I thought the upside down book was possibly a key 'clue' as to what's going on.

The reaction to the suicide seemed particularly telling. It was just too downplayed to be 'real'. I don't mean it was faked, just that its significance was other than the actual death of the lady. My current theory is that visitors to the island can leave it by committing 'suicide'. Its obviously a blow to the 'mission' to lose someone but in this case its an inconvenience not a tragedy.

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Peter Gillespie

My favorite part of this scene was that the book was upside down. How poetic in a series that has put books in the hands of characters to put one upside down in Regina's. I guess the question is, You're reading the book, but do you understand it? A good question to ask about this show!

you_all_everybody, there cannot be any correlation at all. Period, end of story. The phone they were using is known as a G5-18 series 11 that can only be used in areas lying between 45 and 48 degrees west of the Japanese meridian. I took a screen print of that phone and sent it to my uncle, who works for the international communications bureau. He said there would be no way at all it could even be used to communicate or send signals from a boat thats at sea, outbound to a land mass such as the island. What I found fascinating is that although the vector coordinates of where the plane was found crashed must have been equal or lesser my no more than one tenth of a degree to the subplots of distance between Sydney and Jakarta, Indonesia, then how would it be possible for Desmond Hume, a native Scottsman, to travel in time a mere 8 years, when in reality, according to the scientist Delroy McCabe, a minimal jump of 11 years per interval would be required for any being greater then 14 grams. bare with me, Michael is now on the boat, and we can assume there is another person who will aid them now....with above referenced information, it can only be Jack Bauer. Yes, the next season of 24 will have agent Bauer saving the people on the lost island!

either that, or Jack and Kate are going to do it...uh hu hu hu.....

just a thought.. since that other guy (forgot his name already) that went crazy and died in desmonds arms used to talk to the people on the island, then went crazy, do you think there is a correlation between the people on the ship talking to the islanders on the phone... like i said.. just a thought.

It's very obvious there's a suicide issue on the ship. The spray pattern of the blood on the wall indicates that the victim was shot from a lower elevation, ala self-inflicted gunshot (in the mouth)

With Regina notably concerned she was reading upside-down it's likely she did commit suicide as her mental state fell apart.

It's apparent to me that the gist of the inactions of the crew towards Regina and the expressed inconvenience of blood on the wall is to suggest that they are going insane left and right and it's nothing new to them.

I'm with whoever suggested they'll have flashback segments regarding Michael or the other actors.

Did we all miss the obvious. The captain claims cabin fever....Umm wasn't Daniel on a boat that allegedly (sp) crash on the island. She speaks of an illness.

If there are side effects of the island then why can't one of them be this "sickness"

I mean it appears that when the Sayid and Desmond were shown their new quarters is appears that somone shot their brains out in there.

Regina was answering phones and the next she is reading the book upside down and Lapidus is standing there with a paper bag of lima beans. Lapidus so kindly reminds her the book is upside down. I mean really fans you just have to love it!

Don't assume anything with these people. You saw Mikail (Patch) dive into the ocean and blow up Charlie after being shot with a harpoon by Desmond. I agree with the previous post, don't assume Regina (or anyone) is dead.

it looked like she was in a time warp when the pilot saw her in the hallway

Scratch that, I just found the right book. Yet it is very interesting how much "The Survivors of the 'Jonathan'" fits. In it, an individualistic man named Kaw-djer provides assistance to an indegenous group of people in his home of Magellania. When a shipwreck hits a nearby Island, Kaw-djer extends his assistance to the survivors in the hopes of helping them to establish their own colony. However he rejects their pleas to rule over them. Living by the motto "Neither God nor master," he chooses to let them establish their own kind of anarchistic government only to have it ultimately fail. In the end, he is forced to step in and establish his own rule in order to save them from themselves; even though this goes against his own principles. After "the dust settles," Kaw-djer steps down from his position of ruler and becomes the lighthouse keeper; thus reclaiming his own individualism. It may not have been what Regina wasn't reading but I found it fun that Jules Verne had two different yet similar titles that held signifigance for this show.

Can anyone help me with this: the book title says "Survivors of the Chancellor," but in a quick bio of Jules Verne, all I was able to find is "Survivors of the 'Jonathan.'" The synopsis for this book seems pertinent to what's happening on Lost so I feel like they are meant to be one in the same. However, I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about the discrepancy between the two titles.

Oh, for the love of God - seriously? Picked up by a sub? C'mon.

Dude.

Like my cousin said - who has yet to post on this section.

Maybe she was going to the bottom of the ocean for something? Portal to the island? A Dharma station? A submarine picking her up? Dont be so quick to assume she killed herself.

She was Uma Thurman's stunt woman in Kill Bill also. I don't understand why they brought on Fisher Stevens and her just to kill them both as soon as we see them, maybe they'll have a role in Michael(now Kevin Johnson)'s flashback to his days after he left the island.

You mean Death Proof? I haven't seen Planet of Terror, was she in that too?

Does anyone recognize Regina as the stunt woman from Planet of Terror?