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After Season 5’s explosive finish, everything is up in the air for the survivors of flight 815. No one knows what — or who — the future will hold. Will Juliet’s sacrifice to save her friends work? Can Kate choose, once and for all, between Jack and Sawyer? Will Sun and Jin be reunited? Is it too late to save Claire?
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Classical Roman era
About two millennia before the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, a woman named Claudia surfaces from the ocean and clings to the remains of a ship. She looks around and sees an island. Eventually, she is washed ashore and as she struggles to her feet her billowing red dress reveals her advanced pregnancy. The beach is strewn with debris from the shipwreck. She makes her way inland and drinks from a stream. As she drinks, she is startled to see a womanreflected in the water. The woman takes Claudia...
Thirteen years later
The Boy in Black finds an Egyptian gameon the beach. Jacob runs up to him, and the Boy in Black tells him about what he found. He explains that it is a game and that he "just knows" how to play. He agrees to play with Jacob, but only if Jacob doesn't tell their mother because he believes she will take the game away from them. The same day, Mother is working at her loom and she asks Jacob whether he loves her. He says he does and she says "Then tell me what happened." She joins the Boy in Blac...
Thirty years later
Jacob has finished a piece of cloth on the loom. Mother claims tiredness as she grinds herbs. Jacob goes to the other side of the island and observes his brother working at a project with the other people. He goes down to the Man in Black and they talk over a game of Senet. The Man in Black tells Jacob that Mother may be insane but she is right about his people being bad. He says they are greedy, manipulative, untrustworthy and selfish. He explains he stays with them as a means to an end, tha...
When the Man in Black is born, his mother does not name him, saying "I only picked one name." During the episode, both Motherand Jacob always refer to him with pet names ("My Love", "Brother") and...Claudia is the third woman that we know of who came to the Island pregnant and near term, delivered her baby and then had the baby taken and raised by another; the others were Claire and Danielle R...The Man in Black's dagger is the one he gives to Richard to kill Jacob in "Ab Aeterno", and is later given by Dogen to Sayid (to kill the Man in Black).This episode is set in the earliest time of the series, reaching back about two millennia, and has the largest passage of time between scenes.For the only time in the show's run, no main cast members appear in original footage. Matthew Fox (Jack), Evangeline Lilly (Kate) and Terry O'Quinn (Locke) appear in archive footage only.This is the second episode (after "The Other 48 Days") to present the story in chronological order (except for brief flash-forwards interlaced into the final scene).This is the second and final episode of the season to feature a flashback instead of a flash sideways, after "Ab Aeterno".Like Sayid's flashback in "Solitary", the episode starts in another language before switching to English (which the characters are not actually speaking) for the rest of the episode.Recurring themes
1. Claudia arrives to the Island pregnant and gives birth to Jacob and his twin. (Pregnancies) 2. The newly born Jacob and his twin are swaddled in light and dark cloth, respectively. (Black and white) 3. After giving birth to Jacob and the Man in Black, Claudia is murdered by Mother. (Life and death) (Deceptions and Cons) 4. Mother strikes Claudia 4 times. (Numbers) 5. Mother raises the twins as her own. (Children) (Secrets) 6. The Man in Black and Jacob play against one another with the Sen...
Cultural references
1. Senet: The Man in Black finds a board and pieces of this old Egyptian game on the beach and claims to know how to play without ever having played it before. Senet may be the oldest board game in the world. Senet boards were often placed in the grave for the dangerous journey through the afterlife. Senet is also known as the "Game of Passing", and is said to represent the souls of the dead moving through the netherworld. (History) (Games) 2. Stephen King: In the final Official Lost Podcast...
Literary techniques
1. After helping Claudia give birth, the midwife kills her and steals her babies. (Plot twist) 2. Young Jacob dislikes relying on his twin to provide rules of Senet, and his brother says one day they will play a game where he makes the rules. (Foreshadowing) 3. When Jacob asks the Boy in Black how he knows how to play the game he found, the Boy in Black replies, "I just know." (Regularly spoken phrases) 4. The Boy in Black is told by his adopted mother that he is "special". (Regularly spoken...
Episode references
1. Jack, Locke and Kate find the Man in Black and Mother in the caves and call them "Adam and Eve". ("House of the Rising Sun")
Episode allusions
1. The Boy in Black finds a Senet game on the beach. The Senet game is believed to be the oldest game in history. Locke tells Walt that backgammon is the oldest game in history. ("Pilot, Part 2") 2. Mother predicts it is going to rain. John Locke also had this ability. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues") ("The Beginning of the End") ("Confirmed Dead") 3. When attempting to access the Swan's core, Sayid tells Jack "We're not going to get in up here. Perhaps we can go under it." Likewise...
For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Across the Sea/TheoriesWhat is the nature of the Heart?How did Mother come to the island and to be the Heart's protector?How did Mother destroy the village and the well?How did the Latin-speaking people come to the Island?Before Jacob threw his brother down into the heart of the Island he hadn't become the "smoke monster" yet, so what was "The Mother's" problem with him and all his people leaving the island?Ilana Verdansky is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Zuleikha Robinson. Ilana is introduced in the sixth episode of the fifth season of Lost as an officer boarding Ajira Airways Flight 316, with Sayid in her custody.
Feb 24, 2010 · Admittedly, we didn’t see a lot of Sawyer and Smoke-Locke, but as for the news about characters who were “candidates” to replace Jacob, well, that got plenty of time spent on it. Especially ...
Yunjin Kim played Sun-Hwa Kwon, the daughter of a powerful Korean businessman and mobster, with Daniel Dae Kim as her husband and father's enforcer Jin-Soo Kwon. Dominic Monaghan played English ex-rock star drug addict Charlie Pace.
Mar 2, 2010 · This is how we end the episode: An infected, darkened, proud Sayid and Claire walk out of the Temple and into Fake Locke. He's surrounded by his new team, those that escaped the Temple before.
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Several new recurring characters were introduced in the sixth season. Deadwood actor John Hawkes was cast to portray a character named Lennon [54] and Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada obtained the role of Dogen (道厳, dōgen); [55] both men are Others stationed at the temple. [56]
