BY BILLIE DOUX
4.11 Cabin Fever

Ben: “Destiny, John, is a fickle bitch.”

I guess I just got the answer to the question, how weird can Lost actually get? Lost isn’t just the name of the show. It’s also the permanent condition of the audience.

Apparently, Claire is now one of the walking dead. Surviving that explosion was really unlikely, after all. Or she could have died from her head injury while she was sleeping, which would explain why Christian came for her and why she left the baby. (As well as why ghost-sensitive Miles let her leave without waking Sawyer.) But why Claire? Why Charlie? Why Christian, who didn’t even die on the Island? It appears that the Island uses the walking dead to communicate with the living, but is that all there is to it? It feels like there’s some sort of framework to the vast Lost story and they keep giving us glimpses of the underlying structure, but it still doesn’t make sense to me.

Christian and Claire sitting in that cabin in the dark was just incredibly creepy, and the way they smiled at Locke was even creepier. A major contrast to Locke, Ben, and Hurley wandering around the jungle, which had a Three Stooges feel. Dan thinks that, while Ben’s methods are questionable, he might be on the “right” side. I don’t know. But we both loved the Ben and Hurley candy bar scene. Dan said, “That may have been the coolest moment in the entire series.”

Miracles are key. Locke was “chosen” because he cheated death several times. He originally got on Richard Alpert’s radar when he was born a six-month preemie and miraculously survived. Abbadon showed up after Locke survived his trip out an eighth story window. (Was it Cooper both times? Was he trying to kill his way out of a problematic got-a-teenage-girl-pregnant situation?) Locke was a “special” child, like Walt, but he refused to be what they wanted him to be, which was a scientist like Juliet. Locke wanted to be a superhero. And he won, didn’t he? Locke became the man of adventure he always wanted to be. And now the Island wants him, anyway.

Richard Alpert may be the most interesting peripheral character on the show. Who or what is he? Is he immortal? A clone? There’s time travel, of course. Maybe Richard bounces around in time and space, using the device Ben used to get to Tunisia. Yeah, that’s probably the best fit for the circumstances.

But Abbadon was apparently recruiting Locke, too. He showed up after Locke’s accident, talked about miracles, and encouraged Locke to go on walkabout. Doesn’t Abbadon work for Widmore, though? Did Widmore originally want Locke on the Island, but now Widmore wants to *torch* the Island? It doesn’t make sense.

And man, that freighter. People are dropping like flies. (Except Michael, who still can’t get shot and can’t die.) Keamy, who may be suffering from time sickness, killed the doctor who was already dead. Faraday’s “payload” took an extra half hour to reach the Island, but the doctor’s body washed up on shore two episodes ago *before* the doctor died. Can a time slip work both ways?

Finally, the “moving island” snowglobe theory has just been sorta confirmed. Christian wants Locke to move the Island. I bet there’s a hatch for that.

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