[Miss Austen]

Ben goes in for manipulation tactics. John Locke points out that isn't his style. He told Ben, "I'm not you".

I'm just wondering why Ben has fallen out of favour of being the chosen one - what sparked it? He got a tumour on his spine which Jack fixed and now Ben's daughter has been killed. It seems like someone has it in for Ben!

Jack turned the manipulation stakes back onto Ben by cutting one of Ben's arteries during the tumour removal operation. Being hoist by your own petard springs to mind.

Jack and Locke haven't always seen eye to eye but I feel Jack hates Ben's manipulations and his stalling tactics for disallowing them to leave the island. With Locke, I think Jack feels Locke is just misguided.

Has Locke failed as a leader or are we just being led to believe he has failed? That will be an interesting discovery next series. They hint at Locke's failure by his being in a coffin having supposedly committed suicide and Richard's apparent disapproval when Locke chose a knife for one of his belongings.