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It's confirmed: "Dead is Dead." Locke was, but now he is not. Ben Linus is scared of what that means, but Locke is not. It is truly a new chapter in the history of the island. Our spring cleaning project might just be at its most difficult point. We might be tempted to look away and just let things be. But we saw what happened to Jack Shephard in LA when he tried to not think about the island. Matthew Fox said, ''I've always believed part of what was destroying him was his lack of physical proximity to the Island.'' So let's put ourselves in the thick of it and pack up our cleaning box marked "Island." We are asking the three main questions that have to be answered in order for the story of Lost to resolve: Who are the powers vying for the island? What role will the island play in the struggle? And what will the struggle mean for our Protagonists. My first two articles attempted to sort out the Protagonists, alive, dead or otherwise. Locke got his own treatment as the new man. Now we have to ask what is the island?

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The mysterious elderly shop-keep we met in Desmond's excellent adventure seasons past returned tonight's episode, "The Lie". This time, we see Hawking (Jedi styled) working on some math problems in the basement of an old church. There's also a giant pendulum thing drawing marks on a map, which is duplicated on a Dharma-esque computer. It looks like she is hard at work finding a way back to the island for Ben and company. More detailed images found by click the continue link below.

In the Season 4 finale of LOST, Ben uses a frozen donkey wheel to "move" the island. A bright light fills the sky, similar to what we saw with the Hatch Explosion, and then, the island disappears. A "hole" in the water can be seen closing up, filling in where the island use to be. But, where did it go? What exactly is the island, and how does this magical wheel in an oddly frozen underground cave control it? Bigger pics after the jump.

When Ben uses the Frozen Donkey Wheel to move the island, he is in an old cave in which there are some hieroglyphs. Of course, we first caught sign of such glyphs on the Hatch Computer count down doomsday clock. Then, we saw glyphs in Ben's secret cave inside his secret room, inside a secret room. These glyphs seem to be tied to the natives of the island, and the four-toed statue, temple, and ruins we have seen or heard about. Of course, we don't really know what any of this is about... but we have two more seasons to find out. Take a closer look after the jump, and send your translations to us in the comments section!

From the beginning, one of the recurring themes in Lost has been that of the struggle between science and faith. This is a common struggle that we all see and experience in our lives everyday, and Lost has done a fantastic job of bringing this theme out for us to face. I find it interesting, that even in our own forums here at SW, and other sites like it across the web, the majority of our discussions hinge around those of us who believe that what we are seeing on the island can be explained by the logical, and those of us who believe the answers are more mystical in nature. I have always thought that my ideas about the show lie somewhere in between that of science and faith.

It is for these very reasons that I typically refrain from posting theories that try to explain away what we are seeing unfold to us each week. Sure, I have my ideas about what will happen next, and who or what is behind certain things, but call it a theory and you're opening yourself up to untold amounts of back and forth about who's right and who's wrong. I've also found that once someone posts a "theory" on a website, we tend to nurture and protect that theory, never wanting to fully let it go and believe that we are wrong. It is for that reason that I refuse to call any of this a theory. I prefer to think of it as more of an idea, or a possible solution to some of the mysteries that we've been seeing turn up from week to week. Obviously I don't claim any ownership on most of these ideas, because many of you have been talking about them for weeks, or even years in some cases. These are nothing more than the "ideas" that I choose to prescribe to at the moment. In 5 weeks, when the show returns, I reserve the right at any moment to let go of these thoughts.

Ben tells Sawyer that they are on a smaller island next the big island the rest of the survivors are on. Is this another con, or is Ben telling the truth this time?