It's Never What It Seems

I just had a revelation. Just sitting here right now at work. A revelation. Penny is not Widmore's daughter.

Did I get you?

Here we go.

Penny is not Widmore's daughter. Charlotte is. Penny is in fact Ben's childhood friend Annie. They are both from the island. Have you noticed we've never really gotten much background on Penny? All we've gotten is that Desmond loves her. And we never heard what happened to Annie.

Let's say there was an old switch-a-roo of some kind. That's a minor detail in the whole scheme of things.

So Ben sends Sayid to track down and kill Penny. Ben never sees Penny, though he may not recognize her as Annie in her older age anyway. Sayid ends up killing Penny. Desmond's pissed. Then Ben finds out it's Annie and he goes in a tail spin. Desmond wants Ben dead. Ben wants Charlotte dead. Widmore probably wants them all dead. Bam! Season 5 and 6.

Meanwhile, Charlotte's alive and well and kicking it on the island. And maybe she's even helping daddy Widmore get the island back somehow. That's why she stayed.

Of course, that's still assuming Sayid can pull the trigger, which is still very much in doubt.

I guess it will be awhile until we see.