Correction: This story has been modified from its original version. — The "Orchid" was spelled incorrectly. The Collegiate Times regrets this error.
This year's season finale of Lost was a three-hour event. Part one aired Thursday, May 15th, and parts two and three aired Thursday, May 29th. Because of the writers' strike, season four was cut from 16 to 14 episodes, but the show didn't suffer. In fact, the creators crammed in more action than they would have originally, and the season's finale was the perfect end to a thrilling season.
The finale also proved to be an excellent segue to future seasons. Earlier this year, the creators of Lost signed a contract with ABC for two more seasons. Now that the show has a definitive end point, the writers can start answering the numerous burning questions that the series has left viewers to ponder for years.
In the season three finale ("Through the Looking Glass"), fans were treated to a flash-forward instead of the usual flashback. In this flash-forward, we discovered that Jack and Kate leave the island and that Jack is terribly depressed over the events that take him off the island. The final scene of "Through the Looking Glass" left us with Jack screaming at Kate, "we have to go back," and all of season four has been leading us back to this scene. In the season premiere, we discovered that six of the Oceanic survivors make it off the island: Jack, Kate, Aaron. Sayid, Hurley, and Sun. Through flash-forwards we see the survivors' lives after the island.
In "There is no Place Home Part One," Locke goes to visit Jacob where Christian Shepard, Jack's dead father, tells him that he has to move the island. Also, the mercenaries from the freighter -- led by Martin Keamy -- have come back to kill everyone on the island. Daniel Faraday, aware of the mercenaries' plan, begins to take survivors off the island using the lifeboat that Sayid brought from the freighter. On the freighter, Michael, Desmond and Jin have discovered a massive amount of C4 explosives set to detonate. Sayid and Kate leave to go help Jack and Sawyer and are taken hostage by the others, now led by Richard Alpert. Part one ends with Ben turning himself in to Keamy at the "Orchid" Station so Locke can move the island.
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the sixth Dharma station is the "Orchid", not Orchard
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And the show doesn't tell what happens to Michael and Jin, because we've already seen from flash forwards that Jin is still alive.
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Jin is not alive
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in that episode, it was a flash forward of Sun having the baby, and a flashback of Jin giving a gift to the wife of one of his bosses in celebration of her newborn baby, of course they didnt show that until the end, sick and twisted IMHO
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