Can't believe there is only 1 episode left for LOST. Last night's episode was much better then the week's before, and overall I am happy with the way it is progressing. As always, I split this up between on and off island...
Off-Island:
The show opens with Jack waking up and heading to the bathroom. Once again there is an odd scene with a mirror, which has been going on all season. This time it is Jack bleeding from his neck, as he looks into the mirror, which is the same thing that happened in the first episode of the season (LA X).
Jack then leaves the bathroom and has breakfast with his son, and Claire. Jack is going to be heading to his son's concert that night, so it seems we might finally find out who David's mother is. The nice family moment is broken up as Jack gets a call from Oceanic saying that they finally found his father's casket. Yet, it isn't really Oceanic, but rather that sneaky Desmond playing tricks again.
Desmond is sitting in his car watching John Locke, mirroring the exact same scene that we saw when Desmond ran down our favorite wheelchair-bound substitute teacher. I really thought for a second he was going to do it again, but Ben steps in at the last second, and stops Desmond. Ben confronts Desmond, but it ends poorly for him as Desmond kicks the shit out of him. This gives Ben a flash to the flash sideways life (when Desmond beat him up at the docks), and now he is starting to understand that there is something going on.
The show then cuts to Locke and Ben talking. Locke obviously worried since he got hit by a car, and now Ben got this shit kicked out of him. Ben explains to Locke that he "saw something", he also tells him that Desmond told him he needed to help Locke "Let go", which is what Jack told him at the hospital. John calls the LAPD, which leads us to a transitional scene at the police station as we see Miles getting ready to go to a concert with his father. Presumably, this would be the same concert where David is performing.
At the station, we see Desmond ask to see Sawyer (I'm not calling him Ford in the FS World), and then confess the hit-and-run on John Locke, and the beatdown on Dr. Linus. As he is taken to his holding cell, we see him walk in and flash that Desmond smile, as he sees Sayid, and Kate.
We then cut to Ben leaving school and he is stopped Alex, who demands that her mother give him a ride home. Danielle is obviously her mother, and she explains that he is the closest thing Alex has ever had to a father (just the like Island).
Locke enters Jack's office, and start going on and on about all the "coincidences" which have always led him back to Jack and the surgery to make him walk again. This is very similar to what was going on with the Island, and the whole having faith theme. Eventually Locke states that he wants to have the surgery done.
We go back to Desmond, Kate, and Sayid being transferred to another prison. Kate and Sawyer have a moment, and you could tell by Kate's face that she is starting to remember something. Anyways, they are loaded into the back of a armored car, and set off. Yet, tricky Desmond has a plan. The truck soon stops, and Ana Lucia pops out, and Hurley pulls up in his pimped out ride. Hurley, who knows everything now, hands Ana a bunch of money and they are off. Desmond makes Sayid, and Kate promise they will do something for him. We just don't know what yet, but we do know that Desmond and Kate are heading to the same concert Jack is heading too...
On-Island:
On the Island, we saw the aftermath of Kate's gunshot wound as Jack sewed her up on the beach, which is obviously the same as the pilot episode when Kate sews up Jack. Kate starts crying about Jin and Sun since their baby will be all alone. This leads to Kate and Jack agreeing that they have to kill Flocke.
Ben, Richard, and Miles are finally back and have reached the Other's little town. Miles starts acting weird Zoe, and can sense the dead body of Alex. We learned that after Ben left, Richard buried her there. This was basically to remind us that Widmore got her killed.
Inside the house, and inside Ben's secret room, we learned that the crazy drain contraption we saw last season, was indeed how the Smoke Monster was summoned. Or as Ben put it, "“That’s where I was told that I could summon the monster. That’s before I realized that it was the one summoning me.” Great line. They grab the explosives and are about to head out of the house when they run into Widmore and Zoe.
The last time we saw these two face-to-face, Ben was standing at the end of Charles' bed, and let's just say that didn't go so well. Widmore starts questioning what they are doing, and Richard tells him everything (don't think Ben liked that). Zoe runs off to get something from their boat.
We cut to Jack and Sawyer having a deep conversation about what happened on the sub. Sawyer knows he caused everything that happened, but Jack bails him out and says that it wasn't his fault is was Flocke's. Out of nowhere, Hurley sees Young Jacob, who insists on the ashes that Hurley has in his pocket (the ashes that Ilana took from the foot of the statue where Jacob burned). When Hurley is reluctant to hand them over, Young Jacob snatches them away and runs, and Hurley gives chase. Jacob then appears as himself to Hurley and has him bring his group to him.
Back to Zoe where things aren't goign well. As he gets near the boat she sees Flocke, and Widemore tells her to make her way back to the barracks. Miles decides that he doesn't want to stick around and hide, or stick around and face Flocke, so he decided to just run away, which is most likely what I would have done.
While Widmore and Zoe hide in the secret room, Richard and Ben decide to meet Flocke head on. We then hear the smoke monster and Richard is attacked, not sure if he is dead, but he definitely got fucked up. Flocke then appears to Ben, and he tells him he needs him to kill everyone else on the island then the island will be Ben's. Ben then gives up Widmore in a flash, telling Flocke where he was inside....payback's a bitch.
Flocke and Ben enter the house, Flocke says that Ben "doesn't want to see this", as he kills Widmore and Zoe, but Ben then replies that he wants to see it, which was kinda awesome. Flocke doesn't waste much time and cuts Zoe's throat (good she sucked), and then starts asking Widmore questions. Then, the bribe came, as Flocke promised not to kill Penny if Charles would spill everything to him. And as Charles gave up every piece of information except for one, Flocke motioned him closer so that he could whisper it in his ear. In an incredibly tense approach, Charles began to whisper the final point in an effort to protect Penny, and then Ben shoots him.
"He doesn't get to save his daughter."
The main piece of information that Charles gave up was Desmond's purpose, "because of his unique resistance to electro-magnetism." He then indicated that Desmond was there "as a measure of last resort", which was how the Fail Safe Key was referred to in the Hatch. You can see the recognition in Flocke's eyes when he hears it, as Locke would have known about it. So, while Desmond turned the Fail Safe Key in the Hatch, he now IS the Fail Safe Key.
Suddenly we are back with Jacob, Jack, Hurley, Kate, and Sawyer. Jacob explains what happened with Flock, and how he was responsible for creating "The Smoke Monster". He went on to say that they were all chosen because they were flawed, and alone in the real world, and that they needed the Island as much as the Island needed them. He also explained that the crossed-out names on the wall were 'just a line of chalk in a cave", and that Kate was still an eligible candidate, but he had excluded her since she became a mother, which I guess means that Jin was the other candidate, since Sun was also a mother.
Jacob then explains the Cave of Light, and how it had to be protected. Which leads to this dialog...
"I want you to have the one thing that I was never given. A choice."
"What if none of us chooses it?"
"Then this ends very badly."
Then Jack made the choice we all knew he would, he confidently volunteered to be the Island protector, and Jacob took him to the water, chanted as his mother did 2000 years ago, and gave him directions to the Cave. Now he would be able to find it near the bamboo field where he originally landed on the Island in the pilot episode.
Ben and Flocke have made their way to the well where Desmond was thrown in. When they get there they notice that Sayid did not kill him like he said, but rather let him go. What was odd was the rope, because Sayid said he left him in the well, so who could have let him out (we'll get back to that). Anyways, the show ends with Flocke basically telling us that he is going to use Desmond to destroy the Island.
Questions:
- Who let Desmond out of the well?
- How is the sideways world tied in? Does it matter is they all learn the connection?
- Why is Jack's neck bleeding in the sideways world?
- Who is David's mother?
- How will they stop Flocke?
- Is Ben bad again?
Theories:
- I hate to say it, but I bet Frank helped Desmond escape.
- I bet Ben is still good, and is going to play a major role in killing Flocke.
As always leave theories and questions in the comment section.
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