*** Official *** LOST : 4x02: Confirmed Dead

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: sandorski
I think there's some kind of Time thing going on with the Island. Earlier in this episode or the previous it showed the one woman finding the Dharma logo on a collar on a polar bear at a Mid-East archaeological dig site. Can't remember if any times were mentioned, but obviously it had been there for many thousands of years. Somehow Dharma sent a polar bear back in time. Perhaps the Island itself is out of sync, Time wise, with the rest of the world? If so, the plane crashed in the Past and what the Present has seen as the Plane in the water is actually the Plane crashing originally on an island that has been submerged over time.

Although that said, I thought the buried all those dead? So I'm probably wrong.

I'm pretty sure the sunken plane is a coverup, not an island-related thing - remember the underwater explorer unit found the plane intact, but that the cabin is in the jungle on the island and the tail is just off the cost. The tall creepy new black guy that talked to Hurley "works" for Oceanic, or maybe Dharma or the Others, and told the girl who Locke knifed that all the survivors are dead. He knows they are, according to his acting, and is covering it up, but he wanted the girl to focus on her mission.

They're going to have to throw in a Time issue because Walt has aged 3 years since the start of the show and is probably 6' tall now and has a deeper voice, like we saw when he talked to Locke after he got shot.