The Nine Biggest Revelations from the Lost Panel at Comic-Con

Written by Kyle Buchanan |

Hey there, folks! Somehow, I braved the crowds to make it into Hall H for one of the biggest events at Comic-Con: the Lost panel. We’ve already talked to Elizabeth Mitchell, but now let’s see what revelations we got from Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, and a whole host of surprise guests:

1. It looks like that bomb reset actually happened.
One of the most intriguing clips played at the panel (concurrent with Jorge Garcia’s surprise appearance) had Hurley taping a commercial for a brand-new Mr. Clucks food item. After identifying himself as the owner of the chain, Hurley introduced the new addition to the menu and explained that it was inspired by his recent trip to Australia. Hmm.

2. Kate didn’t actually kill her father.
The second strange clip played after that: an America’s Most Wanted segment on Kate (Evangeline Lilly) that heavily implied that she was still at large after a successful Flight 815. More startling, though, was the segment’s revelation that Kate’s attempt to blow up her dad actually killed an innocent man who’d come to check on the house, and not her father. Might we be seeing Kate clash with her bad dad in Season Six?

3. We’ll see Faraday and Juliet next season.
Juliet, we knew. Faraday, on the other hand, was a well-received surprise.

4. The Dharma stuff is effectively dunzo.
Lindelof and Cuse explained that we’d learned virtually all there was to learn about the Dharma Initiative this past season, but we will find out how the Dharma food-drop happened in Season Two! So rejoice, continuity nerds.

5. Michael Emerson would have made a bitchin’ Hurley.
Surprise guest #2 was Ben himself, who needled Garcia into showing clips of Emerson’s supposed audition for the roly-poly Hurley. If all you know of Emerson is his ability to play tremulous evil, you should have seen his take on a frantically mugging, Phish burnout version of Hurley.

6. Nestor Carbonell prefers onyx eyeliner to cobalt.
When one “audience member” asked about Carbonell’s infamously dark-rimmed eyes, Lindelof cut to a backstage video of Carbonell applying eyeliner and bitching out an assistant who’d fetched the wrong color. Carbonell then showed up in person, and Lindelof reassured the crowd that we’d be getting Richard Alpert’s backstory in the last season.

7. Lost producers aren’t afraid to take a dig at Heroes.
Lindelof and Cuse claimed they were so determined to prove that they’d had a plan all along that they’d brought the very last two pages of Season Six’s finale to the Con. The producers made a big show of putting the pages in a lockbox that they’d eventually read on Jimmy Kimmel Live once the series finale aired, but after Josh Holloway emerged to taze Lindelof, he forced Cuse to hand the pages over to Michael Emerson. The secret scene, which Emerson then read out loud? A hilarious, cutting Heroes parody where Sylar tells Parkman that he’s the last Petrelli brother.

8. There’s a surprising fan contingent for Ian Somerhalder!
A final “In Memoriam” segment eulogized all the main characters killed over the show’s run, and when Ian Somerhalder’s Boone appeared, half of the female audience lost their shit. I’m sure the kids over at Vampire Diaries are heartened by that.

9. Dominic Monaghan is totally coming back, you guys.
The biggest segment of the In Memoriam, though, was devoted to Dominic Monaghan, who appeared as a surprise guest literally as the panel ended — like, as people were being made to shuffle out. He didn’t say a single word, but the appearance would seem to confirm the heavy rumors we’ve heard that Monaghan will be juggling his regular role on ABC’s FlashFoward with appearances on Lost.