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So, Sayid wakes from the dead only to be “claimed” by some sort of darkness. He hasn’t been taken over by Jacob, and he isn’t Sayid from the alternate universe. This is “zombie” Sayid.

Little do they know that this isn’t far from the truth. I believe that Sayid still thinks like Sayid and is unaware of the Darkness that is growing inside of him. The question is, what will happen when the Darkness takes over?

At the end of the episode we see Claire all “Rousseau” with her shotgun and traps, but what exactly has happened to her in the 3 years since we saw her last. Does she still know who she is? When we last saw her she was in the Cabin with her “zombie” father Christian. She looked at ease and didn’t seem to care too much that she’d left her baby at the foot of a tree by himself. Had the darkness taken over completely by this stage? If so, then it won’t be long before Sayid is taken over completely.

As Christian was with Claire it’s safe to assume that he has also been “claimed” by this Darkness. This suggests that only dead bodies can be “claimed”, which means Claire must’ve died in the house blast in Season 4.

Burying the dead?

Is this the reason The Others / Dharma are so keen on burying the dead as to not have their bodies “claimed”. But if that’s the case, why dump all the Dharma folk in that mass grave?

Who else could’ve been “claimed” in the past 5 seasons? Well, we know Rousseau’s team had an encounter with Smokey near The Temple, and that she was of the impression that they’d been “infected”. Everyone except Rousseau went into the hole in the wall so chances are they died down there and then were “claimed”. They were still the same people, but they had a darkness inside of them.

Crazy Rousseau perhaps wasn’t that crazy when she shot her team. She knew something wasn’t quite right with them.

When Dogen told Jack that the poison pill will only work if Sayid takes it willingly, was this just a lie to get Jack to give it to him? Or would it really have only been effective if Sayid had taken it willingly? If so, why was Rousseau able to kill her team, and The Others not able to kill Sayid? To make this situation as simple as possible, I’m going to go with Dogen lied to Jack about him having to take it willingly.

That doesn’t answer why they don’t just shoot and kill him though. Maybe the poison is the only way to kill a “claimed” body without it being “claimed” again. But if that’s true, then how did Rousseau kill her team? Unless they weren’t “claimed”. But if they weren’t “claimed” why was Rousseau so adamant that they were “infected”. I guess I’m going round in circles here so I’ll leave this for the time being.

Are the bodies that are being “claimed” on the same side as MIB/Flocke? I’d say they were but separate entities. We’ve seen that MIB/Flocke replicates a persons body and doesn’t “claim” it. I guess the bodies that are being “claimed” will be used as MIB/Flockes army in the upcoming war.

Alternate Universe Course Correcting

In the Alternate Universe Kate takes Claire to the house of the couple who were going to adopt her baby. Unfortunately, the womans husband had left her and wasn’t willing to bring up a baby alone.

This means that Claire will be left to raise her baby. Much like Richard Malkin advised Claire to take Flight 815 in the original timeline, I think he did it in this timeline as well. He knew that the couple in LA wouldn’t be able to adopt Claires baby but he sent her anyway because he knew that this event would lead up to Claire having a bond with her baby.

Kate ended up taking Claire to the hospital because she was having contractions, and during her time there she called her baby Aaron. She also chose not to have her baby there and then because she wasn’t ready yet. This mirrored what she told Kate on the island in the original timeline when she went into labour.

We also saw Ethan at the hospital. His surname in this timeline is Goodspeed instead of Rom. I guess this is because in this timeline his mother Amy left with him in 1977 when the island was evacuated. With no island to go back to Ethan was brought up by his mother, Amy Goodspeed. In the original timeline, Ethan seemed to be with The Others from an early age so he was probably taken as a child or he chose to go with The Others, and would’ve taken on someone elses surname.

Much like the original timeline, Ethan took care of Claire and her baby.

It’ll be interesting to see how the rest of the Flight 815 passengers lives turn out and how they interact with each other, and see how the similarities are to the events that happened on the island.