Once they get inside the station, we get a better look at the room which we first saw in "The Lie." There is some dated looking computer gear, much like the gear seen in the stations on the island. There is a board on the wall that flips through longitude and latitude numbers. What do these mean? Is this where the island currently is or where it is going or something else? We see the pendulum swinging from an opening above as well as the blackboard with equations written out. There is also the picture of the island that's marked "September 23, 1954 - U.S. Army - OP 264 - Top Secret - Eyes Only." We can also get a better look of the map of the earth that is below the pendulum. I'll try to do another post specifically about some of the points on the map later.
Jack asks Ben if he knew about the station and Ben answers "No. No I didn't." Jack asks Eloise if Ben is telling the truth and she says "Probably not." She begins her lecture about the station. She says the room they're in was constructed years ago over "a unique pocket of electro-magnetic energy" which connects to similar pockets all over the world. She says that the people who built the station were only interested in the island. They knew that the island was out there somewhere, but they couldn't find it. She says "a very clever fellow" built the pendulum on the theoretical notion that they should look for where the island is going to be, not where it is supposed to be. She says that the fellow correctly presumed that the island was always moving which is why the flight 815 survivors were never rescued. The same man created a series of equations that determine with a high degree of probability, where the island is going to be at a certain point in time. She continues saying that "Windows, while open, can provide a route back," but the windows do not stay open long. The group's window at this point, was closing in 36 hours.
At this point, Desmond interjects asking whether they're going back to the island willingly. Desmond tells Eloise Hawking that he's there to deliver a message from her son Daniel Faraday. This doesn't seem to surprise or phase Eloise at all. He tells her that Daniel and the other people on the island need her help. She tells him that she is helping, implying that getting the group back to the island will help. Desmond begins to walk away but Eloise tells him that "the island isn't done with you yet." He then reveals to the room that Eloise cost him four year of his life. He warns Jack that he thinks Ben and Eloise are using him and the others in a game in which they are the pieces. He then tells Jack to ignore what Eloise says. He turns to her and says "You say the island's not done with me, well I'm done with the island. He then storms out of the room.
Eloise then moves on and explains that the binder she handed Jack earlier is of all of the air routes that will fly over the coordinates were the island will be in a little more than a day. She tells him that there is a flight from Los Angeles to Guam that will go through the window. The flight is Ajira Airways flight 316. She says that flight is the only hope for going back to the island. She then tells everyone that they all need to be on the flight and they need to recreate the circumstances that took them to the island in the first place. She tells them they need as many of the people as they can get who were on the original flight (815) need to go with them. Jack, as always, can't seem to let go and have faith that it will work. Eloise tells him that he specifically has additional work to do that others do not have to do. More on that in the next post, because this one is long enough.
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where in los angeles is the church?
Like practically all of the locations in Lost, the real church is actually in Hawaii.
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