It was Kate’s turn to flash forward in Lost Season 5 Episode 11, and we found out she gave Aaron to his grandmother. Meanwhile, in the present day, she and Sawyer were handing little Ben over to the others in an effort to save his life.
Richard has saved Ben’s life as promised (saw that one coming). When he wakes up, he wants to stay, which is fine since they wanted to keep him there anyway. It’s then that he meets Charles Widmore.
Big Ben wakes up to see John Locke. Ben had been trying to return to the island to be judged by the monster.
Ben feels like someone hit him with an oar, but he’ll live. He tells one of the other survivors, Cesar, he doesn’t really remember John from the plane. It doesn’t appear he killed him either because he’s like alive and stuff.
Less little Ben has met Rousseau, and he grabs Alex as a baby, warning Danielle not to come looking for the child.
This timeline is even more wonky than normal. Locke is now confronting Ben about killing him. It was the only way to get him back to the island. He stopped him from killing himself to get the information from him, then from there, once he had the information, he killed him. The plan worked. It got everybody back to the island. Locke’s decided to help Ben do what he said he was on his way to do: be judged. If he’s really been acting in the best interest of the island, the monster should understand.
Back on the island, Locke’s trying to take a boat over to the main island. Cesar believes he’s the boss of them, and he doesn’t want him to take a boat. Locke is not intimidated, and Ben’s got Cesar’s gun, which he uses to make his point that they’re the ones in charge. Anybody else got a problem with them taking a boat? Shooting Cesar counts as his apology to John for that whole killing him to death thing.
They’re going to his old house. That’s the only place he can summon the monster. He’ll either be forgiven… or he won’t. John believes that Ben actually wants to be judged for killing his daughter.
Speaking of daughters, he’s brought his new baby to Charles Widmore, informing him he took the baby instead of exterminating Rousseau. Charles wants him to kill the kid, too. If he wants her dead, he’ll have to do it himself.
When John and Ben arrive at his house, he sees a light go on in Alex’s room. It’s Sun and Lapidus. They’ve found out that their friends were in the Dharma Initiative. They got the photo from some crazy old man named Christian, who told them they had to go in the house and wait for John Locke. Despite the fact that he’s dead, they might want to look outside and see him standing there.
Lapidus is not comforted by the fact that everybody else is 30 years ago, and their only hope rests with a dead guy and the guy who killed him. Locke says he’s got some ideas how to find Jin, which obviously is the option Sun will take. Lapidus, however, will be heading back to the plane and doing his own thing.
Before they find Jin, though, Ben has something to do first. Call forth the monster.
Alex has growed up a bit and is a toddler. Ben has come to gloat to Widmore, who is being escorted off the island. Widmore leaves with a warning. The island wants Alex dead, and they haven’t seen the last of each other.
Ben’s seen the island heal the sick before, but he’s never seen it bring anyone back from the dead.
John is tired of waiting for the monster, and unlike Ben, he knows how to find it.
Ben places a call to Charles to tell him he’s going back to the island. He just has to kill Charles’ daughter first.
John brings Sun and Ben to the temple. They’re going under it. Before Ben climbs in the ground, he asks Sun to tell Desmond he’s sorry if she ever gets off the island. He’ll know for what.
Flashback to the day he made the call. When he arrives to shoot Penny, he shoots Desmond instead. When Ben sees their son, it makes him pause, and then Desmond gets back up and attacks him.
Lapidus gets back to the plane, where he’s told that Elana and some others believe they’re in charge, and they’ve got the guns to prove it. She wants to know what lies in the shadow of the statue. After they tie him up, he’ll be going with them, wherever they’re going.
Ben acknowledges that Alex’s death was his fault, and now he has to answer for that. He will take it from here. If he lives, he’ll meet John outside. When he falls through the floor, he sees some carvings on the ground, then his torch goes out and the monster appears. Then he flashes back to Alex’s life and death. When the flash is done, Alex is standing behind him. She’s got a warning for him. If he kills John Locke (again) or doesn’t listen to his every order, he will be hunted down.
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