Early in the series, Kelvin Inman, while briefing Locke on the mysterious development of the blast door map, credits its creation to his partner Radzinsky, though he admits continuing the map himself.
The idea, though, that Radzinksy was genuinely a member of the Dharma Initiative falls apart when one examines the map itself, specifically the Latin annotations, the question mark, and its purpose.
As Juliet noted, Latin is apparently part of Others 101 -- but not Dharma 101. It's a reasonable inference to make that whoever is annotating anything in Latin may be an Other. Secondly, the question mark marking what we now know to be the Pearl Station suggests that the writer of the map didn't know what the Pearl Station was (although he knew its location). The Radzinsky we saw in S5 in front of a bank of television sets knows where things are; he's not a character who would be oblivious as to the name and purpose of an entire station.
Next, why would a member of the DI make a map in the first place, any more than an employee who works at the Pentagon make a map of where she works from day to day? The only real reasons to make a map are because a) you don't know where stuff is, b) you're worried you'll forget details, c) you need to see where stuff is in relation to each other, d)you need to communicate the information to other people.
If Radzinsky were Dharma and his map project were legitimate, why hide the information on the inside of a blast door that's almost never going to deploy and do so in laundry detergent? Why hide it at all? More to the point, who's he hiding it from?
My guess is that the mapmaker was not Radzinsky, but an Other who infiltrated DI with the express purpose of gathering information. Working at he Swan, he knew it intimately -- but he did not know the location of other Dharma stations. He needed to hide the map from his partner in the station -- a partner who WAS Dharma and would be unwilling for information to be collected on the placement, purpose, and nature of the Dharma stations.
Sound familiar? I think it's pretty clear: Kelvin Inman was an infiltrator who killed Radzinsky when Radzinsky discovered what he was doing. Theory by Frank M. Arouet
The idea, though, that Radzinksy was genuinely a member of the Dharma Initiative falls apart when one examines the map itself, specifically the Latin annotations, the question mark, and its purpose.
As Juliet noted, Latin is apparently part of Others 101 -- but not Dharma 101. It's a reasonable inference to make that whoever is annotating anything in Latin may be an Other. Secondly, the question mark marking what we now know to be the Pearl Station suggests that the writer of the map didn't know what the Pearl Station was (although he knew its location). The Radzinsky we saw in S5 in front of a bank of television sets knows where things are; he's not a character who would be oblivious as to the name and purpose of an entire station.
Next, why would a member of the DI make a map in the first place, any more than an employee who works at the Pentagon make a map of where she works from day to day? The only real reasons to make a map are because a) you don't know where stuff is, b) you're worried you'll forget details, c) you need to see where stuff is in relation to each other, d)you need to communicate the information to other people.
If Radzinsky were Dharma and his map project were legitimate, why hide the information on the inside of a blast door that's almost never going to deploy and do so in laundry detergent? Why hide it at all? More to the point, who's he hiding it from?
My guess is that the mapmaker was not Radzinsky, but an Other who infiltrated DI with the express purpose of gathering information. Working at he Swan, he knew it intimately -- but he did not know the location of other Dharma stations. He needed to hide the map from his partner in the station -- a partner who WAS Dharma and would be unwilling for information to be collected on the placement, purpose, and nature of the Dharma stations.
Sound familiar? I think it's pretty clear: Kelvin Inman was an infiltrator who killed Radzinsky when Radzinsky discovered what he was doing. Theory by Frank M. Arouet
