Back in Hurley’s future, he’s drawing an igloo and an Eskimo. Have I gone too far if I’m looking for significance there? What with the polar bears on the island and Ice Station Impossible and all, it’s possible that Arctic themes may be playing a big part in Hurley’s life to come. Or else he likes drawing Eskimos.
Now, it’s interesting that another patient points Charlie out to Hurley, which makes it seem as if Charlie is not a hallucination. Of course, if you imagine you’re imagining one person, imagining a second person isn’t really a stretch. I think there’s something to Charlie’s line, “I am dead. But I’m also here.” Benry had a line last season that’s turning up in all the promos, where he says that “Every living person on this island will be killed.” That seems like poor phrasing, but Benry tends to speak very exactly. Besides, if it were just awkwardly written, they wouldn’t use it in the promos, or they’d use a take without ‘living’. But the fact that Benry specifically refers to living people, coupled with Charlie’s line, just might indicate that ‘dead’ and ‘alive’ aren’t entirely opposites in the world of Lost. It’s not like we haven’t seen dead people walking around before. And it’s not like we haven’t seen a one-eyed Russian guy get killed three or four times before it finally took.
