Talk:Dr. Linus

Plot summary

Ach, I just wrote out a plot summary for the episode, but because I was so slow about doing it, by the time I hit save one had already gone up. I'm not a regular Lost editor, but I've been hoping to get a bit more involved, and given that I don't want to entirely lose the best part of an hour's editing, I hope it's okay if I save the version I'd written here for now? It's a bit longer on the 2004 plot and shorter on the 2007. Perhaps a little of it can be incorporated? Never mind if not, that'll teach me not to be so slow editing a high traffic article in future :) Frickative 05:22, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

2004

In the alternate timeline, Ben Linus (Michael Emerson) is a history teacher. His boss, Principal Reynolds (William Atherton), suspends Ben's history club, forcing him to supervise after school detentions for a week. Ben complains about the school's leadership to his colleague, science teacher Leslie Arzt (Daniel Roebuck), and is overheard by substitute teacher John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), who advises Ben to become the principal himself. At home, Ben admits to feeling unfulfilled in his career, and his ailing father (Jon Gries) apologizes, believing that Ben could have had a better life had they not left the island where he worked for the Dharma Initiative years previously. Alex Rousseau (Tania Raymonde), a member of Ben's history club, asks Ben to help her revise for an exam, hoping to gain admittance to Yale University. During the course of their study session, she reveals to Ben that Principal Reynolds is having an extramarital affair with the school nurse. He has Arzt hack into Reynolds' emails, and confronts the principal with an ultimatum: he resigns and recommends Ben to the school board as his successor, or Ben will show the emails to Reynolds' wife. His attempted blackmail fails when Reynolds informs him that if Ben carries out his threat, he will refuse to write Alex a letter of recommendation for Yale, sabotaging her academic career. Ben backs down, but is able to have his history club reinstated.

2007

Following the massacre at the Temple in "Sundown", Ben, Sun-Hwa Kwon (Yunjin Kim), Frank Lapidus (Jeff Fahey), Miles Straume (Ken Leung) and Ilana (Zuleikha Robinson) head to the beach. Aware that Miles is a medium, Ilana asks him to relay Jacob's (Mark Pellegrino) final thoughts. Learning that Ben killed Jacob, Ilana shackles Ben to a tree and has him begin to dig his own grave. In the jungle, Jack Shepherd (Matthew Fox) and Hurley Reyes (Jorge Garcia) encounter Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell). He leads them to the Black Rock, the slave ship which brought him to the island, and reveals that Jacob has instilled him with a gift which makes him ageless but unable to end his own life. He asks them to kill him, stating that now Jacob is dead, he believes his life has had no purpose. Jack lights a long fuse on a stick of dynamite, telling Richard that he does not believe either of them will be allowed to die. Close to reaching the dynamite, the fuse goes out, leaving them unharmed. On the beach, the Monster approaches Ben and tells him he has left a rifle for him in the jungle. He frees Ben from his shackle and invites him to join his group on the neighboring Hydra island. Ben runs into the jungle, pursued by Ilana, and manages to reach the rifle. He apologizes to Ilana for killing Jacob, explaining that he allowed his daughter Alex to be killed believing that it was Jacob's will. Ilana allows Ben to remain with her group. As they arrive back the the beach, they are joined by Jack, Hurley and Richard. In the ocean nearby, a submarine carrying Charles Widmore (Alan Dale) approaches the shore.

I think you did some good work here. If you want to go through and exchange some stuff in the plot summary, I think you should. Just remember to not add too many details. --Jackieboy87 (talk · contribs) 22:28, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

New picture

I replaced the picture with one of Ben from the final scene. I think it was a much more important scene in the episode as it was Ben-centric, and by far one of the most important scenes in Ben's entire arc. I hope this is okay, but I really feel that it much better represents the episode as a whole than the scene of Richard trying to commit suicide.--CyberGhostface (talk) 05:59, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

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