S6: Across the Sea

Once upon a time a pregnant woman survived a ship wreck and washed onto the shore of a desert island.  On the island, she met this crazy woman who appeared nice as she helped her deliver her two sons.  After the sons are swaddled, the crazy woman took a rock and killed the once pregnant woman.  The crazy woman took the boys as her own and they called her Mother.  They did this for 13 years until one day, the dark haired son with no name saw his dead mother.  She opened his eyes to the truth and he decided to leave his brother Jacob and the woman he called Mother to live with the others who were ship wrecked on the island.  Thirty years later, Jacob became protector of the island, the MIB killed Mother, and Jacob ended up throwing his brother into the "source" of the island.  The Smoke Monster wass born or unleashed, not sure which, but Jacob found his dead brother's body at the mouth of the river and put it back in the cave with his dead Mother.  Jack, Kate and Locke's 1st season Adam and Eve has been identified.

I remember on first viewing with friends that this episode had some really great moments and it showed us so much that we wanted to see, yet in the end, we craved more.  After watching it a second time, I really wanted to know how Mother carried the MIB up the well after knocking him out, filled the well with dirt and killed everyone and burned the village.  My theory is that she also had the abilities that the Smoke Monster had, but that's something left unanswered and never confirmed in the show.

This episode did confirm that Jacob and the MIB appear to be playing a game where Jacob makes the rules.  Both of them can't directly hurt each other hence why the MIB had Ben kill his Jacob.

And last, but certainly not least, the creation of the Smoke Monster is finally revealed.  After six seasons we are introduced to a part of the island called the Source that we don't hear about until the end of show to explain something that we've been hearing about and dealing with since the first episode.  It boggles my mind, but somehow it works.  In the end, the Source, Smoke Monster, all that stuff was created or why it exists isn't going to matter -- what matters and has always matter is seeing how the characters that we have grown to love and care about deal with all that stuff.