If you're going to be trapped on an island, especially an island full of polar bears and random monsters and things that go bump in the night, John Locke appeared to be the kind of man you want to have along. Cool in a crisis, armed to the teeth, able to live off the land while the rest of us bumble along, lost without our cappuccino machines and SUVs. Irony was quick to descend. As Locke's flashback depicted, he was, in fact, a wheelchair-bound peon working in a cube farm.
Only in his rich fantasy life was he a military man, a colonel accustomed to giving orders and having them followed. But after the plane crash, on the island, his alter ego seemed to be in charge. On the island, Locke was a man worthy of respect, a man people followed and admired. On the island, Locke could walk. That was just the start. It was Locke who found the hatch that would eventually lead the castaways into Dharma's Swan station. Locke managed to finally get the hatch blown open even if he needed Jack's help and became the station's de facto general manager — wholeheartedly buying in to everything the Dharma orientation film warned about.
And yet Let's not forget how Boone died, sent into the Beechcraft when Locke briefly lost use of his legs. Before Boone went, he revealed that Locke never wanted the hatch disclosed to his compadres.
Nor has Locke ever let them know about his wheelchair-bound past. Locke's interest in Walt was enough to set Michael off, and it's almost as eerie as his sudden interest in Claire's baby Aaron.
His flashbacks reveal a man filled with rage at betrayal by his kidney-thieving would-be father. That rage was again triggered this season, when prisoner Henry Gale ruminates about Locke being second fiddle to Jack, comments tailor-made to push Locke's buttons. Locke has, shall we say, issues. So is Locke a force for good or evil on the island? Locke is good? It's easy to line up arguments that John Locke is a good guy.
Flashbacks to his pre-crash life reaffirm this notion. Locke was kicked around at work, in his dating life, and by his own family. His mother gave him up at birth we presume — was that DNA test legit?
When Locke tried to escape into his fantasy life of war games during a work break, a manager mocked him mercilessly. Who can't help but feel sorry for a man this alone, this abused? Acting on the information, Locke visited his father, Anthony Cooper , who invited the eager Locke on hunting trips, where the two appeared to bond. On one visit, Cooper was on a dialysis machine and revealed his kidney failure.
Compassionately, Locke soon offered his kidney, and before their surgery he called their encounter an act of fate. When Locke awoke post-surgery, Cooper was gone. The traumatized Locke was visited by his mother, who confessed his father had arranged their earlier meeting and all subsequent events to con him into giving away his kidney.
Enraged, Locke drove to his father's house, but the guard denied him entry. Helen rejects John's proposal. In , Locke then joined an anger management group where he trivialized members' problems by comparing them to his own. He started a relationship with another member, Helen Norwood , who appeared to understand his frustration. Locke was also in the habit of parking outside his father's new, gated residence. At one point, his father confronted him and told him to go away. Locke nevertheless continued this stalking, until Helen caught him and made him promise to get over Cooper.
During this time, he started a home inspection company called "Welcome Home". He happened to inspect a house for Nadia , the childhood sweetheart of Sayid. After attending the internment, the couple were visited by several gangsters Cooper had conned. Cooper revealed himself to Locke and asked his son's help in retrieving money from an account.
Helen discovered his involvement, arriving at the scene of Locke delivering the money. In desperation and in the face of Helen's outrage, he proposed, which she rejected, leaving him on bended knee and in devastation. Betrayed, John holds Eddie at gunpoint. In , Locke joined a commune of farmers including Mike and Jan in Humboldt County, California who secretly grew and sold marijuana.
He invited Eddie , a hitchhiker into this "family," not knowing he was an undercover police officer. Locke learned Eddie's true identity, but could not bring himself to shoot him. When arresting the commune's occupants, Eddie seemed to notice Locke but did not approach him. Having been conned by his father and rejected by the woman he loved, Locke entered a state of depression, began therapy, and started receiving government assistance. In , he was approached by Peter Talbot , whose mother was engaged to Anthony Cooper.
Suspicious, Locke contacted Cooper, threatening to expose him as a conman. Cooper initially agreed, but later had Peter killed. Cooper denied responsibility and said Mrs. Talbot had called off the wedding. When Locke asked to verify this information, Cooper directed to a phone in front of a glass window. As Locke reached for the phone, Cooper pushed him out, dropping him eight stories, breaking his back, and paralyzing him from the waist down. Locke gasped and opened his eyes.
Cooper tackles Locke, forcing him to fall eight stories out a window. In the hospital, Locke felt unable to enter his wheelchair, and broke down in tears at the sight of his immobile legs. Sometime after his accident, Locke worked for a box company, where he was treated poorly by his boss, Randy.
Locke attempted to re-enact his failed relationship with Helen with a phone sex operator who went by the same name. He invited her on a trip to Australia , but she declined, destroying his fantasy and ending the "relationship. Locke had stubbornly refused to allow his disability to affect the way he lived his life.
He eventually decided to take Abaddon's advice and go on a walkabout tour in Australia to give himself a challenge. He was left heartbroken, abandoned, and alone, as he watched the other people happily leave. With no other options, he prepared to return to California aboard Flight Much to his embarrassment, he had to be carried on to the plane by flight attendants. He was seated at the end of the row, in seat 24D. He briefly encountered Rose at the airport, not knowing that later he would share a knowing moment with her about the healing properties of the Island.
Locke discovering his paralysis was cured immediately after the crash. After the the crash of Flight , Locke was shocked to discover that he had regained his ability to walk. At first, he walked gingerly, unable to comprehend what was happening. However, within seconds, he was running to Jack's aid. Being able to walk again profoundly affected Locke, who, due to his self-expressed outlook as a "Man of Faith", believed that it was his destiny to be on the Island , and that everything was happening for a reason.
Locke seeing the Monster for the first time. Locke was the first survivor to see the Monster ; he was out tracking boar after separating from Michael and Kate , and the Monster came through the trees and appeared in front of him.
The next day, Locke saved Jack from falling off a cliff. The two conversed about Jack's possible hallucinations, and Locke compared the situation to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He also said that everything on the Island is happening for a reason.
While checking out the caves, Jack and Kate found two bodies which Locke called "their very own Adam and Eve. Locke offered Charlie his guitar in exchange for his drugs, and Charlie handed over the heroin. Soon after this incident, Locke was responsible for beating Sayid unconscious and destroying his makeshift radio equipment which was being used to discover the origin of the distress signal.
Locke kept this behavior a secret for a long time until he eventually admitted to Sayid what he had done. Locke and Jack begin tracking Ethan. During a trail hunt around the Island for the recently abducted Charlie and Claire , he threw a flashlight towards Boone , which he failed to catch and landed on a metal surface under the soil.
This led to the discovery of the hatch , an event which would turn out to be pivotal in the lives of the survivors of Flight He kept it secret from the rest of the castaways, and wanted Boone to do the same. However, Boone was not quite as strong-minded as Locke; he was prepared to tell all to Shannon , his sister.
Locke drugged Boone, to stop him doing so and to convince himself to give up all other attachments. It was with Boone, also, that he discovered Claire , after her escape from the Staff. Locke showed his caring side when he built a cradle for Claire as a birthday present, out of materials he found on the Island.
Locke, enjoying his hunt. In Translation " promotional still. Later, when the first raft was burnt, Locke gave a rousing but dishonest speech to the group blaming the Others even though he suspected Walt. He was eventually able to get Walt to confess to him. But Locke did not tell anyone else in the camp that Walt was responsible for burning the first raft. In Translation ". But Locke still wanted to get into the Hatch.
After spending a long time trying to think of a way to get into it, he constructed a trebuchet in a failed attempt to shatter the Hatch door's window and ended up becoming injured when shrapnel from the mechanism got lodged in his leg. Following this event, Locke had a vision.
In it, he saw a Beechcraft crashing, as well as his mother pointing in its direction, and a blood-stained Boone.
Also, he was confined back in his wheelchair, unable to move. The dream also mentioned a woman from Boone's past who had died from a fall. This dream was a sign, because, with Boone, he managed to track the plane to its resting place in the canopy.
His legs had appeared to steadily cease to function, reducing him to a crawl. This meant that Boone was required to climb up to the plane. Unfortunately, though, the plane tipped and fell, nose first, to the ground, and Boone was mortally injured. Locke returned to the camp with Boone's injured body, but fled back to the Hatch without telling Jack the true nature of Boone's injuries.
Because he did not know the real problem, Jack was unable to save Boone, who died. At the Hatch, Locke explained that the Island told him what it wanted, and what he was to do next. He begged, and sobbed, pounding the door with his hands. After he did this, a light appeared in the window, before disappearing just as quickly. This seemed to re-affirm Locke's faith. A light appears in the hatch. Locke returned to the camp at Boone's funeral, still wearing a shirt stained with Boone's blood.
He was confronted violently by Jack who demanded some sort of explanation. He was calmed down however, and soon after, he told everybody about the Hatch.
However, the death of Boone and his numerous deceptions cost him much of his credibility. Jack never fully trusted him again. During this trek, Locke was seized by the "Monster" and was almost pulled into a pit by its smoky tendrils. The "Monster" was only repelled by Kate throwing dynamite into the pit, which caused the "Monster" to flee. During this event, Locke had asked Jack to allow the "Monster" to pull him in; he believed nothing would happen.
When they eventually reached the Hatch, armed with the dynamite, Locke was the one who lit the fuse, despite Hurley 's protests. The Hatch door was blown open, and Locke and Jack stared down into the Hatch wondering what could be inside.
Locke and Jack argue over what to do upon the opening of the hatch. When Desmond fled, Locke continued his job of entering the Numbers and pushing the button , which he believed was extremely important.
He believed the button was so important he helped establish a rotation of the castaways for pushing the button, so it could be done efficiently. Later on, he discovered that Charlie had been hoarding heroin -filled statues from the Beechcraft , upsetting him because he considered it a breach of trust.
On day 49 following the crash, Locke was passing Paulo on the beach as Paulo appeared to be burying something the diamonds. He provided some more words of wisdom about the Island, stating that "things never stay buried", and offering some advice on where to bury whatever he was burying further inland or up the beach, due to beach erosion.
Locke, entering the Numbers into the Swan computer. Due in part to the subtle manipulations of Ben Linus , who had been captured by the castaways while masquerading as " Henry Gale ", Locke found himself at odds with Jack for "leadership" of the group and the role of decision-maker. He consequently promised to protect Ben from the other survivors. While he was impaled he discovered a hidden map drawn of the Island on the blast door.
Following the revelation of Ben's deception, Locke was thrown into a state of self-doubt when Ben claimed that he never pushed the button and that nothing happened, though his faith in the Island 's abilities was bolstered a bit with a conversation with Rose , who made it clear that she was also aware of the Island's healing properties. Locke using his crutches, after the lockdown incident. Shortly after Ben 's escape from the Swan , Eko had a dream in which Ana Lucia and his brother Yemi told him to help Locke and to go to the " question mark ".
Eko asked Locke to help him find the escaped prisoner, but later in the jungle he told Locke that they are really in search of the "question mark. When Locke awoke, he showed Eko his sketch of the blast door map , and Eko decided that they must find the question mark as shown on the map. Then, they arrived at the Beechcraft in which Boone died. Locke mocked his past ideas and implied that he still blames himself for Boone's death. That night Locke had a dream involving Yemi and Eko climbing the nearby cliff.
He told Eko about it, and Eko climbed the cliff. When he got to the top he saw a question mark in the salted ground below. Originally, it was a circle but some of the grass had grown back and now resembled a question mark. Realizing that this was a sign indicating that the plane was on the spot where something was hidden, the two men dug under the plane and found another hatch.
The new hatch was another DHARMA station called the Pearl , containing a film which suggested that the act of pushing the button was nothing more than a psychological experiment. This information along with Ben 's false claim that he didn't push the button and nothing happened shattered Locke's faith in the Island , while due to Eko's dream , Eko took away the opposite belief - that pushing the button was essential.
Locke takes off his splint while the other survivors bury Ana Lucia and Libby. Later that day, Locke witnessed Charlie hurling the remaining heroin statues into the ocean. He also finally ripped off the splint supporting his leg, having fully recovered from his injury in the Swan station. Locke became determined to prove that the button was meaningless. He entered into a partnership with the returned Desmond who triggered a lockdown that shut Eko out of the Hatch , intending to wait until the countdown ended on the assumption that nothing would happen.
While waiting for the timer to run out, Desmond read printouts from the Pearl and realized that the whole thing was legitimate due to a systems failure he remembered causing two months ago. When he then attempted to push the button , Locke smashed the computer in protest. As the countdown ended and the electromagnetic energy beneath the station began to build up, Locke spoke only three words—"I was wrong"—to Eko, who had made his way into the computer room.
Locke and Boone , during Locke's vision. After the implosion of the Swan , Locke woke up in the jungle with no voice. He made his way back to the beach and, with Charlie's assistance built a sweat lodge on the site of Eko's church. There he underwent a vision quest where he was reunited with a vision of Boone. Boone took Locke on a vision quest through an airport where he saw many of the people on the Island , continually telling Locke he must "clean up [his] own mess.
Eko , since it was his opposition to Eko that caused the Hatch to implode. After his vision, Locke was able to speak again and convinced that Eko was carried off by a polar bear somewhere. Together he and Charlie found and rescued Eko. After Hurley told them about Jack , Kate and Sawyer's capture, Locke made a speech declaring his intent to rescue them. Locke's later behavior cast doubts as to whether anything he said in the speech was honest.
Locke and Charlie carrying Eko out of the cave. Locke, Sayid , Desmond , Nikki and Paulo then went after Eko to the Pearl station, to see if there was any opportunity to watch any other stations on the monitors, and perhaps locate Jack, Sawyer and Kate.
They got signals on one of the monitors, and it showed a one-eyed man in a DHARMA suit later revealed to be Mikhail Bakunin , in a room which contained a computer and other electrical equipment. The man understood they were watching, and turned the camera off, right before Locke said "I guess he'll be expecting us" - meaning he would find this possible station. Eko died in Locke's arms after telling him "You're next". Locke decided to bury Eko at the spot where he died. When Nikki asked why, Locke explained that there had been a lot of deaths and the other survivors could not take another one.
Locke explained that he believed the "Monster" killed Eko for a reason, and that he wanted to find out what that reason was. Locke retrieved Eko's Jesus stick from the jungle in order to place it as a marker on Eko's grave.
When the group buried Eko, Locke looked at Eko's stick and took special note of one particular bit of scripture carved on it: "Lift up your eyes and look north. John Though skeptical, Sayid accompanied him, as did Kate and Danielle.
The compass bearing eventually led the team to the Flame station, where the group met Mikhail Bakunin , who initially claimed to be the last member of DHARMA Initiative , but was soon revealed to one of the Others.
Locke quickly became absorbed in a computer chess game at the station, even leaving the subdued Mikhail unguarded to play it. Locke won the game and unlocked a sequence of commands. He entered "77" into the computer, ostensibly in response to an incursion by the "hostiles"; as a result soon after the team left the Flame with Mikhail as prisoner, the entire facility exploded. When they encountered the sonic barrier , Locke decided to test it by pushing Mikhail between the posts. Mikhail thanked Locke and then got wounded by the sonic waves.
Locke's decision to test the fence without consulting any of the other members of the expedition, which resulted in Bakunin's apparent death it is not yet known whether or not Locke intended this to happen and could potentially have alerted The Others of their approach , and created tensions with them, particularly Sayid, who considered Mikhail his prisoner.
Locke plays the chess game in the Flame. This tension was heightened even further when they discovered that Locke had sneaked some C-4 out of the Flame even though he claimed that he had no knowledge of it beforehand, which was why he entered 77 into the computer.
It became clear to everyone else that Locke was not trustworthy , had repeatedly lied to them, and had taken actions by himself without consulting the rest of the group which had resulted in destructive and fatal consequences. Having found Ben, and seeing him for the first time since their last talk in the Swan Station, Locke confronted him. Ben revealed that he knew everything about Locke including how he ended up in a wheelchair. Locke asked Ben about the submarine that he had heard about from Mikhail, but was interrupted by Alex , whom he held as a hostage in Ben's closet as Richard Alpert came in to tell Ben that the Others had captured Kate and Sayid.
After Richard left, Locke ordered Alex to retrieve the bag Sayid was carrying. Ben discussed Locke's former paralysis with him, asking him "Did it hurt? Locke interpreted this as a reference to the fall that broke his back.
Upon learning that Locke had been to the Flame, Ben realized that he may have brought the C-4 with him in the bag, and that he planned not to escape on the submarine but to blow it up in order to ensure that nobody could ever leave the Island.
Once again Ben started to manipulate Locke in a number of ways. First, he falsely took Locke into his confidence and told him that the submarine was important to his position as leader thus encouraging Locke to blow it up. He then started to share information about the Island with Locke, knowing that it would motivate Locke even further.
Ben asked Locke to imagine a " magic box ," that could make any of his wishes come true. Locke sarcastically responded to Ben that he hoped it would be big enough for him to wish himself a new submarine. Ben gradually shared other information with Locke. He told him that the submarine would be departing in a few hours and that it would not be able to come back.
He explained that the only thing Locke would accomplish by destroying it would be to keep Jack on the Island. As a result Locke went through his plan and destroyed the submarine, after which he was soon captured by the Others. Locke looks down into the submarine.
Ben eventually revealed to Locke that destroying the submarine was a dream come true for him. Mortal wounds do not seem to be cured. You're gonna need to clean out the wound every couple of hours and keep as much weight off the leg as you can, all right? The Island will do the rest, John, all right? The exact healing properties of the Island are currently unknown, though most inhabitants have heard or seen what the Island can do.
When Mikhail addresses Naomi 's punctured lung, he comments that the healing abilities for wounds are much different on The Island. Juliet also mentions that sperm counts for men living on the Island are many times higher than normal, indicating that the healing properties of the Island generally improve biological processes. The Island does not appear to heal an immediate death, such as when Shannon was shot or Goodwin impaled.
Despite healing Rose's fatal cancer, it did not prevent the slow deaths of Boone and Libby. As of Season 3 , Locke is the only person explicitly healed more than once. Perhaps most noteworthy, upon landing on the island he could walk after being paralyzed for 4 years. Richard takes young Ben into the Temple. Suicidal Locke.
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