This totally threw me for a loop. Any ideas? I'm clueless.

She may not be the Ben's spy, but maybe the "friend" on the boat?

I don't get it either. She acted like she wasn't comprehending anything that was going on. Zombie?!

either real despondent or just grabbed the book quickly to make it look like she was reading it

I was confused by that at first, too.

I think it was just showing that she was slowly losing her mind.

...Thus wrapping herself in chains and jumping off the side of the ship...

Maybe she was experiencing the same thing as Desmond did, only she didn't have a
constant (?).

Or ~ Ben must be shooting some death rays at the freighter to mess up their minds.

Who is the bad guy? hard to tell..... maybe it's a lesser of the 2 evils, but
which is the lesser?

I was confused by that at first, too.

I think it was just showing that she was slowly losing her mind.

...Thus wrapping herself in chains and jumping off the side of the ship...


I totally agree. They are showing that the Island is having many different effects on the people on the boat. But...why doesn't it have the same effect on our Losties.

I am going to go with starting to lose it. I don't know how much we can trust the captain, since the magic note said not to, but he did say she was suffering from cabin fever.

However, it almost seemed like the crew expected her to jump, or knew better than to try to help as Sayid and Desmond were the only ones yelling.

It's obviously been happening frequently. Someone obviously shot themselves in the room Des and Sayid were supposed to stay.

I don't really buy that it's cabin fever. But I would buy that it has to do with something from the Island. It must just not affect our Losties because they are physically on the Island. Something out there in the ocean must be messing with them.

I was confused by that at first, too.

I think it was just showing that she was slowly losing her mind.

...Thus wrapping herself in chains and jumping off the side of the ship...

end of story. Don't go further than that. That is exactly what was pictured in there

She lost her mind..
book upside down...
then chained and drowned herself..

Maybe the book gave her a satanic message
when read backwards and upside down.

I think she was just totally spacing out. Either depressed and lethargic, or she fell asleep and wasn't paying attention when she was on guard duty, making sure Desmond and Sayid don't escape.

Either way, Frank knew she was on guard duty and was doing a bad job of this spacing out and he just pointed this out to her so she would try to stay more alert.

The book was "The Survivors of the Chancellor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Survivors_of_the_Chancellor)." Read the synopsis. In the end, a character decides to avoid cannibalism by jumping overboard.

just grabbed the book quickly to make it look like she was reading it

BINGO

The book was "The Survivors of the Chancellor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Survivors_of_the_Chancellor)." Read the synopsis. In the end, a character decides to avoid cannibalism by jumping overboard.

Very nice catch...you answered my question before I got to ask it!

After months of nothing but lima beans....can you blame her?

This totally threw me for a loop. Any ideas? I'm clueless.


Either she was very very smart lol, or she had some kind of illness.
Im going with sick.




"Do I get one?"

I was confused by that at first, too.

I think it was just showing that she was slowly losing her mind.

...Thus wrapping herself in chains and jumping off the side of the ship...

I was totally confused by this at first. I was thinking there was some other reason she did this, maybe being dishonest in some way and got caught faking it. But then when we saw her jump over the side, it makes a bit more sense.

A mirror twin would likely read upside-down.

That occurence was just to show us that she was slowly going insane. And then that whole thing culminated to her jumping off the ship, wrapped in chains... suicide.

It's the island effects happening to the crew.
The ship is slowly being pulled closer to the island.

Because someone had taken away her free will or something, and she was basically a zombie. She is the one that jumped, right?

Maybe the book was bound incorrectly? But I think she was just showing signs of losing her mind.

After months of nothing but lima beans....can you blame her?


LMAO!!


Maybe the book gave her a satanic message
when read backwards and upside down.

Message=nothing left in the kitchen except for lima beans!

After months of nothing but lima beans....can you blame her?

ROTFLMAO :biggrin: :biggrin:

The sickness

Maybe someone was standing in front of her reading certain parts of the book to her (hence the book would be upside down to her) to convince her to do the chain-sea tango.

2 reasons:
1. As has been said, to show her state of mind.
2. To give an excuse for a quick shot of the book, so viewers could see the title.

That's all.

no wonder Hurley had to leave, he'd be the first i'd cannibalized

I thought that it was a sign she had just picked up the book having been doing something else, or at least had been so distracted by something that she hadn't been paying attention to the book.

Now that we know what the book was about though, I am starting to think maybe it was a big hint, as it seems to fit together..

It sounds like they're nearly out of food, and maybe she wasn't reading the book because she was trying to figure out which she would rather do - eat someone or kill herself, and her choice became pretty obvious later on. The reason no-one would help her was because they know that the fewer people there are on the boat the fewer people they have to feed, thus the higher their own chances of survival. Which would also explain why they weren't pleased about anyone else being brought on to the boat.

The book scene -- I thought she grabbed it and did a lousy job making it look like she was on the job, which Lapidus pointed out to her.
But then the chain & jump scene changed all that.

How do our Freighter Four feel about this? Daniel Faraday ran his experiment with Regina. Was that the day before she jumped? Didn't her disease hit her pretty quickly?

I totally agree. They are showing that the Island is having many different effects on the people on the boat. But...why doesn't it have the same effect on our Losties.
I think the island is like a hurricane of mental (and/or electromagnetic) energy. Being on the island is okay, since you're in the "eye", but to long out on a boat on the fringes, like these folks, or Danielle's shipmates, who sailed around the island mapping it, it starts to make some people insane.