Life of Brian

Episode #43 of 82 introduces us to the Rose and Bernard back story and is another fine example the writers relating the on island story to the off island one. We see how they met, the marriage proposal and after they are married how they ended up in Australia, Rose is dying and Bernard tries to fix her by arranging a visit to a faith healer. Bernard wanted to fix the survivor’s plight by making a giant S.O.S., but abandons the plan when he finds out that that where the faith healer failed, the island succeeded. Rose says she is cured, she can feel it.

(42/82) Hurley is tonight’s episode’s central character, both on and off the island. Both on and off island scenes concern Dave, that’s him in the picture with Hurley, and is a figment of Hurley’s imagination that that resists change. In the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute he tries to keep him from coming to grips with his grief over having (in his mind) caused the deaths of two people and to keep him from losing weight. On the island he is manifested when Libby, a tail section survivor, tries to help Hurley to lose some weight too, but perhaps Dave is also there to prevent Hurley from developing a relationship with Libby.

Halfway done, Lockdown is episode #41 of 82 and appropriately it centers around John Locke. The off island flashback shows how John is totally locked to the whims of his con man father. After attending the father’s funeral he is shocked when a few days later the “deceased” shows up requesting help. He needs Locke to go and retrieve the money he stole from a couple of very bad dudes by unlocking a safety deposit box. On island, John has to enlist the aide of suspected bad guy Henry Gale, who he has unlocked from his cell, when he gets stuck under a blast door that automatically closes as part of the titular Lockdown. While trapped under the door he gets a brief glimpse of a strange map.