a baby in prison would have been too much of a con for sawyer... he would have picked up on it... then again. "Henry Gale" did do some rabbit tricks and con Sawyer pretty good...

it was probably drawing a parallel the entire episode of Long cons... between the prison con and the "island con" . this would then let us to believe the second island is a con

misdirection is a magicians best friend.

"Look over here and think whatever, whilst i do this tickery over here."