Find 815: Numbers E-mail and Owen Talbot [Updated]
Note: This post may contain minor spoilers for the Find 815 LOST ARG.
Since the last time I posted a Find 815 ARG update, there's a new e-mail on Sam's computer (click to enlarge screenshots; note that the text overlaps a bit between these two shots):
The name of the Sender appears as "Sender" and the e-mail apparently has "[no subject]". The contents of the e-mail are as follows:
342423424243242442423688608768686At this point, it's unclear what (if anything) these numbers mean or whether they have any significance to the game. Each of the Numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42) appears in this e-mail, some very frequently:
76-1561653957349753495349573009808
4957349573495349534795734934798799
5893475389475349753495783457987722
83457341.985739857349857398573980123
5798573948578934573942340284094546
2342342422342344234324234233245745
5615685979958574663434553534534344
5654564564564564566464646645899
4564565464646656464564564568129382
4500242094803948239048230482..27233
2340723407820209420945897097650721
04382048203480234980298402389
2038482038340238097698745697959677
9384798327423975924560943695487988
2384723940927592759237497982344567
2394794560465967526794230472472439
23948749724920142397927592569725611
392472394879247299653795606408111302
9807079787897987123123123472658345
34576786658652394956032560342560525
29374627654286757385682375628346234
38274628369858695687569262394624240
234986234632842555054036305054
121203486130432945761699533512508
1208461238462992344921943269423906
12361302932094712309113525915972343
- 4 - 142 times
- 8 - 76 times
- 15 - 3 times
- 16 - 2 times
- 23 - 44 times
- 42 - 25 times
UPDATE: Reader "" pointed out that certain numbers in the e-mail are slightly more gray than others, as now visible in the text above. When the gray characters are written out it gives "-11.1784". This could perhaps correspond with 11.1784°S latitude, which if combined with a longitude coordinate may possibly be either south of the Sunda Trench or off the coast of Bali, Indonesia. (Incidentally, the Sunda Trench also appears to be near Phuket, Thailand, where Jack got his tattoo from Achara in a flashback.)
Meanwhile, as the story of Sam Thomas continues, he meets a suspicious man named Owen Talbot. The man seems to be an owner of the Christiane I, the boat that is about to take Sam to the Sunda Trench.
Owen Talbot's conversations with Sam and then with the captain are very interesting. First, Talbot pressures Sam to explain why he's on the boat, and then makes a comment about Sam's "perfect girlfriend." He challenges Sam's story by saying, "I wonder what you're 'getting away' from?" Owen Talbot seems to somehow know Sam's motives.
Owen Talbot's conversation with the captain, Mr. Ockham, indicates that the boat may not be able to handle the voyage that they're about to take. Ockham states, "Given our destination, I can't rule out a complete electronics meltdown. This is an insurance policy you need to take out." Sam, who is listening to the conversation, appears a bit concerned by this. Talbot apparently ignores Ockham's advice, saying simply, "Call me when it's fully operational." Talbot then says "I'll need to install security measures."
Curiously, Talbot is a name we've heard before on LOST—in the Season 3 episode The Man From Tallahassee, Peter Talbot is the name of the young man who tracks down John Locke to find answers about Locke's father, Anthony Cooper aka Adam Seward. We learn that Peter is murdered shortly after Locke confronts his father, and Locke immediately suspects that his father is the killer. Owen Talbot, like Peter Talbot, seems to be a wealthy American, and given the many character connections on LOST it seems possible that the two characters may be related somehow.
posted by Josh Long at 2:22 AM
5 Comments:
Hi I noticed last night that some numbers in the email are more greyed out than others... can't view it right now but i remember it was like 5 numbers and made something like -11.478 or something... check it out :D
Thanks for the tip, superservo15! I've updated the article to make mention of the gray numbers (and a possible meaning of the number you get when you put all the gray numbers together).
What about Tuesday's unlock, the Black Rock Website? Did you notice a face (specifically eyes) in the picture?
OK that's weird. I just went back to find815 and the website I saw is not there, but another one is instead. Find815 was acting sparatically all day, maybe the unlock was a mistake. The one I saw I imagine will be unlocked later in the week. It talked about the history of the Black Rock ship. That it was a slave vessel and was en route to Africa with gold when it dissappeared in the Indian Ocean.
This is all a very nice tie-in to what Naomi said.
(irrelevantly, am married to RHS grad.)
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