The Suffolk Voice

Issue date: 6/5/08 Section: Arts & Entertainment

After the credits began to roll on the season finale of "Lost," all I could think of was what an amazing end to a great season. Season four started off by promising to show viewers the "Oceanic Six," - the six people that eventually get off the island alive and end up back on the mainland living out their new lives. From the moment in the first episode where we saw Hurley in a police chase until the shot of "Jeremy Bentham" in the coffin, "Lost" gave us a season full of great new characters, gripping twists and turns, and an ending that will certainly lead to many promising storylines in the coming season, which begins in January 2009.

The finale started off with Jack, Sawyer, Hurley, and Locke meeting up at the Orchid Station. After Locke determines that Jack has made up his mind to leave the island, he tells Jack to lie about the island and everything that has happened there, so that it can be protected from the outside world. Meanwhile, the mercenary Martin Keamy and his team have returned to the helicopter to extract Ben Linus, but things go wrong and they are ambushed by the Others. Keamy ends up in a brutal fight with Sayid, but before Keamy can kill Sayid, he is shot by Richard Alpert, the never aging Other member.

Now freed, Ben returns to the Orchid and descends into its inner chamber with Locke. He makes Locke watch another Dharma video, which speaks of time travel, but it malfunctions before anything new can be learned. Keamy, still alive due to a bullet proof vest, then comes into the station. He tells Ben that the bomb on the Kahana is wired to his own heartbeat, and if he dies, everyone on the boat will die as well. A vengeful Ben stabs Keamy fatally and feels no remorse for possibly killing the people on the freighter. Ben then explodes the "time machine," which he reveals will allow him to "move" the island. However, doing this will force him to leave the island - thus, Locke is to become the new leader of the Others; a role which he accepts. Ben then descends behind the machine into a frozen chamber, and turns a wheel that makes the island disappear from view.

Meanwhile, the Oceanic Six have all gotten on the helicopter, piloted by Frank Lapidus, and land on the freighter just as it is going to explode. Desmond joins the group, as he warns them of the bomb, and they lift off to avoid the explosion. Michael, who is cooling the bomb, sends Jin, who was helping him, to leave before the bomb goes off. As Michael runs out of liquid nitrogen to freeze the bomb, he sees Christian Shepherd (Jack's father), who tells Michael that he "can go now." The bomb explodes, sinking the ship and supposedly killing Jin and all the other nameless people who were on it.

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