'Lost' recap: Smokey on the Daughter

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Is Caesar dead? No. The Island will heal him.

''What lies in the shadow of the statue?'' Ilana — the bounty hunter who was bringing Sayid back to Fiji when he got zapped back to The Island — teamed up with some other toughs on the plane and cracked open a giant steel case full of weapons and staged their takeover of the Ajira Airlines castaways. Looks like somebody came to The Island prepared for a hostile takeover, if not a war — perhaps the very same war Charles Widmore spoke to Locke about. Ilana gave Lapidus a sphinx-like riddle test that made her sound as if she was intimately acquainted with The Island's ancient mythology. (He flunked, and got hit over the head for his trouble.) No doubt the statue refers to old Four Toe, aka the Egyptian god Anubis. What lies in its shadow? For now, my money is on Jughead. Regardless, I’m hoping upcoming episodes will reveal more about these radicals who have infiltrated The Island via Ajira 316 and what kind of perspective they have on The Island.

''Dead is Dead.'' The episode's title came from Ben’s speech to Sun trying to convince her that while Locke did indeed die, this new Locke represents something he couldn't explain. ''And it scares the hell out of me,'' Ben said. Yet even as Locke was trying to assure Sun that ''I assure you, Sun, I am the same man I've always been,'' he also possesses new Island memories and/or instincts that he didn’t have before, like knowledge about the crack in the Temple wall where Smokey resided. Is Locke merely attuned to the mind of The Island itself — or has he become an afterlife Island entity akin to Christian Shepherd?

Many things I've glossed over, from the firmly established link between The Others and The Whispers, to the significance of Locke's curiosity (and derision?) about why Ben moved The Others into Dharmaville. What did you make of that? Send me emails at JeffJensenEW@aol.com or post below!

My favorite line of the episode is the line I leave you with.

BEN: ''Okay. Have a great day!''