If Locke stricks to his winning followers by helping them work through their problems m.o., he might be able to win over Sawyer by somehow getting him to let go of his self-hatred, but I don't think he'll get anywhere with Kate.

Huh. So Charlie gives Locke credit for saving his life for what? The moth thing?

That's what I figured. "He taught me to reach deep inside my flashback and quit heroin."

I think for taking his drugs away. About the only way to keep someone who's withdrawing from heroin away from the only supply is to give it to the guy with all the knives.

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It just seems like a weird thing to say to me after Jack saved his life in a much more immediate way more recently.

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Locke definitely would have liked to discover that thing by himself.

Does anybody think he knew that the hatch was in the forest when he told Boone to go back to camp?

Okay! So! Do we think that Locke caused Claire's hallucination, too? Since she got napped, we assume she was attacked by Ethan, but we don't know it.

For that matter, what about Sayid? We still don't know for sure who whacked him, and Locke is still totally capable of having done it, schedule-wise. Maybe he got whacked, and Locke spread mortar & pestle goo on his head, and the whole of Rosseau was a hallucination, too!

And to carry it even further, maybe Locke's "I didn't pick up anything about him" act was an act, and Locke is totally in cahoots with Ethan and the island bunch, despite the running running running after Claire.

And to carry it even further, maybe Locke's "I didn't pick up anything about him" act was an act, and Locke is totally in cahoots with Ethan and the island bunch, despite the running running running after Claire.

This is my thought.

And to carry it even further, maybe Locke's "I didn't pick up anything about him" act was an act, and Locke is totally in cahoots with Ethan and the island bunch, despite the running running running after Claire.

I could buy this. If too much stuff turns out to be hallucination, though, I'm gonna be annoyed. And by too much I mean only a little more than what already is.

Maybe he got whacked, and Locke spread mortar & pestle goo on his head, and the whole of Rosseau was a hallucination, too!

The episode after the whacking, though, he returned to camp perfectly fine. Rousseau was after he took his self-imposed exile following the torture, so unless Locke's goo takes a couple days to kick in, that one doesn't work.

he might be able to win over Sawyer by somehow getting him to let go of his self-hatred

My suspicion is that Sawyer has already been mostly cleansed by the healing waters of The Island. Cure him any more, and he'll be boring.