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The Pearl
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Orientation Film

  • The Swan Orientation Film was made after the Pearl orientation film, as "Candle" has two hands in the Pearl film, and looks notably more youthful in appearance (hair color, etc).

Blast door map location

  • The Pearl is not the central question mark on the blast door map.
  • The ? on the map is the Barracks and its security fence, not the Pearl.
    • The mapmaker couldn't learn anything about the barracks because of the Security Fence.
  • The Pearl is CV IV on the blast door map. Since on the map, next to CV IV "The Pearl?" is written. Plus there is a reference to RVS (Remote Viewing Station?) next to CV IV on the map. The viewing of other stations may connect to that reference.
  • The Pearl is actually the area marked "C4?" on the Blast Door Map.
  • This isn't the Pearl station but the Pearl stations testing ground. This would explain why the orientation video failed to explain its true role as a testing grounds and the symbol isn't the same as the other stations symbol (includes the word "Dharma"). Also would explain why the blast door map has the Pearl station on the right on the swan.
  • The Pearl could be a kind of "Fake" Station, since the chairs are made with spare parts and people were assigned there just to be observed by Dharma Initiative ?

The equipment and structure

  • The Pearl is where the messages from "Walt" were sent.
    • Ben and Juliet's visit coincides with the day the messages were sent to Michael.
    • Assuming The Others spied on The Swan, they could have sent the messages knowing Michael was at the computer.
  • One of the cameras monitored The Hydra but, like the intercom, the camera no longer works in the cell where Jack is held.
  • Every station has two entrances/exits; one entrance that can be accessed from above but is buried and another side entrance that is concealed.
  • The Pearl was at the center of DHARMA Initiative research into Schrödinger's cat paradox. The inhabitants made numerous detailed observations but the records of those observations were never used, as we see at the capsule dump.
  • The computer that Locke used to print out the log is a backup to the one in the Swan station. If the Swan occupants failed to enter the numbers, the Pearl occupants would be able to do so remotely. After the incident, the DHARMA Initiative saw the need to have a backup computer to prevent another.
    • Not likely. The computer seems to be a control equipment, rather than a backup one.
  • There is another computer of the same make in each of the other DHARMA stations. These are backups to the one in the Swan.

Residence

  • When Locke initially explored the Pearl station, he noticed cigarette butts. This shows that someone was watching all the activities within The Swan at some (possibly recent) point in time.
  • Ben was the one inhabiting the Pearl; left and began his walk to the beach or the Swan when Rousseau caught him.
  • The cigarette belonged to Paulo.
    • By that time Paulo would have found the diamonds and the nicotine gum

Name

  • It's strongly linked to the glass eye that was found in the staff, maybe belonging to Mikhail, as it's a monitoring station.
  • In The Lord of the Ring series, the eye of Sauron acts like a monitoring tool, and can use Palantirs as glass eyes. [1]
  • The room is also similar to the Architect's room in the Matrix series, who explodes after Neo's visit. It's to be noted that the Matryoshka_doll doll was hidden there by Paulo, and that it's name is very similar to "Matrix".
  • The name is a hint to Desmond's foresightings, like a medium with a crystal ball.
  • A pearl is similiar looking to a crystal ball. A cystal ball is used to see things secretly, while The Pearl is used to watch the other stations secretly.
  • While the names of many stations seem to be related to Apollo from Greek mythology, the Pearl seems to be named according to a different unknown scheme. The DHARMA logos of the stations that do not follow the Apollo theme are inverted.

The Notebooks

  • How did Charlie Get a Pearl notebook?
  • When Locke visited the Pearl station for the first time, it is shown that there is an enormous stack of Notebooks in the cupboard. Talk spreads among the losties and Charlie says to himself "I'll go get one"....we just didn't see it happen.
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