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Lost – Sky 1, Sunday 9pm

‘The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham’

More of our Lost questions get answered as we finally find out how Jeremy Bentham aka John Locke came to be dead!

As series 5 creeps on we are being fed more and more information that points toward Charles Widmore not being the villain that Ben has always made him out to be. In fact, Benjamin Linus is looking increasingly like the real ‘bad guy’ of the show. But, as always, I am forced to withhold judgement for now as these pesky writers do try and lead us avid Lost fans astray with their storylines.

We already knew that Ben’s scheeming and ruthlessness knew no bounds, even down to killing his own father, but I for one had assumed that it was his devotion to the Island and protecting it from enemies (particularly Charles Widmore) that fuelled this behaviour. In fact the reason he left the Island was to protect it and if he (Ben) is the evil one then wouldn’t Richard Alpert and the rest of the others have dealt with him by now?

In last nights show it was Widmore who appeared to be protecting John and helping him with his mission while Ben strangely saved John from hanging himself…..only to murder him!!! And when we see Locke trying to work out how he had returned to the Island at the end of the show, we find out that the Oceanic survivors (including Locke) all magically transported to the Island in the flash of white light while the others on-board flight 817 (including Ben) only made it to the Island by crashing into it! Hmmm….

One final act of evilness that I hope Ben hasn’t committed is killing Penny Widmore and possibly little Charlie but the end of episode 6 seemed to point to just that. As it stands at the moment – Widmore’s only crime is sending the soldiers to find the Island and get Ben (although why didn’t he go with them if he wanted to return to the Island?) while Ben is a rampant serial killer and conman…..hmmmm again!

Now all the survivors are back hopefully future episodes will concentrate on the Island and start revealing a few more of it’s mysteries….oh damn I forgot about Desmond maybe there are a few on/off episodes left to come!