recap by Evie

I am so glad we have technology that allows us to rewatch our favorite TV shows the next day. I can’t even remember what Jacob said they died for, which is the title of this episode.

It starts off with Jack waking up in his bed and going to the bathroom mirror where he sees his neck is bleeding. I’ve already lost track of how long it’s been since they landed at LAX but I’m going to assume this is the same cut on his neck that he noticed he had on the plane. I’m predicting that the cut is from the final battle with Smoke Monster Locke but that’s as far as my theory goes.

Jack and his son are at the breakfast table eating Super Bran and Aunt Claire wakes up and joins them. The phone rings and its Oceanic Air telling Jack that they found his father’s casket and it will be arriving later that day. Actually, it’s Desmond on the other line. I don’t think he works for the airline unless Charles Widmore owns the company. Desmond is key to making sure everything happens like it’s supposed to and things are falling in to place.

On the beach, the sun is rising and the Lostees are still sorrowing over the sinking of the sub. Jack stitches up Kate’s gunshot wound in her shoulder. Kate is devastated that Sun and Jin died and she’s PO’d that Locke is responsible. They start discussing how they are going to kill Locke. Sawyer is finally conscious and sitting up and Hurley is just hanging out with him. They have got to be wondering how they will ever get off the island now. The sub is gone and the pilot is dead so they can’t use the airplane. They all seem despondent and tired and angry. Jack tells them they need to find Desmond because if Locke needs him dead then they need him alive.

At the school where Dr. Benjamin Linus and John Locke teach, Desmond is watching from his car. Locke has recovered enough to be back at work and the students are glad to see him. Des starts his car but Ben stops him and yells for someone to call the police. Des gets out and punches Ben and pins him to the hood of his car. Ben tells him that he will not let him hurt Mr. Locke again and Des tells him that he is not there to hurt him but to help him. Ben asks Desmond who he is and Des continues to smack him around to jog his memory. Ben sees flashes of the time at the harbor where Desmond was punching him after he showed up to kill Penny. I think of Desmond as an angel stepping in to knock some sense in to everyone.

On the island we finally see Ben again. I’ve been wondering what he’s been up to and couldn’t remember where we left him. Miles and Richard are with him. And Miles just answered one of my questions. They are walking to the Dharma barracks and Ben says he’s taking a short cut and he should know the fastest way because he lived there for so long. Miles tells him he lived there 30 years before Ben did, which was last week. So Jack has had the cut on his neck for a week or so. They are going to the barracks to get explosives. They are hidden in Ben’s secret room behind the book case. That’s the place where Ben could pull the plug to summon the monster. But Ben finally realized that the monster was actually summoning Ben. As they get closer to the house Miles’s ghost-detecting senses activate. He hesitates telling Ben who he is hearing but Richard tells him it’s Alex, Ben’s daughter; after she was murdered Richard buried her there.  Ben thanks Richard and they proceed inside the house. While they are in the secret closet to gather all the C4 to blow up the airplane, they hear a noise from the kitchen. Ben brings his rifle and discovers Zoe, whom he has never seen before and who is my least favorite new character. Widmore is with her and he and Benjamin finally meet again. Ben is stunned that he was able to return to the island. Widmore tells Zoe to go to the dock and fetch their supplies from the outrigger then sink it. Ben warns her not to move and Widmore tells Ben that he better not shoot him because he is the last hope for survival. Finally! We’re going to get some background on this rivalry or game they’ve been playing! Zoe leaves, and Widmore asks Richard what he’s doing there. They speak to each other as if it hasn’t been years and years since they last saw one another. I would be like, “Wow, Richard! You really never age. You look exactly the same as the day Ellie shot my son, Daniel. What’s been happening here while I’ve been gone?!” But no, the conversation is focused on Ben. Widmore tells Ben that he’s had the plane rigged with explosives since the day he got back to the island and he’s always been three steps ahead of Ben. He reveals that Jacob visited him shortly after his freighter was blown up. (They have one more chance in the final episode to explain how Jacob goes to and from the island.) Jacob convinced Widmore of “the error of his ways” and told him everything he needs to know for this exact purpose. He begins to tell what that purpose is but Zoe interrupts on the walkie talkie. Locke is in the canoe coming toward them and Widmore tells Zoe to high-tail it back to the house; they all need to hide.

At the school, the nurse is anointing Ben’s wounds and patching him all up. He looks like he did after Desmond beat him up at the dock and was in a sling. He corrects the nurse when she calls him Mr. Linus. It’s DOCTOR Linus. That was my first clue that Ben might not be as nice as he was pretending to be. Locke rolls into the room and asks him about the incident in the parking lot. Ben tells him about Desmond and his visions when he was hitting him. Ben told Locke that the man wasn’t trying to hurt him but said he was trying to help him to let go and Ben believed him. This stopped Locke from calling the police because he remembered that Jack Shepard had told him that he needed to let go of the pain and guilt he was carrying from the plane crash in which his father was severely injured.

At the LAPD, Miles is getting ready to go to his father’s presentation at the museum. I wonder what name his father will have. He’s had several aliases on the show all having to do with candles. Desmond shows up and asks to speak with Detective James Ford. He turns himself in for running over Locke and for beating up Ben. Des is put in a cell with Sayid and next to Kate.

Jack and Sawyer are looking for the well where Desmond was left by Sayid. They are concluding that Locke didn’t kill Desmond himself because he can’t kill them. Sawyer is carrying the guilt and burden of be responsible for the sub sinking and the deaths of Sun, Jin, Sayid, and Lapidus. Hurley and Kate are following them through the jungle. Little 13-year-old Jacob appears to Hurley and demands he give back the ashes that he took from Ilana’s things after she died. They are his ashes after all. The kid bolts, and Hurley takes off after him. Hurley stops at a campfire because he sees grown-man Jacob and asks where he’s been. Jacob tells him that it doesn’t matter he’s here now. Hurley asks if he saw the kid run by with his ashes. He tells Hugo that the ashes are in the fire and that when the fire burns out he’ll never see Jacob again. Hurley needs to go get his friends because they are very close to the end. My friend facebooked me, “Yes, Jacob we ARE very close to the end!”

Smoke Locke gets off the canoe with his back pack and rifle. Widmore and Zoe decide to hide in the hidden room but tells them he’s going to be in the jungle; and Ben and Richard decide to wait for Locke. He asks for Widmore’s walkie talkies, keeps one and gives the other one to Richard. Richard wants to talk to Smoke Locke. He knows him as the man in black and thinks that if he joins him he’ll leave the rest alone and give them a chance at survival. Locke has transformed, and at full speed and force slams into Richard. We didn’t really see where Richard lands so I’m not sure if Smokey can kill the immortal man. Ben sits on the porch and Smoke Locke approaches telling him he’s just the man he’s looking for. Ben says, “Well you found me would you like some lemonade?” Locke tells Ben that he needs him to kill some people. Ben wants to know why he would do that. Locke says that once he leaves the island Ben can have it all to himself. Ben says, “Alright.” It’s not an enthusiastic statement but Locke takes it as an agreement that he’ll do the dirty work. Ben tells Locke that the outrigger down at the dock belongs to Charles Widmore and that he is hiding in the closet. Ben, Ben, Ben.

At the high school Ben is walking to his car and Alex approaches him to find out what happened to him. She offers him a ride home with her mother. Danielle Rousseau insists that he also come over for dinner. She appreciates all he’s done for her daughter. Alex’s father passed away and Ben has been the only father figure she has ever known. Ben becomes teary-eyed.

In the Dharma house Ben follows Locke to the secret room. Locke advises Ben to wait out in the room and warns him that he’s not going to want to see this. Ben tells him he wants to see this. He just can’t wait for the revenge that’s due to Widmore for killing his daughter. Ben insincerely apologizes to Charles. Locke moves toward Widmore and tells him that it’s nice to be able to talk face to face without those fences between them. Locke asks Zoe who she is and she begins to give her name when Widmore stops her from speaking. So Locke whips out his knife and slices her throat. Locke explains that because Widmore told her not to talk, that made her pointless. Locke tells Widmore that he’s going to get what he wants: he’s finally going to leave the island. However, he just needs to motivate Widmore to tell him why he came back to the island. Unless he answers him the first thing Locke is going to do when he gets off the island is kill Widmore’s daughter, Penny. Widmore believes he will kill Penny whether he talks to Locke or not, but Locke promises that he won’t. Widmore tells him that he brought Desmond Hume back to the island because of his resistance to electromagnetism; he is a measure of last resort. He doesn’t say anything further because he doesn’t want to reveal anything to Ben. Locke asks Widmore to whisper to him, and as he leans in and begins to speak, Ben fires his weapon and shoots down Widmore. Ben tells Locke that Widmore doesn’t get to save his daughter. Rats! It’s over? Just like that? The season finale better explain the Widmore/Linus situation better. Locke isn’t too concerned because Widmore already told him what he needed to know, so no harm done. After Ben kills Widmore, Locke tells him that he never ceases to amaze him and Ben asks who else he needs to kill. Ben, Ben, Ben.

It’s nightfall when the Lostees get back to the campfire. Jacob says Hello to each of them and calls them by name. Hurley points out where Jacob is standing, but everyone can see and hear Jacob now. Kate asks about the names on the wall. She asks Jacob if Sun and Jin and Sawyer are dead because he wrote their names on the wall. Jacob says that he’s very sorry. Hurley tries to get her to settle down but she insists on being told what they died for and that it wasn’t for nothing. You go girl! If it was Jack he wouldn’t demand answers he would just change the subject.  Jacob invites them to sit and he’ll explain why he chose the candidates, and about protecting the island, because once the fire burns out one of them is going to have to do it.

Jack is sitting in his office at the hospital clinic and John Locke drops by for a visit. Locke notices a family photo on his desk of Christian, Jack and Jack’s son, David. Jack tells Locke it was taken last Thanksgiving. There is no mom in the picture. Locke tells Jack that they were on the same plane from Sydney and Jack gave him his business card, which Locke tossed in the trash. Then a few days later he is hit by a car and ends up being treated by Dr. Shepard. Jack still wants to fix him, but Locke still doesn’t want to be fixed. Locke tells Jack about Desmond wanting to help him let go. Jack wants to know if Locke thinks he sent Desmond to run him down. No, Locke didn’t think that, but he suggests that maybe all this is happening for a reason and that Jack is supposed to fix him. Jack tells him not to confuse coincidence with fate. Locke tells him that he is ready to get out of the chair.

At the campfire, Jacob begins by telling Jack and Kate and Hurley and Sawyer that he brought them all to the island because he made a mistake a very long time ago. Because of that mistake there is a very good chance that they and everyone they love is going to die. That mistake was the monster. He explains that he made the smoke monster who he is, and ever since then he’s been trying to kill Jacob. He tells them that he realized sooner or later Smokey would find the loophole to the rule that they couldn’t kill one another, and he would need a replacement; and that’s why he brought them to the island. Sawyer expresses his annoyance at being brought to the island. He says that in his life he was doing just fine and they shouldn’t have to pay for Jacob’s mistake. Jacob corrects him and tells them that none of them were doing alright. He didn’t pluck any of them out of a happy existence; they were all flawed and alone just like Jacob. They were looking for something that they couldn’t find, and they needed the island as much as it needed them. Kate asks why her name was crossed off the wall and it was because she became a mother to Aaron. He adds that it was just a line of chalk in a cave, but she can have the job if she wants it. Jack asks what the job is. Jacob tells them that there is a light at the center of the island and their job would be to make sure it never goes out. Sawyer tells him that his monster friend said there is nothing to protect it from. Jacob tells them that they must protect the light from the monster. Jack says ,”So you want us to kill him. Is that even possible?” Jacob says, “I certainly hope so because he is going to try to kill you.” Wait a second. Jacob isn’t even going to tell them what they have to do? He must have a lot of faith that one of these guys is going to figure it out. Hurley asks who Jacob is going to pick. He tells them that he is giving them the one thing he never had: a choice. Kate asks what if no one chooses to do it. Jacob says, “Then this ends very badly.”

My favorite line of this episode.

It’s no surprise that Jack volunteers. He believes this is why he’s here and what he’s supposed to do. Jacob tells him that it’s time. Jacob takes them to a stream and tells Jack that the light is located in the heart of the island which is beyond the bamboo field where Jack first woke up after the crash of Oceanic 815. Jack had never found anything past the bamboo field but Jacob assures him that he’ll be able to find it now. Sawyer comments to Kate about “his” God complex. Not sure if he was referring to Jack or Jacob. Hurley says he’s just glad it’s not him that has to protect the island. Hmmm…famous last words? Jacob asks Jack for a cup, which he happens to have in his backpack. Jacob touches the water in the stream and says a chant. He fills the cup with water and tells Jack he will have to do the job of protecting the island as long as he can. Jack takes a huge drink of the water. Jacob tells him that now they are the same.

At the LAPD Sayid, Kate, and Desmond are loaded onto a truck for transport. Kate tells Sawyer that he can still let her go free; she restates her innocent and she knows that he believes her. No, Kate, it doesn’t work like that. In the back of the truck Des tells the other two that it’s time to leave. Kate asks, “Who are you?” Sayid tells her that he’s a crazy person who turned himself in. Desmond explains that he ran over a guy in a wheelchair and will accept being called crazy, but still asks if they want to get out of there. He tells them that the driver knows where to stop and after he sets them free he is going to ask each of them to do something and they need to promise that they’ll do it. The truck stops and Ana Lucia un-handcuffs them. Hurley pulls up in his hummer and pays off Ana Lucia. Hurley says to Des, “You didn’t tell me that Ana Lucia was going to be here.” She has no idea who he is. “Oh, yeah,” Hurley says, “we’ve never met.” (wink, wink to Desmond). Ana Lucia gets back in the police truck and Hurley asks Des, “She’s not coming with us?” Des replies that she’s not ready yet. Hurley has his Camero waiting for Desmond and Kate, and Sayid is to go with Hurley in the Hummer. Desmond pulls a black dress out of the trunk and tells Kate that they are going to a concert.

In the jungle, Ben asks Locke why he bothers walking if he can just turn into smoke anytime he wants. He says that it reminds him he’s human. The two arrive at the well where Desmond was supposed to have been killed by Sayid. There is a rope extending down into the well and Ben comments that it looks like someone helped him out. Locke corrects him and says, “no someone helped me out.” He tells Ben that Widmore told him Desmond was a failsafe. Jacob’s last resort of keeping him on the island in case none of the candidates worked out. Locke is happy that Des is still alive because he’s going to find Desmond so he can help him destroy the island.

The end is near.

LOST 6:14 the Candidate

Locke in LA: Jack just finished surgery after the car “accident” with Desmond. Jack wants to know how it happened. Jack wants to try out a new procedure that could repair his previous injury which we find out was caused by a small plane crash. Locke had just gotten his pilot license and he was taking his dad for a ride.  Claire finds Jack at the hospital and shows him a box that their father left for her. Neither of them have any idea why. It’s a music box that plays the lullaby that we’ve heard several times throughout the show. Jack tells Claire that Christian’s body was found in an alley outside a bar; he drank himself to death. They both freak out that they were on the same flight from Sydney.

Sun, Jin, James, Hurley, Kate on Island: are forced back into the polar bear cages “for their own good” because “he’s coming”. Widmore doesn’t care if Kate lives or dies because her name is not on “the list”. Sun and Jin share some quite time in the cage talking about their daughter and Sun gives Jin his ring.

Jack on the Island: wakes up on Hydra Island in the canoe with Sayid near him on the beach. Sayid tells Jack that Locke saved him but the other members of their group were killed or scattered into the jungle. Locke arrives to tell them they have to rescue the others from the cages. The power goes out on the sonar fence and Smokey arrives to kick some Widmore guys’ butt. Jack shows up to open the cage and when Kate asks what he’s doing there, he tells her he is “with” the smoke monster. That was awesome! Jacks tells Kate that he’s going to help them get to the plane but he’s still not leaving the island.

Jack in LA: Finds Bernard Nadler to determine what happened to Locke; Locke had had oral surgery after his accident. They freak out when they discover they were on the same Oceanic flight. Dr. Nadler gives Jack the name of Anthony Cooper as the person who was in the accident that first paralyzed Locke. Jack goes to the assisted living hospital where Anthony, John’s father, is a patient. He will never be able to walk or talk again.

Locke on the Island: He’s quite the bad ass now. He approaches the plane and sees that it was rigged with an explosive. The rest of the group meets him and Locke tells them that Widmore wants to get them all in the same confined space so he can kill them. Locke disarmed the C4 and placed it into a backpack. He told them that they are going to have to take the submarine. Sawyer feigns loyalty to Locke but tells Jack that he doesn’t trust him at all and asks him to keep Locke from getting on the sub once the rest of them get ready to take off. Sawyer leads the group with guns ready toward the sub. They make the pilot fire up the engines, Locke gives Jack the backpack with the C4 (but Jack doesn’t know that) and Jack pushes Locke into the bay. A gun battle breaks out between the Lostees and Widmore’s people. Kate got shot. Claire remains on deck to fend off the bad guys. Jack, who doesn’t want to leave on the sub, takes Kate below for first aid. Sawyer tries to get Claire to run to the sub but when he realizes that Locke is too close he demands that the sub dive and he locks the hatch. Claire is mad that they are leaving her behind but Locke holds her and says, “Trust me; you don’t want to be on that sub.”

Kate on the Sub: wants to go back and get Claire. Jack looks in the backpack for some first aid supplies and discovers the bomb. Jin tells the pilot to resurface. Sayid examines the bomb and says the wires need to be pulled out simultaneously. Jack says that Locke can’t leave the island unless they are all dead; and he wants them to kill each other because he can’t kill them. Jack tells James to trust him and leave the bomb alone. But James pulls the wires out. The clock stops; then starts speeds up its countdown. Sayid must have come out of his trance because he tells Jack that Desmond is on the island and that Locke wants him dead. If that’s the case then they need to make sure he stays alive. Sayid tells Jack that he’s the one who is going to have to save Desmond; Sayid grabs the bomb and runs down the passageway, exploding with it as it detonates. Water rushes in, Sun gets trapped, Jin and James try to free her, Hurley takes Kate to the surface, Lapidas falls when the water rushes in and is presumably killed, Sawyer gets knocked unconscious, Sun begs Jin to leave her as the water is rising, Jack takes Sawyer to the surface, Jin continues to try to free Sun. Jin says he will never leave her again and they kiss, hold each other and say their “I Love Yous” as the water closes in around them and they’re both gone.

I don’t think anyone’s getting out alive.

Jin in LA: passes Locke in the hallway of the hospital. He’s carrying flowers for Sun who is recovering from her gunshot wound. Locke explains to Jack from his wheelchair that it’s his fault that his father can never walk or talk again. Jack tells him that he can keep punishing himself but his father is gone and nothing he does is going to bring him back. Jack tells Locke he thinks he can fix him and he wishes he believed him. Locke considers this then leaves.

On the beach, James stirs but is still unconscious, Kate and Hurley break down into tears when Jack tells them Jin and Sun are gone.

Locke tells Claire that the submarine sank. Claire is upset that they were all on the sub and now they’re all dead. Locke grabs his gun and tells Claire that they weren’t all on the sub; he’s going to go finish what he started.

LOST 6:15 Across the Sea

A woman is floating in the ocean on some wreckage. A pregnant woman. She is injured but makes her way to a stream and fresh water. She is met by another woman who helps her. The first woman is Claudia.

The second woman arrived at the island by accident and she tells Claudia that she is the only one on the island. Claudia wants to find the others from her ship but her labor pains start. She screams bloody murder as the woman helps her deliver.

I had epidurals with both of my babies. Is that really how much women scream during child birth?

The fair-skinned light-haired baby boy is born and Claudia names him Jacob. Her stomach doesn’t go down at all so it’s obvious the “baby in black” is coming out next. We still don’t find out his name. Claudia only chose one baby name. The other woman gruesomely bashes Claudia on the head and kills her. Now she’s the mom.

13-year-old “teenager in black” finds a box on the beach that is a game and uses black and white stones. He tells Jacob that he’ll show him how to play as long as Jacob doesn’t tell their mother. When Jacob questions his brother about how to play the teenager in black tells him that he just knows. In a cave where they live, OK it’s THE cave where the man in black lead Jack to find the water just after the plane crash, Mom is weaving on a loom and Jacob enters but doesn’t tell her where his brother is, except that he’s at the beach looking out into the ocean. Mom asks Jacob if he loves her and he replies yes but Mom knows that there is more to the story. Jacob tells her about the game. Mom goes out to join teenager in black at the beach and he knows that Jacob told her what he found. Mom says that Jacob can’t lie “he’s not like you.” Teenager in black seems bothered by this. I would be too. He asks, “Why, What am I like?” Mom tells him he’s special. Mom reveals that game didn’t wash up from the ocean; she left it for him. She tells him that there is nowhere else across the sea. There is only the island. She continues to explain that the twins came from her and she came from her mother. Teenager in black asks where Grandma is and Mom tells him that she’s dead. He doesn’t know what dead is and mom tells him that it’s something he will never have to worry about.

The boys are chasing a boar through the jungle with spears but up ahead they hear the boar get killed by some strangers. They watch them from behind some tall grass then run back to their mother to tell her. She says they have to stay away from them because the other people are not like them and they are dangerous and even though the others look like them they are not like them and they don’t belong on the island. When she says that she and her boys were on the island for a reason, teenager in black demands to know what that reason is. She expresses her fear that it is not time to let them in on this secret. She tells the boys that the men come from another part of the island. They come, fight, destroy, corrupt it always ends the same. This is what the man in black told Jacob right before he told him that he wanted to kill him. She tells them that people are bad and if the boys ever go looking for them the people will hurt them. Jacob reminds her that they are people; so doesn’t that mean they can hurt each other. Mom says that she made it so they can never hurt each other. She takes them blindfolded to a creek that leads into a small tunnel with a very bright, warm light. She tells them not to go into the tunnel or something worse than death will happen to them. She says that if the light goes out there, then it goes out everywhere. She says that a little bit of this light is in everyone, but men always want more. She says that their purpose is to protect the light. They must make sure no one ever finds it. She has the job now but she can’t protect forever. One of them will have to take her place.

Back at home the boys are playing their game. Teenager in black scolds Jacob for a move he made; he can’t do that because it’s against the rules. Jacob complains, “But you made the rules”. Teenager in black tells Jacob that one day he’ll have his own game then he can make the rules.

A woman appears behind Jacob but only teenager in black can see her. It’s Claudia. Jacob can’t see her though because she’s dead. That’s weird.

Teenager in black (I really wish we knew his name. (Maybe I could call him the brother of Jacob) follows her and she leads him to where he came from. A place he’s never seen that’s across the island. It’s a camp with grass huts. The people who arrived on the shipwreck from across the sea. She tells him that they came from across the sea and that there are many things across the sea. That is where he comes from. He says that there is nothing across the sea because that’s what his mother told her. She tells him that she is his real mother. He returns to the cave and it’s now the middle of the night. He creeps in and wakes Jacob. He has packed his things and tells Jacob that they are leaving to go live with the other people. He tells Jacob that their mother lied to them about everything and that she’s not even their mother. Jacob is furious and beats the crap out of him. Mom pulls Jacob off of him and the brother of Jacob tells her all that he’s learned. Jacob refuses to go with him. Mom says that despite what he’s been told he will never be able to leave the island. He tells her that he’s going to prove her wrong.

The brother of Jacob leaves and Jacob and Mom are sitting on the beach. She admits to killing their mother and explains that she had to do it so he would always be good. If he went with the people he would turn bad. Jacob, knowing that he’s never been the favored son asks her if he’s good and she tells him of course he is. She tells Jacob that she loves him in different ways and she kindly asks him to stay with her. He agrees.

Jacob is now a man. Mom tells him that she is tired. Jacob visits the others’ camp so he can see his brother. They play the game. Jacob occasionally watches the camp to see if their mother was right about the people, to see if they are bad. Brother of Jacob tells him that he’s lived with them for thirty years and their mother may be insane but she was right. They are greedy, manipulative, untrustworthy, and selfish. Jacob wonders why he’s with them. They are a means to an end. That end being to leave the island. Jacob doesn’t believe him so his brother throws his dagger at a stone well and it sticks to the bricks. Around these various places on the island metal behaves strangely and these people he’s been living with are intelligent and curious about how things work, and they’ve figured out a way to leave.

Jacob’s brother asks him to leave with him. Jacob becomes emotional and says that he doesn’t want to leave the island because it’s his home. His brother tells him that the island is not his home.

Jacob returns to his mother and tells her that his brother has finally found a way to leave the island. She goes to the camp and finds her son in the well, which is really a large room. She hasn’t even asked about him since he left and now here she is. He tells her that he has never been able to find the light that she showed him thirty years ago; even though he has searched the whole island for it. He found the light a different way, down in the well and he showed her by pulling a rock out of the wall. There was the light! And in the room next to him was the donkey wheel. He’s going to attach the wheel to a system they are building that channels the water and the light, then when he turns the wheel he’s going to be able to leave. She asks him how he knows that it will work and he tells her, somewhat sarcastically that he’s special.

Somewhere during this episode, the first time I watched it, I started thinking that Mom was really the black smoke.

Mom approaches her son to give him a goodbye hug and then she pushes him back into the wall and knocks him unconscious. She returns to the cave and wakes up Jacob telling him that’s it’s time. Jacob knows that something bad happened. She takes Jacob to the light. She tells Jacob that down in the light is life, death, rebirth; it’s the heart of the island. She warns him again to never go down there because he would be worse than dying. She gives him the wine from the same bottle that Richard drank from and says some kind of chant. She tells Jacob that it’s time for him to take over on the island, but he doesn’t want the job. He knows that Mom’s wanted all along for his brother to be the one, but Jacob’s all she has now. She says that now she realizes it was always supposed to be Jacob. He takes the cup and drinks. She tells him that now they are the same. Jacob’s brother gains consciousness on the ground outside of the well and finds that it’s been buried. He returns to his village and finds that it’s been burned and the people are dead. He takes his dagger to the cave and kills his mother. I’m not sure where this knife came from but it must be the magic knife that can kill the immortal people on the island. As she was dying she said thank you; as if she was glad to finally be able to die.

Speaking of which, I can’t remember the last time we saw Richard, or Ben. Or Rose or Bernard.

Jacob finds his mother, dead in the cave, and his brother. He beats the crap out of his brother – Jacob has a temper. He drags his brother to the creek and tells him that he’s not going to kill him. He’s going to do worse than that. He throws him into the light. And the Black Smoke Monster is born! I still don’t get it.

Jacob finds his brother’s body a ways off by the creek and takes it back to the cave where he places it next to his mother’s body. All this time I was sure that Rose and Bernard were going to be “Adam and Eve” but it was Jacob’s brother and mother. Jacob places a white and black stone into a bag and sets it beside their bodies. This is the bag that Jack and Kate found in the cave way back in Season One.

This is all great but I have a big question. If the man in black is dead in the cave, how did he end up on the beach with Jacob telling him that he wanted to kill him? And when was the statue built?

I feel sorry for both of them. One really wanted to leave. The other wanted to stay with his mother. They were raised by a crazy lady who had told them she made it so they couldn’t hurt each other but they did. I don’t know if Jacob or his brother is better or worse than the other.

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This episode picks up right where it left off last week. Jack and his gang walked into the camp of the Black Smoke Monster. Jack gets permission from Hurley to have a private discussion with Fake Locke. Jack isn’t bothered by the fact that the smoke monster looks just like John Locke but he is bothered that he has no idea what the hell the black-smoke-monster-thing-that-looks-like-John-Locke-is. Fake Locke replies, “Sure you do.” As in, “sure you have an idea of what I am.”

Jack, this would have been another great time to NOT change the subject.  I would have loved to have heard a better explanation from Smokey or some intelligent guess from Jack.

*sigh*

Fake Locke tells Jack that he chose John Locke because Locke was stupid enough to believe that he had been brought to island for a reason; but he wasn’t a believer, he was a sucker. After Locke was killed, Jack was nice enough to bring Locke’s body back in the coffin. Jack asks him if he was the one who looked like his dead father, Christian Shephard, who has been seen at various times on the island.

Yes, Jack. We already knew that. He wanted to make sure you found your way to the caves so you could find water.

Fake Locke tries to reassure Jack that all he’s ever been interested in doing is helping him. Fake Locke wanted to help them all leave the island, but since Jacob had chosen the candidates, they were trapped, even before their plane crashed. Now that Jacob is dead they aren’t trapped anymore. All they have to do is get on the plane together and leave.

L.A. Reality

John Locke, who has just been run over by adorable Desmond, is being transported by ambulance to the hospital. Benjamin Linus is riding along and explains to the medic that John was paralyzed and in a wheel chair when he was hit by the car. That explains why he has no reflexes in his lower limbs. The medic asks if there is a family member to notify but Ben doesn’t even know that his first name is John, let alone that he’s engaged to Helen. John is consciousness enough to tell them about Helen, even though he’s strapped down to a board and in a neck brace; and Ben tells Locke that he’s going to be OK and he’s still going to marry Helen Norwood.

My husband predicted last week that John was hit by the car so that Jack would be able to repair his spinal injury. If that’s true, I wonder if that’s what Desmond had in mind when he plowed over him in the school parking lot.

At the hospital, Locke is being wheeled down the sidewalk on the gurney right next to someone else who just arrived by ambulance. It’s a Korean woman who was just shot in the abdomen. Poor Sun! Sun doesn’t like seeing Locke there and shouts out to Jin, who is walking beside her stretcher, “No, No!, It’s him.”

What?! I don’t recall their paths having crossed in the alternate reality so why is she saying that?

Island

Claire followed Locke and Jack into the jungle. She wanted to find out if Jack knew that Smokey was the one pretending to be their father. She seems pretty bitter that no one came back for her after she departed. Repeat, she departed.

Producers? Writers? We want to know what happened when Smoke Monster Christian showed up at the campsite way back in Season 4. What did he say to get Claire to follow him and leave Aaron behind? Why did she look so stoned when she was in Jacob’s cabin with Smoke Monster Christian? Lots of gaps still need to be filled in.

Claire feels happy that Jack is coming on the plane with her because she hasn’t really had much of a family.  Jack tells her he hasn’t decided if he’s coming or not. Claire tells him that whether he likes it or not, he decided to join them the moment he let Fake Locke talk to him.

The next morning Sawyer tells Hurley that Widmore has a submarine and they are planning on leaving the island that way, not on the airplane with Fake Locke. I wouldn’t trust Hurley with any secret, but that’s just me. Kate pulled Sun aside and told her about their plan. Sawyer tells Hurley that Sayid isn’t invited because he’s gone over to the dark side but Hurley points out that people can come back from the dark side, like Anakin. Sawyer has no idea who he’s talking about. Maybe this means that there is hope for Sayid after all. I want Sayid to be OK.

Claire, Locke, and Jack come back to join the others at the camp and Locke gets all sentimental that everyone is back together again. Now that the last candidate, Jack, is here, Fake Locke sees that his plan to leave is beginning to materialize.

L.A.

Detective James Ford is processing Kate for arson, assault of a federal officer, and murder in the first degree. Kate denies murdering anyone and James tells her he thinks it’s weird that they were on the same flight from Sydney, and then they met up in the elevator at the airport when Kate was trying to get away from the Federal Marshall, then she crashes her car into his car in L.A. It’s like someone is trying to put them together.

I don’t think Cupid Desmond has been around them. I keep thinking that Kate and Jack are going to get together. But, in the alternate reality, Jack has a son. We know that Kate isn’t the mom. Maybe Juliet is. And Kate does end up with Sawyer. Hmmm……

Kate wonders why James didn’t arrest her at the airport when he saw she was wearing handcuffs. James says that he didn’t see any handcuffs (wink, wink), he just saw a pretty lady who needed the elevator door held open for her. Kate is always one step ahead of everyone. She believes that he didn’t arrest her because he didn’t want anyone to know that he was in Australia. She’s a smart one. Kate asks James if she should tell that to the feds when they arrive and he just smiles and says, “Oh, I like you.”

Miles pulls James from the conversation to show him a new multiple homicide they need to work on. It turns out to be Keamy and his henchmen at the restaurant. And Sayid is the prime suspect.

Island

It’s just a lazy day in the camp until Zoe, Widmore’s #2, walks in with her hands up demanding to speak with the man in charge. Fake Locke feigns innocence when she tells him that he must return what he took from them. On her command someone from Widmore’s group fires a missile that explodes near their location. She tells Locke that he has until nightfall to return [Desmond] or they won’t miss next time. I wish she had been more specific since no one, except Sayid, even knows Desmond is there. She leaves her walkie talkie so that Locke can tell them when they can pick up Desmond. He drops it to the ground, smashes it with the tree branch he’s been whittling on, and says, “Well, here we go.”

L.A.

Claire arrives at an adoption agency in a high rise building and Desmond just happens to be there as well. I’m not sure I like this stalking version of Desmond. She tells him she’s doing well, although she had a little scare and ended up in the hospital, and that Desmond was right about her baby being a boy. He accompanies Claire up the escalator and elevator with her, and talks her into speaking with an attorney before she goes to sign adoption papers. He’s going to foot the bill. The attorney turns out to be Ilana! Desmond introduces her and Ilana is happily surprised because she has been looking for Claire Littleton from Australia; the same one who is in Christian Shepard’s will that Ilana is working on. It’s not clear if Desmond knew about this, but I suspect he did.

Island

Locke tells everyone that Widmore has forced their hand earlier than he expected and they are going to split up and head for the plane immediately. Locke instructs Sawyer to get the sailboat and meet him and the others. Sawyer asks Kate to go with him and pulls Jack aside and tells him to break away from the group and meet up with them at the sailboat. He tells him to bring Hurley, Sun, and Lapidus (who looked like he just stepped out of a Burt Reynolds movie) but not Sayid or Claire. Sayid is a Zombie and Claire gave up her ticket when she tried to kill Kate.

Locke tells Sayid to go kill Desmond before they leave. Desmond is still down inside the well where Locke pushed him. When Desmond looks up and sees Sayid point the gun in his direction he asks Sayid what Fake Locke offered him. Desmond deserves to know what Sayid is getting in exchange for killing him in cold blood. Sayid still believes that he will be able to get his dead girlfriend, Nadia, back if he does as Locke wishes. After all, Sayid died and Locke brought him back. Desmond has a great idea. He tries to make Sayid feel guilty. What will Nadia think when she finds out that Sayid killed a man in cold blood so he could be with her? Who knows if it will work? But in the next scene…

L.A.

Sayid is packing to leave forever. He just killed the men who were after her husband (Sayid’s brother) and the cops are after him now. Nadia seems horrified that he did something terrible. Ding. Dong. Miles and James calling. Nadia tries to stall Miles at the front door but James is waiting for Sayid in the back yard. One yank of the garden hose and Sayid trips and falls right where James can handcuff him. Remember when Sayid tortured Sawyer for the inhaler. That was awesome.

Island

Kate and Sawyer arrive at the sailboat. Kate asks him if he really thinks it’s a good idea to go with Locke and he tells her the change of plans. We all know that Kate doesn’t like to be caught off guard but she handled the late breaking news OK.

Wait a second! I thought Kate was telling Sun about the change of plans at the beginning of this episode.

Kate is not happy that Claire wasn’t invited to join them. Sawyer reminds her that Claire isn’t the same since she started drinking Locke’s Kool-Aid and anyone can see it would not be a good idea for Claire to be anywhere near Aaron.

Locke’s group is moving along through the jungle which gives the newly reunited half- brother and sister some bonding time. Jack asks Claire how long she had been with Locke and he said since everyone left her; and she trusts Locke because he’s the only one who didn’t abandon her. Boo Hoo, Claire! No one abandoned you!

Locke asks Sun if she’s seen Sayid because he hasn’t come back from doing his dirty work. When she doesn’t answer, Fake Locke gets all offended that she would give him the silent treatment. She pulls her notebook and pen out of her backpack and writes, “You did this to me.” Yeah, remember, you were chasing her and she ran into a tree, Locke! He denies his involvement then moves back through the line where he tells Cindy, the flight attendant, to keep everyone moving and that James should be catching up with them. Locke turns back toward where they came from and he tells Cindy that he’s going back to make sure no one got left behind. Jack makes his move. He has Sun, Lapidus and Hurley bolt in another direction. Claire hides behind a tree and watches them. She’s either going to tattle or follow.

Locke finds Sayid and asks him what took him so long. Sayid seems irked that Locke keeps checking up on him. He says that he just shot an unarmed man and he needed a moment. Locke looks into Sayid’s eyes and asks him if he killed him. Sayid stares right back and tell him that of course he did and he can go check if he wants to. Desmond seems so important to the storyline that I don’t think he’s dead.

Have you noticed that Terry O’Quinn portrays the man in black very well? I mean, he moves his head the way he did and has similar expressions. He deserves the Emmy this year.

The Boat

Jack’s group (I guess Hurley isn’t in charge any more) meets up with Kate and Sawyer at the sail boat.  Sawyer tells them that they can’t leave the island on the boat because they don’t have the bearing. They are going to Hydra Island so Widmore can make good on his promise to let them all leave on the sub while Smoke Locke is delivered into their hands.

*Shotgun click click sound*

It’s Claire. And she looks mad. Kate tells Claire that they are leaving the island. Claire wants to know why they aren’t waiting for John. She really, really likes this guy. Kate tries to tell her that the person she believes to be John isn’t John; he’s not one of them. Kate tells Sawyer that if Claire isn’t allowed to come then she isn’t coming either. Kate is bound and determined to get Claire back to Aaron. Kate reminds Claire that she helped deliver Aaron and she promises Claire that she will get her back to her son. Claire states the obvious, “When John finds out they’re gone he’s going to be mad.” We all know how awesome the show is when Smokey gets mad!

L.A.

Sun wakes up in the hospital with Jin at her side. She is going to be fine and the baby is fine. All is hunky dory except for that one part where Sun freaked out when she saw Locke being wheeled into the hospital.

Jack and son arrive at the attorney’s office to settle Christian Shepard’s will. This father and son team sure seems to be getting along splendidly now. She asks Jack if he believes in fate because she has a surprise for him. I think I failed to mention that Ilana lost her accent. Jack and Claire meet and discover that they have the same father. Before they have a chance to take care of business Jack gets an emergency call at the hospital. It’s no surprise that John Locke is prepped for spinal surgery and laying on the table.

The Boat

Sawyer congratulates Jack for showing up at the sail boat. He knows Jack doesn’t like to take orders. Jack goes all soft and tells him that leaving the island doesn’t feel right. Jack still thinks they were brought to the island to do something. If Smoke Locke wants them to leave so badly, maybe he’s afraid of what will happen if they stay. Sawyer tells Jack to stop that crazy talk or get off the boat. Jack thinks Sawyer also believes deep down that they shouldn’t leave. Sawyer says he’s done with island and he doesn’t care. Jack expresses his sincere regret for getting Juliet killed, right before he jumps overboard and swims back to the shore. Kate is not happy.

The Island

At the exact place Jack makes it back to the beach, Locke and the group of Others are waiting. Jack confirms that Sawyer took the boat.

Hydra Island

The boat and its passengers make it to Hydra Island. They are greeted by Widmore’s group and their rifles. Zoe radios to Widmore that Sawyer’s back. Jin comes out of the jungle and is finally reunited with Sun. Awww…Ok it was a happy moment but to me sort of anti-climatic. I don’t know why though. And Sun can now speak English. Widmore tells Zoe to execute them and to fire a missile at Locke location on the other island.

The Island

Jack is near the explosion and when it hits the beach he flies through the air. Fake Locke picks him up and carries him to safety. He tells Jack that everything is going to be OK because Jack’s with him now.

Los Angeles

Pierre Chang is hosting an event honoring Hugo Reyes. Good old Hurley and his love for chicken, Pierre tells us, have enabled his franchise to prosper and his philanthropic activities to grow. Photos are shown to the audience of Mr. Cluck’s restaurants in Paris, Japan, and Cairo. Hurley used his lottery winnings to purchase a Mr. Cluck’s restaurant. Since his luck wasn’t bad after the win in this alternate reality, I’m guessing that Tricia Tanaka wasn’t killed when the meteor, and the restaurant wasn’t destroyed.

Hurley has helped to fund parks, schools, hospitals, The Humane Society, zoos, an experimental farm, and a new wing on the anthropology museum. (Probably the same museum where Daniel spotted Charlotte.)

Yes, all is well with millionaire Hurley. Except for his love life. At least that’s what his mom thinks.

On the Beach

Preparations are still being made to blow up the airplane so Smokey Locke can’t leave. Hurley says his final good-bye to Libby at her grave. He tells her that other dead people have shown up to talk to him and he would really like her to. Ilana breaks into the one-sided conversation and asks Hurley if he’ll be ready to leave when she returns  from the Black Rock. Hurley tells Ilana that the grave belongs to Libby, from the tail section of the plane, and they were going to have their first date, a picnic on the beach. But then Michael (boo, hiss) murdered her. Ilana gives Hurley some quiet alone time at the grave, but we hear the whispers and then Michael (boo, hiss) shows up. Michael, who died on the freighter when it exploded, tells Hurley that he can’t let them blow up the airplane on Hydra Island or a lot of people are going to die. Hurley doesn’t want to trust him because he killed Libby and Ana Lucia.

Los Angeles

Mrs. Reyes arranged a blind date for Hurley and “Rosalita” at a Mexican restaurant. She fails to show but  Libby, who never looked this good on the island, approaches him with her “crazy talk” about them already knowing each other from someplace before. She believes that they are connected like soul mates. Libby’s psychiatrist shows up at the table to take Libby back to the mental hospital transport van with all the other patients who are out on a field trip. Libby tells Hurley that she meant everything she said. This gives Hurley something to think about, but that “crazy” stigma seems to make him a non-believer.

On the Beach

Ilana arrives back at the beach with four sticks of leaky dynamite in a canvas bag. I’m no expert on explosives but it didn’t seem to take much to blast Arzt to pieces a few seasons back. Hurley tries to intervene in the plan. Not only did Michael tell him to stop her; he knows from experience that the dynamite is unstable. But Ilana insists that she has been training her whole life for this; to protect the candidates. She must blow up the plane so that smoke monster “thing” won’t be able to leave the island.

Honestly, I would like to see what happens when a smoke monster lands in a populated location. Maybe that’s what causes Doomsday in 2012. Carlton Cuse sent a twitter that spoiled the ending. He said that the final episode is actually what caused the volcano in Iceland.

Ilana has a desperate sense of urgency to get the job done. Hurley states the obvious; if they blow up the plane the candidates won’t be able to get off the island either and they’ll be stuck there with the black smoke monster that will undoubtedly be very angry. Ilana believes that following Richard is the right thing to do. She bends down to finish packing some things into her bag. Hurley continues to argue with her. Ilana, getting more and more frustrated, stands up and tells Hurley that she is only looking out for their best interest, she tosses her water bottle into the bag, sets it down and kaboom! That totally sucks, but it was a seriously cool explosion.

On the Island

Smoke Locke, Sawyer, Kate, and the gang are just hanging out from where Jin was taken. Sawyer is becoming very impatient because Locke is just whittling on a tree branch. Locke tells them that just like the only way they could all return to the island was by doing it together, they have to all leave together on the plane to get off the island. Kate doesn’t see that happening but . . . it just might transpire.

Sayid pulls Locke aside and takes him out to where he has Desmond tied to a tree. Everyone sure carries a lot of rope on this island.

On the Beach

Hurley looks through Ilana’s belongings left in her makeshift shelter on the beach; there he finds a Russian book (I sure hope that we learn more about Ilana and that’s not just the end of her) and the bag with Jacob’s ashes. Richard continues to quickly get ready to leave for the other island. Richard says that they have to get more dynamite despite what just happened. Jack made a promise to Sun that he would get her off the island and Richard wishes he hadn’t done that. Hurley agrees with Richard. What? Just a second ago he was arguing with Ilana about it. Hurley tells Jack to trust him; and he does. Jack doesn’t like being in charge anymore?

Los Angeles

At a Mr. Cluck’s restaurant, Hurley orders a family size bucket of chicken. He’s a little upset and needs something to eat. He sees Desmond standing in line staring at him. Desmond asks Hurley if he’s seen him before. If Hurley is as famous as everyone is saying he is, then Desmond probably saw his face on TV. Hurley tells Desmond that he probably saw his commercial and asks him if he wants a Cluckateer keychain. Desmond remembers it was on Oceanic 815 from Sydney. He sits down and makes a comment about the large quantity of chicken he’s been eating. Hurley tells him he’s depressed. Desmond asks, “So what’s her name?”

Is Desmond now playing cupid?

Hurley tells Des about his blind date, Libby, and the fact that, although she’s totally awesome, she’s crazy and lives in the loony bin. Des says, “All women are a little crazy, Brutha.” Why must he be so darn adorable?

Sorry, I started day dreaming a little bit.

Hurley continues by telling him that Libby said that they already knew each other, but he doesn’t remember meeting her at all. Desmond moves in close to whisper. He asks Hurley if he believed Libby when she said that. Hurley admits that he did a little bit. Des tells him to go with his gut and try to remember where he may know her from.

On the Island

Fake Locke apologizes to Desmond for being tied up, but Sayid didn’t want him to run away. Des says that he has nowhere to run to. Locke likes that answer and cuts him loose. Locke asks Desmond why Charles Widmore brought him back to the island. Des says that he doesn’t know because he was kidnapped, and Widmore threw him into a wooden shack and blasted him with a massive amount of electromagnetism. Locke asks Des how he’s so sure what he was blasted with and Des tells him it’s from experience. Locke asks Des if he knows who he is. Of course, he replies. John Locke.

Now if you only watched this once, go back and watch this scene again. There is some very interesting facial expression language going on. Desmond seems fully confident and comfortable with what’s happening. And Terry O’Quinn is such a great actor. His looks of confusion and caution show that there is something going on in that black smoky mind of his. Locke tells Sayid to head back to camp because he needs to show something to Desmond. As they walk through the jungle, Locke asks Desmond how long he was down in the hatch pushing the button, and when Des tells him it was three years Locke says, “If I didn’t know better I would think this island had it in for you.” Des tells him that there is nothing special about him; the island has it in for all of them. Locke whole heartedly agrees. Locke again sees the little boy who looks like an “Other”, the one he saw a few episodes ago in the jungle. Des asks Locke who the boy is and Locke tells him twice just to ignore the kid.  The boy smiles and runs off.

Now, because I thought Desmond knew what his purpose was on the island, I’ve been looking for hints to support that theory. It’s possible that the exchange of looks between Desmond and the boy could have been like a “wink, wink” we-got-Smokey-right-where-we-want-him.

On the Beach

Hurley’s group is walking through the jungle toward the Black Rock and Ben points out to Jack that Ilana was handpicked by Jacob himself to protect the candidates and right after she told them who they were, she blows up. The island was done with her. He wonders aloud what’s going to happen when the island is done with them. They approach the Black Rock where Richard is going to get more dynamite. No one has seen Hurley in a while, until he comes running and screaming out of the ship telling everybody to ruuuunnnnn! Hurley had gone ahead of the group and rigged the ship to blow up, taking all the dynamite, and the possibility of blowing up the plane, out with it. Richard flips out. Miles asked why he did that. Hurley tells him that Michael came back to yell at him and told him that he needed to stop them from blowing up the plane. I’m so glad that Miles and Hurley have each other to share their talking-to-dead-people stories. Miles asks Hurley if he just listens to every dead person who comes and yells at him. Hurley says the dead people are more reliable that the live people. Richard, the one who I used to think was the stabilizing presence on the island, is still frantic and out of control. He tells the group that he’s going to the Dharma barracks to see if they have any explosives. Jack wants to talk about it but Richard says there is no time. Hurley announces that they need to go talk to Locke. Ben asks if he’s trying to get them killed. Hurley says that it’s Jacob who wants them to go talk to Locke. Richard is suspicious and tells Hurley to ask Jacob what the island is. (Remember, Jacob told Richard that the island is the cork holding in the evil.) Hurley walks toward the place where Jacob is supposedly standing and tells Richard that Jacob doesn’t have to prove anything to him. He can either follow Hurley or continue to blow stuff up. Richard tells everyone that Hurley is lying, and he knows he’s lying because Jacob never explains what to do. He is still going to destroy the plane and he would like all the help he can get. Ben decides to go with Richard, and so does Miles. He tells Hurley that he saw the Black Smoke in action and it doesn’t want to talk.

Jack says that he’s going with Hurley because if Jacob says to go talk to Locke then that’s what they are going to do. It becomes nightfall and they have torches now. Sun, who also followed Hurley, writes out a question to Lapidus, because she still can’t speak English. “Did we make a mistake?” Lapidus says, “Probably.” Hurley asks Jack how they are going to break the ice with the Smoke Monster. Jack says not to worry about it because he has a feeling Locke wants to do most of the talking. Or, Hurley reminds him, Locke could just kill them all. Hurley admits that he didn’t even see Jacob, and Jack says he already knows that. He explains that he followed Hurley anyway because since he caused Juliet’s death all he has wanted to do is fix it; but he can’t ever fix it. Jack’s having a hard time sitting back letting other people tell him what to do but maybe that’s the point; maybe he’s supposed to let go. Hurley doesn’t feel so sure about his own leadership skills and he says that maybe Jack’s letting go is actually going to get them all killed. Jack tells Hurley that he trusts him, even though Hurley has no idea where he’s going.

It sounds like the whole group is going to be back together just like Locke had hoped. So they can all leave the island together.

I still want to know what’s up with that bird way back in Season 1 or 2 that seemed to call Hurley’s name as it flew by.

They hear the whispers and Hurley tells the group to stay put. He goes off alone and finds Michael. Michael tells Hurley that he’s stuck on the island because of what he did. I guess that means killing Libby and Ana Lucia? Hurley puts it all together. There are others like Michael stuck on the island and that’s what the whispers are.

Now that’s a great beginning of an answer but that better not be the entire answer about what the whispers are. Over the years, other bloggers have deciphered things the whispers have said by enhancing the sound and playing them backward. There is a whole lot more to these whispers and why they say what they say, than just “these are people stuck on the island and can’t move on because of something they did” nonsense.

This link provides transcripts. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Whisper_transcripts

Michael points the way to where Locke is hanging out. Hurley asks if there is anything he can do to help Michael move on. No, except, don’t get yourself killed. And Michael tells Hurley that if he does ever see Libby again to tell her that he’s very sorry.

On the Island

Locke and Desmond arrive at a well. It looks different than the one with the donkey wheel. That well had lots of trees around it. Locke shows Desmond how deep the well is by tossing in a torch. I’m beginning to lose my confidence in Desmond. He doesn’t seem to have a clue about what’s going on. Locke tells him that the well was built by hand a long time ago. But they weren’t looking for water, they were looking for answers. This was a place that makes compass needles spin, and the island’s inhabitants wanted to know why, so they dug the well by hand. But they never got their answers. Locke tells Desmond that he brought him to the well because Charles Widmore is not interested in answers; only in power. And he brought Desmond back to the island so he could help him find what he was looking for. Desmond’s like, really, that’s the reason you brought me to see this well. Locke asks why he’s not afraid. He is, after all, out in the middle of the jungle with Fake Locke, and no one even knows he’s there. Desmond simply answers, “What’s the point in being afraid?” Locke smiles then throws Desmond down into the well.

That’s it. Desmond! What is going on with you?!

Locke returns to the camp and tells Sayid that they don’t have to worry about Desmond anymore. Sawyer asks where he’s been and he replies that he went for a walk. Sawyer: “Well, now that you’re done stretching your legs…” Into the camp walk Jack, Hurley, Sun and Lapidus. Hurley approaches Locke and tells him that he doesn’t know what or who he is but they need to talk. Locke gives up his weapon and Sun looks around for Jin. Kate smiles at Jack. So does Fake Locke. This is the first time Jack has seen him since returning to the island.

Los Angeles

Hurley goes to the Santa Rosa Mental Hospital to see Libby but the director decides that is not a good idea because she has issues with reality. Hurley asks, “Not even for a fajita field trip?” The director says the only exception would be for a family member. Hurley asks, “Or for a generous donor?” He proceeds to write out a check for $100,000. Next scene, Hurley is sitting in the familiar commons area of the hospital. We see the “numbers guy” playing Connect Four. Hmmm…I wonder if that game is a clue? I was looking around for other clues but the only one I could see was a chalk drawing of an island. Then I thought about the time Matthew Abadan was there visiting Hurley and when he left the room, it looked like black smoke followed him out the door and we all thought he was the Black Smoke.

Libby comes into the room and asks Hurley if he remembered being with her before. No he didn’t, but he asks where she thinks she knows him from. She tells him she’s not sure but she was watching TV and saw Hurley on the screen and she was hit with a whole bunch of memories of her life, only it was another life, with a plane crash. She was on an island and Hurley was there and they liked each other. Libby also remembers being in the hospital before and Hurley being there too, in this other life. Hurley tells her that this is the first time he’s been in a mental hospital. She was hoping that he remembered her, then that would make it so that she wasn’t crazy. He thinks Libby is very brave to just walk up to someone and start talking to them even if it is about some bizarre alternate universe; Hurley has trouble just saying hi to a girl. Libby tells him he’s doing fine. Hurley asks her out and since she is at the hospital voluntarily she is happy to accept. So, I guess she’s not married now. Remember it was her husband’s boat that Desmond bought for his race around the world. If I remember correctly, her husband was killed and that is why she was selling it.

Hurley and Libby go to the beach and have a picnic.

Was it just me or was Libby’s dress awfully low-cut, especially for a first date?

Anyway, Libby tells Hurley she’s never been to that beach before, but being there with Hurley seems so familiar. She becomes uncomfortable by the circumstances and asks Hurley why he even wants to be with her. Hurley asks her the same question. Libby wants to be with Hurley because she likes him. Hurley doesn’t buy it. He thinks she likes him just because she’s delusional. I guess if you’re going to be delusional you should pick a famous millionaire. Libby reaches over and kisses him. Wham! All these memories go flashing through Hurley’s mind. He tells Libby that he thinks he’s remembering stuff. Yay! Libby’s not crazy. The camera pans back and Desmond is seen sitting in his car watching the results of his match-making skills. He pushes up the bridge of his sunglasses as if to say, “Mission Accomplished”, and drives off.

I don’t think anyone saw what was coming next.

As if Desmond’s stalking behavior at the beach isn’t creepy enough (you’re still adorable Desmond) it just gets worse when we see him sitting in his car outside the school where Ben and Locke teach children. Ben knocks on the window to see what the deal is. Desmond lies and tells him that he just moved into the neighborhood and he’s looking for a school for his son. He tells Ben that his son’s name is Charlie. This is the very first time it occurred to me that a potential Charlie Hume could be named after his grandfather Charles Widmore.

It’s easy to realize that Desmond is there to see Locke. He’s been watching him cross the campus in his wheelchair. Now that he’s appeased Benjamin Linus, he starts to pull away from the curb. Pulls away from the curb is an understatement. He rips away from the curb and speeds right into Locke running him over and driving away.

What?!

Other LOST episode recaps!

This episode focuses on Sayid.

Off the island, Sayid’s brother borrowed money from someone to open a new store and he wants Sayid to bring out his torturing equipment to stop the man from collecting on the loan. Apparently he’s making the brother pay interest for as long as he owns the business. Sayid says “No Way!” The brother is attacked by the debtor and Sayid thinks about going after them but Nadia, who is married to Sayid’s brother, talks him out of it. At the hospital Dr. Jack passes Sayid in the hall. Sayid tells Nadia that he pushed her toward marrying his brother because he doesn’t deserve her after all the horrible things he’s done. I was very surprised that Sayid did not end up marrying Nadia. Awwww! I was so hoping that Sayid would have a happily-ever-after post-island life or flash sideways life. It seems like he sort of redeemed himself for many things and I’ve been rooting for him for a long time.

Some bad guys come to pick up Sayid and take him to a restaurant kitchen. It’s so funny that mobsters always seem to do their dirty work in a kitchen or back of a restaurant. The main bad guy turns out to be Keamey. To me, Keamey looks a lot better with his marine buzz haircut and camouflage than his purple shirt and blazer. But no matter how he’s dressed he’s still a bad dude. Sayid takes out Keany’s two sidekicks and Keamy decides to forgive the debt to save his own life, but Sayid says “No Way!” and shoots him. Sayid hears some banging in the walk-in refrigerator and opens the door to find non-English speaking Jin tied up. Wow! That was a crazy connection.

Sayid tells Dogen that he doesn’t understand why they want him dead. Sayid believes himself to be a good man and he better not dare try to kill him, but Dogen goes all martial artist on him. A huge manly fight breaks out and just when Dogen tries to stab Sayid in the throat, his baseball falls off the desk and lands on the floor. If you just said, “What?”, that’s exactly what I said. Dogen tells Sayid to leave the temple and never come back. Sayid speaks with Miles on his way out and tells him that the Others told him he is better off dead because they think he’s evil. Miles explains that when Sayid was dead, he was dead, and that the Others did not bring him back to life. In fact, they were just as surprised that he sat up alive and well. I sure was hoping that Miles was going to enlighten us to something he sensed from Sayid’s dead body.

Surrounding the temple is a ring of ash. Claire and Locke are outside the temple and Claire agrees to go into the temple if Locke will give her her son back. Locke can’t go in himself of course because the ash keeps him at bay for some reason. She asks why he doesn’t get Sawyer or Jin to do it? Hmmm…are Jin and Sawyer now on Evil-Locke’s side?

Locke tells Claire that he’s only going to hurt the people who won’t listen to him. Claire walks in to the courtyard of the temple and tells Dogen that “He” wants to see him. Dogan tells Claire if Evil-Locke wants to talk to him then he should come inside. No, he needs to go out to meet him. Dogen is too smart for that. Dogen has Claire put down into a pit inside the temple because she is confused and under the influence of an angry man. Dogen approaches Sayid and tells him that he can’t leave the temple now because Locke showed up things have changed. Dogen arms Sayid with a knife and tells Sayid he needs to go out and kill a man whom he will recognize; someone who has died.

He explains to Sayid that the man waiting outside has been trapped on the island but now that Jacob is gone this man is now free and will kill everyone on the island. He is evil incarnate. Sayid’s instructions are to stab Locke before Locke has time to say anything. I thought Locke would be waiting right outside the gate but he wasn’t. On his way out, Sayid passes Kate. Luckily for Kate, Sayid didn’t mistake her as the one he would recognize and was supposed to kill.

Further out in the jungle, Smokey shows up and transforms into Locke who says, “Hello, Sayid” before he can stab him. Oops! He didn’t get to him before he spoke. The knife did no damage except put a hole in his t-shirt. Locke now tries to recruit Sayid. He tells Sayid to deliver a message. Locke didn’t have Claire do it because the message would mean a lot more coming from Sayid. Locke tells him that he could have anything he wants if he does this favor for him. Locke is very persuasive and we all know how much Sayid wants Nadia, who died in his arms after she was hit by the car.

Sayid goes into the temple and tells the Others that the man out in the jungle wants them to know that Jacob is dead and because of that they are all free. Locke is leaving the island forever and he wants them to join him by sundown or die. Most of the Others decide to leave the temple even though the hippie tries to tell them that Locke is bluffing.

Kate goes to Claire in the pit as soon as she finds out from Miles where she is. Claire is singing the lullaby and becomes furious when Kate tells her that she took Aaron off the island and raised him. Even when Kate tells her that she came back to rescue her, she gives Kate a warning that “he’s” coming and no one can stop him.

Dogen tells Sayid part of his back story. He was a business man in Okinowa (in other words, he had a life before the island) and he got drunk one night. He picked his 12 year old son up from baseball and caused a car accident that killed his son. While at the hospital, Jacob went to Dogen and told him that he could save his son’s life if he followed Jacob to the island. He could have a new job on the island but would never be able to see his son again. Dogen asked Sayid if Locke offered him a similar bargain. Yes, Sayid says, right before he kills Dogen in the pool. When Hippie comes in and finds Dogen floating in the pool, he tells Sayid that Dogen was the only thing keeping “him” out. Sayid says that he knows that and then he kills the hippie. Holy crap! Sayid may have just completed his turning evil cycle. Dogen’s new job must have been to protect the temple. Without Dogen the ash doesn’t work?

Smokey makes his screaming and clicking appearance and starts grabbing and slamming the scattering people into the columns and walls of the temple. Love it!!!! Miles and Kate get separated when Kate returns to the pit to rescue Claire. Miles hides in a room of the temple and holds the door shut but Ilana breaks it down, armed with her rifle and asks where the other Losties are. Miles, who has never met Ilana before, tells her that it’s only him and Kate still there.

Miles asks Sun where her husband is; he took off yesterday and didn’t return. Sun realizes she’s getting closer to finding Jin. Now that the two groups (or what’s left of them) have rejoined in the right decade and year together they team up and Ilana guides them through the secret passageway that Jacob directed Hurley to in the last episode. I am soooo glad Ilana seems to know what’s going on. They get through the wall and close the entrance just before Smokey comes rushing past.

Kate tries to get Claire to come out of the pit but Claire tells her that she’s safer down there. Smokey comes furiously racing around the corner and Kate jumps onto the ladder in the pit just in time to see Smokey flying over her head. After things have calmed down a bit, Kate follows Claire and Sayid out of the temple, but not before picking up a rifle belonging to one of the dead Others. That’s what I love about Kate; she always remembers to pick up a weapon. Locke is waiting outside and gives Sayid and Claire a “good job” look. He’s looks curiously at Kate, but says nothing and turns around into the jungle as the Others follow their new leader.

This week’s episode should be good as it focuses on Ben.

• Jack noticed his appendectomy scar and asked his mom about it. Mom told him that he had it removed when he was seven. Jack doesn’t seem convinced. Is Momma Shephard in on this crazy island deception? (BTW, the wound on his neck that he noticed on the flight appears to have healed)
• Jack has a son named David. He appears to be about 14 years old. Is Jack’s cute blonde wife the mom? Jack has been an absent father by the looks of it. Why are 14 year olds so annoying? I’m not sure if David is going to have a purpose other than showing us that everyone’s lives are completely different even before the time they would have crashed on the island. Jack and Dogan (is that his name) have a conversation where they actually seem to be honest with each other. What?!

• Hurley and Miles are playing tic-tac-toe. Life in the temple must be completely boring; at least in the courtyard.Jacob shows up at the healing pool and tells Hurley he needs his help. Jacob tells him that someone is coming to the island and Hurley needs to help him find it. I reeeeaaalllly hope it’s going to be Desmond. I miss that hunk!

• Mom Shephard finds Christian’s Last Will and Testament and asks Jack if he knows who Claire Littleton is; her name is in the will.

• Claire has become the new Danielle Rousseau. She lives in the jungle, has wild looking hair, keeps an assorted array of weapons and camping supplies, and hunts the Others to find out what they did with her baby. She gets Jin’s leg out of the trap she set and takes him back to her camp. Inside a store-bought-looking cradle Jin discovers a weird looking animal skull dressed up like a baby. Claire tells Jin that she’s been out in the jungle since the rest of the castaways left back in Season Four, but she didn’t know it had been three years. Jin is beginning to realize that Claire is definitely not herself. Claire finds one of the Others who had gone out looking for Sawyer with Jin and Kate. Claire ties him up and asks the dude what he did with her baby. He denies any involvement and when Jin asks her how she can be so sure the Others took Aaron she tells him it’s because her father and her friend told her. Score! It looks like I may have been right about Claire and Christian since last time we saw them in Jacob’s cabin together. Claire tells Jin that the Others took her to their temple and stuck her with needles and branded her, probably like they did to Sawyer, to see if she had the darkness in her. Somehow she escaped. I wonder if her special friend helped her. Jin understands exactly how whacked out Claire becomes when she goes all Lizzie Borden on the Other she has tied up.

• Hurley is caught by Dogan in the temple; a place Hurley should not be. Hurley tells him he just likes temples and Indiana Jones and stuff. What would we do without Hurley? He’s the character most fans identify with most, I believe. He asks all the obvious questions and is always playing it cool in a very innocent and genuine way. Jacob appears behind Dogan and walks Hurley through the conversation so Dogan will leave him be. Hurley does a pretty sweet job improvising as well. He lied to a samarai! My favorite line this episode followed by Hurley describing Jacob’s sudden appearances – he shows up whenever he wants like Obi-Wan Kenobi. Once they’re alone, Jacob kinda scolds Hurley for not having Jack coming with him. Jacob insists that Jack come along and he tells Hurley to tell Jack that “he has what it takes”. Jack freaks out when he hears that, because his father, Christian, always used to tell him that he doesn’t have what it takes. Yep, that worked. Jack follows Hurley through the jungle, to the caves from Season One, where they stumble across Shannon’s inhaler. In the cave they see the Adam and Eve skeletons (I’m still thinking they belong to the Naylors – Bernard and Rose, but time will tell) and Christian’s coffin. I think the cave and its contents are going to play an important part in the big picture story. Jack and Hurley have some “old school” chatting time in the jungle and Hurley tells Jack that he came back to the island because Jacob got into the back of his cab in L.A. and told him to do so. Follow up questions would have been appropriate, but of course Jack doesn’t bother to think about that. Jack admits that off the island Jack was broken and he was stupid enough to believe that if we returned the island would fix him.

• Next scene with Jack and David is at a piano concerto audition where Jack meets another father and son. It’s Dogan! What the heck? Who do you think the son is? I haven’t decided yet. I had the feeling that Dogan knew exactly who Jack was and seemed to take particular interest in David and his gift for music. Jack tells David that his dad never wanted to see him fail and that he told Jack he didn’t have what it takes. Maybe Jacob is doing things to make relationships better in the alternate reality in some unrealistic way.  I remember Jack playing the piano in one episode, and Charlie and Daniel play the piano too. Yeah. That’s all I can come with about the piano.

• Next scene with Hurley and Jack is at a lighthouse on the island that they have never seen before. Jack asks out loud what we were thinking. Why haven’t they seen this before? It’s still daylight when they arrive so it can’t be that far from the cave. Inside the lighthouse there is a huge gear wheel thingy and Hurley follows the instructions written on his arm from Jacob – to turn the wheel to 108 degrees. As the wheel turns Jack sees buildings flash by in the mirrors as it passes certain names. One building looks like a Korean temple another looks like the steeple of a church. Maybe for the Kwons and Sawyer? A few of the names I could make out were 125 – Owens, 124 – Dawson, 122 – Freed, 121 – Nielson, 120 – Rodriquez, 118 – Chavez, 117 – Linus, 42 – Kwon, 20 – Rousseau, 17 – Barnes, 16 – Jarrah, 15 – Ford, etc. I was sure I saw Austen on there the first time I watched the episode but I couldn’t find the number it corresponded with when I watched it again. Jack sees 23 – Shephard, and tells Hurley to turn the wheel to 23 degrees but Hurley is worried about what Jacob will think so Jack takes over and pulls the chain until it’s set at 23 degrees and Jack sees the house he grew up in when he looks into the mirror. My first thought was that it was a Mirror of Erised, like Harry Potter found at Hogwarts. Jack freaks out again and wants to know how long and why Jacob has been watching him his would life. Hurley can’t answer Jack’s questions so Jack does the sensible thing and takes a piece of metal to the mirrors destroying them. Outside the lighthouse Jack is sitting a way off on the edge of a cliff staring out at the ocean. Hurley is near the lighthouse and finally gets another visit from Jacob. Hurley is a little perturbed and tells him if he would have shown up earlier Jack wouldn’t have broken his mirrors into millions of pieces. (BTW, I like Jacob with his soft demeanor and sad eyes. He’s kinda cute.) Hurley continues his hilarious tirade. “Thanks for the seven years of bad luck by the way!” Jacob’s replies, “You have ink on your forehead.” “I have ink on my forehead?! Is that all you have to say?” By this time I was hoping that Jack would have noticed Hurley was in an argument with an invisible person. Hurley: “Jack broke your lighthouse, Dude! Mission UNaccomplished! Whoever you said needed help getting to the island is totally screwed.” Jacob was unconcerned. They’ll find another way. Is it Desmond? Please let it be Desmond! Jack’s deal is he needs to find out for himself what important thing he needs to do. And Jacob needed to get Jack and Hurley as far away from the temple as possible because “someone” is coming there. Hmmm….Evil-Locke? Who else would it be? So Sawyer, Jin, Kate, Jack, Hurley and so far Sun, are all away from the temple. Jin however is with wacko Claire, who promised to kill Kate if she was indeed raising Aaron, and Claire’s friend, Evil-Locke. I think Claire and Christian have always been manifestations of Smokey.

The next  episode is titled Sundown. It looks like Claire is going to send a warning to the temple inhabitants and Sayid is faced with a difficult decision.

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“The Substitute”

Locke and Helen

This episode begins with John Locke arriving at his home in suburban LA. The wheel-chair lift on the van gives out half way down and he rolls himself onto the grass, but unfortunately lands on his face. Knowing he had just flown back from Australia where he was not allowed to go on his walk-about, and that the airline has just lost his luggage, I was prepared for Locke to be extra grouchy. Especially when the sprinklers came on.  But he actually began to chuckle. Good thing Helen was there. Yay! Helen! She ran out of the house and rescued John from the shower he was getting outside….transition to John soaking in the bathtub….where he’s looking at fabric samples while overhearing Helen talking on the phone to a wedding planner. John and Helen talk about the cost of the wedding and Helen proposes they do away with all the plans and just head to Vegas with only a few invited people i.e. Helen’s parents and John’s Dad (boo hiss! We’ll probably being seeing Mr-Kidney-Thief again). John insists that it will all work out. Maybe daddy is different in this alternate timeline.
Helen cleans up John’s clothing and asks how his “conference” in Australia went (answer: “boring”) then she finds Dr. Jack Shepard’s business card and encourages John to make an appointment for his free consultation. John is not the man of faith he became on the island and Helen nudges him by telling him it may just in fact be destiny that he happened to meet a spinal surgeon at the missing luggage counter. John contemplates this as we transition to the best scene of the season so far!

SMOKY on patrol!

The camera takes us on a dizzying 1^st-person-as-if-we-were-Smoky ride through the jungle, then flash, over the creek, then above the grass, then into Dharma-town where we see our black smoky reflection in the outside window of a house where we hear bottles breaking, loud music, and hammering. Then back into the jungle with a couple of teleporting flashes where we see a large knife lying on the ground. We land and see our hand reach out for the knife. Smoky has turned back into Locke. That was so cool!!!

Terry O’Quinn is such a great actor. It doesn’t matter which Locke he’s playing, Paralyzed Locke, Destiny-believing Locke, Evil-Locke, the audience knows exactly what emotion he’s trying to convey.

Locke cuts down a canvas tree-top bag containing Richard. I feel very uncomfortable seeing Richard in his new role being bullied by Evil-Locke. To me, Richard brought stability to the island. He was like my constant. Now to see him with cuts and bruises, and his eyes filled with fear, is very unsettling. Locke tells Richard that it’s time to talk.

Who’s the Boss?

Back in L.A., John Locke shows up at work where his boss Randy confronts him about his absence at the conference he was supposed to be attending in Australia. Locke explains that it’s personal and Randy immediately fires him. (Randy Nations, by the way, was in the Season 3 episode where the meteor hits Hurley’s newly acquired Mr. Cluck’s restaurant. The newscaster introduces Randy Nations as Hugo’s previous boss who now works for Hurley).

Apparently no one knew why Locke was really going to Sydney. Not his fiancé, not his boss, but actually maybe Jacob and his nemesis, “The Man in Black”, knew all along.

Back in the jungle, Evil-Locke apologizes for hitting Richard and dragging him into the jungle. He tells Richard that he wants what he’s always wanted, for Richard to come with him. Apparently Richard knows what he means because he doesn’t ask any follow-up questions other than he wants to know why he looks like John Locke. Of course it was because it would get him in close proximity to Jacob when he was prepared to kill him. John was a “candidate” he tells Richard. Richard has no idea what that means and Evil-Locke becomes annoyed that Jacob kept everyone in the dark about what was going on – first, Benjamin Linus did all of Jacob’s bidding even though Ben was never even allowed to see Jacob. Now we find out that our good friend Richard, who has been on the island a very long time, doesn’t have all the answers either. Great. It looks like Smokey just might be the answer to every mystery we’ve seen on this darn island. Evil-Locke tells Richard that he would have never kept him in the dark but that he would have treated him with respect. Richard says No Way. Evil-Locke sees a young boy behind Richard. The boys face isn’t familiar but he’s dressed like an “Other”. Richard turns around and can’t see the boy. Could this be the reincarnated Jacob? Evil-Locke leaves Richard in the jungle telling him he’ll see Richard sooner than he thinks.

Who’s Crying Now?

At the statue foot, Ben approaches Ilana who is weeping over the loss of her friends. She asks Ben what happened and he tells her that there is a good chance she won’t believe him. Ben tells her that John Locked turned into a pillar of smoke and killed all them by himself. He lies about Jacob and tells Ilana that Locke killed him as well and kicked him into the fire. Ilana places some of the ashes into a bag and tells Ben that Locke took Richard into the jungle because he is recruiting. The ashes must be important for something. And Locke will probably be approaching everyone on the island as potential recruits.

My suspicion is verified when we see Locke show up again at Dharmaville to the house with the loud music. That’s where Sawyer has decided to take up living with his whiskey. Sawyer tells Locke he thought he was dead and Locke states, “I am.” But he notices that Sawyer doesn’t seem to be fazed but it. Nope, he doesn’t care about anything anymore and he invites Locke to get out of his house. Sawyer asks Evil-Locke who he is and Sawyer tells him that he knows he’s not Locke because Locke was always scared even when he was trying not to be; not but this new guy, he ain’t scared.

Locke tells Sawyer that he has the answer to why Sawyer is on the island and it’s not because his plane crashed, his raft blew up, or his rescue helicopter had one too many passengers. Sawyer is so despondent about his life that he seems up for this curious proposal; it sure beats going back to the temple with the “Others.”

Back in L.A. John rolls out of his office building with his boxed up belongings and finds that he can’t get into his vehicle because a big yellow Hummer is parked to close to the side of his van. John decides to move out the lift anyway but just as it’s about to hit the Hummer, it stops. He throws a John-fit and bangs on the car making the alarm sound. Out comes the owner of the Hummer to find out what he’s doing. It’s Hurley, I mean, Hugo Reyes. He tells John that he owns the company and apologizes that Randy fired him. He writes down the number for a temp agency and tells John to call them to get hooked up with a new job.

At the beach, Ilana takes charge and tells Ben and Sun and Lapidus that the safest place for them to be is at the temple; and if Jin is still alive on the island then he’ll at the temple. Sun insists that they bury John Locke’s body.

Play by the rules!

While they are walking through the jungle, Evil-Locke asks Sawyer why he was in the house alone and why he’s not with the rest of his friends. Sawyer reminds him that he was drinking (duh) and that his friends are at the temple. He doesn’t want to talk anymore and he stops when he sees the same “Other” kid in the jungle. Locke seems surprised that Sawyer can see him too. This must be significant because Richard couldn’t see him. Once Locke understands that Sawyer can see the kid too he takes off after him in the jungle. I was wondering why he didn’t turn into Smoky, it probably would have been faster. Locke trips and looks up into the kids’ face who says, “You know the rules. You can’t kill him.” Evil-Locke seems to have taken on some of angry Locke’s personality as he shouts out, “Don’t tell me what I can’t do!” The boy calmly walks away.

Each time I’ve watched this scene I think of the conversation between Ben and Charles Widmore when they were discussing “the rules”. So is this kid on Jacob’s side? Is he on Ben’s or Widmore’s side? Is the kid actually Aaron?

Sawyer, meanwhile, is waiting in the jungle for Locke and shouts out that he’s leaving if he doesn’t get back here right now. Richard stumbles out and tells Sawyer that they need to get to the temple. Sawyer explains that he knows that Locke is a look-alike but that he’s already been to the temple and he’s sticking with Locke because he’s got the answers about why he’s on the island. Richard warns Sawyer that Evil-Locke isn’t going to tell him anything but that in fact he wants to kill him and all his friends, but before he can say anything more he runs away because he hears Evil-Locke coming. Sawyer denies that he was speaking to anyone and when he asks if Locke ever caught up with the kid, Locke asks, “What kid?”

At least one thing is for sure on this island – Lying and Deceit.

In L.A. Locke is seen at the temp agency applying for a job. The first interviewer John meets was a tarot card reader back in Season 3 when Hurley and his father were looking for answers. Rose shows up as the office supervisor. She and John have a little quarrel about what type of job John can realistically handle. Just as he was about to begin his don’t-tell-me-what-I-can’t-do outburst, Rose cut him off by announcing that she has terminal cancer and she understands all about accepting the facts.

Sawyer is following Evil-Locke into the jungle and asks him if he’s ever read Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. I laughed at Sawyer’s face when Locke told him that he hadn’t read it because it was a little after his time. Sawyer goes all-George on Locke-Lenny and aims a gun at his head. Locke tells him that he’s been trapped for a long time but that before he used to be a man with feelings who’s experienced much of same things we all experience. He tells Sawyer to go ahead and pull the trigger but he’s so close to finding out the truth. (Yeah, right, *cough cough*)

Bring out your dead!

While Iliana and Ben are carrying Locke’s body to the Cemetery (which I heard someone recently call “Boone Hill”) Ilana says something interesting and probably important that I didn’t quite catch the first three times I watched this episode. She told Ben that the people had to see the face of what they’re up against. I thought that was metaphorical but she goes on to explain that Smokey can no longer change “faces” and that he’s stuck that way. So, unlike in past seasons, Smokey won’t be manifesting himself as Mr. Eko’s dead brother or Jack’s dead dad or a dead-Claire, right? He will always look like John Locke.

They proceed to bury Locke, hopefully next to Boone and not Nikki and Paulo, and Ben offers some words for his dear friend. It was perfect, as was the comment made afterward by Lapidus. Ben says, “John Locke was a believer. He was a man of faith. He was a much better man than I’ll ever be. And I’m sorry I murdered him.”

“This is the weirdest damn funeral I’ve ever been to.”

It was funny, but I also think Ben sincerely felt sorry for killing John. Especially in light of what transpired in the foot statue. What else has Ben really been doing for Smokey when he thought that he was doing what Jacob wanted? After all, Ben did have the plug to the Smoke Monster summoning drain.

In Locke’s bedroom the alarm clock sounds a lot like the buzzer down in the hatch. And he wakes up at 8:15. Or did it say 6:15? John calls Dr. Shephard’s office then changes his mind about making an appointment. When Helen asks why he’s not going to see him he tells her that he got fired.

Oh, yeah, that’s one more thing that’s for sure on his island. There’s seldom ever an appropriate answer to a direct question.

The doorbell rings and it’s the courier returning John’s box of knives. Helen returns to the conversation and asks John why he got fired to which he replies that he lied to his boss; he didn’t go to the conference. Oh yeah, and he lied to you too, Helen? John tells her about his walk-about that wasn’t and he confesses that he is tired of picturing himself walking her down the on her wedding day. This was a very touching scene because what it came down to was John wanting Helen to be realistic about her expectations for him having corrective surgery or a miracle. Helen showed what a great woman she really is and I felt like cheering when she told him that all she really wanted was him and she tears up Jack’s business card.

We see Locke at his job as a coach/substitute teacher. It’s hilarious that as a substitute teacher he was assigned to teach the class on the reproductive system. Isn’t that how it always goes? He passes a young black man on the campus asking for directions to the teacher’s lounge. They probably wanted us to think it was Walt. At the teacher’s lounge we discover Benjamin Linus who happens to be a teacher of European History. OK, so was Ben EVER on the island? Did he leave in 1977 when the bomb blew it up?

If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you?

Sawyer and Locke end their trek through the jungle at the edge of a high, scary cliff. Sawyer cracks me up! When Locke tells him they’re going over the edge Sawyer says, “No offense, but you already died, so this is no big deal for you.” Locke’s not worried that he has to go first for Sawyer to trust him so over the cliff and down the shaky, creaking ladder he goes beckoning Sawyer to follow him. Sure, why not? For those of us who saw this episode’s commercial we knew that Sawyer was going to fall on the ladder (that had to hurt) but Locke made sure no harm came to him and they both safely entered the cave at the bottom of the cliff. Upon entering, we see a white and a black rock resting on each side of the scale. Reminds me of the rocks in the cave some of the Losties called home back in Season One. Locke picks up the white rock and throws it into the ocean. He tells Sawyer it’s an inside joke. He’s eliminating signs of Jacob and his maddening Jacobness one step at a time. On the walls of the cave are written names, some crossed out, some not. The noticeably uncrossed out names include: 42-Kwan, 23-Shephard, 8-Reyes, 16-Jarrah, 4-Locke, 15-Ford.

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.

Locke explains that the names were written by a man named Jacob who wrote the names, and that he had a thing for numbers. The names were candidates whom Jacob had selected to take over for him as protector of the island. Locke tells Sawyer he can do nothing, and see what happens, and “possibly” his name will be crossed out. Or he can become the new Jacob and protect the island. He clarifies this option to Sawyer saying that there is absolutely nothing from which to protect the island. It’s all a big joke and the island will be fine without Jacob or anyone else whose lives have been wasted. Or he can leave the island. Of course there’s no direct answer to a direct question, so when Sawyer asks how he’s supposed to leave the island Locke replies, “Together”. Sawyer doesn’t hesitate; he’s made up his mind to leave with Evil-Locke, and Evil-Locke looks completely satisfied.

At first, I thought it was all of our Losties’ names who were mentioned by Evil-Locke. But he didn’t mention Kate. Then I thought it was maybe all the Losties who were visited by Jacob as an adult, but Sawyer, or James Ford, was a child. Then I thought they must have accidentally left Kate and her number out of the script. But all of the numbers are accounted for, so where is Kate’s name? And Claire’s? Rose, Bernard, anyone else? They weren’t candidates apparently. Are all the candidates men? Then Kwon on the wall must refer to Jin, and not Sun. When Lapidus was knocked out on the canoe, Ilana and Bram were talking about Lapidus being a candidate.

My final question from this episode is what would happen if Smokey left the island (no matter what form he’s in). Would it be terror and chaos like when the T-rex left Jurassic Park?

What do you think about this episode?  Any comments or theories to share?

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~Evie

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First of all, my apologies to those of you who genuinely enjoyed the last episode, What Kate Does. Perhaps I was too harsh in my judgment of not enough answers. Erika at Long Live Locke.com reminded me that we fell in love with LOST way back when there wasn’t a lot of action. Shannon was sunbathing, Jack was going through suit cases looking for supplies, Charlie was playing his guitar. On the other hand there wasn’t a whole lot of crazy mystery either that we were desperate to have answered.

While I was visiting LLL I read a couple of interesting things I missed so I thought I’d share.

1. When Kate was going through Claire’s bag at the garage after being de-handcuffed, she saw the stuffed orca. I couldn’t remember where it was from but Aaron had it as a toddler when he was living with Kate. Erika’s school of thought is that felon-Kate would not have gone back to find Claire if the whale hadn’t sparked some kind of this-seems-awfully-familiar sense in Kate.
2. As for Ethan Goodspeed (his surname in previous episodes was Rom), Erika says that if Pierre Chang had indeed evacuated the women and children from the island then the children we know who were there (Miles, Ethan, and Charlotte) would have been saved and grown up off the island.
3. Claire was also having that déjà vu experience when Dr. Ethan was asking her about the baby and she just shouted out Aaron’s name like she just “knew” that was going to be his name. And of course, Kate, who always seems to stick herself into everyone else’s business, told Claire she should keep her baby.
4. Possible correlation that’s not just coincidence: Asian Other Leader Dogan tells Jack he must speak in Japanese and use a translator because he has to stay separate from his people – The translation of one of Jacks tattoos is “He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us.”
5. Erika hints at validating a theory I had about Claire when she was blown up in the barracks/”rescued” by Sawyer/ran off in the jungle/seen in Jacob’s cabin.  She was actually taken by Smokey and now her form is manifested by Smokey, same as Sayid is now.
6. And one duh-moment for me from LA X. Sawyer and Hurley were seated by each other when Sawyer overheard about Hurley’s lottery winning. I had this warm fuzzy feeling about Sawyer helping out his buddy Hurley. D’oh! I forgot Sawyer is still a con man and doesn’t even know Hugo.

Just some food for thought for you LOST fans!!!

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by Evie

This Kate-centric episode shows her at the airport hijacking a cab occupied by Claire. Arzt is crossing the sidewalk and having a problem with his luggage so the cab driver stops for a moment. Kate looks out the window and sees Jack talking on his cell phone. She looks at him like she recognizes him but can’t quite place who he is. Not far from the airport, the cab driver jumps out of the cab, so Kate gets into the driver’s seat and kicks Claire out without her purse or suitcase. Kate finds a garage and the attendant helps her remove the handcuffs. I was expecting the man to be someone we’d seen in the past. It seems like the people our Losties meet have some connection to the island. Kate sees all of Claire’s baby items in the bag she swiped and she got back in the cab and returned to Claire. I’m not quite sure how she knew where she would be.

Kate takes Claire to the family that was to adopt Aaron. Again I thought it would be someone that we knew from a past episode. The woman was visibly upset and told Claire that her husband just left her and she won’t be adopting a baby. Who is the husband? Someone from the island? In any other season I would have said, “Of course”, but not this season. I couldn’t make out the woman’s last name. Claire starts having contractions and Kate takes her to the ER where she meets a doctor from the island. I thought it was going to be Juliet. Darn it!

On the island Sawyer is a very bitter, angry man. He tells sarcastically tells Kate that Sayid came back to life because he deserves another go at it, after all, Sayid is an Iraqi torturer who shoots kids. I wonder if he’s on to something. We still don’t know why some people live, or are healed, and others die. It takes me back to the Purgatory theory that they are all dead and need to work out their issues before they can move on. The people left on the island still have lots of issues. But I don’t think that’s going to be it. I am glad that Sawyer is doing all he can to ignore Kate. Kate, Kate, Kate. Always on the run, or in everyone else’s business, or doing exactly what she’s told not to do.

This is one of my least favorite episodes in a long time. I disliked it so much I didn’t even want to recap it. I kept starting to, then I just couldn’t finish.

Here’s why.

This is supposed to be the season of answers. But I have more questions. Opportunities to provide answers keep passing.

1. Why does the Asian leader of the “Others” have a typewriter and to whom is he writing?
2. Why is Sayid alive?
3. What do the “Others” think of Sayid coming back to life? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
4. Is Sayid’s wound healed because of the near-drowning in the magic spring water?
5. Why didn’t Miles tell us if he spoke to Sayid when he was dead?
6. Why do they torture Sayid and sprinkle ash on him?
7. Why did the Hippie tell Sayid that he passed the test then clarify to his leader that he lied? Then they try to poison Sayid? I guess Jacob isn’t inhabiting Sayid’s body like I originally thought.
8. Why do the “Others” not answer Jacks questions?
9. Why did Justin say the booby-trapped bag of rocks was one of Danielle’s, but the other “Other” told Justin to be quiet?
10. Why does the other “Other” tell Justin to shut up about where Sun’s plane landed?
11. Why don’t the “Others” tell us why the black smoke makes a ticka-ticka sound?
12. Why does Ethan introduce himself as Dr. Goodspeed? That is Horace’s last name.
13. Why are the “Others” so adamant about being in control, but as soon as Jack tells the guards to step aside, they immediately obey?
14. What is the infection the Hippie is talking about with Sayid? The same one Danielle spoke of after her group met the black smoke that goes ticka-ticka?
15. Why does the leader of the “Others” need to know how Sayid got shot?
16. Why do the “Others” continue to lie over and over?
17. Whose baseball was the leader playing with?
18. How was the leader brought to the island? He told Jack he uses a translator because he needs to separate himself from the people he’s in charge of, especially when they don’t like what decisions he makes for them. Jacks asks who he is and we find out that his name is Dogan and that he was brought to the island like everyone else. This would have been a great time to continue the conversation but Jack stands up Dogan changes the subject.
19. Why does Dogan keep Jack from swallowing the poisoned pill?
20. What does he know about Jack?
21. How does Dogan know about Jack’s sister, Claire, and why does he say she had a darkness growing in her just like Sayid?

We want answers, people! And it would be nice to get some along the way and not right at the very last second when you can’t possibly answer everything we need to know.

The attempts at humor in this episode failed as well. Hurley being in charge, zombies, food court, ugh.

Next Tuesday’s episode is titled “The Substitue”. The sneak peak shows “Evil-Locke” getting ready to show Sawyer what his purpose is for being on the island. Cross your fingers for answers.

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More new characters are introduced.

New characters usually mean more questions, but I think their purpose will be to explain the island’s distant past including Jacob, the Man in Black/Smoke Monster (I hope we learn his real name), Richard/Ricardus, and the Black Rock.

This episode begins with Sawyer and Miles burying Juliet. Hurley, Jack, Kate, Jin, and stretcher-bound Sayid are entering the temple through the underground Smokey entrance where they find Montand’s remains. Kate does the logical thing and finds matches in the bag belonging to Montand who lost his arm back in the 1980’s. Hurley sees a book by Søren Kierkegaard; I can’t make out the name of the book, too bright and too blurry.

Side note 1: I’ve never gotten into following the books featured in LOST even though they are clues. If you have any insight, please comment.

Side note 2: Did Sawyer, Juliet, Jin, Miles, and Real-Locke think to explore the temple while they were at the well looking for the donkey wheel? If not, WHY?!

Luckily for Kate there is also an abandoned torch. In typical Hurley style, after Jin explains that the man’s arm was ripped off by the Black Smoke, he leads the group saying, “This is going to be awesome.” Hurley is hilarious. They sneak past a gaping hole in floor with no trouble at all, which I was really glad about because the story kept moving along. Kate gets ahead of everyone and hears the whispers. Jack discovers that she’s missing and runs ahead winding through the tunnels. There’s some commotion behind him so Jack runs back toward Hurley and they are all captured and taken inside the temple by the new characters who turn out to be the “others”. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe it was before Ben and Locke went to the donkey wheel that Ben told the “others” to go to the temple to meet up with some other “others”.

Flash sideways to LAX. Kate is being guided by Edward, the Federal Marshall. She convinces him that she needs to use the restroom and once inside the stall immediately begins to use Jack’s missing pen to unlock her handcuffs. The spring jumps off the pen and, unfortunately for Kate, lands out where the Marshall steps on it before she can finish removing the cuffs. The Marshall knows with whom he’s dealing and demands that she come out. Kate kicks the door open and bashes Edward’s head on the sink. All of us watching let out a collective groan because that had to hurt!

Time out. When in the history of airport bathrooms have you ever seen the ladies room NOT busy, let alone EMPTY? Never? I thought so too.

In typical Kate fashion, she takes the Marshall’s keys and gun. A couple of women enter the bathroom. She tells them that the man just walked in and attacked her and she runs out to an elevator where Sawyer holds the door open for her. He sees the handcuffs still on her wrists even though she tries to hide them but he doesn’t say anything. Two airport security officers enter the elevator and get a call that there is a “341” in progress. Sawyer asks what a “341” is but they tell him that it’s confidential. Obviously Sawyer is trying to found out if it’s the code for an escaped woman wearing handcuffs.

Jack receives an overhead page at the airport and the Oceanic representative tells him that his father’s coffin was never put on the plane and they don’t know where it is. Bummer, because Jack scheduled the funeral for 2 hours after the plane landed. What was he thinking?

Flash sideways to the temple. The leader of the “Others” is Asian and he has a translator whom I’m going to call “The Hippie.” Cindy, the flight attendant from Oceanic flight 815, identifies them as being passengers on “the first plane”. Jack seems to recognize her. The leader tells the “Others” through his interpreter to shoot them. In the midst of the guns being cocked, Hurley shouts out “Jacob sent us”. He tells them that Jacob said that they would help Sayid, who still hasn’t bled to death yet. The leader demands that Hurley prove it and he is baffled about how to do so. The “Others” are told again to shoot, and then Hurley remembers the guitar case that Jacob gave him in the cab outside the jail when Hurley was released. The leader opens the case and finds a huge ankh that fills the entire case.

Side note: According to newworldencyclopedia.com, the ankh is the Egyptian hieroglyph that means life or living, and over time, came to represent immortality. In Egyptian art, gods were sometimes portrayed touching a mortal with an ankh, symbolizing conception. Its key-like shape encourages the belief that it unlocks the gates of death. These are all themes that we’ve seen on LOST.

The leader breaks open the ankh and finds a list of names; what is up with Jacob and his lists? He verifies that all of their names are on the list, including Sayid. Hurley tells the Hippie that he carried the guitar case across the ocean and through time and he wants to know what the list says. The Hippie tells him it says that if his friend dies (meaning Sayid) they are all in a lot of trouble. Jacob certainly seems to be omniscient.

Flash sideways to Jin and Sun at an LAX customs desk. The officer opens the box containing the watch that Michael found on the beach way back in Season 1. He wants to know what kind of business Jin is in but Jin just replies, “No English.” The customs agent continues to look through Jin’s luggage and finds a bag full of bundled bills, over $10,000 that Jin did not declare. Sun, of course understands the conversation but chooses not to tell anyone she speaks English. The officer takes Jin away.

Flash sideways to the temple where there is a spring or pool of water. The Hippie and the leader are surprised to see that the water isn’t clear. The leader pulls out a knife and cuts his own hand across the palm; he dips it into the water. It seems like he’s expecting his hand to be healed but it’s not. The leader asks who hurt Sayid and Jack takes responsibility for causing it to happen even though he’s not the one who shot him. The Hippie tells Jack that there are risks to what they are about to do to save Sayid. Jack tells them to go ahead and do whatever they have to do. The leader has three of the “Others” take Sayid down into the water and hold him under, face down. This was a terrible scene. They didn’t let him up until the leader’s hour glass ran out even though Jack, Kate, Jin and Hurley begged them to stop. They bring Sayid out of the water. The leader examines him and the Hippie announces, “Your friend is dead.”  Jack tries to do CPR and I thought for sure he was going to beat on his chest to revive him like he did with Charlie after he was found hanged in the jungle. After all, I saw Sayid on some trailers for the show and he was definitely alive. But, Kate convinces him to stop.

Flash sideways to LAX. Sayid is at the luggage carousel standing next to Arzt. Sayid collects his luggage and Kate passes by. She is aware the airport security is looking for her and sneaks out an employee exit and tries to get into a cab. Frogurt tells her to get in the back of the line so she stands behind Hurley who is talking on his cell phone about Outback chicken. Edward, who was not taken to the hospital despite his brutal head wound spots her and she jumps into a cab occupied by Claire (yay, Claire!) and puts the gun to the driver’s head and tells him to go!

Cindy, Zach and Emma (the kids kidnapped from the beach at the beginning of Season 1) bring in some food. Miles and unconscious Sawyer are brought in to the temple by the “Others”. The Hippie tells Hurley to follow him and they go to a separate room where the leader is trimming some plants. This totally reminded me of Mr. Miyagi. Through the translator, the leader asks Hurley what Jacob told him. Hurley says that Jacob told him to bring Sayid to the temple and they would save him. The leader speaks, and the Hippie repeats in English that Sayid was beyond saving. Hurley realizes that the Hippie isn’t translating anything for the leader yet the leader knows what Hurley is saying. The Asian leader tells Hurley that he doesn’t like how English tastes on his tongue. Oh, Snap! The leader asks, again with the help of the Hippie, when Jacob will be coming to the temple. Hurley breaks the news that Jacob is dead.

An ancient sounding bell starts ringing, the “Others” are running around blocking the doors, shooting off flares, preparing weapons and most interesting, ash is being poured around the temple walls. The Hippie tells Hurley that the fortifications are to keep “Him” out. Hurley doesn’t know who he’s talking about but we do.

Back inside the statue, Evil-Locke and Ben are still sitting by the fire. Ben has figured out that Evil-Locke is the smoke monster and that he used Ben to kill Jacob. Evil-Locke tells Ben that he didn’t make Ben kill Locke, even though in Ben’s mind he did by using an apparition of Alex, his daughter, to threaten him if he didn’t do exactly as Locke said.

Evil-Locke goes off on this tirade of what a weak, broken, pathetic man John Locke was. He tells Ben that while Ben was choking the life out of him, Locke was thinking, “I don’t understand.” I am still mourning the fact that Locke turned out to be just a sad, angry man. At least in this reality. When he came back to life on the island, I thought his transformation into a strong leader with a purpose was awesome. He had finally figured it out and I was rooting for him. Evil-Locke told Ben that he admired Locke because he didn’t want to leave the island and return to his dismal life. However Evil-Locke has the opposite goal. He wants to go home. What?!

At the temple Hurley tells dead Sayid good-bye and if he ever wants to talk, he’ll be around. Miles is there too but doesn’t tell us if he’s also talked to dead Sayid. Unconscious Sawyer wakes up and Kate tells him they are at the temple captured again by the “Others” but this time they are being protected by them. Sawyer changes his mind about killing Jack for causing Juliet’s death; instead he wants Jack to also suffer on the island.

Flash sideways to LAX where Jack is talking on his phone to his mother about the missing coffin situation. Behind him is John Locke sitting in his wheel chair reporting his missing suitcase full of knives. Jack talks to John about his father being lost and John tells him that they just lost his coffin and the body, but his father isn’t lost. Wow, Jack actually seems to consider that. As Locke heads toward the door, Jack asks John about his injury and presents his business card and tells John that he is a spinal surgeon and if he wants a consult, it’s on the house. Ah ha! The lives of the passengers are starting to cross again. This IS going to be good!

Flash sideways to the statue. Richard and his group of “Others” see the flares from the temple. Out march Evil-Locke and Ben. Richard tells the “Others” not to shoot. Lapidus and Sun still don’t know what to think of this 2^nd Locke. Evil-Locke approaches Richard and tells him, “It’s good to see you out of those chains.” I’m thinking that’s figurative. Perhaps in Evil-Locke’s opinion Jacob kept Richard bound to the island by making him immortal or unable to age. I never saw Richard look so scared as he came to realize who Evil-Locke really is. Evil-Lock punches and kicks Richard and turns to the “Others” and tells them that he is very disappointed in all of them. Evil-Locke throws unconscious Richard over his shoulder and heads into the jungle walking past real-Locke’s dead body lying on the beach.

Back in the temple the Hippie insists that Jack follow him to have a conversation but Jack declines by lunging at one of the “Others”. He stops when Hurley shouts “Jack!” The Hippie is staring at the same thing Hurley sees behind Jack. Sayid is back from the dead and asks, “What happened?” I’m pretty sure it’s actually Jacob back from the dead using Sayid’s body.

Tuesday can’t come soon enough!

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