I don't think Ben ever had any idea that Karl and Rousseau would be shot. He looked shocked when told that Alex was their hostage. IMO, he believed she would make it to that temple before anything bad happened.
I officially hate Keamy and I can't wait to see the episode when he is killed. What he did was barbaric and I cannot believe Smokey did not get him.
I'm not sure there was anything Ben could have done to save Alex once Keamy had her. I'm pretty sure that even if Ben had surrendered himself, Alex along with everyone else would have been killed. Also as Ben stated, Widmore had changed the rules. Was one of the rules that family members could not be killed or used as pawns? What kind of sick game are these people playing?
Good-bye young Alex. I would imagine that as an actor you never want to find out you are going to be killed off of the show your on. But in all honesty, I'll bet their are a thousand out there who would "die" for the chance to be killed off of Lost.
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