Faraday's Documents at the Hydra station
This seems to be further evidence that the left-behind-Losties including Faraday were stuck in the past when Locke turned the "frozen donkey wheel." Another 316 passenger named Ilana comes in and says that a man wearing a suit was found and nobody recognizes him from the plane. It's JOHN LOCKE! What the? Locke was resurrected? This show gets crazier every week! As long as the writers explain this in a reasonably realistic way, I'm more than happy to known that we won't be having a Locke-less LOST.
Locke Lives!
For the rest of the episode, we see what happened to Locke after he turned the Orchid's frozen donkey wheel. He wakes up in the Tunisian desert just like Ben did after he turned the wheel. Locke is picked up by Widmore's men and taken to a hospital to doctor his compound-fractured leg. Locke is woken up after his surgery by a man not so familiar to him, Charles Widmore. Widmore says that he met Locke when he was 17-years-old, but that Locke doesn't look any older to him. To Locke, they only met four days ago!
Widmore and Locke meet again... after 4 days for Locke, but 53 years for Widmore
Widmore gives Locke a fake passport with the new identity of Jeremy Bentham, along with an envelope full of cash, the folder filled with information on the locations of the Oceanic 6, and a chauffeur, Matthew Abbadon. Abbadon takes Locke to visit the Oceanic 6 and Walt in an attempt to get them to come back to the island.
WAAAAALLLLTTTTT!!!!
It was good to see Walt again, but I'm afraid that this was the writer's way of closing his story. I sure hope not, however, because there are many unanswered questions left regarding his abilities and his involvement in the show's overall storyline.
Don't get me wrong, this was my favorite episode so far this season, but if I had one big complaint about this episode, it's that Locke's next interactions with the O6 felt rushed, poorly fleshed-out, and high on continuity errors. For example, Kate, Jack, and Walt all later refer to Locke as Jeremy Bentham, but Locke never refers to himself as Bentham in his conversations with them. I did like Locke's conversation with Jack, however. Jack questions, ''Have you ever stopped to consider that these delusions that you're 'special' aren't real? That you're a lonely old man who crashed on an Island?" Locke responds with, "Your father says 'Hello'... Christian." Jack is visibly shaken, but not convinced.
In the next scene, Locke prepares to hang himself. Ben bursts in the door at the last second and stops him. As he helps Locke down, Ben tells Locke he has too much work to do to die. Locke states that he knows what he must do next - he must contact a woman who lives in Los Angeles named Eloise Hawking. At the mention of her name, Ben is visibly startled. Locke asks if Ben knows the woman, and Ben quietly confirms their acquaintance. Suddenly, Ben strangles Locke to death. He then stages Locke's body to appear that he hanged himself.
Ben begging Locke not to kill himself... right before he kills him.
The episode ends back on the Hydra island. Caesar takes Locke to see the people who were injured in the 316 crash, and guess who we see sleeping on a cot: Ben! Caesar asks, "You know him?" Locke responds, "Yeah. He's the man who killed me." Cut to LOST.
Ben rests, dreaming up his next evil plan
Great episode!
We got a couple of key answers from this episode:
We now know that Ben tricked Widmore into turning the "frozen donkey wheel" after Widmore spent 30 years as a leader and protector of the island.
It seems that super-pilot Frank Lapidus managed to land/crash Flight 316 relatively safely and apparently intact on the Hydra island, a couple of miles from the main island. Was it landed on the runaway Sawyer and Kate were forced to build early in season 3? I couldn't tell by the shots of the plane in this episode, but I believe that to be the case.
But as with every episode of LOST, we got more questions then answers:
A question I had at the end of the episode was whether or not seeing the 316ers meant that they were the people who attacked Locke, Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Faraday, and Charlotte on their way to The Orchid. One major hint was that the boats on the beach were the exact same as the ones they used, meaning that at in some point in the future, the 316ers will be coming to the Island!
Another question was how come Ben and Locke (and presumably Sun, Sayid, and Lapidus) haven't time skipped? We can assume they haven't because Caesar asks Locke why some of the passengers simply disappeared ("big curly haired dude was gone"). Maybe Ben hasn't travelled because he's supposed to be with The Others who haven't been time skipping - the same explanation could be applied to Locke who is, as far as we know, the current leader of the Others.
More information on this episode, including a full episode synopsis, transcript, trivia, and bloopers, can be found here at Lostpedia.com.
Next week's episode, "LaFleur," airs on Wednesday night at 8 pm. A promo for the episode can be seen here. Who is the chick in the hood?! I can't wait to find out!
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