Oh...just thought of something else. Did you notice that Carl repeated the phrase, "God loves us as he loved Jacob," the words which were flashed on the screen in the "brainwashing" room when they rescued Carl?

I am assuming the words refer to Jacob in the Bible when he impersonated his older brother in order to steal his older brother's birthright (his father's blessing).

Could this be a subtle hint that Ben has supplanted Hanso and taken over control of the Dharma Initiative projects on the two islands? And that the Swan Station was the last Hanso holdout--outside Ben's control, Ben's group being the hostiles Kelvin referred to when talking to Desmond about the dangers of moving around outside the Station?

edit: I'm not sure I got the quote right. Could have been 'He loves us as God loved Jacob.' But the same idea would apply. Jacob's bloodline became the one the messiah was born from. Ben equals Jacob (metaphorically speaking).

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