"L.A. landing" Locke is still with Helen. Or again? I thought they broke up before he went to OZ. They wanna get married but he gets fired. He meets Curley who offers to get him a job, where he meets Rose, who still has cancer, of course. Locke ends up as substitute teacher, where Ben is teaching "European history." How cool is that?

On the island, Ben, Sun and their small group bury Locke. What was that about nothing staying buried on the island? Then again, there have been dead people we did not see come back (yet).
Ben says he is sorry he killed Locke.

Meanwhile Smokey-Locke sees a blonde kid in the woods, Richard doesn't (or was he just with the back to it), but Saywer does too.
Locke still says things like "don't tell me what I can't do". I wonder how much of real Locke is still in Smokey.

Shocker of the week: the numbers cave, where a lot of names are scratched out. But there are still some left, together with the numbers. Our numbers:

4 - Locke (now scratched through)
8 - Reyes
15 - Ford
16 - Jarrah
23 - Shephard
42 - Kwon (Sun or Jin)

No Kate? Hmmm.

The man in blacked repeats that he is trapped on the island. Before that he was regular man, he says. He needs someone to take him off the island, Saywer is up for it.
According to The Man, Jacob met up with the people above because they are possible candidates for his role of protector of the island. Wow!