Lost to air on Thursdays in 2010

ABC has announced it fall 2010 TV schedule, which places "Lost" at 8 p.m. on Thursdays. This may change, of course, and there's no word on when season 6 will debut.

Lost season 5 is over! Now what?

Well, it means it's time to start the Lost Season 6 Blog, naturally!

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Posts on the season 5 blog will be retained, so if you want to check what happened during the season, it's all still here.

Lost season 5 complete episode guide

Here's the complete episode guide for Lost Season 5:

* 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"
* 5.15: "Follow the Leader"
* 5/16/5.17: "The Incident" parts 1 and 2

Lost season 5 episode guide: episodes 5.16 and 5.17, " The Incident" pt. 1 and 2

Summary:

Way back in the past on the island, we see a man in a/the temple working on a loom. Later, we see him on the beach, at the foot of the giant statue, observing an old sailing ship (the Black Rock) approaching on the water.



Another man, dressed in black shows up and these two have a conversation. We learn that loom guy is Jacob. We don't learn the identity of the other person, who says the boat is coming to the island, just as others have in the past, and that they will corrupt the place and fight, just as everyone has in the past.

Jacob indicates this isn't so. That with each new group that arrives, progress occurs.

The mystery man says "do you have any idea how much I want to kill you?," adding that one day he'll find a "loop hole" that allows him to do so.

Later, through a series of flashbacks, we see that Jacob has visited all the characters we know at key moments in their pasts, including--most recently--Hurley, who he encourages to return to the island on the Ajira flight, also giving Hurley Charlie's guitar.

One flashback also shows Jacob visiting a woman in a hospital. Her face is vanished, but it's Ilana. She knows Jacob. He asks for her help and she agrees to help him.

Back in the 1970s, in the submarine, Kate tells Sawyer and Juliette what Jack is up to: The plans to use Jughead to blow up the Swan Hatch before it's ever built in hopes that this will change the future, ensuring the Oceanic Flight never takes place. Of course, a lot of other things will never happen, either--some of them good, such as Sawyer and Juliette's life together--will never happen if this is the case. The trio decides they need to go back and manage to escape their handcuffs and procure a gun, ordering the submarine captain to surface so they can take a raft back.

Thirty years in the future, Ilana and her gang are paddling a boat to the main island, too. Faraday is with them as a captive and there's a big box on board. Ilana and her buddies are crypic about what's up, but allow Faraday to see what's in the box. It's quite surprising to him, but we don't see.

Meanwhile, Locke is leading the Others to go confront Jacob. Ben has to be the one to kill Jacob, Locke says. Ben doesn't understand why. Locke points out that all sorts of bad things happened to Ben while he was ostensibly serving Jacob--he developed cancer, his daughter was killed. "Why wouldn't you want to kill him," Locke asks.



On the island, in the 1970s, Sayid and Jack manage to get the warhead and emerge in Dharmaville, where they're spotted and shot at. Miles, Hurley and Jin swing by to help them escape in the Dharma van but Sayid is badly wounded.

This group heads to the Swan construction site, but are intercepted by Kate, Sawyer and Juliette, who are back on the island. Sawyer demands a private meeting with Jack and tries to talk him out of exploding the bomb. Jack won't back down and they have a big fist fight. But it's to no avail, because Juliette shows up saying she's had a change of heart. Maybe this will change her future with Sawyer, but ultimately it's for the best.

Jack tries to go through the plan and the rest follow, providing him with gun cover against the defending Dharamites and Jack makes his way to drop the bomb down the drill hole.

The bomb goes down but there's no bang. But a few moments, all hell breaks loose anyway. The "incident" occurred without the bomb--would've occurred regardless. Everything metal starts getting sucked down the hole, including Juliette, who gets a big chain wrapped around her. Sawyer tries to save her, but can't. Dr. Chang--as predicted--badly injures an arm.



Back in the future, Richard opens a secret door at the bottom of the giant statue--all but one foot of which has disappeared in the intervening years. Locke and Ben go into see Jacob.

Outside, Richard talks with Sun in the Others' beach camp when who should show up but Ilana. Richard doesn't know her, but she quizzes him with the password: "What lies at the foot of the statue?" Richard answers in Latin (according to the consensus Lost fan boards translation): "He who will save us all."

Ilana then says she needs to show Richard what's in the big box. As we've started to suspect, it's Locke. Dead. Sun, I think, speaks for all of us when she says "so who is in there?" pointing to the statue.





Inside, Jacob steps out of the shadows and tells Ben "you don't have to do this, you have a choice." To "Lock," he says, "Well, I guess you found your loophole." Ben demands to know from Jacob why he's been treated so poorly, he's never been able to see or talk to Jacob, despite having provided him with "lists," etc. Jacob is indifferent toward Ben. Ben stabs him and "Locke" kicks Jacob into the fire, where he's set alight.

Meanwhile, back in the 1970s, it turns out Juliette survived her fall but she's in bad shape and trapped. Also, she landed right next to the warhead. Enraged, she grabs and rock and starts pounding it. Bang! Everything goes white. And, naturally, that is another season of "Lost."

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Rose and Bernard are still alive, in the 1970s, and live in jungle seclusion. They are very happy, thank you, and want nothing to do with all the drama.



Questions/observations/speculation:

* So what HAPPENS?!!! Criminy. We have to wait until 2010 to find out?!!!

* Will the explosion re-set everything? If so, will any of the characters remember what's occurred?

* Who was the guy talking to Jacob? His brother? Who/what are they and why are they on the island? Why does Jacob bring people there?

* In the Bible, the brother of Jacob is Esau.

The Bible depicts Esau as a hunter who prefers the outdoor life, qualities that distinguished him from his brother, who was a shy or simple man, depending on the translation of the Hebrew word "Tam" (which also means "relatively perfect man").[1] According to the Bible, Esau is the ancestor of the Edomites.[1] In the Book of Genesis, Esau is frequently shown being supplanted by his younger twin Jacob (Israel).

Genesis 25:19-25 narrates Esau's birth. He emerges from the womb with Jacob grasping his heel. He is described as follows: "Now the first came forth, red all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau."

In the Book of Jubilees (which is neither part of the Jewish nor most Christian canons), Esau's father, Isaac, compels Esau to swear not to attack or kill Jacob after Isaac has died. However, after the death of Isaac, the sons of Esau convince their father to lead them, and hired mercenaries, against Jacob in order to kill Jacob and his family and seize their wealth, (especially the portion of Isaac's wealth that Isaac had left to Jacob upon his death). In the ensuing battle, Jacob kills Esau with an arrow. The sons of Jacob then defeat the rest of the attackers despite overwhelming odds.

* Is Mystery Man the same guy that's been wandering around looking like Christian Shepherd?

* How did Mystery Man become Locke? Did it occur after Locke demanded a meeting a meeting with the Smoke Monster when he, Sun and Ben met up with Christian Shepherd? Did that meeting somehow enable Mystery Man to inhabit Locke's body and use it to launch his "let's go kill Jacob" plan?

* Will the real Locke return?

* Why couldn't Mystery Man just kill Jacob himself? He needed a loophole--somebody else to do it for him for some reason? Also, why didn't Jacob fight back?

* Mystery Man is dressed in black, which made me think of the smoke monster. Any relation? Also, Jacob is dressed in white. Should we made good guy/bad guy assumptions based on wardrobe?

* What is Jacob? A god of some sort? He can heal people. He made it so Richard doesn't age.

* Why did Jacob seemingly make it so the Oceanic survivors would arrive on the island?

* Jacob is shown--very blatantly--reading Flannery O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge."

In the story, human weaknesses are expose and important moral questions are explored through everyday situations. Critics view the story as a prime example of O’Connor’s literary skills and moral views. In the story an arrogant young man takes a fateful bus trip with his bigoted mother. The mother doesn’t like to ride the recently racially integrated bus alone. Their relationship shows tensions when a black mother and son enters the bus. Through irony, the blindness and ignorance of the characters are exposed. The title Everything That Rises Must Converge refers to an underlying religious message central to her work: aiming to expose the sinful nature of humanity that often goes unrecognized in the modern, secular world.



* According to one fan post, the Greek writing on Jacob's weaving is a passage from "The Odyssey" and reads: "may the gods grant thee all that thy heart desires."



* What is Ilana's history with the island and Jacob, and who are the people with her? Why was her face bandaged?

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"
* 5.15: "Follow the Leader"

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Lost season 5 finale "The Incident" preview May 13, 2009

Lost season 5 episode guide: episode 5.15 "Follow the Leader"

Summary:

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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Lost season 5 episode guide: episode 5.14 "The Variable"

Summary:

We learn that Daniel is returning to the island from Dharma HQ in Ann Arbor where he's been doing some sort of research. He's back because he's learned that Jack and the gang are there and shouldn't be. He has a plan on how to fix things, but it's a wild one.

It's clear that the jig is up in terms of the future folk continuing to blend in with the 1970s Dharma crowd, what with security guy Phil bound and gagged in Sawyer's closet, but nobody is sure what to do. That makes everyone a lot more willing for everyone to listen to Daniel's crazy scheme. Basically, he wants wipe the whole Oceanic crash and the survivors' history on the island out of the time line.



Daniel plans to do this by making sure the electromagnetic "incident" that resulted in the construction of the Swan Station hatch never happens--as it's about to in the curent timeline. He hopes to do so by convincing Dr. Chang to get everone off the island so he can explode Jughead, the H-bomb that the Others' buried on the island back in the 1950s. Here's his reasoning:

* In the 1970s, Dr. Chang's exploration crew accidentally taps the huge source of pent-up electromagnetic energy under the island. People are killed, there is an "incident," but the site, under the Swan Station is covered up with the Hatch and the energy is safely dispersed by a person pressing a button every 108 minutes. That person eventually becomes Desmond.

* Daniel knows this incident is about to occur.

* If he convinces Dr. Chang that he is indeed from the future and knows what's about to occur, Daniel hopes to get everyone off the island, whereupon he'll detonate the bomb.

* If the bomb goes off, there's no Hatch and, hence, no button for Desmond to fail to push. That means there's no Oceanic crash and no bad nastiness that follows: Battles between the survivors and the Others, Widmore's commandoes being sent to the island and killing folks, etc.

* It's clear that Daniel wants to do this in order to prevent Charlotte, who he again sees as a young girl living among the Dharmaites, from dying as she did in the future.



Kate and Jack decide to help Daniel, which means visiting the Others and finding the location of the bomb. Sawyer, Juliette, Miles and Hurley, however, decide that they are supposed to be on the island and want to stay there. They think Daniel's plan is crazy. They also realize that their cover is blown with the Dharma Initiative and decide they need to head out into the jungle.

Things get tricky, however, when Kate, Jack and Daniel are spotted by Radzinski and some other Dharmaites stealing weapons and a jeep before they go see the Others. There's a brief gun battle and Kate, Jack and Daniel get away. Radzinski is wounded in the hand and rushes to get Sawyer--who, afterall, is supposed to be the Dharma security chief. But Radzinski then finds Phil locked in the closet of Sawyer's place and realizes that Sawyer can't be trusted either. He and his men capture Sawyer and the rest of the gang.



Meanwhile, Kate, Jack and Daniel find the Others' camp. Daniel tells the other two to hang back as he goes to confront those in the camp. He walks in with a gun, demanding to see Eloise--who we see in flashbacks is his mother. We also learn that Widmore is Daniel's father. Richard attempts to get Daniel to calm down and give up the gun, but before he can do so, Daniel is shot--by Eloise, who comes up behind him. Eloise demands to know who Daniel is and he says, "I'm your son. You knew this was going to happen, but you let it happen anyway."



Also in flashbacks, we see that though Desmond was wounded in his L.A. scuffle with Ben, he recovers. Eloise goes to the hospital to check on Desmond and has a brief conversation with Penny. Outside, she encounters Widmore and we learn that Daniel is their child.



We also see past glimpses of Daniel's upbringing with Eloise. He's gifted scientifically as a boy and Eloise demands he put all his energy into pursuing scientific discoveries, he has no time for anything else. We also learn how Daniel came to join Charlotte, Miles and Frank in going to the island. Widmore recruited him, saying that the island would make him well--Daniel's memory has been shattered due to his time experiments--and Daniel agrees to do so.

Questions/observations/speculation:

* Will Daniel recover from the gunshot wound?

* Why did Eloise encourage Daniel to go to the island, knowing that, in the past, she shot him there? Does she understand the full chain of events? Does she remember shooting a stranger in the past who identified himself as her son? Does she realize all this has to happen so the island will be preserved? Or is she somehow hoping to change the past?



* Earlier in the season, what did Daniel hope to accomplish by convincing Desmond to find Eloise?
* Would Daniel also wipe himself out of his existence by exploding the bomb? What about the Others? Would they leave the island or be killed? Will his scheme work? (I'm thinking not, since we still have another season to go).

* How/when/why did Eloise leave the island? Was it before Widmore was banished? Was Daniel born on the island? Why did Eloise and Widmore not remain a couple? Who is Penny's mother?

* What will happen to Sawyer and the rest? Can they convince Chang that they aren't Others, but that they come from the future?

* Charlotte, as a young girl, tells Daniel "I'm not allowed to have chocolate before dinner". These are her last words to him before she dies in the future--when her mind is skipping through time.



Also see:

See a preview for next week's episode: "Follow the Leader."

Read spoilers for "Follow the Leader."

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"

Lost season 5 ep. 5. 15 "Follow the Leader" preview

Lost season 5: Spoilers: Ep. 5. 15 "Follow the Leader" May 6, 2009

Highlight the hidden text for spoilers about the May 6 episode of "Lost."


JACK AND KATE FAIL TO AGREE ON THE BEST DIRECTION TO TAKE TO SAVE
THEIR FELLOW ISLAND SURVIVORS, AND SAWYER AND JULIET COME
UNDER SCRUTINY FROM THE DHARMA INITIATIVE, ON ABC'S "LOST"
"Follow the Leader" - Jack and Kate find themselves at odds over the direction to take to save their fellow island survivors, Locke further solidifies his stance as leader of "The Others," and Sawyer and Juliet come under scrutiny from the Dharma Initiative, on "Lost," WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

"Lost" stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond, Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday, Michael Emerson as Ben, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Ken Leung as Miles, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet and Terry O'Quinn as Locke.

Guest starring are Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Francois Chau as Dr. Pierre Chang, Doug Hutchison as Horace Goodspeed, Patrick Fischler as Phil, Eric Lange as Radzinsky, David S. Lee as younger Charles Widmore, Alice Evans as younger Eloise Hawking, Leslie Ishii as Lara, Sebastian Siegel as Erik, Kevin Chapman as Mitch, Elisabeth Blake as Vanessa, William Makozak as Captain Bird, Victoria Goring as mother and Maya Henssens as young girl.

"Follow the Leader" was written by Paul Zbyszewski & Elizabeth Sarnoff and directed by Stephen Williams.

"Lost" is broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC's selected HDTV format, with 5.1-channel surround sound and Spanish audio via SAP. A TV parental guideline will be assigned closer to airdate.

This episode of "Lost" will be available on ABC.com the day after airing on the network for users to watch online.

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Lost season 5 finale spoilers!

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JACK WANTS TO SET THINGS RIGHT ON THE ISLAND BUT IS MET WITH STRONG RESISTANCE BY THOSE CLOSE TO HIM, AND LOCKE ASSIGNS BEN A DIFFICULT TASK, ON THE SEASON FINALE OF "LOST"
"The Incident," Parts 1 & 2 - Jack's decision to put a plan in action in order to set things right on the island is met with some strong resistance by those close to him, and Locke assigns Ben a difficult task, on the season finale of "Lost," WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

"Lost" stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond, Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday, Michael Emerson as Ben, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Ken Leung as Miles, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet and Terry O'Quinn as Locke.

Guest starring are L. Scott Caldwell as Rose, Sam Anderson as Bernard, John Terry as Christian Shephard, Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus, Francois Chau as Dr. Pierre Chang, Patrick Fischler as Phil, Eric Lange as Radzinsky, Zuleikha Robinson as Ilana, Brad William Henke as Bram, Jon Gries as Roger Linus, Alice Evans as younger Eloise Hawking, Andrea Gabriel as Noor "Nadia" Abed Jaseem, Kevin Chapman as Mitch, Mark Pellegrino as man #1, Titus Welliver as man #2, Emily Rae Argenti as young Kate, Tanner Maguire as young Tom, George Gerdes as Mr. Springer, Agnes Kwak as Aunt Soo, Amy Stewart as mother, Rylee Fansler as young Juliet, Savannah Lathem as young Rachel, William Makozak as Captain Bird, Daniel James Kunkel as anesthesiologist, Sonya Masinovsky as Russian nurse, Keegan Boos as young Sawyer, Colby French as Uncle Doug, John Pete as prison clerk, Michael Trisler as father, Sally Davis as woman and Adam Bazzi as cab driver.

"The Incident," Parts 1 & 2 were written by Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse and directed by Jack Bender.

Lost to "Flash Forward"

Commercial breaks in next week's episode of "Lost" will promote an upcoming sci-fi series called "Fast Forward," according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The mystery spots will in fact be for "Flash Forward." They are said to be part of an elaborate marketing campaign for the drama, which has not officially been picked up but is quietly being positioned on ABC's schedule for next season.

From the moment in September when the "Flash" spec script by filmmaker David S. Goyer and "Star Trek" veteran Brannon Braga landed at ABC with a series commitment, the project has been considered a perfect companion for "Lost."

Based on Robert J. Sawyer's sci-fi novel, "Flash," starring Joseph Fiennes, chronicles the aftermath of a global event in which everyone in the world blacks out for 2 minutes, 17 seconds and has a mysterious vision of the future.

Lost season 5 episode guide: episode 5.13 "Some Like it Hoth"

Summary:

We learn about Miles' ability to "talk with dead people" with glimpses of his childhood and pre-island visit life. And it's confirmed that he is, indeed, the son of the many-named Dr. Pierre Chang. In fact Miles is present on the island as both a baby and his current (or whatever)adult self!

Also, in a flashback, we see how Miles was recruited by Naomi Dorit to go to the island as part of the "Fantastic Four" team with Charlotte, Faraday and Frank. And we see how he's suddenly abducted by a van-load of mysterious folks who know all about his past and powers and urge him not to go to the island as part of this Widmore-sanctioned team as he'll be "on the wrong side" if he does so.



We also see that Dr. Chang, Horace and Radzinsky are part of a "Circle of Trust" involved in secretive work revolving around the construction of the Hatch. Sawyer is evidently part of the circle, as well. Miles is brought into the group, too, when he's ordered by Horace to bring the body of a dead Dharma-ite to Chang so it can be examined and/or secretly disposed of. Initially, it looks like the dead man was killed by a gunshot to the head. But Miles, using his powers, has determined that the man was killed when one of his teeth, containing a metal filling, shot out the top of his head.

Meanwhile, security guy Phil has caught onto Sawyer and Kate's roles in young Ben's disappearance from the Dharma hospital. Sawyer knocks Phil out when confronted, but it's not clear what he intends to do from there. Kill him? Leave him to the Others?

Ben's dad, Roger, is also suspicious of Kate, as she showed so much interest in Ben after the boy was shot.



At episode's end, Dr. Chang dispatches Miles to the docks to meet some "researchers from Ann Arbor" who have arrived on the sub. Who pops his head out of sub when Miles shows up? None other than the not-seen-in-a-while Daniel Faraday, who says "Hey Miles, long time no see."



Questions/observations/speculation:

* How can can Miles exist as two people in the same time frame?!!!

* What led to Miles' mother and himself, as a child, leaving the island?

* The van people who abduct Miles ask him if he knows "what lies in the shadow of the statue." This is the same riddle/password Ilana asked of Frank in the last episode. Are these folks Others, working for Ben? Or are they part of some other faction we don't yet know about?

* The man in the van who speaks to Miles is the same guy who's with Ilana on Hydra Island in last week's episode.



* What is the "circle of trust"? Are they a rogue element of the Dharma Initiative? Or is the overall Initiative just a cover for them? Are they secretly part of the Others?

* How much does Sawyer know about the circle of trust? What has he done for them so far?

* Where has Daniel been and under what guise is he returning to the island?

* What is Sawyer going to do with Phil? How will he explain what happened to Ben?

* We learn via the recruitment scene with Miles and Naomi that Widmore evidently is behind the faked Oceanic crash evidence.

* Miles and Charlotte were both on the island as children. It's unclear whether Faraday had been on the island before going there as part of Widmore's team or not. But he is the son of Eloise Hawking, who was on the island in the 1950s. Were these three recruited because Widmore needed them to "go back" to the island for some reason? What about Frank Lapidus, does he have a prior history on the island as well?

* Hurley witnesses "the numbers" being stamped onto the cover the hatch? We still don't know the significance of these ditches or why they pop up all the time.



* Dr. Chang is seen reading baby Miles a book about polar bears.



Also see:

See preview for next week's episode: "The Variable."

Read spoilers for "The Variable."

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"

Lost season 5 ep. 5.14 preview "The Variable" April 29

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Lost season 5: Spoilers ep. 5.14 "The Variable" April 29, 2009

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THE TIME OF RECKONING BEGINS AS DANIEL FARADAY COMES
CLEAN REGARDING WHAT HE KNOWS ABOUT THE ISLAND,
ON ABC'S "LOST"

This Installment Marks the 100th-Episode Milestone for the Series

"The Variable" - On the 100th episode milestone for the series, the time of reckoning has begun when Daniel Faraday comes clean regarding what he knows about the island, on "Lost," WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

"Lost" stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond, Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday, Michael Emerson as Ben, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Ken Leung as Miles, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet and Terry O'Quinn as Locke.

Guest starring are Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Sonya Walger as Penelope "Penny" Widmore, Alan Dale as Charles Widmore, Francois Chau as Dr. Pierre Chang, Fionnula Flanagan as Eloise Hawking, Patrick Fischler as Phil, Eric Lange as Radzinsky, Sarah Farooqui as Theresa, Alice Evans as younger Eloise Hawking, Wendy Pearson as E.R. doctor, Todd Coolidge as paramedic, Peggy Anne Siegmund as caretaker, Jennifer Sojot as E.R. nurse, Spencer Allyn as young Daniel Faraday, Michael Dempsey as foreman, Maya Henssens as young girl, Ariston Green as workman, Marvin DeFreitas as young Charlie and Brad Berryhill as anxious guy.

"The Variable" was written by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz and directed by Paul Edwards.

"Lost" is broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC's selected HDTV format, with 5.1-channel surround sound and Spanish audio via SAP. This program carries a TV-14,V parental guideline.

This episode of "Lost" will be available on ABC.com the day after airing on the network for users to watch online.

Lost season 5: Spoilers ep. 5.13 "Some Like it Hoth" April 14, 2009

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BEN IS TAKEN FROM THE INFIRMARY -- WHICH RAISES SUSPICIONS
ABOUT A POSSIBLE SECURITY BREACH, AND MILES IS FORCED TO WORK
WITH HURLEY TO DELIVERING AN IMPORTANT PACKAGE TO A TOP
DHARMA OFFICIAL, ON ABC'S "LOST"
"Some Like It Hoth" - Suspicions about a possible breach intensify after Ben is taken from the infirmary, and a reluctant Miles is forced to work with Hurley when he's asked to deliver an important package to a top Dharma official, on "Lost," WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

"Lost" stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond, Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday, Michael Emerson as Ben, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Ken Leung as Miles, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet and Terry O'Quinn as Locke.

Guest starring are Francois Chau as Dr. Pierre Chang, Marsha Thomason as Naomi Dorrit, Doug Hutchison as Horace Goodspeed, Patrick Fischler as Phil, Jon Gries as Roger Linus, Eric Lange as Radzinsky, Leslie Ishii as Lara, Brad William Henke as Bram, Dean Norris as Howard Gray, Tim DeZarn as Trevor, Lance Ho as young Miles and Linda Rose Herman as Evelyn.
"Some Like It Hoth" was written by Melinda Hsu Taylor & Greggory Nations and directed by Jack Bender.

"Lost" is broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC's selected HDTV format, with 5.1-channel surround sound and Spanish audio via SAP. A TV parental guideline will be assigned closer to airdate.

This episode of "Lost" will be available on ABC.com the day after airing on the network for users to watch online.

Lost season 5 episode guide: episode 5.12 "Dead is Dead"

Summary:

Why did Ben return to the island when he wasn't supposed to? To face judgment, he tells Locke. Ben is haunted by his actions, which led to the death at Alex.

In a series of flashbacks, we see how he came to become Alex's father and learn more about his conflicts with Charles Widmore.

Widmore, as leader of the Others, it seems ordered Ben to kill Danielle, Alex's mother, because she is an interloper on the island. Ben and a young Ethan go to do the job, but aren't aware Danielle has a baby. Instead of killing Danielle, Ben takes the baby (Alex) and tells Danielle to stay away from the Others.

Back at the Others' camp, Widmore isn't happy about this. But Ben questions whether the island would "want" the Others' to kill an infant.



In later flashbacks, we see that Ben has supplanted Widmore as the Others' leader. Widmore--who evidently broke "rules" by repeatedly leaving the island and having a daughter with a woman who is an outsider--is banished from the island, taken away on the Dharma submarine.



In another flashback, we also see that Ben had tracked down Desmond and Penny before the Ajira flight and had intended to kill Penny to get back at Widmore, who's soldiers killed Alex. Desmond, however, prevents this from happening, beating the heck out of Ben and throwing him in to the ocean. This explains Ben's beat-up appearance on the flight.



Back in the present (or whatever) Locke and Ben decide they must leave the Ajira crash survivors and go to the main island. Caesar, who has assumed leadership of the group tries to stop them, but is shot dead by Ben, who has stolen a sawed-off shotgun earlier brandished by Caesar.

On the main island, Lock and Ben meet up with Sun and Frank in the otherwise abandoned Dharmaville. Sun and Frank inform them that Jack, Kate, Hurley and the rest are back in the 1970s. The ghostly Christian Shepherd told them that Locke could reunite them all. Somehow. Locke seems confident he can do so and briefly disappears into the jungle, most likely to consult with Jacob/Christian.



Frank, on the other hand, decides things are getting a bit weird, what with Locke previously having been dead and all, and goes back to rejoin the Ajira folks.

Meanwhile, Ben goes to work summoning the smoke monster, who evidently is to judge him. When the monster fails to show up, Locke brings Ben to the Others' "temple," the same spot a young Ben was saved from his gunshot wound. Ben falls into a lower level of the temple and becomes separated from Locke.

Ben then encounters the smoke monster. He sees images of his past actions and what happened to Alex as a result. Then a seemingly very alive and real Alex appears. She tells him that he must follow Locke now, he mustn't try to supplant Locke's authority. Ben seems pretty rattled and agrees to do this. When he meets up again with Locke he says the island decided to "let me live."



Back on the smaller island, we see Frank meet up with Ilana. She and another passenger, a man, have guns. Ilana asks Frank "what is in the shadow of the statue," but Frank is baffled by the question. The man with Ilana then knocks Frank out and takes him prisoner.



Questions/observations/speculation:

* What is in the shadow of the statue? Is Ilana referring to the huge four-toed Egyptian-style statue? This is a password, but for who? Widmore's people? The Others? Who is Ilana working for?

* Will Ben really follow Locke?

* If Widmore broke the rules by leaving the island repeatedly, what about Ben? We've seen that he had fake passports, etc., indicating that he did the same thing while leading the Others.

* Who is Penny's mother?

* How did Widmore come to be leader of the Others?

* What is the history of the temple? Who built it? Who is it to?

* There are Egyptian-style hieroglyphics in the temple, although the temple itself seems pretty Mayan. Are the Others part of some lost civilization? Richard, with his eyeliner look and seeming immortality may be an ancient Egyptian ruler or priest or something.




* There's a "Risk" gameboard set up in Ben's old Dharma pad. In last season's episode, "The Shape of Things to Come," Locke, Hurley, and Sawyer were seen playing the game in this same spot--before Widmore's mercenaries showed up. It's as if Dharmaville has been vacant since that time--nothing's happened there since and nobody, except for maybe ghostly Christian Shepherd has been there since.



* In a flashback, Widmore is angry at Richard Alpert for having saved Ben, but Richard says Jacob "wanted" Ben to be saved. Is this true? Why?

* How will Locke bring Sun back to the 70s? Can he bring Ben, since Ben already exists on the island in that time period?

* Ben tells Sun that "dead is dead." But Locke seems pretty lively. Was he resurrected, or is he a ghost?

Also see:

See a preview for next week's episode: "Some Like it Hoth."

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"

Lost season 5 ep. 5. 12: Some Like it Hoth preview

Lost season 5 episode guide: episode 5.11 "Whatever Happened Happened"

Apologies for the delay but I was gone last week!

Summary:

Dharmaville scrambles to save the life of young Ben Linus, who's been shot by an on-the-lam Sayid.

Things look pretty bad for Ben. Juliette can't save him and Jack refuses to help. Kate can't sit back, though. This is Ben, but it's also a boy. Sawyer feels the same way.



When Juliette indicates that perhaps the Others can somehow save Ben, Kate jumps at the chance, hopping in a Dharma van and into enemy territory. Sawyer follows and leads Kate in the jungle, where they are quickly surrounded by menacing Others. Sawyer demands to see Richard Alpert, who--after some though--agrees to save Ben. Doing so, however, will change Ben forever, he tells Sawyer and Kate. Ben will no longer be innocent. He will be, in effect, an Other.



We then see Richard disappear with Ben inside what looks like an ancient temple.

In flashbacks, we see how Kate decided Aaron would be safer out of her life. She brings him to Claire's mother, explaining the Oceanic 6 coverup and, to a degree anyhow, what's happened to Claire and the island.



At episode's end we flash forward(?) to the smaller island, where Ben awakens from the oar-to-the-head he received from Sun. He opens his eyes to see Locke, who says "Welcome to the land of the living."

Questions/observations/speculation:

* How did/will Richard save Ben, and how/why is Ben changed as a result?

* What is the nature of the temple?



* Richard's fellow Others warn him that Ellie and Charles will be angry if he helps Ben. Alpert responds that he doesn't answer to either of these people. But are Charles and Ellie in charge of the Others at this point?

* Richard tells Kate and Sawyer that Ben won't remember what happened. This explains why Ben seemingly doesn't remember any of the Oceanic 6 members. But why not?

* Kate seems pretty convinced that Claire is alive and she wants to reunite her with Aaron? But is this true? At the end of last season, Claire seemed pretty ghostly.



Also see:

See a preview for next week's episode: "Dead is Dead."

Read spoilers about "Dead is Dead."

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"

Lost season 5 special : The Story of the Oceanic 6 April 22

Here's info from ABC on this upcoming clipfest:

WHAT TRANSPIRED FOR BOTH THE OCEANIC 6 AND THE REMAINING ISLAND SURVIVORS DURING THE THREE YEARS AFTER THE ISLAND WAS MOVED WILL BE EXPLORED, IN THE NEW SPECIAL, "LOST: THE STORY OF THE OCEANIC 6," WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 ON ABC

ABC once again invites new and avid "Lost" viewers to take another look at one of the most talked about and critically acclaimed shows. "Lost: The Story of the Oceanic 6" will explore the series in a way that will bring new viewers up to date -- but which current viewers will also find illuminating - in discovering what happened to the Oceanic 6 and the remaining island survivors during the three years after Ben moved the island. The special airs WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Sun and Claire's son Aaron - otherwise known as the Oceanic 6 - were rescued and tried to pick up the pieces of the lives they knew before the crash and to perpetuate the lie concocted to hide the truth about what really happened. But Jack and Ben had to convince all of them to return to the island in order to save those left behind. Although they eventually did go back - sans Aaron -- what could possibly have been the motivating factors for each, and exactly how - and when -- did they return? As for those left behind on the island, violent shifts through time were wreaking havoc on their lives. Discover how Locke's leaving the island under the guise of Jeremy Bentham may have helped end the time rifts, and what led to his eventual death in the outside world.