I’ll have to revise my theory expressed in this post from last week a bit in light of tonight’s events, but I still believe that Ben has been trying to prevent Locke from taking his place in terms of having the closest connection to the island, it’s just that now I’m tacking on another reason for it: Ben knew that Locke could not make the hard choices needed to protect the island, and he was proven right tonight by Locke not being able to kill Jack in order to do it.
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I would point out that Locke actually only had one bullet in that gun. He used that one bullet to shoot the ground by the phone to try and scare Jack. I don’t think you can rule out Locke’s willingness to do whatever it takes. I think he might have shot Jack if he could. It was a complete bluff though because he was out of bullets.
That would play into Jacob saying “help me” to Locke which meant, please “help me [the island]” from the people coming to the island whidmore]. Jacob probably knew what fate of the island is with the extraction of the Losties.
JT: I don’t think so – I’ll have to check again, but I thought he saw that the gun was full when he checked it in the pit.