Lost | Season Five | Summary

Lost, Season Five

On the Island (Time Flashes)
Locke is confronted by Ethan. (“Because You Left”) After Ben turns the frozen wheel, a bright light envelopes the island and it begins to move erratically through time and space obliviously to those moving with it. The Oceanic Flight 815 survivors that are left on the island with the freighter’s science team discover their camp is gone. Locke is stranded alone in the jungle while Richard and the Others disappear before his eyes. Daniel Faraday leads Sawyer, Juliet, Charlotte & Miles towards the Swan so they can figure out what time-zone they’re in. On the way, Daniel explains the intricacies of time travel and introduces his theory of “Whatever Happened, Happened”. Elsewhere on the island, Locke sees the beechcraft crash and encounters a hostile Ethan who shoots him in the leg. The survivors experience their first time flash all over the island. Locke sits wounded and encounters Richard, who removes the bullet, gives him a compass and tells him to bring back the the ones who left. To do that, he has to die. Locke has another time flash and Richard disappears.

Daniel , Miles and Charlotte are taken captive by the Hostiles in 1954. (“Jughead”) Daniel soon realizes the flashes are having negative effects upon Charlotte, who suffers from a nosebleed. In a desperate plea for help, he contacts Desmond and tells him to find his mother in Oxford when he leaves the island in three years time. When the castaways return to the beach, they are attacked by flaming arrows. They frantically escape into the jungle however over ten survivors are killed. Locke soon re-unites with Sawyer & Juliet who discover the Others attacked them, sometime in the distant past. They arrive at their camp where they have Daniel, Charlotte & Miles as prisoners. The Hostiles believe them to be American soldiers who have come to retrieve their bomb, which Daniel orders to be buried under concrete to shield its radiation. A time flash moves the castaways onwards where they re-unite in an empty field, but not before Locke discovers that one of the Hostiles happens to be Charles Widmore, the man who sent the freighter to find the Island in the first place. Charlotte faints momentarily, and becomes increasingly ill. … Continue Reading

Lost | Season Four | Summary

Lost, Season Four

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After Jack calls the freighter, the wait begins for rescue. Naomi is clinging to life but eventually dies in front of Kate, who tells her that Locke is the man who threw a knife into her back. Just before she dies, she alerts the freighter in code that she was experiencing trouble. The survivors split into two factions, Jack’s group head to the beach to get rescued, while Locke and his followers head inland to the Barracks to hide from the freighters, heeding Charlie’s warning and Ben’s accusation that they’re here to kill everyone on the island.

Daniel tries to calm down a hostile Miles. (“Confirmed Dead”) Soon, a helicopter is seen flying overhead and a man parachutes from it, introducing himself as Daniel Faraday to Jack and Kate. Daniel is nervous, edgy and unclear, however he mentions that rescuing the survivors isn’t their primary objective. The team also includes Miles, a ghost whisperer, Charlotte, an anthropologist, and Frank, who was supposed to be the pilot of Oceanic Flight 815 on the day that it crashed but was replaced for unknown reasons. After continued pressure, Miles admits that the real reason they’re on the island is because they want to find Ben. It’s later revealed that they were hired by Charles Widmore to find the island. Throughout the season, the survivors don’t seem to know whether they’re there to rescue or kill them, but it seems the science team were innocent. … Continue Reading

Lost | Season Three | Summary

Lost, Season Three

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After the events at the Pala Ferry, Season 3 picks up with Jack, Kate and Sawyer being held prisoner by The Others on another Island. The Others as a group are revealed to be less omnipotent as first thought, wearing normal clothes and having many resources on the island, including electricity, running water and a large supply of food and weapons. Jack is held in an aquarium where he meets Juliet, a fellow Other. Sawyer, in a cage, meets Karl in the cage opposite, but he’s moved elsewhere and Kate is replaced. The two of them are forced to do hard labor with the rest of The Others. Ben promises Jack safe passage off the island if he complies to do what they need him to do.

Sayid, Sun and Jin begin to worry when Jack and his group aren’t contacting them, so Sayid sets a trap. However, The Others board the Elizabeth using the submarine and steal it on Ben’s orders, but not without a casualty. Sun fatally wounds Colleen, who is shipped back. Jack is forced to operate on her, but is unable to save her, to the distress of her husband. Pickett beats Sawyer, and Kate confesses that she loves him.

After the Hatch implodes, Desmond is sent back into 1996 with Penny in London. Dismissing the recent events as a broken memory, he continues on with his life, failing to secure a job at Widmore Industries and earn Charles Widmore’s respect. Desmond sees Charlie on the street, and his memories of the future return, causing him to seek help, to no avail; he instead comes across Ms. Hawking, who seems to have knowledge of future events and tells him about the universe’s way of “course-correcting”. Desmond breaks up with Penny, realizing there’s no way to run away from his destiny to crash on the island, and suffers a blow to the head which causes him to be sent back to the present (on the island). … Continue Reading

Lost | Season Two | Summary

Lost, Season Two

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After having opened the Hatch at the end of Season 1, it is revealed to be a research station, which has running water and electricity, is well stocked with food, and has a 1970s era computer, which, according to its previous occupant, Desmond, must have the Numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 typed into it every 108 minutes, or “the world will end.” The computer was broken during the first foray into the Swan station, and Desmond flees, expecting impending doom. Sayid, however, was able to fix the computer.

The survivors debate whether or not to trust Desmond’s instructions, but set up shifts to keep watch and enter the numbers, having repaired the computer. They gradually learn through bits of filmstrip that what they had previously referred to as “the Hatch” is actually the “Swan station”, one of several different DHARMA Initiative stations present on the Island. Shannon, while searching for Vincent the night the Hatch is opened, stumbles upon Walt, who, soaking wet and speaking backwards, appears and disappears right before her very eyes. Shannon believes something happened to the rafters, and her suspicions are confirmed when Claire and Shannon find the bottle of messages the rafters took with them to give to the mainland, washed up on the beach. … Continue Reading

Lost | Season One | Summary

Lost, Season One

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On September 22, 2004, a plane breaks apart in mid-air, scattering survivors on a remote island somewhere in the South Pacific. Forty-eight of these survivors, after the initial shock passes, attempt to set up a camp, and figure out where they are, but are disturbed by loud roaring noises and crashing trees emanating from the nearby jungle.

Three of the survivors, Jack, Kate and Charlie, set out to find the cockpit. An injured pilot tells them that the plane had lost radio contact six hours after take off, turned back for Fiji, and hit turbulence. The plane was a thousand miles off course when it crashed. The Monster rips the pilot from the cockpit, consequently killing him, and the remaining three run for the beach.

Jack, a spinal surgeon from Los Angeles, tries to save an injured survivor. However, he discovers a mugshot of Kate, with whom he has begun a close friendship. After initial mistrust and the death of the Marshal, both of them agree to start fresh. … Continue Reading