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Season 2, Episode 21, Aired
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As Eko experiences unusual dreams, he asks John to take him to the "?" from the blast door map he saw. At the Hatch, the rest of the survivors must come to terms with the death of Ana Lucia and Libby clinging to life.
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  • Awesome.

    10
    "Perfect"
    By Sarah_LOST, Oct 12, 2010 Report Abuse
    Mr. Eko and Locke find another Dharma station, which is monitoring the other stations via video surveillance. Meanwhile, Jack and the other survivors struggle with the shooting victims in the hatch. In flashbacks, Eko investigates a miracle as a priest in Australia. What a awesome episode. I loved Me Eko's dreams. I love the scene where Jack, Sawyer, Kate, John, Eko and Michael walk into the hatch and find Anan Lucia and Libby dead or shot. Amazing scene, and then Libby wakes up. I love John and Eko scenes - they are both awesome. I love the hatch scenes so amazing and sad. I feel sorry for Hurley about Libby. I cry when it's Hurley and Libby's scene - so sad and then the scene after that when Libby actually dies. I love what John and Eko find. I love where Sawyer's stash is.moreless

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  • I saw this before, it\'s just another unoriginal episode Like this series is, crappy! Why i give it 10, joyful to watch yet unoriginal. A character with no back story dies, huh how predictable.moreless

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    By teamocil, May 23, 2010 Report Abuse
    Joyful 2 watch yet crappy. You agree with text back, Livey Didnt die, you cant die in the island with out having a backstory, i can tell a year worth of plotline, livey is a other, she had too die because michael had to get the mission in which getting \"henry\" out of the hatch, a fifth hatch is discovered, and now america is clueless in whether to agree with ecko or linby crip locke,moreless

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  • The big question is what loss is the greatest?

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    By DavidB226Morris, Sep 06, 2009 Report Abuse
    We haven't seen much of Eko since his confrontation with Henry Gale in 'Maternity Leave', but we got a pretty good sign that the island was sending him a message before he got there. In '?", the island talks both to him, and the island's original disciple, Locke, only the message that they both get will put their faith in opposite directions.

    Eko has a revelatory dream where the dead (including Ana, who has just crossed over) tell him to find 'the question mark'. Eko returns to the hatch and finds that one of the people on the island he was closest too is dead, and another has been mortally wounded. Yet rather than mourn, he takes Locke with him on part of a search to about the only thing that Locke knows for certain was on the blast door map. Reluctantly, he leads him to where he thinks it is, only to find the plane that both he and Eko found for different reason early in their searches, Then (in one of the episode high points) Locke has a dream in which he is Eko, and gives them the nudge he needs to figure out where the island has been leading them. What they discovering is a bigger surprise---- another hatch, which leads to the third Dharma station we've seen---- the Pearl.

    What we see in the station is an even bigger shock--- televisions and monitoring equipment as well as a series of pneumatic tubes. Searching, Eko discovers another Orientation film, this time on a videotape. This time the footage in even more mysterious. The doctor who called himself Marvin Candle, now calls himself Mark Wickman (neither of which is his real name, by the way) and reveals that the Pearl is monitoring the Swan while its participants perform an experiment.

    Locke faith has been diminishing all season--- Charlie's supposed lapse, Sawyer stealing the guns from him, Henry Gale's playing with his head--- but what he sees here completely destroys him. This can be seen by many way, but the clearest demonstration occurs by two actions. When Locke and Eko first unearth the hatch, he stops Eko from going first, saying 'May I?' But when he gets a glimpse of what the Pearl is doing, he takes the map he's been slaving over for the past three episodes, sticks it in one of the tubes, and launches it to parts unknown. He doesn't need to see the orientation video to be shattered, he believes he's been tricked, and becomes the man who got on the plane in Sydney, the angry man with nothing left to live for.

    Eko, on the other hand, has been rejuvenated with the faith that Locke had in Season 1. When he found the footage from the orientation film in the Bible, he dismissed it more or less as coincidence. But after what the island has shown him--- the plane that his brother landed that took him halfway around the world, it's original location leading to Locke, it's ending up in a position that illustrates the question mark that Locke found on the map, and that under it was yet another Dharma station--- all this convinces him that the island has been guiding him all along, and that this is a destiny guiding him. He knows that Locke has lost his faith, and that he must recover it in order to do 'the work that the island wanted'.

    With all this, we wouldn't expect much of a flashback, but we get a couple of kickers in this one. Eko continued his impersonation of a priest while he was in Australia (we never do find out how he got there) when he was called into investigate a miracle-- a young girl who drowned, and then somehow managed to come back to life. The father of the girl prevents Eko from ever talking to her by saying that this was an act of defiance by his wife because of his belief (I'll get back to him), and Eko seems more than willing to dismiss what he has learned. But when he is about to board Oceanic 815, the girl comes up to Eko with a message from Yemi, encouraging him for what he's done, and that he will see him again. The biggest shock of all comes when the father is revealed to be Richard Malkin, the same psychic who told Claire that she couldn't give her baby up for adoption, then put her on the same flight that Eko ended up on. Clearly, the psychic knew the plane was going to crash, and that Claire and Eko had to be on it. I can guess at Eko's reason; I can't see Claire's--- yet. (Eko also runs into Libby while getting on the plane, but that's only minimally interest)

    Eko may have regained his fait, but everyone else in the hatch is shattered. All Jack can do is make her comfortable, so he tells Sawyer that he needs the heroin to make her passing peaceful. While doing so, Hurley learns what has happened to Libby, and is even more shattered than we can expect. This is another blow that he will never really get over, and you can tell that just by seeing how shattered he is.

    Two people die in this episode, but the biggest casualty is Locke's faith. All season he has been engaged in a power struggle with Jack over the hatch, and now it seems that Jack was right about it all along, which must be the bitterest pill of all. He tells Eko early on that it's not his hatch anymore, Henry Gale's deception has led to more death, and now it seems this island has been playing with him. Eko may have regained his faith, but Locke's cynicism is no less dangerous, and will cause the castaways to face their greatest threat to date.
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  • Eko Second Episode and continues to be one of the Best Episodes of this Season 2, with a Great Revelation!!!

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    By Dante_Edy, Jul 08, 2009 Report Abuse
    LogiC - It is incredible how Eko episodes can be this good. The writers managed to do it again. This is not season 1 anymore, where you spend a entire episode for the deaths, it is about give them meaning.

    Eko and Locke found another Hatch and with this a secret, Of course, since this Hatch location was unkown, it was necessary to make that strange dream that gave both Eko and Lock intructions to find this Hatch.

    Eko Flashbacks are only a little behind his last flashbacks, but still very interesting and strange at the same time.

    Emotions - It is possible not to feel sorry for Hurley? Just because he forgot to bring blankets, Libby ended in the wrong place and ended death.

    We have a episode with SAdness, some little tension, since Libby was alive and Michael could be discovered as the murdurer, a intrigue and strange episode regarding Eko and Locke and a revelation that is a surprise for some part of the audience.

    Progression - Libby is death, the managment of her death was well done. Eko follow the intructions of his dream and have a new purpose now, and Locke lost the rest of his Faith about the Hatch and about himself as someone special. Eko flashbacks only serves and support the events on the Island.

    Ending - Nothing special, but it was not necessary in this episode to create a strong ending.

    Overall - SAd, revealing, Strange and interesting, all at the same time.moreless

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  • Eko Second Episode and continues to be one of the Best Episodes of this Season 2, with a Great Revelation!!!

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    By Dante_Edy, Jul 08, 2009 Report Abuse
    LogiC - It is incredible how Eko episodes can be this good. The writers managed to do it again. This is not season 1 anymore, where you spend a entire episode for the deaths, it is about give them meaning.

    Eko and Locke found another Hatch and with this a secret, Of course, since this Hatch location was unkown, it was necessary to make that strange dream that gave both Eko and Lock intructions to find this Hatch.

    Eko Flashbacks are only a little behind his last flashbacks, but still very interesting and strange at the same time.

    Emotions - It is possible not to feel sorry for Hurley? Just because he forgot to bring blankets, Libby ended in the wrong place and ended death.

    We have a episode with SAdness, some little tension, since Libby was alive and Michael could be discovered as the murdurer, a intrigue and strange episode regarding Eko and Locke and a revelation that is a surprise for some part of the audience.

    Progression - Libby is death, the managment of her death was well done. Eko follow the intructions of his dream and have a new purpose now, and Locke lost the rest of his Faith about the Hatch and about himself as someone special. Eko flashbacks only serves and support the events on the Island.

    Ending - Nothing special, but it was not necessary in this episode to create a strong ending.

    Overall - SAd, revealing, Strange and interesting, all at the same time.moreless

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    • There are whispers hidden in Charlotte Malkin's autopsy-tape which decode as: 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 "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) "She's alive!" "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)! "She's not dead" "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! "We're sending them in" (or) "Let's hear what she says" Edit
    • In the orientation film, Dr. Mark Wickman said that the ones working in the Pearl must take 8 hours shifts. 8 is one of "The Numbers". Edit
    • The father of the girl Eko visited, Richard Malkin, also makes an appearance in the episode "Raised by Another" as Claire's psychic. Edit

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    • Naveen Andrews, Emilie de Ravin, Daniel Dae Kim and Yunjin Kim do not appear in this episode. Edit
    • This is Michelle Rodriguez's last appearance on the show. She'll still be credited for the remaining episodes of the season, even though she won't be seen. Edit
    • The Title "?" is alluding to the Mural that Locke saw in the Episode "Lockdown". In their podcast, creators Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse said that another reason they chose this for the title is this was the episode they intended for writer/director Darren Arnofsky and the title "?" was a sly reference to Arnofsky's first film, "Pi". Edit

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    • Eko: We are being tested. Locke: Tested? Eko: The reason to do it, push the button is not because we are told to do so in a film. Locke: Oh. well, then what is the reason, Mr. Eko? Eko: We do it because we believe we are meant to. Isn't that the reason you pushed it, John? Edit
    • Eko: And I believe the work you have been doing is more important now than ever. Locke: What work? Eko: Pushing the button. Locke: That's not work. That's a joke, rats in a maze with no cheese. Eko: It is work, John. Edit
    • Eko: I'm taking this back with us. Locke: Why? Eko: Because they may be important. Locke: Important? I'm sorry, weren't you just watching the same thing I was? Edit

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    • Prince: Sawyer calls Ben "The Artist Formerly Known As Henry Gale", a variation on one the many nicknames of the famous musician. Edit
    • Sawyer: Who's going to watch over Libby while you're out playing Daniel Boone? This is a reference to the 1960's series Daniel Boone about a hero of the same name. Edit

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