The Widmore/Keamy/Dorrit Primary Protocol appears to have been:
Captain Gault is hired to ferry the two teams to the island to facilitate an “extraction” - but not a genocide.
Naomi was to have located and to have landed on the Island safely and to have made contact with Widmore's on-Island allies (including Communications Officer Mikhail - who was expecting her). "Finding Desmond" is her "cover story", but her real mission is to locate Ben.
Daniel and Charlotte's Primary Objective is to secure The Tempest and to disable its Island-wide death-spreading capability. It appears to me that Daniel has taken "Manual Control" of The Tempest at this time, which actually keeps it "in play".
Daniel's Secondary Objective seems to have been the study of the Island's Physical, Temporal and Electro-magnetic properties, possibly to re-enable communications with the mainland. His Tertiary Objective may have been an effort to correct his "memory problem". Having helped Desmond find his Constant (and thus possibly establishing his own) he may have achieved this objective.
Charlotte's Cultural Anthropological training may have come in handy in understanding and befriending the Hostiles and other Others. Having said that, her social skills need sharpening up, IMO. Having helped Daniel achieve their joint Primary Objective, Charlotte’s primary personal objective seems to be to return to her birthplace - or at least the place where she was conceived.
Miles' Primary Objective seems to have been to locate Ben, using any means available, including telepathy. He's happy to try to extort money from Ben (as he did to the Ghost of that drug-dealing grandson) but he didn't "sign up" for mass murder.
The Science Team having disabled the Tempest and having located Ben, the Wet Team's Primary Protocol seems to have been to capture Ben, based on the info gathered by the Science Team and to escort him off the Island, leaving its inhabitants alive but under the new leadership of Widmore (military) Loyalists like Mikhail and Pryce.
Ben's declaration to Team Locke that after his capture, everyone else on the Island was to be murdered may have been another of his lies (although it was tacitly corroborated by Miles). It seems to me that it was only AFTER the failure of the Primary Protocol that Keamy initiated the Secondary Protocol which included finding Ben at the Orchid, capturing him and "torching" the Island.
Note that Daniel (but not Charlotte) was aware of Keamy's Secondary Protocol. He knew about it despite not having been present when Keamy read the double-locked file on the Kahana. IMO Daniel also knew that the execution of the Secondary Protocol would result in the Island being “moved” - hence his dire warnings to Miles and Charlotte. It seems to me that the only way that Daniel could have known about the Secondary Protocol and its results would be if he remembered them from his “past” or his “future”. Daniel is a Time Traveller - and his travels have something to do with his inexplicable weeping upon learning the news about the “discovery” of the Flight 815 wreckage.
Theory by Roland
Captain Gault is hired to ferry the two teams to the island to facilitate an “extraction” - but not a genocide.
Naomi was to have located and to have landed on the Island safely and to have made contact with Widmore's on-Island allies (including Communications Officer Mikhail - who was expecting her). "Finding Desmond" is her "cover story", but her real mission is to locate Ben.
Daniel and Charlotte's Primary Objective is to secure The Tempest and to disable its Island-wide death-spreading capability. It appears to me that Daniel has taken "Manual Control" of The Tempest at this time, which actually keeps it "in play".
Daniel's Secondary Objective seems to have been the study of the Island's Physical, Temporal and Electro-magnetic properties, possibly to re-enable communications with the mainland. His Tertiary Objective may have been an effort to correct his "memory problem". Having helped Desmond find his Constant (and thus possibly establishing his own) he may have achieved this objective.
Charlotte's Cultural Anthropological training may have come in handy in understanding and befriending the Hostiles and other Others. Having said that, her social skills need sharpening up, IMO. Having helped Daniel achieve their joint Primary Objective, Charlotte’s primary personal objective seems to be to return to her birthplace - or at least the place where she was conceived.
Miles' Primary Objective seems to have been to locate Ben, using any means available, including telepathy. He's happy to try to extort money from Ben (as he did to the Ghost of that drug-dealing grandson) but he didn't "sign up" for mass murder.
The Science Team having disabled the Tempest and having located Ben, the Wet Team's Primary Protocol seems to have been to capture Ben, based on the info gathered by the Science Team and to escort him off the Island, leaving its inhabitants alive but under the new leadership of Widmore (military) Loyalists like Mikhail and Pryce.
Ben's declaration to Team Locke that after his capture, everyone else on the Island was to be murdered may have been another of his lies (although it was tacitly corroborated by Miles). It seems to me that it was only AFTER the failure of the Primary Protocol that Keamy initiated the Secondary Protocol which included finding Ben at the Orchid, capturing him and "torching" the Island.
Note that Daniel (but not Charlotte) was aware of Keamy's Secondary Protocol. He knew about it despite not having been present when Keamy read the double-locked file on the Kahana. IMO Daniel also knew that the execution of the Secondary Protocol would result in the Island being “moved” - hence his dire warnings to Miles and Charlotte. It seems to me that the only way that Daniel could have known about the Secondary Protocol and its results would be if he remembered them from his “past” or his “future”. Daniel is a Time Traveller - and his travels have something to do with his inexplicable weeping upon learning the news about the “discovery” of the Flight 815 wreckage.
Theory by Roland
