History Recap / LostS05E16And17TheIncident

* INeedAFreakingDrink: After Locke and Ben go into the statue to meet Jacob, Richard offers Sun some water, to which she responds by asking if he has any alcohol. Richard admits he's like some too.

* CallBack: Hurley [[{{Recap/LostS03E22And23ThroughTheLookingGlass}} once again]] shows up to [[BigDamnHeroes save the day]] in a DHARMA van.

* CallBack: Several of the scenes where Jacob visits the survivors throughout their lives contain references to previous episodes.

* CallForward: Pierre's arm is crushed during the Incident, revealing why he has a prosthetic arm in the Swan orientation video in "[[{{Recap/LostS02E03Orientation}} Orientation]]".
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The season ends on a huge one, with Juliet apparently detonating the bomb, and no indication of whether or not Jack's plan to change the future worked.
* CombatPragmatist: Sawyer isn't above using a GroinAttack to regain the advantage when Jack has him on the ropes in their fight.

--->''"We travelled back thirty years in time and you people are still finding reasons to shoot at each other?"''

** He shares a taxi with Hurley after he is released from prison and convinces him to return from the Island, explaining how Hurley knew to get on [[{{Recap/LostS05E06ThreeOneSix}} Ajira Flight 316]]. He also gives him the mysterious guitar case he's been carrying around since that episode.

In 1977, Kate, Juliet and Sawyer escape from the submarine and go back to the Island to stop Jack. Sayid follows Faraday's instructions to remove the core of the bomb so that it will be small enough to carry. Richard knocks out Eloise, and tells Jack and Sayid that they are on their own from now on. Pierre tries to convince Radzinsky to stop drilling, but he stubbornly plows ahead. As Jack and Sayid bring the bomb through the Barracks, Roger spots Sayid and shoots him. They are saved by Hurley, Jin and Miles in a DHARMA van. Sawyer, Kate and Juliet find Rose and Bernard, who have built themselves a cabin and settled down with Vincent, and refuse to get involved in their conflict. Sawyer tries to convince Jack not to go through with his plan, and then beats him up when he refuses, until Juliet changes her mind and agrees to Jack's plan. The group gets into a shootout with the DHARMA workers at the Swan. Jack drops the bomb into the electromagnetic pocket, but nothing happens. The drill then hits the pocket, causing metal objects to fly around, killing Phil, crushing Pierre's arm, and dragging Juliet down into the pocket. She survives, barely, and hits the bomb with a rock. There is a flash of white light, and the black title card comes up on the white screen.

** He is present when Nadia is run over and killed by one of Widmore's assassins, as mentioned in "[[{{Recap/LostS04E09TheShapeOfThingsToCome}} The Shape of Things to Come]", and possibly saves Sayid from the same fate.

A man in white and a man in black watch the Black Rock sail towards the Island. They argue over the man in white, who is revealed to be Jacob, summoning the ship, with the Man in Black stating that all the people who come to the Island do is fight, destroy and corrupt. The Man in Black tells Jacob that he will one day "find a loophole" and kill him.

In flashbacks, Jacob visits many of the Oceanic 815 survivors at different times in their lives, and touches them. He gets Kate out of trouble for stealing a lunchbox from a store as a child, and tells her to be good. He visits Sawyer at his parents' funeral, and gives him a pen to finish his letter to Anthony Cooper. He asks Sayid for directions in Los Angeles, stopping him from crossing the road with Nadia as she is run over and killed. He comes to see Ilana in a hospital in Russia, with bandages on her face from burns. He tells her that he needs her help, and she agrees to help him. He congratulates Sun and Jin at their wedding, and although they have no idea who he is, they are impressed by his Korean. He talks to Jack at the hospital after he has an argument with his father during surgery. He shares a taxi with Hurley after he is released from prison, convinces him to return to the Island on Ajira Flight 316, and gives him a guitar case. He is present when Anthony Cooper pushes Locke out of the window, and approaches the injured Locke to apologize for what has happened to him.

In 2007, Locke leads the Others and Sun towards Jacob. He tells Ben that he wants him to kill Jacob. Ilana and her crew show the contents of the crate to Lapidus, who is shocked by what is inside. They visit the cabin, and are alarmed to notice that the ash circle around it is broken. Ilana finds a picture of the statue of Tawaret inside, and burns the cabin, saying that "someone else" has been using it. The Others reach the foot of the statue, and Richard tells Locke that Jacob lives inside it. Locke and Ben go inside. Ilana arrives, and shows Richard what was inside the crate: Locke's dead body. Inside the statue, Jacob congratulates "Locke" on finding his loophole, and tells Ben that he can either do what Locke asked him to do, or leave them. Ben kills Jacob, and Locke kicks his corpse into a fire.

In 1977, Kate, Juliet and Sawyer escape from the submarine and go back to the Island to stop Jack. Sayid follows Faraday's instructions to remove the core of the bomb so that it will be small enough to carry. Richard knocks out Eloise, and tells Jack and Sayid that they are on their own from now on. Pierre tries to convince Radzinsky to stop drilling, but he stubbornly plows ahead. As Jack and Sayid bring the bomb through the Barracks, Roger spots Sayid and shoots him. They are saved by Hurley, Jin and Miles in a DHARMA van. Sawyer, Kate and Juliet find Rose and Bernard, who have built themselves a cabin and settled down with Vincent, and refuse to get involved in their conflict. They track down the others in the woods. Sawyer tries to convince Jack not to go through with his plan, and then beats him up when he refuses, until Juliet changes her mind and agrees to Jack's plan. The group gets into a shootout with the DHARMA workers at the Swan. Jack drops the bomb into the electromagnetic pocket, but nothing happens. The drill then hits the pocket, causing metal objects to fly around, killing Phil, crushing Pierre's arm, and dragging Juliet down into the pocket. She survives, barely, and hits the bomb with a rock. There is a flash of white light, and the black title card comes up on the white screen.

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Hurry up, Doc! What are you waiting for?! Drop it!"'']]

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Locke/The Man in Black establishes his ManipulativeBastard credentials when he hits Ben with one of these while trying to convince him to kill Jacob.
-->'''Ben:''' Why do you want me to kill Jacob, John?
-->'''"Locke":''' Because despite your loyal service to this island, you got cancer. You had to watch your own daughter gunned down right in front of you. And your reward for those sacrifices? You were banished. And you did all this in the name of a man you've never even met. So the question is, Ben, why the hell ''wouldn't'' you want to kill Jacob?
* CallForward: Pierre's arm is crushed during the Incident, revealing why he has a prosthetic arm in the Swan Orientation video in "[[{{Recap/LostS02E03Orientation}} Orientation]]".

* TeamSwitzerland: Rose and Bernard firmly establish themselves as this, having built a nice retirement cabin for themselves and lived in peace for three years. They make very clear that they have no interest in involving themselves in any of the other survivors' conflicts, even when they find out that Jack is trying to detonate a hydrogen bomb.

-->'''Man in Black:''' They come. They fight. They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same.
-->'''Jacob:''' It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.

!!'''Tropes'''

* WhamShot: Ilana tips open the steel crate to reveal John Locke's body, indicating that he has not been resurrected and the Locke that has appeared since the Ajira plane arrived on the Island is an impostor.

** Granted, Jacob seems like he doesn't really care if he lives or dies, but he was just begging to be killed with his response to Ben, who he knows the Man in Black has already instructed to kill him.

In 1977, Kate, Juliet and Sawyer escape from the submarine and go back to the Island to stop Jack. Sayid follows Faraday's instructions to remove the core of the bomb so that it will be small enough to carry. Richard knocks out Eloise, and tells Jack and Sayid that they are on their own from now on. Pierre tries to convince Radzinsky to stop drilling, but he stubbornly plows ahead. As Jack and Sayid bring the bomb through the Barracks, Roger spots Sayid and shoots him. They are saved by Hurley, Jin and Miles in a DHARMA van. Sawyer, Kate and Juliet find Rose and Bernard, who have built themselves a cabin and settled down with Vincent, and refuse to get involved in their conflict. They track down the others in the woods. Sawyer tries to convince Jack not to go through with his plan, and then beats him up when he refuses, until Juliet changes her mind and agrees to Jack's plan. The group gets into a shootout with the DHARMA workers at the Swan. Jack drops the bomb into the electromagnetic pocket, but nothing happens. The drill then hits the pocket, causing metallic objects to fly around, killing Phil, crushing Pierre's arm, and dragging Juliet down into the pocket. She survives, barely, and hits the bomb with a rock. There is a flash of white light, and the black title card comes up on the white screen.

A man in white and a man in black watch the Black Rock sail towards the Island. They argue over the man in white, who is revealed to be Jacob summoning the ship, with the Man in Black stating that all the people who come to the Island do is fight, destroy and corrupt. The Man in Black tells Jacob that he will one day "find a loophole" and kill him.

* WhamShot: Ilana tips open the steel crate, to reveal John Locke's body, indicating that he has not been resurrected and the Locke that has appeared since the Ajira plane arrived on the Island is an impostor.

** Jacob telling Locke that he found his loophole, revealing that he is in fact, the Man in Black.