Lost - Season 5, Episode 7 Review
ByLost Season 5 Episode 7 “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham”
Lost
“The life of Locke before his death”
An essential episode but one that didn’t throw up too many revealing answers. I had in my mind that this episode would throw up loads of WTF moments but that wasn’t the case, it’s not to say that’s a bad thing. Another weird structured episode in which the action takes place mostly all off island. Originally this episode was supposed to air last week, with 316 last night. They decided to switch them so they could get the Losties back to the island quicker and it makes a lot more sense to have them switched.
The beginning of the episode showed that Ajira Airways plane did crash but crashed on the Hydra island. We have the two new characters, Cesar and Ilana being snoopy around the station. As most of us guessed, these two characters are going to be important. They find Locke alive, who’s just sitting on the beach. He is very much alive and doesn’t remember how he got back to the island, all that he knows is that he died. Now if this episode aired first we wouldn’t have had all the questions we had last week.
We flashback and after John turns the wheel, he ends up in Tunisia, very much like Ben did. A camera is facing towards him and he cries for help. Locke’s taken away for medical treatment and meets Widmore for the second time, although he’s much older now. Widmore is the one who put the camera there, according to him that spot is the exit point from the island. Widmore seems to be astonished because he met John when he was 17 and it was only four days previous for Locke meeting him. He also divulges that he used to be the leader of the island, though Ben tricked him into leaving. At this point I was thinking who to really trust because Widmore was being very nice to John, gave him everything he needed to find the others and persuade them to bring them back. He even gave him his new identity of Jeremy Bentham. Matthew Abaddon appears once again who’s John’s driver, to take him anywhere he needs to go.
Locke proceeds to go visit Sayid, Kate and Hurley with no luck at all at persuading them to go back to the island. I very much liked all of these scenes, the Kate scene in particular was harsh of her. Abaddon takes John to visit Helen, who has died. Helen is in the place she is supposed to be, according to Abaddon. It was her destiny and it’s John’s destiny to end up back on the island. Then Matthew Abaddon fulfils his destiny and gets gunned down. Locke while escaping, get’s into a car crash and ends up in the same hospital Jack works in. John tries to get Jack to go back but he’s having none of it. Locke tells Jack that his father says hello and this seems to be the reason that Jack begins to buy return tickets to Sydney, in the hope he crashes on to the island. We know he has been seeing visions of his dad, so we can see the origin of why he so desperately wants to go back.
John realising he is a failure, tries to hang himself but Ben barges in and tells Locke that he cannot die. One of the finest scenes in the show, when Ben tries everything in his power to stop John from killing himself. Then Locke mentions that they must find Eloise Hawking and this sets Ben off, he kills John himself and makes it look like a suicide. Ben was so adamant in helping John but the moment he found out John knew Ms Hawking he snapped. Why did Ben kill John? Who are we to trust? We have Widmore who seems to treat John with respect who’s saying Ben is the bad guy. Though we have Ben who’s saying he’s been protecting the Oceanic Six and makes sure Locke doesn’t kill himself but then kills John himself. Right now I’m more trusting of Widmore.
The end of the episode is back on the Hydra island and Locke finds out Ben is one of the wounded. At first I thought it would be Widmore but Ben makes the most sense. This is going to provide some interesting scenes to come. Though the real question to come out of this episode is, how is John alive? Most of us assumed that he could be a Christian Shepherd like character but apparently no. Everyone can see him and he’s walking around, very much alive. He’s not a ghost or a vision. It’s funny that I can easily accept a man who was killed, to be walking around alive like normal.
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