One of the last episodes of LOST to preface a twelve-week hiatus must be good right? It has to be solid action, has to service the mysteries, and has to set some stuff up all while staying true to the LOST formula. The Cost of Living does all that, and more.
‘The Cost of Living’ is about Eko in a very psychologically anatomical way. I, personally, always felt that fans accepted Eko’s transformation from bad-ass warlord to scripture carving holy-man a little too readily. We saw with our own eyes that even though Eko was a product of his environment he definitely seemed to enjoy the killin’. The assumption from 23rd Psalm was that he went on after the death of his brother to begin trying to become the man his brother believed he could never be. I tried to find the super-bold button for “assumption”, but apparently I can’t emphasis that enough with mere text formatting. ‘The Cost of Living’ fills in that gap in Eko’s past.
Fans who were irked by the sense of separation over the past few episodes will be glad to know that the ensemble style is beginning to come back together. While Eko-centric, ‘The Cost of Living’ also features, prominently, Locke, Desmond, Nikki, Paolo, Sayid, and Hurley as they traipse off to the Pearl station in an attempt to IM the Others, and Jack as he finally confronts Ben over the X-Rays he glimpsed in last week’s episode.
So, the story of Eko. In what is becoming a staple of the LOST formula, we get treated to yet another event of a character’s childhood that helps explain how they came to be who they are. In this case, it is Eko stealing food for his brother. Being a good Catholic boy young Eko is expected to confess his sin by one of the villages nuns. But Eko does not see why he should confess, his brother was hungry and needed to eat. Thanks to some good editing and child-acting, we can see this latent refusal to accept an act of survival as having consequences pushing-back against the demands of the nun.
In real-time, Eko is in a very delusional state. His brother Yemi visits and tells him it is time to confess, he says Eko will know where to find him. On the beach Sayid, Charlie, and Hurley smell smoke and discover that Eko’s hut is on fire. They rescue him, but while their backs are turned he disappears, before that he babbles something about his brother to Charlie. The mention of his brother tips Locke off to where Eko is heading: the pearl station.
At the others camp it is all Jack, Ben, and Juliet. It would ‘Appear’, (and again I can’t find a way to emphasize that word enough), that Ben comes clean that he needs Jack to operate on his tumor. In other scenes, Juliet also reveals this would be an excellent way to off the apparent leader of the others. It’s one of the better moments for sure, Juliet brings in a video tape and plays it while she talks to Jack. It is a home video of her showing cue cards. They say things like “ignore what I am saying”, and talk about dissatisfaction amongst the Other’s camp with the leadership.
The Eko story is very interesting.
Back to Jack. Rewind. When Jack first talks to him about the tumor Ben is incredulous, particularly when Jack begins describing the symptoms that Ben must be feeling. It is not until later, after Ben realized
First of all, we know the island has cured one person of cancer and another of paralysis. (And possibly another of male sterility, but we don’t know that for sure anymore.)
When Locke & Co. finally make it to the pearl
The resolution of the Eko story is a sad one.
In real time, Eko hobbles to a field to face an apparition of his brother (whose corpse is now mysteriously missing.) Eko again does not see the point in confession, telling Yemi that he has only done what he needed to do to survive; He was only dealing with the life he was given, he does not feel remorse for the actions that saved his brother’s life as a child,
Yemi then makes a statement that answers a lot of questions. “You talk to me as if I were your brother.”
People are going to debate this for a while. Did he mean as your brother and not a priest? Or did he mean, haven’t you figured it out, dude? I’m smokey in human form!
So Eko follows him into the jungle and comes up against a BIG smokey. Bigger than we’ve ever seen it… huge… roiling… angry. Eko is not welcome here, we can feel it. It lengthens a swirling tendril towards him like an amorphous accusation as he tries to stand his ground, sweat coating him, fear palpitating his words as he breaks into the 23rd psalm “… the lord is my shepherd…”, words appropriate for a funeral…
Smokey grabs up Eko in a huge fist and smashes him against the canopy, the trees, and the ground. By the time Locke and the others arrive, he is on the verge of death. He whispers something to Locke as he fades away, and image of himself and his brother as children, still behind the veil of innocence, flashes before he finally succumbs to the thrashing and dies. Mr. Eko… we loved ya… but you should have confessed.
Sayid asks Locke what he said. “We’re next.”
So, the monster can take human form, as has been theorized before. An interesting common factor is the disappearance of bodies as well. Yemi’s body was gone from the plane, Jack’s father was also gone from the plane, both have appeared on the island. Is patchy the last hold-out from Dharma? Or just another Other? If he’s Dharma, just imagine how much we’ll learn from him. But will we get back to him before the end of the mini-season?
Is Ben really dying? Is Juliet really plotting against him? Has the answer to why they wanted been answered, or is it just another one of the others mind games? Why is redemption so important to the island, and why does it, if smokey is an extension of the island, destroy those who refuse to redeem themselves? Is judgment coming for the remaining 815’rs on a grand scale? And since the others seem to be getting by just fine, are they exempt from judgment or are they what remains of others who have been judged, the pure. Many new questions posed in a thoroughly interesting way and an ending to a character that was just fantastic within
The advancement of the shows concepts of redemption continues to stun me. Social commentary probably isn't as high on the writers minds as good action and adventure, but the death of Eko forces us to consider what this disembodied force on the island contemplates in its own scale of good, bad, and redeemed. Is it the vast chromic depth that our characters embody, or is shades of gray where evil is one tick away from reformed?
Consider that this may be a sum of actions. Sawyer, we learned, was in fact the total opposite of the self centered in it for himself character he tries to convince everyone he is. In fact, he selflessly gave up a fortune to take care of a love child he'd never met; an act which seems to balance against any of the small time con-jobs he's perpetrated. Eko, on the other hand, had a legacy of violence that walked with him to the end. A destroyer of men who, for some time, enjoyed that power and wielded it for purposes far removed from good. Redeemable to dozens of fans for sure, but not so to the island who has tried and convicted him on this day. Rest well our friend. You will be missed as we ponder the conundrum of your demise.
Comments
We actually do not know that the island cures. It could easily be said that the island halts the spread/cause of the problem.
Posted By Akbar Fazil | November 2, 2006 4:34 PM
Although introduced subtly, it was also illustrated that the island healed when Locke's fracture mended weeks ahead of Dr. Jack's prediction
Posted By DocArzt | November 2, 2006 4:40 PM
I'm not so convinced that Ben and Juliet are playing a mind game. We have seen them disagree when Jack was not watching or listening. It is clear that they had some kind of past relationship, the dynamics of which we don't know yet, and it ended somewhat bitterly; i.e.: "I guess I'm not invited to book club," "You never used to bring me soup," etc. And in last night's episode, Ben was angry with Juliet for showing Jack his X-Rays.
I think Jack IS actually playing them like Ben did Jack and Locke. And he's succeeding more so because of some disagreement and rivalry that already exists.
Posted By Eric | November 2, 2006 4:48 PM
While I agree Ben's story may turn out to be complete BS, I think its important to remember the Island doens't necessarily have to heal everyone. Remember Rose's flashback where we found out from the "healer" that while the energy around Ayer's Rock wouldn't help her, maybe another energy force somewhere else in the world could? Maybe the energy of the Island simply doesn't impact Ben, while it had drastic impacts on Locke and Rose.
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Posted By rich | November 2, 2006 5:16 PM
Using Eko as an example of the smoke monster killing "bad" people who seemingly deserve to be punished for their sins makes me think of another character the smoke monster killed -- the pilot of flight 815. That means the pilot must have done something to deserve his death. Could he have knowingly crashed the plane into the island?
Posted By not dwight | November 2, 2006 5:34 PM
Malfunctioning security system? Maybe the plane crash actually damaged the smoke monster (or even the electro-pulse) and killing the pilot wasn't so much a good/bad decision but rather it was broken.
Posted By Akbar Fazil | November 2, 2006 5:47 PM
Doc, that was hands down the best episode summary you've written. Almost made me tear up all over again. My hats off to you my friend!!
Posted By AVREY97 | November 2, 2006 6:18 PM
If 'Eyepatch Guy' is indeed appearing from the Flame Station.....well,
where there's smoke, there's fire, as the old saying goes.....) also, I strongly suspect that there was someone ELSE at the Flame's island controls during Eko's (and likely Locke's) last encounter with what is
probably also 'Cerebrus', which is why he wasn't killed the first time (and further illuminates an important consideration: the ONLY person killed before Eko by Smokey was the pilot, probably to neutralize
the risk of him revealing the conspiracy, as I've said - and even that's not certain). Nor am I convinced, despite statements to the contrary, that Smokey isn't some sort of massive 'tulpa', or thought form, that can be harnessed to do someone else's bidding. Overall, I thought it was as good an episode as any of the series, and next week's looks even better - except for one thing: AGAIN, as with the writer's failure to reference Michael and Walt in "Further Instructions, there's no epilogue to Sayid, Jin and Sun's experience with the Galaga sub team, and the shooting of Colleen, at all - this has got to STOP; it's marring the storytelling.....
It seems as if Juliet has begun to manipulate Jack and become something of a free agent; I have a sneaking suspicion that Jack is going to turn her down by not deliberately killing Ben on the operating table ('do no harm', the Hippocratic oath, of course and already the title of one episode - perhaps a bit of foreshadowing) and setting the scene for Juliet to do the job herself, if the latest Entertainment Weekly feature on Elizabeth Mitchell is accurate as it sems to be.....
.....before that, if Ben does discover Juliet's deception and Jack's subsequent refusal, it is going to change the island dynamic dramatically by seeming to demonstrate compassion, mercy and forgiveness, may even ally Ben to the survivors, which in turn may
precipitate the civil war of which has been spoken.....the great irony here is that Ben's salvation may lie in Jack resisting his efforts to
trigger and manipulate feelings between the two doctors. A big clue as to Benjamin Linus' motives is when he says to Jack, "I WANT you to want to save my life".....this is a man that had totally lost his
faith in humanity and God alike, as his observation about a neural surgeon falling out of the sky just 2 days after he was diagnosed with a life-threatening tumor reveals - he is terribly lonely (alluded to by his "Of Mice and Men" quote jousting with Sawyer) perhaps a genius, and is just looking for one sign to have faith in ANYTHING again.....given the caliber of Michael Emerson's acting, this could be the most intriguing aspect of LOST yet. We may begin to actually feel for this crafty, ruthless little man after all as Emerson suggested we would.....and his words to Jack do call into question whether he WAS involved in the plan to bring 815 down, hence there may be another group of 'Others' responsible (if Ben isn't lying again, of course.....) However, I've just viewed the Canadian trailer for next week's episode on YouTube and it seems to belie my theory as to what considerations will motivate Jack's decision, but with LOST, it's impossible to put much faith in any snippet more often than not. Paradoxically, it may be Jack's decision NOT to operate that saves Ben from death, if it is all another psychoanalytical construct.
And the big question (well, one of several perhaps) on all our minds is: why can't the island cure Ben of his cancer like it did that of Rose? Probable answer: Ben, and likely most or all of the Others, have been genetically engineered to be less susceptible if not entirely impervious to EMF fluctuations. Furthermore, that engineering prevents some of them (at least Ben, having allegedly lived on the island his entire life) from ever leaving it; his curious moral compass might not allow him to expose the outside population to disease as a result of a profoundly altered immune system (possibly related to the 'Quarantine' sign on both the Swan and Arrow hatches.....)
Posted By ogam5 | November 2, 2006 6:25 PM
Doc, you're wrong about the vaccine. At the end of
the episode when they nail up the church, they show
all of the vaccine being delivered to the front of the
church and Amina taking delivery of it. She then tells
Eko that he's done nothing but take away one group that
will be replaced by another. I think him meeting with
the person at the bar to sell the vaccine was more about
getting the thugs to come back looking for him so they
wouldn't shoot anyone else.
Also don't forget that while Eko did not take his
duties as a preacher seriously until the crash, he did
try to fully adopt them once on the island and seemed
to be sincere. Also, remember that he spent 40 days
without talking to make atonement for killing the two
Others on the beach the first night, and even asked Ben
for forgiveness when they had him locked up in the Swan.
Of course, in the end, he was definitely defiant and
showed pride at the end when he stated he repented for
nothing he did. From a religious context, one might
say that he showed more pride than Satan did before he
and the rogue angels fell from Heaven. But I think
the smoke monster or whoever was controlling it had
already judged him before it ever asked for the
confession.
Posted By GodBlessTexas | November 2, 2006 7:36 PM
they still need to explain why eko was in autrailia and why he was headed to the US.
Posted By samsneed | November 2, 2006 7:41 PM
ogam5, if they are genetically engineered, then why was Kelving Inman there on the island? We know for a fact that he is ex-CIA and was working in Iraq during Gulf War I. So he obviously wasn't engineered with some super immune system that kept him on the island , and he was in one of the stations that specifically stated it was quarantined from the outside. So, I don't think it's genetic manipulation or engineering. I think it's phsychological manipulation to keep the various original DHARMA groups on the island seperated so as not to find out about some of the other areas or to see what happens when they are led to believe that they could be infected with some disease.
And if the disease is biological, why did they allow Michael and Walt to leave the island? Then again, my guess is that they didn't leave at all, and we'll be seeing them again. It would certainly explain why they're both still listed in the Season 3 credits.
Posted By GodBlessTexas | November 2, 2006 7:44 PM
Can someone tell me who the island cured of cancer? I dont recall... thanks!
Posted By stacey | November 2, 2006 8:36 PM
It cured Rose, stacey. If you remember; Bernard took her to a clinic in Australia to cure her disease with some mind techniques but it failed. As soon as they landed, she was fine, she felt free, secure and safe again. She knew she had been cured.
Posted By Ozwin | November 2, 2006 8:38 PM
GOOD CATCH samsneed! they completely failed to explain eko's reason for being on flight 815. everyone else seemed to have some crazy reason for being there or some strange turn of event that made them take that flight. with eko... we got nothing. i guess the writer's dropped the ball on that one.
Posted By Jeff | November 2, 2006 8:54 PM
Don't you guys remember the flashback of Eko when he was in Australia? He was there investigating a miracle. Some little girl was dead and woke up during the autopsy.
Posted By TrillianM | November 2, 2006 8:59 PM
just because a few people have been cured by the island doesn't mean everyone who steps foot there will be cured... remember when rose went to see the healer and he told her that the geological properties cured some people but not others and that she needed to find another place that would heal her? I don't think ben would be cure just because he's on the island... and I think maybe he does have a tumor... but thats just me... enjoy episode 6
Posted By just_an_other_lostie | November 2, 2006 8:59 PM
I figured Eko took up whatever Yemmi was doing in London and then the church just started sending him wherever he needed to go. Once he was done in Australia his next assignment was in the US. Easy enough.
Posted By Akbar Fazil | November 2, 2006 9:28 PM
One small point about Yemi. When Eko returns to the plane he and John first roll away stones from the door, presumably placed there to prevent entry by animals, etc., only to find his body gone. This was surely meant to echo (no pun intended) the discovery of Jesus' empty tomb. Is the intent to have us see Yemi as having Christ-like virtue and has having sacrificed himself for the redemption of others? Clearly redemption, as docartz pointed out, is the central theme of this and many episodes.
Posted By jphimself | November 2, 2006 9:41 PM
The girl Eko went to see in Australia was actually the daughter of the "psychic" that told Claire she had to take Flight 815 to go to L.A. to have unborn Aaron adopted so that was also another character tie-in....
Posted By Lost in Florida | November 2, 2006 10:06 PM
one thing i haven't heard too many people commenting on is desmond in this episode. with the previous two, he had a pseudo-future telling ability, however in this one he appears to know nothing of the events before they happen; he seems just as surprised as everyone else. what do you guys think is going on with his story??
Posted By ChrisW | November 2, 2006 10:36 PM
How does Ben know what jacks wife looks like? Do you remember when Ben says something about how much Juliet looks like Jacks wife. How in the world whould he know that?
Posted By JimmyB | November 2, 2006 10:38 PM
JimmyB,
If you accept what Juliette said earlier as true, they know everything about Jack. They do have contact (or at least access to data) from the outside world.
Pay attention. This show is all in the details.
Posted By Akbar Fazil | November 2, 2006 10:56 PM
As we found out two weeks ago, Ben and the rest of the "others" are on a different island. Now maybe it doesn't have the same healing powers that Locke and Roses island have.
?
Posted By Jacob | November 2, 2006 11:54 PM
FOR THE LAST TIME!!!!
The others DO NOT LIVE ON A SECOND ISLAND.
The island the hydra is NOT where the others village is.
Jeeeez
Posted By Akbar Fazil | November 3, 2006 12:18 AM
Akbar, something I picked up about the communication: When Sawyer awoke from being beaten by Ben, he overheard Tom telling Ben that the communication to the outside world was down after the events that happened when Desmond triggered the failsafe in the Swan. I guess they must have had the file on Jack long before they captured him.
Posted By GodBlessTexas | November 3, 2006 1:40 AM
I didn't read all of the comments but has anyone suggested that perhaps the reason Ben, the leader of the Others was walking, ALONE, in the general direction of the Survivors camp was that he was hoping to be cured by the island's unique magnetic force? Perhaps it wasn't as random was a nice jaunt through the forest (which would be ridiculous) but a pilgrimmage to a place of healing.
Posted By Ryan | November 3, 2006 1:53 AM
Bollocks.....Not Eko.....one of the best bloody characters...ah well..so so sad,...big up lost for doing it well, fitting end to a great character, the fade out of him an his bro as youts was nice, bit cheesy but nice...and the monster is back!! and the cause of the hallucinations...i'd say thats some mighty big mystery revealing going on there!...not HUGE obviously, its lost, they've gotta tease you, but i think we're all concluding that everything starting with Jacks dad through to Dave was probably the monster...the producers did say we'd seen it before but wouldnt recognise it....which begs many questions ...including: if it was Dave, why was he trying to get Hurley to Kill himself?
Posted By Carlos | November 3, 2006 2:49 AM
Bollocks.....Not Eko.....one of the best bloody characters...ah well..so so sad,...big up lost for doing it well, fitting end to a great character, the fade out of him an his bro as youts was nice, bit cheesy but nice...and the monster is back!! and the cause of the hallucinations...i'd say thats some mighty big mystery revealing going on there!...not HUGE obviously, its lost, they've gotta tease you, but i think we're all concluding that everything starting with Jacks dad through to Dave was probably the monster...the producers did say we'd seen it before but wouldnt recognise it....which begs many questions ...including: if it was Dave, why was he trying to get Hurley to Kill himself?
Posted By Carlos | November 3, 2006 2:50 AM
Im still pretty sure he others DO live on a second island. Ben took Sawyer up to show him the view and point out he had nowhere to go if he did escape. The Losties island was across the way. The Hydra is underwater...perhaps between the islands?
Posted By azathoth | November 3, 2006 3:04 AM
here's what's annoying: there's clearly dissention in the ranks (i.e. ben and juliet's argument when she brings jack in to operate on colleen and the clear tension between them when there are no losties around to view it) and with the conversation between the two of them by the sea during the funeral, it's clear the tumor is real. if you can't trust what they say to one another when there are no losties around to hear it then what can you trust? and if everything is lies and juliet and ben are in cahoots then why all the dissention when no one is there to listen. if it's all bunk then what the hell can you believe and that's just stupid. and the tape idea? it's so stupid that it really makes one wonder if she is lying to jack or if it's the truth because why would someone think that would work? anyone watching the monitors would've said, "hey now, what's that video you got there?" i want desperately to believe that juliet and ben really are at odds and somehow we're really going to see a flaw in the other's armor. but as of the moment, with all the lies i don't know what the hell to believe and i still have no idea why the hell these three were chosen.
Posted By thecheat03 | November 3, 2006 7:16 AM
Are we so sure that the others are on a different island? Perhaps Ben was just showing sawyer that he has no were to run, which makes an escape very difficult. But what about roussau's kid? She managed to escape, didn't she? And the place where Claire was taken for her vaccine, it wasn't on another island. Why would they suddenly go to another island? The island is huge, and they could be on the other side. I do not believe they are on a different island. He just said it to prevent Sawyer and Kate from escaping.
Posted By lill | November 3, 2006 10:57 AM
Uh, nobody noticed that everyone has become cat people.
The feline overtones are ominous.
Posted By Omar Araz | November 3, 2006 1:23 PM
Terrific summary. Doc. Thanks for pointing out the beauty of this episode. Unlike those that are screaming "foul" because of Eko's death, you bring up the character's complicated spiritual journey. This episode was an example of brilliant writing; the attention to character development was amazing. The heart of this show - what makes it great - is not smoke monsters and polar bears. It is the internal battle between good and evil that these characters struggle with and their ongoing quest for redemption from their misdeeds.
Posted By duncan | November 3, 2006 1:51 PM
The others don't LIVE on a seperate island. Remember the pan out from Otherville after the book club and the plane crash? Clearly the same island. The Hatch where the three losties are being kept on the other hand IS on the same island.
Posted By TrillianM | November 3, 2006 1:56 PM
I agree that the Others little suburban village is on the same island but where Jack, Kate and Sawyer are being kept is on a different, smaller island across the way and it was very obvious from when Ben showed Sawyer there is no where to run....
Posted By Lost in Florida | November 3, 2006 2:34 PM
You forgot the interesting chat Locke had with Eko about what they saw when the explotion happened. For me, that was one of the most important moments. The losties never talk to each other about their experiences. That drives me nuts!
Posted By Mariana | November 3, 2006 4:35 PM
Agreed! That was one of my favorite parts for the same reason.
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