Locke is not dead!!! Ben and the others needed the O6 to return along with everyone else that made their escape. So he fakes his death by using the spiders that paralyze you to bring them home. This is why Ben insist that Jack must bring Locke back to because he is not really dead.

Annie Bens childhood girlfriend is alive! She is Charlotte who may have moved the island to escape the Others and the gas. Ben helped her get off to save her she landed in the desert where later she was...