Here is what we learned:
Locke’s mom was an unwed teenager when she had her baby. The baby was a “miracle” because he survived being hit by a car, premature birth, and disease.
John grew up with people calling him special including a visit from Richard Albert (head of Mittelos Bioscience In Portland) who visits John as a boy and tests his special abilities. When John is in high school Richard offers him an internship at Mittelos, but John does not want to do science, he wants to do sports, and he hates being told what to do.
On the freighter, Keany returns and wants to know who gave his name to Ben. It was Michael and he admits it, but the Capt will not let Keany kill Michael because Michael can fix the boat. Keany opens a safe with secret instructions on where to find Ben and wants to return to the island to get him. He also wants to burn the island after doing so. Michael overhears their plan. They send Sayid on the inflatable boat to warn our Losties. Des decides not to go. He is waiting to meet up with Penny who he thinks will rescue him soon.
Frank Lapidus the pilot tries to refuse to take the Keany group back to the island. Keany starts killing people starting with the Doctor who gets his throat slit and is tossed overboard. The Capt also tries to stop him, but gets shot instead. So Frank does fly back to the island, but drops a package over head of the Losties camp. There is a sat phone and some maps in there. Jack mistakenly thinks this is a rescue attempt and so uses the sat phone to go find the helicopter.
Meanwhile Locke has a dream of Horace from the Dharma Initiative. Horace has been dead 12 years, but tells Locke to find him for instructions on how to get to Jacob’s cabin. Locke takes Ben and Hugo with him. On the way he shows Hugo the dead bodies of the Dharmaites. Ben says he did not kill them, it was their leader (who is Richard Albert? I am not sure).
Locke finds Horaces’ body and a map leading to Jacob’s cabin. He walks in alone after Ben says his time as leader of the island is over. Locke sees a dark shape in the cabin, it is not Jacob, but Christian (Shepherd). He tells Locke to ask the important question “how do I save the island”. But there is someone else in the cabin, a slightly creepy Claire who has knowingly left Aaron behind in the jungle.
Locke leaves the cabin and tells Hurley and Ben what his instructions are: “Move the Island” LOST.
THOUGHTS:
We saw the oldest scene of the show when Locke’s mom Emily left her house to meet her boyfriend. This occurred sometime in the 1950’s based on her bobby sox and music. Locke is special but he does not seem to have been immaculately conceived. Richard Alpert did not like the results of his test on Locke. Locke chose the knife and not the comic book or test tube (with ash?) or ball glove. Locke was picked on by being a science nerd - even though he says he had no interest in science. In his future, Locke will say he is a “hunter”.
There has been some speculation that Alpert could be Ben’s real dad. We saw him at the delivery room and then later he met young Locke for the test and then invited him to join Mittelos. But why would Anthony Cooper say that he needed a relative to get his new kidney from and he chose Locke his supposed son? Also the girl who played Emily looked a lot like his mom from Season 1.
Where was Jacob? I was really anticipating our meeting with him only to find Christian there instead with Claire. It would have been a surprise except we saw Christian in the cabin earlier this season “talking” to someone. Was Locke serious that he was told to move the island by the cabin folk. How do you move an island anyway? Looking at this picture from the comic book in Locke’s boyhood flashback it gives us a “clue” or just another fake clue. Either way it will be interesting to see how the writers will move the island. Even if they do move it, isn’t Keany and his soldier crew already there? So what good will that do?
Can’t wait for next week’s episode and then the big finale on May 29th.
That is all for now please let me know what you think of this episode including any details I did not catch. You can leave comments here or at tlepodcast@yahoo.com
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A few months later we see a very preggers Sun climbing the steps to her father’s office. He is in a meeting with a few men who are talking about someone who used 5 bank accounts to invest a lot of money in their company. Sun’s father wants to know who it is. He is about to find out. Sun talks to him and he asks about the baby. But Sun says her father never cared about the baby or Jin. In fact her father hated Jin and turned him into an “enforcer” a violent man who ruined their marriage. Sun has come for her revenge. She has bought a controlling interest in her father’s company. She says her father caused the death of Jin along with another man (presumably Charles Widmore or maybe Michael).
