"Lost" The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham (2009)

Director:

Jack Bender

Writers:

Jeffrey Lieber (creator) and
J.J. Abrams (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Lost" (2004)

Original Air Date:

25 February 2009 (Season 5, Episode 7)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Plot:

John Locke, now alive again and back on the island after the second plane crash, flashes back to his return to civilization, where he is brought in by Charles Widmore and asked to convince the Oceanic 6 to return to the island. |

Plot Keywords:

Choke To Death | Suicide Attempt | Driver | Mental Hospital | Hospital

Cast

Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah
Henry Ian Cusick	...	Desmond Hume (credit only)
Jeremy Davies	...	Daniel Faraday (credit only)
Michael Emerson	...	Benjamin Linus
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford (credit only)
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon (credit only)
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon (credit only)
Ken Leung	...	Miles Straume (credit only)
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen
Elizabeth Mitchell	...	Juliet Burke (credit only)
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke
Alan Dale	...	Charles Widmore
Malcolm David Kelley	...	Walt Lloyd

Runtime:

50 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Arabic | Spanish

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | Australia:M | Netherlands:12

Filming Locations:

O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

Company:

Bad Robot

Trivia:

This was to be the eleventh episode of the season. It was aired earlier to game the sweeps ratings with stronger episodes. (See Goofs.)

Goofs:

Continuity: Ilana tells John Locke, "There used to be three [boats], but the pilot [Frank Lapidus] and some woman [Sun Kwon] took one." This doesn't happen until "Lost: Namaste (#5.9)" (2009). Further, John Locke spots Ben Linus recovered and walking on the beach, identifying him to Caesar as, "the man who killed me," yet Ben doesn't awaken from being hit by Sun until "Lost: Whatever Happened, Happened (#5.11)" (2009) whereupon awakening the first thing he sees is John Locke alive again for the first time. As these scenes were set in the present and not as flashbacks, flash-forwards, or subjective past-as-present, this can only mean that "Lost: The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham (#5.7)" (2009) was aired out of order and should have aired just before "Lost: Dead Is Dead (#5.12)" (2009).

Quotes:

[last lines]
Caesar: [looking at Ben] You know him?
John Locke: Yeah. He's the man who killed me.

Movie Connections:

References Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

"I remember dying"

It's amazing how this series keeps topping itself. I thought that the previous episode, "316", was the best of Season 5 so far, but "The Life And Death Of Jeremy Bentham" is arguably on an even higher league (we're talking "The Man From Tallahassee" league here). The mythology of LOST is getting thicker and thicker, and the lines between good & evil, life & death, past, present & future, are getting blurrier and blurrier. And yet the basic format of TLADOJB is rather simple: a series of one-on-one conversations between John Locke and a number of other characters, both new and old. Terry O'Quinn has always been one of the very best actors on the show, and here EVERYONE opposite him rises to his level. This episode is unusual, shocking and brilliant. ***1/2 out of 4.