S2: Live Together, Die Alone: Part 2

As the boat group converges on the Other's location, it is found deserted.  Michael is not taking the main group back to where he was held, but some place else.  Just as the main group realizes this, the Others attack with stun guns.  Stun guns, fake beards, theatrics, boats, guns, cunning, who are these people?  Michael asks this question and Ben answers, "We're the good guys."  Yeah, sure they are.  If you have to say you're the good guys, you're probably not, which is a contest theme through Lost.  The Others let Hurley go to deliver a message to the rest of Losties back at the beach to not venture out that far.  Michael leaves the island with Walt on the boat as Jack, Kate and Sawyer watch.

Meanwhile, back at the Hatch, Charlie and Mr. Eko are trying to get into the blast doors with the extra dynamite from the Black Rock and end up hurting themselves more than anything.  In flashbacks we are shown more of the hatch, Kelvin using bleach to paint the map of the Dharma stations on the back of the blast doors, a task that began with Radzinsky, who blew his head off with a shotgun at some point while working there with Kelvin.  We also learn that Kelvin has been fixing up Desmond's boat and is one week away from leaving the island, but Desmond realizes that Kelvin's hazmat suit is torn and there isn't any danger outside so he follows him only to end up accidentally killing him.  Desmond rushes back to push the button to stop a "System Failure".  Thanks to the paperwork at the Pearl monitoring station, Desmond realizes that he may have crashed the Oceanic flight.

Locke, determined not to press the button, smashes the computer and allows the timer to go past zero and shit really hits the fan.  The electromagnetic properties of the area need to be discharged every 108 minutes and without discharge, all the metal starts to converge on one location, and ends up imploding the metal timer.  Desmond scrambles to get the fail safe key and find a letter from Penny he never received.  The last thought in his mind was of her as he professes his love and turns the key.  A bright white light is seen and a loud noise comes from the island as it shakes and the sky turns violet in color.

After the flash, everyone appears to be all right on the island.  Charlie appears, but Mr. Eko, Locke and Desmond are not shown.  Thier fate, and the fate of Jack, Kate, and Sawyer will be shown, hopefully in the first episode of Season 3.

Note:  Thanks to the turn of the fail safe key, the electromagnetic anomaly is detected by men hired by Penny.  Dun dun dun!  :)