Lost (TV Series) Lockdown (2006) User Reviews

One of the best Locke episodes

[itsgillian_w · 10/10 · 21 August 2009]

The episode title is pretty self-explanatory and is a play-on word as well: there is a Lockdown in the hatch and Locke is pinned under the blast doors. The character of John Locke is an intriguing one. His episodes always leave me feeling impressed (that may be because Terry O'Quinn is an excellent actor, or Damon and Carlton write most of the Locke episodes) and wanting to find out more about his character. In this episode, we find out in flashbacks, that Locke was going to propose to Helen before his father "died" and because of this, after a series of events, Locke loses the girl. On the island, Locke gets trapped in the den of the hatch when the blast doors come down. He is forced to use the help of "Henry Gale" to get the blast doors to come up and to press the button. Meanwhile, Sayid, Charlie and Ana Lucia look for his balloon. And as one lockdown ends, another one begins when Sayid, Charlie and Ana Lucia return with some pivotal information that leaves us hanging. A terrific episode.

10/10

Disclosing the Truth About Henry Gale

[claudio_carvalho · 9/10 · 2 July 2006]

While alone in the hatch with Henry Gale, all the openings shutdown and John Locke becomes trapped in a room with him. He releases Henry to help him to open the hydraulic door, and he supports it with a tool box. When John tries to passes below the door, the box collapses and his legs are secured by the guillotine door. He recalls his former relationship with Helen, while Henry tries to reach the computer through the ventilation duct. Meanwhile, Ana Lucia, Sayid and Charlie find the truth about Henry in the jungle and return to the camp.

"Lockdown" is a nervous episode of "Lost", where the life of John Lock and his relationship with his father and his beloved Helen is presented in flashbacks. The surprising truth about Henry Gale is disclosed in a twist in the end of the story and I am curious about the consequences of this discovery. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): Not Available

Note: On 31 March 2013, I saw this episode again.

Locke down (get it?)

[gridoon2024 · 8/10 · 17 April 2009]

"Lockdown" is good, but as far as Season 2 Locke-centered episodes go, I still prefer "Orientation", maybe because the secondary plot there (Sawyer, Jin and Michael being captured by Eko and Ana Lucia, with each group thinking the others are "The Others") is better than the secondary plot here (Jack vs. Sawyer poker match with fruits and medicine as chips). Still, "Lockdown" is a very smartly made episode: after making Henry Gale look guilty as hell in the previous episode, "The Whole Truth", here the writers go out of their way to make him look as innocent as possible (he helps the injured Locke and pushes the button, while Sayid, Ana Lucia and Charlie find the parachute and the grave he described), and then....BAM! The ending comes, and leaves you with your mouth hanging open. There is also a moment in this episode - Locke asking Helen to marry him - where Terry O'Quinn's acting is just incredible; only his "It's never BEEN easy" in "Orientation" comes close. *** out of 4.

Superb in dealing with both character and mythology

[ametaphysicalshark · 11 October 2008]

"Lockdown" is definitely a well-liked episode, but is rarely the first (or second, or third) episode to be talked about when discussions of Locke flashbacks occur, and I actually think it's one of the best Locke flashbacks, on par with "Orientation" although not as good as "Walkabout" and "The Man From Tallahassee". Like "Orientation" it balances an excellent flashback dealing primarily with Locke's relationship with Helen and with his father with a heavy dose of iconic, memorable mythology for us geeks out there.

It's not quite as mythology-heavy as "Orientation", nor as revelatory, but it still gave us the blast door map, confirmed that Henry Gale was not who he said he was, featured a 'new' food drop, and just had this excellent plot with the lockdown in the hatch. The other on-island scenes deal primarily with Jack playing poker with Sawyer over the medication he stole. Thank heavens this was a Carlton Cuse/Damon Lindelof script because just thinking about what Liz Sarnoff would have done with that plot idea (turned it into a love triangle thing) is quite horrifying, but it turns out quite well here, and is completely consistent with both characters' previous behavior. Even the obligatory Jack and Kate romance moment towards the end of the episode is surprisingly sweet, real, and slightly awkward, replacing what we usually see from such scenes, which is this TV sort of soap-opera romance. It's a good throwback to what the Jack and Kate relationship felt like in season one, at least in some of the better episodes.

The episode is brilliantly directed by Stephen Williams and is also shot extremely well by Michael Bonvillain, particularly during the hatch scenes, and especially the blast door map scene. There's an especially gorgeous shot of Locke's eye with the map's reflection in it. Aside from the mobster angle in the flashback, which felt a little forced, "Lockdown" is pretty much a perfect episode and a lot of fun.

10/10.

Trapped in the hatch

[TheLittleSongbird · 10/10 · 5 March 2018]

When 'Lost' was in its prime, it was must-watch television. Remember first watching it, found it remarkably easy to get into, was hooked from the start and was on Season 3 by the end of one week. The general consensus is that the final season is a disappointment and cannot disagree.

Season 2 of 'Lost' to me was very solid with many good to outstanding episodes (with a notable exception being "Fire + Water", which took strangeness too literally). For me, "Lockdown" is among the season's best, along with, as far as the previous episodes go, "Man of Science, Man of Faith", "Orientation", "The Other 48 Days", "The 23rd Psalm" and "One of Them".

"Lockdown" is a Locke-centric episode, which will have 'Lost' fans squeal with delight if they are like me and consider Locke one of the show's best and most interesting characters. That's not all that is great about "Lockdown" though, everything works here.

The viewer learns more about Locke and sees more development to his already fascinating character in one of the best-acted and best Locke-centric flashbacks. All the while also seeing signs of story development being advanced and a couple of genuinely shocking revelations, especially an ending that will leave the viewer floored. Liked the Jack and Sawyer scenes too, the hatch scenes are intensely riveting and edge-of-your-seat and Jack and Kate's chemistry is some of the most natural and sweet it's been up to this point in the show

All the acting is excellent, especially from Terry O'Quinn and Michael Emerson.

Visually, 'Lost' continues to be stylish, atmospheric and beautiful in "Lockdown", as always making the most of the island setting. The music is as always chilling and understated, the writing is taut and smart and the episode is one of the best directed ones of Season 2.

Overall, fabulous and a Season 2 high. 10/10 Bethany Cox

tf is up with Jack?

[kinoohnepopcorn · 10/10 · 7 June 2023]

Jack just got to know that his friends are running into a trap and he does nothing but PLAYING POKER. What? A character so obsessed with helping just doesn't care about his friends that could be dying just now, cause Poker is more important?

You know, I love this show. But if you asked me for one thing I don't like, it'd be that the feeling of urgency is somehow missing. I mean, Michael is gone since ... for a long time, but no one cares. It's probably cause it's an older show, and back then they were kinda designed to be as long as possible while today is the opposite the case (which is even worse if you ask me). And that's kinda annoying- a super important and exciting thing happens but then we pause it for ten episodes until we see how it plays out cause - FILLER.

It's still a good episode, don't get me wrong. There's so much great stuff in here. It's just something that REALLY bothered me.

Open clues behind closed doors

[shashikrishna · 30 March 2006]

This very interesting Locke-centered episode starts off by showing snapshots of the past that has happened till now. Jack ends up on the beach playing a hand of poker with Sawyer while Locke is left alone in the hatch with the prisoner Henry Gayle. We see some more images of Locke's past involving his father and Helen, his lady friend. We also realize that Locke had proposed to Helen at one point.

Back on the beach the hatch seems to take a life of its own when large metal doors come crashing down locking Locke and Henry inside it. As the two men struggle to get help Locke ends up getting his foot stuck under one of those Herculean metal doors. Henry on the other hand is given the task of getting the code into the computer since the alarm starts sounding and Locke is no position to move. How he gets into the computer room and enters the code is a mystery.

The episode ends with Sayid, Charlie and Ana Luisa returning from the jungle where they find the parachute and the grave but also a little more than what Henry had expected.

An excellent edge of the seat thriller of an episode of LOST this one.

Details

[ihala-39114 · 25 May 2020]

It's kinda stupid that they saw the balloon because it's not raining under it .. this balloon is big enough, close enough and red enough to be seen while walking -_-