Watching Lost

Wow. We’ve got another remarkable episode, yes? So many facets to who John Locke is has been revealed. But the most important question that does matter is — how the heck do you move an island??? I’m jumping ahead a little… so let me get on with the rundown.

FLASHBACK

Tonight’s episode begins with a girl named Emily, who was accidentally (?) hit by a car while trying to run away from her mother in other to meet up with a much older boyfriend. Emily is pregnant and the accident has resulted in her giving birth to a baby boy prematurely. She names the baby John but later decides she can’t be a mother to him.

Outside the hospital room, Dr. Richard Alpert is looking intently at the baby. The nurse assumes he is the father. This was in the 1950’s, and Richard looks exactly the same as how he looked in the island (present).

Several years later, John is in the home of his foster family when Richard comes to see him. He tells young John he runs a school for very special kids and proceeds to give John tests. He lays out several things on the table and asks John to choose which of the items is his. The boy picks the knife from the pack and for whatever reason, Richard is disappointed and leaves their house.

We then see a teenage John Locke stuck inside a locker at his school. A teacher comes to his aid who tells him that maybe he is cut out for science summer camp which is headed by a certain Dr. Richard Alpert. But John tells teacher he’s not into those things.

Still, several years later… a crippled John is doing physical therapy and encounters an orderly. The orderly tells him maybe it’s time to do some self-discovery and suggests he joins a walkabout in Australia for it will “change his life”… to which John sarcastically remarked he can’t possibly ever do because he is 98% crippled. The orderly assures him that the next time they will meet, John will owe him for this. The orderly is none other than Matthew Abaddon who visited Hurley in the mental institution, post-island.

ON THE ISLAND

Locke receives clues in his dreams. He meets a man named Horace who tells him he is the clue to finding Jacob’s cabin. When Locke wakes up, he leads Hurley and Ben to a mass grave and starts checking the remains there.

He finds Horace’s and picks off the clothes he had on. In Horace’s pocket is the map to Jacob’s cabin. (Horace is the man who helped Ben’s father get a job in the island.)

The three finally see Jacob’s cabin but Ben and Hurley opted to stay outside and share a chocolate bar (awww, look how cute they are!) :

Inside the cabin, Locke does not find Jacob, but Christian Shepherd, who tells him he speaks for Jacob. Locke also finds Claire there. It seems she is very contented with staying with her father. Locke asks Christian what he can do to save the island and outside, he tells Ben and Hurley that they want him to move it (island).

FREIGHTER

Keamy and his team return to the freighter after the attack by the black smoke. Keamy vows to fly back and do Plan B of his orders (torch the island) which the Captain didn’t know about.

The Captain helps Sayid get to a boat in order to go back to the Island and tries to save as many survivors. Although, the Captain later ends up getting shot by Keamy when he prevented him from flying back.

Frank Lipidus, unable to also prevent Keamy, flies their team back but also stashes a tracker on his backpack, which he later throws on the beach, for Jack, Juliet, Kate and the rest to find. Jack assumes that it’s a sign they should try and follow where the chopper is headed to.

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