The look on Sun and especially Jin’s faces as they listen to Sawyer the cop brief them on Sayid is priceless. Their knowing smiles as they see the con man they know reinventing himself subconsciously as an officer of the law is something only a longtime fan would truly appreciate, and I certainly did.
And back on the island, we get a callback to one of the earliest scenes of the show. After vanquishing the MIB, Kate is tending to Jack’s bad knife wound, and expresses her concern over its severity. In response, Jack says, “Find me some thread, and I can count to five,” harkening all the way back to the moment when the two first met, when Kate stitched Jack up in the pilot while Jack told her his fear/count-to-five story.
Meanwhile, the island is still falling into the sea even though the MIB is dead. Jack realizes that he has to reverse whatever Desmond did in the source if he is to save the lives of those he loves. Kate appeals to him to leave with the others, but Jack has found his calling, and nothing will stop him from fulfilling his destiny now. Jack and Sawyer have a nice moment of farewell; there’s a lot of history between the two men, but I like the fact that they found equal ground in the end. Ben decides to stay on the island come hell or high water, and that makes perfect sense – it’s the only home he’s ever known. And then, one of my favorite moments in the finale – Jack tells Hurley that he’d better get going, but Hurley refuses: “I’m with you, dude.” Just wonderful. Then, we see the culmination of Jack and Kate’s relationship; even though things went badly off-island, it’s quite apparent that the two do deeply love one another. “Tell me I’m gonna see you again…” – not in this life, but the next (Gladiator, anyone?). They share a final kiss, and the trio of Jack, Hurley, and Ben go off to save the island. Extrapolating from what we see in the afterflash between Jack and Kate, it can be argued that this is the last Kate sees of the love of her life for many years; assuming she made it to the mainland safely aboard the Ajira plane, she probably lived for many years, never seeing him again until their reunion in death. At first, I was a little mad at Kate for not staying with her man, but then I came to a realization. They were never fated to be together in this life; Kate came back to the island specifically for Claire so that she could be reunited with Aaron, the boy she loved as a son. That’s the person who she conceivably devoted her life to, backed up by the fact that it was Aaron’s birth which prompted her awakening in the afterflash. So to me, Kate leaving Jack to his island destiny makes sense – she kept her word to Claire and her promise to Aaron to reunite mother and son, and still found her soul mate in the world beyond this one. Works for me.
Miles and his duct tape = so much awesomeness. It’s too bad Miles kinda took a backseat this season to all the Candidate stuff, as Ken Leung really did a great job during his three or so seasons on the show. His discussions on time travel with Hurley in the Dharma section of last season are some of my favorite memories of the show.
In the afterflash, the next awakening belongs to Sawyer and Juliet, who appropriately remember everything together. It’s precipitated by Juliet helping Sawyer releases a stuck Apollo bar from the vending machine, and it’s revealed that Juliet’s line from LA X, “It worked,” had nothing to do with an alternate timeline like we originally though. Instead, while she was dying underneath the imploded Swan hatch, she simply crossed over before she died in James’ arms. Also, I love how Sawyer had the same lines in both instances – great emotional payoff to that relationship, and that’s a real testament to Josh Holloway and Elizabeth Mitchell, who really sold that pairing in the relatively short on-screen time they were together. Couple quick things I noticed: the vending machine and the stuck candy bar took me directly back to Jacob’s encounter with Jack in The Incident, where he liberated the bar for Jack, and Juliet’s idea to unplug the vending machine has to be a parallel to what Desmond did at the Source – unplugging the island.
An issue raised here is the ultimate significance of Jughead. At the outset of the season, pretty much everyone thought that when the screen went white at the end of Season 5, the detonation had created a second timeline where Oceanic 815 never crashed on the island, just like Jack intended to do. But looking back, we know now that that was not the case. All Jughead did was blow our castaways who were stuck in 1977 back to 2007, where everything was going down with FLocke and Ben and Jacob, etc. In fact, I think Jacob knew that was going to happen – that these people, which included all of his candidates minus Locke plus Kate, would be coming to the present to challenge his nemesis, the MIB. This is what he meant by his last words to his brother, “They’re coming…” before he was kicked into the fire and died.
In the afterflash world, everyone has now had their epiphany except – who else? – Jack Shephard. Of course he’d be the last to let go. Side note: how good does Evangeline Lilly look in that black mini-dress? Shame on the writers for not getting her in that thing until the very last episode of the entire series. Jack’s looking for his nonexistent son David when a fully-enlightened Kate approaches him. It’s the first time she’s seen him in God-knows-how-long (“I’ve missed you so much”), and you can see her love for him in her face, her eyes, her smile. “No…that’s not how you know me.” She tries to get him to see, to awaken him, but it’s gonna take more for Jack. He’s now had two short flashes, one with Locke and an longer one here with Kate, and it’s building up inside – he realizes there’s something happening, but doesn’t quite know what. He’s on the brink, but won’t be pushed over until he touches his father’s coffin. Let me take just a minute to say how much I loved the evolution of Kate’s character in this finale. This was a woman who once ran away from everything, but is now the one coming to Jack, seeking him out, and trying to enlighten him. She’s not Born To Run anymore; in fact, she’s been waiting for Jack so they can move onto eternal life together. She wasn’t always my favorite character (the writers definitely hit a wall with her character-centric episodes around Season 2), but Evangeline Lilly always did a solid job, and on occasion really rose to the occasion when provided with great material, as seen in this final episode, so kudos to her for doing such a great job with her first-ever speaking role. She did a nice job in a limited role as Jeremy Renner’s wife in The Hurt Locker, and I hope she continues to get some great roles on the silver screen.
On-island, Jack and his merry men have made it back to the Source. Hurley wonders how Jack’s gonna survive when Desmond didn’t make it back out, but the look on Jack’s face tells Hugo that this is a one-way trip, and he isn’t pleased with Jack’s decision. Jack convinces Hurley that this is what he’s here for, what he’s supposed to do, and drops the bomb that Hurley is the one the island needs in the long run, not Jack. Jorge Garcia does his best work of the series here, for my money. He’s come a long way since the early days, and has really shined here in the past two seasons as the surrogate for the audience. So, it makes all the sense in the world that he’d be the next Jacob, the protector of the island – he’s the true heart of the show. Jack echoes what Hurley told him earlier: “Hurley - I believe in you,” which is a beautiful coda to the long history between these two characters. A lot of the characters have been kept apart by geography and time travel, but Hurley and Jack have been together more or less the entire series – they left the island together, they came back together, and through it all, Hurley has always had Jack’s back, so it makes perfect sense that Hugo is the one that Jack turns to in this great moment of need. We get the third and final “passing of the island guardianship” ritual depicted on the show, and the similarities and differences between the ceremonies are striking. Here, there’s no wine and no incantation – all that stays the same is the drinking of the island’s water (from an Oceanic water bottle, an awesome touch), a touch, and the line, “Now you’re like me.” It would seem that it’s not so much the ritual, but the intention that matters. Nevertheless, an awesome scene that belongs among the best in the pantheon of LOST.
It’s actually quite astounding to see how far Jack has come in his character arc. He’s now willing to sacrifice himself for this place, this place which he never wanted to see again just a few short years ago. This show, among a great many other things, has been about his transformation from a man of science to a man of faith; it’s ultimately about his journey, and I have a feeling that it’s going to be intensely gratifying to see this play out from the beginning upon re-watch, knowing now where it ultimately ends up.
Thanks to the duct tape, Lapidus, Miles, and Richard get the plane up and running, and are just about to take off when Sawyer, Kate, and Claire come running out of the jungle. There’s something very, very symmetrical about Kate and Sawyer flagging down their plane off the island on the very same runway they helped to build back in the beginning of Season Three. Hmmm…maybe they knew what they were doing after all. Interestingly, we have another SIX people making it off the island. First the Oceanic Six, now the…Ajira Six? Probably means nothing, just an interesting coincidence. This is the last we see on the series of Kate, Sawyer, Claire, Miles, Richard, and Lapidus while they are still among the living. They presumably make it home safely, and live the rest of their lives until they die from whatever various causes, then some of them, as we’ve seen, meet up in the afterflash. Just another example of the show giving an effective close the story at hand while leaving a lot open to interpretation.
Jack finds himself literally in Hell down in the Source. There’s fire, smoke spewing everywhere, and the tremors are growing larger and more violent. He finds Desmond alive, and our favorite Scot pleads for Jack to let him reverse what he did, because he’s afraid that Jack won’t be able to. But Jack releases Desmond from his bond to the island, allowing him to return home to be with Penny and Charlie. He hooks him up to be pulled up, and gives Desmond’s signature line back to him: “See you in another life, brother.” That line, first uttered during the Tour De Stade back in Man of Science, Man of Faith, has loaded meaning now; we’ve seen Desmond’s consciousness travel through time and into the afterlife, and having seen the end of the show, Desmond and Jack DO see each other in another sort of life. It’s a great last scene for these two characters whose destinies were inextricably linked.
So Jack hobbles down into the empty pool to replace the cork. While we don’t get a close-up of the actual stone, it looks as if there are symbols and writing twisting around it, in a style that looks different even from the hieroglyphics in various locations around the island. I’d like to think that that implies that civilizations from all across history have found their way to this place, this miraculous place that may or may not hold the key to the world’s survival. There’s the people who built the source chamber (Mesopotamians? An even earlier people?), Egyptians (Smokey’s room below the temple, the statue of Tarawet), possibly the Romans (the various wells and the viaducts in the source chamber), some people from the Orient (the temple), and the Dharma Initiative, to name only a few. Just a very interesting, very tantalizing little detail that got me thinking. In fact, you could even think of it as an ancient Swan station – a man-made stopgap holding a massive, catastrophic amount of energy at bay.
Jack puts this mysterious cork back in – this is what he was born to do. His sacrifice brings the island back, saving both it and his friends. The brilliant light comes back, the water flows again, and a dying Jack lays in the pool and starts laughing and tearing up, for he knows he succeeded. Great work by Matthew Fox here, showing us a Jack we haven’t really seen before – totally free, bearing no burden, simply showing joy and relief at completing his task and doing what he does best – fixing things, in this case, the island itself. We see Jack “let go” – appropriate, given what’s about to go down in the afterflash.
It was so, so good to see the real Locke again; in fact, it was a bit of a gift, here at the end of LOST. We thought he may have been resurrected from the dead in the middle of Season 5, but that turned out to be the Man In Black simply taking Locke’s form to actualize his plan to kill his nemesis Jacob. Ben is clearly touched by this astonishing display of grace, and notes that that absolution matters “more than I can say.” John asks him if he’ll be joining everyone in the church, to which Ben says no; he still probably has some penance left to do in this transition stage, and probably wants to spend more time with Alex, the daughter he lost to the island. He is still awakened, though, and may perhaps act in the Desmond role for another group of people ready to move on, gathering them together and giving them the little pushes they need to remember their past lives. Who knows…here, though, his last act towards John is freeing him of the chair that defined his life for so long. The last we see of John Locke, except for a few glimpses in the church pews at the end, is him confidently ascending the steps of the church, finally free of the burdens and tragedy that defined his time on earth.
Back on-island, outside the Source, Hurley realizes that Jack isn’t coming back, and that he now bears the responsibility and the burden of protecting the island. He isn’t sure what to do, and visibly has a bit of a panic attack as the immensity of his situation sets in. In this moment, Ben steps to the fore; Hurley isn’t sure what to do, so Ben tells him to “do what you do best – take care of people.” Hurley, understandably, thinks he has to run things the way Jacob did, for that’s all he knows. But Ben, having been ignored and marginalized by Jacob for all his life, encourages Hugo to do things differently, to find his own brand of island rules. I imagine island life under the reign of Hurley to have BBQs and island golf invitationals, myself. And then, Hurley does what no one had before to Benjamin Linus – he asks for his help. Finally, someone acknowledges Ben’s value and asks for him to play a major role, this role being Hurley’s right hand man. And because of this act by Hurley, Ben is genuinely honored to serve the leader of the island, simply because, unlike Jacob, Hurley basically says (like Ilana before him) “I’ll have you.” This partnership totally came out of left field to me, but I love it more and more as I think about it. They’ve come a long way; just look at the scene where Hurley tosses a Hot Pocket at Ben in The Lie, and refuses to go with him to reunite with the Oceanic Six due to his intense distrust of the man. It also makes me look at one of my favorite scenes ever in a much different light – when Ben and Hurley wordlessly share a candy bar while waiting for Locke to receive “Jacob’s” instructions in Cabin Fever.
Then they see each other in the afterflash, and there’s clearly a lot of history between them at this point. There’s a certain affection in their greetings of one another, Ben’s in particular suggesting that their island reign was a long and fruitful partnership. I wonder how long they were in charge for? It will certainly be interesting to see a few more minutes on the DVD of their time on the island; I can see why they cut it from the finale, it really didn’t fit anywhere.
Finally, the pieces are all in place inside the church…except for one: Jack. He and Kate finally arrive, and Michael Giacchino reprises the musical theme from the original flashforward in Through The Looking Glass, a spooky, ethereal piece that we know signifies a great twist, and a new lens through which to view the series. This time doesn’t disappoint. Kate goes into the church, and tells Jack she’ll be waiting for him, once he’s ready. Still perplexed, he asks for what. Answer? “To leave.” This, coupled with Ben’s declaration that he’s staying, got me thinking that we were heading somewhere down the road with the purgatory thing, but I wasn’t thinking about it long before the epic Christian scene laid it all out for the audience.
First, though, we flash to Jack on the island. He did not die from the Source, but was instead deposited exactly where Jacob found his brother’s body all those thousands of years ago. He, however, was dead in body, but his spirit lived on as the smoke monster. Jack did his duty, and this is the island’s reward – he gets to die in peace. Whereas the Man in Black worked to leave this place, Jack worked to get back and protect it. For this, he is allowed to die, while the MIB was relegated to his own private hell for thousands of years. But before he begins his final jungle trek, we flash over to the church, where Christian explains all.
In the back room of the church, Jack finds his father’s coffin, continuing the trend of recent seasons where the so-called “secret scene” (nobody but Fox and John Terry was allowed on set for the filming of this scene) revolved around a box (Locke being the one in the coffin at the end of S3/4, and Locke being revealed as dead, thereby exposing the MIB’s machinations at the close of S5). This room where the coffin lies in state is key to understanding what this place actually is. There are artifacts from many different religions, as well as a prominent stained glass window containing: a cross, the star of david, the Taoist yin and yang, the crescent moon and star of Islam, and (hilariously) the Dharmacakra, which looks just like a certain frozen donkey wheel buried deep beneath the island. This is important in pegging the afterlife/limbo/waiting room/transition stage as spiritual, not specifically religious. All roads lead here; it’s not just Christianity (thereby eliminating purgatory from the list of possible names), or Islam, or anything else. This is just where these people go after death, no matter their faith or creed.
I loved the beat where Jack walks around the coffin, as if he knows something profound is about to happen to him. He completes the circuit, and lays his hand on the coffin. The first image is the first image of the show, Jack’s eye opening in the bamboo grove, a literal awakening in the midst of an existential one. He quickly yanks his hand away, momentarily stunned, but almost immediately puts it back. Jack then sees himself helping almost every member of the main cast, then remembers Kate Austen and what they shared together. Then, for the second time, he opens his father’s coffin, and of course, it’s empty – again. He destroyed it in anger the first time, waaaay back in White Rabbit.
This time, though, something markedly different occurs, perhaps what Jack was longing for all those years ago in frustration – Christian appears to his son, for the first time outside of a flashback or drug-induced hallucination, and it allows both men to heal the relationship that went so badly in the time before the island.
I thought we would have to see Christian again before it was all said and done, but never did I see his appearance being the pivotal moment of the season. It’s probably best to just go at this blow-by-blow, given how incredibly important it is to the endgame of the show.
Jack, amazed at what he’s seeing, asks that since Christian is dead, then why is he here? Christian immediately turns the tables on Jack in an attempt to get him to understand, asking “Why are you here?” And suddenly, THUD – it hits Jack at the same time it hits us – they’re all dead in the afterflash. Father and son then share an embrace that contains all they could never say to one another during their lives, and the look on Christian’s face during their reconciliation tells me that while this was primarily for Jack, he’s getting some closure here, too, in order to truly move on.
Now, the key to all this is in the next exchange. Christian tells Jack (and the audience) that Jack is real, everything that happened to him is real, and so are the people in the next room. Basically, the fact that they’re all dead DOES NOT negate the island story; that all happened, and it all mattered immensely, as Jack said to Desmond. Also, the fact that they’re all dead doesn’t mean they died at the same time; as Christian says, some died before Jack, some (i.e. Hurley and Ben) died long after him. “Everyone dies sometime, kiddo.” But the key is, “there is no ‘now’, here.” No matter when they each died, they remain in the afterflash until they’re all ready to move on together.
“Where are we, Dad?” Great callback to Charlie’s question at the end of the pilot. Christian’s answer made me tear up a little bit, I’m not gonna lie. “This is a place that you all made together so that you could find one another” is perhaps the most important, poignant line in the entire series. There’s something very special about the idea that their souls are intertwined, both in life and death. “The most important part of your life was the time that you spent with these people. Nobody does it alone, Jack – you needed all of them, and they needed you.” They’re all here, together, to help each other remember, let go of their time on the mortal coil, and move on – and the door’s only opened to leave, to go into the light, once everyone is present. Jack, finally cognizant and remembering, smiles as he says Kate’s name, and wonders where they’re going. Christian replies that, fittingly, they’ll all find out together. And with a smile, Jack acknowledges that he’s finally ready to go, and he and his father make for the sanctuary filled with everyone he loves.
When my great-grandmother was on her deathbed, actually minutes before she passed, she told those present about what she was seeing. She said, with a smile, “there’s a big window, and everyone’s there.” That’s basically what we’re getting here, a fantastic, moving conclusion that lets us say goodbye to those people who took us on their journey with them for six phenomenal years. Most of the main cast members are there, along with several pertinent regular guests. But not everyone is there – only those who are ready to go are in the church.
As Jack enters, the first person to greet him is John Locke, who is entrusted with the final line of dialogue in the series: “we’ve been waiting for you.” It’s perfect, and works on several levels. This is the entire point of the afterflash, everyone waits for everyone else before moving on together. It can be seen as the creators, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, finally saying this to the audience; they’ve known for a while how it was all going to end, and have been waiting for us to understand what it’s all about. Also, it works on a character level – Locke was always waiting for Jack to “get it”, to finally understand how special and important the island was, and how it was their destiny to be there. Jack: “I don’t believe in destiny.” Locke: “Yes, you do. You just don’t know it yet.” (Exodus, Part II). In the end, Jack did, and did so in time to save what Locke loved the most. And so, the two men of faith are reunited. Jack – I wish you had believed me. JL He did in the end, John.
The music in this sequence must be noted, for Michael Giacchino, the show’s Oscar-winning composer, simply outdoes himself. Several big themes from throughout the series are woven through these final shots, and man, does it work well. The Oceanic Six theme, the Parting Worlds theme (from the Season 1 raft launch) and the ubiquitous Life and Death theme all have prominent placement. The prevalent theme? Moving on, from the island to the unknown, from the island back to LA, from LA back to the island, from life to death to the world beyond that. It’s simply stunning; I’ve ripped this piece from the final minutes, do yourself a favor and give it a listen. Giacchino’s done great work all throughout the series, but he just outdoes himself here.
The final scenes weave back and forth from island to afterflash, intercutting between Jack stumbling through the bamboo forest and sitting in the church. The sequence is possibly my favorite moment in the history of LOST purely from an emotionally satisfying point of view, but it’s definitely top-5 material regardless. It’s just a beautiful, beautiful sequence in my opinion. Once Jack enters the sanctuary, he’s greeted by six people who are not insignificant in any way, shape or form; these were the most important people to Jack during his time on the island, the ones who had the most impact on him and his development as a character.
The first? John Locke, his one-time rival, who he clashed with on multiple occasions, and whose death it took to set Jack on his path to redemption and martyrdom.
Next? Desmond David Hume, Jack’s spiritual brother-in-arms (by the way, hooray for the Desmond/Penny happy ending!) and the man who enabled Jack to be able to kill the nefarious Man In Black. See you in another life, indeed.
Then comes Boone Carlyle, the man Jack couldn’t save back in Season 1’s Do No Harm, and who first told Jack to “let go” all those years ago.
Hugo Reyes is next, and how great was it that Hurley just picked Jack up clear off the ground? Loved it. Arguably his best friend, and fellow member in the brotherhood of the island guardians.
James Ford, his rival for the first part of the series, but these two shared a grudging respect for one another and joined forces in the end.
Finally, Kate Austen, his soul mate, takes him by the hand and leads him to their pew, preparing for their eternal life together.
It’s truly beautiful that these people, who came to the island broken and alone on 9/22/04, not only found each other in life but are able to move on to a better plane of being together. Everyone’s with their soulmates (Jack & Kate, Sawyer & Juliet, Rose & Bernard, Desmond & Penny, Sun & Jin, Libby & Hurley, Sayid & Shannon, Charlie & Claire, and even Boone & Locke as teacher and pupil), and prove that the “live together, die alone” maxim isn’t completely true; some may die alone, but they live on, together, forever.
After everyone is seated, Christian walks up the aisle, pausing only to put his hand on Jack’s shoulder, and in doing so says “You had what it took, son.” He walks to the church doors, in those same white shoes Jack put on him in Sydney, and opens them. All inside are instantly bathed with an intense, soft, beautiful white light – just like the Source, just like the hatch implosion, just like the island moving, just like the time skips. Life, death, rebirth – this is it, the source of everything, and the similarities above are quite intentional, I believe. Everything is connected, especially on LOST.
The final sequence on-island is brilliant in its simplicity – it perfectly mirrors the opening sequence of the pilot episode. As soon as Jack stumbled into the bamboo, I KNEW what it was going to be. The shoe hanging from the tree? What a callback, that’s for the obsessive fans like myself. Jack can finally let himself go; he’s done what he was supposed to do, fulfilled his destiny, and finally fixed something that’s lasting. The appearance of Vincent killed me; absolutely killed me. He makes sure that Jack doesn’t die alone. Dogs really are man’s best friend, I’ll tell you that much. Jack’s happiness in his final moments, almost laughing, are significant. Rarely on the show have we seen him this happy; there was almost always something weighing on him, but now, he’s absolved of all that, and can die in peace. He sees his friends fly away far above in the Ajira plane, and as Giacchino’s Life and Death music plays (how appropriate), Jack closes his eyes for the last time, and passes on. As it goes in Stephen King’s The Stand (one of my favorite books, and admittedly a huge influence on Damon and Carlton), the circle closes.
I understand that this finale wasn’t for everyone, no possible version of a finale would have satisfied every fan of the show, but for me, it pushed all the right buttons. There’s beauty in its ambiguity; it wouldn’t be LOST without having something to ponder over and chew on. Closure was the main thing I was looking for, much more so than expository answers on why is Walt special, etc etc. Would it have been cool to get? Sure, but hardly necessary in my book. Besides, there’s always the DVD. The show was about these people and their journey, not the island itself. I acknowledge that this isn’t how everyone watches the show, some of you probably wanted more answers and were possibly disappointed, and that’s fine. That’s how you watch the show, and that’s fine by me. But I absolutely adored it.
Some detractors have alleged that Damon and Carlton were making it up as they went along, and to them I say, it’s fiction, of course they made it up! But I do believe they had a master plan, cooked up between the end of season one and the beginning of season two, and just weren’t able to really kick into it until they negotiated the end date in the middle of season three. Ever since then, the show went on a narrative tear, ultimately culminating in this jewel of a finale. It was extremely rewarding for this long-time fan, and I cannot express how much it truly moved me.
LOST as a whole is my favorite piece of storytelling ever, in any medium, and it’s really not even close. Nothing else I’ve been a party to has been as culturally significant, nor has anything else inspired late-night debates in many a dorm room about faith, reason, mythology, religion, physics, free will, destiny, identity, etc. To me, you as a viewer get out of the show what you put in; the perfect example would be Jack and Locke in the hatch in the early days of season two.
Locke: Why do you find it so hard to believe?
Jack: Why do you find it so easy?!?
Jack: Why do you find it so easy?!?
Locke: It’s never been easy!!
You had to work at it – this show rarely explicitly explained itself, and was content to leave many things open-ended, but at the same time leave enough for viewers to construct their own ideas about what occurred. That’s why I knew there was never going to be any answers to questions like, “What is the island,” “How does the source literally function?”, because that’s never been what the show’s about. This way, we can add our own twist to the show, and make it a more personal experience, and that’s what I love about it. This episode, this conclusion, and the series as a whole has truly been a gift to me and to you. There won’t be anything quite like it on television for a long, long time.
In the end, Jacob was right, and the Man in Black was wrong. These people’s lives didn’t lead to destruction – they found salvation. This group of human beings found redemption in the end in the souls of each other, and cast off all the darkness in order to go into the light. The scale favored the white rock in the end – and it only ended once.
I’ll leave you now with the last nine lines of the final script, nine lines that clearly mark this show as the journey of Jack Shephard, his life and death on the island, and his eternal soul finding peace at last.
The plane clears frame, finally free of the island.
Jack Shephard has done what he came to this place to do.
He has found his purpose.
He has found love, and been loved.
He has finally found a way to love himself.
The bamboo sways across the blue sky.
And Jack Shephard’s eye closes one final time.
He is gone.
The End.
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