(Spoiler Alert!) The secrets of Lost


Lost\'s fourth season ended with a bang: a handful of castaways escaped the island just before it moved to an as-yet-unknown  But what\'s coming up in the Emmy-nominated drama\'s fifth season?

Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse spoke about the future of the series at the San Diego Comic-Con, and while they didn\'t reveal exactly where the island has gone the were forthcoming with other tidbits.

Firstly, while Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) and Locke (Terry O\'Quinn) both appeared to be dead at the end of season four - the latter\'s lifeless body was even seen in a coffin - that doesn\'t mean audiences have seen the last of them.

"Dead is a relative term," explained Cuse, adding that fans can also expect to learn more about Danielle Rousseau (Mira Furlan), the castaway who was killed midway through season four.

Lost won back fans in season five by experimenting with flashforwards as well as its trademark flashbacks, and there are more changes coming to the drama\'s format.

"There will still be flashbacks and flash-forwards on the show, but we are going to do something different this season and mix it up," said Cuse. "There will be storytelling both on the island and off the island and in different periods of time. It\'s just going to be organized differently and not constrained by the rules of flashbacks and flash-forwards."

Lost returns to television in early 2009.