Well, LOST threw it at us hard and heavy this past Thursday. Even before the first commercial break we see John Locke being born in the late 50s to a girl in her late teens; we see Locke, Hurley, and Ben in the jungle searching for the cabin (and Ben says to Locke that he's been following Hurley); and we see the commando boys back on the boat -- their leader Martin Keamy wants to kill Michael (Kevin) because he gave up all of the ship personnel's identities to Ben for some other of his plans. Of course, Mikey's luck still holds out when the gun pointed at his face will not fire -- nope, the island still has work for him to do. Yes, indeed, all this in less than 6-1/2 minutes.
This episode hops around the stories more than most, so try to stay close. Back in the jungle, John is the only one "awake" and hears wood being chopped. When he goes to find where it's coming from, he meets up with an ax-wielding man, a mathematician from the Arrow Hatch named Horace (oh, he mentions that he's been dead for 12 years, just in case a few seconds had made it by that weren't strange enuf). He says, "You gotta find me John, and when you do, you'll find . . . Jacob. He's been waiting for you for a real long time." But John is only dreaming this and he wakes up, and seems urgent to get the search going. Ben chimes in that he used to have dreams.
Back in the hospital, the nurse says that John is the youngest baby ever born in that hospital (6 months). John's mom and grandmom are there; and when the nurse lifts the baby to give him to John's mom, she freaks a bit, "I can't, I just can't." Then she runs out of the room. The grandmother inquires as to who to contact for adoption purposes. All this time, a man has been looking in on the room. Grandma asks the nurse, "Is that the father?" The nurse replies, "I don't know who that is." Well to us he looks quite a bit like Ben's adviser, Dr. Richard Alpert -- seemingly ageless -- but they know how to handle time's frustrating always-moving-forward characteristics.
Five years later he's back with five-year-old John, this time he's asking John to pick out which objects rightfully belong to him. Locke chooses a compass and a knife, what he needed to turn into the hunter he is on the island years later. Though, Richard seems frustrated that he chose the knife and leaves, telling the mom that John is not quite ready for his school. Interestingly here, John has an older sister and younger brother, and seemingly a different mom -- so he must be living with his adoptive parents.
John, Hurley, and Ben are at the death-pit of the Dharma Initiative, where all the dead Dharma bodies have been dumped, and where Ben had shot John and left him for dead. As Ben says, "I should have realized at the time that it was pointless, but I really wasn't thinking clearly." Ben also notes that it was the others that wiped out the Dharma initiative, though it was not his decision. It was the Others' leaders who decided and Ben was not one of them at the time.
All this time while Ben and Hurley have been talking, Locke has been in the pit searching through the bodies. He finally finds who/what he was looking for -- the dead body of the Dharma Arrow mathematician, Horace, and Horace's map to the cabin, which seems to be what he was building when John met him in the dream. And now that they have a map, John tells Hurley that he can go back to the beach camp; but Hurley stays, believing it safer than trying to make it to the camp at night in the jungle. Ben thinks that John was manipulating Hurley into staying -- like Ben has always done so well. "I'm not you, " John tells Ben. "You're certainly not," Ben agrees.
Keamy forcefully takes the second key to the ship's safe from the captain and opens the safe, removing the "secondary protocol." It tells where Ben is going to go. "How would Mr. Widmore know that?" "Mr. Widmore is a very smart man." Keamy says that if Ben knew that Widmore's people were going to torch the island, there is only one place where Ben would go. The captain obviously did not know about the torching, so he goes to Desmond and Sayid and tells them to get off the boat in a small raft and try to warn the islanders. Sayid goes, Desmond stays.
We next find a teenage Locke locked in a high school gym locker. A teacher lets him out. Back in the teacher's office, the teacher tells John that he has been selected to go to Mittelos Science Camp, but John doesn't want the science life, he says that's what gets others to stuff him in the lockers. The teacher was contacted by a Dr. Alpert from Mittelos Laboratories in Portland. Hmmm, it seems Richard has been doing a lot of traveling.
Frank takes the handcuffs off of Michael (Kevin) and asks why Michael didn't tell him he was a survivor. Mikevin says that Frank wouldn't have believed him, and that Frank was working for Charles Widmore. Okay, fine. So, as they leave the room, we see Keamy having a device (bomb? timer?) being strapped to his inner right bicep by another militia dude. When Keamy sees Frank and Mikevin, Frank says that he's taking him to the engine room. Supposedly Mikevin must fix the engine parts that he busted up.
Back to Locke, this time shortly after he has been paralyzed by his father (adoptive, that is). An orderly is pushing John in his wheelchair; the orderly just happens to be Matthew Abaddon, the same person who was in Hurley's flash forward at the mental institution trying to find out if there were any more survivors on the island. This is the same man who apparently put together the crew that was aboard the ship and was in touch with Naomi. He tells John that just surviving the fall is a miracle and that John should believe in miracles. He also tells John that what he needs to do is to go on a walkabout -- a journey of self-discovery, to which John notes his condition -- he is a cripple. "Is that what you are Mr. Locke? I went on my walkabout convinced I was one thing, but came back another. I found out what I was made of, who I was." "And here you are, an orderly." "Oh, I'm a lot more than just an orderly John." That's for sure! "When you're ready Mr. Locke, you listen to what I'm saying. And then, when you and me run into each other again, you'll owe me one."
Okay, so what's he going to ask for? Where's Ben? If Abaddon is working for Widmore, that seems to be a possible answer, but if he (and Naomi) were/are behind something else (Hanso/Dharma/Mittelos/Whateva -- not in Widmore's employ), well, the sky's the limit (whatever sky, whenever you want it).
So, the commandos are going back to the island with loads of ammo, but Frank doesn't want them to go. Keamy kills the doctor and throws him overboard (of course, this is a few weeks after the doctor washed up on Jack's beach). The captain also tries to stop them, but gets killed as well. So, Frank gives in, "We're flying." Frank manages to set his communicator/tracking device just before takeoff.
On the beach Juliet tells Jack to rest and stop moving around or the stitches will come out. Just then they hear the helicopter and see it flying overhead. Frank throws out a small dufflebag which contains the device. Jack believes that by using the device they'll be able to follow them. I'm not sure that's a great idea.
The jungle boys have followed the map and found the cabin. Hurley and Ben agree that John's the one who should go in. John goes in; he sees someone sitting in the corner. "Are you Jacob" No, but I can speak on his behalf." As Hurley had seen, it is Christian Shephard. Of course we were told earlier that Jacob has been waiting for John for a really long time, so what's a little longer. Okay, maybe in this role Christian gets to make up for all the scheming, devious, selfish, deceitful, and outright crappy things he did when he was alive. Could the island use him for this? I don't know, he is still wearing his guileful grin, but . . .
Well, Claire is in the cabin, too, but not Aaron. "The baby is where he's supposed to be, and that's not here," informs Christian. He also tells John not to mention to anyone that he saw Claire. John has lots of questions, but Christian cuts him off, saying that the people on the boat are on the way back. "Why don't you ask the one question that does matter."
"How do I save the island?"
John comes out of the cabin. "Did he tell you what we're supposed to do?"
"He did."
"Well?"
"He wants us to move the island."
No problemo! Maybe it's not actually there in the first place.
My favorite line in this episode was from Hurley, as he gives John a bottle of water in the jungle, "Here you go, dude. Digging through dead bodies takes it out of ya."
ONLY TWO EPISODES LEFT THIS SEASON ! ! !
See ya later,
Kenn
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