Your friend and humble reporter is torn, oh my brothers and sisters.

This week’s episode of “Lost” provided evidence that Charles Widmore is the man behind the freighter. In a few flashback scenes, we learn that Tom Friendly of the Others found a suicidal Michael in New York and told him that the only way to redeem himself for killing Anna Lucia and Libby is to help Ben by going undercover on the freighter.

Friendly tells Michael that the freighter is owned by a man named Widmore, who staged the entire discovery of Oceanic 815, and if Widmore gets to the island everybody will be killed. Michael’s mission, should he choose to accept, is to get on the freighter and kill everybody on it.

The problem is, something is telling me that Widmore isn’t the only force behind the cover-up. It’s just a feeling I get. I know the guy has money, but what kind of contacts do you need to be able to dig up over 300 dead people from their graves? There has to be more to the story. It isn’t like “Lost” to just throw out definitive answers like that -- there has to be a twist somewhere.

Another thing that leaves me wondering is the fact that apparently the Others can come and go to the Island as much as they want, yet when outsiders approach they go insane. Why do the Others not get sick when they leave the island? Either the writers missed this little loophole, or the Others know something that we don’t. Knowing Ben and the Others, I’m going to go with the latter at this point.

Even more puzzling is the fact that Michael tried several times to kill himself, but to no avail. Friendly attributes this to the Island not letting him. This brings up the concept of unfinished business. Now, I know the writers have said that “Lost” has nothing to do with purgatory, but it seems as though many of the survivors have something they need to face in the outside world, and perhaps that is a driving force behind them being stranded on the Island. It may not be purgatory, but it walks a fine line with the idea of fate.

So, at the end of the episode, somebody unknown shot at Rousseau, Alex and Karl as they headed to a place on the Island known as “The Sanctuary.” Both Rousseau and Karl were hit and killed, while Alex was unharmed. The show would lead you to believe that the shooter was perhaps one of the freighter people, as Alex kept screaming that she was Ben’s daughter. I, however, think it may have been one of the Others, possibly Ben. After all, Ben wanted Karl dead last season, and who knows about Rousseau. Ben is the one who ordered them to go to “The Sanctuary,” and he specifically told Karl that it was “just for them”. There’s something fishy there.

So, my faithful readers, you can see why your humble reporter is torn and confused. Is Widmore really the only person behind the Oceanic 815 cover-up? Are the Others immune to Island-related insanity? Who killed Rousseau and Karl? You’d better believe that I’ll be reading between the lines and watching next week.


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