At the beginning of the season, Sayid is brought to the temple on Jacob's orders to Hurley. He's dying from a (gunshot?) wound or whatever type of wound it was (weirdly enough I can't remember how he became injured lol).
After the leader of this new group of Others breaks open the wooden ankh and reads the piece of paper inside of it, they take injured Sayid into the temple to try and save him. When Hurley demands to know what the piece of paper says, the wimpy 2nd-in-command guy says something like "It says if your friend dies, we're in big trouble".
After trying to save Sayid in the discolored healing waters and it appears it didn't work, the head "Other" checks Sayid out, and then rather dismissively says something in his own language and walks away. Wimpy 2nd-in-command guy says "Your friend's dead" in matter-of-fact tone and walks away as well. What happened to "If your friend dies, we're in big trouble"? lol...They didn't seem to care too much that he didn't survive.
Then, of course, Sayid actually does come back to life, and the new Others promptly try to kill him again lol...they say he's "infected" (I'm guessing it was evilness/smokie/whatever that discolored the water and entered Sayid's body that way) and that he needs to die because of it. Well, whether Sayid dies from his original injury or he dies from being infected and poisoned, he still ends up dead either way. So what happened to "we're in big trouble" if Sayid doesn't make it? Does it now no longer matter if Sayid lives or dies? And did Jacob know ahead of time that Sayid would end up infected?
So now, apparently the entire temple population is looking at Sayid and freaked out by him...the head Other tried to get him poisoned...they all feel he's "infected" and thus somehow a danger while still alive....but NOBODY tries to kill him other than through the poison pill? Is he now unable to be killed except by poisoning? Nobody's taking aim at him with a bow and arrow and just shooting him through the heart? Rousseau was apparently able to kill off her entire team after they became infected and she just used a gun, not poison...couldn't the Others do the same with Sayid? Maybe not with a gun (although Ben's group of Others had guns and were damn good with them, too lol), but with whatever manpower and weapons they DO have? And why didn't they just kill Sayid while they were torturing him?
Did I miss something important that helps make Sayid's storyline a little less headscratching? lol
