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Um...how many ships sail without skilled engineers? It's not even like Michael was their engineer in the first place. He was a deck hand. So why isn't there anyone else who can fix the damaged engines? Are they all dead, victims of the encroaching madness on the ship? It seems a pretty selective form of induced insanity, if that's the case. Further, why would the Captain trust Michael to fix him a ham sandwich, let alone the engines he sabotaged?

Out in the jungle, it's morning and Locke awakens before Hurley or Ben. He hears someone chopping wood and with one hand on his knife he goes to investigate.

It's Horace! He who once played host to a very young Ben and his father when they first arrived on the island.

I'm not even going to try to transcribe the conversation. Without the visual cues of the time loop like the tree not being cut down, it just makes no sense in print. Let's just say that Horace has been dead for 12 years and he's there in a speed-freak version of one of Desmond's time jumps, basically to tell John to find him so John can somehow find Jacob. Apparently Jacob has been waiting a really long time for John to show up. Considering the only way that John can find Jacob is to have someone enter his dreams and give him cryptic instructions on how to go about finding him, Jacob really shouldn't be surprised that it's taken so long. It's completely insane, but it works in context.

Who's on first?
Don't start that crap with me. I'm a ghost. I don't give a rat's ass.

John wakes up to find Ben, a rifle on his lap, watching he and Hurley as they sleep. Ben seems oddly un-Ben-like. When John tells a confused Hugo that they've got to get going, the big man reminds him that they don't know where they're supposed to go.

"We do now."

Ben digests Locke's new found confidence with a slow nod.

"I used to have dreams."

It seems that the student has surpassed (or is it usurped?) the master.

In the hospital, a nurse welcomes Emily and her Mother into the room where John is in his incubator. Emily asks how he's doing.

"He's amazing. He's the youngest preemie to ever survive in this hospital. He's had infections, pneumonia, you name it. And every time, he knocked them out. He is a fighter, your Little John."

And your Will Scarlett and Friar Tuck are pretty tough too.

When the nurse tells Emily that the other nurses think of John as a miracle baby, Emily seems overcome with emotion and flees from the room before she is able to hold her baby for the first time.

Her Mother seems more irritated than concerned for her daughter and pulls out a cigarette as she casually asks the nurse who she should talk to about adoption.

As she admonishes Mrs. Locke not to smoke in the maternity ward (While this is an "Um...duh?" moment in 2008, in the pre-anti-tobacco-campaign Fifties it was likely less obvious to most people.) she notices a man standing on the other side of the maternity glass and asks if he's the Father.

Mrs. Locke has no idea who he is.

But we do! It's Richard Alpert. Or some amazing, ageless facsimile/clone/ancestor of his at least.

Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya! Tomorrow!

Out in the jungle, Hurley wants Locke to explain why Hurley is on this journey with he and Ben.

"You're here because you can see the cabin, and that makes you special."

"Well, I have a theory as to why we're the only ones who can see it."

"I'd love to hear it."

"I think we can see it 'cause we're the craziest."

If that's the case, is Ben the head looney?

Locke then explains that before they find the cabin, they need to make a pit stop. Instead of answering Hurley's "Where?", Locke asks a question.

"You ever wonder what happened to the Dharma Initiative, Hugo? There must have been at least a hundred of 'em living on this island, manning the stations, building those homes, making all that ranch dressing that you like. And then one day, they're all gone. They just disappeared. You want to know where we're going? We're going to see them."

They come upon the open grave of the Dharma Initiative, dessicated corpses piled like cord wood into it.

"Whoa. What happened to 'em?"

Locke gestures at their travelling companion. "He did."

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