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"Through the Looking Glass, Part 1" is the 22nd episode and finale of of Season 3 of Lost The episode was originally broadcast on May 23, 2007. This episode was also the first time a "flashback" has been set in the future.
Synopsis
Flash-forward
The flashbacks in this episode follow Jack. He has a beard, is addicted to Oxycodone, and drinks heavily. At many points, strangers notice him, exclaiming they saw him on the news in some heroic act. His hospital supervisor challenges his behavior. It is revealed that Jack was attempting to commit suicide from a bridge, when an accident happened on the bridge behind him because the driver was distracted by him. Jack immediately was on hand to help the accident survivor. Despite this, it is clear that Jack's life is a mess.
Jack sits in his apartment, cellphone in hand, hoping to reach Kate in his post-island life.
While on a flight, Jack reads in the newspaper about someone's death, and later visits the funeral home to attend the funeral. However, he is the only person to come to the funeral or viewing. The identity of the person in the casket is not revealed, but it appears that it may have been someone from the island. In the last flashback, Jack is at an airport waiting for someone. The person turns out to be Kate, whom Jack has called to meet him. During the meeting Jack is very emotional saying several times "we have to go back" and "we were never supposed to leave". Kate repeats that they were indeed supposed to leave the island, but it is clear that for Jack, leaving the island led him to a miserable life. Jack reveals that he flies on airplanes across the Pacific as much as possible, using the "Golden Pass" that Oceanic apparently has given him (and most likely to the rest of the crash survivors), hoping that there will be a crash and he will be on the island again. Jack tells Kate that he hoped that she would be at the funeral of the unknown person, to which she replies "Why would I go?". When Kate tells Jack she has to leave, she refers to a "him" who will be wondering where she went. At this point, it is clear that this episode had "flash forwards" as opposed to flashbacks, where it shows life after the island. However, in this flash-forwards, Jack refers to his deceased father, Dr. Christian Shephard, as being alive and working in the same hospital, leading to a question of whether this is indeed a true flash-forward.
Island events
Approaching the radio tower
The episode begins with the survivors making way up to Rousseau's communications tower. They are intercepted by Ben and Alex. Ben asks to speak to Jack. Ben informs Jack that Naomi is not who she says she is, and that if he is successful in making contact with her boat, it will be disastrous for the people on the island. Ben tells Jack to get Naomi's phone, or Tom and his crew back at the beach will shoot Jin, Bernard, and Sayid in one minute if Ben does not order them off via his walkie-talkie. Jack does not comply, and three gunshots are heard. Jack then beats Ben severely. He takes him back to the other survivors. At one moment, Ben tells Alex that Rousseau is her mother, and they meet for the first time. At the tower, Jack makes contact with Hurley on the beach via Ben's walkie talkie. Hurley confirms that all survivors are still alive. Rousseau disables her distress message in the comm tower. As Naomi gets signal for her phone. At that moment, she falls over, and it is shown that John Locke has emerged, throwing a knife at her back and killing her. Locke tells Jack to back off the phone, or he will kill him. Jack invites him to do so, but Locke is unable to. Locke simply tells him that he shouldn't make the call, and walks away. Jack communicates with the people on the boat who say they will be right over to rescue the survivors.
At the Others camp
Ben gets a call from The Looking Glass that tells him that Charlie Pace is in the station and Juliet told him about it. Ben also learns that Karl warned the survivors of the impending attack on the camp. He sends Mikhail to the station to take care of things there while he prepares to cut off Jack and the survivors on their way to the radio tower. Richard asks to come with Ben, but Ben orders Richard to take the rest of the others to The Temple. Alex then asks to come along, and Ben agrees, saying that would be good.
While trekking with Alex Ben reveals that the reason he allowed Alex to come along was that he was going to have her stay with the Losties. Also while on the walk, Mikhail radios from the Looking Glass and asks what is going on. Why the station is operational and there are people here ordered by Ben to jam the communications, including the Others'. Ben asks him to trust him, that the island and Jacob requested it. He told Mikhail to kill all three of them and leave the station.
At the beach
The Others arrive and go ahead searching the tents unknowingly being watched by Sayid, Jin, and Bernard. When they see that the tents are empty Jin and Bernard shoot their bundles of dynamite. Jin misses but shoots a couple of the others before they are all disarmed. They are tied up and gagged.
When Ben talks to Tom on the walkie-talkie three shots are heard over the radio but Tom reveals that the shots were fired into the sand, and none of the three survivors were killed. Sawyer and Juliet are watching from the trees. Suddenly, Hurley plows towards the beach in the previously recovered DHARMA van, hitting and killing Ryan. Sawyer is able to get his gun, and distract another Other while Sayid disables and kills him. Finally, Sawyer shoots Tom saying, "that's for taking the boy off the raft", such that all four of the Others on the beach are killed.
In the Looking Glass
Charlie is being interrogated by Bonnie and Greta. Charlie is tied up and beaten. Charlie explains that Juliet told him about the Looking Glass. Charlie recalls Desmond's vision regarding the blinking switch.
Desmond wakes up in the outrigger above the Looking Glass station to realize that Charlie has gone below on his own. Just then, bullets pour through his boat as Mikhail begins to shoot at him from the shore. Desmond swims down into the station, and Charlie tells him to hide before Bonnie and Greta notice him.
Just then, Bonnie and Greta emerge from an adjoining room as they heard Charlie's voice, but he claims he was only singing to himself. Desmond has managed to hide in a locker somewhere in the station. Shortly thereafter, Mikhail appears in the station and tells the Bonnie and Greta to back off of Charlie, whom they are holding captive.
Mikhail gets on the radio and speaks to Ben who tells him to kill everyone. The two women are the only ones who know the code to disable the jamming signal. Mikhail shoots and kills Greta, and shoots Bonnie as she tries to run away. As he is about to finish her off, Desmond emerges, shooting a spear gun through Mikhail's chest. Before Desmond approaches Bonnie, Charlie convinces her to give him the code to disable the jamming signal. The code is the numeric tone equivalent of the The Beach Boys' Good Vibrations on a computer keypad, and was apparently programmed by a musician.
Charlie enters the communication room and enters the code, disabling the jammer. As Desmond gather SCUBA gear to exit the station, Charlie sees an incoming video transmission, which turns out to be Penelope. She questions Charlie, Charlie states his name and that he was a survivor of flight 815, and when she replies with her name, Charlie recognizes it and calls out to Desmond. Penny hears Charlie say "Desmond", and immediately asks about him. Charlie questions Penny about her boat offshore, but she says that she is not on a boat, and has no knowledge of anyone named Naomi. As Desmond responds to Charlie's call, he notices that Mikhail's body is missing.
At that moment, Charlie sees Mikhail out the porthole holding a grenade. Charlie then rushes to lock the airlock door to the communication room to save Desmond and the rest of the station. The grenade explodes, shattering the window, and flooding the room. As water rushes in to secure Charlie's fate, Charlie manages to write on his hand "NOT PENNY'S BOAT" and shows it to Desmond. As Charlie drowns, he traces the sign of the Cross as he dies.
In the DHARMA mass grave
Walt standing over the grave.
Locke Awakens in the DHARMA mass grave, and realizes that he has been shot. He tries to stand, but is unable to move his legs. Locke, visibly incredibly shaken, reaches for a gun in the pocket of a dead DHARMA worker. He checks to make sure the gun is loaded, then holds it to his head, ready to shoot. Just as he is about to pull the trigger, Walt appears looking into the mass grave. He orders Locke to put the gun down. Walt tells him he still has work to do.
At the radio tower
The episode begins with the survivors making way up to Rousseau's communications tower. They are intercepted by Ben and Alex. Ben asks to speak to Jack. Ben informs Jack that Naomi is not who she says she is, and that if he is successful in making contact with her boat, it will be disastrous for the people on the island. Ben tells Jack to get Naomi's phone, or Tom and his crew back at the beach will shoot Jin, Bernard, and Sayid in one minute if Ben does not order them off via his walkie-talkie. Jack does not comply, and three gunshots are heard. Jack then beats Ben severely. He takes him back to the other survivors. At one moment, Ben tells Alex that Rousseau is her mother, and they meet for the first time.
Arriving at the radio tower, Rousseau and Jack turn off the transmission. Naomi begins using her satellite phone. Just as she's about to speak she stops and coughs up blood, then falls forward. There is a knife in her back. Locke is standing behind her having thrown the knife into her. He pulls a gun and tells Jack to back away from Naomi. Locke informs them that he can't allow them to leave. When Jack approaches the phone Locke shoots the ground near him. However, Jack approaches the phone anyway. Lock walks off. Despite Ben's warning Jack makes contact with Naomi's ship. The man on the ship announces that they will be coming for them immediately.
Trivia
- Damon Lindelof was the voice of the airplane pilot in the first scene.
- Jack's cellphone in the "flash-forwards" looks to be either a Motorola RAZR or KRZR.
- The RAZR was released in October of 2005, the KRZR was released in the fourth quarter of 2006.
- The keys on the signal-jammer keypad are numbered 1-16 in a 4x4 pattern.
- The name of the funeral parlor Jack goes to, "Hoffs/Drawlar," is an anagram for "flash forward".
- The first sentence of the article Jack carries around in the flash-forward seems to read, "The body of Jo.. [unreadable] ..antham of New York was.. [unreadable] ..[shor]tly after 4 a.m. by the.. [unreadable] of Grand Avenue."
Unanswered questions
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- For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Through the Looking Glass/Theories
- Is Jack's father, who he has seen on the island previously, still alive?
- Why is flash-forward Jack so set on returning to the island?
- Who is Naomi really working for?
- How did Naomi know Desmond, and have the picture of him and Penny if Penny didn't send her?
- If Penny didn't know about any rescue mission, how did she happen to be calling the Island at that exact moment?
- It is possible that Penny was not aware of Naomi when she spoke to Charlie because in the timeline that Penny is in when she talks to Charlie, she hasn't sent Naomi yet. If Naomi is from the future, and time is different on the island, this is plausible.
- Why was Ben so scared of whoever (or whatever) Naomi works for coming to the island?
- Was it the DHARMA Initiative coming back?
- How did Mikhail survive a harpoon to the stomach?
- Was the super-fast healing of the island a factor?
- Was Mikhail hurt or killed by the grenade detonation?
- How did Jack and Kate get off the island? What other Losties escaped?
- What did the article being read by Jack say, and who was the funeral for?
- Who's in the coffin?
- If the flashbacks are really "flash-forwards", why does Jack refer to Christian as being alive? Is he just delusional?
- How did Locke kill Naomi if he wasn't capable of killing people?
- Who is the "he" Kate mentions to Jack at the airport?
- Do Jack's flash-forwards reflect the format of some or all future episodes?
- How could Jack fly Oceanic when they claimed to shut down after the accident in previous episodes?
- They have only claimed to shut down on Oceanic-air.com, which is not considered canon.
- Jack also flew Oceanic wanting the planes to crash.
- What did Jack mean when he said he couldn't lie anymore?
- When the rescue team came what happened to Richard and the rest of the remaining others?
- Where did Locke go after he left the main group of Losties at the end of the episode?
- Why didn't Locke stop Jack from placing the call?
- Was Walt just a projection of the Monster?
- If so, why did it depict him as older?
- There seems to have been an effort to pretend Walt is the same age (big clothes, closeups on face). I don't think that's meant to be part of the story.
- If so, why did it depict him as older?
- If the jammer is already disabled and Charlie was about to leave the station anyway (as opposed to sacrificing himself in order to complete Desmond's prediction and make sure Claire and the others are rescued), why does he lock himself in the room instead of swimming to safety?
- Why didn't Charlie try to swim out the window that was blown open?
- Furthermore, why would the door not have a handle on the outside?
- Is it still possible for Charlie to be saved by Desmond?
- Where is the temple and why must Richard take the others there, as planned?
- What will they do once they arrive?
- What time period did the flash forward happen?
- Will Desmond still see flashes of the future if Charlie is dead?
- It should be noted that Desmond, himself, admitted to the flashes being gone. While he may be referring strictly to that moment, it may be a hint of his foresight being lost.
- Why would it be in appropriate for Sara to give Jack a ride home? Besides the obvious that she is with a new partner, perhaps it is because Jack himself is with another person, Juliet?
- What assignment in Canada was Bonnie supposed to be on?