Locke was immaculately conceived (and his parents are lame) by Kevin

In season 1, Emily Locke told John Locke that he was immaculately conceived. It stood out to every view what we had been assuming for the entire first part of the season: that John Locke was special. This makes him more special. Now while it's hard to take anything at face value in Lost, and in addition her telling him that he actually DID have a father, Anthony Cooper, who Locke met later. A lot goes against the immaculately conceived thing. But it always felt a little fishy to me. Anthony Cooper never seemed right.

To start things off, he only looks a little bit older than Locke does. This could be him getting Locke's mom preggers while he was young, but Emily Locke's mom specifically asked her why she was dating someone twice her age. She was probably 16 or 17, making him at least in his mid-30's, if not older. That makes him a solid 30+ years older AT LEAST than Locke whenever they have their scenes together. Does that make any sense when you look at them? Do you think the producers wouldn't notice this, let alone reference it later on in the series when we see Locke's birth? We never even see Anthony Cooper around in that time period.

It just doesn't feel right. In addition to that, we find out that Anthony Cooper is actually the real Sawyer, who conned James "Sawyer" Ford's dad and we all know what happened with them. Now just hear me out...

Let's go all the way back to 1955, the year that John Locke was conceived. I'm not going to make any assumptions about this, but let's just say that Emily Locke encounters something. Be it a man, be it a cloud of smoke, but it does something to her. No, not that you dirty minded fools, but it gets the job done. Emily Locke gets pregnant. This being might tell her something about him, maybe that he is special, but probably not much else. Maybe that she should name him John. No one in Lost really explains anything. And then it will leave.

Meanwhile Emily Locke has been dating a much older man. Who knows who this might be if this theory is right, but he's gotta be older than Anthony Cooper.

This being checks in and tries over and over to check in again on the growing John Locke. As he grows up, everywhere he goes he can never quite fit in. Always feeling like he belongs somewhere, but can never find it. Always on the hunt though. He works at a department store and one day his mother walks in on him. His mother, flesh and blood, one of the few people who could understand him and care about him like no one else has. She looks at him wild-eyed, and tells him that he was immaculately conceived. And then she leaves. That's it, no explanation. Pretty jarring.

Through an investigator he can only find stuff about his dad, but hey, it's his dad, another person who might understand him and give him a place in the world! We know this story, he swindles him out of his kidney and then avoids him for years. But not before his mother finds him in the hospital and admits it was a big con, and that she needed the money.

This just reeks of two people doing a big scheme, which is exactly what it was, but on a bigger level. We're looking at it from Locke's point of view, and he sees his mother and his father pulling a big scam on him, and that IS heartbreaking. But his mom gave him up at birth, she has no emotional investment in him if she is just a broke jerk, and Anthony Cooper is a known con man.

Emily Locke has never appeared again, and Anthony Cooper has used the John Locke con card over and over again in scheme after scheme. He falls for it because he continually looks for ways to connect with the only person around who knows him. He even eventually gets disabled because of it. It's incredibly depressing, but it all feels false. Like a big smokescreen.

I don't think Anthony Cooper is Locke's dad, obviously. I think he had was getting old and needed a kidney. He found John Locke through a contact and went to work, finding info that he could get to pry that kidney out of him. He hadn't seen his parents his whole life so what better angle to work? He found his mom locally and even better. The whole thing is really a simple con if you don't look at it with the lens on that he is his dad. They both obviously don't care about him.

Immediately when he gets to the island he is healed completely. He knows the second that he gets onto his feet that he has found the place where he belongs. Away from the world that has mocked him and hurt him for so long. This is because his "father" is from the island, the entity that impregnated Emily Locke and then disappeared forever.

Now I could get into a whole other thing about Christian Shepard and how he could be the same way, and that Jack could be even more special, but I'll avoid that for now and see what you all have to think about this one for now. Thanks for reading.