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Lost: What Naomi really said

by Erin Martell, posted Apr 27th 2007 9:11AM
Marsha ThomasonNaomi, the mysterious parachutist, said some mind-blowing things to the crash survivors in "D.O.C." Besides the bizarre news that someone had found the 815 wreckage and its dead passengers, she revealed that she's multilingual. Over the course of the episode, she spoke Chinese, English, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. She also had a secret conversation with Mikhail.

Lost fans have been busy translating Naomi's statements from Wednesday's episode. TV Squad's Brigitte Dale and many others have pointed out that Mikhail lied about Naomi thanking him. She actually said "I am not the only one." As if the plane crash news wasn't strange enough! Her statement could be interpreted several ways, depending on who she's working with. At the very least, it sounds like someone else could have landed on the island.

One possibility is that Naomi works for Penny, who has been looking for the island for some time (Season Two finale). Naomi might be part of a search party made up of at least one other person. She was carrying a photo of Desmond and Penny, after all. In "Catch-22," Desmond and others heard a splash in the water before the crash in the jungle. Did another person drop into the ocean? This mystery person could be Penny, one of the Brazilians at the listening station, or someone else entirely.

It is also possible that Naomi is connected with the Others. Mikhail didn't accidentally stumble across Desmond, Jin, Hurley, and Charlie. He ran right toward them with a purpose, in response to the flare. Perhaps Mikhail and the Others were expecting Naomi, and the flare gun was meant to be used as a signal to them. Our one-eyed friend was also very interested in the items that Naomi was carrying, particularly the satellite phone. If the Others' communications capabilities were destroyed, they would need new supplies. Naomi may have been delivering the satellite phone to them, as part of the restoration.

I thought it was suspicious that Naomi didn't start speaking English with Hurley until Mikhail took off. When Mikhail was present, she spoke to him in a language that none of the others understood (she had already figured out that Hurley spoke Spanish). In "Enter 77," Bea Klugh spoke Russian with Mikhail when she was captured by Kate and Sayid. The Others could have a plan in place that involves switching languages around outsiders. Was Naomi informing Mikhail that a second Other came with her to the island?

Neither one of these explanations completely lines up. If Naomi is Penny's employee, why was she so chummy with Mikhail? If Naomi was an Other, why did she have Desmond's photo? We'll have to wait at least another week to get any real answers. In the meantime, what do you think? Is Naomi a friend or a foe?

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Stephanie Lynn Bell

For anyone still confused by this (maybe Netflixing the series like me ;) Naomi said to Mickhail after the lung procedure (in Portuguese) "e nao estou so" which mean "And i am not alone"..soooo, you can put that in context to either she landed unalone OR in reference to her previous message (which repeated in various languages) which was "Please dont let me die" and "I am dying" and then in Portuguese "And i am not alone" (meaning we are all gonna die?) no spoiler alerts here...I'm just guessing :D

February 17 2012 at 3:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Keli

Okay, but if she was speaking the different languages on purpose so that no one would understand her, why not just stop talking period? I think she was trying to communicate... I'm just not sure why she didn't try english first since they were already speaking it.

May 01 2007 at 10:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Justin

Not that I agree with what I'm about to say but for the D-A's perspective, couldn't the multi languages be explained by a) Spanish is her first language. b) she switched to chinese after seeing an Asian man (Jin) close by. (Not sure at the brink of death you're going to take a chance a dude's Korean if you know Chinese.)

Me and all my Lost-loving co-workers have been wondering what would come of Penny's search team from the end of S2.

April 29 2007 at 9:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave

@14...

You spoke about the monk who took Desmond in. Did anyone mention anything yet about the picture on the monk's desk? It was a picture of him and the woman who was working in the jewelry store in the earlier Desmond flashback!

There's more going on here than meets the eye.

@everyone:

How could the world have found any kind of plane wreckage, unless the pilots of 815 were in on it?

Remember, very early in season 1 it was established that they were at least 1000 miles off course. I don't think burnt-out hulls and dead bodies can survive salt water travelling that far.

April 29 2007 at 7:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Peter

#10 Iver I'm just glad you aren't a writer for Lost because your post was making no sense at the end. I was very glad to find out all this information because I don't speak the other languages. I found it very helpful to have the material translated. And even more helpful that the auther of the article pointed out that Naomi spoke four other languages before finally speaking English with Hurley at the end of the episode. I didn't pick up on that and it really just showed me that Lost is very much still on top of it's game. I thought the episode was really quite good anyway, but now, after finding this stuff out which I didn't pick up on the first time I just have to say bravo to the writers, they still continue to stick in creative twists that go right over my head. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot have gone over your head as well, based on your post it's pretty obvious you don't know what you're talking about. lol! Thanks Erin for the article I found it very insightful!!

April 28 2007 at 12:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jake

I think Naomi works for Penny Widmore, but also works for her dad, Mr. Widmore , who I believe is indeed Alvar Hanso (Hanso is a rich philanthropist, and aside from Sun's father, Widmore is the only person on the show that has a lot of money to fund such a project). Thus Naomi is probably serving a dual purpose. She is probably there to find Desmond, but is probably trying to do so through the help of her colleagues on the Island, the Others. This would explain why she seemed like an Other, but also had a pic of Desmond.

The thought also occurred to me that Mr. Widmore/Hanso sponsored that ship race around the world with the hope that Desmond would try for it, and perhaps the race was setup in a way that he had a high probability of reaching the island, thus getting "lost" and being out of his daughter's life for good. Penny is obviously at odds with her father over her relationship with Desmond, which would explain why she doesn't know where the Island is, but knows it exists, thus she is able to look for it in the first place. You don't set up a research lab in the middle of a blizzard without knowing what you are looking for. And it was obvious the Portuguese researchers that worked for Penny knew they were looking for a magnetic anomaly. That would be a pretty specific thing for Penny to look for without her having some involvement with or knowledge of the Island/Hanso Foundation/Dharma Initiative.

Thus Penny used a Widmore employee (Naomi) to find Desmond. And that's why Naomi is probably neither a friend nor a foe. Thoughts?

April 27 2007 at 5:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
L'Emmerdeur

What I see as important is the last Desmond episode as it relates to all this.

The monk who took him in and threw him out told him about some "other destiny". Is this guidance counselor talk, or does he know something? Do we really think it was accidental that he found Desmond at his low point, took him in (an alcoholic in a vinery? C'MON) and then threw him out? And his ex-fiance's brother "finding" him - I figure they called him and told him where he was to instigate the crisis that would cause him to run back to his beloved booze and in turn get "thrown out", coincidentally at the same time that Penny would be picking up her daddy's wine.

How many rich girls do you know who would invite a perfect stranger along for a ride, one who just got thrown out of a monastery. Why did he get thrown out - Doesn't that concern her?

Something tells me this was all set up by Penny's dad, who I bet turns out to be the big boss to whom all the Others (including Ben) answer. Why? There's something special about Desmond.

I'll bet Penny fell in love with Desmond and stopped him from moving along whatever path her daddy had st out for him, and he was trying to pry them apart to, well, I'll assume get him to the island. Why not just abduct him? Perhaps Desmond's ability precludes this, or would be affected by it.

April 27 2007 at 4:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sezmra

Honestly, I knew Mikhail was lying about what she said... However... my first reaction to Naomi's multi-lingual distress was just that: she was in distress, dying, knew she was screwed over. I don't believe she had any real idea about where she was, exactly. She's trained to be multi-lingual, and I feel that maybe she was speaking random languages in hopes someone around her would understand one of them.
Perhaps when she was less on death's door she could compose herself better?

We'll see, regardless!

April 27 2007 at 1:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
brendan

Well you also have to think that the island heals people rather quickly like Mikhail said after he fixed up Naomi so when he was zapped by the fence maybe he never died just got injured very badly but since the island heals you quickly he was able to regain his strength, cuz if you look at him in the last episode he doesn't look like he's in great shape.

April 27 2007 at 1:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Francis

The speaking of multiple languages goes back as far as season one when Danielle was interrogating Sayid. So if there's something to be said for these multilingual encounters let's not leave the crazy French chick out of the equation.

Naomi may have been carrying that photo because the others were building a dossier on Desmond. Just as they had constructed dossiers of the crash victims through Mikhail. Perhaps they've only recently become aware of the identity of the man in the hatch? They took possession of Desmond's sailboat not so long ago. —and that was after the sky turned purple; after all their communication links went down.

April 27 2007 at 12:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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