So in this episode we meet Robert, who is Danielle's baby daddy and possibly a human vessel for the smoke monster or the island. He describes the Smoke Monster as a "security system guarding The Temple." With that in mind, I point you to my former connection stated in Part 3 of my complete theory regarding a similar entity and event in the book enititled, "Shangri-La: The Return to the World of Lost Horizon"
• A horrible hard to describe creature appears and causes mayhem amongst soldiers it also brings with it a sense of sadness and regret that permeates the men and causes them to feel regrets for their past transgressions and manipulates their minds and actions. It especially affects the General. This is similar to the smoke monster and it's way of analyzing and judging people on the Island, as well as how it appears to manipulate peoples' actions as it seemingly does with Danielle's boyfriend Robert in the season 5 episode entitled, "This Place is Death". - Page 306-307
The purpose of this creature in the world of "Lost Horizon" is to protect the hidden sacred "city" and altruistic residents of Shangri-la from being found and is further described in the following passages from PART 3 of my theory:
• Vajrapani, the fierce and wrathful deity who was the defender of the Dharma, with his snarling face and his headdress rimmed with human skulls is similar at least in theme and purpose to the smoke monster on the Island. - Page 173
In the Official Lost Podcast for This Place is Death, the producers described that the men of Danielle's party having come back from under the Temple "different" and "wacky".
A similar condition befalls all of the soldiers, including the General, that encounter a equally ambiguous and frightening entity while searching for Shangri-la in the book, "Shangri-la: The Return to the World of Lost Horizon" They either die or come back forever changed and never quite right from that experience.
Taking all that into consideration with the incident on "Lost" involving Danielle, Robert, their comrades, and Smokey, it confirms my theory that the smoke monster was in fact protecting the Island and now more specifically, The Temple, like it's counterpart in Shangri-la does and that it also manipulates or inhabits the minds of people it chooses to control.
Now back in Season 4 episode entitled meet Kevin Johnson, we heard Ben Linus state "This is a map to a temple. It's a sanctuary. It may be the last safe place on this island." He attempts to send Danielle, Alex, and Carl to meet the Others there in hopes of protecting his daughter. So I asked myself, why is the Temple safe? We now must assume that it is safe because the Smoke Monster is guarding it. Therefore, I imagine either those that it sees as friends, it may allow to stay there unharmed, or the Other,s or just Ben, can simply manipulate the monster to doing their bidding as Ben appears to have done when he calls it to attack the mercenaries at the Barracks.
In that same episode Ben goes into a hidden area of his house in the Barracks that contains what appears to be a stone doorway with "hieroglyphs" on it similar at least to those on the Temple we see in "This Place is Death".
Furthermore, Ben displays a simple map of the island and states that "The rest of our people are already there. If you leave now you can get there in a day and a half." So seeing those nearly identical stone carvings, at two vastly distant areas on "The Island", suggests that there is some very large and perhaps even gigantic elaborate underground area of the Island that is connected to the Temple by means of that door in Ben's house and perhaps other doors around the island.
In the Official Lost Podcast for "This Place is Death", the producers hinted at the fact that the walls seen in the episode were merely an outer perimeter, and that one would need to hike "a little bit" past the walls to reach the actual temple itself.
Now take that and throw in the a few more connected pieces of evidence in that some have noticed, but I think are hugely significant. That is the "Lost" promotional logos and comic book images, like the ones I have shown here. They depict multiple variation of the same concept. A hidden "city" or cityscape if you will. Now in regards to \theLost promotional images, they could just be references to the fact that some of the action.
In this image from "Lost" commercials and promotional materials, you can clearly see the cityscape seemingly reflected upside down below the island:
In this image from the Season 4 episode entitled, comic book cover depicts a city below a city in the clouds with reference to a "Hidden Land":
In this image of comic book page from Walt's comic in Season 1, you can see what appears to be a city on top of a dome rising out of a snow or ice landscape:
So with that and my previous evIdence presented, I am willing to state my belief that much like the creature that was defending the hidden and sacred land of Shangri-la in the book of the same title, the Smoke Monster is defending a hidden a sacred land possibly under the Island or simply underground. I further believe that in line with my theory that this Island is truly a lifeboat for humanity, the Temple or this hidden land contains a storehouse of man's art, knowledge, and culture that will be preserved when the mankind is destroyed, just as was the purpose of Shangri-la in the books.
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