Episode Report Card LuluBates: B+ | 4 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Paging Dr. Freud
By LuluBates | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on May 1, 2007
Locke wakes up in the middle of a field with people moving, packing, and generally making a lot of noise all around him. Boy, those come-ons must have been exhausting! As he watches the Others packing their tents, he realizes they're moving again. When he figures out that no one is bringing him coffee in bed, he gets up and asks Ben where they're going. Ben says he is going, but Locke and his dad are staying. Locke can't believe that Ben is leaving Bad Dad with him. Ben snaps, "He's your mess, John, why would we clean it up?" Locke sputters that they can't leave him, not after everything they've been through! What about the pins and needles? What about the long walks, the deep heartfelt conversations, what about the late-night rendezvous? He can't leave now! Ben is having none of it: "Don't tell me what I can't do, John." Little man is uppity when he's heartbroken. Locke protests, "But I thought I was special! I thought it all meant something!" Ben snorts, "Well, everyone makes mistakes." The little boiled shrimp is downright nasty when his affections aren't returned. Oh, Locke, don't you know they always leave you if you don't put out? Especially if they buy you that big lobster dinner and the bottle of pink champagne and then you refuse to unsheathe the big knife? Don't you know what that does to a boy? Ben continues his snappish streak, "We're leaving, we're taking all the office supplies, but we will leave a trail that you can track. And, John, unless you're carrying your father's body on your back, don't bother." Wow. Ben does not deal with rejection well at all. No sirree.