Julie suggested that the other Frenchmen climbed down into Smokey’s cave after Jin timejumped away. Maybe then, they weren’t quite themselves after coming back. After all, Robert’s assertion that “It’s just a security system that guards the temple” seems a little cheery, all things considered.
Anything that tears off your friend’s arm isn’t “just” anything. So maybe Rousseau was right all along about how she had to kill them. I mean, Robert did try to shoot her first. And there are two kinds of people who remove firing pins from their friends’ weapons – people who are planning to do some killing and people who are trying to avoid getting killed.
