Locke has died.
Locke has risen.
Locke will live again.
Don’t ask me how, but that seems to be the size of it. When Ilana said there was a man standing in the water in a suit, the first picture that popped into my mind was Locke’s casketed proxy, spooky old Christian Shephard.
Although, the first look we got of shrouded Locke on the beach,
I kind of thought he looked more like….
…E.T.
Unlike Christian, Locke appeared to be entirely corporeal. In fact I have to say, Baldy was looking mahvelous. Especially considering the grinder he’d just been through. One thing’s for sure, no one can ever say Locke isn’t special after the long strange trip he took in this episode.
Say what you will about Locke, but this man knows how to follow directions. Told by creepy Chris to move heaven and earth, with his big bloody fibula sticking out, Locke just manned up and pushed the damn wheel. He landed at “The Exit”, the place where the Dharma wheel discharges its passengers through its vile vortex. He assumed the position in which all Lost time travelers fall from the sky,
and was scooped up by the Sand People in the dark of the Tatooine night.
There he was tortured…er, I mean, healed…by the doctors at the Tunisian clinic.
At least we found out where the Others sent their doctors to med school.
When he woke up, Widmore, his newest old friend, was there with marching orders.
Widmore uttered the hypnotic trigger phrase – “You are feeling very special, John” – and our intrepid Popeye was all set to go one more round in the predestination boxing ring. In an episode that sometimes felt like a seminar in Biblical Metaphor, Widmore needed Locke to return to the Island for A WAR…yup, another one….and from the sound of it, this sounds like it might be the big one. Island Armageddon. Maybe this will be the holocaust when Jughead finally blows his top. With all the apocalyptic bell ringing, it’s interesting to learn that The Book of Revelation is also known as The Revelation to John, because it was the account of the visions St. John received, while stranded on an island.
To accompany him on the first part of his journey, another old friend fell out of the sky. On a show filled with loaded names, Abaddon’s is one of the most inscrutable. He is named in Revelations 9:11 (yikes!) as “the angel of the bottomless pit”. So it’s hard to say whether he’s a goodie or a baddie. Angel = good. You know, maybe. But bottomless pit…uh, sounds bad. In any case, Abaddon made his fourth, and perhaps final appearance in this episode, and the way he described himself was as more of a celestial chauffeur. He gets people where they need to go. Even if they don’t like what they have to do to get there.
And so Locke was off to locate his good, dear, wonderful old friends, full of hope and optimism that surely they would all welcome him with open arms, overwhelmed by the miracle of his reappearance and the wonder of the tale he had to tell. Right?
Not bloody likely. The Four Horses of Ingratitude instead subjected John to a merciless pounding.
Pity.
Fear.
Judgment.
And Sneering Contempt.
I will not have much more to say about these people at this time. Except maybe this:
It wasn’t just getting repeatedly kicked in the head by his “friends” that wore John down of course. There was the sad occasion of lying to Tall Walt, who we learned is still having those dreams.
The realization that the one true love was dead. The real kind of dead.
And the loss of his faithful driver, who no doubt needed to be freed up for more important research into paranormal phenomenon.
It was no wonder Locke was ready to end it all. He was like a battered child in a bitter divorce, trapped between My Two Daddies. One Daddy is telling him “Daddy Ben can never be trusted! He stole my home from me. I only had to kill all those people to stop him from hurting you. Come live with me John. I’m the one who sees how special you are.”
But the other Daddy was telling him “Daddy Charles is extremely dangerous. He’s using you. Look what he made me do, moving a whole island! Come with me John. I’m the one who really loves you.”
It’s hard to tell who’s lying and who’s telling the truth. Both Daddies say they’ve been watching over Locke and his not-friends.
And both Daddies say they only want to keep everybody safe.
Poor Locke. I wanted to wrap him in a blanket and take him to Child Protective Services.
Unriddling the witches brew of good and evil on Lost is never an easy task, but this episode did seem to box Our Two Dads into two fairly well delineated corners. Widmore was the benevolent father, at least this week. He even named his new son. Now back in the day, I spent a good deal of time trying to unravel the reason behind our hero being named after John Locke, 17th century proponent of “tabula rasa”,
and then I spent a good deal more time reading up on the undead auto-icon, Jeremy Bentham, 18 century utilitarian.
So it was nice to learn that, after all that research, the names, as one so often finds on Lost, were…a joke.
So funny I forgot to laugh.
Ben was more than just the Bad Dad in this divorce. Having failed to kill Locke the first time he tried, this time he got the job done. No matter how many pithy lines Michael Emerson manages to wryly deliver in episodes to come, no matter how lovable and endearing the little mouse-man continues to be, it’s going to be a hard sell to ever see Ben as a white hat after this episode. Though we’ve seen stranger things on this show. Hell, on Lost, we forgive murderers all the time! I don’t see why Ben shouldn’t get at least one more chance. Even if he was the Judas who betrayed our Christ. He waited until he’d gotten the clue he wanted – the identity of the Time Witch, Eloise Hawking – and then strangled Locke with electrical cord. From Angels Hardware. Naturally. That’s the only place to shop for all your Resurrection and Reincarnation needs.
There was much deliberate religious imagery in Locke’s sui-homi-cide.
Where Satan had tempted Jesus to kill himself, Ben was tempting Locke with the same tricks of self doubt and flattery to not do that desperate deed. And he succeeded.
But then he killed him anyway. Judas’s story doesn’t end with the betrayal, however. There’s a second act to come for Ben Iscariot, and if the metaphor doesn’t get mixed again, then he’s the one who will end up suffering a lot more than did his victim. Not only by his own eventual suicide (ironically by hanging himself), but by the fires of eternal damnation. Oh, Ben, what have you done?
“In a many dark hour, I’ve been thinkin’ about this. That Jesus Christ was betrayed by a kiss. But I can’t think for you. You’ll have to decide, whether Judas Iscariot had God on his side.” - Bob Dylan
Now, Jesus, unlike Locke, knew who would betray him. He knew that Judas’s betrayal was essential to the whole predestined plot of his own death and resurrection. Without Judas to deliver Christ to his executioners, the whole miraculous fable on which Christianity rests could never have taken place. Without Christ’s resurrection, mankind would have been condemned to eternal damnation. So, in effect, Judas was as indispensible as Christ was for saving all mankind! So why should Judas burn in hell for all eternity, when without him, there could have been no salvation for anyone?
The story of Judas is not a trivial one. Predestination robbed him of his free will, so the question of his moral culpability is as much a riddle as this one:
“Which creature in the morning goes on four legs, at mid-day on two, and in the evening upon three, and the more legs it has, the weaker it be?”
Locke has certainly tried out all those variations of legged-ness. But perhaps the mystery of the Sphinx has another riddle hidden inside it, one that may be useful in our clue collection. I can’t claim credit for finding this connection, having read it in Patrick Kevin Day’s column in the LA Times, but I think it works even better in pictures. A nice set of picture clues, he noted, revolved around fields and woods. We were cued into this by the name of Walt’s school, Fieldcroft.
The art auction house where Widmore bought The Black Rock painting, Southfield’s.
The name of Locke’s long lost love, Helen Norwood.
And the place where Locke would (temporarily) meet his maker, Westerfield Hotel.
Only one direction is missing. East. The direction precisely pointed to by the Sphinx of Giza, who loyally guards the Sunrise through the timeless centuries.
And you know, as many times in my life as I’ve looked at pictures of that thing, I never realized before that its feet have only FOUR freaking toes! Just like someone else we (don’t) know.
I have to admit, I have no idea what it means that the four toed Sphinx faces East and that East was the only direction not referenced in the clue collage. But hey, isn’t it kind of cool? So I’m adding it to my cheat sheet and getting ready to move on. This episode brought us Pikki V2.0…
…in the persons of the Napoleonic Cesar and his tall lady friend, Ilana, who obviously wasn’t really any kind of Marshall escorting Sayid. I am far too exhausted to care about any new characters at this point, but, I’ll soldier on anyway and tick off their distinguishing traits. They started off, in typical Lost style, by hiding stuff from each other. Cesar knew to look for a gun under the desk, which means he knew where he would be landing, and he knew not to tell Ilana what he was doing. Is Cesar Widmore’s new mole?
We found out that Frank Lapidus, ace pilot, managed to crash land his bird on Alcatraz Island, where a Life magazine subscription apparently had been included in the air drops. What bowl of the time soup are we swimming in this time?
The magazine was from Jughead-era 1954, reminding us about the lurking radioactive time bombs, but I wouldn’t say that means we’re back in the Fifties. The outrigger canoes on the beach were likely from a more modern era, especially since we already saw them, complete with telltale Ajira water bottle, at the scene of the Losties beach camp. Which means it had to be sometime later than 2004. We know that some of the passengers langoliered out of the plane prior to the crash, most certainly Kate, Hurley, Jack and maybe Sayid as well. And we know that Pilot Frank and “some woman” , no doubt Sun, fled the scene the minute they hit the ground. So we’re getting closer to finding out who Juliet shot during the chase scene a few weeks back. I’m guessing Cesar or Ilana turn up with a flesh wound next time we see them.
But let’s put the tote boards and the clue decoders away. They were all window dressing to The Passion of the Locke. Humiliated, broken, rejected and abandoned, Locke thought he had suffered a complete and total defeat. But all was not lost. This was how it was all meant to be, how it all must be. In death, Locke has transcended this petty existence. He’s here to offer salvation to his people.
“He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.” – Matthew 10:39
Now, all we have to do is wait and see how he manages to ascend into heaven.
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Quite an enjoyable read Fish! And so many little (and big) tidbits that I never even observed during the episode.
I’m not sure Christian is ethereal – does a ghost need a chair?
I predicted we’d seen the last of Locke except for flashbacks and ghost-sightings so I’m a bit surprised to see him eating a mango.
But with Walt’s “people wanting to hurt you” dream, how long will Locke’s euphoria last?
“I’m not sure Christian is ethereal – does a ghost need a chair?”
Cristian was holding Arron when Claire wakes up and sees him for the first time on the island. He also had a lantern in his hand when talking with Locke. But he couldn’t help Locke up, I’ve seen a lot of comments that attribute this to Cristian not being corperal.
I can’t reconsile the two. I’m not saying he’s not etheral, but he has definately been shown making physical contact with real world matter. Unless what Claire was seeing when she woke up was still really a part of her dream.
Just like a lot of stuff on the show, it’s very contradictory. I can’t wait to see how all this stuff makes sense in the end. I still have faith it will.
I don’t know that he “couldn’t” help Locke up, just that he didn’t. Maybe some tough love.
My opinion is that Christian couldn’t help Locke stand up because Locke needed to make that choice himself. Every excruciating step Locke took had to be of his own choosing. It doesn’t matter that Locke was being manipulated or that those choices harm him and benefit others. What matters is that he made them. It all goes back to the battle between fate and choice.
Few characters in the Lost-verse besides the very special have the ability to alter events. Desmond is one of the special, as Locke is and Walt probably is as well. Everybody else acts as participants in a predetermined series of events, this would fit nicely within the confines of Faraday’s opinions that what happened has happened and can’t be changed.
Faraday is right, for most people his rules on time are immutable and the average person can have no affect on events. We as the audience should find it easiest to sympathize with the unfortunate prisoners of fate because they represent us, the viewers.
It could also be that Christian didn’t help him up because as events were meant to play out, Christian didn’t help Locke, and according to Faraday if it happened it is going to happen.
The plot is no longer “misterious”, but absurd…. I hope it will be better next time….
absurd: inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense
Lost is founded on that very premise. To me, there isn’t anything happening on the show now that’s crazier or harder to believe than every person aboard a plane surviving a horrific crash on an island in the middle of nowhere that magically heals the sick, punishes the unrepentant and has a gigantic plume of black smoke as its protector. Faith is “absurd” by the above definition and as we’ve seen, especially this season, faith is central to all that is Lost. Science, or the inquiry into learning how the natural or physical world works, has been cast aside for a good while now, I would argue since day one.
I don’t mean the following question to sound arrogant and jerky as I am honestly interested to know its answer, but what is it exactly about the show that you can no longer put up with? What was the tipping point?
I love these recaps, Fishbiscuit, and all the work and wit put into them. Your clue collection made me realize that I had neither said or read anything about this yet (I have by no means read everything on the internet about this episode, obviously), SO…
I’m sure it’s already been discovered, pointed out, and discussed numerous times across the internet… But the sign for the Westerfield Hotel holds some anagrams, what with some of the letters being burned out.
WEST_RFIEL_ HOT_L
Which can be, at the very least, rearranged into (any combintation of): Wrest Life Loth (or Holt?)
Wrest – Forcibly pull something from a person’s grasp (Ben forcibly took Locke’s life from his own, nearly self-fatal hands)
Loth – Reluctant, unwilling (More applicable to Jack than Locke… but, certainly relevant to Locke’s state of mind in the hotel)
Holt – The den of an animal, especially that of an Otter (Yea, who knows? I didn’t realize it was a word either, other than a last name)
I noticed the unlit letters too, and wondered if there was an anagram there. Couldn’t come up with anything interesting though.
Steve Holt!
Anybody?
‘There was the sad occasion of lying to Tall Walt…”
Actually, I don’t think John lied to Walt.
Since John knew Michael was on the freighter with Jin, and Jin survived, he would have no idea whether he survived or not.
I think that’s why John told Walt “Ummmm, last I heard your dad was on a freighter near the island.”
He knew the freighter blew up and the chances of Michael being alive were slim to none (As he didn’t get off the island with the rest of the O6). He definitely sugarcoated things for him.
Sugarcoating is not the same as telling a lie. Jin didn’t make it off the island either. So what is your point?
I took his point to mean even if he didn’t lie outright, he sure sugarcoated things.
“Ummmm, last I heard your dad was on a freighter near the island,” versus “Ummm, last I heard you dad was on a freighter near the Island. It blew up, and Jin found his way back to the Island, but we never did see your father.”
One sounds way better than the other, yet things are definitely left out of that one. Lying by omission, I guess you’d say.
That’s exactly what I meant. I’m not sure why Jim was rather rude about my opinion.
I love me some Locke. And wow, you are so right, Fish, it definitely had that feel. Of it being the Passion of Locke.
Poor guy. And yet, he just somehow ends up rising from the ashes stronger than ever. Definitely a mystical character. And yet at times, there’s a humility about him that contrasts with Jack’s hubris. That’s not to say that Locke can’t be arrogant, or callous, or blindsighted too, or just plain crazy at times, but for some reason I still find myself rooting for him.
Ben is SUCH a Judas. But weirdly I thought he was being genuine until the name Hawking came up.
Lots of references to free will vs fate. Fate vs probability.
Is Ben such a baddie if he’s essentially doing the Island’s and even Locke’s will? He did manage to finish what Locke started. But something tells me he’s still that jealous brother. The Cain to Locke’s Abel.
Judas was acting in his own interests, thirty pieces of silver to betray Jesus, but without Judas’s betrayal, Christ would have been unable to complete his mission.
Not according to Des or Daniel. He was meant to die, and would have some other way, betrayed by another.
I mean, if you believe that stuff.
Well I am not what you would call biblical scholar and far form a believer. I guess I was trying to compare the two in a very lose way, and possibly provide an understanding of Ben’s actions and how they specifically relate to Locke.
The first glimpse of Locke reminded me of Spock after he was reincarnated or our first look at Luke after he finished his Jedi training. Even Obi-Wan; who was dressed like Locke when he first appeared. They were all in dark robes with hoods and both Luke and Spock had been more or less re-born, becoming more powerful and more centered than ever. I hope this means that Locke will come back focused and finally aware of Ben’s machinations. That we will get a Locke that is beyond being pawned or manipulated.
Interesting that the runway Juliet said Kate and Sawyer were helping to build appears to have been the place where 316 landed then skidded before it came to rest.
Great job as always Fish! The biblical references were embedded so deep I missed most of them. I just watched the episode again and enjoyed it more after reading your review!
“The first glimpse of Locke reminded me of Spock after he was reincarnated or our first look at Luke after he finished his Jedi training. Even Obi-Wan; who was dressed like Locke when he first appeared. They were all in dark robes with hoods and both Luke and Spock had been more or less re-born, becoming more powerful and more centered than ever. I hope this means that Locke will come back focused and finally aware of Ben’s machinations. That we will get a Locke that is beyond being pawned or manipulated.”
FINALLY… someone is with me and I am no longer alone. Locke has become untouchable now, the savior. He will RULE – might it be Ben, the O6, the Island ot even time itself…
Nicely done, Fish! I feel like going to read the Bible now. LOL.
I love your reviews, Fishbiscuit. I look forward to them every week! This one was great. I’m in awe as to how you can find just the right photos to perfectly illustrate your observations (who remembered Sawyer’s stick in his mouth? I didn’t!)
“Four horses of ingratitude.” Pity, judgment, contempt, and fear – loved that. And the “sui-homi-cide.” LOL
As for the names being nothing more than a joke, I wouldn’t take it that way. Locke did in fact embody the ideals of the original John Locke in the beginning of the series, namely the theory of tabula rasa. He lived it, and preached it to the other castaways.
Jeremy Bentham believed in Joseph Priestly’s philosophy, “the good and happiness of the members, that is the majority of the members of the state, is the great standard by which every thing relating to that state must finally be determined” (thank you Wikipedia, where ‘you know you’re getting the best possible information’). That sounds a lot like how the Others view the world. They steal children and justify it as being for the best, they kidnap people and claim it’s a necessary means to an end, and they die rather than give answers that might hurt “the state” (dear Mrs. Klugh). And now Locke is being set up to become their leader, someone who would uphold that ideal, just like Bentham.
I didn’t expect the writers to come out and make it clear why Locke had either of these names as they’ve never come out and explained any of the names they’ve given their characters. You’d have to do your homework to realize the philosophical stance of each man, and how it related to the show, much like you would with Rousseau, Abaddon, Alpert, or Hume. And while they wrote Widmore writing it off as a joke, I think it is more likely that Widmore’s character, being an Other, would admire Bentham’s philosophy, and think it a clever joke to name Locke after his namesake’s nemesis.
But Bentham is also famous for ’surviving’ after his death, as his stuffed body remains at University College London to this day. The Bentham name was a fairly obvious clue that he would have a role after death.
RE: Cesar
Did he really know to look for the gun under the desk? I remember him just searching around for clues and happening upon it. But I could just be remembering it wrong.
Anyone?
That’s the way I saw it too.
I believe Cesar happened upon the shotgun, but he did appear to be looking for something specific, although, it’s not clear if he found what he was searching for.
I adore Locke…always have even when he’s constantly fallen for Ben’s manipulations, played for a patsy or let others destroy what little confidence he’s ever shown in himself. The four horses of gratitude are absolutely right, and I get the distinct impression you didn’t really say all you meant to about those four curious scenes. But maybe I’m wrong. The ET reference threw me a bit, because like Lostvfan, my mind immediately thought of Luke’s hooded return as a Jedi Knight–vibrant, confident and changed. I appreciate your bringing several the Biblical references to light. Some of them I didn’t really pick up on until reading this re-cap. Great read as always, Fish.
Finally, someone mentioned the Star Wars reference. Except, I believe they were supposed to be Jawas, not sand people, taking Locke away like R2D2 and C3PO.
Ben murdering Locke was shocking and did seem to make Ben look bad, at first. But you kind of danced around the answer — Locke couldn’t kill himself because just about every religion agrees on one thing — suicide = bad. Suicide = spiritual death and, according to Christian-based religions, is the only sin that a person cannot be redeemed from.
Locke, needed to die and he knew that. He was told that by Alpert. Locke told Ben that he was supposed to die in order to get everyone back. Logic dictates that Locke cannot kill himself but needs to die. Therefore Ben is the right man for the job AND, keeping with the overall theme, has clouded just where Ben stands in this whole mess. (Me, I say he is a good guy, a soldier doing everything possible to protect the island.) The reason why I know that Ben is good is because he went through several lengths to ensure Locke would be preserved and in one piece for his eventual resurrection.
Lastly, Locke, even in identifying “the man who killed me” did it as matter of fact and without any venom whatsoever, Meaning he understood why, especially since it all worked out.
The meaning of special for someone like Locke probably refers to the ability to affect change in a way that most of the rest of us, as slaves to time and space, are unable to. Locke choosing to kill himself would have a permanence that someone else killing him would not. Ben might not be aware of this and was genuinely attempting to permanently dispatch Locke. A very interesting question this raises is, why would Christian tell Locke he needed to die and are his motivations malevolent?
If Ben is in fact ignorant of Locke’s future resurrection, it gives Ben’s speech to Jack about doubt an entirely new and ironic spin.
I got the impression that at the time that Ben killed Locke (he did say his goodbyes as if he thought he would never see him again), he had no idea of his true importance, or he did but jealousy prompted him to try to get rid of him, AGAIN! Locke mentioning Mrs. Hawking seemed to be the trigger switch for Ben to murder him. It almost seemed as if once he got the name he no longer needed to play nice with Locke. And upon seeing Hawking he realised the only way he would get back to the island was piggy backing on the O6 including Locke.
Of course I think that when Ben sees Locke alive he’s going to act as if he knew all along that he would be resurrected and thus resume his mind fraks. But we can’t really know for sure with Ben.
It may be a well known thought, but according to Bible based religions the only sin that one cannot be redeemed from is blasphemy (or not believing in Jesus). There is no mention in the Bible that suicide is unforgivable.
I took the Sphinx as a HUGE CLUE to the identity of the island. Throughout the show there have been numerous references to that Paradise or Utopia — Eden, Shambala, Xanadu and more I can’t think of right now.
There was this man named Edgar Cayce who was called “the sleeping prophet.” He made predictions about the future while in trance. He predicted a large chamber would be found underneath the Sphinx, which would prove the existence of ATLANTIS.
My belief is that Cesar and this woman are agents of Ben who were also used as proxies (not sure if it’s knowingly or unknowingly). I’d also like to reitterate my theory that the island will be used to explain gods and the things we worship, albeit in a more scientific manner. Faith and science will combine to explain the unexplainable but heavily philosiphized…
last night I dreamed that Hurley’s uncle drove him around in a school bus and picked up Sayid and Locke for Ajira 316, but then Hurley smothered Locke in a bear hug and that’s how he died.
I don’t know what that means.
Means you watch too much Lost, dude.
You know, I can’t remember having a dream where I interacted with fictional characters.
I had this dream of selling my R*&#*^*n script to Clint Eastwood, at his house, raining outside and there was construction so I had to walk on a makeshift boardwalk to get inside.
There was a dream with Patrick Swazye, too, him throwing down a book I had written, hoping to sell him the rights cause I believe he was perfect for the lead character at that time.
Neither happened in reality.
Just dreams.
I have also been having dreams lately about interacting with characters from lost. Never had dreams about fictionalized characters before. In my case, Smitty is right. I have watched every episode this season, and on top of it, I have been watching seasons 1-4 with a friend who is trying to catch up. Weird.
…every episode this season 3 times…
I wouldn’t be surprised if “the war” Widmore referred to turns out to be something of a much larger scale. We’ve had the “fate of the Island” stakes for quite a long time. The only way to raise them is to make it “the fate of the world.” And they’ve dropped these hints throughout the show. I’m all for it, and it ties neatly into the philosophical ideas underneath the show. The Utilitarian point of view may have been about Locke at that point (his need to sacrifice himself for the greater good) but I wonder if it will come up again, in a much bigger scope.
“langoliered out of the plane”…. that just might by my favorite lost recap quote of all time
Great Recap!!!
So many more little things to consider…
great recap!! cant wait for thursday now! btw, have we ever seen a shot of lockes feet? i wonder if he has 4 toes
incidently, i just found out today that the real jeremy benthams body is still in ucl, in london, right next to where i work! just round the corner from the jeremy bentham pub
love the recap…you really make me put my thinking cap on. =)
one thing, i don’t think cesar knew the gun was under the desk rather, he happened upon it when he dropped daniel’s (?) notes on the floor.
Why are we assuming Locke is corporeal and Christian is not?
Christian is undead right so why cant Locke be undead as well?
They both have had physical contact with solid objects
Did anyone else notice that the shotgun that Caesar found underneath the table looked strikingly similar to the one Ben pulled out from inside of his piano bench in ‘The Shape of Things to Come’ (409) after Locke told asked him what ‘14J’ meant?
Shotguns are shotguns. But according to a deleted scene, the room where Caesar found the gun was used as an office by Ben, so it could easily be the same gun.
lol ‘Shotguns are shotguns’? You know, I got the same words of wisdom in a fortune cookie the other day…
Fishbiscuit, your recaps are the best!
This is seriously awesome, yet again. Thanks, Fish!
p.s. I laughed out loud at the pic of Locke puking. Very funny