Episode Report Card LTG: B | 371 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT There's No Place Like Home, Part 1
By LTG | Season 4 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2008.05.15
So this week is lots of set-up and not much payoff. First, let's deal with the flash-forward. We see the Oceanic Six land in Hawaii on a Coast Guard plane, where they are questioned by the press. They're already passing Aaron off as Kate's baby. Jack, Sun, and Hurley are all reunited with their families, and Nadia shows up for Sayid. Hurley's parents throw him a surprise party, but he freaks out when he comes face-to-face with the numbers. And then after the funeral for Jack's dad, Claire's mother introduces herself to Jack and tells him that Claire was his sister. Awkward.
In the present, Daniel uses the satellite phone to listen in on Keamy's communications -- they hear that the mercenaries are headed to the Orchid. Juliet claims not to know what that is, but Daniel thinks it's pretty bad news. Jack and Kate take the satellite phone and head off after the chopper. On the way, they run into Miles and Sawyer (and Aaron). Kate takes Miles and Aaron back to the beach, while Jack and Sawyer continue on the way to the chopper. When they get there, they find Frank, handcuffed to the chopper. He tells them that if they free him, he'll fly them the hell off the island before Keamy and his boys capture Ben and kill whoever is with him. Except that Sawyer knows that Hurley is with Ben, so he and Jack decide to head out and save him.
Sayid arrives on the beach to start ferrying people to the freighter. But then Kate gets there and tells him about Jack and Sawyer going after the chopper, so Sayid and Kate decide to take off into the jungle to find them. That leaves Daniel to ferry people (including Sun and Jin) back to the freighter. Things are a little tense when Jin is reunited with Michael. The engines are working again, but there's some kind of radio transmission coming from the boat that's interfering with navigation. So Desmond sets out to find it.
Meanwhile, Ben, Locke, and Hurley head to the Orchid, which is where they need to be in order to move the island. But they arrive too late -- the soldiers are already there. And just to wrap everything up we see the following: Kate and Sayid are captured by Richard Alpert and the Others; Jack and Sawyer trudge through the jungle to find Hurley; Desmond and Sawyer discover that a cabin on the ship is packed with explosives ready to go off; and Ben surrenders in order to distract the soldiers so Locke can get into the Orchid.