What is Sayid?

Let’s get right to it,  though I really don’t know what “it” is yet, but we will find out together.  So, Sayid came back to life but as who or what?  When Jack examined Sayid he told him the wound was almost completely closed.  It seems the pool at the temple was healing him, but he died before the process was complete.  How did Dogen’s exam and torture test determine he was “claimed”?  I must have missed something was it because he didn’t pass out from the pain?  If you remember Danielle tested Sayid in the same way when she captured him in the jungle.  Danielle had become paranoid and traumatized after having to kill her team, claiming they had become infected.  She said the sickness was caused by the smoke monster.

So with that in mind, are we to believe that because of Jacob’s death, the smoke monster or the darkness was able to inhabit and turn the temple water murky, making it possible for something dark to “claim” Sayid at the exact moment of his death?  If he really isn’t alive except by the means of something dark why couldn’t Miles sense it?  Or does he?

When Claire was knocked unconscious in the explosion of her house in New Otherton she said “Charlie”?, as Sawyer awoke her, as if she had been talking to him.  We know Charlie was already dead.  Could it be that Claire actually died in the explosion and was talking to Charlie?  Remember Sawyer said to Locke, “she got her bell rung but I think she’ll be alright”, to which Miles said, “I wouldn’t be too sure about that”.  Then as Miles, Sawyer and Claire were heading back to the beach, Miles kept watching Claire like he knew something was wrong or different.  Later Claire walked off into the jungle with her dead father, Christian, leaving Aaron behind.  So it seems  Dogen was right when he told Jack,  he’s sure about the darkness that’s  growing in Sayid,  “because it happened to your sister”.  We now know that Claire did die in the explosion and she too is infected. That explains why we recently saw her looking all ratty living in the jungle like Danielle use too.

We also know to become  infected you have to die, but why didn’t that happen to all the people that died on the island? Maybe it did, could that be what the whispering is that we hear in the jungle?

Back to Sayid. What do you think will happen if he takes the pill willingly from Jack, will the poison kill just the “darkness” or also Sayid?

Let’s flash back to when Ben was shot as a child and Richard took him inside the temple, Richard said, “Ben will lose his innocence and would never be the same”.  Ben was healed somehow, possibly by the same pool as Sayid.  If this is true does that mean Ben has spent his life infected with this “darkness”?  Don’t you think it strange how Ben has never showed any empathy or that in all the years of leading the others that he never met nor spoke with Jacob? Maybe that’s why Jacob said, “What about you?” Jacob didn’t know Ben because he had been “claimed” all those years ago!  Furthermore I remember, when Ben slipped into Widmore’s bedroom and in conversation Widmore told Ben, “I know who and what you are boy”!  Those words have always haunted me.

Well until next week, stay clear of any pools of murky water.

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