Episode Report Card LTG: A- | 226 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT What Makes You So Special?
By LTG | Season 4 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2008.05.08
We switch back and forth between the freighter and Locke, Ben, and Hurley. The chopper arrives back on the freighter with Keamy and his military pals. The doctor (the one whose dead body washed up on the island two episodes ago) is there and ready to treat the wounded soldier. Keamy is hell-bent on destroying everything on the island after his encounter with Smokey. He's pretty aggressive with the captain, and kind of pulls rank on him, revealing new orders calling for death and destruction. Desmond and Sayid know that if they don't get the other Losties off the island, they'll all die, so they convince the captain to give them the freighter's Zodiac launch so they can start ferrying people out to the freighter. Except that Desmond decides to stay, because he's just about had it with the island. When he stays, he witnesses Frank telling Keamy that he won't fly the soldiers back to the island. Keamy's response is to slit the doctor's throat and throw him overboard, as a way of letting Frank know that he really will kill him if he doesn't follow orders. The captain pulls a gun on Keamy, but Keamy is faster and shoots the captain dead. So Frank takes the soldiers in the chopper and flies them back toward the island. When they pass over the Lostaways' beach camp, he drops a satellite phone out of the chopper, enabling the Losties to keep tabs on the people on the chopper.
And Locke, Ben, and Hurley make their way to the cabin. To get there, Locke has to have a vision of a dead Dharma Initiative guy named Horace. Locke leads his gang to the mass grave and searches through the bodies until he finds Horace's corpse -- in Horace's pocket is a map to the cabin. Along the way, we see flashbacks from almost every period of Locke's life (starting with birth) in which he is told repeatedly that he is special and is repeatedly (but unsuccessfully) recruited by Richard, Mittelos Labs, and Abbadon. Locke finally finds the cabin and enters on his own. Jacob's not home, but Christian is there and claims to speak for Jacob. Claire is also there, and seems to be in on... whatever is going on. In the end, Locke emerges from the cabin and tells Ben that the plan is to move the island. Huh.