LOST: "The Substitute"

Original Air Date

February, 16, 2010

Description
Locke goes in search of help to further his cause.

Notes

(B) I feel like the answers are coming, which I am happy about. Still its hard to produce something that makes sense in this writing. Here are some ramblings:

The man in black tries to tempt Richard like he was the devil tempting Eve with fruit from the tree of knowledge. I wouldn't have kept you in the dark like Jacob, he says.

Who was that boy covered in blood -- the vision that the smoke monster saw?

I find it curious that the man in black, the Locke impostor, used the same words Locke has often used. "Don't tell me what I can't do." What is the significance to that. It seems too exact to be a coincidance. As we see in the flash sideways, Locke reminds us that he shouted those same words in Austrailia when they would not let him go on the walkabout.

The sympolism of the scale in the man in black's lair is pretty straight forward. On the scale is a black rock and a white rock. They were balancing each other. However, now that Jacob (the white rock?) is dead, Locke picks it up and tosses it away. "Inside Joke."

What is with the names on the rock that Jacob apparently wrote? "That is why you are all here." What?

Another other popped up in alt-world (flash sideways world) again. Ben is at the school in which Locke is a substitute teacher. What are the others doing in the real world like they have been there for years?

It is odd that the numbers that have been a running mystery throughout the show were with the names on the rocks: Jarah 16, Kwon 42, Shepared 23, Reyes 8, Locke 4, Ford 15.

"Jacob had a thing for numbers."

Also the man in black says Jacob manipulates people when they are vulnerable... or does he challenge them to become better people?

Now the man in black wants to get the hell off the island and he needs James to help him? Where is this going to go.