ccosborne3 Wrote:C'mon woman, out with it. Don't be suppressing your theories. It's not a spoiler if it's a guess.
OK, you asked for it....
I think Ben and Kate are related. I think Kate's parenthood may still be in question. Suppose, just suppose, Ben got together with his little childhood girlfriend, the dark-haired Annie. Annie carved those little wooden dolls for Ben as a birthday present, remember? Suppose, just suppose, Annie left the island and had a baby. Suppose, just suppose, that baby was Kate? Ben could be Kate's real father. That would be incredibly ironic on so many levels because if you remember, she killed her step father, who she thinks is her real father, not just because he was beating her mother but because she couldn't stand the thought that she has his no-good blood in her veins. Imagine if she discovered that she has Ben's blood in her veins?!
Think of how cunning Kate is. Kate has always struck me as much smarter than the people we think are her parents. She got away with murder, twice really. She inadvertently got her childhood sweetheart killed. She's wiley in the extreme. She's sneaky, in her way. She won't take no for an answer. She's always disobeying orders, usually with disastrous results.
Think of the woman we know as Kate's mother. I know of no mother who would turn on her own child as easily as that woman turned on Kate. I've always had a problem with that, as Kate has. What if Kate wasn't that woman's biological daughter. That could give a boost to her needing to turn Kate in for killing the knucklehead she loved.
But Kate's got a sweet side, too, (maybe Annie's blood in her veins?) though I think she will always be self-serving. That's why she will never hook up with Jack. Somewhere in her heart she knows that she is morally no match for him. Kate thinks she can't match Jack's goodness because of the bad blood in her through her father. But which father????
This is just a wild guess, because, lately, Kate has seemed shifty to me. I guess I'm becoming suspicious of everyone who I used to consider solid.