Cave paintings & Frenchies

I read a post today that asked, "Why can't the person with all the answers on Lost be the loquacious, blathering type?" So true. Instead, they are always the "you won't understand this so I'll use a lot of metaphor and only hint at the truth."

So far we've gotten no answers from Ben, Richard, Christian Shepherd, Eloise Hawking, Elana, Jacob and now Flocke is cagey and difficult. He's also a liar.

New theory: Flocke (or Esau or man-in-black) is the inhabitant of the damp cave that Sawyer barely made it into on Tuesday. I bet Jacob never set foot in this cave. Why would Jacob write numbers on the roof of this cave, and then leave the cave and go to his own cave under the four-toed statue, and then give lists of names to Richard from there? I don't see Jacob doing a lot of hiking and caveing on the island. Especially since he's not the one that can travel fast as a puff of smoke.

So Flocke lives in this cave. The scales are his. The numbers and names are his. He and Jacob battled for control over these people. Flocke wanted control to get his loophole. Now he wants control for some additional reason. He gets control two ways: 1) recruitment, 2) infection.

Also, anytime I hear anything about things written on cave walls, I think of the Lascaux cave paintings in France. 22,000 years old. So maybe an Egyptian connection is not going back far enough. Rousseau will not be the only Frenchy involved in this 22,000-year conspiracy. I should have known it always comes back to the French.