Penelope’s Search For Desmund (how Desmund is “psychic” too)
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By jen26grl
- Penelope’s Search For Desmund (how Desmund is “psychic” too)
- Created: Mar 2, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 3.22: Through The Looking Glass
- Status: Current
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We know that Penelope is searching for Desmund. She is expending a huge amount of time and effort to do so, and a large back story has been developing for ages to explain why. It’s personal for her. This is the man she loves and she has the power and money to do it.
A few facts:
- She contacts Charlie through The Looking Glass meaning Penelope either was really lucky or knew exactly what frequency to use.
- Naomi had a picture of Penelope.
- The people on the boat had strict instructions not to answer when a blinking light came on indicating Penny was calling.
- During the last episode, Penny is desperately talking on the phone to Desmund and she wants to tell him something important but the battery cuts out.
My conclusion: Charles Widmore is heavily involved with this island stuff, and Penelope defied him by searching for Desmund. Possibly, Desmund was sent to the island to be kept away from his precious daughter.
The fact that Naomi had a picture of Penelope indicates that she may have been given a photo to see if she found Penelope on the island. Charles isn’t sure whether or not Penelope found the island or not and plans for the possibility that she did and is on it.
The fact that the boat is aware of Penelope and instructed specifically not to talk to her is a dead give-away. But the stuff the Penelope had to say was really important. Kind of convenient that the writers had the battery cut out. Many more answers would have spilled otherwise.
Possibly the most interesting part of my theory: I think I understand how Desmund got flashes of the future now. When Desmund leaves the island, he gets flashes of being in the past that get more and more persistent until he ends up being in danger of “short circuiting”. What if when he enters the island the reverse takes place - instead of getting flashes of the past he gets flashes of the future.
Obviously those wouldn’t be as confusing as he would be left with more information rather than less since one’s future self presumably knows a lot more. This only works while using the assumption that time is a continuom that is not created as we go along - it exists in some objective, independant way so that theoretically it is a collection of scenes that feed into a timeline.
Anyway, notice that Desmund entered the Island in a relatively unique way compared with many other people on the island. I’m probably not explaining this as well as I could but it’s a start.
Key characters
| Short Name | Full Name | Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles | Charles Widmore | 409 | |
| Desmond | Desmond David Hume | 2.23, 3.17, 4.5 | 858 |
| Naomi | Naomi Dorrit | 175 | |
| Penny | Penny Widmore | 3.8 | 253 |
It is interesting why the 2004 Desmond gets flashfowards on the island rather than off the island when it the 1996 Desmond who is flashing forward to his future being 2004.
However I think his flashforwards were directly tied to him using the failsafe on the hatch rather than how he arrived on the island. They did not start until then and the sky went the same purple colour as the machine Daniel Farraday used on Eloise.
Someone remind me if I got this wrong, but when Desmond was told about from the lady and the man in the red shoes died they were off island meaning people off island can flashforward (like Eloise did)
I think DesmOnd was able to gain flashes of the future on the Island because, as a result of the electromagnetic exposure, he has become more receptive to the oneness of space-time (as theorised by Hermann Minkowski (familiar name!)).
That’s not an easy idea to grasp, but I did write a pretty concise and clear theory about it here:
http://www.lost-theories.com/theories/2007/nov/06/only-fools-dream-time-and-spac/