New Theory

I'm going to start off by saying that I didn't come up with this. However, none of us have even mentioned it and it could be something to think about (credit goes to a couple of writers at IGN.com).

Could the sickness Rousseau was referring to be the "time sickness" that Charlotte/Minkowski/various other people have exhibited? For that matter, would that mean she or her team got caught up in the time warps?

I personally don't think she or her team get caught up in the time warps. However, if the sickness is the same thing, I'm thinking she just saw someone exhibiting the symptoms and freaked out. Maybe instead of blowing someone else's mind with the time travel statement, Faraday just tells her that it is some sort of disease and she goes nuts and kills her team.

Looking back at some of the older episodes, she says that [she thinks] the Other's are the carriers of the disease and that they have a cure. Could the cure possibly be something to stop the "time sickness" in some way (Claire did get injected right....forget but that may have some play)? And again, are the original Others (or Hostiles) be immuned to this and thats why Alpert has lived for so long?

So....any thoughts about this? Possible but not likely? Or nothing at all/doesn't really mean all that much to the show either way? Again, I was kind of paraphrasing what all they said (article here: http://tv.ign.com/articles/951/951916p1.html ) .