Sweet Dreams Are Made of This - 
by EdHIll
OK, we're in the home stretch. Part 3 of what I have dubbed the "3 part season premiere" of Lost is here. This time we resolve the final cliffhangers of last season. What happened to Locke, Eko and Desmond in the hatch? Well, we find out, kind of. To be honest the entire episode was teh fiest disappointing show of the new season. It's nothing but a lot of filler. A series of slow moving scenes, a pointless flashback and a long dream sequence. With 22 episodes to do every season you expect these every once and a while, so you just go with the flow. And even a filler episode of Lost is better than a lot of other crap they pass for TV these days
The show starts of with yet another huge eyeball. In a mirror image of Season 1's opening shot, Locke is lying on the ground in the jungle with a bloody head. When he looks up he sees a buck naked Desmond running by in the jungle. When Locke tries to scream out "Desmond, I can totally see your bagpipes!" but nothing comes out. He has lost his voice in the explosion. Now I you're like me thinking how can a huge explosion leave you with a small cut on your head and no voice, remember its more of a plot device than anything else. His larynx probably cushioned the fall to the jungle floor and saved his life. When Locke stands up he hears something and looks up. When he does he almost gets hit on the head with Eko's priest whacking stick. Then he starts to walk towards the village but steps on the head of a rake and WHAM! It flies up and hits him in the face makes him fall over and he lands in a pile of mousetraps. Not his day.
Locke limps back to the camp but he is limping with a purpose. He goes right to his beach shack and starts taking it apart. As he is doing this Charlie and Claire see him. Claire asks Charlie if he knows how long he's been back, Charlie just nods no. The shit eating grin on his face also leads me to believe that Charlie has now moved on to becoming a full fledged villain now, as opposed to just an annoying Scottish midget.
Locke takes everything he cut down and goes to the church structure that Eko began last season before abandoning it to worship at his new god, the numbers. Charlie comes by and asks him where he was, his voice dripping with sarcasm the whole time. Since Locke cant speak he simply pantomimes what he wants to do. After a few confused answers like "Ice cream in the sawmill with your uncle Bob?" Charlie figures it out "You need to talk to the island?"
After the commercial we come back and Locke is going up to Charlie and asking him for help. Well he doesnt ask him per se, he writes it out on a pad becuase he still has no voice. "You do know I detest you?" Charlie says, mentioning the fact that he beat him up and accused him of using heroin when he wasn't. Of course the whole story is he beat him up because Charlie kidnapped Claire's baby in the middle of the night, and when Locke accused him of using heroin, he was right. Locke says that he needs him to guard him at the "sweat lodge". Since Charlie doesn't know what the "sodding hell" a sweat lodge is, he is intrigued and follows him.
Cut to this weeks flash back and we see a highway at night. Locke is driving in his pickup truck in the rain and picks up a young hitchhiker named Eddie. As they are driving and chitchatting, Locke gets pulled over by a cop. From the decidedly dickish way the cop acts I am assuming it is a state cop.
The officer says he pulled him over for a busted taillight but you can tell he's just itching to get him for something else. When he asks him what's in the back of the truck Locke says "Guns and groceries". Ad he's right, he's got the back of his truck stocked with guns of all kinds. Pistols, shotguns, rifles, even a phaser. He also has the legal documents for all of them. This just annoys the cop even more as he's itching for an arrest. When he threatens to arrest him for picking up a hitchhiker, Eddie says that Locke is his uncle. This leaves the cop with nothing to get him on and he drives off.
In the sweat lodge Locke is sitting shirtless in front of the fire. He sticks some mashed up heroin in his mouth and then pours water on the fire to steam it up. After a minute or so of this he is tapped on the shoulder by someone. It's Boone! Wel, opium induced hallunigenic Boone at least. When Locke sees him he tries to mouth the words "I'm sorry" to which Boone answers "That's OK. I was the sacrifice that the island demanded." This is no surprise since this is Locke's hallucination as opposed to the real Boone who I don think would have gone along with the whole "Sacrifice to the island" thing if given the choice.
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