The drama of Michael's double-cross plot to save Walt and Jack's double-cross plot of Michael with Sayid plays out as does the drama in the hatch, where Desmond and Locke have taken control and are determined not to press the button. Mr. Eko, of course, is trying to prevent what he believes will be certain devastation.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Eko has retrieved the remaining dynamite from the Black Rock in an effort to blast his way into the hatch's computer room. Desmond is confident it won't work, but doesn't explain why. When Eko detonates the explosive, he succeeds only in injuring himself and nearly killing Charlie.
Desmond's backstory on the island is revealed through flashbacks. Radzinsky and Inman created the black-light map Locke sees on the blast door when his leg gets pinned and Ben Linus saves him. When Radzinsky killed himself with a shotgun, leaving a stain on hatch's ceiling, Inman, who left the Army because men followed his orders, buried him (in 108 minutes) and manned the Swan alone. That is, until Desmond arrived.
Inman refused to let Dez leave the hatch, even though he ventured out every day in the yellow bio-hazard suit. In a drunken fit later, Desmond finds a drunken Inman underneath the hatch computer room but unable to turn the fail-safe key. He does, however, explain that the code releases a discharge from the geologically unique pocket of magnetism before it builds up, which is how the Swan's keepers are saving the world.
Of course, when Desmond spots a rip in Inman's bio-hazard suit, he follows him into the jungle, assuming the quarantine is just a lie. He follows Inman to a lagoon, where he finds his boat almost fixed up and seaworthy again. Inman was planning to leave the island and is killed by Dez in the argument and altercation that ensues when he cracks his head on a rock.
Unable to get back to the hatch before the alarm sounds, the discharge triggers a system failure on Sept. 22, 2004, at 4:16 p.m. Desmond was able to get the code entered and halt complete catastrophe, but he thinks the rumble created might have downed Oceanic 815. Dez suddenly wants to enter the code, but Locke smashes the computer's monitor. Desmond, who had sat down to read Our Mutual Friend (then presumably kill himself) only to find a letter Penny wrote him before he went to jail. She assumed he'd read the book in jail and find the letter, but instead found it the night he was prepared to kill himself. It also happened to be the same night he heard Locke banging on the hatch after Boone's death.
Desmond returns to grab the book, which now contains the fail-safe key. Upon using the key, which is a last-ditch safety valve, everyone experiences an intense bright flash, the hatch door lands on the beach and Desmond has disappeared. The disturbance was picked up aboard a Russian freighter, which then called Penny to say the island had been found.
Across the island, Sayid finds The Others' village and discovers that it's a sham. It's also abandoned and the hatch door Michael saw being guarded by men with guns hides only a solid-rock wall. Michael, as it turns out, wasn't leading Kate, Sawyer, Jack and Hurley back there anyway. The group discovers a mountain of notebooks from The Pearl, which suggests they weren't actually wanted or needed. It is in that clearing that The Others capture the quartet Michael brought to them.
Jack, Sawyer, Kate and Hurley are taken to a dock where Ben meets them in the boat used to kidnap Walt. Ben isn't happy with the arrangement worked out by Michael and Mrs. Clue, but nonetheless allows Michael and Walt to leave on the boat. He instructs them to follow a compass bearing of 325. Michael also had asked for assurances that his friends wouldn't be harmed — to which Ben replies, "We're the good guys." Ben then releases Hurley, telling him to return to camp and tell the remaining survivors never to venture to that side of the island.
QUOTABLE
"You saved my life, brother, so I can save yours. ... Sorry for whatever happened to you that made you stop believing, but it's all real. I'll see you in another life, brother." — Desmond to Locke after the code isn't entered, the computer has been destroyed and the world is nearly destroyed
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