This blog is about what came before on Lost and not its future. While I do not write in a vacuum, I am avoiding spoilers this hiatus. So I apologize to those readers who may already know how the 6th season will open. My prediction/guess/hope/idea is that the final season’s first scene will not feature Richard or Jacob or his adversary as many predict, but on Desmond.
We all know that aside from his early featured episode[1], Desmond made only sporadic appearances during the last season. But he also got what no other character got: a happy ending. During the 5th season, it turned out that the mainland, not the island, is where one has to become what he or she wishes for. Everyone wanted to go home, but back home the Oceanic 6 all fell back into their same pre-island traps. Except for Desmond.
At the end of the 4th season, Desmond was reunited with his long lost love and on-again, off-again girlfriend Penny. In between seasons, Penny gave birth to their son Charlie. At the beginning of the 5th season, Penny, Desmond and Charlie are all living on board their boat, seemingly traveling the world to avoid Penny’s father, Charles Widmore. Desmond’s character flaw is literally walking away from his own happiness because he feels unworthy of it. Despite his happy ending, his almost does it again. He decides he has to return to Great Britain to find Daniel Faraday’s mother.[2] Still, Desmond promises her that he is never going back to the island. His efforts lead him right back to Widmore. Part of the reason Desmond doesn’t leave Penny again is because she doesn’t let go. She makes Desmond bring them all to LA so he can deliver Daniel’s message to his mother.[3]
Then Desmond surprisingly mans up. He meets with Eloise Hawking and tells her, Ben and Jack that he’s never going back to the island. Eloise warms him that the island isn’t done with him, but Desmond says he is done with it.[4] For the most part, Desmond doesn’t do anything for the rest of the season. When next we see him, he is returning to their boat with groceries. Granted, he has led Ben right to Penny and he gets himself shoot in the process.[5] But Penny and Charlie both escape unarmed, Desmond joins the I beat Benjamin Linus to a bloody pulp Club, and Desmond’s injury is merely a flesh wound in the shoulder.[6] Desmond’s last line of the season is his repeated promise never to leave Penny again.[7] Nobody gets off that easy on Lost and every bit of foreshadowing puts him back on the island.
We also know that the rules of time-travel do not apply to Desmond. When Daniel gives his message to Desmond in the past, Desmond suddenly remembers it in the future, even though Daniel himself said the past cannot be changed.[8] When Jack and Kate debate the merits of exploding the H-Bomb and changing history, they give no consideration to Desmond. Even if the Swan Station isn’t never built, Desmond probably still washes up on the island. If the Oceanic 815 folks never come, he might not get off. Most importantly, if goes to bed with Penny and wakes up back on island, he might remember everything that happened before. He is going to be royally pissed to be back in his island life, brother.
[1] “Jughead”
[2] Id.
[3] Id.
[4] “316”
[5] “Dead is Dead”
[6] “Dead is Dead”, “The Variable’
[7] “The Variable”
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