The Tail Section

Season 1 Episode 04
Title: Walkabout
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: David Fury
FlashBack: Locke

FlashBack:
Locke’s eye opens and he sits up on the beach. The end of the episode shows a broader version of the same sequence.

Beach at night: Vincent is barking, something is rummaging through the fuselage. Jacks shines a light into the plane to see two glowing eyes looking back. Eveyone is frightened, and Locke is smiling as if he knows something that no one else knows.

The secondary story in this episode is the burning of the fuselage. It is an effort that is started by Jack with strong objections from Sayid. Since the bodies will attract scavengers and there is no way to dig a grave deep enough for 20 or so bodies, making the fuselage into a furnace is the best way to deal with the dead. There was tension between Jack and Sayid in these early episode. One resonating argument that Jack offered was, "Any bodies we bury will not stay buried for long." For one day, their task is to gather enough wood to make the fuselage into a funeral pyre.

Unfortunately, they are out of food, but no matter. Locke has a plan. He breaks out his knives, and we are overwhelmed with the question, "Who is this guy?" It is time to go hunting.

FlashBack

Locke is working in his cubicle when someone calls calling him colonel. The time is set for the rendevous. His boss Randy gives him a hard time about his TPS Reports.

At the rendezvous, he is playing command and conquer to the chastizement of his boss. Randy looked through his things and found out that he was going on a walkabout. He tells Randy that a "Walkabout is a spiritual journey… one draws strength from the earth… becomes inseparable from it."

On the Island

Michales wants to go with the hunting party to get to know his sons new friend. He hand gestures to son to see if she will watch Walt. Sayid begins his plan to triangulate the signal. Kate uses the boar hunt as an excuse to help Sayid.

Claire collects personal effects of the dead to use in a eulogy. She asks Jack to give, but he refuses.

Locke picks up the boars trail. They fan out to surround it when it charges. Locke pushes Kate out of the way, but it goars Michael. Everyone is on their back.

FlashBack

Locke is in bed and on the phone with Helen. He tells her how great it was to tell off his boss Randy. How it was freeing. We get the standard that’s great from the other end. He then tells her that he has purchased two tickets for a walkabout. He wants her to go with him. She stammers and tells him it is inappropiate. If he continues on the phone he will have to pay another $89.95.

On the Island

Kate needs help with Michael, but Locke is unresponsive. He is on back almost waiting for something. He looks at is feet, wiggle them and then gets up. Kate tells him that he can’t go after the boar, to which he responds to her the same way he responded to Randy earlier, "don’t tell me what I can’t do."

Jack speaks to Rose. She tells him that her husband is still alive. She has faith. While speaking to her, he sees someone in the distance that looks familiar.

While going through personal affects, Claire runs across an envelope with Sayids’ name on it. It has pictures inside of someone he cares for.

On the way back, Kate and Michael stop. Kate climbs a tree to put up the antenna for Sayid. While she is up there, the monster reappears in the distance headed for Locke. She drops the antenna breaking it.

The Monster moves in to Locke who is standing there staring into it.

Kate and Michael return with news that Locke may not have made it. As they are debriefing, Jack sees the person again, this time he goes after him as he makes his way into the jungle. Following he and Kate hear a sound. It is Locke draggin a boar behind him.

At night, the service begins. The fuselage is lit as Claire reads off the names. Jack is not at the funeral.

FlashBack

As the camera focuses on Lock, we see him at a tour guide in Australia. They refuse to let him go on the walkabout. They say that he did not disclose his condition and they will fly him back to Sydney. He just can’t do it. As the guide walks out, Locke rolls his wheelchair back saying this is "my destiny, don’t tell me what I can’t do!"

FlashBack to Crash
Locke looks down, wiggles his toes which is an incredible moment for him. He puts on his shoes and we are put back into the opening moments of the pilot.