LAST EDITED ON 02-17-10 AT 08:00 PM (EST)THE NUMBERS!!! They are in reference to each of the Oceanic Survivors: Locke, Rayes, Ford, Jarrah, Shepard, Kwon.
So these particular survivors are special....not Desmond, not Claire, not Charlie, not Aaron, not Ben....Must be only one of Sun or Jin, as they were only assigned one number?
Was this plan in place even before they were born? Or, as they were born....? Clearly, they were significant as assigned to our hero's.
XLocke wants to GET OFF THE ISLAND! He told Richard and he told Sawyer that the survivors of Oceanic 815 were "candidates". So, perhaps that is true.
Ilana told Ben that XLocke dragged Richard into the jungle because he was "recruiting".
He did appear to try and get Richard to come with him, he tried to "recruit" him. It also appears that he has succeeded in "recruiting" Sawyer.
Do I believe that XLocke is bad....yes. Why? Because everyone that knows Jacob and Smokey seem to prefer Jacob. Everyone is scared of Smokey. Smokey has killed alot of people and apparently can claim them causing them to go insane. Also, who I perceive to be young Jacob appeared to XLocke and reminded him that he knew the rules, he couldn't kill him....in other words, apparently Smokey wants to kill them all.
What I don't understand? Why have all of the Survivors been manipulated by Jacob to come to the Island, as he's manipulated many, many "others" to come to the island.