>Well, with Widmore, he did persuade
>Locke to go back to
>the Island, but he told
>them that he needed to
>go and "recruit" all of
>the Oceanic Six to return
>as well. So, if he
>wasn't on Jacob's team, and
>wanted to provide the means
>to kill Jacob, why did
>he want all of the
>Oceanic Six to return as
>well? This has me
>perplexed. Me too but we don't know the rules of the "Game". What we know is that Locke was told he had to die to get them back so I think the whole thing was a set-up. XLocke needed a dead-Locke to return. Locke wanted to succeed so much that he was ready to kill himself.
>Are you thinking that the "war"
>has been won then, by
>Smokey?
No, Smokey may think he's won but I believe Jacob isn't dead.
>Remember we had the boy
Yup!
>If this is to follow though,
>why wouldn't Widmore have killed
>Sawyer on sight, as he's
>one of the candidates?
Either the same rule applies to Widmore; he can't kill the candidates or Sawyer is more valuable alive than dead...for now.