So Lost season four starts and we’re straight back to a recap of events on the island from season three’s finale.
– Not Penny’s boat. Charlie sacrifices himself in order to pass on this most important message to Desmond.
– Locke kills Naomi. After his strange encounter with Walt he’s under the same impression that Ben is that the boat people are not who they say they are.
Great fake out with Hurley’s Camaro crashing through the pile of mangoes as we are no longer on the island we are indeed in another flash forward, but Jack seems less far gone so it would suggest that it’s not quite as far in the future as season three’s finale was.
I’m one of the Oceanic Six!
Which begs the question which six people made it off the island? Jack, Kate and Hurley for sure, but as Kate is a fugitive perhaps her presence off-island in the future is not widely known. So Kate cannot be confirmed as one of the six.
The detective that’s interviewing Hurley is Ana-Lucia’s former partner and has no idea that she survived the crash, Hurley claims not to have known her at all. The implication here is that the outside world thinks that other than the Oceanic Six everyone on the plane died in the crash and for some reason the six that made it back are not telling the truth.
Hurley’s having visions and wants to return to the nuthouse. Charlie is telling him that ‘They need him’, which they is it the other survivors who are left on the island?
Hurley’s cannonball is one of unparalleled joy and by the look of the flashforward is the last moment of happiness for poor Hurley. Not sure why he thinks all his money will be gone upon his return though as he’s only been missing a relatively short period of time and so couldn’t have been declared dead yet.
Naomi’s not dead!
Matthew Abaddon looks evil from the very moment that he smiles and waves at Hurley and learning what his name is just confirms that suspicion. Though he claims to be a lawyer for Oceanic I have a feeling he’s not but if not then who does he work for. No business cards just seems like a signal to the audience that he ain’t what he claims to be surely because all the major players certainly have the resources to fake a few business cards. “Are they still alive?” Who does he mean?
Given Hurley’s character I’m sure the only reason he’d not tell the truth about the crash would be so he could protect those who were left behind on the island.
Nice caring moment with Sawyer checking on Hurley to make sure he’s okay but the Hurley gets good and lost on the trek from the beach and we get some spooky shit with the whispers in the jungle and Hurley encounters Jacob’s cabin. Is that Christian Shephard in the rocking chair?
“Tell my sister that I love her” is surely as coded message from Naomi to the freighter for “These crazy Oceanic survivors have killed me!”
How does Locke know about Charlie’s message and death? Has he been tracking the beach party and eavesdropping on them.
Charlie finally catches up with Hurley at the nuthouse and he isn’t merely a hallucination as another patient saw him. He is dead but he’s also here. Is Charlie a creation of the Island? And if he is then the Island has an ability to project well beyond itself. He has a message for Hurley he needs to return.
Jack would have killed Locke had the gun been loaded.
Powerful moment when Hurley rejects Jack’s leadership to join Locke and in doing so he initiates the split in the group and Sawyer joins Locke too. This is interesting as we know that members of both groups make it off the island but it is only Jack’s that intends to meet with the people from the freighter.
The final flashforward reveals a lot as Jack says he’s thinking of growing a beard and at the moment does not want to ever return to the Island even though Hurley does since receiving Charlie’s message. So this flashforward takes place before that of the season three finale and consequently something significant has to happen to Jack other than the growing of a beard to see him start drinking heavily again and to want to return to the Island.
