And, I think, abandoned after Kelvin's partner shotgunned himself.

I would assume the two people in the Pearl Hatch frantically wrote down the information and shot it out to their "superiors" only to have nothing happen.

That probably let the 'cat out of the bag,' so to speak. And they left their hatch...to join the "hostiles," perhaps?

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charlie98210
"Whoa!" she said. "Cry 'Havoc!' And let loose the dogs of war!"
And, like Banquo's ghost, they just won't go away.

Also, has it occured to anyone that Locke and Eko did NOT find the Question Mark (as shown on the door map). They went to the Pearl instead, which Locke was supposed to have found when Boone got killed looking inside the plane instead.

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charlie98210
"Whoa!" she said. "Cry 'Havoc!' And let loose the dogs of war!"
And, like Banquo's ghost, they just won't go away.

The hatch wasn't destroyed when the failsafe was activated. The hatch labeled "Quarantine" was the one they blew off at the begining of the season and it was sitting next to the access down. My guess is that when the magnet was discharged it just sent everything metal nearby flying. No real explosion....Locke, Ecko and Desmond are still live!!

(That's my story and I'm stickin to it!)

The camera didn't point toward that hatch door, I don't think. And maybe during lockdown the cameras shut off?

As for Kelvin drawing the map...he was a ghost in the army, right? He should've been good at making his way around the island undetected.

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I'd also like to know why Inman drew the map. Obviously, he had toured the island so he knew what he was drawing; but why leave a record of it if he was planning on ditching Desmond? Why would the map be useful to Desmond when, once alone in the Pearl, he would have only 108 minutes or less to use the map to tour the island?

Did Inman think eventually the Dharma Initiative WOULD send a replacement for him? Does this mean that the Dharma Initiative is still involved with the goings on of the island? While we're on that subject, why was the pallet of food dropped so far from the Pearl? It was close to the Losties beach camp, which I always thought was a 2-hour walk from the Pearl. Am I wrong?

they got the map from another source

No, You are right. I agree with your argument. I believe that Inman did think he was going to be replaced. I think after he found out that desmond was not the 'replacement' he must have come up with some plan, so he drew the map to show the so called 'new replacement' all the locations of the stations.

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