LOST Revisited: Pre-Game for “Dr. Linus”

And what about all the familiar faces populating Timeline X? Well, Smokey reads people. He scans their entire lives. So he’s seen Arzt and Lynn Karnoff and Keamy and Rose and Dogen. He uses these people to populate his world. And maybe it’s not a world at all, but he’s manipulating their minds. Because if Smokey is powerful enough to create a separate timeline, there’s not much that anybody can do to stop him.