

"LA X, Parts 1 & 2" are the first and second episodes of Season 6 of Lost and the 104th and 105th produced hours of the series as a whole. They were originally broadcast as a two-hour premiere on February 2, 2010. The aftermath from Juliet's detonation of the fission core is revealed. Meanwhile, the man impersonating John Locke reveals his true intentions.

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Synopsis

Previously on Lost

On the Island

At the statue

Inside the statue, the Man in Black (as Locke) picks up the bloodied knife Ben had used to stab Jacob. He tears off a piece of fabric from the floor and uses it to clean the knife. He tells a visibly disturbed Ben that he can stop staring at the fire and that Jacob is gone. Ben asks why Jacob didn't fight back. The Man in Black replies that Jacob must have known he was beaten and asks Ben to go outside and tell Richard that he needs to talk to him. Ben inquires as to what they have to discuss. The Man in Black states that it is between himself and Richard. ♪

Meanwhile, outside, Ilana and Bram discuss entering the statue with Richard. Richard tells them firmly that they cannot go in and that only those summoned by Jacob may enter. Ilana replies that she and Bram were summoned to the island by Jacob, and thus should be allowed inside. Ben comes out of the statue and is immediately questioned by Ilana and Richard. When he informs Richard that Locke wants to speak with him, Richard becomes furious with Ben, and shoves him onto the beach next to Locke's corpse, revealing to Ben for the first time that Locke is indeed dead. ♪ Shortly after, Bram grabs Ben and hauls him back into the statue with him, despite Richard's protest. ♪



Ben comes face-to-face with the real, dead John Locke.



Inside the statue, Bram along with Burnette, Wolfe and Salinger, enter Jacob's chamber and point their guns at the Man in Black. Bram asks him where Jacob is, to which the Man in Black responds that Jacob is dead, and, as such, they are all now "free." Upon hearing this, Bram and his men become enraged and fire several shots at the Man in Black. One shot appears to strike him, after which he disappears behind a column. As Bram investigates the room, he finds the bullet that was thought to have hit the Man in Black lying on the ground. Confused, he turns around, just as the Monster enters the room.

There is a brief firefight, but the Monster quickly overpowers three of the four men, killing them. Bram produces a container of ash which he proceeds to hurriedly spread around himself in a circle. This circle protects Bram from the Monster's direct advances towards him, so the Monster dislodges a chunk of rock from the statue interior, which knocks Bram out of the circle of ash. Bram, now vulnerable, is grabbed by the Monster and thrown through Jacob's loom where he is impaled on a piece of wood, and killed. ♪ During the entirety of the fight, Ben cowers in a corner, looking on in shock. At the conclusion of the fight, the Man in Black (once again as Locke) reappears behind Ben and states: "Sorry that you had to see me like that," thus definitively revealing the link between the Monster, the Man in Black, and post-Ajira Flight 316 Locke.

Ben, noticeably shocked, finally manages to ask the Man in Black, "what are you?" He only answers that he's not a "what" but a "who." ♪ The Man in Black then tells Ben that John Locke was very confused when Ben killed him and his last thought was "I don't understand." As Ben grapples with these revelations, the Man in Black goes on explaining how sad and pathetic Locke's life was. ♪ He continues that Locke's only redeeming virtue was to have been the only one of the Oceanic 815 survivors not to want to go back to their worthless pre-Island life, but rather to stay on the Island. He finishes his speech to Ben by reflecting on the irony of this situation, because unlike Locke, he wants to go "home." ♪

The flares from the Temple are seen from the beach as Ben and the Man in Black leave the statue. The remaining Others lift their guns to shoot at the Man in Black but are promptly halted by Richard from taking action. Richard confronts the Man in Black, who responds to Richard that "it's good to see you out of those chains." Richard is stunned and replies "You?!," indicating some familiarity with who the Man in Black is. The Man in Black responds "Me," and knocks Richard out, hoisting him onto his shoulder. He turns to the rest of the Others, including Sun and Frank, and shouts angrily that he is "very disappointed with all of you," before making his way past the real John Locke's body. ♪

At the Swan and the Temple



Kate awakens following Jughead's detonation.

Out of the white, Kate's eye opens. Upon awakening, she nearly falls from the tree branch she's on, which is a considerable distance from the ground. She climbs back onto the branch. Her hearing is muffled. She yells and then shakes her head and messes with her ears but her hearing does not return. She climbs down out of the tree. The only sounds are those of her breathing, a high pitched ringing sound and her shuffling down the tree. She yells, "Hello?" and her hearing finally returns. She finds Miles who is also having trouble hearing, "I can't hear you! Are your ears ringing?" and he is talking louder than normal. Kate sees the broken airlock entrance to the Swan station but couldn't open it realizing they're back in 2007. They trek back to the Hatch to find it completely obliterated, as it was after Desmond turned the fail-safe key three years before - making it clear they are now in the present time. Kate sees both Jack and Sawyer lying in the grass. She chooses to go to Jack's aid. Jack shakes his head and wakes up. Sawyer kicks him and he falls down into the hatch hole. Kate climbs down into the hole and Sawyer yells at Jack, "You were wrong!", clearly furious the attempt to detonate the Jughead in 1977 only resulted in them returning to the present. Kate tries to hold him back.



Jacob appears to Hurley an hour after his murder.

Hurley and Jin wake up next to a DHARMA van with Sayid, who is bleeding from the bullet wound in his stomach. Jin steps out of the van. Hurley points out that the sky turned from day to night. Jin informs Hurley he has just found a flashlight. Jin explains that they must have time-traveled, as it was similar to his own previous experience. At the remains of the Swan Station, Jack concludes that the bomb must have gone off, but Sawyer yells back that they wouldn't still be here if a nuclear explosion had occurred. Juliet is suddenly heard screaming from underneath the amassed wreckage. The survivors attempt to move the wreckage, but there is an I-beam blocking the way. Sawyer orders Jin to return to the van in order to use it to lift the I-beam away. ♪ Meanwhile, at the van, Hurley is tending to Sayid when Jacob appears from the Jungle. ♪ He tells Hurley that he died an hour ago. Jacob then tells Hurley he needs to take Sayid and the guitar case he had given him previously to the Temple. ♪



Juliet succumbs to her injuries, before delivering her message to Sawyer.

Jin, together with Hurley and the injured Sayid, return to the Swan where they manage to remove the wreckage covering Juliet. ♪ Sawyer climbs into the hole beneath the wreckage and briefly talks to Juliet. ♪ Juliet mumbles something about getting coffee sometime and smiles as she says, "We can go dutch." She then seems to realize where she is, and her last words are "I have to tell you something; it's really really important." She then dies from her injuries. ♪♪

Sawyer vows to Kate that he will kill Jack for being responsible for her death. After tending to Sayid, Jack realizes that he will die, until Hurley tells them that Jacob told him that they can save Sayid by bringing him to the Temple. Jack asks, "Who's Jacob?" The group leave for the Temple -- guided by Jin -- and leave Sawyer and Miles behind to bury Juliet. ♪ After she is buried, Sawyer orders Miles to communicate with her, in order to find out what important news she wanted to give him. After a brief commune with Juliet, Miles tells Sawyer her message: "It worked." ♪



The content of Hurley's guitar case is revealed to be an Ankh.

The remainder of the group make their way to the Temple. ♪ The group enters the temple via a hole at the base of the wall. Inside they find a skeleton missing an arm (Montand) and take the skeleton's book, a French copy of Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling. ♪ While making their way through the tunnels beneath the Temple, Kate and Jack hear whispers just before the entire group is captured by the Others. This group of Others takes the captured group to the Temple. ♪ There, they meet Dogen, the Japanese leader of this particular group, who talks through his interpreter Lennon. Cindy informs her fellow Others that Hurley and crew were on Oceanic 815, as she was. She doesn't seem at all flustered when Dogen orders them to be shot. Hurley quickly tells Dogen that Jacob sent him and told him to bring the guitar case. The guitar case is opened, revealing a large wooden ankh which Dogen promptly smashes. ♪ Hidden inside the ankh is a piece of paper. Dogen reads it and asks for each of their names. ♪ Hurley demands to know what the paper says and Lennon tells him that the Temple dwellers will all be in trouble if Sayid dies. ♪



Dogen covers Sayid's eyes after his death.

The Others bring Sayid into the Temple, where a large spring bubbles in the center, Lennon comments that the spring is not running clearly. Dogen approaches the water, cuts his hand and then submerges it in the water, noting that the water did not heal it. ♪ After informing Jack that there are risks, Dogen orders his followers to submerge Sayid in the water and turns over an hourglass. As Sayid appears to be revived, Dogen refuses to allow his followers to lift Sayid out of the water until the timer is finished. It soon appears that Sayid is drowning. Jack protests but when he tries to stop them he is prevented. After the last sand grains fall, Sayid is lifted lifeless from the water. Dogen announces to the shocked group that "your friend is dead." Jack tried vainly to perform CPR. ♪ Dogen leaves the survivors alone to mourn Sayid. ♪ Later, Cindy enters along with Zack and Emma, the children from the tail section, bringing the survivors some food. Miles and an unconscious Sawyer are also brought to the Temple at this point, after being captured by Others in the jungle.

Hurley visits Dogen, where it is revealed that he understands English, but refuses to speak it as he dislikes "the way it tastes on my tongue." After a brief conversation, Hurley reveals that Jacob is dead, which shocks Dogen and Lennon who rush out of the room. The two-issue orders to the rest of the Others, who hurriedly pour lines of ash around the Temple, barricade the entrances, and launch a rocket flare. Lennon reveals that they are not keeping the survivors in, but rather keeping "him" out. ♪♪



Sayid is mysteriously brought back to life.

While waiting in the Temple spring room, Hurley and Miles sit near Sayid's body, as Hurley says goodbye to his friend. ♪ Sawyer awakens. ♪ He tells Kate that he doesn't plan to kill Jack, because "he deserves to suffer on this rock just like the rest of us." ♪♪♪ Lennon enters and asks to speak with Jack in private, but Jack argues and scuffles with several of the Others. The fight is interrupted when all present are shocked to see Sayid sit up, very much alive. He pauses, confused, and asks, "What happened?"

Flash sideways

(See Timeline differences)



Jack and Rose greet each other on the plane.

Aboard Oceanic Flight 815, Jack gazes out the window at passing clouds. Cindy, a flight attendant, asks him how his drink is, then smiles when he admits it's not very strong. She gives him a small bottle of vodka and asks him to keep it between them.

Suddenly, the plane begins shaking, and the pilot announces they are running into some turbulence ahead. Rose, the woman across the aisle, assures Jack it's normal and jokes that her husband always says planes are meant to be in the air. They chat for a while before the turbulence worsens, and Jack grips the armrests with an expectant look. However, the plane passes through, and Bernard returns safely from the bathroom commenting "Remind me to hold it next time, will you. I almost died in the bathroom. Now I know how laundry feels in the dryer." Rose replies: "I missed you." Bernard responds, I missed you too, beautiful" and kisses her. ♪

Jack gets up to go to the lavatory, and inspects himself carefully in the mirror, noticing, to his confusion, a small bleeding cut on his neck. ♪ Going back to his seat, he meets a man named Desmond Hume, who switched to the seat next to him while Jack was in the bathroom. Jack struggles to remember whether they have met before, but neither can place it. The view then shifts out the window and down into the ocean, where the remains of the Island are shown, now submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean. Underwater, the remains of the DHARMA Barracks and security fence are visible, and a DHARMA shark is seen swimming near Tawaret's four-toed foot, revealing the island's submergence. ♪

Jack heads to the forward lavatory, where Edward Mars waits for his "friend." Kate bursts out of the door and runs into Jack, apologizing and taking his pen before the Marshal hauls her back to her seat.



Sawyer warns Hurley about his lottery win.

Kate receives her meal, but the Marshal won't allow her a knife or fork. Just then, Sawyer brushes past the Marshal, and Kate hides her hands under her tray table, presumably to conceal her handcuffed wrists. Sawyer shares a meaningful look with Kate before apologizing and moving on. Sawyer goes back to his seat, where Leslie Arzt is pestering Hurley to do an impression of a character in his Mr. Cluck's commercial. Arzt finds it hysterical, then asks how a guy like him came to own a major corporation like Mr Cluck. Hurley replies that he won the lottery and happens to like chicken, leading a downcast Arzt to quickly excuse himself. Sawyer warns Hurley not to share his lottery win with strangers, saying it will make them try to take advantage of him, but Hurley brushes it off: that can't happen, Hurley replies, because he's the "luckiest man alive."

Smiling, Sun gazes at Rose and Bernard a few rows ahead; she tells Jin that they look so happy together. Jin tells her to button the top of her sweater.



Boone and Locke exchange their reasons for being in Australia.

John Locke reads a safety brochure, leading Boone, sitting nearby, to say it won't be any use if the plane goes down in the ocean. John replies a good pilot could negotiate a water landing, and the fuel tanks would keep the plane afloat until the survivors could get onto the life rafts. They strike up a conversation: Boone explains he was in Australia to get his sister out of a bad relationship, but she didn't want to come back with him. Locke says he went on a walkabout for ten days in the Australian outback, which greatly impresses Boone. Boone remarks if the plane does crash, he'll stick with Locke. Frogurt is sleeping in the seat next to Locke, between him and Boone. ♪



Charlie Pace is revived by Jack, wondering if he is alive.

Cindy makes an announcement asking for any doctors on board to press their call buttons, and eventually comes over to ask Jack for help: one of the passengers has been in the lavatory for half an hour and is no longer responding to any knocks. With the help of Sayid and a flight attendant, they force open the door to find Charlie Pace sitting unconscious on the toilet. Jack can tell something is blocking his airway and cannot reach it. He tries to use the pen in his pocket to perform a tracheotomy but realizes it is mysteriously gone. After a few minutes, Jack and Sayid manage to clear his airway, which was blocked by a baggie of heroin, and revive him. However, he is very displeased with Jack when he discovers himself alive. ♪



Oceanic Flight 815 lands safely in Los Angeles.

As Charlie is led in handcuffs to his seat, he angrily tells Jack he was supposed to die. Jack returns to his seat, and notices Desmond is no longer sitting in his row. He asks Rose and Bernard where he is, but Rose simply responds that they were asleep. Captain Seth Norris announces that they are on final approach to Los Angeles and instructs passengers to buckle up, leading Rose to remark to Jack that they are almost home. Sayid looks at a photo of Nadia as other passengers move their seats upright and buckle their seat belts. The plane touches down and pulls safely into the gate. Once there, police come to escort Charlie away, Boone shakes hands with Locke before leaving, Rose and Bernard disembark very much happy as a couple, followed shortly by Sun and Jin whom both appear very unhappy. Kate leaves in handcuffs with Edward, leaving Jack and Locke are the last two passengers on the plane. Jack shares a nod with Locke before leaving, reminiscent of a similar nod they shared when boarding in Sydney. After Jack leaves the plane, two Oceanic employees bring a wheelchair onto the plane and push a still paralyzed Locke off the aircraft. ♪



Jin and Sun run into trouble involving Jin's money.

At Los Angeles International Airport, Jack is paged to an Oceanic Airlines desk, where a company representative informs him that his father's coffin apparently was not put onto the plane in Sydney, and they are uncertain of its current location. Jack is highly upset at this development, complaining that the funeral is supposed to take place in two hours.

Jin and Sun attempt to go through customs and the officials are frustrated at their language barrier. They find the watch Jin is transporting, and, failing to understand it is a business gift, continue to search his bag. Finding a pouch containing stacks of undeclared cash, Agent Smalley leads Jin away for questioning. Agent Anne advises Sun (referring to her by her maiden name, Ms. Paik) that if she knows some English and can explain it would clear things up, but Sun appears not to understand. ♪



Claire is frozen in fear as Kate hijacks her taxi.

Meanwhile after clearing customs, Kate talks the marshal into letting her go to the bathroom, where she attempts to pick the handcuffs with the pen she pick-pocketed from Jack. ♪ When the marshal discovers the spring from the pen on the floor, he demands she come out and Kate shoves open the bathroom stall door, pushing him down and causing him to hit his head on the sink, knocking him unconscious.

Kate escapes with the marshal's gun and coat, but is seen by two women who enter the restroom and call for help as Kate tells them that he had tried to attack her. Kate runs into an elevator, and finds Sawyer inside. Sawyer notices her handcuffed wrists, despite Kate's attempt at concealment with the marshal's coat. Ganson and Calhoun, two TSA employees, come on the elevator and are alerted there's been a security issue. Sawyer correctly presumes Kate is involved. The next time the elevator opens, Sawyer holds the door and says "ladies first" so that Kate can get away before the TSA employees realize who they're looking for.



Kate attempts to escape from her handcuffs.

Once out of the elevator and in baggage claim, Kate notices airport employees looking for her. Kate sneaks into an employee's only area, which she uses to get outside without having to use the main doors. From there, Kate tries to get a cab, however, she is told by an angry Neil "Frogurt" there is a line, and so gets in line behind Hurley. When Edward Mars sights her, Kate hops in the back of an already occupied cab and demands the driver leave at gunpoint. Sitting beside Kate in the back seat of the cab is Claire.



Jack hands Locke his business card for a free consultation.

In a small Oceanic Airlines office, Jack speaks back and forth on the cell phone with his mother, who apparently never wanted to hold the funeral directly after his body is transported safely. However, Jack says he just wanted to get it over with soon, and explains the rest of the situation to her. Jack meets Locke, who is finishing up filling out paperwork on his case of knives, which the airline has also misplaced. Jack tells Locke Oceanic lost his father because they can't locate his coffin. Locke tells Jack Oceanic has no idea where Jack's dad is; the airline lost his dad's body, not his dad. Seemingly grateful to hear this perception of the ordeal, Jack notices Locke's condition and asks him about it. "My condition is irreversible," Locke says. "Nothing is irreversible," Jack replies, demonstrating a noticeably different attitude than the Jack who boarded Oceanic 815 in the regular timeline. He offers him a free consultation, gives him his business card and holds the door open for Locke to wheel out. ♪



Trivia

Production notes

Bloopers and continuity errors

When Jack walks to the plane's restroom, he passes a bulkhead wall with a call-button device visible on it. When he watches Kate and marshal Edward Mars return to their seats, they enter the same bulkhead row, but no call-button device is visible on the wall.

Mars took a fork and knife away from Kate. Silverware would not be allowed on a plane after 9/11. Later on the plane, the stewardess says that there are no sharp items on the plane because of regulations.

When Sayid is lowered into the spring, his bullet hole is gone.

When Sayid is removed from the spring, his hair is soaking wet. Just a few seconds later, when he's being laid on the ground, his hair is much drier.

When Sayid is being taken down the steps in the temple to the water, a background extra removes the stretcher twice between shots.

When Sawyer finds Juliet at the Swan site, her hands move into various positions between shots, though she is obviously unconscious at the time.

Oceanic 815 is supposed to be a Boeing 777. The approaching scene showed a correct 777, however: The sequence where you can see the landing gear on touch down shows four wheels on the main landing gear. A Boeing 777 has six wheels. The plane approaching the gate has four engines (you can see the engine shadows). The actual plane at the gate is an Airbus A340.

When Charlie is being taken from the plane by policemen, he looks left to Jack and all the passengers are facing him. In the next image, Jack looks right, but all the passengers faced opposite.

Jack is carrying one side of the stretcher up until the time when Kate moves out of sight under the Temple wall. When Jack becomes concerned for her, he grabs the flashlight from Hurley and goes after Kate. However, he may have set the stretcher down off screen, while the camera panned in the direction Kate went.

When Hurley and the others enter the tunnel under the Temple, after Hurley says "this is gonna be awesome," a can of soda can be seen on a ledge behind Kate's torch.

When Sawyer throws Miles over Juliet's grave to "talk to her," Miles' face is covered with dirt. In the next shot his face is clean.



A Kino Flo Diva-Lite can be seen to the right of the van.

At 25:14 into "LA X, Part 1," when Hurley is backing up the DHARMA van to the hatch site, a Kino Flo Diva-Lite can be seen to the right of the van helping to light the scene.

In countries outside of the US, where this episode is broadcast as two separate episodes (i.e. two lots of credits) a scene change creates a continuity error in Part 2. The flash-sideways where Jack is called away from the customs queue to the courtesy desk is moved later into the episode so that it does not appear in the teaser. This means that Kate's flash-sideways scene at the customs desk is shown first, and she escapes shortly after. However, in Jack's scene, Kate is still waiting in line with the Marshal and being directed to the desk, where her scene should continue from.

In the airport bathroom scene where Kate kicks out the door to knock out the Marshal, you can see that the door to her stall has been modified so that the door opens outwards; however, in the next shot you will see that all the other doors in the washroom open the normal way, inwards.

After Ben stabs Jacob in the season five finale " The Incident, Part 2 " his shirt is covered in blood; yet in this episode, just minutes later, there are no blood stains on Ben's clothes.

" his shirt is covered in blood; yet in this episode, just minutes later, there are no blood stains on Ben's clothes. When Hurley yells at Jack as Sayid wakes up, one of the Others Jack is fighting immediately spins around to look at Sayid even though he would not have known right away why Hurley yelled.

The imploded hatch is noticeably different to when it is first shown imploded in " Further Instructions ". The exercise bike from the hatch can be seen as Sawyer is climbing down the hole to get Juliet. However, in previous episodes after the explosion of the hatch, the bike can be seen lying in the jungle.

". When Charlie is arrested after he says "You should have let that happen," and walks off to the right of Jack, and then he says "I was supposed to die," right back in front of Jack.



Sayid's mysterious Iranian passport and customs form with 1972 birthdate.

Sayid is shown with an Iranian passport, even though he is Iraqi and he states so on the customs declaration form that is also shown. His date of birth is also given on the form as April 25, 1972, even though according to Sayid, he was 23 years old in 1990 during the Gulf War. It is conceivable he was traveling under a false passport, except he states his real name on the form.

Sayid's customs form depicts the logo of the old United States Customs Service, which was replaced in March 2003 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The U.S. Customs and Border Projection uses the logo of its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security. Updated forms would have been used by September 2004.

Music

The Season 6 soundtrack includes the following tracks from this episode:

Analysis

Recurring themes





Cultural references

Literary techniques





Storyline analysis

Kate attacks US Marshal Edward Mars. Crimes)

Sawyer blames Jack for the death of Juliet and threatens to kill him. Rivalries)

Charlie is arrested for bringing drugs on the plane. Crimes)

Jin is revealed to be smuggling undeclared money into the US for unknown purposes. Crimes)

Jack's decision to drop the bomb is questioned, particularly by Sawyer, and even by himself. Leadership)

Sawyer, Jack, Kate and Jin struggle to free Juliet from the wreckage of the Swan. A-Missions)

Jacob tells Hurley he needs to take Sayid to the Temple, which he does. A-Missions)





Episode connections

Episode references



DHARMA Logo on shark tail.

Episode allusions





Unanswered questions

Unanswered questions Do not answer the questions here. Keep the questions open-ended and neutral: do not suggest an answer. More details...

For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: LA X, Parts 1 & 2/Theories

Why is the Island underwater in the flash-sideways?

Why is the water no longer clear in the Temple?

Why is Man in Black disappointed with the Others?

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