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Locke: Clearly dead

We saw the body of a clearly dead John Locke in LOST’s  Season 5 finale (twice!).

In the days since the finale, actor Terry O’ Quinn who plays Locke, took part in a charity golf match, taking time out to talk to fans about the finale and the fate of his character in the show’s final season which begins in 2010.

Surprisingly, O’Quinn revealed that he has yet to view the the finale and didn’t know how the story was edited. He quipped, “Don’t tell me. I want to be surprised,” when asked about specifics of “The Incident.”

In the season cliffhanger, a bomb which could prevent Flight 815 from ever crashing on the mysterious island,  seemed to have been detonated.

As for his character, O’Quinn says he’s really gone.
Locke’s body was rolled out of a metal box toward the end of the two-hour episode, revealing the current leader of the Others to be a fake Locke. (EDIT/ Both my spouse and I were completely unsurprised  by this–and we had no spoilers to base that on. Did anyone look at the box? It was coffin-shaped! –Cyn) Exactly who is now occupying Locke’s body wasn’t revealed. O’Quinn said it would be “a good guess” to assume it’s a man seen with the infamous Jacob in the beginning of the episode.

“I think, unfortunately, I think it’s ended for Locke. But I’m still there, as far as I know,” O’Quinn said. “I don’t know how it’s going to end for this other guy. I’m sad. I miss John Locke, poor guy. He was a pawn.”

O’Quinn is gearing up to play a new character when the sixth season begins next year. As for the rest of the story line, he swears he has no idea.

“Your guess is honestly as good as mine is,” he said. “There’s going to be some confrontation that will somehow, I’m guessing, have to do with Jack or Locke or something like that. I think these guys are just setting up good and evil. It’s the way Locke said in the very beginning of the show: One is light and one is dark. Two sides. I think that’s what we’ve got.”

Thanks to LOST Spoilers!

Matt Mitovich with Getting LOST with TVGuide
In this week’s installment:

• I reveal your assorted predictions about how the season finale would end, and then rip open the envelope and reveal my own: “The whole damn island blows up.”

• Fortuitously, I ran my prediction by Michael Emerson when I spoke to him the other day. Hear what he had to say about how the “explosive” ending means for the show’s final 17 episodes — starting with the Season 6 premiere.

• Is Juliet definitely a goner? The fate of her fall pilot set aside, I remind you what Elizabeth Mitchell teased about the season finale’s apparent death.
Source: TV Guide