Lost again

Last night was the third episode of Lost this season.

Island Timeline: Locke trys to get Richard on his team, and apparently Jacob kept him in the dark just like Ben. Locke finds Sawyer and gets him to follow him through the jungle, where he has hallucinations of a blond kid, dressed like one of the Others, who mentions the rules and how the man in black is not allowed to kill Jacob. Sawyer and TMIB get to the shore, climb down a creepy looking ladder, which collapses on the way down and they get to a cave. Inside is a scale with a white and black stone balanced on either side, TMIB takes the white stone and throws it into the ocean, referring to it as an inside joke. The stones seem similar to the black and white stones found on Adam and Eve in the caves. TMIB then goes further into the cave where some of the survivors names are written on the walls and ceiling surrounded by a bunch of other names which have all been crossed out. All the names also have numbers next to them and each of the survivors names has one of "the numbers" next to them (4 8 15 16 23 42). Names included are Locke, Jarrah, Reyes, Kwon, Sheppard, and Ford. TMIB crosses out Locke and mentions that all the names are candidates for the next protector of the island.

Meanwhile Sun, Frank, Ilana, and Ben are ditched when the Others go to the temple and they are about to follow but Sun insists on burying Locke. They head to the 815 survivor's graveyard and bury Locke and Ben says that he's sorry for killing Locke. Ilana also mentions that Locke is no longer able to appear as other people, which might have something to do with killing Jacob.

LAX timeline: Locke gets home from the airport and his wheelchair lift on his van stalls and he falls trying to get down. Helen comes out of the house to help him get up. Later they are discussing wedding plans and Helen mentions inviting Locke's father. Helen also finds Jack's business card that he gave Locke back at LAX. At work Locke is fired for going to Australia on company time for his walkabout (did Abbadon still tell Locke about this even though the island is gone and Widmore is presumably dead?) and in the parking lot he meets Hurley, who rehires him. At his job as a substitute teacher Locke meets Ben Linus who is a European History teacher. Locke also decides not to see Jack after meeting a terminally ill Rose Nadler and having a conversation about accepting life.

If you didn`t notice, in the cave when they show the name Kwon, you can also see the name Mattingly crossed out nearby. Mattingly was the name of one of the Army group that brought the jughead bomb to the island. They also brought back the numbers this episode. In the LAX timeline, familiar characters seem to keep meeting each other, like how Locke has met Rose, Jack, Hurley and Ben. TMIB was also seen using one of Locke`s signature sayings "Don't tell me what I can't do"