Locke convinced Jack to take a "leap of faith" and push it, and they agreed to organize shifts with other survivors to continue doing so. That same day, a vision of Walt appeared to Shannon and spoke backwards "Don't push the button. Button bad". Days later, Locke inadvertently let the timer reach zero. The station released a loud escalating sound as if something were powering up and the timer then flipped to a series of red and black hieroglyphics.
Locke discovered it was still possible to enter the Numbers and, on pressing Execute , the counter reset, flipping back to Later, it appears a similar event took place off-camera, while Locke was trapped underneath the blast door.
Ben then still known as Henry Gale claimed that he did not press the button, but given the catastrophic consequences of not pressing the button, it seems very likely that he was lying. Following the DHARMA protocol, the survivors made an effort to set up shifts of two people in the station to operate the computer - with Locke initially taking on more shifts than anyone else.
Locke's faith in the station, however, began to fall apart after Ben's arrival - and Ben's description of the Swan as a "joke. Eko, however, took over the duty of pressing the button. After Locke destroyed the computer's monitor, the timer once again expired without the button being pressed. Although Desmond activated the failsafe , the resulting "event" termed the discharge was felt across the entire island, and resulted in the destruction of the Swan station.
An electromagnetic pulse from the discharge interrupted communication among the Others and also caused the failure of the satellite dish at the Flame. The discharge was also large enough to be detected at a distant tracking station.
Immediately after turning the failsafe key, Desmond's consciousness traveled back to He initially forgot his adventures on the Island, but he experienced flashes of memory of his time in the Swan. He spoke of the button when he ran into Charlie , and he later spoke about in in more detail to a friend. When he met Eloise Hawking , the two spoke extensively about the Swan, and she told him, "pushing that button is the only truly great thing that you will ever do.
Failure to enter the Numbers within the last four minutes of the countdown cycle triggered an alarm, which lasted until the timer reached zero. On completing the countdown, the timer's numbers were replaced by red and black Egyptian hieroglyphics while simultaneously a recorded voice repeated " system failure " continuously over the station's speaker system.
Countdown resetting described in the Swan Orientation Film. The procedure to reset the countdown timer was first described by Dr. Marvin Candle in the Swan Orientation Film. As described by Dr. Candle, the protocol was established after the incident - although he did not reveal exactly what happened.
Kelvin described the electromagnetic energy as continually building up - and that the act of pushing the button "discharges it". Hence, the countdown represented the maximum time limit for a "safe" build-up of the charge.
The countdown timer was regularly reset every minutes, before and after the crash , a routine known as " pushing the button. Thus, the last 4 minutes in countdown after the sounding of the alarm, was the normal interval used in resetting the button. The count actually holds a number of relations to many other themes in Lost. For instance, is the sum of the Numbers , which are also used as a code in resetting the counter.
See more details about the significance of this count in: Locke , attempting to force in the Numbers code into the computer , to break the first failure sequence witnessed by the survivors. Failing to execute the button sequence before the last 4 minutes of countdown pass resulted in the sequence of actions described below:.
Apparently, the timer could be reset during all of this sequence. However, as soon as the system failure started, the counter soon became of no use due to the strong electromagnetism effect. Michael agrees, but just before the return flight, calls his mother and asks if she can take Walt instead. Why did Mr. Eko cut off his beard? Eko knows that the Others wear fake beards.
Eko was killed by the Monster, as were three of the witnesses albeit indirectly. Sayid was killed by the bomb planted on the submarine by the Man in Black.
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