Easily the most freeze framed and rewatched scene of last night's episode of Lost was when Hurley looked into Jacob's cabin.  He saw two figures, one sitting in a rocking chair and the other looking back at Hurley through the window.

Who are these people?  Well, the guy in the chair is definitely, as many have speculated, Christian Shepherd.  As proof, we offer the facts that not only is the figure wearing the same white shoes seen on Christian in the final Lost: Missing Pieces mobisode (continue reading for more mobisode connections), but also John Terry's name was listed in the opening credits as a guest star.  Seeing as how Terry certainly didn't appear anywhere else in the episode, it's easy to conclude that the man in the chair was Christian Shepherd.

This inevitably causes lots of questions.  Is Christian Jacob?  Is he a ghost, alive, or just a corpse someone put in a chair?  Unless the Australian medical examiner was a secret Dharma agent, I have to assume that Christian is really and truly dead.  Therefore, this Christian is either a ghost (we know that Hurley sees dead people all the time) or we have ourselves a Psycho situation.  That is equally valid, as we know the corpse is missing, or at least it wasn't in the coffin.  Then there's the third possibility, that the island brings the dead back to life as zombies, but even for this show, that's really, really stupid.

The other big question in Jacob's cabin is who was the close-up face that looked back at Hurley.  Many viewers who left comments on either BuddyTV or TheTailSection seem to believe the man staring back at Hurley was John Locke.  Maybe the enigmatic Locke was seeking answers from his new mentor Jacob.  If that's the case, and if he was "talking" to Christian, it's weird that Locke would go from one troubled, abusive father to another.



Now that you have a bigger image, take a close look?  Is that John Locke?  Some may say yes, I think it looks like this figure has hair, which eliminates Locke as a candidate.  But since BuddyTV doesn't own advanced facial recognition software, this one is a total toss-up..



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