Dr. Linus: The List

KEY MOMENTS
- Flash-sideways: Roger Linus (who Ben takes care of) wonders if their lives would’ve been different if they hadn’t joined the Dharma Initiative.
- Richard joins Hurley & Jack; he reveals that Jacob’s touch made him the way he is (never aging) and he can’t kill himself.
- FLocke and his recruits are on the smaller island.
- There are SIX candidates.
- Richard, Hurley, Jack, Sun, Ilana, Frank, Miles and Ben set up camp together on the beach.
- Widmore is on a submarine headed for.. the island?

WTF
- Richard Alpert is suicidal.
- Based on what Richard said, are the candidates going to live forever?
- Miles can “hear” the thoughts of a person’s cremated remains.  Because of his flashbacks, we thought this wasn’t the case.

MEMORABLE QUOTES
Ilana: Where will you go?
Ben: To Locke.
Ilana: Why?
Ben: Because he is the only one who will have me.
Ilana: I’ll have you.

Richard Alpert: I devoted my life longer than you can possibly imagine in service of a man that told me everything was happening for a reason — that he had a plan that I was a part of, and when the time was right, he’d share it with me. Now, that man is gone. So why do I want to die? Because I just found out my whole life was without a purpose.

Hurley: This like a Terminator thing? Are you a cyborg? Or a vampire?

Jack: Want to try another stick?

Lapidus: You make friends easy, don’tcha?

Ben: The things people bring to read on an airplane..

ANSWERED QUESTIONS (See original list)
7. What is the significance of Jacob’s touch?
According to Richard, Jacob’s touch is what made him the way he is.

9. What is the deal with Richard Alpert?
It seems that he came on the Black Rock (presumably as a slave) and that he (blindly) devoted his life to Jacob.

48. Who are Ilana and her group?
They (Ilana, at least) have to protect the candidates.