Help me out - as I may be forgetting some people.Who have we seen Smokey kill? Seems to me that he's killed a lot of "red shirts" like the pilot, and the freighter people, and some of Danielle's French people, and all of those miscellaneous people at the temple, but other than Mr. Eko, who has Smokey killed that we "know"?
Ben has faced (summoned, even) Smokey before and was not killed so Smokey doesn't seem to just be a rampant killer. He either doesn't, or won't, or can't kill just anyone he wants to kill. We know that. But who CAN he kill?
I'm going back to the notion that he is a security system for the Island. Maybe he's able to kill people who aren't supposed to be there but wind up there anyway? I wonder whether Eko falls into that category because it's the only explanation I can figure for Smokey being able to kill him. Maybe Eko wasn't supposed to be there.
Another random thought regarding Eko. Last night's episode with Sayid professing himself to be a good person reminded me of Eko. When facing his death by Smokey, didn't he proclaim that he's a good person? (I think that conversation was with Yemi, whom I'm assuming was really Smokey.) Eko professed his "goodness" and that was when we saw Smokey with all of the images of Eko. Did Smokey scan Eko, and what was the result?
Was Eko actually "good" and therefore, of no use to Smokey, so he killed him?
Or was Eko "bad" and therefore of no use to Smokey, so he killed him?
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