We see Locke, Ben and Sun wandering into the Others' beach camp. Richard is startled to see them, not having seen Locke in "three years."
Locke, on the other hand, is ultra confident. Apparently his meeting with the ghost(?) of Christian Shepherd has filled him with insights and he now has plan. A plan to do what, we're not sure. But part of it has to do with fixing, or at least manipulating, the jumbled time streams everyone is mixed up in.
At night, Locke bring Richard and Ben into the jungle. He takes them to the site of the crashed drug plane, the site where we previously saw Richard tell him that he would need to bring his friends back to the island and to do that he would need to die, but--in this time frame-- this hasn't happened yet. It's about to. Whereas the last time we saw this encounter, Locke had flashed into the future, we're now seeing it in "real time."
Sure enough, past-Locke stumbles out of the jungle and sits down against the plane wreckage. Watching from the jungle nearby, present-Locke tells Richard to go to past-Locke and tell him everything we saw Richard tell him when we see this meeting previously. Very weird.
Back at the beach, present-day Locke then tells Richard he wants to go see Jacob. Now. And he's bringing all the Others with him. He addresses the entire group, saying "you've all been following a man called Jacob, but none of you has seen him. I think you should." Privately, Richard tells Ben that maybe handing over leadership of the Others to Locke wasn't such a great idea. Locke is a troublemaker. But, sure enough, the entire group goes trudging off to see Jacob. As they walk, Ben fishes for information about Locke's plans and Locke tells him that he's not going to "see" Jacob, he's going to "kill him." Ben's is pretty freaked out about this.
Meanwhile, 30 years previously, Jack and Kate are captured by the Others. Ellie has killed Faraday, and discovers that he was, indeed, her son--visiting from the future. And she recalls her previous meeting with Faraday, back in the 50s, when he instructed the Others to bury the hydrogen bomb that had been left on the island by the military.
Now Jack tells her about Faraday's scheme to detonate the bomb, thus destroying the Swan Hatch and negating the history of everything we've seen on the show, starting with the Oceanic Crash. If there's no button in the Hatch for Desmond to not push, the crash will never happen.
Kate thinks this idea is crazy, not to mention, in a round-about way, suicidal. Jack, who's becoming more Locke-like by the minute, say it's their "destiny."
Ellie goes along with the idea. Mainly, because it means blowing up the Dharma Initiative and she leads Jack, Kate, Richard (yes, he's present back in the 50s and 30 years later not looking a day older) and a few assorted Others into the jungle. They will go to tunnels that are part of the mysterious temple under the island, where the bomb has been hidden.
Before the party reaches the temple, however, Kate says she's having none of it and starts walking back to the Dharma settlement. The unidentified Others accompanying the party tries to stop her, but are shot dead by Sayid, who pops out of the bushes at just the right time. So, Kate leaves, and Sayid joins Jack. He agrees that the future must be changed if possible.
Back in Dharmaville, Sawyer and Juliette have been found out and are being roughly interrogated by Radzinski and security guy Phil, who believe the Initiative has been infiltrated by "hostiles." In the midst of this, however, in busts Dr. Chang--who earlier encounted Miles, Jin and Hurley just as they were sneaking off to the beach to avoid getting busted like Sawyer and who told Chang that, yes indeed, they were from the future and that something very bad is going to happen with the Hatch. Chang tells Horace, Radzinsky and Phil to knock it off, they need to get all the women and children into the sub and off the island.
Sawyer says if he and Juliette are allowed to go on the sub, too, he will tell Radzinsky whatever he wants to know. Radzinsky asks Sawyer to draw a map to where the hostiles are camped out, which Sawyer does.
No sooner are Sawyer and Juliette on the sub, however, when the Dharma guards throw Kate onboard, too. She's emerged from the jungle at just the right time.
Questions/observations/speculation:
* What in the H, E, double-L is Locke up to?
* The meeting between Richard and Locke occurs just as we saw it before, Locke didn't alter the script though he could have. Why not? Was he merely assuring that it DID happen?
* Locke says to Ben, "you've never seen Jacob, have you?" and Ben admits this is true. So does Jacob really exist? It seems like he must. After all WE'VE seen him. But the question remains: who/what is he?
* Locke says "the island told" him that the meeting between past Locke and Richard was about to take place? Is the island speaking via Christian Shepherd? And does this mean that Christian isn't Jacob?
* Is Locke doing all this as a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy? Afterall, his leadership of the Others all seems based on his time-skipping encounters with Richard. Back in the 50s, he informed Richard that he was the Others' leader. Because he was made their leader in the future. It seems as if Lock inadvertantly set himself up to become the Others leader. In fact, it could be argued that many of Locke's decisions, knowingly or not, have affected everything that's happened on the island.
* Carrying on with the self-fulfilling prophecy notion, we again ask: Is Locke Jacob? The fleeting glimpse we saw of Jacob last season looked a lot like an older Locke.
* If Locke is Jacob how can he kill Jacob? By not becoming him? Is he trying to make it so Jacob never became an authority figure over the Others? Or is Jacob someone else, and Locke wants to kill him so he can become Jacob himself? It's vexing.
* If Locke is Jacob, then isn't he the one who told Ben to move the island? Does he want to "kill" Jacob so this doesn't happen?
* Ben describes Richard to Sun as a "sort of advisor" to the Others who has done that job for "a long, long time." But who the heck is Richard, really? Why does he let other people lead the Others instead of assuming leadership himself, since he seems to know so much? And why doesn't he age?
* What will happen with the bomb and the Hatch and everyone living is the island's past? I have one prediction: Dr. Chang is gonna come out of the whole thing short an arm.
* We see Charlotte and Miles, as children, leaving the island. It seems like this explains why they left and didn't return until they were adults.
* Richard is shown building a ship-in-a-bottle. Is it the Black Rock? Was ageless Richard aboard that ship?
Also see:
See a preview for next week's season finale: "The Incident."
Read spoilers for "The Incident."
What we STILL don't know.
Previous episodes:
* 5.1/5.2: "Because You Left" and "The Lie"
* 5.3: "Jughead"
*5.4: "The Little Prince"
* 5.5: "This Place is Death"
* 5.6: "316"
* 5.7: "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"
* 5.8: "LaFleur"
* 5.9: "Namaste"
* 5.10: "He's Our You"
* 5.11: "Whatever Happened Happened"
* 5. 12: "Dead is Dead"
* 5.13: "Some Like it Hoth"
* 5.14: "The Variable"
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