Colonel Locke

I was re-rewatching the first season and remembering many a question I have over looked, probably because of the bombardment of new questions.

Did we ever find out if Locke had ever served as a Colonel? In, I think, Walkabout when he flashes back to working at the box company as the regional supervisor, he is on the phone with someone who asks if the line is secure and they talk about something cryptic before being interupted by his boss-man. The man on the other line refers to him as Colonel, and then later when they are playing risk in the employee lounge his boss points out that in his resume or history or whatever there is no mention of time served in the army. Did I miss somthing?

Another curious thing (not about locke) is in Raised by Another, both to her boyfriend and to the psychic Claire says that her mom would disown her if she found out she was pregnant. My issue is her mom is in a coma at this time- you think they are just talking figuratively?

Well as far as Locke goes.. He also told Ben in the Man from Tallahasee "for all you know I was a Commander in the Navy" when he asks Ben for the sub..

The only think I know of that has denyed that Locke was military is the scene you referance above about Randy telling him he looked at his file and he was never enlisted in any branch of the military but yes it has been brought up more than once in one form or another

As for Claire.. Yes I believe it was that she couldn't not accept her mother was in a coma and talked to her all the time.. So I would say it was figuratively.

TEVA SAID:
Did we ever find out if Locke had ever served as a Colonel? In, I think, Walkabout when he flashes back to working at the box company as the regional supervisor, he is on the phone with someone who asks if the line is secure and they talk about something cryptic before being interupted by his boss-man. The man on the other line refers to him as Colonel, and then later when they are playing risk in the employee lounge his boss points out that in his resume or history or whatever there is no mention of time served in the army. Did I miss somthing?

No, I don't think Locke was ever a colonel. He was playing a game with another guy in his office and pretending to be a colonel. Locke was kind of pathetic in a lot of ways before he landed on the island, and I am not referring to his being in a wheelchair. He could have done many things with his life, but took a lot of basically menial go-nowhere jobs. He asked a phone sex operator to pretend she was his ex-fiancee. Sad, really, and he knows it. He is SOMEBODY on the Island. One reason why he doens't want to leave.

TEVA SAID:
Another curious thing (not about locke) is in Raised by Another, both to her boyfriend and to the psychic Claire says that her mom would disown her if she found out she was pregnant. My issue is her mom is in a coma at this time- you think they are just talking figuratively?[/quote]

Yeah, everyone did forget about this question. I originally thought it was an example of multiple timelines going on at the same time, but a lot of people poo-pooed that theory. In one timeline Claire's mother was in a coma. In one she wasn't. In one timeline Kate stood up for her mother and killed the stepfather. In one she didn't. Etc. I hope there are answers to this question.

It could, of course, have been as simple as Claire just not wanting to tell her friend that her mom was in a coma. Claire's friend responds with something like: "Hasn't she already disowned you?" Claire telling her friend that her mother disowned her would explain why her mother was never around, without Claire having to admit her mom was in a coma. Maybe she just didn't want to be pitied. Or maybe she wanted at least one person to think Claire had a normal family and so it was a little bit true as long as that friend believed it. Also, so long as Claire kept up the story that her mother was a bad person and disowned her, she didn't have to deal with the grief of being responsible for the car crash. She was the one driving, and though she wasn't drunk or impaired...she was the one driving. Remember, she never really deals with the grief until she visits her mother just before taking Flight 815 to LA to give away her baby. She admits to her mother that she is pregnant and she apologizes profusely for putting her mother in the hospital.

Locke never was in the army or anything like that, so i think they guy on the phone was a friend talking to him about the wargame he used to play online and he had to go because he was at work, and that refers also to his manager asking him the same question you have asked and, why people call him the colonel.

As for claire i think it's just because her mum was pregnant when she was young by Christian shepard and she didn't want claire to make the same mistake's she did.

Oh I see, it was all a game between him and a co-worker.

Thanks. Just wanted to see what other people got out of these scenes.