Lost: The Return of John Locke

Lost
abc
Wednesdays 9pm ET/PT
Bad Robot Productions
abc Studios
Episode 7: The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham
Air date: Feb. 25, 2009

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Welcome Alana and Cesar! Two people who had the bad luck to be on Flight 316 at the same time as Ben and the Oceanic Six.

It's so interesting that Charles Whidmore and Ben Linus despise each other so much and yet are so similar. They are both cold-blooded killers. (Whidmore uses hired guns.) They are driven by power and love. They both want John Locke to return to the island to save it...until Linus learned that Locke wanted to contact Eloise Hawking. Anyone figure out that attempted murder? Which appeared to be successful.

The character of Matthew, Whidmore's go-to man, is one of the creepiest characters in the show. As he pointed out, he's always around. The orderly who convinced Locke to go on the walkabout in Australia, which put him on Flight 815, which crashed on the island. Stopping by Hurley in the asylum, pretending to be with Oceanic. And driving Locke around in his attempt to persuade his friends to return to the island.

Jack and Kate had it right the first time when Locke met them separately. (Which wouldn't make for good tv, I realize.) Returning to the island is madness. "Oh, but our friends are in danger." So call the UN. From what I've seen, not only is visiting the island extremely dangerous, but the chance of being marooned there is very, very high. And Kate has a son, illegally acquired or not. Isn't her responsibility to him to protect herself for his sake? The same goes for Sun....although I can understand a loving wife wanting to be reunited with her husband.

At least they should have arrived with communications equipment and an exit strategy. ("If I haven't called in six weeks, send a rescue party.") All they have, it appears, is another ruined aircraft. What a shame.