Lockdown (Lost)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article may not meet the notability guideline for television episodes. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. The best way to address this concern is to reference published, third-party sources about the subject. If notability cannot be established, the article is more likely to be considered for redirection, merge or ultimately deletion, per Wikipedia:Guide to deletion.
This article has been tagged since November 2007.

“Lockdown”

Lost (TV series) episode

Locke slides in front of the blast door

Episode no.

Season 2
Episode 17

Written by

Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof

Directed by

Stephen Williams

Guest stars

Michael Emerson
Kevin Tighe
Andrea Gabriel
Katey Sagal
Geoffrey Rivas
Theo Coumbis

Production no.

217

Original airdate

March 29, 2006

Episode chronology
← Previous	Next →
"The Whole Truth"	"Dave"

Lost (season 2)
List of Lost episodes

"Lockdown" is the 41st episode of Lost. It is the seventeenth episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Stephen Williams, and written by Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. It first aired on March 29, 2006 on ABC. The character of John Locke is featured in the episode's flashbacks.

[edit] Plot

This article or section needs to be wikified to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
Please help improve this article with relevant internal links. (February 2008)

Henry Gale tries to convince Locke and a suspicious Jack that he was making a bad joke about leading Sayid’s group into a trap. Jack and Locke argue about what to do next, Jack storms off, leaving Locke to put Henry back in the armory. Jack challenges Sawyer to a poker game to win back the medicine that Sawyer has been hoarding.

In a flashback, Locke is preparing to propose to his girlfriend, Helen, at a picnic, but while he is preparing the lunch, she notices Locke’s father’s name in the obituaries, so they postpone the picnic to attend the funeral. No one else is there, except two mysterious men standing in the distance, and a silver Mercedes with a driver who keeps glaring at Locke. At the conclusion of the funeral, Locke stands next to the coffin and says, "I forgive you." Later, he sees the same silver car near his house, and finds that it contains his father, who had faked his own death to escape from the two men who are looking to kill him because of a "retirement con". He wants Locke to go to the bank to get the money for him from a safety deposit box, and keep $200,000 as payment. When Helen asks Locke about the situation, he lies to her and says that he has not seen his father. When Locke meets up with his father at the motel, he tells his father that he is planning on marrying Helen. But when he leaves, he sees Helen has followed him, and she is hurt by his lies. She breaks things off with Locke, accusing him of choosing his father's love over hers. Locke gets down on one knee and proposes, but Helen shakes her head and drives away, leaving Locke to stare at his father getting into a taxi cab to leave as well.

In the hatch, while Locke is pedaling on the stationary bike, he suddenly hears static noise coming from the speakers throughout the hatch, even though there are still 47 minutes left. A few seconds later, a female voice announces "5...4...3...2...1", and the blast doors quickly begin to shut, but Locke wedges one open with a crowbar to keep it from closing completely. He then enlists Henry Gale's help to further open the doors, forcing one up a couple of feet and then sliding a toolbox underneath to prop it open. Locke tries to slide through the gap, but the door crushes the toolbox and his legs, trapping him. Since the timer is still counting down, Locke tells Henry how to get into the computer room through the vents to input the numbers, and Henry sets off on that mission.

The mysterious map on the blast door, revealed by blacklight.

While Gale is gone, the timer begins to beep rapidly, signaling the beginning of the one-minute countdown, then the alarm stops, there is a whirring noise (similar to the jet engine-like sound in "One of Them") and the lights go out. Seconds later, blacklights come on and for a few seconds a diagram is revealed on the blast door that Locke is trapped under. It appears to be a multi-layered map of the island, but it is only shown briefly before the ordinary lights turn back on and the blast doors retract to their normal positions.

Henry steps out of the computer room and tells Locke that he did what Locke asked him to do.

On the beach, Kate sees a flashing light in the jungle, and when she and Jack investigate, they find an enormous package of food attached to a parachute. They are quickly joined by Sayid, Ana Lucia and Charlie, who have returned from their expedition.

The photo ID of the real Henry Gale.

When Jack enters the hatch, he grabs Henry off of the injured Locke, though Locke tries to defend Henry, saying that he was helping him after the blast doors came down. Sayid confirms that they found the balloon and the grave and they were exactly where Henry had said they were. However, Sayid adds that he was still skeptical as to the validity of Henry's story, so he dug up the grave to verify it was his wife's, and found a man's body instead — a body with the photo ID of a black man named "Henry Gale" (the man claiming to be Henry Gale is white).

[edit] Crossovers

This episode features an appearance by Nadia (Andrea Gabriel), in one of Locke's flashbacks. Nadia is the purchaser of a home that Locke is inspecting. In other episodes, Nadia is connected with Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews) and Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan).

[edit] External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

Lockdown (Lost)

v • d • e Lost
Production	DVD releases • Episode list • Music • Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3 • Season 4
Main characters	Ana Lucia • Ben • Boone • Charlie • Charlotte • Claire • Daniel • Desmond • Hurley • Jack • Jin • Juliet Kate • Libby • Locke • Michael • Miles • Mr. Eko • Nikki • Paulo • Sawyer • Sayid • Shannon • Sun • Walt
Supporting characters	Alex • Bernard • Christian • Ethan • Rose • Rousseau • Tom
Groups	Dharma Initiative • Hanso Foundation • Oceanic Airlines • The Others
Miscellaneous	Awards • Find 815 • Lost Experience • Lost: Missing Pieces • Lost: Via Domus • Mythology