Exodus Part 3

 

 I decided to break up the two-hour season finale episode into two posts.  The DVD I have oddly had them as one episode, but it had a TO BE CONTINUED where I left off in the last post.  So here we go, let’s see what’s up next.

 

 

 

We pick up with the group heading back with the dynamite; right where we left off.  The monster appears close and everyone but Locke runs for cover.  Jack goes after him.  The monster knocks Locke down; makes some different noises we never heard before (sort of like a roller coaster moving up a steep incline) and this time Locke looks scared.  Not like last time when he seemed just in awe of it.  The monster grabs Locke and drags him to a hole in the jungle.  Jack grabs him and he tells Kate he needs the dynamite.  She goes to get it out of her bag, but Jack tells her it isn’t in her bag that it’s in his.  She goes to get the dynamite, Locke tells Jack to let him go, and Kate throws a stick of dynamite into the hole.  The dynamite explodes and the monster lets go of Locke.

 

Michael and Jin discuss the book Sun made for Jin.  Well, as best they can anyway.  The rudder is fixed, and Michael gives Jin the watch back again.  Jin tells Michael to take it.  In the caves Sun gives Claire some tea.  Sun tells Claire that Aaron is a beautiful name.  She asks what it means, and Claire says she doesn’t know what the name means.  Sun assures Claire that Charlie will bring the baby back.

 

In the jungle Charlie falls for a trap set by Danielle and gets a nice cut on his head.  Sayid tells Charlie he has to go back but Charlie tells him he’s not going anywhere without the baby.  Sayid makes a battlefield decision and pours gunpowder on the wound and sets it on fire.  Essentially cauterizing the wound.  Charlie screams in pain.

 

 Hurley wakes up in his hotel room and realizes he is late for his flight.  The elevator is full (with Charlie being one of the people in it) so he goes down the stairs.  On the way to the airport his car breaks down.  Hurley misses his flight and is booked on flight 815.  He must hustle over to the international terminal, so another race is on.  As he is about to go through security we see Artz also in line.  Hurley buys an old man’s scooter and gets through the airport quicker.  We see a girls soccer team all wearing jerseys with Hurley’s numbers on them.  Through the grace of the lady working the boarding desk Hurley makes the flight.  The lady tells him that it is his lucky day.

 

Back on the island Hurley is repeating the numbers softly to himself.  Kate hears him and asks him why he said 23.  Hurley asks if it means anything to her and she says the guy in Australia turned her in for 23 thousand dollars.  Jack asks why Locke didn’t think the monster was going to hurt him.  Locke tells Jack it is because he is a man of faith and Jack is man of science.  Locke tells Jack that none of this is a coincidence.  He says they were all brought there for a reason.  The island “chose” them.  John tells Jack it was their destiny.  Jack asks John if he discussed all this destiny with Boone.  Locke says that Boone was a sacrifice that the island demanded.  Jack tells John he doesn’t believe in destiny.  John tells him that he does but he just doesn’t know it yet.

 

Back at the airport we see Locke in the wheelchair waiting to get on the plane.  The attendants tell him they will have to carry him on.  Locke is taken to his seat and none of the other survivors see this because he goes on first.

 

They finally reach the hatch with the dynamite.  John gives Hurley the “extra” dynamite to move back with it.  Kate runs the fuse and John and Jack rig the charges.  On the raft Sawyer and Michael discuss Sawyer’s death wish of why he went on the raft.  Michael tells him it’s either because Sawyer is a hero or he just wants to die.  Sawyer tells him that he’s no hero.  Suddenly they get a blip on the radar screen.

 

Charlie and Sayid make it to the signal fire.  Close by is Danielle with Aaron who is crying.  She comes out of the jungle with the baby, and she tells them that she just wants Alex back.  She was indeed trying to make a trade with Aaron.  She sobs and gives the baby back to Charlie.  Charlie tells her there never were others and that she is a nut job.  She tells them she heard them talking about coming to get the boy.

 

Jack and John finish setting up the dynamite and Kate finishes the fuse.  Kate asks Jack about carrying the dynamite and not her.  Jack tells her it was a judgement call.  He tells her that if they survive the night they are going to have a Locke problem.  He needs to know that Kate will have his back.  She says she will.  Hurley sees the numbers on the side of the hatch and he tells John not to light the fuse.  He rants about the numbers being bad but John lights the fuse anyway.  The dynamite explodes.

 

On the raft they all argue about whether they should shoot off the flare or not.  Michael is the last to give in and begs God to help them as he shoots off the flare.  The blip that was heading away from them turns around and is heads towards them.  They all celebrate.  A boat approaches and hits them with a spotlight.  They all welcome their rescuers.  At first the rescuers seem friendly enough, but they soon turn ominous when the bearded man says “We’re gonna have to take the boy.”.  Sawyer is shot and falls off the raft.  Jin jumps in to save him and Walt is taken onto the other boat.  A lady throws a Molotov cocktail onto the raft and blows it up.  In the water Michael cries out for Walt as the boat drives away.

 

Charlie brings Aaron back to Claire and all the survivors in the caves celebrate.  Even Shannon seems a little happy and greets Sayid warmly.  Unfortunately we also see a quick glimpse of a Virgin Mary statue in Charlie’s backpack.

 

We get a montage of all the survivors boarding flight 815.  Kate is handcuffed by the Marshall, Jack and Locke meet for the first time, Sayid is looked at suspiciously by a man two seats over from him.  Michael buckles Walt’s seat belt.  Hurley bids a silent hello to Walt and we see him reading the comic book Walt had on the island with the polar bear featured in it.  Arzt helps Claire with her carry-on.  Beautiful music plays in the background that I believe is called Life and Death by Michael Giacchino.

 

The final image of the season we see is Locke and Jack looking down a long underground shaft that is revealed after the top of the hatch is blown off.  OK, good news bad news sort of situation here:  I’ll be back with season two.  That’s the good news.  The bad news is it won’t be until November.  So rest up and we will get LOST together again then.  Meanwhile I will be gearing up for The Countdown to Halloween.  You could always come back here for that starting October 1st, because as usual I will be joining in on the month long festivities. 

 

 

Exodus Part 2

 

 The second part of the season finale picks up with Claire’s baby being cranky on the beach.  Claire complains to Charlie that she can’t handle being a mom.  Sayid gathers everyone to go to the caves for safety.  Charlie asks Sayid for a gun for safety for Claire and the baby in case The Others come.  Sayid tells Charlie to take her and the baby to the caves with everyone else.  Meanwhile in the jungle Hurley asks how the ship got into the jungle.  Arzt says a tsunami might have blown it there.  Danielle, having got them to the ship, leaves but Jack wants to know how they will get back to the hatch without her.  Locke says he can lead them back.

 

Jack, Kate, and Locke go into the Black Rock and find human remains.  Locke guesses that the Black Rock was a slave ship.  Kate finds a marked trunk containing the dynamite.  Arzt talks to Hurley and says he knows he isn’t cool enough for his little click.  Arzr complains about Kate getting favoritism, Jin not catching fish for him, and Hurley not having lost weight since crashing on the island.  Hurley tells him it’s all in his head.  Arzt shits a brick when he sees Jack and Locke carrying out the trunk containing the dynamite.  He carefully wraps the explosives in Kate’s wet shirt as he explains how dangerous it is.  He then blows up.  Hurley reacts with a classic Hurley “Dude.”.

 

Airport security allows Sayid to go catch his flight.  Jin, in the airport bathroom, meets an American who speaks Korean. He tells Jin that he also works for Mr. Paik.  He tells Jin he knows Jin is planning to run away from his boss once he gets to California.  He continues by telling Jin he will not get away.  He says Jin will never be free.

 

 

On the raft Michael and Sawyer see how big the island really is.  Sawyer sings some Bob Marley and Michael approves.  Back on the beach Sayid helps Shannon with her things which also include some of Boone’s things.  Sayid comforts Shannon and helps her carry some of her stuff.  In the jungle Hurley and Kate talk about Artz blowing up.  Hurley tells Kate it is his fault because he is bad luck.  Kate tells him it was an accident.  Jack and Locke wrap more dynamite.  They can’t even agree on how to do that, and it ends with Locke scaring Jack.  Jack asks if Locke likes to play games and Locke says yes.

 

Danielle makes it back to the beach and says she needs to find Sayid.  Charlie goes off after him leaving Claire and the baby with Danielle.  When Danielle asks to hold the baby, Claire remembers it was she that made the scratch marks on Danielle’s arms.

 

 

Charlie wakes up the morning of the flight with some floozy he spent the night with on a bender.  He tells her he doesn’t have any more drugs so she kicks his ass, but Charlie doesn’t let her have the drugs.  She takes a bottle of booze instead and leaves the hotel room.

 

 

Charlie finds Sayid and they hear Sun calling for help.  They find Claire with a bleeding head wound and the baby gone.  Charlie blames Sayid and punches him.  Sayid tells Charlie not to hit him again and the two of them will go look for Danielle and the baby.  In the jungle, Jack and Locke agree not to take more dynamite than they need.  The plan is to divide the dynamite between two backpacks that way if one person doesn’t make it; meaning blows up like Arzt, maybe the other one will.  Jack says he will take a backpack, and Locke says he will take one.  Kate says she is taking one, so they decide to pull sticks for it.  Jack is the odd man out.  Hurley tells Jack he has a little Arzt on him.  A funny scene my description doesn’t do it justice.

 

 

Back on the raft Sawyer reads the messages in the bottle and wonders who Hugo is and how does he have a hundred and sixty million dollars.  He also can’t keep straight who is still alive Steve or Scott.  Scott’s the dead one by the way.  Claire tells Charlie and Sayid she is going with them to look for Danielle.  Sayid suggests that Danielle is looking to trade her daughter for Claire’s baby.  Claire tells Sayid not to tell her what to do.  Claire tells Charlie to bring Aaron back.  The kid finally has a name.  Charlie tells her they will get him back.
 

At the airport Walt isn’t talking to Michael who goes to make a call.  He calls his mother and asks her to take Walt.  While he’s on the phone we see Locke get wheeled by.  Michael tells his mother that Walt was never supposed to be his.  Walt may or may not have overheard him and tells Michael he needs batteries for his hand held video game.

 

On the raft Michael lets Walt steer the raft for a little while.  Walt asks why Michael didn’t stay with his mom.  He says that they tried to work things out, but his mom took off and that’s why Walt didn’t see him for a long time.  Walt figures it out that maybe it wasn’t all his father’s fault and that his mom was wrong.  The rudder breaks off and Sawyer jumps into the ocean to retrieve it.  As the rudder begins to sink Michael and Jin throw a rope for Sawyer to tie around the rudder.  They pull both the rudder and Sawyer back to the raft.  Michael finds the gun that Jack gave to Sawyer and gives it back.

 

Jack and his group head back to the hatch with the dynamite.  They make sure to stagger their formation so only one person gets blown up if things go wrong.  The rest of the survivors gather at the caves.  Shannon looks at the makeshift bed Boone died on.  Sun says Boone died bravely.  Sun asks Shannon if this is all a punishment for not living good lives.  Shannon asks who is punishing them.  Sun guesses fate.  Claire says there is no such thing as fate.  Sayid and Charlie make their way towards the black smoke.  They rest near the Nigerian drug plane.  Sayid tells Charlie that the plane was loaded with heroin.  Charlie stares at the broken Virgin Mary statue seeing the little baggies of heroin.

 

On the way back to the hatch Hurley asks Locke what he thinks is inside the hatch.  Locke asks Hurley what he thinks might be inside.  After giving a laundry list of things that ends with Twinkies Locke agrees that he likes Twinkies too.  Hurley asks Locke what he really thinks is inside and Locke says he thinks that hope is inside.  A large bird takes off from a tree in the jungle and Hurley comments that whoever named the place the dark territory was a genius.