Teenage Locke gets offer to attend Mittelos summer camp

16-year old John Locke gets beaten up and stuffed into a locker at his high school. The school's team is the http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifCowin Heights Knights. His science teacher, Gellert, helps him out of the locker and they go to his office to talk. Before he closes the locker door we can see the Geronimo Jackson album cover as well as a photo of Sir Richard Francis Burton, an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat (for more info, check out the wiki page).

Gellert tells John that Mittelos Bioscience is interested in him coming to their summer camp. He gives John a brochure but John doesn't want to go. He says that things like science camp is why he gets stuffed in lockers. When Gellert tells him he'll never be a superhero, John replies with his catch phrase, "Don't tell me what I can't do!."

Why did Mittelos want John to come to his camp? Was this another test to see if he was ready for his destiny?

Keamy's secondary protocol has Dharma logo

Keamy takes a key from around Captain Gault's neck to access a safe in his office. It contains a secondary protocol which tells them where Ben is heading. Charles Widmore apparently knows where Ben would go, so now Keamy does too.

The most interesting thing about the secondary protocol is that there is a Dharma logo on the front. It's the same logo that was on Ben's Dharka in "The Shape of Things To Come." This is quite possibly the Orchid logo.

Widmore seems to know a lot about the island, but what is his connection with the Dharma Initiative?

Locke finds Horace & map, blueprints for Jacob's cabin

Locke finds Horace's body among the dead in the mass grave. He finds a map to Jacob's cabin as well as blueprints for it. It appears that Horace built Jacob's cabin. How important will Horace end up being to the overall mythology of the show?

Locke chooses the wrong item, Richard Alpert disappointed

When Richard Alpert shows up at Locke's home, he sits him down and pulls some items out of a bag. They include:

• a baseball glove
• Book of Laws (the Torah)
  
• a container of granules (maybe sand)
• a compass
• a Mystery Tales comic book (one of the stories is, "What was the secret of the mysterious "Hidden Land!"")
• a knife

Alpert asks John, "Which one of these things belong to you already?" After picking up the compass and the container of granules, then he briefly looks at the Book of Laws and Richard looks hopeful. He then chooses the knife though. Richard looks incredibly disappointed and quickly packs up the items and leaves.

Was the Book of Laws the right choice? Also, what was the point of this exercise? Was it to see if John was prepared for his destiny?

5 year old Locke meets Alpert, draws smoke monster?

Here we see John Locke when he is five years old. He is living in a foster home with his foster mother Florence, his foster sister Melissa and a foster brother (this is all we see, there could be more people/children living with them). We see John playing backgammon (a game he played with Walt in season 1) before Melissa knocks the pieces off of the board.

Richard Alpert shows up again to see if John is suited for his school for gifted children. He notices a drawing that John did and seems intrigued by it. It seems like it could be a drawing of the smoke monster with a person, much like what happened to Locke in season 1 ("Exodus" part 2) when the monster tried to drag him down a hole (there's the original shot and an enhanced shot below). If it is the smoke monster, how is John drawing it at age five?