Lost Summary :
After Desmond rescues Claire from drowning, Charlie gets Hurley to help him find out why Desmond has seemed able to predict the future. Desmond recalls exactly what took place in the moments after he turns the key, where he experienced a strange vision of his life prior to his Army days.
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RECAP :
Desmond asks Charlie and Hurley to come with him into the jungle. There, Locke and Sayid tell them that Eko is dead. Desmond acts like he is hearing something. He runs to the beach to find Claire drowning. Desmond rescues Claire.
Charlie and Hurley wanna find out how Desmond can see the future. They plan on getting him drunk with MacCutcheon’s whiskey. They offer Desmond a drink of Whiskey and Desmond asks for the brand. When he finds out what it is he laughs and says sure. They three get drunk. Charlie then demands that Desmond tell them what happened to him when he turned the key. Desmond’s says you don’t wanna know as he chokes Charlie.
There is a quick recap of the events that occurred in the hatch at the end of Season 2. Desmond turns the key and then wakes up on the floor with red liquid all over him. We think it’s blood but it is actually paint. Penny helps Desmond to his feet. He was painting their flat/pad when he fell off a ladder and was knocked out. Desmond goes to meet Mr. Widmore to ask for Penny’s hand in marriage. Widmore brings out the same whiskey that Desmond laughed about with Charlie and Hurley. Widmore says that a swallow of this whiskey is worth more than what Desmond could make in a month and that Desmond is not worthy of his daughter.
We then see Desmond walking down the street really upset. Desmond sees Charlie who is playing guitar on the street for donations. Desmond realizes that it is Charlie, but Charlie doesn’t recognize Desmond. Desmond tries to remember where he knows Charlie from.
Desmond meets up with this physicist in a pub and asks him if time travel is possible. Desmond tries to convince the skeptical man by predicting events that he is sure will happen. But he is wrong. Different events occur. The man however, convinces Desmond to marry Penny.
Desmond goes to a jewelry store and asks for a ring. When the jeweler hands the ring to Desmond she demands it back. She tells Desmond that he is suppose to hand the ring back and have second doubts about the wedding. She tells him how he breaks Penny’s heart and goes on a race around the world to prove his worth to his father. She says that he will then crash on the island and punch numbers into a computer. She says that if he doesn’t do these things, everyone will die. This woman seems to know everything.
The two of them go for a walk and the woman notices a man with red shoes. She makes a comment about them being a bold fashion. A couple minutes later the man in the red shoes dies after some scaffolding falls on him. Desmond asks the woman if she knew, and she nods her head. She said it didn’t matter if she told him because he would die by a taxi cab the next day, and fall in the shower and break his neck the next day. She says the universe has a way of course correcting.
The next day when Penny and Desmond are walking down the street a photographer asks them if they would like a photo taken of them. Penny chooses a harbour backdrop for the photo. After the photographer takes it, he hands it to Desmond who then realizes that it is the same photograph that he had on the island. Desmond realizes that he can’t fight against the universe and decides to break up with Penny, and throws the engagement ring into the river.
After they break up he goes to a pub for a drink. All of a sudden the same events that he had predicted would happen in the pub with the physicist a few nights before, start to occur. He realizes that he does know the future, he just got the day wrong. After he comes to this conclusion he is knocked out by a bat swing that was intended for the bartender. He falls to the floor unconscious and wakes up back on the island, naked.
The show then resumes to where Desmond was choking Charlie. Hurley breaks up the fight and the two make up. Charlie walks Desmond to his tent and again, he asks how Desmond knew Claire was gonna drown. Desmond tells Charlie what happened to him when he pressed the key, and that now he can see the future. Charlie asks if he saw the future when Claire died. Desmond then tells Charlie that it wasn’t Claire he was saving but Charlie. Charlie was actually supposed to rescue Claire from drowning but would end up drowning himself. And when the lightning struck, Charlie was supposed to get electrocuted, not Claire. Desmond then tells Charlie that no matter what he tries to do, Charlie is gonna die.
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