A discrepency in the timeline...
Given the timeline of events established on this show, there may be a contradiction in the apparent timeline of events that has been laid out for us. This contradiction is centered around Joe/Kelvin Inman.
We know now that Alex was born in 1988. Rousseau confirms this when she says in "Through the Looking Glass," that she recorded her distress signal three days before Alex was born. Given that Alex was taken by the Others one week after she was born, we can infer that the DHARMA Purge happened sometime before 1988.
Now lets take a moment and go back to "One Of Them." In Sayid's flashback, Joe Inman was the CIA agent who manipulated Sayid into interrogating and torturing Sayid's own superior officer. This flashback could only have occured in 1991, in Gulf War I.
Then we fast foward to 2001, where in "Live Together, Die Alone," Desmond's boat crashes on the shore of the Island, where he is quickly pulled into the Swan. The man who pulled him in is none other then, Kelvin Inman. Now throughout this flashback Kelvin says that he joined the DHARMA Initiative, that he left the army "because soldiers followed my orders," and that he was a "spook," or CIA agent, for 10 years.
Given Kelvin's military and CIA background I'm going to assume that he changed his name from Joe Inman sometime after Gulf War I. However the question remains, when did he join the DHARMA Initiative? I'm assuming that they kept much of their original personel intact right up to the Purge and given the fact that Kelvin was in Iraq in 1991, he couldn't have joined until after the Gulf War. He can't be one of Ben's people because he tried to leave the Island, and all the Others at that time were still loyal to Ben and would not leave unless Ben asked them to. I don't think anyone joined DHARMA after the purge so how do we explain Kelvin? LINDELOF! CUSE! ANSWERS NOW! SHUTDOWN!
We know now that Alex was born in 1988. Rousseau confirms this when she says in "Through the Looking Glass," that she recorded her distress signal three days before Alex was born. Given that Alex was taken by the Others one week after she was born, we can infer that the DHARMA Purge happened sometime before 1988.
Now lets take a moment and go back to "One Of Them." In Sayid's flashback, Joe Inman was the CIA agent who manipulated Sayid into interrogating and torturing Sayid's own superior officer. This flashback could only have occured in 1991, in Gulf War I.
Then we fast foward to 2001, where in "Live Together, Die Alone," Desmond's boat crashes on the shore of the Island, where he is quickly pulled into the Swan. The man who pulled him in is none other then, Kelvin Inman. Now throughout this flashback Kelvin says that he joined the DHARMA Initiative, that he left the army "because soldiers followed my orders," and that he was a "spook," or CIA agent, for 10 years.
Given Kelvin's military and CIA background I'm going to assume that he changed his name from Joe Inman sometime after Gulf War I. However the question remains, when did he join the DHARMA Initiative? I'm assuming that they kept much of their original personel intact right up to the Purge and given the fact that Kelvin was in Iraq in 1991, he couldn't have joined until after the Gulf War. He can't be one of Ben's people because he tried to leave the Island, and all the Others at that time were still loyal to Ben and would not leave unless Ben asked them to. I don't think anyone joined DHARMA after the purge so how do we explain Kelvin? LINDELOF! CUSE! ANSWERS NOW! SHUTDOWN!
posted by Sage at 7:28 PM
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