Lost : What They Died For

The penultimate episode. I expected it to be great. But frankly it just confused me more. In fact, I actually like 'Across the Sea' more than this, although most people would feel otherwise. The ending kinda spoiled this for me. When Smokey said he wanted to blow up the island, I just went "Huh?". Usually at the end of Lost it "WOW!" or "WTF!", but with 'What They Died For', it was just a grunt of confusion.

This episode picks up immediately where 'The Candidate' left off, after the four remaining Losties manage to swim to safety on the beach. Jack sews up Kate while she starts becoming emotional about Ji Yeon, Jin and Sun's daughter who is now an orphan. Wonder if she'll pull and Aaron and do the same thing to Ji Yeon. Kate seems to have suddenly developed maternal instincts. Maybe it's because of Aaron but before this I usually see Kate as the girl who can't choose between two guys. She's definitely less annoying now. And she's out for blood. Smokey blood.

While heading over to Smokey's island, Hurley meets little Jacob, who grabs the bag of his own ashes and runs away. Hurley follows, but by the time he catches up, Jacob has started a fire, poured his ashes in and grown up. Looks like Hurley ran really slowly! Anyway, Jacob told him to bring the other three Losties to him. When Hurley finally did that, it was dark already (it was morning before). They gather around and Hurley realised that everyone could see Jacob. Jacob explained about what they died for (Jin, Sun and Sayid) but I didn't really get it. He didn't elaborate much.

Then he told them that one of them must take over form him as the protector of the island. Jack, the new man of faith, immediately volunteers and Jacob initiates the rite his mother did all those years ago, this time with river water because he no longer had the wine. The other three watch on as Jack drinks the water, and Jacob exclaims, "You're like me now."

On the other island, Ben, Miles and Richard finally reappear after so many episodes. They're heading for the Others' camp, but I seriously wonder what took them so long. They arrive and Ben shows them his secret room where he keeps the dynamite (same place as the entrance to Smokey hole). However, Widmore and Zoe arrive, and the two groups confront each other. Widmore tells Zoe to grab some equiptment form the boat, but on the way there, she sees Smokey, and runs back.

Everyone freaks out. Miles runs away into the jungle. Widmore and Zoe hide in the closet. Ben and Richard take a walk outside to meet Smokey. Well, bad idea for Richard 'cause he got flung away into the trees. Smokey (Locke form) appeared, and asked Ben for his help to kill the remaining candidates. Ben agrees, and even reveals Widmore's location. He lets Locke in, who kills Zoe and asks Widmore about inforation regarding the purpose of his arrival on the island in exchange for Penny's life. 

Widmore tells Smokey, and Ben shoots him, refusing to allow Widmore to save his daughter. but Smokey already got what he wanted. They head for the well, but Desmond has escaped. Smokey doesn't seem pissed though. He calmly tells Ben that he will get Desmond to destroy the island. This is the part where I got confused. First he wants to get off, now he wants to blow the whole place to kingdom come?

In the sideways world, Desmond visits the school again, presumably to send Locke back to the hospital by crashing into him again so that he could get the surgery to cure his legs. Weird plan. Wonder how many times he plans to run Locke down. By that time, Locke wouldn't need the surgery anymore, because he'd be dead! However, Ben interferes, and gets beaten up by Desmond. Ben suddenly recalls the scene of Desmond beating the crap out of him when he tried to kill Penny. Later, when he meets Locke, Ben tells him that the man wanted him to 'let go'. Being who he is, Locke understands immediately and returns to the hospital to look for Jack.

Meanwhile, Ben leaves the school and runs into Alex, who insists on sending him home because he only had one arm left and couldn't drive. She leads him to her car where her mother, who turns out to be Rousseau, is waiting. She invites him for dinner, and he complies. At their house, Rousseau tells Ben that Alex's father is dead an he is the closest thing she ever had to a father. Ben actually cried here, which was rather sweet. And it looks like he's falling for her, so Alex is gonna get a daddy soon!

In Jack's home, he, David and Claire are living together happily. David has a concert recital that night that he wants Jack to go to. Suddenly, Jack gets a call telling him that his father's body has been found and he had to go claim it later. But it turns out to be Desmond making that call. Then, Desmond turns himself in to Sawyer and Miles at the police station so that he could meet Kate and Sayid in prison. 

While they were transferred, Desmond tells them of his plan to escape and they agree. Turns out it was Ana Lucia driving and she's a very dirty cop. Hurley turns up with an envelope of money and Ana Lucia sets them all free. Desmond hands Kate a dress and told her that they had a concert to go to (presumably David's). Sayid went with Hurley to an unknown destination. When Hurley asks Desmond about Ana Lucia, he says that she isn't ready yet.

That's all we got from the peultimate episode of Lost. I hope that the rest of our questions will be answered soon. But one thing I realised. Desmond is trying to give everyone a happy ending. He runs over Locke so that he'll get the surgery and be able to walk Helen down the aisle. He brings Kate too the concert so that she'll meet Jack and they'll fall in love. He deflects Kate from her adoption agency's meeting so that she meets with Ilana and finally Jack. He tells Hurley to believe in Libby and he does, so that they'll fall in love. Still not sure what he's doing with Sayid, and he never did anything for Sun and Jin, so I've no idea where those three are going. But on the whole, looks like everyone's getting a happy ending, off-island. What happens to those on the island? OMG, I can't wait to find out!