"Lost"
Lockdown (2006)

Director:

Stephen Williams

Writers:

Jeffrey Lieber (creator) and
J.J. Abrams (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Lost" (2004)

Original Air Date:

29 March 2006 (Season 2, Episode 17)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

When the hatch suddenly takes on a life of its own, Locke is trapped alone in the bunker and is forced to enlist the help of an unlikely ally: the captive Henry Gale to try to free him. Meanwhile, Jack faces off against Sawyer in a series of card games for supplies. Also, Ana Lucia, Sayid and Charlie find out the truth about Henry in the jungle.

Plot Keywords:

Death | Family Relationships | Shipper | Father Son Relationship | Flashback

Cast

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje	...	Mr. Eko (credit only)
Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah
Emilie de Ravin	...	Claire Littleton
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon (credit only)
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon (credit only)
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen
Dominic Monaghan	...	Charlie Pace
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke
Harold Perrineau	...	Michael Dawson (credit only)
Michelle Rodriguez	...	Ana-Lucia Cortez
Cynthia Watros	...	Libby
Michael Emerson	...	Henry Gale

Runtime:

43 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Certification:

Venezuela:PG-13 (DVD rating) | Portugal:M/12

Filming Locations:

O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

Company:

Bad Robot

Trivia:

The safe deposit box that John Locke opens in season 2 is numbered '1516', two of the mysterious numbers.

Goofs:

Continuity: At the funeral, Helen is sitting at Locke's left during the entire service, but as he looks towards the man with the lawnmower, she is sitting at his right (flipped shot).

Quotes:

Anthony Cooper: I killed myself off because there are two men out there who were gonna beat me to it.
Locke: What'd you do, steal their livers?

Movie Connections:

References Blazing Saddles (1974)

Open clues behind closed doors

This very interesting Locke-centered episode starts off by showing snapshots of the past that has happened till now. Jack ends up on the beach playing a hand of poker with Sawyer while Locke is left alone in the hatch with the prisoner Henry Gayle. We see some more images of Locke's past involving his father and Helen, his lady friend. We also realize that Locke had proposed to Helen at one point.

Back on the beach the hatch seems to take a life of its own when large metal doors come crashing down locking Locke and Henry inside it. As the two men struggle to get help Locke ends up getting his foot stuck under one of those Herculean metal doors. Henry on the other hand is given the task of getting the code into the computer since the alarm starts sounding and Locke is no position to move. How he gets into the computer room and enters the code is a mystery.

The episode ends with Sayid, Charlie and Ana Luisa returning from the jungle where they find the parachute and the grave but also a little more than what Henry had expected.

An excellent edge of the seat thriller of an episode of LOST this one.