In 1988, Jin and Rousseau’s team are attacked by the smoke monster on their way to the radio tower. Charlotte confesses that she grew up on the island before dying. Locke leaves the island by turning the wheel in the frozen chamber. Off the island, Ben brings Jack and Sun to Eloise Hawking, Daniel’s mother, at the same time that Desmond finds her.
While on their way to the Orchid Station, the island survivors jump to the day Aaron was born, and then to 1988, where Jin is found by Danielle Rousseau’s science team. In 2007, Jack, Kate, Sayid and Ben meet and Kate realizes that Ben sent the lawyers after her and Aaron.
Desmond goes in search of Daniel Faraday’s mother and learns from Charles Widmore that she is in Los Angeles. The island survivors jump to 1954, where Locke is unable to convince Alpert he is from the future and Faraday is tasked with defusing a hydrogen bomb.
Hurley and Sayid are on the run from the cops. Hurley confesses that the Oceanic Six have been lying. The island survivors are attacked by armed men. Ben learns that he only has seventy hours to reunite the Oceanic Six and return them to the island.
The remaining survivors begin to erratically jump through time after the island is moved. Jack and Ben begin their quest to reunite the Oceanic Six. Hurley and Sayid are ambushed at the safehouse.