Once or twice every season, an episode of “Lost” totally blows me away. “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham” did just that. I am not sure if I liked is so much because the past episodes have been a little blah, or because I relish all episodes that focus on Locke, or maybe, just maybe, it was THAT good. I don’t know how anyone else felt about it (I try not to read any other write-ups before doing this one so I can claim all ideas and theories as my own), but I LOVED this week’s episode.

Time Warp

We started off this week with a newbie digging around in a hatch on the island. We learn that this man is Caesar, who we saw boarding the doomed Agira flight 316 last week. In the hatch he finds some maps we have already seen and a sawed-off shot gun (how did our Losties miss that?).

His hatch looting is interrupted by Ilana, the federal marshal who was, for some reason, transporting Sayid to Guam. When she asks what Caesar has put in his bag, he throws her a flashlight and neglects to tell her about the gun. Surely, this will be important at a later stage.

Ilana tells Caesar that a mysterious man has joined their group and that he wasn’t on the plane. They find the man on the beach and, of course, it is none other than John Locke complete with the same hoodie worn by the Emperor in Star Wars. This may seem strange, but characters on this show seem to wear hoods at very strange moments: Charlie would often wear the hood up on his sweatshirt when he was committing or about to commit dark acts (like stealing the smack from the drug –plane). Eloise Hawking walked around in a hooded cloak to add to her creepiness, and now we have Locke wearing a similar hooded cloak as he reveals himself to the other passengers. I know he wasn’t wearing that cloak of despair when Jack closed the coffin on his before heading off to Guam, so where did it come from? I am sure a lot of people will assume the hood represents death (think Grim Reaper). This is a good assumption: Charlie is dead, Locke is dead (technically), but what about Eloise? Does anyone remember anyone else wearing hoods? Am I losing my mind? Wait, don’t answer that last one, please.

Here’s my first WTF? moment of the show: Did anyone else notice the survivors in the background as Ilana and Caesar walked to Locke on the beach? I am positive that Sayid was there, mixed in with the survivors. The camera never focused on him, but it sure did look like my favorite super-spy ninja capable of breaking necks with his feet.

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