Okay, so according to our resident ghostbuster Miles, Charlotte came “back” to the island. That means that she’d been there before.
How?
My guess is that she was born to one of the members of the DHARMA Initiative. I don’t think that women started dying during pregnancy until after the Purge, when Ben took control of the Others. Some have suggested that she could be Annie’s daughter, maybe Ben’s too.
Other fans have suggested that she could be one of the island natives, like Richard Alpert, who doesn’t appear to age. I think that might be a bit of a stretch.
But it definitely makes sense that she’d been there before. She knew she’d find the DHARMA collar when she was at the excavation site in Tunisia with the polar bear skeleton. And the look on her face right before she cut herself loose when she first parachuted onto the island was breathless excitement. It was either “it does exist” or “it’s good to be home.”
Why did she react the way she did when Miles brought it up? A few people seem to think that she doesn’t remember being on the island before. I think this is silly. She has always been quite secretive. She denied knowing Korean until Jin told her what he would do to Daniel. It makes plenty of sense that she would deny something big like having been on the island before… until she got caught out in the lie.
