Magic Is Afoot!
Updated 2007-03-26 17:00:00
Kate and Jack are together again, but it is not the joyous reunion/escape plan that Kate had envisioned. Instead she and Sayid are captured almost immediately and held prisoner by the Others while Jack and Juliet prepare for their return home. Yes I said it. Home. But Jack swears he'll come back for her. It's hard to tell if she buys it, though, what with her being handcuffed and held captive while he walks off with the hot blonde doctor.
Meanwhile, Locke has come to see a man about a submarine. This is not a request without serious flashbacks. While Kate and Sayid are held prisoner, Locke alternatively holds Alex and Ben hostage while trying to find out the whereabouts of the escape submarine. Ben will give up nothing without a lot of psychological probing and quasi-deep spiritual questioning -- just like Jonathan Adler in Top Design! Locke is not much for the psychoanalysis and sticks with the "nyah-nyah-nyah, I can walk and you can't" rebuttal. Locke gets his information and blows up the sub just as Jack and Juliet are about to board. They are not happy about this turn of events. Ben, however, is thrilled that Locke made his secretest wish come true. Looks like a Love Match!
Locke does not regret his decision, despite his imprisonment. Besides, he and Ben are fast becoming bestest friends, and he gets to stay on the Island forever and never has to see his evil-doing ne'er-do-well father, who pushed him out a window and broke his back, ever ever again. Well never say never on this Island, Locke, 'cause guess what? Your dad is here! Being held prisoner by the Others. Bet you wish you hadn't blown up the only way off the Island, eh Johnny Boy?