The one about the kid w/ all the chains & the goggles and at the end he gets killed with a shotgun?

[geebs]

Last night, went to Ippolito's for pre-Lost dinner with the usual suspects last night. And my journal shows its usefulness! phatjoe and clevemire had an argument over whether we once saw Razor at phatjoe's house when the power was out at Krug's. Me and clevemire clearly remember watching it there, whereas phatjoe and Krug were skeptical. But after searching my journal, we confirmed that we did indeed see Razor there at one point.

TV commentary:

Lost- So tonight's ep was a Locke episode. Some interesting things on both the island reality and the alt reality.

Alt Reality- Locke indeed did not go on Walkabout, and totally lied to Boone on the plane. Plus, he tried going there on the company's dime, choosing to go to it instead of the conference he was sent there for, so douche-y Randy fires him. Anyways, he meets Hurley, who still owns that company in this reality, and tells Locke to go to this Temp agency. Rose works there! And she tries to be realistic with Locke, telling him he can't work construction like he wants. Instead, he becomes a substitute teacher. Who else is a teacher at this high school? Ben!! What the?!

Anyways, also shocking, he's still with Helen, and they're engaged. But, given they're inviting his dad to the wedding, I'm guessing Tom Sawyer did not throw Locke out a window, and Locke got crippled some other way?! And argh, Locke decides not to call Jack, and Helen reassures him she's fine with marrying his cripple ass, so they rip up Jack's card.

Island Reality- after Ilana has a good cry over her dead friends, she asks Ben where Jacob's body is, and he mentions he burned up in the fire. So, she gathers up his ashes, then they truck Locke's corpse over from the statue to the Lostaway's graveyard. Only they make it look like it was just a hop, skip, and a jump away, even though those places are pretty far apart. Heh, Ben ends up eulogizing Locke and revealing to Ilana, Sun, and Lepidus that he murdered Locke.

Meanwhile Smokey (oh, apparently Ilana says he's now stuck in Locke's form, whatever that means) smacks Richard around some more, then finds Sawyer and says he's gonna give him the answers he's seeking. Sawyer is also sure Esau is not Locke, because he's fearless, compared to Locke, whom Sawyer could tell was scared even when he acted confident. So they trek to a cave on the cliffs, where along the way Sawyer tries to put a bullet in faux Locke's head but doesn't, and Bocaj sees a mysterious kid (who Sawyer was able to see but Richard wasn't). Mysterious kid tells Smokey "he's not allowed to kill him". (Again, whatever that means)

After a treacherous ladder climb down to the cave, Bocaj takes a white rock off a scale where its balanced with a black rock and chucks it into the ocean. And faux-Locke gives Sawyer the answer to why he was on the island. The walls are full of names scribbled out. The non-scribbled out names include some of the Lostaways, with the numbers next to their name:

4- Locke (which Esau crosses out)
8- Reyes
15- Ford
16- Jarrah
23- Shephard
42- Kwon (though Smokey does not know whether it refers to Sun or Jin)

Interesting that Kate isn't on that list. Anyways, why are there names all over the cave, because they are possible people who could replace Jacob as caretaker of the island. But faux Locke tells Sawyer its all BS, he doesn't have to be caretaker, because there isn't really anything to protect the island from. So, Sawyer can do 1 of the 3 things:

1) Do nothing, and go back to the Barracks or Temple.
2) Take over for Jacob and protect the island from nothing.
or the choice Esau wants James to take, 3) to come with him (Esau) and leave the island and return to the real world.

I'm guessing even if Sawyer agrees, they can't go immediately, I assume Smokey needs all of them out of the way for his plan to come to fruition.

Comments

[hippieatheart.livejournal.com]

Where does the name "Esau" come from? That one's new to me.

Also, was it ever confirmed that Locke's dad is James' "Sawyer"?

[geebs.livejournal.com]

Its just another fan-nickname for Smokey, the man in black, or Bocaj- Esau was the brother and rival of the biblical Jacob.

But yeah, I thought they confirmed Locke's dad and Tom Sawyer were the same person when James killed him. It was back in season 3 I think, when Ben and the Others showed Locke they had his dad, and I think Locke had to kill his dad to prove something to the Others. But for some reason he went to James and got him to do it instead.

After Sawyer gave the letter to Locke's dad, Locke's dad was all, he pulled that con hundreds of times, but he eventually claims to remember James' mom. I think he even made a joke about how stupid she could be since he was going by the name "Tom Sawyer".

[hippieatheart.livejournal.com]

Ah...that's right, I'd forgotten.

So...I had an interesting thought about the names and numbers scratched into the stone. The numbers (4, 8, 15, 16...) were at least as old as the hatch (since they were being hammered onto the door), so does that mean the people associated with those numbers had been chosen that long ago, and if so, what does that mean about the other major characters whose names weren't scratched into the stone?

[hippieatheart.livejournal.com]

Also, is it me, or does the kid who told Esau he's not allowed to kill Sawyer look like he could be a young Jacob?

[mike-b.livejournal.com]

I thought that, too.