Lost Season 5 Episode 17

In the first hour of the season finale on Lost Season 5 Episode 16, Ben found out he was going to be the one killing Jacob, Sayid got shot by Richard, and Kate, Sawyer, and Juliet got off the sub and returned to the island to stop Jack.

Richard has led them to a big foot. That’s where Jacob lives.

Jack agrees to give Sawyer 5 minutes to talk.

Now it’s Jack’s turn to meet Jacob. It was after his first major operation, when as usual he was having difficulty with his father.

Sawyer tells Jack the story about how his parents died. It was a year ago. With that in mind, he could have prevented it, but he didn’t because what’s done is done. So what does Jack want? He had her, and he lost her. He’s okay with the fact that, if what he does works, he and Kate will be strangers, and she’ll be in handcuffs. That said, it’s time for a bloody battle between Sawyer and Jack. Juliet has to intervene, telling Sawyer that Jack is right. She’s changed her mind and no longer wants to stop him.

Following her flashback as a child receiving news of her parents getting a divorce, Juliet says she changed her mind when she saw him look at Kate. Maybe they were never supposed to be together, even if they love each other. If she never meets him, she never has to lose him.

Jack asks about Aaron, even though Kate told him to never do so. She came back so that he could be with his mom. Perhaps she wouldn’t have actually given him up for adoption.

Hurley’s first meeting with Jacob was when he was being released from jail, despite confessing that he killed a bunch of people. Jacob tells him maybe he’s not cursed. Maybe he’s blessed. Maybe he’s also not crazy. Either way, he should be on the plane.

What happened to the rest of the statue? Ben says it was like that when he got there. Richard doesn’t want both John and Ben going to see Jacob at the same time, but that’s too bad. They go inside, and Locke gives Ben a knife.

Miles poses a question: has anyone considered that Jack is going to cause the thing he’s actually trying to prevent?

Stuart’s reinforcements have arrived to form a defense to kill Jack, who’s standing in the woods watching them. Unbeknownst to Jack, he’s got back up. Live together, die alone. The van shows up with reinforcements. When the situation’s under control, Jack gets closer and drops the bomb. So where’s the explosion? Chaos ensues as everything metal gets sucked into the hole, but that was hardly what they anticipated. A bunch of the Dharma people get killed, which is the good news, but then Juliet begins to get sucked into the abyss. Sawyer tries to save her, but she lets go.

Ilana arrives to find Richard and the others waiting outside the big foot. She wants to know what lies in the shadow of the statue, and she has something he needs to see. They open up the box. It’s John Locke’s body. So if that’s Locke, who’s in there with Jacob ordering Ben to kill him? Jacob tells Ben that he has a choice. Ben has noticed that Jacob has finally decided to stop ignoring him. He wants to know: what about me? Jacob responds: what about you? So with that, Jacob’s been stabbed. Before he’s kicked into the fire, Jacob says that they’re coming.

Having fallen to the bottom of the hole, Juliet seems fine. Relatively speaking. She’s not dead or anything. She begins smashing the bomb with a rock hoping to set it off. Well, looks like there’s the explosion they were hoping for.

Lost Season 6 will be coming in early 2010 as previously announced. As planned, it will be the final season of the show.

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