[Ghoulish Delight]

Awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome episode. Awesome.

Just brilliantly constructed. From the parallel to Sawyer's back story (being convinced he's been given the info and opportunity to kill someone he wants to kill only to find out that he was led on for his informants own purposes...with, of course, the extra twist at the end) to the perfectly executed ambiguity of who exactly Locke had tied up.

The moment Locke uttered "No one can hear you," I instantly thought, "Okay, they want us to think it's his dad, but it's going to turn out to be Ben." I rolled my eyes at that. But then they showed their hand early with Locke saying it was Ben. THEN I got interested, because now I could see it going either way. Was John really going to make Sawyer relive his sin to the letter? "It's Ben, kill him! Psych, it was my dad!" Did he really have Ben? Or will we find out that the John's-Dad-is-Tom-Sawyer theory is true and the Ben story was just because Sawyer wouldn't have believed it any other way.

As it got closer it got more obvious, already having the better than sneaking suspicion that Tom Sawyer and Locke's dad were one and the same. But it was still pulled off well enough that until that hood came of, some doubt remained.

So, what do you think, does that count for John? Having him killed rather than killing him himself? Will the island accept that as his sacrifice?