Knife-throwing Walt is on the island
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By brodie7007
- Knife-throwing Walt is on the island
- Created: May 29, 2007
- Last updated: Aug 13, 2008
- After episode: 3.22: Through The Looking Glass
- Status: Current
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Walt is alive and on the island!
A couple thoughts to prove that Walt is on the island…He’s the one who killed Naomi! Locke has not been able to kill anyone himself (his father, Jack) and they never actually showed him throwing the knife. Remember back in season 1, when Locke taught Walt how to throw knives, and Walt learned to do so with pinpoint accuracy? That leads me to believe that Walt was in the background somewhere (probably in the direction Locke walked off to at the end) and threw the knife that killed Naomi.
Key characters
| Short Name | Full Name | Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|
| John | John Locke | 3.3, 2.17, 1.4, 1.19, 3.13, 3.19, 4.11, & 3” href=”/episodes/theres-no-place-home-parts-2-3/”>4.13 | 1292 |
| Walt | Walter “Walt” Lloyd | 2.2, 1.14 | 363 |
Key episodes
| # | Title | Aired | Central character | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.22 | Through The Looking Glass | 5-23-2007 | Jack | 1265 |
| 1.14 | Special | 1-19-2005 | Walt, Michael | 75 |
i think walt influenced locke to kill naiomi, but when it comes down to killing someone that he cares for (Jack) he cant hurt them, because locke is forgiving.
100% really good point I think you hit the nail on the head. Locke had a gun why would he throw a knife if it were him he’d of just poped a cap in her. I think walt took the knife threw it and ran.
You’ve got a good point, but surely someone would’ve seen Walt. I’m not disagreeing, just a point.
its a very good point. Also isn’t locke meant to be pure? and one of the good ones. This links with my thought that walt wasn’t a hallucination.
Interesting idea… I don’t know though…
I do agree that there was something odd about that whole thing.
I though the same think. I totally agree.
sorry I meant to say “thing”
I think it links back to Klu asking Michael if ‘Walt has ever been somewhere he wasn’t supposed to be’. And if this is right, Walt definatly wasnt supposed to be at the radio tower, so I think this theory is very believable. It could mean that Walt and Michael might have come across Naomi’s people when trying to escape the island, and returned as a warning to the ‘Losties’.
Cruise2U - “You’ve got a good point, but surely someone would’ve seen Walt. I’m not disagreeing, just a point. ”
Well maby, if Walt wasnt walt, but Smoky (who i think is jacob) then maby no one else could see him…
Also remember, Ben took John to see Jacob. John herd him say “Help me” even though ben is the only one who can seem to hear (or see) him. (So either Jacob is dead, or Everyone is dead, but Ben and Jacob are alive.. but Ben being ‘specail’ can be seen by, and can see the dead and alive one? [specaily since the others dont seem to of aged from that flash back] )
So if it is Jacob, then maby only John has the power to see him?
Then again…. i think a floating knife would get somones attention.
ALSO… i think its quite possible John killed her. Even though he couldnt kill his Farther or Jack, those 2 people had played a big part in his life. But naomi wasnt who she said she was, and it wasnt pennys boat, so if he found this out (from walt/smoky/jacob [ maby jacob wanted John to know, so he could stop it, so he apeared as walt.. also makes sence for the “you have work to do” ] )
Then again, why with a knife? Damn… im going to give up :)
walt was there in spirit but is also powerful enough to manifest in a physical nature as well, i.e. poltergeist see he was able to project himself into lockes vision but also manipulative enough to project himself into action to hurl the knife and disappear
Interesting theory. I’m buying it.
There is way more to Walt and the dog then meets the eye.
Or maybe the Smokey the gate keeper of the island is a shape shifter and takes the form or takes over (assumes control) of pure creatues to manifest him self. Like the bears, the dog and children on the island. Maybe that’s why the “Dharma” girl was asking if Walt did show up on a place that he wasn’t suppouse to be.
And I believe that Ben can’t hear, see or communicate with Jacob even tho he knows that Jacob exists and it’s there. That’s why he was so interested on what Jhon had heard from him. And the others see Jhon Lock as the messias.
It certainly was really bizarre when Locke just sort of walked off behind that building after Jack made the phone call.
I thought he was going to take a leak, but I guess this is a better explanation.
Well, I think that this is a very interesting theory. I know there is argument that it ‘was really Locke’ by some of you users, but I believe that it was Walt. My addition to this theory: Nobody seems to remember the young guy named Eddie that was an undercover cop at the commune that Locke lived/worked at, that grew illegal marijuana. Locke didn’t kill him in the woods when he needed to for the sake of the commune (and the friends that he lived with there). He completely chickened out.
This is further proof that ‘someone close’ to him or not, Locke is absolutely not a killer. Walt threw that knife. It was only too much of a coincidence that John was the one who taught him to throw in the first place. His deadly accuracy just happened to be pre-existing in him. I have a feeling that there is much much more to Walt than we even can imagine at this point.
I love the theory brodie! And I think adamdegroot has hit the nail on the head!
I know that lock couldn’t kill people before but maybe thats changed since his dad is dead he seems different to me
But he still couldn’t kill Jack.
Look at Locke when the camera cuts to him: he’s clearly in the follow-through position for having thrown something. Only at that point did he draw the gun - if someone or something else had thrown the knife, why wouldn’t he already have the gun drawn?
So, why the knife? Because it’s his favourite weapon - he’s more confident of hitting the target with the knife than the gun. The gun is also not likely to be in the best condition having spent a while in a ditch full of corpses on a tropical island, so he’s even less confident of his accuracy with it. Just look at his attempt to hit the satellite phone…
Then again, having watched all five seasons of Alias (for my sins) who’s to say that a JJ Abrams script has to be logical or even internally consistent? Maybe the knife was simply more dramatic…
But wait, I thought that Naomi got a branch stuck in her stomach from falling through the trees?
Im sorry but i have a point and im gonna have to minus it. Why would Walt go and get Locke if he could just do it himself. I dont think it was really walt another illusion of the island