Jacob's old age and ageless quality are apparently properties bestowed upon him by the Island, in his role as the Island's caretaker. However, his actions are constantly manipulated by the Man in Black, who desperately seeks a way off the island. The reason that Jacob (and the Island) have summoned the survivors of Oceanic 815 to the island is that he is seeking a replacement for himself. As long as the caretaker lives, evil cannot escape the island. Jacob compares the island to a 'cork', that keeps the island's evil power (i.e. Unfortunately, during a fight with the Man in Black, Jacob threw the latter inside the Source, causing its 'evil' power to become manifested as The Smoke Monster. The caretaker duties went from this woman to Jacob, who has fulfilled the role for nearly 2000 years. She served as the island's caretaker, especially guarding the "Source". Both were raised by an unknown woman who was already present on the island. His mother Claudia was shipwrecked on the island in 44 AD, where she gave birth to him, but also to the Man in Black, who is Jacob's fraternal twin. The Season 6 episodes Ab Aeterno (2010) and Across the Sea (2010) finally revealed more about Jacob's role on the island. More proof comes from Cabin Fever (2008), where John Locke enters the cabin and finds Christian Shephard inside the Man in Black later confesses in Season 6 that he was impersonating Christian on the island all along. This has led to speculation that the man in the cabin was not actually Jacob, but The Man in Black/Smoke Monster, which is sustained by the fact that the ring of ash surrounding the cabin has been disturbed, allowing the Man in Black inside (who would normally be unable to cross a layer of ash, as we learn in Season 6). He is clearly not the man who was in the cabin during The Man Behind the Curtain (2007), and in the same episode it is confirmed by Ilana that Jacob has not been using the cabin for some time. In The Incident: Part 1 (2009), Jacob is shown in full, and is played by Mark Pellegrino. He appears (briefly) in the cabin scene in that episode. Jacob is first mentioned in The Man Behind the Curtain (2007). We later learn that when you move the island you are teleported to a similar location.Īccording to Ben, Jacob knows all the secrets of the island. As we see Charlotte excavating a bear skelaton with a Dharma collar in a desert. It is also shown that the bears were used to move the island. In "The New Man in Charge" epilogue, it was confirmed that DHARMA brought the bears to the island to use as test subjects at the Orchid station. Polar bears have been known to swim dozens of miles between ice floes and the relatively short distance between Hydra Island and the main island would be an easy distance for them to cover. Polar bears are excellent swimmers, probably the best mammalian swimmers other than dolphins and whales. The question of how they got to the main Island is mostly based on fan ignorance of polar bears. Obviously, at some point when DHARMA shut down the bears either escaped or were released. Some viewers continue to question how the bears got from Hydra Island to the main Island. The bears were being trained for increased intelligence and to be able to survive in a non-arctic habitat. As hinted at in Orientation (2005), and confirmed in Season 3, the polar bears were part of experiments going on at DHARMA.
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