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*SPOILERS* Be warned, the following post contains spoilers about Lost

The Island

Last week set all the pieces in place like a finely balanced stack of blocks, and this week was all about the fun part - knocking it over.

The plans were set for the other’s arrival, and all that was left was to actually do it. After a few tearful good byes, everyone save for the shooters were ready to leave, and with Jack in the lead began their trek across the island toward the radio tower.

With the bulk of the survivors gone, they were ready. Everything at first went as planned - the others crept into camp, believing that they had nothing to worry about. They reached the marked tents, and just as they realized they were empty the plan kicked in. One set of dynamite was shot, and the ensuing explosion sent a few others flying. The second explosion immediately followed, along with a few more bodies. However, the plan went down hill from there. Jin missed his target, leaving some of the others alive - and shooting back. Jin managed to kill a few of them, but the ones he didn’t get quickly reversed the situation, getting Sayid, Bernard, and Jin at gun point and taking them hostage.

Things on the island weren’t going to great, and neither were things underwater. Charlie was bound, and is being beaten by the women who caught him, who are attempting to interrogate him. It isn’t working though, because he is quite confident that the future Desmond predicted will happen no matter what (this reinforces something I brought up a while ago. If Desmond’s visions come true regardless of the events leading up to them, wasn’t the entire premise behind Episode 17 incorrect?).

Anyway, the women decide to contact Ben - which means unlike many predicted, they are not rogue but are just another set of others. They pass on the few bits of information Charlie has given - most importantly, that it was Juliet who sent him to the hatch. Now Ben knows that she has betrayed. He tried to call off the attack on the survivors upon hearing this, but fortunately he is moments too late.

It doesn’t take long for him to find out how that went though. He is called by the others who survived the attack, and they inform him that 7 of them were killed, but they now have 3 hostages. Ben tells them to threaten Jin to get information, and even though Sayid and Jin tell him not to talk Bernard makes the situation worse by telling Ben everything he wants to know. He now knows that they are headed to the radio tower, and that Alex has also betrayed him.

He decides he’s going to intercept the survivors before they can reach the radio tower, and sets off along with Alex. When the survivors are almost at the tower, Ben stands there, and asks for five minutes alone to talk with Jack. Jack eventually agrees, and Ben tells him that Naomi is not who she says she is, and if they contact her boat everyone on the island will be killed. He wants Jack to gibe him the phone.

Jack refuses to give in, and so Ben decides to use the only real leverage he has. He calls Tom, and tells him to kill Sayid, Jin, and Bernard if Jack doesn’t hand over the only means of rescue within a minute. Jack has had enough of being manipulated, and even Ben’s threats don’t deter him. He will not give in, and after a very tense minute three shots are heard.

Jack immediately tackles Ben, beating his face bloody. After he’s had his fun, he calls Tom to inform him that once they make the phone call, Jack’s going to kill him. They then continue on, with Ben in tow.

Earlier, Sawyer and Juliet had left to check how the plans on the beach were going. Hurley wanted to go also, but he was too fat so Sawyer wouldn’t let him come. They arrive at the beach to find everyone alive, although being unarmed they don’t really know what to do.

Luckily, Hurley decided to come along anyway whether Sawyer wants him or not - and tears through the forest in the bus. This is just the distraction they need, and they kill all the others still there, rescuing the shooters. Using their walkie, Hurley calls to threaten the others. Instead, he gets Jack, and informs him that the three hostages are not in fact dead.

After finding out that the underwater hatch had been infiltrated, Ben sent Mikhail down there. He first saw Desmond where Charlie left him in the boat, and shoots at him. This leads Desmond to dive underwater, and he joins Charlie in the hatch.

However, he hides, and so isn’t caught by the women holding Charlie. Soon after he gets down, Mikhail arrives too. He is surprised to find the women down there, because he believed they were in Canada. It ends this hatch was never flooded, it was only one of Ben’s lies to keep people from asking questions.

Mikhail is pretty angry, mainly because he learns that Ben has knowingly been blocking all communication using this hatch, without telling anyone. However, he is still willing to follow Ben’s orders and so agrees to kill the two women and Charlie. He kills one woman, and shoots the second, but that’s when Desmond decides to come out. He shoots Mikhail straight through with a harpoon, and before the last woman dies he and Charlie convince her to tell them the code needed to disable the jammer.

He enters the code and it looks like everything is going to be fine. As soon as communication is enabled, he gets an incoming transmission. It is a live video of Penny (the woman looking for Desmond), who asks who he is. Her tells her, and when he mentions Desmond she gets very interested.

However, when Charlie asks whether she is on the boat and talks about Naomi, she says she doesn’t know anything about either of those, and they are not part of her search party

Unfortunately, at just about that time Mikhail appears at the window holding a grenade. Charlie locks the door so that Desmond isn’t killed, but the part he is in is filled with water after the grenade blows up and shatters the window. Charlie drowns, but not before warning Desmond that the boat is not Penny’s.

We didn’t get to see Locke last episode, but this episode we finally saw him again. However, this only made things much more confusing. He was about to kill himself, when Walt - yes, you read that right - showed up and told him not to, because he had things to do. The questions just keep coming, and getting even more confusing.

Meanwhile, now that the jammer was disabled all that is left is to get rid of Rousseau’s message. They get a signal, but all they hear is her repeating transmission. Once they take out her tape at the radio tower though, they’re ready to call the ship.

Ben warns that calling is a bad idea, and will be the beginning of the end. That doesn’t stop them though, and the phone is ringing when Locke shows up and shoots Naomi. Jack then picks up the phone instead, and Locke threatens to shoot him. However, he can’t do it - and they end up talking to someone on the boat. They don’t seem to be who they say they are, but they say they will be coming soon anyway to pick everyone up.

Flashbacks:

Jack’s life has fallen apart. He is addicted to taking medication, and he never seems happy. He almost even commits suicide. All the while he is trying to call someone, but they never pick up. His life has gone completely to hell.

Finally, however, he reaches the person he’s been calling, and they decide to meet at an airport. They both arrive, and the person gets out to meet him. It’s someone you wouldn’t expect Jack to be meeting off the island though - Kate (looking hotter than ever, I might add). Suddenly, the flashback starts to make much more sense - it’s actually not even a flash back but a flash forward. Jack and Kate made it off the island.

However, this isn’t good. Jack says he flies all the time, hoping to crash again on the island, hoping to just go back. He says they weren’t supposed to leave, but Kate believes they were. Jack says they have to go back, but Kate refuses, and Jack is left shouting at the back of her car.

This is one of the most important flashbackforward Lost has ever had. It reveals what is coming up, and I don’t think anything this important has happened in a flashback until now. This is one of the most revealing moments in Lost’s whole three Seasons.

This was a very important episode, and definitely a major turning point in both the island events and the flashbacks. It was just an amazing episode overall. I’m still trying to make sense of half the stuff that happened - this is going to be a very long wait, and even once January rolls around we’ll only be getting 16 episodes. If they can even keep it half this good though, I’ll be plenty satisfied.

Rating: 5/5