1. Here's the plan - with the Others' invasion coming the night after next, Jack takes a group of people to see how they're going to fight back. Turns out it involves the liberal use of dynamite, brought by Rousseau from the Black Rock. Juliet will mark tents as planned, but they'll be loaded with TNT rather than potential kidnap victims.
2. Can you see what I see? - While on the show and tell trip with Jack, Desmond has more flashes. Charlie sees this and asks for details, but Desmond denies the visions. He later relents, and tells Charlie he saw Claire and Aaron getting on a helicopter to go home. Only problem is, for this to happen Charlie does have to die - he'll swim into some location, flip a switch, and drown.
3. Hey, there's just the place for that! - As an alternate rescue plan, Sayid suggests cutting off Rousseau's broadcast so he can use its frequency to call the ship that Naomi flew off from. Juliet says that won't help, as the Others have been jamming her signal from the Looking Glass - an underwater station that is flooded but can be shut off if someone swims in to shut the station down. Guess who volunteers? Before going out to the station, Charlie compiles a list of the five greatest moments in his life (the subject of this week's flashbacks): hearing Driveshaft on the radio for the first time, learning to swim, getting a family ring from his brother, saving a mugging victim and being called a hero, and meeting Claire. He writes this on a list, which he gives Desmond to bring back to Claire.
4. Change of plans - at the start of the episode we see a guy get in an outrigger and start paddling. Turns out it's Carl, who snuck back to the other island to be near Ben's daughter. When Ben returns from meeting Jacob, he says that Jacob has told him to move the attack up to that night. Ben's daughter tells Carl, and says that Carl has to warn the Lostaways, as they saved his life. Carl does this; with the new schedule, Jack and Rousseau realize they can't get the tents wired in time. Sayid suggest shooting the dynamite to set it off, and he finds shooters in Bernard and Jin. Sayid opts to stay as well, which cheeses Jack off until Sayid tells him to act like a leader and lead the group to the radio tower, where they'll wait for rescue.
5. More change of plans - Desmond and Charlie follow the cable that Hurley found out to the Looking Glass (why they just don't cut the cable I don't know). Desmond offers to take Charlie's place, thinking that perhaps that's what's supposed to happen. Charlie seems to accept this, at least until he brains Desmond with an oar. Charlie slips the list into Desmond's pocket and dives in. He barely reaches the moon pool entrance to the station, which is clearly not flooded. He gasps for air and rejoices in being alive - until two women with guns come out and draw a bead on him. So much for switch-flipping.
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