The Infection
Just a few really quick thoughts on the ‘Infection’ that is now regularly mentioned.
The Other’s know how to test for it and they know what the infection does. So why oh why don’t they just kill the people infected? They seem to have let Claire go and they tried to make Jack kill Sayid but why didn’t they just do it themselves?
On the other hand, the moment that Jack, Hurley, Sayid etc. turned up at the Temple, the Other’s almost gave no second thought to killing them all so why can’t they just kill someone who is infected? is this another one of those ‘rules’ that we hear so much about that the Other’s cannot kill someone who is infected, even though they know what will become of them?
Anyone else slightly confused by this?
I think claire said, that she was able to flee from the temple. And probably they can’t kill sayid because he’s a candidate. Would be the only explanation to me.
I’ve been wondering about the infection too… is the infection that the others are talking about the same as the infection that the people in the hatch were told about? The people in the hatch gave themselves shots and wore those yellow suits to prevent the infection, but that makes it seem more like a tropical virus, not some kind of “darkness”. Also, wasn’t Ethan Rom trying to inject Claire’s baby to prevent it from getting the infection? And Roussaeu’s original team was all infected as well.
Remember what Claire said to Jin before she starting fixing his wound?
“If there’s one thing that will kill you around here, it’s infection.”
Another sentence with double meaning. I love it.
To I_Am_Jacob: Re “On the other hand, the moment that Jack, Hurley, Sayid etc. turned up at the Temple, the Other’s almost gave no second thought to killing them all so why can’t they just kill someone who is infected?” THey were about to shoot them until Hurley mentioned Jacob and they found the list of their names. What’s weird is that they know so much about island stuff yet why then would they know about a list, but not think that this group that shows up may be importnat at first?