3.05 The Cost of Living

1. Eko and Yemi steal food, a nun makes Eko give confession for stealing.
2. There is a close-up of Eko's eye, Sayid is back and he checks on Eko, who is unconscious, Hurley says he's been like that for a couple of days. From Lostpedia
3. Eko is having a dream of his brother, Yemi, scenes from The 23rd Psalm, confession, becoming a priest, the drug plane, Yemi in Eko's tent, with a lighter.
4. "It is time to confess, to be judged, brother. I will be waiting. You know where to find me." Yemi appears to light Eko's tent on fire. From Lostpedia
5. They save Eko from his burning tent, Eko says "My brother," then disappears.
6. Ben is wearing a robe, he asks Jack to go for a walk, gives him a robe to wear, Jack asks if it hurts, his neck, numbness in his fingers and toes, like pins and needles, but permanent, tumor on his spine, aggressive, no more walks, Ben says he has no idea what he's talking about, Jack says it must be his mistake.
7. Jack goes to funeral with Ben, Juliet says she hates funerals, Colleen on water, fire, Brenda Lee's I wonder plays on the loud speakers. From Lostpedia
8. Ben asks Juliet about x-rays and Jack, she says she didn't tell him.
9. Sayid and Locke talk about finding Jack, Desmond says he's pretty sure that the computer in the hatch was used to communicate with other stations.
10. Locke wants to go to The Pearl and find Eko and use the computer to try to communicate with the Others.
11. Soldiers from the runway, where Yemi was shot and left in the drug plane, take Eko back to Yemi's church, where Eko finds a photograph of him and Yemi when they were young in Yemi's bible, he tells a woman that Yemi was called away, down South, emergency at refugee camp, says he will take Yemi's place there, in London too.
12. Eko and the monster, he sees a bloody man, afraid of him, then an alter boy that says "confess."
13. Locke, going to The Pearl, he asks people to go along, Nikki and Paulo.
14. Locke tells Desmond that Eko is heading for the plane that crashed on top of The Pearl station, Desmond says it's a coincidence.
15. "Don't mistake coincidence for fate." Locke
16. Eko washes his hands with holy water, the alter boy says he's not supposed to do that, that Father Yemi wouldn't, but Eko says that he is not Yemi.
17. Men arrive at Yemi's church, they're looking for him, but the boy's mother says the shipment is late, vaccine from Red Cross, they keep 20% and give the rest to Emeka and his men, for protection, Eko says that he's not afraid of them, but Emeka kills a blind woman, says he'll be back for the vaccine.
18. Eko stops at a stream to put dirt on his wounds and he sees the smoke monster, it leaves and Locke arrives with everyone else at the stream.
19. Juliet brings Jack a cheeseburger, Ben wants to talk to him, alone, doctor-patient confidentiality.
20. Ben says that they had a wonderful plan to break him, wear him down, gain his trust, he'd choose to do what they wanted him to, he'd get invested, Juliet resembles his ex-wife, plan was shot when he saw the x-rays, wants him to want to save his life, wants him to think about it, 2 days after he found out about his tumor, a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky.
21. "Two days after I found out I had a fatal tumor on my spine, a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky. And if that's not proof of God, I don't know what is." Ben
22. Eko leads to plane, Locke asks about Yemi and Eko attacks him, saying not to speak his brother's name, Locke asks why he's so afraid.
23. They get vaccine every 6 months, agreement with militia, high price on black market, before Yemi, they got nothing, Eko reminds her of Yemi, says that he's a good man too.
24. Eko is selling the vaccine, and is leaving the country, to go to London.
25. Locke asks Eko about the monster, says he saw it once, a bright light, beautiful, while Eko checks the plane, says that's not what he saw, Yemi's body is missing. Locke says maybe his body burned when he set the plane on fire, and he gives Eko the cross he found. Eko looks at the photo of him and Yemi.
26. Emeka and his men come back to the church, figure Eko out about selling the shipment, they're going to cut off his hands, but Eko kills them with a machete, walks out of the church and everyone sees him.
27. They re-watch the Orientation film in The Pearl, Sayid says the wiring is only one way, that it's a closed system, Nikki says there are 6 stations, plays the tape of Dr. Mark Wickman, other monitors, Sayid tries to patch in another station, they see machines, a computer, in another station, a man with an eye patch. From Lostpedia
28. Juliet apologizes, shows Jack a movie, talks to him while it's playing, but there is a message she's relaying to him on the screen, she tells him to do the surgery.
29. "I felt like I should apologize. Say I'm sorry. I'm sorry for bringing you here. And for everything that's been done to you. And your friends. You have to know we were desperate. It was only so that we could save his life. Ben. He's a great man. I know you find that hard to believe but he is. You probably feel like you don't have a choice. But you do, Jack. Free will is all we've really got, right? Anyway, just wanted to put in my two cents. I told you before, you can trust me. I want you to trust me, now, when I tell you that doing the surgery is absolutely the right thing for you to do. It's the right thing because he deserves to live." Juliet tells Jack while the video is playing and she's relaying a completely different message.
30. "Ignore everything I'm saying. Ben is a liar. And he is very dangerous. Some of us want a change. But it has to look like an accident. It has to look like we tried to save him. And that's up to you, Jack. It's a complicated surgery. No one would ever know. And I would protect you. Now tell me to turn off the movie." Juliet tells Jack on the movie. From Lostpedia
31. "Turn the movie off." Jack
32. Eko goes to London, the alter boy asks if he's a bad man, that his mom says he's a bad man, they are boarding up the church, the woman tells him he owes Yemi a church.
33. Eko sees Yemi again, follows him, asks why confession now, he says he doesn't want forgiveness, that he had not sinned, Yemi appears to be a manifestation of the smoke monster, and the monster attacks Mr. Eko, while he starts reciting the 23rd Psalm. From Lostpedia
34. "I ask for no forgiveness, Father. For I have not sinned. I have only done what I needed to do to survive. A small boy once asked me if I was a bad man. If I could answer him now, I would tell him that when I was a young boy, I killed a man to save my brother's life. I am not sorry for this. I am proud of this! I did not ask for the life that I was given. But it was given, nonetheless. And with it I did my best." Mr. Eko
35. "You speak to me as if I were your brother." Yemi
36. "The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. The Lord is my shepherd." Mr. Eko
37. Locke and Sayid find Eko's body, Eko relays a message to Locke as he's dying.
38. "He said we're next." Locke

Questions:

1. Was Yemi and manifestation of the smoke monster?
2. Where did Yemi's body go?
3. Why did the smoke monster seem frightened or skeptical of Mr. Eko in his previous encounter with it, but attack him now?
4. Where did the Others get their funeral rituals from?
5. Why would the island want Mr. Eko to die?
6. Is the glass eye found in The Arrow Mikhail's?
7. Again, why didn't Ben just ask Jack to do the surgery?
8. Why do Eko and Locke see two different versions of the monster? Can it appear differently to each person?
9. Why does Juliet ask Jack to kill Ben? If he doesn't, won't Ben die anyway?
10. If Eko had confessed, would he still have died?

Favorites:

1. "Is that supposed to hurt my feelings?" Desmond
2. "I'm not that big on mysteries." Jack
3. "You people have cheeseburgers?" Jack "You have no idea what I went through to make this for you. I killed the cow, processed the meat, baked the bun. And the fries... try rendering animal fat." Juliet "No ketchup?" Jack
4. " I'm telling you this, Jack, because my wonderful plan got shot to sunshine when you saw my damned x-rays and figured out I was dying." Ben

Notes:

1. As much as I liked Mr. Eko, for some reason, I felt completely unaffected by his death. I'm still not sure why, because he's one of the characters I miss the most. It's unfortunate to find out that he was only killed because the actor no longer wanted to be in Hawaii.
2. You still owe Yemi one church, Mr. Eko!
3. The Others appear to be very cult-like in this episode with the funeral.
4. I love the actors that play young Eko and Yemi, who are really brothers.

2.21 ?

1. Eko has a dream, a vision, he sees Ana Lucia, she asks him what he's building, he tells her it's a church, she asks why and he says that he was told to, that he thinks it was in a dream, she asks if it's a dream like this one, she starts bleeding from the mouth, warns him.
2. "You need to help John." Ana Lucia tells Eko. From Lostpedia
3. Eko is in the hatch with the axe, he sees Yemi sitting at the computer, he tells him that the work that's being done there is important, that it's in danger and Eko has to help John, that Locke has lost his way and Eko must make Locke take him to the question mark, the timer sounds and the clock has question marks, so do the keys on the computer, Yemi says that John will not want to show him but Eko must make him, that he must bring the axe. From Lostpedia
4. Eko wakes up from his dream in the night, tells Charlie that he has to find John.
   Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Locke arrive at the hatch door, Michael's been shot, said he was sleeping and heard gunshots, "Henry" did it, escaped, Kate finds Ana Lucia dead on the couch, Sawyer checks on Libby, who coughs blood on him, she is still alive. From Lostpedia
5. Jack is trying to help Libby, Michael says it happened 20 or 30 minutes ago, Locke and Eko leave to find a trail and catch up to Benry.
6. Eko has his identification papers forged in Sydney by a man named Caldwell, he's leaving the country to go to the United States, but his trip will have to be postponed.
7. Eko's monsignor wants him to investigate a miracle, a girl who drowned, but then came back to life, he listens to the mother's story of what happened and tells the monsignor that he doesn't believe her story, but he says that's why he wants Eko to investigate it. From Lostpedia
8. Eko is following a trail that Locke doesn't seem to see, he asks Locke what he's following, he says that there aren't any tracks to follow.
9. Eko confronts John, asks him where the question mark is, but Locke is difficult. Eko says that he knows John doesn't want to show him, but he must. Locke still refuses, so Eko says that he is sorry and proceeds to knock John out.
10. Locke wakes from his unconscious state, asks Eko why he did it, says that Ana Lucia was just murdered, but Eko says that he was being difficult and that Ana wants him to help find the questions mark, Locke shows Eko his recreation of the blast door map. From Lostpedia
11. Eko tells John that Ana Lucia told him to go to the question mark in his dream, but Locke isn't a believer.
12. "Tell me, John, haven't you ever followed a dream?" Eko
13. Eko visits the undertaker, a girl, Charlotte Malkin, was brought in at 1 AM, he says that she'd been underwater for 2 hour, says she woke up during the autopsy, plays the tape recording where she wakes up and screams.
14. Eko and Locke arrive at the beachcraft, Locke tells Eko about Boone.
15. "A sacrifice that the island demanded." Locke
16. Jack wants the heroin to ease Libby's suffering, but he makes Sawyer take Kate with him to get it so that he can find out where he's hiding the guns.
17. Kate asks Sawyer how Ana Lucia got his gun, Sawyer reveals that the guns and heroin where buried in a hole inside his tent the whole time, when they leave Hurley asks if they've seen Libby, Kate breaks the news to him.
18. Locke has a visionary dream about Eko, he sees Yemi, who tells him to follow, Eko limps while Yemi takes him to the top of the same cliff that beachcraft was on and Boone fell from, Yemi is in a wheelchair, he tells John to wake up.
19. Eko goes to the home of the girl, Charlotte, Richard Malkin is her father, he tells Eko there was no miracle, that she never died, that the coroner made a mistake, that she appeared dead because she had hypothermia. He says that his wife is trying to spite him because she knows that he's a fraud because he makes his living as a psychic, that he gathers intelligence on people and he exploits it. From Lostpedia
20. Eko climbs to the top of the cliff, but he says that he doesn't see anything, he then discovers a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, he sees a question mark in the ground there, like the one from the blast door map and Locke's drawing, the ground is salted. From Lostpedia
21. "A target so that this place can been seen from up above." Eko
22. Eko finds a door, another "hatch" or station, they uncover it by pushing the plane away from the door underneath it.
23. Jack gives Libby the heroin as Hurley stands by, he tells Michael there were going to have their first date and that he's glad that Michael is okay.
24. The Pearl, a shaft leading down with a ladder to a room, a Dharma symbol, lights, two chairs, TV monitors, one of them monitoring The Swan kitchen, Jack walking by, cameras inside, computer displaying "Print log Y/N," Locke presses Y and Execute, then it starts printing, Eko finds notebooks, nothing written inside, Locke finds a pneumatic tube, puts his map drawing in it, Eko finds another Orientation Film.
    
    
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25. The Dharma Initiative, Station 5 of 6, The Pearl, Dr. Mark Wickman, monitoring station for other Dharma Initiative projects, observed and recorded, observation for 3 weeks with a partner observing psychological experiment in progress, of another station, The Swan, not aware of the experiment, record everything in notebooks, subjects believe their jobs are important, place notebook in container and insert in pneumatic tube, it will be transported to them, 8 hour shifts, then proceed to the Pala Ferry, where they will be taken back to the barracks, tape made in 1980.
26. Eko collects the notebooks, papers, the log print out in the station because he thinks they may be important, he tells Locke that he thinks the work he's been doing in the hatch is more important than ever, Locke says it's not real, it's a joke, that they're rate in a maze with no cheese, Eko says that they're being tested, that they don't do it because of the film.
    
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27. "We do it because we believe we are meant to. Isn't that the reason you pushed it, John?" Eko
28. Eko is at the Sydney Airport, Flight 815, Gate 23, Charlotte shows up there, says that she saw Yemi when she was between places, he said that Eko would come to see her, that Yemi wants Eko to know that he will see him soon.
29. "He says you were a good priest." Charlotte
30. Eko shouts at the girl, and Libby asks if everything is alright. From Lostpedia
31. "He has faith in you. One day you'll believe me."
32. Eko tells Locke about Yemi, about the plane he was on, both planes crashing on the island.
33. "This cross was worn by my brother, Yemi. Yemi was a great man, a priest, a man of God. And because I betrayed him he was shot and died. He was placed on a plane which took off from an airstrip in Nigeria half a world from here. Then, the plane that I was on crashed on this island. And somehow, here, I found my brother again. I found him in the same plane that took off from Nigeria. In the same plane that lies above us now, that has concealed this place. And I took this cross from around Yemi's neck and put it back on mine, just as it was on the day I first took another man's life. So let me ask you--how can you say this is meaningless? I believe the work being done in the Hatch is more important than anything. If you will not continue to push the button, John, I will." Eko
34. Jack tries to ease Libby's suffering while Hurley tries to talk to her.
35. "I'm sorry I forgot the blankets." Hurley
36. "Michael." Libby dies trying to warn them, with a look of pure terror on her face, while Jack tries to assure her that it's okay, that Michael survived.
37. Jack closes Libby's eyes while Hurley cries, Kate cries and Sawyer comforts her, the alarm goes off, Eko and Locke walking through the jungle, returning, Michael in the armory, the prompt on the computer monitor in The Swan.

Questions:

1. Was Charlotte Malkin really dead? Was she on the other side? Did she see Yemi?
2. Is Richard Malkin really psychic? Was he telling Eko the truth?
3. Was Locke's original dream of the beachcraft meant to lead him to The Pearl?
4. Who occupied The Pearl station?
5. Is it real? Is there a psychological experiment being observed on the people in The Swan station, or is it really on those in The Pearl? Was the information that was recorded used for anything?

Favorites:

1. "Well, ain't that swell, Gimpy McCrutch over here covers up that the Artist Formally Known as Henry Gale tried to strangle your little amiga, and suddenly it's on me when she goes vigilante." Sawyer
2. "Your map in inexact." Eko "No kidding." Locke "These landmarks, is that a river?" Eko "No, it's a wavy line." Locke
3. "Would you like to watch that again?" Eko

Notes:

1. Ana had the gun, and as far as Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Locke know, "Henry" attacked her and took the gun, then shot her, Libby and Michael, yes? Well, if that were true, then why would Ana be sitting on the couch, relaxed, shot in the abdomen? Why does no one question this? It confuses and angers me that no one would be suspicious of this situation until later, when Sayid, the man of reason and intelligence, knows that Michael has been compromised. Where is the CSI? It is quite clear that none of what Michael claimed actually happened.
2. When Eko has a dream to follow and knocks Locke out and he wakes with Eko sitting next to him, it is reminiscent of when Locke experienced, the dream he had of the beachcraft, which also ties him to Eko, and what he did to Boone in Hearts & Minds.
3. The autopsy tape, from DarkUFO: Doctor: This is a Caucasian female. She's 161 cm, 51.3 kilos, body prepped and washed by the very lovely Valerie McTavish. Assistant: Ian, stop it. Doctor: Commencing with the post. Whisper: That's her (or), That's enough. Doctor: This is a clear case of drowning. I'll begin with a thoracic. Charlotte Malkin: John! (screaming)Whisper: She's alive. Whisper: How will we know? Assistant: Oh my God! Doctor: Valerie!Assistant: She's Alive! Doctor: I think she's trying. Charlotte Malkin: Let John Locke go (on)! Whisper: She's not dead. Whisper: I found it. Doctor: Try and calm down (Assistant screaming stop, stop). Doctor: Valerie get.. she's crying, don't just stand there do something! Whisper: We’re sending them in (or), Let’s hear what she says.
4. Dr. Marvin Candle appeared in The Swan Orientation film, but appeared as Dr. Mark Wickman in The Pearl Orientation film, where he also no longer has a prosthetic left arm as he did in The Swan Orientation, which suggests that The Pearl was made first.