LOST: Cabin Fever [RECAP]

We'll get the freighter adventures out of the way first...

Our favorite mercenary, Keamy, arrives back on the freighter on board Frank's helicopter. Sayid wakes Desmond, and they go to see what's up. We see Doc Ray helping the injured off the bird (remember? He washed up on the island dead!) Keamy explains the 'black pillar of smoke' did this to them.

Keamy accuses Sayid of 'giving them up', but is lead to Michael instead, chained to a pipe in a room below decks. Michael confesses to knowing all about Keamy, who then pulls his pistol and aims it at Michael's head. Michael looks ready to take it, but knows what will happen. CLICK Nothing. The Captain exclaims, "We need him to fix the engines, he's the one who broke them."

"I need your key," Keamy tells the Captain. He orders Frank to fuel up the chopper for another island mission. The Captain thinks Keamy is going nuts just like everyone else, and Keamy grabs a key from around his neck.

The key is for a safe in the Captain's quarters. "We're only supposed to open the safe together!" "Well, you're here aren't you?"

He pulls out a binder with a DHARMA-logo-d page inside. It's a "secondary protocol" that will tell them where Ben is going next. "How would Widmore know that?" "If Linus knows we're going to torch the island..." The Captain protests, "I'm supposed to ferry you here for an extraction mission!" Keamy tells the Captain to fix his gun, and leaves again.

Sayid and Desmond plan to go back to the island to find out what is going on. The Captain finds them, and makes up a story to get them away from their guards. A guy walks by with a phone, beeping in morse code (most likely Faraday's communication.) The Captain tells them he's giving them "The Zodiac" and to get the people off the island.

Frank confronts Michael about his true identity. "Why didn't you tell me you were a survivor?" "Would you have believed me? I didn't know if I could trust you! Your boss and all..." "Man I thought I was Mr. conspiracy theory! You let me worry about Keamy" "He's going to kill everyone! You don't want that on your conscience, trust me."

Frank leaves, and sees Keamy getting a beacon or a spare Sat. phone or something strapped to his bicep, and gets the door closed on him.

The Captain sees Sayid off, but Desmond is staying behind. He plans to never set foot on the island again, knowing Penny's coming for him. "Stay on the bearing, will ya?" "I will."

Keamy's squad is loading up the chopper with a mini-arsenal, the doctor is helping. "Hey Doc, you want to hear something weird? The Morse code message said that the doctor washed up on the beach with his throat cut." "But I'm the doctor!" "Crazy, right?"

Frank shows up, and refuses to fly them on this mission. Keamy grabs the doctor, slits his throat and tosses him over the side. "That change anything Frank?" The Captain shows up with a pistol aimed at K, "I fixed your gun." He notices the device strapped to K's arm. "What is that?" And Keamy shoots the Captain. "What'll it be, Frank?" "We're flying!"

He programs another satellite phone for something and stuffs it into a bag. "Let's go."

Back on the beach, Juliet is chastising Jack for being up and around so soon after his surgery. They hear the helicopter coming, and they all wait too see what will happen. It flies over quite quickly, and Frank tosses the bag out. It's full of what looks like maps and papers... and the phone. It's tracking the helicopter apparently. "I think they want us to follow them."

The Adventures of Young Locke

Our episode starts with a record player, scratching out an old 45 (I've heard that song before, but couldn't place the title...) A girl is arguing with her mother. It's obviously sometime in the mid-1950's. "Who are you going out with, him? He's twice your age, Emily." She runs out into the street, only to be a car, and taken to the hospital. "I'm pregnant!" And they deliver the baby, three months early. "His name is John!"

Emily and her mother are watching baby John in his incubator, someone else is watching them from another room. The nurse talks about how he's a miracle baby, the youngest preemie to survive. She wants to take John out so Emily can hold him, but she balks. "I can't do this!" "So who do I talk to about adoption?" asks Emily's mother. "Is that the father?" The nurse asks. "I don't know who that is."

The man watching through the window is none other than Richard Alpert, yes that Richard Alpert, and he still looks the same as we've seen him previously. (insert your own bonk here.)

Sand and Compass

We later find an older John Locke, maybe seven or eight years old, playing backgammon with his adopted family, and his sister, Melissa, (missed the brothers name...) Somebody's come to visit him, and of course, its Alpert.

"You seem to have a pretty good sense of the game." Young John doesn't talk much. "I run a school for kids who are extremely special, I have reason to believe you might be one of them. You mind if I show you a couple of really neat things?" He notices a crayon drawing on the wall, of a man being "eaten" by a black cloud of smoke.

"I want you to look at these things." He pulls some items out of a bag. A baseball glove, a "Book of Laws" which looks to be old, maybe Middle Eastern? A bottle with some sand in it, a compass, a comic book, and an old knife.

"Which of these things belong to you?" "To keep?" "No, which of these things belong to you already?"

John thinks about it, and chooses the bottle of sand, and the compass. He pauses over the "Book of Laws" for a moment, but chooses the knife instead.

"Are you sure the knife belongs to you?" Young John nods, which sets Alpert off, and he gets annoyed and angry fast. "Well it doesn't." He quickly puts everything back into the bag, and tells his adopted mother, "I'm afraid he's not ready for our school."

Science Camp

Bang, bang, bang. What the hell is that? We find it's a teenage John, trying to escape the school locker he's been shoved into. He's let out by a teacher, and his nose is bleeding. He's led into the office. "I have exciting news. I got a call from Portland, from a Mittelos Bioscience. I spoke with a Dr. Alpert" John maybe, sort of, possibly recognizes the name. "They're interested in young, bright minds. They want you to go to a science camp there."

"Things like science camp are the reason I get stuck in lockers!" "What about your display at Costa Mesa?" "I like boxing (ha! insert box factory joke) and fishing and cars!" "You might not want to be that guy, surrounded by test tubes and beakers. You can't be the prom king or the quarterback. You can't be a superhero."

"Don't tell me what I can't do!"

Walkabout

Fast-foward to post-fall Locke, in the hospital going through physical therapy. He can't walk, and gives in. "We'll try again tomorrow." He's helped into a wheel chair, being pushed by a bald black man. "Don't give Mr. Locke. Anything's possible." "You should read my file. My spine was crushed." "Matter of fact I did, you survived falling eight stories out of a building."

It's Mr. Abaddon, the organizer of the freighter mission, and visitor of post-island Hurley in the asylum. "Let me ask you something. Do you believe in miracles? You should. I had one happen to me."

He pushes Locke to the top of a flight of stairs. (No doubt an allusion to his sweat lodge vision with Boone, and possibly the "Karl" film...) "I just want to go back to my room."

"You know what you need, Mr. Locke? You need to go on a walkabout. It's a journey of self-discovery. You go into the Australian outback with a knife and your wits..."

"In case you hadn't noticed, I'm a cripple." "I went on my walkabout convinced I was one thing, but came back another." "And here you are, and orderly."

They get into the elevator. "When you're ready Locke you'll listen me me. When you and I meet again, you'll owe me one."

Horace Goodpseed

"Who builds a cabin in the middle of the jungle, anyway?" Locke, Ben, and Hurley pull a "who's on first" routine, not knowing who is following who, or where they are going. "This is just awesome!" They decide to make camp for the night.

The next frame is that of an eye, a shot we've seen several times before on the show. This time it's Locke, who awakes to find Ben and Hurley still asleep, but somewhere close someone is chopping wood. He goes to investigate.

A long-haired man in a DHARMA jumpsuit is cutting down trees. "Hello there! I'm Horace." "What are you doing?" "Building a place for me and the Mrs., need a break from the DI sometimes. I'm not making any sense, am I?" "No."

"That's probably because I've been dead for twelve years." Horace pushes the tree he's been cutting down.

"Hello there!" This little episode appears to have 'skipped' like a record, and started over again. Sort of. This time Horace has a bit of a nosebleed. "You have to find me John, and when you do, you'll find him." "Who?" "Jacob. He's been waiting for you a real long time." He wipes the blood away.

"I'm Horace." He knocks the same tree down again. "Godspeed, John."

Locke wakes up to find Ben staring down at him. He pokes Hurley, who mumbles something still half asleep (missed it!) "I thought we didn't know where we were going?" "We do now."

"I used to have dreams," says Ben, nodding knowingly.

Hurley asks, "Why am I here?" Locke explains to him that its to find the cabin, but they need to make a pitstop first. They arrive at the mass grave of the DHARMA initiative. "What happened to them?" "He did," Locke points to Ben.

"So this is where you shot Locke?" An overly-annoyed Ben replies, "Yes, Hugo." Ben explains that he didn't kill them, that it wasn't his decision, rather their leaders'. "I thought you were their leader?" "Not always."

Locke finds the dessicated remains of Horace, the Mathematician. He pulls a set of blueprints and a map from the old pocket. It's plans for a cabin, and it looks like an exact location.

Hurley would rather stay with them than try to get back to the beach at night. "He actually thinks staying was his idea," remarks Ben. "Not bad, John, not bad at all," referring to his own skill at manipulation. "I'm not you." "You're certainly not."

The three of them continue on through the night. "It should be about 200 yards this way." "Sure its going to be there? What if its moved again." "I was told this is where it will be." "I was told a lot of things too. Then I got a tumor on my spine and my daughters blood all over my hands." "Yeah, sorry about that." "It had to happen to me, that was my destiny. There are consequences to being chosen. Destiny is a fickle bitch."

"Guys! Cabin!"

Ben and Hurley stay behind, "I'm not going in there with you. The island wanted me to get sick, it wanted you to get well. My time is over John, its yours now. Good luck, John."

As before, John lights the lantern, and goes inside. There's a silhouetted figure in the chair at the table. "Are you Jacob?" "No. But I can speak on his behalf." It's a familiar voice. "Who are you?" The figure leans into the light. "I'm Christian." The elder Shepard looks a little unshaven, and a little thinner. "Do you know why I'm here?" "Yeah, sure. Do you?"

"I'm here... because I was chosen to be." "That's absolutely right." Locke turns around.

"Claire?!" "Hi, John." There is Claire, looking a bit like the old pre-island Claire, with a band-aid on her face. "What are you doing here?" "Don't worry I'm fine, I'm with him." "Where's the baby?"

Christian pipes up, "Where he's supposed to be. Not here. It's probably best you don't tell anyone you saw her here. But we don't have time for this, the people from the boat are here already. Once they get here none of that matters.

"Ask the one question that does matter." After a long pause, John asks, "How do I save the island?" Christian and Claire look at each other, like they share a secret.

Ben comes out of the cabin. "Did he tell you what we're supposed to do?" "He did." "Well?"

"He wants us to move the island."

BONK

DAMN. Way to set us up with that yawner last week, guys! Didn't see this one coming at all. What a trip. Hang on for the analysis of what all of this might mean!!!