If Malkin was so frightened that he had legitimately had a psychic episode for the first time in his life then why doesn't he seem scared or surprised that he knew Claire was pregnant straight away? There is no other way he could know this information at this point in the story. That should have freaked him out, yet he continues the reading without batting an eyelid. It is only when he sees the "blur" and gets a potent feeling that he asks Claire to leave.

​@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 I'm not saying you're wrong I'm just saying it's what I thought when I saw the scene with him and Eko years ago lol

That is truly a very high compliment. Thank you very much :) I'm extremely pleased and validated to know that there are fans who appreciate this channel.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 You are most welcome Sir. I hope you, you're family and close friends are doing well, and in good health. Cheers from Canada!

That is a solid point, I am sure many people did not factor in that the Island itself was conscious and had a will of its own when the show was around, they probably figured the Island was self explanatory lol. I tell ya, Damon and Carlton were so ahead of their time when they conceptualized this, its like they both took their shared knowledge and flipped it on its head and created something that is more than art: us as fans, ended living in it, it was so different and so new...yet we didn't realize it then, funny how that works. One scene that really made me think; when Locke and Boon were going to the beech craft, I either though it was the influence the MIB had on Locke that made him not be able to stand up, or it was the Island, I took both theories and see were they went and what they could explain, It made me think about how he just stood up when we woke up on the beech the day of the crash....was that MIB or the Island? Its very interesting, keeping track of different lines of theories and seeing were they lead you.

@@jamesglandon3737 I think for many seasons of the show it seemed to imply Jacob was this omniscient manipulator of events, but while he was a critical player in the game he wasn't God..that was the Source, the heart of the Island

I have heard this theory before and I disagree with it based on how the scene and performance play out. If he was so frightened that he had legitimately had a psychic episode for the first time in his life then why doesn't he seem scared or surprised that he knew Claire was pregnant? There is no other way he could know this information at this point in the story. That should have freaked him out, yet he continues the reading without batting an eyelid. It is only when he sees something "blurry" and gets a potent feeling that he asks Claire to leave. There is no reason to think that he was a fraud who had a random psychic moment one time, especially given his behaviour for the rest of the episode. We know psychics exist in the LOST universe, and the show demonstrates what a fake psychic actually looks like when we see Hurley taken to one in 'Tricia Tanaka is Dead'.

in other words, the light only started affecting him when Clare came to him.

The themes of each season is a great idea for a video!

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Thank you! I’m really enjoying your videos. I didn’t watch LOST when it was originally on, and because of that I missed a lot of the fan interaction that happens when you get excited about a show. Up until now it’s been a personal experience, but I’m happy to find a community here still engaged in discussion and finding meaning in the questions this show has to offer.

Your father never had the makings of a varsity athlete. :)

@@jakeschlachter3104 small hands, that was his problem..

You are correct, sir! I don't personally subscribe to the idea that Malkin knew Eko was supposed to be on Flight 815 too. The main reason being that Malkin's power seemed predicated upon touch and deep concentration in order to psychically connect with his subject. I honestly think that Malkin just wanted the priest gone before things went any further.

I think that’s an accurate interpretation of Malkin. He didn’t know what he was seeing but he felt - very strongly - what he needed to do for Claire and acted upon it.

Both Harper and Dave appearances are open to speculation. I personally don't think Harper was MiB or a whisper ghost, just a sneaky "Other". We see The Others on various occasions appear and stealth-sneak around the island; implausibly perhaps but not supernatural in any way. The Man in Black already had his plan with Ben & Locke in motion at this point so he didn't really need to do much else beyond wait for their return to the cabin. Yes, releasing gas might kill some candidates but it also might kill Ben (whom he had been working on for some time and very much needed). And the gas most likely wouldn't kill Jacob, which was the primary goal of MiB's plans. As for the Dave that we see on the island talking to Hurley... this is most likely a manifestation of Hurley's subconscious. His final battle with his mental illness. It is certainly the cleaner answer. However, it remains open to interpretation. If Dave is the smoke monster at this point in time then it opens up more questions. We know Smokey needs to scan someone in order to appear as people from their memories, so the question becomes "when did he scan Hurley?" I go into this idea in Chapter Ten on The Smoke Monster in a fair bit of detail. Could Smokey scan people whilst occupying other forms, such as animals, birds and insects? We never get confirmation on that but it's a possibility. If that is the case, then he could have scanned Hurley whilst in some kind of innocuous animal form and manifested Dave later from that. But it requires more conjecture.

Richard Malkin says that "great danger" surrounds Aaron if he isn't raised by Claire. I don't think that means that Aaron himself is malevolent in any way, only that if Aaron is raised by "another" (or "an other") then his life is likely to be at risk. Whether or not Malkin knew precisely what would happen is unknown. It was just an intense feeling that he got. Enough to motivate him into harassing Claire onto that plane. We see that Aaron being raised by Kate later on in the story doesn't actually have an adverse effect on the boy. However, it does have an adverse effect on Claire. Without Aaron, she is the one whom great danger surrounds and follows a path of darkness, as we see in Season Six.

If he is being guided by a force stronger than himself then Malkin will have done everything possible to get Claire on that plane, including giving her money to reinforce that this was all legit. Buying her a ticket is one thing but giving her $6k helps to motivate her further. Although I don't believe we ever see the money he allegedly gives her, only the ticket. Whether the money was real or not, the key motivation here is for Malkin to get Claire on Flight 815 by any means necessary.

What if it was Jacob, not the island itself?

​@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 We see Claire with an envelope in her hand, and since she says that Malkin is offering her 6,000$ (Malkin then says: 12,000$, the other half in L.A) I just assumed that the money was also in that envelope with the plane ticket, but it could be possible that they are counterfeit money. Anyway, maybe Malkin knew how important these visions were, so yes, I believe you're right saying that he would have done everything possible to convince Claire

@@zekielswheel I have heard this theory that Jacob spoke to Malkin to get him to guide Claire towards Oceanic 815, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Especially when we look at Malkin's behaviour and how he organically reacts to his visions then acts accordingly. At this point in the game, Jacob isn't directly telling people what to do. It's not until we get towards the endgame (three years later) that Jacob starts directly instructing people like Ilana and Hurley and Widmore on how they should proceed. Plus, there is no tangible in-show evidence to suggest that Jacob ever visited with Malkin.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Well put!

I have heard this theory before and I disagree with it. If he was so frightened that he had legitimately seen the future for the first time then why does he not seem scared or surprised that he knows Claire is pregnant? He is clearly psychically reading her from the start (there is no other way he could know this information). Then the "blurry" vision happens and that is when he gets scared.

Don't forget Charlie being brought back from death by Jack in S1. "Dead is dead" is a perceived rule by people like Ben and Richard, but we know that isn't completely true and we know they are not always right in their many assumptions about the island. People *do* indeed come back from death because they still have work to do or a purpose to fulfil. Both Charlie and Sayid ultimately give their lives to save others following their respective revivals. Charlie in the Looking Glass and Sayid on the sub. There is always a reason.

@blisteringheightsofstupidity I address the flash sideways in its own video. Please see Chapter Fifteen on this channel for a more detailed explanation of it.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 She died?

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 I think that was Charlie when Ethan hung with leaving him for dead and took Claire.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Charlie’s revival is first, and is rooted in reality-a form of coming back from the dead” humans experience every day from CPR. I think it was a smart choice to start there for a character coming back “from the dead”. Especially for a character like Jack to witness.

Malkin appears to need to make physical contact with a person in order to gain any insights into their future. This is a recurring action for psychic characters in LOST -- physical contact. I don't think Malkin knew that Eko needed to be on 815, but their interactions were absolutely part of a causal chain of events instigated by The Island to get Eko on the plane. In Claire's case, Malkin was directly guiding her. In Eko's case, he was unintentionally guiding him.

I discuss this event briefly in my video on The Magic Box, which (if you're watching these in order) should be coming up for you later. Basically, it was a necessary event. The removal of Jack's appendix allows him to survive long enough after the MiB stabs him in the same spot in the series finale. If Jack still had his appendix there, he would have bled out and died before being able to re-cork The Source. Similar to why Locke's kidney needed to be removed, so that he would survive Ben's attempt to kill him on The Island several years in the future.

Charlotte Malkin giving her father the information for Claire's sessions? That's quite an elaborate explanation in order to keep Malkin as being a conman. The problem with this theory -- that Jacob was involved somehow -- is that it requires theory crafting a lot of off-screen events that are never suggested or implied by the scenes we see. To me, Jacob's involvement doesn't make a lot of sense. Especially when we look at Malkin's behaviour and how he organically reacts to his visions. The suggestion that he is a conman who has a real vision doesn't work either. He knows Claire is pregnant and doesn't seem surprised that he knows that, but then he gets surprised by a real psychic event? And if Charlotte told him what to tell Claire then why does Malkin get scared and send Claire away? Surely he would be prepared. His behaviour makes no sense in either context. Also, at this point in time, Jacob isn't directly telling people what to do. It's not until we get towards the endgame (three years later) that Jacob starts directly instructing people like Ilana and Hurley and Widmore on how they should proceed. As for Charlotte being touched by Jacob, does this suggest that he brought her back from the dead? Because Jacob specifically says he cannot do that (to Richard in 'Ab Aeterno'). It would take a lot of evidence to convince me of this particular theory. All evidence points to Malkin being legit.