Locke shows up at the radio tower after being shot somewhere on the island.

How did he know everyone was going there? Nobody had been there in the whole time they were there, and somehow Locke is shot, injured, and climbs out of the hole and goes all the way to the radio tower?

Are we supposed to believe that Walt told him to go there?

Im afraid that people are going to tell me that Walt told him. That is ridiculous.

Walt/the island compelled/told him.

Walt/the island compelled/told him.

That's what I believe.

Yes...I do believe we are suppossed to believe Walt told him as much as we are to believe that Walt just happened to be standing over the pit at the exact moment Locke was going to kill himself...why else would he be there?? He did tell him he had work to do...

Thats what I was afraid of....

Yes...I do believe we are suppossed to believe Walt told him as much as we are to believe that Walt just happened to be standing over the pit at the exact moment Locke was going to kill himself...why else would he be there?? He did tell him he had work to do...

exaclty

Thats what I was afraid of....

ah, so you have no problem with Walt (an older Walt at that) standing at the pit and telling him to get up ....but you do have a problem with Walt telling him where to go?? I don't understand??

Walt telling Locke where to go is as ridiculous as Eko's stick telling Locke where to go... oh wait a minute...

Well on that note, would it be as ridiculous as smoke that can slam people around and drag them underground....just curious

Locke could have made his way back to the Others' camp, and they told him that Ben had left for the radio tower.
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Another question could be ... Locke arrives on the scene with a loaded gun ... and maybe it does make sense that he first threatens to shoot Jack .. but when that is called off ... why doesn't he take aim directly at Ben and fire?

Locke shows up at the radio tower after being shot somewhere on the island.

How did he know everyone was going there?
For that matter, how did he know anything about Naomi, let alone that allowing her to connect with her off-island peeps would somehow be disasterous for we know not exactly what or whom yet (the island, the LOSTaways, perhaps even the Others, not that we necessarily care about the latter *lol*)? Apparently, if I had to hazard a guess at this point, the island is somehow guiding his actions again, as it did on the night that he had a vision of the Beechcraft plane and a clear feeling that he and Boone were supposed to go check it out. It seems that "the island" is guiding him again, but just what that force is, specifically, is up for a lot of discussion/debate/speculation at this point. Is it something intrinsic to the physical land itself and/or to the magnetic anomaly, the same sort of something that gives the island its healing power for certain disease (Rose's, Locke's, etc.)? Is it "Jacob"? Or is it something less beautiful than the "eye of the island" that Locke long ago looked into and deemed beautiful, and more sinister, like the Others somehow "planting" visions in his head to get him to do their bidding?

I tend to think that in this one case at least, Ben, the island, and Locke are all in sync and on the right path with trying to STOP Naomi from connecting with her people. Why do I say/think that? Because of Penny. She didn't know anything about Naomi or her freighter. Yet Naomi knew all about she and Desmond, and had a photo, ta boot. That leads me to think that it had to be Widmore (as in, Penny's father) behind Naomi's faux "rescue" mission and that really there is something far more sinister and ominous going on. In fact, when Desmond told Charlie his vision, it was Charlie who assumed that the copter Claire and Aaron will board is a rescue copter. And Desmond apparently assumed that as well. But I had a feeling then of: wait a minute, guys, how do you know it was a "rescue" helicopter? Could it be something far more ominous? Could it be a helicopter from Hanso/Widmore/Piek/and I still maintain COOPER, all of whom I previously referred to as "off-island Others", but now I do NOT think they are affiliated with Ben and "the hostiles" because Ben seems genuinely afraid of them finding the island and/or finding out about "the purge", probably because they were the original source/funders/envisioners of Dharma and possibly they don't know that Ben and the hostiles took over.

omg, getting dizzy with the possibilities *lol*. Must stop now. But basically, I think Locke is somehow being directed by either the island itself (which I feel is a force of "good", to state it simply) or by the Others planting thoughts/visions in his head (which I feel is NOT a force of good), but in this one case, perhaps good and the Others happen to coincide accidentally *lol*, because I do feel that somehow connecting with Naomi's off-island people would be BAD.

I think it is going to happen, btw. I think Charlie fulfilled his part of Desmond's vision, which now that I think of it, might actually have been a warning by the island to Desmond, but Des misinterpreted it as destiny, something good, something that should happen. Really perhaps it was to alert Des to STOP Charlie from going to the Looking Glass. But anyway, Charlie did go (boo hooo, so sad about Charlie) and therefore I think the rest of Desmond's vision will play out and Naomi's people will be contacted and the copter will come and take off with Claire and Aaron, at least, but I don't feel it is a "rescue" at all. And maybe that is what breaks Jack because maybe he blames himself for the whole thing that unfolds.

Goodness knows. But we have eight long months to ponder it all.

Maybe Smokie gave him a ride!

Well on that note, would it be as ridiculous as smoke that can slam people around and drag them underground....just curious

Or for that matter a plane falling thousands of feet from the sky and survivors walking away from it.

Yep, I think along with telling Locke that he had work to do he also told him what work he had to do.

What if the so called rescuers take Jack and Kate back to "real life" and then take the rest of the losties somewhere else for more Dharma-type tests of some sort. They tell Jack they're taking them somewhere safe when they are not. Somehow Jack and Kate are the only ones allowed to return....he punishes himself for this.