On the beach Sawyer is asking Jack where he learned to play poker. Jack says “Phuket,” which is pronounced “Poo-ket” and not the foul pronunciation you think it means you dirty, dirty reader.

In the hatch Gale asks “What does it do?” referring to the computer and the numbers. Locke says they aren’t exactly sure, but they have to enter the numbers every 108 minutes. Gale will have to go through the vent in the pantry to get to the computer room to enter in the numbers in time. When Gale gets up on the shelves in the pantry to grab onto the vent he slips and falls, whether on purpose we aren’t sure. As he hits the ground he is knocked out. Whether he is knocked out for real or faking it we aren’t exactly sure. What we are sure of is once he hits the ground unconscious we here the ticking of the clock. They have less than a minute.

On the beach the great poker standoff continues. We also learn that Sawyer is a veteran of numerous venereal diseases. Oh, good for him. Jack then bluffs Sawyer on the last and final hand and wins back all of the medicine. As he walks off Sawyer asks him why he didn’t ask for the guns as stakes. Jack just responds, in his best Charles Bronson imitation, that when he wants the guns, he’ll get the guns.

Back in the hatch the clock is ticking and Locke is screaming at Gale to wake up. Henry finally comes to and groggily starts back up into the vents again. After he disappears from view the beeping turns into the giant alarm. They have only seconds now. And since this show likes to give you dramatic blue balls, we of course cut right back to the flashback.

Locke is meeting with his father at the motel room with the money. As he is counting the money Cooper asks about the woman at the funeral. Who is she? Her name is Helen and he’s gonna ask her to marry her tonight Locke says. Cooper then sets down his take on the table. 200 grand. “I didn’t do this for them money” Locke says”. Then why did you do it?” asks Cooper. Locke just looks at him. He did it for his daddies love. Awwwwww. Too bad his dads a jagoff who doesn’t give crap about Locke or his love. Oh Locke, you stupid, stupid man.

When Cooper goes to leave the room he is greeted at the door by Helen, and shes pissed. She storms off. Locke tries to explain but she can’t believe that he lied to her. I can’t believe she didn’t trust him and followed him in secret so were all surprised. Helen accuses Locke of wanting his father's love more than hers. As a last ditch effort, Locke gets on his knees and pulls out the ring and asks her to marry her. What a story for the grandkids huh? “Gramma how did grandpa ask you to marry him?” “Well children, he was giving his con artist father 700 grand and I caught him by following him to a seedy motel.” Gets me all choked up just thinking about it. Alas this was not meant to be as Helen just drives off, leaving Locke a crushed man. But a crushed man with 200 grand worth of coke and strippers ahead if him. Time to par-tay.

Back in the hatch things are getting tense. The alarm is getting louder, the lights are flickering. An then we hear it. The ruffling of the numbers resetting into the hieroglyphics, the whirr of the turbines. Did Gale get to it in time? Then the lights go out entirely. And what happens next is one of the coolest moments of the show. Blue emergency lights come on bathing the entire room in a blue luminescence. When Locke looks up at the emergency door that is crushing his leg he sees… a giant map, written in invisible glow in the dark ink. This caused me to have yet another true TVgasm.

Now we only get a brief glimpse of it but I was able to find a giant high resolution screen shot here. Since what it says can be construed as highly spoiler filled, I will white out the text of the next few paragraphs. If you don’t want to know skip ahead, if you do, just highlight below to read.