The Brig
Season 3 · Episode 19 — Mon père cet escroc
The Brig
Mon père cet escroc
Ben gives Locke a test. To join the Others, he must kill his father. Anthony Cooper. Tied to a pillar. Locke can't do it. Ben knew he couldn't. He humiliates him in front of the whole group.
Richard Alpert slips Locke some advice: "Someone else on this island wants this man dead." Locke understands. He goes to get Sawyer. He takes him to the Black Rock. Cooper is there. Tied up.
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Cooper talks. He brags. He conned people. A couple in Alabama. The husband killed himself. The wife too. Their eight-year-old son saw everything. Sawyer understands. Cooper is "Sawyer". The real Sawyer. The man who destroyed his family. James Ford pulls out the letter he's carried since childhood. Cooper tears it up. James strangles him. With the chain. It's over. The name "Sawyer" dies in that room.