i believe that when ben called jack and told him to pick up locke's coffin because he was delayed "keeping a promise to an old friend" it because he was busy murdering penny (he was wet, penny was hiding out on a boat waiting for desmond to return. perhaps she put up a fight hence the state of his face)
i believe he did this knowing it was the only way to get his weapon against widmore (the one uniquely gifted individual who can alter the future) back to the island. ben had tried to get him to come back but desmond was done with it all, finished, ready to start a new life with penny and leave the island behind.
the only way to bring him back? fill him with a desire for murderous revenge against ben, who desmond knew was going back to the island. couple that with desmond's knowledge that he can change the future (he knows this because farraday told him so back in their hatch encounter) maybe he will attempt to change the past and prevent pennys death.
perhaps desmond will bring his and pennys child, charlie, with him and he will play some kind of significance later? does the child possess the same tallent as desmond? who knows.
i believe this might also lend some motivation to charles widmore, in that this whole time he has been trying to stop penny from dying knowing that ben was going to kill her in the future (i believe ben and widmore both have access to knowledge of the future, which is why they cant kill eachother, they know they both live to a certain point in the future) perhaps widmore told keamy to kill Alex because he knew that ben would kill penny. a sort of preemptive revenge. but maybe he didn't know the reason that ben wanted to kill her in the first place...
all in all i think that desmond is going to show up to hang out with sun, locke, lapidus, et al sometime in the upcoming episodes and we will see them all trying to get back to the seventies and change the way everything went down...perhaps this will cause the incident.
comments please :) Theory by richard
i believe he did this knowing it was the only way to get his weapon against widmore (the one uniquely gifted individual who can alter the future) back to the island. ben had tried to get him to come back but desmond was done with it all, finished, ready to start a new life with penny and leave the island behind.
the only way to bring him back? fill him with a desire for murderous revenge against ben, who desmond knew was going back to the island. couple that with desmond's knowledge that he can change the future (he knows this because farraday told him so back in their hatch encounter) maybe he will attempt to change the past and prevent pennys death.
perhaps desmond will bring his and pennys child, charlie, with him and he will play some kind of significance later? does the child possess the same tallent as desmond? who knows.
i believe this might also lend some motivation to charles widmore, in that this whole time he has been trying to stop penny from dying knowing that ben was going to kill her in the future (i believe ben and widmore both have access to knowledge of the future, which is why they cant kill eachother, they know they both live to a certain point in the future) perhaps widmore told keamy to kill Alex because he knew that ben would kill penny. a sort of preemptive revenge. but maybe he didn't know the reason that ben wanted to kill her in the first place...
all in all i think that desmond is going to show up to hang out with sun, locke, lapidus, et al sometime in the upcoming episodes and we will see them all trying to get back to the seventies and change the way everything went down...perhaps this will cause the incident.
comments please :) Theory by richard
