Drum roll, please! Desmond's back. After fleeing the Swan, where he served as the hatch computer's button-pusher for three years, he hopped aboard a boat that Kelvin Inman restored before Dez accidentally killed him. But in sailing to freedom, Dez somehow found his way right back to the survivors' beach mere miles from the Swan. Desmond backstory also begins to unfold.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Initially, we are led to believe that the Swam was a psychological experiment, but it turns out that The Pearl, where people observed the activity in the Swan and filled journals with observations, was perhaps the real experimental station.
Anyway, so this boat has appeared off shore at the survivors' beach and Jack, Sawyer and Sayid immediately swim for it only to find an inebriated Desmond aboard. He had traveled due west at nine knots for 2.5 weeks only to return to the island, much to his dismay.
Sayid sees the boat — the Elizabeth (after Libby) from Newport Beach, Calif. — as the advantage they need to surprise The Others (or hostiles as Dez calls them). He clues Jack in on the plan. Suspicious of Michael, Jack gives him an unloaded gun as the rescue mission to save Walt commences. Meanwhile, Jin and Sun set sail with Sayid on Desmond's boat hoping to out-flank The Others. En route, the trio sails past a giant four-legged left foot statue.
The group Michael is leading, meanwhile, is being followed by some of The Others. Sawyer shoots one of them when they are spotted and then confronts Michael, who confesses everything about his captivity and The Others' demand that he free Ben Linus and bring them Kate, Hurley, Sawyer and Jack. Hurley wants to turn back, but Jack convinces the group to push on and reveals Sayid's plot to take The Others by surprise.
Away from the island in flashbacks, we see Desmond being released from a military prison. A lance corporal in the Scottish Army, he was jailed and dishonorably discharged. Keys, a gold-plated pocket watch, a copy of "Our Mutual Friend" (the last thing he will read before dying) and a photo of him with Penny Widmore are returned before he exits the prison and meets Charles Widmore, Penny's father. He had intercepted all of Desmond's letters to his daughter, making Penny think he'd forsaken her. Charles also tries to bribe Dez to never see Penny again, an offer he refuses.
Instead, Desmond decides to train for Widmore's race around the world. Trouble is that he needs $42,000 to buy a boat for the race. But Libby offers him a boat to use during chance meeting at a Los Angeles coffee shop. The boat belonged to her dead husband, David. As he training, and right before Dez's first encounter with Jack at the stadium, Penny approaches Dez, who says he must enter this race around the world to get his honor back.
The boat, of course, encounters rough seas and Dez is knocked unconscious and runs aground on the island. Men in yellow suits drag him to the Swan, where he meets Inman, the Army officer who trained Sayid during Desert Storm and later joined the DHARMA Initiative. He had been partnered with Radzinsky, who made the edits to the orientation film, before Radzinsky shot himself.
At the hatch, Locke wants Mr. Eko to let the time run out without entering the code. He even tries to destroy the computer only to have Eko knock him around. Charlie finds Locke sobbing the jungle after the incident, but Locke isn't done scheming. He enlists Desmond's help to halt the button-pushing. Together, they lock out Eko from the computer room. Frantic, Eko tries to find a way back in, because he is convinced everyone will die if the button isn't pushed.
QUOTABLE
"We are stuck in a bloody snow globe. There is no outside world. There is no escape." — Desmond during his drunken ramblings after somehow ending up back on the island
"Smells like carrots?" — the answer to the query first posed by Inman and later by Desmond, "What did one snowman say to the other?"
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