I found it hard to believe Locke took Sawyer's word for what Jack wanted to do. I'm becoming more convinced that the things Locke does are to manipulate the group and not just reaction to the events of the moment.

The Locke character is reminding me more and more of O'Quinn's Peter Watts role in "Millennium" for any of you familiar with that show.

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Things fall apart, the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

--Lines 2-6, "The Second Coming" by Wm. Butler Yeats