EPISODE

S5E14 · The Variable

On the 100th episode milestone for the series, the time of reckoning has begun when Daniel Faraday comes clean regarding what he knows about the island.

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THIS ENTRY’S STORY

Plot summary and ending

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Complete story — includes the ending

Eloise and Widmore push Daniel to continue his time research and go with Naomi to the island. In 2007, Eloise and Widmore meet when they visit Penny in the hospital and argue about Daniel, revealed to be their son. In 1977, after telling a young Charlotte to leave the island, Daniel tries to explain to Chang that the electromagnetic energy under the Swan will become unstable, but he does not believe his stories of the future even when he tries to reveal that Miles is his son. He takes Jack and Kate to visit the Others, but they get in a gunfight with Radzinsky while trying to leave, who hurries to get Sawyer and finds Phil. Daniel explains his plan to detonate the Jughead inside the energy, defusing it and preventing it from crashing Flight 815 in 2004. He enters an Others camp and demands to see Eloise, only to shot by her for intruding. He realizes in his dying moments that she sent him to the island knowing he would be killed by her.

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