Episode 69 of 82 is the Season 3 two hour finale. It is listed as two separate episodes on the DVD, but it was shown on TV as one long show, so it counts as just one. It is Jack centric and off island he appears with a full beard and is distraught to near suicide by his drinking, pain pill addiction and an obituary he finds in a newspaper. When he visits the funeral home for the viewing he enters a room full of empty chairs with a coffin. The funeral director appears and tells him is the only person to show up, is he friend or family? To which Jack answers, “Neither.” On island he leads all but three of the Losties to a radio tower so they can call for rescue. Those 3 are left behind to ambush a team of Others who are coming to kidnap the women, especially Sun who is pregnant. The ambush almost works, but is finished up by a returning Hurley, Sawyer and Juliet.
For the satellite phone to work they need two things to happen, the French Chick’s radio signal must be shut down at the tower and the Other’s jamming station needs to be disabled.Ben intercepts the Losties and tries to manipulate Jack into not calling for rescue, but it just earns him a fist beating. Charlie and Desmond are tasked with turning off the jamming. Charlie knows it is a suicide mission for him because of Desmond’s ability to see the future and sure enough it works out that way, but not before Charlie realizes that maybe the rescue boat is not that after all. The show ends off island with Jack meeting Kate at an airport where he tells her, “We should have never left, we have to go back.” Those tricky producers, instead of the off island scenes being flashbacks they were flashforwards.