You got union trouble down at the sand factory, Norma Rae?

S.O.S.

Locke’s concentration and faith are questioned as he almost allows the timer to run down to zero. His attention is distracted by his inability to re-draw the blast door map he saw during the lockdown.



Rose and Bernard had a very sweet and moving back story.



Bernard tries to rally the survivors into making an S.O.S. sign on the beach. Frogurt is mentioned by name for the first time.



The story Rose tells Bernard about her cancer and having a year to live is a mirror image of what happened to L. Scott Caldwell in real life and her late husband.



Turns out Mr. Eko and Charlie are building a church.



While John pounds on the door demanding answers from Ben, a menacing smile crosses the his face. Ben's manipulations over John Locke are working!



Rose ironically states that for their honeymoon she wanted to be on a beach somewhere. Wish granted! Bernard, on the other hand, wants to get them rescued because he feels to blame for them being on the island in the first place.



Jack and Kate discuss that the reason the Others did not want them is because they are both “damaged goods”. Which may be right on the money. Then they get caught in a net. Yes, they really do ... get caught ... in a net. So is Jack a good shot or just lucky when he shoots the rope?



Rose and Locke both know about the islands healing powers.



The faith healer that Rose meets with tells her he can’t fix her. Not that she cannot be fixed, just that where she is (somewhere in the Australian outback) is not the place that can heal her. After this, she tells him she is going to lie to Bernard and tell him she is healed.



Kate tells Jack about the “Others” stash of fake beards and costumes. When Jack is shouting for the Others to come out and talk, it begins to rain very hard.



Rose tells Bernard the truth that the healer didn't heal her, but yet now it seems she is healed. She tells him that she believes the island healed her.



Rose spoke to Locke at the airport therefore being someone who knew Locke's physical condition before the crash and kept it quiet.



Bernard decides to stop making the S.O.S. sign on the beach because he now feels that the two of them must stay on the island or Rose’s cancer could return. With the theory of a time loop or some other type of time anomaly could Rose and Bernard be “Adam and Eve” in the caves?



Locke regains his focus and is able to make a copy of the blast door map.



Kate apologizes to Jack for kissing him, (something he is not sorry for) and Michael comes crashing through the jungle.



TWO FOR THE ROAD

Ana Lucia’s mother knows she shot and killed the man that she allowed to walk free just so she could kill him. Ana Lucia quits the police force because of it.



Ben attacks Ana and tells her that his people and he are not the killers. She is the killer.



Ana meets Christian at the airport (similarly to how she meets Jack later) and agrees to go with him as a sort of personal security guard. Notice Christian gives her the name “Sarah” when they decide to use fake names and he takes the name “Tom“. Both are the names of his two childrens significant others.



Ben tells Locke some things that may or may not be the truth. (A) Locke is “one of the good ones”, (B) Ben’s leader will kill him if he tells the survivors anything. A lie or is there really someone else? Possibly he means Jacob. (C) The last thing he tells Locke is that he was on his way to the survivors camp to get Locke before he was caught in Danielle’s trap.



Whatever reason Christian went to Australia it had to involve Claire somehow.



Ana steals a gun from Sawyer while they are “creating the thing with two backs“.

Sawyer bumps into the car Christian and Ana Lucia are sitting in during the flashback. This apparently must have happened right before Sawyer and Christian share some drinks in the bar.



Locke goes along with Ana’s lie to Jack when he asks her how she got the head injury.



Michael regains consciousness and relates his story of what he discovered about the Others and their camp.



Jack admits to Locke that he was right about Ben and is sorry for getting in the way.



When Ana tells Ben that Goodwin was going to kill her Ben asks; “Was he?”, in a very telling way. As in, no he was not going to kill her.



In the end, Ana could not kill Ben (something she has not had a problem doing to just about anyone and everyone the past few months of her life).



Michael tells her he will do it.



A decision that costs Ana Lucia her life ...



And Libby as well.

The title of the episode refers to Ana Lucia and Christian being "two for the road" as well as referring to Ana Lucia and Libby.



In a matter of seconds we find out that the "Michael" that we knew before he went looking for his son is not the same one that came back.

The novel "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky may have inspired some key elements of Michaels storyline. Michael kills Ana Lucia in order to free Ben, but is forced to kill Libby as she accidentally witnesses the murder scene. Just like Rodion assassinates a user, but is forced to kill an innocent witness named Elizaveta, which is the Russian equivalent of Elizabeth.



Much like Sayid did to aid Nadia’s escape, Michael shot himself to make it appear he tried to stop Ben's violent escape.

"You got a little love connection brewing over there Jabba?"

THE WHOLE TRUTH

In the flashbacks, Jin and Sun are having trouble conceiving. Jin believes that having a baby would make Sun’s father give Jin a less dangerous job. I guess I’ve heard worse reasons to have a baby.



On the island, Jin rips apart Sun’s garden to show that he can still be kind of prickish.



Ana Lucia and Locke discuss Benry. Notice Locke says “There’s a man sitting in my hatch and I want him out.” Excuse me, "my hatch", when did that start?



Sun is learning English from Jae Lee. Looks like his relationship with the woman in America went down the tubes.



When Jack gets out of the shower Locke gives his a quick look down. Hey, what’s he looking at? TPTB call this the “Odd Couple Scene”.



Benry gave a little clue to who he really was when he asked Ana; “You walked across? All the way here?” sounds like he knew the island fairly well. Ana, the cop, didn’t pick up on that?



Sawyer gives Sun a Widmore Labs pregnancy test.



Benry gives Ana a map to his balloon. She leaves with Sayid and Charlie to go find it.



Jack tells Sun to tell Jin “the whole truth” which seems a little out of context. Especially considering right after Jack lies to Kate about Benry in the hatch.



Sun tells Jae Lee her plans to leave Jin and go to America. Jae Lee makes his move.



Jin apologizes for trashing the garden and Sun tells him she is pregnant.



We find out in the flashback that it was Jin and not Sun who was unable to conceive.



Sun doesn’t tell “the whole truth” as she lies to Jin about never being with another man.



Ben finds out that Jack and Locke didn’t know about the map he gave Ana Lucia. Michael Emerson is at his creepy best when he tells Jack and Locke what his plan would be if he was an “Other” like they think he is.




LOCKDOWN

Ben continues to manipulate Locke by asking him why he allows Jack to talk to him the way he does.



Just before Sayid, Ana, and Charlie find the location of Henry Gale's balloon, it starts to rain heavily.



In the flashbacks, nobody shows up at Locke’s fathers funeral except for a few suspicious looking characters. Locke says to his father's coffin; “I forgive you.”. Don’t know if I would have been able to that.




The blast doors drop sealing Locke inside the hatch and away from the button.



Locke inspects Nadia’s house and finds out his father is alive. Notice the deposit box is number 1516. When Locke drops off the money at the hotel did you catch the Oceanic planes flying overhead?



Locke tells Ben about the button. Not sure if he already knew about it or not.



Sawyer gets bluffed or conned by Jack in the card game. Not bt winning the game but by getting Sawyer to keep loosing and go right on playing for high stakes.



Oh, if Helen had only forgiven Locke he might not have ended up in that wheelchair and quite possibly, he may have never made it onto the island.



The lights inside the hatch go out and Locke sees the blast door map. The lockdown coincides with the food drop, has that ever been acknowledged as a fact? If that is true than have the “Others” convince the off-island DHARMA folk that the on-island DHARMA is still alive and well?



Ben’s lies finally begin to catch up to him as Sayid tells him what they found inside the grave Ben told them about.

The title of the episode could be a pun in that not only did the Hatch undergo a lockdown, but the blast door held Locke down when he tried to escape.

A few lingering questions about this episode: What were the loudspeakers trying to say? Did Ben kill the original Henry Gale? What exactly caused the lockdown?




DAVE

Hurley has been hoarding food and Libby convinces him he needs to liberate himself from it. Then they find the food drop!



Hurley goes off on a wild Dave chase. Dave is a bad influence on Hurley. He doesn’t want Hurley to change.



Nice picture of an island behind Hurley in the doctors office in the mental hospital. Coincidence?



Ben tells them what happened to the real Henry Gale but it seems to just be more lies. He says “You have no idea what he’ll do to me.”. Could he be talking about Jacob or was he talking about someone else? He could just have been lying again to make them think he wasn’t as important as he is to the Others. Ben looks a little Jesus-ish the way he is tied up inside the armoury? Ben also makes sure to tell Sayid that he is not a "bad person".



On the island is Dave Smokie or is he just a figment of Hurley’s imagination like he was in the mental institution? We see that Dave was imaginary so it could have been Hurley loosing his grip on sanity again? But how far back does the islands influence go?

Although Hurley's picture with Dave was taken during the day, when revealed to him, it appears darker (like it is night) outside the window. Why? Also the people in it seems to be positioned a little differently also the plate of celery seems to be rearranged. Is it just continuity errors or something more? Sometimes it's hard to tell with this show.



Hurley goes off on Sawyer which is one of the best Hurley scenes to date.



Hurley almost talks himself, through Dave, into jumping off of the cliff. When Dave falls, he says to Hurley; “See you in another life.” Similar to what Desmond said to Jack



Ben says that he never pushed the button but that of course must be a lie because we see later at the end of the season what happens when you don’t push the button. So why did he lie? He wanted Locke to stop pushing the button? So that means he knew what would happen? And wanted that to happen? Why?



Libby snatches Hurley back to reality with a kiss.



Libby is shown to have been in the mental institute at the same time Hurley was. Guess we now know where he knew her from.



Random question: Why are the Apollo Bars the only DHARMA food not wrapped in DHARMA wrappers?