Why the Syndicate Wants the Island so Much
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By Veefre
- Why the Syndicate Wants the Island so Much
- Created: Mar 1, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 3.22: Through The Looking Glass
- Status: Current
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Because the stakes are so high, The Syndicate will be ruthless in their quest.
— Veefre
In the latest episode of season 4, “The Constant”, we learn that Desmond, as a result of accumulated exposure to intense electromagnetic radiation (remember when he had to turn a key at the source below the hatch?), and traveling slightly off course from the Island to the freighter, has become unhinged in time. His consciousness travels back eight years where he meets with Faraday and they come up with a solution.
The solution, at this point, is of little interest to those who wish to profit off the island. And their motive is clear: if they can recruit some subjects to do a similar mind-time travel, then they should also be able to have these persons make investments etc. in stocks or ventures that they know, from the future, will be very successful.
Just think - if you were able to tell yourself in the past to buy Microsoft or Apple stock for a small fraction of what these stocks are worth today, wouldn’t it be lucrative? Better yet, if you were able to arrange for someone to give you stock tips in the past, you could set yourself up to be immensely wealthy today, with no risk to yourself whatsoever.
So the Syndicate - made up of, perhaps, the remnants of the Hanso Foundation (now controlled by Dr. Thomas Werner Mittlewerk), and perhaps the Widmore Corporation and the PAIK Corporation - has been focused on finding the Island and exploiting those who have become unhinged in time, and perhaps to introduce new subjects for the same purpose. The unfortuante side effects of such time travel will be fatal for the subjects, but the Syndicate will consider them expendable.
Because the stakes are so high, The Syndicate will be ruthless in their quest.
Brilliant. Have to give this some more thought.
I think the fact that this mental time-travel is referred to as a ‘side-effect’ shouldn’t be ignored. It’s a snag, a minor problem, in the main goal of getting to and from the Island. I think the freighter, and whatever company is behind the requirement to find the Island, have other intentions.
So now its just a matter of getting the non-existent 1970s internet onto the island to use the non-existent eTrade to purchase some Microsoft stock.
Yeah. That’s probably it.