How Lost Ends Some More Again

Before reading this, you may want to:

1) Watch last night’s episode.

2) Read my post How Lost Ends.

3) Read my other post How Lost Ends Some More.

Spoilers for all that from here on.

So there’s not much more I have to add – I really just want to point out how all the other stuff I wrote is still valid and why it’s even more hardcore about how valid it is.

I think we got a key piece of support lasterday and it also made me remember something from a few seasons back that may have a crucial tie-in.

Sideways Locke explained what happened with his father and the airplane ride crash, and it’s a classic deal with the devil, just like the other Sideways people have.

This one was interesting, because by all accounts, Locke seemed (externally) to have it better off in the Sideways world.

Smokey says:

“I’ll give you a healthy relationship with your father, John.”

It’s what Locke always wanted. He got it in the Sideways world…with a price that haunts him arguably more than when his father was a con man. There’s no closure, and massive amounts of guilt.

Now…the question becomes when was this deal made?

In Season 4, Locke was in Jacob’s cabin, which we know now was inhabited by Smokey, in this case appearing as Christian Shephard.

This is also the first time we saw Dark Claire.

That’s where it might have happened. We don’t know everything that was said in there – remember the show cut to outside with Ben and Hurley.

While it doesn’t seem Locke was “infected” ala Claire and Sayid, he was carrying out Smokey’s orders. Whether intentionally or not, he may have made his deal right there.

Also, just a side note – I hold that Jin and Sun’s child did not live through the shooting in the Sideways world – Jin just couldn’t bear to tell Sun.

This would be another perfect deal with the devil – you can be together, but it’ll cost you the life of your child.

In the main timeline, they’re dead but the child lives. (I’ve confirmed with my Mommy that this is the better scenario for a parent.)

Question of course is still how it all ties together, but I really, really believe the Sideways is Smokey’s world now.