There's less than two days, three hours, 27 minutes and 8 seconds left before the season finally -- that is, if ABC.com is to be believed.

And it's their show, so I would say they are fairly trustworthy.

Here's the synopsis of this week's episode:

There's No Place Like Home Thu May 29 9/8c The face-off between the survivors and the freighter people continues, and the Oceanic Six find themselves closer to rescue, on the two-hour Season Finale!

That may just be the least descriptive preview synopsis this season.

Do you remember the last episode of the third season? Some of us, including myself, sat through the entire episode scratching our heads, trying to figure out when, exactly, Jack became some drunk lumberjack-look-a-like.

Then came the end, when Kate gets out of the car and Jack says those words, which I am likely misquoting:

"We need to get back to the island."

It was a big moment.

It sent chills up my spine, and hopefully yours. It was the moment we realized that everything surrounding the island wasn't just screwed up.

It was really screwed up.

I'm expecting a moment at the end of this episode that either rivals that moment or puts it to shame.

That said, here are my predictions for the season finale.

I know my previous entry was a bit lengthy so I will make this one shorter for sure.

Season finale number four. It came quickly and I don’t want it to end but with two more seasons to go, we need to start getting answers. Here is what I think is gonna happen in the finale.

In the finale's "previously on Lost" we see Jack touching the coffin.

Do we find out during this episode who is inside?

The man in the coffin was Jeremy Bentham (sp?) who apparently told Jack something that makes him feel that he has to go back to the island. (Jeremy Bentham isn't listed in Lostpedia at all)

In a brilliant move of "too be continued" logic, we pick up with this episode where last season's finale left off.

Kate refuses to go back to the island.

The boys on the ship are up against a wall.

It looks like the bomb will blow up regardless of what they do. Keamy and crew are skilled at wiring the bomb, and there is no good way to shut it all off without a big fat explosion.

The characters are starting to group up, too -- Sawyer and Jack just met Locke and Hurley outside the Orchid.

Another explosive situation.

Yes, I just went there.

The biggest villain on the island died less than 15 minutes into the show's two-hour season finale.

Kate and Sayid just got their pass back to the mainland by helping Alpert and company rescue Ben in a dramatic gunfight-fist fight-knife fight.

Ultimately, Sayid and Keamy end up fighting each other and Alpert shoots Keamy in the back.

The big question here is if Ben is back at the helm with the Others, or if Alpert and company are still shunning him. Will Ben, after a few episodes of being some kind of anti-hero, become the villain again? Is the story arc from here in all about Ben and moving the island?

Also, Locke doesn't quite know how to work the Orchid.

Walt just visited Hurley in the mental hospital, apparently years after the Six are rescued from the island.

Why years? Because Walt has to be pushing 20.

Walt tells Hurley that Jeremy Bentham visited him, and that he can't understand why everyone is lying about the crash.

"Because it's the only way to keep everyone who stayed there safe," Hurley says.

John Locke tells Jack the same thing in the show's "present."

You thought John Locke was going to give it all away.

I know I did.

I waited there during the pregnant pause.

"This isn't an island, Jack," Locke said.

Well then what is it? In my head I said, "It's a hole in the space-time continuum."

No.

"This is a place where miracles happen," Locke said.

Come on, man. That was cruel.

This last segment was largely devoted to Locke trying to tell Jack that he shouldn't leave the island, that he was going to have to hide everything that happened on the island -- from last week's episode we can see him as the leader of the Six's story, reminding everyone that they didn't have to answer any questions they didn't want to.

"Lie to them, Jack," Locke said as he descended to the Orchid. "If you can do it half as well as you lie to yourself, they'll believe you."

So, let me get this straight.

There's this vault on the island, close to a pocket of "exotic matter" that can not only make bunnies travel forward and backward in time, but also can move the island when you put a whole bunch of metal in it?

I may try to alter time and space with a frying pan in my microwave tonight.

This is a major, super cool, fact.

We see a nice new DHARMA video, too, where the good Doctor explains some of what's happening on the island.

For the record, a "casimir effect" is:

In physics, the Casimir effect and the Casimir-Polder force are physical forces arising from a quantized field. The typical example is of two uncharged metallic plates in a vacuum, placed a few micrometers apart, without any external electromagnetic field. In a classical description, the lack of an external field also means that there is no field between the plates, and no force would be measured between them. When this field is instead studied using quantum mechanics, it is seen that the plates do affect the virtual photons which constitute the field, and generate a net force[1]—either an attraction or a repulsion depending on the specific arrangement of the two plates. This force has been measured, and is a striking example of an effect purely due to second quantization. [2] [3] (However, the treatment of boundary conditions in these calculations has led to some controversy.[4]) (From the remotely-reliable Wikipedia)

This,apparently, can stabalize wormholes, a friend just IMed me.

WORMHOLES!

Did you get that?

In other shocking news:

+ Charlotte has been on the island before, or so says Miles

+ The guys on the ship are trying to freeze the battery running to the C4 so that it can't explode, my guess is that it won't really work

+ Someone is coming down the elevator to the Orchid. Ben asks for his weapon.

Keamy is attached to a heart rate monitor, which will blow up the C4 on the boat if he's, say, stabbed in the throat a few times and is slowly bleeding out on the floor of the Orchid.

Which he's doing right now, thanks to Ben.

"You just killed all the people on that boat," Locke said.

"So?" Ben said.

That's cold.

Keamy, by the way, was apparently wearing body armor, which makes sense, seeing as he's in a well-funded paramilitary organization. Alpert probably could have thought of that -- but it still wouldn't save anyone on the boat.

A friend just IMed me that he thinks Jin will die as the last person on the boat, still spraying down the battery with liquid nitrogen.

I agree.

That would make Ben the second or two people who killed Jin -- the other being Sun's father, which she told him last episode.

Sawyer could have been the seventh.

Instead, in a selfless move, he jumps from the helicopter carrying Kate, Sayid, Jack and Hurley to conserve leaking fuel and make sure that the copter can make it to the freighter.

Before he jumps, he whispers something to Kate (something about his daughter?) and then leaps into the water after a prolonged television kiss.

An hour into the episode, we are already questioning everything, but think we know more than we did before.

Here are some of my big questions, in one word each:

+ Wormholes?

+ Jin?

+ Helicopter?

+ Faraday?

+ Boom?

+ Others?

Bentham isn't really Bentham -- he's someone we already know.

Sayid kills a guard posted outside of Hurley's mental hospital sometime in the future and tells Hurley that Bentham was apparently killed, his death covered up as a suicide.

Hurley asks Sayid why they are calling him that, because his real name is...

Sayid cuts him off.

Could it be BENtham?

We have to find out this episode.

Also: Hurley was playing chess with an invisible Mr. Echo. Are the ghosts he sees really there?

Jin could have been the seventh survivor, but Frank takes the chopper off of the freighter before he can get there.

Frank lifts off just in time, too.

As the copter rises, Michael runs out of nitrogen.

Christian Shepard appears to Michael to tell him he can "go now."

Here's a question: Is Christian Shepard now a Christian shepard? That is, gathering the sheep? That is, collecting the souls of the dead? That is, the Grim Reaper?

Seems like he appears to people -- Michael, Clair -- just as they die.

As for Jin and Desmond, we still don't know if they are dead or alive, because we've only seen the freighter blow up and we don't have a body count.

It's getting too intense to keep track of everything.

Ben moved the entire island by moving a big wooden wheel -- yes, a big wooden wheel.

Andrew Kochirka's idea of a hamster wheel wasn't too far off.

Ben breaks through the Orchid station and goes "somewhere cold" at the center of the island. In the icy room, covered in runes, he turns a gigantic wooden wheel and -- boom -- no more island, just white light then open water.

The catch is this: Ben can never come back to the island.

Ever.

He just moved it, and it's lost.

Unbelievable.

( I think this is the point where we saw him earlier in the season waking up in the desert.)

Other big events:

+ John Locke is now king of the Others. "Welcome home," Alpert tells him.

+ The Oceanic Six -- on a helicopter with Desmond and Frank -- crash into the water at a high speed. We cut to commercial. I think Frank and Desmond survive, but aren't lumped in with the Six because they weren't on the plane.

+ Juliet and Sawyer are left on the beach, drinking DHARMA rum. Will they become part of the Others?

+ Widmore and Sun are teaming up, on Sun's urging to find the island. This was a while back, but I hadn't mentioned it.

Desmond and Penny are reunited -- I'm choking up over here.

Andrew doesn't have to fulfill his promise to stop watching the show.

SPOILER ALERT: I'm geeking out over here.