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Why was she involved with Desmond, Hurley, and then the crash?[]

Theory 1: She works for Charles Widmore[]

For the general theory of Widmore's involvement with Flight 815 see here.

Evidence:

  • Who else would know about the kind of boats that could be used in Widmore's race, and afford to give one a way, as well as has a strange interest in Desmond? So far, the only character who could make this extremely unlikely coincidence possible is Widmore, who we know has an interest in both Desmond and the Island.
    • Extremely unlikely coincidences are rife through the show.
    • It was Desmond's 'destiny' to go to the island, so he was going to get the boat somehow. It is very likely coincidence that it is from Libby. Also, Widmore couldn't possibly foresee Desmond happening upon the island in the middle of the ocean on his tour around the world.
    • If she indeed sent Desmond on that boat suspecting what would happen, at Widmore's request, that would explain why she doesn't appear to Hurley after her death ( she's ashamed, feeling guilty ).
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Libby meets Desmond

  • The fact that she radically changes her hair color suggests that she might be concealing her identity. When she meets Desmond she has red hair, Hurley - brown, and on Flight 815: blond.
  • Her medical knowledge (shown when she first arrived with the other survivors) may have been the result not of medical school, but rather that she prepared in advance with first aide training because she knew she was headed to the island.
  • Also the fact that she starts dating Hurley, never mentioning that she had seen him before, seems like she has some reason for being around him. Hurley himself mentioned how improbable their relationship was given his physique. Maybe she had an ulterior motive. But clearly, given that she helped talk him down from suicide, she was interested in his well-being.
    • She feels a connection to him because they were both at Santa Rosa, so she knows what he's going through.
    • After detecting that she was an agent of Widmore's, Hurley set her up for assassination by Michael by sending her back for a beach blanket.
  • Might not have been in the mental hospital for Hurley, but rather Leonard.(if she is working for Widmore and knows about Leonard, the numbers and the island.)

Counter-evidence:

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  • She may have just been in the institution for legitimate reasons.
    • In the brief scene of her at Santa Rosa, she seems fairly mental.
  • Many many many character coincidences appear in Lost. (Boone-Sawyer, Anna Lucia-Christian Sheppard, Jack-Desmond, the list goes on), there is nothing at all to suggest that Libby meeting Desmond wasn't another character coincidence.
  • Widmore wouldn't know that 815 was going to crash.
    • Widmore would have known 815 was going to crash because he knew the survivors who were jumping through time and used his resources to find the flight that they were all on.
  • Widmore never got identification for their full names, nor the timeperiod they were from. They merely said future. I don't think he even knew the island was breached via 815 until it disappeared in the South Pacific.
  • Given that most of the people on the plane died when it crashed it is an unreliable way to get to the island.
    • And yet when they all want to get back to the island 3 years after leaving they get on a plane intending to crash.
      • The get on the plane expecting the island wants them back and will take them somehow. They also know for a fact the plane will pass over the temporary location of the island, and Widmore obviously doesn't have access/isn't aware of The Lamp Post station.
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Libby on the Island

  • Why would Widmore want her on the island?
    • A clinical psychologist with a direct tie to Desmond would be a valuable asset to have on the island because she would have a few cards to play, such as the Penny card.
  • Widmore would have gone on the plane himself
    • He didn't go on the Kahana himself. And why send Libby instead of the freighter field ops (Naomi, Daniel, Charlotte, Miles, and Keamy) if he knew about it before-hand?

Theory 2: Everything she said was true[]

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  • She was telling the truth about almost everything. She was an American psychologist working in Australia, married to her husband who died. Afterwards, she had a nervous breakdown in L.A.. She did not come to Australia for Hurley. She is not an Other. She is not a pathological liar. She is not a fiendish manipulator. If she recognizes Hurley from Santa Rosa she refuses to mention it because she is ashamed of being in a mental hospital.

Evidence:

  • She seemed to be taking medicine at Santa Rosa.
    • She seemed very distraught and depressed, like most other patients at Santa Rosa.
  • Nothing at all to suggest she was lying.
  • She had feelings for Hurley because they both share a connection of being mentally unstable.
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Counter-evidence:

  • Who gives a boat to a stranger?
    • A person who has no interest in boats
    • A romantic altruist
    • A person recovering from a history of depression and/or mental illness
    • A person who had been told to
    • A person written into a story riddled with coincidences
  • She had to be lying about Hurley stepping on her foot, she was in the tail section, he was in the middle...he would have never passed her.
    • She could have been seated at the front and asked to move mid-flight for whatever reason.
    • Unless he had gone to the rear of the plane to use the restroom or ask something of the flight attendants.
    • taken from transcript: LIBBY: "Yes, you did. And it was hard. I know that because I remember you were the last one on the flight, and you were all sweaty, and you had headphones on -- and crunch. You stepped on my foot...." so it was right when he got on the plane that she is referring to.
      • Libby was originally seated in the middle of the plane because in a deleted scene she tells Claire that she is wearing her shirt. If Libby had her luggage in the tail section Claire couldn't be wearing her shirt. Libby probably wanted to sit in the back of the plane.
        • Uhmm... planes don't pack people's luggage based on where they're sitting in the plane and people don't usually pack their clothing in carry-ons for international flights. Claire wearing Libby's shirt means nothing.
    • She is lying to give Hurley an explanation as to why he recognizes her so that he won't remember her at Santa Rosa.
  • She lied about her feelings for Hurley. After they kissed, as he walked toward he camera away from her at the end of an episode, she made a face of disgust at the camera from behind him.
  • Her explanation of how Hurley's experiences on the island must have been real was bogus. She pointed out that he didn't remember certain things that she saw with the Tailies because he wasn't there, therefore they could not have taken place merely in his head. But she could have been in his head telling him that.

Theory 3: She works for Benjamin Linus / John Locke / Jacob / Ms. Hawking, etc.[]

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  • What if there were some people sent to fly on Oceanic 815 in order to subtly manipulate events? There's a lot up in the air at this point....
  • There is indeed. It seemed that Cindy (the flight attendant) assimilated a little too quickly and easily into the "Others". She was also responsible for giving Jack a juice-like drink (remember Juliet's juice?) right before the crash.
    • She gave him vodka. In any case, the juice Juliet drank was a sedative, Jack clearly wasn't sedated...
      • He could have been. He said he blacked out and the next thing he knew he was waking up in the jungle.
        • He fell out of a plane.
    • Cindy assimilated 'quickly' because she realized the Others had altruistic motives and meant no harm (unnecessary harm that is). The Others nabbed her because she was on the List. Also, no one knew the plane was going to crash beforehand except Abaddon and possibly Jacob (he either recruited the O6 intending them to arrive via 815 or Flight 316).
  • It is possible she was manipulated into boarding flight 815 by the Others.
    • The Others had NO idea the plane was coming. Hence their surprise.

Theory 4: She was Annie, Ben's childhood sweetheart who became Widmore's spy.[]

Summary[]

Libby = Annie Theory

Young Annie (left) and Libby (right) side-by-side.

Due to the Writer's Strike (Season 4) and Cynthia Watros' scheduling conflicts or "unwillingness to participate" (Season 5), Libby's backstory was left untold. Annie's story was also left untold. There are hints these loose-ends may be connected, with Annie actually being the child version of Libby.

Michael Emerson stated that Annie may not be someone new to the audience when she was introduced.[1] Annie's adult appearance—something that was planned to happen[2]—was therefore possibly a re-appearance for an actress who already appeared on the show in the past, someone familiar to the audience.

It explains why someone like Annie, who could easily be an original character, was (seemingly) never re-addressed after they initially teased big plans for her, which occurred after the end date for the series was set.

She never even appeared in Season 5. And it would also be very easy to simply hire an original, new actress to play her adult counterpart to enrich Ben's backstory in episodes like "Dead Is Dead", if that backstory wasn't already supposed to be fulfilled by an existing character under a different name.

In accordance with "The Other Woman — Enhanced" and the explanation given on the March 11, 2010 podcast, Annie was intended to be the connective thread to explain Ben's "obsession" with Juliet. Harper also stated Juliet bore a resemblance to Annie as part of what fuels this proxy-obsession.

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Libby's roots are dark like Annie's. She also resembles 2001 Juliet.

Appearance[]

Annie is a brunette, while Libby is blonde. However, Libby's roots are extremely dark, and while in Santa Rosa with an unkempt appearance while receiving medication by a nurse, she's revealed to be a brunette.

Annie being the child version of Libby would explain how Harper believes Flashback Juliet has an uncanny resemblance to her. Both Libby and Flashback Juliet have curly blonde hair, and Libby is a natural brunette like Annie, tying it altogether.

It would mean Libby simply altered her hair color and style, something she frequently does in the show. (Libby is a redhead to Desmond, a flat-ironed blonde woman at Sydney Airport etc.)

Her drastically changing appearances seem to indicate she was a spy. She is seen frequently wearing camouflage green t-shirts which blend in with the jungle exterior, much like Kate and Rousseau.

Name & Character Homage[]

Unused Footage from Meet Kevin Johnson

In an extended cut, Nurse Libby is bloodied up.

Annie Dutton is the name of Cynthia's Emmy winning role as an antagonistic nurse on Guiding Light. This character wounds up in a mental institution. On LOST, Libby's first flashback shows she was in a mental institution too. At one point, Annie's married surname was also Lewis.

In the season intended to show her backstory, Lewis (who appears in Hurley's flash-forward at the same mental institution where Libby once stayed) and Charlotte Lewis were introduced. Charlotte's father was named David Lewis, the name of Libby's husband, and she had a mother called Jeannette, which easily be shortened/nicknamed to Annie.

When Libby made a return cameo in "Meet Kevin Johnson", her ghost haunted Michael after he attempted suicide. She appeared as a nurse. This is another nod to her past role, and a possible future hint to a storyline that was never able to develop due to the writer's strike.

Her character on Guiding Light, Annie Lewis (née Dutton) stages a plane crash. On LOST, Libby survived a plane crash. Giving Desmond the sailboat sparked a chain reaction causing the plane crash. They may have intended to lift more homages from Cynthia's role on Guiding Light. There are a few more in relation to the fertility problem of the Island that align neatly with the fertility storyline.

DHARMA connections[]

Parentage[]
Olivia's Look

Olivia looks at her husband with concern after seeing a woman die in childbirth. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")

Her parents were the hippie DHARMA couple introduced in "The Man Behind the Curtain", Horace and Olivia Goodspeed. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, as she resembles them both; Sawyer even calls her "Moonbeam" for her hippie attitude.

  • Olivia gives Horace a concerned look after seeing Emily Linus die because she's in the early weeks of pregnancy with her daughter Annie, who will become Ben's classmate.
  • Ben shuts Horace's eyes compassionately to remember the father of the girl he fell in love with. Not just a guy who greeted him nicely when he joined DHARMA 20 years before.
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Libby "questions" the supply drop. ("Dave")

Food drop[]

When Charlie tells her about Locke's theory of the periodic re-supply drop invoked by the lockdown incident, she looks slightly unsettled, as if someone has figured out exactly what she's done without knowing she's done it. She orchestrated the scheme to get Ben in Locke's good graces, hoping it can prevent him getting killed.

"Libby" also encourages Hurley to destroy a vital food source needed to feed survivors of a plane crash. Why? She knows there's no food shortage due to her extra supply knowledge from her childhood spent with DHARMA. She also knows the main beach camp better than Hurley in under 3 weeks and can tell when he's going back in circles despite him trying to surprise her for their date location in "Two for the Road".

Hurley's sense of direction can't be too poor if Ms. Klugh can trust him to go back the way he came from his camp to make a vital warning message to never come to bother the Others. So the alternative implication is Libby knows her way about the other side of the Island she's apparently never been before a little too well. ("Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2")

Hostile flashbacks[]

When Libby says "Trust me, I know about scared", she's speaking individually; she follows up Michael's question, "That why you threw us in the pit? 'Cause you're scared?" with "we" pronouns saying: "We got trust issues". The implication is, she initially made reference to her own individual experience from the past, an experience not shared with Eko and Ana Lucia (who also experienced the abductions). ("Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2")

Annie and Libby Know About Scared

Young Annie to a frightened Young Ben about the Hostile alert. (left) Libby about Michael's fear, by making a recollection of her past. (right) ("The Man Behind the Curtain")  ("...And Found")

Whatever she recollects is not Flight 815 crash-related either; the mid-air break-up is something Michael can clearly identify with so there's no need to make a single pronoun switch for that either. After the crash, she's bubbly & quirky resetting Donald's leg as well, just having survived a plane crash. Remember how scared 11-year-old Ben was from his first Hostile alert back in the early 70s? And Annie told him not to be afraid? That is what she refers to.

  • When telling Hugo she "buried a lot of people", it may relate to The Purge, not the crash, since many bodies were lost in the ocean, and the Tailies constantly moved due to their abductions, having only buried 4 people on-screen.
  • Damon Lindelof said a fan theory Libby worked for DHARMA wasn't "barking up the wrong tree". Her parents working for DHARMA fits.

Ben connection[]

She's the reason Ben snuck to the other side of the Island when he got caught by mistake in Rousseau's trap: to set the record straight about their past together, and where her true loyalties lie. This mystery is also something they wanted to answer in Season 4, according to Lindelof at San Diego Comic Con 2007.

Ben with Annie, Hugo with Libby

Taking the hand of a scared misfit to calm them down. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")  ("Dave")

It's also possible Ben's reaction to seeing her body after Michael shot himself in "Two for the Road" after shooting her, was more emotional than the viewer was initially led to believe. Conveniently, it's off-screen. It's possible this is one of the scenes they intended to reprise in a flashback as they often do on the show. ("Two for the Road") Why Ben can't let Juliet go; she's his void-filling Annie substitute. Annie left him as a child once, then later in life again, when she betrayed him working for Widmore.

Annie and Libby

A similar dynamic is shown between Annie with Young Ben (above), and Libby with Hurley (below). ("The Man Behind the Curtain")  ("Dave")

Annie left the Island after her parents divorced. She and her mother legally changed their names (Annie became Libby) to protect the secrets of DHARMA for security purposes, similar to Marvin Candle's aliases for security reasons. After this, Olivia made Annie deny their past life. This is why Hugo's comments that she isn't real genuinely upset her despite the other lies she tells him, because her own mother denied her childhood experiences growing up on the Island.

It's extremely unlikely Ben wouldn't know about the Elizabeth sailboat, lying vacant on the Island for 3 years undetected. A security breach that big makes the Others look incompetent beyond words, plus Juliet gazes at him weirdly when he says "How?" to Colleen's remark about the survivors having a sailboat, as if he had no idea what it was or how it bypassed security for 3 years.

It's more likely its existence was so important to him that, like the Looking Glass station, only a select few Others were on need-to-know basis about its existence and/or usage, which is why Colleen and Mikhail were not unaware of the sailboat, and Mikhail was not aware of the Looking Glass jamming communications. ("The Glass Ballerina")  ("Enter 77")  ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 1")

Widmore connection[]

The Black box discussed by Captain Gault was a big mystery addressed in "Pilot, Part 1" by Shannon. The black box is located in what part of the aircraft? The tail section. Where Libby sat. The episode this is addressed "Ji Yeon", predates Libby's return by one episode. It's common on the show for a connective thread to be introduced shortly before/after one another to link them eventually. ("Pilot, Part 1")  ("Ji Yeon")  ("Meet Kevin Johnson")

Comments at Ana Lucia[]

It's odd that Libby's response to Ana Lucia being almost murdered by Fake Henry is "Don't do anything stupid". Almost like she has a reason to defend him and to preserve his life. Which, under the circumstances, and the poor knowledge they all should have of the Others at this point (Kate hasn't told anyone about the fake beard yet), either doesn't make sense or is suspiciously overcritical. ("Two for the Road")

It's very similar to an earlier interaction between the two. Ana's past mistake killing Shannon was reckless but they were in peak survival mode. Given what they went through, it was an understandable mistake, that which Eko defended her for. Some fans overlook this because they were mad at her too, but Sawyer also did the same to Sun, Jin, and Sayid and got them killed.

Libby's insistence to give her a hard time about "doing something stupid", especially when Ana is just informing her that she was almost killed by an Other, is extremely odd. Fake Henry is still a confirmed Other, a member of—at this point nobody knowing otherwise—savages with no shoes, who abducted the two kids Libby looked after, that could be dead as far as anyone with the limited knowledge they all should have knows. ("Two for the Road")

When Ana Lucia admits this information to Libby, it's after Libby glared at her when Ana lied about cutting herself shaving. So Libby knows very well that Ana has told her the truth about this, i.e "one of them" being in the Hatch. ("Two for the Road")

Bernard is genuinely grateful but matter-of-fact about his intentions to leave for the main beach camp. Meanwhile, in contrast, Libby unfairly blames Ana Lucia for Nathan's death. This is suspicious because she also contributed to his demise, calling him a creep and insinuating he was the Other plant which propelled Ana Lucia's leadership decision to make a radical choice like that.

Her loyalty is dubious. She also knows Ana won't retaliate because she is too blindsided by having killed a plane crash survivor she thought was an Other. But Ana's street-smarts haven't dimmed. She acknowledges Libby's disloyalty by telling her: "I'm already alone" when Libby says she can't stay out in the jungle alone. ("Collision")

Freighter science team ties[]

Faraday[]
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Faraday with Theresa Spencer.

Her original planned backstory may be very similar to two of Faraday's love interests, Theresa Spencer and Charlotte Lewis. Combining them, you can piece together what the original story was for. And the writers stated "several scripts went awry" because they were unable to get her return in Season 5 several times.

Theresa appears in a Desmond time-flash in "Jughead" the next episode after Ghost Ana Lucia tells Hugo that "Libby says hi" in "The Lie". It would resolve why she was in the mental institution: temporal displacement. Faraday sent her brain back in time, like the rat Eloise, causing her to revert back to a childlike state where she would ask about her doll and her dead father. ("The Constant")  ("Jughead")  ("The Variable")

He cries after seeing the news about the Oceanic Flight 815 crash because his girlfriend boarded it. The effects of his own displacement have given him brain damage, hindering his ability to remember this but somehow it registers to his psyche nonetheless. ("Confirmed Dead")  ("Jughead")

Charlotte[]

Charlotte was supposed to die in Season 4 before the writer's strike extended her lifespan. Charlotte's accent/age inconsistency can be explained by trying to rewrite her character to fit Libby's planned backstory after Cynthia Watros declined to return. Similarly, the implausibility of Ethan's age can be explained through this, as he became Horace's son after they knew Libby's backstory couldn't be told.

Desmond's convenient inability to cross paths with Ben until mid-Season 5 could be a result of them finally discarding the original plan for this extended non-interaction: because Desmond's backstory was going to show Ben and Libby together. That would also resolve the discrepancy about the Others' failing security check for the Elizabeth sailboat.

It's possible Charlotte's original backstory involved a link between her father's name, David, and Libby's alleged husband. Maybe Jeannette Staples (the spelling is technically never given on-screen, only transcripts) was Annie's full name. Therefore, she ("Libby"/Annie) was intended to be, but evidently discarded by future episodes, as Charlotte's mother. That may explain why Charlotte never bothers to inform Daniel and Lapidus about Ben's whereabouts, despite him being the prize for their primary objective. ("Confirmed Dead")  ("The Economist")

Ben shooting her was to deter suspicion he has familiarity with her or her family background (and somehow, when Michael is on the Kahana, we never see him acquire this intel on Charlotte or the others? Where'd he get it if not Ben deflecting some of his own knowledge he already had?). It's a miracle Miles lent Charlotte his vest for when hers was missing, and Charlotte could be safely shot as Ben would anticipate. Could be foreshadowing too, for when Ben eventually treated Alex like collateral damage for the mercenaries because of his power trips. Alex's death was always planned, before the strike. ("Confirmed Dead")

Kristen Bell was envisioned in the role of Charlotte, and coincidentally Annie was her given name up until high school. They love to tie real life actor history to the characters. Rebecca Mader, the alternative casting option, was therefore always supposed to play a 25-year-old. The timeline fits well with the script for "The Man Behind the Curtain": If Olivia gave a longing gaze to Horace about Emily dying in childbirth because she was pregnant with Annie, Annie would be 16 around the time Charlotte was born. This ties up neatly with Ben's fear of his adoptive daughter Alex getting pregnant at 16 with Karl AND his fear of Juliet, the Annie proxy, leaving.

Juliet and Libby Visual Comparison

A triple meaning to "The Other Woman".

Juliet comparison[]

  • A common belief is that "The Other Woman" episode title (about Juliet, a female Other, who engages in an affair) also refers to another woman who Harper thinks Juliet looks just like: Annie. This same Annie who now goes by "Libby".
  • The episode is also littered with references to the tail section survivors as a clue.
  • There are other subtle similarities between the two women.
  1. Out of the survivors of Flight 815, they first connect with the leader of a respective section of the plane (Jack/Ana). Then the first person they engage with when they arrive at the main beach camp is Hurley.
  2. Libby is "mistaken" for a doctor twice, by Ana Lucia (in "The Other 48 Days"), then Sawyer (in "Abandoned", chronologically after), because she has medical training/experience that suspiciously conflicts with her so-called "one year of med school". Juliet herself is a doctor.
  3. Like Libby, Juliet undermines her skills and says she's "more of a researcher really". Technically Juliet was not a surgeon but she was a lot more qualified/trained than she gave herself credit for.
    • Was Libby the original fertility doc before Juliet? The timing of Desmond & Juliet's on-Island arrivals in 2001 may not be a coincidence. Perhaps Juliet was her replacement, both professionally and personally to Ben. After this, Libby met Desmond & trapped him on the Island.
  4. Libby looks after Zack and Emma, alongside Cindy, before Juliet does, sometime during the time they are held in captivity from Day 12 to Day 48. Then Cindy is reinstated in that role when she joins the Others. Could it be that those kids were "really sweet" to her, despite clearly being hostages, because she reminded them of Libby? Which would tie the episode together more closely with the Harper lookalike comparisons.

Background[]

Mental Patient?[]

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Libby as patient on Santa Rosa Hospital

  • Libby was supposed to use the boat to get to the Island. When she gave the boat to Desmond she slowly spiraled into depression and psychosis, much like Jack. At this time she started seeing things, much like others who have left the Island. As a result, she was commited to Santa Rosa.
  • Became obsessed with Hurley at the hospital and been following him ever since.
  • Libby was in the mental institution, as a result of depression following her husband's death (and meeting Desmond), and took a liking to Hurley because she thought he was talking to her husband "Dave" in the afterlife.
  • It is not actually Libby in the mental institution, but a twin sister. This may explain why her hair color is different. This may also be the reason why Libby becomes a psychologist in the first place if her sister has mental issues. This theory also plays into the many themes of duality on the show.
    • The nurse who gives her the pills calls her by name. It's definitely Libby, not a twin.
      • Not if she was stealing her identity.
  • The shot of Libby in the institution is a flashforward not a flashback. Hurley ends up back in Santa Rosa after leaving the island as one of the Oceanic Six. We already know that he sees dead people at that point in his life (Charlie etc.), so why not Libby. This is before the point in the show where the flashforwards start but that doesn't mean they couldn't have slipped one in for fun.
    • If she was a ghost then it doesn't make sense that the nurse gave her pills.
  • The woman in the mental hospital is actually Libby from the alternative timeline, who has somehow crossed over. Libby who met Hurley on the island wasn't lying about not recognising him, because it wasn't actually her in the mental hospital.
    • Except there was no "alternate timeline." There was purgatory.

Clinical Psychologist?[]

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  • Libby is not a clinical psychologist. No Clinical Psychologist would call what was happening to Hurley (on the cliff after Dave jumps) a "panic attack." A panic attack does not mean standing around looking nervous; panic attack symptoms include hyperventilating, chest pain, sweating, and overall serious anxiety.
    • True, the symptoms of a real panic attack are distressing to say the least; but perhaps some artistic license should be granted. If they were to portray Hurley in the midst of an accurately depicted panic attack, any reasonable exchange of dialog couldn't occur. All in all, the symptoms were intentionally played down for dramatic effect.
    • Any real clinical psychologist could not have described a hallucination as a panic attack. The two things are very very far removed.
    • Possibly evidence she lied about her profession - possibly a production error.
    • Possibly a euphemism rather than calling it what it is.
  • Libby may have needed to choose a profession at random, so, with her experience in a mental hospital, chose a clinical psychologist because that's a job she knew pretty well.
  • Libby was working for the Vik Institute, where they experimented with autistic savants.
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Her Husband, David[]

  • A character we haven't met.
  • She was genuinely in love with him, and genuinely emotionally distraught at his death, leading her to give her boat away "for love" and causing a spell in Santa Rosa Mental Institute.
    • There's no David. David it's like Hurley's Dave, or IT'S Hurley's Dave. Her medicines were Hurley's medicines too.
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      • David is Dave, meaning Hurley's Dave. For one, They have the same first name. Also, Hurley sees GHOSTS! Dave was at the hospital while Libby was there, and Dave keeps urging Hurley to do bad things for his well being because Dave notices that Libby keeps watching Hurley. Another thing is while on the Island, just around the time Hurley starts dating Libby, Dave shows up and bluntly put tells Hurley to kill himself.
  • David was one of the two people who died in the collapsing deck accident that resulted in Hurley being committed to the hospital. The timeline fits perfectly for both Hurley and Libby, plus it's consistent with the theme of characters' lives intersecting when a loved one dies. (Shannon's father dying in Jack's hospital, Sawyer buying Christian alcohol that likely contributed to his death, etc.)

Miscellaneous[]

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  • Libby is a "bad" person. The Others kidnapped all the "good" people from the Tailies camp, but did not kidnap Ana Lucia, Eko, Libby or Bernard. It is obvious why Ana Lucia and Eko were bad people, but Libby and Bernard are still unclear.
    • Eko was being taken by the Others, though. He killed two of them while they were taking him. We know that is fact.
    • Not necessarily true. Both raids on the tailies resulted in casualties for The Others (Eko kills 2 the first night, Ana Lucia kills one the 12th) Then on the trek back to the beach Cindy is taken even though she wasn't on the list of 9. It's possible they just didn't get around to Bernard or Libby yet.
      • Cindy wasn't on Goodwin's list, but it's been made clear that Goodwin's list and the Lighthouse candidates were listed for different reasons. She did ultimately end up at the Temple.
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        • The Others tried to take Eko on the first night. Before Goodwin told Ana Lucia that Nathan wasn't on the list "because he wasn't a good person", he listed traits like 'strong, athletic.. threats' to describe why some tailies were taken and others weren't. Ana Lucia located 1 list of 9 tailies on the female Other she killed - perhaps the other Others had different lists: Cindy could have been on another list. Personally I think the Others came back for Cindy because she had already forged a friendship with Emma and Zack, and she could help calm them - perhaps the kids even asked for her to be able to join them.
          • Cindy hadn't forged a relationship with the kids, though. Prior to being taken by the Others, Cindy was never even shown talking to them.
    • To expand, when she was murdered, Michael shot her out of panic; he had no intention to kill her in his mission to free Ben. This would explain why she appeared to Michael several times in "Meet Kevin Johnson"; and why Michael became a whisper and could not move on, because he caused the death of someone who was not meant to die.
      • Hurley said if Michael had had time to think about it, he would still have shot Libby and Ana Lucia. Hurley and Michael were working together. They both wanted the targets to die.
        • Maybe Libby did a bad thing (a crime) and took an Insanity Plea?
  • Libby is the Elizabeth mentioned in the whispers.
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