[D-Roc]

Indeed. It seems to be a game that these two are playing..obviously a game with high stakes and ultimate consequences.

I agree with the sqaure one thing - Widmore wants to torch the island, so it seems to suggest that doing so would restart the game or something..perhaps capturing Ben and torching the island would restart time of something out-there like that, as I can't see why else he'd want to destroy the thing.

Or, perhaps Widmore was once a "chosen one", and he moved the island and was therefore unable to return...so destroying the island would be his revenge on jacob, or perhaps a tabula rasa, allowing him to re-claim it..or something.