At the end of last week's Lost, we - along with Locke, Kate, Sayid, and Rousseau - saw Jack enjoying himself with The Others. He certainly didn't seem a prisoner-
This week, we learn that he was indeed a prisoner, looking forward to being set free from the island, the very next day, on a submarine with Juliet. (He would have come back to at very least rescue Kate, as we see in a rare tender scene between them.)
Except he doesn't make it. (How could he - his leaving the island would all but end the show. Jack has been much more central to the show than Michael.)
And who stops him?
None other than Locke, who blows up the sub, and turns out to have been unknowingly operating on Ben's behalf, who of course also doesn't want Jack to leave the island.
How did this come to be?
As we've suspected all along, Locke never really wanted to leave the island - it somehow got him out of his wheelchair (which we at last learned how he got into, tonight). Even more importantly, Ben understands this. He sees in John Locke someone who has some sort of deep connection to the island.
Someone, in other words, who may be more of an Other than Ben himself.
We still do not know who The Others are, and what exactly they want.
But wouldn't tonight's show be pivotal indeed, if it set the future of Lost up with Locke being the new leader of The Others...
Useful links:
2 and 1/2 min podcast of this review at Levinson news clips
Lost: Keys What's Really Going On essay
