… And one big heaping piece of filler episode.
First a word about the filler: Further Instructions.
What’s missing from the title is what viewers did for one hour: wait. As in the phrase “Await further instructions,” and boy did we ever. Nothing happened in the Locke centric episode.
We didn’t learn much new about anyone or anything. [...]

“Jack asked me how I knew… knew for sure that this man was lying. How I knew for sure he was one of them. One of The Others. I know because I feel no guilt for what I did to him.”

The literary device of subtext is a beautiful thing. When executed properly you understand a [...]