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Desmond's Collision with Locke: Revenge

Since Desmond's mind is aware of two time-lines and he thought MIB was the real Locke, he wanted to take revenge on Locke for throwing him into the well in OT.
- This seems less likely as Desmond has now found his purpose. He did not appear angry or distressed when he ran down Locke. He seemed to have a very good reason for doing it.

Desmond was attempting to force a shift of consciousness from sideways Locke to main time line Locke.

Desmond was attempting to recreate the most traumatic event in Locke's main-timeline existence, his fall from an 8 story building at the hands of his father. In the alt-timeline, Locke's relations w/ father are seemingly good so we can assume his disability did not arise this way.

Desmond wants Locke to regain his ability to walk -- running him over is an excuse to get him to a hospital where spinal super surgeon Jack can work his magic. The moment alt-Locke regains his "footing" is the critical experience-parallel that will open his eyes ala Desmond, Charlie, Hurley, Faraday, etc.
Locke had no love on the island so giving him a near death experience was the only way to shift his mind to normal timeline Locke
- It is not clear if Desmond is aware of who precisely Flocke is. He tells Flocke he is Locke, but it is possible he was lying to Flocke for his own purposes.

fLocke will attempt to use the sideways timeline as his way of escape from the island and Desmond was attempting to kill the vessel he would escape to (FST Locke's body)
- At the beginning of the episode, Desmond said to Fake Locke "You are John Locke"; In a previous episode this season, Ilana said that the MIB cannot change from John Locke's body; So - in the island reality, MIB IS John Locke; Everyone on the island has an alternate self in the alternate universe; So, in order to trap the MIB (John Locke) on the island, Desmond has to remove John Locke from the alternate universe to keep MIB from being able to exist there; Therefore, Desmond attempted to kill John Locke by running him down with his car.RealKate 04:00, April 14, 2010 (UTC)

Desmond knows that Locke is the MiB. He simply told him he believed he was Locke to trick him.
"You're John Locke" should be interpreted as "You're 'John Locke'" -- a deliberate non-answer and both of them know it.

Desmond is in a different well with an as-yet unseen device inside of it
The well is what it seems, it was created a long time ago to access one of the electromagnetic pockets that Jin had previously mapped.