mousehands : ask philip

I don’t claim to be an expert in such matters, but this seems the most likely scenario: Boone is a secret government agent, and faked his own death in the smack-plane in order to lull the other lostees into a sense of their own failed mortality.

Freed from the shackles of being expected to be anywhere but buried somewhere in the forest, he quickly builds in the inside of the bunker and programs the computer system, inspired by the tales of cursed numbers and navigational mishaps. Everyone who dies on the island is part of his plot, which I can finally reveal to be a bit of a let down.

The power eventually goes to his head, and he eventually eats all the berries on the island, ignorant of the poisonous juices within. He then promptly dies himself, thus becoming his own conspiracy victim.

The remaining three survivors (Locke, Sayid and the Australian girl) board a specially built truck, bound for England, where they dance and sing and throw toilet paper around.