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

There are a lot of differences that can’t be explained by Jughead. Hurley has good luck because the bomb went off? (Well, technically the lack of an Island means that the numbers aren’t cursed, but still…) What’s Benry doing alive? And how did the detonation of a hydrogen bomb in 1977 switch Lynn Karnoff from a psychic to a Human Resources functionary? How did it turn Keamy the Marine into Keamy the mobster? That’s just Smokey using as many jigsaw pieces as he can.