I'm convinced that one of the women in the Looking Glass (the dark-haired one in the back, who appeared a bit older) is Annie, Ben's girlfriend from the Dharma Initiative. Juliette said that Ben told everyone that the hatch had flooded, so it appears very strongly that he is hiding them in there and doesn't want the Others to find them. This would make sense if Annie had refused to join with the Others during the purge, and Ben decided to protect her by hiding her away in the hatch.

This then raises the question of who the other, blonde, younger woman is. My guess -- she's Ben and Annie's daughter. I'm not sure if the timeline works, but perhaps they had a daughter, and then the purge came, Annie refused to betray the Dharma Initiative, and the Others told Ben he had to kill her (but of course keep the baby). Perhaps this was at the same time that Rouseau arrived on the island. So Ben hid Annie and her daughter in the Looking Glass, kidnapped Alex, and told everyone he'd killed Annie and that Alex was his daughter.

Of course, that begs the question of why Annie could have a baby on the island but no one else could. So the theory isn't perfect, but I'm about 99.9% sure of the Annie part of it.

Not bad at all! To expand on that, could it be that the Island has to give "permission" for a baby and mother to survive? Maybe the reason they can't have them now is because the Island knows Ben lied and he's being punished. That could be how the theme of faith and science tie in - Jacob (who might represent the Island) abhors technology, Ben is trying to use technology to beat him at his own game, but he has been punished with failures? In desperation he's brought specialists to see if science can win out.

What if Looking Glass is the only place far enough from the Island where a woman can both safely conceive and avoid detection by the Island, by Jacob, by Smokey, and by whatever else may still be out there?

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Frank Drebin remembers a lost love.

Frank: It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.

Jane: Goodyear?

Frank: No, the worst.

Well, someone people seem to think they are from Noami.
But i think they are the next two deaths.

Wow! Yamanin - it sounds possible... we all hated to think that Ben would have killed Annie. We just need to see the dark-haired woman club Charlie, upon interogating him, club Charlie upside the head with a little carved Ben doll.

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-- Alice, from “Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland”

The dark haired actress is 28 years old in real life, and the blonde woman is 37 years old. So, I doubt they'd cast the blond to be ben's daughter, and the brunette to be annie. Their names happen to be Greta and Annie.

I'm afraid you are incorrect, Christian, they are named Bonnie (blond) and Greta (brunette) according to Lostpedia.

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"The Naked Gun!"

Frank Drebin remembers a lost love.

Frank: It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.

Jane: Goodyear?

Frank: No, the worst.

That makes so much sense about the two girls in the looking glass, that one is ben's girlfriend and the other is rusos daughter.
They must have been down there 17 years?
What do you think about the statue with the extra toe's that is of big importance, is it a staue of the founder of darhma? is it Jacob?

The statue doesn't have extra toes, it has 4 toes and there is much discussion of that elsewhere. It's possible that one of the women is Annie, that'd be cool. The other wouldn't be Rousseau's daughter, her daughter is Alex and she's on the island handing out guns, eating rabbits and making out with Carl.

Great theory! I always thought those girls would be the only two remaining Dharma people [not including Ben]. Cause, well the hostiles wouldn't be able to make it into the Looking Glass, so the let them live, and Ben would act like everything is normal [if he could communicate with them]. So they would do whatever he wanted [ie, stop other signals leaving the island]

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Just curious - why would the hostiles not be able to make it into the Looking Glass? I know Ben would have told them it was flooded, but his people don't seem to always believe what he says. They might well have gone to see for themselves.

As for Greta and Bonnie, I don't think they have anything to do with the hostiles or the 815'ers, I think they got there with Naomi and are planning to make the Island visible so that DHARMA can come in with guns blazing and finish off anyone left alive on the Island. Why do I think this? Because I am sure the boat that is offshore is the Helgus Antonius, commanded by Thomas Werner Mittleverk (this is from the Lost Experience) and built by Paik Heavy Industry. I've been waiting for this event to take place since the LE last year.

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"The Naked Gun!"

Frank Drebin remembers a lost love.

Frank: It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.

Jane: Goodyear?

Frank: No, the worst.