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'''Johnathan "John" Locke''' |
'''Johnathan''' "'''John'''" '''Locke''' is a [[fictional character]] played by [[Terry O'Quinn]] on the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] television series ''[[Lost (TV series)|Lost]]''. In 2007, O'Quinn won the [[Emmy award]] for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Drama Series|acting in a supporting role]] for his portrayal of Locke.<ref>King, Susan, (September 16, 2007) "[http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/emmys/env-emmyslive-16sep16,0,3059662.story?coll=env-emmy Emmys Live]," ''[[The Los Angeles Times]] Envelope''. Retrieved on September 16, 2007.</ref> |
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In the first season of the show, Locke is introduced as a mysterious, intellectual and stoic character who is in touch with the earth, has a penchant for hunting and tracking and believes in [[synchronicity|mystical and spiritual explanations for why things happen in the world]]. His stoicism and mystical outlook dominate his character and are the basis for many of his relationships and interactions in the show. However, in the subsequent seasons, he becomes less stoic, begins to show more emotions and has varying moods. |
In the first season of the show, Locke is introduced as a mysterious, intellectual and stoic character who is in touch with the earth, has a penchant for hunting and tracking and believes in [[synchronicity|mystical and spiritual explanations for why things happen in the world]]. His stoicism and mystical outlook dominate his character and are the basis for many of his relationships and interactions in the show. However, in the subsequent seasons, he becomes less stoic, begins to show more emotions and has varying moods. |
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Template:Infobox Lost character Johnathan "John" Locke is a fictional character played by Terry O'Quinn on the ABC television series Lost. In 2007, O'Quinn won the Emmy award for acting in a supporting role for his portrayal of Locke.[1]
In the first season of the show, Locke is introduced as a mysterious, intellectual and stoic character who is in touch with the earth, has a penchant for hunting and tracking and believes in mystical and spiritual explanations for why things happen in the world. His stoicism and mystical outlook dominate his character and are the basis for many of his relationships and interactions in the show. However, in the subsequent seasons, he becomes less stoic, begins to show more emotions and has varying moods.
Character's story
Prior to the crash
John Locke is the son of Emily Locke, who gave birth to him when she was a teenager on May 30th, 1956. As a child, Locke is placed in government care, where he finds himself in a multitude of foster homes. He is visited by Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell) at one of these foster homes, who describes Locke as "extremely special".[2]
When he is older, Locke, who is working at a toy store, is visited by his mother who tells him he was immaculately conceived. Curious, Locke hires a private investigator to track down the location of his father, Anthony Cooper (Kevin Tighe). Cooper warmly welcomes Locke into his life, and the two bond over hunting trips. Cooper reveals he needs a kidney transplant, and Locke volunteers to donate one of his. Following the surgery, Cooper abandons Locke and refuses to see him.[3] Locke becomes very depressed and eventually seeks group therapy, where he meets his future girlfriend Helen (Katey Sagal).
Helen helps Locke overcome stalking his father, but when Cooper comes to Locke for assistance and he helps him, Helen leaves him. Following a brief period living in a marijuana-producing commune (which he unwittingly ruins by bringing in an undercover policeman disguised as a hitch-hiker) Locke retreats into a life of solitude, until he is visited one day by a man, Peter Talbot, asking for information about "Adam Seward", who intends to marry the man's wealthy mother. Locke realizes it is Cooper, meets with him, and orders him to not marry Peter's mother. Cooper kills Peter, and when Locke confronts him about the murder, Cooper pushes Locke out a window, sending him tumbling eight stories to the sidewalk below. Almost immediately after his fall, Locke seemingly dies. However, Jacob arrives and revives him by touching Locke's shoulder. He then tells him he is "Sorry this had to happen." Despite surviving the fall, Locke suffers a broken back, an injury that puts him in a wheelchair.[4].
While recovering in the hospital, a supposed orderly named Matthew Abaddon (Lance Reddick) visits Locke and tells him to go on a walkabout for a period of self-discovery.[2] Once out of the hospital, Locke starts working at a box company, where he gets constantly insulted by his boss, Randy (Billy Ray Gallion). Locke then flies to Australia, where he is denied admission on the walkabout because of his paraplegic state, so he is forced to board Oceanic Flight 815 to return home.[5]
After the crash
After crashing on the Island in the fuselage section, Locke miraculously regains the use of his legs. It is found out that Locke is an expert at hunting and tracking, and is seen by most of the survivors as the second in command next to Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox). Locke visibly becomes the most spiritual toward the Island and has no intention of leaving it. On a hunt he encounters the monster, describing it as a "bright light".[5][6] When Claire Littleton (Emilie de Ravin) is abducted, Locke helps Jack, Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) and Boone Carlyle (Ian Somerhalder) to look for her. Whilst searching, he and Boone discover the hatch, which they then spend most of their time trying to open.[7] During this time, Boone becomes Locke's protégé and Locke tries to teach him the nature of the Island.[8] When Locke has a vision one night of a Beechcraft crashing, Locke and Boone then go looking for the plane and discover it lodged atop a cliff. Boone climbs up into the plane, but it falls while he is still inside. Locke carries him back to the caves, then sneaks away to the hatch, where he bangs furiously on the door, devastated by Boone's death. However, just as Locke loses hope, a light shines from the hatch, and Locke sees it as a sign.[3] Locke returns to the beach in time for Boone's funeral, and reluctantly reveals the existence of the hatch. Due to Boone's death, Jack is no longer trusting of Locke and his methods.[9] The survivors are led by Danielle Rousseau to the wreckage of a 19th-century sailing ship known as the Black Rock, which has been somehow deposited several miles inland, and find some dynamite. On the way back, Locke and Jack confront each other, their beliefs, and leadership differences, and each come to the conclusion that the other will be a problem. Once they return to the Hatch, Locke uses the dynamite to blow it open. [10]
In the beginning of season two, Locke enters the hatch and discovers Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick), who shows Locke an orientation film explaining that the hatch was once used for studying electromagnetism. Seeing that his replacements have arrived, Desmond leaves. To prevent the world from ending, a button must be pushed every 108 minutes, (a number equal to the sum of Hurley's winning lottery numbers) so Locke schedules people to enter the numbers into the computer.[11] When Ben Linus (Michael Emerson), under the guise of "Henry Gale", arrives in the jungle, Locke holds him in the empty armory.[12] Since Jack and Locke are alone together in the hatch, Ben baits them into fighting. One day in the hatch, the blast doors in the hatch all descend, and Locke tasks Ben with entering the numbers in the computer. Locke notices a strange map drawn on one of them when the lights go out, which he manages to sketch after the blast doors rise again.[13] Locke and the other survivors soon find out that Ben was lying about his identity and he refuses to speak to anyone but Locke.[13] Ben taunts Locke by telling him that his people saw the hatch as a joke, and that he never entered the numbers in the computer, which results in Locke losing faith that the button is real.[14] When Ben escapes, Locke and Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) enter the jungle to search him but find the "?" on Locke's map, where they discover the Pearl station, which explains that pushing the button is just to test the occupants of the hatch.[15] Locke abandons pushing the button, and attempts to destroy the computer. He and the recently-returned Desmond sneak into the hatch to allow the timer to reach zero, but when the electromagnetic force builds up, Locke realizes that he has been wrong all along. He is still in the hatch when Desmond turns the fail-safe key that causes the hatch to implode.[16]
The third season begins with Locke waking in the jungle the next day, unable to speak. He builds a sweat lodge to induce a hallucination, in which Boone tells him to rescue Eko.[17] He and Eko journey to the Pearl station with some of the other survivors, where they rewire the circuits in the monitors to view surveillance from another hatch. They leave the station and discover Eko dead in the jungle.[6] After burying him, Locke notices an inscription on Eko's prayer stick instructing him to go north.[18] Locke, Kate, Sayid (Naveen Andrews), and Danielle Rousseau (Mira Furlan) go on a mission to rescue Jack from the Others.[19] When they arrive at the Others' village, the Barracks, Locke takes Ben hostage and forces Ben to show him the location of the Others' submarine. Locke then uses some C-4 to blow up a submarine that Jack was going to use to get off of the Island, due to his belief everyone should stay on it because of destiny. After this, Ben shows him his father, Anthony Cooper, whom they have captured, and tells Locke that he can join the Others if he kills his father.[4] Locke manipulates Sawyer (Josh Holloway) into murdering Cooper for him, then carries the corpse to the Others' camp.[20] He is taken by Ben to see Jacob, but Locke is shown only an empty chair in the filthy cabin. Locke enters a rage because of Ben's lie, then suddenly objects began to fly around of its own accord, and he hears a deep voice say "Help me." Ben and Locke walk off, and they next visit a pit full of long-deceased Dharma members, where Ben shoots Locke, because Locke was able to hear Jacob, which threatens his own leadership of the Others.[21] He is left for dead, but he wakes up days later. Locke contemplates suicide, but his faith is restored upon witnessing an apparition of Walt, who tells Locke that he 's got "work to do". He makes his way to where Jack has taken the survivors, and kills Naomi, a woman from the freighter, whom he believes has brought danger to the Island. He asks Jack not to communicate with the nearby freighter, but Jack ignores him and contacts it. Locke goes back to the beach camp, hoping to gain support from some of the other survivors.[22]
In season four, Jack finds Locke, takes his gun, and pulls the trigger, discovering that it is unloaded. Because of this incident and Charlie Pace's (Dominic Monaghan) warning, the survivors split into two groups, with those believing the people from the freighter to be dangerous joining Locke. People in Locke's group include Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia), Sawyer, Claire, Ben, Rousseau, and Alex Rousseau (Tania Raymonde).[23] Locke attempts to carry out the work he was told to do by Walt. In order to do this he has to go to Jacob for advice, but is unable to find Jacob's cabin, so they proceed to the Barracks.[24] For the first few days there, Ben continually taunts Locke for not having a plan, but Ben eventually explains that Charles Widmore (Alan Dale) is the man who sent the freighter, and that he wants to exploit the Island.[25] After the village is ambushed by a group from the freighter and most of Locke's group is killed (including Rousseau and Alex), Locke leads Ben and Hurley to look for the cabin again, since Hurley claimed to see it.[26] Locke has a dream in which the Dharma Initiative member who built the cabin (Horace Goodspeed - Doug Hutchinson) tells him that Jacob is waiting for him. In the pit containing the bodies of the Dharma Initiative members, Locke finds a map to the cabin, which Locke, Ben, and Hurley follow. On the way to the cabin Ben laments to Locke about his own destiny and that Locke will soon know the consequences of being chosen. Inside the cabin, Locke does not meet Jacob, but rather Christian Shephard (John Terry) and Claire. He is told that the way to save the Island is to move it.[2] Ben leads Locke and Hurley to a Dharma station known as the Orchid that will be able to do this, but discovers the mercenaries from the freighter waiting for Ben there, so Ben turns himself over and instructs Locke how to get in the actual station. After failing to find it, Jack arrives and Locke tries to convince Jack not to leave. Unsuccessful, he tells Jack to lie about the Island and everything that has happened in order to protect it. Ben escapes and they enter the Orchid station together, only to discover that the mercenary leader, Martin Keamy (Kevin Durand) survived his encounter with Ben and followed him back. Keamy warns Ben that he has a dead man's trigger on him and that if he dies everyone on the freighter will also, but Ben kills him anyway to avenge his daughter's death, much to Locke's horror. Ben then apologizes for making Locke's life miserable and tells Locke that he is the new leader of the Others. Locke joins the Others as Ben moves the Island.[27][28]
Immediately after the Island is apparently moved, Locke finds himself along with the other island survivors traveling through time at random points indicated by a bright flash. Locke finds himself alone and sees a plane crash, the same plane belonging to Eko's brother and the one Boone critically injuring himself in. Locke attempts to reach the plane, but is shot in the leg by Ethan. Ethan interrogates him, and Locke tells him Ben has appointed him the new leader of the Others. Ethan doesn't believe it, but before he can shoot Locke, another flash takes Locke through time again. This time, he is found by Richard, who explains that he knew where to find him from Locke himself. He informs Locke that they will be strangers at their next meeting, and thus gives him a compass to get his younger self to trust Locke. He also tells Locke this is happening because of those that have left the Island. To get them to return, he will need to die.[29] Later, Locke saves Juliet and Sawyer from three men back in 1954[30], one of them being a young Charles Widmore.[31]
After the Island
After a series of temporal distortions which leave Locke at a point in history where even the Statue is still standing, Locke leaves the Island at Christian's behest via the Orchid Station and emerges about 3 years in the future. Charles Widmore makes contact with Locke, provides him with the alias "Jeremy Bentham", and assigns Matthew Abaddon as his assistant to find the members of the Oceanic Six. Locke visits Sayid, Walt Lloyd (Malcolm David Kelley), Hurley, Kate and Jack, and tells them all (with the exception of Walt) that they must return to the Island. It was believed Locke hanged himself after unsuccessfully trying to convince members of the Oceanic Six to return to the Island, [27][28] but it is revealed he was actually prevented from carrying out his suicide attempt by Ben Linus, only to be subsequently murdered by Ben. [32] Jack is the only one to attend Locke's wake, [22] and Locke's death drives Jack to unsuccessfully attempt to kill himself due to his regret for leaving the Island. Ben later approaches Jack and informs him the only way to return to the Island is to bring everyone back, including Locke's corpse. [27][28]
Locke's suicide note is given to Jack by Faraday's mother, Eloise Hawking. Locke's death was necessary so that his body would act as a proxy for Christian Shephard (whose body had been on the original flight) in order to as closely as possible recreate the conditions by which the Oceanic Six first found the Island. When Jack eventually brings himself to open the suicide note, it reads simply: "Jack, I wish that you had believed me. JL". [33] After flight 316 crashes on the Hydra island near the main island, Locke appears to the survivors of the crash, apparently resurrected.
Back on the Island
He and Ben later leave for the Island, where Ben is ordered by his dead Daughter to do everything Locke asks of him. Locke and Ben then locate the Others' camp, and are reunited with Richard. Locke demands a meeting with Jacob, which Richard agrees to arrange. Together with Sun-Hwa Kwon and the rest of the Others, the group makes their way to the base of a giant statue. Ben and Locke confront Jacob in his chamber. Jacob identifies this "Locke" as his rival, and the rival has Ben stab Jacob. The rival then pushes the body into the fire. Outside the chamber, survivors from Flight 316 arrive at the campsite, where they present Richard Alpert with a box containing Locke's body, which was found in the plane's cargo hold.
Themes
Games
In Season 1, he teaches and plays backgammon with Walt and Sawyer, which he refers to as a game between "Dark and light...good and evil". He later demonstrates Mouse Trap to a child in a flashback scene in "Deus Ex Machina", plays a chess game on one of the others' computers and has fun playing Risk with a co-worker in "Walkabout".
In a deleted scene from "Tabula Rasa" Locke is shown giving Walt tips on how to play poker, identifying the "tells" of the various castaways. In "Exodus: Part 2" while handling dynamite, Locke asks Jack if he ever played Operation, joking that he "always got nailed by the funny bone"; he then proceeds to make a buzzing sound while lifting one of the fragile explosives. A startled Jack asks, "Do you like to play games, John?" Locke smiles and says, "Absolutely."
In "Enter 77", Locke plays numerous matches against the Flame Station's computer chess program, eventually beating it. In Season 4, Locke plays a game of Risk with Hurley and Sawyer.
Faith
Locke's life has a repeated pattern of believing in a higher being or purpose (for example: his father, or pressing the button in the hatch). He begins to suspect that he was destined to be on the island, which coincided with the partial loss of his recovered ability to walk.
Midway into Season 2, however, his faith begins to falter as he slowly grows disillusioned with repeatedly pressing the button. In Live Together, Die Alone, Locke ultimately decides not to press the button, despite the protests of Mr. Eko, who tries unsuccessfully to convince John to keep believing (and keep pushing). After the cataclysmic events that occurred when they stopped pushing the button, Locke admitted that he was wrong to stop believing.
At the beginning of Season 3, Locke's faith seems to be fully restored. This is supported by the fact that Locke's first action after regaining consciousness is to "talk to the island," a strongly spiritual action that harkens back to the Locke of Season 1, who considered the island to be a nexus of spiritual energy, and an entity that could be communicated with. After Mr. Eko is killed by the smoke monster, it is Locke who buries him, thanking him for restoring his faith.
His faith is tested a final time in Season 5, "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham", when the Oceanic Six rebuff his plea to return to the Island. Driven to desperation, Locke is prepared to commit suicide, as a means to both end his misery and possibly convince the Oceanic Six to return to the Island. However, Benjamin Linus convinces John to reconsider, only to strangle John moments later, leaving John's body in a hanged position, framing murder for suicide.[32]
Development
Lost creator J. J. Abrams had worked with Terry O'Quinn previously on "Alias" and was keen to work with him again.[citation needed] He explained that although the role of John Locke would be fairly small in the first few episodes, the character will develop substantially as the series progressed.[citation needed]
He was also the only actor who did not have to officially audition for a part of a main character.[34]
John Locke is named after the English philosopher of the same name, and his alias, Jeremy Bentham, is also the name of an English philosopher.
The term, Tabula Rasa, is used as the title of the third episode of the series. It refers to philosopher John Locke's tabula rasa thesis that states that all individuals are born with a blank slate and build their bank of knowledge and their identity solely from their experiences and perceptions.
When Damon Lindelof was asked on the chatroom of Lost.com if Locke would come back to life upon returning to the island, he said:
[Remember] the linear timeline of the island and in real life. Also, remember when Jack found his Dad's coffin in season 1 on the island. Where was the body? Consider Locke's coffin on the island. Also, season 2: what happened to Eko's brother in the plane?
In the episode Cabin Fever, two actors play a younger Locke in flashbacks. Charles Wyson plays Locke at age five, while Caleb Steinmeyer plays Locke at age sixteen.
Reception
Response to O'Quinn's performance has been overwhelmingly positive. His role as John Locke won the actor an Emmy Award in 2007.[35] IGN named him as the #1 character from the first three seasons of Lost.[36] Also, he was #1 on Television Without Pity's list of the show's "10 Best Backstories” as well.[37]
The writing for Locke in "Through the Looking Glass" was criticized, and one IGN writer said that "it seems irrational that he would go and [stab Naomi] in the back without explaining himself."[38] Although not responding to the IGN comment, series co-creator, Damon Lindelof, has stated, "we might be willing to give [Locke] the benefit of the doubt for any action he took in response to [lying, gutshot, in a pit of Dharma corpses for two days and on the verge of taking his own life], even if considered slightly 'out of character'."[39]
See also
References
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