3x20 - "The Man Behind the Curtain" Flashbacks

1. Benjamin Linus was born to Roger and Emily Linus not on the Island but 32 miles outside of Portland, Oregon? His mother's dying words were for the baby to be called Benjamin. Ben was born two months early. Why has Ben been lying about his birth?

2. Ben now a young child, arrives on the Island and is greeted by Horace. Horace is offering Roger a job. I guess we know who Roger is now. Ben doesn't talk much but will say something "when he has something to say."

3. Who is Annie in the present? Is she supposed to be Ben's long lost love that I've read about?

4. What is going on between the "Hostiles" and DHARMA? It sounded like a war outside of Ben's classroom.

5. Was that Ben's mother outside of the window? I thought the Monster couldn't get past the fence. What does she mean by that "it's not time yet?"

6. So Ben's father blames him for Emily's death. That's why he always ignores Ben's birthday. So Ben is just like so many other people on the Island, he's got daddy issues too.

7. The combination to turn off the fence is: 54439. How did Ben get it in the first place?

8. Whoa, Richard Alpert was a hippie! Plus he doesn't seem to have aged all that much. And he was a Hostile. They seem pretty friendly for people who are giving DHARMA all that trouble. Why couldn't Ben join the Hostiles yet?

9. Ben killed Roger in the van and betrayed the others. Was that what he needed to do in order to join the Others? Is that why he can see Jacob while Locke, who didn't kill his father can't?