A couple clarifications. In "Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham," the 30 years line was in reference to how long he and his people "protected the island," not how long he's been gone. Also, in other posts it seems there's some confusion over how Widmore leaves. It's odd that he knows where the exit point is, but he…

It's going to turn out that Caesar survived the shotgun blast and we'll all be like "crazy, I guess he must actually be important to the plot" and then he'll get capped by Juliet.