Marc B. Wrote:I don't remember seeing it talked about here, but it seems very likely Ben may be responsible for the fake plane and bodies the underwater divers found. I'm really curious to know Ben's story.

bones weep tedium Wrote:I suspect that Ben has some psychic powers of his own.

I think that Miles has been introduced to help acustom (sp?) the fans to the fact that Walt ain't the only one with mysterious & spooky powers.

I think that Ben has psychic powers because of something mentioned in the Lost: Via Domus video game. Because the video game's canon status is questionable, this is not the only reason I suspect this. How else could Ben coordinate so many different spies and schemes and faked plane crashes (not to mention move $3,200,000) when he spends so much of his time incarcerated by one person or another on an isolated desert island.

I think that some of the most intersting and revealing facts will come to light whenever we see some more flashbacks of Ben's life between him being a child and him killing off all the Dharma people.

Maggers Wrote:He's probably still on the Island. Why would he have to be dead? If he made a deal with the Devil-We-Call-Ben (or whomever) to get pregnant Sun off the Island, he could be alive on the Island. Hopefully, he didn't have to give up his life, just give up the chance to live his life with Sun and their child (for now at least) to be sure she'd be safely removed from the Island. I can totally see Jin making a deal like that to save his wife and unborn child, even if he'd never see them again, or think he'd never see them again.

cobalt79 Wrote:There are several things that intrigue me about the dastardly Ben.

He was an employee's son, yet he becomes the most devious and powerful person on the island.
Just what is the purpose of that large wardrobe behind Ben's wall. There are passports and all sorts of items to walk into another life.
How did Ben amass all that money? Several million at least.
Is Ben part of a power triad with Penny's dad and Sun's dad.
Is it Ben in that coffin, under an assumed name on a mission gone wrong? It would make sense that no one would want to attend.

Just my mind wondering and wandering........

bones weep tedium Wrote:Ben's giving Sayid assassination jobs, so it can't be him can it? Unless the timeline is ridiculously convoluted!

AlvinFox Wrote:True, Ben is giving Sayid jobs, but Jack's flash forward seems to be the farthest one forward. Kate's happened soon after they got off the island (trial wouldn't sit for a long time, would it?), Sun's was a few months later (5 and a half months after current island time? Juliet said Sun has a month until the middle of her second trimester.), Hurley's was after Sun's because he hadn't committed himself yet and Jack's was at the end because of the amount of time to grow his big beard (plus he told Hurley he was thinking of growing a beard when Hurley committed himself.). I can't pinpoint anything in Sayid's, but I'd say it was before Jack's. So it could be Ben, but most likely not.

bones weep tedium Wrote:When Lost is all said and done, I wonder if it would be fun to watch the whole show re-cut into chronological order.