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Jack killed the lawman bringing Kate back to the states, after Sawyer botched the shooting.

Well, is Locke alive? I mean in the sense that the rest of the characters are alive. He's probably in the same alive/dead meta-state as Christian: both brought to the island dead and in a casket. But both are seen and interact with the "alive," but I don't recall ever seeing Christian actually physically interact with the world: move objects, open a door, etc. He's simply there. Locke, OTOH, does interact with the physical world, like bringing in the dead animal, holding the torch, etc. I've always assumed that Jacob was the manifestation of the island, how (in PoChop's idea) it communicates. But with John so matter-of-factly saying he's going to kill Jacob, I'm wondering. So is John alive like everyone else? Christian did seem to be a mouthpiece for the island/Jacob but John clearly isn't... unless, of course, Jacob really wants to die ("help me," he said to John). And John will be the new Jacob. Maybe it just got boring in that small cabin after a few centuries, and time for a new caretaker, sort of like (allusion to Merillin's post) the knight guarding the holy grail in Indiana Jones 3.