Season 3 Episode 13

Season 3 Episode 13 The Man From Tallahassee

Flashback
A man named Peter Talbot finds Locke and wants to know what’s up with Adam Seward, aka Anthony Cooper aka Locke’s dad. Cooper has told Talbot’s mother that he is a retired computer entrepreneur from Ontario (that’s where Ethan Rom said he was from). Locke denies knowing Cooper, but then tracks him down and tells him to leave Talbot’s mother. A few days later Talbot is found dead with Locke’s name and number in his pocket. He tracks down Cooper again who tosses Locke out of an 8 story window; explaining to all of us why he was in a wheelchair.

It seems Jack is quite good on the piano.
Did you notice Tom warning Jack about the room being bugged before he talked to Kate: “Jack, be careful in here (points to his ear)”
Jack let’s Kate know that all the Losties that were taken by the Others are alive and well.

So Mr. Locke decides he’s going to blow up the Sub so they can’t leave the Island, because if he leaves he’s going back in his chair. Ben proves beyond a shadow of a doubt he knows a lot about the Losties, specifically Locke with the following facts:
Locke was born in California
Raised in Foster Care
Wasted a big part of his life working for a box company in Tuscan
Spent the 4 years before coming to the island in a wheelchair
Ben cracked me up when he told Locke they had power because he had two giant hamsters running on giant hamster wheels.
Did you notice all the food in Ben’s fridge was Dharma brand? Ben also prefers dark meet apparently.
So what’s up with the box?
Ben: “… there’s a very large box and whatever you imagined, whatever you wanted to be in it, when you opened that box there it would be”
Locke: “Hope it’s big enough to imagine up a new sub”
Ben confirms that all communication has been Lost and without it no one can find the Island.
Locke blows up the Sub keeping Jack and Juliet from going home just as Ben had hoped.
Question: Why was Locke wet?? We watched him climb into the sub without getting in the water.
We find out ‘The Man from Tallahassee” is Mr. Cooper himself. How did he get there? Was he on the plane too? Did he crash on his own? Or is Ben telling the truth that he showed up in the big box? (I truly don’t believe there is a big box; I think he used it as a metaphor to explain how things just seem to happen on the Island). I get the feeling that he may not be a prisoner at all… but we shall see.
There is still a strong theory that Anthony Cooper is the real Sawyer. The real Sawyer meaning the con man who killed James “Sawyer” Ford’s parents.

Sayid tells Alex about her mom, and later on Danielle actually sees her.

Did Ben’s side kick Richard look familiar to you? He should. He’s Richard Albert, the man from Mittelos Bioscience who recruited Juliet to come to the Island.

Final thing, MacCutchen Whiskey. This would be the brand of whiskey Mr. Whitmore drank when Desmond went to see him. The same whiskey that Desmond, Hurley and Charlie got drunk on. Last night, Locke’s dad was drinking the same whiskey right before he tackled Locke threw the window.

NEXT WEEK
Episode 14 – Exposé – Nikki and Paulo flashback
I hate these two but a cool flashback could potentially change my mind.

See you all next week… and if you already have plans “you’re gonna call off your engagement and go or I’m going to tell her the truth”