Theories!!!

For me, there are a lot of tiny little details that hint at other things. The first thing I'd like to discuss is definitely vague, but we need more details before we can conclusively theorize: Team Statue. Here are the options:

A. Team Statue is the next generation of the Dharma Initiative. Personally, I'm a big fan because they WOULD know what was in the shadow of the statue. Also, they could have access to the knowledge of how to get back to the island. If this last bit is true, could there have been other next gen Dharma guys that came back? Henry Gale, anyone?

B. Team Statue is part of the Others. We know that they're out there. We know that, for now with the absence of Locke and Ben, they are leaderless (unless Richard automatically steps up). We don't know where they are right because they haven't taken any of the 316ers (as far as we know). We know that the Others CAN leave the island. This means it's definitely possible for them to be part of the Others. The one fallout of this theory is that when Bram talked to Miles, Ben would've been the leader of the Others and hence would've known about them or ordered them to. But Ben didn't even look like he acknowledged Bram or Ilana . . . could they be a splinter-group that broke off from the Others? Who would their leader be?

C. They work for someone else entirely.

Something else: Why were they taking the body to the Orchid? What were they going to do with the body there? Time-travel it? But, as Ben says, you can't come back from the dead. Or do they just want to hide the body?

Also, what was Faraday doing off-island? Many have theorized that he's off building the pendulum, but the pendulum is in L.A. not in Ann Arbor. But wouldn't the need that for Dharma to find the island in the first place? Speaking of that, how did Dharma even hear about the island? The numbers? Or, is Faraday working on getting our Losties back to the present? We'll see.