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There are two ways to take what Ben said to Charles Widmore in the last moments of last week’s episode when Charles asked if Ben was there to kill him.<\/p>\n
“You know I can’t do that.”<\/p>\n
What exactly did he mean by that? Did he mean he can’t do that because there’s something that needs to happen, and without Charles it couldn’t happen? I think that’s a little out there as a theory.<\/p>\n
I took it to mean that Ben actually can’t hurt Widmore, and I think it’s for the same reason Michael couldn’t shoot himself. There’s something about the island that’s preventing that from happening. <\/p>\n
The real question is, of course, why? Was Widmore previously on the island? Was there something he did there that made him invulnerable to Ben, and possibly to everyone else? <\/p>\n
How could Widmore have found out about this? An attempted killing that failed? That would just be brushed off as a lucky circumstance that prevented his death. No, I think there’s more to it than that, but I haven’t quite put my finger on it yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"