Lost - Season 2 - Episodes 21-24

Disc 6

Episode 21. ?
Flashbacks: Eko, now working as a priest in Sydney, receives his forged passport in preparation to leave for LA, when he is distracted by the Monsignor to a miracle. A girl, Charlotte, has come back to life a day after drowning. He tells the Monsignor he doesn't believe her. He is told that is why he was chosen. Eko hears the audio of the autopsy, during which the girl is heard to have woken up. He visits the house where Richard (Claire's psychic) tells him it wasn't a miracle, his daughter had hypothermia, and the doctor was negligent. He knows miracles don't exist because he's a fraud psychic who invents them. Charlotte surprises Eko at the airport, telling him that Yemi told her- while she was dead- that Eko was a good priest, that he would visit her, and that he had faith in Eko, even if Eko didn't himself. One day he'll believe her.

Michael emerges from the hatch, shot, telling Jack etc that "Henry" did it. John, Kate and Sawyer find the bodies of Ana and Libby, as Jack carries in Michael with Eko's help. Libby splutters awake, but is shaking with shock too much to speak. Jack needs the heroin to help her- it's in Sawyer's gun stash. Kate goes with him- it's under his tent. Hurley asks them if they've seen Libby, so Kate tells him. He visits her and apologises for forgetting the blankets. She says Michael's name and Jack tells her he's fine, but she dies before she can clarify. Sawyer comforts Kate.
Eko dreams about Ana and Yemi, and is told to look for John, with an axe, to take him to the question mark. Eko asks John to join him in trailing "Henry". As they begin the trail, Eko asks him where the question mark is. He refuses, so Eko headbutts him unconscious. When he wakes, Eko tells him Ana asked him to ask John. John gives him the map he drew from memory. When John mocks his dream, Eko asks him if he's never followed a dream? That night John has a dream about Eko and Yemi climbing the tree where the plane was. When he tells Eko, he immediately sets off. From atop the cliff he sees a circle where Locke is standing, it has been salted so nothing can grow. Underneath the plane they find a hexagon door. Eko uses the axe to open it. It's another hatch with a ladder to an underground bunker. They discover a wall of monitors, including surveillance of the Swan hatch, where they see Jack. Eko finds a video cassette from 1980 marked "Orientation". 5 of 6, it is for Station 5 - The Pearl. This time, Martin Candle is called Dr. Mark Wickmund. He explains that their three-week job is to monitor the Swan hatch in minute detail, who are unaware they are being observed. Observations of their psychological experiment must be recorded in notebooks and sent through a pneumatic tube to the HQ. After each eight-hour shift they must proceed to the Pala Ferry, where they will be returned to barracks for their next mission. Eko asks Locke if he wants to watch it again. Visibly upset, he says he's "seen enough". An excited Eko gathers the unsent notes and tells John his work is more important than ever, that John was not doing it because he was told to by a film, but because he felt he was meant to. An angry Locke says he wasn't meant to do anything, calling his life pathetic, useless and meaningless, asking Eko who is he to disagree? Eko tells him about Yemi, and that if John doesn't push the button, he will.
Michael hears the computer beep. It's the flashing cursor he used to communicate with Walt.

Episode 22. Three Minutes.
Flashbacks:
13 days ago: Michael asks Locke for a gun, checking his watch. John gives one to him, but Michael knocks him out and runs to the computer. He is told to go north where there are huge rocks with a hole in near the beach. He types that he is coming now. He soon runs into them (including the bearded man), and they overpower him. They show him a captured Kate and they surround Jack, Sawyer and John, replaying the earlier scene where the "line" was drawn. Alex explains to Michael they're just scaring them to deliver a message, asking if Claire had the baby, if they are okay, and if it was a boy or a girl. She declines bringing Kate out so Pickett does it. She apologises before knocking him out.
11 days ago: Michael is led to the ruins mentioned on the computer, where the others have a camp near a large hatch, guarded by two men with guns. They take some of his blood a Miss Klugh asks him about Walt. One question of note was whether Walt was ever in a place he wasn't supposed to be. She comments that he doesn't know much about the person he wants back.
3 days ago: Michael asks Klugh when they're going to kill him. She tells him they want him to get one of their people back. If he agrees, he and Walt can go free. He demands to speak to Walt, Pickett brings him in. They have three minutes. Walt says he's okay but has been taking tests. Klugh tells him not to talk about that. They talk about Vincent, then Walt says they're not who they say they are, they're pretending. Threatened with "the room again", they're told to stop. Walt breaks free and hugs Michael, begging him not to go and leave him. Michael promises to get him out. Klugh gives Michael a list of four friends he must bring. All and only these people, if he is to see Walt again. He adds that when he does go free, he wants the boat.

Michael burns a note on pink paper that reads as a list of names, including Jack, Kate, Hurley (Hugo Reyes) and Sawyer (James Ford). Jack calls him back in to talk. They try to organise a larger group to attack the others, but Michael says a large group would draw attention and that it must be only the five of them he mentioned. Hurley wants them to bury the bodies first. Eko returns to the hatch to find Michael scrubbing the blood off the floor. Eko says that they did not find "Henry". Michael asks if he believes in Hell. Eko tells him a story of a boy who confessed to killing a dog. The boy was worried if his deed would send him to Hell, and if the dog would be there waiting.
Charlie visits Claire and Aaron, giving them a vaccine and applicator gun that he found. They then see Michael is back. Sun and Jin welcome him, then notice the bodies. Michael tells them who they are, saying that they were murdered.
Sayid catches wind and insists on coming, saying it's not up to Michael. When Michael finds out, he yells that they shouldn't have done that. He asks Sayid himself not to come. Sayid agrees, and wishes him luck.
Eko enters the code in the hatch and Charlie appears, asking what happened to him. He says that he has a new mission now, and is moving to the hatch.
As Charlie tries to continue building the church on his own, Vincent appears with a Mary statue. Charlie follows him to Sawyer's tent where he finds the remaining stash. He throws them, one by one, into the ocean. As he leaves, he sees Locke has been watching him.
Jack confronts Eko about returning without "Henry", informing him about the funeral at sunset. He says he will mourn them in his own way. Sawyer confesses to Jack that he slept with Ana, saying he's the closest thing he's got to a friend.
As they're digging the graves, Michael pressurises Hurley into coming, but he says he won't be.
As everyone congregate for the funeral, Locke cuts off his splint and walks away. Jack tells Sayid about his father's death. Sayid tells him he suspects Michael has been compromised, that he freed "Henry" and is leading them into a trap. When Jack is skeptical, Sayid points out he was right about "Henry". They decide to pretend to go along with Michael, and work out the rest over the next day. Jack and Hurley speak at the funeral. Hurley tells Michael he'll go with him. Sun spots a sailboat not far offshore.

Episode 23. Live Together, Die Alone (Part 1)
Flashbacks: Desmond is dishonourably discharged from the army. One of his returned possessions is a photo of him and Penny, and another of note is Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend. He says he wants it to be the last thing he reads before he dies. The other soldier quips that he'd need to know when he's going to die. As he leaves, Charles Whidmore asks him if he wants a ride, showing him every letter he'd written to Penny and offers him a cash sum to disappear from her life forever. Desmond asks why he would agree to that. He's told that he is a coward. At a coffee shop, Libby helps Desmond out when he only has sterling cash. He tells her he needs $42,000 to buy a boat so he can enter a solo sailing race around the world in eight months' time. He just wants to take it from Charles Whidmore, telling Libby about Penny. She tells him her late husband David had a boat called Elizabeth that he can have. He accepts, saying he'll win it for love. Just before he meets Jack at the stadium, Penny turns up, asking why he never wrote her when he was in prison, and asking if he read his book. He asks when she's getting married. She asks what he's running from, he tells her of the goal he's running to. We next see Desmond on the boat, caught in a storm, washing up on the island. Kelvin Inman rescues him, dressed in a protective suit, and asks him if he's "him", followed by the snowman question (what did one snowman say to the other). He enters the code, saying he's just saving the world. He watches the orientation film, asking questions. Kelvin tells him his partner Radzinsky made the edits, he wears the suit so he doesn't get infected and must take injections every nine days. He hopes Desmond hadn't left it too late.

Jack, Sayid and Sawyer swim out to the boat. Jack draws a gun. They hear opera below deck and are shot at. They kick open the door and find a drunken Desmond. He tells Jack it wasn't intentional, that they're stuck in a snow globe with no escape. He asks if they're still pushing the button. Jack confirms they are. Sayid later tells Jack that he can use Desmond's boat to get ahead of Michael undetected and work out a strike plan. He will signal them with black smoke when he is ready to attack.
John joins Eko in the hatch, telling him he's decided they've become slaves to the computer and that they must not press the button this time. Eko locks him out, telling him he's free now.
As they're each given guns, Kate asks whether the others are merely pretending to be hillbillies, given the fake beard they found at the medical hatch. Michael insists they're not pretending, and they head out. On the way, a green bird that cries "Hurley" attacks them. Michael gies to shoot it, but his gun is empty. Jack says he must have forgotten to load it, but Michael looks suspicious. Kate spots they're being followed and opens fire, killing one man. As another runs away Jack gets Michael to tell everyone the truth about "Henry", Ana, Libby and the others. Jack tells them they can't turn back, but he wouldn't have endangered them without a plan.
Sayid asks Desmond for his boat, telling him he wants to get to the opposite side quickly. Desmond asks if he's going to see "the hostiles", then adds ignorance is bliss when Sayid starts asking questions. He tells him the boat's all his. Sayid says he needs a sailor, Desmond tells him to find one. He asks Jin (via Sun) and she wants to go too. Sayid is reluctant, but agrees. They pass the remains of a statue on the coast- the bottom half of a leg with four toes. Eventually, the see the rock with the hole.
Desmond sees Claire using his injections and asks about Aaron. He suggests the father did what was best for the baby, knowing he'd be a bad father. She says he did what was best for him.
Charlie catches John crying, and informs him of Desmonds arrival. John catches up with a blotto Desmond, asking him for the punchline (smells like carrots). They share a drink and John tells him about the film at the Pearl. He tells him to sober up so they can find out what happens when the button isn't pushed.
Eko gets distracted by some flickering lights to discover a fuse has been removed. Suddenly, the countdown starts and the lockdown begins again. Eko doesn't get to John and Desmond in time as they lock themselves in. Desmond had initiated the sequence from a wire box. They agree to sit and wait, while Eko begs him not to do this. John says he's never been so sure about anything.
Eko escapes from the original hatch and asks Charlie to help him get back in, saying everyone on the island will die.

Episode 24. Live Together, Die Alone (Part 2)
Flashbacks: Desmond initiates a lockdown through the power box and watches Kelvin finish Radzinsky's invisible map. He finally finds out Radzinsky shot himself. Desmond asks if he can go outside next time they need to, as it's been two years. He refuses. Desmond wakes to the beeping sound, and pushed the button with seconds to spare. He finds Kelvin underneath, at the fail-safe. He says that the incident was a leak of electromagnetism, and the button releases the charge in harmless doses before it builds too big. The fail-safe would release it all at once. He's considered it, but can't do it. When Desmond notices a rip in Kelvin's suit, he secretly follows him outside. Kelvin removes his mask and heads for the coast. Kelvin catches him and reveals he's been fixing Desmond's boat. They fight, Kelvin is accidentally killed. Desmond dashes back to the hatch too late, the heiroglyphics have appeared and metal things start flying around, with a voice and the screen repeating "system failure". He enters the code and the situation calms. He opens the book to find a letter from Penny, saying she'll wait for him. He cries, saying it's all gone, throwing objects around- when he hears a banging and a man's voice. He turns on a light and sees a man -Locke- through the hatch above.

Charlie leads Eko to the dynamite, and he places it by the blast door. Charlie shouts a warning in to John, but Desmond calmy tells him the door will hold. Charlie asks Eko what if John's right? Eko throws Charlie's belt at the wall, where it sticks, magnetised. He runs as the dynamite goes off, but the explosion follows him. Desmond wonders if they blew themselves up, questioning whether John is testing his faith. He says he did, and believed. But it got a kid killed (Boone) and he pleaded for a sign when Desmond turned his light on. He believed it was a sign when it was probably just Desmond just going to the bathroom. He reiterates the Pearl story, and Desmond wonders if he's interpreted backwards; were the Pearl stationers the subjects of the psychological experiment? John shows him the printouts Eko took from the Pearl. Desmond finds the date of the system failure was the date of the plane crash- he says he thinks he crashed their plane.
Sayid checks out the others' camp, but it's empty, even their hatch.
Jack etc find the Pearl station's notebooks in a heap in the middle of nowhere. Kate opens one and reads it. Then they see the pillar of black smoke- supposedly Sayid's signal, but they're nowhere near the coast. Jack asks Michael where he's taking them, but as he protests, they hear whispers around them. Sawyer is shot with a dart, Jack tells them to run. Kate is shot and Jack fires into the bushes, but they get captured by the others. They are taken to a jetty. Kate tells the bearded man they know his beard is fake. His name is Tom, he takes it off, calling Klugh, "Bea". A motorboat arrives, "Henry" gets out. He says to Michael, "let's get down to business".
With 30 seconds to go, Desmond says he's going to push the button, Locke smashes the monitor. Desmond says "you've killed us all", opens the blast doors and runs off to get his Dickens book. Charlie asks for help with an unconscious Eko, he says he's trying. He opens the book, Kelvin's fail-safe key is in the back. He tells John that he saved his life so that he could save John's. He disappears down to the fail-safe and tells John to get as far away as he can. Eko wakes as the system failure starts, but he pushes Charlie out to safety and runs in for John, as metallic debris flies all around. Even the countdown clock crushes as Locke tells Eko "I was wrong". Desmond thinks of Penny as he turns the key. Everything goes white.
On the jetty they hear a loud mechanical groan that makes them cover their ears and the earth shakes. The sky turns purple and white for everyone on the island, even those on the boat, then soon subsides to nothing. The hatch door marked "quarantine" falls from the sky, landing on the beach near Claire, Aaron and Bernard. The clear-up begins in the camp as Charlie arrives, but nobody knows where Locke and Eko are.
"Henry" tells Michael he wasn't happy with the deal made, but he was true to his word, so they'll be true to theirs. They got more than they bargained for with Walt, anyway. He tells him to follows bearing and they'll get rescue. He won't be able to get back, and wouldn't want to get out what he did to get his son back. After a reassurance that his friends won't be hurt, he asks who they are. "We're the good guys, Michael". He is told Walt is in the boat, so gets in and they are reunited. He tells him they're going home.
Hurley is sent back to camp, with a warning for them to never come here. His friends (Jack, Kate & Sawyer) are going with them. Jack nods for him to go. They watch Michael and Walt leave. Jack and Kate look at each other as their heads are covered with sacks.
Claire asks Charlie what happened, but he plays the sympathy card. They kiss.
A couple of Portuguese-speaking scientists are at one of the Poles. They receive an alert of an electromagnetic event. They call Penny Whidmore, saying they think they've found it.