"LOST" Finale: Sick & Deranged

"Only an extremely deranged individual would think of doing what we're doing," says executive producer Damon Lindelof about the 3rd season finale of ABC's "LOST" in an exclusive interview to Entertainment Weekly.

The producers of ABC's hit drama have revealed that they are referring to the 2-hour season-ending episode (airs May 23) as "rattlesnake in the mailbox" because only a sick and deranged person would think of doing that, which is exactly what they are doing this year.

The episode will feature a game-changing event that may alter the flashback structure of the show. The episode itself will feature a flashback revealing a significant event in Jack's (Matthew Fox) life that has been held off until now and will have direct significance to the events on the island.

The producers are claiming that the show is now shifting into an answer-giving mode and it will continue to be like that for the next 3 years all the way until the "bitter end."

It all begins with a huge Ben-centric episode tomorrow night which finally explains the connection between The Others and the Dharma Initiative.

The episode will also feature the introduction of the Jacob character, an elusive, unseen, presumed leader of the Others who is "every bit as significant to [LOST] universe as the Emperor was to the Star Wars universe."

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