'Lost': Five Episodes With Clues for Season 5

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DOC JENSEN'S FIRST BIG THEORY OF 2009:
THE AARON MISDIRECTION!

How Claire's creepy kid has been used to distract us from the sinister secret at the heart of Lost's epic saga.

Last season, two former castaway lovers — one dead, one maybe dead — reached out from the ethereal realms where they currently dwell to offer warnings for Island escapees Jack and Kate — warnings that seemingly pertain to that little bundle of jungle-born toddler trouble, Aaron. But watch them again and consider anew: How do we know for sure the ''him'' in question is really ''Aaron.''

Start with the scene from ''Something Nice Back Home,'' the one where flash-forward Jack decided to propose to flash-forward Kate, then scares her away with his paranoia and insecurity. Remember the moments where Jack visits an increasingly addled Hurley at the Santa Rosa Mental Facility? If you want to watch it, go ahead:

Or, I can just recap: In this unsettling sequence, Hurley tells Jack that he's been spending his days hanging with Ghost Charlie on the Santa Rosa lawn. He also says Charlie has a message for Jack: ''You're not supposed to raise him.'' We immediately get interpretation from Hurley — ''Do you think he means Aaron?'' Given Jack's intensifying anxiety about becoming a husband to Kate and father to Aaron, we are inclined to bite on Hurley's altogether reasonable analysis — just like perch chomping on bait.

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