Denouement - 
by EdHIll
Back in real time, Desmond runs back into the computer room and starts to open up the trap door. He says that the night Locke was banging on the hatch door was the night that Locke saved him from killing himself. Now he has to go blow the dam. As he says this, he disappears down the trap door, and the counter finally reaches zero. The moment us Lost fans have been waiting for all year. Screw American Idol, or who died on The O.C., or any of that nonsense. All we cared about is "What happens if you don't push the button?" Well, now we find out....
Desmond looks back up at Locke for what could be the last time and sways "I'll see you in another life brother." Then the hatch is filled with the same noise we heard before "System failure. System failure." Only this time there is no way to stop it. Everything is shaking. Then the giant magnetic pull starts to fling everything metal across the room. Charlie and Eko dodge out of the way of flying cutlery and pans. Below, Desmond fights his way across debris and sparks to get to the big button. I am jumping up and down in my living room like a giddy schoolgirl. If I had a nickel every time I typed that sentence..
Everything gets worse with the even bigger metal objects flying around the room, the washer dryer, the weights. Thank god no one has a metal plate in his head. Charlie tries to carry Eko out, but Eko just pushes Charlie out the door and tells him to get free. The hatch is his white whale I guess you could say (Dickens and Melville in one recap. If I throw in a Thackeray reference I can get the hat trick).
Eko stumbles back into the computer room where all hell is breaking loose. He looks up on the wall and sees the timer collapse in on itself. Awesome. Locke just looks at him dumbfounded and in the most loaded sentence since Rock Hudson said "Eh, its just a rash," Locke simply says "I was wrong." Down below, amid the chaos, Desmond takes out his key and puts it in the keyhole (tee hee). We hear Penny's voice from the letter telling him that he loves her, and then he turns it.
Everything goes white. We cut right to the ferry where Jack and the rest of them are tied up. A giant piercing groan surrounds the island as everyone grabs their ears and are enveloped in a white light. On the beach, Bernard, Claire and the baby are covering their ears. And then.. its over. Everything goes back to normal. Bernard looks up and sees something flying through the air. It's a piece of metal coming right for him. He jumps out of the way as it crashes to the beach. He looks over and sees that it is the quarantine labeled hatch door. Is the hatch destroyed? We'll find out in six months.
As we are watching everyone on the beach clean up after the incident, Charlie comes out of the woods. Bernard runs up to him and ask him where Locke and Eko are. "they're not back yet?" he asks. Then he looks over and gets a faint smile from Claire. He smiles back. Meanwhile Desmond, Eko, and Locke are screaming for help as the skin burns off their bodies. At least they could be as far as Charlie knows, the little prick.
On the ferry landing, Henry is not happy. He doesn't like the arrangement that was made but admits that with Walt they got "More than they bargained for," meaning Walt's powers. But Henry said Michael lived up to his word, so he will live up to his as well. He tells him to take the boat and follow a compass heading of 3 2 5, and if he does that they will find rescue. "That's it?" Michael says incredulously. Then he asks Henry what if he tells everyone in the outside world about the island. Henry is not concerned. Once Micheal leaves, Henry says, he will never be able to get back here. (What could this mean? Is the island hidden form the world by the electromagnetism?) And besides, Henry adds, if Michael does talk people will find out what he did to get his son back.
Henry then sends Michael to the boat where Walt is inside. Michael finally finds Walt. "Bon voyage," Henry says and turns to walk toward the others. They then untie Hurley and tell him he can go. His job is to tell the other people to never come here. "But what about my friends?" he says. "They are coming with us." Henry says. Hurley looks back one last time at Jack, Sawyer and Kate tied up on the pier. When the Others go to pull them off their knees, Kate and Jack look at each other. What looks like a nod of recognition goes over their faces. What? Is there a plan C? We don't know as the hoods go over their heads.
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