LOST 6.14- The Candidate

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"Because it's going to be you, Jack."

  Holy flurking snit! I guess shit is really happening now, isn't it? Wow, what a tremendous episode.

 SAY-FUCKING-ID!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     I KNEW that Sayid would redeem himself. And he did it such grand fashion. It was such a Sayid moment, "Listen to me very carefully..." But I'm getting ahead of myself.

 We open in the A/R this episode, so let's get that out of the way. Jack tells John that he thinks John is (gasp!) a "a candidate"...For what ? For magical spinal surgery...John refuses. Jack ain't having it. "I could fix you."

  Jack goes to see Locke's dentist(BERNARD!!) Jack is clearly thrown by the fact that Bernard was also on Oceanic 815(I loved that Bernard said Jack was hitting on Rose while Bernard was in the bathroom).Jack went to see Bernard to try and find out what happened to put Locke in the wheelchair. Bernard remembered that there was someone else in the crash with Locke...Anthony Cooper.(gasp!) Jack seemed a little surprised that Bernard remembered that fact, and Cooper's name. Bernard then tells Jack that he hopes " you find what you're looking for."
 
  Is it just me, or did Bernard seem to know more about what was going on? Are we to think he has already had flashes of the crash?

  Jack goes to see Anthony Cooper, and runs into Locke's fiancée Helen, who asks him to just leave it alone and go. she akss why it can't be enough that he saved Locke's life, and Jack says "Because it's not." Helen then brings him in to meet Anthony Cooper, and he is in a comatose state.

  Jack goes back to see Locke, and while Locke is sleeping, he says "Push the button" and "I wish you believed me."
  Claire comes to see jack about the music box that their father left her...It plays "Catch A Falling Star" which triggered(for me, anyway) a flashback to the great scene of Crazy Claire, Zombie Sayid and Kate walking through the devastation at the temple...Creepy.
  Jack finds out the Claire was ALSO on Oceanic 815...He seems to be coming slightly unglued by all of these "coincidences". he invites Claire to stay at his house, because they are not strangers, they are family.

  Jack then sees Locke as he is leaving the hospital(after Jin passes by Locke, and Locke seems to recognize him, if only for a second) and Locke finally tells jack that he crashed a plane with him and his dad in it, and it was his fault that his Dad was comatose. Jack tries to convince Locke that he has to "let go". He says that "what happened, happened".
  As Locke is leaving, Jack says that He could "fix" Locke, and "I wish you believed me."

   ISLAND

  Jack wakes up in a raft on the beach with Sayid. And Sayid seems to make a little joke("At least you didn't have to paddle.").

  Widmore puts Sawyer, Kate, Hugo, Lapidus and the Kwons into the Hydra cages. He says that he is doing this for their own good. When Sawyer grabs the rifle from one of the henchman("Doughboy"-ha!), Widmore puts a gun to Kate's head and says he has a list with 4 names on it, Ford, Reyes and the Kwons, so he doesn't care what happens to Kate. Sawyer relents and reveals to Kate that her name was crossed out in the cave.

  Locke tells Jack that they have to save "your people" from Widmore. Jack says that they are not "his People", and that he is not leaving the Island. Flocke tells Jack that he could kill everyone of them right now, but he doesn't because he wants them to get off the island. He is a lying liar who lies!!!!

   The power goes down at the Hydra camp where Widmore is. A brief aside for a small nitpick..Why didn't they have someone guarding the generator? And if they did and Sayid killed them, why didn't we see that? Not a HUGE deal, but still.

  Anywjo, the power goes off at the Hydra camp, and we start to hear the familiar click that means Smokey is coming...Hurley: "And we're dead."

  But Jack shows up and lets them out, saying "I'm with Him", and gesturing towards Smokey.They run and meet up with Sayid.

  Locke goes to the plane and kills the people guarding it, and takes something off of the plane- C4. Widmore was going to blow up the plane.Flocke theorizes that Widmore wanted to get "everyone into a confined space" and kill them all by blowing them up. he thinks the sub is now the safer way to leave.

  I was thinking that the c-4 was Widmore's "last defense". If Flocke managed to get on the plane, it would blow up.

  They all head to the sub, Sawyer pulls Jack aside and asks him to keep Flocke off the sub. Jack says he'll do what he can. They get to the sub, Sawyer leads the first group, and they reach it easily( a little TOO easily for my taste).The rest go in a second group, and Jack and Locke bring up the rear. Locke hands Jack a back pack(and I swear, I said to My Special Lady-"Did Flocke just give him the bomb?")

   As Flocke and Jack are walking to the sub, Flocke asks Jack why he feels he needs to stay on the Island, and Jack says, "John Locke told me I needed to stay" and then he pushes Flocke into the water. Kate gets shot by Widmore's snipers, and then Flocke and Claire get left on the dock. Flocke tells Claire that she doesn't want to be on that sub. the sub begins diving.

 Jack finds the bomb in his pack("We did exactly what he wanted us to."), and tries to convince everyone that they need to leave it alone, that they will not die(just like Jack and Richard in the Black Rock with the dynamite), because Flocke can't kill them, but he wants them to kill each other. sawyer doesn't listen, and pulls the wires, which speeds up the bomb, and makes it so that Sawyer is actually the one killing them all.

  Sayid then tells Jack that Desmond is in a well, and that Flocke wants him dead, which means that they will need him. Jack says"Why are you telling me this?" And Sayid answers: "Because it's going to be you, Jack." and grabs the bomb and runs away.

  The bomb detonates, Lapidus gets hit by the door and some water, but I'm guessing we might see him again, simply because we didn't actually see him die.

   Hurley gets Kate out. Sun is trapped. Jin, Jack and sawyer try to save her, Sawyer gets knocked out, and then Jack gets Sawyer out. Jin continues to try and free Sun, but he cannot. She implores him to go, but he says he won't leave her again. And they both go down with the sub.

   Jack, Hurley, Kate and Sawyer all end up on the beach. Kate hugs Jack and keeps repeating that she couldn't find him. Hurley finds out about Jin and Sun, and breaks down, as does Jack. Sawyer is still pretty unconscious.
   Flocke tells Claire that the sub sunk. Claire:"So, they're all dead?"
  Flocke(disgustedly)"Not all of them." he walsk off.
  Claire:"Where are you going?"
  Flocke:"To finish what I started."   YIKES!!!!!!

  Okay, so now we know without a doubt that Flocke/MIB is EVIL. the only question is if Widmore and Flocke could still be working together. I kinda doubt it, but I cannot rule it out either. And where are Miles, Alpert and Ben?

 I will admit that I teared up a bit when Sayid went all Anakin/Darth Vader on the bomb AND when Jin and Sun died.

  LOST is really bringing it so far this season. Pretty damn excited(and sad) for the last four and a half hours( apparently, an extra half hour has been added to the series Finale).

  What did I miss ? What do you guys think ?