"The Cost Of Living" is notable for managing to juggle, and keep fairly equally gripping, no fewer than FOUR different story lines: Eko's visions and search for his dead brother, Eko's past after the death of his brother, Locke's plan to use one of the DHARMA station computers to communicate with the Others, and Jack's realization of the reasons he was brought to their camp. All parts have at least one great moment: Eko "meeting" his brother in a heaven-like field, Eko turning the tables on his attackers, a man with an eyepatch "looking" at Locke and company through a computer screen, and (the highlight IMO) Juliet communicating with Jack in two ways simultaneously, giving new meaning to the term "mixed signals". Perhaps the best episode of Season 3 up to this point, though they're all pretty close, apart from "The Glass Ballerina", which is the weakest. *** out of 4.
Review of The Cost of Living
