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At sea: Sayid steers the launch from the freighter to the Losties'
beach and tells them that Desmond is safe, but they need to get off the Island and to the freighter before Keamy catches up with them. Meanwhile, Desmond finds out that the freighter is packed with explosives, and they dare not move it. Surprise!

And yet more surprises: Upon arriving in the first boatload of Losties (Daniel is steering the rescue launch to and from the Island), Jin and Sun are stunned to discover that Michael's aboard the freighter. His account of how he and Walt made it back to civilization sounds way too simplistic, and rather unlikely to be completely true.

In the jungle: Accompanied by Locke and Hugo, Ben uses a mirror to signal up a ridge to someone (probably Richard). Upon reaching their destination, Ben realizes that Keamy and his band of merry mercenaries have beaten him to the Orchid Station, so his strategy is to walk out with his hands up, identify himself, and surrender.

This diversion allows Locke to sneak past the baddies and into the hidden underground level of the Orchid. There Locke will find whatever it is they need to move the Island, which Ben says is a dangerous and unpredictable strategy, one to be used only as a measure of last resort.

Keamy isn't allowed to shoot Ben, so he beats him up instead. (This is approximately the 18th time Ben has gotten beaten up by somebody since Season 2, but somehow we never tire of it.)

Jack and Kate set out from the beach to find the helicopter. Ignoring Juliet's warnings, Jack overexerts himself, and his appendectomy stitches are oozing blood. They happen to meet Miles and Sawyer with Baby Aaron; Sawyer tells them that Claire has mysteriously disappeared.

Jack leaves Kate holding the bag -- er, the baby -- and heads off again. Sawyer says Jack is not allowed to die alone, so he accompanies him to find the helicopter. Miles and Kate return to the beach, where she gives Aaron into Sun's care after Sayid arrives. Later, Sun and Jin take the baby along on the first launch to the freighter.

When Jack and Sawyer spot the helicopter and its pilot in a clearing, Frank tells them that Keamy's mercenaries are off to find and capture Ben for Charles Widmore. Sawyer realizes that because Hugo is with Ben, he's likely to become collateral damage.

Meanwhile, Kate and Sayid, who are tracking Jack and Sawyer, get captured by the ageless Richard Alpert and a pack of armed Others, who take their guns and herd them off -- perhaps to their refuge, the Temple?

In flash-forwards to the post-Island future: The Oceanic Six walk off a Coast Guard cargo plane in Hawaii, where Jack, Sun and Hugo are greeted by their families. Even Sayid returns to civilization to discover that his long-lost love, Nadia, is there waiting for him. Only Kate, clinging to Baby Aaron, is met by nobody at all.

At the requisite press conference, the O6 tell their agreed-upon lies. Jack says they crashed in the water and floated ashore a day later. Sun says that Jin never made it off the plane. Sayid says there were "absolutely not" any other survivors of Oceanic 815. Kate says that Baby Aaron is her own child (and claims that he is only five weeks old! Kid would have to been born weighing 12 pounds!).

A few months later in Korea, a very pregnant FutureSun uses her considerable share of the Oceanic settlement to buy a controlling share of the company out from under her daddy -- to Mr. Paik's very great and possibly dangerous displeasure. Sun is looking to punish Daddy for his manipulative hatred that resulted in Jin's alleged death. We're thinking Daddy is not above taking far more punitive measures against his daughter if she messes with his business, as she intends to do post-delivery.

In L.A., FutureHugo doesn't want any of his cursed lottery fortune back from his parents, so he's driving an ancient, mud-brown Pinto. He is given a surprise birthday party (with, of course, a tropical-island theme!) at the parental mansion, which all the O6 attend. But he freaks out to find that The Numbers are still haunting him -- turning up on the odometer of the vintage restored Camaro that his dad gave him as a birthday gift -- and he runs from the mansion and down the street.

Months later, after Christian's memorial service in L.A., an Australian woman named Carole Littleton introduces herself. She tells FutureJack that her daughter Claire, who was (supposedly) lost on Oceanic 815, was Christian's daughter and thus Jack's half-sister. Meaning that, as we suspected, FutureJack indeed knows Baby Aaron is his nephew. But Carole thinks Jack and Claire were merely fellow Oceanic 815 passengers who never got to meet. And when she sees Kate with Aaron, she admires the baby without realizing he is her grandson.

There's much more promised for the last installment of Season 4 -- but you'll have to wait two weeks to see it. Tune in on May 29th at 8 p.m. for the season's final two hours of Lost.