The Incedent Review

The Incident started around 1845, when the Black Rock was coming to the Island. We meet Jacob for the first time, and we meet the yang to his yin. The man who is not Jacob questions why he continues to bring people to the Island insisting it always ends the same. Jacob comes back with “It only ends once. Everything before that is just progress.” The other man tells Jacob how much he wants to kill him and tells him he'll find a 'loophole' eventually. Through the course of the episode we see that Jacob visits several of the flight 815 survivors at pivotal moments. He visits Jack after the surgery he told Kate about in the Pilot. He shows up at a convenient store after Kate and Tom steal a lunchbox. Jacob distracts Sayid, while Nadia walks into the road and gets hit by a car. He's waiting for Hurley with Charlie's guitar case when Hurley gets out of jail. Jacob visits Jin and Sun at their wedding and tells them to never take their love for granted. He gives Sawyer the pen he used to write the letter to Anthony Cooper. And after his father threw him out the window, Jacob brought John Locke back to life. There is one other person Jacob visits off Island and that's Ilana. She's in a hospital, but Jacob comes to her requesting her help. She tells Jacob she's been waiting on him. With flashbacks out of the way time to move onto the meat and potatos of The Incident. In 1977, Ellie, who we found out was leading the Others at the time, and Richard helped Jack and Sayid get the bomb, but that's as far as they're going. This leaves Jack and Sayid to make their way out through Dharmaville. When blending in doesn't work out thanks to Rodger Linus, a gunfight breaks out. Sayid gets shot, but Hurley saves the day, again. What would a season finale be without Hurley saving the day with a Dharma Van? Meanwhile, Kate convinces Juliet that they need to go back to the Island because Jack is going to detonate the nuke. Once Sawyer, Juliet, and Kate return to the Island, they run into some old friends. It's Rose, Bernard, and Vincent! They've been living “off-the-grid” in retirement on the beach. They are very happy and want to be left alone. Sawyer, Kate, and Juliet catch up with Jack and the rest of the gang on their way to the Swan station. This doesn't go well, Sawyer tries talking some sence into Jack, but they end up in a fist fight. Juliet then changes her mind and wants to help Jack, all over the way Sawyer looked at Kate. Eventually, Jack will get just about everyone on board with this idea and they head into the construction area to detonate the nuke. This leads to another shootout with the Dharma drones. A handful get away, but by this point the electromagnetic energy is sucking anything metal down the hatch. A chain gets caught around Juliet and pulls her into the pit. Sawyer tries to save her, but after a tearful goodbye she lets go. In 2007, Ben goes along with John's plan to kill Jacob with little resistance. The group for flight 316 tries to get Lapidus into their club, but he's not so sure about them. He sees what's in their box, but he wishes he hadn't. They make their way to the cabin, but Jacob is not there. They burn the cabin to the ground. Both groups make their way to the statue, John and the Others make it their first. John and Ben go in to see Jacob. The Arjians show up and ask Richard, “What lies in the shadow of the Statue?” He answers in Latin, but it translate to, “He who will save us all.” Then they show Alpert, what's in the box. Just like last season's finale, we see it's a dead John Locke. The episode ends with Juliet at the bottom of the shaft. She wakes up and beats on the nuke until it flashes white and Lost season 5 ends. And that's what you need to know so you're not lost when it comes to Lost.