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By Raoul Mowatt
Special to MSN TV

In this season finale, we find out that just about everyone has had a close encounter with Jacob in the real world, that there's more to Locke than meets the eye, and that sometimes the best of plans go astray -- especially when they involve an H-bomb. Bear with me, because there is a ton of flashbacks in this one.

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We open with a man working a spinning wheel and a loom. He goes to the beach and gets a trap for fish and roasts up some breakfast. A second person comes and joins him. A ship's off in the distance. One asks the other about how the ship got there, and then guesses that the other brought the ship there. Man No. 2 says that Man No. 1 is still trying to prove him wrong. Man No. 1 says he is wrong. Man No. 2 says things always end the same way, with the newcomers fighting, corrupting and destroying. Man No. 1 says it only ends once and anything else is progress.

Man No. 2 asks if Man No. 1 has any idea how badly he wants to kill Man No. 1. He does. Then Man No. 2 says one of these days he'll find a loophole. Man No. 1 turns out to be Jacob. Dun dun dun! And we see the full four-toed statue from the back. It appears to be Egyptian of some sort, or at least it's holding an ankh.

We're in farm country. Iowa to be precise. It's little Kate and her little airplane-having friend. And it's right about here that my hopes for a good season finale started to look a little shaky. Because there has never, ever been a good Kate-centric episode. Even though it turned out not to be totally Kate-centric, it still wasn't the best.

Kate asks if the friend is going to do it. He refuses. She says she will but he has to be lookout. He agrees. They go into a store. She tries to swipe a New Kids on the Block lunchbox. But just as they were about to get away, the store owner busts them. He threatens to call Kate's parents and the cops. A man offers to pay for it. It's Jacob. The store owner takes the cash and tells Kate he doesn't want to see her anymore without her parents. Kate thanks Jacob. He says she's welcome and then asks, "You're not going to steal anymore, are you?" Apparently Jacob's not so hot on the psychic thing. Katie lies and says no. Jacob tells her, "Be good, Katie."

We next go to a funeral. One boy is particularly sad. After the service, he is sitting on the steps of a church wanting to write something but his pen isn't working. Along comes Jacob with a fresh pen. He says, "I'm sorry about your mother and father, James." It's young Sawyer! And he's writing the letter to the real Sawyer! A grown-up, presumably James' uncle, comes up and sees the letter and tries to tell Jimmy to move on, and asks him to promise not to finish the letter. Young Sawyer lies and promises. 

Flash-forward to the sub with Kate, Sawyer, Juliet and various women and children. The crew is handing out sedatives and the captain says someone will take them to their sleeping berths shortly. True to her "born to run" form, Kate says that they have to get out of there. To which Sawyer correctly points out that they are underwater. He asks how she got caught. Kate fills them (and the audience who missed the last episode) in on a few things: she came to get them, and Jack's planning to blow up an H-bomb. Kate declines to tell the reason why: That Jack's under the impression he can avert the crash of Oceanic 815. She instead says they have to stop him. Sawyer's not impressed. He notes that Jack, Kate and the rest destroyed their happy Dharmaville life and that they're going to take their chances in the real world: "If Jack wants to blow up the Island, good for Jack."

Which brings us to Jack, Sayid, Richard and Eloise. Now that they have found the bomb, it turns out that they have to figure out what to do. Sayid explains that Faraday left detailed instructions in his journal on how to remove the core and detonate it. Furthermore, they have two hours to get it to the Swan site. Richard asks a question he probably should have raised awhile back about whether this is a good idea. He also reveals Eloise is pregnant. Of course, they decide to go forward.

Radzinsky angrily gets out of a Dharmamobile and wants to know who stopped a drill. Chang explains that he did after the drill's temperature went up 60 degrees. Radzinsky says he should have just doused it with water. Chang says that it might not be the best time for Radzinsky's experiments now that they've evacuated the Island and face a possible insurrection. Radzinsky isn't too concerned: "I came to this Island to change the world, Pierre. That's exactly what I intend to do." He restarts the drill.

Since we last checked in on her, Kate has decided to fill Sawyer in on the part where Jack is hoping to avoid the crash of Oceanic 815.

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