S6E8 SECOND PURGE

This one point of the episode probably will not get much attention because it got little time.

Ajira Flight 316 was a Boeing 737-700 airplane. The configurations for this plane is 121-148 passengers. Since it was a two cabin configuration, let us assume there was approximately 128 passengers. Hurley bought the remaining 78 tickets. That leaves 50 passengers plus crew on board the plane. Ilana and her four guards brings it down to 45. Take away the O6 returnees, Ben and Frank the pilot, we are down to approximately 40 Ajira survivors on Hydra Island.

The plane survivors were only on Hydra Island for less than three days in current island time. Widmore henchwoman Zoe claimed that she was piling them up from the beach. They don't appear to have gunshot wounds, but Sawyer's reaction was that they had been dead for more than a day, like dead Locke. So it would appear that they were killed on their Day 2.

It means that after Ilana's crew left for the main island, the Ajira passengers were killed. It is not known who or what killed them, but the inference is that Widmore's boat arrived on Day 3. His men were just putting up the sonic barrier fence, which would have been a priority against a smoke monster attack. But when Widmore sent the freighter to the island, his instructions were clear: kill everyone on the island.

If Widmore killed 40 innocent passengers upon his arrival, what was the purpose? To keep them from Flocke's control?

If Flocke killed the 40 passengers, what was his purpose? To keep them from joining Widmore? Or, is there just a innate disdain for humans as stated by MIB to Jacob in their initial beach scene?

In either possibility, there is no social redeeming quality to either Widmore or Flocke.

Unless there is another recycled concept, like "the Other 48 Hours" for the Ajira folks, we will never know the context of this purge.