Smokie was able to get through because a.) Alex turned off the fence for Keamey and his goons to get in or b.) Ben has the ability to turn off the fence from his room/cavern in order to summon it

SMOKIE looks like a dog in the first pic. You can clearly see what looks to be a pointed snot with ears, similar to a pitbull. This would also make it tie into the first time we saw SMOKIE as a three headed dog "CERBERUS". The continuation of smoke trailing behiind and sounds of the freight train were awsome, but better yet was when SMOKIE grabed the merc that fell running away.

so i heard a rumor that the smoke is an experiment in nano-technology gone wrong?....perhaps

Forget going over the fence, why can't he go under?! You know, in the same deforestational (?) manner that he loves so much!

Maybe smokey is too fat, can't get all of itself over the fence, and if just a few tendrils of smoke touch the fence... POOF... he is ashes!

SLF- that much is understood, but why didn't smokey just go over the fence is the question?? It's obviously possible because Locke, Kate and company climbed over it on the tree.

I didn't think it was the height of the fence that kept smokey out, rather the voltage/energy passing through it.

polar bear to be exact

also, the light falling on the smoke in the first picture looks like a dog's head to me.

Nice Bob, that's an awesome observation. And I had wondered that also. wasn't smokey outside the fence when Juliet and Kate were running from it, and had to engage the perimeter fence to keep it away from them?

Does no one else find it interesting that Smokey wasn't able to go over the sonic fence in the episode with Kate and Juliette handcuffed together, but could go over trees and stuff in this scene?? Seems kind of fishy if you ask me. Maybe the grit and grime that was covering Ben was the result of him opening a door or Vent for Smokey to travel through into new otherton.

Couldn't there be two or more Smokies? There's two or more of everything else.

When Ben says bye to Alex, why didn't Miles go with him? Since he communicates with the dead - that would make a great scene!

Smokie was on the plane. You can't see it, but you can hear its familiar mechanical grind in the background.

The next time you hear it, on the island, Rose says, "there's something very familiar about that..."

hey yall i dont think keamy is dead. The actor was somewhere and he said that he is gona be in a movie and just moved to hawaii and could possibly be a regular on LOST

Perhaps, but that would mean Ben had begun to plan the fake crash within the first 24 hours of the real crash, which would be pretty unlikely considering Ethan had probably not infiltrated the losties yet. However, if you consider the timetravel Ben may be able to achieve, then I think you have a good theory!

Smokey_is_king, Do you think if Ben is controlling Smokey that he wanted the pilot dead so he could plant 815 in the Sundra Trench with a fake pilot and pass the blame onto Widmore? That was my line of thinking.

If Ben controls Smokey and/or Smokey sometimes acts independently as a defence mechanism, why did it kill 815's pilot in the very first episode?!

It's more likely that Smoke has some level of intelligence, and free will. Can't say whether it's supernatural or simply mechanical, there are evidence pointing at both possibilities, however, I don't think Ben is its master, but for the first time, the monster did show true emotion--it was fuming pissed! It was large as life and angry as all hell. It was one of the best scenes of the series!

As far as Keamy goes, you knew he couldn't die off-camera. Someone has to get that bastard, and put him down right and bloody.

And about taking a shot at him while he was holding Alex, well, they are not sharpshooters. Sawyer is more bark than bite, and John Locke can choke up when the pressure is up with the best of them. Besides, it's really tough not to trust Ben. No matter how much of a villain he is, he always has something up his sleeve.

Nawzer I brought that book up the first time we saw smokey.

I believe it to be the same as nanobots. Even gives of the sound like they describe in Prey.

The nanobots were also controled by magnetic fields IIRC.

great writing in the show as always.

Aside from wondering how Keamy survives Smokey, I'm still dumbfounded that nobody took a shot at him when he was about to shoot Alex. Even after he shot her, Ben, Sawyer, Locke all could have taken a shot, but nobody did. Strange.

I think Smokey is a nanoparticle cloud. I'm actually reading this book called Prey by Michael Crichton and the behaviour of Smokey and the behaviour of the nanoparticles in Prey are almost identical. I think Dharma Initiative is running multiple experiments or projects in this island because this island for some reason is special. I think Ben controls Smokey with the huge magnetic field that's present on the island. Anyway, I don't see how it could be anything else besides nanoparticles or particles of some kind being programmed to swarm like birds and bees do. That theory makes the most sense to me at this point.

Keamy is still alive because he is in the previews for next week's episode.

I'm not sure how to email you this, but you should put up a screen cap of Ben's passport and the fact that he used the name "Dean Moriarti" which is a character of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road."

How do we know Keamy survived, I assumed all were dead?

it was strange though that it killed all the bad guys, save for the leader (the one who actually shot alex) why did he survive?

maybe smokie is the one that gained all that knowledge from the people that Ben knows everything about. Smokey has two sides, a secret search and explore feature that gathers data and then tells about what it finds, then decides who stays and who goes... and Smokey does the work.

Why did Smokey pull Locke into a hole and not eat him on the spot? Why did Smokey not sweep thru the jungle trees and take Kate? Why did Smokey only look at Ecko the first time?

For me this was the best scene of the entire series. Smokey, on a mission, barreling through the barracks like the Coors Lite Silver Bullet to irradicate the bad dudes. Also for me, totally unexpected.

Other note. The first px looks like Smokey has a face.

We've seen the flashes before though, so I don't think that its anything special. I feel like what Ben said about Jacob was true tho, that they need him for guidance. I feel like Ben has the ability to summon the smoke, or tell Jacob they need it, but has no control over it.
This brings up a question though, why would Ben summon the smoke when it came to going after Juliette and Kate? So either he wanted them dead, or the smoke brings them somewhere, or the smoke also has a will of its own.
Regardless, this is the biggest we've ever seen the smoke if I'm not mistaken.

Maybe the flashes can be "static". Smokey could be an eltrical anomaly of the island...it's possible.