Because You Left

BRAHMA

If the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.

Far or forgot to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanish'd gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.

They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

The strong gods pine for my abode,
And pine in vain the sacred Seven;
But thou, meek lover of the good!
Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.


Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"Yeah it did. Right before it crapped gold."

LIVE TOGETHER, DIE ALONE

Jack, Sayid, and Sawyer swim out to the boat and find a very drunk Desmond below deck. Desmond tells Jack about his two week journey. Desmond says the island is a “bloody snow globe” because he could not sail away from the island.



Flashbacks center on Desmond, the first time a non crash survivor is featured. We never find out exactly why Desmond was in jail or dishonorably discharged but the flashback begins with him being released from prison. The guard says that Desmond’s intentions of reading “Our Mutual Friend” right before he dies is a good idea, if you know when you are going to die. I found that an interesting statement. Maybe Desmond does know when he is going to die.



Widmore makes his first appearance and tries to buy off Desmond.



Sayid tells Jack the plan he has come up with involving Desmond's boat.



Eko is added to the list of people who say “You cannot tell me what to do.” after Locke tells him that he wants to see what happens when the button does not get pushed.



So exactly why were those four people on the list that Michael had to bring with him? Why did the others want those four specifically?



It would seem that Desmond knows something about the “hostiles” but nobody takes the time to ask him about it?



Desmond meets Libby and she gives him the boat. Is this meeting before or after her little stay in the mental institute? Who was Libby’s husband? His name was David that’s all we know. Couldn‘t have anything to do with Hurley‘s imaginary friend Dave could it? She says he got sick but how did he die? Libby’s story confirms that her full name is Elizabeth the boat is also named Elizabeth.



Sayid gets Jin and Sun’s help on the boat.



Hurley bird!



Michael realizes Jack may be on to him when he discovers that his gun doesn’t have any bullets in it.



Charlie finds Locke in the jungle crying and informs him that Desmond has returned.



Desmond tells Claire that the vaccine is for nothing, but is it really?



Penny does a lot of foreshadowing when she tells Desmond that with determination and a lot of money you can find anybody. She's right.



Locke’s interpretation of the Pearl orientation video is wrong.



Four toed statue, what’s up wid dat? Actually here are a couple theories. In keeping with the idea of Egypt (the mysterious hieroglyphics on the timer), the four toed statue could be that of the Egyptian god "Bes", half lion half dwarf. This could be possible considering lions only have four toes on their hind legs (the statue appearing to be standing). "Bes" just happens to be the protector of pregnant women, newborn babies and family, a somewhat re-occurring theme throughout LOST. Or, theory (B) - Part of the DHARMA Initiatives work was to create the fiction of an ancient civilization, and they created the foot as a false remnant of a statue.



As Desmond and Locke lock Eko out of the hatch, the flashback shows how Desmond got to the island. Inman, the man in Sayid’s flashbacks, is now on the island working for DHARMA. Who was Radzinski and why did he take pieces out of the film?



Jack forces Michael to come clean about everything and Jack tells the rest of the group that he would not have brought them out there if he didn’t have a plan.



Eko brings dynamite back to the hatch.



Kelvin works on the blast door map and he tells Desmond how Radzinski killed himself. He also tells Desmond he left the Army because men followed his orders. After he left the army he joined the DHARMA initiative. Then he tells Desmond about the failsafe key. “Turn the key and it all goes away.”



Sayid finds the bogus hatch and camp.



Jack’s group finds the pneumatic tube sticking out of the ground and a pile of notebooks. An extract, read by Kate, of one of the notebooks reads:

0400. S.R. moves Ping-Pong table again.

0415. Takes a shower. (Possible that “S.R.” is Radzinski? Or “Swan Resident”?)

This is proof enough for me that the hatch that is just a psychological experiment is in fact the Pearl, not the Swan, as Locke thinks.



The whispers return and there is those neat-o zappy things.



Desmond is suspicious when he spots the rip in Kelvin’s containment suit and follows him outside. Desmond realizes that there never was any danger in leaving the hatch without a containment suit. Then he sees his boat and Kelvin tells Desmond the plan to leave the island.



Desmond accidentally kills Kelvin then takes the failsafe key and hauls ass back to the hatch. Inside the hatch the timer has reached zero and the intercom announces “System Failure” as the hieroglyphics fill in the spots where the numbers were in the timer.



Everything goes ape shit for a few seconds before Desmond gets the numbers put into the computer. This also tells us that Ben was indeed lying to Locke when he told him he didn’t push the button



As Desmond looks over the printout from the Pearl hatch he notices that the day he didn’t push the button on time was the same day that the plane crashed on the island.



Kate tells Mr. Friendly that she knows the beards are fake. Ben shows up and tells Michael that they need to take care of business.



Desmond opens the blast doors after Locke trashes the computer and goes out to get the failsafe key. Desmond finds Penny’s letter inside “Our Mutual Friend”. In Desmond’s darkest hour, he was apparently ready to kill himself, John Locke ended up being his saving grace the night Boone died.



Desmond tells Locke that it’s all real. He says that he has to go blow up the dam and make it all go away. He leaves John with his trademark line, “See ya in another life brutha.”



As before, things once again go bananas inside the hatch. Eko tells Charlie to go back to the beach as Eko goes to look for Locke. Locke tells Eko he was wrong as the hatch continues to implode.



Desmond turns the failsafe key and the sky turns purple and there is the "noise".



Listen as Ben tells Michael that the others got more than they bargained for when Walt decided to join them. When did Walt “decide to join” the others? Ben tells Michael to follow a compass bearing of 325 to find rescue. He also tells Michael he will never be able to go back to the island even if he wanted to. He ends the conversation by telling Michael that the Others are the “good guys”.



The Others allow Hurley to go back to his camp so he can deliver the message that the survivors can never coming back to this side of the island.



Sawyer, Jack, and Kate get bags over their heads. It almost seemed that right before they put the bags over their heads that there might still be more to the plan Jack had talked about. Notice Jack’s little head nod. What was that all about? Was it his just trying to tell Kate it would be alright?



Claire and Charlie share a kiss as they reform their bond.



In a very snowy place, (like a snow globe) two Portuguese speaking men are playing a game of chess. There is a blip on their computer that shows the location of a magnetic anomaly.



One of the men makes a phone call to Penelope Widmore and tells her they think they found “it” as season two comes to a close.

"You want me, hot lips?"

?

Eko sees Ana Lucia in a dream or maybe it's safe to call them visions. Ana tells Eko he needs to help John. Eko tells Ana that he was told, also in a dream, that he was to build a church.



The vision continues as Eko sees Yemi in the hatch and he tells Eko that the work that is being done there (pushing the button) is very important. Yemi also tells Eko that he must help John and make him take Eko to the "?".



Eko gets a small preview of what happens if the button is not pushed as the hatch begins to shake after the numbers all turn to "?".



Ana, back in the hatch (and not in a dream) is very much dead. Libby, on the other hand is not, which throws a monkey wrench in Michael's plans. He is worried she could tell what really happened.



Eko is in Australia in the flashback investigating the miracle of a drowned girl who come back from the dead. The girl is the daughter of the psychic, Malkin, that Claire went to see about her baby. Eko is referred to as "Father Tunde," although it is unclear as to whether this was his true surname or an assumed name.



After some persuasion Locke agrees to take Eko to the "?".



On the tape that the coroner plays for Eko the dead girl, Charlotte suddenly comes back to life and the whispers can be heard. Also she can be heard screaming, “Let John Locke go!”.



Kate and Sawyer break the news to Hurley about Libby.



Locke has a vision, in the vision Locke is Eko, and Yemi visits again.



Malkin tells Eko that he is a fraud as a psychic and that his daughter was never dead. There was never a miracle.



Eko climbs up to where the drug plane was first found by Locke and Boone and he sees the "?". It is explained that the "?" was formed by the earth being salted so that nothing would grow. Is that because the Peal hatch was hard to find otherwise?



Locke and Eko find the Pearl station. Inside, the Swan station can be seen on one of the TVs. There is the pneumatic tube as well as notebooks that all fit into the elaborate plan explained on the orientation video inside of the Pearl.



Wickmund seems younger in this video and he also seems to have both of his arms instead of just one like in the Swan film. Wickmund’s comments seem to suggest that the Swan station is really all a big psychological experiment and what is really going on with the button is all for nothing. It seems, to me at least, like their may be missing pieces from this video as well.



Locke looses his faith and he believes the Swan button is just a joke. Eko tells Locke that he believes that the button must still be pushed because he believes that is what they are supposed to do.



At the airport in Australia, Malkin’s daughter comes to see Eko and tells him that she saw Yemi when she was dead and that he sent a message for Eko. The message is that Eko was a good priest, Yemi has faith in Eko, and that he would be seeing him very soon.



Back in the hatch, Libby tries to tell Jack and Hurley the truth about Michael but she dies before she can.



Her death marks one of the saddest moments of the show.



THREE MINUTES

The events that occured while Michael was away looking for Walt are shown in this episode.



TPTB tried to play the sympathy card with Michael when they have him clean up the blood in the hatch. Michael wanted to know about Hell when talking to Mr. Eko, in other words, he wanted to know if he would be forgiven for his betrayal.



Is the vaccine Charlie finds the same vaccine Desmond is shown using as well as the one at the medical hatch and is it actually for anything?



Turns out the “light ‘em up“ trick that Mr. Friendly used was a sham after all, Jack was right.



Eko takes over the responsibility of pushing the button.



What was the deal with the area that the others took Michael? Was it a real hatch? Why did they take blood from him? After taking a sample of Michael's blood, Pickett tells him, "See you in the funny pages.". This is a direct reference to a line spoken by The Comedian in the graphic novel Watchmen.



Ms. Klugh asks some interesting questions about Walt. The most interesting being the question about Walt appearing in places he wasn’t supposed to be. Ms. Klugh says the same thing to Michael about not knowing much about his son as the lawyer said to him at the custody hearing.



As Charlie continues to build the church Eko and he began, Vincent brings him a heroin statue. This time, Charlie is smart enough to get rid of all the heroin.



Sawyer and Jack have another of their “frenemies” relationship building chats. Sawyer tells Jack that Jack is as close to a friend that Sawyer has on the island and that he "screwed" Ana Lucia. Jack tells Sawyer about Kate and him getting caught in a net.



Why couldn’t the others go after Ben themselves? Walt tells Michael that the others make him take tests. When Michael asks him what kind of tests, Klugh cuts off the visit.



Walt adds that the others are not what they seem and that they are pretending. In an attempt to make Walt stop she threatens him by saying. “Do you want me to put you in the room again?”.



Klugh gives Michael the list of names that he must bring back with him.



Sayid tells Jack how he feels about Michael and the plan.



Hurley’s sad goodbye speech at Libby’s gravesite causes Claire to give Charlie one more chance.



Just after Libby is buried, in a twist of irony, her old sailboat appears off-shore.