When are they?
We begin on the 10th anniversary of the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. September 22nd 2014.
Ajira Airways Flight 316 landed in the dark of night, at Marcus Island, a Territory of Japan, in late 2007. All occupants managed to flee into the jungle but not before a runway worker was able to film them from behind. For the corresponding seven years between their return and the 10th anniversary of the crash of Flight 815, our ‘Losties’ have managed to live in anonymity, using aliases and keeping a very low profile.
Where are they?
Hurley is the Protector. Ben is his #2 and Vincent is still there as well.
Walt is something of a ‘Richard’, making most of the trips off the Island.
Rose and Bernard live a carefree life out in the jungle.
Kate and Claire live together in Australia, with their sons, Aaron and Christopher.
Sawyer relocated to Texas to be near his daughter Clementine, as she had moved there with her mother.
Miles also had tagged along with his best friend and ended up settling in Texas as well, with his wife and his daughter Lisa.
Desmond and Penny are running Widmore Industries back in London while living with their son Charlie and an adopted daughter whom we may remember. Emma managed to escape the mortar attack and was taken in by Desmond after returning to the ‘real world’ with him. This happened after Desmond discovered that Emma’s real mother was a downtrodden drug addict that wasn’t remotely capable of raising her. This also, coincidentally, helped to preserve the continued lie about Flight 815.
Eloise is still in her Los Angeles residence. Frank Lapidus is laying low in the Bahamas. And Richard Alpert has spent his aging days at home in the Canary Islands…as a priest.
So what disturbs their peace?
For all these years, in various conspiratorial circles online and elsewhere, the term ‘1131’ (eleven-thirty-one = 815+316) had become a bit of an underground sensation. It was the term coined to denote the interwoven mysteries of Flight 815 and Flight 316 as perceived by the public. It was seen as a ‘conspiracy theory’ not unlike JFK assassination theories, Roswell UFO theories and all the like.
But eventually someone with enough motivation and resources decided to try and change the public dynamic about the subject. And this person is Roy Edwards, a wealthy aircraft mogul. His parents were on Ajira Flight 316, and his aim is to find out the truth connected to both Flight 815 and Flight 316.
Along with his assistant, Cliff Mooney, he announces a substantial monetary reward for information about real truth related to these “1131” conspiracies on the 10th anniversary – September 22nd 2014.
This disturbs the peace because, eventually, money talks.
The immediate threat to the Losties
Many moons ago, Jacob brought the Dharma Initiative to the Island for the same reason he brought anybody. He wanted to prove something to his brother about the nature of humanity and how they were capable of doing good and great things. Dharma was seen (by Jacob) as some sort of hippie commune about betterment of humanity (etc.) Unfortunately after Dharma arrived, their façade slowly unraveled and their true motives were exposed, forcing Jacob and his Jacobites (“Others”) to Purge Dharma.
The primary motive for Dharma was that they were always on The Island to solve what they saw as an equation to predict the end of the world. (4815162342). And they were aiming to do it by time traveling to the future. This true motive was compartmentalized in the highest ‘circle of trust’ within Dharma. After Dharma was purged, their co-founder Alvar Hanso (from back in the ‘real world’) began his hunt to find the Island again. Unfortunately for him, he didn’t succeed. But his son eventually would.
Alvar’s son, Morten Hanso would return to the Island to finish the one project his father could never manage to finish. Jacob, with help from his Jacobites, specifically Matthew Abaddon, would thwart Dharma’s time travel research by purging them. The one project that was never brought to fruition was a station called ‘The Passage’. And essentially what it was, was a high-tech mechanized version of The Frozen Wheel. Although it certainly wasn’t a wheel, it just brought together the Water and The Light.
Morten Hanso and his bevy of hired goons would stop at nothing in finishing this project.
In a roundabout way, both Edwards’ 1131 organization and Morten Hanso have the same goal. While Hanso explicitly wants to capture what he sees as his (The Island), if Edwards were to succeed in finding out the true fate of his parents and the rest of those Ajira passengers, he’d find out about the Island too.
And so with Edwards’ reward having been offered at a press conference on the 10th anniversary of the crash of Flight 815, he gets a solid tip that will eventually pay off. A neighbor of Grandmother Dawson (Michael’s mother) tips of Edwards and his crew (including the previously mentioned Cliff Mooney) about Walt Lloyd being alive and well and having lived under an alias of Keith Ray Johnson. And while Walt has been living on the Island for the last five years or so, he is (basically) an Alpert-like advisor to Hurley and makes frequent trips off the Island for supplies and such.
And soon Mooney spots Walt paying a visit to his grandmother in New York City. Walt denies his true identity and it is revealed that Walt had been posing as a fictitious nephew of his real father, Michael. So Walt (as Keith Johnson) is able to play the charade while visiting his grandmother.
Meanwhile back in London, as previously explained, the Hume’s had adopted Emma after Desmond had returned from the Island in late 2007. Part of how Desmond convinced Emma (then 12 years old) that staying with him would be best for her, was lying about the fate of her mother. He told her that she was dead. But eventually Emma would grow to be a young adult and find out the real truth about her mother.
Nearing the 10th anniversary of the crash, (a now, 18 year old) Emma would then travel to Southern California to seek her long lost mother. On the anniversary she would travel to the cemetery where she and her brother (Zach) were supposed to have been buried after supposedly dying in the crash of Flight 815.
Emma figured her mother would show up at her “grave” on September 22nd, the day of her supposed “death” but she never did. So a depressed Emma decided to go to a local Private Investigator to attempt to find her whereabouts. In order to give him enough information to work with, she would have to reveal that she was a passenger on Flight 815, and she did so in presumed confidentiality. But the Private Investigator knew about Edwards’ reward offer and soon contacted them.
Edwards then sent over a man named Carlos to acquire the PI’s file on Emma, in order to track her down.
Then, perhaps strangely, we witness Carlos killing the PI and taking the file with him. He would then obviously pursue Emma. But why did he kill the PI?
By now Edwards’ right-hand-man Mooney had already confronted Walt in NYC. And that murder of the PI in Los Angeles sent off alarm bells to Walt because it was seemingly traceable to Edwards’ 1131 group. Walt felt compelled to meet Mooney face to face and soon he did. During that meeting in NYC’s Central Park, Mooney denied any involvement on behalf of Edwards in the killing of that PI. Walt was certainly dubious about that denial. Mooney made ‘threats’ to the effect of a never-ending pursuit of Walt and imploring him to spill his guts about the “1131” mysteries. But in wanting to protect his grandmother and in order to cut off the trail of their pursuit, Walt revealed his secret power to all.
He had been (while sleeping in his grandmothers’ apartment) astral projecting during this entire meeting. And he had used this to secure his escape. And so he disappeared right before Mooney’s eyes and he immediately fled to begin his path back to the Island.
After having ‘acquired’ her file from the PI, Carlos paid a visit to Emma. It became evident right away that Carlos had only one thing in mind. He specifically wanted information about where her plane had crashed in 2004. He used the file as leverage to have Emma answer a few questions and then gave it to her. It revealed to Emma that her mother had passed away several years prior. Carlos then left her behind.
Soon Carlos would be seen taking that file to his boss. But it wasn’t Roy Edwards. It was Hanso. Carlos was clearly a mole for Hanso inside of Edwards’ 1131 organization. Among other things, Carlos had told Hanso about Edwards’ pursuit of Walt Lloyd. And then Hanso promptly had his main goon Peter Sorensen murder Carlos to secure all of this information. Hanso then possessed direct knowledge and the whereabouts of a survivor of Flight 815 (Emma) and had a very good lead on a second person (Walt).
Hanso was then able to easily ‘acquire’ Emma Hume as a hostage. Hanso’s crew would then pursue Edwards’ crew in the hopes that they would lead him to Walt Lloyd. And they did, because Edwards’ people were able to track Walt all the way back to Wake Island, where he would depart for The Island. And so as Walt fled back to The Island, he was trailed by a boat of Edwards’ folks (led by Mooney). But also a team of Hanso’s goons (led by his lead henchman Peter) was following Mooney (and thus Walt) bringing their prisoner Emma with them. As it happened, Walt, inadvertently, had led all of them right to the Island.
Before and during this developing ordeal Hurley would be tipped off to the whole Edwards pursuit by the fleeing Walt, who had astral projected himself while sleeping on a plane from NY to LA. Keeping in mind, all of the Losties (outside of Emma) are totally oblivious to who Hanso is at this time.
Hurley would then seek the advice of his #2, the ‘chess-master’ Benjamin Linus. But neither of them had a real idea for a response to the situation. They had no means of combating any kind of hostile action aimed to seize the Island. Then after consulting their priest (Father Alpert) via telephone, it was decided that Ben would try to use some of his old tricks to gather up some people to help defend the Island. He was going to hire some mercenaries using some of Hugo’s money or whatever other resources Ben could manage to string together. Ben soon left the Island to do so.
But not long after Ben left, Hurley would discover the remnants of a helicopter crash. Hanso’s people (although Hurley had no idea of their identity) had entered on the wrong bearing and crashed there before they had ever arrived. Not long after this, Walt had finally managed to return and had (by then) known that he was unfortunately followed back to the Island. So soon after meeting each other on the Island, Walt and Hurley decided what needed to be done next. It was decided that Walt was going to move the Island, to secure its location once again. And that perhaps (after moving the Island and ending up OFF of it) he could lead Ben back there with those mercenaries to help Hurley rid the Island of the unwanted.
They both knew these people were bad news but what they didn’t know was that there were two distinct sets of people that had now ‘invaded’ the Island. First, Edwards’ fact-finding 1131 dudes led by Mooney and second, Hanso’s Goons, led by Peter, bringing Emma along as effectively a ‘hostage’ (they wanted her as a wedge against Desmond, more on that later). As an aside, it should be noted that roughly a half-dozen people survived that Hanso helicopter crash including Emma, Peter, two scientists (a meteorologist and an anthropologist) and a few random ‘hired guns’.
Hurley had managed to spot some of these people with guns (they were actually Mooney’s crew) and both he and Walt knew Rose and Bernard were now out there in trouble. Walt then convinced Hurley to allow him to secure Rose and Bernard before he was to move the Island (as they had agreed). Hurley agreed to simply go into hiding until Walt could secure Rose and Bernard and then move the Island.
Walt was able to convince Rose and Bernard to relocate to The Caves and hide. And although Hurley had instructed Walt to move the Island after doing so, Walt’s sense of guilt wouldn’t leave him alone. He had accidentally led these threats directly to the Island and placed Rose and Bernard (not to mention Hurley) in grave trouble. So while he had already made his way to the Orchid with the full intention of moving the Island, before he could bring himself to head down below to push the Wheel, he had to double check Rose and Bernard. And so he did, journeying to The Caves. But he didn’t find them there. They were missing.
Instantly Walt took some sleeping pills and astral projected himself around the Island to find Rose and Bernard. We would later find out that Rose and Bernard had been discovered at the Caves and didn’t put of much of a fight, ‘surrendering’ to Hanso’s goons. The Hanso goons had headquartered themselves at The Staff where they were keeping Emma and so this is where they brought R&B and precisely where Walt would find them. Much to his dismay, Walt discovered they were about to be executed on Peter’s order.
Walt was able to create a diversion by standing in front of them, so they could flee. Unfortunately one of these Hanso goons fired multiple times right into Walt’s ‘astral ghost projection’ and managed to strike Rose and gravely injure her. Walt was able to stop the pursuit but the damage had been done. Walt would then give Bernard directions to take Rose to The Temple, so she could be submerged in the healing pool.
Meanwhile, feeling alone, and having a sense of great affection and loyalty towards him, Hurley had made Vincent ageless, much like Jacob did for Alpert. And while Hurley and Vincent were trying to hide from these ‘infiltrating groups’, they would inadvertently stumble into Mooney and his crew out in the jungle.
We discover that this crew of Edwards’ 1131 people (led by Mooney) had previously been engaged in ‘gun-fights’ with Hanso’s goons not long after arriving at the Island. Mooney had no idea who they were or what they wanted much less that they had followed him to the Island.
The Hanso people had already killed some of his crew and Mooney’s navigator Lillard had fled into the jungle and was now missing. Mooney’s crew had taken this hostility from the Hanso goons and assumed that these people evidently must be ‘defenders of the Island’ or something of the sort. Mooney and his associates then attributed this hostile action to Hurley because they knew he was ‘from’ the Island.
Mooney and his 1131 crew knew all about the Oceanic Six and as much as anyone in the general public could know about this entire ‘Island’ situation. And so when Mooney ran into Hurley out in the jungle, they immediately knew who he was. Hurley then truthfully denied knowing who those aggressors (Hanso’s goons) were and claimed that he had no association with them whatsoever. Mooney then took Hurley prisoner, seeing him as the leader of that group that had been killing his men.
Later, while some Hanso goons approached them, Mooney would use Hurley in a hostage situation, to attempt to get the Hanso goons to surrender. It didn’t work. They begin shooting at the few men left, killing most instantly. Aside from Hurley, Mooney was the only one left alive and was wounded in the leg. After Mooney was shot, Hurley was able to flee into the jungle, leaving Mooney behind. But Vincent soon approached Hurley in the jungle and somehow implored him to do the right thing. And so he did, risking himself to drag Mooney into the jungle in order to save him. After saving Mooney, a modicum of trust was established between the men. Hurley told him some real truths and certainly after the previous ordeal, Hurley was able to convince Mooney that this other group had nothing to do with him.
And so basically it had come to light that these Edwards/Mooney/1131 folks weren’t bad people at all, and were simply, genuinely in search of truth. And so Mooney and Hurley worked together, because outside of Vincent, they were all each other had at that point. As an aside, Mooney’s navigator Lillard was still missing somewhere out in the jungle. But in any event, they both knew something had to be done. The Island, somehow, had not been moved yet. And so fearing that perhaps something bad had happened to Walt, Hurley would strike a deal with Mooney. He still needed someone to move the Island as soon as possible. And so he gave him so more ‘truths’ and convinced Mooney to do the deed.
It is now January 2015. It had been four months since the Island was ‘invaded’ by those two groups.
Ben had made it to the outside world to begin his recruitment of any possible help in defending the Island. But as he attempted, he ran into some big hurdles along the way. He had burned far too many bridges and squandered practically all of the financial resources he had, including those once stolen from Charles Widmore. Additionally, Hurley had given the rest of his riches to his parents, and they too had more or less spent it all. Ben had only one good option. He had to ask the people he once tried to kill. The Humes.
So he put his tools to work and paid visit to Claire and Kate in Australia, hoping they could talk Desmond into helping out his financial situation. All the while, Ben and everyone else had lost total contact with the Island for these last four months. Obviously someone had moved it. Ben knew what that meant. Clearly there was now a very troublesome situation on the Island, but Kate and Claire were having issues as well.
Not long after the initial Edwards/1131 press conference on Sept 22nd, the reward offers for information had turned up something quite interesting. There had been a short video circulating around the media and online (etc.) showing 4 people running into the jungle after the return of Ajira Flight 316 in late 2007. But their identities were indecipherable. But as it turned out, this video (as it had been known to the public) was an edited version and the Japanese man that shot it turned around and sold the entire unedited video to Edwards’ 1131 group. After some serious technical examination, they were able to extract a frame, showing a familiar public face. Kate Austen was not only one of the Oceanic Six but she was also a passenger on Flight 316. So with such a lucrative bounty for information, the (by now) super-famous Kate didn’t have many places to hide.
Complicating matters, there happened to be a strange redheaded woman there in Sydney that seemed to be taking some peculiar interest in both Kate and Claire. She had mentioned to Kate the reward money and it spooked them both. So Kate and Claire (and their boys) moved to a place in Melbourne. And that is where Ben would track them down. Ben promised to try and help them hide but it wasn’t going to be that easy.
Kate now had a son, Christopher Jackson Shephard (Jack’s son) and had been severely violating her parole for the last seven years. So needless to say, nobody thought going to the ‘authorities’ was a good idea.
Not long after this, it became obvious that the ladies had put in a good word for Ben, as he was soon meeting Desmond in America. Desmond was supremely worried about Emma, as she had been missing for that same four-month period. Although she wasn’t really “missing” in the strictest sense, by now, Desmond knew precisely who had taken her, as Hanso had already confronted Desmond with this.
But the ironic thing was, Hanso had lost the Island too. When it moved, it moved with his people – and their prisoner Emma – on it.
Hanso had implored Desmond to give him the blueprints to build a Pendulum of his own, so that they could find The Island again. Because obviously Desmond had access, through all of his late (Widmore) father-in-law’s holdings, to all sorts of stolen Dharma material that Hanso now coveted. Desmond then gave them over to Hanso so that he could build his pendulum and so that Emma could be returned to he and Penny unharmed. But the pendulum Hanso built wouldn’t work. There was something amiss and Desmond desperately needed to make it work to get Emma back.
After Kate and Claire had reached out to him, Desmond would eventually come into contact with Ben, as he had been seeking financial assistance to mount some kind of ‘army’ to defend the Island. These two men have a rough history but they would need to work together to attain a common goal.
After becoming Hurley’s #2, Ben had gone and shut down all the Dharma facilities. Included in his travels was a visit to render the Lamp Post Station inoperable. So with Eloise Hawking’s permission, Ben had done so. But currently it was January 2015, a good five years since Ben had last seen Eloise. And so Desmond enlisted Ben to go see Eloise, seeking her help in this quandary about these Pendulums.
And so after giving Daniel’s journal to Desmond, Eloise gave them the name of a man mentioned in it, a man she (correctly) suspected of assisting both Gerald and Daniel in the construction of this Lamp Post Pendulum. Desmond and Ben would then acquire a set of ‘codes’ from this man and Desmond would finally have the thing he needed to trade for Emma’s safety. The thing to make Hanso’s pendulum work.
But before that could happen, they wanted to pinpoint the Island’s location themselves. And so with the help of Widmore Industries finest engineer, they fixed the Lamp Post Pendulum and found the location of the Island. Or more specifically…they found out where it would eventually be.
Desmond would eventually agree to meet Hanso to trade these Pendulum codes for his adopted daughter. And Ben would enlist (using Desmond’s money) some ‘hired hands’, in case something went wrong at this meeting. Of course (unknown to Desmond at the time) Emma wasn’t going to be there, she was somewhere on the ‘moving Island’. So Hanso knew he would need something else to trade with Desmond.
And so that strange redheaded woman that was bothering Kate and Claire would eventually be revealed as another of Hanso’s goons. And she would abduct Kate and Claire and their two sons. She then placed an electronic tracking device in all four of them and only took Kate, leaving the others behind. It was Kate that Hanso was going to use for the swap at the meeting with Desmond. But also, Hanso knew about that Purge in 1992. Those were his people and he knew who had caused it. So Hanso certainly wanted Ben too.
Just prior to all of this, the walls had been closing in on Kate and thus Claire with the 1131 people, the Hanso people and a reward-craving general public trying to hunt them down. Even before being abducted by Hanso’s goons, Kate remained in serious danger of having to go to jail (parole violation) and ultimately be separated from her son. So in a moment of desperation, they reached out to the best liars they knew in order to help them. Just prior to the meeting with Hanso, Ben and Sawyer would come up with a plan to take the heat off of Kate and Claire. And Sawyer would be the one to soon execute it. (see further below)
Ben’s instructions (from Hanso via the redheaded woman) were to arrive at the meeting before Desmond arrived or else Kate would be killed. Ben had also been told that Emma was on the Island. While he relayed this message to Desmond, there was still a palpable distrust between the two of them. After all, Ben had tried to kill both Desmond and Penny all those years ago.
Ben was also, at this time, asking for money to help Claire and the two boys go into hiding. While Desmond wasn’t sure whether to fully trust Ben, he would give him the funds so that Claire, Aaron and Christopher could be sent to Tenerife to safely stay with Father Alpert.
Desmond wasn’t sure that Ben was being truthful about everything and while Ben certainly wasn’t divulging everything, it was only because he didn’t want anything to interfere with his swap for Kate. So Desmond pushed forward with his meeting with Hanso, bringing Penny along with him. Ben was heading to the same place, in an effort to beat Desmond there. Meanwhile – as alluded to - Ben had hired two people to act as security for Desmond during this meeting, should something go terribly wrong. But with his new ‘mission’ to beat Desmond there, Ben appropriated these two ‘guards’ for himself.
So after seeing Claire and the boys off to the Canary Islands, he took the two ‘guards’ and headed straight to an office building in Sydney to meet Morten Hanso to make the trade for Kate. Unfortunately Ben walked right into a trap, both of his ‘guards’ were killed and Ben was taken prisoner. All without Desmond knowing any of it.
Then Desmond and Penny arrived to meet Hanso and to make what they believed to be a swap for their adopted daughter Emma. Desmond had brought the codebook with him as these were the codes to make the Hanso Pendulum work. But Hanso was up front about Emma’s status and just as Ben had told Desmond, she was on the Island as it was ‘missing’ in time and space. The captive Kate was then brought forth and Penny took the initiative to instigate the swap.
Desmond gave them the codes and they handed Kate over to Desmond and Penny. Desmond left the meeting without his daughter and having given Hanso the ‘keys’ to getting back to the Island.
James “Sawyer” Ford would approach Roy Edwards with an offer to help him find out the fate of his parents and the Ajira plane by revealing himself as a survivor from Flight 815. In return, Edwards and his 1131 group would give Sawyer a platform so that he could keep the wolves away from Kate and Claire. Sawyer, with previous ‘assistance’ from Ben, concocted a (certainly unbelievable) story about a same set of terrorists hijacking both Flight 815 and Ajira 316. He denied knowing the whereabouts of “the Island where they were taken” and generally told the best lie he could. And he did it in front of television cameras, for the entire world to see. The general public had believed, because of the video that had been taken upon their return on Ajira in late 2007, that only four had people returned.
Sawyer claimed to be the pilot and ‘identified’ (falsely) the other three people from that video that were known to the public, Kate, Claire and Walt (Emma was only known to Hanso) in order to contain the pursuit of more survivors. Sawyer would then conclude by claiming to be the last of all these people that was still alive, stating that the rest of them had been murdered by these fictional “terrorists”.
Sawyer then had to face the music, meeting with Federal Agents and a man named Simms who was the Intelligence Director. As it turned out, these agents seemed to know about both Sawyer’s murder of Frank Duckett and the Dharma Initiative itself. In other words, they definitely knew he was lying and they certainly had a wedge against him. Sawyer was spooked in more ways than one.
After recently being freed from Hanso, Kate would join Claire and the boys in Tenerife. Desmond would then plan to go to the Island to grab Emma himself. And after Sawyer managed to grab a window of opportunity, he contacted Miles and asked him to get their pilot friend ready to take him somewhere in order to hide. And so Frank Lapidus took Sawyer to Tenerife.
But Sawyer didn’t stay there long, as he aimed to go with Desmond back to the Island when it ‘showed up’ again in July of 2015. Hanso was on his way there as well, to arrive at essentially the exact same time.
While we had been ‘watching’ all of those events from January 2015 take place, there was certainly a missing gap of events that took place not long after the Hanso people had shown up along with Mooney and his 1131 crew. Mooney’s crew, save for his missing navigator (Lillard) and Mooney himself, had all been wiped out by the Hanso goons. Mooney had been injured in the previous shoot-out and so Hurley took him to the Healing Pool at The Temple. While Mooney was submerging his leg in order to be healed, Bernard showed up with another wounded person, his wife Rose. She had been mortally wounded.
Hurley was reticent to tell Bernard to submerge her completely in the water, being weary of what happened when Sayid ‘returned’. And so Bernard kept her head above the water while holding her in his embrace. Saddened and unable to help the situation, Hurley took Mooney and they headed to the Orchid so that he could finally move the Island, which somehow Walt had still failed to do.
Walt had been preoccupied. After attempting to save Rose and Bernard, he soon found himself trying to ascertain the identity of this (Hanso) group that had shown up. It was then that he (while astral projecting) spotted and apparently recognized Emma Hume. Needless to say, his concern was increased but more pointedly, this had prevented him from moving the Island as Hurley had asked.
And so Hurley eventually took Mooney below the Orchid and while trying to assist Mooney in moving the Island, he stood too close to the Light and was swallowed up in it. Both Mooney and Hurley showed up in Tunisia, each at different times. And so the Island moved…to the Antarctic Circle.
This event would leave Walt, Bernard and Rose stranded here along with roughly a half-dozen hostile Hanso goons and their prisoner Emma Hume...all here on this newly created ‘Antarctic Island’.
It was now snowing on this newly situated ‘Antarctic Island’. And after being ordered to do so, three of the Hanso goons journeyed across to The Temple to find something. They had at their disposal information about “Jacob’s Cult”, which was later revealed to have come from an elderly woman, a Jacobite defector.
She was Horace’s ex-wife Olivia (formerly Goodspeed). The goons would make it beneath the Temple into a secret and previously unknown chamber. After arriving they saw something strange scrawled on two separate walls. On the first wall the word “Origin” written in ancient cuneiform script (Sumerian) accompanied by a story of something falling from the sky. On the second wall was the English word “EIGHT” followed by a list of names. Only visible to us was the surname “Hume”.
A bit later, Bernard would show up down into this chamber. He was looking for revenge and he was aiming to find the man that shot his wife Rose. He had encountered two of the three goons and had killed the armed goon among those two.
This left him alone with an unarmed goon as Bernard too explored the list of names on the wall. As Bernard gazed at “Hume” in curiosity, the unseen third goon shot him squarely in the back.
The Island was showing up again, at a specific place and time in July of 2015 and Desmond, not trusting that Hanso would ever let her go, was going to get Emma himself. And not only did Sawyer need to hide from The Feds, he didn’t want Desmond to go by himself, and so he soon joined him. Desmond and Sawyer would head to the Antarctic Circle, even after Walt’s ‘projection’ had visited them and warned them not to come to the Island. Walt had also told them that Hanso himself, along with his army of varied scientists and goons, would beat them there. But this didn’t deter Desmond or even Sawyer.
So Hanso made it back and would use, temporarily, The Staff as his base of operations. They were not only keeping Emma prisoner there, they were also now keeping Ben prisoner there as well.
Hanso was using Ben to try and get into ‘The Source’, as Ben had promised him he could help him do so, only in an effort to keep himself alive.
Desmond and Sawyer then made it to the snowy Island. And Walt would use his projection ability to speak to Sawyer and Desmond and have them meet at The Barracks so they could come up with a plan.
Not long after initially arriving there in September of 2014, part of Hanso’s orders to his Goons, led by Peter, was to flood the Island so that all remaining inhabitants on the Island would be flushed to higher ground. They used the original purpose of The Tempest (weather manipulation) to do so. And so the Island had been deluged by rain for all that time. But after the Island moved to the extremely frigid Antarctic, that precipitation soon became snow. And by the arrival of Desmond and Sawyer to the Island, it was entirely covered with snow, making travel all the more arduous.
After meeting up at the Barracks, eventually all three of them (Walt, Sawyer, Desmond) would part ways, with different immediate goals in mind. Walt instructed the other two to take the tunnels and Desmond headed straight to The Staff to rescue his daughter. Sawyer was concerned with Rose and Bernard and would head towards the Temple, where Walt had previously told Bernard to take the injured Rose, only assuming they might still be there.
Walt had finally decided he was able to do what Hurley had originally instructed him to, to move the Island in order to hide it. Little did he know that Hanso had built a working pendulum and could find it anyway. But at the very least this would buy them some time in an effort to stave off the Hanso invasion of the Island, and to also change the freezing weather.
The Staff was the current base of Hanso operations and there were dozens of people there. And Desmond would take the tunnels and discreetly find Ben at The Staff. Unable to free Ben without being spotted himself, they were only able to communicate briefly. Ben would lie to him and tell him that Emma wasn’t there, so as to save him from doing something stupid in order to rescue her. Desmond, feeling lost and unsure, would retreat to The Pearl Station and hopefully wait for word from another of Walt’s projections.
Meanwhile Sawyer would make it to The Temple only to find a wounded Bernard, after having been shot in the back and being left to bleed out. Bernard asked Sawyer to take him to Rose. We would soon find out that the Healing Pool didn’t save her, as her wounds were too grave. Rose had died and Bernard was dying himself. At this point Bernard simply wanted to be with his beloved wife as he was dying. A grief-stricken and angered Sawyer agreed and brought them together inside The Temple and then exited, heading back down into the Tunnels. Bernard passed away with the deceased Rose at his side.
Ben was still held captive at The Staff. Desmond was at The Pearl and was eventually visited by a ‘projecting’ Walt and told to head towards where The Swan used to be to eventually meet up with Sawyer. He wanted both of them to go and see if they could help Ben, who was about to be in big trouble.
It was around this time that, after having done about all he could to help, Walt finally moved the Island and thus departed to Tunisia. And after the Island was moved, (certainly to somewhere warmer) Hanso’s focus became all about The Source…the “heart of the Island”. And Ben had futilely promised to take him there.
And so they were leading Ben out there near to where The Swan used to be, specifically to the Bamboo Forest, where Hanso’s people (and Dharma before them) had detected the insane electromagnetic readings. They were going to the invisible ‘Source’ location. But we all know that Ben couldn’t get them in there and so the race was on to see if Sawyer and Desmond could save Ben.
Four people (Hanso, Peter, the strange redheaded woman and a random Goon) guided Ben to the Bamboo Forest. And after arriving very near to the ‘spot’ Ben would admit to having lied about being able to get in there. Walt managed to project himself (presumably from near Tunisia) in a last ditch effort to save Ben. Walt and Ben both claimed that Walt was the “New Jacob” only to try and buy some time. And it actually seemed to work as gunshots rang out from behind them. Desmond and Sawyer had apparently arrived.
A fight ensued leaving two Hanso Goons dead and only Peter and a critically wounded Morten Hanso alive. Peter would manage to bring Hanso to safety. Sawyer sustained a serious leg wound while shooting Hanso but not before fleeing when he ran out of ammo. Walt managed to project one last time in order to tell Sawyer that Desmond was safe and had managed to escape into the abyss of the jungle.
Ben wasn’t so lucky and was gunned down by Hanso just as the melee had broken out. Before he died, Sawyer promised to bury Ben on ‘Boone Hill’ but he would never get a chance to do so. Sawyer and Desmond were now stranded on the Island, and Hanso knew they were there. So they were being hunted.
A flashback would reveal that Ben had been married to Annie, and that she and their baby had died in childbirth, resulting in Ben’s obsession with the general issue.
After accidentally being caught up in the Light during the ‘wheel-turn’, Hurley had been off the Island for a while. He was trying to piece together a way to get back there, consulting with Alpert, visiting with his parents in Los Angeles, as well as making a trip to Texas to see Miles. He began to pray a lot and decided that he needed to use some of his Protector Power, whatever it may be, in order to get back to the Island.
It was during a visit to a local church in Los Angeles when things started to take a strange turn. A ghost paid Hurley a visit, but it wasn’t just any old ghost. This was someone that had moved on already…so perhaps it wasn’t even a ghost.
It was evidently Jack Shephard. And he brought an ominous warning about something that was coming to kill off most of Earth’s inhabitants. An asteroid was heading their way and it would crash into Earth about 15 years from then, in the year 2030. Jack said that it was inevitable and that they couldn’t do anything to stop it. Hurley was tremendously troubled by this news but would eventually, after much prayer, come up with a plan to help his friends and their families. Also, he was concentrating his efforts to think of a way to find the Island again, as it had been moved once more by Walt.
Hurley’s attention would then turn to Kate and Claire. They had been hiding in Tenerife for several months since Hanso’s people had taken Kate as their hostage. Unfortunately, US Federal Agents would be able to find them and would take Kate into custody, for her parole violations. Claire was then forced to spill her guts in exchange for what amounted to placement in a ‘witness protection’ program. She, Aaron and Christopher would then be sent to live anonymously in the mountains of Idaho. Kate was trying everything she could to negotiate with the Feds in order to be released, but she had no leverage. As she had tried to use her awareness of Eloise Hawking in order to give The Feds what they wanted; all information about the two planes (815 and 316) those passengers and of course, The Island. But Eloise had destroyed the Lamp Post Pendulum again, burning it all down, and then fleeing to go hide in England. Kate couldn’t offer the Feds anything, and so she was essentially stuck in prison to serve a long sentence for her father’s murder.
After having moved the Island himself, Walt would find his way back to America and eventually took up temporary residence in San Antonio where both Hurley had been staying and Miles lived with his family.
And eventually Alpert would be contacted by Claire and would pass along her location in Idaho to Hurley. Not only would Hurley go visit Claire and the boys, but he would live with them for some time, all the while trying to polish up his Protector Power and think of a plan to get back to the Island.
Walt was beginning to have major issues with his projection ability, as it started to become inconsistent. But in the meanwhile, he had been receiving what he perceived to be premonitions. They were telling him to go visit Ji Yeon, because she was special just like him. As the time passed, Walt projected himself to check up on Sawyer and Desmond (they were still stranded on the Island) whenever he could. But nothing could be done immediately.
Sawyer was feeling like they weren’t going to make it out of there. He not only wanted a message relayed to his daughter Clementine, but also he mentioned to Walt that he should go visit Ji Yeon as well, as he had been concerned about her well being. Both Sawyer and Miles had taken an interest in Ji Yeon just after they came back in late 2007, having spent those years in Dharma with Jin. But also, Sawyer continued to blame himself for the death of Jin and Sun.
In any regard, Walt would soon head to South Korea to see Ji Yeon.
The Feds investigating this “1131” matter were now getting all sorts of real information. They had spoken to Hurley, Walt, Kate and Claire. Also the Hume’s had come under some investigation as well because of their ties to all these matters. The dragnet would eventually pull in Frank Lapidus as well, as Kate revealed his identity to the Feds in order to allow Christopher to live with Claire, rather than her stepfather.
So the general public now knew that this Island was real and that a lot of those fanciful 1131 conspiracy theories may have had some actual truth to them. But the Feds kept a lid on most of the pertinent information. They wanted the Island for themselves in order for the United States to control it, rather than China or Russia or anywhere else.
Status update, late 2015.
It all had reached a point where nothing more could be done in the immediate time frame. Frank Lapidus would be brought in by the Feds to try to infiltrate the Hanso Group (as the Feds were now aware of them). Lapidus was actually revealed as a half-brother to Morten Hanso and thus among the reasons why we was sucked into being on Widmore’s freighter as the chopper pilot way back when. Frank seemed to be an ideal candidate for the infiltration job for several reasons. And so he agreed to do it.
Meanwhile an ailing Eloise Hawking had moved to rural England to lay low. Father Alpert was in Tenerife doing his own thing. Miles and his wife and daughter were still in San Antonio. Kate is in prison in Iowa. Claire is in Idaho, living with Aaron, Christopher and Hurley. Walt is in South Korea, trying to establish a relationship with Ji Yeon. And finally Sawyer and Desmond are still stuck on the Island, hiding away, with no real way of rescuing Emma from the Hanso Goons.
Early 2016, Eloise Hawking passes away from a heart condition. In her will, she had requested at least two things. First, was that Father Richard Alpert was to give her eulogy. Second, was that Penelope Hume would be given all of her assets, so that she could see that they were used wisely.
At her funeral in England, Penny would approach Alpert with some of those ‘assets’. Included in them, were both the design and codes for building an operable Pendulum. Hurley finally had a way back.
And so they would construct this new Pendulum, which would be the Fourth Pendulum, in Scotland, on property belonging to Malcolm Hume, Desmond’s youngest and closest brother.
For the record, the previous three Pendulums had all been destroyed. The original had been done away with, in Ann Arbor, many years ago, probably in the 1970’s. The second Pendulum was the Lamp Post pendulum and was destroyed in a fire set by Eloise. The third Pendulum was built by Hanso, located in the Maldives, and was destroyed so that Hanso could assure that nobody could ever find the Island again.
But this Pendulum in Scotland, built on the Isle of Arran, would now be used by Hurley to go back to the Island. But he had a few more things to do before he could head back there.
Before heading back to the Island, Hurley would have surmised that the way to protect his friends and their families from this inevitable asteroid that is apparently coming in about 14 years, was to bring them to the Island. Convinced that the Island would be a safe harbor that would protect them, Hurley would ‘touch’ most of the relevant parties. Hurley believed that his faith in the Island would bring them there and save the children and the rest would take care of itself.
He would eventually visit Charlie Hume, Ji Yeon Kwon, Clementine Phillips, Lisa Chang and obviously Aaron Littleton and Christopher Shephard, with whom he had lived in Idaho.
His instructions to Claire or Miles or Penny, were that they only need to be near or with their children when it happened. He was purposely vague, not only because he was pressed for time but mostly because he didn’t actually know the specifics. He was going on faith. And he needed to get back and save the Island as soon as possible. So with the Scottish Pendulum having found the Island, he would go back there in early 2016. And even though Malcolm Hume was an Army guy, and wanted to go and bring some military friends of his, Hurley commanded that he be able to go by himself.
And so Hurley went by himself back to the Island, using The Elizabeth.
Walt knew all along that projecting back to the Island and then explicitly telling Desmond (and thus Sawyer) where Emma was, would lead them straight into a death trap, so he put it off for as long as he could. Walt would eventually find Emma in the heavily guarded station, The Arrow. Not only were Sawyer and Desmond being hunted by the Hanso goons, they were more than outgunned in any effort to rescue her. But they did find a third person equally interested in getting the hell off the Island. Lillard, who had been Mooney’s navigator that had fled into the jungle, had managed to team up with Desmond and Sawyer.
Hurley requested that Walt project himself and acquire a bearing, so that Hurley could head back to the Island. It was during this time that Hurley had generally tried to keep Walt at a distance, so that Walt wouldn’t try and come with him. Hurley knew that anyone else coming along with him was in terrible danger and that he was the only person that could save the Island.
Meanwhile, after some contentious moments, Frank had successfully managed to be employed as a pilot within the Hanso Organization. He would fly the last cargo plane to the Island in early 2016. And it is on this arrival when a projecting Walt would acquire the bearing from Frank’s dashboard.
Armed with the bearing and facing increasing frustration from Desmond, Walt would reticently give Desmond the location (The Arrow) where they were keeping Emma. It was Emma herself that had pleaded with (a projecting) Walt, to tell everyone to stay away and that she had made herself useful.
Hanso had wanted someone to tell him about “Jacob’s Cult” (as his people saw it) and this is how Emma had managed to keep herself alive for the time being. However, Hanso had previously milked, not only Ben but also Olivia Goodspeed, for all they knew about Jacob and the ‘Island religion’. Between his array of scientists and these ‘Jacobites’, Hanso was putting together a lot of information. He then ‘did away’ with an elderly Olivia Goodspeed after forcing Emma to make the choice to be the sole ‘informer’ on Jacob.
So Desmond and Sawyer would begin to search for the boat they had arrived on, bringing Lillard along with them. Their rag-tag plan was to send Lillard out in the boat to rendezvous with them just south of the Dock and from out of the view of Hydra, which at this point was becoming heavily populated.
Walt was depressed and feeling extreme guilt over this whole ordeal. He had inadvertently led these Hanso people there and he had just given (what he saw as) Desmond and Sawyer a death sentence by telling them where Emma was.
Walt didn’t want to go into whatever had happened on the Island and Hurley (knowing it wouldn’t change his own mission) didn’t really want to know, so there was no great impetus for Walt to try and project back there to do anything. He wanted no part of Desmond and Sawyer’s suicide mission (as he saw it). And so after all the dust had settled, Walt stayed in South Korea to work with Ji Yeon.
After receiving the bearing from Walt, Hurley would now physically head back to the Island. But not before asking Walt to do one last thing. He wanted Walt to send a message to Hanso before Hurley arrived there. Hurley wanted Hanso to let his friends go or else they would face the wrath of the true ‘New Jacob’. When confronted with this ‘request’ Hanso would then reveal to the projecting Walt that it was too late. That some of Hurley and Walt’s friends had escaped, and some of them were dead.
The Feds had placed a tracking device inside of Lapidus so that they could hope to find the Island when he arrived there. But unfortunately Hanso’s people had found it inside of Lapidus before he could fly any missions. This caused an already tedious relationship between Frank and the Hanso’s to deteriorate, thus provoking Hanso to offer Frank a choice to prove his ultimate worth. That he, himself, could choose to die or that if he were really loyal to Hanso’s cause, he could elect that one of the women Hanso had already been tracking would die in his place. And considering Kate was in an Iowa prison, it was clearly going to be him or Claire. And so Frank did what you would expect him to do. He agreed to die.
And while being walked out on the proverbial ‘plank’ (literally the beach on Hydra Island) Frank would attempt to make a run (swim) for it. And so Frank attempted escape and managed to make it out into the ocean but not before being shot twice in the back.
This same night Desmond and Sawyer were hatching their plan. They were headed up the East Side of the Island, towards The Arrow. Lillard had done as he was instructed and took the boat and landed just south of the dock and mostly out of view of Hydra. But when Lillard arrived he would eventually find a mortally wounded Frank Lapidus lying out on the beach. An injured Frank had miraculously managed to swim that long stretch between Hydra and the Main Island. After convincing Lillard that he was okay with dying, and that he only continued swimming for fear of being eaten by sharks, Lillard left him behind and sought to meet up with Desmond and Sawyer near The Arrow.
Desmond and Sawyer were already there. And they (just as Walt and Emma had feared) walked right into a trap. Hanso wanted them initially taken alive, or more specifically wanted Desmond and had ordered Peter (his lead goon) to tranquilize them, and so they took them both relatively easily. Now Desmond, Sawyer and Emma were all prisoners inside of The Arrow, along with a half-dozen Hanso guards.
Lillard would show up and manage to kill four of them by picking them off (essentially) one by one, before being killed himself by a single Sniper. This left Peter in the precarious position of not knowing how many people had come to rescue them, so he figured he needed to kill – at the very least – Sawyer, so that he and his remaining pal (the Sniper) would only have two hostages to deal with. Peter then opened the room where all three of them were being kept and immediately noticed that Sawyer was absent.
Sawyer managed to attack Peter from out of his sight. Fighting ensued and Desmond and Sawyer managed to disarm him, gain the upper hand and then use Peter as their own hostage while heading outside. While all three of them, even Emma, were now armed, they too didn’t know who was outside, but we did. It was the single Sniper, with his night-vision goggles.
Sawyer held Peter at gunpoint, commanding him to speak (Danish) to any of his pals out there in the jungle, to throw away their weapons and make themselves visible. Peter responded by telling the Sniper to kill them at first opportunity. So he shot Sawyer in the neck. Sawyer fell, causing Desmond to then shoot Peter with several bullets, and Peter collapsed as well. Desmond hunkered down with Emma, ordering her to flee into the jungle for safety on his command. He was able to ascertain that there was only one weapon firing at them from the jungle and that he would likely draw the fire. Eventually he convinced a troubled Emma to leave on her own into the jungle, and she did. The sniper spotted Emma instantly but evidently didn’t see her as a threat and concentrated solely on Desmond.
While he was temporarily hidden, Desmond found himself out here in the dark of night, one on one, with a hidden sniper in the jungle. A sniper that had all the advantages, including night vision goggles. And eventually the Sniper spots Desmond, although instantly Desmond’s attention was drawn away, as he had witnessed both Sawyer and Peter, wounded and still alive, moving on the ground nearby. Peter was managing to rise and arm himself in order to finish off Sawyer. Sawyer struggled but Peter easily punched him in the face and essentially knocked him out. Desmond was helpless, knowing that firing at Peter would give himself away to the Sniper. But unbeknownst to him, Desmond was now already in the cross hairs, the Sniper only waiting for a clean shot. And just as he got that clean shot, Desmond turned his head to see Peter punching Sawyer, it was right then that the Sniper fired at him. And missed.
The flash from the sniper rifle gave Desmond a general direction and he unloaded a mass of bullets in that direction, he then rose and approached the area, to find that he had in fact killed the Sniper. Instantly his worry turned to Sawyer. As he moved back over to where Sawyer was lying on the ground, he saw an armed Peter with his rifle aimed directly at Sawyer. Desmond aimed at Peter’s head, and killed him.
Desmond had to carry a bleeding and unconscious Sawyer all the way from The Arrow to the beach where Lillard had taken the boat. He had told Emma where to go and she was here waiting for him. Emma had previously found Frank, dead, and lying on the beach. But now the goal became to save Sawyer. And armed with the bearing that Walt gave them, they got the hell out of there.
Father Alpert had done a lot of work to help construct the Fourth Pendulum in Scotland and in the meantime had been given instructions from Hurley to use a mediator (lawyer) to negotiate with The Feds. He had given Alpert and thus this mediator, the Pendulum plans (without the needed codes) as leverage to get Kate freed from prison. And although it worked, Kate would still have to serve several more years as part of the deal. But, as far as Hurley was concerned, it was a success. Because she would be free in time to return to the Island in 2030 with her son and all the others if she chose to do so (to be safe from the asteroid event). The Feds would then construct the Fifth Pendulum and along with the Fourth Pendulum in Scotland, would be the only Pendulums in existence.
February 2016. Desmond had made it home, to be with Penny, Charlie and now Emma. Walt was out in South Korea working with Ji Yeon and her special ‘gifts’. Kate was in an Iowa prison, but no longer serving a life sentence. Claire was in Idaho with both Aaron and Christopher. Alpert returned to Tenerife after his work was done. And sadly Rose, Bernard, Ben, Eloise and Frank were all deceased now.
Miles was still living with his wife and daughter in San Antonio but had traveled to Los Angeles to visit Sawyer, who had miraculously survived the rescue ordeal. Miles brought Clementine with him so she could visit her father in the hospital. They would all later head back to Texas together.
Hurley was more or less unaware of what had happened with most of his friends but knew that his duty lay in protecting the Island. And so after following the bearing that Walt had given him, he took the boat that had (unbeknownst to him) been named after his long, lost love Libby, and landed on the Island shores.
Not long after arriving, he headed to the Lighthouse and used a shard of broken mirror to find something…or someone, out in the mass of Island jungle behind him. And so after resting out in a patch of open jungle, that something showed up. It was Vincent, the now-ageless dog. Hurley gave him an instruction as if he’d understand. And apparently he did, because Vincent did what Hurley asked of him.
Vincent had located a random Hanso goon all by himself, washing his hands in a stream. Hurley then knocked him out with a rock and later dragged him to just outside THE CAVE. He then gave this goon an explicit instruction after having proven his ‘importance’ by showing him THE LIGHT. The goon was to go and get Hanso, and have Hanso come all by himself to meet Hurley. And so a bit later Hanso showed up by himself and met Hurley in the Bamboo Forest.
Hurley had no other recourse but to strike a deal with him. Hanso had completely seized control of the Island and Hurley wanted a way to secure the safety of all his friends. Hurley also wanted to be able to have general leverage over Hanso in his potential exploitation of the Island.
Hanso didn’t believe in the supernatural aspects of the Island, so Hurley decided the best way to ‘threaten’ Hanso was to finally show it to him. He would lead him to the “Source”; the heart of the Island.
But soon things would turn on Hurley, as Hanso rejected Hurley’s ‘deal’ and continued to deny the mystical powers of the Island and the Source. After being told he could not approach the Light, and that no one, not even Hurley could, Hanso decided to verify his claim by shoving Hurley down into the Cave towards the Water and Light.
But in doing so, he slipped and eventually it was he, Hanso himself, that fell down into the water and drifted towards the Light.
We leave Hurley behind as BLACK SMOKE flies over his head and exits the cave.
The very first scene of this series opens with a flashforward to the year 2342, where a crew are drilling down into a crater in the middle of a desert.
A bright and familiar LIGHT is seen emerging.
Later, in another flashforward during episode eight, we catch glimpse of a random woman watching this same event on television from far away.
It is surely a momentous, important, global event of some kind.
But before she (or we) can see what happens, the television broadcast cuts out and the television broadcaster simply claims that “it’s gone.”
You are now ready to begin reading Episode 9 and be introduced to the ‘Other Generation’.