Lost Season 5 Episode 10 was the story about Sayid, starting with him killing a chicken as a boy and ending with him killing little Ben.
Jin’s recovering after being attacked, and he sees Ben lying on the ground. Not so dead after all, but he needs help.
Horace feels that somebody helped Sayid, and it must have been an inside job.
Roger Linus introduces himself to Kate, whose turn it is tonight to be the flashback character.
Not going back very far, though. She’s with Aaron, and she shows up at Cassidy’s house just after returning from being rescued. Sawyer sent her. He asked her to go give her an envelope full of money to take care of his daughter Clementine. She’s apparently not happy to be receiving a bunch of money, and all she has for Kate is sympathy because he ditched her the same way.
Horace goes to Sayid’s cell and finds janitor’s keys. They belong to either Roger, Willie, or Jack.
Juliet’s operating on Ben. He needs a surgeon. Speaking of surgeons, Jack is free to leave whenever he wants. He’ll just be shot in the leg. Kate and Hurley are also being held hostage. As for Hurley, he fears that little Ben’s death means that he’ll never get back to the island because there would be no big Ben (no relation to the clock), and, therefore, they don’t exist. He’s checking out his hand to see if it starts to disappear like Michael J. Fox’s. Miles says that what happened happened, so Ben won’t die, and they all still exist.
Sawyer asks Jack for his help. Jack refuses. If he dies, he dies. Jack already saved Benjamin Linus. He doesn’t need to do it again. Kate doesn’t like the new Jack, but he responds that she didn’t like the old him either.
Roger knows what happened. Lafleur asked him about the keys, and he doesn’t ask any questions he doesn’t know the answer to. Ben must have stolen his keys.
Hurley’s still trying to figure out what’s happening. All this already happened. And it’s happening right now, too. Miles’ explanation isn’t helping him any. It isn’t helping me any either. To prove a point, Miles asks Hurley to shoot him, but Hurley wants to just keep confusing himself instead. Why wouldn’t Ben remember getting shot by Sayid as a kid?
Having run out of options, Juliet has an idea. Maybe there’s something they can do: the others.
Kate insists on handling the voyage to the others herself. Juliet will rat her out but will buy her as much time as possible.
Back to Kate calling Jack and the others insane for wanting to go back to the island. When she’s in the store shopping with Aaron, he disappears when she gets a phone call, but the scare is short lived when she sees him walking with some woman, who says she was going to make an announcement.
Ben wants Kate to tell his dad he’s sorry he stole his keys. Then Sawyer approaches. He’s not there to stop her, though. He’s there to help.
Kate goes back to Cassidy to tell her everyone else is going back to the island. As scared as she was having lost Aaron in the store, all she could think was it’s about time. She’s been expecting him to be taken.
Juliet told Sawyer it’s wrong to let a kid die, and with that in mind, he’s helping Kate get Ben to the others.
Jack tells Juliet he came back because he was supposed to. He’s just not sure why.
Sawyer asks about his daughter, which leads to Cassidy’s theory about why Sawyer jumped off the chopper. He didn’t think he was any more fit to be her boyfriend than he is to be that girl’s father. Seems to be doing alright with Juliet, though.
Some people with guns stop Sawyer and Kate. They’re violating the truce, but they don’t really care. The gun toters will take them to Richard Alpert now.
Kate pays a visit to Claire’s mom. Aaron’s her grandson, and Claire’s alive. She didn’t tell the truth because she needed him, but she has now told Aaron she will be leaving him with his grandmother when she returns to the island.
Richard knows who Ben is, and he can save his life. However, if he takes him, he’s never going to be the same again, his innocence will be gone, and he’ll always be one of the others.
Ben awakens to see John Locke. Welcome back to the land of the living.
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