5-10: "He's Our You" 2009.03.25 - TWoP Forums p13:
-Does Horace have any idea what Pierre Chang is up to? I have been led to believe that Horace was in charge, and doesn't his job say 'Mathematician'? So isn't he involved in any of the top-level stuff? Just a thought....
--Yeah, but theoretically trying to send some bunnies 20 seconds into the past in a lab is quite different from a drugged-up Iraqi telling you he's from the future.
In fact, I wonder if maybe the Lostaways are why the Dharma Initiative gets so into time travel in the first place? Sayid mentioned the Incident, so when that occurs, Horace is probably going to remember.
Miles called Sawyer 'Sawyer' at least once in earshot of Amy (right after they killed the two Others) back when they first arrived in 1977. I wonder if she'll mention that when her husband inevitably starts rewinding the interrogation in his head and wondering who 'Sawyer' is?
And didn't Martin Candle/Chang say in one of the videos that, after the Incident, the entire complex had to be monitored 24/7? As in, we had some traitors once, we have to watch you all the time to make sure you are who you say you are? mm. interesting. [p15: -Wow, I never thought of that!! I always assumed "The Incident" was some experiment that went horribly wrong. This is a whole new slant.] well let's say the incident involves ~the wheel or somehow the Losties returning to their proper time, and some electormagnetism complications. but also, I suppose, the infiltration.
p15 ---Point taken, BUT just pretend for a second you are Horace. You're on an island that had to be found in the first place by some super genius physicist because it moves (the Lighthouse). You're there thanks to funding from The University of Michigan and some reclusive European billionaire who made his money selling guns to the resistance in WWII (not that odd but noteworthy). Your buddy Pierre Chang is working on TIME EXPERIMENTS (with bunnies, sure) and looking (or found) a frozen donkey wheel with heiroglyphs all over it that glows light blue and hums. Your group is studying powerful electomagnetics, not to mention sharks with cool tatoos and ESP. There's a cloud of black smoke that ticks and howls and will rip people's arms off if it loses in chess to them, not to mention smash a guy on the ground and throw women up in the air so they hit the ground oh the woman w Rousseau's group. Plus there's that whole Valenzetti equation thing that you are working on trying to change the factors so the human race will survive. OH, AND there's a group of indigenous peoples that live out in the jungle who will kill you if you go out for a picnic (and who wear eyeliner).
With all that (and probably more) a "drugged up Iraqi" telling you he's from 2007 probably isn't the weirdest thing you've heard all week. And I'm no history major, but weren't Iraqis in 1977 on "our side" if not just "there"? Kind of like saying a drugged up Dane today.