"The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"

I must start off by saying that I have never really been a fan of Locke, he's way too Narcisistic and he always thinks that he's right without any regard of other people's opinions. He is not a very nice old man to put it in short and so this post will not be as in-depth as my other posts about the show have been. Locke's life doesn't really appeal to me (he's really kind of a whiny quitter) so here is my summary of the episode about his rather short trip back to the 'real world:'



So Locke wakes up in the desert in Tunisia (the exact same place where Ben woke up after he turned the wheel) with a broken leg (open tib-fib) and therefore can do nothing but yell for help at a camera on a post. He lies there all day until a truck comes and the passengers of said vehicle throw him in the bed of the truck and take him to a makeshift tent hospital thing where they reset his fractured leg while he is conscious (obviously has wasn't conscious very long after they reset his leg). He wakes up to Widmore by his bedside and the two chat about their past encounter as well as the Island, Ben, and other dandy topics. We find out that Ben is the reason that Widmore is no longer on the Island (he took over as leader of The Others and exiled Widmore to the real world). The next day Widmore gives Locke his new identity (Jeremy Bentham), a word of warning against Ben, a driver (that fella who took care of Locke right after he broke his back, the same fella that told him to go to Australia for the walkabout which resulted in Locke being on flight 815), and a promise the Locke will not be murdered by anyone (Locke told him that Alpert said he was going to die so Widmore says that he's not going to let that happen). Locke and his driver (whose name escapes me so I shall call him 'Mo') first go to Santo Domingo to try to convince Sayid to come back to the Island => fail #1. Then they go to NY to visit Walt (who tells Locke that he has been having dreams about Locke being back on the Island wearing a suit, surrounded by people who want to kill him) who Locke doesn't even ask to come back to the Island => fail #2. Then they travel to Snata Rosa to visit Hurley who upon first seeing Locke believes that he is hallicinating and that Locke is dead, upon confirmation thathe is actually talking to a guy in a wheelchair, hearing Locke's proposition and seein 'Mo' (who had lied to and somewhat harrassed Hurley in the previous season) freaks out and tells Locke to get L o s t (haha...yeah, no) => Fail #3. Then Locke goes to L.A. and visits Kate (seriously after their last encounter, him banishing her from New Otherton, why did he even bother) who among other things tells him that he hasn't come very far and that she will not go back to the Island (well duh) => epic fail #4. Then Locke goes to visit the grave of his old girlfriend Helen (earlier in the episode 'Mo' asked Locke if he wanted him to look up anyone for him to which John eventually answered that he wanted him to look up Helen). As the two are leaving the graveyard 'Mo' is shot and killed so the maimed Locke frantically drives the car away and gets in an accident which lands him in Jack's hospital. Jack accuses John of basically being a narcisistic average Joe then loudly refuses to go back to the Island and tells John to leave him and the rest of them (Oceanic 6) alone => Epic fail #5. Then the depressed Locke checks into a hotel, writes Jack his suicide note, and is about to hang himself when Ben bursts through the door and talks John down (by telling him that he is ultra special and has lots of work to do). Then after John reveals the person (Eloise Hawking) who can get everyone back to the Island Ben garrotes John with the same exact electrical cord that John was about to kill himself with =>EPIC FAIL #6. Then cleans the scene to make it look like suicide and steals Jin's wedding ring.

On the Island:

The beginning of the episode reveals Caesar (the fellow who gave Jack his condolences at the airport) is seen rifling through stuff in a Dharma station (later revealed as the Hydra) when Ilana (the lady who had Sayid in custody) comes in and asks him if he found anything, he lies and says no (he found some papers including what appears to be some sort of map) and when she presses the matter he shows her a flashlight claiming that it is the only thing that he found. She tells him that they found a man i a suit on the beach. The two walk back to the beach past a fully intact crashed Ajira flight 316 plane. The man they found on the beach is none other than John Locke. The next day Locke is on the beach looking out across the ocean (in this shot it is revealed that he and the other survivors are on the smaller Alcatraz island b/c you can see the big island across the ocean) when Ilana comes up to him and offers him a mango then questions him about his existance on the plane. He tells her that he remembers dying and then asks for the flight manifest (somewhere in here we see the long boats that have been seen in previous time-flashing episodes with the survivors on the beach and learn that the pilot and a woman (Sun perhaps) stole one of the boats and went to the main island earlier taking the flight manifest with them). She tells him to talk to Caesar who is at the Hydra station. So he does, revealing that this is his second time being on the Island. Then he asks if everyone (except for the people who disappeared as Caesar mentions seeing Hurley disappear) have been accounted for. He answers that they have except for the people who got hurt. He then shows Locke a room full of injured/unconscious survivors where Locke discovers Ben and reveals him as his murderer...L O S T...


Yes, I am most extraordinarily overexcited for next week's episode as it appears that I might win a bet I have going with a friend about who Kate will end up with (my bet would be Sawyer because Jack has turned into a bit of jerk) at least for the time being as I can't truly win until the end of season 6.