Perhaps this is Widmore in part attempting to cover up something he's done - I'll buy Ben's having aged the crash, is the best explanation for he bodies (as I said before, the fake pilot looked like the real pilot - the only difference we know of was the missing ring, not that the guy just looked totally different). I don't actually think there's stoop to (pretending a lot of living people are dead is bad enough in itself, if he really is complicit in that - certainly he care about Zack and Emma's mourning parents), but for complication's sake I suspect more and co are being set up as genuinely worse than Ben and co. So maybe they're using the fact that Ben planted the crash and as a story of to cover something they've done regarding the cloning/bodies that's potentially even worse ....?
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