Lower Decks

This is it. The last two episodes of Lost‘s fourth season, “There’s No Place Like Home, Part 2″ and “There’s No Place Like Home, Part 3,” aired back-to-back on May 29th, 2008 (after a repeat of “There’s No Place Like Home, Part 1″). Some questions are answered but even more are revealed and things are set up wonderfully for Season Five, which premieres on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009.

“There’s No Place Like Home, Parts 1 & 2″ (Originally Aired May 29th, 2008)

On the island, Ben is rescued by his people with the help of Kate and Sayid. He returns to the Orchid where Jack and Sawyer have met up with Hurley and Ben. Locke pleads with Jack not to leave the island but Jack refuses. Ben and Locke head down to the Orchid while Jake, Sawyer and Hurley trek back to the chopper. Keamy, who was apparently killed by Richard Alpert, makes his way down to the Orchid. Jack, Sawyer and Hurley reunite with Kate and Sayid at the chopper and they take off with Frank at the controls.

Over the water, Sawyer jumps out after whispering something to Kate in order to lighten the load and conserve fuel. Ben kills Keamy despite learning that he is wearing a dead man’s switch which will destroy the freighter. In the communications room of the freighter, Desmond and Jin attempt to disarm the explosives while Michael freezes the battery to buy them some time. The chopper lands on the freighter shortly before Michael expects the explosives to go off. Desmond and Sun (with Aaron) join the others in the chopper and take off just before Jin makes it to the chopper pad. They watch in horror as the freighter explodes.

Ben tells Locke that whoever moves the island can never return and thus, Locke is the new leader of the Others. Ben moves the island successfully and it disappears just as the chopper is flying in to land. Out of fuel, they are forced to ditch in the ocean but are soon rescued by Penny’s boat. Desmond stays aboard with her while the other six leave in a makeshift raft and land on another island and begin their new lives as the Oceanic Six.

In the future, Kate reacts angrily to Jack’s suggestion that they return to the Island (continuing the scene from “Through the Looking Glass” from Season Three’s finale). Sayid shoots a man watching Hurley’s asylum and then convinces Hurley to leave with him. Sun has a brief meeting with Charles Widmore in London, suggesting they have common interests. Kate gets a mysterious phone call one night and then finds Claire sitting in Aaron’s room; she tells Kate not to bring Aaron back. But it was all a dream. Or was it?

And finally, the identity of the man in the coffin (also from “Through the Looking Glass”) is finally revealed when Jack breaks into the funeral parlor. Suddenly, Ben is there, and Jack reveals that this Jeremy Bentham fellow told him that some very bad things happened on the island after he left and they are all his fault. He has to go back. But Ben explains that the island won’t let him come alone. The Oceanic Six have to go back together. And so does Jeremy Bentham, better known as John Locke.

Did You Notice?

When Hurley offers Sawyer a cracker there is a spot of dirt next his right eyebrow but when Hurley asks if Claire and the baby are OK, the spot is gone. And although Sawyer makes a crack about Jack not looking well early on, there is no other mention of Jack’s operation and/or wound?