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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
• Perhaps the arrow was some kind of armory, allowing DHARMA to study new forms of weapons and also used for a intelligence purpose.
• 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.
  • This may be supported by the fact that the station which the Tailies visited had a DHARMA symbol where the inner circle was a dotted line, while in other places the symbol has been seen with a full circle.
  • The station that they found may have been separated from the rest of the station like the source of the magnetism was covered up in the swan.
• 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.
• 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 botanical research facility.
  • The Staff also had the hidden room that Juliette enters in "D.O.C."
• Couldn't the eye belong to the person in the mural with there eye scratched out, I believe the arrow represents some sort of direction for salvation, through a person, probably Locke
• The eye might have belonged to Mikhail Bakunin who is now dead

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.

The Cabin

• The arrow station could in fact be the cabin that Jacob resides in built by Horace Goodspeed, the arrow station shown in season 2 could be a decoy station for the real arrow.