Complete Episode Guide: The Shape of Things to Come Guide
The Shape of Things to Come Clues
- While playing a board game with Locke and Sawyer, Hurley says that Australia is "the key to the whole game." One of the things all of the Oceanic 815 have in common is that they were in Australia before getting stranded on the island.
- Daniel tells Jack that, "'when' is kind of a relative term." Once again, Daniel is alluding to time travel.
- When Ben is in the Sahara Desert, his jacket says Halliwax (as in Edgar Halliwax from the Orchid Station) and has the Orchid Station logo on it. (Screen cap from Dark UFO.)
- Ben is unsure of the date when he gets to Tunisia.
- Ben seems to have more purpose when he comes out of the secret room.
- Ben believed that if he said he didn't care about Alex they wouldn't harm her.
- Charles used to have the island.
Questions Raised by The Shape of Things to Come
- How did Ben get to Tunisia? Did he time travel through his secret room? Did everything that happened with Sayid happen between the time Ben walked into the room and when he came out?
- Why did Ben throw up? Was that a side effect of time travel? Was he upset that Alex had been killed?
- How did Ben get the gash on his arm?
- How is Hurley going to find Jacob's cabin when it jumped around the last time he saw it?
- Where did Bernard learn Morse code?
- How did Ben know or guess that the year was 2005 when he was in Tunisia?
- Why does Ben need Hurley to find Jacob's cabin? How come Ben doesn't know where it is?
- Before he realizes it was Ben he was attacking, Sayid says that they are vultures and they are spying on him. Who does he think Ben is? Have people from the island been spying on him, or is it someone else?
- Did Ishmael Bakir really kill Nadia, or did Ben just tell Sayid that so that Sayid would kill Ishmael and then want to work for Ben?
- Ben says that his people are prepared to die in service of the island. Is that true?
- Ben didn't believe that Keamy would kill Alex. If he had known, would he have done anything differently?
- What did Ben do in the secret room? Did he time travel? Did he let the smoke monster out? Both?
- Why did Ben think Alex would not be harmed?
- Why was Charles having nightmares?
- Charles says he knows all about Ben. What does he know?
- If Charles used to have the island, how did Ben get control of it and why can't Charles find it now?
