What is The Flame Station?

Question: What is The Flame Station?

The term "Flame Station" was first introduced earlier in the series, but the station wasn't found by the Losties until episode 3x11, Enter 77.

Answer: The Flame Station is a station found on the island that is part of the Dharma Initiative. Kate, Sayid, Locke, and Rousseau find the station and all but Rousseau go in. Sayid is shot by a man wearing an eye patch who acts as if they are the Others. The man takes care of Sayid's wound and says that he is Mikhail Bakunin, the last remaining member of the Dharma Initiative.

Mikhail says that the station was a communications station, but the satellite hasn't worked for years.

Sayid knows that Mikhail is not really from Dharma, but is one of the Others. He captures Mikhail, then he and Kate find Ms. Klugh in the basement. Ms. Klugh convinces Mikhail to kill her.

Locke finds a chess game on a computer in the station and after beating it, gets some messages from Dr. Marvin Candle. Dr. Candle says to enter the number 77, and Locke does. After they are all outside, the station blows up.

At one point, we see a flashback of Juliet's on the day the plane crashed. Ben takes her to see Mikhail in the Flame Station. Mikhail shows her live footage of her sister and nephew (Ep: 3x16, One of Us).

Later, Locke sees Horace in a dream and he's wearing a Dharma uniform from the Flame Station (Ep: 4x11, Cabin Fever).

In 1977, Radzinsky monitors The Flame Station while building a model of The Swan Station (Ep: 5x9, Namaste).