Dead is Dead

Well what do you know? Ben does have a human somewhere deep down inside. I think you are right, Andy. He has ‘Mommy issues”. His mother died when he was born, and his father made his life miserable because of it (his father blamed him for her death, as I recall). So now he can’t stand the idea of a baby having its mother killed. Before seeing this episode, I had figured that it was Desmond who beat him up, but I wasn’t sure if he was successful in killing Penny. I was afraid that he needed to get out of the country fast.

I don’t think that it was really Alex that Ben saw, but rather an apparition. She wasn’t acting like herself, and she knew too much of Ben’s plan to kill Locke. I think it was the Smoke monster trying to get through to him. Of course, that raises the question about Claire. I have been thinking that she is still alive, having had no reason to believe her dead. But she was not acting herself either. Still, I don’t think she was an apparition of the smoke monster.

The woman who had arrested Sayid didn’t say specifically that she worked for Widmore, just that she was hired by the family of one of the men Sayid killed to bring him to them, and Sayid was killing men who worked for Widmore. More likely, Widmore hired her to make sure that he was on the plane, because he knew of Lockes mission, and he was helping him.

Naturally, Ben was going to tell Locke he knew we would rise from the dead. Ben is a natural liar. Somehow be really believe what he told Sun, that Locke being alive scared the living daylight out of him. I wonder if he will keep his word to Alex/Smoke Monster.

Four more episodes this season. The last one will be two hours.

We now have a new mystery to ponder. “What lies in the shadow of the statue?”