Eye-Patch's mysterious resurrection

[Joe Washington]

You remember that eye-patch guy from Season 3 who kept on coming back to life after being killed repeatedly? I think the infection brought him back to life like it brought Sayid back to life. I think the Smoke Monster brought him back
to life with the infection so he can use him to stop Charlie from shutting down the Looking Glass station. I think it's because the freighter didn't play a role in his plan aganist Jacob and he didn't need the people on it get in the way of that.

 

[Mallet]

Hmmm... But Ben (and the Other's) also didn't want the freighter folk to arrive and they sort of work for Jacob. So would that mean neither Jacob or the MIB wanted the freighter people to arrive?

Also, Eye-Patch took all his orders from Ben, we never saw him acting on his own accord. Also the Other's let him hang around their camp and didn't seem suspicious of him, which they would be if he was possibly "infected".

No, I think there was something else up with Eye-Patch. Maybe he had been into the Fountain and healed and made stronger and tougher? Maybe the island healed him super quick because he was working to save the Island (or Jacob)?

 

[D Man]

I thought he only "died" that one time, where Locke pushed him the pylons. After that, you could see him breathing, which at the time seemed like a production goof, but later he shows up again and says "luckily they weren't set to a lethal level." Am I forgetting any other time he "dies?" He gets beat up a lot, but IIRC he only really dies at the end when he grenades himself to kill Charlie. It seems to me he was just an especially tough gruntwork guy, rather than a "touched by the fountain" sort of thing.

 

[Mallet]

Apart from the Sonic fence (which should have killed him, if you watch that scene closely you see a huge amount of blood shoot out from his ear before he falls over. it goes like a meter away it blows out so powerfully. Kind of gross really, but you have to watch carefully to see it).

He was also shot with a harpoon down in the Looking Glass and was laying there looking quite dead for quite awhile.

 

[Hober Mallow]

He's the Wishmaster. He can't die.

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

I dunno for sure but I imagine they just liked the actor's charisma (a la Michael Emerson as Henry Gale). There's no story reason for his resurrection. The explanation we got about the 'lethal level' is the reason.

 

[Mr Light]

It just a bunch of near-deaths! The sonic fence wasn't lethal, and then he gets shot with a harpoon but uses the last strength of his life to swim out to the porthole with the grenade. Boom. Dead.

 

[RoJoHen]

Exactly. Maybe he should have died a bunch of times, but he never actually did until he blew himself up.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I think he was just almost dead and the island healed him.

 

[MikeS]

Naomi was another one that was ressurected in season 3.

 

[Hober Mallow]

I think he was just almost dead and the island healed him.

Yet, just to be a curmudgeon, staunchly refused to heal his eye.

 

[Checkmate]

It's like you guys never saw that guy on television who refused to die before. To quote from Boondock Saints:

"Well, 'name one thing you're gonna need this stupid fucking rope for.'" "That was way easier than I thought." "Aye." "You know, on TV you always got that guy that jumps over the sofa." "And then you gotta shoot at him for ten fucking minutes, too." "Aye." "Christ." "We're good." Yes, we are!"

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I think he was just almost dead and the island healed him.

Yet, just to be a curmudgeon, staunchly refused to heal his eye.

Well, the eye was out of his head. It doesn't give people Claire powers.

 

[RoJoHen]

And who knows when he lost his eye? It was probably when he was in the army. I doubt the Island could grow him a new eyeball.

 

[Hober Mallow]

And who knows when he lost his eye? It was probably when he was in the army. I doubt the Island could grow him a new eyeball.

It took away Jack's testicles.