Episode Recap - "The Candidate"

What a great episode! Though, I did think some of the scenes were more '24' than LOST (Jack's line, "There is no Sayid" for instance). Do you really think this is the end of Sayid? They never explained what really happened to him in the temple. Maybe him picking up the bomb and blowing himself up qualifies for the "candidates can't kill themselves" rule?

It's so interesting how the Losties are all gradually finding each other in the Flash Sideways. I'm curious to see how that story line will end.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Sun and Jin, but man... What can I say? Jin, giving up his life for just a few more moments with his true love. One of the most tragic scenes of the series.. any series for that matter.

Here's the recap from ABC's website.

On Hydra island: Locke's group

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Locke takes Jack to Hydra island to rescue his friends, who have been captured by Widmore and locked in the polar bear cages
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Jack doesn't trust Locke, but Locke says he could've killed Jack and his friends at any time and hasn't; in fact, Locke saved Jack's life
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Jack agrees to help
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The smoke monster attacks Widmore's team and kills most of them
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Jack unlocks the cages and lets out Sawyer, Kate, Hurley, Sun, Jin, Claire and Lapidus
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Sayid tells them Locke is waiting for them at the plane
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Locke tells them the plane has been rigged with explosives and shows them a brick of C-4 he found inside; they decide to take Widmore's sub
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Sawyer tells Jack to make sure Locke doesn't get on the sub with them
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Sawyer, Jin, Hurley and Lapidus take over the sub
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Jack punches Locke and pushes him into the water
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Kate and Claire are getting in when Widmore's men try to stop them
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Kate is shot in the shoulder
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Jack and Sayid get Kate inside while Claire provides cover fire
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Sawyer closes the hatch and orders them to leave
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Claire is upset that they're leaving without her, but Locke tells her she doesn't want to be on that sub
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Jack can't find a first aid kit for Kate, and in his pack finds the C-4 inside rigged to a timer and ready to blow
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Jack tells them nothing will happen
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Sawyer doesn't trust Jack and pulls out two wires to stop it
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The timer speeds up; Sawyer realizes he armed it to explode
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Sayid tells them about Desmond in the well and then runs away as the C-4 detonates
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Jack finds two small oxygen tanks; Hurley takes Kate out with one and Jack takes Sawyer out with the other
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Sun is trapped underneath a cabinet and Jin stays with her; they die together holding each other's hands
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Kate and Hurley, Jack and Sawyer make it back to the main island

Flash sideways:

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Locke wakes up from surgery, and Jack tells him everything went well
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Jack saw Locke's original spinal injury and says Locke is a candidate for a new procedure that could allow him to walk again
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Locke doesn't want the surgery; Jack asks why, but Locke won't tell him
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Jack discovers that Anthony Cooper was in the original accident with Locke
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Jack tracks down Anthony Cooper at a nursing home and discovers he's paralyzed from the neck down
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Claire visits Jack at the hospital and asks about a music box their father left her; Jack doesn't know what it means
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Jack invites Claire to stay at his place because she's family
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Locke tells Jack about the accident: he was in a plane crash
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Locke had his pilot's license a week and begged his father to be his first passenger; the plane crashed and it was Locke's fault; and a man he loves more than anything will never walk or talk again
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Jack tells Locke he can punish himself all he wants but what happened, happened; Locke needs to let it go