

However, unbeknownst to any of them, the MiB hid a bomb in Jack's backpack, which they didn't discover until they were all on board. Meanwhile, Sawyer hatched a plan to hijack Widmore's submarine to transport him and the other survivors off the island.

The plane made an emergency landing on Hydra Island, but Jack, Sayid, Kate, and Hurley were mysteriously transported back to 1977. The Six - minus Aaron, who stayed with his grandmother - boarded Ajira Airways flight 316 in October 2007, a flight chosen by Eloise Hawking and piloted by Frank Lapidus. However, bad things kept happening to the group, and Ben Linus eventually convinced Jack that they had to return to the island in order to make them stop. During their three years away from the island, they all received large cash settlements from Oceanic Airlines, and Sun gave birth to her and Jin's daughter, Ji Yeon. The Oceanic survivors came to be known in the press as "the Oceanic Six," with Kate claiming Aaron as her son. The helicopter crashed in the ocean, and the passengers were rescued by Penny's ship, the Searcher, on December 31, 2004. Michael froze the battery of the bomb long enough for Jack, Kate, Sayid, Sun, Hurley, and Aaron, along with Frank and Desmond, to escape on a helicopter. Once the Kahana arrived at the island, many survivors headed to the freighter in an attempt to escape, but Michael discovered the mercenaries had planted C-4 on the Kahana as a failsafe. Exactly 40 days later, as Desmond was preparing to give up and kill himself, he heard John Locke pounding on the hatch above. Although he managed to diffuse the energy, the electromagnetic interference caused the crash of Oceanic 815. "the hatch") and convinced him to push a button every 108 minutes to discharge the electromagnetic buildup of the island.Īfter three years of faithfully pushing the button, Desmond experienced significant doubts, which led to him accidentally killing his DHARMA companion and failing to press the button in time. He was found by a survivor of the DHARMA Purge, who took him to the Swan station (a.k.a.

On a boat that he acquired through a chance encounter with future Oceanic survivor Libby Smith, Desmond set sail in 2001, only to crash on the island. Years later, after encountering a time-shifting Daniel Faraday (who was Penny's half-brother, although neither knew it), Desmond decided to seek out Penny again, and he entered an around-the-world sailing race run by Widmore in order to prove himself worthy of her. At one point, she kidnapped Claire Littleton's baby, Aaron, thinking she could trade him to the Others in exchange for Alex, but ultimately, she returned the baby to his mother. Eventually, Rousseau would be shot and killed while attempting to save Alex from the Others. After 16 years of solitude and paranoia, her explanations were hard to follow, but they ultimately wound up helping the survivors and providing them with valuable information, although Rousseau still had her own agenda. Rousseau lived alone on the island until 2004, when she would encounter the survivors of Oceanic 815. Ben warned Rousseau that if she ever heard the "whispers" - indicating that the Others were nearby - she should run the other way. Three days later, she gave birth to her daughter, Alex, who was taken from her by Ben Linus, who was by then allied with the Others. After clashing with the Others for several years, the two groups eventually signed a truce in 1973.Īfter killing her team, Rousseau traveled to the DHARMA radio tower and recorded a distress call, which would play on a loop for the next 16 years. DHARMA conducted lots of experiments on the island, including some involving polar bears, and the group built a number of subterranean research stations all over the island, naming them Hydra, Arrow, Swan, Flame, Pearl, Orchid, Staff, Looking Glass, and Tempest. Later, in the early 1970s, the first DHARMA personnel (including a young Ben Linus and his father) arrived on the island and began constructing their facilities, hoping to harness the island's unique electromagnetic properties in order to change the factors of the Valenzetti Equation - 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42, known to the Oceanic survivors as simply "the Numbers" - which were supposedly tied into the end of humanity. In some cases, he was involved in the lives of the Oceanic survivors before they were even born. Jacob's influence went far beyond merely getting his candidates on the plane. Also around this time, Jacob began pulling the strings that would bring his specially selected candidates to the island aboard Oceanic 815 about 50 years later.
