In the flashback Locke and Helen are at his father’s funeral. They are the only ones there but they do notice a few shifty guys in the distance and a car with tinted windows that drives off. Unless gravediggers these days dress like Italian gangsters, I feel we may see them again. When its time for Locke to speak, he simply looks at the casket and says “I forgive you.”

We then cut right back to the hatch. Henry is asking Locke what all the commotion is about. Locke just yells at him to shut up. The static then clears and we can hear a countdown. “8…7…6…5...” When it reaches 1, giant steel doors descend around the entire living quarters. Before the last one closes Locke quickly grabs a crowbar and races, Indiana Jones style, to ram it under the last remaining door.

On the beach Hurley is paying Poker with Sawyer and Kate for papayas. Jack walks up and tells Hurley to fold. It seems Jack knows quite a bit about Poker and can tell Sawyer has the better hand. Sawyer, feeling his machoness threatened, goads Jack into joining the game, as opposed to going back to the hatch like he planned. Jack of course falls for it and the boys start to play.

In the hatch Locke is trying to use the crowbar to wedge the door open, but it won’t budge. Henry keeps asking what is wrong but Locke says everything’s OK. We then go right to the flashback where we See Locke at his job. This is before he was wheelchair-bound and working at the box factory, so now he is a house inspector. As he is finishing up his latest inspection he notices the car with the tinted windows is sitting across the street. He walks up to it and the window lowers to reveal Locke’s supposedly dead father, only not quite as dead. As they are talking things over in a bar we find out that he faked his death because he cheated 2 guys out of 700 thousand dollars. He needs Locke to go to a safe deposit box and get the money. As a reward he gets to keep 200 grand of it. If he does that he can meet him at a motel. Also, he just got an email from a Nigerian banker who needs a small fee to open an account so he can transfer 8 million dollars in frozen assets. If he does this he gets to keep 15%!! (As an aside check out this website from a guy who scammed a bunch of Nigerian scammers, it’s awesome.)

From here we cut right back to the hatch. Locke explains to Gale what happened. He says that he needs his help in order to get out. Gale says he will help him only on condition that, no matter what, he makes sure the others don’t hurt him. Locke, in a fit of stupidity, agrees. Then Gale says that if he can fit his entire palm over his face it means he has cancer. Locke then raises his hand over his face and…whammo! Gale punches him.

Back on the beach, Jack is cleaning up at poker. This gets Sawyer upset because he likes to think he is the most macho guy on the beach. Sawyer loses his last mangos and when Jack is about to walk away Sawyer then asks him to name his stakes, for one more hand. Jack tells him he wants all the medicine he stole from the armory. It is on, and Sawyer has just been served.

Gale and Locke are trying to get the door open using some metal bars as leverage. Once they force it up a few feet Gale jams the toolbox under it to keep it open. Locke then immediately tries to shimmy under the opening but once he puts his legs under the door the toolbox starts to collapse shoving a metal rod from the bottom of the gate into his leg. Gale quickly grabs the lifting weights and stacks them under the door to ease the pressure but Locke is stuck. Like Winnie the Pooh, only on a deserted island hatch, bald and with rage issues. Gale says they should wait for help to arrive but Locke says they don’t have time to wait. The computer….

Didn't this guy have an arrow through his shoulder like, 2 days ago?

In the flashback Locke is at the bank opening the safe deposit box. It is full of cash just like his father said it was. When he gets home he comes in the door and tells Helen that they are going to go out and celebrate, but it looks like that will have to wait as they have visitors. The oily gangster kind. One of them is even wearing a gold necklace over a black shirt. That’s always bad news. In fact I think one of them was the evil pimp from the Pat Benatar “Love is a battlefield” video.

Heartache to heartache…we stand. No promises, no demands……Love is a battlefield!

"Hey, how ya doin? My name's Vinnie Stereotype. This is my associate, Joey Caricature."

Anyways, they want to know if they’ve seen his dad since he died. Locke says no, but they still suspect him because of the way he was acting at his funeral. Helen then demands that they leave, but before they do they want to see what’s in his bag. He says its just some papers. They want to take a look anyway and when they empty it out it is… just papers and stuff. And a huge vibrating dildo. Awwwkward! After they leave Helen looks at him and asks, “Were you lying to those men John?” Locke makes another big mistake and says no.

Posted by EdHIll on March 30, 2006 6:09 PM