Is the key around Jack’s neck the key to the case with the guns?
See if a crazy woman came up to me claiming to be my mother and said “You were immaculately conceived”, I would say “Really, I’m without sin? Cool. I guess there’s a reason why I could never score with any women!”
Yes. 
That’s what I thought. That entire sequence gave me deja vu, like I’d seen a similar story on TV before.
I never thought a Locke episode would be one that missed for me. Oh, it was ok, but it had a weird Brian DePalma feel to it. It is amazing the difference in the pre-crash Locke and the island Locke. Pre-crash Locke was kind of a schmoe. Did you notice how he kind of became a whiner again when the Island abandoned him? I can’t expecting him to break out with “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” I also don’t see how that guy could be anyone but his father. It seemed somewhat obvious that his dad could have found him at any time and didn’t care. But when he needs a kidney, he finds Locke’s shiftless mom, pays her off and sets a trap for Locke’s kidney. The investigator didn’t need to be in on it. All he had to do was find Locke’s dad.
A few random thoughts:
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Hurley has ONE line the whole episode and he steals the show.
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The STD questions were nice. I love the romantic triangle. Jack really burned Sawyer that time. And doesn’t Evangeline Lilly play a great Kate? I know she is a rogue, but I would still be following her around like a puppy. I hope she turns out to be super bad.
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I don’t catch the football/aisle # thing. Are they part of Hurley’s numbers?
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The light coming on totally creeped me out.
Still pondering this little tidbit. He could’ve said, “…showed me Shannon getting eaten…” Instead, he says, “…showed me my sister…” Even tho we now know it was his step sis, I think it was said to show us that Boone is still bent. Add to that the deal with his nanny falling and breaing her neck… he seemed to find the retelling of that story amusing.
Are they foreshadowing some wickedly weird actions to come from Boone?
I see it more as a conscious decision to finally let what happened go. He’s come to grips with the fact that he felt relieved when he “saw” her dead, and I kinda thought of it as the opposite of being still bent.
Of course, I read somewhere that … (spoilered, just in case it is true)
… there’s an abandoned plotline that Boone is on some heavy antipsychotic medications, and eventually, he’s going to run out. Wherever I read that, it was definitely mentioned as an abandoned plotline, and I think it’d be pretty stupid to use it after the whole bit with Shannon’s asthma meds. Nevertheless, I could be totally wrong on the “not bent” bit.
I wonder if they’ve tried knocking on the hatch and saying, “Telegram.”
I think Locke’s father is definitely his biological father and I believe he definitely set out to con him out of a kidney. He admitted he knew he had a son when Locke was a year old, here’s a rich powerful man who could certainly afford to find his son that was in foster care, yet he had no interest in it until he needed a kidney and realized that a child would be his best chance for a match. The whole theory about pulling the same scam on numerous people until you find a match seems too farfetched.
Another board sepculated that Locke’s father could be the real Sawyer, since he’s obviously a good con man.
Also at another board, it was stated that closed captioning is not always correct and the other voice on the radio most likely said “No, we’re the survivors of Oceanic flight 815”. Remember there has been speculation that those in the tail section survived, Rose is even sure of it.
Don’t you mean “Candygram for Mongo?” 
I didn’t get it either till someone here posted it. Yes, 8 and 15 a two of Hurley’s numbers, and they were on flight 815.
Are we sure that Locke lost the use of his legs in an accident? I ask because I get the feeling that his paralysis is coversion disorder. It explains his paralysis and then ability to walk and gaining parlysis again.
But I guess it doesn’t explain how he takes shrapnel through the leg and doesn’t feel it.
There was a comment earlier about people on dialysis not being active after treatments. I used to be on hemodialysis (the kind with the big machine) and I never had any problems after. In fact, with the reduction of fluid and blood pressure, I usually felt better after the treatment.
Do we ever see Daddy in a short sleeve shirt? Because people on hemodialyisis usually have tubes on implanted in their arms. I’ve also seen them on the chest, but that’s usually just for short duration.
I missed part of it last night. Can someone please fill me in on some minor details?
Right after the part where Boone says (of Theresa), “She was my nanny,” our ABC affiliate cut into a weather update :rolleyes: . By the time the weather guy was done talking in excruciating detail about a tornado that was nowhere near the WAND-TV viewing area, it was a commercial. So I missed the show from that line up until the commercial.
What happened?
TIA
Boone tells about how his mother was never around and he took out his frustrations on Theresa by calling her over and over on his intercom. One day she took a misstep and broke her neck. Boone was 6.
I’m not sure what happened between that and the commercial. I’ll have to watch it again to know for sure.
You can’t fool me. You’re that land shark aren’t you?
Hmmm, has anyone gone back to look if the kid has Boone-y eyes? Was he dressed like a spoiled rich kid?
We’ve seen in the past that Locke is willing to put others at risk for what he believes is “their own good.”
[ul]In “The Moth,” he uses Charlie as bait when hunting the boar, trying to get food for everyone.[/ul]
[ul]In “Hearts and Minds,” he ties up Boone and slips him hallucinogenic goo, trying to help him get over Shannon.[/ul]
[ul]In “In Translation,” he allows Walt to burn the first raft and hides the secret, at the expense of Jin being beaten by the others.[/ul]
Now, Locke has allowed the working radio inside the Beechcraft to be (presumably) destroyed. I think it’s safe to assume that if he can build a trebuchet, he could have rigged up something to support the plane. Was this because he thought it was for their own good? Or has Locke made a terrible mistake in his mania to open the hatch?
He said it was an accident in his first flashback episode, I think. When he was arguing with the Outback guide.
I just don’t understand why Locke’s dad was SUCH an asshole. It’s one thing for him to engineer a meeting with his son in the hopes of getting his kidney. Quite self-serving, but I can see it happening.
But to completely cut Locke out of his life once he had the kidney? That’s just heinous.
It’s not as if the father/son relationship seemed that burdensome. Was it really so much trouble for the guy to keep up with the hunting trips? Jeez.
Locke’s dad was such an a–hole because he just is. People can be that way. Especially when you want to create dramatic tension.
Kevin Tighe has played more bad guys in recent years than good guys. Did anyone see “Matewan”? He was the baddest of bad guys in that one.