Entertainment Weekly put together a great re-cap, just in time for tonight’s season premiere!!

1. THE ISLAND DISAPPEARED

At the direction of unseen uberforce Jacob, the Island had to be ”moved.” It was Ben who did the deed, cranking on an ancient donkey wheel in a subterranean ice cave. After a blinding flash and eerie sonic concussion, the Island went POOF! Among its passengers: Sawyer, Juliet, and John Locke.

2. JOHN LOCKE NOW LEADS THE OTHERS

Before pushing on the wheel, Ben anointed John Locke president of the Island tribe known as the Others. The purpose-starved Man of Faith seemed pretty jazzed by the promotion, and so did ageless wonder Richard Alpert. Will Locke’s new administration rise to challenge of a newly destabilized Island?

3. JOHN LOCKE WAS IN THE COFFIN

In the off-Island world of 2008, roughly three years after the Oceanic 6 left the Island, Locke — using the name Jeremy Bentham — visited each of the ex-castaways (plus Walt) and beseeched them to return. They refused. Then he died. The papers say it was suicide. Was it?

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4. BEN IS HELPING JACK GET BACK TO THE ISLAND

Once they were enemies. Now, in the off-Island present, Jack has no choice but to trust his ex-nemesis for help rounding up his Oceanic 6 cohorts for a return trip to the Island. But what does Ben get out of it? He told Locke that whoever turned the wheel could never go back to the Island. Unless he was lying. Nahhh. Ben would never do that.

5. SAYID AND HURLEY ARE ON THE RUN

The former Iraqi torturer turned assassin-for-Ben busted Hurley out of the mental institution where the demented dude had been chillin’ with Island ghosts. Like Jack, Sayid was motivated to action by Bentham’s suspicious demise, and his paranoia was confirmed by mystery men lurking outside Hurley’s hospital. What’s the status of Sayid’s working relationship with Ben? You’ll find out in the premiere.

6. JIN IS PRESUMED DEAD. AND SUN IS PISSED

The Korean couple was literally blown asunder: Jin was on the freighter when it exploded, and all Sun could do was watch and scream while she flew away with the rest of the Oceanic 6. Now it seems Sun wants vengeance, and is willing to team up with Charles Widmore to get it. But did Jin really bite it?

7. THE DHARMA INITIATIVE. REMEMBER THAT?

A utopian-minded science enclave that set up shop on the Island in the 1970s and quickly ran afoul with the locals, whom the eggheads referred to as ”Hostiles.” Dharma was conducting a variety of experiments, including an attempt to create a proverbial time-travel machine.

8. DESMOND AND PENELOPE REUNITED

Lost at sea after fleeing the Island, the Oceanic 6 — plus Desmond and freighter pilot Frank Lapidus — were found by Penelope Widmore. At long last, Desmond and his constant were reunited, and we left them in the year 2005, when they were determined to spend their life at sea, away from Penelope’s evil daddy, Charles Widmore. But their story isn’t over yet…..

9. DANIEL FARADAY KNOWS A LOT ABOUT TIME TRAVEL

The Oxford physicist is one of three freighter folk still on the Island or within range of its vanishing light when it disappeared. (The other two: Charlotte Lewis and Miles Straume.) Faraday created a simple time-travel machine during his rumpled professorial days. That expertise really comes in handy during tonight’s premiere.

10. SAWYER TOLD KATE A SECRET

Then he smooched her and jumped out of the chopper and swam ashore sans shirt. Take that, Jack.