Season 2, Episode 21: ?

Locke and Eko will discover a new hatch, while the drama surrounding the murders at the hatch committed by Michael continues to play out. The lives of people whose faith in God or themselves has been shattered continues to entertain.

MAJOR PLOT POINTS

Mr. Eko has a dream in which Ana Lucia tells him he must help Locke, who has lost his way. In the same dream, his dead brother Yemi tells him Locke is doing important work in the hatch and that he must make Locke take him to the question mark (?).

At the hatch, Michael pretends that Ben Linus, still the Henry Gale impersonator as far as the series is concerned, escaped when Jack, Kate, Locke and Sawyer return. Ana Lucia is dead, but Libby hasn't quite expired. Eko, who came to find Locke, offers to go with Locke to try and pick up Ben's trail. Instead, he forces Locke to help him find the question mark.

Locke and Eko camp at the plane and Locke now dreams that Yemi and Eko scale the tree to where the plane originally rested in the canopy. The next morning, Eko does just that and spots the question mark (?) below with the plane punctuating the image. Under the plane, they find a new hatch, Station 5 - The Pearl, which monitors The Swan station. The orientation film implies that The Swan is nothing more than a grand experiment. The Dharma Initiates stationed at The Pearl are to observe and report. This further disheartens Locke initially, but it convince Eko that the work going on at the hatch is the most important thing and vows to help push the button.

With Libby suffering, Jack makes Kate go along with Sawyer to retrieve the heroin, which he knows is stashed with the guns. Sawyer thus is forced to reveal the location of his stash in order to ease Libby's passing. The stash just so happens to be underneath Sawyer's pallet in his tent. Kate and Sawyer run into Hurley at the beach. He's looking for Libby, so they take him back to the hatch as well. As Hurley says goodbye, Jack pumps Libby, whose dying word is Michael, full of heroin.

During flashbacks, we see Eko as a priest in Australia. He is trying to leave for Los Angeles, but is asked to investigate a supposed miracle before leaving. A young girl named Charlotte allegedly drowned and then came back to life a day later. Eko was chosen to investigate because he is skeptical. Turns out, the undertaker was something of an idiot. She'd fallen into a cold river and went into hypothermic shock but woke up as the autopsy was about to be performed. Charlotte is the daughter of Claire's psychic, who admits that he's a phony.

Obviously, Eko concludes that it wasn't a miracle, but Charlotte finds him at the airport and delivers a message from Yemi. She tells him Yemi thought he was a good priest and has faith in him.

QUOTABLE

"One day you will believe me." — Charlotte to Eko at the airport