The fifth season tells stories of the survivors from the crash of The Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 after some of them are rescued while the still stranded others and the island mysteriously disappear to another location and back in time to the 1970s. The rescued, including Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sun, Sayid and Ben, together with a bounty hunter Ilana and a pilot Frank Lapidus tries to return to the island to reveal the truth of the island's secret.