Is Locke on the island to rescue someone that ended up there through Darma?

Could he be having visions as well? Maybe his intention wasn't to go to the island,b ut since he is there he has received some sort of sign that he needs to save someone?

or maybe he has known all along, that is why he wanted smoky to take him, to get to the others.

He is on the list, so they know him, hence he probably knows them.

He is definitly on a mission and he seems more clear as to what it is as he learns more. It's like he went there a skeptic and now he believes that who ever he is there to save was telling the truth.

i'm sure that locke thinks that ben has all the answers. why he can walk again and why pushing the button seemed so important to him because it was his life and it didn't mean anything. as mikhail said, he is angry.

Just as he felt he was used and discarded by his "father," Locke is feeling that Ben did the same thing to him. He is on a mission to have Ben "explain" his actions to him.

i'm sure that locke thinks that ben has all the answers. why he can walk again and why pushing the button seemed so important to him because it was his life and it didn't mean anything. as mikhail said, he is angry.


Let's face it, Locke has been through the ringer. He's been kicked around his whole life, and we haven't even seen what will probably be his darkest hour which lands him in a wheelchair yet. Then he gets to an island where he has a second chance, an opportunity to be a new person, yet he is cruelly manipulated yet again by Ben and other forces.

I'd be POed too. I'd be blowing up buildings and pushing people into sonic security walls.

I love how the island brings out the real John Locke. As if he had always felt the need to tone himself down due to the society he lived in. But now he doesn't need to live by rules, and is taking full advantage.

I don't know about him being there to rescue somebody, but I'm convinced that he was told more by the computer last week than he is letting on. Perhaps he has been given a purpose? But then again, he wasn't all that keen on following Sayid's map, so are we even sure he wanted to go to the "barracks"? But I'd certainly agree, he seems to have direction again now, and despite the big consequences of his actions, hasn't lost his temper (which is usually a sign he knows he isn't in control). Perhaps he knows exactly what he's doing.

I keep concluding that intentionally or not, Locke is slowly demolishing this islands external links and influences, because this place is his salvation, and nobody's gonna mess with it. Rescue? No thanks...he's already BEEN rescued.

In S2, he came to believe that Dharma was part of his salvation, but then found out what a fraud/deceiver they are, and has systematically taken out every link / system he has come across.

And if promos are any indication...


Looks like the sub is next

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He is definitly on a mission and he seems more clear as to what it is as he learns more. It's like he went there a skeptic and now he believes that who ever he is there to save was telling the truth.


I think Locke's actions will ultimately show to be BENEFICIAL. I believe he is driven and entrigued by the island, but his actions are not entirely selfish. His past shows his actions to benefit someone other than himself, at his own expense.

Ah, but there's the rub.

If the island has changed him, maybe it's changed him from the hapless loser who gets duped again and again into a man who seeks revenge at any cost when he gets used.

I think it'll somehow come down to John vs. Jack. Just thought that for awhile. Don't know that either will really end up "winning." I think John's going to end up very important in leading something beneficial. My friend has said for some time that Locke is "not right" in the head.

I like the idea this thread presents because it plays so nicely against my 'Kate's an assassin' idea, and watching her following John through the woods I could believe we both might be right. :D

There was no way she was going to let John enter the Swan alone. She was always up for a boar hunt too, and I think.... .....I think she deliberatly intercepted Jack in the woods that time - with her request for a shower - to keep him and John apart.

(John was in the Hatch with the prisoner - whom I'm sure Kate was aware off, they knew about him on the beach pretty soon after - Jack was on his way there too, but escorted Kate back through the jungle after turning down her shower suggestion. As I'm pretty sure she knew he would.

...but I'm buggered if I know why :blushing:- a regime change maybe? I'm either too dumb to work it out or so far off the mark there is nothing to be worked out. Meh)

To get back to her possible polar oposite : he doesn't necessarily 'remember' the island at all - but could be acting in accordance with his having been 'programmed'.

Visual and audio stimuli setting off a predetermined action on his part.

If John were actually under instructions to rescue, or even seek and destroy orders, then Kate's target may become him. Mwah ha ha ha ha.

Okay, I'm done with the slinty eyes evil genius stuff now. *cough* Carry on.

Remember in season 1, when Locke is talking to Boone, and they're discussing Sayid. Boone is irritated with sayid, but Locke says "We need him on our side". That always struck me as very strange. But maybe Locke knew at that point, much more than we could have? Maybe he knew more about the island or the Others etc, and so has had a much bigger overall plan for a long time. At the time, I kind of assumed he just meant that Sayid would be useful in helping in future - but it's a strange way to phrase it if that's all he meant.