Exactly, tricks. They gave us the deal there--when Des woke up with a new memory that had just happened in his past (my brain!), that was a big old hint. That also implies that all the island escapees (not just the 6, but Desmond and probably Frank too) are somehow temporally joined--otherwise Daniel's "now" in the past couldn't sync up with Desmond's "now" in the present. That's going to be useful, because it'll me that the O6 (plus Locke, Ben, and Frank) can still communicate somehow even though they are split into two teams in two times.
Richard also gave us an out when he said that whatever he did to proto-Ben in the Temple was going to erase his memory. I sort of thought that was cheating.
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