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General

• Most arrows point at something important. Perhaps The Arrow can be used to navigate, maybe it even points to 325
• The station the Tailies found wasn't the whole Arrow station. On the Blast Door Map, there is a small part that connects to the main station off to the left of it. This may be a supply station that the Tailies found. They also may have found one of the "CV's" on the map, seen clustered near The Swan and C4. This "CV V" (CV 5) may not be visible on the map, as the top is slightly cut off.
• The station was used by Radzinsky at one point, as the parts of the Swan Orientation Film that he edited out were found there.
• The Quarantine warning on the door supports theories that people lived in the Arrow and were not supposed to leave, much like the Swan.
• From what the Tailies found, it is possible that most of The Arrow or The Arrow itself is simply a storage bunker. If that's the case, it may be possible that there are other "Arrows" on the island. The Arrow would be a collective name for all of them.
• The glass eye belongs to Mikhail Bakunin.
  • It can't be Mikhail Bakunun, as seen in the season 3 finale.
• There's more to The Arrow than we think. The Swan and Flame both had trapdoors so what's to say The Arrow didn't have one concealed that leads into a larger area.
  • At the Comic Con 2007, in the Orchid Orientation Video it was said that no one can know what you do here, they only think this is a plantation.

Function

• The Arrow was some type of Financial facility, and was purely DHARMA infrastructure, not ressarch. That explains Goodspeed's profession: mathamatician is another word for Accountant.
  • While accountants must have good math skills, a person with a professional title of mathematician is in all likelihood not an accountant.
• There is a direct connection between the Arrow and the Swan station; on the Mural, in the Swan, there is a huge arrow.
• "Restocking and staging area for Dharma Initiative Hanso Group", as mentioned by the Blast Door Map, could mean the Arrow is like a waiting room before people replace those in the other stations, like the Pearl, so they don't interact.
• The Arrow is also used for mathematical research as seen in "The Man Behind the Curtain" on Horace's workman suit, possibly researching The Valenzetti Equation.
• If the Arrow sheltered Mathematicians, they did all the calculus etc, by hand ? Not even a computer, or remains of one  ?

The Box

• The "secret" piece of film of the Swan Orientation Video, which was hidden inside the bible is some sort of key to the island.

If the glass eye is Mikhails's, did he know about the missing film from The Swan orientation film?