Lost Spoilers - Part 2 - Season 4, Episodes 13 and 14

This is the second part of the Lost Spoilers blog for the finale of the Lost Season 4 finale - episodes 13 and 14. The first part of the Lost spoilers for the season 4 finale are at this link: Lost Season 4 finale. A lot more Lost spoilers sneak peak videos have been leaking out, so this is Part II of the finale of the finale Lost spoilers blog. One Lost Season 5 spoiler is that a theme will be getting back to the island. Jack wants to get back, and so do the some of the freighter people.

First up is Locke and Jack outside the Orchid station greenhouse. The Locke-Jack spoilers are that Locke now is prophetic, predicting Jack will never find inner peace unless Jack stays on the island:



In the second of the Lost videos peaks, Kate falls into a trap of the freighter people commandos, or does she really? Of course not, she now is allied with the others who drop from trees in their own ambush and the battle of the helicopter is on.



The third of the videos has Michael, Desmond, Jin Lost spoilers - Michael has a plan to de-activate the freighter bomb:



Next up are the Oceanic 6 helicopter spoilers all are aboard the helicopter, and the fuel is leaking, but no freighter in sight. This is because the freighter has moved, so the choice is go back to the island or possibly ditch at sea:




Ben and Locke go into the underground Dharma station and Ben condecendingly runs another Dharma video for Locke, while Ben takes care of business:






More to come, check back soon...

Lost Spoilers: Season 4, Episodes 13 and 14

This is the Lost Spoilers blog for Parts 2 and 3 of the Season 4 finale of Lost on ABC TV, called There's No Place Like Home. Also some Lost clues too. First the Lost schedule not so spoilers - The Season 4 finale sets up Season 5 of Lost, with a three-hour airing, called episodes 12, 13 and 14. Part 1 was in episode 12, which ABC broadcast already. It will be re-broadcast before the final 2 hours. Look in the earlier articles here for Lost videos and discussion of Part 1.

Time to Make a Move

The big Lost spoilers for the finale of the finale is that we find out who is in the coffin. You remember, Lost Season 3 wrapped up with the mystery of who was in the coffin. Was it (a) Ben? (b) Michael? (c) Someone else? Lost Season 4 never answered that question. But have no fear it gets answered, finally, and the answer is ... (c) Someone else ... maybe ;). The rumors and spoilers have been flying, and we have been debating whether to do a reveal on this one, since TPTB want it a secret for a few more days. But then again they are the ones who leaked it out. Hmmm marketing types, always hyping. Lips are sealed. Let me know on the Lost Exposed Lost Forum what you think.

Now for the Season 4 finale Lost spoilers: This episode wraps up a lot of the mysteries of Season 4, and also sets up some new ones, as usual, for the future. The Ben Lost spoilers are that we find out what happens to Ben in the hands of Keamy. He escapes with the aid of the other others. We find out what happens to Michael. Kaboom. And there are some Jin Lost spoilers, also kaboom, but still there is hope.

Some of the Locke finale Lost Spoilers are Lost Season 5 spoilers too: The question of what happened to Locke in the end gets opened up wide. Locke goes into the Orchid station once Keamy is distracted with his capture of Ben, and he follows the steps to make the island move with help.

As usual some Lost spoilers videos are circulating for Parts 2 and 3 of the season 4 finale. Here is one video promo showing some clips from the episode:



More soon...

(Photo from TVSquad / ABC)

Lost Spoilers: Season 4, Episode 12 - Finale Part II

This is Part II of the Lost spoilers for the season 4 finale of Lost TV on ABC. The first part of the Season 4 finale spoilers can be found below or by clicking on this link: Season 4 Finale Spoilers A lot more Lost Spoilers videos and sneak peaks have been leaking out all over the Internet - enough to warrant a second blog article.

First up is a compilation of pictures put out ABC and then compiled into a slideshow - showing the Oceanic 6 news conference:



Lost spoilers video 4: The beach Losties use the helicopter dropped walkie talkie to eavesdrop on the freighter commandos. They are going to the Orchid Station, just like team Ben-Locke-Hurley. Whoever takes the Orchid can move the island and win the battle.



Lost spoilers video 5 for the finale: Sayid head home in the freighter launch. He arrives on the beach and announces he has to the capacity to take back six people. Hmmm the number 6 where did we hear that before? Right ... the Oceanic 6 survivors The Lost spoilers are that only one trip is possible.



Lost spoilers video 6: Team Locke-Ben-Hurley hike through the Oahu jungle to the Orchid Station in a rendezvous with destiny, named Keamy and team Widmore.



Update:

Another Lost spoilers sneak peak video: The Oceanic six are flying back to civilization – in particular a military facility outside of Honolulu. An Oceanic Air representative is briefing the six – asking whether they want to attend a press conference. Jack agrees, and once she leaves, they confirm they will stick with the story.

Lost Spoilers: Season 4, Episode 12 - There's No Place Like Home

This is the Lost Spoilers blog for Part I of the season finale of Lost Season 4 - episode 12 - There's No Place Like Home. This post is continued with more videos and pictures here: Lost Spoilers Finale 2. The first Lost Spoilers clue for the season finale is in the title - There's No Place Like Home. What does that sound like?

Comments and Discusion Here

Welcome Home Oceanic Style

There's No Place Like Home
Judy Garland as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz (1939)
Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, of course - closing her eyes, clicking her heels, and saying, there's no place like home, and poof, the dream is over and she is safe and sound at home, out of mythical Oz. Escaped from Ben and the evil Others and the evil freighter people ...


Badder Than Ben
Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz (1939)
What does that have to do with Lost? The big Lost spoilers for the season finale is we find out how the Oceanic Six lost survivors make it off the island. Their bad dream is over - or is it just beginning? The flash forwards show life post-island is pretty scary for the six. Naturally, the Oceanic Airlines spin doctors cannot pass up the opportunity to put on a coming out news conference, with the Oceanic logo emblazoned on the wall behind the Oceanic 6 survivors. Hurley's parents appear, as does Mr. Paik, Sun's father - also of Paik Heavy Industries.

The final episode of Lost for Season 4 is actually three separate episodes - one hour broadcast first, then the last two hours broadcast two weeks later.

As usual ABC has leaked out some Lost spoilers videos. The first of the Lost videos has a confrontation in the jungle. Sawyer with baby Aaron gets cornered by gun-toting Jack and Kate – the happy island couple, plus Miles the Lost ghost whisperer. Uh or is it Sawyer and Kate the happy island couple? Kate asks the logical Lost Spoilers blog question – Hey dude, “Where’s Claire”. The answer, well she’s sort of dead but not quite. She disappeared at night, of course to go to the Lost cabin to hang with Locke and Jacob. Then the most critical Sawyer-Jack confrontation of Lost Season 4 ensues. Sawyer reveals that the Keamy – Widmore commandos really do want to kill everyone like Locke predicted. Jack, true to character, comes up with a plan doomed to failure and wants to go off into the jungle and track them down, outgunned with his light weaponry. Sawyer, thinks it’s a bad plan.




And, a second Lost Spoilers sneak peak video:



A third of the Lost videos:





Comments on this Post at the Lost Forum at Lost Exposed.

Lost Spoilers: Something Nice Back Home

This is the Lost Spoilers blog for "Something Nice Back Home" - Lost season 4, episode 9. Season 4 is heating up with a rousing action-packed return with The Shape of Things to Come - episode 8. The ep. 9 Lost Spoilers include Jack's appendicitis attack and the freighter people continue on the attack, not as harmed by the smoke monster as might be assumed. But, nothing is as it seems when time and space become unhinged anyway.

Some Lost spoilers sneak peak videos are circulating on YouTube and here they are:

Lost spoilers Something Back Home sneak peak video 1:



And, the second Lost spoilers video for episode 9:

Lost Spoilers - The Shape of Things to Come

This is the Lost Spoilers blog for the next episode of Lost on ABC - Lost Season 4, episode 9. The big Lost spoilers for the episode is to change your calendar, as ABC has moved Lost to 10:00 p.m. (Eastern), 9:00 p.m. (Central) starting on Thursday, April 24. Episode 9 of Season 4 starts a 5 episode compressed mini season - compressing the remaining 8 episodes into 5 due to the Hollywood strike. But the not-so- Lost Spoilers are that this means the final 5 will move FAST.

A Lost spoilers rumor is that indeed we find the Lostaways rescue or a portion of it in Season 4, but it is not the freighter people who are the rescuers. We'll see.

Here is a Lost spoilers preview from ABC. An ominous tone is set with with Hurley saying "We're all gonna die" and creepy Ben saying, "Welcome to the war".



Here is the usual ABC Lost Spoilers leak for the episode, and as usual this may contain misdirection in addition to spoilers hints:

LOCKE’S CAMP COMES UNDER ATTACK, AND JACK ATTEMPTS TO IDENTIFY A BODY THAT WASHES ASHORE, ON ABC’S “LOST”

Who could that be? Think undersea explosion or dead freighter food.

“Lost” Moves to its New 10:00 p.m., ET Time-slot, Thursday, April 24

A lot more people time-shifting with tape, TIVO and ABC.com streaming.

“The Shape of Things to Come” –

Title Lost Spoilers not.

Locke's camp comes under attack, and Jack tries to discover the identity of a body that has washed ashore, on “Lost,” THURSDAY, APRIL 24 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

Is it the Others or the freighter people?

“Lost” stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond, Emilie de Ravin as Claire, Michael Emerson as Ben, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet, Terry O’Quinn as Locke and Harold Perrineau as Michael.

Michael is still alive.

The Other Woman Lost Spoilers

Next up is The Other Woman, and these are the Lost Spoilers for Season 4, Episode 6 of Lost. Readers of this Lost Spoilers blog knew that Desmond's time travel abilities would be central to The Constant, and for 4x6 it is the other other woman, and Ben starts a comeback. Another name might be, who is Juliet's long-lost "friend", the other woman?

There are two Lost videos spoilers of the US and Canadian previews. Both show that the freigher people are ready to input the numbers in the hatch, or something anyway to stop the containment breach ... or evacuate all non-essential personnel.

From CTV:



And just about the same thing from ABC:





Check for the spoilers updates for this episode at my old blog LeX Blog at Lost Spoilers. The two leaked Lost videos spoilers sneak peaks are linked there. In one, we see the other woman, and in the other, Kate has a violent encounter with the freighter people.

Lost Spoilers - The Constant - Season 4, Episode 5

This is the Lost Spoilers Blog for The Constant, 4x5 – Lost season 4 episode 5. Coming off an action-lite episode in Eggtown, the Lost spoilers theme for The Constant is that action is back. Sayid the Iraqi commando and Desmond the future glimpser are front and center as we find out what happened in the helicopter.Updated 2/27The preview video provides glimpses of the helicopter action, where Sayid does not understand why the freighter pilot is heading straight into a thunderhead cloud, the most turbulent type. The not-so-spoiler is he Faraday the physics guy told him to keep heading in the predetermined direction to escape the island.



One Lost spoilers sneak peak video from ABC provides heavy duty spoilers, or at least, fleshes out something we already know. We know there is a time difference between off-island and on-island. Faraday had timed it with the missile in the Economist. Now, Jack and Juliet are getting worried, after all, Sayid and Desmond are lost on Lost in the lost helicopter. So finally the Faraday spoilers are that the perception of time on-island is very different from that off island - 2 days gone on island may not be much time at all. But if you go off course, there will be some creepy side effects:



Another of the Lost videos spoilers sneak peaks focuses on Desmond, timeframe unknown, pulled up on to the freighter, and locked in a room with ... who is that? missing Minkowski:



A last Lost spoilers sneak video has surfaced. This one showing the helicopter with Desmond and Sayid landing on a boat, maybe THE freighter. Desmond has amnesia and says he does not know Sayid. The Lost spoilers are that Desmond is tripping around timelines. One of the suspicious characters on the boat takes Desmond below deck for a check up with the ships doctor:



The official ABC Lost spoilers press release is typically light on details and maybe heavy on mis-direction:

DESMOND EXPERIENCES SOME STRANGE SIDE EFFECTS ON THE WAY TO THE FREIGHTER, ON ABC'S "LOST"

He sees dead people … himself?

"The Constant" - Sayid and Desmond hit a bit of turbulence on the way to the freighter, which causes Desmond to experience some unexpected side effects, on "Lost"

Sayid with gun in a very small place.

"The Constant" was written by Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof and directed by Jack Bender.

Yeah, the creators are back.

Lost Spoilers - Eggtown - Season 4, Episode 4

The upcoming episode of Lost is entitled, Eggtown, and this is the Lost Spoilers Blog for the episode, which is 4x4, Season 4, Episode 4 of Lost on ABC. Season 4 is the action and suspense season of Lost, and Eggtown continues that theme. The key Lost Spoilers for this episode is that Eggtown brings back Lost romance, as Kate once again leaves doc Jack behind and falls into the arms of Sawyer.

Update: A couple other Lost Spoilers videos for this episode are floating around and I posted the links over at my old Lost Spoilers Blog at Lostexposed.com.

Thirsty
[ABC Promo Photo]
The CTV trailer video for this episode concludes on romance:



Another trailer video leaves nothing to the imagination:



A couple of extended Lost Spoilers sneak peak videos also are floating around. In the first video one, frustrated Locke plays jailer to Ben's prisoner, bringing some creepy reading material, and the not so Lost spoilers is the meal aptly has eggs:

Another sneak peak Lost spoilers video is has Hurley, and again someone is reading, this time Sawyer. Kate drops by to chez Sawyer for a sip of Dharma wine in a box and a little Lost romance.

The Economist Lost Spoilers - Season 4, Episode 3

This is the Lost Spoilers blog for Lost Season 4, Episode 3. The title? The Economist - Locke's freighter person hostage becomes the object of Team Jack-Kate's attention.

* Updated *

The Lost spoilers trailer for the episode has Sayid the Iraqi commando speculating that a "war" is coming. Also promised is revelation of the fourth of the "Oceanic Six" - the six Lostaways who made it back to civilization alive. Here is the Lost video:



Here is another Lost Spoilers video preview, this one from the Canadian broadcast on CTV. It has some different views of Team Kate-Sayid’s commando raid, and it looks like the Others’ cult village:

As usual ABC has done a Lost spoilers press release for the episode. As a prelude to the "war" it's big spoilers are that Sayid and Kate of Team Jack try to negotiate a peace treaty with Team Locke - for the release of his freighter hostage":

SAYID AND KATE GO IN SEARCH OF LOCKE TO NEGOTIATE A PEACEFUL DEAL WHEN THEY DISCOVER THAT HIS HOSTAGE MAY BE THE KEY TO GETTING OFF THE ISLAND, ON ABC'S "LOST"

The peace negotiations fail, of course.

"The Economist" - Locke's hostage may be the key to getting off the island, so Sayid and Kate go in search of their fellow castaway in an attempt to negotiate a peaceful deal, on "Lost,"

Kate, Sayid and Locke ... Team cumbaya ... not.

"Lost" stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, [Long List deleted] and Harold Perrineau as Michael.

ABC keeps listing occasional guest and fan favorite Harold Perrineau as one of the "stars" of Lost. This is either Lost spoilers misdirection, or actually an inside joke, or hmmmmm.

Sawyer Nickname Generator

This is a Lost Spoilers blog, but no spoilers in this post.... Have you ever wondered what Sawyer would call you if you were his friend, or were stranded on a secluded beach with him, like Kate? Now we all can find out, with the Sawyer Nickname Generator from our buddies at ABC TV.

You are asked a few questions, and then you get a nickname. Nothing scientific or spoiler - y there, and for similar answers you can get a range of nicks from Hawking to stretch. Sawyer's Nickname Generator at ABC.com.

Lost Spoilers - Season 4, Episode 2

This is the Lost Spoilers blog for the second episode of the return of Lost – Lost’s season 4, episode 2. The title is “Confirmed Dead” for this episode. Episode 1 was full of action and suspense, with the Oceanic 6 survivors being introduced. For the Lost spoilers, with ep. 2, the freighter people and the differing reactions of team Locke-Sawyer-Hurley and team Jack-Kate to their respective freighter handler are explored further.

In the first Lost spoilers clip from ABC, Locke interrogates a freighter woman who parachutes in, and visa versa. Ben meanwhile eyes the gun, planning his ultimate escape. Here is Presumed Dead sneak peak 1.


The second Lost spoilers clip, or sneak peak focuses on team Jack-Kate. Jack is interrogating his freighter person, why a gun? Why a gas mask? What’s the primary mission?


If you missed the Oceanic Air commercial about a half hour after Lost, here it is. It is hyping a new official web site FlyOceanicAir.com and also a golden pass for flying anywhere on Lost’s Oceanic Airlines. The Lost spoilers involved are if you go to the website you find a video detailing the crash of the fateful Oceanic Flight 815 from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, and directing over to Find815.com another official Lost show website:

Lost Spoilers: Lost Season 4, Episode 1 Spoilers

This is the return of the Lost Spoilers blog for Lost Season 4, back on ABC Thursdays.

The big Lost Spoilers for Season 4 is that the ratings will go up this season. Ok, that's Contender's Lost Spoilers blog speculation really. But with ABC moving Lost an hour earlier, there is a larger viewer pool available. Also, with the Hollywood writers strike, there really is not much scripted drama competition. This all equals Lost ratings.

They're Back and on the run ...Lost Season 4 promotion
As Lost Season 4 is about to begin, the real big Lost Spoilers courtesy of ABC and the Hollywood writers strike is there is a pretty good chance that Season 4 will be a strike-shortened season. Eight-nine Lost Season 4 episodes are in the can as they say in Hollywood. In other words, the Lost spoilers are that after something like eight or nine or ten Lost episodes on ABC, expect the season to come to a close, without a lot of the threads resolved. The strike may come to an end, enabling further production of the full 16 episode run originally planned for Lost season 4, and that would be a major coup.

I posted a lot more Lost spoilers over at Lostexposed.com at my old Lost Spoilers Blog over there.

On a non-Lost-spoilers topic, I also have been thinking about the debate over whether everyone really is dead or in Lost purgatory. I posted that at the Lost Debate.

Lost Spoilers: Season 4

This is a Lost Spoilers blog update for Lost Season 4 on ABC TV. The loooooooooooong Lost hiatus is midway through at this time with Lost Season 4 to start in Winter 2008. Lots of location shooting is going on in Hawaii. One definite Season 4 Lost spoiler is that Sawyer and Kate ... oh, and Jack too, keep the romantic tension, but that's just a Lost Season 4 guess, but as much as guaranteed, lol.

As readers of this Lost Spoilers blog have known for a long time(or more correctly the predecessor Lost clues and Lost spoilers blogs at LostExposed.com), or at least suspected, Oceanic flight 815 was shot down by the smoke monster. There was some interesting Lost spoilers tribute coming in from Chuck on NBC TV this week. In a bid to attract Lost viewers, Chuck let on that "Oceanic flight 815 was shot down" - as he download CIA secrets. That's not really confirmation that 815 really went down that way, since Chuck is on a rival network and he cannot possibly have inside information. However it does show that Chuck reads this blog ;)

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Some More Finale Lost Spoilers

With the Lost Schedule for season 3 winding down to the Season finale a day from now, we've decided to post a few more of the Lost Spoilers or foilers ;) floating around for this episode, which is Season 3, Ep. 23 and Ep. 22 of Lost on ABC.

Here is the sharp new new UK Lost spoilers preview from SkyTV:



Remember the season finale gives tribute to Alice In Wonderland as the title suggests, going "Through the Looking Glass". Understanding what that means - as discussed in one of our earlier season finale spoilers posts - will be a key to understanding and really appreciating the impact of this clever season finale from the Lost creators. While you watch the season finale, remember that and enjoy.

For those rooting for a Sawyer-Kate relationship with a cozy house behind a white picket fence, you were destined to be disappointed. Despite disbelief, this really is not new news, as we reported it last February in the Lost Clues for Episode 9 and in January in one of the Hiatus Lost Spoilers articles. In the season finale the Lost spoilers are that Kate winds up in the same place as Jack in the end, sort of. Where? We'll definitely see that by the end of the episode, and it will give a lot of fodder for discussion later of this Jack-centric episode.

Sawyer is in a dark, but decisive space in the season 3 finale, and is not too friendly, to Mr. Friendly. And, remember, Ben aka Fake Henry Gale does lie.

A final finale Lost spoilers clip has been released. This is the scene where Sawyer decides to go back to try to assist and rescue some of the captured beach Lostaways:


Provided by DoctorArzt



Time to watch, have fun, record, enjoy ...

Lost Spoilers: Season 1 Finale - Through The Looking Glass

This is the Lost Spoilers blog on the Lost Season 3 finale, entitled, "Through The Looking Glass" - season 3, episodes 22 and 23 of Lost on ABC TV. Well, that's mostly true. In honor of the Lost schedule making the season finale a double episode, we'll have a double Lost Spoilers blog for this episode. So, this is part 1 ...

There are a lot of rumours, foilers and theories floating around about this episode, creating the big buzz buzz buzz Lost does this time of year. So, we could say the marketing gurus atop the ABC TV tower are doing their job admirably ...

One thing we can say for sure, the longing glance Kate gives Jack in the ABC Lost spoilers sneak peak at the season finale of Lost really means something, and so does Jack's "I love you" in the preview.

In the sneak peak, the losties are getting ready for the battle of Lost island with the evil Others. Sayid and Jack go man to man with a hearty handshake, rousing music in the background, as Jack leads the masses of survivors up the beach to the radio tower. Sayid is ready to sacrifice his life shooting out the dynamite to secure a rescue:



The Canadian Lost spoilers preview from CTV shows that something went wrong with the plan. Although the Others cult commandos ran into the trap, and it worked at least partially, Rose exclaims there were supposed to be three explosions. Yet in reality there were just two.



In one of the USA Lost spoilers previews, we saw Sayid a prisoner of the Others. Ben though is apologetic, as if he needs for the first time to explain his evil actions, saying everything he did was "for the island". The Lost spoilers are that Locke and the Others are opposing Ben's hypnotic power over the Others cult and his lame excuse was not working. The Others will be surprised to learn that the Looking Glass Dharma station actually is a jamming facility that Ben had used all along to block communications with the outside world. Subverting rescue not only of the Losties, but also subverting the mobility and freedom of the Others as well. This will be a scene setter for season 3.



As discussed in the Lost Spoilers clues blog for "Greatest Hits", Charlie is captured ... and does not make it home. R.I.P. Naomi and Patchy have confrontations and do not make it off the island either.



More on the way, check back soon ...

Lost Spoilers and Clues: Season 3, Episode 21 - Charlies Greatest Hits and Season Finale spoilers

The Lost schedule is winding up to the grand finale of Lost Season 3, on ABC TV. This is the Lost Spoilers clues blog for the "Greatest Hits" episode. Greatest Hits set the stage for the season finale, entitled "Through the Looking Glass". Here are some of the main points of the Greatest Hits episode and some spoilers for the season finale next week.

Already we posted a lot of Lost spoilers for Through the Looking Glass, a two hour episode (Season 3, episodes 22 and 23)... and come back later this week for a lot more.

It was fun, Charlie
As readers of this blog knew from the earlier article, Charlie does not die, but Desmond does not lie. How do you reconcile those two contradictory statements. After all, Greatest Hits opens with Desmond predicting that Charlie must die. Yet, he doesn't. When he gets down to the Looking Glass Hatch, it was not flooded as expected. Instead it definitely was habitable, and fully inhabited at that ... by hostile Others with guns. The episode ends with that stunning revelation. So does that mean that Charlie lives, and Desmond lies? No.

Greatest Hits was a fitting tribute to Charlie and what he contributed to the development of the Lost mythology. Five of the greatest moments of Charlie's life in the Charlie flashback - his greatest hits. But Charlie's contract has not been renewed. Greatest Hits was but a stage setter for the Lost season finale in Through the Looking Glass. The Lost spoilers are that Charlie does not make it to the end. Sorry Charlie.

Captain Jack has another of his unrealistic plans. He trusts Juliet completely and persuades the other Losties to follow along. Sayid also has developed a rescue plan. So the two plans are set in motion, Sayid's over Jack's initial opposition. Jack devises the battle plan, with the stunning reappearance of Bernard and Rose, who have been lost in Lost season 3. As we saw coming attractions, Jack's plan does not work as he expected. A lot of Losties are captured. But does Ben really have the unqualified support of his Others cult? No.

It turns out Jack already had brought in Danielle Rousseau for backup, and she has been retrieving dynamite from the wreck of the Black Rock. That is the same place Locke held Sawyer and his still-alive father in "The Brig", season 3, episode 19. Remember the surreal scene when Rousseau walked in on Locke, said Hi, and then turned around and walked out with a box of dynamite? She was bringing it for the ambush plotted by Jack. Unfortunately, Jack did not help her carry the dynamite, and when Karl comes to warn that the attack is a day earlier than Juliet believed, Jack's plan is in tatters. No way to detonate the dynamite, except by using sharpshooters.

Hi, just here for a box of dynamite.
They plant the explosives in three tents marked as containing women to be kidnapped by Ben and his not-so-merry band of Others marauders. A lot of Others will be lost, even though not all explode. The battle is on.

As for Sayid's plan, the key is to get the radio brought by Naomi the parachutist working. However, Ben is jamming transmissions via the Looking Glass Dharma station underwater. Desmond and Sayid know how to find it - using the beached cable. Finally we learn its significance. Charlie and Desmond head out to disable the interference. Of course that is when Charlie is surprised to find both air and hostile others. He leaves his legacy in Desmond's pocket.

Here is the short ABC TV trailer for the season finale. Not much in the way of spoilers in it, except to confirm the scene is set for the battle of Lost island between the Others and the Jack-led beach Lostaways: