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Welcome back to the Lost Secret Clue, where we dig deeper to find the clues and secrets you might've missed to fuel your theories! This week's episode, "The Incident Pt2", brought the events of this season to an explosive conclusion and left us completely in the dark in regards to what is yet to come for the final seventeen episodes next year. Guitars, gunfights, guesswork and a good ol' fashion throwdown...

As is the tradition for each season finale, let's take a look at where all of our characters ended up.

2007

Off-Island

This episode was unusual in that we saw neither Desmond nor Walt, two regular players in end-of-season events. We also saw nothing of Penny, Widmore, Ms Hawking, Aaron or Ji-Yeon.

On-Island

Claire remains missing in action.

Frank is now aligned with Ilana, Bram and the other enlightened 316 members and travels with them to the statue's foot, joining Sun and the Others. Ilana asks to speak to Ricardos and Richard Alpert steps forward, suggesting he has changed his name in keeping with the time. She then asks him "What lies in the shadow of the statue?" leaving him in shock until he stammers "Ille qui nos omnes servabit", translated from latin to mean "He who will protect / save us all". Having proven their common allegiance, Ilana then reveals the contents of the crate her team has carried from the Hydra island – the body of John Locke they'd discovered in the cargo hold.

While that takes place, the fake Locke leads Ben inside the statue's foot, revealed by Richard to be Jacob's actual home. Jacob instantly recognises the fake Locke for who he really is and congratulates his enemy on finding the loophole needed to kill him. Jacob knows exactly what is about to happen yet still emphasises to Ben the importance of choice, the same information he shared with Hurley. Jacob looked to have tears in his eyes as he dismissively asked Ben, "What about you?" Moments later as Ben stabs him in the heart, Jacob leans forward and deliberately touches Ben's arm. Falling to his knees, he tells the fake Locke that "they're coming" before being kicked into the fire.

Who is Jacob referring to? Does he mean the fake Locke's ruse is about to be revealed thanks to his disciples with the body outside? Does he mean The Others, now aware fake Locke isn't who he claims to be? Or could Ben be the final piece of a complicated failsafe plan, the final person to be touched in some grand reset scheme? Not only would this explain why his most devoted follower was never allowed to be near him before, but it would suggest that those Jacob had touched before would be plucked and pulled to this very moment...

1977

Despite beginning the episode with different agendas, by the end all our time-travelling survivors were on the same page supporting Jack in his mission to reset the past.

In flashback, we see Jacob meet Jack and give him an Apollo candy bar, brushing against his fingers as he says "Guess it just needed a little push..." While encouragement was all Jack ever needed, Hurley has always needed more and this was subtly conveyed through his meeting with Jacob. Upon being discharged, he was given a wallet with money, a pen and a candy bar, the same three things given to Kate, Sawyer and Jack (Kate to pay for the lunchbox). Jacob comforts Hurley by touching his shoulder as he did Locke, shares directions as he did with Sayid and reminds him of the joy of being with those he loves as he did with Sun and Jin. Hurley even gets one up on Ben by getting the visit, answers and advice the Others' leader always desired. So what is it about Hurley that has him so favoured by Jacob? Is it his strong belief in self? And why was it important for Hurley to carry the guitar case back? Could the case serve as an elaborate part of Jacob's counter-plan – If Jacob wanted to take on the form of the one person who could always find a way to get at Locke it'd be Charlie, whose body was never recovered...

Miles is a strange character in terms of connections; just like Juliet, he was never visited or touched by Jacob, nor was he ever on flights 815 or 316. He was former Dharma, she was a former Other. The only person who maintained an issue throughout Jack's mission was Miles who, coincidently, was the only person other than Faraday able to scientifically grasp what had happened to them over the past three years. Miles strolled into the meeting and asked "Has it occurred to any of you that your buddy is actually going to cause the thing he's trying to prevent? Perhaps that little nuke is the incident, so the best thing to do is nothing? Well I'm glad you all thought this through!" This season has had so many events apparently deviate from the path yet eventually be revealed to have originally occurred that what Miles says rings true. Will the non-believer be proven right next season?

If Miles were to watch this episode, Juliet's decision to smash the nuke with the rock eight times represents the only potential free choice decision in the entire episode, but he would probably suggest that if Juliet always fell down the hole then she always detonated the nuke. Juliet, just like the rest, isn't necessarily dead; if the plan worked than she too should be reset in time. If it didn't, then she'll die in a nuclear explosion along with the rest a few hundred feet away.

Sayid was left on the brink of death after being shot so Hurley and Jin remained away from the gunfight with him. Sawyer didn't kill Phil as promised but the snivelling security guard got his comeuppance thanks to a metal rod through the heart. We finally witnessed how Dr Pierre Chang / Marvin Candle lost the use of his arm as the drill tower collapsed and severed his hand, but that it was Miles who pried him free and told his "Dad" to get to safety mere moments before Juliet set the bomb off. As Juliet howled Sawyer's catchphrase, "you son of a –", Jack and Kate stared at each other in shock, Sawyer cried his heart out and the screen slashed to white.

A reversal? A new beginning? Was Jack simply enacting the same plan he always had? Did Juliet represent a wild card, having had no interaction with Jacob, and served her purpose in making a decision? What could possibly happen to the survivors now? Will the two energies negate each other just as the failsafe did to the Swan hatch? Could this mean our Losties will now experience time relatively or in flashes, just as Desmond did after his exposure to the erupting energy? Will they return to 2004 en route to LA, remembering nothing? Will they remember it all? Could they return to 2008 instead – if the Swan was never completed then Oceanic 815 never crashed, but the Swan had nothing to do with Ajira 316 crashing, meaning Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sayid still end up on the island. Perhaps Jacob's touch is what brings them together?