Jughead SE5 EP3

“Are they from the future too?”

Even a vacation in sunny Florida can’t keep me away from my devoted Losties. I think this episode was better than the first two episodes combined. First of all there was the great OMG moment at the end, secondly, a few more pieces of the puzzle came together and thirdly, Desmond, Desmond, Desmond.

Misty water colored memories
The show opens with Desmond frantically running for a doctor in a southeast Asian port. Penny is in labor. We figure out that this happened about nine months after Penny rescued them, because the next time we see Des, he’s sitting on the deck of the boat with his boy who is now about 2. They are back in England and Penny is worried that her father will find out they are here. “I don’t know what he’ll do.” She says, frightened. She has serious misgivings about this “memory mission” that Des is on.

“All I have to do is find Faraday’s mother.” Desmond says, reassuring Penny that her vile father will never know they are there. “Why didn’t you remember until two days ago?” Penny wants to know. It’s a good question, Pen, and one we all know the answer to, since Daniel basically just told Des to go find his mother two days ago on Island time. “Everyone is in danger,” Des explains, “I’m the only one that can save them.” As Des turns to leave, Penny makes him promise that he will never, ever go back to that island. “Pshaw—why in God’s name would I want go back there?” I can think of several reasons that probably haven’t occurred to you yet, Des, but we’ll let you have your moment of ignorance for now, shall we?

Des makes his way to Oxford, but he is quickly getting nowhere with the bureaucrat charged with helping him find Faraday. It seems that not only is Faraday NOT at Oxford, there is no record of him, or his mother in their database. (Lost a planet, Obi-Wan has, younglings.) When Des insists that Faraday was at Oxford because he visited him there, the unhelpful bureaucrat asks, “What year did you visit Oxford?” That stumps Des. What year was that? We think maybe 1996, but perhaps Des’s memory of that visit it a bit muddled. That would surely be understandable.

Of course, Des doesn’t take the bureaucrats word for it and he makes his way upstairs to Daniel’s old lab above physic department. The room is sealed for fumigation, but of course we all know that’s just a ruse and Des breaks the lock anyway. The place is abandoned and covered in drop cloths. Des finds Daniel’s blackboard and some familiar equipment along with a picture of Daniel and young blond woman in a broken frame. Then the janitor? Caretaker? Chimney sweep? Breaks in:

The chimney sweep questions why Des is here: “Um diddle iddle iddle, um diddle aye, why is you pokin’ about in ‘ere, mate?” Des tells him he’s looking for Daniel Faraday. “You’re not the first one to poke around in here. I’m the one who had to bring those rats down to the incinerator. They said he was moving the rats brains into the future.” “The university has no record of him,” explains Des. “They say they’ve never heard of him.” “Can you blame them?” the chimney sweep answers. “After what he done to that poor girl?”

We next see Des at the door of Theresa Spencer. Her sister answers the door and when Des drops Faraday’s name, the sister says, in kind of a funny way, “Oh why didn’t you say so. Right this way.” Theresa Spenser is the blond girl in the picture in the broken frame from Faraday’s abandoned lab. “He abandoned her.” Theresa’s sister explains. Des wants to know what’s wrong with her. “She’s not with us right now. The other day she was three and asking for her dolly. Yesterday she talked to her father whose been dead for five years.” Des understands what’s happening to her, but doesn’t explain it to Theresa’s sister because he’s not sure if he can explain it without sounding like Hurley telling the story of the first four seasons of Lost to his mom. This girl doesn’t look as forgiving as Mrs. Reyes. Theresa’s sister explains that even though Faraday has abandoned her, Theresa’s medical expenses have all been taken care of by Daniel Faraday’s benefactor, Charles Widmore, bless his heart.

Des bursts into Widmore’s office. “I need to know where I can find Daniel Faraday’s mother.” Widmore makes a lame attempt to play dumb, which may have worked on Des before he lived on the island, but certainly not now. “Even before you sent him on your little boat , you funded Faraday’s research for 10 years, so I think you would know a little bit about him.” Widmore knows he is caught. But instead of answering, and after Des specifically told him that he, Desmond, would be the one asking the questions, Widmore still takes a shot and asks, “Is Penny safe?” Whe he sees that Des is not going to answer him, Widmore caves to Des’s demand. “She’s in Los Angeles. I suspect she won’t be pleased to see you—she’s a very private person. But Desmond, take my advice: Deliver your message, then get out of this mess. Wherever you were hiding, go back there. You are getting yourself involved in something that goes back many many, years.”

Widmore’s warning has evidently shook Des up, because there I nothing he would do to put Penny in harm’s way, plus he has no way of knowing that Ben has just put a hit out on her. When he gets back to the boat, her tells Penny that Faraday’s mom died a few years ago. Penny sees through this immediately. “Why are you lying to me? Where is she?” “She’s in Los Angeles.” (See Sig? It’s not Ben that’s getting around quickly. It’s Faraday’s mom who isn’t at Oxford!) Des, worried about the ramifications of following this through tells Penny, “This was a mistake. You’re my life. You and Charlie.” (Anyone else get a little misty when they realized that Des named his son for Charlie, who’s last act in life was to warn Des that it was not Penny’s Boat, and Penny was the last person he talked to?) Des claims he’ll forget the memories. Penny, again, knows best. “You’ll never forget it Des. So I guess we’re going with you.”

A funny thing happened on the way to the creek
Miles, Daniel and Charlotte and the rest of the survivors of the flaming arrows (minus Sawyer, Juliet and Locke) are trekking to the creek to rendevous with Sawyer and Juliet. Charlotte’s Minkowski syndrome is getting worse—she’s suffering from headaches, double vision and blurriness of vision. They get to the creek but no one is there. Miles is doing his usual griping and Daniel chastises him for his “very bad attitude” in much the same way he did with Charlotte after they first arrived on the island, except with Miles that could turn into a full time job. Miles isn’t listening; he’s looking at the trip wires and the explosive that they lead to. He tells the rest of the survivors not to move, but too late. Everyone else is blown to smithereens, except Charlotte, Miles and Daniel. And of course, Bernard and Rose, because the writers would certainly have made a point of showing them getting blown up, so unfortunately for us, even though it appears they’ve outlived their usefulness to the narrative, Rose and Bernard live another day. Look for them to re-appear when the annoying character quotient of the show needs to be bumped up again.

The blond Rambo named Ellie draws a bead on our trio. Ellie wants to know who’s in charge and Miles helpfully points to Daniel. “You couldn’t stay away, could you?” Ellie asks Daniel.

Pause for a moment here while I make two keen observations. At first we think Ellie means she recognizes Daniel from the Orchid Construction, since we know Daniel had clearly been here before. We later learn that Ellie thinks that they are part of the U.S. Military returned to finish their mission. Furthermore, Daniel recognizes Ellie—“You look just like….” And then Daniel trails off. Because Des is currently (for us, anyway) visiting with the blond Theresa, we assume that he thinks she resembles Theresa. However, I think after considering that the year this scene is taking place is 1954, I think Ellie may in fact be Daniel’s mother. Now back to our wrap up, already in progress.

Ellie demands to know where the rest of Daniel’s people are. Miles: “Maybe they got blown up by some of your landmines.” “I didn’t put them there, you did.” Ellie retorts, meaning, of course, the U.S. Military. As they are being frog marched through the jungle, Miles senses the dead Military guys, but can’t get a read on how long they’ve been dead or what year it is.

Ellie presents the captives to Richard Eyeliner. “What’s your name?” Richard asks. “What’s YOUR name?” Daniel retorts coyly. Richard introduces himself. “I assume you’ve come back for your Bomb?”

When we next join Richard and Daniel, we see Richard justifying his actions to Daniel: “Your people attacked us. You came to our island to run your tests. I tried to you’re your people into leaving the island peacefully, then I was forced to kill them.” “Forced?” Daniel wonders. “Yes, I have a chain of command just like you.” At this point, Richard and the Others are still laboring under the assumption that Daniel, Charlotte and Miles are somehow connected to the U.S. Military. There is a hydrogen bomb on the isnald that the U.S. Government was going to test, but Daniel can see from the radiation burns on Other in Richard’s tent that the housing is broken. He tells Richard he can fix it. Richard wants to know why he should trust Daniel. “Because I’m in love with the woman sitting next to me.” Meaning Charlotte. “I would never let anything happen to her.”

Later when they are alone, asks Daniel about the H-Bomb. “Back in the 50’s the U.S. government tested H-bombs on island in the Pacific.” Charlotte tells Daniel he didn’;t have to say what he said to try and save them. “I said what I said because I meant it.” Daniel tells her. We all knew that. Sun and Jin knew it. How come Charlotte didn’t know that? Is thickheadedness a symptom of Minkowski syndrome too?

Daniel and Ellie head off to the H-Bomb. Ellie, who’s no slouch, doesn’t think they are U’S. Military and wants to know who they are. “I’m your best chance to disarm that bomb.”

Others 101
Locke, Sawyer and Juliet are questioning the captured flaming arrow attackers. The CFAA begin speaking to each other in a foreign language. Locke and Sawyer are confused; but Juliet answers them. “How do you know what they are saying?” Sawyer asks. “They’re speaking Latin,” Juliet explains. “And how would you know that, Juliet?” Locke asks. “Because I speak it too. They are Others.” “How’d you learn Latin?” The Locke and Sawyer want to know. Juliet: “That’s Others 101.”

The Other that is not Jones tells our friends that the rest of their people are either captured or dead because Sawyer shouted out to meet at the creek. Sawyer responds, “Maybe I should have talked in my secret language.” Juliet calms things down and begins negotiating in Latin. She asks to be taken to their camp and if Richard Alpert is there. This convinces the Other named Jones to trust them and he gives them the general direction to camp, but then the other Other breaks his neck and runs off into the jungle. Sawyer shouts at Locke to shoot him as he’s running away, Locke raises his weapon but does not shoot. He can’t. “He’s one of my people,” he explains to Sawyer.

As they head for Camp Other, Locke asks Juliet about Richard, how long has he been on the island, how old is he? These are all questions that we are dying to know the answers to as well, yet Juliet blows this off. “Why are you interested in Richard?” As if that’s the stupidest thing in the world. Locke explains that Richard was telling him how to save the island when the last flash occurred and Locke wants to finish their conversation. Juliet tells Locke that Richard is very old and has always been here. Huh. Not much of an answer.

It all comes together
Locke tells Juliet and Sawyer that he wants to finish conversation with Richard who will tell us how to save the island. “What about Faraday getting death marched into the jungle?” Sawyer wants to know. “Good luck with that.” Locke tells him. “Wait, you go chargin’ in there, they’re gonna know we’re here,” Sawyer observes. “Fair enough,” Locke agrees. “I’ll give you ten-minute head start.” And with that Locke is off to Camp Other. Sawyer looks at Juliet. “You gonna stay here in crazy town or you gonna help me rescue the geek?” Juliet answers with her patented quizzical Juliet look.

Daniel climbs up to examine the bomb crack in the bomb. After seeing a rather alarming crack in the casing, he tells Ellie that they will need either lead or concrete to seal it. He tells her to bury it and it will be fine.

Time out here for another insightful observation: I think it is possible that the H-Bomb was buried in concrete right next to the Swan hatch. If you will remember from season two, Sayid made the observation about the abundance of concrete underneath the hatch. Ok. I’m done.

…and we’re back. “How do you know burying it will work?” A skeptical Ellie wants to know. “Because in fifty years the island is still here. I’m from the future.” Ellie is all “WTF?” When Sawyer sneaks up behind her and pulls the gun on her. There’a a lot of “Drop the gun!” commands issued, but once again it is Juliet, the patient kindergarten teacher, bringing calm to the volatile situation. ” Let’s ALL drop our guns.” Ellie rolls her eyes at Daniel, “I suppose they’re from the future too?” she asks Daniel, to which an incredulous Sawyer responds, “You TOLD her?”

The Other Other returns to camp and tells Richard about Juliet, Locke and Sawyer. “How did you get away?” Richard wants to know. “I ran back to camp.” “Did it ever occur to you,” Richard scolds. “That they could follow you?” The other Other scoffs” “They’re leader was some old guy! You expect me to believe he could track me? That he knows this island better than me?”

Yes. That’s exactly what we expect you to believe.

Locke basically storms the camp calling for Richard. Richard meets him and the other Other pulls a gun on Locke. Richard asks Locke, “Who are you?” “My name is John Locke. Jacob sent me. I’m your leader.” Richard tells the other Other to put down the gun. When he doesn’t immediately comply, Richard yells at him, “I said put the gun down Widmore!” Locke is startled. “Your name is Widmore? Charles Widmore?” Apparently young Widmore is only slightly less vile in his younger days as he is in the present since he replies snarkily, “What’s it to you?” “Nothing.” Locke says with a knowing look. “Nice to meet you.”

Locke asks Richard how to get off the island. “I’m sorry, but that’s privileged information.” So Locke hands Richard the compass. “I gave you this?” Richard asks, but he is confused. “It hasn’t happened yet.” Locke explains, then asks Richard what ear it is. “It’s 1954.” As the island wams up for another flash, Locke hurriedly explains, “I’m born two years from now on May 30, 1956 in Tustin California. If you don’t believe me, come and see me. Now tell me quick how to get off the island before the flash…” Uh oh. Too late.

This whole scene makes a little more sense of the Locke episode last year when Richard came to see him and asked him, “Which of these thing s belong to you already.” Although, it doesn’t explain why Richard got all prissy when John picked up the knfe. After all, that was his.

So after the flash, the Other Camp is gone and we are back to having no reference of what “time” it is. A quick check reveals everyone is ok, at least at first. Then Charlotte has a convulsion and collapses with a massive late-stage Minkowski nosebleed.

Scenes from next week
The scenes from next week remind me of those radio mashes of like six songs from one band being played simultaneously and you have to identify all six songs to win front row concert tickets. The only thing I could discern from the snippet was Sawyer saying, “I just saw Kate in the jungle.”

The Lie SE5 EP2

“Find yourself a suitcase. If there’s anything you want in this life, pack it in there because you’re never coming back.”

This was just a great episode, a solid one-two punch to get the season started. I loved who showed up at the end.

Let’s get our stories straight
It is right after the O6 left the island and the helicopter crashed. The O6 are chillaxin’ on Penny’s boat discussing the details of the lie. Everyone agrees they must do it, except Hurley, who wants to tell the truth. He begs Sayid to back him up, but Sayid refuses. “Dude, I’m gonna remember this.” Hurley says. “Someday you’re gonna need my help and I’m gonna say no.”

Fire Island
Island Daniel returns to the beach where Rose and Bernard are bickering over how to start a fire with Frogurt. I must admit, Rose is getting more shrill with each passing episode and I have found Bernard distasteful ever since he spilled his guts to Mr. Friendly at the end of Season three, so I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I was a little disappointed that they weren’t on the freighter when it exploded.

Juliet is evaluating the zodiac, which she deems to be intact. “It looks like whatever was with us when we shifted stays with us.” Everyone looks to Daniel for answers but Daniel needs to do some calculations which he seems in no hurry to do. Meanwhile, Miles is hungry and goes to look for food.

Charlotte is exhibiting some disturbing Minkowski-esque time traveling symptoms and Daniel tries to reassure her, Bernard is still trying to light the fire and Miles comes back into camp with a boar. He found it by tracking it with his Spidey sence indicating that it had died three hours ago. When he asks if anyone has a knife, it sends Frogurt over the edge. “Sure, right over there next to the cuisineart.” Frogurt’s hysteria grows exponentially as the others try to calm him. “We don’t have anything!” He freaks. “We can’t even get FIRE!” And right on cue, here come the flaming arrows out of the jungle, thankfully, one right into Frogurt’s chest. Frogurt was promising to shape up into one of those annoying peripheral characters like Nikki or Paolo, so thank God he met a quick end.

The survivors run through the jungle with the attackers in hot pursuit. Juliet stops to help a fallen comrade, but Sawyer pulls her away saying “It’s too late!” They hide, but are found, not by the Others, who we assume initiated this attack, but by Mercenary types who want to know what they are doing on THEIR island. They are going to cut Juliet’s hand off when they themselves are attacked from the Jungle. It’s Locke to the rescue.

Reunion
Kate on the run passes Hurley. Desperate, wants to call Jack, but thinks better of it and hangs up. No sooner does she do that, than the phone rings, unknown caller. Whoever it is is in L.A. and wants to meet Kate. Kate is agreeable, says she’ll see her in a half hour.

Kate arrives at Sun’s hotel and tells Sun about the lawyers and the blood tests. “Somebody knows we are lying,” she tells Sun. Sun tells Kate that since they did not tell her who the client was and they approached her at home, they are not interested in exposing the lie; they are only interested in getting Aaron. “You need to take care of them, “ Sun tells her. “Wouldn’t you do anything to keep Aaron with you?” Indignant, Kate asks, ‘What kind of a person do you think I am?” Remembering their last moments on the freighter, Sun tells her “I think you are the kind of person who can make tough decisions.”

Renegades
In the present, Hurley is driving recklessly down the street with an unconscious Sayid (from the dart in his neck from last episode) when he attracts the attention of the cops. Hurley pulls over and collects himself. The cop comes up and it’s **gasp!** Ana Lucia who is just as pleasant in death as she was in life. “What the hell are you doing?” asks. She the proceeds to tell Hurley to get his act together, remain calm, buy new clothes, find a safe place to hide and avoid the cops at all costs. “You getting’ all this?” she asks. When Hurley nods, she goes to leave then stops and adds, “Oh yeah. Libby says hi.”

Hurley arrives back at his house and interrupts his dad is watching Expose. (Ugh!Does this mean we haven’t seen the last of Nikki and Paolo?) Hurley tells his dad he’s in danger that someone is trying to kill him. Meanwhile, Hurley is all over the news and the cops stake out his house and Sayid is still passed out on the couch. Hurley decides that he needs to get Sayid some medical attention, so he has his dad bring him to Jack. Against Cheech’s advice, Jack takes Sayid to the hospital, but not before calling Ben and telling him that he has Sayid. Cheech warns jack to stay away from his son.

Ben goes into a butcher shop where he is obviously on friendly terms with Jill, the butchy butcher. He tells her he has something that she needs to keep safe. “Is it what I think it is?” Jill asks. “Yes, and if we don’t keep him safe everything we’re planning to do will fail.”

Jack is successful bringing Sayid back, but Sayid almost kills him for his troubles.. But while Sayid and Jack are celebrating Sayid’s sudden, yet violent recovery, Ben makes an appearance to Hurley. He makes his pitch to Hurley, telling him everything he wants to hear “You won’t have to worry anymore, you won’t have to lie anymore” and you can just see that Hurley wants to go for it—then at the last minute: “Never, dude.” and Hurley runs outside and gives himself up to the waiting police, confessing to “three or four murders—whatever, dude. I did ‘em all.”

Cut to a basement with odd equipment. A pendulum swings back and forth while calculations are being made on a blackboard then a computer. The occupant climbs up a set of steps into a church, where Ben is lighting candles. She drops her hood and turns around to reveal herself: It’s the shopkeeper from season three who would not sell Desmond an engagement ring for Penny while Desmond was shifting in time after the hatch blew. She tells Ben she’s made some progress, but that they only have 70 hourse for the window. Ben panics. “But I just lost Reyes!” Our shopkeeper is having none of it. “You have to get him back.” “What if I don’t?” Ben asks.

“Then God help us all.”

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Update
After sleeping on this episode, I have two thoughts:
1. Another reason to detest Frogurt and celebrate his quick demise: He gave Sawyer a shirt. Unfortunately, Frogurt was killed a few minutes too late.

2. Our shopkeeper/Phyllis Doyle lookalike who was busily calculating the position of the island in her Templar Knights dungeon is possibly/likely Daniel Faraday's mother. The one Faraday told Desmond to seek out.

Because You Left SE5 EP1

"Maybe if you ate more comfort food, you wouldn’t have to go around shooting people."

Holy crap, Lost is back with a vengeance. All I can say is that it was worth the wait. This season is going to be fun.

Dharma Initiates
The show opens in what looks like the Swan Hatch. A baby is crying and a mother tells father it’s his turn to get the baby. He treks out to warm the bottle, but not before dropping a record on the turntable. It isn’t long before the record starts skipping. We soon learn the identity of the Hatch inhabitant: It’s Dr. Candle/Haliliwax! You may know him from such hits as the Dharma Orientation film for the Swan Station, or the Dharma Orientation film for the Orchid Station, among his more memorable performances. His real name is Dr. Chang, however, and he’s kind of a miserable guy. The time of the flash back is some years ago, as the Dharmam people are currently building their stations and Dr. Chang is cutting his videos when they hit a sng at the Orchid. The drill melts, and there is a burst of energy, and the drill operator is unconscious (dead?). The workmen want to blast through the wall that melted the drill, but Chang tells them no—behind the rock wall is an unlimited energy source and it would be dangerous for them to unleash it. We get a better look at the injured drill operator and discover it’s **gasp!** Daniel! Then we see Daniel pass by as they take injured Daniel out past him. Holy crap, WTF just happened????

Let’s see what the Oceanic Six have been up to
For the first time ever, we are treated with an actual time reference rather than having to try and keep events chronologically in order in our minds. Thank you, producers. That saves us a lot of work! It is three years after they left the island: Jack’s with Ben, presumably right after they pull a Little Miss Sunshine’s Grampa act on Locke (he’s out in the carpet van). In a symbolic, I’m-getting-my-sh*t-together move, Jack shaves the angst beard. They are going to get the rest of the Oceanic Six

Kate gets a visit from some creepy lawyers from the lawfirm of Agostini and Norton who have come to take blood samples from Kate and Aaron. They have a court order. Kate does what she does best and takes off with Aaron in tow.

Sun gets detained at the airport by Widmore. Widmore is miffed at Sun’s “audacity” to approach him in front of his business. He demands respect. Sun the ice queen, however, isn’t easily ruffled. “Fair enough” she says, taking a seat. Widmore wants to know what their common interests are. Sun says she wants to kill Ben.

Sayid tells Hurley that he’s paranoid because he’s spent the last two years working for Ben. “If you ever run into him, Hurley,” Sayid says, “Do the opposite of what Ben tells you” Sayid is taking Hurley to a safe house that turns out to be, wellll….not so safe. Three guys are waiting for them, but they are no match for Sayid who kicked Keamy’s ass last season. Sayid kills them all, but not before the second guy hits him with a dart and some bystander photographs Hurley standing over the first guy with a gun.

The Island is Skipping
We rejoin our island, already in progress. We see the white light then our disoriented survivors. The first piece of bad news is that camp has disappeared. “ehhhh.. the camp is not gone,” Daniel explains, “It hasn’t been built yet.” Daniel asks the survivors to take him to something manmade on the island, so Juliet suggests the Swan Hatch. Sawyer, freaked out because he thinks Kate is dead, is taking his anger out on Daniel and demands answers as to what is going on. Daniel says he would have trouble explaining it to a physicist, but he’ll try explaining it to Sawyer. “The island is like a record on a turntable, except now it’s skipping. Either the island has been dislodged from time—or we have.”

Daniel, Sawyer and the crew from the beach finally make it to the hatch after the second time shift and the hatch has been blown. Then there is another time shift and the hatch is back. Sawyer wants to go see if Desmond is home and get some Dharma beer, so he goes to the back door. “It won’t work! You can’t change the past!” Daniel warns. “This would all be fascinating if I was listening to you. Open up, it’s the ghost of Christmas future!” Sawyer yells as he bangs on the door. Danile finally gets him to stop, explining how it just won’t work, that everything that has happened has already happened and cannot be undone—that’s why they can’t stop the helicopter from taking off. “Everyone I care about just blew up on your damn boat.” Sawyer growls. “I know what I can’t change.”

They head back to the beach and Daniel notices Charlotte nose is bleeding. This is the first sign of Minkowski syndrome.

Daniel runs back to his pack and frantically flips through his notebook. Could he have come across the passage that reads, “If anything happens, Desmond will be my constant”? I think so, because Daniel decides it will work if he knocks on the door. D Sure enough, there’s our Des, all suited up for the quarantine and holding a nasty looking gun. Daniel tells Des that not only is he special, but he is uniquely special and tells him to go back to Oxford and find him and find his mother, but the white light comes before Daniel can give Des his mother’s name.

Flash to Des waking up next to Penny on Penny’s boat. “I was on the island.” He tells her. “It was just a dream. You haven’t been on the island for three years.” “it wasn’t a dream, it was a memory.” He goes topside and begins to prepare to sail back to Oxford.

I’ve lost my Others
After the first flash, Locke, in the middle of the jungle, finds the Others have disappeared and he is alone. He begins trekking through the jungle to look for them, when a twin engine plane crashes on the island. We suspect it’s Yemmi’s plane, and we’re right, because there’s the heroin filled Virgin Mother statue.

As Locke climbs up the cliff to see if there are survivors, he is shot by Ethan. Locke tells Ethan he knows who he is, and that Ben has appointed him, John Locke, to be their leader. Ethan tells him that is the silliest thing he’s ever heard, and can you blame hime? It does sound pretty farfetched. As Ethan prepares to shoot Locke for good, the white light appears again. Now it’s dark and Yemmi’s plane is now on the ground.

Richard Eyeliner, who seems strangely unaffected or unbothered by this time shifting, finds Locke. He knows without being told that Locke has been shot, and removes the bullet. Locke starts asking questions, but Richard shushes him, telling him to listen carefully, you need to know this to save the island and he doesn’t know when the next time shift will be, but he knows that he won’t recognize Locke after it happens and that Locke should give him this compass. “What does it do?” Locke asks. “It points north, John.” “Thank you Captain Obvious.” Locke replies.

Richard tells him to save the island, he must bring the Oceanic Six back and that he, Locke, must die.

SE5 The story so far Recap Destiny Calls

Redemption, second chances, blah blah blah. The most important comment in the whole wrap up was talking about Sun as a member of Oceanic Six: she’s living with the tragedy that she believes her husband has died on the freighter. Believes, being the operative word.

Jin may yet be alive.

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