I’m continuing watching old episodes of LOST, and am about two-thirds of the way through season 2. In the episode “The Whole Truth“, I was struck to notice (I hadn’t before) that the pregnancy test Sun took was made by Widmore Labs. So when Kate asked ironically “Who carries a pregnancy test with them on a plane?” it wasn’t a throw-away line. We were supposed to ask ourselves that question seriously. And the answer we’re to come up with once we acquire more clues is that someone associated with Widmore was on the plane. Whether that individual has survived until the present is unclear – Nathan would make a good candidate, as I mentioned once before. But given what we know of LOST, it is easy to imagine it being revealed in a future season that some important action had been taking place during the time of the first four seasons, but without involving the characters that have been the focus of the story thus far. Maybe the introduction of Nikki and Paulo was an attempt to see how viewers would react to that.
Why was Widmore trying to use a flight full of people to get someone to the island? Perhaps because his previous attempt, tracking Henry Gale in a hot air balloon, had been unsuccessful – Henry had been spotted and killed by Benjamin Linus and his associates.
As you may have missed, and as I did until it was pointed out to me, the hot air balloon that brought Henry Gale to the island was made by Widmore. And, while it is clear that Widmore products are as common on LOST as ACME products on Road Runner cartoons, it still seems appropriate to suggest that the balloon may have been used by Widmore. Of course, Henry Gale may not have known that his balloon was being used to locate the island (one imagines that Widmore might not paste his logo on the side of a balloon used for a covert operation), but it still seems too much for this to be a coincidence.
Bring on season 5!
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