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Listen to me, we don't have time for this. Everyone who stays here is going to die. Now get Alex and get away right now, I don't care where you go, just go, I will not have my daughter...
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Was this a slip of the tongue? Throughout season three we barely saw Ben being around Alex and when he was he didn't do much more than act like a distant father/authority figure but suddenly he gets extremly flustered and starts raving, not about his own safety or trying to convince Danielle that he could help her if she set him free... but to save Alex? Obviously he knows that Danielle wouldn't take kindly to such a sentance and it would have been just as easy to say her name rather than referring to her as his offspring so was it a slip of the tongue? Does this show how much he cares about her, or that Ben can still care for anyone but himself?
Or was it all a ploy? To try and rile Danielle up for some kind of reason that I'm not sure of yet.
I think it's quite likely a slip-up, he didn't exactly have a good idea of how to be a father from his own (although, who on the island has done?) and he rarely shows his own emotions as it is so I think it's likely that he didn't mean to say it.