Kate, Sawyer, and Jack try to cover their tracks after delivering Young Linus to the others. Miles and Hurley compare sixth-sense powers.

Linus's improv skills are put to the test as he reacts to Locke's apparent resurrection. Locke takes him to the temple for a struggle session with Smoky. 

 Kate reckons with her babynapping ways. Jack refuses to operate on Young Linus, so Kate and Sawyer must find another means to save his life. 

Hurley adjusts well to cafeteria duty. Young Linus finds a new father figure. Sayid tries to kill baby hitler. 

Jack, Kate, and Hurley get Dharma jobs. Sun and Lapidus share a paranormal encounter. Young Linus brings Sayid a fateful sandwich. 

The time vinyl stops skipping. Sawyer gets a job. Faraday learns there's a fate worse than Charlotte being dead.

The Ya Lost Me Podcast returns to its weekly programming schedule with a consequential Locke flashback.

The gang goes back, but their individual reasons for doing so are left a mystery. Ben's favorite bonkers Season 5 moment arrives, as Jack and Linus meet Eloise in a steampunk hatch under a church in LA.

Jin experiences the last moments of Rousseau's crew. Locke gives the frozen donkey wheel another push. Ben introduces Jack, Sun, and Desmond to Faraday's mum.

Linus lawyers up. Locke ropes Sawyer into a plot to get the band back together. Jin gets a glimpse of Young Rousseau.

Lost presents 'Young Widmore.' Desmond ascends to fatherhood and develops the wherewithal to stand up to Penny's dad. Sawyer's group finds some undetonated nuclear ordinance. Locke incepts the exchange between Alpert and Young Locke.

Linus and Jack bring Locke's body to a Los Angeles butcher shop. Hurley is visited by the ghost of Ana Lucia. As the temporally stranded Losties come to grips with their predicament, Frogurt gets immolated by fire arrows.

Lost enters the Obama years with a series of nosebleed-inducing time skips. Locke has a fated encounter with the eyeliner man. The lawyers come after Baby Aaron. Sayid goes sicko mode on some unknown assailants. Jack gets what he's always wanted deep down: blamed for everything.

A three-episode finale crammed into one pod. The coffin's contents are revealed. Linus pushes the Frozen Donkey Wheel. Sawyer leaps from a helicopter. Michael and Jin go down with the ship.

Young Locke's many run-ins with Alpert and Abaddon are revealed. Christian tells Locke to move the island. Ben and Hurley share a candy bar.

Jack and Kate attempt to live out their summer-camp crush in the real world, with disastrous results. Back on the island, Jack needs to be penetrated surgically. Claire puts the losties on indefinite Aaron duty.

Keamy's team starts their assault on Othersville. Past Ben Linus makes a bad play. Future Ben Linus visits Widmore and challenges him to a gentleman's game of find the island.

Ben Linus paints a tunnel onto a wall and invites Michael to run through. Tom takes a vacation from the island to see The Lion King on Broadway. Ben and Spencer share their favorite memories of Carl.

Jin buys a big teddy. Sun and Juliette turn the beach into a 'Maury' set. Michael steps out from the shadows.

Charlotte and Faraday lead Jack and Kate on some weird gas trip. Driven to possess Juliette/mother, Ben Linus reveals himself to be the worst kind of beta orbiter... the deadly kind.

Desmond and Penny finally make contact after Lost establishes the ground rules for "paradox-free time travel." Charles Widmore starts to take on a greater role than Dessy's domineering would-be father-in-law.

The Jack and Kate relationship is literally put on trial. Ben tells the story of the To Kill a Mockingbird shooting that wasn't. Kate can't help but run... toward motherhood.

Off-island Sayid stars in his own spy thriller. Hurley plays a part an one of Locke's deceptions. Kate decides she doesn't actually want to leave the island.

Four separate flashbacks introduce the freighter folk, who Ben describes as "two complete f*****s, one sad sack, and a guy I'd like to hang out with." Linus reveals he has a spy aboard the ship. Spencer copes with the whiplash of starting a new season.