Lost S6 Epi. 15 “What They Died For”

Theories, observations, questions and predictions will be in bold. I’m also gonna point out answers to previous questions in red since so many complain that each episode doesn’t answer anything and I completely disagree.

Previously on Lost: Sawyer pulls the wires on the bomb and we lose Sayid, Sun, and Jin.

And now..

In Los Angeles, Jacks wakes up at home (yet another episode that starts with an eye-opening shot… in my other recaps I kept track of how many scenes like this there were) and discovers a pretty nasty cut on his neck. He’s missing skin. He doesn’t have time to worry about it too much because his son asks if he wants to have breakfast. They have a family bonding moment with Claire, who is living with them now.

Jack gets a call from Oceanic. They’ve located his father’s coffin and it will be in L.A. by the end of the day. The caller isn’t from Oceanic at all. It’s Desmond.

On the island, Jack sews up Kate’s wound – just like she did for him the day they met. She talks about Sun and Jin’s daughter and how he never got to meet her. She says Locke did this to them and that they have to kill him.

“I know,” he replies.

Later, they watch as debris from the sub floats ashore. If a body washes up, I’m gonna lose my shit. Jack tells the others about Desmond being in a well and that if Locke wants him dead, they’re gonna need him. Everyone mounts up.

In Los Angeles, Desmond watches as Locke returns to school. He starts his car, but Ben shows up and demands that he stop. He tells Desmond he’s not gonna let him hurt Locke again. Desmond gets out the car and says he doesn’t want to hurt Locke, but help him let go. Ben wants to know who Desmond is, and Desmond starts to beat Ben up. This causes Ben to “remember” when Desmond beat his ass on the pier when Ben came to kill Penny.

On the island, Ben, Miles and Richard are making their way to The Others’ old houses. Ben says he has C4 hidden in the secret room behind his bookcase. They can use that to blow up the plane. As they walk by a house, Miles gets some communication from a dead person. Ben wants to know who, but Miles stalls. Richard tells Ben it’s Alex. After Ben left the island, Richard buried her on the spot they’re standing on. Ben thanks Richard.

In Ben’s house, he pulls back the bookcase and Miles notices another room within the secret room.

“What’s that? A secreter room?”

Ha!

Ben says that’s where he was told he could summon the monster, but that was before he realized the monster was summoning him.

Told by whom?!?

Ben opens a safe and gets all of the C4 after Richard says they want to blow the plane to hell. They hear someone in the house and it’s Zoe (Tina Fey) and Charles Widmore.

“Hello, Benjamin. Can I come in?”

Oh, snap!

Widmore tells Zoe to go get their equipment from their outrigger at the dock. Widmore tells Richard that he has already rigged the plane. Ben wants to know how Charles got back to the island and Widmore says that Jacob visited him soon after his freighter was blown up. He told Widmore he needed to return for this exact purpose. Before they can talk further, Zoe radios that Locke is coming. Widmore tells her to run back to the house.

In Los Angeles, Ben is in the nurse’s office at the school and tells Locke what Desmond told him about trying to get Locke to let go. Locke realizes this is what Jack said to him

Desmond walks into the police station asking for a detective. Miles is getting all dolled up to go to a benefit concert at his Dad’s museum (same benefit that Jack’s son is playing in and Jack is attending.) Desmond confesses to Sawyer that he ran over Locke and then beat up Ben. Desmond is placed in the same cell as Sayid and next to Kate.

On the island, they’re headed to the well to look for Desmond and Sawyer tells Jack that he killed Sayid, Sun and Jin by tampering with the bomb. Jack tells Sawyer that he didn’t kill them, Locke did. (Actually, Sawyer kinda did. Locke CAN’T kill them.)

Hurley sees a young Jacob in the jungle and chases after him. He tells Hurley to give him the ashes he took from Ilana’s things after she died (Jacob’s ashes.) He takes them and runs and Hurley chases him again till he finds Jacob sitting by a fire. He tells Hurley that his ashes are in the fire and when the fire burns out, Hurley will never see him again. He tells Hurley to get his friends because they are very close to the end.

Yikes!

On the island, Locke notices the outrigger and heads towards the camp. Widmore and Zoe are going to hide in Ben’s secret room, Ben is going to face Locke and Richard is going to try and reason with him. Miles is going to haul ass through the jungle. I like Miles’ plan.

Richard and Ben go outside and Locke smoke monster shows up and knocks Richard pummels into Richard. Ben calmly sits on the porch of his house and stays there till Locke walks up. Locke tells Ben that he needs him to kill some people for him. He says if he does that, Ben can have the island all to himself. Ben agrees and then totally dimes out that Widmore and Zoe are hiding in his closet.

In Los Angeles, Alex sees that Ben is hurt and offers to give him a ride home with her Mom. Danielle Rousseau introduces herself and they invite him over for dinner. At the house, Danielle tells Ben that Alex’s father died when she was two and that Ben is the closest thing to a father Alex has ever had. This touches Ben and he starts to cry.

There’s a moment at the end of the scene where he looks at her and I swear you can see him having another flash.

On the island, Ben leads Locke to Widmore. Locke tells Ben to wait outside – that he doesn’t want to see this, but Ben says he does. Locke tells Widmore it’s nice to talk to him without the fences between them. He wants to know who Zoe is and as she starts to answer, Widmore instructs her not to. Locke slits her throat. Locke recognizes that Widmore isn’t afraid to die so he tells him that when he leaves, he will kill Penny. Widmore tells him that Desmond Hume was brought to the island because of his unique resistance to electromagnetic energy. Desmond was a last resort. He wont say more in front of Ben so Locke tells him to whisper it. As he does, Ben shoots and kills Widmore.

“He doesn’t get to save his daughter.”

Locke is willing to let this go as Widmore has already told him what he needed to know. Ben then asks, “Did you say there are some other people to kill?”

DAY-UM!

Hurley leads Kate, Jack and Sawyer to Jacob. It’s now nighttime. Hurley is surprised that they can all now see him. Kate asks if he’s the one that wrote their names on the wall. Jacob says he is. Kate wants to know why he chose them and why their friends had to die. Jacob says that they should sit down and he’ll tell them everything because by the time the fire goes out, one of them will have to take the job of protecting the island.

In Los Angeles, Locke goes to see Jack and tells him about what happened with Desmond and Ben. He tells Jack that maybe everything is happening for a reason. He agrees to let Jack fix him.

On the island, Jacob tells the group that he brought them there because he made a mistake. He says he made the monster the way he is and because of that, the monster wants to kill him. He knew he’d eventually figure out a way to do so, and when he did, Jacob would need a replacement.

Sawyer says their lives were fine before Jacob went messing with them. Jacob tells them that their lives weren’t fine. They were all alone and going nowhere. He said that they were all like him; flawed and alone. He chose them because they all needed the island as much as it needed them.

Kate asks why her name was crossed out and Jacob tells her it is because she became a mother. He says it was just a line with some chalk. If she wants the job, it’s hers.

This explains the Kwons then…. maybe. Sun became a mother and the name wasn’t crossed out so that probably means the Kwon in question was Jin.

Jack wants to know what the job is. Jacob says there’s a light at the center of the island and the job is to make sure it never goes out. It needs to be protected from Locke. Jack asks if it’s even possible to kill Locke. Jacob says, “I hope so because he’s certainly going to try and kill you.”

Hurley wants to know how Jacob is going to pick. Jacob says he isn’t going to. He wants them to ahve the one thing he was never given – a choice. If none of them chooses, it will all end very badly.

Jack says he’ll do it. It’s why he’s there. It’s what he’s supposed to do.

Jack and Jacob head to a river. Sawyer comments that Jack’s God-complex is gonna be off da hook now. Hurley says he’s glad it’s not him.

Jacob tells Jack that the light is near where he first woke up on the island. Jack says there’s nothing is, but Jacob assures him it is and that now he’ll be able to find it. Jacob chants over some water and instructs Jack to drink it. Jack wants to know how long he’ll have to do the job and Jacob tells him, “As long as you can.” Jack drinks the water and you can tell he feels different.

“Now you’re like me” Jacob says.

In Los Angeles, Sawyer approaches the jail cells and tells Desmond, Sayid and Kate that they’re being transported to county lockup. Kate tries to get Sawyer to let her go by flirting and proclaiming innocence, but Sawyer aint having it.

In the transport van, Desmond tells Sayid and Kate it’s time to leave. He says that when the van stops, they’ll have to give him their trust. After he sets them free, he will ask each of them to do something and they have to promise to do it. They both promise. The van stops and Ana Lucia lets them go. Yay! She wants to know where Desmond’s friend is with her money.

Hurley shows up in a Hummer and apologizes for being late.

“You didn’t tell me Ana Lucia was gonna be here.”

“Do I know you, tubby?”

“No. No. We’ve never met.”

She takes her money and leaves. Desmond tells Hurley Ana Lucia isn’t going with them because she’s not ready yet. Sayid leaves with Hurley and Desmond tells Kate they’re going to a concert as he hands her a cocktail dress.

On the island, Ben and Locke are walking through the woods when Ben asks Locke why he bothers to walk if he can turn into smoke. He says he likes feeling his feet on the ground because it reminds him that he’s human. They come upon the well and Locke realizes that Desmond isn’t dead and someone helped him out.

Ben wants to know what Widmore said to him. He tells Ben that Desmond is the fail-safe. What can be used to keep Locke on the island if Locke managed to kill all of Jacob’s beloved candidates. Locke tells Ben he’s going to find Desmond and get him to do the one thing he could never do himself – destroy the island.

Observations/Thoughts/Questions/Predictions:

• I’m not a religious person, but those wounds on Jack made me think of the stigmata. But what really strikes me is that they’re starting to look more and more like he’s had his throat cut. Could this be some kind of foreshadowing for something that’s gonna happen on the island? Donny wonders if it’s corresponding to what happened to him back in season one after the plane crashed. What I think he means is: the plane didn’t crash, but it did. So let’s say that as the sideways world is going on, Charlie in Los Angeles might get a neck injury around the same time Charlie on the island was hanged by Ethan Rom. I think it’s more a sign of things to come. OH, Donny did point out weeks ago during the episode, “Happily Ever After” that Desmond on the island had a bruise on his forehead right where Desmond in Los Angeles had a bandage from his accident with Charlie.
• I think it’s pretty obvious that this benefit concert at Miles’ Dad’s museum is important. Jack’s son is playing there so one would assume that Jack and Claire are attending. Miles invited Saywer. Charlotte will be there. Desmond and Kate are going. I told Donny, “They’re all gonna get there and the band will play All Along the Watchtower and they’ll realize that this has all happened before and it will happen again.”
• I was still wondering (even after Ben shot Widmore) if he were playing Locke. I can understand him going along with Locke long enough to see Widmore dead. Widmore is responsible for Alex’s death, but I thought Ben had achieved some kind of redemption earlier in the season. Of course, redemption on this show is usually followed by death so.. maybe not. Anyway, I’m not really sure Ben is in it to really kill the rest of the candidates. It seems like a sloppy way to make the villains be who we thought they were all along. But now that Locke has revealed that he’s going to use Desmond to destroy the island, why would Ben go along with that?! He wants the island all to himself. He always has. The only thing I can see is that now, with the threat of there being NO island is the candidates aren’t killed, Ben will really have no choice but to kill them all. Nicely played, Locke. Nicely played.
• I think everyone is going to die on the island. I just can’t shake this feeling that that will happen. I mean, for one, how the frak are they (Hurley, Sawyer, Kate, Miles and don’t forget, Bernard and Rose are still out there somewhere) going to leave the island? Even if someone removes the explosives, who can fly the plane? There are no more subs or boats. Maybe Jack’s new job comes with super human teleporting abilities. *shrugs*

What do you think?