In preparation for tonight's new episode, where we will learn the fifth member of this fate-scraped group, Stars profiles the characters thus far, where they are and where they were, in an effort to make sense of the story that will no doubt be more complicated after tonight's episode. Also, don't forget to visit IGN TV for their predictions on who the next member of the Six will be.
The known Oceanic Six are:
Sayid
Official Membership: "The Economist", 2008.
Two words: Golf. Course. Sayid strolled onto some fancy fairway in the Seychelles, with a seven iron in one hand and a Gloc in his golf bag, ready to assassinate one Mr. Avellino and leave him for dead, a much worse crime than repairing his divot.
And thus we meet Sayid during his best impersonation of a Jason Bourne. The Jarrah Death Train's next stop was Berlin, and into the unsuspecting bed of a woman employed by the titular economist, a woman Sayid did not expect to be anything more than an easy, beautiful mark. The woman, Elsa, turned out to be more than aware of Sayid's traveling kill show, and was prepared for his deception. She would have killed him had he not have killed her first. And as if it wasn't enough to complicate matters by introducing us to Sayid killing for hire, we also met his employer – Ben, posing as your typical veterinarian who when he's not trimming collies, he's treating gunshot wounds. Why was Sayid under Ben's employ? Who was his first kill? Who will be his last? Maybe tonight's new inductee will provide some answers…
Jack
Official Membership: "Through the Looking Glass", 2007.
Jack was the first official member of the group, which we learned in Season Three's season finale. We also learned that Jack managed to bring back a beard that The Waltons forgot while navigating between bouts of delusion and depressions, flying every Friday night on an Oceanic flight, hoping that it would crash.
Post-island, Jack some how found a way to alienate himself from Kate and ruin his medical career, all while yearning to go back to the island he so desperately wanted to get away from. What we do not know, yet, is whether or not Jack's spiral into poor facial-hair maintenance happened pre or post his conversation with a certain Hugo, in a mental hospital. Time plays by its own confounding sense of rules on Lost, and fan will no doubt have to sit through more episodes before we get a bead on precisely when Jack "lost" it.
Kate
Official Membership: "Through the Looking Glass", 2007.
Kate's return to civilization is, as of press time, one of the least fleshed-out question marks. Aside from discovering a lot of make-up and a darker hair color, little is known about Kate's post-island life. She clearly had a fallen out with Jack, and now lives (loves?) another man –maybe Sawyer, maybe the husband she drugged and left behind? We look forward to an episode that gives Kate a chance to run less, and explain her new life more.
Hurley
Official Membership: "The Beginning of the End", 2008.
Top 5 Reasons Why Hurley's Induction to the Six Surprises Us All:
1. He goes on a demolishing derby behind the wheel of Starsky and Hutch's car.
2. He sees dead former Hobbits. Walking around like real former Hobbits. Or swimming behind interrogation-room glass. Or smacking him in the face while on the grounds of a mental institution. (Charlie's ghost seems real enough to warrant the theory that Hugo's post-island life is linked to a great regret, a substantial loss, which prefaced his rescue.)
3. Hurley is afraid of Jack, or at the very least more cautious around his former leader. Either Jack made Hurley promise not to do something, or Hurley did something he can't seem to atone for. Either way, Hurley's induction to the Six could spell some serious tragedy for one of Lost's most beloved characters.
4. He no longer sees Dave at the institution, but rather a mysterious man named Abaddon, who wants to know what really happened. (Get in line, pal.)
5. Hurley feels safer inside the walls of the institution than in the real world, he wants to return to the island that caused him, and his friends, so much pain. But maybe, of all the known six, Hurly would have been best staying on the island, where he could be a liked somebody instead of a sad nobody.
Four of the Oceanic Six, in all their flash-forward glory, have been presented. They and the rest of us – eagerly await the arrival of the fifth Six.
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