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Originally Posted by queenbeesteph
But didn't Ben tell Jacob something to the effect that he couldn't hear Locke if Jacob kept talking... I Was under the impression that Ben could hear Locke, to the exclusion of all else?
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I also thought Ben could hear him initially. But upon review, I saw that Ben did not start "hearing" Jacob until after he was certain Locke did not see him. I am thinking it was acting on his part, so he can keep up the pretending that Jacob is calling the shots. To me that is why Ben can be called the man behind the curtain....he is putting on an act. If he could hear Jacob, then he would have heard him call out to Locke. Also, he would not have hated Locke so much because Jacob spoke to him.
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Originally Posted by CableRunner
That is the way I'm leaning,esp. after seeing Ben's jeaousy showing. I'm guessing as well that Ben was on a spy mission in season two to find out about Locke, he may even have trapped himself, making the 'henry Gale' cover more plausible.
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I have always believed Ben intentionally allowed himself to be captured so that he could infiltrate the Losties and get close to Locke and see him for himself. He was confident that he could be rescued or escape whenever he wanted to. I also tend to think that Rousseau was in on it. Maybe not of her own free will, maybe because he has her daughter and can blackmail her. But, it never made sense to me that she would turn him over to the Losties, and not even want to be there to try to extract info from him about her missing child.