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Contents 1 Identity 2 Misc 3 Future Role in the Show 4 Still alive on The Island

Identity

Annie is Harper Stanhope

• Both have brown hair the same colour eyes.
• Both look very alike.
• Harper and ben are around about the same age.
• When Ben turned to become a hostile, Harper joined him as they seemed very good friends when they were children. And they both did not want to loose there friendship.

• Harper cannot be Annie as she told Juliet she looks like "her"
• Harper was talking about bens mother, whom Juliet does look similar to.
• Harper was talking about Juliet who helped save his life as a child.

Annie is Diane Janssen

• Painting on Ben's wall in his home on the island.... Note tropical background and guinea pig in her hands...and facial bone structure.[1]
• Kate mentions sinking ankles with her mother at the shore.
• Kate's middle name..which was repeated over and over and over, when it was first mentioned.Anne.
• Diane became very ill with cancer and the doctors had given her 6 months to live for the past 4 years during and after Kate's time on the Island. Tom explains to Michael, that the island won't let people die, if it still has a purpose for it.
• The surname 'Jansen'(Scandinavian)...Means..."Variant of the Hebrew John 'Jehovah has been gracious; has shown favor'
• Ben has shown a continued interest in Sawyer's relationship with Kate. It continued even after Ben succeeded in getting Jack to perform surgery on him, in the form of taunting Sawyer because Kate had chosen to go with Jack.
• "DIanne" = Dharma Initiative Anne
• The writers have been constructing a growing bond between Ben and Kate since season 3, culminating in Kate saving Ben's life and bonding with Roger Linus in "Whatever Happened, Happened."
• Kate was born in 1977, that would make Annie about 13 at that time. She's far too young to be Diane.

Annie is the child of Horace Goodspeed and Olivia Goodspeed

• There is a slight resemblance.
• Olivia trusts Annie to lock the doors while the other children go and huddle in a corner
• If Ben and Annie has a special relationship then this would explain why Ben shuts Horace's eyes and does not pay attention to anyone else's around him

• Ben shuts Horace's eyes because Horace was one of the few people who was actually nice to Ben.

• Annie appears to be younger than Ben by at least a few years...this would explain why Olivia does not appear to be pregnant or there is no child present in the car in the episode "The Man Behind the Curtain".

Annie is Theresa Spencer

• She is blond with curly hair, much like Juliet who's said to look just like "her."
• Theresa’s sister says she talks in her sleep about playing with dolls, possibly the dolls we see her make for Ben.
  • Annie has red hair and looks nothing like Theresa.
    • Annie's hair is brown, or sandy blond...no-where near red.
    • People change.

Annie is not a character we have met outside of The Man Behind the Curtain

• Seems far more likely than attempting to connect her, tenuously, with being other characters despite lack of evidence and overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
• The reason she has not featured in present timelines is because she died, a long time ago, and since then Ben has not been the same.
  • Ben not being "the same" has shown to be a result of whatever healing process he went through after sawyer and Kate handed him over to Richard Alpert and the others.

Annie is Libby

• We know very little about Libby's past, and she is right around the right age, according to her wiki page. Earlier, the producers & writers were saying that Libby's back story was important and would continue to be told even though she is dead. We have also been told that Annie plays an important role to come n Ben's life.
  • Ben really didn't seem to care one bit when he realized that Michael had killed Ana Lucia and Libby.
    • Ben may not know that Annie is now known as Libby.
• Libby changes her appearance several times in the few flashbacks we have seen, but when she lands on the island, she is blond--looking both like Emily, Ben's mother, and Juliet. But she also has brown hair at one point, much like young Annie.
  • This would also lend to the reason for Libby's stay at the psych hospital at the same time as Hurley (maybe having experienced a displacement like Daniel or Desmond?)

Annie is the outsider that had relations with Charles Widmore

• Annie and her mother left the island right before the incident just as Miles and his mom did.Charles Widmore developed relations and had a baby with her and when Ben found out about it he exiled him, otherwise why would he be so enraged if it were somebody he didn't even know? And it was a perfect excuse to get rid of Widmore.I don't think she's Penny's mother - she's a bit too young for it.But she could be Thomas' mother (Aaron's biological father), we saw his picture on the wall in Widmore's office.So it makes Aaron Widmore's grandson (just as Christian Shepard's).

Misc

• When Harper says to Juliet "Of course [Ben has been good to you]; you look just like her." The her being referred to is Annie.
  • Correct. Annie and Juliet are Ben's only known love interests.

• Nope, she's referring to Ben's mother.
• It appears in The Man Behind the Curtain that Ben's mother bears a striking resemblance to Juliet, especially when the young Ben sees her in his room. So I would presume that this is who Harper referred to.

• She gives Ben the dolls so they'll never have to be apart from each other because she was soon going to leave the island.
• She got pregnant with Ben's baby and died which is why Ben is so obsessed with finding a cure, also adding onto the fact that he accidentally killed his mother by being born early in the woods. He feels that pregnancy has killed the 2 women he loved the most in his life, and also why he locked Karl up in order to prevent Alex from the same fate. Richard Alpert also pointed out to Locke that Ben is far more obsessive with finding a cure than the rest of the Others are.
  • This is why Alex was taken, to replace the baby Ben lost with Annie's death.
  • This would explain a lot - Ben's obsession with discovering why pregnancy kills women on the island, his abduction of Alex, his locking up of Karl, his mournfully looking at the childhood doll's.
• She became pregnant with Ben's child and opted out to leave the island instead of dying there. She, for whatever reason (death, island moved and bearing changed) could not return.
• She left the island in 1977, when Pierre Chang evacuated the island of all non-essential personell (particularly women and children). No-one else that we know left in that evacuation made their way back to the Island (apart from Charlotte, but it took her years to find it again) so Ben never found her again.

Future Role in the Show

The producers have stated that "Annie is going to prove to be very significant in Ben's life," and that even the island's volcano will be "slightly less important than Annie, but still seismic."

• Ben can only become a potential leader of the Others if he kills Annie or agrees to otherwise "sacrifice" her, just because it's what the Island/Jacob wants. Further on in the series, we may see exactly how Ben assumed control and displaced Charles Widmore. A feasible trial by fire might involve the death of Annie.
• Ben has a child with Annie, Karl. Annie dies in childbirth and cannot stand to look at him. He gives Karl to Goodwin who must take him because he is the leader. THats why when Karl develops a relationship with ALex he is forced to lock him up but cannot kill him.

Still alive on The Island

• Annie could very well still be alive on the island, she was Ben's friend as a child, and there was a strong bond between them both, Ben could of made sure she was safe during the time of The Purge and is currently residing at the Temple. She could also be someone we have yet to meet.
• Annie is still on the Island, and is residing in an undisclosed DHARMA Station (the Temple? Volcano?), and runs it for whatever its purpose is (Smoke Monster? Volcano? She appeared interested in the volcano in class).
• Annie is at the volcano and will be instrumental in making it active again.
• Annie is at a dharma station much like the looking glass, away from others, possibly the station that might control the monster

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