Why you have to go to the temple?
Lapedus asks Ilana this in the Substitute. She says something like, “so they know what they’re up against” But, then they don’t go to the temple, but bury Locke.
Ilana never went to the temple. She went to the stone thing by the foot … unless …. that’s the other side of the temple … (Doesn’t seem that way on the map where there’s the Dharma temple thing.

it is a good point that she wants to show them what they are up against yet they Bury Poor Locke – honestly i really do not think that this is going to start making real sense now until halfway through the season