Anybody mind typing a full recap for us poor saps who don't get to watch it until there are Torrents available?
Sounds very dramatic indeed...
Maybe he's Rasputin :shock:
Guaranteed Jump The Shark revelation, right there...
I'll try my best.
Charlie is in the Looking Glass with the two girls. They're working for Ben. One of them's a total *****, the other one acts like she wants Charlie's dick. They tell him he won't be able to activate the switch without knowing the code. For some reason, he tells them Juliet's on the Lostaways' side. He's an idiot. They call Ben and tell him what's up. Ben deduces that his daughter's boyfriend tipped the Lostaways off, and he decides to intercept the Lostaways, with only Alex at his side. He orders the Others still at the base to relocate to "the temple". He sends Mikhail out to investigate the Looking Glass.
Ben discovers the Lostaways know about the ambush, and tries to call his assault team, but they're already on radio silence. Sayid and Bernard both make their dynamite shots. Jin misses, but ends up shooting one of the bad guys. A melee follows, and the three remaining Others end up with the upper hand, holding them hostage.
Back to the rest of the Lostaways, they realize only two of the dynamite charges went off. Sawyer and Juliet convince Jack to let them go back to the beach (to help the three with the guns) after Juliet tells Jack she knows where some guns are hidden. She's lying.
Locke wake up in a pit, his legs mangled, unable to move. He reaches for a gun, and tries to shoot himself, only to be interrupted by Walt, who tells him to stop being a *****, because he still has work to do.
Mikhail shows up on the beach and shoots at Desmond on the boat. Desmond dives, and escapes into the Looking Glass while the two girls are distracted. He hides. Mikhail shows up, asking where Mikhail is. He loses interest in that when he finds out the Looking Glass has been jamming radio signals. He has a brief conflict on the phone with Henry Gale, but relents, and Henry convinces him to kill everyone in the Looking Glass. He murders the nice girl and mortally wounds the *****. Desmond pops out of his hiding spot and shoots Mikhail with the harpoon gun. Him and Charlie run up to the dying blonde girl, who tells Charlie that the password is the melody of Good Vibrations.
Ben intercepts the fleeing Lostaways. He has a walkie-talkie and pulls Jack aside. He tells Jack that if Jack doesn't go away and stop trying to find a way off the island, he'll have his men shoot Jin/Sayid/Bernard. Jack doesn't relent. We hear three gunshots over the radio. They tie up Ben and continue their ascent. Alex finds out that Rousseau is her mother.
Juliet and Sawyer are at the beach where their friends are being held hostage, but they have no weapons and no way to fight. We find out that someone had given the Others orders not to actually kill the hostages. Suddenly, Hurley comes barreling down in the van. He runs over one of the bad guys, and they end up immobilizing the bad guys. Sawyer shoots Tom in cold blood, after he surrenders. They radio Jack and tell him everyone's safe.
Charlie is entering the code in the system while Desmond is wandering aroudn the station. After entering the code, Charlie gets a signal that there's an incoming transmission. It's Desmond's girlfriend. Charlie yells for Desmond to come over, but she doesn't seem to know anything about the rescue boat that's coming for the Lostaways. Suddenly, Charlie sees Mikhail out the window, with a live grenade. Charlie seals up the hatch before Desmond can run in. The grenade explodes. Charlie drowns, but manages to write a note on his hand to show Desmond before dying. It says something along the lines of "Not Penny's Ship".
At the summit, the phone gets a signal. They go inside the tower and turn off Rousseau's old signal. Parachute girl walks outside to try and get a signal. The phone rings. Locke comes barreling in. Somehow Jack gets the phone. It keeps ringing. Locke tells Jack to cancel the signal or he'll shoot. He thinks they're all supposed to stay on the island. They play chicken for a while, and Locke runs off into the woods. Over the phone, they get in contact with the freighter, who makes plans to come pick the Lostaways up.
In the flashback, we find Jack at the end of his rope. He tries to kill himself by jumping off a bridge, and inadvertently causes a horrific car crash. He manages to save the mother who's in critical condition, and the son who's alright. Jack's all over the news as a hero. We find out he's addicted to prescription drugs, and eating them like candy. HE tries to get a refill, but the pharmacy won't give it to him, and he freaks out. There's a new chief resident at the hospital, and he knows there's something wrong with Jack, refusing to let Jack operate on the woman he saved. The whole time, Jack has been carrying an obituary in his pocket. Eventually, he goes to the funeral home, only to find that no one showed up for the funeral. We don't know who's in the casket. Jack steals some pills. The chief resident confronts him, telling him that the patient is now lucid, and revealed the cause of the accident. He wants to help Jack. Jack runs off. Jack's apartment is full of maps and charting equipment. He's apparently trying to find the island. He finally manages to set up a rendezvous with Kate. He's become obsessed with crash landing. Apparently the airline gave the survivors unlimited airplane tickets for the rest of their lives. Jack has been going on a different flight every night, hoping it will crash on the island. He tells Kate they need to go back to the island. She calls him crazy. She has someone to get back home to.
Jack is sad.