Through the Looking Glass (Lost)
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"Through the Looking Glass"[1] is the two hour season finale of the third season of Lost. The episode was written by Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, and aired on May 23, 2007, making it the 69th episode of the series. The title of the episode refers to Lewis Carroll's novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, and also to the the DHARMA station revealed in the previous episode.
The episode begins with the survivors making way up to Rousseau's communications tower. They are intercepted by Ben and Alex. Ben asks to speak to Jack. Ben informs Jack that Naomi is not who she says she is, and that if he is successful in making contact with her boat, it will be disastrous for the people on the island. Ben tells Jack to get Naomi's phone, or Tom and his crew back at the beach will shoot Jin, Sawyer, and Sayyid in one minute if Ben does not order them off via his walkie-talkie. Jack does not comply, and three gunshots are heard. Jack then beats Ben severely. He takes him back to the other survivors. At one moment, Ben tells Alex that Rousseau is her mother, and they meet for the first time.
In the Looking Glass station, Mikhail emerges and tells the two women staffing the station to back off of Desmond and Charlie, whom they are holding captive. The two women are the only ones who know the code to disable the jamming signal. Because they refuse to comply, Mikhail shoots one of the women, killing her, and shoots the other in the stomach. As he is about to finish her off, Desmond emerges, shooting a spear gun at Mikhail. Disabled, Charlie is able to convince the woman Other to give him the code, before she dies. The code is the numeric tone equivalent of the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" on a computer keypad. Charlie enters the code, disabling the jammer. Desmond is separated temporarily. Charlie then sees a video transmission of Penelope, whom he is able to speak with. Penelope says that she is not on the boat that Naomi claims to be from, and does not know who Naomi is. As Desmond returns to where Charlie is, he notices that Mikhail is missing, hence he has escaped. At that moment, Charlie notices Mikhail out the window, with a grenade. At that moment, Charlie airlocks himself in the computer room, to save Desmond and the station. The grenade explored, shattering the window, and flooding the room. Charlie writes on his hand "Not Penelope's Boat" and shows it to Desmond. Charlie is now drowning, he does a trinity on his chest, then dies.
Back at the beach, Tom reveals that the shots were fired into the sand, and none of the three survivors were killed. Sawyer is watching from the trees. Suddenly, Hurley plows towards the beach in the VW van, running over one of the Others. Sawyer is able to get his gun, and distract another Other while Sayyid disables and kills him. Finally, Sawyer shoots Tom, such that all four of the Others on the beach are killed.
At the tower, Jack makes contact with Hurley on the beach via Ben's walkie talkie. Hurley confirms that all survivors are still alive. Rousseau disables her distress message in the comm tower. As Naomi gets signal for her phone. At that moment, she falls over, and it is shown that John Locke has emerged, throwing a knife at her back and killing her. Locke tells Jack to back off the phone, or he will kill him. Jack invites him to do so, but Locke is unable to. Locke simply tells him that he shouldn't make the call, and walks away. Jack communicates with the people on the boat who say they will be right over to rescue the survivors.
The flashbacks in this episode follow Jack. He has a beard, is addicted to Oxycodone, and drinks heavily. At many points, strangers notice him, exclaiming they saw him on the news in some heroic act. His hospital supervisor challenges his behavior. It is revealed that Jack was attempting to commit suicide from a bridge, when an accident happened on the highway beneath him because the driver was distracted by him. Jack immediately was on hand to help the accident survivor. Despite this, it is clear that Jack is a mess in his life.