the blast door map

this one really reminds me of the movie 'wild things.' remember that one with neve campbell and kevin bacon's weenie? well, the movie was filled with all these crazy twists and turns, and then during the end credits, they show you a whole bunch of scenes that fill in when all the double crosses and surprise reveal negotiations went down.

this scene is a 'wild things' closing credits scene.

it offers very little in the way of any new information, except for one key point, a key point that is also reinforced in 'king of the castle:'

BEN: Well it's not entirely up to me. If the Island doesn't want you to leave, it won't let you.

JACK: What, the... the Island's gonna sink the sub?

BEN: [chuckling] No. No.

and in 'operation: sleeper:'

JACK: Let us? Ben was in a wheelchair. Locke blew up that submarine.

JULIET: Did he?

very very interesting. we've now had two reminders in the missing pieces that cast doubt on whether or not "locke" blew up the sub. now what does that mean exactly? does it mean locke didn't blow up the sub? or that locke didn't blow up the sub?

in any case, i think the entire point of this scene is to remind us of the entire submarine plot point in general, by way of giving us scene that would have been really nice to have seen earlier on in the storytelling, even if it would have ruined some act 3 denouement suspense.

at the end of the entire series they'll put out some more lost: missing pieces, and it'll be something like the worm in labyrinth, offering the key to the whole thing that was right under their noses from the beginning: "if they'd have kept on going down that way, it would have taken them straight to los angeles!"