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* UnrevealAngle: Locke's encounter with the Monster is shot from the Monster's point of view, so although Locke finds out what it looks like, the audience does not.
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* ForWantOfANail: If Locke had been honest with the tour company about his paralysis, his application would have been denied and he wouldn't have been in Australia in the first place.
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* ItBeganWithATwistOfFate: If Locke had been honest with the tour company about his paralysis, his application would have been denied and he wouldn't have been in Australia in the first place.
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* BlatantLies: Locke denies seeing the Monster, even though he was face to face with it.
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* BerserkButton: DON'T tell Locke what he can't do. Although for most of this episode it comes across as TranquilFury.
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* BadBoss: Randy is a complete and utter jerk who belittles his underlings.
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* BadBoss: Randy is a complete and utter jerk who belittles his underlings. More egregious once we know that he's demeaning a guy in a wheelchair.
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* BadBoss: Randy is a complete and utter jerk who belittles his underlings.
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* SceneryCensor: A non-nudity example. The scene in the travel office is staged in such a way that Locke's wheelchair is not visible, with a stand of pamphlets blocking a view of the rear push handles.
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* SceneryCensor: A non-nudity example. The scene in the travel office is staged in such a way that Locke's wheelchair is not visible, with a pamphlet stand of pamphlets blocking a view of the rear push handles.
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* SceneryCensor: A non-nudity example. The scene in the travel office is staged in such a way that Locke's wheelchair is not visible, with a stand of pamphlets blocking a view of the rear push handles.
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'''Season 1, Episode 4''':
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'''Season 1, Episode 4''':
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* {{Flashback}}: Locke is the focus of the flashbacks. They show that he was a sad, lonely man who worked in a dead-end job at a cubicle farm. His only companionship was a phone sex operator with whom he tried to have deep conversations with rather than her intended role. Oh, and he was actually paralyzed and denied access to a walkabout.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: As much of an asshole as Randy is, he's right that Locke is not capable of doing a walkabout and is just torturing himself by refusing to admit it.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: JerkassHasAPoint:
** As much of an asshole as Randy is, he's right that Locke is not capable of doing a walkabout and is just torturing himself by refusing to admitit.it.
** Shannon callously ignores that Locke didn't come back with Kate and Michael, but she correctly points out that without more food, everyone is screwed.
** As much of an asshole as Randy is, he's right that Locke is not capable of doing a walkabout and is just torturing himself by refusing to admit
** Shannon callously ignores that Locke didn't come back with Kate and Michael, but she correctly points out that without more food, everyone is screwed.
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* SkewedPriorities: At being told that Locke didn't come back from the initial hunt, Shannon's first response is "so there's no food?".
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* BaitAndSwitch:
** In Locke's first flashback, he answers a call where he's addressed as "Colonel", implying that he was a military officer before the crash. It's quickly revealed that he actually works in a cubicle, and "Colonel" is just a nickname a friend of his uses during their regular game of TabletopGame/{{Risk}}.
** Randy's doubts that Locke is capable of handling a walkabout initially come across as a crack about Locke's age. After TheReveal, Randy's remarks become more [[JerkassHasAPoint pragmatic]] and more [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain discriminatory]].
** In Locke's first flashback, he answers a call where he's addressed as "Colonel", implying that he was a military officer before the crash. It's quickly revealed that he actually works in a cubicle, and "Colonel" is just a nickname a friend of his uses during their regular game of TabletopGame/{{Risk}}.
** Randy's doubts that Locke is capable of handling a walkabout initially come across as a crack about Locke's age. After TheReveal, Randy's remarks become more [[JerkassHasAPoint pragmatic]] and more [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain discriminatory]].
* ContinuityNod:
** Jack assumes that whatever is rifling through the fuselage is Sawyer, whom Jack caught looting the wreck and stealing from the corpses within in [[Recap/LostS01E03TabulaRasa the previous episode]].
** Rose offers to let Jack "off the hook" for [[Recap/LostS01E01PilotPart1 his promise to stay with her until her husband got back from the bathroom]].
** Jack assumes that whatever is rifling through the fuselage is Sawyer, whom Jack caught looting the wreck and stealing from the corpses within in [[Recap/LostS01E03TabulaRasa the previous episode]].
** Rose offers to let Jack "off the hook" for [[Recap/LostS01E01PilotPart1 his promise to stay with her until her husband got back from the bathroom]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Locke tells Randy about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Croucher Norman Croucher]], a double-amputee who climbed Mount Everest (though in real life, Croucher did not accomplish that feat) to defend his own plans to go on a walkabout. Why Locke mentions Croucher and his disability specifically becomes clear in the WhamShot in Locke's final flashback.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Shannon's idea of proving to Boone that she can take care of herself is to charm Charlie into catching a fish for her. She smugly presents it as proof of her self-sufficiency to an unimpressed and disgusted Boone.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Locke's boss Randy seems bad enough on a first viewing, considering that he constantly belittles and demeans Locke for no good reason, but gets even worse after TheReveal when you realize that he's been mocking a disabled man.
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* {{Jerkass}}: {{Jerkass}}:
** Locke's boss Randy seems bad enough on a first viewing, considering that he constantly belittles and demeans Locke for no good reason, but gets even worse after TheReveal when you realize that he's been mocking a disabledman.man.
** Shannon wasn't exactly been endearing in the first three episodes, but she shows a particularly bad attitude here; she insults Boone's concern about Rose (and straight-up admits to not caring when Boone talks about her condition), manipulates Charlie into catching a fish for her, and smugly presents ''Charlie's'' efforts as proof that she can take care of herself.
** Locke's boss Randy seems bad enough on a first viewing, considering that he constantly belittles and demeans Locke for no good reason, but gets even worse after TheReveal when you realize that he's been mocking a disabled
** Shannon wasn't exactly been endearing in the first three episodes, but she shows a particularly bad attitude here; she insults Boone's concern about Rose (and straight-up admits to not caring when Boone talks about her condition), manipulates Charlie into catching a fish for her, and smugly presents ''Charlie's'' efforts as proof that she can take care of herself.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: After his encounter with the Monster, Locke managed to find, catch, and kill a boar (something he previously said would require at least three people), and bring said boar back to camp on his own.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Randy is more a bully than a villain, but his remarks towards Locke, regardless of [[JerkassHasAPoint their validity]], come across as him just looking down on a disabled man.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: While Locke has been seen throughout the previous episodes, here he firmly establishes himself by throwing a knife just inches from Sawyer's head.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: While Locke has been seen throughout the previous episodes, here he firmly establishes himself as the group's hunter by throwing a knife just inches from Sawyer's head.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: While Locke has been seen throughout the previous episodes, here he firmly establishes himself by throwing a knife just inches from Sawyer's head.
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It's been four days since the crash. At night on the beach, people hear something moving around in the fuselage. Jack investigates and finds wild boars eating the bodies. Later, Jack Kate and Sayid discuss what to do about all the bodies. Jack proposes turning the fuselage into a funeral pyre and cremating the dead; Sayid objects, since they don't know what religion or culture the dead might've belonged to, but Jack says they need to ensure the boars don't get them. Kate realises that Jack is hoping to use the burning fuselage as a signal fire. Next morning, Sayid works on a device to triangulate the source of the Frenchwoman's transmission and whatever power source it's using. Michael tries to stop Walt from hanging out with Locke. Jack and Sayid break up a fight between Sawyer and Hurley, who claims that Sawyer is hoarding the last of the food. Locke enters the discussion (in [[KnifeNut dramatic]] [[ImprobableAimingSkills fashion]]) and proposes they hunt the wild boars for food using the dozens of hunting knives he checked onto the plane.
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It's been four days since the crash. At night on the beach, people hear something moving around in the fuselage. Jack investigates and finds wild boars eating the bodies. Later, Jack Kate and Sayid discuss what to do about all the bodies. Jack proposes turning the fuselage into a funeral pyre and cremating the dead; Sayid objects, since they don't know what religion or culture the dead might've belonged to, but Jack says they need to ensure the boars don't get them. Kate realises that Jack is hoping to use the burning fuselage as a signal fire. Next morning, Sayid works on a device to triangulate the source of the Frenchwoman's transmission and whatever power source it's using. Michael tries to stop Walt from hanging out with Locke. Jack and Sayid break up a fight between Sawyer and Hurley, who claims that Sawyer is hoarding the last of the food. Locke enters the discussion (in [[KnifeNut dramatic]] [[ImprobableAimingSkills dramatic fashion]]) and proposes they hunt the wild boars for food using the dozens of hunting knives he checked onto the plane.
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* ForWantOfANail: If Locke had been honest with the tour company about his paralysis, his application would have been denied and he wouldn't have been in Australia in the first place.
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* WhamShot: In the final flashback, we see Locke in a wheelchair at the walkabout office, revealing that he was paralyzed before the crash and regained the ability to walk on the Island.
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** Jack sees a familiar man in a suit just outside the camp.
** In the final flashback, we see Locke in a wheelchair at the walkabout office, revealing that he was paralyzed before the crash and regained the ability to walk on the Island.
** Jack sees a familiar man in a suit just outside the camp.
** In the final flashback, we see Locke in a wheelchair at the walkabout office, revealing that he was paralyzed before the crash and regained the ability to walk on the Island.
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* DueToTheDead: Claire leads a memorial service for the victims, reading names from passports and drivers' licenses along with any personal details they found.
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* RightBehindMe: When the survivors hear some rustling inside the fuselage, Jack thinks it's Sawyer looking for more stuff, only for him to point out that he's standing behind him.
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* RightBehindMe: When the survivors hear some rustling inside the fuselage, Jack thinks it's Sawyer looking for more stuff, only for him Sawyer to point out that he's standing behind him.
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* BriefAccentImitation: Randy puts on an Australian accent while reading Locke's walkabout pamphlet.
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* HandSignals: Locke uses these to get Kate and Michael ready to attack one of the boars.
-->'''Michael:''' Hey, quit giving us the steal signal!
-->'''Michael:''' Hey, quit giving us the steal signal!
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* WaistcoatOfStyle: Locke dons his hunting vest for the first time.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: The first flashback is Locke waking up on the beach after the crash and looking at his foot. The end of the episode replays the moment, along with footage from the Pilot episode of Jack asking for his help, but now the audience has context for ''why'' he was so amazed by his toes moving.
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* RingOnAChain: Rose wears her husband's wedding ring on a necklace whenever they fly because his fingers swell in altitude. She holds onto it as she sits on the beach, firm in her belief that he survived and will come back.
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* RingOnAChain: RingOnANecklace: Rose wears her husband's wedding ring on a necklace whenever they fly because his fingers swell in altitude. She holds onto it as she sits on the beach, firm in her belief that he survived and will come back.
