Lost: The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham
March 24th 2009 20:33
Here’s the episode that we finally figure out 1. Why Locke was going by the name “Jeremy Bentham”, and 2. What he was doing off The Island and how he died…
-After the new Ajira airplane crash, in which Locke was dead in a coffin wearing Jack’s dad’s shoes, Locke wakes up on The Island, very much alive. Or at least on the small island just adjacent to THE Island.
-Flash back to how he got there:
*After the giant wheel FLASH, Locke wakes up in Tunisia. His leg is broken, and he searches the desert until he spots a camera. He calls out for help, and men working for none other than Charles Widmdore come to pick him up.
Upon waking up after his leg has been set, Locke is given a new identity (Jeremy Bentham) and a new driver (Abaddon) so that he can go convince the Oceanic 6 to get back to the Island.
But where are they now?
~*~*~
*Locke finds Sayid doing humanitarian work in Santo Domingo:
SAYID: I don’t believe this, you actually want me to go back?
LOCKE: I know how it sounds, Sayid, but you have to trust me. This is the only we’re gonna save them.
SAYID: I’m not going back! For two years, I was manipulated into thinking I was protecting everyone on the island..
LOCKE: Who was manipulating you?
SAYID: Ben. So who is manipulating you, John?
LOCKE: This is coming from me, nobody else. I know you, Sayid, and deep down in your heart, you know we never should have left The Island.
SAYID: It’s only because I left The Island that I was finally able to marry the woman I loved. We spent nine months together. The best nine months of my life, John. That’s what I know in my heart.
LOCKE: Where is she now?
SAYID: She was murdered.
LOCKE: Well, I… I’m sorry.
SAYID: Why do you really need to go back? Is it just because you have nowhere else to go?
LOCKE; If you change your mind, I’ll be staying under the name Jeremy Bentham in L.A. at the Westerfield Hotel.
SAYID: And if you change your mind, you’re welcome to come back here and do some real good. Bye-bye, John.
~*~*~
*Failing to convince Sayid, Locke makes a stop at a New York school, where he waits outside until…Walt comes out. Spotting Locke, Walt walks over to talk to him:
WALT: Hey, John.
LOCKE: Hi, Walt!
WALT: What happened?
LOCKE: I hurt my leg. You don’t seem surprised to see me.
WALT: I’ve been having dreams about you. You were on the island, wearing a suit, and there were people all around you. They wanted to hurt you, John.
LOCKE: Good thing they’re just dreams.
WALT: Is my dad….. is he back on the island? I haven’t talked to him in three years. I figured he must have gone back.
LOCKE: Well, last I heard, your dad was on a freighter near the island.
WALT: So, why’d you come to see me?
LOCKE: I just wanted to make sure you were okay.
WALT: Yeah. I’m doin’ pretty good. Well, I gotta go. It was good seeing you, John.
LOCKE: Yeah, take care.
~*~*~
*Leaving Walt, Locke next goes to see Hurley in his mental institution. Upon seeing him, Hurley casually addresses him as yet another one of his dead friends.
LOCKE: Hello, Hugo.
HURLEY: So you didn’t make it, huh?
LOCKE: Pardon me?
HURLEY: You didn’t make it. It’s cool, no biggie. You’re not the first person to visit me, you know. What’s up with the wheelchair?
LOCKE: Uh, I broke my leg fallin’ down a hole.
HURLEY Oh, is that how you died?
LOCKE: Hugo, I’m not dead.
HURLEY: [with a wry look] Sure, you’re not.
LOCKE: No, I.. I promise you, I’m very much alive.
HURLEY: (addressing an attendant) Hey, Susie, am I talking to a dude in wheelchair right now?
SUSIE: Yup.
(Shocked to see Locke alive and off The Island, Hurley jumps up)
HURLEY: Whoa, dude! What are you doin’ here?
LOCKE: I need you to come back to the island with me.
HURLEY: Wait, what?
LOCKE: And not just you, but everybody who left.
HURLEY: You mean Jack and Kate….
LOCKE: Everybody.
HURLEY: I’m sorry, dude, I don’t think that’s gonna happen. Jack’s a doctor now, and Sun’s like got her baby, and Kate’s got Aaron…(suddenly spots Abbadon) Dude, be cool. Don’t look, but we’re being watched.
(Locke looks anyway)
HURLEY: Dude!
LOCKE: Oh, don’t worry, he’s with me.
HURLEY: What?
LOCKE: He’s just driving me around, he’s okay.
HURLEY: That dude is far from okay. When I first got locked up in here, he showed up claiming that he worked for Oceanic Air. He’s evil! You should not be trusting that guy.
LOCKE: Please, just listen to me!
HURLEY: No, no, no, I’m not listening to you!
LOCKE: Hugo, please listen!
HURLEY: (sticking his fingers in his ears) La, la, la—(to attendants) I wanna go back in. I wanna go back in.
LOCKE: Hugo.
HURLEY: No, I’m not going anywhere with you! No way! Bye! (as he’s being led away, to Locke and Abaddon) Get out of here!
Well that went well. Not.
~*~*~
*Deciding to try Kate next, Locke heads to Los Angeles. Although she understands his reasons for wanting her to go back (all the other people on The Island need her help), she refuses for Aaron’s sake.
KATE: The answer is no.
LOCKE: Kate, I don’t think you understand…
KATE: No, you made yourself perfectly clear. Everyone on the island is gonna die if I don’t go back. And the answer is no.
LOCKE: Why? Don’t you care about them?
KATE: Have you ever been in love, John?
LOCKE: What?
KATE: I think about you sometimes. I think about how desperate you were to stay on that island. And then I realized.. it was all because you didn’t love anybody.
LOCKE: That’s not true. I loved someone. Once. Her name was Helen.
KATE: What happened?
LOCKE: Mmm, it just didn’t work out.
KATE: Why not, John?
LOCKE: I was angry. I was…ob-obsessed.
KATE: And look how far you’ve come.
0 for 3, Locke heads back out to his car and asks Abaddon if he’s located Helen yet. It was the one thing Locke asked him to do.
~*~*~
*Abbadon takes Locke to the cemetery to see Helen’s grave. As they’re getting back into the car, Abaddon is shot, falling against the trunk of the car as he’s loading Locke’s wheelchair. In a panic, Locke painfully maneuvers his cast into the driver’s seat and speeds away. He doesn’t get very far.
~*~*~
*Upon waking up from his car accident, Locke finds himself in the hospital with a familiar person waiting. It’s Jack.
JACK: What are you doing here?
LOCKE: Jack, how did you find me?
JACK: You were in a car accident and you were brought into my hospital. What are you doing here?
LOCKE: We have to go back.
JACK: (laughs) Of course. Of course we do.
LOCKE: Jack, the people I left behind need our help. We’re supposed to go back.
JACK: Because it’s our destiny. How many times are you gonna say that to me, John?
LOCKE: How can you not see it? Of all the hospitals they could have brought me to, I end up here. You don’t think that’s fate?
JACK: Your car accident was on the west side of Los Angeles. You being brought into my hospital isn’t fate, John, it’s probability.
LOCKE: You don’t understand. It wasn’t an accident. Somebody is trying to kill me.
JACK: Why? Why would someone try to kill you?
LOCKE: Because they don’t want me to succeed. They wanna stop me. They don’t want me to get back because I’m important.
JACK: Have you ever stopped to think? That these…delusions that you’re special -- aren’t real? That maybe there’s nothing important about you at all? Maybe you are just a lonely old man that crashed on an island? That’s it. Goodbye, John.
LOCKE: Your father says hello.
JACK: What?
LOCKE: A man, the man who told me to move the island, the man who told me how to bring you all back? He said to tell his son hello. It couldn’t a been Sayid’s father, and it wasn’t Hurley’s. That leaves you. He said his name was Christian.
JACK: My… my father is dead.
LOCKE: Well, he didn’t look dead to me.
JACK: He died in Australia. Three years ago. I put him the coffin! He’s dead.
LOCKE: Jack, please you have to come back! You’re the only one who can convince the rest of them. You have to help me. You’re supposed to help me!
JACK: John, it’s over! It’s done. We left, and we were never important, so you… you leave me alone. And you leave the rest of them alone.
Jack leaves.
~*~*~
Failing to convince even one person to go back to The Island with him, a defeated Locke goes back to his hotel to hang himself. He writes a note to Jack, steps up in the noose, and prepares to step off.
There is a knock at the door.
“John?” Ben calls out. “John?”
When Locke doesn’t answer, Ben busts down the door. “John, what are you doing?” Locke inches towards the edge of his platform, and Ben hastily urges, “Wait, wait, John, stop!”
LOCKE: How did you find me?
BEN: I have a man watching Sayid. I’m watching all of them; keeping them safe. When you turned up, he called me.
LOCKE: Who--uh, who…. What are you doing here?
BEN: John, just calm down.
LOCKE: What do you want from me?
BEN: Please let me help…
LOCKE: ANSWER THE QUESTION!
BEN: I’m trying to protect you.
LOCKE: Protect me? You shot him. You killed Abaddon.
BEN: Yes. Yes, I did. But it was only a matter of time before he tried to kill you. I was just trying to get to you, but you drove off and crashed.
LOCKE: Why? Why would he…
BEN: He was working for Charles Widmore. He’s extremely dangerous.
LOCKE: No! Widmore came to me. He saved me.
BEN: No, John, he used you. He waited ‘til you showed up so that you could help him get to the island. Charles Widmore is the reason I moved the island. So that he could never find it again. To keep him away, so that you could lead. (walks carefully towards him) You can’t do this. If anything happens to you… John, you have no idea how important you are. Let me help you.
LOCKE: There… is no helping me. I’m… I’m a failure.
BEN: No, John, you’re not.
LOCKE: I am! I couldn’t get any of them! I couldn’t get a single one of them to come back with me. I can’t lead anyone.
BEN: Jack booked a ticket.
LOCKE: What?
BEN: A plane ticket from Los Angeles to Sydney. Tonight. Return trip first thing in the morning. Whatever you said to him, John, it worked. And if you got Jack, you can get the rest of them.
(Ben falls to his knees in front of Locke)
BEN: John, you can’t die. You’ve got too much work to do. We’ve gotta get you back to that island so that you can do it. (picks up the crutch) Please, John. C’mon. Come down.
(Ben helps him down and Locke suddenly breaks into tears.)
BEN: I know we can do this, John. You haven’t even been to Sun yet. Let’s start with her.
LOCKE: No, I… I promised Jin that I wouldn’t bring her back.
BEN: Jin… is alive?
LOCKE: Yeah. Yeah, but he didn’t want her to know, he wanted me to tell her that his… that his body washed up on the beach. And, uh, he gave me his wedding ring to prove it.
BEN: Alright. A promise is a promise.
(Locke removed the noose from around his neck and Ben pulls it down from the ceiling.)
LOCKE: Thank you.
BEN: You’re welcome. Come on. (takes his coat off and helps Locke walk) Let’s go. I know we can do this. Once we can get them all in the same place… I don’t know where we’ll go from there, but we’ll figure something out.
LOCKE: I know where we go. There’s a woman, here in Los Angeles..
BEN: A woman?
LOCKE: I don’t know exactly where, but she shouldn’t be that hard to find. Her name is, is ah, Eloise Hawking.
BEN: Eloise Hawking? You sure?
LOCKE: Yeah. Yeah, why, do you know her?
BEN: Yes, John, I know her.
Suddenly Ben stops coiling the extension cord Locke used as a noose, and, in one quick move, swings it around Locke’s neck and pulls it tight. Shocked, Locke falls out of his wheelchair. They continue to struggle, but Ben, in his freakishly strong way of his, manages to overpower him, strangling and killing Locke.
Ben falls on the floor, out of breath. After composing himself, he calmly swings the noose back into place, lifts Locke’s body into it and proceeds to clean the room so it looks like a suicide.
Pocketing Jin’s wedding ring, Ben heads to the door, turning one last time to look at the hanging Locke. “I’ll miss you John. I really will.”
~*~*~
Back on The Island, Locke enters the room where the man who consoled Jack about his death is examining an old Dharma notebook.
LOCKE: That symbol belongs to an organization called the Dharma Initiative. They were conducting some experiments here a while back.
CAESAR: How do you know that?
LOCKE: I spent more than a hundred days on this island, I know a lot.
CAESAR: A hundred days? So when we crashed, you were already here?
LOCKE: No. No, I uh, I left.
CAESAR: How long ago did you leave?
LOCKE: Uh, the timing would just confuse you.
CAESAR: Well, how did you get back?
LOCKE: To be honest, that part’s a bit of a mystery to me.
CAESAR: Okay, John Locke, I have a mystery too. Maybe you can help me with it.
LOCKE: I’m happy to try.
CAESAR: On the plane, I was sitting across the aisle from that really big guy with curly hair. When the plane started shaking, really shaking, there was a big noise and a bright light. And this really big guy with curly hair was gone, man. I mean, literally gone. And it wasn’t only him. Some of us saw it happen to other people, too. So, Mr. John Locke, do you have an idea about what happened?
LOCKE: I think… I might know how I came to be here. But that would involve me finding my friends. Do you have a, a, a passenger list?
CAESAR: No. The pilot took it when he went off.
LOCKE: And everyone’s accounted for? All the people? O-O-Other than the ones who disappeared?
CAESAR: Yeah, yeah, except for the people who got hurt.
LOCKE: The people who got hurt?
(Caesar leads him through a room they’ve made into an infirmary for the hurt passengers. They head towards a bed with a man turned away from them lying in it. Caesar nods to the man)
CAESAR: You know him?
LOCKE: Yeah. (stairs down at Ben’s injured face) He’s the man who killed me.
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Okay, so Ben probably knew that he had to kill Locke in order to have a substitute for Jack’s dad in order to get back to The Island, but did he know that Locke would be alive again when they got back? Hmmm...
-After the new Ajira airplane crash, in which Locke was dead in a coffin wearing Jack’s dad’s shoes, Locke wakes up on The Island, very much alive. Or at least on the small island just adjacent to THE Island.
-Flash back to how he got there:
*After the giant wheel FLASH, Locke wakes up in Tunisia. His leg is broken, and he searches the desert until he spots a camera. He calls out for help, and men working for none other than Charles Widmdore come to pick him up.
Upon waking up after his leg has been set, Locke is given a new identity (Jeremy Bentham) and a new driver (Abaddon) so that he can go convince the Oceanic 6 to get back to the Island.
But where are they now?
~*~*~
*Locke finds Sayid doing humanitarian work in Santo Domingo:
SAYID: I don’t believe this, you actually want me to go back?
LOCKE: I know how it sounds, Sayid, but you have to trust me. This is the only we’re gonna save them.
SAYID: I’m not going back! For two years, I was manipulated into thinking I was protecting everyone on the island..
LOCKE: Who was manipulating you?
SAYID: Ben. So who is manipulating you, John?
LOCKE: This is coming from me, nobody else. I know you, Sayid, and deep down in your heart, you know we never should have left The Island.
SAYID: It’s only because I left The Island that I was finally able to marry the woman I loved. We spent nine months together. The best nine months of my life, John. That’s what I know in my heart.
LOCKE: Where is she now?
SAYID: She was murdered.
LOCKE: Well, I… I’m sorry.
SAYID: Why do you really need to go back? Is it just because you have nowhere else to go?
LOCKE; If you change your mind, I’ll be staying under the name Jeremy Bentham in L.A. at the Westerfield Hotel.
SAYID: And if you change your mind, you’re welcome to come back here and do some real good. Bye-bye, John.
~*~*~
*Failing to convince Sayid, Locke makes a stop at a New York school, where he waits outside until…Walt comes out. Spotting Locke, Walt walks over to talk to him:
WALT: Hey, John.
LOCKE: Hi, Walt!
WALT: What happened?
LOCKE: I hurt my leg. You don’t seem surprised to see me.
WALT: I’ve been having dreams about you. You were on the island, wearing a suit, and there were people all around you. They wanted to hurt you, John.
LOCKE: Good thing they’re just dreams.
WALT: Is my dad….. is he back on the island? I haven’t talked to him in three years. I figured he must have gone back.
LOCKE: Well, last I heard, your dad was on a freighter near the island.
WALT: So, why’d you come to see me?
LOCKE: I just wanted to make sure you were okay.
WALT: Yeah. I’m doin’ pretty good. Well, I gotta go. It was good seeing you, John.
LOCKE: Yeah, take care.
~*~*~
*Leaving Walt, Locke next goes to see Hurley in his mental institution. Upon seeing him, Hurley casually addresses him as yet another one of his dead friends.
LOCKE: Hello, Hugo.
HURLEY: So you didn’t make it, huh?
LOCKE: Pardon me?
HURLEY: You didn’t make it. It’s cool, no biggie. You’re not the first person to visit me, you know. What’s up with the wheelchair?
LOCKE: Uh, I broke my leg fallin’ down a hole.
HURLEY Oh, is that how you died?
LOCKE: Hugo, I’m not dead.
HURLEY: [with a wry look] Sure, you’re not.
LOCKE: No, I.. I promise you, I’m very much alive.
HURLEY: (addressing an attendant) Hey, Susie, am I talking to a dude in wheelchair right now?
SUSIE: Yup.
(Shocked to see Locke alive and off The Island, Hurley jumps up)
HURLEY: Whoa, dude! What are you doin’ here?
LOCKE: I need you to come back to the island with me.
HURLEY: Wait, what?
LOCKE: And not just you, but everybody who left.
HURLEY: You mean Jack and Kate….
LOCKE: Everybody.
HURLEY: I’m sorry, dude, I don’t think that’s gonna happen. Jack’s a doctor now, and Sun’s like got her baby, and Kate’s got Aaron…(suddenly spots Abbadon) Dude, be cool. Don’t look, but we’re being watched.
(Locke looks anyway)
HURLEY: Dude!
LOCKE: Oh, don’t worry, he’s with me.
HURLEY: What?
LOCKE: He’s just driving me around, he’s okay.
HURLEY: That dude is far from okay. When I first got locked up in here, he showed up claiming that he worked for Oceanic Air. He’s evil! You should not be trusting that guy.
LOCKE: Please, just listen to me!
HURLEY: No, no, no, I’m not listening to you!
LOCKE: Hugo, please listen!
HURLEY: (sticking his fingers in his ears) La, la, la—(to attendants) I wanna go back in. I wanna go back in.
LOCKE: Hugo.
HURLEY: No, I’m not going anywhere with you! No way! Bye! (as he’s being led away, to Locke and Abaddon) Get out of here!
Well that went well. Not.
~*~*~
*Deciding to try Kate next, Locke heads to Los Angeles. Although she understands his reasons for wanting her to go back (all the other people on The Island need her help), she refuses for Aaron’s sake.
KATE: The answer is no.
LOCKE: Kate, I don’t think you understand…
KATE: No, you made yourself perfectly clear. Everyone on the island is gonna die if I don’t go back. And the answer is no.
LOCKE: Why? Don’t you care about them?
KATE: Have you ever been in love, John?
LOCKE: What?
KATE: I think about you sometimes. I think about how desperate you were to stay on that island. And then I realized.. it was all because you didn’t love anybody.
LOCKE: That’s not true. I loved someone. Once. Her name was Helen.
KATE: What happened?
LOCKE: Mmm, it just didn’t work out.
KATE: Why not, John?
LOCKE: I was angry. I was…ob-obsessed.
KATE: And look how far you’ve come.
0 for 3, Locke heads back out to his car and asks Abaddon if he’s located Helen yet. It was the one thing Locke asked him to do.
~*~*~
*Abbadon takes Locke to the cemetery to see Helen’s grave. As they’re getting back into the car, Abaddon is shot, falling against the trunk of the car as he’s loading Locke’s wheelchair. In a panic, Locke painfully maneuvers his cast into the driver’s seat and speeds away. He doesn’t get very far.
~*~*~
*Upon waking up from his car accident, Locke finds himself in the hospital with a familiar person waiting. It’s Jack.
JACK: What are you doing here?
LOCKE: Jack, how did you find me?
JACK: You were in a car accident and you were brought into my hospital. What are you doing here?
LOCKE: We have to go back.
JACK: (laughs) Of course. Of course we do.
LOCKE: Jack, the people I left behind need our help. We’re supposed to go back.
JACK: Because it’s our destiny. How many times are you gonna say that to me, John?
LOCKE: How can you not see it? Of all the hospitals they could have brought me to, I end up here. You don’t think that’s fate?
JACK: Your car accident was on the west side of Los Angeles. You being brought into my hospital isn’t fate, John, it’s probability.
LOCKE: You don’t understand. It wasn’t an accident. Somebody is trying to kill me.
JACK: Why? Why would someone try to kill you?
LOCKE: Because they don’t want me to succeed. They wanna stop me. They don’t want me to get back because I’m important.
JACK: Have you ever stopped to think? That these…delusions that you’re special -- aren’t real? That maybe there’s nothing important about you at all? Maybe you are just a lonely old man that crashed on an island? That’s it. Goodbye, John.
LOCKE: Your father says hello.
JACK: What?
LOCKE: A man, the man who told me to move the island, the man who told me how to bring you all back? He said to tell his son hello. It couldn’t a been Sayid’s father, and it wasn’t Hurley’s. That leaves you. He said his name was Christian.
JACK: My… my father is dead.
LOCKE: Well, he didn’t look dead to me.
JACK: He died in Australia. Three years ago. I put him the coffin! He’s dead.
LOCKE: Jack, please you have to come back! You’re the only one who can convince the rest of them. You have to help me. You’re supposed to help me!
JACK: John, it’s over! It’s done. We left, and we were never important, so you… you leave me alone. And you leave the rest of them alone.
Jack leaves.
~*~*~
Failing to convince even one person to go back to The Island with him, a defeated Locke goes back to his hotel to hang himself. He writes a note to Jack, steps up in the noose, and prepares to step off.
There is a knock at the door.
“John?” Ben calls out. “John?”
When Locke doesn’t answer, Ben busts down the door. “John, what are you doing?” Locke inches towards the edge of his platform, and Ben hastily urges, “Wait, wait, John, stop!”
LOCKE: How did you find me?
BEN: I have a man watching Sayid. I’m watching all of them; keeping them safe. When you turned up, he called me.
LOCKE: Who--uh, who…. What are you doing here?
BEN: John, just calm down.
LOCKE: What do you want from me?
BEN: Please let me help…
LOCKE: ANSWER THE QUESTION!
BEN: I’m trying to protect you.
LOCKE: Protect me? You shot him. You killed Abaddon.
BEN: Yes. Yes, I did. But it was only a matter of time before he tried to kill you. I was just trying to get to you, but you drove off and crashed.
LOCKE: Why? Why would he…
BEN: He was working for Charles Widmore. He’s extremely dangerous.
LOCKE: No! Widmore came to me. He saved me.
BEN: No, John, he used you. He waited ‘til you showed up so that you could help him get to the island. Charles Widmore is the reason I moved the island. So that he could never find it again. To keep him away, so that you could lead. (walks carefully towards him) You can’t do this. If anything happens to you… John, you have no idea how important you are. Let me help you.
LOCKE: There… is no helping me. I’m… I’m a failure.
BEN: No, John, you’re not.
LOCKE: I am! I couldn’t get any of them! I couldn’t get a single one of them to come back with me. I can’t lead anyone.
BEN: Jack booked a ticket.
LOCKE: What?
BEN: A plane ticket from Los Angeles to Sydney. Tonight. Return trip first thing in the morning. Whatever you said to him, John, it worked. And if you got Jack, you can get the rest of them.
(Ben falls to his knees in front of Locke)
BEN: John, you can’t die. You’ve got too much work to do. We’ve gotta get you back to that island so that you can do it. (picks up the crutch) Please, John. C’mon. Come down.
(Ben helps him down and Locke suddenly breaks into tears.)
BEN: I know we can do this, John. You haven’t even been to Sun yet. Let’s start with her.
LOCKE: No, I… I promised Jin that I wouldn’t bring her back.
BEN: Jin… is alive?
LOCKE: Yeah. Yeah, but he didn’t want her to know, he wanted me to tell her that his… that his body washed up on the beach. And, uh, he gave me his wedding ring to prove it.
BEN: Alright. A promise is a promise.
(Locke removed the noose from around his neck and Ben pulls it down from the ceiling.)
LOCKE: Thank you.
BEN: You’re welcome. Come on. (takes his coat off and helps Locke walk) Let’s go. I know we can do this. Once we can get them all in the same place… I don’t know where we’ll go from there, but we’ll figure something out.
LOCKE: I know where we go. There’s a woman, here in Los Angeles..
BEN: A woman?
LOCKE: I don’t know exactly where, but she shouldn’t be that hard to find. Her name is, is ah, Eloise Hawking.
BEN: Eloise Hawking? You sure?
LOCKE: Yeah. Yeah, why, do you know her?
BEN: Yes, John, I know her.
Suddenly Ben stops coiling the extension cord Locke used as a noose, and, in one quick move, swings it around Locke’s neck and pulls it tight. Shocked, Locke falls out of his wheelchair. They continue to struggle, but Ben, in his freakishly strong way of his, manages to overpower him, strangling and killing Locke.
Ben falls on the floor, out of breath. After composing himself, he calmly swings the noose back into place, lifts Locke’s body into it and proceeds to clean the room so it looks like a suicide.
Pocketing Jin’s wedding ring, Ben heads to the door, turning one last time to look at the hanging Locke. “I’ll miss you John. I really will.”
~*~*~
Back on The Island, Locke enters the room where the man who consoled Jack about his death is examining an old Dharma notebook.
LOCKE: That symbol belongs to an organization called the Dharma Initiative. They were conducting some experiments here a while back.
CAESAR: How do you know that?
LOCKE: I spent more than a hundred days on this island, I know a lot.
CAESAR: A hundred days? So when we crashed, you were already here?
LOCKE: No. No, I uh, I left.
CAESAR: How long ago did you leave?
LOCKE: Uh, the timing would just confuse you.
CAESAR: Well, how did you get back?
LOCKE: To be honest, that part’s a bit of a mystery to me.
CAESAR: Okay, John Locke, I have a mystery too. Maybe you can help me with it.
LOCKE: I’m happy to try.
CAESAR: On the plane, I was sitting across the aisle from that really big guy with curly hair. When the plane started shaking, really shaking, there was a big noise and a bright light. And this really big guy with curly hair was gone, man. I mean, literally gone. And it wasn’t only him. Some of us saw it happen to other people, too. So, Mr. John Locke, do you have an idea about what happened?
LOCKE: I think… I might know how I came to be here. But that would involve me finding my friends. Do you have a, a, a passenger list?
CAESAR: No. The pilot took it when he went off.
LOCKE: And everyone’s accounted for? All the people? O-O-Other than the ones who disappeared?
CAESAR: Yeah, yeah, except for the people who got hurt.
LOCKE: The people who got hurt?
(Caesar leads him through a room they’ve made into an infirmary for the hurt passengers. They head towards a bed with a man turned away from them lying in it. Caesar nods to the man)
CAESAR: You know him?
LOCKE: Yeah. (stairs down at Ben’s injured face) He’s the man who killed me.
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Okay, so Ben probably knew that he had to kill Locke in order to have a substitute for Jack’s dad in order to get back to The Island, but did he know that Locke would be alive again when they got back? Hmmm...
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