Lost - Ben Linus - Flash Forwards

July 12, 2008   •   Approaching Lost, Entertainment

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Character Profile
Ben Linus
Flash Forwards

These flash forwards are presented in the order that they were viewed on the show. In parenthesis are numbers corresponding to the order that they flash forwards would appear chronologically for Ben’s life off the island.

Episode 4.03: The Economist
(6) Sayid is in a room while Ben looks at his wound. Ben tells Sayid that he was stupid to care for Elsa. “These people don’t deserve your sympathies. Need I remind you what they did the last time you thought with your heart instead of your gun?” Sayid says that Ben used it to recruit him into killing. Ben says, “You want to protect your friends or not, Sayid? I have another name for you.”

Episode 4.09: The Shape of Things to Come

(1) Ben shakes his head and opens his eyes. He’s in the Sahara Desert wearing a thick Dharma jacket. There is a gash in his jacket arm. Two men ride up on horses. Ben pulls a rod on one, gets control of their gun, and knocks out the other man. He rides off on one of their horses.

(2) Ben walks through Tozeur, Tunisia. He enters a hotel and says he would like a room. He hands her his ID and says his name is Dean Moriarty. He also asks the date. It’s October 24, 2005. He sees a television that shows Sayid, who tells reporters that he just wants to bury his wife in peace.

(3) Ben spies on the funeral procession and a man watching from afar. Sayid spots Ben taking pictures and runs up to him. He realizes it is Ben and asks what he is doing there. Ben says that he is there to help find the man who murdered Nadia. He then tells Sayid that he left the island on Desmond’s boat and then chartered a plane. Ben tells Sayid that Widmore had Nadia killed.

(4) Ben arranges it so that Bakir, one of Widmore’s men, follows him. Bakir pulls a gun on Ben but Sayid steps up behind and kills him. He continues to pull the trigger even after there are no bullets. Sayid asks Ben who is next. Ben says he’ll be in touch.

(5) In London Ben goes into a hotel. He sneaks up to Widmore’s room and opens the door with a key. He goes straight to the bedroom and wakes up Widmore. Widmore asks Ben if he’s going to kill him but Ben says, “We both know I can’t do that.” Ben tells Widmore that he is going to kill his daughter. “Penelope is it? And once she’s gone, once she’s dead, then you’ll understand how I feel and you’ll wish you hadn’t changed the rules.”

Episode 4.12 (Part 2 & 3): There’s No Place Like Home
(7) Ben approaches Jack after Jack has broken into a funeral parlor. He asks if Jeremy Bentham had approached him and asked what he said. Jack says that after they left the island some very bad things happened, and that they had to go back. Ben tells Jack that the Island won’t let him come alone. “All of you have to go back.” Ben tells Jack that he has some ideas, but that they’re also going to have to bring “him too” and he nods at Locke in the casket.

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