Locke is toying with his gun some more, his feet propped up on the bed, glaring at Ben. Ben asks for help getting into his chair. He promises no tricks, he just wants some dignity. Locke should know about that. Locke looks offended and confused and contemplative all at the same time! Kind of like when my mom tells me I look "nice." Locke eventually decides to help Ben and stands up to get his wheelchair. Ben decides to repay this act of kindness by launching into a patronizing discussion of how Locke plans to operate the submarine. It's a complicated piece of machinery and you can't just push submerge. Locke can't help but mention that Emily Post would have a huge problem with this display of gratitude. Then he says that for all Ben knows he was a commander in the Navy. Oh Locke, are you still so naïve? Or are you just fucking with us? Locke tells Ben to wrap his arms around him and he will lift him into the chair. Ben turns to stare into Locke's eyes, pulls out a purple satin turban, settles it on his head, demands that Locke refer to him as the Great and Powerful Benno and then says: "If you met Mikhail then you have been to the communications hub. That means you found the explosive. Obviously that means you're not planning on piloting the submarine. You are planning to destroy it! I know you, John Locke." Locke interrupts to point out that, no, he doesn't know him at all. The Great and Powerful Benno whips up a storm of grey smoke and lightning and yells that no one interrupts the Great and Powerful Benno! He says "I know you were born in California. I know you grew up in foster care. I know you wasted a good part of your life in Tustin pushing papers at a company that makes industrial boxes. I know you spent the four years prior to your arrival on this Island in a wheelchair. And I know how you ended up in it. Tell me, John. Did it hurt?" Locke looks unpleasantly surprised and stares intensely at the Great and Powerful Benno. He takes a deep breath and says, "I felt my back break. What do you think?" The Great and Powerful Benno doesn't know the answer to that one, bashfully removes the purple satin turban from his head, and looks a bit uncomfortable.