Random thought:
What if “Dr. Candle” is a Sawyer-nickname for Dr. Chang and he just uses it as a gag?
Did Sawyer ever see any of the movies? Because if he were to accidentally slip either “Wick” or “Candle”, that’d be kinda funny.
-Joe
Can somebody talk to me about the corpses? First Dharma-Paul-wearing-an-ankh, then filling-through-head guy: Why do people want to carry corpses off to the middle of the jungle?
Can’t remember Paul, but I assume they’re just hiding the bodies somewhere. Unmarked grave or some such. Otherwise you have to explain why a guy’s filling blew out of the top of his head.
-Joe
Paul: dude who got shot by Others just before Sawyer et al arrived at the picnic. Richard made it a condition of not going postal that he got to take Paul’s body with him. Rather than leave it with his grieving wife, Amy, who later got with Horace. The Dharma people agreed to it.
And filling guy: Why haul his corpse all that way, let Miles Sr. in on the Circle of Trust, stink up a Dharma van, and let all the Orchid workers see the body bag go by? Wasn’t there plenty of perfectly decent dirt for an unmarked grave near the Swan construction site?
I’m smellin’ zombies, I tell ya.
I assumed that they needed to study the body to find out more about the electromagnetic effects that (presumably) pulled the filling right through his brainpan, so they needed to move it to wherever they have the corpse-electromagnetic-investigating equipment.
Heyyy, that’s another thing. Are there… OK, *were *there in the 70s any ferromagnetic dental amalgams in use? I am not nearly sciencey enough to figure that out from the amalgam, ferromagnetism, or magnetism Wikipedia articles, although the latter does say “all materials are influenced to greater or lesser degree by the presence of a magnetic field.” Could a filling possibly be more vulnerable to big-ass Island magnets than, say, the zipper on your Dharmasuit?
I assumed they were doing some sort of experiment with the body. Though most of their experiments that we’ve seen so far consist of them putting things near other things and crazy things happening and then them going AHHHHHHHHHHH!
So, yeah, in summation, could be zombies. 
Dude.
Because 3.2 million dollars seems completely random, but 1.6 million dollars does not?
It might have made more sense had Naomi said “You will be paid one million pounds, or about ? million dollars.” I’ve become a bit unstuck in time here - we’re talking 2007, aren’t we? I think the pound bought almost 2 USD back then. So I have no idea as to the significance of 1.6 million dollars.
Or in the way the Biblical Jacob’s son Joseph advised the Egyptians…
Notice when Naomi was recruiting Miles, she said a lot of dead people “reside” on the island. Not “buried”, not “died”, but “reside”.
Every Lost mystery begets another mystery. However, as “16” is one THE NUMBERS, I think that is about as deep as it is going to get. 1.6 plays to the numbers, and 3.2 is just double that.
So Miles and Hurley both interact with the dead.
Miles can hear to any dead person if a body is available. He cannot hold a conversation, as the dead person is no longer aware–their brain is dead. He does not see them as if they were alive, only as a physical dead body.
Hurley, I assume, has only spoken with the dead he already knows, no body present–Mr. Eko, Charlie, Ana Lucia. He sees them, he speaks with them. (Ignoring Dave, who is not a dead guy. He’s something totally different).
What are the implications of this? Are Hurley’s dead people not really dead? Has Miles spoken with any of Hurley’s dead people?
Yeah. I am so very looking forward to an explaining-why-Hurley-came-back episode.
You know, Eko and Locke and who knows who all else have interacted with the dead too, if you count dreams. And if Christian counts as dead, even more. There are way too many kinds of “dead” around there.
Not that we’ve seen yet, unless I’m forgetting something. Which NEVER happens.
a-HA!!!
Also, there have been too many “resurrection” references to list. Well, except here.
OK, I just read something on Lostpedia that I hadn’t picked up on when watching the episode: In 1977, the building site of the Swan is in Hostile territory, apparently according to Miles.
So maybe the Dharma folks move filling-through-head guy’s corpse to keep the Others from zombifying him, as they presumably did with Paul-the-ankh-wearer. Maybe you can be Otherized after death.
Some people over at Lostpedia are very creative…
SOME LIKE IT HOTH is an anagram for MILES EKO I THOTH
That’s what I get for not being Churchy.
I think that there’s a reason why they would take a dead body to the Orchid station. If they’re just dumping it, they could take him anywhere. Instead, they take him to the station involved with time travel…
Does the Good Doctor catch fire at some point?
You know, it’s clearly not the same actor, but I wonder whether the Numbers-Hollering-Guy (apparently named Glenn) at the Orchid was meant to be young Widmore.
(You can perhaps surmise that I’m rewatching some episodes. Don’t worry: I’m not obsessed. At all. And I’m not a nitpicker or anything.)
Re in the episode before this one, “Dead Is Dead”… the photo of Ben with Alex that he goes to some trouble to recover… did the Dharma Initiative have on-site photo processing? Mail order?