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Locke
Locke's Initiation
- The Others got Locke to kill, directly or indirectly, because they wanted the Island to stop blessing him and/or because now the Smoke Monster will kill Locke.
- Ben wants to discredit Locke to quell these rumors of Locke's importance.
- Asking Locke to kill Cooper was a test to see if Locke was really a good person and able to join the Others. By indirectly killing Cooper he has failed.
- Locke "killed" his father on the 12-year anniversary of the purge, clearly symbolic of his replacing Ben as the important one on the island.
Locke's Importance to Others/Island
- Locke's particular communion with the Island makes him a healer of sorts. The Others have been waiting him to come help with pregnancy problem, and other problems on the Island. This would explain Ben's healing being encouraged by the presence of Locke-i.e. the "pins and needles" Ben describes.
- Ben and The Others don't want Locke to kill, but are testing him to see if he will before accepting him as a "good person".
The Coordinates
- Naomi says that the coordinates she was given did not show any island on the map. This might be because although the Island exists, it is not visible to everybody. The people who have traveled to the Island have either arrived there by accident or brought by people already in the Island. But the people who are looking for it, such as Naomi, don't see it. This might in turn be because the Island chooses the people it wants to bring.
- The fact that it's not on Naomi's map doesn't mean anything except that it has not been charted. The ocean is a big place.
- Unless the Electro-magnetic properties have some kind of shielding effect in the visible range, the Island should be visible from a space satellite.
- Naomi said she saw the Island when the clouds cleared. It is likely that the Island is visible in plain sight, but just doesn't show on any maps and is difficult to find because anyone approaching the Island would have his navigational tools disrupted which could lead him off course.
The phone
- Hurley asks Sayid, "Is that like a radio?" even though he was the one in "Catch-22" to identify it as a satellite phone. Presuming this is not a production error, it indicates that Desmond's comments about Jack have affected Hurley deeply, to the point that he's not prepared to trust anyone completely.
Anthony Cooper
- Anthony Cooper states that the first thing he saw after entering the ambulance was Locke. However, the Others had interacted with him earlier. The Others must have given Cooper amnesia drugs, the same as they gave Claire while she was abducted.
- Or he exaggerated for the sake of making his story sound more dramatic.
- Anthony Cooper is actually an incarnation of the smoke monster, like Eko's brother Yemi, who is there to test Locke (and Sawyer's) true natures. Locke is not a killer, Sawyer is.
- Unlike Yemi, he appeared to multiple people who were awake, and he died like a normal human.
- Locke was unable to kill Anthony Cooper because of time travel. Locke somehow knew that if he killed Anthony Cooper he would change his own past, possibly making it so he never arrives on the Island with 815. ( If killing Cooper somehow prevented Locke from being thrown out a window, then he wouldn't be on 815.) It is entirely possible that Locke taking Cooper to the Black Rock and not actually witnessing Sawyer murder Cooper does not change his past as much (Changing it so he was never thrown from the window, not in a wheelchair, but still makes it to the Island.) This could have also changed Sawyer's past, making it so he never killed Frank Duckett.
- We also don't know how long the Others had Cooper before they showed Locke. It had to be the Anthony Cooper from the flashforward ERA, because he knew about the 815 Crash. Perhaps the Others were able to take Anthony Cooper from the "future" (might be Island's present time) and bring him back to the past (before 815 crashed). They might have been waiting to use him on Locke and Sawyer.
- He could easily have been retrieved by the Others in real time, after the crash and before the Oceanic 6 were rescued. The Losties have been on the island for a couple of months at this point.
Abraham and Isaac Parallels
- Locke's duty of killing his Dad was a test of Locke's resolve, which he could passed in two ways. (1) Killing Cooper. (2) Deciding not to kill Cooper. Either choice would have shown some resolution, getting over his past problems and moving on. Unfortunately, Locke failed the test because he appeared to lack the resolve to do what he wanted to do. The Others only want people with conviction.
- Cooper needed to be slain by a knife. Ben handed Locke a knife, not a gun or poison.
Column/Old place
- Ben is lying about it being an old place
- This is where the hostiles lived before the "Purge".
- Ben's phrase might refer to wherever the Others go after the place with the pillar.
- "Old Place" may refer to an as yet unseen Dharma research station or location of the radio tower.
