It looked as though the Hatch was wired with cameras but not for sound. Since Desmond's boat was sheltered outside the station, Ben's people wouldn't know about it unless they actually stumbled onto the lagoon where Kelvin had hidden it.

As for Kelvin and the Others, I think he was going out looking for them...sort of like Rouseau and her traps. Ben and the Others were just staying out of their way. Sort of like a one-sided truce. Kelvin and Rouseau were still at war, but Ben and the Others were staying out of sight and leaving them alone.

Does that sound logical?

It might also explain that "drawing of the lines" when Jack, Sawyer and Locke confronted the Others when they went after Michael the first time (and the Others captured Kate). Maybe that 'you stay on your side and we'll stay on ours' was an attempt to adapt that strategy to the Losties.

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charlie98210
"Whoa!" she said. "Cry 'Havoc!' And let loose the dogs of war!"
And, like Banquo's ghost, they just won't go away.

so its sort of like, you leave us alone we leave you alone??

and therefore because Rousseau seems to have stayed away from them after they took alex other than setting traps, in parts of the island they aint going to go to anyway they left her to it. And they left kelvin because he was doing something important pushing the button and not affecting there lives at all

so after taking the "good people" the others would have left the losties to themselves????

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I do not agree with everything you say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it.

Actually, they probably left Kelvin alone because they were so far away (location-wise) from the hatch that there was never a chance he would find them in 108 minutes.

Until Desmond showed up.

And with Rouseau, she laid the traps because she thought there were too many Others (her against them all) so she adopted "guerrilla-style" tactics which made it dangerous for them to come after her.

The island is big enough for those sorts of strategies to work.

I still think that Ben has known about the goings on at the Swan Station for a looong time. Remember, all the TV monitors which worked were tuned to the Swan Station. It took Sayid playing with the wiring to get that look at the Mikhail and the Flame Station.

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charlie98210
"Whoa!" she said. "Cry 'Havoc!' And let loose the dogs of war!"
And, like Banquo's ghost, they just won't go away.

That's right, when Locke and the others went to the Pearl station to look around they could see the Swan from the Pearl monitors and then got a glimpse of Patchy (Mikhail) at the Flame station, I wonder if Patchy had a camera on at the Pearl and could see them too???? Whenever that was, he probably notified Ben that something was going on in there. HMMMMMM........

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help me, my brain is lost....

Maybe, Ben was only shocked about the pearl station because he thought it had been gassed and would have been as old and gritty as some of the other ones but because its been quarentined it doesnt matter, plus I think Ben might have even considered it to be a hatch he had never found?

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