Get LOST: The Incident, Part 1

Posted by Rick Tym on 05.21.2009

Rick Tym takes the recapping reins to go over all things Lost in his recap of hour one of the season finale!



Hello, you all everybody and welcome to the recap of hour one of the Lost Season Five finale, "The Incident – Part 1." I'm Rick Tym, your resident Man in Black helping out our benevolent brother Ben Piper by taking the reins and going over the events of hour one. Let's get to it, shall we?

What We Learned: Hour one of the finale opens in a sand-floored chamber, fire crackling in a large pit at the center of the room and clay jugs sitting in its corners. One wall of the chamber is decorated with a faded painting of the winged Egyptian goddess Isis. A man sits at a spinning wheel, feeding coarse threads into it by hand while working the pedal of the machine with a rope-sandaled foot. The man wears dark pants and a white shirt. (Yin and yang, anybody?) After completing his work at the wheel, he stands and moves to a large stand-up loom where he begins to weave the threads into a tapestry. We now see that the man is blond with a stubbly beard. The tapestry shows a pair of wings stretching out from an eye, with the following Greek motto etched across the top: ΘΞΟΙ ΤΟΣΑ ΔΟΙΞΝ ΟΣΑΦΡΞΣΙ ΣΗΣΙ ΜΞΝΟΙΝΑΖ.

(Translation? "May Heaven grant you in all things your heart's desire" from Homer's The Odyssey.)

The view switches to outside where waves are lapping back and forth at the beachfront. The man from the chamber wades into the sea fully clothed and pulls a fishing trap out of the shallow water. He comes back ashore and empties his catch, a golden fish, onto a rock and proceeds to filet it. He cooks his meal on a black stone hanging over a small fire, using a large leaf as a plate, settling back against a log to eat. Looking out towards the sea, he studies a large boat with several masts that is slowly approaching the Island. As he continues his meal, another man approaches from behind, gray-haired with a short beard, wearing the same style of handmade clothing including a dark blue shirt in contrast to the blond-haired man's white one.

Gray-Haired Man: Morning.

Blond-Haired Man: Mornin'.

Gray-Haired Man: Mind if I join you?

Blond-Haired Man: [Shaking his head] Please. Want some fish?

Gray-Haired Man: Thank you. I just ate.

[The gray-haired man sits down.]

Blond-Haired Man: I take it you're here 'cause of the ship.

Gray-Haired Man: I am. How did they find the Island?

Blond-Haired Man: You'll have to ask 'em when they get here.

Gray-Haired Man: I don't have to ask. You brought them here. Still trying to prove me wrong, aren't you?

Blond-Haired Man: You are wrong.

Gray-Haired Man: Am I? They come. They fight. They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same.

Blond-Haired Man: It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.

[The gray-haired man stares at the blond-haired man ominously as a slow beat passes.]

Gray-Haired Man: Do you have any idea how badly I wanna kill you?

Blond-Haired Man: Yes.

Gray-Haired Man: One of these days, sooner or later...I'm going to find a loophole, my friend.

Blond-Haired Man: Well, when you do, I'll be right here.

Gray-Haired Man: Always nice talking to you, Jacob.

(Oh boy. Cuse and Lindelof sure didn't waste any time springing that one on us, huh?)

Jacob: Nice talking to you, too.

The gray-haired man stands up and walks away. The camera pans back and reveals that the men have been sitting at the base of the four-toed stone statue, complete and huge, holding ankhs in both hands. The head of the statue is long-snouted with a toothy reptilian grin.



LOST.

A boy and girl are in the parking lot of a small grocery store in Iowa. The boy is holding a toy metal airplane and the girl wears a backpack, leading us all to believe that the boy is Tom, Kate Austen's childhood sweetheart. The girl—we'll call her Young Kate, obviously—asks him, "Are you going to do it?" Young Tom says no and insists the she do "it" instead. Young Kate agrees with the provision that he act as lookout. Young Tom acquiesces and the duo walks into the store.

Young Kate walks down an aisle to shelves upon which old-school lunchboxes sit. The store's proprietor is speaking with a customer and, after Young Tom gives her the go-ahead, she takes the backpack from her shoulders and stuffs a New Kids on the Block lunchbox into it. The two walk towards the exit, looking suspicious despite their best efforts. The store owner stops them and asks the girl what she has in her backpack. She relents, opening it, and the store owner takes the NKOTB lunchbox from it.

Store Owner: Where'd you get this?

Young Girl: I got it over there.

Store Owner: I know you. You're Diane Austen's girl. What's your name?

Young Girl: Katie.

Store Owner: Well, Katie, I'm calling your mom, then the cops, because I don't tolerate stealing here. You understand?

[A stranger speaks off-camera]: No need to do that. I'll pay for it. I hope this is enough.

[The man offering to buy the lunchbox is Jacob. He hands the proprietor some folded bills and gives Young Kate a semi-comical "uh-oh" look.]

Store Owner: Well, as long as somebody pays for it, guess there's no harm done. [To Kate]: But I don't want to see you in here ever again without your parents. You understand me?

[Young Kate nods. The clerk walks away.]

Young Kate: Thanks, Mister.

Jacob: You're welcome.

[Jacob squats down, level with Young Kate.]

Jacob: You're not going to steal anymore, are you?

[Young Kate shakes her head and he touches her nose with his forefinger.]

Jacob: Be good, Katie.

Young Kate's flashback ends and we head back to the Dharma sub where she, Sawyer and Juliet sit handcuffed to a metal table. The captain tells everyone "Welcome aboard" and announces that the passengers will soon be receiving their sedatives after some operational checks before submerging to running depth. He bids them to "Have a nice rest," concluding his announcement with, "See you on the other side." A man walks through the sub handing out small cups full of knock-out juice.

Kate explains that they have to get off the sub because Jack and company are planning to detonate a hydrogen bomb. Juliet and Sawyer look at each other and Sawyer says he's going to pass on trying to stop them. When Kate questions his response, asking if he heard her, Sawyer (quite tellingly) says, "Yeah, I heard you. You just don't get it, Kate. We were happy in Dharmaville until you all showed up. But now that's all over. So, we're going to drink our OJ and take our chances in the real world. If Jack wants to blow up the island, good for Jack."

Back on the Island underneath Dharmaville, Jack circles Jughead while Sayid reads Daniel Faraday's journal, Richard and Eloise standing nearby. Jack asks how they are supposed to move a ten ton bomb, and Sayid replies that it's actually twenty tons. However, it seems that Faraday never intended to move the bomb in its entirety and left detailed instructions on how to remove the plutonium core of the device and detonate it, which Sayid maintains will be "more than enough." Richard interrupts, telling the group that they sealed the bomb and brought it underground because it was leaking radiation, and asks Eloise if she thinks this is a good idea considering the fact that she is pregnant. (With Daniel Faraday himself. Trippy.) She says that's exactly why they have to help them see this through. Sayid, saying that Daniel was very specific about the timetable for carrying out his plan upon returning to the Island, tells them that they have about two hours to get the plutonium core to the Swan site.

From there we go to the Swan site itself, where Radzinsky is being Radzinsky, asking temperamentally why the drill has been stopped. Dr. Pierre Chang tells him that he stopped it because of the high temperatures threatening the apparatus. Radzinsky tells him that's why they have a truck full of water—to cool it down—and orders the drilling to recommence in spite of Chang's protest. It seems that Radzinsky has been working on this project for six years (to "manipulate electromagnetism in ways we've only dreamed of") and nothing will stand in his way of changing the world. You got that right, brother.

Drilled begins again and we follow along the spinning shaft down into the darkness and come out the other side to…

THIRTY YEARS LATER

Locke, Richard, Ben and company are marching along towards Jacob's home, complete with requisite "here we go a-walkin" Lost music. Locke stops and holds up a canteen, indicating that everyone should take a break because they still have a ways to go before they get to their destination.

Sun questions Ben about Jacob, confused about the ruling hierarchy of the Island. Ben informs her that while Locke is the leader of the group (a title he has since discovered as being "incredibly temporary"), every leader answers to somebody and their leader answers to Jacob. Sun asks Ben what Jacob is like, and Ben simply replies that he doesn't know, because he's never met him.

At the front of the pack, Locke has noticed Richard eyeballing him.

Locke: You've been staring for the last ten minutes, Richard. Is there something you would like to ask me?

Richard: Ben told me that he strangled you.

Locke: That is my recollection, yes.

Richard: He said he was sure you were dead. He saw your coffin loaded onto that plane that you came back on. How are you alive?

Locke: Well, you've been on this island longer than anyone, Richard. If anyone had an explanation, I would think it would be you.

Richard: Yeah. I have been here a long time, John, and I've seen things on this island that I can barely describe. But I've never seen someone come back to life.

Locke: And I've never seen anyone who doesn't age. It doesn't mean it can't happen.

Richard: I'm this way because of Jacob—and if I had to guess, he's the reason you're not in that coffin anymore.

Locke: We agree completely, Richard. That's why I'm doing this; so I can thank him.

(Anyone else here think that response was just a little phony?)

Locke [con't]: Once I've done that, then we're going to have to deal with the rest of the passengers from the Ajira flight that brought me here.

Richard: What do you mean, ‘deal with them?'

Locke [chillingly]: You know what I mean.

Richard looks horrified at this answer, then tells the group that it's time to continue on.

Still THIRTY YEARS LATER, Ilana, Bram and company row their outrigger to shore, the large metal Ajira cargo container onboard along with Frank Lapidus, still (seemingly) knocked out due to that rifle butt to the head.

As they dock their craft on the beach, Bram asks Ilana why she brought Frank along. Ilana says that they might need him. Bram doesn't buy into this, stating that Lapidus didn't know the answer to the question ("What lies in the shadow of the statue?") but Ilana replies that that doesn't mean he's not important. Bram asks her if this means Frank may be a "candidate" and Ilana responds by telling Bram that Frank is awake. Seems the crafty pilot has been conscious and listening long enough to wonder what a "candidate" is. Frank asks who the hell they are, and Ilana tells him they are friends. Bram even changes his demeanor, smiling as he hands Lapidus a canteen. Frank asks what's in the box, and when Bram tells her it's her call, she motions for the metal crate to be opened. Frank looks upon its contents and utters one word: "Terrific."

(Really nice to see Frank get some screen time. His response to the contents of the box was short, sweet and convincing.)

The viewpoint goes back to the mainland and a little boy dressed in a dark suit amongst a group of people outside a church, a man standing behind him with a hand on his shoulder. Two caskets are carried from the house of worship and loaded into waiting hearses as he watches. Later, after the other mourners have departed, the young boy sits on the church steps, writing something in a spiral notebook. The pen stops working and he shakes it, trying to coax it back into life. A blonde-haired man, Jacob, approaches asks if he needs a pen. The young boy says yes, and Jacob reaches into his inner suit jacket pocket, handing it to the boy. Their fingers touch briefly during the exchange. Jacob looks at the boy and says, "I'm very sorry about your mother and father, James." So this is Young Sawyer at his parent's funeral, and it is the infamous "I know what you done" letter that he is writing.

After giving his condolences, Jacob takes his leave as the man who was standing behind Young James earlier approaches him on the steps. He tells James that it's time to go to the cemetery, pausing to ask what he is writing and taking the spiral notebook from him.

Man: ‘Dear Mr. Sawyer. You don't know who I am, but I know who you are and I know what you done.' [He squats down.] Listen to me, Jimmy, I know that you're mad at the man who did this to your mama and daddy, and hell, you've got every right to be. But you've got to move on, boy. They're gone. There ain't nothing you can do to change that. What's done is done. Now promise me you're not going to finish that letter.

Young James: I promise.

(And that right there is Sawyer's first con.)

Man: Come on. Let's go say goodbye.

As they get set to leave the church the viewpoint transitions back to adult Sawyer, Juliet and Kate on the sub. Kate continues to plead her case to get off the submarine and stop Jack before he kills everyone on the Island by detonating Jughead. Sawyer ponders the possibility of Oceanic 815 landing safely in L.A. due to Jack's "reset" and adamantly states that he made a decision to leave and he's sticking to it. One of the sub crew members comes to give them their sedatives, and Juliet WHAM-BANG! smooshes his face into the metal table and gives him a knee to said face for good measure. She reaches for the handcuff keys on the fallen man's belt, telling James that they both decided to leave the Island and now they're going back—they can't just let all those people die. Sawyer relents and they approach the sub captain, Juliet with a pistol commandeered from the crew member she just laid the smack down on drawn, telling him to surface and then maintain his course after they depart. Sawyer relieves the captain of his sidearm and, for good measure, shoots the com system speaker just in case Horace happens to call. The captain prepares to bring the sub to the water's surface.

Back in the Jughead cavern Jack finds a knapsack to carry the bomb's core in. He also grabs Faraday's journal and stows it away for safekeeping. As Sayid finishes removing the core Richard approaches Jack and asks him about John Locke.

Richard: Over 20 years ago, a man named John Locke, he walked right into our camp and he told me that he was going to be our leader. I've been off the Island three times since then to see him, but he never seemed particularly special to me."

Jack [considering this]: You said you had a question.

Richard: Do you know him? Locke?

[Jack can't help but smile—in fact, he almost chuckles.]

Jack: Yeah, I know him. And if I were you, I wouldn't give up on him.

THIRTY YEARS LATER we move back to the group of Others on their way to meet Jacob. Locke walks besides Ben Linus and gestures toward Ageless Richard Alpert.

Locke: Why haven't you told him yet?

Ben: Told who what?

Locke: Richard. Why haven't you told him about my plans for Jacob?

Ben: If by ‘plans' you mean murdering him, John, I assumed you'd want to keep that a secret.

Locke [amused]: When did that ever stop you?

Ben: Well, I started thinking differently about things when my dead daughter threatened to destroy me if I didn't do everything you said.

Locke: Wait, wait. [He steps in front of Ben and stops him.] Where did this happen?

Ben: In the cavern beneath The Temple, when we went to see the monster.

Locke: So, you're willing to do whatever I say, no matter what it is?

Ben [resignedly]: Yes.

Locke [a bit of enthusiasm showing]: Well, then, I guess I won't have to convince you after all.

Ben [suspecting]: Convince me to do what?

[Locke gives Ben an evil, foreboding look.]

Locke: I'm not going to kill Jacob, Ben. You are.

[Locke gives Ben an even MORE evil, foreboding look.]

In the future/past/whenever (depending on how you're keeping score at home), Sayid and Nadia walk the sunny streets of Los Angeles, talking and obviously quite smitten with each other. They are discussing where to take a trip, with Sayid opting for Paris or Rome. Nadia says it doesn't matter as long as they are together, but Sayid insists that it does since it's their anniversary. Nadia replies that she would settle for finding her sunglasses. As they stand at a crosswalk, Nadia rummages through her purse and the two begin to cross the street as a blonde-haired man calls out "Excuse me, sir, can you help me?" Sayid turns to look at Jacob, who walks over with a piece of paper saying that he thinks he is lost and asking Sayid if he is from L.A. As Nadia turns back to exclaim that she has found her sunglasses, vehicular homicide rears its ugly head once more on Lost as she is struck by a hit-and-run driver. Jacob lightly places his hand on Sayid's shoulder before the Iraqi bolts into the intersection and kneels beside his fallen love. As Nadia lays wounded she tells Sayid to take her home, then dies from the impact.

Meanwhile, back to the past at the Jughead underground ranch, Sayid wraps up the bomb core and places it in the knapsack. Richard, holding a sledgehammer he found while rummaging before his little "Locke talk" with Jack, leads the way to an antechamber and proceeds to smash his way through a stone wall. After a few strikes from the Ageless One, the wall crumbles to reveal the basement of one of the Dharma houses. Jack intends to go first until Eloise reminds him who is in charge of this little shindig, stating that she won't hesitate if they run into trouble while cocking her pistol. Richard agrees and as she begins to move forward, he pistol whips her from behind, knocking her unconscious. Jack is taken aback, wondering out loud what in the blue hell Richard is doing. Richard replies, "Protecting our leader. She's going to be angry when she wakes up, but that's a lot better than being dead. She ordered me to help you. We helped you, now you're on your own. I'm taking her out the way we came in." With that, Sayid says to Jack, "After you," and the two proceed into the basement of the Dharma house.

They make their way upstairs (did you all notice the crib in the adjacent room? Don't worry, there's an even more obvious clue to whose house they've broken into coming) and hear the "code black" alarms and announcement. Jack wonders aloud again, this time about how they're going to get out of there, when Sayid spies one of Horace's khaki Dharma "Scientist" jumpsuits and decides to use the "in plain sight" method of deception.

Jack and Sayid walk though the chaotic masses running to man their battle security stations when Roger Linus notices Sayid. He screams at them to stop—you know, because Sayid is the "son of a bitch who shot my kid!" Sayid tells him not to shoot, and tries to convey that he is carrying a thermonuclear device but is stopped midsentence with a gunshot to the abdomen. Jack goes BALLISTIC with his pistol and starts shooting at Roger and anybody else that dare step forward. (Or backward. Or sideways.) Just when things look dire, Sayid bleeding and Jack trying to reload his weapon as they cower behind another Dharma house, Hurley makes his triumphant return in the BLUE DHARMA VAN OF GLORY. Jin opens the van's door and pulls Jack and Sayid inside as they drive away to relative, temporary safety.

As all this is going on, the sub is submerging back into the depths of the ocean as Sawyer, Juliet and Kate make their way via raft back to the Island. They're not quite sure of where they're at, and might I venture a guess that the back-and-forth banter between James and Kate is making Juliet a little uncomfortable. They come ashore and here comes my man Vincent wagging his tail and greeting the group. Juliet wonders how he survived out in the jungle all alone for the three years since the Flaming Arrow Incident (not to be confused with "The Incident") when a voice says, "Oh, hell no." This is Rose and she is soon calling for Bernard. She is none too happy to see them as Bernard emerges from the jungle depths, looking quite shaggy with long hair and a beard. When Rose informs him that "They found us," his response is a simple, Sawyer-like "Son of a bitch."

Before the reunion swings into full awkward motion, back to the BLUE DHARMA VAN OF GLORY we go to find Jack tending to Sayid's gunshot wound. Hurley is concerned about Sayid and asks if they should stop. Jack tells him to proceed to the Swan site if he wants to save Sayid. It should be noted that Miles seems more of his prickish self as they drive along, spewing out one-liners in response to Hurley's genuinely worried inquiries. We'll just chalk it up to the pressure of the situation and believe that he has been truly enlightened by seeing his father make wife and son leave the Island to save them…for now. When Jin asks Jack what's at the Swan, Jack responds by telling Jin that he may have found a way to get him back to his wife.

Returning to the Rose and Bernard reunion, Sawyer, Juliet and Kate follow the couple into the jungle. Since this is one of most enjoyable conversational exchanges between Lost characters, well, ever, let's just go to the audio tape transcription…

[We join the group talking and walking through the jungle.]

Sawyer: So hold on. You're telling me you've just been living out here in the jungle for the past three years by yourselves?

Rose: Uh-huh.

Sawyer: Well I'm sorry you all got left behind. Didn't you hear me shout out ‘meet at the creek?'

Bernard: You mean with flaming arrows raining down around us killing everyone we knew? Sure, we heard you.

(Good one.)

Sawyer: We spent a lot of time looking for you. I had Jin out searching the Island grid by grid.

Rose: Yeah. We know.

Juliet: You know?

Rose: Oh, sure. You guys all joined up with the Dharma Initiative.

Sawyer: Well, damn. I could have brought both of you all in. Why didn't you find a way to tell us you were out here?

Rose: Because we're retired.

[Bernard nods in agreement.]

[Now back at Rose and Bernard's jungle hacienda, Sawyer picks up a can of Dharma food from a homemade picnic table.]

Sawyer: So you all have been scavenging food and living in a hut by yourselves?

Bernard: People try their entire lives to get themselves a nice quiet place near the ocean where they can live in peace. We did. That's what we made for ourselves.

Sawyer: Well, I hate to rain on your parade, but the continent is about to go kablooey.

Kate [sitting on a bench and removing her Dharma jump suit, presumably more comfortable in just the jeans and t-shirt underneath]: Jack has a bomb.

Rose [exasperated]: Who cares?

Kate: Excuse me?

Rose: It's always something with you people. And now Jack's got a bomb. And you people are going to go try and stop him, right?

Kate: Yeah, that's right.

Rose [wearily]: We traveled back thirty years in time and you're still trying to find ways to shoot each other?

Juliet [interrupting]: Rose, we just need to know which way the Dharma barracks are from here so we can stop Jack, or you're going to be dead. We all will.

Bernard [shrugging]: So we die. We just care about being together. It's all that matters in the end.

[Bernard gives his wife a warm look, which she returns. In the meantime, Sawyer is giving Kate his own meaningful look, and Juliet notices.]

Rose [pointing]: The barracks are five miles that way.

Sawyer shakes hands with Bernard and heads out. Kate, putting hair up in a ponytail, says "thank you" to the couple. As Juliet follows, Bernard asks if she's sure she doesn't want some tea.

Juliet [a bit despondently, hand on her stomach]: Maybe another time.

We switch to the "good guys" with Frank in tow, carrying the Ajira cargo container through the jungle. Frank laments seeing what was inside the box and asks what they plan to do with it. Bram replies that they need to show it somebody so they know what they're up against, noting that "what they're up against" is a hell of a lot scarier than what is in the box. Frank notes that this would be a lot easier to swallow if he knew who they were, and Bram once again gives the "good guy" spiel. Franks response is classic: "In my experience the people that go out of their way to tell you that they're the good guys are the bad guys." Foreshadowing? We shall see…sometime…

Ilana tells them they have arrived and the group comes upon Jacob's cabin. It is old and rundown, and the circle of ash that surrounds it has been broken in one spot. Ilana tells them to wait and she approaches the cabin.

Flashback to Ilana in a hospital bed, bandages covering the majority of her face. A Russian nurse comes to her bedside, gives her something to drink and says she has a visitor, telling her that in spite of her condition it will be good for her to see someone. Jacob pulls up a chair and sits down next to her. In Russian he tells her he's sorry he couldn't make it sooner. Ilana responds by telling him she's very happy to see him. Jacob switches languages to English and says, "I'm here because I need your help. Can you do that? Will you help me, Ilana?"

Ilana answers, "Yes."

Back at Jacob's cabin, Ilana proceeds inside to investigate. There is no one present, but an animal skin with something written on it is stuck to one of the interior walls with a knife. She removes the skin and goes back outside to tell Bram that "he" hasn't been there for a long time, and that someone else has been using the cabin. She then instructs the group to burn it down. Frank, although not a tree hugger, worries aloud about setting the entire jungle on fire as flames consume the old wooden structure. Ilana shows Bram the skin, upon which is a sketch of the four-toed statue. Bram comments that he guesses he knows where they're going, and Ilana looks upset as she watches the cabin burn. They lift up the Ajira cargo crate once more and set off towards the now-famous four-toed landmark.

Back on the mainland, Jacob sits on a bench in front of a large building reading Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Conner. Behind him, a body falls to the ground. People in the near vicinity panic but Jacob calmly closes his book, rises and walks over to the man who lays unconscious (and dead?) on his back. He kneels down and places his hand on John Locke. Locke gasps harshly as he takes in a breath. Jacob says, "Don't worry; everything is going to be alright. I'm sorry this happened to you."

Transition to Locke and his group arriving at the 815ers' old camp on the beach. Sun wonderingly comments on this being where they used to live and Locke confirms her statement by saying, "Home sweet home." He then instructs the group to rest up and tells them that they should reach they're headed by nightfall. Benjamin Linus sits apart from the rest of the group, looking out onto the sea. Locke approaches and asks him if everything is alright.

Ben: I was enjoying some alone time.

Locke: You see what's behind you?

[Ben turns to look. There sits the famous hatch door.]

Ben [sarcastically]: It's a door. How about that?

Locke: It's not just a door, Ben. It's the door to the hatch where you and I first met. You mind if I ask you a question?

Ben: I'm a Pisces.

(You're still a liar, Sagittarius boy. Just like you're about to confirm…)

Locke: What happened that day at the cabin when you first took me to meet Jacob?

Ben: Well you clearly already know that I was talking to an empty chair, John…that I was pretending. Which is not to say that I wasn't just as surprised as you were when things started flying around in the room.

Locke: But why would you go to all the trouble to make something like that up?

Ben: I was embarrassed. I didn't want you to know that I had never seen Jacob. So, yes, I lied. That's what I do.

Locke: Alright, then.

[Locke stands up to leave.]

Ben: Why do you want me to kill Jacob, John?

[Locke squats back down beside him.]

Locke: Because despite your loyal service to this Island, you got cancer. You had to watch your own daughter gunned down right in front of you. And your reward for those sacrifices? You were banished. And you did all this in the name of a man you've never even met. So the question is, Ben, why the hell wouldn't you want to kill Jacob?

As Ben is left to consider this, Sun finds the crib that Locke made once upon a time for baby Aaron, now turned over in the sand. As she sets it upright, she finds Charlie's Drive Shaft ring. Hmmm…

This leads to a Sun and Jin flashback. Specifically, they are exchanging vows written for each other as they enter the bond of matrimony. (C'mon, Jin. That was like two sentences. Did you really need to write it down?) After the ceremony they stand in the receiving line, joking with an aunt about starting a family during the honeymoon. Jacob is next in line and comes forth to offer them good tidings. He says to them, "I'd like to offer you my blessing. Your love is a very special thing." He then proceeds to put a hand on each of their arms and tells them, "Never take it for granted."

Jacob departs while Sun asks her new husband who that was. Jin replies, "I don't know, but…his Korean is excellent."

Back we go to the BLUE DHARMA VAN OF GLORY, Hurley indicating that they are about five minutes away from the Swan site as Jack continues to try to stop Sayid's gunshot wound from bleeding. Sayid states knowingly that Jack cannot stop the bleeding. Jack pushes forth and applies fresh dressings anyway. Miles asks Jack if blowing up Jughead's core will send them back in time, the answer to which earns another snippy Miles retort—paraphrasing, he responds "Yeah, ‘cause time travel is crazy." Watch it there, Ghost Whisperer.

Sayid then tells Jack that the needs to modify the bomb so it will detonate on impact, and adds that they need to be at the Swan site at the moment of the Incident or all of this will have been for nothing. The BDVoG screeches to a halt and Jack asks Hurley why they have stopped. Hurley, looking blankly out the windshield responds, "That's why." Jack turns to look himself and standing in the middle of the road, blocking their way to the Swan site, stand Sawyer, Juliet and Kate.

POOM! LOST!

Nah, just kidding. Be sure to head on over to Ben Piper's coverage of the second part of the season five finale, "The Incident – Part 2" right here!