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A weekly commentary of the television showby Carlos R Savournin
3 - 3: Further Instructions
*This commentary contains spoilers. Do not read if you have not seen the above mentioned episode.*
There’s a legend that lycanthropy (the ability of man to change to animal) began with a pact with the Devil. All one had to do was mix certain herbs in a cauldron in a desolate area and inhale the fumes and wait for the Devil to appear. Sound familiar? If you watched this week’s episode, “Further Instructions”, it should. It’s pretty much what John Locke did when he went into his Medicine Tent to talk to the island. Only Boone appeared instead of the Devil – and Boone, as it turns out, was the island personified. It was only fitting since Locke is the reason Boone is dead.
So Boone tells John that one of their group needs help and through a series of visions, we learn it’s Ecko. Seems since the explosion of the hatch, all three inhabitants were discarded randomly around the island; Locke in the middle of the forest ala Jack in season one’s opener. There’s Desmond who wound up naked in the middle of nowhere, and then there’s Ecko who somehow ended up deep within a cave. With the aide of Charlie, Locke rescues Ecko from what looks like certain death, and when they rejoin the others, all is well.
The story centered on Locke this time around, including the back story – who’d a thunk that our enlightened Locke was a marijuana farmer? It certainly makes sense after the little visit in the medicine tent (what the hell was in that coconut shell anyway? – My guess is the same medicine he once pasted over Boone’s head wound that made Boone hallucinate his sister’s death). But none of that is what all Losties are, no doubt, talking about.
It’s Desmond.
Aside from him being completely stripped of clothes when Hurley finds him, Hurley desperately asks him for help explaining that Jack, Kate and Sawyer have been captured by the Others. Desmond tells him not to worry – that Locke said in his speech he would find them. But that speech hadn’t happened yet, and it didn’t happen until the end of the episode when Locke returns with Ecko. Moving from one problem to the next, he tells everyone that he will find their friends in a speech the left us all…speechless. Shocked, Hurley looks out to the shore where he sees Desmond skipping rocks on the water. Like us, Hurley was stunned and the question rose in all our minds; How the hell did he know?
Let’s ignore that no one’s questioning how these three people ended up on different sides of the island even though they were all together in the hatch. Let’s even ignore that the hatch has become nothing more than a massive hole in the ground that would surely have killed anyone had they been caught in it at the time of the explosion. But how did Desmond know the future? Did the electro-magnetic energy that was released at the time of the explosion make him that way? And if so, will Locke and Ecko also have bizarre powers? One can only speculate at this point.
What I do know is this: For the first time since the show started two seasons ago, our favorite refugees are scattered everywhere throughout the island. Gone are the days of the interaction between all the characters at once for now we have Jack, Kate and Sawyer held prisoners by the others. We have Jin, Sun and Sayid trying to make their way back to the camp, and the others, including Claire and her child, Aaron, are out to save their friends. Saddle up, people, because something tells me it’s gonna be a while before they’re all together again, and that may not really be a bad thing.
Until next time, Get Lost.
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