Here is a little scoop for you all from a contact who has always provided me with excellent filming information.
- A Big scene is being planned for filming currently involving the Rescue
- The Freighter people are NOT the ones that do the rescuing
- The Season finale will leave you ballistic as far as cliffhangers go.
So who does rescue the Oceanic 6? I'm guessing Penny.
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I'm going with Ben being the rescuer and chooser of the Oceanic 6.
This sounds exciting, although that last one is making me ache for LOST already.
I'd love for it to be Penny that rescues the O6.
yeah, i agree its penny. which makes the des and penny kiss more likely. yay!
the reason i think its penny is cos we know she is looking for the island, and maybe since speaking to charlie, she found it?
Ben or Penny, but i'm guessing it's Ben.
I'm going with Ben too :))))
I can't wait for Lost to come back! Two more weeks! I found the promo for episode 9 and it really gets me excited. It sounds like Smokie is in it, too! I want Smokie back!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bhj7iHPVJ_w
I agree that it's penny.
I suppose the cliffhanger involves who survives on the Island. It will look like the people left behind are wiped out.
Rescue seems to suggest someone off Island but I'm still inclined to think Ben but I'm not sure if he picks the six who are to be 'rescued'. I've always assumed that some sort of deal was struck and that is why those who got off the Island don't feel that good about what happened. I think that makes Penny an unlikely 'rescuer'.
I'll say Widmore just for a twist
But she may supply a boat for them.
OMG! I really would love it to be Penny!...she finds out the coordinates of the ship following the phonecall...she flies to fiji, hires her own boat w/helicopter...anchors somewhere a few miles from the freighter...Des is on the freighter and hears a helicopter in the distance, watches it approaching, it lands, she gets out, he's stood stock still, dumbstruck for a while, she walks up to him and says, voice full of emotion, "All you need in life is one person who truly loves you, and you've got her", cue spectacular kiss!
I also read on Lostpedia earlier that Sonya Wagner, who plays Penny, was originally offered the part of Kate but turned it down as she didn't want to move to Hawaii. The producers kept in touch with her and she eventually took the part of Penny. If they like the actress a lot it makes sense that they would want to make more of this role as the show continues to develop.
glinda - omg, that sounds really amazing. i hope it happens like that, with the "all you need is one person who truly loves you..."
that would be truly spectacular!
i'm not ruling out claire and aaron either.
Thanks Isabelle! - I think their's is the most romantic relationship and I welled up so much in the phonecall even though I has read the spoiler beforehand.
I love Kate and Sawyer together and think have an amazing chemistry but we have already seen a number of spectacular kisses from them (as discussed in the polls section!), and I just get the impression this is something different. I'm probably entirely wrong but it's fun to think about the possibilities!
If it was Penny why wouldn't she rescue everyone? I say Ben.
Sounds very cool! Thanks!
I think Ben will do the rescuing.
If it was Penny why wouldn't she rescue everyone?
Maybe she's on a small boat or plane and can only carry so many, or maybe the O6 group get detached from the other losties and she does not have time to get to them all.
glinda - yeah, i welled up too. actually, if i am being honest, cried like a baby!
i agree there has been lots of spectacular skate kisses but this one is different - its des and penny for sure!
people who think its ben who rescues them, can i ask why? i dont see him helping anyone unless in benefits him.
I think its Penny & those 2 guys in that artic station that rescues them. But I think Ben plays a big part in as well.
You don't actually know the full details though, do you Dark?
Just checking - it'd be awesome if you actually KNEW the rescuer, though. Maybe once you do, you could do a little vote thing until it's revealed:
Penny Widmore
Abaddon
Charles Widmore
Ben
Frank/Daniel/Charlotte/Miles (for some reason, I don't see them as 'the freighter people', since I think they are who Ben is referring to when he called them the innocent ones: Keamy/Ray/Gault are the real pricks).
Etc
@Isabelle
I think a lot of people felt the same judging by the results/comments of certain polls in the polls section!
Re. Ben (altough I am hoping for Penny), I guess there is some evidence that could support him turning out to be 'one of the good guys', like his working with Sayid in the future against an as yet unknown malevolent force, and Harper's comments that he is 'right where he wants to be'...
Not a vote as such (as if we'd have any input, eh?) - I mean more like a hangman type thing, where we can be polled to get our opinion, but then every day, someone is dropped off until we're left with the rescuer :-)
You don't actually know the full details though, do you Dark?
I honestly don't I'm afraid, although I hope that one of my many contacts comes through with some detailed info so that we can play some games/polls etc.
Michael anyone? Producers said themselves he would play a huge role in the finale.
I hope is Penny!
Fuck! I didn't even think of Michael.
Penny would be good, yeah, and it'd explain the kiss, but Michael actually being the rescuer would be so much better:
Michael finally gets his redemption when he saves the Oceanic 6.
He commandeers the freighter with Sayid and Desmond: Sayid operating the technical stuff, Michael holding a gun to the navigator's head and Desmond being the guard of a makeshift prison for the rest of the crew.
He comes back to the island, gets the O6, gets them on board but is then fatally shot by one of the freighter folk who got free from Desmond's little prison.
He came to the island to die, but in doing so, redeemed himself.
people who think its ben who rescues them, can i ask why? i dont see him helping anyone unless in benefits him.
Because Penny showing up all happy and in love to rescue them, but "oh darn, I only have room for my Desi and six more" would be anticlimactic. However Ben, manipulating the rescue, choosing the 6 and giving the five adults an impossible choice to make about leaving and then coming up with the lie and using whatever threats or means necessary to make sure they don't ever tell is a much more interesting story IMO and it benefits Ben.
None of these theories explain why the O6 are lying about the survivors who are still presumably on the island. I think that explanation probably involves a lot of facts we couldn't even guess on at this point.
Ben would only 'rescue' them if it was in his interest to do so. Possibly he needs Sayid and Michael to do something and as part of the deal Jack et al get away too.
I think Ben. And I think it isn't really a rescue. Maybe he has to do it to save Alex.
I don't know. It's just a feeling.
katie - yeah, your right, but i am still hoping for it to be penny. but we know that ben COULD do it, its just a matter of whether or not he will. if it benefits him, (e.g sayid working for him), then he is capable of anything. :)
If Penelope comes with her own freighter to rescue O-6 and re-unites with Desmond by a great, "spectacular" kiss, I'll cry! Definitely cry! 405 final scenes made me out of my mind. I think the same as Glinda does. Maybe a helicopter lands on the freighter on which Desmond is too, and there a woman gets out of the helicopter, but we again have the feeling like we did in 405, where Desmond called Penny being unsure whether she would pick up the phone or not.
I don't want that spectacular kiss to happen between Kate and Sawyer - really, considering the season 2 and 3, their kisses are nothing more than love kisses etc., nothing emotional. None of the emotinal relation between two person made me cry except Des and Penny.
Isabelle: I think Ben is doing the much help by keeping everybody on the island. Then he lets 6 people, O-6, to get off the island to help him, or for something else - as everybody says, for some deal. I think the desperate Jack in 323 was the beginning of the desperation of the O-6; I think the other 5 of them are gonna be desperate to go back either, that's why we'll be learning what happens when the O-6 returns to the island in season 6.
But, considering the possibility that Penny's boat is also off the shore of the island, I'm scared that maybe the killers of Karl and Danielle are Penny's people, but being unaware of who they killed, whether they know Karl and Danielle are innocent. Maybe Penny learns some shocking news about a man named Benjamin Linus and his works on the island, and wants to kill him off by her own power - OK, I'm at the edge of craziness. I can't even think anything bad for Penny, she is so pure and beautiful to be a bad person. Let's hope that her coming to the island is for rescuing.
"Maybe she's on a small boat or plane and can only carry so many, or maybe the O6 group get detached from the other losties and she does not have time to get to them all."
Come on, Dark, even Michael's little boat could carry more than 6 people, haha. Somehow, I don't think it will be Penny, and Des will remain on the island. It seems more plausible that *she* will be the means by which the 06 return, and her reunion with Desmond is saved for series' end.
This rescue info makes me believe all the more that the Freighter will indeed be blown up, stranding Dan, Charlotte, Miles and Frank on the island... which I'm perfectly happy about because we still have almost no backstory on them. I'm sure Dan and Charlotte will still be alive, but fingers crossed for Frank and Miles. I like the former, and the latter I want to keep around because his powers make him unique in regard to unveiling all the phantom-like occurrences on the island.
leave us ballistic? Is ballistic a state of being?
It seems more plausible that *she* will be the means by which the 06 return, and her reunion with Desmond is saved for series' end.
Ding, ding! We have a winner folks! (or at least I hope so)
or at the very least, Season 5's end, since Season 6 is about what happens when they get back. My main hope is that if Penny does the rescuing in this season, her and Desmond's story could be prematurely over. Besides, if Claire is still alive and on the island, Des owes Charlie a major solid by protecting her from danger.
Oh my goodness!
i think locke lets it slip to ben that he didn't actually blow up the sub, and ben leads them off the island in that. it's not a large sub, so i could see only 7 or 8 people fitting in it.
BTW, I couldn't understand this: "The Season finale will leave you ballistic as far as cliffhangers go." What does that mean? There will be lots of scenes that answers some cliffhangers, which run our minds like a bullet?
It can't be Ben who does the rescuing because Sayid is on the frieghter. does he magically appear on the island for Ben to save him?
Damn. I have been thoroughly bamboozled.
I don't think any boat/plane will reach to the Island to pick up O6. It's obvious that transportation to/from the Island is pretty troublesome. My guess is O6 will use the helicopter to leave the Island. Penny's boat may meet with them miles away from the Island where Penny and Desmond see each other and have that "spectacular" kiss. That's one possibility.
This is, of course, just a guess. Personally I don't want a Des/Penny reunion right now. I'd thought that Penny could help O6 to return to the Island and finding Desmond would be the motivation for her.
Michael also could play a role in rescuing O6. While armed forces of the freighter operation on the Island, Sayid, Desmond and Michael could arrange a coop on the freighter. The scoop may just mean that freighters will be not be of any help in the rescue. They may rescue themselves. But surely O6 will not leave the Island willingly and happily.
It can not be Penny. She would not take only 6 members.
"Sorry Claire, no room for you, You see, it is more important to take Hugo even though he takes up two spots."
Even if Claire were dead, I can't see Hugo going and no one else because there was "no more room"
It seems more plausible that *she* will be the means by which the 06 return, and her reunion with Desmond is saved for series' end.
That's what I'm thinking too. If it is Penny who is rescuing them, she knows where the island is. And if she does why should it be so hard for Jack to go back in the future?
And I also think that it would have been nearly impossible to put a rescue team together in 4? days.
And even if it is Penny and even if the boat is small, Jack, Desmond and Sayid would never take a place and leave all the women behind.
That is the main reason I always thought it wouldn't be a normal rescue.
Any thoughts on the black box or the submarine?
If it weren't for Sayid being a part of the O6, I would think it more plausible that the 06 would leave by way of the Man from Tallahassee entrance, which might thereafter be unavailable, at least without Ben or someone else's assistance. If they leave by way of the boat, whomever leads the rescue, it should be easy enough for them to return to those coordinates and remember the bearing. The submarine issue is still unresolved, as well. With Nestor's return and a Locke FB episode, Locke might have a great moment on the horizon.
A non-freighter rescue (and non-Penny rescue) falls within the realm of possibility and may even be more plausible. How the 05 link up with Sayid is a little wrinkle that might get solved at either the freighter or in LA via Oceanic (see Aussie casting spoilers).
Michael assists in a freighter mutiny of sorts which leaves Ben in control of the boat and Gault and co. left stranded on the island :)
Now that would be a twist.
It's the mechanics of the rescue that I find most interesting. Ben or Penny, how exactly do they perform this rescue and more importantly, what do they use?
The submarine? ;)
Btw the ending of 'Meet kevin Johnson' and the majority of subsequent spoilers have 'Locke vindication' written all over them :)
I really think that the Des/Penny storyline has peaked for the season. I wouldn't see the sense in pursuing it, especially in light of the resounding praise for The Constant. Save their reunion for way down the road...
I really think Ben will make arrangements for the 06 to get off the island, and it will serve his purposes somehow.
Im gonna call it for bragging rights....
SAWYER
Think about it, it's off island, It's in the future.
Sawyer: I managed to get off, I conned em
Or something to that effect, and on seeing her loveable rebel, who she believed was trapped on the island, Kate smooches him.
I'm sorry to blow your Penny/Desmond rescue scenario "0ut the water" Brothers! I sure hope it will happen down the line though.
Didn't Damon say this year's finale would NOT end in a cliffhanger?
Didn't Damon say this year's finale would NOT end in a cliffhanger?
I don't recall seeing that to be honest. Do you have a link or know the article TLA. Not saying you're wrong, just that I don't recall it.
wow! it really could be anyone at this point...but i do agree with the people who mention that ben has to be somewhat involved...i mean the O6 had to give up stuff, lie, most of them are not in a good shape as a result of the rescue... that has ben's style written all over. it still very well might be penny doing the actual rescuing, that would come as a shock to her dad if he really did stage that crash though, lol
I thought Damon just said the surprising part of the finale wouldn't happen in the last scene?
Yeah, he said that the cliffhanger wasn't the last scene in the finale. There's still a cliffhanger though, coded "The Frozen Donkey Wheel."
- A Big scene is being planned for filming currently involving the Rescue - Duh!
The Freighter people are NOT the ones that do the rescuing - Yeah, I've pretty thought that for quite a while now.
Penny and/or her dad will likely take them.
WHY they take them (and/or only 6/7) is biggest question I'd like to know.
Yeah! Dan I thought exactly the same...cause I think the O6 aren't the ones who left the island, I can't imagine Kate being happy out of the island without Sawyer. She is not that kind of bitch, this could be a really spectacular and unexpected kiss for sure. OMG another sweet, sexy and tender Sawyer and Kate kiss :D
TheLoneAssassin said... Didn't Damon say this year's finale would NOT end in a cliffhanger?
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All he said was that the cliffhanger would be the next to last scene. Not the last scene.
Thanks guys, I remember that now.
Yeah that's what I meant. I think it was here that I read it too. I can't imagine why they'd tack another scene on after a cliffhanger but I guess it must be important.
Just take a look at the members of the O6! It can't be a "normal" rescue where the Losties can decide themselves about which six people leave the island (first) at their free will. Two ideas:
1.) Their rescue might be based on a coincidence/accident where the O6 are the only ones that just happen to be around at the right time in the right place. Another "purple sky" incident?
2.) If not the above, then the O6 are specifically selected and it must be out of their powers to influence the decision about who goes and who stays behind. Maybe they're being forced or "conned" into leaving. No doubt that Ben would have to be the one who pulls the strings, but the O6 (and even the audience) wouldn't know before it's too late.
Whatever it is, there is no way that these six people would be selfish enough to leave by free will as the only ones. Not even Kate would be that selfish. There'll be a huge twist which could invlove scenarios that none of us even thought about.
Dark, you prefaced this post with a question and gave your own answer as Penny. We've also heard the name of Ben. I'm gonna answer your question and throw one more name into the stew..
Abbadon :)
@ TheLoneAssassin
Makes me think of the S2 finale... It felt like the cliffhanger was when our heroes were all tied up and blindfolded on the dock, with Michael and Walt cruising away on the boat, but then out of nowhere comes the two dudes in the Arctic monitoring station... Kind of a technique where they give us a cliffhanger relative to one of the main storylines they have been following, and then at the very end tack on some other revalatory scene just to give us yet another tidbit to chew on...
The one that will be responsible for saving the oceanic 6 is Ben.
After the crew of the freighter moves to the island to capture ben and kill everyone else, locke reveals that the sub is below the Pala Ferry dock. Ben guides them by the underground tunnels to the temple.
That´s where claire got detached from aaron. Hugo will be with aaron and running in the jungle to meet up with jack, kate, juliet, charlotte, dan and jin.
He will tell them that somebody has attacked the barracks and killed claire (locke saves her but hugo don´t know about it). Jack will send kate back to the beach with aaron. (she will try to fight back... but will be down when jack says that he don´t want her to end like claire)
Locke team saves claire and moves to the temple, where ben befries richard and some other ones to capture the freighter with the submarine. Since they are with a reduced crew and with sayid and michael are on board, they can get the boat and the chopper when it´s back from the island.
They get the freighter with little resistance. When frank is back michael and sayid will talk with him. Frank doesn´t believes in them and a boat arrives with a few freighters that were away when the boat got capture. A fight erupts, Frank dies, desmond and michael are hurt but they defeat the freighters.
In the island, jack arrives to see that the barracks are destroyed but gets into a fight with some uknown enemies. Charlotte is hurt and jin tries to save her, they lose contact with Dan, jack, hugo, aaron and juliet.
Jack returns to the beach and starts to make a plan to get back there and get charlotte and jin out.
A chopper arrives into the beach.
It´s Ben. He says to jack that he is there to fullfill his promise that he would let him get out of the island... and he has 4 more seats in the chopper.
Since there are few people on the beach, Dan asks what happened to frank... and is arrested. Juliet confronts ben when he choose her instead of hugo. She sends hugo into the chopper getting aaron. She asks kate to raise aaron with jack. (that´s why jack has a issue with aaron)
When the chopper is moving away, the freighters arrive at the beach, the chopper is targeted, but there is a fight back lead by ben, locke, sawyer, jin and charlotte. Sun sees jin getting shooted right when richard moves the chopper out of harm way.
Sun wants to get back, jack secures them that they can´t.
After that we will see locke and charlotte talking about the dharma initiative and richard tiying up the freighters.
And Lost
Abbadon :)
Don't forget he asked Hurley: "Are they still alive?". Also, Hurley didn't seem to know or recognize him.
I didn't mean personally rescue them, I don't think he's the type to get his hands dirty ;)
But his character is there for a reason and I've always thought the sinister overkill surrounding him was a red herring.
I like that it's not the freighter people, that leaves the freighter 4 (or more) in play for the on island elements next season.
I know i'm not the only one who couldn't stand only having less than 10 episodes of faraday.
to me he's the representation of the viewer on the show, he's the guy who looks at the island and says "oh, cool, I wonder what this is, what'll happen if we try this" He's the geekiness that's been missing from the show.
^^
Totally agree with your description of Faraday.
I would LOVE for Penny to rescue them and be united with Desmond...but I can't see that happening yet. It would be the end to that storyline - a happy one - but I don't think we are getting that resolution just yet.
The rescue scenario confuses me: Des and Sayid are on the freighter and the helicopter isn't there. How does Sayid meet up the rest of the O6? What happens to Des? I can't imagine that he would return to the island!
I certainly accept Ben as the rescuer but HOW? And what is Michael's role in all of this?
@songohan,
A great scenario about the season finale, but not cliffhanger enough to make us wonder for the next season. Also writers should be revealing something in the season finale, not to leave us with only action and who gets off the island kinda things - we already know who they are.
But you should be sending this to the producers; they may change their script according to you, I'm serious. :)
There's gonna be mutiny on that ship I'm tellin' ya, and Abbadon could well be behind it. I'd be disappointed if he's really working for Widmore or anyone else for that matter. A character with that kind of presence should stand alone.
Also agree that it'd be much much too soon for a Penny/Des reunion. Their exchange in 'The Constant' heavily indicated it would be a while before they could find each other.
I'm guessing the Oceanic Airlines rescues them.
My problem with Penny rescuing them is why not rescue more? Why wouldn't she keep coming back until everyone was rescued?
To me it seems like, in order to get the O6 (especially sans Jin & Claire) it needs to be an urgent, spur of the moment, one time thing. Like what Ben manages to pull out of a hat on regular occasions. Hmm... it will be interesting.
I'm not certain on Ben, but it seems more likely than Penny to me.
Plus I believe the Penny/Desmond reunion is S6 stuff.
I think Ben is the one that rescues them which is why only 6 make it off the island and why they haven't returned. Perhaps Ben has them make a choice as to who leaves and this is why the guilt starts to set in.
Then, Ben tells them that they cannot go back to the island unless certain people are wiped out, those people work with Widmore and know about the island. Sayid is the only one who enlists to help do the dirty work.
But, Ben dies and their ride back to the island is canceled. Ben winds up in the coffin and only Jack goes to the viewing.
I'm guessing Ben.
The O6 are chosen by Ben because he can hold something over each of them to keep them quiet.
It's Desmond and Penny but then they get seperated again.
Remember, they always like to raise as many questions as they answer. So if they get rescued, they'll probably leave us asking questions all summer, like, "Who rescued them?"
I just had another thought (I know, can you believe it!) The spoiler says 'a big scene' is being planned regarding the rescue.
This report posted in the rumours section related to filming taking place in London mentions an 'airplane rig' ->
http://lostrumours.blogspot.com/2008/04/more-london-filming-reports.html
We know that Michael Emerson and Yunjin Kim (Ben and Sun are confirmed off-islanders) have reportedly been seen in London. Speculation is that they were there to accomodate the filming of a scene involving Alan Dale (Widmore).
Now..
What are the odds that said scene is at least part of the 'rescue' and our Losties are leaving the same way they arrived - by plane? And possible Widmore involvement to boot.
I definitely didn't think the freighter people were involved in the rescue, or if they were it was involvement in jack or sayid taking the chopper, lol. i don't think it is penny rescuing them as she is still in england, don't think its her boat coming to save the day either. i think jack, in another boneheaded arrogant move, in a situation where both the barrack and beach camp are together it about to do something that will seriously rock the boat (island) to get off. ben, realizing that jack really will do whatever it takes to get off the island, no matter what the consequences are, agrees to take any who want to leave, but they have to leave now, and takes them to the orchid station which is where the door/portal is that takes them to the outside world (the connection to charlotte lewis/c.s. lewis). while they are going through, they are ambushed by the freighters and only ben and what becomes the oceanic 6 make it through, leaving the rest behind.
Do you know what would be an AWESOME idea?
If the six gets rescured because of Claire's birds.
No one would see that coming, and kind of explain why the finale seems to be so Astralia-centric.
I think Penny rescuing them is too obvious, and way too early in the storyline of the whole series to even be plausible.
It would be a great twist if it was Ben who rescued them. (makes sense too; maybe the only way Sayid could get off was if he promised to work for Ben?)
Id have to say someone with dharma....
And don't forget that 'runway' the Others were apparently building :)
quangtran: That would be so utterly cool; the simple solution that no one supported, fronted by the girl no one really seems to care about any more works, while Locke and Jack and all the men have been beating their chests for 3 seasons and getting them all nowhere. Classic! :)
on the other hand...
danny: That's exactly what I was thinking at first. That'd make for an actual STORY in S6; if Dharma rescues the O6 because they are now aware of the takeover, then Ben would be scared sh!tless. Then the "economist" he's working against would be some Dharma bigwig (good or bad), and the final season is about either the Losties joining Ben to fight Dharma, or joining Dharma to fight Ben and free their pals (team Locke) from his clutches. Either way, makes sense.
ben
People still asking the same question, if the rescuer is Penny: Why not to rescue more of them? Well, we don't know that yet, but we know from the interviews that there is a deal that the O-6 did, that's why only six of'em will be rescued. And I think this deal/offer is logical, if it comes from Ben. :P
A few things here... if it's Penny: how did she get to the island? How did she know the coordinates? As far as we know, she has no idea that her Dad's freighter found it. Nor does she know the bearing needed to approach the island. Then again... both things could probably be explained away in a flashback episode.
Ben: since he's off-island in the flashforwards, he'd be an obvious choice. Too obvious for my liking.
Widmore: Possibly, but why...?
Michael: Quite likely. I really don't see what good he can do for the Losties other than this right now. But... if he rescued them, he would then be part of Oceanic 6. Perhaps we don't know all of the Oceanic 6 after all..? Perhaps Aaron doesn't count after all...?
Captain Gault: He's a freightie so this would be some misdirection (or lie) in the spoiler if it was him.
Other: Locke? Alpert? Jacob? .......
Aaaargh - I dunno. Could be anyone!
the rescuers are a military faction we've not yet (fully) seen on LOST, comprised at least in part of american soldiers or soldiers-of-fortune. a certain u.s. army-issue knife found by ana-lucia in S2E7 comes to mind. so does the rogue pallet drop seen in S2E17. are the military backgrounds of kelvin, patchy, sayid, jin, desmond, and kate's dad (etc) subtle easter eggs to a more sophisticated and well-armed group? maybe there's been a covert commando presence on the island all this time. maybe organized survivors of the purge?
Penny: does not explain why people are lying how they've got rescued, why Jack does not know where the island is when he wants to go back and does not fully cover why only six of them were rescued.
Captain Gault: he is the captain of the freighter - what other measures would he have?
Michael: again, how, if he has only a freighter and why Jack does not know from him how to get back?(Though I would not rule him out completely)
Ben: Ahhh. That would cover why Jack does not know where the island is, has possible explanaitions why they are lying about the rescue. Does not have a bold answer why the exact six wereb rescued, but we can come up with some. =) So, possible.
Widmore: Again, explains the lies about the rescue and Jack not knowing how to get back. Possible.
Other: Posiible too =)
Oh, I went with Widmore =)
Only 15 days 'till it's back guys!!
what if it is richard...or marvin candle..!?
:)
i vote for ben
New theory
The rescuers are AUSTRALIAN (Millbanks etc, see finale casting info) and not sent by anyone on this list.
It won't just be one person getting them off.
I think it'll be Ben and Michael.
Michael: Why would they hire Harold again, bringing back Michael, if not to save our people? What would be the point- having him be a janitor on the freighter? By saving the Six he can now die. He'll be the one to bring us home.
Ben: Ben will orchestrate getting them off the Island. Ben chooses the Six (they aren't voluntarily leaving the rest behind) and gives them a way hone. He's only doing it for his own benefit; they all have something to offer him in the future.
I don't think Penny will have anything to do with this rescue- as somebody else said, Darlton would be prematurely ending their story. What else would they do after they find each other?
So Ben + Michael for Rescue!
I think Jack, Kate, Aaron, Hurley and Sun will get seperated from the main group and sayid will fly them out with the helicopter, makes sense as he's the only Lostie that would have the ability to do so.
I agree with Mike17, seems a logical explanation but hey, since when has any answer on lost been logical!!
Ben.
Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben.
I think is Ben but he is not rescuing that people he wants them off the island. And the man on the freighter is Miles, I think that the 3.2 millions is a way to say Ben where the freighter is, 320 (coordinates). Why was Ben so upset when Locke told him about the 3.2 millions?
I think it's Ben as well. He realizes that he has lost the island and to survive he needs to get off. He strikes a deal with some of the survivors whereby they all have to cooperate to get off the island.
I think it´s Ben, too and I do agree with Sawyerrules about the 3.2 millions beeing a code for the position of the freighter. It must be the bearing, though, because coordinates allways imply Latitude and Longitude.
Maybe Michael was only a bait to let Capt. Gault believe that he knows who the traitor on board is.
Miles is Bens real men on the freighter and Ben didn´t expect to meet him in otherton. That´s why he was truely surprised when he saw him and for some reason it was very important for Miles to meet Ben and to give him this coded information.
I believe that Ben tries to get everybody off island who presents some kind of threat to his little kingdom. He´ll never win back Jacks trust, never wins Kates trust at first place, he needs to proove his goodwill by saving pregnant Sun, he´ll never wins Sayids trust on island and Aaron is somehow a threat by his pure existence.
Locke will create his little kingdom on his own with all those who are left behind and they will protect the island, too. Maybe some of the freighters will join them: Charlotte, Dan, Frank. The others will die in a big battle.
While I do have a feelign that Ben is the rescuer, I can't seem to reconcile that with the fact that teh O6 appear to make a very public reentry into society. They don't just slip back in, as Ben seems to do.
I think the rescuer is Michael and he's gonna do it because of Ben... I think that maybe the freighters die on the island to hide the island's secrets
It wouldn't make any sense that Penny did the rescueing, since only 6 got rescued... so, Widmore wouldn't either, because the freighter is his, and we know that they do not rescue them... so, that leaves Ben... and I'm sure that with his resources, he could easily arrange everything. Whatever.
Of course the Losties are going to choose - or do something that forces them - who leaves (officially) and who does not. Why? Because of TBOTE, when Hurley says to Jack, "I don't think we did the right thing." So clearly they did something to escape. And my money is on making a deal with Ben (hence Future Sayid and who else would know how to get off the island, other than Faraday?)
Wonder what is meant that we will go ballistic with the cliffhanger. To me ballistic indicates anger....I don't want to be pissed with the season finale...I want to be wowed beyond belief.....like in Jacks FF with kate telling her they have to go back.
may I just add....I am glad Michael killed AnaLucia...however, I will NEVER forgive him for killing Libby
its ben, if it was penny why would they have to lie and keep a cover story, why would sayid work with ben?
Like alex I think Michael will play a big part in the rescue, and he can only do it with Ben.
i think the person that rescues the oceanic 6 will be
FRANK LAPIDUS he has hinted and stressed that saving some of the original passengers would be his ultimate goal and thats just what he'll do.
my moneys on lapidus
I'm going with Ben, using the Elizabeth on heading 325. The islanders draw lots and Jack, Kate, Sayid and Hurley win. Sun and Aaron are guaranteed.
I think is Ben but he is not exactly a rescuer, he wants to protect the island so he sends the O6 out the island for several reasons...and yeah he is not the pilot but maybe Sayid or Lapidus with the helicopter.
I bet that Locke lets slip about not blowing up the sub, and makes a deal with Ben (a trade: the islands secrets for a place on the sub)and lets Ben, Jack, Kate, Sun, Hurley, Aaron and Sayid off the island!