Lost, Series 5, Episode 5 - This Place is Death

As Ben desperately tries to convince the members of “The Oceanic Six” to return to the island Sun takes her chance to take down the man that she blames for the death of her husband and points a gun at Ben. Shocked to learn that Jin is still alive she agrees to go with him when Ben offers to show her proof but to the coordinators dismay only Jack follows. He fails to reunite the Oceanic Six for their trip back to the island and as they three of them pull up outside a church they are surprised to also to see Desmond, on his quest to find Daniel Faraday’s mother. Upon entering the church they are met by a woman lighting candles, she is Daniels mother, she has the knowledge of how to return and dismayed at the turnout she agrees that is too late and that the four of them, including Desmond has to be enough.

Back on the island Jin is still trying to come to terms with what is happening. Rousseau and her team convince him to accompany them towards the radio tower purely because its in the direction of the Oceanic camp but upon entering the jungle they come across their old foe the smoke monster. Dragging one of their team down a hole Jin knows only too well what is happening and stops a heavily pregnant Rousseau from following knowing that she is very much alive in the future. A glaring in the sky and a painful screech to his ears and Jin jumps through time to find himself alone in the tree’s again.

Continuing to make his way towards the beach he hears voices and running around the corner see’s Rousseau pointing her gun directly at her boyfriends head. He pleads with her, tells him that he’s the father, that she knows who he is and just as she lowers her gun he takes aim ready to fire. Rousseau, being the better shot, takes him down with a bullet to the head and turning to see Jin sets him scrambling for the jungle through a line of bullets. Another time jump and Jin once again here’s voices but this time it is that of Sawyer and Locke, he has jumped to the correct time period and he is relieved to join his lost comrades.

After fleeing Rousseau’s bullets Jin is relieved to find his comrades

Things are getting worse for Charlotte, most of the team are now experiencing nosebleeds but as they take several sequential time jumps the red headed Brit collapses to the ground, her mind rambling through different times, her body not able to cope with the haemorrhaging. Letting the team go on Daniel stays behind with her as she alludes to the fact that she grew up on the island, that she had spent her life trying to return and that as a child she had been scared by a man on the island who told her never to come back again lest she wanted to die. In a moment of clarity she realises that is was in fact Daniel who told her before finally succumbing and dying in Daniels arms.

Charlotte finally succumbs but not before some time travel rambling

At the Orchid Station they are pleased to see it standing, until of course, another time jump. Arriving in a time where it didn’t exist John rushes down a bank to find a well, a well that Charlotte had mentioned in her ramblings. Taking the rope he starts to make his way down, only to time jump halfway through and plummet to the base of the well where he shatters many bones.

He is met by one of the others, someone that tells him that Ben shouldn’t have moved the island, that is was meant to be moved only by John and that he had to correct the mistake. Stumbling his way to the wheel with bones sticking through his leg in grisly fashion John summons all of his strength and starts to push the wheel.

With John now at the island’s helm is about to save our island survivors from fatal haemorrhaging? I sure hope so otherwise by the time the others arrive there’ll actually be none left to save and their entire reason for returning will be wasted. With Kate, Aaron, Sayid and Hurley all out of Ben’s mix will they actually be able to return and what will happen to those members that stay in the real world? And think of Penelope! She’s only just found Desmond again, they’ve had a child and now it looks like she’s going to lose him all over again!!