Denouement - 
by EdHIll
"I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it," Inman says. What is it, Desmond asks. "Failsafe. Turn this key and this all goes away." Desmond asks what is behind the wall, what was the incident? Amazingly... Inman answers. I'm sorry. It's just for a Lost fan I am not used to people ever answering questions directly, so this got me very excited. It doesn't take much. As a kid playing inside a huge cardboard box would keep me entertained for hours. I would've done the same with an old refrigerator, but a very special episode of Punky Brewster taught me not to do that. "Electromagnetism," Inman says. "Geologically unique. The incident, there was a leak, so now the charge builds up, and every time we push the button, it discharges it. Before it gets too big."
Why make us do it? Push the button? Inman laughs. "Here's the real question, Desmond. Do you have the courage to take your finger out of the dam and blow the whole thing up instead?" No, here is the real question, Why couldn't you simply design a program to automatically discharge the magnetism? Here, I can do it for you right now:
1 If time = 108 then goto line 2
2 Enter =4 8 15 16 23 42 goto line 3
3 discharge freaky island magnetism. Goto line 4
4 Reset clock to 108
There, done. I just saved the Dharma Initiative the cost of two full salaried employees. They can mail me a check.
In the modern hatch Desmond wants to go outside and check on Eko and Charlie outside. He thinks they may be dead. Locke stops him. Desmond then asks him a question. Why does he want to let the counter go down to zero? Does he really want to look down the barrel of the gun? Locke then says that he believed. He believed it was his purpose. So much so that a kid died for it. And that night he was pounding his fists on that hatch door, screaming at the heavens. And then a light came on. He thought it was a sign. "But it wasn't a sign. Probably just you going to the bathroom." The clock reads 32 minutes and counting.
On the north side of the island Sayid is reconnoitering the Others' camp, Bauer style. Only when he gets there it is deserted. Not a single person. He then goes over to the hatch that they were protecting and opens it. Nothing. A fake door and a fake hatch. The whole village is one huge decoy. Heck, I coulda told you that.
In the jungle, Michael (FYI, he is trying to get his son back), Jack, Kate, and Sawyer stumble across a gigantic pile of pneumatic tubes next to a big plastic dispensing tube. The tubes are filled with notebooks. Entire journals describing the goings-on inside the Swan hatch and the person named "SR." Radzinski? Before they have time to look at it, Sawyer sees the smoke. But something is wrong. The smoke is miles away.
Jack yells, "Where were you taking us? Sayid said he'd light the signal so we would meet him at the shore. We're nowhere near the beach!" Michael yells at him, "I had to!" and begins to plead. And then, the whispers start. The Others are near. The only thing I can make out is the name Elizabeth, but from past experience there are more embedded whispers in there, and rest assured there are an army of nerds out there that will find out for us. If you hear of anything, let us know in the forums.
They all draw their guns. Sawyer than grabs at his neck. A tranquilizer dart. Strike that, a tranquilizer dart that acts as a mini tazer. Sawyer goes down. The rest try to run—well all but Hurley—but it's too late. They are all captured by the others. Damn you Michael. Damn you to hell.
In the hatch, Desmond is quizzing Locke about the other hatch. Pearl station. He says it was full of TV monitors and a computer that spit out a printout. They were there to evaluate what went on in the hatch as part of the experiment and then send there reports back to their headquarters. But Desmond asks Locke if maybe he has it all wrong. Maybe the experiment was on them—the people at Pearl station. Maybe the button does need to be pushed. After what we just saw in the jungle I am starting to believe it myself. Then Desmond goes and looks at the printouts. All of which have the times followed by the word "accepted" on it.
Back in the flashback, Desmond is watching Inman leave in his suit when he notices that there is a tear in the leg of Inman's HAZMAT suit. Thinking the whole thing is a big hoax, Desmond silently follows him outside and to the beach. When he goes over a cliff to see what Inman's doing he sees his sailboat, repaired and floating in a small lagoon. He is then surprised by Inman, who sneaks up behind him. He says he's planning on leaving once he gets the boat fixed. "Why did you lie to me?" Desmond screams at him. "Because I needed a sucker to save the world after I left." This throws Desmond into a rage. He lunges at Inman, and they roll down the side of the embankment. Inman hits his head and dies instantly. Years as a special forces army guy, torturer and veteran of numerous bloody wars, and he dies when he hits his noggin in a three-second fight with a 5'6" Scottish guy who reads Dickens. Not since Jon Erik Hexum has there been a more embarrassing death (look it up).
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