Well, I'm not convinced she's innocent of anything. She has done something illegal/criminal in her past. Her statement to Sawyer "you don't know women who are exactly like me" indicates that she's definitely got an edge to her.

I think she killed someone, perhaps in self-defense, or she was high at the time, but I believe she did commit a serious crime.

Pardon the serial, but I just thought: If the island is turning everyone into the opposite of what they've been before, then shouldn't Jack become callous and selfish, or else ineffectual a la "I'm a lifeguard!" Boone. He's always been a help-the-helpless hero type.

And why isn't the island mojo working on everyone? Dang, I wish I'd been taping this thing.

If it's Forbidden Planet , who's the innocent girl? Kate? Or is that taking it too far?

I think it might be too far. The only paralell I see to the movie is the possibility of an id-magnifier.

I'm going with the first one for now, Gus. Abrams has said he likes to write about "ordinary people in extraordinary situations," and Jack's hallucinations can be explained away as him being sleep-deprived.

I think she killed someone, perhaps in self-defense, or she was high at the time, but I believe she did commit a serious crime.

Me too. I don't think she was high, but I could believe she either did it in self-defense or in an act of revenge, as someone suggested upthread.

And i'm defiinitely getting a high-priest vibe off of Locke.

Not just sleep-deprived, either... he's been through his father's death, a plane crash, nearly being eaten by some big unseen monster, and having to perform a mercy killing. If that's not enough to cause a legitimate nervous breakdown, I don't know what is.

Matt,

yeah because he started seeing his father the morning after the burning of the BODYS and it probably brought up all these feelings for him as well.

I am tempted to think the island is strange, that something extraordinary is at work there. Actually, though, there are only three datapoints for that idea. A conk on the head rarely heals paralyzed legs, some of the trees seem to be epileptic, and OMGWTF.

There may be real-world solutions for all of those.

Post-traumatic stress/sleep deprivation can certainly account for Jack's actions in White Rabbit. The usefulness of those hallucinations (finding water, meeting Locke with the boar) seems a little suspect, though.

And why isn't the island mojo working on everyone?

We haven't seen enough of everyone's stories to know, yet.

shouldn't Jack become callous and selfish

He did. He refused to participate in the memorial service for the dead passengers. He was a tad rude about his refusal, too. The opposite I see in Jack is that before, he kept his light under a bushel. He was eclipsed by his father before the crash, pushed around by his mother, and now he's getting his moment to shine and a chance to have a say in what he chooses to do.

Now that I've defended my theory, I just gotta say, it's A theory. One of probably half a dozen I'll come up with before the show's half-way over. I wear a lot of tinfoil. You need feel no compulsion in wadding it up and chucking it in the trash. I'll just go buy more.

He did. He refused to participate in the memorial service for the dead passengers.

That's probably lingering daddy issues, though.