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OBS RECAP & REVIEWS: LOST S6 EPISODE 16 ‘WHAT THEY DIED FOR’
Written by OBS Staff Member Rose
“They died to save humanity.”
Episode 16 opens with Jack, his son and Jack’s newly found sister Claire, (a new little twist on the nuclear family) eating breakfast together, when Jack gets a phone call. He thinks it’s from Oceanic Flight 815, and they have found his father’s coffin. What Jack doesn’t know, is new super spy agent-acting Desmond, is on the other line, faking the call.
Next Desmond is seen in the school parking lot, watching Locke exiting his van and returned to work after his accident, caused by Desmond himself, in the same parking lot. When Desmond starts his car, I’m sure we were all thinking, he’s going to mow him down again, but instead Benjamin Linus jumps in front of his car, recognizing him. Desmond exits his car and proceeds to give Ben a large amount of hurt…’to open his eyes’. As Desmond punches Ben in the face, Benjamin sees flashbacks of the same incident (like deja vu) from the island. Desmond takes off after Ben falls to the ground.
At the hospital, Locke visits Ben. At the site of Ben, Locke wants to call the police and begins to dial. Ben tells Locke what Desmond told him (Desmond wasn’t trying to hurt Locke, he was only trying to make him ‘see’). Locke is perplexed and hangs up his cell phone.
At this moment Desmond is seen at the police station. He turns himself in for the vehicular assault on Locke and beat down of Ben. The reason is soon plain. He gets put in a cell where Sayid and Kate are being held.
Back on the island, Jack is stitching up Kate’s gunshot wound. This is reminiscent of when Kate sewed up Sawyer’s wound in Season 1. Kate wants Locke dead for what happened to Jin and Sun and Jack is in full agreeance.
Jack tells the remaining Losties (Hurley, Kate and Sawyer), Sayid mentioned Desmond being stuck in a well on the island and they have to get to him before Locke does.
Jack and Co. are trekking it to the well, when Hurley is visited by a young Jacob who demands his ashes back. Hurley hands them over and Jacob gives chase with Hurley following. He arrives upon an adult Jacob sitting by a fire. Jacob tells Hurley his ashes are in the fire and once burnt out, Jacob will no longer be seen by him, he will disappear forever and the end is near.
On another part of the island Ben, Richard and Miles are headed to the Dharma Village to obtain explosives in order to blow up the plane. When they arrive, Miles feels a strangeness. Him and his dead people sixth sense. Turns out Richard had buried Ben’s daughter Alex in this location. Ben thanks Richard for that burial and heads to his old house and takes all the C-4 he had hidden. Upon their exit from the bedroom, they hear shuffling in the kitchen and are surprised by Widmore’s own, Miss Tina Fey. She is not alone however, Charles Widmore enters the house soon after. He tells Ben the plane is already rigged with explosives and he was visited by Jacob after his freighter was destroyed, was invited back to the island and told the steps on how to defeat the MIB. Widmore sends Tina back to the camp, and she comes across Locke making his way over and quickly tells Widmore by walkie talkie and rushes back to Ben’s house. They all need to run and hide so they wont die.
Benjamin does not want to hide, Miles would rather go with Widmore, and Richard stays with Ben. Soon enough, the Smoke Monster appears and bum rushes Richard and throws him into some trees (to his presumed death) and the sound of Mr. Smokey fades off into the distance like a thunder clap that came and went. Calmly, Ben sits on his porch and waits. All he needs is a cool iced tea and you’d think he was sitting on his porch somewhere in the Deep South on a hot summers day. Smokey, in the shape of Locke, rounds the corner.
Flocke wants Ben to kill a few people for him and proceeds to ask questions about Widmore’s outrigger at the dock. Ben spills the beans about everything. The outrigger being Widmore’s and where Widmore is hiding.
Flash over to Benjamin Linus walking the grounds of the school, when his pupil, Alex, sees his condition (beat up, hand in sling) and offers to have her mom drive him home. And who walks out of the car? Danielle Rousseau. How refreshing to see her! She looks pretty good not covered in jungle soot. One thing leads to another and Ben is officially invited to dinner, no refusals.
After dinner, Danielle reveals that Alex looks up to Ben like a father, for all the attention and time he has given her as a teacher. Ben is seriously affected by this and cries.
Flocke enters the secret room behind the bookshelf in Ben’s house, in search for Widmore and Zoe (that’s Tina Fey’s real name). Once they are found, Zoe opens her mouth to speak and Widmore tells her not to. (Remember once you let MIB speak and speak back, it’s all over.) Well it surely is over for her, for Flocke slits her throat open. Ouch. She was no use to Flocke once Widmore advised her to remain quiet. Widmore doesn’t listen to his own advice and listens and talks back to Flocke when Flocke says he will kill Penny unless Widmore tells him what he needs to know. Flocke gives his word he will not harm her if he does this.
By having this conversation Widmore is already screwed. Widmore tells Flocke he brought Desmond back because he is immune to electro-magnetism. This was Widmore’s ‘last resort’ and refuses to divulge more information on this unless Ben leaves. Flocke tells him to whisper the information. Thanks Lost writers! So of course we don’t get to hear why Desmond was a ‘last resort’.
Suddenly Ben shoots Widmore dead. Ben is on a killing mission and there is no stopping him. In a relationship, Ben and Flocke would be perfect for each other.
Night has fallen around the remaining Losties when they round a tree and see Jacob, visable to all. Jacob is ready to spill the beans. Why they were all chosen and what they have to do to protect the island. He needs to tell them all this before that fire burns out.
He tells them he chose them all because they were just like him, flawed. They were all looking for something in real life they couldn’t find. Kate was crossed off because she became a mother. He tells them about protecting the light at the center of the island, to make sure it never goes out. Jacob will not pick who takes over the job. The Losties will have to make their own choice.
Jack steps up and chooses to take on the role. Jacob tells him how to get to the light and before you can say “cheers", Jacob looks like he’ll break out the infamous wine carafe and immortalize Jack into Dorian Grayness, ageless for all eternity. Instead he blesses the water in the stream they are in and hands a cup of this water to Jack. Looks like only a blessing over a liquid is needed, not the wine itself.
After Jack drinks he looks up at Jacob and a flash of knowing is upon his face. Jack is now like Jacob.
Locke in alt-reality, pays a visits to Dr. Jack Shepard. He tells him of all the coincidences since the Oceanic Flight 815 touched down in L.A. and proposes to Jack that all this is ‘meant’ and happening for a reason. Jack thinks he’s confusing coincidence with fate (a running theme in Lost) and Locke doesn’t care if he is. He is there and wants to have his back ‘fixed’.
Sawyer (in his cop reality) releases Kate, Desmond and Sayid from their cells and ships them off to county. In the transfer vehicle, Desmond tells them once the vehicle stops, he will set them free and he will ask something from each of them and it requires a promise of completion. When they stop prematurely, Anna Lucia opens the doors. Desmond has offered her payment for this little side trip. Lucia releases them and they step off onto the pavement, near the port.
Approaching is a yellow Hummer. When it stops, out steps Hurley. He automatically recognizes Lucia, but she doesn’t recognize him. Hurley hands her the payment and Lucia takes off. Desmond tells Hurley she is not ready yet.
Sayid rides with Hurley and Kate with Desmond, but not before he hands her a black evening dress and tells her they are going to a concert. Dum…dum…dum. I wonder who’s? I didn’t mention it thus far…but during Jack’s family breakfast, his son asks if he will be attending his concert later. Two + two = this is the concert.
Flocke and his tattletale sidekick Ben arrive at the famous well that Desmond is supposedly trapped in. But, he has been freed. Flocke is happy that ‘Mr. Desmond Fail Safe’ is free. Widmore told Flocke that Desmond was the last resort in case all the candidates were killed. Now with Desmond free and alive, Flocke will be able to use Desmond to destroy the island. L O S T
How will it all end?
It was inevitable that Jack took Jacob’s place as the island’s protector. Did we actually think Kate would raise her hand, or selfish Sawyer for that matter? Hurley couldn’t survive on his own, with no one to talk to, he needs others, so he was out of the question. Poor Jack will have to contend with dealing with the MIB/Mr. Smokey for the rest of his now unnatural life.
How Desmond is able to ‘knock sense’ into the Losties, literally, in alt-reality remains to be seen. This ability reminded me of Maryanne in True Blood, when she knocked Tara back into black-eyed mode when she refused her fluttering ways, with a round house to the jaw. We all energy and vibrate on such a minute level, it can’t be seen. The Losties exist in both realities at once, so maybe the jarring effect to their bodies, allows a shift in their vibration frequency, and both realities become apparent. It’s like dropping a rock into water and shifting it’s energy, which causes the ripples. Hmmm…I think I’m on to something here.
How do you think Flocke will try and use Desmond to destroy the island?
Since Sayid, Jin, Sun, Widmore, Miss Tina Fey all died on island time, at the hands of Flocke’s doing, do they cease to exist in alt-reality? Or will they miraculously live?
I am curious…why Jacob appeared to Hurley as his child self to obtain his ashes and not as an adult?
What did you think of this episode? What did you notice, if anything, that is significant?
Only the Season Finale is left!
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