The Tail Section

It’s that time of year again!  Foiler campaigns for the season finale are running hot and heavy with supposed plot synopses popping up everywhere from www.4815162342.com to ThEmIsFiT’s Blog.

Well never to be outdone,  I’ve decided to share with you the "exclusive" scoop on the finale.  Is it true?  Maybe!  This came in this morning from a source that has correctly scooped the last three episodes with only a slight margin of error. (The source said that the "ferry" showed up at the end of three minutes.  However it was clearly a sail boat.  He now says he ‘assumed’ it was the ferry.)

If the source is to be believed,  he is able to get the down low a week or two in advance.  He first communicated knowledge of the finale last week with the promise to say nothing until this week, and today he delivered.

His email begins:

"Hey Doc.  I promised some finale scoop for you, and here it is.  I’m going to give this to you in three pieces.  No, I do not know the twisty bread thing.  It is being cut in secret and, amazingly, still very few people know what it is. "

"The episode opens with Desmond arriving in the sailboat,  completely drunk.  In flashback he is being let out of jail and being picked up by his fiancee/wife’s father Charles Widmore.  Widmore thinks Desmond is useless and tries to talk him into leaving his daughter.  Desmond refuses.


His backstory is all about Desmond’s battle with alcohol.  He is desperate to free himself from the bottle and be taken seriously.  He sees his "race" as an opportunity for renewal but nobody believes in him.  You find out his problems with alcohol are what prevented him from becoming a doctor.  When he is "training" at the collesium he doesn’t even have a clue how he is going to enter the race.  There is talk of faith and redemption all through this part of his backstory. 


I think that Widmore was somehow responsible for Libby being in the institution because she is very contemptuous towards him and is working behind his back to help Desmond because she knows it will piss Widmore off.  Don’t know if she is his wife like some people say, or daughter.  Little bit fuzzy here.


In the island scenes Desmond and Locke find themselves kindred spirits.  When Locke tells Desmond that there was someone watching him, and shows him the printouts and explains the orientation for the Pearl station, Desmond flips out.  He can’t believe he was set up.  Locke explains the situation with Eko and Desmond decides to show him something he thinks can help Locke with his quest to stop the button from being pushed.


Meanwhile, Sayid convinces Jin to join him off shore to make sure things are kosher with the Walt rescue.  Jin absolutely does not believe that Michael is "compromised" and comes along more to keep an eye on Sayid. "