The Man Behind the Curtain
Season 3 · Episode 20 — L'Homme de l'ombre
The Man Behind the Curtain
L'Homme de l'ombre
Ben agrees to show Jacob to Locke. Jacob. The name the Others whisper with fear. Their invisible leader. They walk through the jungle. A cabin. Old. Isolated.
Ben enters. Speaks to an empty chair. "Jacob, this is John Locke." Locke thinks Ben is crazy. Then the cabin shakes. A voice whispers: "Help me." Objects fly. Locke is thrown. He heard it. Ben didn't.
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Flashback. Ben as a child. He arrives on the island with his father, Roger, a DHARMA employee. Roger hates him. Blames him for his mother's death. Ben grows up alone. He meets Richard Alpert in the jungle. The Others. On his birthday, Ben puts on a gas mask. Opens a gas canister in Roger's van. His father dies. All of DHARMA dies. The purge. Ben triggered it. For revenge. For loneliness.