The Island armory has several logistics problems, most notably incompatible ammo types. Of course, in typical Hollywood fashion, they play fast and loose with what ammo goes into what firearm.

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The weapons weren’t all that fancy though. Given the lack of accuracy, silence and rapid firing plus what we’ve seen previously on the freighter they were most likely H&K MP5 submachineguns with a silencers and sub-sonic ammo, a typical special forces weapon for quiet operations.

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Can’t wait for the show to come back on, now I need to know!

Where did the helicopter go? Personally I have a theory:

Ben had many chances to kill Karl before, he never did it. He was always “afraid” of how his people would look at him if he ever resorted to such actions.

Also, remember what is the punishment for killing “one of them” ? Juliet was going to be executed for killing one of the Others. If Ben layed a trap to kill Karl (One of the Others), wouldn’t the Others kill Ben for killing one of them?

Ben had Karl captive before, he threw him in a jail, he tried to brainwash him, but he didn’t attempt to kill him.

When Locke and his group ran into Charlotte. Ben grabbed Karl’s gun when he let his guard down and shot Charlotte. He could’ve killed Karl if he wanted to.

Ben didn’t want Michael to kill everyone on the freighter, because there are some “good” people. And he wanted to prove that he isn’t a heartless monster to Michael (Even though he is a heartless bastard). If Ben was a heartless murderer, why wouldn’t he put a working bomb on the freighter and let Michael end it right there?

All I said is to support this weird theory I’ve been thinking about:

Where is Frank Lapidus? He took off on an assignment…
Frank went back to the freighter and reported what they found on the Island. The captain told them to prepare guns to get Ben by force. A few freighter people joined Frank and went to the Island. The first people they ran into are Danielle, Alex and Karl. Since they are under orders to kill anyone except Ben… They do so. When Alex started shouting that she is Ben’s daughter, they stopped shooting. She could come in handy in the future.

One last note: The guns that were used were high-tech. I’d say sniper guns with silencers or something fancy. Ever seen anything like this on the Others? Even the Dharma artilery (The guns in the Hatch) weren’t that high-tech.

So yeah.. discuss

P.S. I regret to admit that I was totally wrong about Aaron not being one of the Oceanic 6. However, the Oceanic 6 plus one theory still applies since Sun had a successful birth. So I’m not entirely wrong.

Also about Aaron being Kate’s son. Now that you mention it, it doesn’t make much sense. Plus if her claim is that she was some unnoticably 6 months pregnant on the plane, her rescue story of Jack and three others seems impossible. Definitely need some clarity here. Maybe we give the writers too much credit sometimes, and they just made a mistake.