No present was filled with as many compelling mysteries as ABC’s “Misplaced.” Showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse had introduced the sequence would finish in season 6, and with the end line on the horizon, the race was on to find solutions to the present’s many, many questions. And but, even because it approached the tip, the sequence stored throwing new mysteries at us to maintain us on our toes. Chief amongst them in season 4 was the thriller of “who’s Jeremy Bentham?” Within the third season finale, we uncover that Jack and Kate had someway managed to flee the island, however the discovery of a coffin loaded with an unknown individual inside pushes Jack to return, teeing up the ultimate run of the sequence.
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Within the season 3 finale, we by no means get to see who this “Jeremy Bentham” contained in the coffin is, and so we spend all of season 4 desperately making an attempt to get a glimpse inside. Hypothesis over who Jeremy Bentham was grew to become a key a part of the season 4 thriller field, and the showrunners knew precisely the way to tease the viewers with the reply.
There was all the time intense scrutiny over the present’s secrets and techniques, so in an effort to obscure the true id of Jeremy Bentham, Lindelof and Cuse filmed three variations of the season 4 finale, simply in case there was a leak that may spoil the shock. We needed to wait till the ultimate moments of season 4 to be taught that it wasn’t Sawyer or Desmond inside that coffin, however John Locke.
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And but even with that reveal, it would not be till season 5 that we’d be taught why John had taken the pseudonym “Jeremy Bentham.”
The title Jeremy Bentham was bestowed on Locke by Charles Widmore
One of many central questions that drove the “Misplaced” fandom from the very starting was if any of the survivors of Oceanic 815 would ever escape the island, and within the season 3 finale, “Via the Wanting Glass,” we realized that at the least a few of them would. Then all through season 4, we realized that escaping the island was not joyful information for the Others who needed to maintain the island’s location a secret, and in season 5, we watch Locke take up the duty of bringing them again.
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He turns the wheel on the coronary heart of the island, dropping him in the course of the Tunisian desert, and is visited by one of many sequence’ most ambiguous antagonists, Charles Widmore. Widmore provides to assist Locke convey the Oceanic 6 again to the island, giving him an assistant within the type of Lance Reddick’s Matthew Abaddon and the pretend id of Jeremy Bentham.
The aptly titled episode “The Life and Demise of Jeremy Betham” plots out John’s quest to convey the Oceanic 6 again. He visits them every one after the other, however he in the end fails to persuade any of them to return. At his lowest second and in a pit of despair, Locke decides to finish his life, tying a noose to hold himself, solely to be saved on the final second by Ben Linus. Locke desires to die till Ben reveals that Jack, of all folks, has booked a ticket again to Sydney, a revelation that Jack does certainly need to return to the island. With a glimmer of hope returning, Locke reveals to Ben how he plans to convey everybody again to the island. That is when Ben makes his most despicable transfer but (which is absolutely saying one thing) and kills Locke and levels the demise as a suicide in an effort to steal his plan for himself.
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Locke has all the time been a bigger than life character, and even in demise, he succeeds in his aim of bringing Jack and the others again to the island. It is a tragic, bittersweet finish for our favourite character, which is made all of the extra harrowing after we understand that Locke’s physique is stolen by a mysterious shapeshifter for ulterior functions.
Jeremy Bentham turns into a vessel for the Man in Black
Sure, even in demise, John Locke lives on, his physique used as a vessel for the mysterious Man in Black in his everlasting campaign towards his brother-turned-island-protector, Jacob. This revelation is much an excessive amount of to elucidate in a pair paragraphs, however the brief model is that the Man in Black wanted to convey the members of the Oceanic 6 again to the island, as a result of they have been all Jacob’s candidates to take over his function because the island’s protector.
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The Man in Black wanted them again so he might have all of them killed, then destroy the center of the island and escape as soon as and for all. However returning to the island just isn’t simply achieved: As a way to return, Jack and firm should recreate the precise circumstances of their preliminary flight, which requires a useless physique to take the place of his father’s coffin. Enter “Jeremy Bentham” as the ultimate piece of the puzzle.
Besides, to everybody’s shock, once they land again on the island, John Locke walks amongst the dwelling. It takes them fairly some time to appreciate this is not really John, however the Man in Black utilizing his physique as a shell with which to control Ben into killing Jacob.
By the point they determine what’s occurring, Jacob lies useless with nothing holding the Man in Black again apart from Jack and his newfound respect for John Locke. If solely he had been humble sufficient to confess he admired Locke whereas he was alive, all of this might need been prevented, however now Jack should keep on Locke’s legacy and shield the island from the supernatural being that wears his face like a masks.
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The origin of the title Jeremy Bentham offers hints to the sequence’ ethical classes
Like many different character names on the present, the “Jeremy Bentham” title is a reference to a well-known thinker. The actual Jeremy Bentham rose to prominence within the nineteenth century due to his advocacy for utilitarianism, which, merely put, is the assumption that the ends justify the means; if the actions you pursue result in the general biggest quantity of happiness for a gaggle of individuals, then these actions have been morally justified.
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It is smart, then, why Widmore would bestow this title upon John Locke: Widmore himself was exiled by Ben from the island and has been determined to return for many years. When he crosses paths with Locke, he really does consider that he should do all the things and something to return and defend the island from Ben, together with kidnapping his son-in-law Desmond to convey him again to the island towards his will.
This query of if the ends justify the means looms bigger over the complete sequence, and particularly the underrated “Misplaced” sequence finale. Sure, all our characters have carried out horrible deeds, however ultimately, they’re introduced collectively by their mutual love for each other. So whereas the life and demise of Jeremy Bentham could be a minor thriller within the grand scheme of issues, it is also a microcosm of all the things that made “Misplaced” particular.
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