LOST: season 5 finale part 2
“The Incident”
We continue our recap/review of the season 5 finale with a look at the events that took place back in 1977 as events culminate into the incident mentioned way back in Season 2. Things go fast so enjoy!
Dismantling Jughead
Sayid, Jack along with Eloise and Richard are pulling apart Jughead deep in the under ground temple that is under the Dharma compound. Sayid was reading the detailed instructions left by Daniel in his journal on removing the key components to the bomb. Turns out all that they needed was the basic core of the bomb that Sayid could rig to detonate by ultimatey dropping it down the hole the Dharma group is drilling.
Richard helps them break through a wall that will lead them up into the Dharma compound (it’s actually Horace and Amy’s house, and I wonder if maybe Ben’s?). When he sees that Eloise is planning on going he quickly knocks her unconscious. He explains that she is pregnant and that he needs to protect their leader, even if she will be mad about it later. Jack and Sayid part ways with Richard and head up into the house.
Outside they see Dharma security everywhere with guns looking for the escapees. Sayid spies a jumpsuit of Horace’s and throws it on. They venture out into the compound and quickly try to cross it to get to the Swan station. Unfortunately Roger Linus (Ben’s Dad) spots Sayid and recognizes him and yells at him to halt. Sayid doesn’t want him to shoot considering he has a nuclear weapon on his back but Rogers does anyway. Sayid is hit in the gut. Jack fires back and the other Dharma security groups begin firing back.
Just when they are pinned down, Hurley again arrives in Dharma van with Miles and ushers Sayid and Jack inside and they drive off into the woods.
Jack Must be Stopped
Saywer, Juliet and Kate are aboard the sub and Kate is trying to convince them that they have to stop Jack because he plans on blowing up the island. Sawyer doesn’t care and is quite happy with going back to the main land, even though it’s the seventies. Kate tries to plead with him and it actually ends up changing Juliet’s mind.
Since Sawyer will follow Juliet they release themselves and make their way to the bridge after subduing a guard and taking his gun. He orders the captain to act as if everything is normal and surface the sub to let them out. He complies and Sawyer shoots his radio so that he can’t warn anyone back at the island.
They take their raft and land on the beach to discover Vincent the dog there! Sawyer hugs the dog happy to see him after 3 years, and out from the jungle Rose appears disappointed that they were found. She takes them to a very bearded Bernard and they explain that they have been quite happy since the flaming arrow night 3 years ago and have made their peace and are retired. They want nothing to do with Jack or anything they are doing, they just want to be together and left alone.
I think Juliet can’t help but notice their contrast to everyone else that are so involved in everything and then Rose and Bernard who keep very peacefully apart and by themselves. She almost seems tempted to stay with them but ends up going with Kate and Sawyer anyway.
They end up catching up the Dharma van Hurley and crew are driving and force them to stop. Sawyer tells Jack that they need to talk and asks him to give him 5 minutes.
They move off into the jungle where Sawyer basically tells him he is crazy. He tells him that he could have done something about his parents murder since it had really just happened, but he is content with “what is done, is done” and thinks nothing can be changed or shouldn’t be changed. Jack is very stubborn on this believes this is his destiny and he is going through with it. When Sawyer can’t use words anymore he picks a fight and begins to pummel Jack.
It’s Juliet that stops him and Jack takes the chance to leave to continue his mission. Juliet tells Sawyer that she thinks they should help Jack erase the past. When Sawyer points out that they wouldn’t know each other she tells him that they were not meant to be together and she knew that when Kate came back. A very shattered Sawyer seems like he has nothing left to lose and gives up.
The Incident
Jack makes it with the bomb to the Swan site. He left Sayid who has lost a lot of blood in the care of Hurley and Miles. Radzinsky is at the site and had Phil arrive with more security. Dr. Change is also there monitoring the drill as it gets closer to the pocket of electromagnetic energy.
Kate also arrives and Jack breaks his promise and asks her why she came back to the island, what she did with Aaron. He tells her that Claire can have Aaron back, that by erasing the past and letting the plane land something different could happen. She agrees and plans on helping them.
Jack sneaks closer to the site but is spotted and a gun fight begins. He is outnumbered until the Dharma van appears. Juliet, Sawyer and Miles get into the firefight.
They manage to get the upper hand and even Sawyer tells Jack to drop the bomb. Jack drops the bomb down the very long hole. When it should have went off they know something went wrong. The drill had hit the pocket and the energy begins to be released. The ground starts shaking and everything metals starts to fly toward the hole.
Jack is knocked out by a toolbox, Dr. Chang’s arm is pinched by a crane fallen and is saved by Miles. Phil is amazingly skewered by a piece of rebar.
Tragically, a piece of chain wraps around Juliet and pulls her down the hole. Sawyer grabs a hold of her and Kate tries to help. He tries so desparately to save her but the magnetic force is too strong and she is sucked down into the hole. Sawyer is devastated by this and it takes everything Kate has to pull him away. Jack recovers and they flee the site as even the drilling crane gets pulled down.
We see then down the hole that Juliet somehow survived. She is very bloody and pinned under some metal. She sees the bomb sitting on some mud and finds a rock and manages to reach it. She hammers on the bomb over and over, and on the eighth time, the bomb seems to go off and the screen goes white, ending season.
What We Learned
- Sayid may have been fatally shot
- Juliet seems to break up with Sawyer throwing away everything they have for uncompelling reasons
- the Incident happens when the pocket of energy is hit and pulls everything down into the drill hole
- Phil is killed
- Dr. Chang’s arm is injured which likely leads to the missing arm noticed in some of the Dharma videos
- Juliet is pulled down into the drill hole and thought dead
- Juliet smashes the bomb causing a while light possibly the bomb going off
That’s it! This is the first episode where we have a fade to white ending. We are assuming that this is the bomb going off and perhaps it will transport the Losties back to 2007. Before he died Jacob did say “they’re coming,” did he mean the seventies Losties?
I think Juliet has left the show, this was the major character death we heard about. Although it is amazing that she survived that fall.
It’s been said that this finale and the premiere to next season should be the building blocks we need to piece together how the show is going to end. I for one can’t wait for the sixth and final season. I assume that will be next February, such a long wait!
Thanks for reading and more Lost next year!