Week Seven: Minnesota on Youtube

The interesting (and relevant) part of this clip is how the man introduces himself. He says "My name is Henry Gale. I'm from Minnesota!" Later episodes reveal that "Henry Gale" is actually Benjamin Linus, leader of the others and television's greatest villain, and that he stole his identity from a man named Henry Gale from Wayzata, MN who crashed on the island in his hot air balloon (yes, "Wizard of Oz" references abound on this show). The question, though, is why choose a Minnesotan as his false identity? The answer, this clip seems to suggest, is that Minnesotans are gentle, innocent, and unlikely to be villainous island-dwellers out to kidnap plane crash victims.