The trio returns to the beach camp where Locke takes a moment to address all of his people.  They all take orders from Jacob, who no one has ever seen, so Locke asks everyone to come along with him to see Jacob.  Socialism!  How dare Locke try to bring this Commie idea to the Island.  Richard and Ben agree and see that Locke is become more trouble than he's worth.  In the world of Lost, Locke is Barack Obama while Richard and Ben are Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.

They next morning Locke leads his pilgrimage to Jacob and Ben voices his concerns.  Locke lets Ben in on a little secret, namely that he's not interested in reuniting with his friends in 1977.  Why is Locke going to see Jacob?  To kill him.  If Locke had sunglasses, that would be the moment he'd put them on and The Who would play.

30 Tears Earlier: In the tent, Jack is an unabashed believer in Faraday's theory that they can change the future so that everything that's happened to them will never happen.  This level of relativistic physics is a rare and beautiful thing to see o TV.

Ellie walks in and wants to know why Faraday needed the bomb.  She assures them she'll believe whatever they say because she just killed her son, the same man who told him to bury the bomb 23 years earlier before disappearing into thin air.

Jack tells her that by using the bomb, they can alter the future and undo what Ellie just did to her son.  Too bad for them the bomb is underneath the Barracks.


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