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The timeline before this happened is here for the Oceanic Six and here for the on-Island survivors.
July 1977
Day 1
"316"
- Jack, Hurley and Kate wake-up to find themselves on the Island near a waterfall.
- Jin arrives in a DHARMA van, surprised to see his old friends.
"LaFleur"
- Jin calls Sawyer, who is sleeping with Juliet. Sawyer quickly gets up and takes a DHARMA jeep to meet Jin who has driven Jack, Hurley, and Kate to meet him.
"Namaste"
- Sawyer, who has the alias LaFleur, prepares the three to become DHARMA Initiative recruits, while Jin drives to ask Radzinsky at the Flame if he has any information about the plane, hoping to find Sun.
- When a motion sensor is activated near the Flame, Jin finds Sayid walking in the jungle with handcuffs. Jin treats Sayid as a Hostile because Radzinsky follows him.
- Jack is assigned as a Workman, Hurley a Chef, and Kate to the Motor Pool as they take their Orientation.
- Sawyer and Phil lock Sayid in a cell until they decide what to do with him.
- Jack asks Sawyer what he plans to do while a young Ben Linus brings Sayid a sandwich.
Day 2
- Sayid is separately visited in his jail cell by young Ben, Horace Goodspeed, Sawyer, and Roger Linus.
- During breakfast, Kate asks Jack what is going on with Sayid, but he says he doesn't know. Kate says she'll talk to Juliet about him. Then she finds out that Juliet is living with Sawyer from Hurley.
- After refusing to say anything of his origin or purpose among the DHARMA Initiative, Horace brings him to Oldham who gives Sayid a truth serum and interrogates him revealing his future origin and knowledge of some of the DHARMA stations and the Purge.
- Juliet talks to Kate about her relationship with Sawyer at the motor pool while Sawyer brings the captive Sayid to the Barracks.
- After several DHARMA folk vote to execute Sayid, Sawyer tries to let him escape, but he refuses.
- While Sawyer asks Kate why they came back to the Island, Ben sends a burning DHARMA van into a house as a distraction to break Sayid out in hopes he will take him with him to the Hostiles. Instead, after leaving the Barracks, Sayid jumps Jin, takes his gun, and shoots Ben.
- Jin puts Ben in his van and drives him back to the Barracks to be put under Juliet's care.
Day 3
- Despite Juliet's best efforts, young Ben is losing too much blood. She requests Jack's help since he is a surgeon. When he refuses, Kate offers to give blood to help. Meanwhile, Miles tries to explain time travel to Hurley.
- As a last resort, Juliet tells Kate to take him to the Others. Sawyer catches up to her just inside the Sonar fence to help her save young Ben.
- They bring him to Richard Alpert who takes him to The Temple, but first warns them that this will make Ben become one of them.
- A 40-year-old Charles Widmore tells young Ben he is one of the Others now.
- Sawyer tells Miles to erase the security footage that shows he and Kate taking Ben across the border. Before Miles is able to do so, Horace asks him to deliver something to Radzinsky at Grid 334 in Hostile territory.
- Miles delivers the body bag in which Radzinsky puts Alvarez's body. Miles discovers he died from a filling being dislodged from a tooth and blown through his brain which Pierre Chang believes to have been caused by the electromagnetism.
- Horace then tells Miles to take the body to Chang at the Orchid. Hurley insists they carpool since he was going to deliver sandwiches. Hurley sees the body and when Miles explains, Hurley realizes he can talk to the dead and confesses he can too.
- Meanwhile, Kate returns and so does Roger. Juliet tells him he left when she stepped out. When Kate tries to talk to him, he gets suspicious of her. He asks Jack about her.
- Chang threatens Hurley to keep quiet, and Miles tells Hurley that Chang is his father, but doesn't want to say any more. Chang gets Miles to drive him back to Radzinsky which Hurley recognizes to be the Swan.
- Upon returning that evening, Hurley tries to convince Miles to get to know his father and Miles discovers Hurley is writing The Empire Strikes Back.
- Jack tells Sawyer that Roger is suspicious and Phil tells Sawyer he knows he took young Ben.
- After watching Pierre, Lara, and his 3-month-old self through the window, Chang asks Miles to drive him to the dock where scientists from Ann Arbor are arriving, including Daniel Faraday who has been gone for a long time.
Day 4
- Early in the morning, Daniel discovers from Jack that he, Kate, and Hurley have returned by plane according to Eloise Hawking's instructions, and tells Jack that they were not meant to be there.
- When Jack tells Sawyer that Daniel has returned, Sawyer tells him he is busy with Phil tied up in his closet.
- Meanwhile, Daniel has Miles drive him to the Orchid where he awaits and follows Pierre Chang down the elevator.
- During construction of The Orchid, workers discover an underground chamber containing the frozen wheel that Pierre Chang warns them not to open because of the energy inside. Daniel Faraday clandestinely observes.
- Daniel tells Chang to evacuate the Island because of a greater amount of energy about to release under the Swan station in six hours. When asked how he knows this, Daniel tells he is from the future.
- Everyone meets at Sawyer's house to discuss whether to hide in the jungle or take the submarine. Jin and Hurley vote to remain on the Island. Daniel enlists Jack and Kate's help to find his mother while Juliet prepares to move the party to the beach.
- Radzinsky sees Daniel holding a gun and a fire fight breaks out resulting in Daniel being grazed by the neck and Radzinsky being shot in the arm. As the three get away in a DHARMA jeep, Radzinsky reports to Sawyer and finds Phil in the closet.
- Four hours before the Incident, Daniel reaches the Hostiles' camp seeking out Eloise and holds Richard Alpert at gunpoint. Eloise shoots Daniel from behind.
- Younger Widmore and another Hostile find Jack and Kate watching in the bushes and put them in a tent where Eloise asks why Daniel needed the bomb. Jack explains he can change things by detonating it.
- Radzinsky, Phil, and Horace hold Sawyer and Juliet in the security station demanding to know where Kate is. Radzinsky beats Sawyer but he refuses to talk.
- Mitch discovers Jack, Kate, and Hurley were last minute entries to the sub's manifest. Meanwhile Hurley gathers food for he, Miles, and Jin to escape to the beach. Dr. Chang follows him and when he discovers they really are from the future, he evacuates the Island.
- Eloise, Erik, and Richard take Jack and Kate to Jughead. Sayid shoots Erik and joins the rest to the tunnels below the waterfall to Jughead. Kate refuses to join them, and returns to DHARMA.
- When Chang gives the order to evacuate, Sawyer demands to be put on the sub, then he will tell them what they want to know. Radzinsky gets Sawyer to draw a map of the Hostile's camp.
- The evacuees board the sub including young Charlotte with her mother, Lara Chang with baby Miles, and Saywer and Juliet. Kate boards the sub after getting caught coming back in. The sub prepares to depart for Ann Arbor.
- Kate convinces Juliet and Sawyer that they need to stop Jack from detonating a hydrogen bomb on the Island.
- Two hours before the Incident, Jack and Sayid dismantle the hydrogen bomb in the tunnels under the DHARMA Initiative's Barracks, in order to remove its core. Richard breaks a hole in the basement of one of the houses, then knocks Eloise out to prevent her traveling with them to detonate the bomb because she is pregnant.
- Roger Linus recognizes Jack and Sayid sneaking across the compound and begin shooting at them before they escape in a van driven by Hurley, along with Jin and Miles.
- Kate, Juliet and Sawyer take a raft back to the Island and reunite with Rose and Bernard who have been caring for Vincent and living near the beach in their own cabin for the past 3 years.
- Hurley drives to the construction site of the Swan station, while Jack treats Sayid's wounds, however they are stopped by Juliet, Sawyer, and Kate.
- Jack and Sawyer get into a fist fight, which is broken up by Juliet, who now agrees with Jack that they must detonate the bomb. Juliet then breaks up with Sawyer, claiming that although they love each other, they are not meant to be together, and that if they never meet then she will never have to lose him.
- Before the survivors arrive, Phil radios Radzinsky warning of their arrival. A massive gunfight ensues, wherein the survivors gain the upper hand, allowing Jack to drop the bomb into the pit at the same time that the drill hits the energy source. The strong magnetism draws all metallic objects towards the drilled hole. Phil is stabbed by a rebar, Dr. Chang's arm is crushed and Juliet is dragged into the chasm by a metal chain.Sawyer grabs her hand, but is unable to save her.
- In the bottom of the pit severely injured Juliet hits the Jughead's core with a rock 8 times until it detonates. This causes a time flash sending all near the site to 2007.
2007
Day 1
"Namaste", "Lost: The Story of the Oceanic 6"
- Ajira Airways Flight 316 experiences a flash of light in the middle of the night in late 2007, during which Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid vanish and the remainder of the passengers and the plane time shift to daytime sometime in 2007. The pilot, Frank Lapidus, maneuvers the plane around the suddenly looming Island to emergency land on Hydra Island's runway.
"Namaste"
- Frank and Sun follow Ben into the jungle. When Ben gives directions to the larger Island, Sun knocks him out and she and Frank leave in the late afternoon on one of the outrigger canoes carrying the 316 passenger list.
- Frank and Sun arrive at the dock at night, near the Processing Center, they find the place disheveled and apparently deserted. They meet Christian, and he shows them a picture from 1977 on the wall inside the center. When he shows it to Frank and Sun, they see their friends in a recruiting photo from the DHARMA Initiative. Christian tells them they have a journey ahead of them.
"The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"
- At night, Caesar searches Ben's office at the Hydra station and finds some of Faraday's maps and charts as well as a gun. Ilana tells him about a mysterious man no one recognizes, who introduces himself as John Locke.
Day 2
"The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"
- Ilana and Locke talk for the first time, about the canoes being taken by the pilot and a woman.
- Locke tells Caesar what he remembers since leaving the Island and about the DHARMA Initiative.
- Locke asks about the survivors of the crash, but Caesar says the pilot took the passenger list. He explains seeing certain passengers, including Hurley, vanish from the plane.
"The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham", "Whatever Happened, Happened", "Dead Is Dead"
- Caesar shows Locke Ben's very injured body among the victims. Ben wakes up to Locke watching over him, giving him great worry. In Ben's office at The Hydra, he tells Locke he needs to be judged by the Monster.
- Ben and Locke try to take a boat to go to the main island. When Caesar forbids them to do so, Ben shoots him.
- Ben and Locke arrive at the main island at night and return to Ben's abandoned house, where Sun and Lapidus have been waiting for Locke.
- Sun shows Ben the photo of the 1977 DHARMA recruits, but Ben claims not to know that their friends were there.
- Frank decides to go back to the plane to fix the radio to get off the Island, but Sun prefers to stay and find her husband.
- Ben attempts to summon the Monster from a hidden room in his house, but the Monster never shows.
Day 3
- The next morning, Locke leads Ben and Sun to the Monster's hole at the Temple walls. Ben enters and falls through the floor to an underground hall with hieroglyphs and an Egyptian picture of the Monster before Anubis.
- The Monster surrounds Ben, showing him memories of Alex and Widmore, including Alex's death at the hands of Martin Keamy. The Monster appears in the form of Alex. Ben attempts to apologize to her, but she informs Ben that she is aware of his plan to kill Locke again. She makes Ben promise to follow Locke's leadership or she will "destroy" him, then disappears.
- Meanwhile at the Hydra Island beach, Ilana and Bram have acquired guns and a large metal box, and asks Lapidus what lies in the shadow of the statue, before knocking him out.
- Locke, Ben, and Sun go to the Others' beach camp. Locke tells Richard Alpert they have an errand to run. Ben tells Sun that Richard has been their advisor for a very, very long time. Sun asks if Richard knew Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Jin in 1977. Richard says he watched them all die. Locke says they didn't go through this for nothing.
- Locke, Richard, and Ben travel to the drug smugglers' plane to meet the past Locke during the second time shift.
- Upon returning to the camp, Locke gives a speech to the Others. He tells them he's going to find Jacob and wants everyone to join him.
Day 4
- First thing in the morning, Locke and Richard lead the Others to Jacob. Locke reveals to Ben that he is planning to kill Jacob.
- Locke, Ben, Sun and the Others travel to find Jacob. When Locke hears Ben will do anything he says, Locke assigns him the task of killing Jacob.
- Ilana, Bram, and three others take Frank to the main Island in the outrigger canoes. They take the crate to Jacob's cabin but find the surrounding ash has been disturbed, the cabin destroyed, and no one is there. Ilana takes a piece of tapestry with a picture of the Statue of Taweret on it. They burn the cabin and head toward the statue.
- The Others take a rest stop at the Oceanic survivor's camp. Locke convinces Ben to murder Jacob. Sun sees the crib that Locke made for Aaron and Claire and goes over to it. When she turns it over, she finds Charlie's old ring with "DS" engraved in it.
- At the statue, Locke and Ben enter to find Jacob. Meanwhile, Ilana, Bram, and Frank show Richard what was in the crate: Locke's body.
- Inside the chamber, Jacob correctly deduces that Locke is really his nemesis and that he has tricked Ben into coming there. When Jacob doesn't answer Ben, Ben kills him. Jacob's dying words to his nemesis are "They're coming."
- Inside the foot of the Statue of Taweret, the man who has taken the appearance of Locke sends Ben out of the statue to retrieve Richard, but when Ben exits the statue, he is taken by Richard to Locke's body.
- Tired of waiting, Bram, escorted by three other members of Ilana's group as well as Ben, enters the statue to confront what waits inside. After they enter, the man who appears to be Locke takes the form of the Smoke Monster, killing Bram as well as his three companions, but leaves Ben untouched.
- The group of survivors from the Swan site are flashed to this night nearby the crater caused by the failsafe, where it becomes apparent to them that Jack's attempt to detonate the hydrogen bomb failed. Sawyer physically attacks Jack, blaming him for Juliet's death, but stops when he hears Juliet's cries for help under the rubble in the crater. Sawyer tells Kate that if Juliet dies, he will kill Jack.
- Jin goes to the crater to help the others, leaving Hurley with a dying Sayid. Hurley is approached by an apparition of Jacob, who informs him that he died one hour ago, and that the only way to save Sayid is to go to the Temple.
- Hurley tells Jack, who has exhausted all medical possibilities of helping Sayid, that the only way to help him is to go the Temple.
- With the help of Jack, Kate, Jin, and Miles, Sawyer is able to move away enough rubble to find Juliet, however she has been wounded badly by her fall as well as being crushed under rubble. She tells Sawyer that she has something very important to tell him, but after a final kiss, she dies. Sawyer exits with Juliet's body, blaming Jack for her death.
Day 5
- As the sun rises, Sawyer begins burying Juliet. He has Miles stay with him, while the others use the DHARMA van to drive to the Temple to save Sayid.
- When they reach the temple they are kidnapped by members of the Others and brought to their leader, Dogen, an asian man accompanied by his translator, Lennon. They are about to be killed when Hurley reveals that Jacob has sent them, and when pressed for proof, he offers the guitar case he brought with him on the plane. It is opened to reveal a wooden ankh, containing a message indicating that if Sayid dies, they will be in "a lot of trouble."
- After Sawyer and Miles finished burying Juliet, Sawyer forces Miles to use his abilities to communicate with Juliet's body, and find out the "important thing" she was going to tell him. Miles reveals that she was going to say, "It worked." Shortly after this they are attacked by the Others and brought to the temple.
- Dogen leads a group of others, along with Jack, Kate, Jin, Hurley, and an unconscious Sayid, through the temple and to a small, bubbling pool under a pavilion. Sayid is taken into the pool and held underwater for a short time, and although he appears to be healed of his gunshot wound, he drowns in the process.
- Sawyer and Miles are brought to the pool where the rest of their group is, and Hurley is taken aside to speak with Dogen and Lennon, where he reveals to them that Jacob is dead. The others are alarmed and immediately begin taking several security measures, including enclosing a circle of ash around the temple, and setting off a flare that can be seen across the island.
- Inside the foot of the statue, Ben reveals to the dark entity, that he has realized he is not John Locke, but is the "monster." Ben asks the entity what he wants, and he replies that he wants to "go home." They then exit the statue, where those outside have just seen the flare shot from the temple, and the entity proclaims that he is "very disappointed" in the Others, and attacks Richard, knocking him out. He then picks up Richard's unconscious body, and walks into the jungle.
- Lennon asks to speak with Jack in private, and when he refuses, an altercation begins between Jack and two of the others, which is stopped when Hurley yells Jack's name in alarm. They look over to Sayid, who after being dead for some time, is now alive, asking in shock, "What happened?"
- Shortly after Sayid's apparent resurrection, Sawyer steals a gun and exits the temple, demanding that no one follow him. Despite this, a search party consisting of Kate, Jin, Aldo, and Justin leaves shortly after in pursuit.
- Upon conferring with Dogen, Lennon brings Sayid inside the Temple, where Dogen tortures him, with Lennon saying it was a test, which he passed. However immediately after Sayid exits the room, Dogen confirms he did not.
- Kate takes advantage of a previously set trap in the jungle to escape from Aldo and Justin. Kate decides to follow Sawyer's trail to the barracks, while Jin searches the jungle in hope of finding Sun.
- Dogen gives Jack a pill, telling him to give it to Sayid, but he refuses, and when Dogen will not tell him what is in the pill, he swallows it. Dogen immediately performs the Heimlich maneuver, and admits that the pill is poisoned. He tells Jack that the reason they meant to kill Sayid was because they believe he has been "claimed" and that the same happened to Jack's sister.
- Kate finds Sawyer at the barracks, where he has entered the house he and Juliet once shared, finding an engagement ring he had hidden, intending to give to her. Sawyer goes to the docks and throws the ring into the ocean, telling Kate that he is "meant to be alone."
- As his ankle is caught in a bear trap, Jin is found by Aldo and Justin. Furious, Aldo is seriously considering killing him when he and Justin are both shot and presumably killed by an unseen attacker. Jin turns around to find the attacker is none other than Claire.
- Ilana collects Jacob's ashes inside the statue, after Ben tells her Locke killed him. When they exit, the Others have left, leaving only Sun and Frank. Illana wants to go to the Temple, but Sun insists that they first bury Locke's body.
- The group led by Illana reaches the beach camp graveyard, where they bury Locke after Ben delivers a short eulogy, apologizing for murdering him.
- The Man in Black, as Locke, sets Richard free, but first asks for him to come with him. Richard refuses, but while they are speaking, Locke sees a vision of a young boy with bloody arms. Alarmed, he moves on to the Barracks.
- Locke walks to Sawyer’s house, and convinces him to come with him under the pretense of learning why he was brought to the island. Shortly after they leave, Locke sees the young boy once again. As he chases after it, leaving Sawyer alone, Richard emerges from the jungle, urging Sawyer to follow him to the temple. Sawyer refuses, and Richard leaves just as Locke returns, having been told by the boy that he couldn't kill "him."
- Locke and Sawyer's journey takes them to a cliffside cave, where the names of Sawyer and Locke, as well as many others, have been written on the walls by Jacob, ostensibly because they are candidates to replace him as protector of the island. Locke offers for Sawyer to join him in a mission to leave the island, and Sawyer accepts.
- At the Temple, Jack informs Sayid that Dogen tried to poison him. Meanwhile, Hurley goes inside the Temple where he is met by a vision of Jacob, who tells him that someone is coming to the island, and that he needs him to help them get there.
- Claire takes Jin to her tent, where she stitches the wound he received from the trap. She finds Justin, who is merely wounded in the arm, and ties him up. She begins asking him where her son is, and when he truthfully tells her that the Others do not have her son, which Jin enforces, saying Kate took Aaron, she kills him with an ax.
- By passing on a message from Jacob, Hurley convinces Jack to accompany on a mission to an unspecified location. On the way they encounter Kate, who tells them she is going to try to find Claire. On their way they pass by the caves, where they find Adam and Eve as well as the empty coffin of Christian Shephard.
- They eventually reach a Lighthouse on the shore of the island. Upon entering it and ascending to the top, they discover a system of light reflecting mirrors. Jack sees his name written down next to the number 23, and rotates the mirrors to 23 degrees, where he sees his childhood home in the reflection of the mirrors. Angry, Jack destroys all the mirrors and exits. Jacob once again approaches Hurley, and tells him he and Jack needed to leave the Temple because someone bad is going there.
- Jin tells Claire that he was lying about Kate taking Aaron, which she says is good, because otherwise she would kill Kate. They are then interrupted by the Man in Black entering the tent, who Claire introduces as her "friend."
"Sundown"
- Sayid barges into Dogen's chamber, demanding answers. Dogen tells him that he believes him to be evil, and the discussion escalates into a fight, after which Dogen tells Sayid to leave the Temple and never come back.
- As Sayid is preparing to leave, Claire enters the Temple at the behest of the Man in Black, and tells Dogen to come out and speak with him. Dogen refuses, and sends Sayid instead, giving him and dagger and telling him to kill the Man in Black.
- Sayid leaves the Temple to meet the Man in Black, and on his way encounters Kate, who intending to return to the Temple and proceeds to do so. Upon encountering the Man in Black, Sayid stabs him with the knife given to him by Dogen to no effect. After this the two talk, and the Man in Black tells him that he can resurrect Nadia, and to return to the Temple and tell everyone inside that if they do not leave by sundown, they will be killed.
- Upon returning to the Temple, Kate learns from Miles that Claire is there, and finds her, having been captured by the Others, in a hole inside the Temple. She tells him about Aaron and the fact that she raised him, and says she is here to save her. Claire responds that she is "not the one who needs saving."
- Sayid returns to the Temple and delivers this message, resulting in many Others leaving the temple, including Cindy, Zach, and Emma. He then goes to the spring inside the Temple, where he meets Dogen. Dogen reveals to him that in his past life off the island, he was driving drunk with his son in the car and crashed. While he was in the hospital, Jacob came to him and said he would save his son's life if he came to the island. After he tells Sayid this, Sayid throws him into the spring and holds him under, drowning him. Lennon then walks in and is killed by Sayid with the knife given to him by Dogen.
- Immediately after Dogen's death, the Monster enters the Temple and begins killing everyone in sight. Just as he arrives, Ilana, Ben, Sun and Frank arrive at the Temple as well. The group sans Ben, who has went to find Sayid, meets up with Miles and escapes the Temple through a hidden passageway.
- Ben finds Sayid sitting over the bodies of Dogen and Lennon, and Sayid refuses to come with him. Meanwhile, Kate finds Claire, and together the two of them, along with Sayid, exit the temple to meet the Man in Black, along with the Others who left the Temple before Sundown. Then, led by the Main in Black, the group leaves the Temple.
- Escaping the Temple, Ben encounters Ilana, Frank, Sun and Miles some distance outside. Miles communicates with Jacob's spirit via his ashes, which Ilana took from the statue, and learns that Ben killed Jacob. After this they leave, heading for the beach camp.
Day 6
- After arriving at the beach camp, Ilana holds Ben and gunpoint and orders him to dig his own grave.
- Waking up in the morning, Jack and Hurley set out for the Temple, but are met by Richard, who leads them to the Black Rock. Inside Richard takes a stick of dynamite, and telling him he wants to die, asks Jack to light it for him. Jack obliges, but instead of leaving, sits with him and tells him they both have destinies to fulfill, having realized this by going to the Lighthouse, and as a result they will not die. Indeed, the stick's fuse burns out moments before it would have exploded. Jack then recommends they go to the beach camp.
- While digging his grave, Ben is suddenly approached by the Man in Black, who tells him to come with him to the Hydra Island, and that there is a rifle 200 yards inland with which he should kill Ilana. After the Main in Black leaves, Ben rushes inland and is chased by Ilana, however, he reaches the gun left for him and holds her at gunpoint. He explains why he killed Jacob, and says he has to go with the Man in Black because no one else will take him. Ilana, finally understanding him, then says she will take him, and they return to the beach, where the others have begun to make camp, and Miles has unearthed the diamonds that were buried with Nikki and Paulo.
- Jack, Hurley, and Richard reach the beach camp, where they reunite with the others, Sun especially is happy to see Jack and Hurley. Meanwhile, just off shore, a submarine surfaces its periscope, and the man controlling it tells his superior that there are people on the beach. His superior, revealed to be Charles Widmore, tells him to proceed as planned.