5x12 - "Dead Is Dead" Flashbacks

1. The flashbacks for this episode start right where "Whatever Happened, Happened," left off. The first time this has ever happened in an episode of Lost.

2. So Ben and Widmore have known each other for about 30 years.

3. It would seem that Ethan was also brought into the Others at a young age as well.

4. Why didn't Rousseau recognize Ben when he fell into her trap in "One Of Them?"

5. Why is Widmore so territorial about the Island? He tried to cut off Juliet's hand in 1954, he orders Ben to kill Rousseau when she never intended to come to the Island in the first place.

6. Widmore had a child off Island, with a woman who was not one of the Others. Ben never tricked him into leaving the Island as Widmore claimed to John Locke in "the Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham." He was found out.

7. Desmond named his new boat, "Our Mutual Friend," after the one Charles Dickens novel he has yet to read.

8. I normally don't bash shows for being unrealistic, but BEN FIRED AT DESMOND AT POINT BLANK RANGE! DESMOND TOTALLY HAD A PULP FICTION MOMENT THERE! WHY IS HE STILL ALIVE?!

9. Ben backed out of killing Penelope because he saw her child. I guess Ben has a soft spot for mothers because he never knew his.