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Station Five of Six: The Pearl

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The Pearl

The Pearl is station five of six, and acts as a monitoring station. It is the question mark on the Blast Door map. The station is one large, octagonal room, in which television sets are fed live surveillance pictures of the other hatches (though the only picture that could be picked up as of ? was from one of the hidden cameras in The Swan.)

According to The Pearl's Orientation, the staff of The Pearl live there for three weeks, and monitor the occupants of the other stations in eight hour shifts. Whenever a observation notebook is filled, they are placed in a suction tube and sent off to what is only described as 'us'.

There is a computer identical to the one inside The Swan. However, it displays "Print Log? Y/N". Upon giving the command, the computer prints the numbers being entered and confirmation of the button being pushed in The Swan.

The Pearl's logo is simply a black circle, with a small texed that says'Dharma' .

Theories

  • The Pearl's Orientation film says that the purpose of the film is to study the occupants of the other stations, and says that these occupants [i]think[/i] that the work they are doing is extremely important. Perhaps the pushing of the button in the hatch is just as Jack said - nothing but an experiment to see if somebody would do it?
  • Also, the orientation video never makes it perfectly clear where the completed notebooks go once they enter the suction tube. Perhaps The Pearl is just an experiment to see if people would fill notebooks, just like The Swan and The Button is implied to be?
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