
PREVIOUSLY ON LOST: Richard is a mysterious dude who appears to wear some kind of permanent kohl eyeliner and never ages. The weirdness of this isn’t lost on good old Ben Linus, who comments, in ominous tones, that Richard is an advisor to Jacob and that he has had that job for a “VERY. VERY. LONG. TIME.” After Jacob gets stabbed by Ben and goes up like a lighter fluid doused s’more in the fire pit at Jacob’s Giant Egyptian God-shaped lair, Richard gets muy triste — or some other word for emo and bummed out that I don’t know since I don’t actually speak Spanish — because he spent his whole life in service of Jacob and now Jacob’s dead, and his (relentless, unending) life is a hollow lie. Richard then begs Jack to help him to commit suicide by… wait… for… it… DYNAMITE, and though I would never condone the taking of one’s own life by self-explosion, even I have to admit that’s pretty badass. BOOM!







