By Pictures courtesy of LOST Easter Eggs.
This was a stellar episode. It's been a year since we saw Locke and Ben go into Jacob's cabin in Season Three. Every since this new season started, I kept waiting to see when Locke would return. Now that he's found the cabin, it just opens up more and more mysteries.
Christian and Claire are in Jacob's cabin. I expected Christian to be there, based on the freeze frames posted on LostEasterEggs back in January. When Claire disappeared in "Something Nice Back Home", I predicted that she would be in the cabin with Christian. Are Christian and Claire alive or dead? I think they are dead and somehow the island manifests the dead in order to speak with the living. I just cannot imagine Claire willingly leaving Aaron to Sawyer. Christian's situation is more complex. In the Season Three finale there was that famous scene in the future where Jack said, "Go and get my father...". In last week's Jack-centric episode, Christian appeared fleetingly before this mystery could be solved. I'm still betting that Christian is dead, but I think it is pretty cool that this ties back to an episode in Season One where Jack follows his father around the island. We thought Jack was hallucinating but now we know he wasn't. Gotta get the Season One DVD set and watch that one again.
Locke has been "chosen" by the island since his birth. I almost fell out of my chair when Richard Alpert showed up at the hospital where baby Locke was being incubated. Again, this ties back to Season Three, where Alpert gives Locke a suggestion to have Sawyer kill his father. I had the feeling that Alpert favored Locke over Ben and was trying to help him. Now we learn that Alpert has been trying to help Locke since he was born! Mittelos Bioscience is the company associated with Alpert; they recruited Juliet to do research on the island. All Lost fans have been wondering why Alpert seems to be ageless, appearing in the past as young as he is today. Is Alpert immortal, or is he using portals on the island to travel back/forth through time? As for Locke himself, is the process of being "chosen" resemble how the Dalai Lama is selected? It was eerily that Locke drew a picture of the smoke monster as a kid. I love the moment when Locke says to his teacher "Don't tell me what I can't do!"
Matthew Abaddon tells Locke he should "walkabout". If there's any character besides Alpert that I need to see more of, it is Matthew Abaddon. I was stunned to see him pushing Locke's wheelchair. How many of us thought he was going to dump Locke's paralyzed body over the stairwell? It seems like Abaddon has a connection to the island as well. Yet he apparently works for Widmore, having organized the Freighter expedition. Genius casting by hiring Lance Reddick from the Wire.
Keamy's device on his arm. What is that thing? I am betting that is a smaller, portable version of the sonar fence that kept the smoke monster away from the Others. Keamy is truly the Big Bad this season. He's just slaughtering people left and right to get back to the island. Did you notice that when Keamy pulls the secondary protocol out of the safe, it has a Dharma logo on the cover? Maybe Widmore backed the Dharma bums.
I can't wait to hear this episode discussed on my favorite LOST Podcasts:
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