I am posting this to see if we can get some dialogue about it. It doesn't fit perfectly as a hypothesis for how all of the castaways are related, but it is a thought that my wife brought up. When we learned that Hurley had killed a few people with the collapse of the deck, she suggested that so far, many of the main characters that we have, have killed someone before getting to the island. There are plenty that we do not know about yet, but it does provide at least some sort of link between many of the characters (Kate, Sawyer, Jack, Hurley, Jin, AL, Sayid, Echo). Maybe as the season progresses, we will discover that some of the other characters like Charlie, Locke, etc. also had this in common. Just a thought, would love to see what you guys think of it.

Wait, who did Jin kill? He just beat that guy up, we have not seen anyone murdered by him.

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I like that theory. I'm just taking a shot in the dark, but I think Charlie has something to do with the death of his brother. If ever happened, haha. Maybe they give the band another shot and his brother gets too carried away again, and eventually dies.

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"Dear Diary, still on this bloody island. Today I swallowed a bug. Love, Claire."
-Charlie

There were 23 people on the deck designed to hold 8?

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Deck? what is this about a deck?

I take it back. I know Charlie couldn't have had anything to do with his brother's death, even if it happened. I know this because Charlie visits his brother and storms off to the airport after learning that his brother wants to settle down with his family.

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"Dear Diary, still on this bloody island. Today I swallowed a bug. Love, Claire."
-Charlie

Charlie's brother is not dead. Charlie visited him in Australia to get
him to come backto the band and Liam turned him down. Charlie
stormed off mad, but Liam was alive when Charlie left Australia.

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I thought the same thing as you MB...what kind of deck only holds 8 people? (And yes, two numbers again...designed to hold 8 and there were 23 people on it...)

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some apartments have teeny tiny decks - only about 4 feet by 8 ft and I can
see that only holding 8 people.

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i was picturing a boat deck on a lake, but an apartment deck would make a little more sense