Okay, I tried, I really did. I tried for four months to write a good, concise recap of the last few episodes of
LOST that I missed recapping. For some reason my fingers couldn't do it. I think maybe it was because it was so intense it was hard to write EVERYTHING that happened without losing stuff. So, in the vein of VH1's
Best Week Ever's rap wrap-up thingy they do at the end of the program. Okay, so the nitty gritty of it, as short as I can make it...
Eko and Locke go out on a walkabout of sorts and with the help of Eko's dead brother, find another hatch. Inside is some sort of observation room, and Locke gets upset because he thought he was pushing the button for some God-like reason, and really, it's just been an experiment. In fact, the person is sending notes back to "headquarters" apparently through one of those bank tubby things. To Eko though, this has another effect, and he realizes that now they have to push the button. They also discover some sort print out, dot matrix no less, that has numbers, but not the infamous numbers. We'll find out a bit later what they're about. Oh, and they find another part of the Orientation video that talks about that station being an observation station.
Everyone's reeling from the fact that Ana-Lucia and Libby are dead. It took Libby awhile to die, and she tried to name Michael as the shooter, but no one got it. Hurley is pissed enough, that even though he originally said he didn't want to go, he's now going to head with the group to get Walt, and seek revenge for Libby's death. Michael, as much as we love him, is on a whole other mission. We find out from the lovely flashbacks that the Others found him when he went looking for Walt a few weeks before. Island time remember. He even saw Rousseau's daughter, Alex. Miss Klugh, the head Others lady, told him he could get Walt back if he brought some people, no more, no less, back to them. She gives him a list. He of course agreed because this is his son. While in captivity, he saw Walt just for a minute and he told Michael that they aren't who they say they are. He agrees to get everyone on the list, Hurley, Jack, Sawyer and Kate, and that if he does, he'll get Walt AND the boat. Miss Klugh agrees.
Sayid wants to go, but unfortunately he's not on Michael's list, so Michael doesn't want him to go. This arouses some suspicion in no one but Sayid. He tells Jack that something else is going on and he think he should take the boat and go with them.
Yeah, huh? What'd you just say?
Oh yeah, the boat. A boat showed up and come to find out, Desmond, who we love, was on it. When he ran away from the hatch early in the 2nd season, he got on this boat and tried to leave, but unfortunately there's something eerie on the island and he wasn't able to sail away.
Eko has a flashback where he's a priest, about to leave, when he gets assigned a story of a girl who apparently drowned and then came back to life. It could be a miracle, so the church has to research it. He does some research and the girl's father doesn't want her talking about it. Her father turns out to be the psychic that sent Claire to Los Angeles, ultimately sending her to the island so she wouldn't give Aaron up. At the airport, when Eko's leaving Australia, the drowning chick comes to him, says she saw his brother, Yemi, and that he said he was a good man, he was just searching for his faith, or something like that.
Claire and Charlie sorta make up when Charlie gives her the vaccine injection stuff that fell out of the sky. Of course, we don't know what the injection is for, but he tells her to use it for her and Aaron. At some point Charlie even finds Sawyer's stash, some of the Virgin Mary heroine statues. To get over his addiction he then does something just as stupid as when Hurley and Libby threw away all that food... he starts chucking the VM statues into the ocean. What the hell, they're using that for MEDICINE. So selfish these people.
Sawyer and Jack have a bonding moment over the guns, talking about Libby and Ana-Lucia. Sawyer blurts out that he screwed her. Thank the lord I knew he's talking about Ana. Jack's not too quick on the uptake, until Sawyer says that's how she got his gun. Not that gun, the other gun, the one that ended up killing her. Jack wonders why Sawyer is telling him this, and he says because Jack's the closest thing he has to a friend. Ah, sweet moment, kinda like the one last season finale where Sawyer told him he saw he dad in a bar who told him what a good man Jack was.
The other flashback is Desmond's. He's in prison, gets out, some old dude tells him to stay away from his daughter, Penny. They must have had some sordid love affair and now the dad doesn't want the daughter involved with the lower class Desmond. Classic.
Desmond decides to win her back by racing around the world. He goes to America where he meets up with Jack at the stadium. Penny's there, and Desmond wonders how she found him. She says that with enough money, you can find anyone. He's hurt though, he knows she's going to be marrying someone else. She wonders if he read the book he always carries with him and he says no. Later, he meets up with a brown haired Libby. They talk, her husband just died (I guess that's what makes her go koo koo) and she gives Desmond her boat so he can sail around the world to win his love back.
He sails, he crashes and is found by non other then Clancy Brown. If you remember, Clancy was the dude who trained Sayid to be a torturer. They're in the hatch for a few years (!) and Desmond's starting to get a little stir crazy. Apparently Clancy can leave, but Desmond can't. We even learn that Clancy's the one that painted everything on the blast door that Locke saw. Desmond realizes Clancy's been lying to him and keeping him inside. Clancy also gets drunk and Desmond finds him under the hatch, in a crawl space. He has a fail safe key and a keyhole. He says that if they turn the key, all of this "goes away". He also says that there was that pesky "incident" which was a leak and now every time it builds up, they push the button to let some of that out. Interesting.
Speaking of the boat, Sayid and Jack decide to use the boat to foil the plan the Others obviously have set up for them. Sayid says he'll go by sea, get to the Other's camp first, scout it out and then go to a beach and start a fire, to give them the signal that everything's okay. I have some problems with this, starting with the Others seeing the boat. Why wouldn't they? Plus, what if the group gets ambushed on the way, like every other time they've tried to find them. Jack's still not convinced Michael's up to no good and wants to tell the others but then finally agrees.
Down in the hatch, Locke's finally limped his way there. Eko is still there, ready to push the button when it counts down. Locke tells him that he's going to let it run down, because he's not a slave. Eko's not buying it, and really, why would Locke think he would? He was in the same boat a few short weeks, days, months, who knows, ago. The alarm goes off and Locke grabs Eko's big stick and tries to take the computer out, not successfully. Have you seen Eko? Eko knocks him across the room, puts the numbers in, and then kicks Locke out of the hatch. The whole time Locke is yelling that they can't be puppets, and that they have them on strings.
On the beach, everyone's ready to go off to find Walt. Oh and kill some Others. Jack gives everyone a gun, including Michael, but Hurley refuses it. Kate reminds everyone of what she found in the other hatch, the clothes, the make-up. Why is she just talking about this now? Anyway, Michael says no, that he was there, they were in huts, and they were hillbillies. In his defense, that's all he saw. Of course, you'd think he'd remember what Walt said, about them not being who they say they are.
Sayid and Sun are chatting when Jin comes up. She pulls him aside and says that Sayid wants him (Jin) to help him sail across the island to help Michael. Jin doesn't want to do it though, leave his pregnant wife. Sun says don't worry, she's coming with them. Great.
Walking in the jungle, Sawyer sees a doll on the ground and starts to pick it up. Kate warns him about not falling into the trap. She explains what happened with her and Jack and Sawyer laughs, since he thought getting caught in the net was some way of Jack saying that he and Kate had done the nasty. Kate looks little irritated the two were talking about her. Me, I would have been doing backflips and hurdles to know these two were talking about me, and jealous, but not her. Bitch.
Suddenly a huge bird come out of nowhere and scares the crap out of everyone, especially Hurley who swore the bird said his name. I Tivo'd it, and it kinda did. Weird. What's even more weird for Michael is that he fired the gun at the bird and no bullets came out. Jack has an "oh sh*t" look on his face, because he's busted. Jack plays like he made a mistake and didn't give him a full magazine, but Michael knows something's up.
On the boat, the very observant Sun, sees something off the side of the boat, on the land. It's like a scene out of Planet of the Apes, but it's not the Statue of Liberty. It's from just about the ankle down. Sayid points out the most disquieting thing is it only has four toes. Um, no, the most disquieting thing is that it's a cement type foot in the middle of an island.
In the hatch, Eko leaves the room to investigate some noise and with Desmond's help, Locke lowers the blast door and gets them trapped inside, with Eko on the outside. All this so they can let the counter count down. Locke explains who Eko is to Desmond. For some reason Desmond doesn't like the idea of pissing off a priest. Eko gives up and leaves through the original way the group got in the hatch, up the rope. We're also reminded of the "quarantine" written on the door. He runs off. Eko finds Charlie on the beach, wanting to know how they got the hatch open originally. Charlie finally admits that they blew it open. Eko tells him that if they don't hurry, the world will end. A little dramatic there Eko. Charlie agrees to help. They set up some dynamite, the Arntz dynamite at the blast door and sets it off. Because they're, you know, blast doors, it just blows up on that side. Locke doesn't really care about the people on the other side. Harsh.
In the jungle it's finally revealed that Michael's leading them into a trap. He tries to explain but everyone that didn't already know, Kate and Hurley, are disappointed. They all also realize that he's the one who let Henry go, and shot Ana-Lucia and Libby. Everyone's upset that Jack brought them out here, knowing they could be facing death, but Jack tries to assure them that they have a plan.
And here's that plan now. Sayid's doing some praying. Sun and Jin look fairly content for sailing to what could be a nasty shoot out where they die. Jin sees something on the horizon and interrupts Sayid's praying. Not a good sign. They look to the shore and see the rock with the hole. Somehow Sayid knows this is the place, not really sure how. I guess we missed a conversation he and Michael had. He lands and searches it, unfortunately no one is there. He's a bit concerned.
Jack and the others have made it to the clearing. The clearing isn't clear though, it has hundreds of those canisters that the bank uses for those tubes. Just like the ones whoever was sitting in that one hatch would be sending to "headquarters". But look, "headquarters" is a field on the island. So Locke's entire thinking is now wrong and he's letting the counter go down! Of course, no one knows this because Locke and Eko didn't tell them. Suddenly, they see the smoke Sayid is sending from the beach and it's in the clear opposite direction. Jack's pissed. Where has Michael been taking them? He swears he doesn't know what he means and is leading them to the beach. Before they can argue too much though they all start getting hit with darts and pass out.
The Others have gagged our people, except Michael, and have brought them to a pier. Zeke's all dressed up, beard and all, and Kate tells him that they know all of that is fake. Henry comes out and inspects everyone, like he's the Queen Bee and then says it's time to do business. Michael looks sick and Kate looks like she's going to cry. I'd be crying and throwing up.
Desmond and Locke have a few minutes before the counter runs down and he wants to know if Locke found anything in that other hatch. He hands him that print out he got and we get Desmond's flashback. It's now been three years in the hatch and he's decided to go out. He follows Clancy and realizes Clancy's been fixing up his boat, ready to sail off. Desmond goes crazy and beats Clancy to death. He takes the fail safe key and goes back to the hatch. When he gets there alarms are going off because he hasn't pushed the button. Things are shooting all over the room, pulled by that electromagnetic force that we know is in the wall. He eventually hits the numbers a bunch of times and the "System Failure" that was on the screen disappears and everything seems to go back to normal.
So do we get it yet? Desmond's in the present day with Locke, still looking over the print out. He reads it and starts seeing "System Failure" and realizes the numbers are the date and time. He tells Locke that he's the one who crashed his plane! The electromagnetic system failure brought the plane down. Do you get it people??? He tries to explain it to him, but he's not having it. Desmond tries to push the numbers in but Locke smashes the computer. Desmond thinks Locke just killed them all and crosses some wires to lift the blast door up. Charlie's there, somewhat hurt, looking for Eko. Charlie wants Desmond to help him, and he says that's what he's going to do. We flashback to when he was left all alone in the hatch after he killed Clancy and he's about to kill himself. He opens the book he carries around with him to finally read and a letter falls out. It's from Penny. She basically tells him never to give up on her, that she'll wait for him forever. He cries and throws stuff around and then hears something. It's Locke banging on the hatch door, when Boone died. Desmond turns on the light and it's when Locke sees that bright light and has an epiphany and so does Desmond sorta, he doesn't kill himself.
Desmond opens his book and the fail safe key is there. He pushes past Locke and starts down the tunnel where he found Clancy before. He tells Locke to believe in fate, that that night he heard him talking over the hatch he saved his life, and now it was his turn to save Locke's. He said it's all real, and he doesn't know when Locke started not believing it. He then says he's going to blow the dam. Before he goes down he says those beautiful words he said to our dear Jack at the stadium, "I'll see you in another life, brotha".
The "System Failure" starts blaring, just like it did for Desmond. Eko's now awake and Charlie helps him out, avoiding flying metal objects. Eko goes back though, to get Locke, who tells Eko that he was wrong. A little late for that buddy. Down below, Desmond's made it to the keyhole. He thinks about the letter Penny wrote, that all you need is one person who truly loves you. He does a sign of the cross, says, "I love you Penny" and turns the key. Everything goes white.
At the pier, everyone's still hanging around and there's suddenly a super loud noise and the sky turns a crazy color. People cover their ears, Sayid, Sun and Jin on the boat cover their ears, and the people on the beach as well. There's also something hurdling towards the beach. It crashes and we see it's the quarantine door from the hatch. Uh oh. That's not good. After it all goes away Charlie comes back to the beach. Bernard asks where Eko and Locke are and Charlie, half deaf, wonders why they're not back yet. Double uh oh.
On the pier, Walt's reunited with Michael and they head for the boat, even though Henry's not happy they gave up the boat. He instructs Michael to follow certain coordinates and that it'll get him rescued. Michael wonders how he knows he won't tell anyone about this. Henry says that you can leave but you can never come back. Kinda like the Hotel California song, but not really. He also says that Michael did kill two people, so he may not want that to get out. Michael says they promised not to hurt his friends, and Henry sorta plays along with that. Oh Michael. He and Walt leave, as he looks on to his friends, wishing things could be different.
Henry then tells Hurley he can leave, and he's surprised. He asks about his friends and Henry tells him that they're coming home with him. Jack nods to Hurley that he should leave. The Others pick Jack, Sawyer and Kate up and Jack and Kate have a moment, which Sawyer sees and doesn't particularly like.
Charlie and Claire have a moment on the beach, but I don't really care because one of the best moments ever for a cliffhanger happens. We suddenly cut to the North Pole or something. Two guys are sitting around playing chess or checkers, I really don't remember. Anyway, there's a beeping noise at the computer and they go to it. On the screen it says "Electromagnetic Anomaly Detected". They go crazy and the one tells the other one to call. The phone rings somewhere, late at night. There's a picture on the nightstand. It's the same picture Desmond has, of him and Penelope. The man on the other end of the phone tells her, "It's us, I think we found it." The woman sits up and it's Penelope. Yes, with enough money you CAN find anyone!
Bad ass! Okay, so I thought this wouldn't take too long, but trust me, I wrote a longer one and it was ridiculously longer then this. Tomorrow night's the premiere and I can't wait!!!
