A journalist unearths some old articles on flight 815 and the mysterious events surrounding it and charters a boat and crew with some colleagues to track down the story. They end up on the island eventually and strange things start happening. Some of the survivors of the crash appear occasionally telling the crew to leave or be caught up in the islands strange energy forever. Intrigued, the crew continue to search the island, uncovering clues. Someone goes island nuts (a' la Locke) and begins to monkey-wrench the crews attempts to leave the island. There is a large explosion at some point and the crew and journalist find themselves back in 1982 or something and become imprisoned by Dharma initiative and interrogated. The rest of the movie is how they can ever piece together what actually happened to flight 815 and how they can return to their own time.

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