what was in the freighter's metal box???

[drew102e]

i saw a gas mask, are their any screen captures out there showing any details on contents

and doesnt the gasmask link the freighters to at least knowing of the dharma purge, gasmasks were pretty important to surviving the last dharma battle

not sure if this should have worried jack and kate too much though, they dont know about the purge yet do they? just locke knows it think

[Turnip Queen]

The gas mask does worry me - is this why Ben thinks they're all gonna die on the island?

[Dzbabykel]

Yah not only was there a gas mask but there were orange "hazardous" bags with the radioactive symbol on them. Uh oh, am I sensing another purge attempt??? :eek:

[Glenn2000]

Yah not only was there a gas mask but there were orange "hazardous" bags with the radioactive symbol on them. Uh oh, am I sensing another purge attempt??? :eek:

Those were bio-hazard marks on those packages indicating either something inside this is biologically hazardous or there is something inside to protect you from a bio-hazard.

What I'm concerned about is that Jack and Kate have not gone back to examine those boxes or asked the "Fantastic Four" a few more detailed questions - at gunpoint.

[beachblinkette]

Wonder if Ben is ego-centric enough to kill everyone on the island in a Jim Jones-like gas attack that he has rigged up in case things went beyond his control? He's as crazy but oh so cunning.

[thelawgiver]

I would not read to much into this. It appears that the plan was to land the chopper, not bail out. I suspect that the chopper stored a lot of different supplies for various contingencies, one being potential hazardous materials. Part of standard emergency response supplies. They were not fully sure of what they would expect to face on the island. (Remember that there were haz-mat suits and respirators in the Hatch and at Dharma HQ).
Daniel said they were losing power so they started dumping supplies, so I suspect that their are several other scattered metal boxes with interesting supplies which may come into play. I also would not be surprised if someone finds Daniel's lost pack, with his "phone" and other curious items (a copy of Ben's picture, island maps, instructions?).

[Archangel-Player]

If the Fantastic Four "I like that by the way lol" Where on the island for Ben. Then i would assume that they would know the details as to what he did on the island. Ya know. They never realy said what that "insdent" was about on the orantasion film" And Dr' Candle stressed that no one is to use the COmputer other than pushing in the code. As if soemone used the computer to excute the plane that caused the "Insdent" Id imagine Ben tryed once before to extermenate Dharma. I imagine the Purge wasn't the first attempt. Perhaps these people associated with the freighter the main organization was involved with this "insident" Like they stressed to candle notto let it happend again. FOrtunatly for Ben. Dharma wasn't able to pin point it was him that was behind it. But he was photographe din a place he wasn't supose to be like he was using that PC behind him for a reason. :-)