[RosieCotton]

Spoiler:The other thing we were trying to figure out is the timing...I'm assuming Jack had talked to him just a few years before - maybe five or so? So he wasn't with the French woman's group. So how did he get there? And why does his equipment appear to be so much older? And is he connected with the redneck pirate dudes that took Walt or what?

[Ramius]

Evenin' folkses. [sip]

I may get banned tonight. buttmunches are dissin' my coasties. I'm fixin' ta hit da warpath.

[sip]

:-)

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Spoilers ho...

The "quarantine" sign was on the inside of the door (they couldn't read it until they blew the door open) soooo that means it was meant for The Occupant to read; a warning for him to not go outside?

The woman Jack was operating on was the woman he eventually married, so the timing of about 5 years before current time is probably good. Don't know who The Occupant is connected with or how he got there or where the equipment came from... but I think he was carrying on an online chat with *someone* (the frowny smiley on the terminal?)

The appearance of Poor Drowned Walt is a classic "strange happening": passerby sees someone strange or unusual trying to get their attention, but when the passerby looks closer no one is there; later, passerby learns the person they thought they saw is actually dead or in distress and couldn't have been present. Another thing about Walt: notice how he tried to talk but could only whisper... like the voices in the forest?

Rose points out, Jack had a similar thing happen to him, seeing his dead father on the island!

...and whoa.