The Hostiles surround them with guns because Sawyer broke the Truce, but Sawyer says that saving Young Ben’s life is more important, so he demands they take him to Richard Alpert. Sawyer carries Young Ben until Richard seems to pop out of nowhere. Sawyer is surprised to find out Richard already knows Ben.

They ask Richard to save him, and Richard says that if he does, Ben won’t remember this, his innocence will be gone, and he’ll always be one of the Hostiles. Isn’t that a nice convenient way to get around the infinite number of paradoxes all this time travel stuff raised?

Another Hostile says that Richard should talk to Ellie first, because he’ll be in trouble if Charles finds out. So I guess those two characters from “Jughead” are still around, Ellie being Eloise Hawking, Faraday’s mother, and Charles being Charles Widmore.

Richard walks Young Ben into the jungle to an ancient looking temple and goes inside. This causes a flash forward and now we’re back with the present Ben after the Ajira 316 crash. He wakes up and sees John Locke sitting next to him. “Hello Ben,” Locke says. “Welcome back to the land of the living.” That’s pretty bad-ass.


Next week on Lost: Woo hoo, it’s a Ben-centric episode! He came back to the Island to be judged, which can mean only one thing: Smokey’s back!


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