Also, last night’s double episode has perfectly set the scene for The Things To Come in the next season.

“There's No Place Like Home Part 2 and 3” has confirmed something that some of us guessed from the first episodes: there is something deeply wrong with The Island. While it’s hard to say how things will turn out in the end, now we know for sure that besides the Dharma initiative, the black smoke and some other details, The Island has the ability to time travel. And as you can imagine, with an island that is capable to move through time anything is possible from now on.

However, while some of the pieces of the puzzle have just fit together, it is still hard to guess what The Island really is. Maybe it’s a mechanical piece, like in Jules Verne’s books? Maybe it is just a gate to another dimension? Or maybe it is just a special state of consciousness, shared only by few people?

But what have we learned so far in this final episode? As you might remember, at the end of the first part of “There’s No Place Like Home” Ben was taken prisoner by Keamy, the soldier of fortune sent on The Island by Charles Widmore, while John Locke and Hurley were looking for an entrance into The Orchid, one of the most secret Dharma stations.

Jack and Sawyer arrive at The Orchid and Jack confronts John about his intention. It seems like Locke is determined to “save” The Island, by doing whatever it takes and advises Jack to lie about what really happened on The Island.

Meanwhile, Kate and The Others ambush Keamy’s men and liberate Ben, who goes back to The Orchid. However, Kemy himself plays dead and he sneaks back to The Orchid where Ben and Locke are watching a Dharma video tape about time travel.

Keamy reveals that the device strapped to his arm is a detonator set to blow off the bomb from the freighter, but Ben kills him, without remorse about the people who will die. When Locke tells him he just killed everyone on the freighter, Ben responds in his cold, well-known manner “So?”

Ben explains to Locke that he has to move The Island, while Locke should accept that he is now the new leader of The Others. Ben descends in an icy room in the presumed center of The Island and begins turning the wheel that will teleport The Island somewhere in time.

Meanwhile, Jack, Hurley, Kate and Sawyer board the helicopter together with Lapidus  and take off to the freighter. Along the way, Frank discovers a leak in the fuel reservoir and Sawyer leaves the helicopter to allow it to reach its destination.

On the freighter, Michael , Jin and Desmond are trying to figure out a way to prevent the bomb from exploding. Michael sprays a canister of liquid nitrogen on the bomb's battery to buy time, but the bomb is armed when Keamy dies back on The Island.

Frank and the other three Losties arrive to the freighter just to find out about the bomb. In a frantic succession of events, Frank patches the hole and fills up the tank, but while Sun with Claire’s baby and Desmond make it to the helicopter, Jin misses it and the freighter blows off, killing him and Michael.

With The Island gone somewhere in time, the freighter blown away, Frank and the other Losties have nowhere to land, so they crash in the ocean, but all of them mange to board a life raft.

Suddenly a ship appears and it is no other than the one with Penelope onboard. In a heartbreaking scene, Desmond meets his true love, while the rest of the Losties are boarding the ship.

Together with Penelope, the Losties are setting up the cover story known as The Oceanic Six and one week later they head to the island of Membata, without Desmond and Frank.

Of course, like the other episodes from the season, “There's No Place Like Home Part 2 and 3” had its flash forwards from which we learn that Sayid rescues Hurley from the mental institution and kills his stalker.

However, the most important flash-forward is the one that links the current episode with the Season 3 final “Through The Looking Glass”.

After speaking with Kate about his desire to go back to The Island, Jack speeds up to he funeral of Jeremy Bentham, a man who apparently spoke with each of the Oceanic 6 survivors, trying to convince them to return to The Island.

Ben appears at the parlor home and speaks to Jack, saying that ALL the members of the Oceanic 6 must go back to The Island, where things had gone wrong as Bentham revealed. The episode and the season end after the face of Bentham is shown by the camera: he is in fact John Locke, leaving us to wait desperately for the fifth season.