Lost Season 5 Episode 1 - Because You Left

We begin series 5 with the familiar face of Dr Marvin Candle. We appear to be on
the island during the Dharma era. He draws the short straw and has to wake up to
give his infant an early morning feed. Dr Candle then begins to film a new
Dharma Orientation video. Just As he begins, someone runs in and announces that
there is trouble down at the Orchid station.
The station is mid way through
construction. A construction worker tells Dr Candle that one of the men tried to
drill through the wall but the drill had melted and the man had collapsed
clutching his head. Dr Candle tells the construction worker that behind the wall
is an endless energy supply, and if harnessed correctly, could enable them to
manipulate space and time. As he leaves we see one of the construction men look
over, it’s none other than Daniel Faraday!

Back in the present day, Sayid takes Hurley to the safe house. He tells Sayid
that he worked for Ben Linus for two years and that Hurley should never believe
a word he says. As they are about to enter the building, Sayid notices that
someone is inside. A man jumps out and begins to fight with Sayid.

Hurley picks up the man’s gun as he watches Sayid throw him over the balcony to
his death. Sayid runs into the flat to see if anyone else is inside. Hurley
leans over the balcony to see people rushing towards the body, they look up and
see Hurley holding a gun. Someone takes a picture of him and the gun on their
camera phone.

Inside we see Sayid is now fighting with another man in the kitchen. The
dishwasher door falls open and the man falls down on the open door and is
impaled on a pertruding knife. Suddenly Sayid is hit by a poison dart and begins
to lose consciousness. Hurley drags him from the flat declaring that they should
never have left the island.

Elsewhere, Jack and Ben remove Locke’s body from the funeral parlour....

...they then head to a hotel where Jack cleans up in preparation to check Hurley
out of the Santa Rosa Mental institution. They look at the TV and see a news
report claiming that Hurley is wanted for murder. Ben says that they will have
to adopt a change of plan.

Kate is preparing breakfast for Aaron when she hears a knock at the door. She is
confronted by two lawyers with a court order to take a blood sample from her and
Aaron to determine their relationship. She tells them to come back with the
Sherriff and slams the door in their faces. She runs upstairs and begins to pack
clothes and cash, she tells Aaron they are going on vacation and they make a
hasty departure.

Sun is checking in for her flight to LA. The person at the check-in desk asks
her to wait while she gets a supervisor. Sun is locked in an interview room and
begins to bang on the door when she hears a familiar voice behind her. It is
Charles Widmore, the man she spoke to just hours before. He tells her that she
was disrespectful for approaching him in public about the island but wants to
know what their mutual interests are. Sun tells him “To kill Benjamin Linus”.

Back on the island, the brilliant white flash that engulfed the island fades.
Locke notices that Richard Alpert and the others are no longer there. Juliette
and Sawyer see that the freighter is no longer visible. A panicked Bernard
announces that their camp has disappeared. Faraday and the people on the raft
return to shore, Charlotte tells him that everything vanished. He says “Of
course it did” and that he thinks he knows what is happening. He asks to go to a
man made landmark on the island, Juliette suggests the Swan hatch, or the
remains of the Swan hatch.

Locke finds that the old plane wreckage that fell and killed Boone is back up in
the tree. He climbs up to have a look when is shot in the leg. He falls to
ground and is approached by Ethan Rom. Locke tells Ethan that Ben appointed him
leader of the others. Ethan takes aim and is about to kill Locke when there is
another white flash and Ethan vanishes. Sawyer and Juliet’s group also
experience the flash and see a large crater where the Swan hatch once was.
Faraday tells them that they are moving through time and makes the analogy that
the island being like a record that keeps jumping.

Locke hears another person approaching, it is Richard Alpert. He tells Locke
that he sent him to come and help. Richard removes the bullet from Locke’s leg
and tells him that they don’t have long and next time they meet he won’t
remember Locke and that he must give him this…..he reaches into his pocket and
gives Locke a compass. Richard continues that the people on the helicopter made
it off the island and are doing fine but that to save the island they have to
return and he has to die. Another flash occurs.

Meanwhile at the hatch, after the flash the crater disappears. Juliet digs at
the dirt below to reveal the Swan hatch in tact. Sawyer then starts banging on
the hatch door as this would mean that Desmond is still down there pressing the
button [I presume this makes sense to Lost fans…]. Faraday tells him that can’t
change what has happened and that Desmond won’t answer. After much yelling
Sawyer heads back to the beach with the rest of the group. Faraday tells Juliet
that he has to get his back pack.

Faraday bangs on the hatch door and is confronted by Desmond in a yellow
protective suit. Desmond does not know who he is and points a gun at Faraday. He
tells Desmond that he special and that the rules don’t apply to him but also
that the people who were left behind are in danger, he instructs Desmond to go
back to Oxford where they met and find his mother, but before he can say her
name there is another flash and he is gone.
Desmond wakes up next to Penny
on their boat. He tells her he was back on the island. Penny tells him that he
has been off the island for three years now and is safe. Desmond is adamant that
this was not a dream but a memory. He runs above deck and releases the anchor.
Penny asks where they are going. Desmond replies, “Oxford”.