FLASHBACK to MiB’s body being flushed down the light cave. He floats on his back and is sucked down the hole. Suddenly, his eyes flash open as he’s ejected into the open air miles above the island. Tumbling, confused, he looks up just in time to see a huge metallic bird before being sucked into what we recognize as a large Rolls-Royce turbofan.
He’s instantly shredded and the camera POV follows his burned and blended remains as they spread out like a cloud of blackness behind the distressed plane as it begins to break apart from the impact.
CJ Craig’s voiceover from last week’s episode where she informs Jacob and MiB that she’s made it so the two cannot kill each other plays ghostlike, and we see the black cloud begin to coalesce.
We see a series of flashbacks in MiB’s mind of the various injustices he saw during his 30 years as a man among the island refugees. People killed, injured, more, and then we see action.
Slowly at first as he learns to control his new form, then more quickly, the smoke cloud races back to the buckling Oceanic 815. Desperately, it attempts to keep it in the air, but the plane is coming apart at the seems and he can’t quite understand exactly what he’s looking at.
In a final supreme will of effort, he separates himself into two pieces, each of which grabs one part of the plane (most of him gets the front, some of his essence grabs onto the freefalling tail section) and manages to slow their descent enough to set them down mostly intact on the island. The passengers and crew still alive are knocked unconscious and lose all memory of those final terrifying moments.
His two sections, severed and half-animalistic, stream towards each other, but at the last moment, they encounter Jacob the caretaker. At the exact center point of their meeting is a lighthouse, seemingly built over the centuries with knowledge of the roll it would play this day. The two half-conscious segments of what we now recognize as the Smoke Monster come together… up against the polished surface of the mirror, and are bounced in a completely unexpected direction: Up. Into the closing vortex his body had projected from, the smoke monster is sent blasting back through the centuries to, still confused from its sudden remeshing, stream out of the open cave mere seconds after the body entered it.
