“There was a lot of Walt worry and that led to us making this epilogue for the DVD called ‘The New Man in Charge,’ in which we resolve the Walt of it all,” co-showrunner Damon Lindelof told Vulture in 2021. “People don’t consider it part of the canon. I do, but the look on people’s faces when they’re like, ‘What about Walt?’ and I’m like, ‘Oh, we did this thing, and it’s on the DVD’ — they just look like they want to strangle me, so I get that.”
While fascinating and useful, this epilogue is oft-forgotten within the streaming period as on-line interfaces not often carve out the server area for shock “bonus” episodes. In truth, you received’t discover “The New Man in Charge” on both of the key streaming providers that Lost in out there on in the intervening time – Netflix and Hulu. Thankfully, you’ll find it now on YouTube fairly simply. So we did simply that for you. Give the complete 11-minute epilogue a watch then meet us on the opposite aspect for a recap and rundown of the Lost questions it solutions.
What Happens in The Lost Epilogue?
“The New Man in Charge” consists of two brief scenes. In the primary scene, newly minted Island liaison Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson) arrives at a Dharma Initiative Logistics Warehouse to tie off some unfastened ends. The facility, which operates out of Guam’s Orote Peninsula, consists of two males in Dharma tracksuits who’ve been cobbling collectively air drops of provides for the previous 20 years.
Ben explains to the 2 staff that the Dharma Initiative not requires their providers as a result of the Dharma Initiative hasn’t existed for nearly 20 years now. The requests they’ve been faxed are automated and have come from Dharma’s Lighthouse station in Los Angeles, which tracks the situation of The Island. The males are understandably confused to have been let go so abruptly so Ben permits them to ask a query every. After answering the place the shipments have been going to (the Island, which regularly strikes across the globe), Ben decides to only present them the orientation video for Dharma Station 1 “The Hydra” to move off different questions.
The orientation video, which options our outdated good friend Dr. Pierre Chang (François Chau) walks recent Dharma recruits via the aim of the Hydra Station. In brief, they’re doing easy animal research…together with some human experiments on the Island’s natives referred to as Hostiles. In true Lost style, the video leaves the 2 staff with extra questions than solutions however Ben is on a decent schedule and has to go.
Next up, Ben arrives on the acquainted Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute (which beforehand housed each Hurley and Libby). It seems he’s there to see Walt Lloyd, the final word dangling thread from Lost‘s run, having departed the sequence halfway via the second season. Ben apologizes for that nasty little bit of kidnapping enterprise and affirms that Walt is particular. He then invitations him to return again to the one place he actually belongs: The Island.
