The last installment of Luci's 3-part "Lost" finale recap (read  part 2):

SPOILER ALERT

A taxi arrives at a church. It's Real Locke in WITPDCAR. He gets into his wheelchair. He sees Ben outside. Ben apologizes for everything. "I was selfish. Jealous. You were special, John. And I wasn't." "Ben, if it helps, I forgive you." Ben chooses to stay outside even though everyone else is inside. (A self-imposed penance perhaps?) Ben tells Locke he doesn't need the wheelchair anymore and Locke walks into the church on his own two legs.

More from Luci Chavez on last night's "Lost" finale (read part 1 of recap here):

Juliet, Claire and David (Dylan Minnette) are walking into he concert in WITPDCAR. Juliet has to go back to the hospital, I presume. Charlie is passed out in the green room until the lovely Charlotte wakes him. "I got shot by a fat man." Daniel Farraday/Widmore (Jeremy Davies) is in the green room, too. He and Charlotte meet.

Outside, David and Claire sit at Table 23 with Desmond and Kate. (The producers think they're so cute.) Dr. Chang is emceeing the event. It is his museum after all. Daniel Widmore is going to jam with Drive Shaft while playing classical piano. Highly unlikely in real life because, in my mind, Drive Shaft is basically Oasis but I don't even care because there is Charlie with his bass looking just shy of sober! Yeah!!!!

Our "Lost" recapper Luci Chavez on last night's finale. Luci will be
hosting a live chat on the finale today at the News & Observer site
at noon. Please join her! 

I have bogarted other people's DVR's to watch Lost. I have stayed up until 3-4 a.m. after late Duke basketball games to watch Lost.

I have vigilantly avoided nearly all internet speculation about Lost for the past three years. I've put friends under radio silence so as to avoid spoiling one second of the best TV show ever.

Consider what a TV show needs to do to inspire that kind of devotion and
emotion every week.

Now multiply it by 150.

The payoff came Sunday night while watching the 2 1/2-hour series
finale.

The series finale of Lost was grand and epic yet achingly intimate and personal. While Lindelcuse stayed true to the show's "what the hell was that" roots with an ending left open to interpretation, it satisfied me emotionally in every way.

  The latest recap from our "Lost" blogger, Luci Chavez.

If there's a cure for this, I don't want it. And by "it" I mean my super-sized obsession with Desmond Hume episodes on Lost. What's not to love when I'm guaranteed to hear the lonely, achingly lovely cello that unhinges me every single time?

This one also featured — because, apparently, I have been a very good girl — my beloved Charlie, that silver fox Charles Widmore, and the lovely Penny.

In this case, love has got a lot to do with it. And by "it" I mean the convoluted mess we know as Lost mythology.  SPOILER ALERT! 

There are a gazillion unanswered questions going into the final season of "Lost" on ABC. I said three seasons ago I'd be happy if Lindelcuse explained 80 percent of it by the end of the series.

Still, let's focus on Season 6. (STOP NOW if you haven't watched the show in awhile and plan to catch up.)

To countdown to the last season premiere ever (waah!) of "Lost" ... six story lines I think should be addressed by the series finale.

No. 2 Did Jack's plan work?

There are a gazillion unanswered questions going into the final season of "Lost" on ABC. I said three seasons ago I'd be happy if Lindelcuse explained 80 percent of it by the end of the series.  

Still, let's focus on Season 6. (STOP HERE if you haven't followed the show and plan on doing it in the future.)

To countdown to the last season premiere ever (waah!) of "Lost" ... six story lines I think should be addressed by the series finale.

No. 4  How did the Others really save little Ben after Sayid shot him?

Lost lost its damn mind on Wednesday in a Daniel Farraday episode called The Variable.(The last time an episode was named after Farraday shenanigans was that incredible Desmond-Penny episode last season — "You answered, Penny. Penny, you answered." — called The Constant.) This is a day late because it took me two days to get over it.

Welcome to the jungle, my friends.

WARNING. WARNING. YOU'RE ABOUT TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN. SPOILER ALERT.

The 100th episode of Lost airs - a Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies) special - on April 29th and you can see the preview below. Sawyer will ask Kate to stay. Jack, like the beloved idiot he is, will jump into the fight. Faraday is supposed to come clean about why he's on the island.

On Wednesday, we get a clips special that will "tell the story of the Oceanic 6 in a whole new way." I'm hoping they put it in order so we can see if we've connected the dots properly.

I avoid spoilers so I can't tell you what's coming up. But, if you want to ruin the suspense and the horror and your entire experience watching Lost the past umpteen years, suit yourself. Here's one link and another that may help you out.

We're counting down the days until the Jan. 21 premiere of Lost (ABC, 8 p.m.) Let's waste the time in between taking a look back at how season four ended for characters on and off the island.

TODAY: Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies)

When we last saw Daniel ... he was ferrying survivors off the island to the freighter. ...