Lost Season 6 Episode 9 was the tale of Richard, bringing us back over 100 years to when he first arrived on the island. Upon arrival, he sided with Jacob over the black smoke, but now he’s changed his mind. Until Hurley told him that his wife said he has to stop the man in black, or otherwise they’re all going to hell.

Locke says that the only way they can leave the island is if all the uncrossed off names go together.

At the airport, Jin is told that they’re going to be “confiscating” his $25,000. He doesn’t ask any questions. He just does what Sun’s father tells him to do.

When they arrive at the hotel, Jin wants a second room. He knows enough English to say they’re not married.

Before Locke goes off on an errand, Sayid says he doesn’t feel anything. Anger, happiness, pain, all gone.

Jin takes Locke’s departure as his cue to bail. He’s going to get away from Locke and go find his wife. Well, he would, if he weren’t just tasered, along with everybody else. Lucky him, he’s the one they want.

Ilana’s plan is to wait until Richard comes back. Ben is skeptical about this plan, seeing as Richard went storming off into the jungle after he told them they were all in hell and he didn’t know what to do.

Deciding that Jin’s not just there on business and Sun’s not there just for shopping, they decide to get busy in her hotel room.

Locke has managed to find Sun with a message that he’s found her husband, but she doesn’t believe him, so she runs away. A chase through the jungle ensues. Sun loses, crashing into a tree.

Back on the mainland, Sun’s got an idea. They should run away together.

Later, Sun is awakened by Ben. As for Locke, he returns to find a bunch of people lying on the ground. Where is Jin? He’s locked up in a creepy looking room. Room 23. It’s where the Dharma Initiative was doing experiments on subliminal messages. There are some maps. Whoever signed them should be able to help. Looks like that would be Jin.

Claire’s name is not on the wall. Neither is Kate’s. Regardless, Locke wants both of them. Kate could be of assistance rounding up the others. Once she does, whatever happens happens.

Sun and Jin are busted partially clothed by her father’s contact, but he doesn’t really care about that. He just wants his money.

Having hit her head, Sun has forgotten how to speak an entire language, making her capable of only communicating in Korean now.

Richard returns with Hurley, instructing the others to pack their bags and get ready to leave. They’re going to destroy the plane so that Locke can’t get on it. Of course, if they destroy that plane, that means the rest of them won’t be able to get off the island, which does not sit well with the woman screaming in Korean.

Walking on the beach, Locke is shot at. I don’t think that’s going to work. He goes peacefully to meet Widmore, who denies having kidnapped Jin. A wise man once said that war is coming to the island. It just got there.

Sun had intended to get the money out of her bank account so that she could pay off her father’s associate. But when she arrives at the bank, her account is closed and empty. Her father had the funds transferred to one of his accounts. As for Jin, this would explain why he was tied up and in a refrigerator. It seems that $25k was this guy’s fee for killing him for not keeping his hands off the boss’s daughter.

Jin is handed a camera. It’s a picture of his daughter, who he’s never seen before. Widmore’s warning is that everything and everyone would cease to exist if that John Locke thing gets off the island. It’s time for him to see the package. It’s not a what. It’s a who.

The shooting outside the door catches us up to where we were before. Sayid opens up the door to discover Jin. He hands him a razor to free himself and wishes him luck. When Sun returns, we see a bunch of people on the ground, mostly dead. The guy with her might consider looking behind him and seeing Jin with a gun. In the shootout, Sun gets hit as well. And that news she wanted to tell him before they were interrupted in the room: she’s pregnant.

Jack has a theory. Just because Sun can’t speak English doesn’t mean she can’t write it. This theory is correct, but she’s gonna run out of paper pretty fast.

If Widmore didn’t blow Locke right out of the water, Saywer thinks they’re screwed. That makes him walking back to join them bad news then.

Who’s the package? That would apparently be Desmond.

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Lost Season 6 Episode 10 The Package airs Tuesday March 30 at 9/8c on ABC.

SUN AND JIN CONTINUE THEIR SEARCH FOR ONE ANOTHER, AND LOCKE CONFRONTS HIS ENEMY, ON ABC’S “LOST”

“The Package” - Sun and Jin desperately continue their search for one another, and Locke confronts his enemy, on “Lost,” TUESDAY, MARCH 30 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

“Lost” stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Emilie de Ravin as Claire, Michael Emerson as Ben, Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Ken Leung as Miles, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Terry O’Quinn as Locke and Zuleikha Robinson as Ilana.

Guest starring are Alan Dale as Charles Widmore, Kevin Durand as Keamy, Anthony Azizi as Omar, Andrew Divoff as Mikhail Bakunin, Sheila Kelley as Zoe, Fred Koehler as Seamus, Chad Donella as desk clerk, Natalie Garcia Fryman as Ms. Kendall and Larry Joshua as Burditt.

“The Package” was written by Paul Zbyszewski & Graham Roland and directed by Paul Edwards.

Sneak Peek

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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Lost Season 6 Episode 9 Ab Aeterno airs Tuesday March 23 at 9/8c on ABC.

RICHARD ALPERT FACES A DIFFICULT CHOICE, ON ABC’S “LOST”

“Ab Aeterno” - Richard Alpert faces a difficult choice, on “Lost,” TUESDAY, MARCH 23 (9:00-10:06 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

“Lost” stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Emilie de Ravin as Claire, Michael Emerson as Ben, Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Ken Leung as Miles, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Terry O’Quinn as Locke and Zuleikha Robinson as Ilana.

Guest starring are Mark Pellegrino as Jacob, Titus Welliver as man in black, Mirelly Taylor as Isabella, Steven Elder as Jonas Whitfield, Juan Carlos Cantu as Father Suarez, Jose Yenque as doctor, Izzy Diaz as Ignacio, Davo Coria as servant, Santiago Montone as prisoner and Sonya Masinovsky as Russian nurse.

“Ab Aeterno” was written by Melinda Hsu Taylor & Greggory Nations and directed by Tucker Gates.

Sneak Peek

Following everybody making their trek toward the beach in Lost Season 6 Episode 7, Charles Widmore discovered them, telling his crew to proceed as planned, despite the fact that there were people there.

Sawyer’s looking to work with Locke, or whoever he is, in order to make his way off the island. Jin’s not willing to leave because Sun might be there. With that, Sawyer promises not to leave until they find her.

Back on the mainland, Sawyer’s got a meeting with some guy. Suitcase full of money in hand. The chick he’s with is married to a conman, so she knows when she’s being conned. He suggests she do the right thing, or otherwise the cops surrounding the building will be busting her. She doesn’t buy what she considers his bluff, so officer Miles has to bust in with his men and make the arrest. Strangely enough, James, too, is a cop.

Without Aaron, Claire had to make her own son out of a skull and other random oddness.

Locke informs those who are still alive that the black smoke killed everybody who stayed behind at the temple. Kate asks Sawyer if he’s with Locke now. Nope, he ain’t with anybody.

Locke wants to talk to James to tell him he’s the smoke thing. He didn’t rescue anybody. Those who died were convinced they were protecting the island from him, so it’s either kill or be killed. Now he has a recon mission for Sawyer. He’s going to Hydra Island, where there’s a plane. Some of the other passengers may mean to do them harm. If he does this, they get on that plane, fly off that island, and never look back. Pretty convincing argument.

Detective Ford meets Charlotte, the redhead who died on the island. He tells her it got to the point where he was either going to be a criminal or a cop, so he chose cop. Well, that pretty much leads to her jumping his bones. When she goes rifling through his drawer and inadvertently finds a story about the local man who killed himself and his wife, leaving his 9 year old son behind, James throws her out.

While Kate’s chatting with Sayid, Claire pulls out a knife and jumps her. Sayid sits there and watches until Locke breaks up the fight. He warns Claire that trying to kill people like that is completely inappropriate.

Sawyer arrives at the island, where he’s promptly greeted by a bunch of dead rotting bodies. There is someone alive, though. She says she’s the only one left.

Miles would like to know what Sawyer was doing in Australia when he was supposed to be in Palm Springs. None of his damn business.

The remaining survivor on Hydra Island is Zoe, who was out collecting wood when she heard screaming. When she came back, they were dead.

Locke accepts responsibility for Claire’s behavior, since he told her that the others had her baby. He wanted to give her something to keep going, something to hate.

Zoe’s sure full of questions. So now Sawyer would like some answers. When he pulls out his gun to try to get the truth, a bunch of people with weapons jump out and point them at him. Is her name even Zoe? Probably about as much as his is Sawyer’s.

Kate referred to Locke as a dead man. He objects to that. Oh, and like his mother was crazy, Aaron, too, has a crazy mother.

Sawyer’s hauled off to a submarine and told to get in. He’s waiting for him.

After learning a lesson about life from (where else?) an episode of Little House on the Prairie, Sawyer returns to Charlotte, who doesn’t care.

Once inside the sub, Sawyer meets up with Charles Widmore, the fellow who sent a freighter to the island loaded with guys to kill them all. He denies having murdered those people. Sawyer has a deal that makes Charles smile. He’ll go back, say the coast is clear, bring Locke back, and then Widmore can go ahead and kill him. In exchange, his people don’t get touched, and they get safe passage off the island.

Claire has decided she no longer wants Kate dead.

Contrary to his deal with Widmore, James tells Locke the whole story. They’re trying to keep out that smoke thing, and there’s a locked room where they’re hiding.

Sawyer has decided to tell his partner Miles what he’s up to. He’s looking for Anthony Cooper, who he’s been chasing since he left the academy. When he finds the right one, he’s going to kill him. During this chat, they get run into by a fleeing suspect. That would be Kate.

The plan is to just let Locke and Widmore’s crew fight it out. While they’re busy, Sawyer and Kate will be to get off the island. They’re taking the sub.

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Lost Season 6 Episode 8 Recon airs Tuesday March 16 at 9/8c on ABC.

LOCKE TASKS SAWYER WITH A MISSION, ON ABC’S “LOST”

Rebecca Mader Guest Stars as Charlotte

“Recon” Locke tasks Sawyer with a mission, on “Lost,” TUESDAY, MARCH 16 (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

“Lost” stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Emilie de Ravin as Claire, Michael Emerson as Ben, Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Ken Leung as Miles, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Terry O’Quinn as Locke and Zuleikha Robinson as Ilana.

Guest starring are Alan Dale as Charles Widmore, Rebecca Mader as Charlotte Lewis, Kimberley Joseph as Cindy, Neil Hopkins as Liam Pace, Sheila Kelley as Zoe, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe as Ava, Fred Koehler as Seamus, Allen Cole as duty sergeant, Mickey Graue as Zack, Kiersten Havelock as Emma, Christopher Johnson as police officer and Michael Green as lawyer.

“Recon” was written by Elizabeth Sarnoff & Jim Galasso and directed by Jack Bender.

Sneak Peek

Lost Season 6 Episode 6 ended with a masscare, as the black smoke took out much of the temple and those who were dumb enough to remain behind after being warned of their impending death.

As Ben’s running away, he meets up with Sun and her group. He’s pretty sure that Sayid just got done killing Dogan, seeing as he was standing over the body with a bloody dagger.

Back in the real world, Ben is a history teacher, despite his doctor title. He meets substitute teacher Locke, who suggests he should be the new principal to replace the man in charge that doesn’t care about the school.

Ilana hands Miles what’s left of Jacob’s body. With that, he knows who really killed him. Well, that oughtta piss some people off at Ben.

Like Sun, Ilana is also looking for Jin. She doesn’t know whether she’s supposed to protect him, her, or both of them, but either way they’re candidates.

Hurley and Jack meet Richard on their way to the temple. He’ll show them the way, but he won’t tell them what he’s been up to just yet.

Ilana’s got a gun. What else is new? She drags Ben away from the group and chains his legs. She tells him to dig his own grave. Ever hear of please?

Ben gets a visit at home from Alex (his island daughter) wondering why he cancelled history club due to budget cuts. He agrees to tutor her first thing in the morning when he’s not supervising detention. During their session, she calls the principal a pervert. He hasn’t hit on her, but he did have sex with the school nurse in her office. Ben promises not to say anything.

Would Miles still like $3.2 million? Ben can arrange that if he is freed. Miles has a message for Ben: Jacob was hoping he was wrong about Ben, but apparently he wasn’t.

Richard has decided not to take them to the temple, since everybody there is dead. This is not a surprise to Hurley, who didn’t want to go back to the temple either. As for Richard, he’s got something he needs to do. Die.

Ben has a hypothetical question for the science teacher. Could he hypothetically access the nurse’s e-mail without her knowing? He’s willing to help in exchange for a good parking spot and lab equipment from this decade.

There’s a problem with Richard’s plan to die. He can’t kill himself. Would Jack be willing to assist? His new goal is to die so he can join Jacob, since Jacob’s death has meant his whole life has been without purpose. Whatever Jacob may have been grooming him for is not going to happen. After lighting the dynamite, Jack decides that now would be a good time to talk. His theory is that neither of them are going to die because Jacob has been watching him since he was a kid and brought him to the island for a reason. What if he’s wrong and they both get blowed to bits? He’s not.

Continuing to dig his grave, Ben gets a visit from Locke, who doesn’t want him to die. Since the group is leaving the island for good, somebody will need to be in charge. Perhaps Ben. With his now freed legs, he can make a run for it. He may as well run. What’s Ilana gonna do? Kill him?

With e-mails in hand, Ben should be able to sufficiently blackmail the principal into resigning. Should they continue down this path, the threat in return is that Alex will not get her recommendation to Yale.

In their dash through the jungle, Ben gets the upperhand. Go ahead and kill the chick already. No, he wants to explain. He sacrificed everything for Jacob, who he believed didn’t even care. After hearing this story, Ilana agrees to help him get to Locke, the only one left who will have Ben.

Alex has received her letter of recommendation. What becomes of Ben is speculation, but the principal shall remain in his position.

Hurley, Jack, and Richard make their way to the beach to unite with the others. Then we see a periscope come out of the water, as Charles Widmore spots people but wants to proceed as planned, whatever that may mean.

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Hurley and Jack realized in Lost Season 6 Episode 5 that Jacob’s been watching them all along, while Claire introduced us to her new black smoky friend.

Sayid pays a visit to Nadia, who’s married to his brother Omar.

Island Sayid goes to see Dogan. He’d like some answers. Who wouldn’t? The machine is a scale that shows whether someone is good or evil. Sayid’s test tipped the wrong way. In the middle of a seemingly casual conversation, Dogan flips out and attacks Sayid. He stops just short of killing him, but tells him to leave and never come back.

Claire agrees to go with the black smoke. He’ll only hurt those who won’t listen.

Omar’s in trouble. He borrowed money from a loan shark instead of a bank. Loan shark’s probably got better interest rates. Sayid’s not particularly willing to bail him out, though.

Sayid has decided to leave, seeing as how he’s been banished and all. Miles tells him that whatever brought him back wasn’t these others. They were as surprised as anyone to find out he was no longer dead.

Claire goes on behalf of the black smoke to request a meeting with Dogan. If he’s too afraid to meet with him, perhaps he should send someone who won’t end up dead.

Never mind that now. Dogan’s over the whole banishment deal. Now he wants Sayid’s help to kill the evil incarnate smoke, who will come to him as someone he knows who has died. This is how he proves he’s still good.

Back on the mainland, Omar’s been hospitalized by some thugs. Nadia begs Sayid to not do whatever he’s thinking of doing.

Kate’s returned to the temple, and she finds out that Australian chick’s back.

Sayid stabs the first dead guy he sees. He’s going to have to try harder than that if he intends to kill him. Locke offers the dagger back to him. He can have anything he wants if he delivers a message, even Nadia.

Per Nadia’s request, Sayid just went home and watched the kids. No vengeance to be had. So anyway, why did he push her toward his brother? Because he doesn’t deserve her. Oh really?

Sayid returns to camp with a message: Jacob is dead, and nobody has to stay there any longer. Whoever wishes to leave the island can. Or they can stay and die.

Kate goes to see Claire to tell her she was the one who took Aaron. Oh, now you’re just asking for her to be pissed off. Kate’s dragged off as Claire leaves her with a warning. He’s coming, and they can’t stop him.

The thugs who hospitalized his brother would like to chat. So now they’re dead. As he’s leaving, Sayid meets a man locked in the freezer, Jin.

Before he can flee the island with everybody else, Sayid has to return a dagger. Why does this Dogan guy keep trying to have him killed anyway? Whatever the long drawn out reason about his son being in danger and him coming to the island at Jacob’s invitation, Sayid has decided to kill Dogan. He’s warned that he was the only thing keeping it out. He just let it in. Then the guy who warns him gets his throat slashed.

With that, if the temple was safe before, it’s apparently not any more. The black smoke arrives to create chaos, leaving bodies and destruction in its wake. And then there’s a bunch of creepy walking in slow motion.

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