One thing that I am really curious about is how Ben went from a shy, skinny, overlooked, crybaby kid to the time traveling, butt kicking, leader of a secret organization who manages to get secret files on everyone, controls mysterious technology that exists nowhere else on earth, and has basically unlimited resources? How'd that happen? Who was it who spotted Ben as a potential leader and gave him his first leg up? It must have been Widmore, right? He tells Ben "You stole my island." Widmore must have been the head of Dharma at some point.

Do any of you guys have a sense (or a theory) about how Ben reinvented himself so totally? I am totally fascinated by this question!

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