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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grymar" data-source="post: 3433791" data-attributes="member: 41371">Here's a wild theory I've heard.This wasn't just a one-off story that is put in there for the fun of it, it is one of the key episodes which explains what is going on.  The theory goes that Desmond actually went back in time and is changing history.  His doing that is altering the present.  Where were Nikki and Paulo during season one and two?  Not on the island!  Something that Desmond did when he went back in time changed their future so they ended up on the flight.  This episode literally rewrote the past by showing them now in scenes where they weren't the first time.  Some say that they actually replaced Bernard and Rose on the island (haven't seen them yet, have we?), but if they are in an upcoming episode then that would ruin that idea.A possible spoiler...unlikely but spoiler blocking just in case...[sblock]Either way, the theory can be modified (Doc Jensen here) that Desmond is going to keep going back and forth in time changing things until he realizes how he can really save Charlie's life for once and for all.   Push the button.  Go back in time, let his partner in the hatch go, and keep pushing the button.  The final shot of the series will be Desmond pushing the button and the plane flying over the island untouched.  [/sblock]</blockquote>