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This may have been addressed before so sorry if it has.

After the death of Kelvin who we assumed worked for Dharma why would the Others leave Desmond in the hatch alone to input the numbers. Seeing as this was such a vital task to do why did they leave it to a man they did not know and couldn't trust to carry it out. That's always puzzled me. I know they were watching him but they counldn't have entered the numbers in for him in time otherwise they would have done it when he failed to.


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Probably because the others knew how dedicated Des was to inputing the numbers, he only failed to do so once before the swan blew up.

Perhaps they knew what would happen if it did blow up and weren't that interested, Ben is very apathetic towards Dharma and its experiments anyway.


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when you find out let me know lol
 
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Hmm maybe they deemed him harmless and just left him to it so they didnt have to deploy one of their workers just to press the button... when he was very keen himself


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Originally posted by LazyManJackson:
Probably because the others knew how dedicated Des was to inputing the numbers, he only failed to do so once before the swan blew up.

Perhaps they knew what would happen if it did blow up and weren't that interested, Ben is very apathetic towards Dharma and its experiments anyway.


I agree that they knew he was so dedicated to pushing it but it was still taking a big chance though. There were two Dharma members doing it originally before him in the hatch. All of the islands hatchs have had more than person and they were all Dharma members or the Others.

I think they would have been very interested in the button being pushed as when it wasn't the island was visible to the outside world. In the past I had the idea that there was a "back up computer" overseen by the others as I just in case precaution. Obviously I was wrong about that otherwise they would have used it.


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Maybe Jacob for-saw the plane crashing so didnt ask Ben to take control of the swan... Jacob seems all powerful!


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Desmond can be my constant anyday!
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Another thing I don't get is why Ben has never approached Desmond. He must be aware of his connection with Widmore.


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I agrre chocolate box, it does seem a bit strange that ben has shown no internst in Desmond. I am quite interested to see know Desmond is off the island with Penny what Widmore will have to say to him. Does Widmore know Desmond has been on the island??
 
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Hmmm good question! Also , is Desmond in the same "safe place" that Penny is to ensure that Ben cannot find her?


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Desmond can be my constant anyday!
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I agrre chocolate box, it does seem a bit strange that ben has shown no internst in Desmond. I am quite interested to see know Desmond is off the island with Penny what Widmore will have to say to him. Does Widmore know Desmond has been on the island??


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I think that Widmore was in some way kind of responisible for Desmond being on the island. He must have been aware he was going to enter the boat race and he just happened to end up on the island as a result. Quite a coincidence!! I can't see how he could be sure that Des was there because he didn't know where the island was himself until years later when he sent the freighter. Penny found out about the island and she knew Desmond was there. Maybe we are making too many assumptions?

I do think that Desmond is with Penny now off island hiding from Ben or whoever. Remember Jack said to Desmond in the finale " make sure they don't find you ".


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Originally posted by Princess Monica:
I agrre chocolate box, it does seem a bit strange that ben has shown no internst in Desmond. I am quite interested to see know Desmond is off the island with Penny what Widmore will have to say to him. Does Widmore know Desmond has been on the island??


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I think that Widmore was in some way kind of responisible for Desmond being on the island. He must have been aware he was going to enter the boat race and he just happened to end up on the island as a result. Quite a coincidence!! I can't see how he could be sure that Des was there because he didn't know where the island was himself until years later when he sent the freighter. Penny found out about the island and she knew Desmond was there. Maybe we are making too many assumptions?

I do think that Desmond is with Penny now off island hiding from Ben or whoever. Remember Jack said to Desmond in the finale " make sure they don't find you ".


I think Widmore has been keeping an eye on Des all along.

Des got his boat for the race from Libby, at an apparently chance meeting in a cafe (Libby was in Santa Rosa with Hurley). The sailing race was sponsered by....Widmore! (i also reckon that Widmore has his fingers in Santa Rosa, somewhere!)


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Bump....


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