I'm back in the saddle and ready to live-blog tonight's show. Live blogging will be starting within the hour.

Major spoilers below the fold.

Locke is in his hospital bed, post surgery, and Jack is leaning over him.

"Welcome back". Locke recognizes Jack and Jack explains the connection. Oceanic 815.

Jack lets him know that his dural sack ruptured, but to not worry, because he should be fine. He got run over by a car! No broken bones? C'mon . . .

I didn't even know I had a dural sack and wouldn't even be sure what a rupture to said sack would do to me, but Locke doesn't inquire. Jack also tells Locke that he's a "candidate", for a new procedure that could restore feeling and even walking to his legs.

"If you give me a shot, I think that I could fix you."

John politely declines as Helen comes in, joyful that John's OK and very thankful to Jack.

Flash - we're back on the island.

"Welcome to Hydra island", the zombie Sayid (maybe? I'm not sure because I think the conversation with Des - who better not be dead - may have brought Sayid back to the living) says to Jack, who's just come to in a boat: "At least you didn't have to paddle"

Elsewhere on Hydra, the island candidates are being herded back into those darn polar bear cages. The fat kid herding Sawyer brags that Sawyer has to do what he says because "I've got the gun"

"Not anymore doughboy" Ha ha. James disables the kid and steals the gun, but Widmore makes him drop it by threatening to kill non-Candidate Kate.

Once locked into their familiar cages, Widmore assures James that he's doing this for his good. Sawyer's not buying it, of course.

Widmore doesn't have time to argue though, because "he's coming".

***** Commercial *****

A dentist does something terrible with a drill to one of those mouth casts. It's Bernard. Jack is looking for him. He wants to look at Locke's patient files. Jack's snooping into how Locke got hurt the first time his dural sack ruptured (Bernard did emergency oral surgery on him after the accident).

As the music gets all eerie, Bernard recalls that they were on the same flight and that Jack was flirting with Rose.

Bernard can't tell him how Locke got hurt, but he can tell him that "Anthony Cooper" was also in the same accident with Locke.

Flash to the island. Jack's sitting in a boat. It's night. Sayid is flatly telling Jack about the mortar attack and about how Locke saved Jack. It's just Sayid, Smokie and Jack now.

Locke says they have to rescue their friends. Locke claims that if they move right now, they can break Jack's people out and get on that plane.

Jack says "they aren't my people, and I'm not leaving the island". Locke says that's fine, but he's going to need Jack's help convincing them.

"Why should I trust you?"

"Because I could kill you right now." Evidently, because he hasn't killed them all Jack is to trust him.

Back to the bear cages. Sawyer and Kate are in the same cage as they were back when they, um, you know (wink wink).

Sawyer tells Kate about the cave, where all the names were written. Kate's name was crossed out. "He doesn't need you Kate." Cold.

Elsewhere, Sun and Jin are catching up. Jin is asking about their daughter.

"She's so . . . beautiful." Touching. Especially when Sun hands him his ring. I love this couple. I'm not sure why they are talking English to each other though.

Just then all the power goes out to the cages. Widmore's people are freaking out, just as doughboy starts yelling orders and we hear the Smoke-train coming.

Doughboy shoots at it, which seems kind of dumb. He is quickly dispatched. Sawyer and Kate see that he's got some keys, but they can't reach. Good thing Jack shows up to let them out.

Kate seems surprised and alarmed. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm with him," Jack replies. Boom.

***** Commercials *****

The fugitives march through the jungle. They are heading to the plane. Jack tells Kate that he's going to take them to the plane, but he's not getting on it.

"I'm not meant to go."

Jack is totally going to die. Sayid pops out of the jungle, as everyone points their rifles at them.

"Locke's waiting"

Flash to the LA reality. Jack is snooping around in some facility looking for Anthony Cooper. Helen meets him and tells him to just go. "You saved John's life, why isn't that enough?"

"Because it's not."

The facility is a senior center. Anthony Cooper looks in really bad shape. He's in a wheelchair. Helen introduces him as she lovingly wipes the drool from his chin. Cooper is non-responsive.

Back to the island. Locke walks non-chalantly up to the plane, as two Widmore thugs shoots at him. He snaps one of their necks, shoots the other one.

Locke enters the plane and starts fiddling with some wires. He pulls something (I think) out of an overhead bin. Not sure what.

Meanwhile, Hurley, Sawyer, Jin, Sun, Kate, Jack, Said, Claire, Frank walk up to the plane. They are not too thrilled to see Locke.

"Widmore knew I would kill these men, they were only guarding the plane for show."

Locke thinks Widmore just wants to get them all together in a confined space and kill them with the C4 bricks that he pulled out of the overhead bin. He doesn't think the plane is safe. They have to take the sub. Is it just me, or did he switch plans awfully quick?.

Hurley protests, because Richard told them not to leave. But, as Locke points out, Richard isn't there. And I'm a bit disappointed in Hurley's cluelessness. I haven't understood Hurley one bit in these last few episodes. He's the braniac who told them to hook up with Locke in the first place.

Jack agrees to go and help, because the sub will be "heavily defended", but he still maintains he's not leaving.

Sawyer pretends to trust Locke, and even thanks him for saving their lives, but tells Jack after Locke marches on ahead to make sure that Locke doesn't get on the sub.

***** Commercial *****

Back in Locke's hospital room. Jack is totally obsessed.

"Mr. Locke, are you awake?"

"Push the butttonnnnn... I wisshhh you had believed meee. . ."

Claire shows up. "Can we talk?"

Jack offers her an Apollo bar in the waiting room. Claire claims to have never met Christian (which is different than the original timeline).

Christian wanted her to have an ornate wooden case. She asks how he died.

"He was found dead in an alley in Sydney"

They talk some more and Jack snaps to the fact that Claire was on the plane. He opens the box (it's a music box). Catch a falling star and put it in yer pocket . . .

Claire gets up to leave, and Jack offers to let her stay with him. Which means that she's been nothing but STALKED since she hit the ground in LA, what with Jack and Des creepily propositioning her ever three seconds.

Flash to the island. The Lostaways peer at the dock. Sawyer's in charge, evidently, as he makes his battle plans. Am I the only one who's wondering why they just don't send in the Smoke?

Sawyer and company charge the dock, which appears deserted. They climb up on the sub and Sawyer heads in. He's one brave cat.

In the sub, they hear a radio. A bored Widmore naval thug is cluelessly sitting at a desk. He and the captain are taken hostage in about two seconds. This is the easiest sub takeover in history.

Jack and Locke run to the sub, with Locke still trying to convince Jack to stay. Jack dumps him in the water, and just then Kate gets shot. Bullets are flying everywhere but so far Kate's the only casualty.

Locke, using only a pistol, dispatches all the remaining Widmore thugs as Kate is dragged into the sub.

Sawyer runs back up to get Claire, but closes the hatch when Locke tries to come aboard. Claire is, of course, left above on the dock.

Locke reassures her. "Trust me, you don't want to be on that sub."

The sub dives, as Kate groans for Claire and Jack works on her.

Oh crud. Jack finds a bomb in his backpack. It's got a timer on it, and there are only 3 minutes and 52 seconds left . . .

I'd be running around like a loon at this point, ordering the sub to the surface toot sweet. But everyone just kind of stares at the bomb.

Hurley asks how it got there.

Jack knows. Locke put it there. Things are going exactly per Locke's plans.

Is anyone beside me completely confused?

***** Commercial *****

Now they are springing into action. They have to get to the surface.

Sayid is analyzing the bomb, because it will take five minutes to surface, and the bomb has about three minutes on it.

Sawyer is about to pull the wires out, but Jack assures them that nothing is going to happen. "Locke can't kill us."

Jack is putting two and two together. Locke can't leave the island until they are all dead. And he can't kill them.

Sawyer protests, but Jack tells him "we are going to be OK. You'll just have to trust me."

"Sorry Doc I don't". Sawyer pulls the wires. The bomb stops for awhile, but then starts up, double-time.

Sayid quickly tells Jack where Desmond is. Jack asks him why, and Sayid says "Because it's you now." Then he takes the bomb, runs down the sub hallway, and GETS BLOWN TO KINGDOM COME.

Oh. no.

The sub starts to fill with water, Sun is trapped under something heavy. Jack commands Hurley to take Kate out. "Take this tank and buddy-breathe"

Hurley asks about Sayid.

"THERE IS NO SAYID". Man!!!!

Hurley works to get Kate out as the remaining ones try to free Sun. Then something heavy lands on Sawyer and now he's unconscious.

Sun begs Jin to leave her, but he won't.

Sun and Jin are so totally going to die. I can't take this.

Jack swims Sawyer out of there.

Back to Sun and Jin. Come on guys, you've got to do something! Sun begs him to go.

Jin refuses. "I won't leave you."

The sad Lost someone's-about-to-die music begins to play.

Jin tells her in Korean that he's not going to leave her. Ever. They kiss and hug and I cannot take this anymore.

The sub slowly sinks to the bottom.

The camera takes a slow waltz around the submerged interior of the island. Sun and Jin are dead. They died holding hands.

Are you kidding me? NO!

***** Commercial, dang it *****

I can barely bear to type. We're back in the hospital, and Locke is being wheeled down the hallway, looking no worse for wear, considering that a day or two ago he was run over by a car.

Jin walks buy with *sniff* flowers for Sun.

Jack says goodbye to Locke, and also tells him that he went to see his dad.

Before Jack can go very far into his explanation as to why he was stalking Locke's dad, Locke tells Jack that he got hurt in a plane crash. Locke was a pilot, and it was his first solo flight. He convinced his dad, who was terrified of flying, to go with him. They crashed, of course, and Locke knows that it was his fault, and, by the way, TOQ is acting the HECK out this scene. In the sideways world Locke and his dad loved each other.

Jack gives him a pep talk, to quit punshing himself. "What happened happened, you can let it go."

They part ways, and Jack calls after him: "I can help you John. I wish you believed me."

Flash to the awful, horrific, terrible island that holds no more joy for me. Jack, Sawyer, Hurley and Kate are on the beach. Kate doesn't act like someone who's been shot. I don't care if, as Jack said, the "bullet went all the way through". When a bullet goes all the way through your intestines you're supposed to be rolling around on the ground, screaming in agony. But I digress.

Kate asks after Jin and Sun. By Jack's silence, everyone knows what happened. Hurley starts bawling.

Jack marches into the surf, stares up at the sky, and begins crying too.

Switch to Locke and Kate. Locke says the sub has sunk. Claire asks if everyone's dead. "Not everyone." Locke marches off, as eerie, urgent music plays, to, he announces, "finish what I started."

Previews: There are two sides, one is white, one is dark.

Bad Wobot!

P.S. I think Frank Lepidus must be dead too . . .