Lost/Lockdown

Lockdown
Season 2, Episode 17
Airdate	March 29, 2006
Production Number	217
Written by	Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof
Directed by	Stephen Williams
← 2x16 The Whole Truth	2x18 → Dave
Lost — Season Two

Lockdown is the seventeenth episode of the second season, and the forty-second episode overall.

When the hatch suddenly takes on a life of its own, Locke is forced to enlist the help of an unlikely ally. Meanwhile, Ana-Lucia, Sayid and Charlie go off into the jungle to find out the truth about Henry.

Starring: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Mr. Eko), Naveen Andrews (Sayid), Emilie de Ravin (Claire), Matthew Fox (Jack), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Josh Holloway (Sawyer), Daniel Dae Kim (Jin), Yunjin Kim (Sun), Evangeline Lilly (Kate), Dominic Monaghan (Charlie), Terry O'Quinn (John), Harold Perrineau, Jr. (Michael), Michelle Rodriguez (Ana-Lucia), Cynthia Watros (Libby).

Guest Starring: Michael Emerson (Henry Gale), Kevin Tighe (Cooper), Andrea Gabriel (Nadia), Katey Sagal (Helen).

Co-Starring: Geoffrey Rivas (Father Chuck), Theo Coumbis (Jimmy Bane).

Plot Overview

The Island

• Inside the Swan, Henry Gale tells Jack and Locke that he was joking about there being a trap. Jack orders Henry to draw another map to his balloon, but Locke tells Jack that it's too late to catch Ana-Lucia. Jack tells Locke to put Henry back in the armory and leaves. Henry asks Locke why he lets Jack talk to him like that, but Locke tells Henry to shut up and forcibly tosses him back inside the armory. As he's working out on the exercycle, Locke hears something coming through the Swan's loudspeakers over the music he's listening to. He turns off the music and checks the computer, but everything looks normal. Checking the loudspeaker, a voice comes in through the static saying "17 minutes to lockdown" before fading back to static. Henry tries to get Locke's attention and wants to know what's going on, but Locke tells him to shut up. As he argues with Henry, the voice on the loudspeaker counts down to zero, a chime sounds and at least four blast doors come down. However, Locke is able to slip a crow bar underneath the last blast door. He tells Henry that he needs his help to pry open the blast door, but Henry only agrees on one condition: Locke protects him from Locke's people, no matter what. Locke and Henry are able to pry open the blast door enough to slide a tool box underneath it. Locke decides to slide out underneath, but the tool box buckles and the blast door slides down onto Locke's legs, pinning him underneath. Henry piles up weights underneath the blast door to relieve the pressure on Locke's legs. But, as Henry tries to pulls Locke out, he has to stop as one of the locking cylinders for the blast door has lodged itself in Locke's right leg. Locke tells Henry about the button and tells him to go up through the grate in the pantry, through the vents to the dome, and push the button. As Henry climbs up the shelves in the pantry, he slips and knocks himself unconscious on the pantry floor. He eventually comes to as the alarm is beeping and Locke tells him he has to get up and go. Henry climbs up into the vents and disappears. The alarm continues to beep and then stops, the noise of the numbers flipping and the sound of machinery powering up from when Locke didn't enter the code in time is heard. The lights inside the main living area where Locke is trapped go out, the sound of the numbers flipping and the machinery powering up stops, and black lights turn on revealing a hidden map and notations written on the blast door. As Locke tries to take in what he sees, the black lights turn off, the main lights turn back on, and the blast doors come up. Yelling Henry's name, Locke crawls with his arms into the geodesic dome, but Henry is not there. Henry appears behind Locke and helps Locke up.
• Out in the jungle, Ana-Lucia, Sayid, and Charlie have been searching for the balloon for three hours. As Sayid is about to give up, Charlie calls them over to him as he found a burial mound. Above the grave, caught in the tree canopy, is a yellow capsule and a red enevelope with a giant yellow smiley face.
• Out on the beach, Jack takes a look at Aaron and tells Claire that he's completely fine. Libby comes up to Jack to have him look at where a sea urchin got her and he tells her it doesn't look infected but a little neosporin wouldn't hurt. Libby motions towards Sawyer, who is playing cards with Kate and Hurley, and tells Jack that the current rate of exchange is ten loads of laundry for a tube of neosporin. While taking a look at the card game, Sawyer goads Jack into playing a few hands. Jack is able to win all the mangos from Sawyer and is about to leave when Sawyer stops him. Asking Jack what it would take to play another hand, Jack tells Sawyer it'd take all the medcine Sawyer stole from the armory. Kate and Hurley leave the two to let them go at it, but watch the game from a distance through binoculars. Jack goes all in, Sawyer calls him, and Jack wins. He tells Sawyer that he'll come back later for the medicine. As Jack is about to leave, Sawyer asks him why he didn't ask for the guns. Jack tells him that when he needs the guns, he'll get the guns.
• At night, Jack heads back to the Swan when Kate catches up to him. As they talk, they notice a strobe light off in the distance in the jungle. The two investigate and discover it's a parachute-dropped pallet of DHARMA-branded supplies. They hear rustling and Ana-Lucia, Sayid, and Charlie appear. Inside the Swan, Henry Gale helps Locke down onto a couch. Locke asks him what he did to make the doors go up, but Henry tells Locke that he only punched in the code and pressed the execute button — nothing happened other than the timer flipping back. Just then Jack, Kate, Sayid, Ana-Lucia, and Charlie appear. Sayid points his gun at Henry and Jack pushes Henry up against a wall. Locke tries to tell them what happened, but Ana-Lucia tells Henry that they found his balloon. However, Sayid tells Henry that he dug up Henry's wife's grave and discovered the remains of a man inside. A man with a wallet containing a driver's license. A black man named Henry Gale.

The Flashback

• Flashback: Locke

Inside Locke and Helen's home, Locke pulls out an engagement ring he’s hidden inside a sock in his drawers. He heads downstairs and begins to pack a picnic lunch when Helen appears and the two kiss. He tells her he has everything in hand and she can just read her obituaries and drink her coffee. As she’s reading the obituaries, she asks Locke if her father's name is Anthony Cooper. Locke tells her it is and Helen tells him that Cooper is dead.

Locke and Helen drive to the cemetery where Anthony Cooper is being buried. Helen tells Locke that they could just go on to that picnic, but Locke wants to do attend the funeral. Helen quips that maybe Cooper left Locke his kidney. At the service, Locke and Helen are the only two in attendance. However, Locke notices two shady men watching the service from a distance and a silver car in another direction. Father Chuck finishes the service and asks Locke if he wants to say anything. Approaching the closed casket, Locke tells Cooper that he forgives him. The silver car drives off.

Later, Locke finishes an inspection of a house and talks to a woman outside - Nadia. Locke tells her that everything appears okay and he thinks she got a pretty nice house. As Locke walks back to his truck, he notices the same silver car at Cooper’s funeral is parked nearby. He approaches the car and the window rolls down revealing Cooper. Cooper brings Locke to a bar and tells him that he killed himself because there are two men out there who were going to beat him to it because he took them for $700,000 - a retirement con. He put the money in a safe deposit box but, since the two men are probably watching the bank for him, he wants Locke to get the money for him. In payment for Locke's help, Cooper wants him to take $200,000. He tells Locke that he'll be at the Flightline Motel by the airport until tomorrow afternoon and then he's gone, with or without the money.

Locke goes to the bank, takes the cash inside the deposit box, and heads home. When he arrives home, Helen tells him he has visitors - the two men watching Cooper's funeral. One of the men introduces himself as Jimmy Bane and tells Locke that he has a couple of questions. He asks Locke if he's seen his father since he died as they think he might not be dead and Locke didn't look too shook up at the funeral. Locke plays dumb, but Helen angrily tells the man that they were at the funeral to get on with their lives. Bane thanks Helen for the coffee and the two men leave. Helen asks Locke if he was lying to the men, but Locke tells her he wasn't and was only scared.

Locke arrives at the Flightline Motel and meets with Cooper in his room. He asks Locke if he had any problems and Locke tells him he didn't. While he places the cash in another bag, Cooper asks him about the woman he was with at the funeral. Locke tells him her name is Helen and he’s going to ask her to marry him tonight. Cooper congratulates him and places a couple stacks of cash on the table for Locke, but Locke tells him he didn't help him for the money. Cooper tells Locke that if he doesn't want the cash, then he can leave it there for the maid. As he opens the door to leave, he finds Helen standing outside. She slaps Cooper and leaves before Locke can explain himself to her. As she hurriedly walks to her car, Helen tells Locke that he looked her right in the eye and lied to her. She tells him he made his choice and apparently needs Cooper's love more than hers. As she opens the door to her car, Locke tells Helen that he loves her. He goes down on one knee, pulls the ring out, and asks her to marry him. Helen shakes her head, gets into her car, and leaves. On the other side of the parking lot, Cooper looks at Locke before getting into a taxi and leaving.

Notes

Mysteries

• Why did the blast doors come down?
• Who wrote the diagram and why was it made to be hidden?
• Who is the man claiming to be Henry Gale?
• Who dropped the rations onto the island? Why?

Answers

• Henry Gale was lying. He is not the real Henry Gale. (2x14 - One of Them)
• Henry Gale's balloon was where he said it was. It wasn't a trap. (2x16 - The Whole Truth)

The Cursed Numbers

• Cooper's safe deposit box was #1516. 15 and 16.
• The numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 appear on the blast door diagram on the Swan's blast door.
• The mathematical statement √16 √64 √225 appears on the blast door diagram under The Flame. This equates to 4, 8, and 15, respectively.
• The real Henry Gale lived at 815 Walnut Ridge Road, and the sum of the digits in his ZIP code is 23, according to the driver's license Sayid found buried with the body. The identification number beneath Gale's photograph is M-152-996-431-000 - two of the three-digit combinations add up to 8

• "CV III" is shown on the blast door map. This is 108 in Roman numerals - the sum of the cursed numbers.

Scrutiny

• More information, theories, and speculation about the diagram on the blast door can be found at the Swan Bunker Blast Door entry.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• A lockdown occurred inside the Swan, trapping Locke and Henry Gale inside.
• A supply pallet was dropped by parachute onto the island near the Swan. It contains DHARMA-branded food.
• Ana-Lucia, Sayid, and Charlie found Henry Gale's balloon. But they also found the body of the real Henry Gale.
• Jack won back all the medicine that Sawyer stole by playing cards with him.

Characters

• Henry Gale: Lied about his identity, but now his captors know the truth.

Referbacks

• 2x10 - The 23rd Psalm: When Michael used the computer to communicate with Walt in "The 23rd Psalm", the counter was also at 47 minutes.

Trivia

The Show

• Missing in Action: Eko, Sun, and Jin do not appear in this episode.

Behind the Scenes

• Awards: For their roles as Henry Gale and Helen, respectively, in this episode, Michael Emerson and Katey Sagal were each nominated for an IVy Award for the 2005-06 season for Best Guest Actor or Actress in a Drama Series.
• Location, Location, Location: The cemetary where Anthony Cooper's body was supposedly buried is the Oahu Cemetary in Honolulu. The bar where Cooper takes Locke to discuss the safe deposit box was filmed at Murphy's Bar & Grill in Honolulu. The Flightline Motel where Locke meets Cooper is the Hale Hana apartment complex in Honolulu.

Allusions and References

• Amarillo Slim: When Jack is giving Hurley a tip about his hand against Sawyer, Sawyer refers to Jack as "Amarillo Slim." Thomas Austin "Amarillo Slim" Preston, Jr. is a professional gambler. He won the main event at the World Series of Poker in 1972.
• Alias: At one point, the timer reads 47:00. 47 is a number that shows up numerous times (much like Lost's cursed numbers) in another J.J. Abrams show, Alias.
• Mongo: During the card game, Sawyer refers to Hurley as "Mongo." Mongo was a character in the movie "Blazing Saddles."

Memorable Moments

• Jack kept beating Sawyer in their card game, eventually winning back all the medicine.