Picking up right were they left off in the last episode, we get a series of flashbacks regarding Daniel, Miles, Charlotte and Frank, the crew sent in to "rescue" the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815. But it's not till the end where it really kicks up a notch when we find out they are really there for Ben instead. But why? Good stuff.

This one was actually kind of a meh episode. The Flashfoward scenes detail Kate's trial for the crimes she commited prior to the plane crash. And the scenes on the Island were only slightly better with the meeting between Miles and Ben. It's only at the very end of the episode that they hit us with a whooper of a cliffhanger: Kate's "son" is Aaron. The same Aaron who is the child of Claire. WTF!

More back-story involving Juliet, Goodwin and a very jealous Ben. Nothing really happens other than Locke frees Ben to roam around without handcuffs because he showed him a videotape of a very bad man by the name of Charles Widmore. Other than that, not much else went down. Kind of a 'ket-down' episode after the Epic Constant episode just before this one.

If you want to watch a Lost episode that is 100% captivating, this is the one. Sure, it will help if you have seen all the episodes of the series leading up to this one to get the full effect. This episode delievers big time as the bulk of the episode is all flashback as we follow "Kevin Johnson", or more precisely, Michael. We see the missing time that fans of the show were curious to know about once he and Walt were sent home from the Island after being released by Ben. We learn that Walt has disowned Mciahael after his father told him about killing Ana Lucia and Libby. We see that no matter how hard he tries, Michael can't kill himself because the Island won't let him. We see that 'Nice Guy' Tom as well as Ben have been tracking his whereabouts. And we see how he came to be on the Boat that Sayid and Desmond are currently on and what his purpose is. Very good.

As good as that was, the cliffhanger was even better. An unknown assassin shoots and kills Karl and Danielle. Wow. We end on Alex who is surrendering to an unknown assailant. But who is it? Stay tuned.............

Always cool to see Libby.

The Flashforward tracks Jack and Kate living together and their engagement. Back on the Island, we see when Kate realizes that Jack is in love with her, all while dealing with the fact that he has to have emergency surgery for appendicitis. The ending was another one of those crazy wtf endings with Claire disappearing into the Jungle night with Jack's father (and her's) Christian Sheppard. Back in the Flashfoward there is another cliffhanger in Kate doing something for Sawyer, but she won't tell Jack (or the TV viewing audience) exactly what it was. Great episode.

All season long you knew they were building up to something epic with the Season Finale. But even I wasn't prepared for what came of it the first time it aired. Even now, it's beyond epic that leaves you with one hell of a cliffhanger. I think it still delivers for me on a lot of different levels. I love that they open it with the six of them getting rescue, which immediately starts my mind spinning: Why only 6? Where is everyone else? Both parts are like onions slowly being peeled away and by the end you come to see how it was just the 6 and where everyone else is. But that isn't the kicker. It's what comes next that leaves you with a hell of a cliffhanger for the next season. At the start of Season 4, we are asking ourselves "who is in the coffin?" Well, that answer comes at the very end when it's revealed that it's John Locke.

So, what else went down in this 3 parter? Well, Jack learns that Claire is his half-sister, Michael and Jin die when the boat blows up, Walt returns,Sawyer throws himself out of the helicopter to save the others, Desmond and Penny are reunited as are Sayid and Nadia and Ben literally makes the Island disappear. Yup, that's what you call packing in a lot of stuff for a Season Finale.