Lost Season 5 Episode 12 was the story of Ben (a lot of Bens). It all led up to him being judged for his daughter’s death and being told by “the monster” to do whatever John Locke tells him to do.
Now it’s Miles’ turn, starting off when he was a little boy. He could already see dead people.
Sawyer wants Miles to accidentally erase security tapes from the feeds that are watching him and Kate. If anyone asks, he’s looking for an escaped hostile, his pal Sayid.
Since Lafleur’s off the grid, Miles will have to be brought into the circle. Horace instructs him to go to hostile territory and exchange something with Radzinsky, without asking questions. When he arrives, he sees a body. The guy has a bullet hole in his head. He fell into a ditch. Once alone with the dead guy, he can ask him what really happened.
Miles goes to see his mom on her deathbed. Why is he that way? What about his father? He’s dead. His body is somewhere he could never go.
Miles will be bringing the package (aka the corpse) out to Dr. Chang at the Orchid. Hurley wants to go for a ride.
Roger arrives to find that his son Ben has disappeared.
On the ride over, Hurley smells something not quite right. Yeah, it’s probably the dead guy in the back of the van. Miles tells the story of Alvarez, who had a filling yanked out of his mouth and right through his head. Then he was dead. Naturally, Hurley assumes this must mean that Miles can talk to dead people.
Naomi meets Miles while he’s on a gig. Her employer is interested in retaining his services.
Miles has managed to locate his father after all. It’s Dr. Chang.
Naomi knows that, for the right price, this is exactly his thing. The dead body leads him to find out about empty graves and a purchase order for an old airplane. She’ll be heading to an island, and she wants Miles to go with her. He’ll pass… until he finds out the fee is $1.6 million.
Roger’s beginning to think Kate has something to do with all this, since she said that his son is going to be okay.
Dr. Chang can’t tell anybody what he does there. Not even his wife or his son, who’s only three months old and happens to also be named Miles.
They go somewhere, and Hurley knows what’s going on. They’re building the hatch. The one that crashed the plane.
Back on the mainland, Bram pays Miles a visit and wants to talk him out of working for Charles Widmore. He’ll not go. If they pay him. They won’t be paying him, though, and they won’t give him a new fish taco either.
Hurley says that perhaps now is an opportunity for Miles to get to know his father. Miles doesn’t want to hang out with his dad. And stuff. As for Hurley, he’s writing Empire Strikes Back. He’ll be sending it to George Lucas.
For all their trying to cover their tracks, it seems Sawyer was seen taking the kid anyway. Looks like now they’ll need to be holding a hostage.
Hurley says that, if Miles doesn’t just communicate with his father, he’ll end up like Luke Skywalker, destroying a deathstar and being overrun by ewoks.
Miles sees that his dad did, indeed, spend some time with him. At least he tried when he was three months old anyway.
Then he and his dad head to the docks, reuniting him with Faraday.
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