The LA timeline focuses on Jack trying to fix Locke, who repeatedly denies his requests (Locke is a candidate for surgery). Jack tracks down Locke’s dentist, Bernard Nadler, who won’t disclose how Locke was injured but tells him he was in the accident with Anthony Cooper. Jack runs into Helen at the home where Anthony Cooper is staying at and tells him to leave this alone, something Jack cannot do because he needs to fix everything. She eventually shows him Anthony Cooper, John’s father, who is in a vegitative state, hardly the man we are were familiar with. Claire meets Jack at the hospital and Jack finds out she was also on the flight, much like Bernard and Locke, which strikes Jack as odd. She then reveals a music box that Christian was very adament about her having. The box plays “Catch a Falling Star” and Jack and Claire both have a mirror moment, much like every other person has in the flash sideways.
The flash sideways ends with the most underrated scene of the episode. Jack catches Locke before he leaves and tells him about his encounter with his Cooper. John emotionally reveals that he got his pilot’s license and wanted his father, who was afraid of flying, to be his first passenger. They barely got off the runway before the plane crashed. It’s reasonable to believe that this accident prevented Anthony Cooper, who still conned Sawyer’s parents in the 70’s, from betraying Locke, and that is why they have a “good” relationship. Jack reminds John of what he told him at the airport: That his father was gone and he could never get him back, and tells John that it’s too late to change things. What happened happened and Jack encourages John to let go. Locke laughs and leaves, before Jack says “I wish you believed me”, the exact words Locke wrote in his suicide letter to Jack.
Back on the island, Jack wakes up on Hydra. Flocke tells him his friends were captured by Widmore’s crew. He wants Jack to help convince them by saying he could kill any of them at any moment, an obvious lie as we know it’s against the rules and he hasn’t already done it. We see Widmore locking everyone up in the polar bear cages “for their own good”. As Kate and Sawyer discuss her name being crossed off on the cage, the power goes out, and while Seamus and Widmore’s crew frantically try to find the source of the problem, Smokie comes around and goes Midieval on their asses. Quick question: Why does everyone try to shoot the Smoke Monster?? SO STUPID. Anyway, Jack helps them escape. John kills two men guarding the plane but discovers that it’s rigged with 4 bricks of C4 set to go off if they start it up. He alerts the crew they need to take the sub, but Sawyer tells Jack he still doesn’t trust that thing “one bit”. He devises a plan for all of them to get on the sub while Jack pushes Flocke into the water. The plan unfolds, as Sawyer and a few more people storm the sub and take it. When the rest of the crew runs to the sub, Jack tells Flocke that “John Locke” told him to stay before pushing him into the water. Kate is shot by Widmore’s crew, but unfortunately does not die, as a firefight ensues. The remainding people get on the sub, minus Flocke and Claire, but Flocke ominously tells Claire that “you don’t want to be on that sub.”
Jack discovers that Locke packed the C4 into his backpack with a timer. Sawyer is adament about diffusing the bomb, but Jack clearly thinks they won’t die. He questions why Locke hasn’t already killed him and thinks it’s because he’s not allowed to. Sawyer tells him he doesn’t trust him before pulling two wires out, stopping the timer momentarily before it restarts again at a faster speed. Sayid quickly tells Jack about Desmond being alive in the well and that because Flocke wants him dead, Jack’s going to need him. His last words are, “It’s going to be you, Jack!” before running off with the bomb and exploding. The bomb tears apart the sub. Lapidus is hit by a door while the others try to get Sun out of a trap. Hurley takes Kate out of the sub and Sawyer is hit on the head and knocked out. Jin encourages Jack to save Sawyer, and while Sun cries for Jin to save himself, he refuses, saying in Korean that he’ll never leave Sun again. Shots of the sinking sub are shown before we see Jin and Sun’s grasp of each other’s hand loosen, signaling their demise. Back on the beach, the four remaining survivors cry at the realization of their fallen friends, while Flocke realizes the sub sunk but not everyone died. He tells Claire that he’s going to finish what he started.
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