Summary
We open in flashback mode. A Young Eko breaks into a storage
shed to get his brother, Yemi, something to eat. A nun
catches them and brings them into the church. She forces
Eko to go to the priest for confession, even though Eko
clearly feels that Yemi's hunger made his stealing justified.
On to the present. Sayid has just returned to the beach.
He looks in on Eko, who is unconscious and feverous two
days after being rescued from the polar bear. Sayid leaves
the tent to check in with Locke, and Eko dreams about Yemi's
death. Eko wakes to find Yemi in his tent, holding a cigarette
lighter. Eko is unable to speak, but Yemi tells him it
is time to confess and be judged. Yemi tells Eko that he'll
be waiting.
Shift to Charlie, Hurley and Sayid walking to find Locke.
They notice that Eko's tent is on fire. Charlie and Hurley
get Eko out while Sayid works on putting out the fire.
They put Eko down, and he's acting delirious, calling out
for Yemi. They go to help with the fire, leaving Eko alone.
Before they can get back to him, Eko has disappeared.
Ben brings a white gown-shirt to Jack and asks him to
put it on. Ben is already wearing the same type of shirt.
Jack surprises Ben by asking about his tumor. Ben tells
Jack
that he doesn't
know what
he's
talking
about,
but his body language gives him away. Jack is led to the
beach. A funeral is being held for Colleen, and she's put
on a floating funeral pyre. Afterwards, Ben asks Elizabeth
why she showed Jack his X-rays. She tells him that she
didn't tell Jack whose they were, but apparently he did.
The next day, Locke and Desmond tell Sayid that the computer
in the hatch wasn't just for pushing the button. Desmond
believed it could be used for communicating with the other
hatches, and Locke wants to use the computer in the Pearl
station to try and contact the Others. Also, there's no
sign of Eko, but Charlie tells Locke about Eko's mentioning
his brother. He realizes that they're all going to the
same place. We cut to Eko, stumbling through the jungle
until he collapses.
Flash back to moments after the flashback events from
"The 23rd Psalm." Eko is brought back to Yemi's
church, after being mistaken for a real priest. He goes
into Yemi's
church and finds Yemi's Bible, in which he finds a picture
of himself and Yemi as young boys. A woman and her son
come into the church looking for Father Yemi. Eko tells
them that Yemi is gone, called away suddenly due to a problem
in the refugee camp. She introduces herself as Amina, a
worker at the local clinic, and her son as Daniel, the
altar boy for the church. He tells her that he'll be taking
Yemi's place. She mentions that Father Yemi was leaving
for London at the end of the week, and Eko tells her that
he'll be taking Yemi's place there as well.
Back to Eko in the jungle. He wakes and as he gets to
his feet, we briefly see the black smoke "security
system."
From out of nowhere, a man throws a machete at Eko, barely
missing his head. Eko grabs the machete and sees more
men, all are wounded. A man kneels before Eko, begging
for his life. Eko raises the machete to strike the man,
but suddenly the man is the boy Daniel. He raises his finger
to his lips and says, "shhh. Confess," then disappears.
Once again, Eko is alone in the jungle.
Locke invites anyone who wants to come with him to try
and find Kate, Jack and Sawyer. Hurley is confused by this
since Jack would always pick the people he wanted to accompany
him. Locke points out that he's not Jack. Nikki volunteers
to go, much to the surprise of Paolo. She tells him he's
always complaining about being left out, and now's their
chance. Desmond points out that the fact that the computer
they're after is in the hatch under the plane wreck that
Eko's heading for is a big coincidence. Locke steals a
phrase from Eko and tells Desmond, "don't mistake coincidence
for fate."
Eko stops for some water, and we flash back to Eko in
the church. He's washing his hands in the holy water. Daniel
tells him that's a no-no, but he says he's washing away
his sins. Gunfire is heard from outside the church. Eko
goes out to see what's going on. A truckload of gunmen
ride into town, shooting into the air. The leader, Emeka,
gets out of the truck and asks for Father Yemi. Amina runs
up and tells the warlord that the shipment of vaccine is
late. It should arrive later in the week. Eko asks, "what
shipment," and Amina explains that when they receive shipments
of vaccines, they're allowed to keep 20 percent and
Emeka takes the rest for "protection." Eko tells Emeka
that he's not afraid of him, and turns to go into the church.
Emeka pulls his gun and shoots the woman who was selling
Virgin Mary statues. He tells Eko that he'll be back on
Friday for the vaccines.
Back to the present, Eko is still kneeling over a river
and drinking. He sees the reflection of the smoke monster
in the water. He stands to face it and it towers over him,
but retreats. Moments later, Locke, Desmond, Sayid, Nikki
and Paolo catch up with him.
Juliet brings Jack a cheeseburger for lunch. She seems
to be flirting with him when Ben shows up and asks to speak
with Jack alone, "doctor-patient confidentiality." He
tells Jack that they had a wonderful plan to break him.
They
were going to wear him down until he no longer believed
that they were his enemy, and that he was doing things
for them because he wanted to, things like saving Ben's
life. Part of that plan was to get Jack to be interested
in Juliet, who, at least in their opinion, bears a "striking
resemblance" to Jack's ex-wife. With Jack having seen
the X-rays, though, that plan had to be
abandoned.
Now,
all
Ben can
do is ask
Jack
to
"think about it." Before Ben leaves, he asks
Jack if he believes in God. Jack doesn't answer, but repeats
the
question to Ben. Ben explains that two days after he found
out he had a tumor on his spine, a spinal surgeon "fell
out of the sky." If that isn't proof that there's
a God, what is?
The group makes their way toward the plane wreckage. Locke
asks Eko if he's looking for Yemi, and Eko freaks out.
He pins Locke to a tree, holds a knife to his throat, and
warns him never to speak Yemi's name again. Locke asks
Eko what he's so afraid of, and we flash back again. Eko
visits the clinic, asking about the vaccine shipments.
Amina explains that they come from the Red Cross every
six months. The militia wants them because they fetch a
high price on the black market. She tells Eko not to cross
the militia. Before Yemi came, they weren't allowed to
keep any of the vaccine. She tells Eko that he reminds
her of Father Yemi. "You're a good man, too." Later, we
see Eko visit a man outside a bar. He tells the man that
he has some vaccine to sell, but it has to be done by Sunday
when he's leaving the country.
They reach the wreckage of the plane. Sayid, Desmond,
Nikki and Paolo go down the hatch into the Pearl station.
Eko and Locke go the wreckage. As they're moving rocks
away from the plane entrance, Locke asks Eko what he saw
just before they arrived. Locke tells him he's seen it
once himself. Eko asks what he saw, and Locke tells him
he saw a bright light. "It was beautiful." Eko
responds,
"that is not what I saw." He goes into the plane,
but there's no sign of Yemi's body. Locke goes to join
the others in the Pearl station, but Eko elects to remain
topside.
Flash back again. Eko is confronted in the church by Emeka
and two of his men. He's heard about Eko's attempt to sell
the vaccines, and says that if Eko though he wouldn't find
out about it, "you don't know who I am." He doesn't
like the idea of killing a priest, so he's just
going to cut off Eko's hands. He has Eko's hands bound
and set before him on the lectern. Emeka raises a machete
and swings, but Eko pulls his hands out of the way and
strikes
one
of Emeka's men. The machete embeds itself into the lectern
and Emeka gets knocked away from it. Eko grabs the machete,
slashes one of Emeka's men across the throat, and hacks
off another of his men's arms. Emeka begs for his life.
Eko tells him, "you do not know who I am," and
brings the machete down on Emeka. Eko stumbles out of
the church,
bloody machete in hand. The villagers notice him, particularly
Amina and Daniel.
Eko lets the machete drop to the ground.
In the Pearl, Nikki watches the orientation tape while
Sayid checks out the computer wiring. He finds the connection
is only one-way, a dead end. Nikki asks the obvious question,
"what are these other TVs for?" The tape mentioned that
it's a monitoring station for the other projects, plural.
Sayid tries patching in the other feeds in hopes of finding
a signal in one of the other hatches. Eventually, a picture
comes up. It looks much like the computer room from the
now-defunct Swan station. There's an Apple II-style computer
at a desk and a bank of computers in the background. The
camera pans to the right and we find a man wearing an eye
patch. He looks into the camera for a moment then disables
it. Locke says, "I guess he'll be expecting us."
Juliet brings Jack a movie to watch. He isn't in the mood,
but she insists, telling him she'll turn the sound down.
As the movie loads into the player, she apologizes for
brining him there and for everything that's been done
to him and his friends. The film starts, but it isn't "To
Kill a Mockingbird" as Juliet said. It's Juliet, and
she's holding up a sign that says, "ignore everything
I'm saying."
As Juliet continues to talk, further signs say, "Ben
is a liar. And he is very dangerous. Some of us want a
change.
But it has to look like an accident. It has to look like
we tried to save him. And that's up to you, Jack.
It's a complicated surgery. No one would ever know. And
I would protect you. Now tell me to turn off the movie." He
tells her to turn the movie off, she does, then leaves, telling
Jack to think about what she's said.
Eko walks through Yemi's church. The blood has all been
washed away, and Daniel sweeps the floor. He asks where
Eko is going, and Eko replies, "London." Daniel then asks
if Eko is a "bad man," because his mother says he is. Eko
answers that only God knows. Outside the church, the vaccine
shipment has arrived. Amina tells him that the men he killed
will be replaced by other men. Men from the village start
to board up the church. Amina explains that the church
is no longer sacred, and can no longer be used. She tells
Eko to go to London and repent, because he owes God
for
every
life
he's
taken, and also that he owes Yemi one church.
On the island, Eko waits for the others to finish in the
hatch. He stares at Yemi's crucifix, and looks up to see
Yemi standing in front of him. Yemi walks off into the
jungle and Eko follows, calling after him. He asks why
Yemi wants to hear his confession now, and finds Yemi standing
in a clearing. He asks Eko if he is ready, and Eko says
he is. Eko holds up Yemi's crucifix and places it in Yemi's
hand. He says, "I ask for no forgiveness, Father, for I
have not sinned. I have only done what I needed to do to
survive." He tells Yemi about the boy that asked him if
he was a bad man. If he could answer now, he would tell
that boy about killing a man to save his brother's life,
something he's not sorry for. In fact, he's proud of it.
Eko gets down on his knees in front of Yemi, and tells
him he didn't ask for the life he was given, but he did
the best he could with that life anyway.
Yemi says, "you
speak to me as if I were your brother," and beings
to walk off. Eko asks, "who are you?" and follows.
There's no sign of Yemi in the jungle, but we hear and
see
"smokey." Finally, Eko sees it, too. It towers
above him and he starts to recite the 23rd Psalm. The
smoke grabs
Eko and starts bashing him against the trees. In the Pearl,
the commotion can be heard and the group starts running
for the exit. The smoke raises Eko high into the air and
slams him into the ground before letting him go. By the
time Locke reaches Eko, the smoke is gone. Eko is barely
alive. He tries to tell Locke something, and Locke has
to get close to hear. We get one last flashback of a young
Eko and young Yemi walking off together, then Eko dies.
Sayid asks what Eko said, and Locke tells him, "we're
next."
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