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Naomi
British adventurer; alleged castaway savior; suspicious freighter character. Arrived on the Island one dark night after parachuting from a helicopter that crashed in the ocean. She told the castaways that she was part of a rescue team hired by Penelope Widmore to find Desmond Hume. Mission accomplished! But is she telling the truth? The communiqué that Charlie picked up from Penny herself during his ill-fated Looking Glass swim suggests that Naomi is full of crap. That's Locke's theory, too — hence, why he threw a hunting knife into her back in the season finale. Fun Fact! Naomi was a big Driveshaft fan and can speak Portuguese!

Camaro
Car belonging to Hurley's father, passed down to the round mound of dude. Symbolic of daddy issues and struggles with hope and despair, idealism and cynicism, faith and faithlessness. It's an early '70s model, red with white down the middle, and blessed with a functional eight-track cassette player. Theme song: ''Shambala'' by Three Dog Night. I was never really a car guy growing up. But I think my son is going to be, and when he gets old enough to watch Lost with his old man, I bet he'll like Hurley's Camaro. By the way, my son's name is Ben. How weird is that?! (Answer: Not very.)

Parapsychology
If you recall the orientation film found in the Swan (see: season 2, episode 3), the Dharma Initiative was conducting experiments into ''parapsychology,'' or supernatural abilities that could include things like ESP, precognition, mental projection, and telekinesis. On a possibly related but probably tangential note, are you guys into ''The Secret''? You know: that Oprah-endorsed, power-of-positive-thinking/mind-over-matter self-help stuff that was something of a pop-culture sensation a year or so back? After watching Hurley will the Dharma bus back to life last season in the Tricia Tanaka episode, I kinda wonder if there could be a connection between ''The Secret'' and Lost. Might I have some additional thoughts on this matter in our TV Watch recap of the season premiere on Friday? I just might.

''Big Mike''
His mother knew him better as ''Mike Walton.'' LAPD partner of the late, not-so-great, dead-baby-haunted cop/vigilante/murderer/Christian Shephard booze buddy/Sawyer fornicator Ana Lucia Cortez. Rocks a mustache, as most cops do. Dude cops, I mean. Weird, huh? Is that a cop-code thing, these mustaches? Take my dad. He's a cop. And guess what? Tom Jensen has a mustache. I asked him about this, and after a long, baffled pause, he explained, ''Well, the reason I grew my mustache, was because I became a police officer when I was 23 and I looked like I was 15.'' He also suggested that since cops must adhere to strict guidelines about their appearance (short hair, no beards), they grow mustaches ''just because they can.'' Then Dad's trademark wit kicked in. ''I think we all want to look the same so that if anyone files a complaint against us, they won't know who to file it against.'' See! I knew there was a conspiracy! PS: My brother's name is Mike. He's kinda big, too. Coincidence? (Answer: Yes.)

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