At night on the beach Vincent is barking at something he sees in the fuselage. Jack comments that it's Sawyer who is quick to correct him with: "Right behind ya, jackass.". Turns out it's a few wild boar. The next day, Sayid tells Kate he wants to try to triangulate the radio signal to find out where the French woman's signal is coming from as there will be a power supply there. During an argument with Sawyer, Hurley says they are almost out of food. Sayid suggests they look for food in the jungle. Sawyer mocks him over this and has a huge knife flung at him just barely missing his head.
Locke, who threw the knife, says they can go hunt for food. Locke shows the group his ample supply of hunting knives. The flashbacks follow Locke who we see working in an office. His adding machine makes the same noise as the monster we heard in the jungle during the pilot episodes. Randy, the office supervisor, asks John about the walkabout he is planning on going on. Randy tells John that he can't do a walkabout. John responds with a line that we hear many times during the course of the show: "Don't tell me what I can't do.". This of course will mostly be said by Locke but others also say it over the series.
Back on the island we watch as Michael, Kate, and John go hunting. Michael tells Kate that Walt's mother died two weeks before the crash. A boar charges them and injures Michael. Kate takes Michael back to the beach camp while Locke continues with the hunt. Charlie takes inventory of his heroin stash and manages to put it away just before Shannon approaches him. She asks him about fishing and Charlie asks Hurley for help as he thinks catching a fish will impress Shannon. Charlie and Hurley bond while trying to catch fish. Elsewhere on the island Claire finds some of Sayid's belongings which includes a photograph of a woman.
In the jungle Locke continues with the hunt and comes face to face ... or whatever with the monster. If you look closely you can just make out the dark image of what we would eventually come to know as the smoke monster. Claire attempts to gather information on the dead passengers what are still in the fuselage. She would like to have a memorial service for them and asks Jack for help. He tells her that that isn't his thing. Even Sawyer seems a bit sympathetic to her cause as he gives her some of the passengers personal belongings that he has found. Further down the beach Jack talks to Rose the woman he was sitting next to on the plane. He tells her about being a doctor and she tells him about her husband. He tells her about the memorial service they will be having for the dead which will include her husband. Rose tells him that her husband isn't dead.
Jack sees a man standing under a tree as Kate returns from the hunt and tells Jack that the monster attacked Locke and is "gone". Jack chases the figure he saw into the jungle and nearly runs into Locke who is coming out of the jungle with a dead boar. Later that night Claire conducts the memorial service as they burn the bodies of the dead. Jack, true to his word, does not attend the memorial. Michael asks Locke about the monster but Locke tells Michael that he didn't see it. Back in Australia John is told he cannot go on the walkabout due to his "condition".
In what is the shows first big plot twist as well as being the first point that people site as being the moment they were hooked on the show is when Locke's "condition" is revealed. As the camera pans back and we see Locke in the guides office for the walkabout we discover he is in a wheelchair. Locke has been paralyzed for four years yet here on the island he can walk. Here he is whole again. At the memorial Locke smiles at the wheelchair knowing he won't be needing it anymore. Walkabout is still considered today to be one of the best episodes of the entire series and I don't disagree with that notion.
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