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The listening station
Arcticsetting
  • Introduced in Live Together, Die Alone.
  • Operated by two Portuguese-speaking technicians who kill time playing chess.
  • Located in a cold, snowy place. A blizzard is seen outside, and mountains are visible not too far in the distance.
  • Listens to the Earth to discover any magnetic signatures.
  • Technicians missed a prior anomaly
  • The technicians discovered The Discharge.
  • Is in direct contact with Penelope Widmore.
  • This is the first hard evidence we have been given that the world is "still out there". Before seeing the Listening Station and Penelope we have no way to know that the world does in fact still exist. Of course, we don't actually have any proof that the station and Penelope aren't both somehow on the Island or a nearby Island or that the incident takes place in the post-crash timeline either.
  • At the end of the "Live Together, Die Alone" episode, one of the technicians says "We missed it again-". What he really said in portuguese was "A gente não percebeu denovo, eles vão matar a gente", which translates to "We missed it again, they will kill us". Later, the other one says "SHUT UP AND MAKE THE CALL!", what he really said was "Cala a boca e chama ajuda" which translates to "Shut up and call for help".

Theories

  • Penelope founded the station to find Desmond.
  • Penelope's connection to the island might not have anything to do with Desmond, but simply with the fact that Widmore clearly has ties to the island.
  • As it appears to be in a cold weather climate, it could be located far north (Russia, North Pole, Canada, Scandinavia) or far south (Antarctica).
    • The mountains visible nearby make it unlikely that the station is at or near the North Pole (which is in the middle of the Arctic Ocean), but more likely that it is either in Antarctica or a subarctic northern location.
    • The location could also be in the Himalayas as there appeared to be soft Indian (Sitar) music playing in the background.
    • As The Discharge occurs on Day 66, it is presumably late November, when it would be dark in the far north and light in the far south. It is bright outside when we see the window, so this also increases the likelihood that the station is in Antarctica.
  • The missed anomaly may be the same event that brought down Flight 815.
  • The missed anomaly may be related to Locke's failure to push the button before the timer expired in One of Them
  • The system failure and/or discharge that brought down Flight 815 was too brief to be detected, and thus the listeners cannot be faulted for missing it (we know the Day 1 system failure had to be briefer than the Day 66 system failure, because the Day 1 system failure did not last long enough to severely damage the Hatch). Although they acted too worried about missing it for them to not be accountable for it.
  • Is the same listening station where Sam Toomey and Leonard Simms first learned of the numbers

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