LOST Notes

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LOST: Charles Widmore refresher and other things

Facts to remember about Charles Widmore:

• He was an Other, even in a position of authority at one time.
  
• We saw him as a teenager (age 17) when Richard Alpert was in charge. This was when Locke time traveled back to 1954 and talked with Richard at the Other's camp (Episode: The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham).
  
• He sent the freighter to the Island, was the one who gave Keamy and crew their orders (find Ben Linus, kill everyone else), and therefore is partially responsible for Alex's death.
  
• He tried to get Sun to kill Ben.
  
• He purchased the Black Rock journal at an auction (Tovard Hanso owned the journal at one point, the journal was discovered in 1852 among the artifacts of pirates on an island off the coast of Madagascar, the Black Rock was a 19th century British vessel).
  
• He encouraged Locke to get everyone to go back to the Island (We know that Smokey promises people what they want most. Widmore seems to want control of the Island, and in fact believes he is the rightful leader of the Others. Perhaps Smokey promised Widmore that he could control the island if he helps Smokey get off the island???)
  
• He's the father of Penny Widmore (mother unknown) and Daniel Faraday (mother Eloise Hawking).

Some lingering questions:

• Why did Widmore purchase the Black Rock journal at the auction? To help him find the island?
  
• Now that we know what we know, we could infer that Widmore was working with Smokey and therefore knew the plan to take over Locke's body, which is why he sent Locke back ... or at least knew that all of Jacob's candidates were needed back on the Island in order for Smokey to be able to 1) kill Jacob, 2) kill all of his possible replacements, and then 3) do whatever it is he intends to do -- leave, blow up the place, etc.
  
• Why has Widmore been searching for the Island? To exploit its magical properties?
  
• Why did Widmore assemble a fake crash of Oceanic 815 on the ocean floor? So the search would end, thereby preventing someone else from finding the island?
  
• What are "the rules?" Ben wanted to kill Widmore but couldn't because of the "rules." We've heard reference to those rules again and again and they seem related to who can/can't or should/ shouldn't be killed.
  
• Why was Widmore determined to bring the Oceanic 6 back to the island? Did it help him find it? Does he need those people there to be part of the war?

LOST fun:

A message board is having a guessing game about what's behind the locked door in Widmore's sub. Some of the guesses have been:

• Shannon's ghost
  
• The missing hairbrushes from Oceanic 815 (Season 1 - remember how the girls couldn't find hairbrushes in the luggage?)
  
• More blue tarps (since people have thought it was weird how many blue tarps
• the Losties found for the beach camp!)
  
• Mr. Friendly in sequined spandex tights
  
• The statues' 5th toe
  
• Jimmy Hoffa
  
• Widmore's MacCutcheon whiskey, locked up to keep Desmond away from it
  
• Jack's tears