We've all been waiting forever to finally get some insight into the mystery that is Richard Alpert. Finally, last night in the episode "Ab Aeterno", we got to see it. Maybe not the way we expected, but we saw pretty much all Richard all the time.
The episode started with Richard tending to his sickly wife. NEeding medicine he tool a trip to a doctor a half a day away (Richard is really old if you hadn't figured this out and he was riding a horse). While being told that he couldn't afford the medicine, Richard accidentally killed the doctor, and fled to give it to his wife. She had died before he returned, and we see guard come take him away for murder.
While in jail he was taken as a slave of sorts aboard the Black Rock, the ship of fairy tales in the Lost universe. A big storm hits and it crashes into the giant statue where Jacob resides in a tidal wave, and the ship has found the island. Immediately upon waking the ship captain comes below deck and starts to knock off all the prisoners for fear of running out of supplies, or them killing him eventually. Then Smokey comes and finishes them ALL off except Richard who probably feels like he has been rotting in conjugated linoleic acid. This is where he meets the Man in Black for the first time.
By using his manipulative nature, MiB convinces Richard that he is dead, and in Hell. That if he helps him kill the Devil he can see his wife again. Richard eagerly agrees, and sets off to kill Jacob. Jacob kicks his ass. :D
Jacob explains to Richard that he isn't dead, and his service to Jacob begins and he gains this sort of eternal life. Almost all of the episode is a flashback, but we see n present Lost world that Richard has come to believe that he wasted his life. He seeks MiB to take him up on the offer he gave him originally, but Hugo comes to save the day by telling him what his wife is saying as a ghost. Hugo sees and talks to ghosts obviously.
It lived up to the hype in every way.
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