This whole thing definitely seems like we’re still lacking a lot of vital info.

I like your theory about him trying to kill Alex and not necessarily Rousseau–I don’t know that he saw the future or that Alex’s death would bring about the end of the world, but I think there’s merit to the fact that everything isn’t always as it seems o he might not have been trying to kill Danielle. Maybe they were turned into “Others” in the same way that Ben was when Richard took him into the temple to be saved…? And maybe the island wanted Alex dead then. But then it seems like the smoke monster would have judged Ben harder than it did because that means he really did disobey a direct order from the island. I don’t know.

In view of more recent episodes, however, especially “Dead is Dead” in which we see Smokey judging Ben, I am no longer so sure.

While Montand is pulled under the temple by Smokey to be judged (I guess it was his time, and by the abrasive way the actor played Montand I would guess the guy has a lot of stuff to atone for), the other members of Danielle’s group go down there voluntarily.

We just do not know what else is in that dark basement, do we? With Lost it is dangerous to make assumptions. The writers like to show us only part of the information and let us speculate in the wrong direction.

I have speculated elsewhere that maybe Robert was not trying to kill Rousseau, but baby Alex. If someone or something showed him the future in which his daughter brings about the end of the world, perhaps he would be willing to kill her. Perhaps it is only a sickness from Rousseau’s perspective.

What do you think?