I'm going to spoil font this, because I don't know if there are other disscussions about the newspaper clipping about the funeral or not. For this to make sense, you need to have seen a screen capture of the newspaper clipping that Jack had about the funeral.

In the newspaper clipping, and we could see that the funeral was for a John Latham/Lantham? Well, they replayed the scene when Ben first arrived at the island with his father. When his father was getting his "workman" uniform, he complains to the girl who was distributing the clothing about being a janitor. The girl checks a list and says, "Yes, right here, Mr. Latham - Workman." I am about 100% sure that is what she said, but I haven't had a chance to confirm that anywhere.

So what do I think this means? Well, it could mean that Ben made up his last name - Linus - or just had a different name than his father for some reason. Perhaps if Ben had to return to the "real" world he assumed his father's name… and somehow had a teenage son. That part I'm not sure about.

I can't find anything in LostPedia's transcript (http://lostpedia.com/wiki/The_Man_Behind_the_Curtain_transcript), but I'll have a listen tonight when I get home

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'The Man Behind the Curtain' -
Roger gets PO'D that he's a janitor for the DI and Opal the Nurse tells him
" I'm sorry Mr. Linus... "
That's both the Season 3 DVD (with subs) and my dvr recording of episode #20 from last spring.

UGH. Could this be something that was slightly altered in the REVIEW? I remember they did that with Boone in the plane, so dang... it's hard to trust them completely even if the originally broadcasted scene had the woman saying LINUS.

>>>I SWEAR she said "LATHAM"
>>>Could this be something that was slightly altered in the REVIEW?

Don't know why I was with you on this notion, but I just
re- watched my VHS taping of the "Review" (Broadcast before the Season 4 opener) and there was no "Latham" only "Linus"