In the Lost episode “The Substitute” the reason behind the numbers has been revealed, well mostly at least. The Man in Black said “Jacob had a thing for numbers” so maybe there is more to come. In a previous post we had talked about Jacob being in the lives of those on Oceanic Flight 815, before they made it to the island. Looks like he has been in the lives of many others as well. The Man in Black, aka fake Locke, took Sawyer (a treacherous climb to be sure) to a cave and revealed “That’s why you’re here. That James is why you’re all here” There were a ton of names (looks like at least 416) on the walls, most of which were crossed out, but “Not all of them”. These are all that was left. #4 – Locke #8 – Reyes #15 – Ford #16 – Jarrah #23 – Shepard #42 – Kwon – “I don’t know if it’s Sun or Jin” says the Man in Black Everyone except Locke on this list was still alive when the numbers were revealed. So 3 ideas for Locke still being on the list. 1 – Jacob didn’t back to the cave yet to mark him off. 2 – Jacob didn’t know he was dead. 3 – Locke is still alive. There are lots of people still alive that were not on this list (Desmond, Claire, Kate). So why are only some still left not crossed out? Will that be revealed?