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When Lost<\/a><\/em> didn\u2019t have us scratching our heads<\/a>, it had us dabbing our eyes. For as much as the ABC<\/a> castaway drama constructed a mysterious and metaphysical mythology<\/a> that we\u2019re still trying to wrap our minds around<\/a>, it also moved us with human drama anyone can understand. This is a show that yanked at our heart strings, often while we heard a swell of strings. (Damn that Michael Giacchino and his emotional orchestrations!)<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a (very spoilery) <\/strong>rundown of the\u00a0moments that had us emotionally<\/em> lost\u2026<\/p>\n Not only does a Season 3 episode show Claire (Emilie de Ravin<\/a>) meeting her father \u2014 who\u2019s Jack\u2019s (Matthew Fox<\/a>) father, too! \u2014 it also shows her sobbing as she says goodbye to her mother. Carole (Susan Duerden) was in a coma ever after getting into a car crash with Claire years earlier, and Claire tearfully confesses her past sins before taking her ill-fated flight to Los Angeles. \u201cI\u2019m so sorry for all the awful things I said to you in the car \u2014 that I hated you, and that I wished you weren\u2019t my mother, and I wished you were dead,\u201d Claire says. \u201cIt\u2019s all my fault, the accident and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n After Claire disappears into the jungle in Season 4, the other survivors care for her baby son, Aaron. He\u2019s one of the so-called Oceanic Six who make it back to civilization that season, and Kate (Evangeline Lilly<\/a>) raises him as her own for years. But when Kate realizes she has to go back to the Island to rescue Claire, she leaves Aaron with Claire\u2019s (then-recovered) mother, tears streaming down her face as she bids the little guy farewell.<\/p>\n In one of many chapters of Locke\u2019s (Terry O\u2019Quinn<\/a>) tragic life, we see the rise and fall of his relationship with his biological father via Season 1 flashbacks. Locke locates the long-lost Cooper (Kevin Tighe<\/a>), and they seemingly recapture their father-son relationship. Locke even donates a kidney to his dad when he discovers Cooper is in kidney failure. But Cooper is a con man, and when he takes the organ and runs, Locke is left devastated.<\/p>\n Lost<\/em> ends the series finale as the series premiere<\/a> started, with Jack walking through the Island\u2019s bamboo forest and spotting Vincent, the yellow Labrador that also survived the crash of Oceanic 815. But this time, Jack is dying, and as he collapses to the leafy ground, Vincent lies down next to him. (\u201cLive together, die alone\u201d? Not if this good boy has anything to say about it.) And as one version of Jack perishes \u2014 and the flash-sideways version of him moves on to the afterlife with his Oceanic 815 buddies \u2014 he sees the Ajira plane pass overhead, carrying his surviving friends to safety.<\/p>\n Ben (Michael Emerson<\/a>) refuses to surrender to the mercenaries in Season 4, even when Keamy (Kevin Durand<\/a>) reveals he has taken Alex, Ben\u2019s adoptive daughter, hostage. Over Keamy\u2019s walkie-talkie, Alex (Tania Raymonde<\/a>) pleads for her life and begs Ben to give himself up, but Ben insists he has the situation under control. He doesn\u2019t, of course \u2014 Keamy makes good on this threat and shoots Alex in the head, and the last thing the poor girl heard in her life was Ben claiming, untruthfully, that she means nothing to him.<\/p>\n The Island giveth and the Island taketh away. Claire gives birth to Aaron the same night that Boone (Ian Somerhalder<\/a>), a fellow Oceanic 815 survivor, dies from injuries he sustained helping Locke investigate the wreckage of another crashed plane. And as the rest of the survivors crowd around Claire and her newborn, Shannon (Maggie Grace<\/a>) heads to the cave and weeps over the body of her dead brother.<\/p>\n In Lost<\/em>\u2019s Season 5 finale, our 1977-stranded heroes make a plan to send a hydrogen bomb down a drilling shaft at the site of the DHARMA Initiative\u2019s Swan station \u2014 future home of The Hatch \u2014 in hopes of preventing the electromagnetic anomaly and thus the future crash of Oceanic 815. But Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell<\/a>) is pulled down into the shaft, and though she\u2019s mortally wounded in that fall, Sawyer (Josh Holloway<\/a>) still thinks he can save her<\/a> after the bomb detonation sends them to 2007. She dies in his arms, telling him they can get coffee sometime (foreshadowing their flash-sideways reunion).<\/p>\n Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick<\/a>) has visions of Charlie (Dominic Monaghan<\/a>) dying throughout Season 3, but those premonitions don\u2019t make the Drive Shaft musician\u2019s demise any less tragic. Charlie drowns after Mikhail (Andrew Divoff<\/a>) detonates a grenade outside the underwater Looking Glass station\u2019s porthole \u2014 but not before making contact with Penny (Sonya Walger<\/a>) and realizing the mercenaries on the freighter aren\u2019t who they say they are. In his final moments, Charlie saves not just Desmond but many more of his friends, writing \u201cNOT PENNY\u2019S BOAT\u201d on his palm as a dying warning.<\/p>\n Near the end of Season 6, the Man in Black plants a bomb on the submarine the survivors plan to use to escape the Island. Sayid (Naveen Andrews<\/a>) sacrifices himself to save his friends \u2014 which is sad enough already! \u2014 but then Jin (Daniel Dae Kim<\/a>) realizes Sun (Yunjin Kim<\/a>) is pinned in the sinking sub. And when he realizes he can\u2019t free her, he stays with her. \u201cI won\u2019t leave you,\u201d he tearfully tells her in Korean. \u201cI will never leave you again.\u201d<\/p>\n9. Claire apologizes to her mother<\/h2>\n
8. Kate says goodbye to Aaron<\/h2>\n
7. Locke\u2019s father betrays him<\/h2>\n
6. Vincent makes sure Jack doesn\u2019t die alone<\/h2>\n
5. Alex becomes a casualty of Ben\u2019s negotiations with Keamy<\/h2>\n
4. Boone dies as Aaron is born<\/h2>\n
3. Sawyer tries in vain to save Juliet<\/h2>\n
2. Charlie dies a hero\u2019s death<\/h2>\n
1. Jin stays with Sun until the end<\/h2>\n