Sawyer made a plan to get off the island with Kate in Lost Season 6 Episode 8. Let the black smoke get into a battle with Widmore, and when they’re distracted, steal the sub.
Jacob goes to visit Ilana in the hospital. Will she help him protect six people, who are the remaining candidates? When she brings them to the temple, Richard will know what to do next. Well, maybe not. Richard just says Jacob’s a big liar, and he doesn’t know what to do. Oh, and Jack’s dead. So is everybody else. This isn’t an island. It’s just hell.
Richard says they should listen to somebody else. Perhaps he means Locke.
Ben tells Frank that Richard doesn’t age. Apparently, he has looked the same for years. Even as far back as 1867 when he accidentally killed a doctor in an attempt to save his wife’s life. Afterward, he received a visit from a priest, who said God will not forgive him for murder, accidental or not. That said, the devil awaits him, as he will be hung the next morning.
The next morning, after they find out he speaks English, Richard is purchased and then chained in a ship. They’re taking him to an island. If they weren’t, they are now because the ship wrecks into the island in the middle of the jungle. Given their limited supplies, the captain starts killing everybody. With Richard seconds away from getting stabbed, they hear something out in the jungle. Then blood drips down on them. So now basically everybody is dead. Everybody but Richard.
Although he’s been spared, Richard is left chained up without food or water. Dying would have been preferable. After time passes, he’s greeted by his wife Isabella, who tells him they’re both dead and in hell. Then she apparently gets swallowed up by the smoke.
Eventually, he gets a visit from someone calling himself a friend, who frees him in exchange for a promise to do anything he asks. What he wants is simple: to escape from hell and kill the devil. He’ll go to find the devil by the statue, which is now in pieces since Richard’s ship smashed into it. The devil is not the black smoke. Rather, the guy he’s talking to is. Either he worries about right and wrong, or he goes to hunt down the devil and gets his wife back.
Upon arrival at the statue, he’s attacked by Jacob, who’s not going down without a fight. Jacob tells him he’s not really dead, and that wasn’t his wife. This island is like the cork in a bottle of wine. It’s the only thing preventing hell from escaping and spreading. Jacob doesn’t like to step in and interfere, but maybe Richard could act as the intermediary between him and the people he brings to the island. He can’t bring his wife back. He can’t absolve him of his sins. But he can make him live forver.
When he returns to the black smoke, Richard is told that if he ever changes his mind, the offer still stands. Then he gives him his wife’s cross, which Richard then buries in the sand. Back in the present day, Richard comes to dig this cross up. He’s changed his mind. Does the offer still stand?
Hurley approaches from behind. His wife sent him. She’s standing right next to them, long enough to say it’s not his fault she died, and they already are together. Oh, and it’s Richard’s responsibility to stop the man in black from leaving the island. If he doesn’t, they all go to hell.
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