WHATEVER HAPPENED HAPPENED
Richard: Hello there James.
Sawyer: Where the hell did you come from?
Richard: You asked my people to bring you to me, here I am. Is that Benjamin Linus?
Sawyer: You two know each other?
Richard: What happened to him?
Kate: He was shot.
Richard: And who might you be?
Sawyer: She is with me.
Richard: And why are you here?
Kate: Because we need you to save his life. Can you?
Richard: If i take him he is not ever gonna be the same.
Kate: What do you mean by that?
Richard: What I mean is he'll forget this ever happened and his innocence will be gone. He will always be one of us. You still want me to take him?
Kate: Yes.
the Other: Richard, you shouldn't do this without asking Ellie. If Charles finds out..
Richard: Let him find out..I don't answer to either of them..
The reason I started writing this was the episode Because you left and the follow up in Follow The Leader. Scene where Richard is telling Locke he has to die. Both of these scenes are quite like. Richard barging from the jungle..out of nowhere..two crucial scenes in my opinion..One lead Ben to become a leader of the Others and eventually killing Jacob and other lead Locke to become leader of the Others and eventually killing Jacob. Both scenes have one thing in common Richard Alpert.
So at first I wonder how he knew James was looking for him? Then I asked myself what if there was someone with Richard in the woods? Someone who brought him there (like Locke brought him in Follow The Leader) and told him to wait.
That its just matter of seconds when James will show up..and that he is looking for him.
And when James comes he should do what James asks.
The only difference between this scene and the scene from Follow the leader is that in Follow the leader Locke gave him precise orders..what to say. Because those words were the trigger for things to come..but here Richard had no idea who was James bringing and what is it that James wants.
BUT he still knew James is looking for him and he still came out of nowhere.
Since you all dismissed the idea that Richard is MIB or Smoke monster..or manifestation of the island, who btw was the only one who heard James when he said he is looking for Richard...could this be the way it happened?
That leaves us with two possible ways.
1. We will see more time traveling (I doubt)
2. We were not shown everything during those 7 episodes of time traveling we saw (I am positive about this)
So as you can see I side with number 2. I believe we will be shown few more scenes similar to the one we saw in Follow the leader with Richard, Ben, Locke and Flocke.
When you look at this conversation you can find few things that are quite strange.
1. How does Richard know his name?
Sawyer never gave him his name back in laFleur. He was also using a fake name during DI days. It was Jim La Fleur. When Jack asked for his house..he said: Where can I find James La Fleur. Phil noticed this...but he just said : He doesn't like to be called James. Really? Maybe this is the moment Phil got suspicious of his boss?
2. The way two of them talked. James and Richard, seemed a little bit...hm..friendly. As if the two of them met number of times prior to this scene...during these 3 years.
Lets look at it this way.
During all those flashes Richard never met James prior to 1974. He met him in DI barracks on the bench. Right?
3 years later Richard knows his REAL name and that he is looking for him.
So what if...during all those flashes they flashed to 1977 too but we were not shown this. We will be shown during one of Richard centric episodes. And since Richard already met James in 1973, this time, 3 years later he will know who this man is if they ever crossed paths. Then you ask but how would Sawyer know that his younger-self version is looking for Richard? The answer is: because this older version of Sawyer remembers (like I suggested in the theory season 1 tabula rasa, that 3 of them remember everything because they were in the epicenter of EM at the Swan site). Because now we would be shown the 2nd or 5th or 20th iteration of this loop. Editing. Showing us these types of episodes they would tie everything up. In this case WH,H. Because we will see that this is what always happened. Like Locke taking Richard to see his younger version by the plane. Compass. The bullet. Everything.
If they showed us the story linear it wouldn't be so excited at all...
Or we could go back and assume that Richard is in fact Smoke Monster and possibly MIB and thats how he knew James is looking for him. I am not dismissing this idea either. I like them both. Or Richard simply heard him..because his hearing is impeccable..lol
Thanks for reading...I will take a break from theories for awhile..hahaha
Mo
Richard: Hello there James.
Sawyer: Where the hell did you come from?
Richard: You asked my people to bring you to me, here I am. Is that Benjamin Linus?
Sawyer: You two know each other?
Richard: What happened to him?
Kate: He was shot.
Richard: And who might you be?
Sawyer: She is with me.
Richard: And why are you here?
Kate: Because we need you to save his life. Can you?
Richard: If i take him he is not ever gonna be the same.
Kate: What do you mean by that?
Richard: What I mean is he'll forget this ever happened and his innocence will be gone. He will always be one of us. You still want me to take him?
Kate: Yes.
the Other: Richard, you shouldn't do this without asking Ellie. If Charles finds out..
Richard: Let him find out..I don't answer to either of them..
The reason I started writing this was the episode Because you left and the follow up in Follow The Leader. Scene where Richard is telling Locke he has to die. Both of these scenes are quite like. Richard barging from the jungle..out of nowhere..two crucial scenes in my opinion..One lead Ben to become a leader of the Others and eventually killing Jacob and other lead Locke to become leader of the Others and eventually killing Jacob. Both scenes have one thing in common Richard Alpert.
So at first I wonder how he knew James was looking for him? Then I asked myself what if there was someone with Richard in the woods? Someone who brought him there (like Locke brought him in Follow The Leader) and told him to wait.
That its just matter of seconds when James will show up..and that he is looking for him.
And when James comes he should do what James asks.
The only difference between this scene and the scene from Follow the leader is that in Follow the leader Locke gave him precise orders..what to say. Because those words were the trigger for things to come..but here Richard had no idea who was James bringing and what is it that James wants.
BUT he still knew James is looking for him and he still came out of nowhere.
Since you all dismissed the idea that Richard is MIB or Smoke monster..or manifestation of the island, who btw was the only one who heard James when he said he is looking for Richard...could this be the way it happened?
That leaves us with two possible ways.
1. We will see more time traveling (I doubt)
2. We were not shown everything during those 7 episodes of time traveling we saw (I am positive about this)
So as you can see I side with number 2. I believe we will be shown few more scenes similar to the one we saw in Follow the leader with Richard, Ben, Locke and Flocke.
When you look at this conversation you can find few things that are quite strange.
1. How does Richard know his name?
Sawyer never gave him his name back in laFleur. He was also using a fake name during DI days. It was Jim La Fleur. When Jack asked for his house..he said: Where can I find James La Fleur. Phil noticed this...but he just said : He doesn't like to be called James. Really? Maybe this is the moment Phil got suspicious of his boss?
2. The way two of them talked. James and Richard, seemed a little bit...hm..friendly. As if the two of them met number of times prior to this scene...during these 3 years.
Lets look at it this way.
During all those flashes Richard never met James prior to 1974. He met him in DI barracks on the bench. Right?
3 years later Richard knows his REAL name and that he is looking for him.
So what if...during all those flashes they flashed to 1977 too but we were not shown this. We will be shown during one of Richard centric episodes. And since Richard already met James in 1973, this time, 3 years later he will know who this man is if they ever crossed paths. Then you ask but how would Sawyer know that his younger-self version is looking for Richard? The answer is: because this older version of Sawyer remembers (like I suggested in the theory season 1 tabula rasa, that 3 of them remember everything because they were in the epicenter of EM at the Swan site). Because now we would be shown the 2nd or 5th or 20th iteration of this loop. Editing. Showing us these types of episodes they would tie everything up. In this case WH,H. Because we will see that this is what always happened. Like Locke taking Richard to see his younger version by the plane. Compass. The bullet. Everything.
If they showed us the story linear it wouldn't be so excited at all...
Or we could go back and assume that Richard is in fact Smoke Monster and possibly MIB and thats how he knew James is looking for him. I am not dismissing this idea either. I like them both. Or Richard simply heard him..because his hearing is impeccable..lol
Thanks for reading...I will take a break from theories for awhile..hahaha
Mo
