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I love Locke episodes.... My favorite original character...



Cesear ("My Condolences" guy) is snooping in an office. We see Island Maps and such. Ilana walks in. On island, after crash. Apparently, a sawed off shotgun looks like a flashlight. They found a man standing in the water, not on plane. Ajira Air looks pretty unscathed.



Hooded jedi...It's Locke!

They are at the Hydra Station on the smaller island (where Jack, Kate, and Saywer were being held back in Season 3). The longboats are there. The pilot and "some woman" (Sun?) took one. Locke: "I don't remember being on the plane." "I remember dying."



Back to the Frozen Donkey Wheel and Locke ends up in the Tunisia desert like Ben. The exit is being watched. He's taken to a hospital with some questionable care and glimpses Abbadon.



Locke awakes to Widmore! Widmore met him when he was 17. However, that has only been 4 days to Locke. According to Widmore, Ben fooled him into leaving the island. He was the Other's leader. Informs him of the O6's lie and the fact that they've been back for 3 yrs. Widmore is willing to help him because a war is coming and with Locke on the island the wrong side will win. Whose side is that???



Widmore gives Locke the name Jeremy Bentham, another English Philosopher like John Locke. However, his beliefs were the exact opposite of Locke's. Numbers: Press 23 on the phone he gives Locke to contact him. He reiterates the fact that John is "special." (It's like Michael calling WALT!!!!!, how many times can they say that John is "special?").



Abbadon is to chauffeur John around. Did you see the look he gave when Abbadon brought out the wheelchair?



Sayid is in Santa Domingo building houses. He had only 9 months with Nadia. Sayid tells him the only reason Locke wants to go back is because he has "no where else to go."



Walt is at a school in New York. Locke asks Abbadon to find Helen. Walt's been having dreams. Locke is on the island in a suit and the people around want to hurt him. (Ajira Air passengers? or someone else? the war?). He asks about his dad and John gracefully tells him he was on a freighter near the island last he heard.



Omnipresent Ben is watching...



Hurley is still in Santa Rosa. He thinks John is dead and visiting him. Very nonchalantly tells him he didn't make it. Hurley: "Excuse me, am I talking to a dude in a wheelchair right now?" "Yep." Then he freaks out! And even more when he sees Abbadon.

Abbadon calls Locke out on being the orderly that encouraged him to go on his walkabout. He helps people get to where they need to get to.



In LA, Kate refuses also. Tells John he doesn't love anyone which causes him to bring up Helen. He admits he was "angry and obsessed." Kate fires back: "Look how far you've come." Man, these visits are real downers...

He rightly calls out Abbadon on not being able to find Helen. He shows him a gravestone in Santa Monica.



Faked? Abbadon gets shot in the back several times. John takes off in the car with his broken leg and gets into an accident which leads him to...



Jack's hospital. We can see the beginnings of the weird and bearded Jack. Jack calls him a lonely old man. Locke: "Your father says hello." This pushes him over the edge.

In Locke's hotel room he is penning his suicide note.



He gets his suicide gear from Angels Hardware, how appropriate. It's to be hanging by extension cord. He's all ready to go when Ben of all people knocks on his door. He informs him he's been keeping the O6 safe and he shot Abbadon. Widmore had used him. He wants him to lead too like Widmore. (They both kind of want the same thing but use different ways to get it. Who is the bad guy/good guy? I am still leaning toward Ben on this one... for now.) After all his failing, Locke finally gets the good news that Jack has boarded a plane from LA to Sydney. Locke relents. Locke lets Ben know Jin's alive and about the wedding ring. Also, that he needs to find Eloise Hawking to get back to the island. This is when we see a discernible change in Ben.



And WOW! I totally bought into the suicide thing when it was first revealed. I should so know better by now. So after some crazy strangling, Ben sets it up to look like a suicide, grabs Jin's ring, and leaves with a "I'll miss you John. I really will." Why would he say that? The whole Ben and Locke scene has to be the best ever, at least in my book.

Back on the island, Ceasar is reading Hydra Station information. John tells him about the Dharma Initiative and how he had been on the island but the "timing would confuse you." (No kidding?) Ceasar talks about the disappearances on the plane, "big curly haired guy."



Also, that there were some that got hurt which includes Ben. John: "He's the man who killed me." Geesh...

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