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Originally Posted by Bagor
I think they might be Widmore's people planted on the plane but then again why wouldn't he get on the plane himself?
Also wondering what's in the box they were trying to open and back to the old question as to why Ben couldn't kill Widmore.
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To me, it wasn't the others who decided to exile Widmore, it was the monster on the Island who is a conduit to the Island itself. Once he's banished he probably can't return, or the minute that he sets foot on the Island, the monster will rip him apart.
I would assume that if Ben had been judged guilty by the monster he would have been tossed off of the Island.
Richard is the lynch pin to the Island, or another guardian, it explains why he never ages. But to me this whole series might be about who will replace Richard and its down to Ben or Locke. It certainly explains why the Island healed Ben when he had a hole in him, and gave Locke his legs back. This is a competition between the two where they actually have to work together.
I'm also betting that the members of Oceanic 6 if they survive the Ben slaughter will choose to stay on the Island as the new version of the others under the leadership of either Ben or Locke.