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Recapped by Cindy McLennan · Aired 2010-05-18

Per Sir Elton John, Sorry seems to be the hardest word, but this week, Lost fans know it's goodbye that knifes you in the chest before you even get the chance to speak. It's sad, so sad -- it's a sad, sad situation, and it's getting more and more absurd. As I re-watched (and re-watched, and re-watched) "What They Died For" I came to realize it's not just Jack who's getting yummier. Our characters grow greasier, grimier, and grimmer by the minute, yet they have never been so beautiful. Yes, I realize if you stuck a tap in my trunk tonight, your pancakes would be swimming in syrup by morning, so I'll get to it. You ready? Okay.

Previously on Lost, Faucke tricks our fair heroes into blowing Widmore's submarine (which they are occupying at the time!) to kingdom come. Sayid dies; Jin and Sun, too. Frank is missing and presumed dead. Our fab four, Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley wash back up on the shores of Craphole, quite worse for the wear. Jack stares out at the ocean until the Jears flow like rain. And now...

Sideways: We open on Jack's right eye. It flutters as he wakes, but here, Jack's eyes aren't quite green or blue, just washed out. His home, his life, his world is neither black nor white. Everything is beige -- like spent grass during the dog days of summer. The most conspicuously absent color is that which saturates every aspect of life in the Islandways: green, so when Jack enters the bathroom to perform his morning ablutions, his mouthwash catches the eye. It's contained by a bottle, and if you take out the cork off the cover, minty freshness will escape and spread throughout the Sideways. Do it, Jack. Do it. He can't.

As soon as the water is on, he's shutting it off again, to take a long hard look at the vision of loveliness staring him in the face: his reflection. It's a standard bathroom mirror, not a 3-way, so fate, coincidence, magic, science, Jacob or God gives Jack a little push. The unexplained neck nick he discovered in the Sideways Oceanic 815 lavatory mirror starts to bleed, again. As Jack dabs at it, he's greeted by his cheerful, well-adjusted blue-eyed boy, David. "I made breakfast."

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Theme Song!

Sawyer stands at the shoreline, watching the tide carry in debris from the Widmore submarine, including lifejackets -- devoid of life. Soon, he's flanked by Hurley and Kate, who lays her head on Sawyer's slopey shoulder. Jack joins them and they continue their moment of silence -- the only memorial our dearly departed will receive tonight. Jack's benediction is a sigh. And then: "We should get going now." Hurley asks Jack, "Go where?" Jack: "Before Sayid died, he said that Desmond was in a well. If Locke wants Desmond dead, then we're going to need him." Sawyer puts on his game face. Jack nods at him and leads the tiny band of true Jacobites to their destiny.

Sideways: Des sits in his car outside Locke's school. Since Locke has returned to work, Des is back to stalking him. Once his prey wheels away from his van, Desmond starts his car, but before he can aim at the poor bastard again, Dr. Ben Linus runs up and bangs on the hood. "Hey, don't you dare!" He looks around and yells to anyone who'll listen: "It's him! The guy who hit Mr. Locke. Someone call the police, right now." Des hops out of the car to confront Ben, who just won't shut his mouth. "I saw what you did. I'm making a citizen's arrest." Yeah, good luck with that, Ben. Desmond punches Ben in the nose and slams him down on the hood of the car, but Ben won't shut up. "I will not let you hurt Mr. Locke, again." Des: "I'm not here to hurt him. I'm here to help him let go." Ben asks: "Who are you?" Desmond: "You want to know who I am?" He winds up and pummels Ben until he gets a vision of the first time a then puffy-haired special snowflake beat him up, at the Long Beach Marina. Once Desmond is satisfied, he tosses Ben to the ground and screeches away. Reportedly, Henry Ian Cusick actually blackened Michael Emerson's eye in this scene. I have to work very hard to separate the lovely and talented Emerson from the weasely Linus, so that I don't cheer at the thought.

Islandways; Jungle: Ben leads Miles (!) and Richard back toward New Otherton. When Miles doesn't recognize the path they're taking, Ben snips that he lived in the barracks for a long time. "I think I can remember how to get there." Miles: "Well, I lived in these houses thirty years before you did -- otherwise known as last week." Heh. Richard interrupts the bickering to inquire as to whether Ben has enough explosives to blow up the plane and whether it's still where he left it. Ben: "It's C4, Richard. I put some thought into hiding it." Miles: "Lemme guess. Cookie jar?" Ben (dryly): "Don't be ridiculous." A beat. "It's in my secret room, behind the bookcase." Okay, in the Sawyer/Miles cop-buddy show, I want Ben to be their regular informant. Y'hear, Hollywood? So mote it be.

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As they enter New Otherton proper, Miles is disturbed by the dead. Ben asks if there's anything he wants to share, but Miles demurs. Finally, right in front of the swing-set where Ben once played with wee Alex, Richard explains: "It's Alex; it's your daughter. After you left, I buried her." Ben walks to Richard's side and looks down at the spot. Did Keamy kill her right there? Finally, Ben mutters: "Thank you, Richard."

Once the trifling triumvirate enters Ben's cabin, he leads them to his actual secret room. While he's pulling back his shirts to get at his safe, Miles spots the old, wooden door. "What's that -- a secreter room?" Ben: "It's where I was told I could summon the monster. That's before I realized that it was the one summoning me." That's what I was trying to say about Original Recipe Locke and the sweat lodge ritual, in whatever recap that was. Ben and Richard confer and decide they need blow-the-plane-to-hell amounts of dynamite, so Ben takes all six bricks of C4. It's then that the guys hear a noise in the kitchen.

It's Zoe! Wait. Zoe doesn't get an exclamation point. It's Zoe. As he and Richard hold her at gunpoint, Ben asks the question we've been screaming all season: "Who the hell are you?" It's then that Charles Widmore (!) enters. "She's with me." We know that, Chuckles; we just don't care. Why couldn't she have been Annie or someone who frigging matters to us in some small way? Even the butcher at the shop where Ben stored Locke's corpse would have sufficed. Instead, she's just a waste of time. Every minute with her is one we could have spent with characters we care about -- who are now getting killed off left and right. Die, Zoe. Die. Die. Die. Tch. No such luck. Commercial.

After the break, Charles pours himself a glass of water from Ben's tap, which seems like a stupid thing to mention -- but it catches my eye each time I watch this scene, so you have to hear about it. Nyah. The unarmed Widmore tells Ben to put down his gun and then orders Zoe to return to the dock and get their equipment from the outrigger and then sink it. Ben, who hasn't dropped the gun, tells Widmore he'd better answer him or else. Widmore: "If you shoot me then your last chance of survival will be gone." He then turns to Zoe and tells her to go ahead. "He won't do anything."

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Once Zoe's gone, Widmore asks Richard why he's there. Richard explains the C4-plane-Kaboom plan. Widmore scoffs at them. "I've had the plane rigged with explosives since I got here. As usual, Benjamin, I'm three steps ahead of you." When Ben doesn't understand how Charles got back to the island after being banished, Charles takes great pleasure in telling him, "Jacob invited me." Ben says that's a lie, but Charles persists. "He visited me, not long after your people destroyed my freighter. He convinced me of the error of my ways; and told me everything I needed to know for this exact purpose." Wait a whoa, Chuckles. Your people -- your person -- Keamy destroyed your freighter. No one else seems to notice that, though. Ben's too curious about Jacob's purpose for inviting Charles. Before Widmore has to answer, Zoe radios to tell him she's spotted Faucke arriving at the dock. Widmore orders her to abort her mission and return to Ben's cabin as fast as she can. Once he's done, he turns to Ben: "If you don't want to die, we need to hide." Dun.

Sideways: The school nurse is on a break from screwing the principal, so she has time to put Ben's arm in a sling and tend to his wounds. When she calls him Mr. Linus, and he says, "It's Doctor Linus, actually," she scowls at him, then retreats to northern Siberia to fetch him an ice pack. I wonder if she knows he hacked into her private email and tried to blackmail her lovah. While she's gone, John Locke wheels his way in and asks Ben what happened. "I guess I got into a fight." Oh Ben, please. You got your ass beat. Anyhow, Ben gives Locke the details: he confronted Locke's attacker and got attacked himself. "And then the strangest thing happened. While he was beating me, I think -- I think I saw something." Locke doesn't catch Ben's drift, so he's already calling the cops, but Ben tells him he might want to reconsider. "The man told me that he wasn't trying to hurt you. He told me he was trying to get you to let go." Of what -- life? I mean, we know what Desmond's up to, but even if I were in Locke's unscuffed shoes, and even if I'd had some visions and a cathartic conversation with a hunka hunka burning spinal surgeon, I'm not sure that would convince me that the maniac who ran me down in front of hundreds of children was doing anything for my benefit, including letting go. This is just one of those things I'll have to accept, but it might have worked better for me if Des had beaten Ben and somehow talked directly to Locke. Anyhow, Ben adds, "And for some reason, I believed him. [...] Do you have any idea what he was talking about, Mr. Locke? Does that mean something to you?" Since, in either reality, Locke has never met a vague explanation he didn't love, it sure as shooting does. He hangs up the phone.

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Over at the police station, we see the Desk Officer hanging up after Locke disconnects. It's then that Desmond approaches and requests to see a detective. We cut to James Ford who asks his partner in crime...fighting, Miles Straume, why he's getting all gussied up. Miles reminds him: "The benefit at my dad's museum. The concert I've been telling you about all week? Ring a bell?" Ford mocks: "Yeah. It's all I've been thinking about." Miles tells him can still be his date and we lose the slashers for the rest of the episode. Have fun, kids! When James finds out Charlotte's going to be there though, he decides to pass. Just then, the officer brings Desmond in to see our cop buddies. Ooh, ooh. Maybe there could be a spin-off that's sort of a Desmond's Angels type thing. Or even better -- Charlotte's Angels. James is Farrah. Miles is Kate Jackson. Desmond is Jaclyn Smith. Locke can be their Bosley. Ben can be their weasely informant. Hey, Jin's remaking Hawaii 5-0, which is mainly memorable for "Book 'em, Dan-o," the theme song, and the opening credits. Just think about it for a minute, Hollywood. M'kay? For those of you who turned in for a recap rather than my flights of fancy, suffice it to say that Desmond confesses to Locke's hit and run, and to assaulting Ben. James thanks him for not wasting the taxpayers' money. Congress asks him to give a lecture to the banking industry. And then they throw him in the pokey, which is exactly where Des wants to be. His cellmate is Sayid Jarrah. Over in the cage Kate Austen lies -- immune to Desmond's charms, because how many boys can she keep track of, y'all?

Jack and Sawyer, both dressed in blue, get ahead of Hurley and Kate. Their talks turn from the location of the well (about an hour from Camp Fauke) to Faucke's motives for dropping Des in a well rather than killing him. Jack: "Who knows? Maybe it's one of his rules." Sawyer's voice is soft, subdued: "The bomb on the sub...you said he couldn't kill us." Jack turns to face his best frenemy. "I've been wrong before." Sawyer: "I killed them, didn't I?" Jack shakes his head and closes in on Sawyer. "No. He killed them." Poor Sawyer. His eyes are downcast. His cocky sneer has been replaced by a boo-boo-kitty face. He's crumbling under the guilt. Jack knows it, but he also knows it's better to not dwell. They move on.

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As he and Kate are bringing up the rear, Hurley spies Adolescent Jacob (Kenton Duty) off in the bush. Kate knows something's wrong, but Hurley tells her he's fine, so she trudges ahead. When Hurley turns, wee Jacob is right up in his face. "Give me the ashes." Hurley: "What? Who are you?" Oh Hugo, who do you think? The ghost-kid-thing has no patience for this, because he's an angry, rude little snot. "Give me the ashes you took from Ilana's things after she died. I know they're in your pocket." Hurley asks why. Jacob: "Because they're mine." Hurley digs them out and asks what he wants them for, but the boy snatches his sack o'self and runs for it. Hurley gives chase -- which...c'mon dude. I don't know if you could catch Original Recipe Locke. You're not catching a teenaged boy. Hey, I'm not being mean. I couldn't catch him, either. It doesn't matter. Jacob's all grown up and Mark Pellegrino-y, now, sitting by the fire (in the middle of day, on a tropical island) waiting to be caught -- or found. Hurley asks if he saw a kid run by with the sack o'Jacob. Jacob: "My ashes are right there in that fire. When it burns out, you'll never see me again." Hurley: ??? Jacob: "You should get your friends. We're very close to the end, Hugo." No kidding, which shortened my deadline, you asshat. Uh. Sorry. My stuff. That being said, I'm going to pick up the pace, because this thing probably won't even end up published until after the finale airs. Oh, well. Maybe my husband will read it. Commercial.

Ben's House: Widmore and Zoe want to hide from Locke. Miles decides to run. Ben's doing neither. And Richard? He still thinks this is about him. "I'm gonna talk to him. I know this man. All he wants is for me to join him, and if I can get him to leave with me, maybe that'll give the rest of you a chance." Oh, honey, no. Miles says, "Good luck with that," and takes off. Richard and Ben go outside. Faucke's in full Smokey form, now. He ticka ticka rattle clank thumps his way to New Otherton, scoops up Richard and flings him into a tree. Out of our whole host of characters, Guyliner L. Manbelline (the "L" is for "Love"), I never thought you'd be too stupid to live. Maybe he's not dead. We don't see the body. Right? Right? He's still gotta be under Jacob's immortality blessing/curse. (Do not ruin my delusions.) Ben's shaky as he makes his way back to the porch. Once he sits, Faucke appears from behind another cabin. Ben offers him a glass of lemonade, which just kills me. Speaking of, Faucke has some people he wants Ben to kill. Ben: "Why would I do that?" Faucke: "Because once I leave this island, you can have it all to yourself." Ben: "All right." He's conning Faucke, right? If he is, he's good at it (which we've known forever) because he quickly gives up Widmore and Zoe's hiding spot in his secret room.

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Sideways: Ben, still in his sling, is leaving school when he drops his keys. Alex Rousseau happens upon him and asks how he got hurt. Ben: "I found myself confronting someone who had a bit of a temper." Alex: "What? Why would someone want to hurt you? You're like -- the nicest guy. Ever!" Ben: "Guess they had me confused with somebody else." Not at all. Anyhow, Alex insists that Ben meet her mother, and come home with them for Coq Au Vin night. He doesn't want to be any trouble. Alex: "Dr. Linus, please. You've got one hand. You look like Napolean." Only 'cause he is, child. Danielle won't take no for an answer, either. "We insist. Even if we have to kidnap you." Hee! By the way, how well does Mira Furlan clean up? Also, on a scale of 1 to Hell, how wrong is it that I'm sort of shipping Rousseau and Sideways Ben? I can't help it, you all everybody. Back at the Rousseau residence, Ben and Danielle get acquainted as they clean up after dinner. He learns that Alex's father died when she was two, because whatever happened happened, and is touched when Danielle explains how attached her daughter has become to the kindly teacher. "All the interest you've taken in her. All the help you've given. You're the closest thing to a father she's ever had." And then, Ben chokes up. Rousseau: "Are you all right?" Ben: "I'm fine. I'm sure it's the onions." The already cooked and eaten onions? Ben, you left all your lying skills in the other reality. Rousseau is a chic French chick, so she's magically gifted with men. "Oh, I'll put in less, time."

Islandways; New Otherton: Ben leads Faucke right to Widmore and "his lady friend," noting "She's armed, but I'm guessing that's not a problem for you." As Faucke approaches the secret room, he tells Ben to wait outside. "You don't need to see this." Alex's pictures are still all around the place. Ben: "I want to see this." Oh, Ben. Inside the secret room, Faucke cracks that it's nice to talk to Chuckles without all those fences between them. He then asks Zoe who she is. She tells him her name, but Charles stifles her before she says anything else, so Faucke slices her throat. HOORAY! Maybe Faucke is good after all. Widmore: "Why would you do that?" Because he's an angel sent from above (via down below), Charles. Faucke: "You told her not to talk to me. That made her pointless." Oh honey, she was pointless long before then.

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Faucke then gets down to the nitty-gritty. He knows Widmore's weakness. It's not his own life; it's Penny's. (In another reality, Penny sings a different tune.) That loosens Charles' tongue. He tells him that he brought Desmond back to the island because of his unique resistance to electromagnetism. "He was a measure of last resort." Faucke wants to know what that means, but Charles won't say any more in front of Ben. Faucke tells Charles to whisper it to him, then. Widmore whispers into his hear, but then Ben fricking shoots him. Charles collapses to the floor. Faucke looks at Ben all AROO? Ben: "He doesn't get to save his daughter." Faucke wipes Zoe's blood off his knife and onto one of Ben's clean, white shirts. "Ben, you never cease to amaze me." He claims Widmore already told him what he needed to know, so there's no harm done. Ben: "Good. Did you say there were some other people to kill?" Now, I'm rushing so I'm not going to go all sidebar here, I'll just note that I'm not convinced Charles is dead. Once upon a time, we were told they couldn't kill one another. Now whether that was a mystical rule that cannot be thwarted or a spoken rule with consequences, I can't say, but I'm not ruling out the mumbo-jumbo. Not on this show. Not now. Also, if Charles really is 3 steps ahead of Ben, the only way he came unarmed is if he was wearing body armor, right? Eh. We'll find out soon enough, I suppose. Having the end this near has really taken the zing out of speculating for me.

Jungle; Night: Hurley leads the rest of the Fab Four to Jacob's magical ashy campfire and is confused (and maybe a little disappointed) when he realizes they too can see Jacob. Kate's got no time for Hurley's ego. Her own is in dire need of a massage. Once Jacob confirms he's the one who wrote their names on the wall, she asks if Sun, Jin and Sayid are dead because of that. Jacob doesn't give her a direct answer, because this is not The Vampire Diaries. He just says he's very sorry. Kate's all sorry ain't gonna cut it, Bub. "I wanna know why. I wanna know that Sun and Jin, and Sayid didn't die for nothing." At that, Jacob invites them to sit by his fire. "I'll tell you what they died for." He waits a beat and hopes that we notice he got to say the penultimate episode title, and then: "I'll tell you why I chose them, and why I chose you. And then I'll tell you everything you need to know about protecting this island, because by the time that fire burns out, one of you is gonna have to start doing it." Everybody, including Jacob, looks at Jack as if to say: Sheesh. I hope to high heaven it's him.

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Sideways; Day; Jack's Office: Locke's ready to rock and roll. The prospect of walking again hasn't swayed him to take the advice of his surgeon. Oh, no. The advice of a Felix Unger-esque history teacher who got beat up by the same man who ran Locke down, but claims to want to teach him how to let go -- that's swayed Locke to have the surgery. And Jack, who was chin-deep in eerie coincidence two weeks ago -- he's the voice of reason. That said, he agrees to do the surgery. "I want to fix you, but I think you're mistaking coincidence for fate." The echoes of a thousand episodes (or 120) roll through my brain. Locke: "You can call it whatever you want, but here I am. And I think I'm ready to get out of this chair." Wooo!

Islandways; Jacob's Ash: Jacob brought the Losties to the island because he made a mistake. You think turning your brother into a smoke monster was a bad move, J? Huh. Anyhow, if they don't do something about it, everybody will die and suck and whatnot. Sawyer's the first to bitch. "Tell me something, Jacob. Why do I gotta be punished for your mistake? What made you think you could mess with my life? I was doin' just fine 'til you dragged my ass to this damn rock." I laugh so hard I have to rewind to hear Jacob's answer. "No, you weren't. None of you were. I didn't pluck any of you out of a happy existence. You were all flawed. I chose you because you were like me. You were all alone. You were all looking for something that you couldn't find out there. I chose you because you needed this place as much as it needed you." Now, I'm seeing people question his wording here. I think it's just clunky. I don't think he means to imply that everyone else isn't flawed. Humans are inherently flawed and Jacob must know that by now. I think he just means they were flawed like he is -- you know? He sees his own flaws reflected, if you will, in them. Whatevs. They needed the island as much as it needs them.

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Kate's still looking for the massage. "Why did you cross my name off your wall?" Jacob explains that he only did that once she became a mother. "It's just a line of a chalk in a cave. The job is yours if you want it, Kate." Her face is ready to run right off her fool head. When Jack asks what the job entails, Jacob whips out his Blackberry and e-mails Human Resources to get a copy of the posting. Ever since Mother died, things have run so inefficiently. Basically, he needs someone to guard the island's hooha light from Faucke. Personally, I think Sawyer's the best man for the job. He's been cock-blocking Jack for years. Jacob explains that they must do what he isn't able to. Jack: "You want us to kill him? Is that even possible?" Jacob: "I hope so, because he is certainly going to try to kill you." Hurley wants to know how they're going to pick, but Jacob says that because he was never given a choice, he's leaving it up to them. If none of them volunteers though, then this ends badly. Jack volunteers, awing Hurley, melting Kate's panties, and giving Sawyer one last reason to look at Jack with a mixture of envy and contempt. Commercial.

By torchlight, Jacob leads Jack down to a stream. Across the way, Sawyer cracks: "And I thought that guy had a God complex before." Kate shushes him: "James." Sawyer: "Yeah. I know." Hurley: "I'm just glad it's not me." He means that a solid 99.9%. Meanwhile, Jacob asks Jack if he remembers the bamboo field in which he woke up, when Oceanic 815 first crashed on the island. How could he forget? Jacob: "Beyond that field, across the ridge, is the heart of the island. That's where the light is. That's where he's trying to go. And that's what you have to protect." Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go. Jack protests that there's nothing out there. Jacob corrects him. "Yes there is, Jack, and now you'll be able to get there." He crouches, plants his torch, and then asks if Jack has a cup. Jack just happens to, even though he must have Faucke's backpack, rather than his own. Jacob then prepares the Eucharist, with water, instead of wine, so he must be LDS. Jack: "How long am I going to have to do this job?" Jacob: "As long as you can." Once the ritual is complete, Jack is visibly enlightened, but his right eye goes completely dark for a moment. It's then that Jacob smiles and approaches him. "Now you're like me." On the other bank, Sawyer, Kate and Hurley watch in silence.

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Sideways: It's time to move Kate, Sayid and Des to the county lock-up. Kate pleads her innocence to -- and otherwise works her wiles on -- Ford, but he resists and tells his detainees, "Vaya con dios." Telling him he doesn't seem like a cop is probably not the way to go, Katie, since in this reality, James has already come to the realization that he was either going to end up a cop or a crook. Some people aren't so choosy, though, and Ana-Lucia is one of them. She's also their paddy-wagon driver. After Desmond elicits promises from Kate and Sayid to do him a favor (they do so laughingly, quite sure our Sexy Scot is batshit insane) he tells them they're making a break for it. They laugh at him, indulgently. And then, to Sayid and Kate's utter surprise, Ana promptly pulls over the truck and releases the detainees down by the waterfront right after Mr. Hugo Reyes, millionaire, pays her off to the tune of $125K. Hugo, of course, recognizes her. "Oh hey, you didn't tell me Ana-Lucia was going to be here." Ana: "Do I know you, tubby?" Shut up, murderess. Hurley asks Des if she's coming with. Des wisely sums it up: "No, she's not ready yet." Thank goodness. She still sets my teeth right on edge. Des sends Sayid with Hurley in the yellow Hummer, and takes Kate with him in the classic red Camaro. She's to be his date to a concert, that night. He's even got a slinky black dress -- for her, you guys. Sheesh. Again, no time for a real sidebar, but this must be the concert at which David Shephard is playing. My question is -- just how wonky is the Sideways timeline? Have things changed so much that it's also Daniel Faraday's classical music/rock melange? And is Daniel Faraday David Shephard's teacher? I hope so. I think so. Now I've just got to fret about whether or not Jack will make it, or if he'll be picking up a moldering Christian at LAX.

Islandways: As Ben follows Faucke through the jungle he asks why he bothers walking, since he can just turn himself to smoke. Faucke: "I like the feeling of my feet on the ground. It reminds me of when I was human" and, no doubt helps you figure out how the pesky humans work and think. When they arrive at Desmond's well, it's empty. Ben: "Looks like someone helped him out." Faucke: "No, Ben. Someone helped me out." Ben asks what Charles told him. Faucke: "He said Desmond was a fail-safe -- Jacob's last resort in case, God forbid, I managed to kill all his beloved candidates -- one final way to make sure that I never leave this place." Ben: "Then why are you happy that he's still alive?" Faucke: "Because I'm going to find Desmond, and when I do, he's going to help me do the one thing I could never do myself. I'm going to destroy the island." Dun. Bad robot!

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I wonder how that will play with Ben. Faucke got him to go along on the promise that once he was gone, Ben would be the Emperor of Ice Cream. It's interesting that we didn't get a reaction shot. Again, speculating at this point is a fool's game and I just can't rev myself up for it. I'm feeling too melancholy tonight. I'm signing off, sending this into editorial, and then sitting down to watch a new episode of Lost for the very last time. I'll just add this one morsel for thought: what if the Losties have to die together and/or what if they have to stop pushing the button (in this case, the button that Jacob and CJ have been pushing for thousands of years). I'll see you in another life, brothahs, or at least in the final recap. Namaste.

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