A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this post: And Bring That Corpse With You

The gist of it: Jack had a body and a coffin with him the first time he went to the Island, too, and that didn’t stay very dead, did it?

I wrote this post as a comment at Seth Miller’s joint, but thought you might want to see it, too.

From Christian/Jacob’s dialog, plus the attitude of Ms. Hawking, I think Ben has grown beyond his role among his “team” in the Island Affair just as he outgrew his expected role on the page. He’s been pursuing his own ends for some time, but he’s so slippery and so tough that he has to be tolerated to some extent.

Is he being set up as the kind of trickster-villain that we’re supposed to want to see get his comeuppance at the end of the show? I hope not. I don’t think Dean Linus needs to get knocked into the swimming pool for us to wrap up these hijinks.

What I really want to know, now, is how Danielle’s lover came to call it “the security system for the temple.” Did he learn that on the Island, or did they know that when they set out? Were they sent by Widmore… and was Ben’s adoption of Alexandra an attack on Widmore to begin with? How did Danielle come to associate the sickness with the Black Rock? When she said (something like) “You disappeared! You must be sick too!” did she mean that the guys who went down under the temple started hopping through time afterwards, too… and she thought of that as a sickness ’cause of the nosebleeds and junk?

Lots of ancient ruins tonight.