Storyline
| - Goodwin established himself more predominantly in the tail section campsite than Ethan, but he still gained the trust of Ana Lucia, the de facto leader of the Tailies. The list was successfully made by Goodwin regarding the tail section and sent to the Barracks for further examination. The first night, the threats were to be removed so that the Others could move in at a later date and take only the "good people."
- Before he could successfully kidnap Claire and bring her back to the Staff, Ethan was ambushed by the "A-Team" and executed by Charlie. Ethan's death brought the first severe casualty of the Others out of the tension with the survivors. News of his death prompted Juliet to beg Ben to allow Goodwin to return home, as well as cost the Others their very skilled surgeon.
- When some of the survivors moved to the caves, Ethan followed them and tried to test Claire's pregnancy to make sure that the baby was not sick as so many had been on the Island before. Yet, when Claire woke up in the middle of the injection, Ethan was forced to retreat and Claire became convinced that someone was trying to hurt her and her baby. Hurley took it upon himself to take a census of the middle section survivors, and compared it with the manifest from the plane that Sawyer had. When Ethan realized that a census was being taken, he realized that it was only a matter of time before the survivors realized he wasn't on the plane.
- After Sawyer's execution failed, Kate and Sawyer attacked Danny and Jason and escaped from the cages area in the Hydra station. Ivan was sent by Juliet to help Danny and Jason, and to go after the fugitives.
- The Others locate the mercenary team escorting Ben to the helicopter and ambush them, killing them all. Ben is reunited with Richard and the Others, and as per their agreement Kate and Sayid are allowed to leave the Island on the helicopter.
- The mercenary team accepts Ben's surrender and Keamy pistol whips him into submission. The team, believing their mission to be complete, then escorted their prisoner back to the helicopter.
- Michael encountered Pickett, whose seeming peacefulness was a trap. Tom appeared and captured Michael with a pair of bolas.
- With Juliet revealing the Others’ plans to Jack, the survivors camp stashed three piles of dynamite in each of the three tents Juliet marked for the Others to focus on in their raid. The survivors expedite their plan when Karl told the survivors that the Others were coming that night, not the next day. Sayid, Bernard, and Jin elect to stay behind and shoot at the dynamite, while Jack moves the rest of the survivors to the radio tower. Not anticipating their knowledge of the raid, Pryce and his men fall right into the trap and suffer massive casualties when the dynamite is discharged. Only Pryce, Tom, and Jason survive, managing to take the three remaining survivors hostage in the process. No pregnant women were captured whatsoever.
- Danny continued to chase after them, and eventually found them on the beach. At this point, he was shot and killed by Juliet.
- Richard and the rest of the Others are now seen to still posses large amounts of weapons and manpower.
- Jack, Kate, Locke, and Boone proceeded after Claire when it became apparent from Hurley's census that Ethan was not on the plane. They found the remnants of a struggle and a drag trail, so the four split up into two teams to track the abduction. Jack found Ethan after following his trail but was beaten down and told to stop following the trail. Jack pressed on and found an unconscious Charlie hanging from a tree by neck, apparently dead. Ethan had abducted Claire successfully. Charlie was eventually resuscitated but Claire was not seen for a week.
- Ben planned with Juliet to defect into the survivors group and cure Claire as a token of goodwill. Juliet was to record messages on a tape recorder in the Staff on a regular basis until a week later when the Others would invade the beach camp and take all confirmed pregnant women. Juliet, however, would betray the Others by revealing their plan to Jack and siding with the Losties.
- When the boat stopped and the captain told them that they would "have to take the boy." When Michael refused to turn his son over to these people, Tom turned off their search light and things took a dark turn from there: Sawyer reached for his gun and was shot off the raft, Jin dove in after him, and the Twins board the raft. They beat up Michael, grab Walt, and knock Michael off the raft as they put Walt onto their boat. The Others finish off the survivors by throwing a Molotov cocktail onto the raft, blowing it up in the middle of the ocean..
- The trio chased after them, but lost them when Alex hid them in her hideout. They eventually came to the Hydra facility, where Aldo the guard, told them Sawyer, Kate and Alex had managed to rescue Karl from room 23 and ran away.
- While Michael was held prisoner by Alex and Pickett in the shadows, Tom forced the consent of the survivors, who left their guns and returned to their beach camp. Alex asked Michael if Claire was safe and if she had her baby, much to Michael's surprise.
- As Ben dons a DHARMA parka, he overloads the micro-wave emitter to blow a hole in the station wall to reach the ancient ante-chamber hidden behind it. He travels down a narrow tunnel and into a frozen room with a massive wheel built into the side of a wall. Upon turning it, the Island vanishes from sight and all those within the barrier move with it.
- By journeying to the Orchid, Ben assumed full responsibility for protecting the Island and acquiesced to the harsh situation by agreeing to "move the Island," which would lead to his inevitable banishment from it.
- By signalling for aid, Ben accepted that he could not handle the mercenary team on his own and requested additional support to stealth them so he could safely surrender upon reaching the Orchid.
- The Temple is strictly for the Others and is the safest place for their people if Ben should fail in his mission. When Naomi’s ship is ultimately contacted, Richard is currently leading the Others to the Temple. Ben states four days later in that the Others are at the Temple by this time.
- The Tailies had by now disappeared from the Others, who were having trouble tracking them and monitoring their progress across the Island. When Ana Lucia realized Goodwin was never on the plane, she confronted him and killed him with a stake to the chest. Although the Others failed to relocate the Tailies' position in the jungle, a recon team led by Tom and Pickett came across the dead body of Goodwin, reporting it to Ben. Ben, now annoyed by Juliet pressing for Goodwin's return from assignment, brought her out to the spot where Goodwin had been killed and showed her his body. As she wept over it and accused Ben of sending Goodwin to his death, Ben told her that she was disrespectful to him by being involved with Goodwin to begin with. Since he brought her to the Island, she is "his." Goodwin's body remained there, and was stumbled upon by Jin and Eko as they attempted to return to the survivors' beach camp.
- On the 12th day, the Others moved into the tail section’s camp and took all the people on the list, including the kids. Ana Lucia killed one of the invading Others and pulled a pocket knife and list from her pocket. This confirmed Ana Lucia’s suspicions that the beach was not safe and that the signal fire had to be extinguished. To keep his cover, Goodwin relented.
- Despite the murder of several survivors and the public execution of Alex, Ben refused to surrender, eventually summoning the Monster to ravage the mercenaries and provide a means of escape. With the Barracks in ruins, Locke's group became divided over the issue of visiting Jacob's cabin. Thus, the group was split up yet again, with Miles, Claire, and her baby following Sawyer back to the beach camp and Ben and Hurley following Locke to the cabin.
- Under orders from Ben to fire three rounds into the sand, Tom and Pryce keep the hostages alive but under close watch. Sawyer and Juliet sneak back into camp to free their friends but have no guns. Suddenly, the two are surprised by Hurley, who has also come back and has commandeered the DHARMA van they found a week ago. Hurley runs over Pryce, causing Jason and Tom to scatter. Sayid trips Jason and snaps his neck with his legs all while bound and gagged. Juliet holds Tom at gunpoint and Sawyer delivers the final blow, executing an unarmed Tom as he surrenders for taking Walt off the raft.
- Ben instructed Colleen to get the boat back from the mid-section survivors. She took a team out in order to do so, and the team boarded the boat, only to find Sun was on it. Sun had a gun, and used it to shoot Colleen.
- Jack keeps his promise to Sayid by letting them “die” so Ben's con is rendered useless. Ben is taken prisoner by the survivors who end up deactivating the Looking Glass signal and contract Naomi's ship, despite a last minute intervention by Locke taking Naomi out with a knife to the back.
- On their way Aldo tries to help Kate remember she knocked him out earlier. Kate then knocks out both of the others and leaves them lying there, going to the barracks by herself. When they wake up they track Jin and Aldo tries to shoot him, but Justin is captured and Aldo killed by Claire.
- Mikhail shoots at Desmond who is still in the outrigger, prompting him to swim down to the moon pool and Mikhail gives chase. The Looking Glass receives a message from Ben, which Mikhail answers. Under new orders from Ben, Mikhail kills Greta, shoots Bonnie, and is about to execute her when Desmond reappears and harpoons Mikhail through the chest. Mikhail regains consciousness, and appears with a grenade outside the porthole in the room where Charlie has just deactivated the jamming signal. He releases it and kills them both.
- While at Pala Ferry, Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley are marched in with their hands bound and bags on their heads to meet with “Henry” who has revealed himself to be the leader of the Others. Michael and Walt are given the fishing boat to depart in, and Hurley is let go to deliver the message to stay away to the survivors. Jack, Kate and Sawyer are kept with the Others.
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