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Summary

• Appears in: “Deus Ex Machina,” “Orientation,” “Lockdown”
  • Origin of name: Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, friend of John Locke
  • Character relation: Locke (father)

Anthony Cooper is Locke’s biological father. Cooper is an avid outdoorsman, enjoying hunting, fishing, and scuba diving, among other things. Cooper impregnated Emily Locke, however she told him that she wasn’t going to have the baby before leaving him. Over a year later Emily came back with the news that she had put their son, John, up for adoption. Years passed without Cooper even trying to seek his son. However, in his older years his kidneys failed and he needed a transplant. Emily came back asking for money once again, and Cooper agreed to help her if she found John for him. When he met with his son for the first time, he extended an invitation to go hunting, which John, who never knew his father, accepted. The next few weeks Cooper and John bonded over hunting, and it seemed as if they had forged the father-son relationship John had always hoped for. Then Cooper told John of his kidney failure, and Locke immediately donated his kidney to his father. Upon waking up after the surgery, however, Locke discovered that Cooper had left, going back to his home. When John tried to visit his father he was denied access, realizing that there was no bond between them; Cooper had simply used his son for a kidney.

Unable to let go, John continued to park outside Cooper’s house, even after Cooper had moved. Cooper eventually met with his son for the first time since the surgery, and told him that people get conned all the time, and to get over the incident, saying “And John, don’t come back. You’re not wanted.”

Later, Cooper conned two men out of $700,000. Afraid they might kill him, Cooper faked his death, then enlisted his son’s help to get the money from a safety deposit box, promising him $200,000. When John delivered the money, he rejected it, saying that he didn’t do it for the money. John then told Cooper about Helen, and how he was planning on proposing to her. Just then, Helen herself appears at the door and slapped Cooper for not letting John find peace and put his past behind him after finding out about his father’s death. She then confronted John about his promise to let go of Cooper, and rejected his proposal. Cooper then left John, with only the slightest bit of sympathy for his son and what he had done to him in his face.

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