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Originally Posted by Jeritron
I thought Smokey was at the service of the Temple until he killed Jacob. Obviously he was working on his loophole this whole time, but until he got Jacob out of the way I assumed he had certain duties to perform.
In any event, killing the mercs was in Smokey's interests. It was to keep all of the candidates safe
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This is correct. Or at least to a point. MIB needed certain things to happen to gain access to Locke's body. If the soldiers were not taken care of, Ben and Locke never would've found their way to The Orchid, where Ben would move the Island, and Locke never would've had to put the donkey wheel back on it's axis or leave the island.
There is so much they need to explain, Ben summoning the monster is not really one of them, although the room he did this in, and the process of draining that sink hole is very interesting. What I would like to know more about these kinds of questions would be, who actually sent the soldiers there. They said they were working for Widmore, and that secondary protocol did indeed instruct them to 'torch the island' and kill everyone anyway. Yet Widmore alluded to the idea he wasn't the one who sent them there when he met Sawyer in the sub. But then, and this is the biggest proof he DID send them, Matthew Abbanon (sp) the big black guy, he is the one who was talking to Naomi about her mission, and he was Widmore's right hand man, untll Ben shot him, lol.