Did Ben have the disinfectants on him as he entered!? LOL, now there's something I hadn't considered before! I'd actually imagined him leaving Locke's body in there while he calmly popped out to the local supermarket to buy the stuff he needed to dispense of the evidence. Maybe that was why he got rid of his jacket so quickly when he hauled Locke to the chair - he just didn't want the whole kaboodle of spray bottles and towels and gloves to totter out of his inside pocket! That would have been a bit of a giveaway. ;)
Locke and Eloise: your arguments are definitely good ones, but I'm still not sure. Partly because of all the jumping back and forward in time, I still have that whole off-island period mixed up in terms of who was aware of what at which point in time, and who was pursuing which goals for what reason. One of the things I'm not sure about is where Ben knew Eloise from (was the still on the island when he joined the Others? no idea) and therefore which significance it had to him to hear her mentioned by Locke. But I think we're in complete agreement about the gist of it: while I don't believe Ben, at that point in time, would have killed Locke purely out of spite (he'd done exactly that, after all, on the island, and look where it got him), spite could certainly have been the thing that pushed him over the edge. Without that last flash of jealousy, he might even have tried to convince Locke to talk to Sun anyway (after all, it's Ben - he always has a convincing argument up his sleeve, whether a true one or not) instead of just dismissing Locke's way - and therefore Locke - as a waste of time and/or more trouble than it was worth.
Re: Christhan's body: as I said, the timings are still kind of muddled to me, but I don't think we're given any clue that Ben knows about the needing-a-body thing before Eloise tells them. So if he knows, he doesn't spill it to anyone else until he's had it confirmed by her. Also, it's a bit of a mystery to me how Ben even knows the mechanics of being able to return to the island - assembling the same group of people, etc etc. I think he was aware about that part of it, at least, before he met Eloise, so it's quite possible he knew the rest as well.
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Date: 2010-12-10 06:09 pm (UTC)Locke and Eloise: your arguments are definitely good ones, but I'm still not sure. Partly because of all the jumping back and forward in time, I still have that whole off-island period mixed up in terms of who was aware of what at which point in time, and who was pursuing which goals for what reason. One of the things I'm not sure about is where Ben knew Eloise from (was the still on the island when he joined the Others? no idea) and therefore which significance it had to him to hear her mentioned by Locke. But I think we're in complete agreement about the gist of it: while I don't believe Ben, at that point in time, would have killed Locke purely out of spite (he'd done exactly that, after all, on the island, and look where it got him), spite could certainly have been the thing that pushed him over the edge. Without that last flash of jealousy, he might even have tried to convince Locke to talk to Sun anyway (after all, it's Ben - he always has a convincing argument up his sleeve, whether a true one or not) instead of just dismissing Locke's way - and therefore Locke - as a waste of time and/or more trouble than it was worth.
Re: Christhan's body: as I said, the timings are still kind of muddled to me, but I don't think we're given any clue that Ben knows about the needing-a-body thing before Eloise tells them. So if he knows, he doesn't spill it to anyone else until he's had it confirmed by her. Also, it's a bit of a mystery to me how Ben even knows the mechanics of being able to return to the island - assembling the same group of people, etc etc. I think he was aware about that part of it, at least, before he met Eloise, so it's quite possible he knew the rest as well.