Hurley tells Jack that he's been spending his days hanging with Ghost Charlie on the Santa Rosa lawn. He also says Charlie has a message for Jack: ''You're not supposed to raise him.'' We immediately get interpretation from Hurley — ''Do you think he means Aaron?'' Given Jack's intensifying anxiety about becoming a husband to Kate and father to Aaron, we are inclined to bite on Hurley's altogether reasonable analysis — just like perch chomping on bait.
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Teary-eyed Claire gets in her face and yells: ''Don't bring him back, Kate! Don't you dare bring him back!'' And then Kate wakes up. Yep, it was a nightmare, though clearly, we are supposed to take it seriously as an omen. Again, given the context of both the scenes, it is sensible to assume that Claire is talking about Aaron. Or is she?
Two warnings from two spectral entities about a specific person never referred to by name, only the deliberately unspecified pronoun ''him.'' In both cases, the ''him'' would seem to be Aaron. But what if they were referring to someone else? Look again at the warnings, but ignore the ''he'' and instead note the verbs:
''You're not supposed to RAISE him. Don't BRING HIM BACK, Kate. Don't you dare BRING HIM BACK.''
My theory? Jack isn't being dissuaded from raising children. And Kate isn't being beseeched to keep Aaron away from the Island. No, both of these characters are being told the same thing: They are being warned against resurrecting a dead man.
You're not supposed to raise him ... FROM THE DEAD. Don't you dare bring him back ... TO LIFE.
Perhaps you think I'm nutty. Maybe you think I'm projecting onto the show instead of decoding the show itself. If so, well, what else is new? But if you think I'm onto something — or at least game to entertain this something that I'm onto — you may now be wondering, Okay, If Charlie and Claire were begging Jack and Kate not to facilitate a resurrection, whose resurrection are we talking about?
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I agree... I think that Ben has his own, probably nefarious reasons for bringing John Locke's body back to the Island. And apparently the ageless Richard Alpert, who told Locke he would have to die to get the O6 back there, is in on the plot. What's it all about? I can't possibly guess -- but that's what I love about LOST!
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