Of the three episodes I watched: What Kate Did, Psalm 23, and Fire + Water, Psalm 23 was my hands-down favorite. This was Mr. Eko’s episode. I’ll get to it in a minute. Kate’s was good, we finally learn how she became an outlaw (blowed daddy up!) and that she has some hard-core daddy issues. Hard-core to the point that it affects how she feels about Sawyer. Oh yea and she temporarily loses her shit- sees a big horse (seriously, what’s with the random animals on the island? What’s next, a- oh, nevermind), kisses Jack, then runs away. I give her credit for at least admitting that she thinks she may be going crazy. Line of the episode:
Kate: “Do you see that?”
Sawyer: “You mean that big-ass horse in the middle of the jungle? Yeah I see it.”
Speaking of people losing their shit Michael knocks Locke out, locks him and Jack in the closet and then goes after WAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLT! Locke, Jack, and Sawyer go after him only to be surrounded by the Gordon’s Fisherman and “The Others” and pretty much told that there indeed is a much bigger swingin’ dick on the island so they should go along and mind their manners. As you can imagine, Sawyer and Jack don’t exactly cotton to this notion, but Kate being threatened with death at the hands of the Fisherman is the only thing that keeps them from doing anything truly stupid.
People Losing Their Shit, pt. 3- Charlie. Man, has this guy been through a lot. Turns out that his brother hocked the piano his mum gave him as a child for drugs, then ditches him to get clean. Charlie starts seeing visions, becomes obsessed with saving the baby, takes baby, says sorry, takes baby _again_, and then this time gets knocked the hell out by Locke. At one point he tries to pull Mr. Eko in on it since he was nice enough to interpret his “vision” but Eko lets him know that by “saving the baby” he did NOT mean going bat-shit crazy, starting a fire, and kidnapping the baby to baptize it. Which Eko eventually does, the right way.
It appears Mr. Eko has come the long way around to becoming a priest. While children gunmen come to the church where a group of boys including him and his brother come to take the children away. The young Eko basically swaps his life for his brother’s, executing the man the gunmen had demanded his brother kill. In executing the man, Eko is taken instead. Unfortunately the tragic circumstances portrayed in the episode play out in real life every day for thousands of children in Africa in places like Darfur, where they are kidnapped off of the streets, taken out of their homes, and forced into being soldiers for local warlords.
Eko grows up to be a fearful and ruthless gangster while the brother who was left behind at the church becomes a priest. Eko has the idea to use the Virgin Mary statues as cover for transporting drugs out of the country. He tries to enlist his brother’s help but of course the brother refuses. Eko eventually makes him sign papers making him and his henchmen priests so they can smuggle the drugs out of the country. His brother’s fateful words- “You will never be a priest!” There is a shootout at the airstrip while they are preparing to take off in the Beechcraft that crashes on the island and is found by Boone and Locke in an earlier episode (mystery solved!). This time, Eko is the one left behind and “saved” while his injured brother is loaded into ill-fated plane. The shooting seemingly affects Eko, and I can imagine that is the event (or one of them at least) that led him to the path that he currently travels. Obviously well versed in scripture and having lived on the other side long enough, Mr. Eko comes around full circle and becomes every much the priest his brother said he would never become.
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