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| LOST: There's No Place Like Home (Part 2 and 3) |
| Thursday, 29 May 2008 | |
 LOSTThere's No Place Like Home (part 2 and 3) aka: "The Frozen Donkey Wheel" by Peter Sorensen In the two-hour season finale of Season Four, Ben and Locke continue their task of "moving the island" while Jack and Co. try their hardest to get off the island. Mysteries are revealed, more are created, people die, people survive, and all hell breaks loose in the best season finale yet. Rest in peace, Jeremy Bentham. F**k Grey's Anatomy, they got nothing on Lost. There were so many points during tonight's episode that had me leaping out of my chair, screaming at the top of my lungs, dancing a caffeine-laced ecstatic fanboy jig, howling and making rapid fist pumps into midair while screaming like a ninja... well, let's just say my living room is a little worse for wear now. I think I may need a new couch.  Moses is having a real bad day. To start off, how f**king cool was that cold open right off of the "previously on Lost..." intro?! After Rock'n'Roll Jack's now famous "We have to go back!" yell, Kate's car comes screeching to a halt and rapidly backs up. She leaps out of the car and tears into Jack like "hell hath no fury". However, in the midst of her verbal castration, they let slip that the flashforward takes place 3 years after their rescue (2007) and the identity of the man in the coffin: someone named "Jeremy Bentham". Wait, who? On the island, Jack and Sawyer find Hurley and Locke, but not before Sawyer gets in his trademark nickname schtick by calling Jack "Sundance". On the boat, Desmond examines the bomb and realizes that it must have been wired by Lex Luthor because it's got redundancies out the wazoo and will explode if anyone so much as stares at it funny. Elsewhere, Keamy and the rest of the cast of Predator get back to the helicopter when Kate runs out of the jungle, saying she's being chased by the Others. The whispering in the jungle begins and Kate drops as the Others show the mercenaries why you don't fight a jungle war. Between ninja Others and sniper Others and sneak attack Others, Kate grabs Ben and they make a run for it with Keamy hot on their heels. Fortunately, Sayid shows Keamy "what the Iraq is cookin" and beats him up and down for a while (including a nasty stab wound) before Keamy finally gets the upper hand. However, just as Keamy is bearing down on Sayid and choking him to death, Richard Alpert appears and shoots Keamy three times in the back.  Sadly, Keamy never called. Flashforward - Hurley's still in the loony bin in 2007, and he gets a surprise visitor: Walt and his grandma. Yay Taller Non-Ghost Walt! Walt tells Hurley that he kept expecting one of the Oceanic Six to visit him, but nobody did. Nobody except Jeremy Bentham, that is. He asks Hurley why they're lying about the island, to which Hurley replies "we're lying, because its the only way to protect everyone who didn't come back". Walt asks if he means his dad, and Hurley (begrudgingly) tells him yeah. Back on the island in 2004, Jack and Locke chat and Locke tries to convince Jack to stay because they were "destined" to come to the island. When Jack refuses, Locke lays it all out for him: they're going to have to lie about what happened because it's the only way to protect the island - a place where miracles happen. When Jack scoffs at this (man, Jack does a lot of scoffing, doesn't he?) and says there's no such thing as miracles, Locke just tells him "we'll just have to see who's right". And ding ding ding! Round three of "Man of Science, Man of Faith" begins! Ben arrives, shows Locke where the hidden door for the Orchid station is, and tells Jack to get to the boat. It's a place where miracles happen. If you don't believe that Jack, if you can't believe that... just wait until you see what I'm about to do. -Locke Deep underground (very, very deep apparently), Ben reveals the Orchid station to Locke, complete with an orientation film. As a quick aside, is there some kind of Dharma orientation film curse? Why is it none of them are complete or can be viewed to completion? Anyway, back to the episode: the orientation video confirms that the Orchid Station takes advantage of a unique Casamir effect due to a nearby bubble of negatively charged exotic matter. MmmHmm, yup. Now, for those of you who don't have a degree in advanced quantum physics: they built a time machine called "The Vault" for unique experiments through both space and time. Simple rules: no organic material inside the chamber, no metallic object in vault. Of course, Ben is busy putting all the metal in the station into the vault. The elevator to the station suddenly starts up, and both Ben and Locke stare in disbelief. "May I have my weapon back?", Ben asks Locke. Back at the helicopter, Hurley, Sawyer, and Jack return and free Lapidas, who takes them up in the helicopter and off the island. At the Orchid, Keamy limps off the elevator thanks to his body armor deflecting the three shots in his back. Ben and Locke are both hiding, and Keamy taunts Ben to try to draw him out. Locke steps out and tries to reason with him, but Ben, incensed with rage over Alex's murder, attacks Keamy and stabs him repeatedly, setting off the "dead man's trigger" attached to Keamy's heartbeat - the remote trigger to the bomb aboard the freighter.  'Check it out, I got it to play Axel F!' Flashforward - Sayid kills a man outside the Santa Rosa mental hospital and then finds Hurley. He tells Hurley that Jeremy Bentham is dead from a "suicide", and when Hurley tries to say his real name, Sayid stops him and warns him of the danger. Then, the two play a quick round of "who's more f**ked up": Hurley remarks that he's been having regular conversations with dead poeple, Sayid remarks he just killed a man who has been perched outside for a week. Checkmate, Mr. Echo? More like checkmate, Mr. Reyes! Hurley finally relents and agrees to go with Sayid "somewhere safe", just as long as they're not going back to the island. The Oceanic Six manage to find the boat, as Locke tries to keep Keamy alive and the bomb from detonating. Keamy finally dies (after exchanging cliche threats with Ben) and the bomb gets triggered, but doesn't explode - thanks to Michael and his trusty liquid nitrogen. Michael stays to keep the battery frozen, while Desmond races to deck to get people off the boat - only to see the helicopter trying to land. He tries to warn them off, but without any fuel, they land anyway. They pump some gas and patch the bullet holes as quick as they can, while Jin and Michael say their goodbyes below. Jin thanks Michael and races to the top only to see the helicopter already off the deck and quickly soaring away.  'Check it out! Jin got it to play Axel F!' Down below deck, Michael hears the island whispers, then Christian appears in front of him and tells him he "can go now". The bomb detonates, destroying the freighter completely while Sun yells for Jin. Jack tells her that it's over - Jin's gone. Jack tells Lapidas to fly back to the island. Flashforward - Sun runs into Charles Widmore outside a restaurant and confronts him about the island, telling him that they have "common interests" presumably meaning they both want to find the island. "As you know, we're not the only ones who left the island", she tells him and walks away. On the other side of the island, Sawyer takes a moment to beefcake it up by arriving on the shore shirtless. Juliet is there to meet him with a bottle of rum and points out the funnel of smoke that used to be the freighter. Down in the Orchid, Ben continues to dump every metal item in sight into The Vault, and turns it on. Like aluminum in a toaster, the Vault zaps and pops and finally blows. He grabs a parka and puts it on, telling Locke he's going to go somewhere very cold, and then tells him that whoever moves the island can never come back.  'There has to be an easier way to turn the volume up' Ben chips away the ice and slowly turns the wheel. A low hum begins, audible across the entire island, and golden light streams in from behind the wheel. Ben pushes harder. The hum grows louder and the sky flashes bright white. The Oceanic Six, aboard the helicopter, watch as the island is engulfed in a bright white burst and then snap! vanishes without a trace. With the island gone, the helicopter has nowhere to land. Jack suggest the smaller island that Ben took them too, but Frank comments that there's nothing but water in every direction. Running on fumes, the helicopter slows and gradually floats downwards. Sayid tosses life raft out and finally, without fuel, the helicopter comes violently crashing down into the water. They manage to get everyone onto the life-raft, but Desmond isn't breathing. Jack administers C.P.R. and Desmond sputters up water and begins breathing again. "We're alive" Jack says, like it's supposed to be some sort of consolation. Flashforward - Kate wakes in the middle of the night, and the phone rings. She hears a series of clicks, then some weird backwards speech (more on that below in the spoiler/theory section). She hangs up the phone, gets her gun out of her dresser, and races to Aaron's room to find Claire watching over Aaron. "Don't bring him back, Kate. DON'T YOU DARE BRING HIM BACK!" she demands. Kate wakes up from the dream with a start and checks on Aaron, who is sleeping peacefully. She cries and apologizes to him.  'Men-MAN, Pop. MER-MAN!' Back on the life-raft, Hurley is amazed by what Locke did, and Jack tries to brush it off, but can't. Then, off in the distance they see a searchlight. It's a boat, and as it turns towards them, Jack realizes Locke was right after all and that they'd have to lie to protect everyone left on the island. Kate doesn't think they can pull it off, but Jack tells them to just let him do the talking. The boat nears and they see it's name ("The Searcher") and meet it's owner, Penny Widmore. Penny and Desmond reunite in what has to be the greatest heart-twirling scene yet, and she tells him she found him because of his phone call... and her tracking station. Jack tells her that they have to talk. A week later, they arrive near Membata. Penny is letting them off in a raft near Membata to solidify their cover story. Jack says goodbye to Desmond and warns him "don't let them find you". The Oceanic Six set off in the boat and eventually arrive on the shore to be greeted by villagers and begin their cover story. In the final flashforward of the night Rock'n'Roll Jack kicks it with Pixies blasting from his Blazer as he heads back to the Hoffs/Drawler (anagram for "flashforward") funeral parlor, where the infamous coffin from last season is. Closed and locked, Jack picks up a block and breaks the door in. He walks over to the coffin, sees the name on the tag (Jeremy Bentham again) and opens the lid... when Ben appears behind him. Ben asks him if "Jeremy" talked to him, told him what happened. Jack replies that he was told that after they left "some very bad things happened" and that it was all his fault for leaving and that he had to go back. Ben, however, fills him in: the island won't let him come back alone. All of them have to go back, including the person in the coffin... John Locke. Locke Noooooooo! *keeping fingers crossed that the island can heal death as well as spinal injuries* And so ends one of the most satisfying season finales I've ever seen. Now for the best part of the night:
Sorry, this part is for members only and may contain spoilers. If you'd like to read it, please LOG IN or REGISTER. So there you have it, the perfect end to a near-perfect season. It was fast-paced, it was thrilling, it was intelligent, it was humorous, it was touching. If this season was a woman, I'd sleep with it, impregnate it, marry it, divorce it, win it back, and then marry it again. It was that damn good. But that's not the end... oh no. Apparently, there were 3 different endings filmed for the season finale, so keep an eye out here for those, as well as other Lost news, theories, articles, and rants as the weeks tick on by until the premiere of Lost: Season 5. Where is the island now? Why would Sun blame Jack? Did Sawyer REALLY need to take off his shirt to swim? Post a comment below and let us know! Comments (11)
  dakion wrote...
you forgot to mention the Octagon Global Recruiting commercial... http://www.octagonglobalrecruiting.com/
*SPOILERS* Oh, and Locke's dead, but if they take him to the island, do you really think he'll remain dead? And if he was so attached to the island, what do you think would cause him to come back? Just to try to get them to come back to the island? Where's Sayid taking Hurley?? Did he kill Locke?
|| May 30, 2008
unclebrak wrote...
If anyone cares...
I watched the alternate endings on Good Morning America and the only difference was who was in the coffin. In the first one it was Sawyer, and the second it was Desmond. I'm not going to read into it because they may have done it just so it couldn't be leaked, but I figured I'd mention it.
|| May 30, 2008
 Peter wrote...
@dakion - I totally forgot about that! I signed up after the show and I'm assuming that OGR is going to be this seasons viral marketing campaign, much like find815.com was. I'll keep people posted if it bears anything interesting.
And yeah, I saw the alternate endings with Des and Sawyer. Nothing new, just a set of smoke screens to keep cast, crew, and visitors from spoiling the ending. Apparently, the only person besides Carlton and Damon who knew the final outcome was Matthew Fox, who was under strict instructions not to reveal it before the premiere.
http://www.bleepinggeek.com || May 30, 2008
 manzy704 wrote...
Peter, thanks for figuring out the audio on the whisper and the phone call. I highly doubt that Locke will remain dead. He seems like someone the island would want to keep alive. Perhaps someone knew of a way to kill him even though the island was trying to keep him alive. Maybe he wasn't supposed to die. At least I'm hoping.
I'm still pretty much speechless from this finale. What do you think happened to Daniel? Do you think this event propelled him to the past with a fuzzy memory? Maybe this is what made him behave in the odd manner we've become used to? Is there a clause in the contract for these actors that says DUI = death? I was really hoping Jin wouldn't die and that the tombstone was just a red herring. It seems there was no way he could have survived that blast. Even if he did, he'd be stuck floating out at sea with no island to return to. Assuming he is dead, I really want to know why Sun is so hellbent on finding the island. With Widmore supposedly not knowing where the island is now, I really wonder who the on island antagonists will be that cause things to go to hell.
|| May 30, 2008
lwalker wrote...
Remember the Dharma video in the Orchid? They didn't physically move the island.
They moved it in time. The video said when it moves things it "makes them look like they are disappearing, then reappearing later." They're really just skipping ahead (or maybe back?) in time, hence the time difference from the freighter to the island.
|| May 30, 2008
Peter wrote...
@lwalker - Very astute, but think on this - if time and space are intertwined, one can be manipulated by the other. For instance, imagine if you will: you want to travel forward in time 12 hours. So you press the button (or step in the chamber, or speed up to 88 mph, depending on your method of time travel), and blam! You're 12 hours in the future.
However, now you're on the complete opposite side of the Earth. Why? Well, you didn't move, but the earth did. Earth is constantly in motion and every 24 hours it makes a complete rotation (give or take a few milliseconds, etc) and the axis tilts ever so slightly (which is what accounts for the seasons). The reason we stay in place is because we move along with the Earth. Technically, our bodies are in motion every single second of our lives, spinning around with the planet underneath us. If we could maintain our current location, the Earth would slowly turn underneath us. Hence, if we zipped 12 hours into the future without moving, the Earth would have rotated half a day underneath us, and we'd be on the opposite side of the planet. So, if Ben moved the island through time, even a matter of hours, it would be in an entirely new location when it came out of the timestream. However, if he could also move the island through space, he could put the island wherever and whenever he wanted. The lack of controls on the frozen donkey wheel make me think that it's far more random however. The more you turn it the further through space or time you move. I think that's why it's a "measure of last resort". Accidentally move it to the wrong place, and the island ends up landing right in the middle of Times Square. Again, just a theory.
http://www.bleepinggeek.com || May 30, 2008
 emzi wrote...
Great post as always
 I didn't know about the alternative endings so will have to seek those out
http://www.lost-isle.net || June 02, 2008
james wrote...
Great re-cap, as always, but I do have one issue. Can you really scream like a ninja? Aren't ninjas supposed to be silent?
|| June 02, 2008
Peter wrote...
@manzy704 - Daniel has to be a traveler as well (too many coincidences for him not to be), so I'm putting forward a theory that Dan (along with the rest of the island inhabitants) got doused with radiation during "the move", and that at some point Daniel is going to have to head away from the island at the wrong bearing. As for Sun, I think she wants to find the island because she refuses to give up hope that Jin somehow survived the explosion.
@emzi - Thanks! If you'd like, the endings are up at: YouTube Lost Alternate Endings @james - You obviously have never been around ninjas at the post-assasination kegger.
http://www.bleepinggeek.com || June 02, 2008
Peter wrote...
Also - I've updated the article with what Sawyer actually says. There is still some debate as to the city (because of Sawyers southern drawl), but what he says is:
"I have a daughter in Albuquerque, you need to find her, tell her I'm sorry."
http://www.bleepinggeek.com || June 02, 2008
milly wrote...
Ok, thanks for your article! Enjoyed it immensely!
http://www.picktorrent.com || August 27, 2009
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