As those who remained on the island continue to go through their time loop, Ben was working on rounding up those who got off so that he could get them back there in Lost Season 5 Episode 2.
Charlotte has had some dizziness and double vision. So when’s Dan going to tell her what’s wrong? They and Miles arrive to a rigged explosion and a bunch of people with guns.
Although he realizes he sounds insane, Desmond still plans to go to Oxford.
Meanwhile, Juliet, Locke, and Sawyer are being distracted by some people they are holding hostage. Juliet says they know how to speak Latin because they’re others.
As they’re being escorted to the camp, Miles walks over a fresh grave, four US soldiers dead less than a month. The woman leading them calls for Richard, who assumes they’ve come back for their bomb.
Desmond arrives at Oxford to try to find Daniel’s mother. He’s told there is no record of her or her son. He goes snooping on his own, which he probably should have started off doing in the first place. The room is covered in sheets, but he does find a picture of Dan on the floor. He runs into a guy who tells him they’re covering up what happened and don’t want anyone to know about what Daniel was doing there.
Miles thinks they’re all dead, but Dan tells them they just need to keep it together until there’s another flash. In 5 minutes… or 5000 years. Daniel tells Richard that they need to let him render the bomb inert so that everybody doesn’t die. Oh, and by the way, he’s in love with Charlotte.
One of the hostages says that the rest of their people are either captured or dead because “that idiot” (aka Sawyer) shouted out “Meet at the creek,” so they knew exactly where they were headed and sent another group to get them there. Juliet asks in a dead language to bring them to their camp. He agrees, so the other guy kills him and runs away. Locke doesn’t shoot him because he’s one of his people.
Desmond knocks on a door to speak with Theresa Spencer. She’s lying in a bed being looked after because of the experiments Daniel was doing. Her sister Abigail says they wouldn’t be able to afford this if not for Mr. Widmore, the guy who funded the research and is paying the bills.
Richard gave the people who arrived the option to leave peacefully, but they were not interested, so he was forced to kill them all.
Sawyer wants to go save Farraday, but Locke would rather go finish his conversation with Richard.
Dan arrives to attempt to disarm a hydrogen bomb, which he realizes is unsafe. He’s pretty sure the chick holding the gun on him won’t shoot him since rifle fire isn’t the wisest option when near an atomic weapon. He asks for lead or concrete to fill the crack, and he plans to bury the bomb because that will make it safe. The reason he knows this is because 50 years from now the island is still there. After a little time travel story, Sawyer runs in with his gun to get her to drop hers.
Desmond charges into Widmore’s office. He wants to know where he can find Daniel Farraday’s mother. Not surprisingly, Widmore knows exactly where to look. He gives him the address and suggests he and Penny go back to where they were hiding rather than getting deeper involved in this mess.
Locke goes to the camp looking for Richard, saying that Jacob sent him. The guy with the gun at the camp is named Charles Widmore.
Even though he’ll probably keep waking up with memories, Desmond tells Penny that her and his son Charlie are his life now, but she knows he’ll never forget it, so the family will be going with him.
Locke asks Richard how to get off the island. It’s 1954 now, meaning Locke will be born in two years. He suggests that Richard come visit him if he needs proof. Before he can get an answer to his question, the flash happens again.
Shortly after the flash, Charlotte collapses.
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