Widmore, who continues to pass himself off as some sort of hero (and he might be right) puts the Losties in the Hydra bear cages - surely bringing back memories for Sawyer and Kate. But Smokey (it would seem) zaps the sonic fence, and then Jack breaks them out.
After Flocke inspects the Ajira plane, finding some C4 (courtesy of Richard & Co.?) he convinces the others to take the sub. Sawyer and Jack have other ideas, knocking Flocke in the water, knowing his apparent cat-like dislike for H20.
Flocke doesn't seem too perturbed, and after some goons shoot Kate, the others take off in the sub, leaving Flocke and Claire (poor Claire) behind. Unfortunately, as Jack later says, this is exactly what Flocke had wanted. Pulling a Flocke bomb out of a backpack, Jack realizes they are all in one place, ready to be blown up.
But wait, he says, remembering his incident with Richard: nothing will happen. Flocke can't really kill them; they can only kill themselves. Sawyer smells bullshit and de-wires the bomb - causing the timer to speed up.
Sayid, seeming to snap out of his zombie coma courtesy of Desmond, quickly grabs the C4 and tells Jack to go get the Scottie at the bottom of that well - and also notes Jack is "the one." Then Mr. Jarrah went kablammy.
In a Titanic-esque requiem of images, Jack rescues Sawyer while Hurley rescues Kate. Lapidus is knocked unconscious. Jin just can't save Sun, though - her legs are trapped in some pipe. She tells him to go, but he just can't leave her again - apparently not even for their daughter. And so the two hold hands bravely, waiting for their inevitable watery grave. It definitely was reminiscent of Charlie's poetic death, and it was no coincidence the sequence was well directed by Jack Bender, the same helmer of Charlie's sad demise.
Off island, Jack just has to find out why Locke won't agree to a surgical procedure that could restore his ability to walk. He visits Bernard the dentist and is led to John's father, Anthony Cooper, who is shockingly a vegetable in a nursing home.
John later explains that he took his father up in a plane shortly after getting his pilot's license - only to crash, not remembering what he did wrong. As if Terry O'Quinn didn't have that Emmy in the bag, he brought it home in this scene, barely able to get out the words regarding the accident that left his father diminished. It's perfectly ironic that in this world, he has caused his father's plight, and not the other way around.
Tidbits:
-What else did Desmond tell Sayid? Just before his death, did Sayid know about his Sideways life?
-In that last scene on the beach, when Jack gets up off the sand, one half of him is perfectly coated in the sand. He appears half dark and half white. Telling, I think.
-Jin is still alive in the Sideways universe, and so is, presumably, Sun. Maybe they will get a happy ending after all.
-Flocke is pretty manipulative, eh? All this time, he's been lying about not needing to kill the candidates. There's not much question now that he's pure evil, is there?
-Where's Lapidus? Dead or alive? Since there was nothing definitive, I'm going to say alive. 'Cause he's, you know, a pilot and all.
Up next week: a lot more Jacob vs. Flocke mythology. SPOILER ALERT: the episode features almost no regular cast members. Methinks we will get some answers regarding the island. And, of course, more questions. A
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