10 ‘Unsolved’ Mysteries From Lost (That Have Really Simple Answers)

By Alex Leadbeater /

7. Who Was In The Other Outrigger?

The Mystery: When it was announced midway through Season 3 that Lost had a definitive end date many fans took this a sign all mysteries from here on out would have definitive answers. This was evidently not the case. In Season 5€™s The Little Prince, Sawyer, Juliet and the rest of the time travellers end up in a shootout with an unknown group while using one of the Ajira gang€™s outriggers. Before time jumping away, Juliet managed to hit one of the pursuers, but despite the promise of a solution (not to mention many teasing appearances of Outriggers through to the series€™ end) the show never gave us an answer. The Simple Solution: It was either Ilana€™s team/The Black Rock crew. This is one of the harder solutions as Damon Lindelof has gone on record saying he won€™t give an answer. We were meant to get a proper solution in Season 6, but by that point some the people who were intended to be in the other outrigger €œhad been killed off€. This suggests it was Caesar and the rest of Ilana€™s team, but there was never any time to show it properly. Another, more interesting answer was given in the Complete Series box set; it was some of the surviving crew of The Black Rock who had somehow begun to travel in time too. This is regarded as non-canon, but it€™s a pretty cool resolution.