I think the freighter people are not lying when they say that the helicopter never made it back to the freighter. I think it went just slightly off the bearing that Daniel warned them to take and they ended up at a time a few years before the crash of Oceanic 816. But only a couple of years off, or maybe only months?? Sayid and Desmond aren't known to be survivors of Oceanic 815 because that crash hasn't even happened yet! Their existence back in the real world is kept secret. Possibly Lapidus and Desmond die because they get too close to the version of themselves that exist naturally in that time period (like the rabbits in the Orchid video???). So what if the Ben that Sayid works for is a Ben from a slightly earlier time period than the Oceanic 6's time period off the island?

Of course, that doesn't explain why Sayid claimed to be one of the Oceanic 6 to the dude on the golf course. OK, that guy was a bad guy and he probably knew more about 815 than even Sayid himself. He knew Sayid was gonna kill him when Sayid said he was among the Oceanic 6. He knew the whole story of the island and Sayid knew he knew. Get me?

(OK, I'm not sure I believe all this myself...but it all started with the missing helicopter and Daniels pre-flight warning to Lapidus to stay on the exact bearing that got me going on this tangent. THAT part seems plausible to me.)


Hmmm...just throwing stuff out there.

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