Lost - Cabin Fever

**** / ****
Cabin Fever has been gnawing at me throughout the day, since I watched it at 3:00 am in the morning. The time line was particularly of certain dissonance, leaving me wondering in past episodes where each island story falls. But then the wallop of the doctor finding out from Keamy's footsoldier that he was reported dead in Morse code, having washed ashore, later to literally die, I knew that time was not quite in balance, as if what we have seen between the Freighter and island weren't necessarily in synch.

The exposition of Locke, in flashback, offers us two very interesting appearances. Richard Alpert continues to be this emerging figure who might know some things but apparently isn't privy to everything. He's there when Ben was a child on the island, also greeting foster kid, Locke, at his adoptive home. Seemingly testing Locke to see if he would choose an item from a group laid before him that he thinks the child should pick, he's not receptive of the knife from those available. Perhaps those gifted kids did select the items he expected them to due to some standardized expectation...all the kids pick so and so not the knife. But Locke isn't those kinds of gifted kids, and the significance of such a choice offers quite food for thought. Abaddon visiting Locke as a disorderly and attempting to inspire him while in his wheelchair is especially unexpected. He keeps showing up in peculiar places!

Keamy and his men certainly offer quite a threat, such a threat they worry the presence of or on the island to such a point that Locke is enlisted to "move the island". Yeah, I didn't see that coming! Sure, there will be a device of some sort that will move this very large parcel so that Frank will not find it, after reluctantly agreeing to take Keamy and his footsoldiers to the island. Imagine the surprise awaiting those on the helicopter when the coordinates yield no island!

Locke actually being recognized as bright and highly intelligent, but bullied and stuffed in lockers offers us an eerily similar comparison to Ben. Although different in certain respects, nonetheless their paths to the island have similarities, especially in their antisocial, intellectual personalities as kids, absent mothers and fathers (literally for Locke, figuratively for Ben), children seemingly introverted and calculated often out of response towards others treatment of them. And here as adults, trying to cater to the necessities and needs of the island. Ben's acceptance of his mission on the island seemingly concluded had that Emerson expressiveness, all of the experiences cultivated over the span of just a few months awash on his face.

Keamy has proven to be the Prince of Darkness. The moment we first meet him he immediately reads Bad News. He looks like a muscle head menace just itching to shoot somebody. There's no negotiating with him. Alex is capped without hesitation. Danielle and Karl are shot and shoveled with dirt to be dug up by Miles. So he seems to even scare the island!

Good to see Horace Goodspeed (Doug Hutchison) returning as Dharma's representative ghost, chopping trees for his *cabin*. Locke knows to find his corpse for the map! That death pit just continues to remind us of what Ben is capable of, although you ask him it was for the island. Just the same Locke locates Christian representing Jacob...and Claire! He must move the island. I was like, Whaaa? And yet, I was also, But of course he does!

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