The Incident - What Is It?

As we all know the season finale is titled "The Incident".

The name itself leads us to believe something on a massive scale is about to happen, and many people are thinking that the incident involves the Hydrogen bomb, the Swan Station and something called Electromagnetism and it all coming together explosively. Indeed, many audience members are expecting such.

But, just a thought, what if the "Incident" doesn't really have anything to do with the H-bomb, the Swan or the infamous electromagnetic energy burst?

In Follow The Leader the last thing Sawyer trades to get himself and Juliet onto the sub is a map to the Hostiles. Radzinsky demanded it. Do you remember? I didn't even pay attention to that part of the scene until today, as I was thinking about what could be the incident.

Then I started putting two and two together and possibly have come up with eleventeen, but bear with me.

We know an "incident" occurred during of shortly after construction of the Swan.
Pierre Chang's right arm is unmoving and appears to have been amputated in the orientation video.

Ben and the Others apparently did not know about the existence of the Swan until after Locke and Jack had blown the hatch door (I am skeptical of this, but I'll explain later).
Despite the gassing purge of the island, Danielle survived, as did Radzinsky and Kelvin Inman.

Okay, so here's my blazingly brilliant thought.

What if the incident is Dharma attacked the Hostiles, a battle ensued and, in the end, neither side wins?

Just a thought.

The reason why I doubt that Ben and the Others didn't know about the Swan's existence is simple. There were enough people working on the project within Dharma, some of them actually wearing coveralls with the Swan insignia, that Ben would have noticed. Not only that, I believe Amy, Ethan's mother and Horace's wife, was a Hostile spy. I can think of no other way how Ethan would have been with Ben and the Hostiles in 1988 when Alex was taken. ClearwaterChica from the Lost Message Boards actually helped me to make the connection by pointing out the elderly Amelia. Amelia. Amy could be short for Amelia. Someone else on the boards also pointed out the pendant Amy's first husband wore around his neck, and how important it was to Amy. Which was the same symbol connected to the statue. Even if Ben himself didn't know about the Swan, I'm sure Amy, having Horace's confidence, would have known and told the Others.

"Uhm, hey, guys? Remember when I was living among the Dharma folks and having babies and sharing pillow talk with their leader? Well, he told me about a top secret station they were building in our territory.....And well, if you're gonna kill all these people, maybe you might want to take care of the ones in that station too. Just thought you'd like to know...."

Or something like that. The point is, the Others utilized every resource they could from Dharma and it stands to reason that they would make sure they had total control of the island by taking out whomever was in that station. Of course, they could have made a deal with Radzinsky to push the button and let him think he was saving the world. There is also the possibility that, with the duration of the term of service in the Swan, the station was sealed for that period of time automatically ( a kind of don't' open until Christmas idea) and, by the end of that time the Others had forgotten about it.

Or not. Soon we will see.

A super-hyped, getting really, really excited Arcticroses.