Lost Season 4 Finale Spoilers - "There's No Place Like Home"

The Season 4 finale of Lost airs Thursday, May 29th at 8:00 p.m. (central). Part 1 of the finale will be aired again with additional scenes! So I'm starting my Lost party at 7:00 now!

Warning! the following entry is purely spoilers and there are a LOT of them too! These spoilers are detailed, detailed, detailed. If you don't want to know KEY THINGS (like who's in the coffin) DO NOT READ ON! I am warning you! If you don't like spoilers and don't want the finale ruined in any way, don't read this entry!!

Note: There were alternate endings written and filmed for the finale. So these spoilers may not be 100% accurate.




This is from the "next time on Lost" segment that was shown at the end of part 1:

We see Locke walking through what is probably the Orchid station.
Locke says to Jack, "You know you're here for a reason... Just wait and see what I'm about to do."
Ben says, "If I were you, I'd want to be on that boat within the hour."


My tv/dvr describes the episode as:

"As the 4th season comes to a close, the face-off continues between the survivors and the freighter people, and the Oceanic 6 find themselves ever closer to rescue. Walt: Malcom David Kelley."

Looks like we'll have a special appearance from Walt.

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This is an ABC-released trailer for the finale, claiming that at 7:00 (central), Lost is an all night event. It all starts with a special encore of the season's most powerful episode with brand new footage. It looks like they're showing a scene with the Black Rock in it here and Jack says, "You need to see this". There is a white room type thing that is opening up (maybe the elevator in the Orchid?). Locke says, "It's a place where miracles happen". Jack says, "There's no such thing as miracles". Scene with Jin, Desmond and Michael looking at the C4 on the freighter. Desmond says, "There's enough C4 here to blow up a bloody aircraft carrier". Michael says, "you see that light turn red... boom.". Scene with Keamy yelling and shooting with the helicopter, Kate and Ben in the background. Kate says to Ben "So we can go? Off the Island?". Helicopter shown taking off. Sayid can be seen in the helicopter wearing a headset. Hurley is in the helicopter. There's another version of this promo that shows Jack in the helicopter too. Someone in the helicopter is yelling, "We're losing fuel, we cannot go back to the Island!". Kate looks sad. Sawyer holds Kate's face. Flash of Jin. Flash of Michael. Flash of Sayid. Flash of helicopter in the air. Flash of Ben. Locke yells, "What did you do?!".

And all that was in a 1 minute trailer. This should be a good episode! lol

As we've probably all noticed, Damon and Carlton were on a media rampage and did a million interviews. They've had a lot to say about the finale:

• The volcano on the island will be of "seismic importance" (pun very much intended).
• Frank Lapidus never takes anything at face value. He is a true conspiracy nut and that's going to pay off for him.
• This season ends with the Oceanic 6 getting off the Island. How, and what they have to sacrifice and what happens to the people that didn't leave.
• Before the end of the year, you will know who's in the coffin
• Ben probably knows why Widmore is looking for the island, but may not be telling the full truth. We will find out whether Ben is telling the full truth by the end of this season
• The secret production code name for the finale twist is "The Frozen Donkey Wheel." It's not the last scene in the show that has that code name, it's actually a scene that happens towards the end of the show, but reveals a very significant secret.
• ... you definitely haven't seen your last purple sky, and basically, yes, there are other electromagnetic events that happen periodically, and we have another electromagnetic event coming up on the show this year.
• Michael becomes really pivotal to the end of the season. His return will have a lot of impact on the other characters. You will be getting the detailed version of what exactly happened to Michael in between Ben sending him and Walt off the island and when we first meet him behind the wheel of that car.
• Romance is always blooming on and off the island. I hereby promise you one of the most spectacular kisses you've ever seen on the show in this year's finale.
• The spectacular kiss will happen between a boy and a girl. But it doesn't happen on the island.
• The finale will complicate the Jack-Kate-Sawyer love triangle by featuring 'a spectacular kiss' and elaborate on Jack's flash-forward ambition to journey back to the Island. "This year's finale will sum up exactly how difficult it may be to accomplish that."
• Large and "seismic" events will happen for all the Losties before the end of season.
• The audience has been waiting for what happened after the finale scene of Season 3. We are going to deliver on that in this season's finale.
• There are definitely some very large and seismic events that will happen to our characters between now and the finale. Some people's fates will be clear, and others will not be so clear.
• Locke and Jack represent the two philosophical poles of the show. "The conflict between those guys is really the central conflict on our show. And there's a big culmination of that taking place in the season finale."
• Look for a resolution in the Jack/Kate/Sawyer drama. Obviously, Sawyer is not one of the Oceanic Six; Jack and Kate are. What happens in the finale "is all on the axis of the love triangle".
• The numbers will be back in the season finale
• A major story line will begin for Claire. "Mysterious things are happening to Claire that set up the next few episodes — and the next few years, too."
• The Orchid Dharma orientation film was set up for where we were going in our season finale.
• Our characters are in fact going to discover the Orchid and see a bit more of that film. There will be plenty to sort of fact check and debunk on that axis.
• We can say that we've been very interested in these physicists who have been building this particle accelerator in the Alps, and there's been a lot of debate and concern about what's going to happen when they start smashing these particles into each other.

From TV Guide Article (read the whole article)

• 5 Key Episodes to Unlocking the Finale - "Pilot", "White Rabbit", "Live Together, Die Alone", "Through the Looking Glass", and "The Shape of Things to Come".
  
• (Referring to Season 3 finale) The episode that introduced the flash forwards. Rewatch Jack's flash-forward again now, knowing everything you've learned this season - it'd be good to have that information under your belt when this finale starts. Because this finale just might start where that one ended.
• The real morale of that story is, don't piss off Benjamin Linus.
• (Referring to "White Rabbit" episode) That was the birth of the conversation about faith versus reason. As Jack is chasing the ghost of his father, he happens upon Locke. Jack confides that he can't possibly be seeing what he thinks he's seeing and Locke says, 'But what if you were?'. In the season 4 finale there's an incredibly powerful scene between them that began way back in "White Rabbit".
• On Sun taking control over Paik - Sun is just getting started. The once passive character goes toe-to-toe with the "one other" she holds accountable (for Jin's death). She's gonna turn into this incredibly powerful and perhaps vengeful person. We've got big plans for Sun.
• Jorge Garcia (Hurley) says, "There's definitely a physical demand to how we get home. It's brutal. And we do it with a baby! The fact that Aaron made it is impressive." Garcia also says about who's in the coffin, "It's definitely a surprise" and it's definitely not Walt.
• Once you see the finale, you'll have a better idea of how the timeline works.
• Kate's on the outs with Sawyer in a major way. The pair will share a spectacular goodbye kiss that just might make their first one pale in comparison.
• We will find out why the Oceanic 6 need to lie about their time on the island upon returning home.

From Kristen at E! Online:

Malik in Bangkok: I love Lost! Is anyone going to die in the season finale?
I can tell you that a series regular who has been on the series since the first season will not be back next season (season five). According to inside sources, this person's contract has been put into a holding deal and the plan at this point is to have him or her return for season six. Guesses? (OK, I'll spare you the frantic emails: It is not Jack or Sawyer. It's a she.)

Wendell in Santa Fe, N.M.: Lost, girl! Spill! What can you tell me about the very end of this season?
Remember how I told you that time traveling and teleporting is most definitely happening?(Duh) Well, let's just say that it's going to be happening on a much larger scale in the coming seasons. And if I tell you any more about that twist, I will break the heart of this sweet guy who's name rhymes with "Hey, mon" and karma will see to it that I return in the next life as grasshopper poo.


Other Random Spoilers

• Greg Grunberg will reprise his role as Oceanic pilot Seth Norris in the two-hour season finale.
• “Faraday may be contending with a seismic metamorphosis under the surface” says actor, Jeremy Davies.
• Michael Emerson (Ben) and Yunjin Kim (Sun) have just flown into Heathrow for some London based filming along with director Jack Bender. Alan Dale (Charles Widmore) was spotted as well.
• The Freighter people are NOT the ones that do the rescuing
• The Season finale will leave you ballistic as far as cliffhangers go.
• Penelope will pop up.
• the Funeral director (Nigel Gibbs) is back for the Season 4 Finale.
• There's a supersecret Sawyer scene in the finale.
• Ben centers in the “secret scenes” in the season finale. - says Michael Emmerson (Ben)
  
• At the arid, rural west coast of O’ahu a a scene was shot on sea, featuring a large, octagonal life raft. Hurley, Sun, Jack, Kate, Sayid and Desmond swim toward the Zodiac raft through some debris. Hurley — clutching Aaron - helps pull Kate, Sun and Sayid aboard. But Jack and Desmond take a little longer to reach them. And Desmond is holding someone who’s not moving.
• In the two-hour season finale we will find out just how the Oceanic Six escaped, the circumstances of why the others were left behind, and why they had to keep what happened to them a secret when they returned to the real world. Don't be surprised if the Grim Reaper strikes again, targeting one of our favorite castaways...
• Jin, Sawyer and Locke are alive on the Island in the future. ( I don't know about that...)
• Fans who were upset by the Jack and Kate proposal still have the spectacular kiss to look forward to.
• Rebecca Mader (Charlotte) says, "Charlotte lives through the finale, but doesn't have a very large role in it."
• While filming at the Hoffs/Drawlar Funeral Parlor the only character spotted was Desmond! In suit and tie, hair pulled back...
• Not only is the kiss spectacular, but according to a very solid source, it's the kind of liplock that "stops f---ing time" and "makes the entire world vanish in the moment."
• There's a fair amount of blood shed in the two-hour capper. And there's at least one significant death.
• We won't see Cynthia Watros (Libby) back on Lost this season
• We will see the Orchid — all three levels of it — that might shed more light on the Island's time-warping properties.

Even More Spoilers!! These are pretty detailed, so be warned (from ODI podcast going over the spoilers that were listed on Dark UFO from the anonymous source, lostfan108) :

• Alpert & Others (with Kate & Sayid) help get Ben out of his run-in with Keamy that we saw in Part 1.
• Device on Keamy is connected to the C4 Explosives on the freighter. If he dies, the bomb goes off.
• Kate & Sawyer "spectacular kiss" in the helicopter. The helicopter has problems and can't carry everyone so Sawyer jumps out (safely).
  
• We'll see more of the scene between Jack & Kate that we saw in the flash-forward of the Season 3 finale.
  
• The Oceanic 6 are lying in order to protect the Island.
• After Kate leaves Jack in the scene that was at the end of the Season 3 finale, she comes back and tells Jack that the person in the obituary came and visited her and told her they had to go back to the Island.
• Sayid visits Hurley. Tells Hurley that the person in the coffin died.
• Through the episode, they keep referring to the person in the coffin as "he" or "him", they don't say his name.
• Ben kills Keamy in the Orchid station.
• Michael uses some sort of liquid to slow the process of the C4 exploding.
• The helicopter picks up Sun & Aaron.
• The bomb explodes. Michael dies.
• Jin is thrown into the water. We don't know if he is alive or dead. Sun doesn't know either.
• Sun blames Jack for Jin's death because Jack wouldn't let the helicopter go back for Jin.
• "The Frozen Donkey Wheel" refers to an actual frozen wheel below the island that needs to be unfrozen and moved. Ben tells Locke about the wheel. The Island can be moved physically and through time. Locke starts working on the ice and puts on the Dharma parka.
• The Island and surrounding islands move.
  
• Funeral home flash forward scene continued. Jack is standing in the funeral home and someone comes up behind him and says his name. It is Ben. Ben has been following Jack. Ben wants to take the person in the coffin back to the Island.
• Want to know who's in the coffin? Really? It's John Locke.
• Season 5 will be how they get back to the Island, bring Locke back, and resurrect John Locke.

There were alternate endings written and filmed for the finale. So these spoilers may not be accurate.