Ranking Episodes, Season Four (top half)

Ranking Episodes, Season Four (top half)

6. The Economist (4x3, Sayid)
Episode highlight: Sayid is working for Ben in the future, and Ben is off the Island
#2: Faraday's rocket experiment confirms time weirdness

5. Confirmed Dead (4x2, Freighter Folk)
Episode highlight: The freighter folk are compelling additions to the cast
#2: Abaddon organizing their team

4. Cabin Fever (4x11, Locke)
Episode highlight: Alpert tests young Locke
#2: "We have to move the Island"

3. The Constant (4x5, Desmond)
Episode highlight: Desmond and Penny finally connect, via telephone
#2: Widmore bids on a journal by a crew member of the Black Rock named Hanso

2. The Shape of Things to Come (4x9, Ben)
Episode highlight: Ben and Charles chat in London
#2: Ben summons the Monster?

1. There's No Place Like Home (4x12 and 4x13, Oceanic Six)
Episode highlight: Frozen donkey wheel
#2: Locke's in the coffin

Ranking Episodes, Season Four (bottom half)

12. Eggtown (4x4, Kate)
Episode highlight: Kate is raising Aaron in the future
#2: Ben and Miles' chat
Episode lowlight: Kate's trial

11. The Other Woman (4x6, Juliet)
Episode highlight: Whispers
#2: Ben lies through his teeth to Locke about Widmore

10. Ji Yeon (4x7, Jin/Sun)
Episode highlight: The reveal of Jin's tombstone and the simultaneous flashback and forward ploy
#2: We meet the captain

9. Meet Kevin Johnson (4x8, Michael)
Episode highlight: Rousseau and Karl are killed
#2: The story of Michael's life off the Island (not as good as it might have been, but still fairly compelling)

8. The Beginning of the End (4x1, Hurley)
Episode highlight: Hurley sees Jacob's cabin
#2: Jack tries to kill Locke

7. Something Nice Back Home (4x10, Jack)
Episode highlight: Christian appears to Claire
#2: Christian (and Hurley's chats with Charlie) haunts Jack in the future