LOST Re-Cap~The Substitute

Okay, I’m trying to be more efficient this week.  I watched last night’s episode of LOST and took notes.  Yep, notes.  Am I a dork or am I just doing this for the fans?  I’m going to go with doing it for fans.  As you can see from the picture above of a very dead John Locke.  Not to be confused with the John Locke possessed by the Smoke Monster or the John Lockein the parallel universe still stuck in a wheelchair.  Have I lost you yet?  Every time I think it’s going to reveal something, I get more and more confused.  Again I will talk about what is going on on the Island, and then what was going on in the parallel universe (or whatever they’re calling it!)

So Locke (aka Smoke Monster) had Richard (the guy that doesn’t age) in a trap in the jungle.  He let him down and Richard told him that he couldn’t “kill him”.  Meaning someone else, not Richard.  This didn’t go over well with Smokey.  I’m just going to call him that from now on, it’s shorter.  Smokey goes to the deserted Others Camp and finds Sawyer drunk and shirtless (yea).  Since Sawyer is back to being angry and bitter, he convinces him to go with him into the jungle.  As they are walking they run into a young, blond boy (of course right?).  They both can see the little boy.  And the little boy says, “you know the rules, you can’t kill him.”  I’m guessing that this is Jacob as a child…..I know, Jacob is dead, and his body was burned, but this is LOST, everyone comes back to life on here, well, almost everyone (those actresses that were arrested for DUI never came back to life when they got killed).  Anyways, Smokey runs after the little boy.  Sawyer is alone in the jungle and crazy Richard comes out of nowhere and tells Sawyer that he has to come with him to the temple, and that Locke is not really Locke, and that he wants to kill everyone that is on the island, including Sawyer.  Sawyer really doesn’t give a rat’s ass what Richard says.  He tells him that he knows that isn’t Locke, but was told by him that if he went into the jungle with him, he would tell him why he was on the island.  Smokey returns and Sawyer asks, “where’s the kid?”, and Smokey says, “what kid?”  Sawyer then asks him what he is.  He says that he was once a man, and that he is trapped, but if Sawyer continues with him all will be revealed (bull crap!)  On the other side of the island Ben, the Pilot guy, Sun and Llana bury the real dead John Locke.  Ben says some nice words at his funeral, “I’m sorry I murdered him”.  Isn’t that nice?  Back to Sawyer and Smokey….they climb down a rope ladder on a cliff, Sawyer almost falls down, but Smokey saves him.  They enter a cave.  In the cave on the ceiling are names, most of the names are crossed out.  They do show you some of the names, like – 23-Shepherd, 16-Hurley, 42-Kwon, 4-Locke, 15-Ford, Sayid (can’t remember the number).  I personally missed Kate‘s name, unless they didn’t show it.  Smokey crosses out Locke’s name.  I’m guessing that the numbers with the names are those same set of cursed numbers (Hurley’s winning lotto numbers, and the code for that computer).  I’m also guessing the crossed out names means they’re dead.  Sawyer asks why his name is on the ceiling, and of course he gets a cryptic answer.  He tells him that he has 3 choices, 1-do nothing, 2-become the new Jacob and protect the island from nothing, or 3-leave the island.  He chooses door #3 with a “hell yes.”

Back on the alternate reality, it’s all about Locke.  He’s stuck in the wheelchair, and gets fired for going to Australia to go on the walk about.  When he leaves the building he runs into Hurley who’s Hummer is parked too close to his handicap van.  Hurley says he owns the company and he will help Locke if he wants another job.  Locke goes back to the company and is interviewed by Rose.  Rose tells him that she has terminal cancer.  She gives him a job as a substitute teacher at a school.  When Locke goes into the teacher’s lounge, guess who he runs into?  Ben, not quite as creepy as he is on the island, much more dorky and he is a history teacher.

Confused yet?  Please feel free to comment with any observations I may of missed.  I like to watch the episode again the following week with the subtitles at the bottom.  There’s always something you miss!