As I mentioned upthread, this is never explained, but I like to believe that the person Juliet looks "just like" is the nice mechanic who took care of Ben when he was hurt, but then got killed in The Incident.

Ben. Sawyer puts on a show, but Ben lies like he's breathing. "How can you read?" "My mother taught me."

Jacob's motives only make sense if he wanted the MiB to "succeed" in killing him.

Of course, does the Cabin move, or is it that you can only actually find it if the Cabin/Jacob/Whatever LETS you find it? Just like how the Source Cave is behind the bamboo where Jack woke up, but they never found it before?

A lot of how things are shown in seasons 3-5 are really wedged square-peg-into-round-hole style for their eventual answers in Season 6.

Richard's agelessness is clearly intent here. In no way did I read they were "de-aging" him in the flashback scene.

Annie is coded as being Important Later. Though the line that Ben's obsession for Juliet because she "looks just like her" was only presumed to be about Annie. Clearly it was really about the nice lady who took care of him when the one Hostile shot him, and then died in the Incident.

But Richard talks about "work to be done", but it seems to be just "living on the Island". They don't seem to really *do* anything, especially once they abandoned the Barracks and with it, mimicking Dharma.

The only way I can make any sense of it is if the "leader" of the Others is just some strange test that Jacob has Richard put them through. Like, give them an idea of the power and responsibility that they're supposed to have, and see what they do with it. Widmore and Ben both become manipulative thugs, engaging in…

I think you're missing my point: WHY did Ben think that? He must have been told, by someone with the authority to say so, that breaking the rules means facing judgment from the Smoke Monster. That it's part of the code that The Others live by. So how did Ben get that idea? If not from Richard, then from whom? …

But he talks about how he needs and expects to be judged by the monster. This tells me that it's part of Other Culture. How did that happen?

Yes, I'm aware of that, but the SM did it in such a way that it was part of the ritualized expectations of the Others. Ben explicitly expected in "Dead Is Dead" that he'd have to face judgment from the Monster. No matter how much of a manipulator the SM was, I don't know how Ben could have thought that unless…

That's something that never quite washes. Richard is the one who has direct access to Jacob, but he isn't the "leader"— but the "leader" is essentially allowed free reign to go completely off mission— to the point where, to Ben, the Smoke Monster is both an asset that can be used ("Shape of Things To Come") AND a…

Yeah, if that's the plan, I don't know what they are doing to go about it.

I'd argue it wasn't answered in the sense that what The Others supposedly *do* in serving it is never really addressed. What were The Others doing before 815 crashed, besides book clubs? What did they do between the Island moving and Ajira 316 landing? When Richard speaks of work to do, what is it he's doing?

Question 84 is never really answered, frankly.

It was Krypton's Red Star's suicide bomb.

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"1. No murdered parents."

Once you go Shaloub….