No play was full of as attractive mysteries as ABC's "lost". Showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Kuse announced that the series would end in season 6, and with the finish of the horizon, the race was included to reveal answers to many, many questions in the show. And yet, even as he approached the end, the series was constantly throwing new mysteries to keep us on his fingers. The chief among them in Season 4 was the mystery of "Who is EreereMi Bentam?" In the final of the third season, we reveal that Jackack and Kate somehow managed to avoid the island, but the discovery of the casket loaded with an unknown person in the interior is pushing Jackec to return, returning to the last series.

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In the finals of the season 3, we can never see who this "Ereeremi Bentam" is in the coffin, and so we spend the whole season 4 desperately trying to get a look inside. Speculation about who Ereeremi Bentam has become a key part of the mysterious box in Season 4, and the showtors knew exactly how to tease the audience with the answer.

There was always intense control over the secrets of the show, so to blur the true identity of Ereeremi Bentam, Lindelof and Kuse recorded three versions of the finale of season 4, Only in the case of leaks that will destroy the surprise. We had to wait until the last moments of Season 4 to find out that he was not in that casket in the coffin, but Johnon Lok.

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And yet, even with that discovery, it would not be up to the 5th season to learn why Johnon took the pseudonym "EreereMi Bentam".

One of the central questions that drove the "lost" accidentally was if one of the ocean survivors 815 would ever escape the island, and in the final of the season 3, "through the looking glass", we learned that at least some of them would like. Then, during the 4th season, we learned that avoiding the island is not happy news for others who wanted to keep the location of the island of Secret, and in season 5, we see Lok is taking the task of returning them.

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He turns The wheel in the heart of the island, Lowering it in the middle of the Tunisian desert and visiting one of the most unrelated antagonists of the series, Charles Vidor. Vidmore offers to help Locke return Ocean 6 to the island, giving him an assistant in the form of Matthew Abadon to Lance Redik and Ereeremi Bentam's false identity.

Appropriately titled episode "The Ticket and Death of Ereeremi Betam" draws Johnon's search to return Ocean 6. He visits each one, but eventually fails to persuade any of them to come back. In his lowest moment and in the pit of despair, Locke decided to end his life, tying his nose to hang, just to save at the last minute of Ben Linus. Locke wants to die until Ben reveals that Jackec, from all people, booked a ticket back to Sydney, a discovery that Jackec really wants to return to the island. With the shine of restoring hope, Locke reveals to Ben how he plans to return everyone to the island. That's when Ben makes his most sustained move yet (which really says something) and kills Locke and catches death as a suicide in order to steal his plan for himself.

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Locke has always been greater than life, and even in death, he succeeds in returning Jackec and others to the island. It is a tragic, bitter end for our favorite character, which is made even more frightening when we realize that Locke's body is stolen by a mysterious shape for unusual purposes.

Yes, even in death, lives Johnon Locke, his body used as a boat for The mysterious man in the black in his eternal crusade against his brother-spending-shotgun, James. This discovery is too much to explain in several viewsBut the short version is that the man in black had to return the members of the Ocean 6 on the island, because they were all candidates for Jaceacob to take his role as an island protector.

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The man in black needed back to kill everyone and then destroy the heart of the island and escape once and for all. But returning to the island is not easily done: to return, Jackec and the company must recreate the exact circumstances of their initial flight, which requires a dead body to take the place of his father's coffin. Enter "Ereeremi Bentam" as the last piece of the puzzle.

Except, to the surprise of everyone, when they land on the island, Johnon Lok walks between the living. It takes a long time to realize that this is not actually Johnon, but the man in black using his body as a shell that can manipulate Ben in Jacob's murder.

By the time they find out what is happening, Jacob lies dead without anything to hold the man in black, except for Jackec and his newly discovered respect for Johnon Lok. If only he was calm enough to admit that he admired Locke while he was alive, all this could have been prevented, but now Jackec must carry Locke's legacy and protect the island from the supernatural being carried by the face as a mask.

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Like many other names of the show's characters, the name "Ereeremi Bentam" is a referral to a famous philosopher. True Ereeremi Bentam climbed the importance of the 19th century thanks to its advocacy for utilitarianism, which is simply the belief that the ends justify the means; If the actions you perform lead to the overall happiness for a group of people, then those activities were morally justified.

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Then, it makes sense, why would Vidmore give this name to Johnon Locke: The Vidor himself was exiled by Ben from the island and it was desperate to return for decades. When he crosses Locke's trails, he really believes he must do everything and everything to return and defend the island of Ben, including the kidnapping of his brother -in -law Desmond to bring him back to the island against his will.

This question of whether the ends justify the funds are greater throughout the series, and in particular The better final in the series "Lost" series. Yes, all of our characters have done horrible works, but in the end, they are gathered from their mutual loveice to one another. So, while the life and death of Ereeremi Bentam can be a small mystery in the great scheme of things, it is also a microcosm of everything that has done "lost" specially.

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