The episode begins with the Oceanic Six discussing whether to lie about what happened to them, to protect the people they left behind. Hurley doesn\u2019t want them to lie, but the others persuade him. Hurley tells Sayid that he\u2019s going to remember that he didn\u2019t back him up, and sometime in the future when he needs help, he won\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n
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In the present day, however, he is doing just that. Hurley sees Ana-Lucia, who asks him \u201cWhat if I were real?\u201d She tells him he has a lot of work to do. And that Libby says hi. Hurley takes Sayid to his home. The LAPD shows up but his father covers for them, and then takes Sayid to Jack \u2013 who then calls Ben.<\/p>\n
Ben tells Jack to go home and pack a suitcase, and put anything he cares about in the world in it, because he is never coming back. Ben leaves to take Locke\u2019s body somewhere safe. He goes to a butcher, who is in fact one of his own people working with him. The Others are working to get Ben \u2013 and the others \u2013 back to the island.<\/p>\n
Hugo tells his mother the truth. She says she believes him \u2013 she doesn\u2019t understand him, but she believes him.<\/p>\n
Ben goes to Hugo and tells him they all want the same thing \u2013 to go back to the island. But Hurley runs outside and surrenders to the police instead.<\/p>\n
Locke finds Juliette and Sawyer as some Others have captured them, and saves them.<\/p>\n
At the end if the episode we see Eloise in the basement of a church. There is an enormous pendulum, and a computer calculating an event window. She goes upstairs, where Ben is lighting a candle. She says that he has 70 hours. Ben asks her what happens if he can\u2019t get them all to come back, and she says, \u201cThen God help us all.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201cGod help us all\u201d is interesting to reflect on, and not just because it is uttered in a church. Presumably it reflects the view that, if they don\u2019t cause in the present the things that they remember having happened in the past, the results could be catacylsmic in some way, perhaps as time and space unravel\u00a0because of the resulting paradox.<\/p>\n
But perhaps\u00a0the most interesting element is the faith of Hurley\u2019s mother.\u00a0When, if ever, is it appropriate to believe someone even when we don\u2019t understand what they are saying, much less how it can be true?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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