Ben finds Sun and Frank in his house, learns the others are in 1977

Locke and Ben arrive back at the barracks. Locke asks Ben if it was his idea to move the others into the barracks after the Dharma folk were killed. Ben asks "Do you disapprove John?" Locke says "It just doesn't seem like something the island would want." Ben replies "You don't have the first idea what this island wants." Locke says "Are you sure about that?" Ben seems to be growing increasingly worried that Locke is starting to understand the island better than him.

At that moment, a light comes on in Alex's room in Ben's old house. A figure walks past the window. Locke tells Ben that he should go check it out. Inside the house, things are all over the floor, the bookshelf is in disarray and the game of Risk that Locke, Sawyer and Hurley were playing last season is still as the left it. Ben goes down the hall towards Alex's room and sees a shadow pass under the door. Ben quickly opens the door and scares Sun. Frank rushes in from another room. Ben asks what they are doing in his old house and Frank picks up the Dharma Initiative new recruit photo from 1977. Ben looks at it and is stunned that Jack, Hurley and Kate were part of the Dharma Initiative. Sun seems surprised that Ben doesn't already know this and he claims he does not. Ben asks where they got the photo and Frank tells him that they met a crazy old man outside. Sun says his name was Christian and Ben's face immeidately reacts to the name. Sun says Christian told them to come inside and wait for John Locke. Frank says "Considering he's dead, we ain't holding our breathe." Ben tells them to look outside. Sun and Frank go to the window and see Locke who waves at them.

So how exactly is Locke supposed to help Sun reunite with Jin who is 30 years in the past? Have the buildings the barracks really not been touched since December 2004? Did the others never come back there or did something happen to them? We haven't seen the others yet in 2007.

Ben brings Alex back to camp, Charles Widmore is not pleased

Ben and Ethan bring baby Alex back to the camp where Charles Widmore, Richard Alpert and many other are. Widmore asks Ben if he did it and Ben tells him that they had a complication. Widmore looks up and asks Ben if he's holding a baby and says that his orders were "To exterminate that woman." Ben says that Rousseau is no threat to them because she's insane. Ben continues saying that Widmore didn't tell him she had a child. Ben asks "What was it I was supposed to do?" Widmore angrily says "Kill it!" Ben says that it's not an it, it's a child. Richard looks at Ben then Widmore to see his response. Widmore stands and approaches Ben telling him a familiar line we've heard Ben say from time to time. Widmore says "Every decision I've made has been about protecting this island." Ben asks "Is killing this baby what Jacob wants?" Widmore and everyone else is silent. Ben then holds Alex out to Widmore and says "Here she is. You do it." Widmore just turns and walks away. Richard seems pleased with the stand that Ben took.

So this scene seems to prove that Widmore was lying when he told Locke in "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" that he ruled the island peacefully. Killing a woman and her baby is certainly not peaceful.

Locke and Ben get back to the main island

Locke and Ben arrive at the pier on the main island. Ben ties the boat up, looks at the island and says "Home sweet home." Locke points out the other canoe and Ben says that it is Sun and Frank's. Ben mentions that he told Sun where to go and then she hit him with a paddle. Locke asks if she was the one that hurt his arm and Ben says that someone else hurt his arm. Locke says "You just make friends everywhere you go, don't you." Ben says that he's found that sometimes friends can be more dangerous than enemies. Ben tells Locke that he shot Caesar with the gun he was going to shoot Locke with and he couldn't let that happen. Locke replies "No sense in me dying twice, right?" Ben just replies "You're welcome." While this conversation is going on, Locke is putting his shoes back on, the one's that belonged to Christian Shephard.

Locke says/asks if they're going back to Ben's old house. Ben says yes, it's the only place he can summon the monster. He says "Once it arrives I'll either be forgiven, or I won't." Locke says that Ben is lying. He says that Ben does not want to be judged for leaving the island and coming back because it's against the rules. He says Ben wants to be judged for killing his daughter, Alex.

The pier looks less damaged in the daylight in this scene than it did at night when Frank and Sun arrived. Their are no barrels or other debris floating in the water. Also, Locke seems to have really nailed Ben with his thought on his judgment as we see later in the episode.

Ben shoots Caesar, he and Locke take a canoe

Ben and Locke uncover one of the canoes so they can go to the main island. There are only supposed to be two left after Sun and Frank took one, but there is clearly three in the first shot. This seems like a mistake by the set designers.

As they are uncovering one of the canoes, Caesar and three other guys come up asks what they're doing. Locke says they're taking one of the canoes to the main island. Caesar says "I don' think so my friend." Locke asks him if they're his boats and Caesar replies "Are they yours?" Locke tells Caesar that the boats were found there so he's just going to borrow one and he'll leave the other one if they want to follow them. Caesar asks Ben if he's going and Ben says that he wasn't given a choice. Caesar says he's calling the shots and they cannot take a a canoe. He says that Locke needs to sit down and tell him how he knows so much about the island adding a "My friend" at the end. Locke says that Caesar's in the habit of calling people friend, but he doesn't really mean it. Locke tells him that they're taking the boat and Caesar is going to let them. Caesar reaches for the gun in his bag but it's not there. Ben pulls it out and shoot Caesar in the chest. He turns to the other guys with Caesar and says that he and Locke are taking a boat and asks "Does anyone else have a problem with that?" They all back away and shake their heads indicating "no." Ben tosses the gun to Locke and says "Consider that my apology."

So is that the end of Caesar? Did the producers introduce this new character in multiple episodes just to be shot? There's always a good chance that Caesar will turn up in flashbacks when we learn more about the other people on Ajira 316.

Ben tells Locke why he killed him, Locke to help Ben be judged

We see Ben in the Hydra Station office rummaging through the desk. He finds a picture of he and Alex and takes it from the frame. Locke walks in at that moment and asks what he has there. Ben says that it's just something sentimental. Locke moves around the desk and says "I never pictured you leading your people from behind a desk. It seems a little, corporate." Locke sits at the desk, leans back and puts his foot up confidently. Ben asks him if there's something that he needed. Locke tells him he wants to talk about "The elephant in the room." Ben says he assumes that means the fact that he killed him. Ben says that killing Locke was the only way to get him back to the island along with as many of the others as possible. Ben reminds Locke that he failed to get the others to come back. Ben continues saying that the only way to get them back was for Locke to die and that Locke realized this which is why he was about to kill himself. Locke asks hBenim why he stopped him if all he had to do was die. Ben says that Locke had critical information that he need and once he had it, it was just easier to kill him rather than convince him to hang himself again. Ben says "Look at you John, I was write." He says that Locke and the others are back though he doesn't know where they are yet. Ben says he did it all because "It was in the best interest of the island." Locke says "I was just hoping for an apology. Locke then says that he's decided to help Ben be judged. Locke says that if everything Ben has done has been in the best interest of the island, then I'm sure the monster will understand." Locke pauses, then says "Let's go."

So after death, John Locke seems to have finally found his confidence. He's got his jacket on, he looks professional and he's calling the shots. He's not letting Ben push him around anymore. Ben is obvsiously uncomfortable with this power shift.