S6E8 CON DESCENDING

"Recon" was an overdose of liars conning other liars.

Flocke admits that he conned Claire into believing that the Others had stolen her baby, Aaron. It fed that illusion into Claire's marginal brain so she could survive on the hate building up within her. Flocke could be considered a farmer; he is cultivating a crop of Hate.

Flocke has fully darkened the hatred within Sayid. It conned Sayid with the promise that he could be with Nadia again. Flocke never said when or where or how. I just see a distant off-ramp called Hell.

Flocke lets pit bull Claire to attack Kate in order to set up a "double con" on Kate later. By taking responsibility for Claire's actions, Flocke attempts to let Kate's survivalist instincts down and prey upon the reason Kate returned to the island to find Claire. By putting Claire into a fake "time out," it makes it appear that Claire has changed to apologize to Kate. In the bear hug of remorse, Claire is actually "infecting" Kate with Smokey's darkness. When Flocke takes Kate to the beach to wait for Sawyer's return, it claims to have had a "crazy mother." Flocke must be channeling memories of John Locke because when does smoke monsters have mothers? It was a set up of authoritative opinion that Aaron also has a crazy mother in Claire. This is to shock Kate into having no purpose in leaving the island to reunite mother and child. She needs to tether herself to something or someone, and the only confident left is Sawyer, for whom Flocke desperately wants to manipulate to the end game.

I did not buy into Sawyer's "triple cross." First, Flocke already knew what was going on at Hydra (he was heading his recruits there). The Ajira victims appeared to be mowed down like the Temple people. Second, Widmore was too quick to "deal" with Sawyer (besides if both know he is Smokey, no one said they know how or if Smokey can be killed). Third, Flocke expected Sawyer to lie to him, and when he did not, Smokey's plan self-executed. Fourth, when Sawyer told Kate he is going after the sub, he was in essence telling Smokey because after Claire's "hug" I believe Kate is now "infected"= partially under Smokey's control.

History will repeat itself. If Smokey is channeling Locke's memories, Flocke will blow up the sub: no one is leaving the island, including Flocke. Flocke just wants "loyal" worshippers. The rest be damned. I think this is the final glide path of the story line, the slow descent into Hell.