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In the city of Redmond, Washington, a servant of Christ lives alone... a member of Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland... managing the build system for the Microsoft XNA Game Studio team by day... swing dancing with Seattle's finest Lindy Hoppers by night... the 30-something-year-old software engineer, known only as Celebok!

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815Survivor, a journal of Bill, a character based loosely on myself, as one of the background survivors of Oceanic Flight 815. (Incidentally, in real life, I did live in Tustin, California, between 1996 and 2002, but I have since then moved to Washington state.) See the rest of this page for a complete character biography of Bill.

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Celebok believes in WHH and 2007/2007, and he hates Kate.

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Contents 1 Bill 2 Before the crash 3 On the Island 3.1 Season 1 (Days 1-44) 3.2 Season 2 (Days 44-67) 3.3 Season 3 (Days 68-91) 3.4 Season 4 (Days 91-100) 3.5 Season 5 (Post Island-Move) 4 Post Island 5 Back on the Island 6 Trivia 7 What is Bill Writing On? (author's comments) 8 Unreliable Narrator 9 Unanswered questions

Bill

Bill is one of the background middle section survivors of Oceanic Flight 815. His character is not featured on the show or any novel, but is depicted solely in an online journal called 815Survivor, created by Lostpedia user Celebok.

Before the crash

Bill lived in Tustin, California and worked as a software engineer for a small company in Orange County. At some point in his life, he attended Harvest Community Church, which eventually became dominated by young married couples with kids, causing Bill to feel like he didn't fit in as a single person. He stopped attending that church after Easter in 2004. He also had a commitment to reading his Bible every day, but eventually let that go as well. He eventually became a "lone rebel" in his social life, choosing to break off from his regular group of friends in order to do his own thing instead. In his spare time, Bill enjoyed swing dancing, spending time on the internet, and watching TV.

In September of 2004, his company sent him on a two-week business trip to Sydney, Australia. After a productive two weeks, he boarded Oceanic Flight 815 to return home.

Bill mentions very little about his family life, but we know that both of his parents are alive and that he normally spends Christmas with them.

On the Island

Season 1 (Days 1-44)

On the night of the crash, Bill eats an airline meal that Hurley gives him, then later hears the monster in the jungle. The next day, he begins sorting through luggage and begins forming friendships with Steve and Scott, witnesses the fight between Sawyer and Sayid, and accepts a sea urchin from Jin, though he tries to hide his extreme distaste for it. A few days later, he joins Steve, Scott and Tracy to look for food in the jungle, and they bring back some fruit for the rest of the survivors. Bill gains a high respect for Jack when he hears his "live together, die alone" speech.

When some of the survivors move to the caves, Bill reluctantly stays on the beach in order to stay with Steve, Scott, Tracy and Jerome. He is sitting on the beach with Steve, Scott and Jerome when Charlie tells them about Jack getting trapped in the cave-in, then joins them in helping dig Jack out. A few days later, Bill watches a group of survivors play golf. He then joins Steve, Scott and Tracy in moving to the caves. He is woken up two nights in a row by Claire screaming, which causes Dr. Arzt to get suspicious of Bill and the other newcomers to the caves. Nonetheless, Bill joins Arzt in doing a quick search of the area.

While Hurley conducts his census, he mentions to Bill that John Locke also happens to be from Tustin. When Bill mentions that to Locke and describes where in Tustin he lived, Locke says he lived across the freeway from Bill, which is presumably a lie to cover up the fact that Locke is, in fact, the bald man in a wheelchair that Bill remembers seeing around his apartment complex.

Bill helps the other survivors move the beach camp when the tide washes away the fuselage.

Bill is present in the caves when Locke and Boone bring back Claire after finding her in the jungle. After Ethan delivers his threat to kill a survivor every night until he gets Claire back, Bill and Jerome volunteer to take a shift standing guard near the caves. Steve and Scott relieve them at their position later in the night, and Bill goes to sleep. He awakes the next morning to news that Scott is dead and immediately rushes to the beach with Jerome and Tracy to find Scott's dead body. After Scott's funeral, Bill and Steve approach Jack, Locke and Sayid to ask about their next plans, and Locke tells them about their plan to ambush Ethan. (It is at this point that Bill learns about the Halliburton case that they'd found a week earlier.) Bill returns to the caves and waits until Jack comes back and tells him privately that Ethan has been killed.

Scott's death starts to give Bill a renewed sense of importance of his Christian faith, which up until that point he has not talked about in his journal. He starts asking around the camp if anyone has seen a Bible among the wreckage, which leads him to approach Sawyer for the first time since the crash to ask for one. Sawyer blows Bill off, refusing to let him "go all Billy Graham on people."

Bill tries to talk to Tracy about his renewed commitment to living for Jesus Christ, but she doesn't seem interested, and their conversation is interrupted when Jerome comes and announces that Michael's raft has caught on fire. The next day, he begins helping Michael clean up the burned raft wreckage when he witnesses the incident where Sun reveals to Jin and everyone else that she speaks English. Bill later volunteers to help Michael build the second raft.

Bill starts to notice that Tracy seems to be avoiding him and wonders if it's because she now knows that he has strong Christian beliefs and would disapprove of her newly-formed relationship with Steve and the fact that she has a husband and two children back in California. His suspicion is confirmed when Tracy asks him what he thinks about a married woman getting into a relationship with another man. Bill gives Tracy his honest opinion that he thinks it's wrong, but tries to assure Tracy that he won't get in the way of whatever she chooses to do.

Bill arrives at the caves as Jack is treating a badly-injured Boone that Locke has dropped off. As Jack desperately tries to save Boone's life, Bill sits with Jerome and Arzt, and Arzt expresses his skepticism of Bill's religious beliefs. Bill eventually falls asleep unintentionally and wakes up the next morning to find out that Boone has died and that Claire has given birth to Aaron. Bill attends Boone's funeral. He later notices Shannon sitting on the beach by herself, but he doesn't know what to say to her.

Bill continues helping Michael with the raft until it is ready for launch and then helps launch it. He places a note in the message bottle, asking his parents to take care of his apartment lease. Sawyer gives Bill a Bible from his stash just before he leaves on the raft. Bill then returns to the caves with the rest of the survivors for protection against the Others.

Season 2 (Days 44-67)

Bill is in the caves with the rest of the survivors when Jack returns and explains about the hatch that they'd blown open. He becomes curious about the hatch and wonders what's going on after Jack, Kate, Locke, Sayid and Hurley seem to be gone all the next day, but then appreciates it when Hurley throws a feast on the beach with the food from the hatch's pantry.

Bill is one of the last cave residents to move back to the beach. After he does so, Hurley gives Bill a tour of the hatch, along with Jerome, Craig and Richard. Later that night, Bill wakes up to Shannon screaming on the beach. The next day, Bill witnesses the return of Michael, Jin and Sawyer along with the four remaining tail section survivors.

Bill decides to go to the hatch to try out the shower in the middle of the day. He says "hi" to Libby on his way there. When arriving at the hatch, he finds Michael alone at the computer (presumably communicating with Walt). After Bill takes a shower, Michael asks him to take over the rest of his shift at the computer to push the button. Bill then spends a few hours alone in the hatch, pushing the button twice, looking around the facility, trying to figure out how the computer works, and listening to Geronimo Jackson. Locke eventually comes in and tells Bill that he will pair him up with Jerome for a regular shift later. (Bill does not mention ever returning to the hatch after this point, but it may just be something he doesn't bother to mention in his journal.)

Bill watches as Charlie steals Aaron to attempt to baptize him on the beach and Locke punches Charlie. The next day, Bill attempts to talk to Charlie about the incident, learns that Mr. Eko is a priest, but Charlie is too defensive to answer any more questions. At that point, Jack rounds up Bill, Jerome, Craig and Richard and introduces them to Ana Lucia and attempts to recruit them for their army. None of the four volunteer, Bill doubting his own ability to be trained as a soldier. Bill is on the beach the following night as Sawyer announces to the camp that he has stolen the guns from the armory.

Bill joins the rest of the survivors in raiding the discovered palette drop. The next day, he begins helping Bernard build the SOS sign and is one of the last to abandon him. Bill then tries to recruit Jerome, Craig and Richard to finish the job with better teamwork, but none of them are interested, so he abandons the idea.

Bill attends the funeral for Ana Lucia and Libby and witnesses Desmond returning on his sailboat. After Michael, Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley leave on their mission to rescue Walt, and Sayid, Jin and Sun leave on the sailboat, Bill and Jerome introduce themselves to Desmond and learn a bit of his story of how he ended up on the island.

Bill is sitting next to his tent on the beach, reading his Bible, when the discharge occurs. After he sees the hatch door land on the beach, he runs over to the hatch and finds the large crater in the ground where the hatch was destroyed and begins to worry about those who are missing.

Season 3 (Days 68-91)

Bill is on the beach when Locke and Charlie return from saving Eko from the polar bear cave. He listens as Locke gives his speech to the camp that he intends to find their missing people. A few days later, he watches Desmond construct his lightning rod and witnesses the lightning strike it, but Bill merely assumes it's a weird coincidence.

Bill is woken up as Eko's tent catches on fire, then notices that Sayid, Jin and Sun have returned, but he decides to go back to sleep. He learns the rest of the details from Hurley and Charlie the next day, including the fact that Locke had invited people to join him in going to the Pearl station that morning, but Bill was apparently busy doing laundry at the time and didn't hear Locke's announcement. This is also when Bill first hears about the Pearl station, as well as the beechcraft that fell on it with Boone inside. Bill does not learn until two days later that Eko is killed on this day. He does not hear about the smoke monster and figures it was a polar bear that killed Eko.

Bill is presumably at the beach camp when Hurley announces the DHARMA van he found in the jungle, but he does not mention it until 17 days later when he actually sees it on the beach after Hurley has used it in the final battle against the Others. At that point, Bill recalls a vague memory of Hurley mentioning a car but Bill not being interested at the time.

Bill witnesses the return of Kate and Sawyer to the beach camp and listens as they recount the details of their week as prisoners of the Others on the Hydra island.

As Bill returns to the beach camp with some coconuts he found in the jungle, he witnesses Hurley beat Sawyer at ping pong and enjoys the fact that Sawyer is not allowed to use nicknames for a week.

Bill attends the funeral for Paulo and Nikki and notes the unusual fact that nobody in the camp really knew them.

Bill enjoys the boar feast thrown by Sawyer, but remains suspicious of Sawyer's motives for his uncharacteristic generosity.

Bill witnesses Jack's return to the beach camp and joins the rest of the survivors in questioning Locke's decision to stay behind with the Others and whether Juliet can be trusted as a new arrival. He is worried as Claire coughs up blood and passes out, and is subsequently relieved after Juliet successfully treats Claire's condition. After Juliet earns the camp's trust, Jack allows her to set up her own tent, but it happens to be located next to Bill's tent, making him uneasy.

Knowing that Hurley had talked with Juliet on the day she arrived, Bill decides to seek out Hurley to ask what sort of impression he'd gotten of Juliet, but unable to find Hurley, he asks Claire if she's seen him. Bill notes that this is his first time having a real conversation with Claire. Claire tells him that Hurley is away on a camping trip with Charlie, Desmond and Jin.

A few days later, Bill is with the rest of the survivors as Naomi is revealed to them, along with the news that the outside world thinks that Flight 815 was found at the bottom of the ocean, and Jack reveals his plan to defend the camp against the Others' imminent attack. The next day, Bill joins the rest of the survivors in tying up wires to detonate the dynamite, but then sees Karl show up with news that the Others are coming a day early. Bill then joins the rest of the survivors in following Jack and Rousseau to the radio tower.

On the way to the radio tower, Bill is walking behind Tracy and sees her slip on a rock, asks her if she's okay, then has a brief friendly conversation with her for the first time in over a month. The survivors later encounter Ben, and this is Bill's first time becoming aware of who Ben is. He is confused as he watches Ben and Jack walk away for five minutes, after which Ben comes back all beaten and bloody and Jack throws him to the ground. When they finally reach the radio tower, Bill is horrified as Locke throws a knife into Naomi's back, but is excited when Jack makes contact with the freighter.

Season 4 (Days 91-100)

As Bill and the other survivors are on their way back from the radio tower to the beach camp, they meet up with the rest of the survivors at the cockpit. After the encounter between Jack and Locke, the survivors split up into Jack's group and Locke's group. Figuring Locke has gone insane, Bill chooses to go with Jack and returns to the beach.

The next day, Bill is sitting on the beach, talking with Desmond about their reasons for going with Jack instead of Locke, when Juliet comes to get Desmond to go back to the helicopter to try to figure out what the people from the freighter are doing on the island. Juliet briefly explains to Bill about the people who parachuted from the helicopter onto the island and that one has been taken prisoner by Locke. That same day, Bill notices the DHARMA van on the beach, and Bernard explains to him that Hurley had used it the previous day to rescue them from the Others.

Bill is present when Jack finally returns and introduces the beach camp to Daniel and Charlotte. He is also aware that Jack has been unable to contact Sayid and Desmond who had left for the freighter the previous day, and is later aware when Jack finally does make contact with them.

With Steve having gone with Locke, Bill takes over Steve's daily duties of bringing water to the trough. He grows more and more frustrated as each day passes with no word of any rescue plans. He also notices that Neil "Frogurt" has been getting more and more annoying over the past month.

Bernard tells Bill about an argument he'd gotten into with Rose, and Bill finds himself unable to relate to Bernard's marriage woes. Bill and Bernard then realize that Bernard and Jin are the only two married men out of all the crash survivors, and Bernard then runs after Jin to try to bond with him. (Presumably this is when Bernard accidentally interrupts Jin and Sun's argument and Jin invites Bernard fishing.) Bill then notices that Kate is unexpectedly back from Locke's camp and asks her about the people there.

Bill sees Ray's body wash up on the beach. The next morning, Bill is with the other beach camp survivors who witness Jack collapse in pain from appendicitus. Bill follows Juliet's instructions for setting up the makeshift operating room for Jack on the beach. The morning after Juliet completes the appendectomy, she informs Bill that the surgery was a success, and Bill has a new-found appreciation for Juliet.

Bill sees the helicopter from the freighter fly over the beach camp and drop the satellite phone on Claire's tent and watches as Jack takes it and follows the tracking signal into the jungle, despite Juliet's protests.

Bill and the other survivors run over as Sayid returns from the freighter on the Zodiac raft, announcing that the people on the helicopter plan to kill all of them. As Daniel leads the effort to take six people at a time on the raft to the freighter, Bill decides to stay behind and be one of the last people to go, because he figures it's better for him to die than an unsaved person. However, Bill is horrified when he sees the freighter explode in the distance, figuring that all those who had gone on the first raft trip had just died. He then notices Sawyer sitting next to Juliet on the beach and is about to go ask him what had happened back at Locke's camp, when the sky lights up as the island moves.

Season 5 (Post Island-Move)

Bill is at the beach camp when the white light engulfs the island and all of the survivors' beach camp structures disappear. As Daniel, Sawyer, Juliet, Charlotte and Miles head to the hatch, Bill stays with the rest of the survivors. When they return, Sawyer updates Bill on events that he witnessed since the mercenary attack on the Barracks. Bill gives Sawyer some words of encouragement, then enlists Craig's help in searching the jungle for food.

Bill and Craig return to the beach camp just as it comes under attack by flaming arrows from the jungle. Bill flees into the jungle with the rest of the survivors and witnesses Craig being struck and killed by an arrow. He continues running and becomes separated from the rest of the group.

The next day, Bill is captured at gunpoint by two of the Others from 1954 who claim that they had recently chased him down a well, even though Bill has no recollection of such an event. While being marched toward the Others' camp, a time flash occurs, causing his captors to disappear. Bill then heads back to the beach camp, where he finds the camp as it appeared two months earlier. After a brief talk with the past version of Sawyer, Bill decides not to risk running into his own past self and leaves the camp. He keeps walking along the beach, running into past versions of Sayid and Shannon, and after another time flash, finds the Others' abandoned camp in 2007, though he has no idea whose camp it is. Tired from hiking all day, Bill decides to take a nap inside one of the tents. However, he is soon woken up by another time flash that places him in a rain storm at night with no shelter, and he decides to walk inland.

After two more time flashes, Bill encounters the two Others that he'd met before, but they don't recognize him this time, and they chase him down the well. He slides down the rope to the bottom, getting a bad case of rope-burn, and walks toward the frozen wheel chamber. The next few moments are vague in Bill's memory, but his actions cause him to get transported to the Tunisian desert.

Post Island

Bill suddenly finds himself in the Tunisian desert on November 4, 2007, confused as to how he got there and not immediately aware that he's off the island. He sees a destroyed surveillance camera on the ground and wires leading away from it and decides to follow the wires. He is eventually picked up by some men in a jeep and taken to an infirmary to be treated for his rope burns. With nowhere else to go and nobody kicking him out, he spends the night in the infirmary. While there, he finds a copy of the London Daily Tribune from January 14, 2005, with the news story about the Oceanic Six. The next morning, a woman named Sheri Gale, claiming to be a missionary from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, visits the infirmary and meets Bill and informs him that he's in Tunisia and that it's November 2007. Bill pretends to have amnesia in order to not reveal where he came from, and Sheri provides Bill with a hotel room and offers to help him get back to the United States. Three days later, Sheri provides him with official documentation for a new identity with the name Wayne Garlow, along with $2,000 cash and an airline ticket for a flight to Los Angeles leaving the next day.

Upon landing at LAX, Bill picks up the rental car that Sheri's people had reserved for him and finds a cell phone in the car with a note indicating that it's his to use. He then checks into the Motel 6 in Inglewood. The next day, Bill seeks out Jack at St. Sebastian Hospital and finds him in a drunken irritable state and unwilling to talk. Jack tells Bill that Hurley is at the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute. Bill goes to visit Hurley there the next day and learns a great deal of the Oceanic Six true story from him. Bill then decides to support the Oceanic Six cover story and to begin a new life under his new false identity.

After three weeks, Bill finds himself unsatisfied with the life he is able to make for himself when compared to his life before Flight 815. With no verifiable references under his new identity, he is unable to find a job as a software developer, so he takes a data entry job at a box company. He rents a tiny studio apartment in Santa Ana and cannot afford furniture or other luxuries he used to enjoy. He has difficulty making new friends because he doesn't like lying about his life. He comes to realize that his life at this point is worse than living on the Island.

Bill finds out from watching the morning news that Hurley is a fugitive wanted as a triple-murder suspect. After being unable to obtain any information from the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute or track down Jack at St. Sebastian Hospital, Bill hears on the evening news that Hurley has been arrested. He goes to visit Hurley at L.A. County Lockup the next day and, after hearing Hurley recap the events that led him there, deduces that Hurley is crazy and making it all up. After being released from prison the next day, Hurley calls Bill's cell phone and tells him about the flight from L.A. to Guam which "some dude" had said would take them back to the Island and offers to buy Bill a ticket for that flight. Bill thinks the whole idea is ridiculous and declines the offer at first, until Hurley makes it a round-trip ticket to ease Bill's fear of being unable to afford the trip home from Guam. Bill decides to go for it the next day and heads to the airport.

Bill is surprised to find Jack, Kate, Sayid and Sun boarding Ajira Airways Flight 316 along with Hurley. He manages to board the plane and find his seat in the coach section without being seen by any of them, possibly with the exception of Sayid. Bill is then even more surprised to see Sheri Gale board the plane. She explains to Bill that she and her brother Sean are headed to Guam to meet up with members of her missionary organization. Through the opening in the curtain, Bill then sees Ben board the plane, which prompts him to decide not to approach his friends in first class throughout the rest of the flight. Later, Bill uses the lavatory in the back of the plane and gets stuck behind the food service cart as the plane suddenly experiences heavy turbulence that knocks him off his feet.

Back on the Island

After Ajira Flight 316 crashes on the Hydra Island, Bill helps Sheri Gale attend to her brother Sean who has broken his leg in the crash. He then helps the other survivors find food and firewood. The other survivors start to become impressed with Bill's survival skills, and Bill appreciates being back on the Island. Later that night, when Roxanne brings "John Locke" to the beach camp, Bill doesn't trust him and decides to avoid being seen by him for as long as he can. Two days later, Bill hears from other survivors that Ben has shot Caesar and left with Locke in one of the outrigger canoes to go to the main island.

As Sheri spends time observing Bill's behavior on the island, particularly his unexplained survival skills and his apparent fear of Ben, she begins to give Bill suspicious looks, as though she suspects he's hiding something. Sheri, meanwhile, seems eager to go explore the main island, despite having to look after Sean.

When Ilana and her group knock out Frank and load him and the large crate into the canoe, Sheri tries to plead with Ilana to let her go with them to the main island, but Ilana refuses after Sheri fails to answer the "shadow of the statue" question. Bill convinces Sheri to back off. After Ilana's group leaves in the canoe, the rest of the survivors begin to look to Bill as their new leader, and Bill figures that these people are now his current responsibility and his new purpose.

Trivia

• Bill has technically met all of the main characters. He is never formally introduced to Ben or Miles, but he knows who they are by name. He never mentions interacting with Boone, Sun, Walt, Eko, Ben, Paulo, Nikki, Daniel, Miles, or Charlotte, though he mentions all of them at some point in his journal. His only interaction with Shannon is during a time flash.
• The main character that Bill mentions the most is Jack. The main character that he talks to the most is Hurley, most of which takes place off the Island. (The main character that Bill talks to the most on the Island is Locke.)
• Bill has never encountered the smoke monster and only mentions hearing it once, on the first night.
• Bill's first mention of a polar bear is on Day 68, when Eko is injured by one, but he does not sound surprised at the existence of polar bears on the island, which suggests that he has possibly heard about the polar bears before but just never bothered to mention it in his journal at the time.
• The only DHARMA stations Bill has visited are the Swan and the Hydra. He has heard about the Pearl, the Staff, and the Looking Glass. He visits the frozen wheel chamber underneath the Orchid station, but before the station has been built.
• Nicknames given to Bill by Sawyer include "Sulu", "Island Preacher", "Tribianni", "Billy Graham" and "Bible Boy".
• Bill shares the same birthday as Carmen Reyes, the day after the crash.
• Bill has never mentioned Vincent in his journal.
• Sheri Gale and Sean Gale are the only named characters in Bill's journal that do not exist anywhere else in the Lost universe; i.e. they are the only other characters besides Bill himself who were created by the author of 815Survivor.

What is Bill Writing On? (author's comments)

The question of what Bill is writing his journal on, or even if it's anything physical or tangible, is something I decided early on would remain ambiguous. I didn't want to deal with questions like whether he would physically be able to write on something in each situation or why he would carry a notepad and pen everywhere no matter what or whether he ever runs out of ink or who's even reading it later on. Therefore, I purposely never established what he's actually writing on. As far as I'm concerned, these are just his thoughts at each of these particular moments and the words he would write down if he had the means to do so. Basically, you might think of it as a transcript of him talking to himself or the thoughts going through his head.

Unreliable Narrator

While many of the main characters are notorious for keeping secrets, Bill is more often the recipient of misinformation, either by intentional deception of other characters or a lack of exposure to factual information. As such, Bill can be classified as an unreliable narrator in his journal entries.

The following are examples of incorrect information that Bill records in his journal, compared with the truth as revealed on the show (not including misinformation that he eventually corrects in later entries):

• Incorrect statement: Jack shot Edward Mars with a handgun. (September 24, 2004)
• Truth: Sawyer shot Mars, but punctured his lung instead of killing him. Mars dies soon afterwards. ("Tabula Rasa")

• Incorrect statement: The people who were trying to find a radio signal on higher ground came back unsuccessful. (September 24, 2004)
• Truth: They were successful at getting a signal, but it ended up being Danielle Rousseau's automated distress signal. ("Pilot, Part 2")

• Incorrect statement: Locke and Boone have been actively searching for clues that might lead to Claire's whereabouts. (October 9, 2004)
• Truth: They have been investigating the hatch they discovered. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues"), ("Hearts and Minds")

• Incorrect statement: We never figured out who poisoned Michael. (November 3, 2004)
• Truth: Jack figured out that Sun did it, attempting to poison Jin instead. ("Born to Run")

• Incorrect statement: Shannon woke up screaming in the middle of the night because of a dream. (November 7, 2004)
• Truth: She saw a vision of Walt in her tent. ("Abandoned")

• Incorrect statement: Michael took a shift at the computer to take his mind off of Walt being missing. (November 10, 2004)
• Truth: Michael was using the computer to communicate with Walt. ("The 23rd Psalm")

• Incorrect statement: Sun got attacked by the Others. (November 17, 2004)
• Truth: Sun got attacked by Charlie, as part of Sawyer's con to get the guns from the hatch. ("The Long Con")

• Incorrect statement: The last few days have been pretty uneventful. (November 22, 2004)
• Truth: Although the above statement is subjective, over the last few days, some of the survivors have been keeping Ben (still going by "Henry Gale") locked up in the hatch after Sayid brought him in and tortured him, Claire and Kate discovered the Staff station, Sun found out she was pregnant, a few other survivors found Henry Gale's balloon, a lockdown occurred in the hatch which crushed Locke's leg, and Locke saw the blast door map. Most people would not consider these things "uneventful". ("One of Them"), ("Maternity Leave"), ("The Whole Truth"), ("Lockdown")

• Incorrect statement: One of the Others shot and killed Ana Lucia and Libby, then shot Michael in the shoulder. Michael plans to lead a small handful of armed people to confront the Others. (November 25, 2004)
• Truth: Michael shot and killed Ana Lucia and Libby, then shot himself in the shoulder. He plans to lead Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley into the Others' trap. ("Two for the Road"), ("Three Minutes")

• Incorrect statement: Desmond built a lightning rod next to Claire's tent as an experiment, and by a weird coincidence, lightning struck the rod shortly afterwards. (November 30, 2004)
• Truth: Desmond built the lightning rod because he foresaw lightning striking Claire's tent and killing Charlie. ("Every Man for Himself"), ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")

• Incorrect statement: Mr. Eko was killed by some animal, possibly a polar bear. (December 4, 2004)
• Truth: Mr. Eko was killed by the smoke monster. ("The Cost of Living")

• Incorrect statement: Claire's illness was a known disease on the island for which Juliet had developed a cure. (December 15, 2004)
• Truth: Claire's illness was caused by an implant that the Others had placed inside of her and purposely activated so that Juliet could appear to save her life and earn the survivors' trust. ("One of Us")

• Incorrect statement: Claire is still at Locke's camp. (December 29, 2004)
• Truth: By this time, Claire has left the barracks with Sawyer and Miles to head back toward the beach camp. It is on this night that Locke finds Claire with Christian Shephard inside Jacob's cabin. ("The Shape of Things to Come"), ("Cabin Fever")

• Incorrect statement: The memory of "an ancient-looking horizontal wheel attached to the cave wall and moving around erratically" was just a dream. (November 4, 2007)
• Truth: The frozen wheel really did exist at the bottom of the well where Bill was, and it has been known to transport people to Tunisia, just as Bill was. ("This Place Is Death"), ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham")

• Incorrect statement: Hurley is crazy, and his account of the recent events that happened to him -- strange men stalking him, Sayid showing up to rescue him, Ben showing up at his house to bring him back to the Island -- are all delusions in Hurley's head. (December 11, 2007)
• Truth: The events that Hurley described really did happen. ("Because You Left"), ("The Lie")

• Incorrect statement: "Some Dude" is trying to lure Hurley into some kind of scam by trying to convince him that Ajira Flight 316 will take him to the Island. (December 12, 2007)
• Truth: Jacob was telling Hurley the truth about Ajira Flight 316. ("316"), ("The Incident, Parts 1 & 2")

• Incorrect statement: John Locke is now sitting amongst this new group of plane crash survivors. (December 14, 2007)
• Truth: Locke is actually dead, and Jacob's Nemesis was impersonating Locke (though nobody else had any way of knowing this at the time). ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"), ("The Incident, Parts 1 & 2")

Unanswered questions

• What exactly did Bill do inside the frozen wheel chamber that transported him off the island?
• Why was a nearly three-year-old copy of the London Daily Tribune laying around in the infirmary in Tunisia?
• Why was Sheri Gale visiting the infirmary, and why is she so eager to help Bill return to the United States?
• Is Sheri Gale related to Henry Gale?
• Was Bill working at the same box company that John Locke worked at?
• Why does Sheri Gale seem suspicious of Bill's behavior after they crash on the Hydra Island?
• Why is Sheri Gale so eager to head to the main island?