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"The End" is the two-part series finale of the American serial drama television series Lost, serving as the 17th and 18th episode of the sixth season, and the 120th and 121st episodes of the series overall. It aired on ABC in the United States on May 23, 2010.
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"The End" is the 17th and final episode in Season 6 of Lost, the final episode of the series, and produced hours 120 & 121 (the second hour being extended) of the series as a whole. It was broadcast on May 23, 2010.
This episode was simulcast in many countries. Italy, Ireland, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and the United Kingdom showed the episode at the same time as in the West Coast of the USA. This meant an early morning broadcast in European countries.
Previously on Lost
•Jacob tells Jack of the Light's location and that he has to protect it for as long as he can. Jack replaces Jacob as protector of the Island. ("What They Died For") •Jacob witnesses his brother become the Monster. ("Across the Sea") •The Man in Black throws Desmond in the well. ("Everybody Loves Hugo") •The Man in Black and Ben return to the well, finding nothing. The Man in Black says that when he finds Desmond, Desmond is going to help him "destroy the island". ("What They Died For") •In the flash-sideways timeline, Desmond runs over Locke. ("Everybody Loves Hugo") •Desmond turns himself in, with Sayid in his cell and Kate's right beside him. ("What They Died For") •Desmond, Kate and Sayid are let go by Officer Cortez, with Hugo Reyes taking Sayid and Desmond taking Kate. Desmond then tells Kate that they are going to a concert. ("What They Died For")
•Christian Shephard's coffin's box displayed the following airport code stickers: BWN (Brunei International Airport), GUM (A.B. Won Pat International Airport, Guam), HKG (Hong Kong International Airport, China) and LAX (Los Angeles International Airport).
•The stained glass window in the church shows symbols of the following faiths: the star and crescent of Islam, the Star of David (Judaism), the Aum (widely used as a symbol of Hinduism, but also present in Buddhism and Jainism), the Christian cross, the Dharmacakra (Buddhism) and the Yin/Yang disk (Taoism).
•John Locke delivers the series's last line in greeting Jack in the chapel: "We've been waiting for you." The last word spoken on the Island is "cool," spoken by Hurley in response to Ben's agreeing to become his Number 2.
•Technically, the last words spoken on the Island are "Woof woof", spoken by Vincent.
•As Hurley is pulling into Charlie's motel with Sayid, a man walking his dog crosses the driveway in front of them. The dog is Jack Bender's adopted dog Lulu, who has appeared in 6 episodes.
•Desmond, Penny and Juliet are the only characters in the church who were not on board of Oceanic Flight 815.
General
•This episode won Lost the 2010 Emmy for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series. •Like some other episodes during the series, the sound that accompanies the "LOST" logo in the end of most episodes is changed for this episode: the suspenseful bass slam sound is replaced by a peaceful monochromatic tone. •The end credits of the episode ran alongside images of what appears to be the wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815 with no living people present. These were not part of the episode; ABC have confirmed that they were added as a soft, nostalgic transition between the ending of Lost and the next show. However, the images remained in the credits for the DVD and Blu-ray releases of the episode. This did not mean that the survivors died in the initial plane crash or they had been dead all along. It only meant to remind the viewers of the beginning of LOST. •Matthew Fox claims that he knew from the start of the show that the final shot would be Jack dying and closing his eyes. •"The End" aired just five days after the previous episode, "What They Died For". This is the second-shortest time between airings of original episodes in the US, after "Because You Left" and "The Lie", which appeared back-to-back on the same night. •The decision to air the series finale on Sunday the 23rd of May instead of in its usual Tuesday time slot was most likely done to allow the show to conclude on a date that corresponded with one of the numbers. 23 was Jack's candidate number. Since much of the episode focused on Jack, he was the last of the characters to wake up and it ended with his death this seemed fitting. •"The End" is the longest running episode of Lost at 104:42 minutes. •The last act of "The End" is 19:21 long, the longest act of any episode. This unusual occurence was due to ABC's decision to extend the episode past the original two-hour runtime. •In the US, "The End" was followed by Jimmy Kimmel Live!: "Aloha to Lost", a special wrap-up retrospective of the show featuring many of the cast. •ABC estimates that 20.5 million unique viewers watched the series finale of Lost during its 2-1/2 hour broadcast. The final half-hour was watched by 15.31 million viewers and a 6.4/19 (rating/share) with adults 18-49. •The simulcast broadcast between 5 and 7:15 am in the UK attracted an average audience of 635,000 viewers, more than its regular Friday night time slot. In Spain the same simulcast had an audience of 400,000 viewers. •Despite the simulcast (which was partially to reduce piracy), this episode was the most pirated television episode ever on bit torrent networks. •Elizabeth Mitchell filmed the hospital scenes on her birthday in the early hours and the cast and crew had a small celebration for her (March 27th). •Filming wrapped up with the shots of Hurley and Ben pulling Desmond out of the cave at 5 AM on Saturday, April 24th, 2010 - the 6 year anniversary of wrapping up filming for the pilot and also Damon Lindelof's birthday. •Post-production was completed on Monday, May 17, 2010. •Henry Ian Cusick put a rock in his shoe for every scene where he needed to walk with a limp. (Geronimo Jack's Beard) •The scene in which the Man in Black stabs Jack on the cliffs involved swapping out a real knife for a collapsible one. During one take, the swap was not made properly and Matthew Fox was stabbed by the real knife, which was fortunately stopped by a Kevlar pad that Fox wore under his shirt. Matthew Fox tried out various protection pads for that scene and it just so happened that when the accident happened he was wearing the kevlar pad, the others of which were not stab proof. It was even suggested that he not bother using a pad at all before the incident happened. (Geronimo Jack's Beard) •The penultimate scene with Jack and Christian in the back room of the church was withheld from some copies of the shooting scripts. When the scene was filmed, the set operated with a high level of security and was off-limits to everyone with the exception of Matthew Fox, John Terry and a few select members of crew. Even other cast members were not allowed near the set when that scene was taking place. (Geronimo Jack's Beard) •When filming the final scene, several decoys were created by the production staff. Extra "Santa Rosa" vans were added in the parking lot, the scene was referred to in documents as "Sun and Jin's Wedding", and a woman who resembled Sun walked around in a wedding dress. (Geronimo Jack's Beard) •Jorge Garcia revealed in an interview that when Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to host the nightly Top Ten list, a few days before "The End" aired, one of the "Top 10 Spoilers for the LOST Finale" was shockingly true. The "spoiler" written for Damon and Carlton to read was "Jack Dies". This left them in a precarious position, not wanting to spoil the fans and not wanting to admit to the Letterman production team that Jack really does die. Damon and Carlton eventually got out of it by telling the Letterman team that the Lost fans would not take things like Jack dying lightly, even as a joke, and had it written out of the Top 10 without anyone knowing it was true. •According to Michael Emerson, a deleted scene involved Ben looking through a high school yearbook, seeing Alex, and having his revelatory montage of flashes to his island life. Emerson speculates the scene was deleted to make Ben's revelation more ambiguous. •This episode got Lost nominated for seven Emmys in 2010.
Cut material
•The script called for an extended opening montage, featuring Claire and Hurley in both timelines. In the flash sideways, Claire was to listen to Christian's music box and receive a kick from Aaron, while Hurley was to walk happily through Mr. Cluck's. Sawyer's scenes were slightly different, juxtaposing blood on his hands from Kate's wound with his flash-sideways self washing his hands in a sink. In Ben's original montage flash sideways scene, he would have awoken to a message in Alex's yearbook. Yet another version of the script included Ben's awakening at greater length, cutting between Alex's yearbook and flashbacks of terrible acts Ben had committed. •In addition to an extended opening montage, the script also called for the Oceanic courier driver Bocklin to speak lines before it started. He would have a joke with an Oceanic rep whilst signing for the cargo, who would ask "you know where it's going?" to which he would quip "wouldn't be here if I didn't." He would then play a cassette tape on his Walkman, which would serve as the music over the montage rather than Giacchino's score. The script called for the track to be Bob Dylan's "Visions of Johanna", which contains the line "and these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind." •Miles's scene in the outrigger was originally planned as more dramatic. He would have reacted tearfully upon hearing the last thoughts of all the sub's victims, including Sayid, Sun and Jin. •Jack and Sawyer were to have talked at greater length about Jack's plan for Desmond, Jack emphasizing that though Widmore brought Desmond to the Island, Jacob brought Widmore. •Sayid and Shannon's reunion was to be slightly longer. Shannon would have told Sayid, "You saved me," and Sayid would have replied "No, you saved me." •Epiphany: On their way to the Heart of the Island, Desmond and the Man in Black would have talked of Desmond's experiences in the flash sideways. •Before Miles called Ben's walkie talkie, Kate and Sawyer would have discussed the possibility of going after Jack, helping him. Sawyer would have argued against it, professing trust in Jack. •Kate and Desmond would have talked briefly before the concert. Desmond would have referred to the musicians as "a few of my friends," before a humorous cut to Charlie, drunk and unconscious. •Desmond's Task: Eloise and Desmond were to have begun their confrontation during the concert with an additional scene. •Desmond and Eloise's later conversation at the concert table would have been slightly longer. Desmond would have revealed that he knew what it is like to be a parent. •The script called for a final closeup on Locke's body after it hit the rocks. •Jack and Sawyer's parting was planned as more intense - Sawyer would have refused Jack's hand and instead pulled him in for a hug. The camera would also have briefly cut to Sawyer during Jack and Kate's goodbye kiss. •Telling Kate to jump off the cliff, Sawyer was to mention having earlier done so from a helicopter. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 3") •Ben's flash sideways scenes with Locke were to follow his with Hurley, both occurring after his and Hurley's final on-island scene. Rather than focusing on Jack walking into the church, the camera would have shown Kate nodding to Ben on her way in. •Jack's walk through the bamboo, passing the white tennis shoe and finally collapsing into the grove was scripted as a single scene that preceded Jack's flash sideways awakening. •Rather than showing his interactions with all his friends on the Island, Jack's awakening flashes originally would have focused on Jack's interaction with Christian's body and coffin. It would have then cut to him and Kate on the airport tarmac, shown Jack smashing the lighthouse mirrors and shown he and Kate's last kiss before showing his last sight of the swaying bamboo. Rather than "Let's find out," Christian's final words on where they were headed would have been "Wanna come?" •The final scene would not have cut between the church and the Island until the doors opened and Jack was flat on his back, leaving more room for Jack's interactions. He would have interacted directly with Bernard, Rose, Sun and Jin, Sayid, Charlie, Claire and Aaron. An especially long shot would have shown him and Juliet. Lapidus would have been present in the church, though he would not have appeared in any other of the finale's flash sideways scenes. Instead of Christian, a new character called "The Minister" would have opened the church's doors.
Appearances
•Terry O'Quinn (Locke/Man in Black) becomes the fifth and last cast member to appear in 100 episodes, after Matthew Fox (Jack), Evangeline Lilly (Kate), Jorge Garcia (Hurley) and Josh Holloway (Sawyer). •Zuleikha Robinson (Ilana) does not appear. •Maggie Grace (Shannon) appears for the first time since "Exposé", an absence of 59 episodes. •John Terry (Christian) appears for the first time since "The Incident, Part 2", an absence of 17 episodes. •Vincent appears for the first time since "The Incident, Part 1", an absence of 18 episodes. •Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet) and Ian Somerhalder (Boone) appear for the first time since "LA X, Part 1", an absence of 15 episodes. •Most of the episode's guest stars were credited alongside the main cast, meaning 28 actors were credited as starring, the most of any episode. This included: •All former main cast members who appear: Jeremy Davies, Maggie Grace, Rebecca Mader, Elizabeth Mitchell, Dominic Monaghan, Ian Somerhalder and Cynthia Watros (without lines). •Most recurring guest actors: Sam Anderson, L. Scott Caldwell and Francois Chau (the first time Chau has been credited for his performance), Fionnula Flanagan, John Terry and Sonya Walger (without lines). •The only former main cast members to not appear in new footage are Ana Lucia, Eko, Ilana, Michael, Nikki, Paulo and Walt. This makes Eko, Nikki, Paulo and Walt the only main characters not to appear in new footage in any of Season 6. •Eko, Nikki and Paulo are the only main characters never to make an appearance after departing the series, all in Season 3. •Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Eko) was offered a guest spot in this episode, but negotiations failed as it is claimed he asked for a fee five times what he was offered. •Saïd Taghmaoui (Caesar) was originally meant to be an important part of the setup of the ending of Lost, but this was changed when the actor refused to come back because of other filming commitments. •Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Locke, Sayid, Sun, Jin, Claire, Charlie, Boone, Shannon, Rose, Michael, Walt and Vincent are the only characters to appear in the first and last episode of the series, but Michael and Walt appeared in archival footage only. •Rose and Vincent are the only recurring characters who appeared in the first and last episode of the series. •Out of all the main characters, fourteen are still alive at the end of the series: Hurley, Kate, Sawyer, Claire, Walt, Ben, Desmond, Miles, Richard, Frank, Rose, Bernard, Eloise and Penelope. •Out of the Oceanic 815 survivors, seven are still alive at the end of the series: Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Claire, Walt, Rose and Bernard. •Rose and Bernard are the only main characters to survive the entire series without ever leaving the Island. •The Man in Black is the only main character who has never been off the Island. •Penelope is the only main character who never spent time on the Island.
Recurring themes
•The series ends with a shot of Jack's eye closing. (Eyes) (Salvation) •Jack and the Man in Black die. (Death) •Richard and Frank are revealed to be still alive. (Life and death) •Jack tells the Man in Black he chose to be the Island's protector; later Jack tells Hurley he has to be the protector even though he doesn't want to. (Fate versus free will) •Desmond discovers a skeleton at the Heart of the Island. (Death) •The number 23 seems to be particularly emphasized in this episode. (The Numbers) •Jack's candidate number is 23, and he is the Protector for most of the episode. •At the concert the main guests sit at table 23. •The number of the candy in the vending machine Sawyer wants is G23. •In position G24 in the vending machine is a candy bar called "Avalon." (Religion) •The Man in Black tells Benjamin he would leave him in charge of the Island only to later tell him he's going to bury the Island at the bottom of the ocean. (Deceptions and cons) •Sayid & Shannon, Claire & Charlie, Sawyer & Juliet and eventually all the main characters reunite. (Relationships) (Fate) •It rains when the stone in the Heart is pulled out. (Rain) •Claire gives birth to her son Aaron in the afterlife. (Life and death) (Rebirth) •Kate tries to shoot the Man in Black for killing their friends on the sub. (Revenge) •Desmond successfully pulls out the stone in the Heart because of his resistance to electromagnetism. (Electromagnetism) •Ben suggests to Hurley that the latter can run things on the Island differently than Jacob did. (Leadership) (Philosophy) •Hurley and Ben forge a new partnership to protect the Island. (Relationships) (Redemption) •After all the survivors reunite in the church, they proceed to "move on." (Religion) (Redemption) •A low electromagnetic hum can be heard during each character's revelatory montage. (Electromagnetism) •Ben seems to join the Man in Black by capturing Sawyer yet keeps his walkie hidden from the Man in Black thereby protecting Miles. (Deceptions and cons) •Ben actually plans to join Jack in his effort to stop the Man in Black and risks his life to save Hurley. (Redemption) •Sawyer calls the Man in Black "Smokey", Miles "Enos", Hurley "Bigfoot", Frank "Chesty", Juliet "Blondie" and refers to Jacob as "the burning bush" and Desmond as a "magic leprechaun." (Nicknames) •Jack appears to be the best candidate to protect the Island but soon realizes and explains to Hurley, "It was always meant to be you." This mirrors what Jacob's mother told Jacob after his brother dug into the Island and found the Heart. (Fate versus free will) (Leadership) •The Man in Black's plan of escape from his Island prison finally opens the door for his freedom yet ends up destroying him by making him mortal. (Imprisonment) (Life and death) •When water returns to the Heart, it is "like life born again," a renewal of the whole Island. (Redemption) (Resurrection) •Vincent is with Rose and Bernard and later beside Jack as he dies. (Animals) •Vincent stays with Jack so Jack doesn't "die alone." (Isolation) (Life and death)
Cultural references
•Star Wars: Hurley thinks that Jacob is worse than Yoda, the enigmatic Jedi master. Later in the same scene, he says, "I have a bad feeling about this," a recurring phrase in all Star Wars movies. (Movies and TV) •The Dukes of Hazzard: Sawyer refers to Miles as "Enos," the deputy on this 1970s television show. (Movies and TV) •Mary Poppins: When performing the ultra-sound on Sun's baby, Juliet says it's "perfectly perfect in every way;" Mary Poppins describes herself as "practically perfect in every way." (Movies and TV) •Mountain/Burning bush: Sawyer says to Jack "Why don't you come down from the mountain and tell us what the burnin' bush said." In the Biblical book of Exodus, the burning bush is the location at which Moses was appointed by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt and into Canaan. "Come down from the mountain" refers to the later story of Moses, descending from Mount Sinai while carrying the stone tablets upon which God wrote the Ten Commandments. (Religion and ideologies) •Leprechaun: Sawyer refers to Desmond as the magic leprechaun at the bottom of the well. A leprechaun is a type of fairy in Irish folklore who enjoys partaking in mischief. (Religion and ideologies)
Storyline analysis
•Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Desmond and Hurley try to kill the Man in Black. (A-Missions) •Jack, Hurley and Ben travel to the Heart to turn the Light back on. (A-Missions) •Frank, Miles and Richard travel to the Ajira plane and try to fix it so they can use it to escape the Island. (F-Missions) •Sawyer, Kate and Claire race to catch the Ajira plane before it takes off. (A-Missions) •Jack passes the job of the Island's protector to Hurley after he decides to restore the Heart. (Leadership) •Sayid and Shannon, Claire and Charlie, Sawyer and Juliet, and Jack and Kate all reunite in the afterlife. (Relationships) •The Man in Black mentions Jack and Locke's previous disagreement over pushing the button in the Swan. (Rivalries) •The Man in Black stabs Jack, though Jack (with the help of Kate) kills him. (Crimes)
Revelatory montages
•Sun and Jin: During Sun's ultrasound, we see clips from her previous ultrasound. When Juliet points to Ji Yeon on the monitor, we see Sun revealing she speaks English, the launching of the raft, their reunion after the raft sank, Sun announcing her pregnancy to Jin, Jin massaging Sun, Sun presenting her baby at Jin's grave, the Kahana explosion, their reunion after three years and their deaths. ("D.O.C.") ("...In Translation") ("Exodus, Part 1") ("Collision") ("The Whole Truth") ("S.O.S.") ("Ji Yeon") ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 3") ("The Last Recruit") ("The Candidate") •Sayid and Shannon: When Sayid and Shannon touch, we see clips of them at Shannon's shelter on the night they made love, Sayid brushing Shannon's hair at her first shelter he helped build, Sayid helping Shannon pick up her belongings, their last and first kisses and Sayid taking Shannon to a planned picnic. ("Abandoned") ("...In Translation") ("Exodus, Part 2") ("Do No Harm") •Kate and Claire: As Claire gives birth, we see a clip of her giving birth to Aaron on the Island. ("Do No Harm") •Charlie: When Charlie and Claire touch, we see clips of their first meeting, Charlie's imaginary peanut butter, Claire cutting his hair, Charlie's bjorn (baby carrier), and their first kiss. ("Greatest Hits") ("Confidence Man") ("Born to Run") ("Exodus, Part 2") ("Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2") •Locke: When Locke's feet move, we see clips of him regaining his ability to walk, smiling with an orange peel, throwing knives with Walt, embracing the rain and seeing the monster. ("Walkabout") ("Pilot, Part 1") ("Special") ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues") •Sawyer and Juliet: When Sawyer and Juliet touch, we see clips from their kiss in the Barracks, Sawyer at the docks convincing her to stay on the Island, Juliet's last words, their realizing the Dharmaville time was over and Juliet falling down the Swan shaft. ("LaFleur") ("LA X, Part 1") ("Follow the Leader") ("The Incident, Part 2") •Jack: •After Locke's feet move and he asks Jack if he remembers, we see a clip of Locke and Jack looking down the Hatch. ("Exodus, Part 2") •When Kate touches Jack's face after the concert, we see clips from their formal introduction, their first meeting and their first kiss. ("Pilot, Part 1") ("What Kate Did") •After Jack touches Christian's coffin, we see clips of his first sight of the Island, performing CPR on Rose, helping Claire through the wreckage, reviving Charlie, operating on Boone, helping Shannon with her asthma, consulting Sayid about interrogating Sawyer, thanking Sun for her help, Locke pulling him up a cliff, hearing of Sawyer's meeting Christian, calling the freighter, flying away in the helicopter, passing Kate on the way to the lighthouse, talking to Kate while imprisoned, meeting Kate for the first time, and Jack and Kate's final kiss goodbye. ("Pilot, Part 1") ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues") ("Do No Harm") ("Confidence Man") ("White Rabbit") ("Exodus, Part 1") ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 2") ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 3") ("Lighthouse") ("Every Man for Himself") ("The End")
Episode references
•In the flash sideways timeline, Charlie is wearing white tape on 4 fingers of his left hand which has the letters "F A T E" on them in black marker. ("Pilot, Part 1") •When Kate examines Jack's stab wound he says, "I'll be fine, just find me some thread and I'll count to five" (albeit this time Jack uses it as gallows humor). ("Pilot, Part 1") ("Not in Portland") ("The Incident, Part 2") •The Man in Black asks Jack if he is reminded of their hatch entrance while lowering Desmond inside, followed by mentioning their argument over pushing the button. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith") ("Orientation") •Sawyer jokes with Kate about her always following when she is not invited. ("The Hunting Party") ("What Kate Does") •Jack tells Desmond he had once tried to change their destiny but failed; there are no "do-overs," "whatever happened, happened," and "ALL of this matters." ("The Incident, Part 2") •Desmond tells Jack about the flash sideways world, and tells about how they sat next to each other on Oceanic 815. ("LA X, Part 1") •Kate reminds Jack that she stole his pen on Oceanic 815 when she bumped into him. ("LA X, Part 1") •Jack is wounded in the neck and the vicinity of his appendix by the Man in Black, injuries which spontaneously manifested on a few occasions in the flash sideways universe. ("LA X, Part 1") ("Lighthouse") ("What They Died For") •Locke asks Jack about his father's coffin after their first meeting at LAX. ("LA X, Part 2") •Kate recognises Claire from their previous meeting in the flash sideways. ("What Kate Does") •Ben still has the Oceanic water bottle he picked up from the beach camp. ("Dr. Linus") •In the flash sideways, Sawyer looks into the mirror he broke a few days earlier. ("Recon") •Desmond speaks about the flash sideways world. ("Happily Ever After") •Miles and Richard come across the wreckage of the submarine, and discover Frank survived. ("The Candidate") •Kate tries to shoot the Man in Black for killing Sun, Jin and Sayid. ("The Candidate") •Miles finds Richard after he was thrown into the jungle by the smoke monster. ("What They Died For")
Episode allusions
•The title of this episode hearkens back to the title of the first episode of Season 4. ("The Beginning of the End") •One last time, the opening flash shows characters' morning routines. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith") ("A Tale of Two Cities") ("The Beginning of the End") ("Cabin Fever") ("Because You Left") ("The Incident, Parts 1 & 2") ("What They Died For") •Ben gazes upon the Man in Black's rope, reminding him of how he strangled Locke to death. ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham") •Hurley shoots Charlie with a tranquilizer dart and brings him into his car with Sayid. ("Because You Left") •Kate tells Jack "Nothing is irreversible". Jack said this to Locke in the flash sideways. (LA X, Parts 1 & 2) •Jack announces the ending to Sawyer, as foretold by Jacob. ("What They Died For") When Sawyer hears of Jack's plan, he says, "That's one hell of a long con." ("The Long Con") •Juliet gives Sun an ultrasound. ("D.O.C.") •Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sawyer meet the Man in Black, Ben and Desmond on the very same ridge where the survivors met Ben and Alex in the Season 3 finale. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 1") •While Miles and Kate are talking on the walkie, Claire fires a gun. We only hear it go off and Miles stops talking and assumes someone was shot. We then see she actually fired in the sand, not at one of them. This mirrors when Ben told Tom to shoot Sayid, Bernard and Jin. Jack (and the audience) thought they were shot when really Tom put the three bullets in the sand. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 1") •Jack and Locke lower Desmond down a hole, much like the early days of season 2 with people being lowered down Desmond's hatch. Locke/Man in Black even mentions this. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith") •The scene of the Man in Black and Jack looking down the cave is similar to Locke and Jack looking down the blown up hatch. ("Exodus, Part 2") •The circular pool at the bottom of the cave of light, with a removable plug in the center, appears to be a larger version of the sink hidden in Ben's house which Ben drained to summon the Smoke Monster. ("Dead Is Dead") The stone plug we see in the light cavern was alluded to by the corked wine bottle that Jacob showed Richard and the Man in Black, a bottle which the Man in Black was unable to uncork. ("Ab Aeterno") •Jack is stabbed where his appendix was taken out by Juliet, perhaps preventing more serious damage. This mirrors Locke losing his kidney and it saving his life when Ben shoots him. ("Something Nice Back Home") ("Deus Ex Machina") ("The Man Behind the Curtain") •The shots of Jack looking down at the dying Man in Black echo the earlier shots of the Man in Black looking at dying Jacob. ("The Incident, Part 2") •The Man in Black being kicked off the cliff by Jack mirrors Locke being thrown out of the window by Anthony Cooper. ("The Man from Tallahassee") ("The Incident, Part 2") Jack and Locke had once joked about the possibility of Locke falling off a cliff, after Locke saved Jack from falling off one and lied about Boone falling down another. ("The Long Con") ("White Rabbit") ("Deus Ex Machina") Kicking the body is reminiscent of the way the Man in Black kicked Jacob into the fire. ("The Incident, Part 2") •Jack's final line to Desmond "I'll see you in another life, brother" mirrors Desmond's "See you in another life, yeah?" line to Jack when he abandoned the Swan station, as well as Desmond's statement to Locke as he was about to activate the Swan's fail-safe. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith") ("Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2") •Claire gives birth to Aaron assisted by Kate. ("Do No Harm") •Kate send Charlie to fetch water for a prostrate Claire. He can't find any.("White Rabbit") •Upon Charlie's return, Kate gives him thanks, to which he replies "They're only blankets." However, Kate does this having regained the full memory of her past-life on the Island. She is actually thanking Charlie for his sacrifice in the Looking Glass which allowed her and five of her fellow survivors to contact the Kahana and leave the Island. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 2") •Locke regaining feeling in his legs after the operation is similar to Jack's ex-wife realizing she still has sensation in her legs after her operation. This includes dialog about toes, references to Jack showering and the same music in each scene. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith") •The hospital vending machine again sticks when delivering an Apollo bar. ("The Incident, Part 2") •Juliet's last words (both before and after her death) are repeated. ("LA X, Parts 1 & 2") •After handing the protection of the Island Jack puts his hand on Hurley's shoulder and tells him "Now you're like me", repeating Jacob's actions when he gave it to Jack. ("What They Died For") •Jack looks into Christian's empty coffin. ("White Rabbit") The opening of the coffin is similar to opening Locke's coffin in the Season 4 finale. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 3") •Christian's final conversation with Jack about "all things being real" is very similar to the speech Libby gave to Hurley when they were on the cliff. ("Dave") •Jack dies with a stab wound in the right side of his abdomen, mirroring the wound he had on the left side of his abdomen when he woke after the crash. ("Pilot, Part 1") •The first episode of the series begins with Jack opening his eyes, and Vincent running out to greet him, in the bamboo grove with Christian Shephard's white tennis shoe nearby. The final episode of the series ends with Jack returning to the same location and closing his eyes, as Vincent lies down beside him. ("Pilot, Part 1")
References
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