ABC.com kept this week's synopsis short and sweet -- but loaded with possibilities:

There's no place like home, part 1: The face-off between the survivors and the freighter people begins.

It's hard to even begin throwing out questions about what might happen, so I'll save that for a later post.

But here's some important news: This is no longer a one-man-band.

Long-time poster, CyberInk graphic designer and rabid "Lost" fan Andrew Kochirka has joined the blog and will be posting his insights and theories in these weeks leading up to the finale. Look for his upcoming posts.

For now, we want to hear from you: What do you expect from tonight's episode and the finale?

This is it.

The end starts tonight on this episode. From the previews we see that the Oceanic Six are being unloaded off of a plane. Will that happen tonight? I don't think we'll get the whole story of how they get home.

Here is what I think will happen tonight:

• Jin dies. That's right. You know it has to happen at some point -- or does it? Well, if it's going to happen, it's going to be this episode.

• We learn a lot more about how the island works. Locke, Ben and Hurley have to move the island. How? I think we will see that tonight.

• We'll see "the temple." The temple has been a long-time mystery sitting out there in the back of our minds. Ben told Alpert to lead the Others to the temple and wait for him. Tonight we'll see the temple. I have a feeling it's not what we'd expect.

• Keamy kills all kinds of major characters. Well, maybe not major, but major enough. I have a feeling Bernard is close to his end. Rose maybe, too.

• Michael to the rescue. It has to happen at some point soon -- Michael has to fulfill his purpose on the island. I think he may be the one to stop Keamy and his troops, even, in some kind of self-sacrificing move.

The first segment opens with the future -- the Oceanic Six walking off of the plane.

An Oceanic public relations specialist tells them that they don't have to talk to the media, but Jack says they've already agreed. The PR woman leaves, and he reminds everyone that they know the story and if they can't answer a question, just ignore it.

"They'll think we're in shock," Jack said.

"We are in shock," Sun says.

The flashback -- or the present time -- cuts to Jack and the survivors standing on the beach, pondering the phone dropped from the helicopter, supposedly by Frank. Over the radio, Keamy says they are going to "The Orchid."

A station, obviously, but what kind? Certainly seemed to freak Daniel out.

What is the secondary protocol? Another toxic gas? Biochemicals?

Oh, and Jack is running through the jungle with a side full of stitches. Instant drama.

The official Oceanic Airlines story is that the survivors of Flight 815 floated to an uncharted island called Membata.

There, they grabbed a piece of a ruined fishing boat and went to another island, where some natives picked them up.

What is Membata? Is this some kind of literary reference or just a made-up South Pacific island?

Anyone have any idea?

Hurley raises a very good question: if it's possible to move the island whenever you want, why didn't Ben just move it before the freighter arrived?

"Doing it is both dangerous and unpredictable. It's a measure of last resort," Ben said.

Sayid, Ben and Locke are headed to the Orchid themselves, which Ben described as a greenhouse. It has to house considerably more if it's going to move any entire island.

Back on the beach, Faraday agrees to start ferrying people back, among the first group is Sun, Jin and Aaron. (Which means, I think, that Jin has to die in some kind of conflict on the freighter, possibly the same one Michael is fated to die in.)

Sun walks into her father's office and takes over -- literally.

She used her Oceanic settlement to buy a controlling interest in his car company, the legal part of his operation.

When he asks her why she would do this, she says that he ruined Jin's life. This is partially a reference to Jin's career as a thug for the car company's darker branch, and the fact that Jin and Sun were leaving on the plane to escape her father.

"Two people are responsible for my husband's death," she says. "You are one of them."

Obvious question here: Who else is responsible for Jin's death?

Hurley's mom celebrates his birthday with a tropical island theme surprise party.

"An interesting choice of theme," Sayid said.

"Yeah, mom really doesn't get it," Hurley said.

His father shows him his present -- the car they worked on together when Hurley was a boy, completely refurbished. There's a hangup though.

THE numbers are on the odometer.

Coincidence or not? What do you think?

Ben, Locke and Hurley show up to the Orchid station, an overgrown pile of rubble and weeds, a bit too late.

Keamy's team is already in place.

Ben hints that he knew what Widmore was after all along, and it has something to with this station, and some kind of power it holds.

If you believe "Laila," who posted earlier this evening on another post, it has something to do with the electromagnetic properties of the island, which she believes will be the force that moves the entire land mass.

A lot is happening, really fast.

Frank is back on the island, and he wants to start ferrying people to the boat. The problem for Jack and Sawyer is that Hurley is still with Ben, and Keamy and crew are likely going to kill him. The engine on the freighter is up and running, the bearing is set for the island, but something on the ship is blocking the radar.

The flash-forward was to Christian Shephard's funeral, where Jack discovers that he is Claire's half-brother, when Christian's mistress (Claire's mother) shows up and tells him the truth.

There was a nice cut to a naive-looking Kate holding Aaron.

During the eulogy, Jack said something pretty interesting.

"It won't be much of a wake, because I won't even be able to bury him," Jack said.

Could that be because the man is still alive on some mobile island out in the Pacific?

This episode did what it was supposed to do.

It didn't add much, it didn't reveal anything significant, but it set everything up for a ridiculous two hours in two weeks.

This is the beginning of the end.

(SPOILER ALERT: I'm really not going to say anything ground breaking here, but do yourself a favor and watch the episode first. I don't want to be the one to ruin it for you.)

This post is a bit lengthy but PLEASE read it.

I’m sick. Well, mentally at least. Maybe not sick, just unhealthily obsessed. Haha…everything about LOST fascinates me, like most of you, but I tend to take stuff a little farther. My iPod has the numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42) engraved on the back, my Wii’s nickname is The Hatch, and my two and a half year old Cairn terrier’s name is Sawyer. I’ve talked about getting a “Swan” symbol as a tattoo and I even have a constantly running computer program that simulates the Hatch computer, making me input the numbers every 108 minutes. Like I said, I’m sick.

I’m Andrew by the way. Maybe you could call me Cody’s LOST partner in crime. The Benjamin Linus to his John Locke. I will now hopefully be a regular GET LOST blogger instead of a regular contributor.

Because of the Writers Guild strike, this LOST season is coming to a speedy conclusion. With Part 1 of the season finale already in the books, and a two week gap because of the Grey’s Anatomy season finale, we have lots of time to think about what has happened and what is going to happen.

For my first post here, I’m just going to talk about some of my predictions/thoughts/questions. Some of these have been posted before, some are new, but it’s my first post, everyone can deal with a little repetition.