Over at Flocke's Camp, Sayid brings Flocke to Desmond, who is acting very strange.  He's calm and still, thinking the man he's talking to is John Locke.  Flocke seems a bit confused and concerned   He takes him on a trip and they run into the creepy Boy in the Jungle last seen in "The Substitute."  Flocke wants to ignore him, but Desmond is intrigued.

They get to a well and Flocke explains that a long time ago, compasses would go crazy over certain areas, so people would dig to find the cause.  Desmond goes along with this, and Flocke gets a little concerned that Desmond isn't scared at all.  Maybe he should be, because Flocke throws him into the well.

Flocke returns to his camp where Hurley arrives, offering a peace.  Flocke agrees, so Lapidus, Sun and Jack join Team Flocke.

In the Altverse

Dr. Pierre Chang narrates a video tribute to the life of Hugo Reyes, a philanthropist who has donated a new Paleontology Wing to the museum Miles' dad works at.  He's happy, but his mom is still upset that her little boy doesn't have a girlfriend.  There's just no pleasing some people.  She sets him up on a blind date with the daughter of Hugo's grandpa's neighbor.

He goes, and just when it looks like he's been stood up, he gets a female caller in the form of Libby.  She's got crazy hair and starts talking about soulmates, also wondering why Hugo doesn't remember her.  Just then, Dr. Brooks from Santa Rosa picks her up and takes away in the group van.   This is instantly cool and raises thousands of very interesting possibilities.

Hugo drowns his sorrows in a bucket of chicken when Desmond stops by to perk him up and offer some advice.  Maybe Hugo should give the crazy lady a shot to see why she thinks she knows him.

He takes the advice and visits Santa Rosa, for the first time.  In order to get in to see Libby, he offers to by a $100,000 rec room.  Once inside, Libby explains that a few days ago she saw his commercial and she saw visions of an alternate reality where they were in a plane crash and fell in love.  He still doesn't remember, but a love bomb is detonated in the nut house and Hugo agrees to take the psych patient out on a date.

They go on a picnic on the beach, and I'm no ashamed to admit I let out an audible "Aww" when I saw it.  This picnic is three and a half seasons in the making.  She kisses him, and the liplock causes Hugo to see flashes of his alternate universe love affair with the real Libby.  Desmond watches on from his car and smiles, since his work is done.

But Desmond's work in the episode isn't over yet.  He goes to a school where Ben suspects him of loitering.  Desmond claims he's looking for a school for his son Charlie.  Then he steps on the gas and runs over John Locke.  First an explosion kills Ilana, then the Black Rock explodes, then Desmond is thrown down a well, now Desmond runs over Locke?  This episode was action-packed and full of huge events.  The dynamite definitely went boom.


Next week on Lost: Locke is taken to the hospital in the altverse, and the trailer features Gene Wilder's crazy speech from the psychedelic boat scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.  Either that, or someone slipped me some LSD during the episode and I hallucinated it.


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