Showing posts with label Ben. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ben. Show all posts

Dr. Linus

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Why is Charles Widmore returning to the island?
  2. Why did Ben and Roger leave the island in the new timeline?
  3. Ilana states there are six candidates. If Locke and Sayid are not counted, and Sun and Jin are both counted, who is the sixth?

Answers Given:
  1. What is Ilana's relationship to Jacob before he visits her? Ilana says Jacob was like a father to her.
  2. Who is coming to the island? Charles Widmore.

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LA X

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. What happened to Desmond in the alternate timeline?
  2. What happened to the island to sink it in the alternate timeline?
  3. Why does Juliet say "we should go get coffee" and "we can go Dutch?"
  4. Why is Jack's neck cut in the alternate timeline?
  5. What happened to Christian's body in the alternate timeline?
  6. Who is the Japanese leader of the Temple-dwelling Others?
  7. Jacob's nemesis says he wants to go home. Where is "home?"
  8. Why was Richard once in chains?
  9. What is Richard's relationship to Jacob's nemesis/the Monster?
  10. Where is Jacob's nemesis taking Richard?
  11. How did Sayid return to life?

Answers Given:
  1. Do the "others" truly make the whispers as Rousseau says? It seems that they do, based on the whispering in the Temple.
  2. What is the white dust/ash around Jacob's cabin? The white ash creates a kind of "barrier" the Monster can't pass through.
  3. Why did Hurley decide to go on flight 316? Jacob told him to.
  4. What exactly does Richard do to young Ben? Most likely, Richard put Ben into the same pool Sayid is put into.
  5. Who does Bram work for? Bram was on Jacob's side.
  6. What is in Hurley's guitar case? A giant wooden ankh with a message from Jacob inside.
  7. What are Jacob's nemesis's intentions? He wants to "go home."
  8. What happens after Juliet detonates the bomb? Two timelines are created. In one, the survivors return to the plane right before it flies over the island and they do not remember the past three years of their lives. In the other, the survivors are transported to 2007 (the present).
  9. Is Juliet dead? No, not when Jughead explodes, but after she is transported to 2007, she dies. She is probably still alive in the other timeline.

The Variable

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. How does Widmore know 815 didn't crash?

Answers Given:
  1. Why does Daniel have trouble remembering three cards? Because of experiments he performed on himself, Daniel has very intense memory problems.
  2. Did Ben really stage the 815 crash, as Captain Gault implies? No, Widmore admits that he did it.
  3. Where did the bodies on the fake plane come from? Presumably the bodies came from the graves that Tom's photo shows in Meet Kevin Johnson.
  4. Did Widmore fabricate the fake 815 as Tom says? Yes, Widmore admits that he did it.
  5. Why does Daniel recognize Ellie? Ellie is Eloise Hawking, Daniel's mother.
  6. What was Daniel doing in Ann Arbor? Daniel was doing research for the Swan station.

Some Like it Hoth

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Who does Bram work for?
  2. What was Daniel doing in Ann Arbor?

Answers Given:
  1. Why are the numbers on the hatch? The numbers are the serial number for the hatch door.
  2. What is the nature of Miles's abilities? Miles can "hear" corpses speak, but cannot talk back to them.
  3. Why/How were Daniel, Miles, Charlotte, and Frank selected? Daniel was selected due to his knowledge of science and the Dharma Initiative. Miles was selected for his ability to communicate with the dead. Charlotte was likely selected because she had been on the island previous and for her anthropology work. Frank was selected because he is an excellent pilot.
  4. Why does Miles want exactly 3.2 million dollars? After meeting Ben and knowing there was another "side" opposing Widmore, Miles assumed Ben was with Bram. He asked for double what Widmore's people were paying him: $1.6 million.
  5. What does Miles know about Ben? Miles doesn't know much about Ben, but assumed he is working with Bram's people, who know about Miles's ability and his father.
  6. Where is Daniel? Daniel has been in Ann Arbor.
  7. Was Pierre Chang (Marvin Candle)'s baby born on the island? Yes, Pierre Chang's baby (Miles) was born on the island. Miles said he saw his mom soon after they got to 1977, so he must have been born on the island.

Dead Is Dead

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. How does Locke instinctively know where the Monster is?
  2. Did Dharma know about the doorway that is in Ben's house?
  3. Why did Ilana and Bram ask Frank "what lies in the shadow of the statue?"
  4. What is in the crate?

Answers Given:
  1. What is the hole Locke is pulled into? These holes around the island seem to be "tunnels" through which the Monster can travel.
  2. Why did the Monster not attack Eko? Based on what Ben experiences, it judged Eko to be "good," or at least gave him another chance.
  3. What are the flashes inside the Monster (apparently Eko's past) representative of? The Monster appeared to "scan" people to judge them.
  4. Why did the Monster kill Eko? Based on the information given in this episode, it would appear that the Monster did not like Eko's refusal to repent for his actions and killed him.
  5. What did Ben do to "control" the Monster and why is he dirty? It seems Ben cannot control the Monster, but instead told it about the mercenaries and it attacked them. He is dirty because he had to crawl down a tunnel to summon it.
  6. How did Widmore leave the island? After it was discovered that he had a daughter off the island, he was forced to leave. He left via the sub.
  7. What did Ben do and why is he beat up? Ben went to kill Penny, but stopped after he realized she had a son. Desmond attacked Ben once he realized what Ben was doing.
  8. Why did Ben kill Locke? Ben claims he did it to make sure that the Oceanic 6 would return, due to the shock of Locke's death, he just didn't have time to talk Locke back into suicide.

Whatever Happened, Happened

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. What exactly does Richard do to young Ben?

Answers Given:
  1. Will Kate find that Sawyer and Cassidy had a relationship? Yes, when Kate went to visit Clementine, she found out that Sawyer and Cassidy had been a couple.
  2. What was Kate doing for Sawyer? Kate promised Sawyer that she would take care of his daughter, Clementine.
  3. What did Kate do with Aaron? Kate gave Aaron to his grandmother, Carole Littleton.
  4. What happens to Ben after he is shot? Unable to save him, Juliet allows Kate and Sawyer to take Ben to the Others. According to Richard, saving Ben means his innocence will be gone, and Ben will forever belong to them.

He's Our You

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. What happens to Ben after he is shot?
  2. Where has Sayid gone?

Answers Given:
  1. Who else is on Sayid's list besides the economist? According to Ben, the list contained Widmore's people that posed a threat to the Oceanic 6.
  2. How has Ben kept the Oceanic 6 safe? The implication in the episode is that Ben told Sayid who to kill so they would be safe.
  3. Why is Sayid being taken to Guam? He was captured by a bounty hunter for the family of a man he killed.

Namaste

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Where is Daniel?
  2. Why was Sun the only member of the Oceanic 6 not to be transported to 1977?

Answers Given:
  1. Where are Sun, Sayid, Ben, and Locke? As we found out in The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham, Ben and Locke are on the Hydra island. In this episode, we find out Sun is in the same time period, thirty years after 1977. Sayid is in 1977.
  2. Where did the pilot and the woman go? Frank and Sun went to the main island to find Jin.
  3. Who is the woman? Sun is the woman.
  4. What time did the Ajira plane land in? The plane landed around 30 years after 1977.
  5. Who does Amy's son grow up to be? Amy and Horace named their son Ethan.

The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. What was Caesar looking for?
  2. Where did the pilot and the woman go?
  3. Who is the woman?
  4. What time did the Ajira plane land in?
  5. Why did Ben kill Locke?

Answers Given:
  1. Who is Matthew Abaddon really? Matthew Abaddon worked for Charles Widmore and made sure people got to "where they need to be."
  2. Did the island really belong to Widmore as he says? The island does not "belong" to Widmore, but he was the leader of the Others.
  3. What is Matthew Abaddon's relationship to the Island/the Others? Matthew Abaddon worked for Charles Widmore and made sure people got to "where they need to be."
  4. How did Locke die? Locke was going to commit suicide, but Ben talked him out of it and then murdered him.
  5. Where are Sun, Sayid, Ben, and Locke? Locke and Ben are apparently in another time (not 1977) on the Hydra island.

316

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Who built the pendulum?
  2. What more does Desmond have to do with the island?
  3. Why is Sayid being taken to Guam?
  4. What did Ben do and why is he beat up?
  5. What did Kate do with Aaron?
  6. Why did Hurley decide to go on flight 316?
  7. Where are Sun, Sayid, Ben, and Locke?

Answers Given:
  1. Will Hurley eventually listen to Charlie? Hurley listened and eventually returned to the island.
  2. Why does the Island need everyone to come back? To return to the island, they have to recreate the conditions of the original crash as much as possible.
  3. Where is the island? The island moves, according to Mrs. Hawking.
  4. What will happen after 70 hours? The plane that could return them to the island (flight 316) will take off.

This Place is Death

Thursday, February 12, 2009 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. How has Ben kept the Oceanic 6 safe?
  2. Who are Charlotte's parents?
  3. The temple appears to be older than Dharma, so who built it?

Answers Given:
  1. What sickness were the "others" the carriers of? The monster somehow changed or became Lacombe, Robert, and Brennan. Rousseau believed they were sick, and killed all three of them. Rousseau believes that the Others carried the sickness because she thinks Jin was an Other, and he disappeared shortly after the Monster took Montand.
  2. If the Monster truly is a security system, what is it protecting the island from? And how? Robert claims that the Monster is a security system that protects the temple on the island.
  3. What is Charlotte's history on the island? Charlotte was born on the island while the Dharma Initiative was there. Her mother took her off the island while she was still young, but before leaving, she encountered a "crazy man" who she believed was Daniel Faraday. He told her that if she ever returned, she would die.
  4. How did Locke get to the mainland? He turned the frozen donkey wheel, like Ben.
  5. Who is Daniel's mother? Daniel's mother is Eloise Hawking.

The Little Prince

Monday, February 9, 2009 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Who was the group shooting at Locke, Sawyer, Juliet and the others?
  2. Where are Rose and Bernard?

Answers Given:
  1. Who hired the lawyers who are investigating Kate? Ben hired Dan Norton.
  2. Why is Charlotte having nosebleeds? The nosebleeds are a result of the island moving through time and the length of time the person spent on the island.

The Lie

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Who attacks the beach camp with flaming arrows?
  2. Who are the soldiers who find Sawyer and Juliet?
  3. What is Daniel's golden device?
  4. Who is Jill, the woman Ben visits at the butcher shop?
  5. Who are Jeffery and Gabriel?
  6. How does Ben know Mrs. Hawking?
  7. What will happen after 70 hours?

Answers Given:
  1. What does Penny know of his research? Penny knows what he has done, but she knows there is no way she can stop him.

There's No Place Like Home, Part 2

Friday, May 30, 2008 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Why did Miles decide to stay on the island?
  2. How does Miles know Charlotte has been on the island before?
  3. What is Charlotte's history on the island?
  4. What is the "safe place" Sayid talks about?
  5. Why did Christian appear to Michael?
  6. Why is Sun contacting Widmore?
  7. Where did the Island go?
  8. What happened to Daniel and the others on the raft?
  9. Where are Frank, Desmond, and Penny in the future?
  10. What "very bad things" happened on the island after the Oceanic 6 left?
  11. Why does the Island need everyone to come back?
  12. How did Locke die?
  13. How did Locke get to the mainland?
Answers Given:
  1. Where were the Others taking Kate and Sayid? To Ben, to free him.
  2. Who was Ben communicating with when he used the mirror? What did he say? He was telling the Alpert and Others to rescue him.
  3. What is the purpose of the Orchid station? Time/space experiments.
  4. What is on Keamy's arm? The dead-man's trigger for the dynamite on the freighter.
  5. What caused the interference on the freighter monitor? Keamy's broadcast to the C4.
  6. Why did Sawyer decide to stay on the Island? He jumped out of the chopper so the others could get to the freighter.
  7. Why is Ben wearing a parka? He put it on to turn the frozen donkey wheel.
  8. Why did Ben wake up the the desert? He was thrown into Tunisia when after he island moved.
  9. Why did Ben not know what year it was? He was thrown into 2005 suddenly after the island moved.
  10. How did Ben get off the island? When Ben moved the island he was thrown off of it.
  11. If Hurley went with Locke, why is he off the Island? Hurley went with Locke, but once Keamy and his men came, Jack went to find Hurley so he could get off with them.
  12. Why is Hurley sorry he went with Locke instead of Jack? It seems Hurley wanted to say something kind, and implies he would have been better off trusting Jack.
  13. Why will the Oceanic Six not tell anyone about what happened on the island? Jack says they have to lie to protect those left on the island from people who would try to find it.
  14. How did Jack and Kate get off the island? Jack, Kate, Aaron, Sawyer, Desmond, Hurley, Sayid, and Frank boarded the helicopter off the island. Sawyer jumped out. Sun rode the raft to the boat with Daniel and Jin. Sun boarded the helicopter, but the boat blew up. The island disappeared, so they crashed into the ocean. Penny found them a few hours later. She took them near an island, where Jack, Kate, Sayid, Hurley, Sun, and Aaron boarded a liferaft to sail to to the island.
  15. How does Kate become Aaron's "mother?" She "adopts" him after leaving the island and claims that she gave birth to him while on the island.
  16. Why is Jack intent on returning to the island? Locke told him "very bad things" happened after they left.
  17. Who is the second person Sun blames for Jin's death? She blames Jack.
  18. Who is in the coffin? Locke.

There's No Place Like Home, Part 1

Thursday, May 15, 2008 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Who is the second person Sun blames for Jin's death?
  2. What is the purpose of the Orchid station?
  3. Who was Ben communicating with when he used the mirror? What did he say?
  4. How do Daniel and Keamy know about the Orchid?
  5. What caused the interference on the freighter monitor?
  6. Where were the Others taking Kate and Sayid?
Answers Given:
  1. What station is the Dharma logo on Ben's jacket from? The Orchid.
  2. What is the lie that Jack and Kate are telling? The plane crashed in the water, several of them made their way out before it sank, eight of them were able to swim to a small island island off the coast of Indonesia, they were rescued after taking a raft to Indonesia.
  3. If Kate claims to be Aaron's biological mother, how does she explain her pregnancy? The question was dismissed by the Oceanic 6 representative because it related to Kate's "legal issue."
  4. Does Jack know Aaron is his nephew? Yes, he is told by Claire's mother that he is Claire's half-brother.
  5. Does Frank want the beach survivors to follow him? He gave them the phone so they would stay away.

The Shape of Things to Come

Thursday, April 24, 2008 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Who murdered the freighter doctor, Ray, and why?
  2. Why did Ben wake up the the desert?
  3. Why is Ben wearing a parka?
  4. What station is the Dharma logo on Ben's jacket from?
  5. Why did Ben not know what year it was?
  6. What are the "rules" that have changed?
  7. What did Ben do to "control" the Monster and why is he dirty?
  8. Why does the message from the freighter say that the doctor is fine?
  9. What's wrong with Jack?
  10. Why can't Ben kill Widmore?
  11. Did the island really belong to Widmore as he says?
Answers Given:
  1. How did the people on the freighter get a photo of Ben as an adult? Ben can and has apparently leave the island at will.
  2. Who was shooting at Karl, Alex, and Rousseau? Keamy and his men.
  3. Does Ben really not know what the Monster is? Ben does know something about the Monster, because it is under his control to an extent.
  4. Why is Sayid working for Ben? After Nadia was killed, Sayid has nothing to live for so he is now following Ben's orders to protect his friends.
  5. What is Widmore's interest in the island? According to Widmore, the island "belonged" to him. Ben says that Widmore wants to exploit the island.

Meet Kevin Johnson

Thursday, March 20, 2008 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Did Widmore fabricate the fake 815 as Tom says?
  2. Why is Michael seeing Libby? Is it simply guilt, or something else?
  3. Who was shooting at Karl, Alex, and Rousseau?

Answers Given:
  1. What happened to Michael and Walt after leaving the Island? After escaping the island, Michael and Walt somehow made their way to NYC, where Michael only told his mom who they really were. Wracked with guilt, Michael told Walt that he killed Ana Lucia and Libby. Walt wanted nothing to do with his father, and this along with the guilt drove Michael to attempted suicide. Tom met with Michael, and arranged for him to board the freighter to save those on the island.
  2. Where is Walt? He is in NYC with Michael's mom.
  3. Why is Charles Widmore so interested in the fake plane? Widmore doesn't want anyone else to know where the plane really crashed.
  4. How did Michael become part of the crew? The Others set it up, with Tom giving Michael everything he needed to get aboard.
  5. Is Ben right about Naomi? Based Keamy's non-answer and Rousseau and Karl's deaths, it seems Ben was correct. Daniel, Miles, Charlotte, and Frank don't seem to know about the true reason for being there, but Keamy and his men do.
  6. Who sabotaged the communications room? Michael did, as asked to by Ben. He also sabotaged the engines.
  7. Who opened the sickbay door? Presumably Michael.

Ji Yeon

Thursday, March 13, 2008 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Did Ben really stage the 815 crash, as Captain Gault implies?
  2. Where did the bodies on the fake plane come from?
  3. Why is Charles Widmore so interested in the fake plane?
  4. Where did Frank take the helicopter?
  5. How did Michael become part of the crew?
  6. Where is Walt?
  7. Who/what was making the noise Sayid and Desmond noticed?
  8. Why was Hurley glad no one would be with him and Sun?

Answers Given:
  1. Who else got off the island? The Oceanic Six is Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Aaron, and Sun.
  2. Will Jin find out Sun had an affair? Yes, Juliet told Jin.
  3. Who is the captain? The captain's name is Gault.
  4. Where did the 815 wreckage in the ocean come from? Captain Gault claims that Ben faked the plane wreckage in the ocean.
  5. Why are they looking for Ben? The freighter people are looking for Ben because they believe he faked the 815 wreckage in the ocean, and somehow procured 324 dead bodies to put in the plane.
  6. Who is Ben's man on the boat? Ben's man is Michael.

The Other Woman

Thursday, March 6, 2008 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. How did Ben communicate with Harper?
  2. Why did Goodwin lie about his chemical burn?
  3. Harper says that Juliet looks just like "her." Who is she referring to?
  4. What is Widmore's interest in the island?
  5. How does Widmore know about the island?
  6. What does Penny know of his research?
  7. How do Daniel and Charlotte know about the Tempest?

Answers Given:
  1. Where does the power for the Other's houses come from? From the Tempest.
  2. If the boat isn't Penny's, who does it belong to? The boat is owned by Charles Widmore.
  3. Why were the freighter people not allowed to answer the call from Penelope? Presumably, Charles Widmore gave the instruction not to answer the call from his daughter so she would not discover the island.
  4. Who is on Jacob's list? Based on what Ben says about Zach and Emma, it seems that Jacob was the one who devised the lists for the Others to capture survivors he deemed "good."
  5. Do Ben and Juliet have a romantic history? Ben is infatuated with Juliet, but the feeling is unrequited.

The Economist

Thursday, February 14, 2008 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Who is the RC on Naomi's bracelet?
  2. Why couldn't Locke find Jacob's cabin at the previous location?
  3. Why didn't Frank want Daniel to talk if Minkowski answered?
  4. Why do physical objects take longer to reach the island than radio signals or other communications?
  5. Who is Elsa's employer?
  6. How did Ben get off the island?
  7. Why is Sayid working for Ben?
  8. Who else is on Sayid's list besides the economist?

Answers Given:
  1. Who is in the Oceanic Six besides Jack, Kate, and Hurley? Sayid is a member of the Oceanic Six.
  2. Why does Michael have to follow the bearing of 325? There seem to be certain bearings that allow entrance and exit to the island.
  3. Why couldn't Desmond escape the island? There seem to be certain bearings that allow entrance and exit to the island.