Originally Posted by chickenpotpiesarehot

I was wondering if that was also one of the tests the Others gave Walt too.

Originally Posted by meadowbrook

Maybe Richard thought John was the reincarnation of someone... the embodiment of Jacob?

Originally Posted by chickenpotpiesarehot

It doesn't actually prove that at all, necessarily. Richard Alpert could have time traveled to Locke's birth one hour ago, but because he travelled to the 50s it would seem like he had been time traveling for 50 years. See?

I'll use the Back to the Future analogy again, the Michael J. Fox character hadn't been time traveling for 30 years. He just did it once (in the first movie) and then made it home. But it wasn't continuous for that whole 30+ years.




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Originally Posted by darnzy

I was thrown for a loop when I saw Alpert. this proves people have been moving off and on the island since the 50's. Do you think maybe Ben was on the same list as hopefuls for a leader for the others as Locke was? So since they couldn't get Locke they went with number two, Ben.

Originally Posted by LostLos

Maybe Richard is Johns dad?

Since Emilys mother apparently never meant the man that got Emily pregnant...

Wouldnt be completely shocking.

And Richard was still young there.... and the guy whose baby it is is supposedly twice emilys age

Originally Posted by flaneuse

I'm thinking about a possible paternal relation between Locke and Richard Alpert too.

But I don't think we know for sure that Emily's mom never met the father of the child, whoever he is. Her scene in Emily's bedroom suggested that "mom thinks the guy's too old" and when she saw Richard at the hospital she made the remark that she doesn't know who this guy is, not the father of the child.

POTPIES:
It's definitely the case that Richard is at least a spiritual father for Locke. I think Locke and Ben are both spiritual sons of Richard and in a sort of sibling rivalry for communion with the island and leadership on the island. Ben is the big brother who just got his butt whupped in basketball for the first time, and is honestly scared because he can see that his time is numbered.

I also like the idea of Richard being Locke's actual, biological dad, but don't we know for certain already that Anthony Cooper was the man in Locke's pirvate detective's research? We--the vieweres--don't see his photo or his name in the file, but we assume that Locke must have, otherwise he wouldn't have been taken in so easily. Unless the private detective himself was part of the con and hired by Cooper all along???????

FLANEUSE:
But her few seconds of looking at Richard Alpert made me suspicious..it seemed as if she knew something about Richard at some level.