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A weekly commentary of the television showby Carlos R Savournin
3 - 13: The Man from Tallahassee
*This commentary contains spoilers. Do not read if you have not seen the above mentioned episode.*
Finally, the secret of Locke’s accident is no more, and it is attributed to one Anthony Cooper, the man Locke believes is his father. That was really no shock, but the manner in which it happened was downright horrifying. When Locke is approached by a young man claiming to be the son of a woman Cooper is to marry, the young man tells Locke he believes Cooper is a con man. Days later, he winds up dead. Locke, investigating the death, approaches his father who swears he is innocent and that his fiancée, so distraught by her son’s death, has called off the wedding. Cooper tells Locke to call her for proof, and when Lock turns to the phone, Cooper pushes him out of a window and down Locke goes … eight stories.
All this was related to the happenings on the island. Sayid, Kate and Locke make their way to the compound where Jack is being held in a rescue attempt, but Locke had his own agenda. He’s after the submarine Mikhail told him about; the same sub that is to take Jack and Juliet back home. We all suspected that Locke wanted to stay on the island because the island cured him – he could walk once again. And after some intense banter between Ben (who is now in a wheelchair) and Locke, we discover that Ben wonders why the island has cured Locke and not him. But we also discover that the real reason Locke wants to stay on the island is because it’s the one place Cooper will never find him.
At this part of the episode, I was thinking that if Cooper showed up on the island, I would have been very disappointed. It’s one thing to link the characters off the island in flashbacks, but too may times have we been slapped in the face with someone from the past actually being on the island itself (remember Desmond meeting Jack in season 2?). But when we see Ben open the door to the “box”, we see a bound, gagged and frightened Cooper… and that’s when things got interesting.
What are the implications of this? When Locke was in the hospital after his fall, the detectives informed him Cooper and disappeared”. Was he taken by the Others and held prisoner then? Has he been on the island for the past 4 years? And if so, does that mean the Others knew Locke would eventually end up there? If so, just how much power do the Others have? And does it just go to prove that all of them are on the island for a reason as Locke has said before?
With the submarine destroyed (thanks, Locke!), seems like we’re stuck on the island a little longer. The rescue gone
awry, Kate is, once again, in the hands of the Others alongside Sayid, Jack and Locke.
And next week’s episode, Expose, reveals the story of newcomers Nikki and Paolo (which are of absolutely no interest to half the Lost-watchers) – but if the previews were any indication, we’re in for more of a treat when, for some reason, Sun punches Sawyer in what looks like a violent attempt at flirting! And though the image itself was shocking enough, I have a good guess why she’s retaliating…
Perhaps she discovered the truth of her kidnapping?
Until next time, get LOST.
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