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In the podcast recapping "D.O.C." and previewing "The Brig," the Powers that Be, Damon and Carlton, gave some good tidbits I thought I'd share with you. If you are spoiler-averse, you may want to skip this post, but I don't think any of this is truly a "spoiler."

First - the mysterious parachutist's full name will be revealed as "Naomi Doritt." Anyone who can come with a hidden meaning or anagram for that name, come forth and let me know.

They also tackled the two biggest questions from "D.O.C."

1. What's up with Naomi's "no survivors" reveal at the end of the episode?

First of all, they reiterated: our characters are not in purgatory. They said this leaves few possibilities:

1. Naomi’s lying. After all, why trust the delirious ramblings of a random stranger?
   
2. The conspiracy theory – somebody put the wreckage in a place where it could be found(who could do that? they ask)
   
3. (That’s all they would say at this point; see my recap, the prior post below, for my opinions).
   
   

2. The second big mystery: Mikhail – why (and how) is he not dead? Again, there are two main possibilities:

1. The fence was not turned up too high.
2. He died, and was brought back to life.
   
   

Damon and Carlton say that Mikhail will throw us a hint in a week or two.

They went on to tease this week's episode, "The Brig," and moving forward. Things to watch for:

• What happened to John between the time he saw Anthony Cooper tied up, and the time he talked to Kate, with a bandaged hand, and said he was leaving with the Others?
• Why and how was Cooper in a room on the island? He will tell us.
• They referred to the idea that the island is “outside the space-time continuum” as a “tutti-fruity” theory.
• We will nothing in Lost (sci-fi-wise) that you would not read in a Michael Crichton novel (which leaves open aliens, talking gorillas, dinosaurs, AI nanotech, the ability to warp reality, and time travel to the middle ages).
• Claire's psychic's predictions and Walt’s abilities will come back in the future (no idea when this will happen).
• The Others' obsession with children will turn out to have more behind it than their inability to bear children.
• The Others are interested in children with “special abilities” (e.g. Walt)

I'm looking forward to the rest of the season!