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I’ve been watching series 3 a lot lately, and I think I’ve come up with a few ideas about ageing and pregnancy issues on the island.

I am working from the idea that somebody else on the site said about Jacob possibly being an alchemist, I get the impression hes been in charge of the Others for a very long time, and to do that he must have been special in some way.

Aside from turning base metal into gold, alchemy also had the goals of creating an elixer of life and of creating an artificial life (Hommunculus). It is said that in order to achieve those goals an alchemist would need to aquire the philosophers stone.

The jars of liquid in Jacobs house point to some form of primitive experimentation. I believe Jacob is a survivor of the Black Rock an alchemist who had contracted Magnus Hanso’s company to bring slaves to the island and mine the black rocks. (Philosophers Stones)

Jacob made his home on the island and began to conduct experiments and eventually he created the elixer, he and the rest of the survivors regularly took the mixture and they stayed the same age. Over the years other boats and eventually planes began to crash on the island, Jacobs people either killed these people if they were considered bad or inducted those they considered good into their society and shared the elixer with them. I believe Richard arrived around about this time, most people think Richard arrived on the Black Rock, that idea doesn’t work for me, as Richard is an american, and the Black Rock sailed from Porstmouth (England) and is unlikely to have had an American crew member. So Richard no doubt came from an American plane or boat, he was inducted and the elixer shared with him also.

Then Dharma arrived and they made contact with Jacobs people, Jacob told them they could not study the island and asked them to leave, but Dharma armed their people and went ahead with the experiments, they interrogated some of Jacobs people and learned about the Elixer and eventually obtained some which they studied and replicated for testing on their own people.

I believe we have seen this Elixer as the sickness vaccine. I was thinking perhaps Dharma wasn’t using the vaccine to make people believe in the sickness, but using the sickness to make people take the vaccine.

This could be the answer to why people such as Richard haven’t aged and why the pregnant women die. Kelvin mentioned to Desmond that he should inject himself with the vaccine every 9 days, perhaps the number 9 is clue pointing us to the pregancy issuses? Maybe the ‘elixer’ keeps people young by causing their cells to regress to the state they were in 9 days previously and this causes serious complications when used on pregnant women. Although neither the Hostiles nor Dharma had noticed the connection (Hostiles didn’t have the knowledge and Dharma wasn’t using the vaccine for long enough)

I know there are a lot of holes in this such as why hasn’t Ben aged at all? Well, I noticed in The Man Behind the Curtain at the Dharma induction we see people recieving shots but we never see Ben or Roger get one. I have the idea that there was a rigid social structure within Dharma society and as Roger was just a lowly work man Dharma considered him and his son as unworthy, and Ben only gained access to the vaccine after the purge when Richard made him aware of it’s importance.

Another thing is I don’t know if anyone else spotted this but, after the Hostiles have gassed all the people in the barracks we see a young girl that looks like Annie lying face down on the green. Perhaps that was Annie? Maybe her family were high enough on the social ladder to be privy to the vaccine and this was what finally tipped Ben over the edge, the thought that he would grow old while Annie would stay young?

I know its a bit ‘out there’ , so feel free to criticise.

Key characters

Short Name	Full Name	Episodes	Theories
Ben	Benjamin Linus	3.20, 4.9, & 3” href=”/episodes/theres-no-place-home-parts-2-3/”>4.13	1733

Key episodes

#	Title	Aired	Central character	Theories
2.23	Live Together, Die Alone	5-24-2006	Desmond	323

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