The third stop is Hurley at the mental institution. Locke wheels over to the big man who is drawing the Sphinx. Hurley thinks this is just another hallucination of a dead guy from the Island, but Locke proves that he’s real. Unfortunately, Hurley sees Abaddon who freaks him out, so Hurley runs back to the safety of the asylum.

After going zero for three in terms of getting people back, Abaddon questions Locke’s strategy and Locke wonders what Abaddon’s job is. He claims that he gets people to where they need to go, like how he convinced Locke to go on a walkabout when he was an orderly.

The fourth stop is Kate in Los Angeles, and she refuses to go because Locke has never loved anyone. He tells the story of Helen, which brings up bad memories. When he leaves, Locke demands Abaddon find Helen. He does, and they go to a cemetery. Helen died of a brain aneurysm (on 4/8, naturally).

As they leave, Abaddon is shot repeatedly. He’s shot dead. Locke gets behind the wheel and speeds away, getting into a huge accident.

Locke wakes up in the hospital with Jack sitting next to him. Locke just happened to come to Jack’s hospital, which he sees as a divine sign that they are supposed to go back. Jack refuses to believe that there’s anything special or important about John Locke.

All that changes when Locke tells Jack that his father says hello. Jack is clearly stumped by this, and memories of his father make Jack quite agitated. Locke is convinced that Jack is the one who can convince everyone to go back to the Island.


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