Lost spoilers
Darkufo seems gone at this minute so let's spoil (and spread) the possible plot points ahead (though Darkufo being gone is kinda indicative that the spoilers are true - and boy are they all lame imo):
- Charlie's flashback ep does not end with his death, although he does eventually meet his end.
- In order for the phone to work, Rosseau's transmission needs to be stopped. Juliet says that there is also a transmission blocker in a hatch which has flooded which also needs to be dismantled. Charlie is the one who volunteers for the apparent suicide mission.
- Charlie's flashbacks don't focus on one particular point in the past, but rather the five points in his past that have made him the happiest. One of them occurs on the island.
- The hatch isn't flooded, but Charlie does find himself at gunpoint by two Others when he gets to the hatch.
- Mikhail ends up killing himself and Charlie by detonating the hatch, causing Charlie to drown, but not before Charlie dismantles the transmission blocker.
- Before he meets his end, Charlie sees a transmission (apparently by Penelope) which says that she has no idea who Naomi is and that she didn't send her.
- Locke makes a return in the finale, and seems content to die, but is mysteriously pulled out by Walt, who later disappears.
- There's a battle with the Others that results in a lot of Other deaths (Friendly shot in cold-blood, people being run over by the van, etc.).
- Ben says that Naomi isn't who they think she is, and believes Jack is making a big mistake by using the phone.
- Locke makes it back to where Jack and the gang are, and kills Naomi with a knife throw. This results in the impending Locke v. Jack battle.
- The Jackback shows Jack being dejected, on the brink, suicidal. He keeps trying to make a call to someone (even at the funeral of someone he apparently cared for), but either keeps getting interrupted or can't get through.
- Finally, the finale ends with him making contact with the person he was trying to talk to the entire flashback -- Kate.
- Turns out the flashback isn't really a flashback, but a fast-forward. It appears that both Jack and Kate are safe and off the island. Jack wants for some reason to go back to the island, but Kate refuses, and thus ends Season 3.
I've already covered the unsurprising quadrangle/jackass parts (not those you perv) so I'll say again:
I do not care about Walt, I didn't see any powers in him, what I did see was a terrible child actor unable to act his way out a paper bag;
how Locke doesn't kill jackass is just another proof that the writers think i'm way dumber than them, I continue to think I am much much much smarter than they all are, thank you very much,
Ben talks, who cares?
Charlie dies, so do a bunch of people that have never mattered among whom. the latest minority girl.
Alright, I'll be good: it is surprising that the latest chicana doesn't die of a gun shot wound to the guts after having had sex or after having done the dishes with their tongue (see Kate and spoons apparently) and washed their clothes in the sea (don't get me started on THAT).
No sex and knife in the back that's actual novelty on Lost for a female/minority character. At least not one saddled with a tick or an upcoming one.
No one here is saying it is even remotely entertaining though.