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At the beginning of last night’s Lost, Jack (was it just me or did he start looking more and more like Charles Manson as the episode progressed, especially later on with the denim jacket and heavy drugs) sees a newspaper article while flying on the plane. He tears it out and takes it with him and it’s seen in most of the “flashbacks” that follow. As we know, it was a news story about someone’s death: presumably this is the person in the casket. But who is it?

Well, someone (apparently this came from The Tail Section) got a real good high-def screenshot of one of the very few times that there was a decent enough close-up of the clipping. Here it is:

It looks like the name being referred to could be “Jeremy Bentham”. Which as it turns out, with Lost‘s penchant for naming characters ...

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