Top Lost Season 5 Moments

The second to last chapter in my favorite moments of Lost. We arrive at season 5, where we follow two groups: there are those fateful six who escaped the Island as destiny comes knocking for them to return three years later, and in the past those left behind on the Island suffer problems far beyond ordinary. Here we go again.

SPOILERS

Hurley's Explanation

"Now this bad stuff is happening because we shouldn't have lied." - Hurley

After the six escaped the Island and took Locke's advice to lie about everything that had happened, the only one who was against this plan was Hurley. He just didn't think it was right to lie and leave everyone else behind. Cut to three years later, after Hurley is wanted for murders that Sayid committed while rescuing him, he has a tearful moment with his concerned mother. Hurley tells her about the lie and then, in a moment that is supposed to be emotional and funny I assume, he summarizes everything that happened on The Island from his perspective. He describes it all the way Hurley usually does things: like a real person. Seriously, all along Hurley has been the most metafictional character in the show; just about everything he says in season 6 is a little wink and giggle to the audience. He tells his mother every crazy thing worth mentioning (except maybe the polar bears) and she tells him: "I believe you. I don't understand you, but I believe you." I thought this was just a great scene, and early on in the season too.

9. Kate says goodbye

"Bye bye, baby!" - Kate

After leaving the Island with Claire's baby, Aaron, Kate took it upon herself to raise the child. Over the next three years she gets used to being a stay-at-home mom and loves Aaron like he was her own. But during Ben's mission to get those who left back to The Island, Kate found many forces trying to pull her and Aaron apart and expose their lie. Kate soon realized that despite everything, she was not Aaron's mother. A friend points out that she took responsibility for him out of grief when Sawyer stayed behind on the Island. And so, she gave Aaron to Claire's mother and told her the truth about what happened to Claire and also her intention of going back to the Island to get Claire back. After this, Kate has one of her most emotional moments ever over the sleeping boy. In tears and pain, she gently took notice of every detail of him and said goodbye. This scene was just heartbreaking. One of Kate's best scenes.

8. Ben's judgement

"Oh Alex, I'm so sorry." - Ben

Ben lies to the "resurrected" John Locke on the Island and tells him he came back to be judged. Ben in actuality was coming back to reassume power, but Locke was insistant on helping Ben in his quest for judgement. They found the temple wall, and the two went underneath. Ben fell through a hole in the floor and Locke claimed to be going to find a way to get him out. Ben continued on down below. He found a large room, fully of writing and drawings on the wall. He summoned The Monster it would seem, the judge in this situation. The Monster engulfed Ben in the smoke and showed him images from his life with Alex, the girl he raised as a daughter. From the moment he took responsibility for her as an infant to the moment he watched her get gunned down. Ben was racked with anguish over the selfish sacrifices he made for power. The smoke vanishes soon enough. Then, when he is totally vulnerable, an apparition of Alex appears before Ben. She is calm at first as he tries to beg for forgiveness, then on a dime she attacks him. She states her knowledge of his plan to kill Locke again and tells him to instead follow his every word if he enjoys living. He agrees, she disappears, and he breaks down in tears of horror and sadness. Finding Locke later (wonder where he was?), Ben states simply: "It let me live." This was another rare and powerful moment where Ben was at his lowest and out of his shell. A point where he can't hide what a small and sad man he is. We felt like Ben in this scene, saddened and terrified all at once.

7. Jack vs. Sawyer

"You think you can do whatever you want?!" - Sawyer

When Jack is about to change the lives of everyone by detenonating a nuclear bomb at the Hatch construction site of 1977, Sawyer takes Jack aside and has a talk with him. Sawyer has made a life for himself in the '70s Dharma Initiative and is happy. He doesn't want Jack to ruin that and everything else. Sawyer tries to reason with Jack that what's done is done and asks him what he wants out of all of this. Jack claims that his failure at making a life with Kate is the main reason, and that it is too late to do anything about it accept set off the change the past thereby altering the future (er, I mean present. Confusing!) Realizing Jack has "gone Locke" and won't listen to reason, Sawyer proceeds to knock him silly. They have a pretty good fist fight that gets them both bloody and bashed real bad. Sawyer finally gets the upperhand and demands that Jack stop. He won't, so Sawyer proceeds to tearfully pummell Jack senseless. He is only saved when Juliet comes along and stops the fight. I loves me some fights on Lost, be it with guns or fists. This is one of the best by far. I also loved the turn around here. Sawyer and Jack here are almost totally different than when they first met: Jack was the man of reason who resorted to violence when all else failed, and Sawyer was the rebel troublemaker who wouldn't give up. It's a great scene.

6. The end of John Locke

"I don't understand." - Locke's last thought, apparently

John Locke used Jacob's magic wheel in the ground to get off of the Island three years into the future. He found himself in the Tunisian desert with a broken leg and a camera monitor staring him down. He was later picked up by locals who treated his wound. Locke is approached by then enemy Charles Widmore who claims that he is on Locke's side, that Locke is very crucial to what will soon happen on the Island, and that he will help Locke bring the ones who left the Island back. Locke is chauffered all across the world by Matthew Abbadon, Widmore's employee who is also the same who told Locke to go on a walkabout in the past. Locke finds just about everyone and tries to convince them to come back but they won't listen to him. He even meets Walt, whom he doesn't ask to come back. Walt says he had a dream where Locke was on the Island surrounded by people who wanted to hurt him. Locke also tries to find Helen, the woman he loved and lost. She died of cancer however awhile a few years prior, however. After his failure to get anyone to come back with him, Locke decides to commit suicide in a last ditch effort to unite the former castaways. Ben shows up just in time though. He claims Widmore manipulated him and asks Locke to let him help. Locke listens and does stop. Ben says Jack was convinced by what Locke told him and that he has started flying planes. The two begin discussing how they are going to get everyone back. Once Ben has enough information about Locke's mission, he strangles him violently and then manipulates the murder to look like a suicide. As he leaves, Ben says he will miss him. This was not quite the epic death I had predicted Locke to have: being choked to death in a cheap Los Angeles motel, but I guess I should have seen it coming. It's fitting I guess that Ben would be the one to kill him. They were always rivals, maybe even moreso than with Jack. This was sad seeing. John was my favorite character and this was the last time we see him, I mean really see him in all of his Locke-ness.

5. The merry adventures of Sayid and Little Ben

"You're a killer, Sayid." - Ben

A little boy in 1970s Iraq was asked to kill a chicken to feed his family. He couldn't do it, so his little brother quickly killed the chicken to help him. The father praised his other, stronger son. The brother's name was Sayid Jarrah. Sayid spent most of his time off the Island as Ben's personal assassin, killing employees of Charles Widmore apparently. He did this out of debt for Ben's help in finding the man who killed Sayid's true love Nadia. Eventually after god knows how many murders, Ben claimed there were no more people to kill, he had done well, and said goodbye and have a nice life. But there was no life to go back to really. Ben showed up again later, asking Sayid to kill an operative spying on Hurley. When Sayid declines, sly Ben remarks on the fact that all of the violent things Sayid has done in his life were in his nature to begin with. Sayid can't argue with it seems, as he does kill the man watching Hurley. When he is brought back to the Island of the 1970s, Sayid is captured by the Dharma Initiative and mistaken for one of The Others. Sayid doesn't know what to do until he meets a little boy who brings him food. A boy named Ben Linus. Sayid comforts young Ben as his father verbally and physically abuses him. He convinces the sly kid to release him so they can run away and join The Others. Once they are in the jungle, Sayid gets a hold of a gun. He stares at morosely. He tells unsuspecting litle Ben future Ben was right about him. "I am a killer." Sayid says right before he shoots the 12 year old boy in the chest. Overcome with horror and sadness (even if it was Ben it was still a kid), Sayid runs off into the night. Though I kind of knew this would happen the moment Ben introduced himself to his future self's enemy, I was still shocked. I remember I thought it was ballsy when they shot sixteen-year-old Alex in the back of the head last scene, but this was quite a step further. I mean, sheesh!

"Locke" and Ben discuss killing Jacob

Once he is "alive" on the Island, John Locke was just as confident and mysterious as he was at the series' beginning. He eventually found The Others, assumed leadership, and set out to find Jacob with everyone else. He says intends to find out why they are being led by Jacob and get questions answered. However, Locke tells Ben that he is going to kill Jacob. Not only that, but he wants Ben to do it for him. Ben is especially shocked at this. When he asks Locke why he wants him to do it, Locke unsympathetically reminds Ben of all he endured in his service to Jacob: getting cancer, watching his daughter die, his banishment from the Island. And then asks "Why the hell wouldn't you want to kill Jacob." Ben is left with a lot to think about. Maybe there were a lot more epic and interesting things going on in the 1977 timeline, but I found the 2007 timeline to be much more intriguing after this. I was dying of anticipation.

3. Jack's wrinkle in time/the battle for change

"This is our destiny." - Jack

Jack made a transition here in season 5 from being the man of science we've known and loved throughout the series to being the man of faith he has opposed and rebelled against for so long. After Daniel Faraday lays down the knowledge on what they have to do, Jack is all for it. The plan is dig up an old nuke buried on the Island in the '50s, bring it to the site of the Swan Hatch where the intense pocket electromagnetism lies dorment, drop the bomb in, it goes off, and everything that happened to them will be erased and flight 815 of 2004 will land safely in Los Angeles and never crash on the Island. Jack sees it as a way out. A way to negate all of the terrible things that have happened since they crashed on the Island. A way to save all of those he couldn't save. He believed he would make things right. That this was his true destiny. After some arguement with his friends, Jack was finally allowed to make his way to the hatch construction site where he faces armed Dharma folks. Just when he is about to be shot down, his friends (Kate, Sawyer, Juliet, and Miles) show up and go to war with the DI of the past. After all the security team is dead or captured, Jack drops the bomb down the shaft to the EM pocket. The castaways wait to be erased and the new future to flourish. AND THEN.....nothing happens. Then all of a sudden the pocket is struck and everything metal starts to be dragged down the hatch. Jack gets knocked out with a toolbox (tee hee.) Juliet gets caught in a bunch of chains and pulled the hatch with everything else. Sawyer, her lover for three years, tries to save her but it is too late. After her body is almost completely broken at the bottom of the shaft, Juliet sees the bomb. She grabs a rock and desperately tries to smash it open. The series ends with one last knock on the bomb, a boom, and a bright flash. Then only the title card: LOST. Nuff said.

2. All of Jacob's flashbacks

"It only ends once, anything that happens before that is just progress." - Jacob

I couldn't possibly pick one of these flashbacks because they were all golden in my opinion. Except Ilana's flashback, I didn't think there was much to that. Here he is at last. The man behind the curtain. Jacob. He is the mysterious unseen Island deity.

JACOB AND SOME GUY

We see at first munching on a roasting fish on the Island beach. He watches as an 1800s ship (The Black Rock?) draws close a few miles off in the water. A man dressed in black comes along and sits with him. He doesn't seem too happy about Jacob bringing people to the Island. Apparently there is a disagreement between the two as The Man in Black believes that all outsiders do is destroy and corrupt, while Jacob believes they can be good. After hearing just a little bit of Jacob's philosophy (something we sense he has had to hear for a long time), The Man in Black states his intention of killing Jacob, he can't do it himself, and he will find a "loophole" someday. Jacob doesn't seemed too fazed by this. The Man in Black leaves as we see they were sat beside the foot statue, but there was more than a foot there this time.

JACOB TRAVELS FOR BUSINESS NOT PLEASURE

We see Jacob in many different points in time all over the world it would seem. At each of these points he is meeting a few of the castaways before they were castaways. He finds Kate Austin as a little girl in Iowa stealing a New Kids on the Block lunchbox and pays for it so she won't get in trouble. He taps her nose cheerfully and leaves. He finds eight-year-old James Ford at his parents funeral in Alabama and gives him a pen to help him write a revenge letter to "Mr. Sawyer." He brushes his fingers as he hands the pen over, gives his condolences, and leaves. He shows up at Jin and Sun's wedding in Korea, wishing them well in their marriage, while laying a hand on their arms. He finds Sayid Jarrah with his wife Nadia. He taps on his shoulder asking for directions as Nadia is struck by a car and killed. He shows up outside of Hugo Reyes' prison awhile before the Oceanic Six returned to the Island. Jacob says he should think of his ability to commune with the dead as a gift and not a curse, tapping his chest while speaking. He leaves, giving Hurley a mysterious guitarcase. He shows up and helps Jack retrieve an Apollo bar from a hospital vending machine, brushing his hand as he gives it to him. Jacob is then seen reading a Flannery O'Conner book on a bench when a man falls from a window eight stories up. The man is of course John Locke, who lies unconscious or dead. Jacob walks over, grips his shoulder and John awakens shocked. Jacob reassures him that everything will be alright, and that he is sorry this happened. He leaves.

Quite simply this was all just very unique and gave me a lot to think about. For an episode that introduces the most mysterious character on the show and kills him almost immediately, we get a lot to wrap our heads around.

1. The death of Jacob/The rise of The Man in Black

"I guess you found your loophole." - Jacob

Anyone who is anyone knew right off when he returned to life on the Island that there was something wrong with John Locke. He was more confident, too confident. I felt what Sawyer says later on, "Locke was scared, even when he was pretending he wasn't." The thought occured that maybe he had some kind of knowledge from whatever afterlife awaited in him and total confidence in every action he took. But when he revealed his plan to kill Jacob, I knew he was way too different. Locke and Ben arrive at what's left of the Egyptian Statue and enter it to meet and Jacob and kill him, unbeknownest to Richard and The Others. Outside, a group of Jacob's bodyguards arrive and open up a box they've hauled around for awhile. Inside is revealed to be a body. John Locke's body. While everyone outside just looks in horror. Ben and the man posing as Locke greet a disappointed looking Jacob. "Locke" and Jacob makes it pretty clear they know each other. It becomes apparent that this man is actually The Man in Black from Jacob's first flashback. He has taken the appearance of John Locke to get to him and used Locke to manipulate everyone, especially the very confused Ben. Jacob tries to persuade Ben to leave and let them talk. Then Ben gives a very emotional speech of how he spent the majority of his life on the Island doing Jacob's bidding and was never allowed to see him. He demands to know why Locke was so much more special, he asks: "What about me?!" Jacob, sadly fatalistic, asks back, almost as if to test him: "What about you?" After the shock wears off, Ben furiously stabs him. Jacob falls over dying and whispers to The Man in Black: "They're coming." After a moment of alarm, The Man in Black kicks Jacob into the fire and watches him burn. Now that is a great cliffhanger. I'm still not quite sure "who" is coming, maybe the castaways from the past. This whole thing here just gave me a lot to look forward to. Especially some elaboration on the new antagonist, the man evil enough to take the shape of my fav character. The Man in Black.

But that's a story for the next chapter in my top Lost moments. Thanks for reading.