LOST Revisited: 6-7 “Dr. Linus”

So why does she live in LA? And why doesn’t she have an accent? We find out later that she’s being raised by her mother, so you’d think she’d have picked up some trace of a French accent. And why does her research scientist mother have to work two jobs? Boy, it would seem like her personal background is entirely different in Timeline X. That ties in nicely with my theory that Smokey has built Timeline X, and populated it with familiar faces. Alex is there to get an emotional reaction from Benry, without regard to how her personal history works out. Anyway, she needs some extra study time, since the History Club didn’t meet. (In real life, there would not be pretty girls in History Club. It would instead be me.)