JACK: You wanna tell me how we’re gonna get a bomb out of here?

RICHARD: The same way we brought it in.

JACK: I assume you don’t mean through the pool.

RICHARD: It’s a 12-foot long, 40,000-pound hydrogen bomb. No, not through the pool.

It’s a good question. How _did_ they transport the bomb?

Links

1. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Follow_the_Leader_transcript

I laughed so hard, it almost made up for the lack of definitive answers in the final season of Lost after waiting 5 years so far!

Oh, I’m just kidding.. Kind of..

It’s interesting to note that in the picture below, you actually see that prominent head of the “creature” would be and around about where the eyes would be, there are are multiple flashes.

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We have also seen from the Smoke Monster’s point of view several times now, and we definitely see flashes from this perspective too matching the image above.

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We also see the usual flashes in the body of the monster, although this offered nothing of any particular interest to go from.

While all of this doesn’t really offer anything spectacular, we’ve all basically presumed that the images within the flashes, such as in the encounter with Eko, were taking or reading thoughts, but as with the early encounter with Locke way back in the series, they can probably be “pushed” in too. I wonder if Richard not actually looking at the flashes makes a difference.

While it isn’t as obvious in the still below, the shape you can see toward the top-right is the shape of a human, specifically the lower half of the body.

Note: You can click the Image for a full-sized animated GIF version, or alternatively, you can click here for the full quality Animated PNG version (Doesn’t work in Internet Explorer! Use Firefox, Chrome or another up to date Browser).

Now, we’ve been led to believe that the Smoke Monster and the “Man in Black” (MiB a.k.a. Flocke (Fake Locke)) are one in the same. We’ve had Flocke essentially telling the viewers “I’m sorry that you had to see me like that”, referring to him supposedly becoming the Monster.

We’ve also seen in a previous episode the Monster scouting around the island, coming across Sawyer and then presumably changing form to turn into Flocke, pick up the machete on the floor and pay Sawyer a visit *.

It’s very likely that the Monster and the Man in Black are one in the same, but wouldn’t it be interesting if the Monster was actually just transporting the MiB around the Island instead of actually being him?

In the animation, we see that somebody is clearly being carried with the smoke. This is either just a hapless victim or the MiB (a.k.a Flocke) being transported.

* Nobody ever did say much about the multiple “strands” of the Monster floating around the Island all Evil Dead style. Presumably if the MiB _is_ the Monster, it means that he can be in a massive amount of places at once given the number of small black smoke clouds there can be.

I’m not entirely convinced the MiB is actually the Smoke Monster though. Given that we’ve never seen him change, it’s just the word of an untrustworthy character whose motives have been entirely selfish up until now.

It’s probably just another red herring by the show writers “as per usual for a change”.

Also being a big fan of who is clearly the protagonist of the show, John Locke, I’ve decided to throw together some of his best bits for prosperity’s sake, starting with the excellent “chin-wipe-grin-chuckle” moment, for want of a better description.

Note: Click the image above to load the 4mb GIF animation. It will take a while to load but I optimized it as best I could from 7.5mb.