Last night was a great start to the beginning of the end for Lost’s Season 4 with a three-parter entitled, “There’s No Place Like Home”. Puzzles are slowly falling into place. And I’m certain that at the end of the third part, the path to how this story ends is a little bit clear to us.
FLASH FORWARDS, Oceanic 6 Back To Real Life
The opening scene is a flash forward involving the Oceanic 6, as they finally return to the main land. We now have the official story of how they’ve come to survive the crash —- eight of them survived, the rest were instantly killed, but they lost two of the survivors in the process, too. It wasn’t clear who these two were and I suppose we shall know more in a couple of weeks time. They claim to have seen a boat adrift near the island and used that same boat to paddle towards a fishing village where they were finally on a safe place.
At the press conference, the six are instantly reunited with their families, minus Sayid and Kate’s relatives. Kate’s official story, by the way, is that she herself gave birth to Aaron. As soon as the conference is over, Sayid is called to see a non-relative outside the venue and discovers it is his long lost love, Nadia.
Months later, Sun, who is back in Korea, announces to her father that she has invested a substantial amount of her settlement from Oceanic in his company, and is now part-owner. Sun takes this as a way to avenge her husband’s “death” because if not for her father and his influence on their marriage, they would have never flown to Australia in the first place.
Hurley is given a surprise island themed birthday party by his family and the rest of the Oceanic 6 are actually there to celebrate with him (minus Sun). This was during the early days, when he wasn’t yet institutionalized. His dad shows him his present — he’s finally finished working on the Camaro he and his son were supposed to have done while Hurley was still younger. Unfortunately, Hurley thinks the car is also jinxed because the numbers on the dashboard are the dreaded numbers which has given him all this bad luck.
Jack gives a eulogy to his father in a small chapel (again attended by the rest of the Oceanic 6) and we see how his mother looks for the first time. After the service, a stranger walks up to him and tells him she’s the reason why his father was in Australia then. We also learn she is Claire’s mother. Jack finds out, for the first time, that Claire is his half-sister. The look of regret on his face was hard to bear knowing the fate of his half-sister was actually in his hands all along.
ON THE ISLAND, present
Jack and Kate follow the trail to where the helicopter is headed, thinking that it’s Sayid who has given them the sat-phone with the tracking device. Along the way, they encounter Sawyer, with Aaron and Miles, who tells them how much the freighter people, or mercenaries headed by Keamy, want them all dead. They also tell them Claire has gone off into the night, leaving Aaron. Sawyer and Jack decide to still head for the chopper, and there discovers it was Faraday who dropped the sat-phone. They also know that Keamy’s men are armed and might still be after Ben, Locke and more importantly, Hurley.
In the island, meanwhile, Sayid arrives with the boat and tells them what the real score is about the chopper and the plan to blow off the island, which Daniel has actually figured out. Slowly, they ferry people to the freighter with Sun and Jin in the first batch. Sayid and Kate venture to the forest to get Jack and Sawyer. But before they could reach them, they encounter Richard and the rest of The Others.
At the freighter ,where Sun and some of the Losties are assumed safely on board, we soon learn what the device attached to Keamy’s arm (from last week’s episode) was for. There’s a room full of explosives on the freighter, Desmond, Michael, Jin and Sun discover…and the detonator is what’s on Keamy’s.
BEN’s PLAN
Ben, Locke and Hurley reach The Orchid, which Ben surmises is where they must go in order to move the island (upon orders by Christian to Locke). He tells Locke what he must do, as soon as he creates a distraction with Keamy’s men already present at the The Orchid and guarding it. What is Ben up to? Why did he walk straight to the man he was actually evading?
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Playing Keamy on Lost had fans really angry at him and he says to blame it all on Ben! He also says he has yet to get caught up with Lost’s previous seasons, he has seen only about half of Season 1! Here’s a candid profile of the actor playing Keamy, Kevin Durand.
Late posting, but still very good news, nonetheless…
