“Richard Alpert: Over, uh, twenty years ago, a man named John Locke, he walked right into our camp. And he told me that he was going to be our leader. Now I've gone off the Island three times, to visit him. But he never seemed particularly special to me. Jack Shephard: You said you had a question. Ri…”
— Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, Jack Shephard, Matthew Fox, imdb.com