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Colin certainly has style. ... because Richard is apparently the dumbest, least curious, and easiest person to manipulate in the world.
I honestly loved the depiction of Richard in this episode for basically that reason. For most of the series he's been the mysterious robot pawn of "the island." How'd he get that way was what the episode was about. Throughout the flashback he was shown in a heightened emotional state; concerned about his sick wife, grieving her death, despondent at being condemned (to death and to hell), fearful in chains before and after the wreck, confused and desperate. Then he turns himself over totally to Jacob, basically abandoning his humanity, which returned to him only after Jacob's death which left him again confused and desperate. But by the end he claims his own control, Isabella his constant. This is interesting to me because this opens up Richard as a new character, he has control of himself for the first time in a long life where he has always before been at the whim of forces he could never control.
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