inside the pneumatic tube. A man who introduces himself as Dr. Mark Wickmund hosts this orientation video, however, he looks to be the same person as Dr. Marvin Candle from the Swan Orientation film.
Pearl Orientation Transcription
Dharma theme music plays
“The DHARMA Initiative
5 of 6 Orientation
The Pearl DHARMA Logo
Orientation - Station 5 - The Pearl
Hello. I am Dr. Mark Wickmund and this is your orientation film for station five of the DHARMA Initiative.
Station five or, the Pearl, is a monitoring station where the activities of participants in DHARMA Initiative projects can be observed and recorded, not only for posterity but for the ongoing refinement of the initiative as a whole.
As Karen DeGroot herself has written, “Careful observation is the only key to true and complete awareness.”
Your tour of duty in the Pearl will last three weeks and during this time you and your partner will observe a psychological experiment in progress.
Your duty is to observe team members in another station on the island. These team members are not aware that they are under surveillance or that they are subjects of an experiment.
Working in eight-hour shifts you and your partner will record everything you observe in the notebooks we provided. What is the nature of the experiment, you might ask? What do these subjects believe they are accomplishing as they struggle to fulfill their tasks? You, as the observer, don’t need to know. All you need to know is that the subjects believe that their job is of the utmost importance. Remember, everything that occurs, no matter how minute or seemingly unimportant, must be recorded.
Each time a notebook is filled with the fruits of your diligent observation, roll it up and insert it into one of the containers provided. Then, simply place the container in the pneumatic tube and… presto! It will be transported directly to us.
At the end of your eight-hour shift proceed to the Pala Ferry, which will take you back to the barracks to prepare for your next tour. On behalf of the DeGroots, Alvar Hanso, and all of us here at the DHARMA Initiative, thank you. Namaste and good luck.
© The Hanso Foundation
1980 All Rights Reserved.”
The Monitors
The monitor rack consists of nine screens configured in a 3x3 array and numbered one through nine.
1 – 4 – 7 This configuration represents the # 15 (diagonals 7,5,3 and 9,5,1
2 – 5 – 8 and centers 4,5,6 and 8,5,2) which is one of the numbers.
3 – 6 – 9
Each monitor has three dials in a vertical column. The upper two are of similar designs, but the third dial (lower) is very different and about twice the size.
0
0
O
In activating the monitors, Locke used the large dial to activate screens one through three and the upper smaller dial to turn on screen seven. Screen seven received a live video surveillance feed from the kitchen of The Swan station, showing Jack walking by. This image pans in another direction when John Locke next looks at it. The other six screens displayed only static. Screen five was used to display the Pearl Orientation Video. Above each bank of monitors, mounted on the wall, are three speakers (circa 1960’s). When working, these probably transmitted audio from the station that was being monitored at the time.
The Hydra Station has a small room with a similar group of monitors, which may be linked to the Pearl but are recording very different areas of the island.
It is revealed in the episode “The Cost of Living” that the Pearl Station is designed to monitor several different stations at once. While inspecting the wiring to the monitors, Sayid manages to patch a signal from a station, which appears very similar to the Swan Station. It is also revealed that the resident of this station, a man wearing an eye-patch and a jumpsuit with a Dharma logo, is aware that he is under observation.
The Computer
There is a Dharma brand computer present similar to that found in the Swan Station. There is also a dot matrix printer located next to the printer. The screen displays the message prompt “Print log? Y/N” when Locke first discovers it. When he types “Y” to the prompt the printer begins to print off a repetitive log that consists of a repeating series of numeric codes, interspersed by the word “accepted” and later “system failure.” (i.e. “accepted 922044:16 system failure”, etc.) The log numbers indicate the exact time the “Execute” key is depressed after entering the numbers into the Swan Station computer. It appears that everything that is entered into the Swan’s computer is logged. The Pearl's computer actually bears the logo of The Swan. In keeping with the rest of the vintage Apple hardware, the printer is an Imagewriter II, first produced in 1985.
The Pneumatic Message Tube
There is a still a working pneumatic tube in the Pearl station but because a pneumatic delivery system requires a compressor to force the air through the tube then there has to be power coming from somewhere. Where does the power supply for the pneumatic tubes in the Pearl Station come from? The personnel stationed at the Pearl were supposed to insert their completed logbooks into a message capsule and send them up the tube. Their logbooks would then be delivered to what was described as 'us' in The Pearl's Orientation video. The actual location turned out to be a dump where the tubes were simply piling up, without anyone of the DHARMA initiative checking on them. Locke took his sketch of the Blast Door Map and sent it up through these transport piping; it also ended up in an empty field, which was discovered in episode, “Live Together, Die Alone” by Sawyer, Kate, Jack and Hurley.
The Notebooks
The notebooks all contain the Pearl Station logo on the front cover and there appears to be huge number of them considering the large pile found by Kate, Jack, Sawyer and Hurley. It is evident that while a huge amount of daily activity has been recorded in the notebooks it is also apparent that no one is actually using or reading the information in them.
The Lounge Chairs
There are two leather lounge chairs each with a writing table and a magnifying viewing lens mounted on an adjustable arm assembly to the side of the chairs. There is a small bank of controls on the arms of the chairs. On the left arm of the left chair, a rocker switch similar to older style power windows can be seen. On the right arm of the right chair, Locke used the conventional stove dial to brighten the lights in the room. On the dial these words can be read, starting on the right and moving counterclockwise: “HIGH”, “MEDIUM”, “WARM”, and “OFF”.
The Alternative One
Kenosha, Wisconsin
November 16th, 2006
P.S. I am looking for suggestions on what to include in next week’s Bonus Section. If anyone has any ideas or subjects you’d like me to discuss please feel free to e-mail me.
4 8 15 16 23 42
The Alternative One – dharmapoet@wi.rr.com
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