re: LOST: The Final Season™ Ep. 8 "Recon"

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The general consensus has been that draining the water allowed smokey to enter the compound through the drain, because he couldn't get through the fences.

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After Ben summoned him though, the next thing you see is the black smoke coming from the woods with the mercenaries running from the woods. Then when Ben summoned him the second time to be judged, he drained the pool of water, he said "I'll be waiting outside" and FLocke came out of the woods." Granted FLocke had been with him at that point. But there isn't any evidence that the smoke came from the drain that I can remember.