Possibly Deep Thoughts

I changed my mind about Richard Alpert a couple of weeks later, before Ben met the smoke monster.

Horace called him “your friend with the eye shadow”, and it clicked for me. The ancient Egyptians use kohl around their eyes. There have been hieroglyphics around since the hatch timer.

Richard Alpert’s initials are RA. To quote the old fortunes program:

Ra is the sun god!
He is a fun god!
Ra Ra Ra!

The revelations in the season finale seem to point in a different direction.