The methods to control the isolate are not implemented yet. Eventually we want to add methods to kill, pause, or inspect the spawned isolates.
If you want the spawned isolate to send something back you have to send a SendPort in your initial message. See the examples that came with the BREAKING CHANGE announcement:
https://groups.google.com/a/dartlang.org/forum/#!topic/misc/EVUMkZXFXtY