"The Man Behind the Curtain" is the twentieth episode of the third season of Lost, and the sixty-ninth episode overall. It was first aired on May 9, 2007 on ABC. The episode was directed by Bobby Roth and written by Elizabeth Sarnoff and Drew Goddard.
Ben Linus (Michael Emerson) reluctantly leads John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) to Jacob, the mysterious leader of the Others. The episode was the first to feature flashbacks recounting Ben's back-story.
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"The Man Behind the Curtain" is the twentieth episode of the third season of Lost, and the sixty-ninth episode overall. It was first aired on May 9, 2007 on ABC. The episode was directed by Bobby Roth and written by Elizabeth Sarnoff and Drew Goddard.
Ben Linus (Michael Emerson) reluctantly leads John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) to Jacob, the mysterious leader of the Others. The episode was the first to feature flashbacks recounting Ben's back-story.
In the flashback, the episode begins with Ben's birth, as his mother, Emily Linus (Carrie Preston) is in labor in the middle of the woods, 32 miles away from Portland. After the birth, Emily is in pain and bleeding heavily. Her husband, Roger (Jon Gries), carries her and the baby to the roadside, where a car carrying Horace Goodspeed (Doug Hutchison) and Olivia (Samantha Mathis) soon stops to help them. Emily tells Roger to name the baby Benjamin, and then dies on the side of the road.
The next flashback shows Ben, age 7 (Sterling Beaumon),...
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