Summary
Locke sits in front of a fire and looks over the contents
of a red folder. We hear someone nearby struggling, and
Locke tells the someone to save his breath because no one
can her him. Locke then tosses the folder into the fire.
8 Days Ago - We pick up at the end of "The Man from
Tallahassee."
Locke finds his father being held by the Others. Ben insists
that it was Locke, and not them that brought dear old Dad
to the island. Ben advises Locke to keep his distance,
but Locke un-gags his father. Dad promptly bites Locke
and gets shocked by Tom. Dad starts ranting, "don't
you know, John? Don't you know where we are?" Locke
is quickly led from the room. Ben refuses to address Dad's
comment, instead
telling Locke that the Others are all leaving. He invites
Locke to come with them. Locke accepts.
Now - Kate dresses and excuses herself
from Sawyer's tent to go sleep in her own. She tells Sawyer
she can't sleep unless she's in her own tent. She also
doesn't want Sawyer to come with her to sleep in hers.
Kate leaves, and Sawyer ventures out to relieve himself.
He finds Hurley and Jin
standing
nervously outside another tent, but doesn't pay them much
attention. He runs into Locke, who tells Sawyer that he
hasn't joined the Others, he's infiltrated them. He kidnapped
Ben and dragged him into the jungle. Why come all the way
back to the beach to tell Sawyer that? Locke wants Sawyer
to
kill
Ben
for
him.
Sawyer tells Locke to kill Ben himself. Locke says he's
not a killer. Sawyer insists he isn't either. Locke brings
up the man Sawyer killed in Sydney, and says that the Others
have background files on all of them. Sawyer says their
files have their facts wrong. Locke apologizes for coming
to Sawyer, and asks that Sawyer not mention to anyone that
he was there. Locke walks off into the jungle, and Sawyer
reluctantly follows him.
3 Days Ago - The Others have made a camp. Locke helps
Cindy with her tent. The Others all seem to be treating
Locke with a sense of reverence and awe. Cindy tells him
that they've been waiting for him. Before he can ask why,
Tom tells Locke that Ben wants to see him. Locke finds
Ben listening to Juliet's taped report on Sun. Ben tells
Locke that Juliet is finding out who's pregnant, and in
a few days they're going to "take them." Locke doesn't
seem to like the sound of that, and Ben assures him that
no one will get hurt.
Ben uses a cane and gets out of his wheelchair. He thinks
Locke is responsible for his recovery, noting that before
Locke he couldn't even feel his toes, but the
moment Locke showed up, he started feeling pins and needles.
He tells Locke that this is only the beginning, and he
can't wait to show Locke what else the island can do. Unfortunately,
Ben doesn't think Locke is ready to learn. He says that
Locke is still being held hostage by his father. In order
to become one of them, he has to put his father behind
him. The only way Locke can prove he's done that is by
killing him.
Now - Charlie gathers food together in the kitchen. Jack
asks about the camping trip, and Charlie just pushes it
off
as male bonding. Charlie brings the food to the tent that
Hurley and Jin were standing outside the night before.
They're both there as is Desmond. Jin takes the food inside
the tent. Charlie tells Desmond that they need to tell
Jack what's going on. Hurley agrees, wanting Jack to check
out Naomi's wound. After Jack spent so much time with the
Others, Desmond doesn't trust Jack. He asks Charlie and
Hurley
if they trust Jack enough to jeopardize their possible
rescue. Neither of them does, so they need to find someone
else that they can trust.
Sawyer and Locke trek through the jungle. Sawyer asks
what else is in his file. Locke tells him that it says
his father shot his mother then turned the gun on himself
when Sawyer was very young. It doesn't, however, say why.
Locke goes on that the file has school transcripts and
Sawyer's criminal record.
Sawyer knocks Locke to the ground
and holds a knife to his throat. He's been conned by
Ben before and wants to know why he should believe that
this isn't another one of Ben's traps. Locke insists that
he's telling the truth. He's leading Sawyer to kill Ben.
Sawyer demands to know why Locke doesn't kill Ben himself
and Locke is forced to admit that he can't do it. Sawyer
lets Locke get up and says that they'll bring Ben back
to camp. Sawyer isn't willing to kill anybody. Locke agrees,
but tells Sawyer that once he's heard what Ben has to say,
he'll change his mind.
Sayid is the chosen trusted one. He's been told about
Naomi, but not what she has told them. He's pleased that
no one has told Jack what's going on. Naomi tells Sayid
that her helicopter crashed in the water. She took off
from a freighter about 80 nautical miles west of the island.
She's part of a search and recovery team.
Sayid asks about her statement that the wreckage of their
flight had been found. She tells them that the entire plane
was found off the coast of Bali in an ocean trench four
miles deep. It was searched by robotic subs and the bodies
were found. She wasn't looking for Flight 815 survivors,
she and her team were hired by Penny Widmore to find Desmond.
The coordinates they were given were in the middle of the
ocean. They thought they were wasting their time until
Naomi crashed. She was heading for the ship when the clouds
parted and she saw the island. Then her instruments went
crazy and the chopper started to go down so she bailed
out.
Sayid asks whether anyone saw her helicopter. Nope. Naomi
picks up on the idea that Sayid thinks she's lying. He
expects that she'll conveniently not have a way to contact
the ship, but she's got him there. She shows him the satellite
phone.
Locke and Sawyer take a break from their hike. Sawyer
tells Locke that he made a mistake in Sydney. He thought
the man he killed was someone else, though he won't tell
Locke who he thought the man was.
3 Days Ago - Ben wakes Locke and tells him, "it's
time."
He leads Locke to where Dad is tied to an ancient column
and hands Locke a knife. Dad is un-gagged and laughs at
the idea that Ben wants Locke to kill him. Locke hesitates.
Ben tells him it's because a part of him still wants to
believe that there's a good explanation for why Dad stole
his kidney and pushed him out an 8th-story window. Dad
thinks the hesitation is because Locke is spineless. A
crowd of Others starts to gather around.
Locke asks why Ben is doing this to him. Ben says he's
doing it to himself. Until he kills his father, he'll still
be the guy in a wheelchair that got kicked off a walkabout
tour because he couldn't walk. Locke holds the knife to
Dad's throat, but can't bring himself to kill. Ben takes
the knife from Locke and tells the crowd, "I'm sorry. He's
not who we thought he was."
Now - Locke and Sawyer finally reach their destination,
the Black Rock. Locke tells Sawyer that Ben is in the ship's
brig. Locke opens the brig and we see a man wearing a hood
shackled to a bench. Sawyer repeats to Locke that he isn't
going to kill anyone, and to make his point he leaves his
knife outside the brig. Once inside, Locke closes and locks
the door behind him, trapping him inside with "Ben." Sawyer
beats on the door, but can't open it. He rips the hood
off of the man only to find it'd Dad and not Ben. Sawyer
asks, "who the hell are you?"
On the beach, Sayid manages to get the radio/phone powered
up, but it can't lock on to a channel to communicate with
anyone. All they receive is interference, which Sayid says
is blocking their ability to send their own transmission.
While Sayid and Hurley discuss the radio, Kate walks up
and sees what they're doing. Sayid tells her that if he
explains where they got the radio, he wants her to keep
it very quiet.
In the brig, Locke sits and waits for Sawyer to kill Dad.
Rousseau shows up, grabs a crate of dynamite and leaves.
2 Days Ago - Locke sits on a hillside overlooking the
Others' camp. Richard introduces himself and sits beside
Locke. He explains that Ben asked Locke to kill Dad in
order to embarrass Locke, knowing that Locke wouldn't kill
his own father. Why? When people found out that Locke got
on the plane with a broken spine but is now walking on
the island, they got excited because that could only happen
to "someone extremely special." Ben doesn't want anyone
to think that Locke is special.
Why is Richard cluing Locke in on this? Richard thinks
that Ben has been wasting their time on things like fertility
problems. He's looking for someone to remind people that
they're there for more important reasons. Richard wants
Locke to find his purpose, but for that to happen, Dad
still has to die. Richard knows that Locke won't do it,
but he brings him a file on someone who will, Sawyer. Why
would Sawyer kill Locke's father when Sawyer doesn't even
know Locke's father? That's part of the file.
In the brig, Sawyer ends up un-gagging Dad, who condescendingly
tells Sawyer that Locke is his son. Sawyer asks how Dad
got to the island. Dad finds the idea that they're on an
island funny, but he explains how he got there. He was
rear-ended while driving on Interstate 10 through Tallahassee.
He wrecked at 70 mph. The next thing he knows, he's strapped
to a gurney and being loaded into an ambulance. One of
the EMT's even smiles at him as he hooks up an IV. The
next thing Dad knows, he's tied up and gagged in a dark
room, and when the door to the room opens, it's Locke he
sees, his dead son whose plane crashed (and was found)
in the ocean. Dad figures they're all dead, and all in
Hell, not on some island.
Dad tells Sawyer that he threw Locke out of a window which
paralyzed him. He did it because Locke was becoming a nuisance.
He also mentions that he conned Locke out of a kidney.
Sawyer asks
Dad's name. Dad's had many names, one of those, Tom Sawyer,
really get's Sawyer's attention.
Yesterday - the Others pack up their camp. They're moving.
Locke's not invited, nor is his father. Ben promises
to leave a trail that Locke can follow if and when Locke
kills
his
father. If Locke does follow them, he better be carrying
his father's body on his back.
Now - In the brig, more talk between Sawyer and, well,
Tom Sawyer. Sawyer figures out that this is his namesake.
This is the man that conned his mother, Mary, taking all
his parent savings, prompting his father to shoot his mother
before turning the gun on himself. Sawyer pulls out the
letter that he carries with him, hands it to Dad, and
tells him to read it. Dad starts to read the letter, then
stops once he gets past the part about Sawyer's father
killing himself. Dad figures out that Sawyer wrote the
letter, and that Sawyer
took
his
name
as part
of his
obsession
with
revenge.
Dad tells Sawyer that he ran that con two dozen times.
Sawyer tells him his mother's name was Mary. Dad says he
remembers Mary from Jasper, and that she practically begged
him to take her $38,000 and take her away from her pathetic
little life there. Sawyer tells him to finish reading the
letter. Dad says that all he did was take the money, and
if Sawyer's father did what he says, that he's probably
"down here" somewhere, and Sawyer should "take it up with
him."
Sawyer screams at Dad to finish the letter. Dad says he'll
finish it, and starts ripping it into pieces. Sawyer snaps.
He wraps a chain around Dad's neck and strangles him to
death. Locke opens the door and tells Sawyer, "thank you."
Kate finds Jack and Juliet sitting on the beach. She asks
to speak to Jack alone. Juliet starts to leave, but Jack
tells Kate that anything she has to say to him, she can
say to Juliet, too. Kate finally agrees to tell them both,
since Juliet is the reason that no one has yet told Jack
what's going on. She gives them the run down. Naomi parachuted
onto the island, there's a ship, if they can contact it
they'll be rescued. Jack asks why no one had told him (duh!),
and Kate says that it's because nobody trusts him anymore.
Jack asks how Naomi is supposed to contact her ship. Kate
is amazed that Jack isn't phased by the news that none
of his friends trust him. He asks again and she tells about
the radio/phone. Jack and Juliet exchange a look and Juliet
says, "we should tell her." Jack says "no." Kate wonders
what they're talking about. Juliet repeats that they should
tell Kate. Jack says, "not yet," and walks off.
Sawyer leaves the Black Rock and wretches. He asks Locke
why he arranged this. Locke says that Dad ruined both of
their lives, and he deserved to die. He then tells Sawyer
that Juliet is a mole. He also tells about the plan to
grab the pregnant women. Why is Locke telling Sawyer instead
of warning the camp himself? He's not going back. He's
on his own journey now.
Sawyer doesn't think anyone will believe him, since he's
been saying she can't be trusted since she showed up in
camp. Locke produces the tape recorder with Juliet's report
for Ben. Sawyer asks if it's true that Dad threw Locke
out a window and that he was paralyzed. Locke says, "not
any more," and walks off.
The final scene is of Locke slinging his father's body
over his shoulder and heading into the jungle.
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