It was curious at least last week. But Danielle BLATANTLY cutting off Patchy...... anyone else's "other-dar" going off??????:eek2:

I just posted that same question in another thread! lol

YES! She is acting more suspicious than usual.

She's not an Other.

But she KNOWS a lot more about the Others than she's ever let on!

Totally agree that she knows more than she has claimed..... but how can you say for certain that she is not an other????

She's SO an Other.

I'm just glad that Kate's finally picking up on it... I would think that Sayid would be getting suspicious, too. He's usually able to spot a liar a mile away.

I'm not sure if she's still part of the "others" community, but she may be a renegade other or made a deal with the Others.

I'm not sure if she's still part of the "others" community, but she may be a renegade other or made a deal with the Others.
A renegade like her DAUGHTER?????:):)

It's clearly an evil plot designed by TPTB.. we dont know whose side Juliet, Danielle, and now Jack are really on. They're messing with us and loving it!
It does seem like something is way off with Danielle. I felt bad for her though when she was talking about Alex to Kate.

A renegade like her DAUGHTER?????:):)

Hey, like mother like daughter

I'm going to have to disagree with youall. I think that the scene with Kate at the stream was included specifically to humanize Rousseau (and maybe even quell some fan-theories?).

I do agree that she has more knowledge of the Others than she's letting on. We should all remember that in the episode "Exodus" we were given proof that Danielle was at least conspiring with the Others. However I do not think that she's a full-fledged Other.

She's not an Other.

But she KNOWS a lot more about the Others than she's ever let on!Agreed. She knows a lot more about the Others and the island, but I don't think that she is an Other. She may have been related to them/their projects at some point, but she is not an Other.

You could be right. This is lost and they do like to mess with fan's heads. They could just be building up to a big twist that someone else that we weren't suspecting is an other.

When she interrupted Bakunin, I honestly yelled at my tv :"DUDE! STFU!!" :blowup:

I have to watch this episode again, but I got the feeling Danielle really didn't object to anything Locke did. She might have her own agenda, but she's thinking a lot like Locke now.

Danielle really bothered me in this episode. There were a few things out of character for her, IMO.

When Kate confronted her about not asking about Alex, for one. OK, I can understand where Danielle was coming from in her reply to Kate. Perhaps, she traded Alex in order to survive. Whether she was an Other or not, maybe that was the only way for her to remain on the island, undisturbed by the Others. It could be guilt that keeps her from asking about her daughter.

But I found her interruption of Patchy saying "paralized" completely out of character. When have we ever heard Danielle interrupt with a "Hey!" She watches, she listens, she waits, then she comments. That scene bothered me. I could see Kate interrupting with the "Hey!" but not Danielle.

Of course, perhaps Danielle is the last remnant of DHARMA, rather than a hostile/other.

Assuming what was said last ep about the purge is true, perhaps she had a relationship with Ben and betrayed the other scientists in her team when they decided to 'purge' the hostiles/others. It would explain her enforced isolation and obsession with being undetected. It would explain why the others took Alex. It would explain how she was able to change the transmission in the beacon.

Perhaps the 'sickness' she described was real enough, but she means a mental sickness resulting in a powerful desire to control the island alone. That would have caused her fellow scientists to plan the purge, and assuming she was unnaffected she may have felt compassion for the others, formed a relationship with Ben, betrayed her fellow DHARMA scientists and when she became pregnant Ben had her daughter brought to live with the others as insurance against Danielle should she ever come down with the sickness herself.

So I'm throwing out free radicals here, but it sure would explain a lot... particularly given we know the cables are DHARMA and they led Sayid to Danielle's trap back in S1.

Just some thoughts... Danielle sure is shaping up to be an intiguing character...

LOL I find the title of this thread to be amusing. Danielle was a GIANT question mark from the beginning. I think that many of us placed our own opinions of what she should be upon her before ever learning much about her. I know I had sky high hopes about her when we first met her.

Finally, we are starting to get a better picture of her in relation to the Island and other people. It is kind of funny, "better the monster we know than the one we don't" or something to that effect. We trust what we assume is the situation above the unknown possibilities.

Danielle, in my opinion, is the one who has her head on straight given her time on the Island and its toll upon her. She may seem pessimistic, but she has reason to feel so. As far as her interrupting the Russian? Dude, that is how the show goes. How many times have you wished to hear a conversation to the end only to have it detour into something totally unrelated? To my count I'm up to fifteen at least.

Man I don't know...that cut-off to me said she didn't want LKS knowing too much. She wanted to kill Patchy early on - perhaps because he already said too much. I mean, what parent (including Christian) wouldn't want to see their kid after they find out they're alive and where they are.

Dudes - she's a spy for the Others...I'm convinced.

If Danielle isn't an Other then why hasn't she seen the flame or Other Ville before? She has been on the island for 15 or 16 years...So I believe if I was on a Island I would explore the entire island.....Just something to think about..

She did seem to be in an awful hurry to kill Patchy. Like she was afraid he was going to rat her out.

if Danielle is not an other, she must have been at one time. She is always trying to convince our losties to kill others, see Ben in her trap, Ms. Klugh and Mikhail. I found it interesting that just as she was cutting off Mikhail's description of what he knew about Locke, she was point out a large sonic 'fence' that no one else seemed to notice. everyone in this thread seems to agree that she knows more than she is letting on, the speculation is centered around is she an other, last remnant of Dharma or innocent castaway? IMO the three aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. could be a Dharma member that shipwrecked then became an other, and is now simply an outsider.

Naw...I thought it was just a writing technique. Having the other Losties know that Locke was paralyzed before the crash...can't have that happening, not yet, not like that. It was just a little cookie for us :)

I really do not agree that it was simply a writing tool to keep the other Losties ignorant about Locke having been paralyzed... Danielle has always been eager to kill off Others. And her repeated efforts to cut Patchy off are too frequent and un-Danielle to be mere tools to keep the Losties in the dark about Locke's paralysis..IMHO.....
As mentioned above in the thread (fed2245), I too feel that Danielle could have been a combination of past DHARMA, past OTHER or another Cast away..... I also am intrigued by the idea that she may have given Alex up to escape the Others......very cool thought!
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Danielle really bothered me in this episode. There were a few things out of character for her, IMO.

When Kate confronted her about not asking about Alex, for one. OK, I can understand where Danielle was coming from in her reply to Kate. Perhaps, she traded Alex in order to survive. Whether she was an Other or not, maybe that was the only way for her to remain on the island, undisturbed by the Others. It could be guilt that keeps her from asking about her daughter.

But I found her interruption of Patchy saying "paralized" completely out of character. When have we ever heard Danielle interrupt with a "Hey!" She watches, she listens, she waits, then she comments. That scene bothered me. I could see Kate interrupting with the "Hey!" but not Danielle.
Had to go back to quote the Goddess..... totally agree with this!!!!!!! LOVE THE IDEA of her having given Alex up, links her to Claire's plan to give up Aaron.....

Perhaps the sickness she spoke of was the scientists she was with joined the Others.

She did use the term "infected" in describing their state. Infected with their ideology? Maybe Ben is her husband. But, then again, he did mention he's been on the island his whole life.

I'm flummoxed.

Or maybe they were all on the Others' side, and a few broke off and were infected by the real-world way of thinking.

I don't think Danielle is an Other. Remember, she captured Ben in that net last season and told Sayid. She said she should kill Ben but Sayid disagreed. At in retrospect, they should have killed Ben.

And I think she was right about EyePatch. I just think she's totally paranoid (and rightly so) about most the people she encounters on the island. I mean, she did somewhat torture Sayid when she met him.

All that aside, I do love the character.
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Also, people keep saying how Ben is Alex's father and when did Rousseau and him connect.

Ben is Alex's father only in the sense that he took her when she was a week old, and he's raised her ever since. I think people are reading more into the Rousseau/Ben relationship than there really is.

Wow, Lost induces paranoia in its viewers. I've got a bad case myself. Danielle has been a big question mark since she made her first appearance. Her behavior has always left me wondering. Suspicious behavior that has invoked a variety of theories. Who knows? I used to have a lot of similar questions about Kate, but they seem unwarranted now. Danielle is possibly the most enigmatic character on the island. Perhaps there is nothing more to her story. Interesting thread.

Danielle is possibly the most enigmatic character on the island. Perhaps there is nothing more to her story. Interesting thread.There's gotta be more to her story. She's been there for 16 years. I keep hoping for a Danielle flashback.

It's GOTTA happen, goddessblue. It's just GOTTA!

From your lips, STH!! I've been wanting one since we first met that crazy lady, lol.

I think David and Carlton said in an Official Podcast that a Danielle flashback was probably going to happen in season 4.

She did seem to be in an awful hurry to kill Patchy. Like she was afraid he was going to rat her out.

I'd have to watch it again... but, when she walked up to Sayid right before the flame exploded she started talking. The camera showed patchy's face as she walked up behind them and he had a creapy grin on his face - my first thought was that he recognized her voice... hmmm....

Danielle's suspicous behavior is evidence that she is an Other. I am certain that this is so, the producers are just waiting for the time to reveal it.

Of course, perhaps Danielle is the last remnant of DHARMA, rather than a hostile/other.

Assuming what was said last ep about the purge is true, perhaps she had a relationship with Ben and betrayed the other scientists in her team when they decided to 'purge' the hostiles/others. It would explain her enforced isolation and obsession with being undetected. It would explain why the others took Alex. It would explain how she was able to change the transmission in the beacon.

Perhaps the 'sickness' she described was real enough, but she means a mental sickness resulting in a powerful desire to control the island alone. That would have caused her fellow scientists to plan the purge, and assuming she was unnaffected she may have felt compassion for the others, formed a relationship with Ben, betrayed her fellow DHARMA scientists and when she became pregnant Ben had her daughter brought to live with the others as insurance against Danielle should she ever come down with the sickness herself.

So I'm throwing out free radicals here, but it sure would explain a lot... particularly given we know the cables are DHARMA and they led Sayid to Danielle's trap back in S1.

Just some thoughts... Danielle sure is shaping up to be an intiguing character...
I agree, I definitely think she is dharma :)