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This article contains episode summaries for the first season of the ] ]/] ] ''''']'''''. The season first aired on ], ] and concluded on ], ].


==Pilot: Part 1==
In addition to the twenty-five episodes in season one, a special, "Lost: The Journey", was aired on ], ] to put the mysteries of the island and the characters in perspective in the lead-up to the season finale. The original airdates (]) are listed here for each episode. For airdates on other networks and in other countries, see ].

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| 4 || "]" || Locke || ], ]
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| 5 || "]" || Jack || ], ]
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| 6 || "]" || Sun || ], ]
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| 7 || "]" || Charlie || ], ]
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| 8 || "]" || Sawyer || ], ]
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| 9 || "]" || Sayid || ], ]
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| 10 || "]" || Claire || ], ]
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| 13 || "]" || Boone and Shannon|| ], ]
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| 19 || "]" || Locke || ], ]
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| 20 || "]" || Jack || ], ]
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==Pilot: Part 1==
*'''Original airdate:''' ], ] *'''Original airdate:''' ], ]
*'''Flashback:''' ] *'''Flashback:''' ]
*Teleplay by: ] & ] *'''Teleplay by''': ] and ]
*Story by: ], ] and ] *'''Story by''': ], ] and ]
*Directed by: ] *'''Directed by''': ]


] wakes up in the jungle, wherein he sees ] walking through the bamboo. Confused and disoriented, Jack attempts to gather his thoughts, when he hears screams in the distance. Running to the nearby beach, he is confronted with the carnage of the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. Jack immediately springs into action, administering medical aid and asking other survivors to assist him with more difficult rescues. In quick fashion, Jack assists ], enlists ] to watch her, and administers CPR to ].
The premise for the series is set forth in an indirect and incomplete manner, which has become the defining style of the series. The 14 principals are briefly introduced.


After the initial shock of the crash passes, Jack slips off to tend to his own wounds. Here he meets ], whom he asks to stitch up his wound. During their initial conversation, Kate reveals that their plane had disintegrated in mid-air. Later on the beach, Jack tends to an unconscious man who has been badly injured, while Kate curiously looks on. Other survivors, including ] and ], meet to discuss what to do with the bodies in the wreckage, as an uninterested ] looks on. This discussion prompts ] to organize a cleanup. Hurley salvages meals from the plane’s galley and distributes them to the survivors, while ] refuses food offered by ], believing instead that their rescue was imminent.
A close-up of an opening eye shows the ] contracting. The tops of trees in a bamboo grove are seen through the eyes of a man (who is later identified as ] (])) lying on his back in the jungle. A Golden Labrador Retriever dog trots past through the trees. Obviously confused to how he arrived there, the man gazes about at the idyllic surroundings when his memories rush back to him. With great effort, he sits upright, revealing blood on his shirt. He bolts upright and runs pell-mell through the jungle, emerging at a beach strewn with the wreckage of a ] and almost 50 confused survivors of the crash. It is later revealed that the plane was torn apart in mid-air while travelling from ], ], ], to Los Angeles, California, ]. The fuselage of the jet is still burning and one of the engines is still in operation, though its speed waxes and wanes due to no apparent cause.


That night, the peacefulness of the camp is disturbed by loud noises emanating from the nearby jungle. In the morning Jack decides that the survivors need to send a distress signal if they hope to be rescued, and he believes the best solution is to use the plane’s transceiver. With Kate and ] to assist him, Jack sets off into the jungle to find the cockpit. As they move deeper into the jungle, a sudden rainstorm comes up. When the trio finds the plane, resting against a tree, they are forced to climb through the rows of seats to reach the cabin. Inside, they find the pilot still in his seat. Charlie disappears into the bathroom while Jack and Kate talk to the pilot. He tells them that the plane had lost radio contact before the crash, and, due to a change in course, was 1000 miles off course when they crashed.
On the beach, Jack moves quickly among the survivors attempting to administer medical aid, identifying himself as a ]. With the help of other survivors, he pulls a man with a severed leg from underneath the fuselage. When he notices a pregnant woman (whom we later meet as ] (])) complaining of possible ], he directs a nearby survivor (later named as ] (])) to help her. The chaos persists as the fuselage continues to burn and disintegrate. A male survivor is sucked into the jet engine, which explodes, sending debris raining on the beach. Jack administers ] to a woman (later identified as ]) who is unconscious. In a later flashback, it is revealed that on the plane, Jack was seated across the aisle from this woman and was conversing with her at the moment that the plane lost cabin pressure. She had been accompanied by her husband, who had left his seat to go the lavatory. Jack had told her that he would fill in for her husband and stay by her side until he returned.


Meanwhile, on the beach during the rainstorm, a group of survivors takes refuge in the wreckage. While huddled under the wreckage, a young Korean man, ], tells his wife ] that she should remain close to him at all times. Even as most of the survivors have taken refuge, one person remains outside: ], who sits alone in the rain on the beach with his arms outstretched. Back in the jungle, the conversation in the cockpit is interrupted when the strange entity from the previous night appears. When the pilot investigates, he is seized by some unseen presence, prompting the trio to grab the transceiver and flee the cockpit. During the escape, Charlie falls. Jack returns to help him, while a terrified Kate runs on. After the entity disappears, Kate, Charlie and Jack reunite and begin walking back to camp. As they walk, they find the pilot’s bloodied corpse suspended in the tree tops.
After administering aid to the other survivors, Jack takes a sewing kit from a suitcase and slips off into the jungle to examine the wound on his left side. He sees a young woman (who later identifies herself as ] (])) standing nearby and drafts her to sew up his wound, calming her by telling her the story of his first solo surgical procedure, where he conquered his fear during an emergency by "letting the fear" in, but only for five seconds. It is also revealed through their conversation that the plane disintegrated in the air, with the tail section of the plane having fallen off (Kate claims she saw the whole thing, while Jack says he blacked out before that).


== Pilot: Part 2 ==
On the beach, Jack tends to an unconscious male survivor who is badly injured by a fragment of the fuselage embedded in his torso. Kate asks Jack if he thinks the man will live, and informs him that she was sitting next to him during the flight. Other survivors (including the father and son we later meet as ] (]) and ] (])) congregate and discuss what to do with the bodies still in the fuselage. We briefly encounter the character later identified as ] (]), lounging nonchalantly on his back on the beach. The character we later meet as Hurley salvages meals from the plane's galley and distributes them, giving two to the pregnant woman he helped (her labor pains were false, but it is revealed she is eight months pregnant). A young woman whom we later meet as ] (]) petulantly refuses a chocolate bar offered by her male companion (whom we later meet as ], her step-brother (])) on the grounds that she will eat on the "rescue ship" when it arrives. Among the survivors, there is a general expectation that they will be rescued at any time. A character who identifies himself as ] (]) organizes the clean-up of the beach.


In the evening, beyond the light of their fire, the peacefulness of the waiting is interrupted by loud terrifying noises from the nearby jungle, punctuated by the crashing of trees. The source of these noises seems invisible or hidden, and is later referred to as "the Monster". While the survivors listen to the ominous sounds, Rose remarks that the noises sound "familiar".

The next day, Jack decides that in order to be rescued, the survivors will need to send a radio message using the ] of the aircraft, which is located in the ], which broke off in the air. (In doing so, Jack reveals to Kate that he took a few flying lessons but that it "wasn't for him".) Based on Kate's descriptions of the location of smoke, he sets off into the jungle, accompanied — at her insistence — by Kate, as well as a character called ] (]). As the trio walks away from the beach, they are observed from the brush by the dog encountered in the opening scene. Kate tells Charlie he looks familiar, and he reveals to her that he is the ] in a band called ].

As the three survivors advance into the jungle, they are drenched by a sudden rainstorm. They encounter the nose section of the plane, which is sitting at a steep angle in the trees. Led by Jack, they climb into the nose and scale the steep floor, where Jack prises open the cockpit door. Inside, he and Kate find the pilot, still in his seat, and assume he is dead — only to have him awake suddenly. The pilot reveals that the plane had lost radio contact before the crash, and had changed course towards ]. They were, in his reckoning, 1000 miles off course and thus no one knows where they are. The pilot locates the transceiver, but he cannot get it to function.

Meanwhile, on the beach during the same rainstorm, a group of the survivors huddles in part of the fuselage. The conspicuous exception is an older man (whom we later meet as ] (])) who sits alone in the rain on the beach with his arms outstretched, as if glorifying in the rain itself. A young ]n couple (whom we later meet as ] and ] (] and ])) huddles under part of the fuselage. The man tells the woman (in their native language) to remain close to him at all times.

In the jungle, the conversation in the cockpit is interrupted by loud noises from outside the plane, accompanied by mechanical thrashing identical to the "Monster" heard by the other survivors on the beach. The pilot attempts to investigate by climbing out of a broken cockpit window. To the horror of the others, he is seized by some unseen presence while half-way out of the window and disappears. Jack grabs the transceiver and he and Kate exit the cockpit in terror. Kate notices that Charlie has disappeared. She is suspicious as he suddenly emerges from the lavatory. As the three run from the "Monster", Charlie is nearly taken by it and Jack leaves Kate to return to fetch him. She calms herself by counting to five as Jack had suggested. Later as the three walk back towards the beach they encounter the pilot's bloodied body suspended in the tree tops.

===Trivia===
* Online fan forums also refer to the Monster as "The Creature", "Lostzilla", or the "Tree Crusher Monster".
*The sound the "monster" makes (which Rose says sounds "familiar") is the same noise heard during the crash of Oceanic 815.

==Pilot: Part 2==
*'''Original airdate:''' ], ] *'''Original airdate:''' ], ]
*'''Flashback:''' ] and ] *'''Flashback:''' ] and ]
*Teleplay by: ] & ] *'''Teleplay by:''' ] & ]
*Story by: ], ] and ] *'''Story by:''' ], ] and ]
*Directed by: ] *'''Directed by:''' ]


A flashback reveals Charlie sitting on the plane nervously tapping his fingers. He sees the flight attendants talking, presumably about him, and quickly gets up to go into one of the lavatories. He reaches the lavatory in first-class (just outside the cockpit), enters and takes a hit of ]. Before he can flush his stash there is turbulence and he exits the lavatory and sits in the nearest seat to strap himself in. In "Pilot: Part 1" he visits the lavatory to retrieve his stash while Jack and Kate are searching the cockpit for the transceiver. Jack, Kate, and Charlie head back to the beach. Kate asks Charlie what he was doing in the bathroom, and he says he was sick. A flashback reveals Charlie sitting on the plane nervously tapping his fingers. He sees the flight attendants talking about him and quickly gets up to go into one of the lavatories. He enters the lavatory in first-class, and takes a hit of heroin. Before he can flush his stash there is turbulence and he exits the lavatory and sits in the nearest seat.


While looking for Vincent, Walt discovers a pair of handcuffs. He gives them to Michael. Jack, Kate, and Charlie return to the beach to discover Sawyer and Sayid fighting. Michael gives the handcuffs to Jack, and Sawyer accuses Sayid of crashing the plane. Sayid takes the transceiver and fixes it, however it does not have a signal or much battery life. He reveals to Hurley that he was a communications officer with the ] in the ]. Charlie walks away from the crowd and takes a hit of heroin. Jack asks Hurley to find antibiotics. Sawyer pulls a letter from his pocket and smokes a cigarette while he reads it. John Locke introduces Walt to Backgammon, and tells him a secret.
Sayid (revealed to be a former communications officer with the ]), Kate, Charlie, Boone, Sawyer, and Boone's sister, Shannon, take the transceiver inland in an attempt to use it to communicate with the outside world. On the way they are attacked by an unseen animal, which Sawyer kills with a gun. When they look down at the dead animal, they discover with shock that it is a ]. Sawyer tells the others he got the gun from the body of a dead ]. Who is the prisoner he was transporting? Accusations are made between the survivors. Tension had been mounting between Sawyer and Sayid, with Sawyer accusing Sayid of being a ]. Sayid now accuses Sawyer of being the prisoner.


Sayid, Kate, Charlie, Boone, Sawyer, and Shannon take the transceiver inland in an attempt to get a signal. Jack stays behind to tend to the wounded man. On the way they are attacked by an unseen animal, which Sawyer kills with a gun. When they look down at the dead animal they discover that it is a polar bear. Jack wants to pull the shrapnel metal out of the wounded man, and asks Hurley to hold him down if he regains consciousness during the operation. Hurley passes out on top of the man. Sawyer tells the others he got the gun from the body of a dead US Marshal. Sayid accuses Sawyer of being the marshal's prisoner. Kate takes the gun from Sawyer and Sayid instructs her on how to dismantle it.
The episode's second flashback of the final moments of flight shows Kate in conversation with the man seen on the island with a shrapnel injury. It is revealed that he is the US Marshal and that Kate was his prisoner. After he is knocked unconscious by flying luggage, Kate does what she can to save his life by freeing herself from the cuffs and attaching his oxygen mask for him before attaching her own.


A flashback reveals the final moments of the flight. Kate is talking to the US Marshal, the same man who Jack is tending to. Kate raises her hands, and she is wearing the handcuffs that Walt found in the jungle. After he is knocked unconscious by a suitcase, Kate uncuffs herself, and puts on the marshal’s oxygen mask on him before attaching her own.
Sayid's effort to send a message to civilization is blocked by a mysterious transmission in ] that has been repeating for over 16 years. It is revealed by Boone that Shannon had spent a year in France and thus should be able to understand the transmission. She attempts to translate the message as best she can. Towards the end of the message, the woman is saying "It killed them, it killed them all".


Back at the beach, the marshal wakes up during the operation and asks Jack, "Where is she?” Inland, Sayid turns on the transceiver and it has a signal. However, it's being blocked by a transmission in French that has been repeating for over sixteen years. Shannon translates the transmission to: ''"I'm alone now, on the island alone. Please someone come. The others are dead. It killed them. It killed them all."'' They deduce that whoever made that transmission has been stranded on the island for sixteen years.
Meanwhile, back at camp, Walt has discovered some handcuffs whilst searching for his lost dog, and Jack is trying to operate on the US Marshal. The man comes round during the operation, demanding "Where is she?".

== Tabula Rasa ==


==Tabula Rasa==
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In a makeshift infirmary tent, Jack is tending to the Marshal who mutters the same thing over and over through his pain: "Don't trust her. She's dangerous." When Jack asks him who "she" is, the Marshal tells him to look in his jacket pocket. Jack looks in the Marshal's wallet and finds a mugshot of Kate. Jack is tending to the marshal, who mutters, "Don't trust her. She's dangerous." When Jack asks him who "she" is, the Marshal instructs him to look in his jacket pocket. Jack discovers Kate’s mug shot.


The "signal party" is working their way back down the mountain. It's getting dark and some of them want to make camp for the night. Sawyer wants to press on through the jungle at night, but the others agree that it isn't a very good idea and he is convinced to stay. Sitting around the fire, they discuss what they should tell the others about the French transmission. That information has not improved their peace of mind, so they decide not to tell the others anything in order to preserve hope, as this would be horrible news for the rest of the survivors. The signal party returns down the mountain. It's growing dark, so they make camp for the night. They decide not to tell the others about the French transmission in order to preserve hope. When a fight breaks out over who should keep the gun, they agree to give it to Kate. At the beach, Jack continues trying to save the marshall. Hurley enters, stumbles across Kate's picture, and asks, "What do you think she did?"


In flashback, Kate is awakened by a farmer, Ray, who wants to know why she is sleeping in his barn. Using the pseudonym Annie, Kate is offered a job on the farm.
At the beach in the tent, Jack is trying to save the Marshall. Hurley enters and stumbles across Kate's picture and asks, "What do you think she did?" Instantaneously, we see a flashback:


The next morning the signal party returns to the beach. Kate pulls Jack aside and tells him about the French transmission. He asks if there is anything else she'd like to tell him. Kate inquires about the marshal and Jack lies, telling Kate the man said nothing. Jack enters the fuselage to find antibiotics and discovers Sawyer looting the bodies. Charlie helps Claire collect luggage using a wheelchair from the plane. Hurley bumps into Kate at the infirmary and, after a curt introduction, nervously runs away.
Kate, being prodded by a shotgun held by a farmer (Ray) who wants to know what she is doing sleeping in his barn. After a frank exchange, the two find that they can be of service to each other. He needs some help on the farm, she needs a job and a place to stay, and claims her name is "Annie".


In a flashback, Kate leaves Ray’s farm. But when she accepts a ride from Ray to the train station, she learns that he is planning on turning her in to the authorities for reward money. Kate sees the marshal driving behind them. She jerks the wheel and crashes the truck off the road. She misses her chance to escape while saving Ray.
Back at the signal party, Boone lifts the gun from Sawyer and the clip from Sayid as they sleep. They wake up and an argument ensues over who should have the gun, but they can't agree on a trustworthy candidate — until they arrive at Kate. She reluctantly agrees to keep it.


The marshal wakes and tries to choke Kate. When Kate suggests to Jack that they euthanize him, Jack reveals that he has seen her mug shot and that he is not a murderer. Michael asks Walt about Locke, and then instructs Walt to stay away from the man. Walt says that Locke’s secret is that a miracle happened to him. Michael looks for Vincent in the jungle and stumbles upon a topless Sun washing herself.
The next morning, Hurley arrives at the infirmary tent to tell Jack the signal party has returned. Kate pulls Jack aside and says she has something she wants to tell him, in private. Jack is relieved, assuming that she is going to confide in him. Instead, however, Kate tells Jack about the French transmission. He asks if there is anything else she'd like to tell him. She asks if the Marshal has regained consciousness. When Jack tells her he did briefly during the surgery, Kate asks if he said anything to Jack. Jack considers the question for a moment before answering, "No".


The marshal’s painful screams are taking a toll on the group. The marshal tells Jack he wants to speak to Kate alone. While she is in the tent, Hurley tells Jack that Kate has a gun. Jack sees Kate leave the tent, and the gun is fired. Sawyer walks out of the tent and says he did what had to be done. However, the marshal's screams continue. Sawyer has failed to kill him. Jack throws an extremely shaken Sawyer out of the tent and, a few moments later, the moans stop. Jack walks past Sawyer without saying a word.
The Marshal's condition has deteriorated. If they don't find some stronger antibiotics, he's not going to make it. Hurley tells him he's looked everywhere, except the fuselage where the deceased are.


The next morning, Locke uses the dog whistle he made to find Vincent. He tells Michael, who returns Vincent to Walt. Kate wants to tell Jack what she did, but he replies that it doesn’t matter who everyone was before the crash.
Jack enters the wreckage and does his best to avoid disturbing the bodies as he makes a desperate search for anything that will help the Marshal. Hearing something rustling behind him, he finds Sawyer combing the fuselage for a different reason — turns out he's doing a little personal shopping. Jack berates him for disrespecting the dead, but Sawyer tells Jack to get with the program. Jack still thinks they are back in civilization while Sawyer realizes they are "in the wild".


== Walkabout ==
On the beach, Charlie is helping Claire collect luggage using a wheelchair from the plane and they begin to form a bond. Meanwhile, Sun presents a suitcase to Jin, but after closer inspection Jin determines it is the wrong one and tells Sun to keep looking. But before she does, he tells her to go and clean up her face, because she is embarrassing him. As she turns to leave, he tells her he loves her.

Hurley bumps into Kate at the infirmary tent and tries to play it cool about knowing her secret and in the process notices the gun in her waistband, despite his lying abilities. We then flashback to:

Kate, who decides it's time to move on from the Australian farm. But when she accepts a ride from Ray to the train station, she learns that he is planning on turning her in to the authorities. He saw her picture at the post office and he really needs that reward money. Kate looks in the side mirror to see the Marshal behind them. In a desperate attempt to get away, Kate jerks the wheel and crashes the truck off the road. Saving the farmer from the truck costs her a chance to escape and she is captured by the Marshal.

Back in real time, while leaning over her body, the Marshal wakes up and lunges at Kate's throat, choking her. Jack has to pull him off of her before he does any harm.

Michael struggles to forge a bond with Walt and wants to know what Locke told him yesterday. Walt says that it's a secret, but when Michael presses the issue, Walt reveals that Locke told him "a miracle happened". Michael warns him to stay away from Locke.

When the rain stops, Michael searches for the dog in jungle. He hears something in the tall grass. He runs as fast as he can to get away from it and encounters Sun, who is topless and washing herself. There is an awkward moment between them.

Back on the beach, the Marshal is dying loudly. His screams are taking a physical toll on the rest of the group. Sayid asks Jack if anything can be done. Jack says he is doing all he can. The Marshal tells Jack he wants to speak to Kate alone. While she is in the tent, Hurley tells Jack about the gun he saw in her pants. Jack races back to the infirmary tent before it's too late; he sees Kate emerge from the tent, and then a shot is fired.

Sawyer walks coolly out of the tent. He says he did what had to be done. Horrible groans come from the tent again. We go in to find that the Marshal still isn't dead — Sawyer dubiously shot him in the chest. He was aiming for the heart and apparently missed. It will take hours for the Marshal to bleed out and he will suffer horribly. Jack throws an extremely shaken Sawyer out of the tent. A few moments later, the moans stop for good. Jack emerges and walks past Sawyer without a word.

Later, Jack is sitting on the beach, looking out at the sea. Kate joins him and says she wants to confess, tell him about herself. Jack says he doesn't want to know because - "three days ago, all of us died" and everyone should be able to start afresh. Kate nods quietly in agreement, pensive and teary-eyed.

===Trivia===
* ], the episode's title, refers to the 17th-Century philosopher ]'s theory that the (human) mind is at birth a "blank slate" without rules for processing data, and that data is added and rules for processing are formed solely by one's sensory experiences.


==Walkabout==
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About four days after the crash, the survivors discover that their food is exhausted, and wonder what to do. John Locke, a menacing presence in the background of the previous stories, flings a combat knife at an abandoned plane seat, narrowly missing the head of another castaway (Sawyer), and announces that they should go hunting in the jungle. While the survivors deal with mundane tasks of survival, Locke's background is set forth. When boars raid the fuselage, Jack decides it has to be burned. Four days after the crash the survivors discover that their food is exhausted, and wonder what to do. John Locke suggests they should hunt boar in the jungle. Locke, Kate, and Michael set out hunting. Sayid gives Kate takes the transceiver and asks her to find a signal.


In a flashback, Locke is at work in an office building playing a game of ] during his lunch hour. His manager, Randy, taunts him when he discovers that Locke is going on an Australian ]. At home in his studio apartment, Locke is talking to a woman named Helen on the phone. He invites her to go to the walkabout, but she declines and says that she does not meet customers. She then offers to talk to Locke for another hour if he pays for it. Locke angrily hangs up the phone.
Locke is revealed to have been paralyzed and wheelchair-bound prior to the plane crash. Locke had planned on participating on a ] tour of the Australian ], but was turned away when the tour guide discovered that he was in a wheelchair. Locke had offered a woman named Helen — who is implied to be a girl at a phone sex agency — a ticket to travel with him, but she turned him down. Locke is shown to have been a lonely, frustrated man, constantly belittled by his much-younger boss in the cubicle farm where he worked as a regional sales representative for a box company.


Michael is injured while hunting, and Kate escorts him back to the beach. Along the way she climbs a tree to use the transceiver, but when she sees the monster she drops it, and the transceiver breaks. Locke has a close encounter with the monster. However, instead of running from it, Locke stands his ground.
Some mystery is also infused into his character as the audience is made to wonder why exactly he gets called "Colonel Locke" and why he receives a mysterious phone call speaking of a target being identified, and using military time to identify a time to "rendezvous" and the "usual place". A later scene reveals the caller to be a co-worker, confirming their lunchtime game of ].


At the beach the castaways are clearing supplies out of the fuselage. Claire decides to lead a memorial ceremony for the deceased passengers. Boone suggests that Jack talk to Rose, who has acted distant since their arrival on the island. Rose tells Jack that her husband, who was in the tail section of the plane when it crashed, is still alive.
This episode also explains Locke's comment about it being a 'miracle': the crash gave him back the use of his legs.


Michael and Kate return to camp. Sayid is angry that Kate broke the transceiver. When she goes to tell Jack about Locke, Jack sees a man in a suit walk into the jungle. Jack chases after him and Kate follows. They find Locke with a slain wild boar.
In the jungle, Locke is separated from his companions, who believe the Monster is closing upon Locke. However, he returns to the camp with a slain wild boar, and the other survivors believe that he has killed it himself. Locke seems to have directly encountered the mysterious Monster, but we do not know what he saw.


In a flashback, Locke is in Australia talking to one of the leaders on the walkabout. He refuses to let Locke come because of his condition, saying it’s too big of a risk for the insurance company. As the man gets up to leave, Locke is revealed to be in a wheelchair. In a flashback to minutes after the crash, Locke is laying on his back in the sand. He wiggles his toes, then slowly and clumsily stands up.


That night Claire holds a memorial service for the dead passengers using information she found in their passports, wallets, and luggage. Charlie takes a hit of heroin before attending. His stash is running low. Jack does not attend the memorial service.

== White Rabbit ==


==White Rabbit==
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Joanna, a character who had not been previously mentioned, drowns in the ocean, despite Boone and Jack's best efforts to save her. They hold a makeshift funeral for her, with the few bits of information they can glean from her few recovered possessions. A flashback shows Jack and a friend as kids being beaten up. One bully gives Jack the chance to leave, but he decides to help his friend, causing him to be beaten even more. Joanna, a character who had not been previously mentioned, drowns in the ocean. Boone fails to save her, and Jack rescues Boone, leaving Joanne to drown. Jack is distraught that he failed to save her and sees the man in a suit again.


Hurley and Charlie want Jack to decide how to handle the lack of water. In a flashback, Jack’s father sees Jack’s beaten face. His father tells Jack he shouldn’t be a hero because “he doesn’t have what it takes.” On the island Jack sees the man in the suit, and chases him. Jack catches up with him and discovers it’s his father. Jack’s father turns and walks away without a word.
The survivors' water supply is starting to run low, and they decide to ration the water. After Claire faints in the heat, they discover the last of it has been stolen.


In a flashback, Jack’s mother tells him that his father has left for Australia. His mother wants him to bring his father back. Jack reluctantly agrees. On the island Claire faints from heat exhaustion, and they discover that the remaining water has been stolen. Locke goes into the jungle to look for water.
Delirious from a lack of sleep, Jack believes he sees his father stalking him from a distance, and forsakes the leadership role the others have thrust upon him in order to follow the apparition and determine whether he is hallucinating into the jungle. Flashbacks explain why Jack was in Australia: he was looking for his father, who had disappeared while on a drinking bender. In fact, Jack found that his father had died, and, on the ill-fated return flight, Jack was bringing his father's body back to the United States for burial. Jack's search for his father results in finding a source of fresh water for the survivors, as well as a cave that will afford shelter. Jack also finds his father's coffin, but it is empty.


Jack deliriously stumbles through the jungle looking for his father. A flashback shows Jack searching the hotel his father was staying at, and interrogating the manager. On the island, Jack falls off a cliff while running. He hangs onto a branch, but cannot climb up. Locke appears and helps Jack.
We see Boone waking Claire to give her water. Everyone is amazed to find Boone was the water thief. There is a struggle, and he is pulled to the ground. Before the worst happens, Jack returns to the beach and steps in. He tells the survivors that they all must learn to live together or else die alone. He informs them of the new water supply and plans to take a group to retrieve some first thing in the morning.


On the beach, Charlie offers Claire some water. They talk and form a bond. Sayid finds that Sun has water, and she reveals that Sawyer gave it to them. Kate follows Saywer to his stash of stuff he looted from the fuselage, but he doesn’t have the water.
===Trivia===

* Sawyer is shown reading '']'' in this episode.
Locke tells Jack that the others need a leader, and it should be him. Jack reveals that his father is a hallucination. Locke claims the island is “special”, and everything that happens on it happens for a reason. He says, “I looked into the eye of this island and what I saw was beautiful.” They split up: Locke looks for water, and Jack follows his hallucination.

In a flashback Jack is at the morgue. The doctor says that Jack’s father died of alcohol poisoning. Jack identifies the body. That night on the island, Jack discovers caves with an abundance of fresh water. More wreckage from the plane is here, including a coffin. A flashback shows Jack at the airport. The airline refuses to put his father’s body on the plane because he does not have the proper documentation. On the island, Jack opens the coffin to find it’s empty. He destroys it out of anger.

On the beach Boone gives water to Claire. Charlie sees him and drags him out of the tent. The others start pushing Boone, asking him where the water is. Jack appears and tells everyone about the caves. Sawyer is delighted that people hate Boone more than him. Jack tells Kate about his father.


==House of the Rising Sun== ==House of the Rising Sun==

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A flashback shows Sun at a party. Jin, a waiter, passes Sun a note telling her to meet him in private. Sun wants to run away with Jin, but Jin insists they tell her father they are seeing each other.
All are shocked when Jin attacks Michael without warning; Sayid is forced to handcuff him to a portion of the plane wreckage to keep the peace. While the survivors argue whether to stay on the beach — where a rescue party could see them — or move to the cave in the jungle near fresh water, the story of Jin and Sun is revealed in a series of flashbacks. Jin went to work for Sun's father in order to gain his permission to marry her. After working years for her father, Jin returned home late one night, his clothes and hands covered with blood. Horrified by the violent life that Jin had apparently taken up, Sun plotted to run away from her husband — but at the last minute decided to join him on the fateful flight. Sun reveals to Michael that she can speak English, but Jin does not know. She says her husband attacked Michael over her father's watch, which Jin had been keeping, and which Michael had found after the crash and been innocently wearing. After hearing the explanation, Michael decides to cut Jin free with an axe. From this point on during Season 1, Jin is always seen with a handcuff around his left hand.

Jack, Kate, Charlie, and Locke go to the caves. Jin attacks Michael for no apparent reason. Sawyer and Sayid handcuff Jin to the wreckage. Michael says the attack was racially motivated. At the caves they discover two bodies, who Locke dubs ‘’Adam and Eve’’. Jack estimates they have been dead for 40-50 years, and finds a pouch on them containing two stones: one black, one white.

In a flashback, Jin returns from talking to Sun’s father. Her father approves of their relationship as long as Jin takes a job working for her father. One night after they’re married, Jin returns home covered in someone else’s blood. He tells Sun he was doing work for her father.

At the beach, Jin tells Sun Michael has her father’s watch. Locke and Charlie are clearing the wreckage at the caves and Locke tells Charlie he recognizes him from ]. Charlie is relieved that someone finally recognizes him.

Jack and Kate return to the beach and Jack starts selling people on the idea of moving to the caves. The castaways argue whether to stay on the beach where a rescue party could see them, or move to the caves, where there’s more shelter and have fresh water. The group splits into two camps: some stay at the beach, while others move to the caves.

The next flashback takes place several years later. Sun secretly plots to leave Jin and her father, so she will be free to go wherever she wants. On the island Sun finds Michael alone, and in perfect, unbroken English says, “I need to talk to you.” Michael is shocked that she speaks English. Sun says Jin does not know that she speaks English. She explains that Jin attacked Michael because of the watch he’s wearing. Michael says he found it in the wreckage. The watch belongs to Sun’s father, and Jin became angry when he saw Michael wearing it.


At the caves, Locke tells Charlie that he knows Charlie is addicted to heroin. Locke says if Charlie gives up his drugs, the island will give him his guitar, which he deeply misses. Locke finds the guitar, and Charlie is ecstatic. On the beach Kate refuses to go with Jack to the caves. Michael approaches Jin with an axe and cuts him free, however half of the handcuff still remains on his hand. He gives the watch back to Jin and tells Jin to stay away from him and Walt.
Meanwhile, Jack shows Kate, Charlie and Locke the caves and freshwater supply he found in the previous episode. In one of the caves, after Charlie is attacked by ground-nesting bees, they find some human skeletons, which Jack guesses as having died 40 years ago of natural causes. They appear to be a man and a woman (Locke gives them the name Adam and Eve). Amongst their possessions, Jack finds a pouch mysteriously containing two stones — one black, one white. The group then splits into two camps: some stay at the beach, while others move to the caves.


A flashback shows Sun at the airport about to leave Jin forever. However, she can’t do it, and gets on the doomed flight with Jin. That night at the caves Charlie plays his guitar as Jack returns with people from the beach.
Locke learns of Charlie's heroin addiction and tells him that he may get his guitar back if he quits. Charlie hands over the bag of heroin and Locke points upwards to Charlie's guitar, hanging over the edge of a steep hill above them.


==The Moth== ==The Moth==
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Charlie is suffering from withdrawal, and when walking in the jungle a boar chases him. In a flashback, Charlie is in church confessing his sins. He comes out of confession and sees Liam, who tells Charlie that Drive Shaft has a recording contract. Locke traps the boar and thanks Charlie for being bait. Charlie asks Locke for the heroin. Locke says that he’ll gives Charlie the drugs the third time he asks.
Charlie begins a painful journey of withdrawal from drugs, particularly ]. Locke aides him, although his true motive for helping him remains a mystery. Locke suggests that the two of them go for a walk: that fresh air will do the profusely-sweating Charlie good.


Sayid, Kate and Boone attempt to triangulate the French transmission. At the caves, Charlie searches through Jack’s medicine for something to replace his heroin. When Jack catches him, Charlie says he has a headache and wants aspirin.
In flashbacks, Charlie recalls his glory days playing with his band, ], with his brother, Liam. Charlie is in church, confessing his sins, and when he comes out of the confessional, Liam holds up an envelope and says that they've been signed to a record contract and will become rock gods.


In a flashback, Charlie doesn’t want to sign the record contract because he morally disagrees with the sex and drugs the band engages in. Liam talks him into it as long as Charlie can quit any time he’s had enough. One evening at a show, Liam starts singing the chorus to ‘’You All Everybody’’, which is suppose to be sung by Charlie. He yells at Liam after the show, but Liam reassures him it won’t happen again.
On the beach, Jack is determined to leave the beach, favoring the sanctuary of the recently-found caves less than a mile away. Kate is reluctant to go with Jack, which makes him unhappy.


When Jack upsets Charlie by telling him to move his luggage, Charlie confronts him in a cave. Charlie’s shouting causes the entrance to the cave collapse. Charlie escapes, but Jack is trapped inside.
Meanwhile, Sayid recruits Kate, Shannon and Boone to develop antennae that he hopes can be used to triangulate the source of the French transmission, which has been running on a repeating loop for 16 years.


Using his construction experience, Michael leads the rescue attempt. In the jungle, Sawyer goes to warn Kate about Jack, but decides against he doesn’t like Kate’s attitude. Charlie tells Locke about Jack. Charlie asks for his drugs a second time, so Locke shows him a moth cocoon. Locke explains that he could help the moth by slitting the cocoon, but it would not survive. Instead, the moth needs to struggle to break free. Nature and struggle make people stronger, indicating to Charlie that he needs to fight through his suffering.
Back in the jungle, a frightened Charlie is being chased by a wild boar. As he enters a clearing, the boar is suddenly swooped up in a net, being operated by Locke, who is nearby. "You make good bait," Locke commends Charlie, who angrily demands the return of his heroin. Locke, however, is not intimidated and instead tries to turn withdrawal into a learning experience for Charlie. He tells Charlie that he believes he is indeed stronger than he realizes. He explains further that he wants Charlie to think about it, and that he'll allow him to ask for it three times — this is the first. On the third occasion, Locke will give Charlie his heroin.


Kate and Sawyer stay at the second triangulation point, while Sayid goes to the third point. Sawyer tells Kate about Jack, and she runs back to the caves. Charlie squeezes through an opening at the cave and finds Jack. A flashback shows Charlie finding Liam high on heroin with groupies. Charlie kicks them out, and tells Liam that he’s done with the band. Liam says no, causing Charlie to use heroin for the first time. Years later, Charlie visits Liam is Australia and wants him to rejoin Drive Shaft for their comeback tour. Liam refuses, but they can’t do it without him. He criticizes Charlie for still using, and Charlie blames Liam for getting him started with drugs. Charlie angrily leaves, and says he has a plane to catch.
One of the caves collapses, trapping Jack inside and dislocating his shoulder. Charlie, who narrowly escaped the collapsing cave himself, goes back to see Locke. Charlie has additional flashbacks about Drive Shaft. Both he and Liam were unprepared for the phenomenal success of their band, and got caught up in anonymous sex and ]. The band eventually splits due to the ego-warring between the two brothers. Charlie attempts to recruit Liam for a reunion tour, but by this time his sibling has settled down with a family in Australia, and Charlie is still using drugs.


After resetting Jack’s shoulder, they dig out of the cave. Jack confronts Charlie about using drugs, and reassures him that it’ll be okay. Charlie asks Locke for his heroin, looks at it, and tosses it into the fire. Charlie and Locke see the previously cocooned moth flying away. Before Sayid is able to triangulate the signal someone knocks him out.
On the beach, Sayid explains how the ] will work. Boone will stay on the beach with his antenna (however he runs off to help dig Jack out, leaving Shannon in charge of it), Kate will go two kilometers into the jungle and Sayid will go to high ground. Since the batteries are so weak, Sayid provides flares that each person will fire when they are ready. Once everyone has seen the third flare, they will switch on their antennae.

Charlie finds Locke skinning the dead boar, and apprises him of Jack's plight. When Charlie is unable to provide a good explanation as to why he's not helping, Locke surmises that Charlie came back to ask for the heroin. Charlie asks a second time, upon which Locke shows him a moth cocoon. Indicating a small hole in the cocoon, Locke explains that he could help the moth by slitting the cocoon, but it would not survive. Instead, he said, the moth needs to struggle to break free. Nature and struggle make people stronger, Locke explains, telling Charlie that this was the second time.

Sayid's plan is executing flawlessly, with all three firing their flares and turning on their antennae. However, just before he is able to lock on to the signal, Sayid is clubbed over the head by an unknown and knocked unconscious.

Back at the caves, Charlie is able to worm his way through the collapsed rock and into the cave with Jack. After helping Jack reset his shoulder, the two of them dig out. After getting freed, Charlie — whose self-esteem has been all but obliterated — finds Locke cooking the boar and, for the third time, asks for his heroin. Locke looks disappointed and asks Charlie to confirm if that's what he wants. Charlie insists, and Locke gives him the heroin. Charlie looks at it briefly before tossing it into the fire, earning praise from Locke and regaining much of his own self-worth. Immediately after, Charlie and Locke see the previously cocooned moth flying freely.


==Confidence Man== ==Confidence Man==
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A flashback shows Sawyer sleeping with a woman, Jessica. He gets out of bed, and money falls out of a suitcase he picks up, shocking Jessica. On the island, Sawyer catches Boone rifling through his stash. Later, Shannon brings a bloody Boone to the caves, claiming Sawyer beat him. Boone says that Sawyer has Shannon’s asthma medicine, and she could die without it. Jack confronts Sawyer, who doesn’t give any answers. A flashback reveals Sawyer is going to use the money to invest in oil, tripling his money. Jessica wants in, saying she can use her husband’s money.
When Shannon's ] becomes a problem, everyone becomes convinced that Sawyer is hoarding some inhalers from the wreck. Jack and Sayid torture him, but he only agrees to give up the inhalers in return for a kiss from Kate. She kisses Sawyer, after which he reveals that he doesn't have them after all. Sun helps Shannon by making a ] salve to clear her bronchial passages.


Sawyer says he’ll give up the medicine if Kate kisses him. Kate calls his bluff and calls him out on the letter he often reads. Sawyer makes Kate read the letter aloud. It’s addressed to ''Mr. Sawyer''. The author says Sawyer slept with his mother and stole his father’s money, causing the father to murder his mother then kill himself. The author says he’ll find Sawyer and give him the letter he knows what he did to the author’s family.
In flashbacks, we learn that Sawyer is a ]. His parents were ruined by another grifter named Sawyer, whose name he took as an alias when he entered a similar life of crime to pay some debts. He hates himself for this, which explains why he seems to go to such great lengths to make everyone else hate him. At this point we do not know his real name, but later episodes reveal it to be James Ford.


Shannon has an asthma attack as Sawyer approaches. He refuses to give Jack the medicine. Sawyer is having lunch with Jessica and her husband in a flashback, and they agree to invest with Sawyer. Charlie wants Claire to move to the caves, but she likes the beach more. Claire agrees to move to the caves when Charlie brings her a peanut butter. Charlie asks Hurley about peanut butter, saying Hurley hasn’t lost any weight, to which Hurley says he’s down two belt notches.
After the torture incident, despite a plea from Kate, Sayid sets off alone to explore the island's shoreline, disgusted with himself for breaking a vow never to do anything like that again. Charlie convinces Claire to move to the caves; they seem to be striking up a close relationship.

When Shannon’s asthma gets worse, Sayid tortures Sawyer until he gives an answer. Sayid and Jack tie Sawyer to a tree. Sayid sticks a piece of bamboo under his fingernails, causing Sawyer a great deal of pain. Sawyer gives in and says he’ll tell Kate, but only if she kisses him. After he passionately kisses Kate, he tells her he doesn’t have it. He went through torture to kiss Kate. Sayid believes Sawyer is lying, and they begin fighting. Sayid stabs Sawyer with Locke’s knife in the upper arm.

A flashback shows Sawyer closing the deal with Jessica and husband. Their son enters, and Sawyer calls the deal off. He wakes up on the island to find his arm bandaged. Kate had been rereading Sawyer’s letter. She sees the stamp on it from Knoxville, and discovers the letter wasn’t written ''to'' Saywer, but ''from'' him. Sawyer tells Kate about his flashback. When he say that boy he realized he had became the man he was hunting, and took the pseudonym ''Sawyer''. He snatches the letter from Kate and tells her to leave. An herbal medicine made by Sun helps Shannon get better. Charlie approaches Claire with an empty jar and tells her it’s peanut butter. She’s so flattered she moves to the caves. Sayid leaves the group because he was ashamed of what he did to Sawyer.


==Solitary== ==Solitary==
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On his own, Sayid finds a cable running out of the ocean and into the jungle. He follows it, is captured, and tortured by a mysterious woman who identifies herself as ] (]). It is her voice on the automatically repeating distress call; she seems mentally unbalanced. She claims to have been stranded on the island when a "science expedition" ran aground there. She also claims to have killed most of the other expedition members after they became "infected" — controlled by some sort of disease or mind control (this is very vague). She also warns him to keep an eye on the others. Sayid finds a cable running out of the ocean and into the jungle. He follows it, and falls into a trap. A mysterious woman cuts him down and ties him to a bed in a bunker. She asks where Alex is, but when Sayid says he does not know she electrocutes him. Sayid tells his torturer his story and about the French transmission. The torturer then identifies herself as Danielle Rousseau, the person who sent out the distress signal. Danielle finds a picture of a woman among Sayid’s possessions, and he identifies her as Nadia.

In a flashback, Sayid is torturing a prisoner who will not answer his questions. When he steps outside, he recognizes a new prisoner. He is then instructed to torture her until she answers his questions. Sayid discovers that the woman is Nadia, a childhood friend. She reveals that she has been tortured before, and anything Sayid does won’t persuade her to talk.

At camp everyone is stressed. Locke and his new hunting companion, Ethan, give some new luggage to Hurley. He looks through it and finds golf clubs. The next morning Hurley builds a golf course to improve morale among the survivors.


Danielle asks Sayid about Nadia, and he says she is dead because of him. Danielle shows Sayid a broken music box, and he tells her he will fix it. She gives Sayid a sedative and moves him. Danielle tells Sayid she was part of a science team, and they crashed on the island about three days from ]. She identifies The Others as the carriers of a sickness that her companions caught, and says they whisper in the jungle. Sayid doesn’t believe her, and continues to fix the music box. After he is finished he asks Danielle to let him go. They hear a growl outside, and Danielle pursues it, leaving Sayid alone.
In his flashbacks, we learn of Sayid's career in the Republican Guard, and how he conspired to help a childhood friend, Noor (nicknamed Nadia), escape execution and developed feelings for her.


In a flashback, Sayid’s superior tells him to execute Nadia. He cuffs Nadia and puts a hood over her head. When they are alone he frees her and tells her how to escape. He then shoots himself in the leg to make it look like she overpowered him.
Meanwhile, Hurley builds a ] course (site of "the first — and hopefully only — Island Open", in his words) to improve morale among the castaways, and Locke seems to agree, without Michael's knowledge, to teach Walt (]) how to use knives (possibly about throwing them). Another new character, ] (]), helps Locke hunt.


Sayid escapes from Rousseau's bunker while she is gone and grabs a rifle and notes she made about the island. Danielle finds him and they have a standoff. He fires the rifle, but nothing happens. Danielle says she removed the firing pin, and Robert, one of her companions, made the same mistake before she killed him. Sayid talks Danielle into letting him go. Before he does, Sayid asks about Alex. Danielle says that Alex was her child. While trying to find his way back to camp, Sayid hears the whispering Danielle told him about.
Sayid eventually escapes from Rousseau's bunker, but he hears the whispering voices in the jungle of which she spoke.


==Raised by Another== ==Raised by Another==
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Two nights in a row, Claire wakes up screaming. On the second, she insists that someone held her down and stabbed her stomach to hurt her unborn child, although no physical marks support this. Jack questions her and learns that the baby is due in just over a week. Concerned that stress could trigger early ], he says Claire is having ] ]s, and that an attack would have been unlikely with so many other people around. But Charlie — who has been doting on Claire — isn't so sure, and the alleged attack prompts Hurley to begin a ] of the islanders. Claire wakes up screaming two nights in a row and insists that someone held her down and stabbed her stomach. However, she has no stab wounds. This attack persuades Hurley to take a ] of the survivors.


In a flashback, Claire takes a pregnancy test with the assistance of her boyfriend, Thomas, and it’s positive. Thomas reassures her that everything will be fine and they’ll be good parents. Claire goes to a ] who knows she’s pregnant, but refuses to tell Claire what he “saw”. One day when Thomas comes home he leaves Claire, saying that he’s not ready for the responsibility.
Angered by Jack's suggestion that she wasn't really attacked and his advice to take a mild ], Claire leaves the cave alone and heads for the beach. Charlie catches up with her shortly before she is overcome by ]. On the way to get Jack, he finds Ethan and tells him to relay the message. Charlie manages to calm Claire down, and the contractions end.


While conducting his census, Hurley talks to Ethan Rom, who seems concerned about giving his information to Hurley. Jack suggests to Claire that she wasn't attacked and offers her a sedative. Claire angrily leaves the caves to move to the beach.
In flashbacks, we learn that Claire was flying to ] on the advice of a ] who had initially warned her not to let anyone else raise the child, but claimed he'd found a "good" couple in the ] to ] the baby. After she tells Charlie her story, the two conclude that the psychic's insistence on Claire taking the doomed flight indicated that he'd known what would happen.


Claire returns to the psychic and asks him for another reading. He automatically knows that Thomas left her and warns her that what he sees may not be pleasant. He says that Claire must raise the baby by herself, and that if it is parented by anyone else it will be in danger. The psychic repeatedly calls Claire, and she tells him she’s going to an adoptive services agency.
An ailing Sayid returns to camp and tells the others that he found the French woman on the recording, and Hurley reveals that one of the island's inhabitants (apparently Ethan) was not listed on the ] as one of the plane's passengers. Simultaneously, Ethan ominously accosts Claire and Charlie in the jungle.


Boone tells Hurley that Sawyer has the flight manifest, and that could help him take the census. Sawyer surprisingly gives it to Hurley without any objection. While Charlie is trying to help Claire move back to the beach, she starts having contractions. Charlie says he can deliver the baby, but after accidentally confesses to Claire that he’s a recovering drug addict, she yells at him to get Jack, leaving her alone in the jungle.
==All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues==

In a flashback, Claire is about to sign papers so a married couple could adopt her baby. However, none of the pens she tries works. After thinking it over, she walks out on the adoption agency, goes to the psychic. He gives her $12,000 and a ticket on Flight 815 and says a couple in Los Angeles will adopt the baby.

Charlie finds Ethan and tells him that Claire is in labor and to get Jack. Charlie goes back to comfort Claire, who tells him the story about the psychic. Charlie suggests that the psychic knew the flight was going to crash, and this was his way of forcing Claire to raise the baby. Claire stops having contractions. A badly wounded Sayid returns to camp and tells the others about Danielle, and that other people are on the island. Just as Hurley reveals that one of the survivors is not listed on the flight manifest, Ethan ominously accosts Claire and Charlie in the jungle.

==All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues==
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At the caves, Hurley continues trying to explain that one survivor (Ethan) is not in the passenger manifest. Jack asks where he is and Michael says that he went to the jungle to get some wood. Jack then begins asking where Charlie is; Locke replies that he went after Claire. The scene then cuts to Jack and Locke running through the jungle until they find what we know to be their last position. They find three distinct footprint sets and realize that Charlie and Claire have been taken. As Jack begins shouting their names, Locke motions for him to be quiet. The hunt is on.
Haunted by flashbacks to his relationship with his alcoholic father (particularly one incident where he vainly attempts to perform CPR on a patient on the operating table after his father fatally botches the surgery), Jack follows Locke into the jungle in pursuit of Ethan, who has kidnapped Claire and Charlie. The good doctor soon splits off on his own — against Locke's suggestion to follow quietly. Eventually, Jack returns and two parties form up: Jack and Kate follow a trail left behind by Charlie, while Locke and Boone track a series of footprints.


Locke says that they should go back and return with a hunting party. However, Jack decides to start off alone.
During a rainstorm, Jack and Kate get separated. Jack stumbles down an embankment after hearing what sounds like Claire screaming, and when he comes to at the bottom, Ethan is standing over him. The two men struggle, but the mysterious outsider gets the upper hand, and he warns Jack that if he continues to follow, he will kill one of the hostages.


A flashback shows Jack operating on a woman. Despite his attempts, the woman's heartbeat goes ] and he begins giving ] even though it is hopeless. His father, Dr. Christian Shepard, tells him to call it.
Kate soon comes to Jack's aid, and the pair follows Ethan's path until they come across Charlie, blindfolded and hanging by his neck from a tree branch. They cut him down, and Jack furiously performs ] — despite Kate's pleas that it's a lost cause — until Charlie coughs his way back to life.


Back at the island, Jack, Kate, Locke, and Boone set off to find their companions. Following their footsteps, the group eventually finds on of Charlie's knuckle bandages. Jack and Kate go off to follow Charlie's bandages while Locke and Boone continue on the original trail. Boone begins putting pieces of his ] on trees and explains to Locke the concept of "red shirt" from '']''.
The episode ends at nightfall, with Jack, Kate, and Charlie back at the caves, where Charlie reveals that it was Claire that Ethan wanted all along. Boone and Locke are somewhere in the jungle, where they discover a piece of metal embedded in the ground &mdash; which is ''not'' shrapnel from the plane.<sup></sup>


Still on the bandage trail, Kate begins telling Jack that they should return to the beach. Shortly afterwards, they hear Claire screaming. Jack goes off on his own, but he is then quickly subdued by Ethan. He threatens to kill one of them if Jack does not stop following them.
===Trivia===

* The episode's title is derived from the ] album '']''.
A flashback shows Christian telling Jack to report that the woman was pregnant. Christian requests that he sign a form which will officially state that her death was an accident. He also says that "if the hospital board finds out, it will end his career". At the board meeting, Jack tells the board that his father was operating under the influence; this impaired his judgment and lead to the chain of events causing the woman's death.

On the island, Kate finds Jack on the ground. Pushing on, they find Charlie, blindfolded and hanging from a tree. After Kate cuts him down, Jack begins giving CPR. She begins saying that it's a lost cause, but he does not give up. After four powerful thrusts, Charlie wakes up. Returning to the caves, Charlie says that he did not see or hear anything and that "all they wanted was Claire".

Meanwhile, deep in the jungle, Boone begins wanting to go back. Locke finally lets him go and tosses Boone his flashlight. He fails to catch it and it lands on the ground...with a loud metal "clank". Moving to investigate, they find steel imbedded in the ground. Locke begins banging on the metal, which appears to be hollow, and they begin removing mud to find out what it is.


==Whatever the Case May Be== ==Whatever the Case May Be==
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Kate and Sawyer find a locked case among the sunken wreckage. Kate wants it, but refuses to tell Sawyer what’s inside, so he takes it. At the beach the tide is rising and will soon submerge the fuselage. Shannon asks Boone what he and Locke do every day, and Boone says they’re looking for Claire.
Kate takes an interest in a silver Halliburton case that she and Sawyer find while swimming. She twice tries to steal it from him before going to Jack, claiming the case contains weapons and money. It belonged to the U.S. Marshal who accompanied Kate on the flight and was buried with the key. Kate and Jack exhume the body to get the key and they open the case to find the items, along with a small, metal airplane in an envelope. When pressured, Kate says it belonged to the man she loved &mdash; and the man she killed. Flashbacks show a New Mexico bank robbery orchestrated by Kate to get into a ] (number 815, the same as the flight number) containing the envelope with the small plane.


Sayid asks Shannon to help him translate Rousseau’s notes. Rose comforts Charlie by telling him that what happened to Claire isn’t his fault and he did everything he could. Sawyer tries to pick the lock on the case, but Michael tells him the only way to open it is with pure force. Sawyer drops the case off a cliff, and it still doesn’t open. Kate swipes it, but Sawyer gets it back. He tells her that he will give the case to her if she tells him what’s inside. She refuses.
Meanwhile, the tide moves further inland, and passengers scramble to move belongings from the beach. Rose, who maintains faith that her husband is still alive, coaxes Charlie out of his funk and gets him to help. Also, Sayid seeks Shannon's help in translating some of Rousseau's apparently random notes, which she later recognizes as lyrics to the song played over the credits of "]." (The song is ]'s '']'', the French original of ]'s classic '']''.)


In a flashback Kate is opening a bank account using an alias. Three masked men enter and rob the bank. One of the robbers pulls Kate into a back room and they share a kiss, revealing that Kate is a part of the robbery. The man smacks Kate to make it looks like she’s an innocent civilian and demands that the bank manager give him a key to a safety deposit box.
===Trivia===

*The safe deposit box Kate robs the bank to get access to is numbered 815
Kate goes to Jack and says the case contains weapons. It belonged to the U.S. Marshal and the key is buried with him. They dig up the body and pull out his wallet. Kate slips the key into her hand before giving it to Jack, but Jack catches her. Sayid becomes impatient with Shannon when her translations do not make any sense. Upset, Shannon runs away saying that she’s useless. Jack gives Sawyer an ultimatum: if he does not give Jack the case, Jack will stop giving him antibiotics for his knife wound. Sawyer gives up the case.
*The model plane Kate retrieves from the box is a ], just like the plane flown by ]'s drug-runners that crashed on the island.

In a flashback one of the robbers tells the manager that the robbery was Kate’s idea. Kate shoots the robbers and tells the manager to open a safety deposit box. At the caves Jack and Kate open the case. There are guns inside, and a manila envelope, which Jack gives it to Kate, who opens it and pulls out a toy airplane. When pressured, Kate says it belonged to the man she loved and killed, then cries, but receives no sympathy from Jack.

Rose says her husband is still alive and prays with Charlie. Shannon recognizes Rousseau’s notes as lyrics to a song from a French cartoon. Kate stares at the toy plane beside her campfire.


==Hearts and Minds== ==Hearts and Minds==
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Boone tells Sayid to stay away from Shannon, and Sayid ignores him. Hurley scolds Boone for not bring back any boar. Locke says that what he and Boone are doing is far more important than hunting. Kate shows Jack to a garden that Sun has started. At the hatch Locke makes a paste and tells Boone it is for later. Locke suggests that staring at the hatch will tell them how to open in.
Boone mentions to Locke that others are suspicious of their apparently fruitless “boar hunting” trips &mdash; actually excursions to the mysterious metal object &mdash; and says he wants to tell Shannon. Locke responds by knocking him unconscious. Boone finds himself tied up by Locke, who puts a paste on his head wound and leaves a knife so he'll be able to free himself, given "the proper motivation" &mdash; Shannon's screams and the sound of the Monster approaching. Despite attempts to hide, the Monster kills Shannon, and Boone finds her corpse lying along a stream. However, Boone realizes upon returning to camp that this never happened &mdash; it was a sort of ] that Locke felt was crucial to his survival, brought on by the paste that Locke had applied. When asked how he felt seeing Shannon die, Boone replies, "Relieved."


In a flashback Shannon calls Boone and asks him to come to Sydney. When he gets there he sees that her boyfriend, Brian, has been beating her. Boone reports the crime to the police, and reveals that Shannon is his stepsister. The detective ignores Boone, so he offers Brian $50,000 to break up with Shannon.
Flashbacks reveal that Boone went to ] to rescue Shannon &mdash; his stepsister &mdash; from an abusive boyfriend, only to realize he had been set up by Shannon to get some of his mother's money. Boone is later approached by a drunken Shannon, who says she knows he's always been in love with her. Their kisses apparently lead to sex, and Shannon claims that things will go back to normal. In one flashback, Boone is in a police station in Sydney, where his conversation with one of the officers is interrupted by a handcuffed Sawyer, dragged in kicking and snarling.


Boone wants to tell Shannon about the hatch. Locke responds by knocking him unconscious. Boone awakens to find himself tied up. Locke puts the paste on his head and leaves a knife so he'll be able to free himself. Shannon's screams and the sound of the monster approaching motivate Boone to reach for the knife and free himself.
Meanwhile, Hurley turns to Jin for help with fishing. Kate discovers a garden that Sun is planting in the jungle and becomes aware that the Korean can speak English. Locke gives his compass to Sayid, to assist him with his interpretation of Rousseau's maps. Sayid figures it must be faulty because its ] does not align with ].

Sun reveals to Kate that she speaks English, and asks her not to tell anyone. Sun took English lessons in Korea, but doesn’t want Jin to know. Locke finds Sayid trying to make sense of Rousseau's maps, and gives him a compass. Boone, still restrained, hears Shannon screaming as the monster approaches. He reaches the knife, frees himself, and finds Shannon tied to a tree. They evade the monster.

Sayid tells Jack that according to Locke’s compass north is not where it should be, causing him to believe that the compass is defective. Jack finds Locke and asks him about Boone. Locke says he hasn’t seen Boone all day, and the boars are migrating outside of their valley. Hurley and Jin spend the day fishing, and when Hurley fails to catch anything Jin gives him a fish out of sympathy.

In a flashback, Shannon refuses to leave with Boone. He realizes that Shannon lied to him to get the money, and she has done this before. Brian says that Boone’s mother stole money away from her, and she is getting what is rightfully hers. That night a drunken Shannon comes to Boone’s hotel room and tells him that Brian stole the money. She tells Boone that she knows he loves her, and they sleep together.

Boone tells Shannon about the hatch as the monster attacks again. This time it kills Shannon and Boone finds her body by a creek. That night Boone tries to kill Locke, but Locke reveals Shannon is alive. The paste caused Boone to have a vision quest that was crucial to his survival. Boone says seeing Shannon dead made him feel relieved.


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An annoyed Michael confronts Walt, who has been studying knife skills under Locke, and enlists his help in scavenging parts from the wreck to build a raft. Eventually, Walt tells his dad that he is going to get some water and runs off with his dog. Michael initially accuses Locke of contributing to his son's delinquency despite his repeated warnings, but when he sees that the boy is not with Locke, the two men track Walt into the jungle. Michael risks his own life to save Walt from one of the island's unlikely predators, a polar bear, thus aiding the reconciliation between the two. Michael asks for Walt’s help with building a raft while Locke is teaching Walt how to use a knife. Angry with Michael, Walt runs off with Vincent. Michael accuses Locke of turning Walt against him, and thinks Locke is hiding Walt. When Locke says he does not know where Walt is, both he and Michael track Walt in the jungle. Michael finds Walt and saves him from being killed by a polar bear.


Flashbacks show that Michael and Susan (Walt's mother) were unmarried, and when Walt was only a few months old, Susan &mdash; an ambitious young lawyer &mdash; accepted a job in Amsterdam and took her child with her. She married a co-worker called Brian when Walt was two, and their work eventually brought them to Australia. Michael didn't see his son again until after Susan's death from a blood disorder. Though Brian said it was Susan's wish that Michael be given custody, it turns out Brian doesn't want custody of Walt because the boy is 'different'. Flashbacks show that Michael and Walt's mother, Susan, were unmarried. When Walt was a few months old, Susan took a job in Amsterdam and took Walt with her. She married Brian, a co-worker, when Walt was two, and their work took them to Australia. Michael didn't see his son again until after Susan's death from a blood disorder. Brian gave Michael custody of Walt and warned Michael that Walt is 'different'.


Walt is hinted to have some sort of supernatural power over his surroundings. As a child in Australia, Walt opens one of his books to a picture of a native bird &mdash; and shortly afterwards the bird fatally slams into a nearby window. On the island, while teaching him to throw a knife, Locke tells the boy to visualize hitting the target, and Walt fires and embeds the blade perfectly on the mark. Later, a polar bear appears soon after the ] Walt had been reading, which featured a picture of a polar bear, is thrown on the fire by his father. Walt is shown to have psychic tendencies. As a child in Australia, Walt opens one of his books to a picture of a native bird and shortly afterwards the bird fatally slams into a nearby window. On the island, while teaching him to throw a knife, Locke tells Walt to visualize hitting the target, and Walt fires and embeds the blade perfectly on the mark. Later, a polar bear chases Walt after Michael throws the comic book Walt had been reading, which featured a picture of a polar bear, into a fire.


Charlie recovers Claire's diary from Sawyer with help from Kate. As he skims through it, hoping to find some mention of him in her musings, he reads her description of a dream about a "black rock" which corresponds to a location on Sayid's stolen map. He shows this to the others, thinking it might be a clue to her whereabouts. However, while looking for Vincent (Walt's dog, who disappeared shortly after Walt was attacked by the bear), Locke and Boone are shocked by the sudden appearance of Claire, stumbling out of the jungle. Charlie recovers Claire's diary from Sawyer with help from Kate. He reads it and sees her description of a dream about a "black rock" that corresponds to a location on Sayid's stolen map. He shows this to the others, thinking it might be a clue to her whereabouts. However, while looking for Vincent, Locke and Boone find Claire stumbling out of the jungle.


===Trivia=== ===Trivia===
* The comic book read by Walt is ''] / ]: Faster Friends'' #1. * The comic book read by Walt is ''] / ]: Faster Friends'' #1.



==Homecoming== ==Homecoming==
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Charlie awakens to see Locke carrying Claire to Jack. Claire awakens and panics, asking, “Who are you people?”. Claire claims that the last thing she can remember is the flight. Jack tells her about the crash, and Charlie brings her diary and makes conversation with her. In the first flashback, we see Charlie and Tommy (another member of Driveshaft) using heroin, but they need money to buy more. They then walk into a bar where Tommy points out to Charlie a girl named Lucy, and tells Charlie that her father is rich. Charlie walks over and makes conversation with Lucy.
Claire returns to camp, apparently with ] of anything after the flight. After Ethan confronts Charlie, threatening to kill the other castaways one by one until he gets Claire back, the islanders take security measures. However, Ethan makes good on his threat, killing Scott. With the guns from the ] and Claire as (willing) bait, Jack and some of the others set a trap. Although the plan is to keep Ethan alive, a vengeful Charlie fires four rounds into his chest and kills him.


Charlie meets Jin in the jungle, and walks with him until Jin is hit by a rock from a sling. Ethan appears and tells Charlie that Charlie must bring Claire to him and that he will kill one of the castaways for every day that Charlie does not. Charlie returns to the beach and tells Jack and Locke of Ethan’s threat. Locke suggests that they set up alarms around the perimeter using string and weights.
Through flashbacks, we learn how Charlie hooked up with a wealthy girl named Lucy in order to steal something to sell for drug money, but fell in love with her. He takes a job from her father selling photocopiers, but his plan to become respectable backfires as he suffers ] symptoms. He passes out after throwing up under the lid of the photocopier that he is demonstrating, and the prospective clients find a valuable antique in his jacket, which he had stolen from Lucy's father's house to fund his habit. After he goes to see Lucy to explain, she tells Charlie that he will never take care of anyone &mdash; a likely motivation for his efforts to protect Claire.


Claire expresses discomfort to Charlie about the way people treat her, and asks Charlie if there is “anything going on”. Charlie assures her that there isn’t. In the next flashback, we see Charlie in Lucy’s home. Lucy shows him a cigarette case once owned by Winston Churchill. We then see Charlie eating dinner with Lucy and her father. He tells her father that Driveshaft is “dead”. Charlie later tells Tommy that he accepted a job working for Lucy’s father selling copy machines. Tommy reminds Charlie of their addiction.
===Trivia===

An alarm awakens Boone. He, Sayid and Jack rush to the tripped string only to find that Vincent (Walt’s dog) has tripped the alarm. They hear screaming and return to the beach to find Scott murdered. Claire finds out about Ethan’s threat and becomes angry with Charlie for lying. In the next flashback, we see Charlie steal the cigarette case that belonged to Winston Churchill.


Jack and Locke debate what to do next, and Jack shows Locke the case of guns. They decide to lure Ethan with Claire. Charlie protests. We see a flashback in which Charlie attempts to demonstrate a copy machine, but vomits due to heroin withdrawal. Jack, Locke, Sawyer, Kate, Sayid and Claire go into the jungle. Charlie follows them. Ethan comes for Claire, and Jack wrestles him to the ground but loses his gun in the process. Sawyer then holds a gun to Ethan. Charlie comes from behind with Jack’s gun and kills Ethan. Charlie tells Jack that Ethan “deserved to die”. In the final flashback, we see Charlie trying to apologize to Lucy. Lucy tells him that she understands why he stole, but asks him why he took the job. Charlie tells her that he wanted to show that he could take care of her, and Lucy tells him that he will never take care of anyone. The episode ends with Claire telling Charlie that she “wants to trust him”.
* When Lucy mentions her father "buying some paper company in Slough", it is a reference to the Gervais/Merchant series '']''.
* The model of photocopier Charlie is demonstrating in the flashback is a C-815: a reference to the numbers, as well as to that of the doomed Oceanic Airlines flight.


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Sawyer has a nightmare about the night when (as a child) he was told by his mother to hide under his bed while she went to the door to tell his father to leave. His father forced his way into the house, killed his mother, sat on the bed under which the child Sawyer (actually named James) was hiding, and killed himself. Sawyer has a nightmare about the night, as a child, he was told by his mother to hide under his bed while she went to the door to tell his father to leave. His father forced his way into the house, killed his mother, sat on the bed Sawyer was hiding under, and kills himself. Sawyer wakes up to find a giant boar in front of him and it attacks his tent and runs away into the trees, taking Sawyer's tarp with it. Sawyer chases after it, and while he is in the jungle he hears whispering. A louder whisper says "It'll come back around".


In the morning Sawyer talks to Sayid about the voices Sayid heard while he was in the jungle some time before, and when Sayid asks why he wants to know, Sawyer replies, "No reason." In a flashback a former associate tells Sawyer that the real Sawyer who ruined his life as a child is now living under the alias Frank Duckett in Australia. He travels there, buys a gun and goes to the shrimp shop where Duckett works. He chats with him briefly, but doesn't kill him. On the island, Sawyer is obsessed with finding the boar that attacked him and goes into the jungle with Kate to find it. The next morning the two of them wake up to find that Sawyer's belongings have been ruined while Kate's remain untouched. Locke says that his sister died very young and that their foster mother blamed herself, suffering a severe depression. But a few months later, a dog came into the house, without tags or collar, and his mother felt much better. The dog slept in his sister's room, but when his mother died years later the dog vanished.
Sawyer then wakes up in the middle of the night to find a giant boar in front of him, and it attacks his tent and runs away into the trees, taking Sawyer's tarp with it. Sawyer chases after it, and while he is in the jungle he hears whispering noises. Most of the noises are hard to hear, but a louder whisper clearly says "It'll come back around". The next morning, Sawyer talks to Sayid about the voices Sayid heard while he was in the jungle some time before, and when Sayid asks why he wants to know, Sawyer replies: "No reason."


In a flashback Sawyer goes to an Australian bar and meets Jack's father, Christian Shephard. Christian tells Sawyer that some people are meant to suffer, and "that's why the Red Sox will never win the damn Series." He says that he wishes he had the strength to call his son, say how proud he is of him, and "fix everything", but he is too weak to do it. Christian tells Sawyer to fix the thing that’s making him feel bad. Sawyer shoots Frank Duckett, but Frank denies being the real Sawyer, and he tells Sawyer that this will come back to haunt him.
Later, Sawyer has a flashback wherein he is told, by a former associate, that the first Sawyer who ruined his life as a child is now living under the alias Frank Duckett in Australia. He travels there, buys a gun and goes to the shrimp shop where Duckett works. He chats with him briefly, but doesn't kill him.


Meanwhile, Sawyer is obsessed with finding the boar who attacked him and goes into the jungle to find it, accompanied by Kate. The next morning the two of them wake up to find that Sawyer's belongings have been ruined while Kate's remain untouched. Locke then comes out of the jungle and tells them a story from his childhood. Sawyer catches up to the boar and decides not to kill it. He gives Jack his gun. Now all the firearms are with Jack, who locks them back in the marshal's case. They start to talk, and Jack says "that's why the Sox will never win the Series." Sawyer does not tell Jack that he met Christian.

He says that his sister died very young and that their foster mother blamed herself, suffering a severe depression. But a few months later, a dog came into the house, without tags or collar, and his foster mother suddenly felt much better. The dog even slept in his sister's room, but when his foster mother died years later the dog vanished completely. When asked if the dog was supposed to have been his sister, Locke replies "Well, that would be silly. But my mother seemed to think so."

Sawyer then has another flashback where he goes to an Australian bar and meets a man there (recognizable from earlier episodes as Jack's father, Christian Shephard). They have a talk, and Christian tells Sawyer that some people are meant to suffer, and "that's why the ] will never win the damn ]" (apparently without knowledge of the real-world ].) He also says that he wishes he had the strength to call his son, say how proud he is of him, and "fix everything", but he is too weak to do it. If something is making Sawyer miserable, Christian says, he should take care of it before it destroys him as Christian has been destroyed. Sawyer then goes back to the shrimp shop and shoots Frank Duckett. However, it is revealed through their subsequent conversation that the man he shot isn't the real Sawyer, and that he has been duped into assassinating an innocent man. The man's last words are "It'll come back around".

Meanwhile, Sawyer catches up to the boar and decides to leave it rather than kill it, saying "It's just a boar." He goes back to camp and returns to Jack the gun he was given for their previous encounter with Ethan. Now all the firearms are with Jack, who locks them back in the marshal's case. They start to talk, and when Jack says "that's why the Sox will never win the Series", Sawyer realizes the man in the bar with whom he spoke was Jack's father. When Jack asks why Sawyer wants to know about his father, Sawyer responds: "No reason".


==... In Translation== ==... In Translation==
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In Flashbacks, Jin starts to work for Sun's father, Mr. Paik and his car company. In his interview he says that Sun is his dream and his father is dead. Jin later tells Sun that their honeymoon will be after he does some management training. Jin is later promo and Mr. Paik assisngs him to go to Mr. Byung Han's house and deliver a message. He goes to his house and tells him that Mr. Paik is unhappy with him. As a way to make him happy he gives Jin a puppy. We also see Hurley on the tv.
Jin has flashbacks of when he started working for Sun's father, Mr. Paik. The latter is the head of a Korean ] (a large, typically family-owned corporation &mdash; in this case, a car company) and a man who is not above using violent methods to get what he wants. Jin worked for Mr. Paik to prove his commitment and worthiness to marry Sun, claiming he would do anything to marry her. Sun's father gives Jin the task of conveying a message of his displeasure to the Under-Secretary for Environmental Safety. Jin relays the message verbally and seems confused when the visibly terrified man gives him a puppy (the same puppy we saw Jin bring to Sun in ]). However, upon finding Jin has not done what was implied for him to do, Mr. Paik reprimands him and directs him to return to the Secretary's home with a hit man who will demonstrate how to properly deliver a message. Jin returns to the Secretary's house, but before the hit man can act, he beats up the Secretary in front of his family, to give him "the message" as Sun's father originally intended and essentially save him from being murdered.


After being interupted by phone call from Mr. Paik, Jin goes to him and he says that he did not deliever the message properly. He goes back to Mr. Han's house and beats his up. Jin tells him that the factories must open tomorrow and that he saved his life. Then Jin looks at the scared family and leaves. We again see Jin with blood in the bathroom and Sun slapping him. We also see Jin crying. He sees his surprisingly alive father working as a fisherman and helps him work. He tells Jin to got to America with Sun to start a new life.
The raft Michael had been building is burned. Immediately Michael suspects Jin, due to their disagreements in the past. However, Sawyer finds Jin first, roughs him up, and brings him down to the beach with his hands tied behind his back. Later Sawyer releases Jin on the beach and he and Michael fight each other. The rest of the survivors watch the fight, hesitant to stop it until Sun yells out in English for them to stop. The survivors are dumbfounded that she speaks their language and has been keeping it from them the whole time. Jin is obviously distraught at this revelation.


On the island, Jin sees Sun in a swimsuit and tries to cover her up and Michael tries to stop him but gets slapped by Sun. Jin later asks if she is involved with Michael and says no. Sun later apologies to Michael for slapping him. Shannon and Sayid flirt, while Michael works on the raft. Jack comes over and asks about the spots on the raft and Sawyer says that he got one. At night the raft is on fire and they all blame Jin. Sun then finds Jin covered with burns and does not speak to her. Later, Sayid asks Boone for permission to date Shannon and tells him that she might use him. Sayid tells Shannon that it might not be a good idea for them not to date.
Later, Locke sits down to play a game of ] with Walt, and asks him bluntly, "Why did you burn the raft, Walt?" Walt then says that he is tired of always moving and he likes it on the island. Locke agrees with him.


The next Sawyer brings Jin to the beach and Michael and Jin fight. Sun then tells him to stop and that Jin did not burn the raft. Everyone is surprised that she speaks English and she says that he is not a liar. Locke then says that it would be unlikely that one of the survivors burned the raft.
In the cave, Jin has another flashback, revealing that his father is not dead (as he told Mr. Paik), but a poor fisherman of whom Jin was obviously ashamed. His father asks Jin why he works for Mr. Paik, and advises him to complete the latest task he has been given &mdash; delivering watches to Sydney and Los Angeles &mdash; then remain in America with Sun to escape Mr. Paik. Back on the island, Jin disregards his father's advice and tells Sun that it is too late for them to start over, and goes to help Michael build a new boat...


Michael says the raft is gone and decides to make a new one. Sun goes to see Jin and says that she was going to leave him and that he changed her mind about leaving. Jin tells her that it's too late to start over. At, night Shannon decides to stay with Sayid even though Boone does not like Sayid around her. Also, Locke asks why Walt burned the raft and he says that he doesn’t want to move anymore, that he likes it on the island.
===Trivia===

*] can also be seen on the ] that the threatened man's daughter is watching. He seems to be on a ] show, possibly chronicling his ] win.
The next day on the beach Hurley listens to ] Delicate on his CD player and it eventually dies. While, Sun goes into the ocean in a bathing suit as a free, but lonely, women and Jin helps Michael build the new raft.
* The song ] listens at the end is "Delicate" by ], though it ends abruptly when his CD player's battery dies out.


==Numbers== ==Numbers==
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The episode begins with Hurley approaching Sayid at night and asking about Rousseau. Hurley pretends not to be interested, but takes Rousseau’s documents when Sayid is not looking. We then see that before the crash, Hurley won a lottery jackpot of $156 million using the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42, numbers written on one of Rousseau's documents. Hurley then goes to the caves to gather water and encounters Charlie, but does not tell Charlie where he is going. Soon after Hurley leaves, Jack and Sayid arrive in the caves and ask Charlie about Hurley, after which the three of them conclude that Hurley has gone to find Rousseau.


In the flashbacks, we see that Hurley and the people around him seemed to suffer increasingly bad luck after he won the lottery. For example, we see that Hurley’s grandfather suffered a heart attack, that his mother broke her ankle and that Hurley was falsely arrested. Hurley visits a mental asylum where he apparently resided for a time, and consults a man named Lenny who keeps repeating the numbers. After hearing that Hurley used the numbers in the lottery, Lenny becomes panicked and gives Hurley the name of Sam Toomey, a man who Lenny claims to have worked with in Australia. Hurley visits Sam Toomey’s house, which is located in a desert. He encounters Sam Toomey’s wife and learns that while monitoring radio signals for the military, Sam and Lenny picked up a faint transmission in the South Pacific broadcasting the numbers. Hurley learns that Sam had an experience with the numbers similar to his own and eventually committed suicide.
Hurley has flashbacks of his winning the lottery with the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42, which he claims to everyone "just came to him". In truth, Hurley had overheard them from a former U.S. Naval officer named Leonard, who is currently in a mental institution where Hurley was a former patient.


Hurley desperately searches the jungle. He eventually steps on a button. Sayid then emerges from the jungle with Jack and Charlie and tells Hurley that he is stepping on a pressure trigger. Hurley steps off the trigger and dodges a trap. Hurley tells them that he is trying to find Rousseau to obtain a battery for Michael’s raft. They continue through the jungle, Hurley and Charlie cross a bridge, after which it breaks. Jack and Sayid set off a trigger that causes an explosion, which destroys Rousseau’s old shelter. Sayid concludes that Rousseau knew he’d come back.
After winning the lottery and running into a relentless run of bad luck for everyone around him, Hurley starts thinking that the numbers are cursed, but no one else believes him. (It would seem that a clause in this curse is that no matter what you say or how well you document your extraordinary misfortune, nobody will believe you &mdash; even if your death brings to an end the tribulations of those around you.) From the time he won the lottery, it appears that everyone around him is hurt or has disastrous ill luck, including a box company in Tustin, CA, that he'd bought with his winnings. When Jack and Hurley question Sayid about ], Hurley notices that the French woman had written Hurley's winning lottery numbers over and over on a piece of paper. Hurley then sets out to find Rousseau and the origin of the numbers, which is paralleled in the journey undertaken in his flashbacks. Hurley learns that, while monitoring radio signals for the Navy in the South Pacific, Leonard and a friend overheard the numbers being repeatedly broadcast. Like Hurley, Leonard's friend used the numbers in a contest and later came to believe that they were cursed. It is revealed that the message that contained the numbers originated from the island. The same transmission diverted the French woman and her companions towards the place, causing their shipwreck. When Rousseau discovered the source of the signal, she altered it to repeat her distress call. The French woman is the only person to believe Hurley when he says the numbers are cursed.


Hurley and Charlie are shot at. They split up, and Hurley finds Rousseau. He demands to know what the numbers mean. Rousseau tells him that she does not know, only that a radio tower was broadcasting the numbers when her party came to the island, and that she went to the tower and changed the signal to a distress call after all of her party was dead. Hurley and Rousseau conclude that the numbers are cursed, and Hurley returns to Sayid, Jack and Charlie with a battery. After they return to the beach, Hurley tells Charlie about his lottery win, but Charlie thinks Hurley is joking and becomes angry. We then see that the numbers are engraved on the side of the hatch.
Michael and Jin continue to build a second raft, but they are having trouble communicating. Locke enlists the help of Claire to build a mysterious object. Towards completion, Claire reveals that it is her birthday. The object turns out to be a cradle for when the baby is born &mdash; a birthday gift from the smiling survivalist/handyman.

At the end of the show, the camera shows us the metal object Boone and Locke discovered buried in the jungle (which appears to be a hatch of some sort) &mdash; with the numbers embossed on it. Earlier in the show during Hurley's flashback, Hurley visited Leonard and told Leonard what he had done with the numbers. Leonard suddenly became lucid, excitedly saying that Hurley had "]" and how he must "get away from those numbers" or it "won't stop".

===Trivia===
* Sawyer is shown reading '']'' in this episode.
* Hurley is told he owns a box factory in Tustin, CA, and Locke worked for such a business before he went to Australia, and had spent most of his life in Tustin.


==Deus Ex Machina== ==Deus Ex Machina==
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On the island, Locke and ] build a ] in an effort to break open the hatch windows. When this fails, an exasperated Locke pounds the hatch, before Boone notices a shard in Locke’s leg; Locke mentions he feels no pain, and discovers that night that he’s losing feeling in his legs.
The episode begins with a younger ], with hair, working in a discount superstore. He demonstrates the children's game ] to a boy, calling it his favorite game. A mysterious older woman appears to be watching him in the store, and later in the parking lot. When he confronts her, she reveals that she is his birth mother, Emily Annabeth Locke. John inquires about his natural father, but she tells him that he had no father, and that he was "]" (likely meaning that his was a ]).


That night, in a dream, Locke tells Boone that the island will send them a sign, at which point he notices a ] crash in the jungle. The dream also reveals a secret about Boone. Awaking early the next day, Locke and Boone head out in search of the aircraft. When Boone doubts him, Locke mentions the secret he learned from his dream, leading Boone to follow Locke on the hunt. After some searching, they discover the plane teetering on the edge of a cliff. Locke, having lost use of his legs, asks Boone to climb up to check the plane. While in the plane, Boone discovers a trove of statues filled with heroin, the body of a priest, and a working radio. Using this radio, Boone sends out a distress call, during which the plane falls over the cliff. Frantically, Locke struggles to his feet, hoists a critically injured Boone on his shoulders and returns to the camp.
On the island, the ] Locke and ] built fails to break the glass on the metal hatch that the pair discovered. Locke is unaware that a broken shard has lodged itself in one of his legs until Boone tells him; he later discovers he has no feeling in his feet or legs. When asked about how they would open the hatch, he tells Boone that the island will send them a sign, and they see a small aircraft, a ], crashing into the jungle. However, this turns out to be a dream, which concludes with Boone covered in blood, repeating the phrase, "Theresa falls up the stairs; Theresa falls down the stairs." Later, when describing the vision he had, he asks Boone, "Who is Theresa?" and is told that she was his childhood nanny whom he believes he caused to fall to her death in his family home. Locke insists that they have to locate the plane, which is eventually found hanging in the trees.


Meanwhile, ] is having increasingly painful headaches, which are not helped by Sun's herbal remedies. Kate, acting as a go-between, convinces Sawyer to accept Jack's medical assistance. After a brief examination, Jack asks him a series of embarrassing questions &mdash; "Have you ever slept with a prostitute?"; "Have you ever contracted a ]?"; "When was the last outbreak?" Jack finally reveals that Sawyer is suffering from ] or farsightedness, and his excessive reading is straining his eyes, giving him headaches. Sayid melts together the halves of two pairs of glasses which, when worn by Sawyer, are described by Hurley as looking like "someone steamrolled ]." Meanwhile, ] is having increasingly painful headaches, which are not helped by ] herbal remedies. ] convinces Sawyer to accept ] medical assistance. After an exam, Jack explains that Sawyer is suffering from ] or farsightedness, and his excessive reading is straining his eyes, giving him headaches. To solve the problem, ] melds together the halves of two pairs of glasses for Sawyer to use.


In flashbacks, a younger Locke meets a mysterious woman in the discount superstore in which he works. After an initial meeting, Locke later notices this same woman watching him in the store. When he chases after to confront her, she explains that she is his birth mother, Emily Locke. When Locke asks about his father, Emily explains that Locke doesn’t have a father. Undeterred, Locke hires a ] who finds Locke’s father, Anthony Cooper. When Locke travels to his father’s affluent home, he is welcomed with open arms. One day, Locke arrives at the home early, and notices his father on ], which eventually prompts Locke to offer one of his ] to save his father. After the surgery, Locke wakes up in the ] to find that his father has gone home for private care. Emily arrives to explain that all this was a scheme to get Anthony a kidney. Devastated, Locke pulls himself out of the hospital bed and drives to his father's home, where he is turned away. While driving away, Locke breaks down over the betrayal.
In flashback, Locke hires a ] to get information on his father and mother. The investigator tells him that his mother has been committed in the past, and gives him the address of his father, Anthony Cooper. He goes to his father's affluent home, where he is admitted and welcomed. His father appears to take Locke under his wing, taking him hunting several times. Arriving early one day, he sees that his father is on ]. His father mentions that he would need a ], but is pessimistic about his chances on the waiting list. Locke volunteers to give his father one of his ].


Locke comes to the caves with Boone, and tells Jack that he fell from a cliff while they were hunting. Jack springs into action but Locke disappears into the jungle. That evening, Locke returns to the hatch. Pounding on the door and screaming in anguish atop the hatch, Locke laments what has happened, when the inside of the hatch suddenly becomes illuminated.
Back on the island, Boone climbs into the plane &mdash; at Locke's request as his legs have apparently stopped working. The plane contains statues of the ] filled with ], flown by ] under the guise of ]n ]. Boone checks the radio which still works and subsequently makes contact, saying, "We're the survivors of the crash of Oceanic of flight 815". After a brief pause, "Hello! We're the survivors of Oceanic flight 815" is heard back over the radio. Just as he possibly makes contact, however, the plane falls out of the tree and crashes to the ground with Boone inside. Locke hoists a badly injured Boone on his shoulders and returns to the camp.

Locke comes to the caves with Boone, and tells Jack that he fell from a cliff while they were hunting. ] springs into action but Locke disappears into the jungle.

In his flashback, Locke wakes up in the ] after the kidney transplant to find that his father has gone home for private care. His mother appears and reveals that his father concocted a scheme to convince Locke to donate the organ. Devastated and confused, Locke pulls himself out of the hospital bed and drives to his father's home, where Eddie, the previously friendly guard, is not allowed to let him inside. Locke drives away at the guard's pained insistence. He screams at the betrayal, and breaks down weeping.

On the island, Locke is screaming in anguish atop the hatch, pounding his fists upon it. The inside of the structure immediately below him suddenly becomes illuminated.

===Trivia===
* The question of what was said on the radio in response to Boone was debated for some time after this episode. Many believed the transmission said "There are no survivors of flight 815" while others believed it was "We're the survivors of flight 815." The 2nd season episode "]" as well as the subtitles in the first season's DVD box set give the definitive answer, as well as who was on the radio talking to Boone.
* ], the episode's title, is ] for "god from the machine". This refers to Greek plays in which an actor playing a deity would be lowered to the stage by a system of ropes and pulleys. This god or goddess would often get other characters out of seemingly hopeless situations by using divine powers, and so this phrase has come to mean a storytelling device whereby people in desperate situations are saved at the last minute by an outside force. It is also the title of a chapter in '']'', a novel whose themes bear similarities to those of the show.


==Do No Harm== ==Do No Harm==
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The injured Boone is in bad shape after his fall from the cliff in the airplane. He's lost a lot of ], one of his lungs has collapsed and his right leg is crushed. Kate is sent to go and get alcohol from Sawyer. On her way back she discovers that Claire has gone into labor. In the caves, Jack works frantically to establish a makeshift ER and stabilize Boone, so he can try to save the critically injured ]. Jack notes with concern that Boone has lost a lot of ], and has a collapsed and crushed right leg. ] is ordered to get alcohol from ], After examining Boone, Jack promises that he will fix him.

Kate makes her way to the beach, and claims Sawyer’s alcohol. As she runs back to the caves, she discovers that ] has gone into labor. Jack determines that Boone needs a blood transfusion, and sends ] off to find someone with a matching blood type. When he unsuccessfully returns unsuccessful, Jack decides that he will have to give his blood, which is the universal donor type O-. However, when Jack begins looking for something with which he can draw blood, he becomes frustrated. Fortunately, Sun comes up with a solution and retrieves a ], whose hollow, sharp spines enable Jack to begin the transfusion.


Meanwhile, back at the beach, ] is working on the new raft, when he hears Kate's call for help from within the jungle, and rushes to her and Claire. Despite the language barrier, Kate is able to tell Jin to go and find Jack. Jin rushes to the caves only to find Jack occupied with the ], but, through Sun, is able to convey that Claire is giving birth. Jack tells Jin, again through Sun, to take Charlie to Kate and Claire. Jack then gives Charlie instructions on how to deliver the baby, but warns him that the delivery is in Kate’s hands.
Sayid surprises Shannon with a "torchlit dinner" at which Shannon tells Sayid that Boone is only her step-brother, and that he is "kind of" in love with her.


As night falls, Boone wakes up momentarily. During this brief period, he mentions the plane and the hatch, and that ] had wanted the hatch kept secret. When Sun sees that he looks weak and pales, she stops the transfusion. When Jack then examines Boone, however, he determines that the transfusion is not working, since the blood is all pooling in Boone’s crushed leg, which is more damaged than he’d initially suspected. Jack determines that the only way to save Boone is the ] of the leg, prompting Jack to seek ] assistance in constructing an amputation device.
Boone has lost a lot of blood and needs a transfusion of ]. Jack sends Charlie to find one of the other survivors with a matching blood type. When he unsuccessfully returns (only four people knew their blood type), Jack decides to give him some of his O-negative blood. Jack tries to use ] as a needle but can't pierce his ]. Sun comes up with a solution and retrieves a ]. Using the urchin's spines, Jack begins to give Boone his blood.


That same evening, ] surprises ] with a "torchlit dinner." During this dinner, Shannon tells Sayid that Boone is only her step-brother, and that he is "kind of" in love with her.
Jin, working on the new raft, hears Kate's call for help and rushes to her and Claire. Despite the language barrier, Kate is able to tell Jin to go and find Jack. Jin rushes to the caves only to find Jack occupied with the ]. Jack tells Jin (with the aid of Sun translating) to take Charlie to Kate and Claire. Jack then tells Charlie to give Kate instructions on how to deliver the baby.


In flashbacks to Jack’s rehearsal dinner and wedding to Sarah, a former patient whom he miraculously "fixed" after she was injured and apparently paralyzed in a car accident, Jack questions his decision to be married. When he questions his father about it, his father tells Jack that his problem is not commitment, but letting go.
As Jack begins looking pale, Sun stops the transfusion. Jack then tries to heal Boone's leg but finds it beyond repair and fatal unless it is ]. Jack seeks the help of Michael to find a way to cut off Boone's leg. Boone suddenly regains ] and tells Jack to just let him go.


Back at the caves, Boone briefly regains ] and tells Jack to just let him go. Realizing what he is about to do in the name of keeping his word, Jack hesitates, and finally decides to not amputate. Boone dies, while at nearly the same time, Claire successfully gives birth to a baby boy. Claire gives birth to a healthy baby boy.
Boone dies, but beforehand reveals to Jack that he and Locke had discovered a mysterious hatch, and Locke had told him not to tell anybody else. Claire gives birth to a healthy baby boy. Jack goes looking for Locke, claiming that Boone was murdered.


The next morning, Jack finds Shannon and Sayid returning to the beach. As she greives, Jack decides to go find Locke, claiming that Boone was murdered.
In flashbacks, we see Jack's wedding to Sarah, a former patient whom he "fixed" after she was injured in a car accident.


==Lost: The Journey== ==Lost: The Journey==
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At the caves, Sayid observes a mourning ], before asking if he can do anything for her. At the same time, ] tracks down an exhausted and obstinate ]. Jack blames ] for what happened to ], but Kate pleads with Jack to return. At the beach, the survivors bury Boone. During the funeral, Locke arrives and attempts to explain what happened, but Jack ignores him and flies into a rage.
The survivors bury Boone, and Locke shows up and explains what happened to them, but Jack does not believe him and is enraged. Sayid asks Shannon what he can do for her, and she replies that he can "take care" of Locke, suggesting killing or torturing him. Sayid makes Locke take him to the Beechcraft in the jungle where Boone was injured, and Locke reveals that it was he who, for the sake of the survivors (the greater good), hit Sayid over the head when he was trying to find the distress signal in ]. Sayid asks Locke about the gun he is hiding and Locke tells him about the dead drug runner before giving him the gun.


Afterward, Jack explains to Sayid, ], and Kate that Locke is lying, but they insist that Jack must rest. Locke asks Shannon’s forgiveness, to no avail; Shannon instead goes to Sayid and asks if he could do something about Locke for her.
Charlie tells Claire that she needs to rest, and though reluctant at first she lets him take care of her baby. Charlie has a tough time getting the baby to stop crying, but finally manages to do so after seeing the baby's reaction to Sawyer's voice.


Meanwhile, Charlie tells Claire that she needs to rest, and though reluctant at first she lets him take care of her baby. Charlie has a tough time getting the baby to stop crying, but finally manages to do so after seeing the baby's reaction to Sawyer's voice.
Seeing Jack's exhaustion, Kate drugs him with sleeping pills, and while he is sleeping, Shannon takes the key to the briefcase containing the guns. Shannon goes after Locke, but is confronted by Sayid, Jack, and Kate. Sayid tackles Shannon just as she fires the gun, the bullet grazing Locke's head.


Kate attempts to take care of Jack, who stubbornly insists he needs to deal with Locke. Realizing he’d probably try this, Kate drugs Jack and he falls asleep, leaving Sayid free to deal with Locke. Sayid arrives at the caves and begins questioning Locke, asking Locke to show him the Beechcraft. As they walk to it, Sayid interrogates Locke, who realizes just what Sayid is doing. Upon arriving at the plane, their cat and mouse game escalates. Sayid tells Locke he knows Locke has a gun, and Locke hands it over. Locke then reveals that it was he who hit Sayid over the head when he was trying triangulate the distress signal. This enrages Sayid, who pulls the gun on Locke and questions him about the hatch. Locke lies, saying Boone was talking about the plane’s hatches.
The flashback deals with Sayid becoming an informant for the ]. The CIA knows the location of Nadia, the girl Sayid loves. When his friend Essam is chosen as the next suicide bomber for a group, Sayid is forced to convince him to accept the role and stop him only at the end so that the CIA can seize the explosives to be used, otherwise Nadia would be arrested for ]. When Sayid reveals his identity as an informant and tries to convince Essam to back out, Essam becomes distraught and shoots himself before Sayid can stop him.


Sayid returns to the beach and explains to Shannon that he believes Locke did not mean to harm Boone. This prompts an angry Shannon to take matters into her own hands. Shannon steals the guncase key from a sleeping Jack, and confronts Locke in the jungle. Kate, Jack, and Sayid arrive during the confrontation, but Shannon refuses to back down. Left with no choice, Sayid tackles Shannon just as she fires the gun, the bullet grazing Locke's head.
After Essam's death, the CIA tells Sayid he can find Nadia in California, and gives him a ticket for a flight leaving in two hours. Sayid asks about Essam's body and is upset when he discovers that with no one to claim it, the body will be burned, contrary to Muslim tradition. Sayid insists on claiming the body himself and tells them to change his flight.


In flashbacks, Sayid becomes an informant for the ], which has asked him to infiltrate a terrorist cell in which his old friend Essam is a member. Explaining that they know where Nadia is, he agrees. When Sayid discovers a plot in Sydney, he informs the CIA, who tell him to convince Essam to do it. One the day of the attack, Sayid reveals he is an informant, and a distraught Essam kills himself. After Essam's death, the CIA tells Sayid where Nadia is, and puts him on a plane. Sayid inquires about Essam’s body, and when told that because no one will claim it, the body will be burned. Sayid insists on claiming the body himself and tells them to change his flight.
Back on the island, Sayid visits Locke who thanks him for saving his life. Sayid tells him that he only saved him because he sensed that Locke was their best chance of survival. He then tells Locke to take him to the hatch immediately.


That night, Sayid visits Locke, who thanks him for saving his life. Sayid replies that he only did it because he believes Locke to be their best chance for survival. He then tells Locke to take him to the hatch.
===Trivia===
* At one point, this episode was titled "Sides". {{citation needed}}
* In one of Sayid's flashbacks, he is in an apartment with Essam and two other men, who are playing '']'' on their ].


==Born to Run== ==Born to Run==
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] and ] discuss they fame that awaits them if and when they are rescued, which disturbs Kate. After the group is told the raft needed to leave already, ] hurries to finish the raft, and Kate seeks a spot on the raft. Michael refuses, saying the raft is full. However, after a conversation with ], Michael reconsiders, which prompts Sawyer to storm off to confront Kate. Sawyer explains that he knows why Kate wants on the raft: to escape before being captured.
After Charlie points out that the people rescued from the island will be surrounded by media scrutiny, Kate asks to be the fourth person on the raft, saying she has sailing experience. Michael refuses, saying the raft is full, with Michael, Walt, Jin, and Sawyer. Michael is subsequently poisoned and after Jack interrogates the suspects, including Sawyer and Kate, Sawyer reveals to everyone on the island that Kate is the fugitive that the U.S. Marshal was escorting, and blames her for attempting to poison Michael. It is also revealed that she kept Joanna's passport and had intentionally damaged the photo so she could use it as her own. Previously, only Jack and Hurley had prior knowledge of her fugitive status. After examining the compounds left in the water bottle, Jack discovers that Sun attempted to get Jin sick so that he would have to stay behind, but his water bottle was switched with Michael's by accident. Sun reveals in a conversation that Kate had suggested the poisoning, but Sun had promised her not to tell anyone.


In the meantime, ] and ] meet ] at the hatch. Surprised by what he sees, Jack asks why Locke hid his find, setting up a brief confrontation between the two leaders. Jack then states that he believes the hatch needs to be opened. This prompts a furiously nervous response from Sayid, but the question is left unsettled.
Sayid and Locke reveal the hatch to Jack, who agrees with Locke to find a way to open it, much to Sayid's dismay. When Locke briefly touches Walt, who is not even aware of the hatch, Walt begs him not to open "that thing."


While working with ], Michael suddenly becomes ill. Jack, having returned from the hatch, examines Michael and searches for the cause of the illness, eventually discovering partially dissolved drugs in a water bottle. When he tells Michael, he immediately suspects Sawyer. In short order, Kate also is suspected, which leads Jack to confront Kate about the drugging. At the same time, ] explains to Locke that he didn’t drug his father. When Locke touches Walt’s arm, however, he becomes frightened, telling Locke not to open the hatch.
In the flashback, Kate returns to her home town in ], where she meets former boyfriend Tom Brennan, who is now a doctor. Tom and Kate had grown up together, and had always expected to be married in later life. Since Kate left town, however, Tom has presumably married Rachel, and they have a baby, Connor. Tom and Kate visit a tree in the middle of a cow pasture and dig up a ] ] they had buried on ], ] (8-15, matching the Oceanic Flight 815). Among the items in the capsule were Tom's toy airplane, which Kate retrieved from the safety deposit box in an earlier episode and now has with her on the island, and a tape recorder with a recording of the two of them talking. Tom says on the tape, "You always want to run away," and Kate replies, "Yeah, and you know why."


Sawyer walks up to Michael and teases him about his illness. Michael becomes angry and kicks Sawyer off the raft. Sawyer decides that he’s had enough, and exposes Kate to everyone. Stealing her bag, he opens it and shows that Kate had stolen a passport, forcing Kate to reveal that she was the person in the Marshal’s custody.
Kate has returned to her home town because an unknown helper has sent her a letter along with some money to tell her that her mother, Diane Jansen, is dying of cancer and is in the hospital. With Tom's help, she is able to be alone with Diane, but when Diane wakes up and sees Kate standing over her, she begins screaming for help. A guard grabs her, and Kate knocks him out. Forced to escape, she runs into Tom, who gives her the keys to his car. But when Kate tells him to get away, he refuses, and joins her in the car. When police try to block them in and begin shooting, Kate rams the police car and then crashes Tom's car into another. Tom is immobile and bleeding: it is unclear if he was hit by one of the bullets or if he injured himself against the dashboard, though he is presumably dead. Kate leaves him (and the toy airplane) in the car and flees.


In flashbacks, Kate returns to her home town to see her dying mother, and meets up with former boyfriend Tom Brennan, who is now a doctor at the hospital. This visit prompts the two to dig up a ] ]. Among the items in the capsule were Tom's toy airplane and a recording of the two of them some years earlier. Later, with Tom's help, Kate is able to be alone with her mother, who begins screaming for help upon seeing her. Forced to escape, she runs into Tom, who gives her keys to his car and joins her. When police try to block them, Kate tells Tom to leave, but he refuses. As the police fire at the car, Kate rams their vehicle before crashing into another. After the car stops, Kate looks over at Tom and finds him dead. Left with no choice but to flee, Kate runs.
Back on the island, Walt confesses to Michael that he was responsible for the fire that destroyed the first raft. Walt tells his father that he did it because he wanted to stay on the island. Michael agrees that they do not have to leave the island, but Walt now insists that they must.


As the raft is hurried toward completion, Jack walks up to ] and confronts her about her poisoning attempt. Sun confesses that she did it, explaining that she wanted to keep Jin from going on the raft. Later, Sun promises not to tell anyone that the drugging was Kate’s idea.
===Trivia===
* This episode features the first appearance of Leslie Arzt, the high school teacher with a doctorate in science &mdash; 'Arzt' ironically meaning 'Doctor' in German.
That night, Kate and Sawyer say goodbye, while Walt confesses to Michael that he was responsible for the fire that destroyed the first raft. Walt says he did it because he wanted to stay on the island, which prompts Michael to say they can stay. However, Walt insists that they have to leave.


==Exodus: Part 1== ==Exodus: Part 1==
*'''Original airdate:''' ], ] *'''Original airdate:''' ], ]
*'''Flashbacks:''' ], ], ], ], ], ], ] (Deleted scene, featured on the LOST: Season 1 DVD) *'''Flashbacks:''' ], ], ], ], ], ]
*Written by: ] & ] *Written by: ] & ]
*Directed by: ] *Directed by: ]


Rousseau comes to the beach camp to warn the castaways that enemies known only as the "]" are coming. She tells her story again, and reveals that she was seven months pregnant when she arrived on the island; a week after her baby was born, she was taken by the "Others". She also mentions that their arrival was heralded by a column of black smoke. Early the next morning, Rousseau arrives at the beach to warn the survivors that ] are coming. Telling the assembled survivors her story, Danielle reveals that she was pregnant when she came to the island. After she gave birth, her baby was kidnapped by the Others, their arrival heralded by a column of black smoke. Jack initially dismisses her warning, telling Locke that the launch of the raft is the top priority. When Michael says that there’s too much to do, Jack assembles everyone to aid the completion of the raft. As the group pushes the raft to the ocean, it becomes unbalanced, damaging the mast. During the ensuing argument, Walt notices a column of black smoke in the distance.


Rousseau's warning hastens the launch of the raft. As they are pushing it towards the sea, Sawyer uses his lever incorrectly, and the ] is damaged. As Jin and Michael work to fix it, Sawyer feels like his work is unappreciated, and goes off into the woods to cut a new mast by himself. At this time, Walt notices a column of black smoke coming from within the forest. A now disturbed Jack asks Rousseau for help, and shows her the hatch. When Locke offers that dynamite could probably open it, Rousseau says she will take them to the “Black Rock.” Jack then organizes a team including Locke, Kate, Hurley, and Arzt, who volunteers to come to help handle the dynamite. In the meantime, Jin and Michael try to fix the raft. When they dismiss Sawyer’s offer of help, he goes off to cut a new raft himself. While in the jungle, Jack comes up to give Sawyer a gun for protection, and Sawyer takes the opportunity to tell Jack of his conversation with Christian, Jack’s father, in Sydney.


In flashbacks, several of the survivors are shown in the final hours before the flight. Early that morning, Walt wakes up and turns on the TV. When an awakened Michael asks him to turn it off, Walt throws a tantrum and flees the room with Vincent, but Michael brings him back.
Locke suggests that the only place to hide their large group would be in the metallic structure that he has found, but still has no way to open. He suggests that they try Rousseau's dynamite, which would require them to venture back into the jungle. Jack plans a squad to depart. Surprisingly, Arzt volunteers to go, as he knows how to handle volatile dynamite better than anyone else. Before they leave, Jack wishes Sawyer a safe trip, and Sawyer reveals that he spoke to Jack's father before his death: he tells Jack that his father was proud of him.


Later that day, Jack meets another passenger on his flight in the airport lounge, ], while Sawyer is told that he is being placed on Flight 815 because he is being deported by the Australian government. Also, Kate is turned over to the Marshal’s custody for the flight, and during a conversation with the customs guard, the Marshal reveals that he had baited Kate with Tom’s toy airplane. When he denigrates Tom’s memory, Kate attacks him, but is subdued.
Walt leaves his dog, Vincent, in the custody of Shannon, saying that Vincent was good company when his mother died, and that he might do the same for Shannon after Boone's death.


Back at the check-in, Shannon waits for Boone to get them a first class upgrade, when Sayid asks her to watch his bag. She agrees, but when Boone returns without an upgrade, she leaves the bag. As Boone chastises her, she walks up to a security agent, telling them that an Arab man left his bag unattended. Meanwhile, Sun and Jin are eating in the airport restaurant, with Sun bringing Jin coffee. When Sun overhears comments from an arrogant American couple, she is momentarily rattled and spills the coffee on Jin’s lap.
Sun says goodbye to Jin, and hands him a notebook with common ] ] words and phrases, written out ]ally in ]. They make up, and he says that he will still go on the raft, as he wants to do this to rescue her. Jin, Walt, Michael and Sawyer set off in their raft, which appears to be fully operational. Vincent originally attempts to paddle out and follow them, but Walt orders him to turn around.


As the hatch team heads toward the “Black Rock.” Arzt turns back at the start of the Dark Territory, but quickly returns to the group, chased by the “monster.” After hiding from it, Danielle explains that it is a “security system” protecting the island. Heading deeper into the jungle after this encounter, they eventually arrive at the “Black Rock”, a shipwrecked wooden ship.
Jack, Kate, Rousseau, Locke, Hurley, and Arzt journey into the woods when they hear the "Monster" again. They are scared, but are left unharmed. Rousseau tells them that the "Monster" is the island's security system. As they journey further, Rousseau states that they have arrived at the "Black Rock," which turns out not to be a geological formation, but the ] of a wooden sailing ship. She then leaves them.


As the raft prepares for launch, Sayid gives the team a radar emitter and flare gun, while Charlie gathers messages to put in a bottle and Walt leaves Vincent with Shannon. Sun says goodbye to Jin, handing him a notebook of English nautical terms. After all the goodbyes are said, the raft team sets off, and when Vincent attempts to follow Walt, Walt tells him to turn back, and the raft sails away from shore.
The episode then abruptly ends with a shot of the column of smoke rising in the forest.


In the distance, the column of smoke continues to rise.
Like the pilot episode, this one features flashbacks from multiple characters, each a single continuous scene from the perspective of one of them. They show what the protagonists were doing in their final hours before the flight.


==Exodus: Parts 2 and 3==
In the first, Walt is watching '']'' in his room, which irritates his sleeping father. After an outburst, Walt attempts to run away with Vincent, but Michael brings him back.
*'''Original airdate:''' ], ]
*'''Flashbacks:''' ], ], ],], ], ]
*Written by: ] & ]
*Directed by: ]


Believing that the Others are bearing down on them, the survivors divide into three groups, each working to protect and save them all.
In his flashback, Jack is conversing in the airport bar with another passenger on Flight 815 (]) before the boarding of the plane. She flirts with Jack, who reveals that he is no longer married, and says that she is sitting in seat 42F.


'''The Hatch'''
In Sawyer's flashback, he has been taken into the police station. This is apparently three nights after his cameo in "]". The investigator tells him that he knows all about his cons, and books him on the flight out of Australia. It is revealed here that Sawyer headbutted the Australian Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Minister, Warren Truss.


At the “Black Rock”, Danielle turns and leaves the group, saying that she has done what she was asked to do. Jack, Kate and Locke enter the ship to retrieve the dynamite, and bring a crate outside. Arzt angrily stops them, explaining the dangers of handling old dynamite. During the explanation, he becomes careless and a stick detonates, killing him.
Kate's flashback reveals that the Marshal knew that the toy airplane was the only thing of value left to her, so he had baited her with it. When he denigrates the memory of Tom, she attacks him, but is subdued.


Despite Arzt’s death, the group decides to continue with their mission, and begin wrapping the dynamite in wet cloth, with Locke suggesting that two sets be wrapped, in case one of the carriers doesn’t make it to the hatch. When Locke, Jack, and Kate all volunteer to carry dynamite, they draw straws to determine who will carry it, with Jack the odd man out.
Sun's flashback shows her bringing Jin coffee and food in the airport prior to their flight, while a pompous and arrogant American woman comments to her husband that the relationship between Sun and Jin is one of subservience &mdash; thinking that Sun does not understand English. Affected by her words, Sun accidentally spills coffee into Jin's lap.


On their way back to the hatch, the security system reappears. Locke, wanting to get a closer look at it, creeps close, but is ensnared when the entity attacks him. The security system drags Locke through the jungle, and Jack grabs onto Locke’s arm to stop Locke from being dragged away. However, Jack is dragged along as well, and eventually, Locke is pulled into a hole in the ground. Despite Locke’s pleas to let him go, Jack tells Kate the get the dynamite, which he had secretly placed in his own pack. Kate drops the dynamite down the tunnel, disrupting the security system, which flees.
In Shannon's flashback, she is waiting for Boone to attempt to upgrade their seats to first-class when Sayid asks if he can leave his bag with her. She agrees, and he walks off. When Boone returns, saying that the agent would not upgrade their seats because Shannon had been difficult during check-in, she storms off to try again, leaving Sayid's bag unattended. As a response to Boone's accusation that she's not a capable person, Shannon notifies a guard that "some Arab guy" left a suspicious bag in the waiting area.


That evening, as they walk to the hatch, Locke and Jack have a confrontation about the encounter with the security system, during which Locke and Jack debate whether their presence is fate or not. the group arrives at the hatch. Jack and Locke set the dynamite up on the hinge of the hatch, and are about to set it off when Hurley notices the numbers on the side. He yells at them not to light the fuse, but Locke does so anyway. Hurley frantically tries to stamp it out, shouting “the numbers are bad.” Trying to save Hurley, Jack tackles him moments before the dynamite explodes.
===Trivia===
*When Jin and Michael are repairing the raft, Michael angrily says to Jin, "No, no, no. This one goes there, that one goes there", which is exactly what ] told ] in '']'' as they repaired the ''].''This episode ran the day before the newest Star Wars film, ], was released. In the next episode, Sawyer refers to Michael and Jin as "Han" and "Chewie," respectively.
*In his flashback, Jack reveals his row number to be 23 and Ana-Lucia tells Jack her row is 42 at the back. These are the last two in the sequence of numbers.


'''The Raft'''
==Exodus: Parts 2 and 3==

*'''Original airdate:''' ], ]. Part 2 and 3 of the Exodus episode aired back to back in the US with no delineation, and are summarized as one episode here.
On the raft, everything is going smoothly. Michael takes the opportunity to bond with Walt, while Walt learns about Sawyer's long term search for revenge. Jin also gives his new friend, Michael, Mr. Paik’s watch, for which he had nearly killed Michael a few weeks earlier. At one point, the rudder breaks off, and Sawyer dives into the water after it, risking his life. After Sawyer makes it back on board, Michael discovers that Sawyer has a gun, but decides not to tell the others.
*'''Flashbacks:''' ], ], ], ], ], ], ] (Deleted scene, featured on the LOST: Season 1 DVD)
*Written by: ] & ]
*Directed by: ]


That night, the group turns on the radar system as instructed by Sayid. Much to their surprise, their radar sweep turns up an object in the distance. They fire their single flare, and the object approaches them. As it nears, it turns on a bright search light, and the group rejoices that another boat has found them. Thinking they are about to be saved, they welcome the people on the boat.
Jack, Kate and Locke go into the ''Black Rock'' and find the crate of dynamite. While attempting to handle the explosives carefully, Arzt triggers one of the sticks himself and is blown up. The remaining group members decide to continue their attempt to carry the dynamite, and wrap it in wet cloth. Locke suggests that they carry a redundant backup; in case one of the carriers blows up, the other will still be able to blow the hatch. Locke, Kate and Jack all want to volunteer to carry the dynamite, so they ] for the responsibility. Jack draws the long stick, so Kate and Locke carry it. On their way back to the hatch, Jack and Kate see what seems to be a small cloud of ] move in an unnatural way through some nearby trees, and they hear the rumbling of the monster. According to plan, Jack and Locke drop their packs, but Kate forgets and keeps hers on. Locke wants to get a glimpse of the monster, and ends up getting nearly under it. His leg becomes ensnared in what sounds like a chain mechanism of some kind, which drags him through the jungle (although freeze frames of the DVD video look as if he's been seized by a tendril of the same strange smoke rather than a conventional chain). Jack grabs on to his arm and is dragged as well, and prevents Locke from being pulled into a hole in the ground. Although Locke pleads with Jack to just let him go, Jack instead tells Kate to grab a stick of dynamite out of his bag and drop it down, revealing that he had in fact switched the content of their packs. Kate drops the dynamite down the tunnel, causing an underground explosion, resulting in black smoke (similar to that seen before) coming out of a nearby hole on the horizon, moving in a bizarre, almost ] way, and disappearing, all in less than a second. The hold on Locke slackens, and they are able to extract him. Later, Locke reveals that the reason he wanted to fall into the cavern is that it was his destiny and that he felt that the island was testing him.


However, the boat’s crew turns out to be a group of strangers who demand that Walt be handed over to them. Sawyer tries to pull his gun, but he is shot by one of the crewmen and falls into the water. Jin jumps into the water to save Sawyer, while the strangers overpower Michael and kidnap Walt. As they sail off, a woman throws an explosive on to the raft, destroying it. Michael cries out for Walt as he watches his son disappear into the darkness.
On the beach, Sayid is leading the group back to the caves, awaiting Jack's party's return. Charlie and Claire are alone on the beach when Rousseau runs up, telling Charlie that she needs to see Sayid urgently. When Charlie runs off to get Sayid, Rousseau asks Claire if she can hold her baby, and Claire tries to make several excuses why she can't. Claire sees a strange scar on Rousseau's arm and has a short ambiguous flashback to a struggle between Rousseau and herself. Soon Charlie and Sayid return to find Claire exclaiming that her baby has been taken, and Sayid surmises that Rousseau intends to attempt an exchange of Aaron (which Claire named her baby) for her own child, Alex, with the "]". Charlie and Sayid go toward the black smoke, with little daylight left.


'''The Exodus'''
On their journey they encounter a trap set by Rousseau, which injures Charlie momentarily. Charlie's wound is bleeding profusely, and Sayid orders him to go back to the camp, but Charlie refuses. Sayid then cuts open a bullet, pours the gunpowder into the wound, and sets it on fire to cauterize the injury. They also encounter the downed drug smugglers' plane, and, ignorant of Charlie's junkie past, Sayid reveals that it is full of ]. When Sayid and Charlie arrive on the beach with the black smoke, there are no other people, just a ]. The sound of the baby crying alerts them to Rousseau hiding in the bushes. She cries and tells them that she overheard them saying that they were going to go after "the boy," and she thought that if she brought him to them, they would return her child. She returns the baby, and they reunite it with Claire. It is revealed that Charlie kept at least one of the statues filled with heroin in his bag.


On the beach, Sayid organizes the group at the beach for a retreat to the caves, while Charlie attempts to prepare Claire for carrying the baby. The two are alone when Rousseau runs up looking for Sayid. Charlie runs off the get him, leaving Claire with Rousseau. During their time alone, Claire notices the scratches on Rousseau’s arm and momentarily flashes back to a forgotten encounter with Danielle. Rousseau kidnaps the baby from Claire.
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On the raft, the crew is sailing according to plan, and Michael bonds with Walt. Walt learns about Sawyer's long term search for revenge. Jin gives the watch which caused a fight between them ] to Michael as a gift. At one point, the rudder breaks off, and Sawyer dives into the water after it, risking his life. At this point, Michael discovers that Sawyer has a gun, but decides not to tell the others. At night, their radar sweep turns up a boat in the distance. They fire their single flare, and the boat approaches them. Though they think they are about to be saved, it turns out to be a group of strangers who demand that they hand over Walt. Sawyer tries to pull his gun, but he is shot by one of the other crewmen and falls into the water. Jin jumps into the water to try and save Sawyer, while the strangers overpower Michael and kidnap Walt. As they sail off, a woman throws an explosive on to the raft, destroying it. Michael cries out "Walt!" as he watches him disappear into the darkness.


Sayid guesses that Rousseau plans to exchange the baby, whom Claire has now named Aaron, for her own daughter, Alex, who’d been taken years earlier. Charlie and Sayid arm themselves and take off into the jungle after Danielle, heading in the direction of the black smoke. Early on, they take a break at the Beechcraft, a moment during which Sayid, ignorant of Charlie’s heroin addiction, reveals that it is full of ]. Later, Charlie runs into a trap Danielle had set. Sayid orders Charlie back to camp, but he refuses, so Sayid uses a field medicine technique to staunch the bleeding and cauterize the wound.
Meanwhile, Jack, Kate, Locke, and Hurley arrive at the hatch. They manage to set the dynamite up on the hinge of the hatch, and are about to set it off when Hurley notices the appearance of the numbers on the side. He yells at them not to light the fuse, but Locke does so anyway. Hurley tries to stamp it out, repeating, "the numbers are bad," but Jack tackles him, and the dynamite explodes.


When Sayid and Charlie arrive on the beach, they discover it is just a ], with no people around. The sound of a baby crying alerts them to Rousseau hiding in the bushes, and when they call out to her, she emerges with the baby in her arms. A distraught Danielle says that she overheard the Others say they were coming for "the boy," and she believed they’d return Alex to her if she brought them the boy. She returns the baby, and the pair return to the caves, at which the other survivors had arrived some time earlier. After reuniting the baby with Claire, the survivors settle in to wait for the hatch group’s return, while Charlie hides the heroin filled statue in his bag.
As in ], the flashbacks in this episode deal with each character's experiences leading up to the flight.


Jin's flashback follows Sun's from the previous episode. When Jin goes to the bathroom, he encounters a casually dressed Caucasian man who conversationally asks him for a paper towel in English. When Jin indicates that he speaks no English, the man switches to Korean. Seeming somewhat more menacing now, he then reveals that he works for Mr. Paik, and knows that Jin was attempting to run away with Sun. He tells Jin to complete his delivery of a watch to Mr. Paik's friend in California. Flashbacks again show the survivors in the hours before the flight. That morning, as Jin heads to the restroom to clean up coffee Sun had accidentally spilled on him, Sayid is released from airport security, as the agents apologize for causing him any inconvenience. While in the restroom, Jin encounters a man who explains that he works for Mr. Paik. He tells Jin that he knows Jin is fleeing, but orders him to complete his delivery of the watch to an associate in San Francisco.


Back at a hotel, Charlie frantically looks for his stash before heading to the airport. His companion from the previous evening also wants the drugs, and the two fight over them, before the woman leaves the room in anger. At the airport, Michael goes to call his office while Walt is absorbed in playing video games, However, Michael is actually calling his mother, with whom he pleads to take care of Walt for him. When she refuses, Michael hangs up, to discover Walt standing behind him, possibly having heard the whole conversation.
Charlie's flashback is of him looking for his stash before leaving for his flight. A girl from the previous night is in his bed. As Charlie finds the drugs, she asks if he has any left. He lies and says that he's out, but she can tell that he's lying and attacks him for the drugs.


Meanwhile, Hurley wakes up late for his flight due to a localized power failure. In a mad dash for the airport, he experiences several other problems, including full elevators, a flat tire, arriving at the wrong terminal, a slow check-in agent, having to buy a second ticket, and so on. Despite all these setbacks, Hurley makes the flight at the last possible moment. Earlier, Locke was also nearly prevented from boarding because the wheelchair normally used to board disabled passengers was missing. Locke, frustrated and struggling to maintain his dignity, consents to being carried onto the plane.
In Sayid's flashback, airport security apologize for causing him inconvenience.


In a final flashback of the boarding of the flight, all the passengers take their seats. Hurley, late to the flight, makes his way to his seat, where he catches Walt’s eye. As Walt smiles, Hurley gives him a thumbs up before taking his seat and taking out the comic book Walt later would read on the island. Arzt helps Claire put her bag in the overhead compartment, while Jack and Locke briefly acknowledge each other,
Michael's flashback is of him and Walt in the airport waiting for their flight. Walt is absorbed in his ], and Michael is obviously frustrated that they can't connect. He gets up, claiming to need to call work, but he really calls his mother. He expresses his exasperation to his mother, and asks if she can take care of Walt, eventually offering to pay her. Locke makes a split second on-screen appearance, being pushed in his wheelchair, while Michael is on the phone. When Michael hangs up, Walt is right next to him, and may have heard the whole conversation.


At the hatch, Jack and Locke pry the now broken door off the hinge and look inside. All they can see is a broken ladder, and a deep, dark, very long tunnel.
Hurley's flashback is fairly comedic, and shows him waking up late for his flight due to a short circuit in the wall outlet that leaves his alarm clock without power. In a mad dash for the airport, he experiences several other problems, including a flat tire, arriving at the domestic terminal rather than international; he buys an electric scooter from an old man for $1600 and manages to get to the terminal just as they are closing the gate. When he is trying to cut a line on the way, the viewers can see Mr. Arzt, who is waiting in the line. The boarding agent is able to get them to reopen the doors for him, and he hugs her effusively. This is the longest flashback in the episode and, as expected, the numbers feature prominently. Hurley is shown to be staying in room 2342, his digital display in his car shows that it is 23 degrees outside, and he is originally going 42 km/h; when he gets a flat tire he slows first to 16, then 15, then 8, and finally 4 before the display cuts out altogether. As he is running through the airport, he passes a sports team wearing jerseys with the numbers in order. Another revelation from this flashback is that Hurley and Charlie stayed in the same hotel (Charlie yells at him for holding up a full ] saying that some people have a plane to catch), and the elevator bank also looks exactly like the one in the hotel where Michael and Walt stayed. When Hurley gives his passport to the airport worker, we see that the Departure and Arrival times are 14:16 to 10:42, 16 and 42 both being numbers in the sequence. Finally, we see that the aircraft departs from gate 23.
In Locke's flashback, the airline staff have lost the wheelchair that is normally used to load disabled passengers on to the plane, and he must be carried on by two attendants. When he drops a pamphlet from his seat, he is unable to reach it. He is clearly frustrated by the whole situation, and struggles to maintain his dignity.
There is a final montage of all of the passengers getting on the plane (except for Locke, who was seated early as a disabled passenger). It is fairly uneventful, although when Hurley gets on the plane he gives a thumbs up to Walt, who looks up from his Gameboy for the first time and smiles. Hurley smiles back, sits down, puts on his headphones and starts reading his comic book &mdash; the same one that Walt found after the plane crash. Mr. Arzt also helps Claire put her bag in the overhead compartment. This scene basically shows how prior to the crash each of the survivors had a brief interaction with another.
The first season ends with Jack, Locke, Kate and Hurley at the hatch. They prise it open to reveal a deep, dark metal tunnel. A partial ladder (with broken rungs) can be seen near the top. Though we don't know what is inside yet, one thing is certain &mdash; it's a long way down...
===Trivia===
* The DVD contains two further flashbacks at the airport. Sayid is shown buying a tie (which is revealed to be used by Sawyer as he secures the raft) before being accosted by airport security. In Claire's flashback, she is at a coffee shop, sitting at a table handling her cup shakily. The pilot walks over to her to comfort her. He tells her that he sees pregnant women all the time on long flights. He says that he will make the ride extra smooth for her. She later tells him about the psychic she met in "]" and the events that took place in the episode. The pilot tells Claire about his mother. He says that his mother went to a psychic. The psychic told her to marry a guy with a name that started with "R". She went for "Roger". She dumped her husband, Bernard, and she never found a man named Roger. In later years after the separation, Bernard made millions of dollars.
* The plane seen flying over Hurley at the airport is a Boeing 747 owned by Japan Airlines.
* For the UK transmission, although aired back-to-back, "Exodus" Parts 2 and 3 were shown as two separate episodes, and appear as such within the Region 2 DVD set.
* For the Australian transmission, the episodes aired over two weeks, "Exodus" Parts 2 and 3 were shown as two separate episodes, and appear as such within the Region 4 DVD set.


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Pilot: Part 1

Jack Shephard wakes up in the jungle, wherein he sees Vincent walking through the bamboo. Confused and disoriented, Jack attempts to gather his thoughts, when he hears screams in the distance. Running to the nearby beach, he is confronted with the carnage of the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. Jack immediately springs into action, administering medical aid and asking other survivors to assist him with more difficult rescues. In quick fashion, Jack assists Claire, enlists Hurley to watch her, and administers CPR to Rose.

After the initial shock of the crash passes, Jack slips off to tend to his own wounds. Here he meets Kate, whom he asks to stitch up his wound. During their initial conversation, Kate reveals that their plane had disintegrated in mid-air. Later on the beach, Jack tends to an unconscious man who has been badly injured, while Kate curiously looks on. Other survivors, including Michael and Walt, meet to discuss what to do with the bodies in the wreckage, as an uninterested Sawyer looks on. This discussion prompts Sayid to organize a cleanup. Hurley salvages meals from the plane’s galley and distributes them to the survivors, while Shannon refuses food offered by Boone, believing instead that their rescue was imminent.

That night, the peacefulness of the camp is disturbed by loud noises emanating from the nearby jungle. In the morning Jack decides that the survivors need to send a distress signal if they hope to be rescued, and he believes the best solution is to use the plane’s transceiver. With Kate and Charlie to assist him, Jack sets off into the jungle to find the cockpit. As they move deeper into the jungle, a sudden rainstorm comes up. When the trio finds the plane, resting against a tree, they are forced to climb through the rows of seats to reach the cabin. Inside, they find the pilot still in his seat. Charlie disappears into the bathroom while Jack and Kate talk to the pilot. He tells them that the plane had lost radio contact before the crash, and, due to a change in course, was 1000 miles off course when they crashed.

Meanwhile, on the beach during the rainstorm, a group of survivors takes refuge in the wreckage. While huddled under the wreckage, a young Korean man, Jin, tells his wife Sun that she should remain close to him at all times. Even as most of the survivors have taken refuge, one person remains outside: John Locke, who sits alone in the rain on the beach with his arms outstretched. Back in the jungle, the conversation in the cockpit is interrupted when the strange entity from the previous night appears. When the pilot investigates, he is seized by some unseen presence, prompting the trio to grab the transceiver and flee the cockpit. During the escape, Charlie falls. Jack returns to help him, while a terrified Kate runs on. After the entity disappears, Kate, Charlie and Jack reunite and begin walking back to camp. As they walk, they find the pilot’s bloodied corpse suspended in the tree tops.

Pilot: Part 2

Jack, Kate, and Charlie head back to the beach. Kate asks Charlie what he was doing in the bathroom, and he says he was sick. A flashback reveals Charlie sitting on the plane nervously tapping his fingers. He sees the flight attendants talking about him and quickly gets up to go into one of the lavatories. He enters the lavatory in first-class, and takes a hit of heroin. Before he can flush his stash there is turbulence and he exits the lavatory and sits in the nearest seat.

While looking for Vincent, Walt discovers a pair of handcuffs. He gives them to Michael. Jack, Kate, and Charlie return to the beach to discover Sawyer and Sayid fighting. Michael gives the handcuffs to Jack, and Sawyer accuses Sayid of crashing the plane. Sayid takes the transceiver and fixes it, however it does not have a signal or much battery life. He reveals to Hurley that he was a communications officer with the Iraqi Republican Guard in the Gulf War. Charlie walks away from the crowd and takes a hit of heroin. Jack asks Hurley to find antibiotics. Sawyer pulls a letter from his pocket and smokes a cigarette while he reads it. John Locke introduces Walt to Backgammon, and tells him a secret.

Sayid, Kate, Charlie, Boone, Sawyer, and Shannon take the transceiver inland in an attempt to get a signal. Jack stays behind to tend to the wounded man. On the way they are attacked by an unseen animal, which Sawyer kills with a gun. When they look down at the dead animal they discover that it is a polar bear. Jack wants to pull the shrapnel metal out of the wounded man, and asks Hurley to hold him down if he regains consciousness during the operation. Hurley passes out on top of the man. Sawyer tells the others he got the gun from the body of a dead US Marshal. Sayid accuses Sawyer of being the marshal's prisoner. Kate takes the gun from Sawyer and Sayid instructs her on how to dismantle it.

A flashback reveals the final moments of the flight. Kate is talking to the US Marshal, the same man who Jack is tending to. Kate raises her hands, and she is wearing the handcuffs that Walt found in the jungle. After he is knocked unconscious by a suitcase, Kate uncuffs herself, and puts on the marshal’s oxygen mask on him before attaching her own.

Back at the beach, the marshal wakes up during the operation and asks Jack, "Where is she?” Inland, Sayid turns on the transceiver and it has a signal. However, it's being blocked by a transmission in French that has been repeating for over sixteen years. Shannon translates the transmission to: "I'm alone now, on the island alone. Please someone come. The others are dead. It killed them. It killed them all." They deduce that whoever made that transmission has been stranded on the island for sixteen years.

Tabula Rasa

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Ray Mullen in episode Tabula Rasa

Jack is tending to the marshal, who mutters, "Don't trust her. She's dangerous." When Jack asks him who "she" is, the Marshal instructs him to look in his jacket pocket. Jack discovers Kate’s mug shot.

The signal party returns down the mountain. It's growing dark, so they make camp for the night. They decide not to tell the others about the French transmission in order to preserve hope. When a fight breaks out over who should keep the gun, they agree to give it to Kate. At the beach, Jack continues trying to save the marshall. Hurley enters, stumbles across Kate's picture, and asks, "What do you think she did?"

In flashback, Kate is awakened by a farmer, Ray, who wants to know why she is sleeping in his barn. Using the pseudonym Annie, Kate is offered a job on the farm.

The next morning the signal party returns to the beach. Kate pulls Jack aside and tells him about the French transmission. He asks if there is anything else she'd like to tell him. Kate inquires about the marshal and Jack lies, telling Kate the man said nothing. Jack enters the fuselage to find antibiotics and discovers Sawyer looting the bodies. Charlie helps Claire collect luggage using a wheelchair from the plane. Hurley bumps into Kate at the infirmary and, after a curt introduction, nervously runs away.

In a flashback, Kate leaves Ray’s farm. But when she accepts a ride from Ray to the train station, she learns that he is planning on turning her in to the authorities for reward money. Kate sees the marshal driving behind them. She jerks the wheel and crashes the truck off the road. She misses her chance to escape while saving Ray.

The marshal wakes and tries to choke Kate. When Kate suggests to Jack that they euthanize him, Jack reveals that he has seen her mug shot and that he is not a murderer. Michael asks Walt about Locke, and then instructs Walt to stay away from the man. Walt says that Locke’s secret is that a miracle happened to him. Michael looks for Vincent in the jungle and stumbles upon a topless Sun washing herself.

The marshal’s painful screams are taking a toll on the group. The marshal tells Jack he wants to speak to Kate alone. While she is in the tent, Hurley tells Jack that Kate has a gun. Jack sees Kate leave the tent, and the gun is fired. Sawyer walks out of the tent and says he did what had to be done. However, the marshal's screams continue. Sawyer has failed to kill him. Jack throws an extremely shaken Sawyer out of the tent and, a few moments later, the moans stop. Jack walks past Sawyer without saying a word.

The next morning, Locke uses the dog whistle he made to find Vincent. He tells Michael, who returns Vincent to Walt. Kate wants to tell Jack what she did, but he replies that it doesn’t matter who everyone was before the crash.

Walkabout

When boars raid the fuselage, Jack decides it has to be burned. Four days after the crash the survivors discover that their food is exhausted, and wonder what to do. John Locke suggests they should hunt boar in the jungle. Locke, Kate, and Michael set out hunting. Sayid gives Kate takes the transceiver and asks her to find a signal.

In a flashback, Locke is at work in an office building playing a game of Risk during his lunch hour. His manager, Randy, taunts him when he discovers that Locke is going on an Australian walkabout. At home in his studio apartment, Locke is talking to a woman named Helen on the phone. He invites her to go to the walkabout, but she declines and says that she does not meet customers. She then offers to talk to Locke for another hour if he pays for it. Locke angrily hangs up the phone.

Michael is injured while hunting, and Kate escorts him back to the beach. Along the way she climbs a tree to use the transceiver, but when she sees the monster she drops it, and the transceiver breaks. Locke has a close encounter with the monster. However, instead of running from it, Locke stands his ground.

At the beach the castaways are clearing supplies out of the fuselage. Claire decides to lead a memorial ceremony for the deceased passengers. Boone suggests that Jack talk to Rose, who has acted distant since their arrival on the island. Rose tells Jack that her husband, who was in the tail section of the plane when it crashed, is still alive.

Michael and Kate return to camp. Sayid is angry that Kate broke the transceiver. When she goes to tell Jack about Locke, Jack sees a man in a suit walk into the jungle. Jack chases after him and Kate follows. They find Locke with a slain wild boar.

In a flashback, Locke is in Australia talking to one of the leaders on the walkabout. He refuses to let Locke come because of his condition, saying it’s too big of a risk for the insurance company. As the man gets up to leave, Locke is revealed to be in a wheelchair. In a flashback to minutes after the crash, Locke is laying on his back in the sand. He wiggles his toes, then slowly and clumsily stands up.

That night Claire holds a memorial service for the dead passengers using information she found in their passports, wallets, and luggage. Charlie takes a hit of heroin before attending. His stash is running low. Jack does not attend the memorial service.

White Rabbit

A flashback shows Jack and a friend as kids being beaten up. One bully gives Jack the chance to leave, but he decides to help his friend, causing him to be beaten even more. Joanna, a character who had not been previously mentioned, drowns in the ocean. Boone fails to save her, and Jack rescues Boone, leaving Joanne to drown. Jack is distraught that he failed to save her and sees the man in a suit again.

Hurley and Charlie want Jack to decide how to handle the lack of water. In a flashback, Jack’s father sees Jack’s beaten face. His father tells Jack he shouldn’t be a hero because “he doesn’t have what it takes.” On the island Jack sees the man in the suit, and chases him. Jack catches up with him and discovers it’s his father. Jack’s father turns and walks away without a word.

In a flashback, Jack’s mother tells him that his father has left for Australia. His mother wants him to bring his father back. Jack reluctantly agrees. On the island Claire faints from heat exhaustion, and they discover that the remaining water has been stolen. Locke goes into the jungle to look for water.

Jack deliriously stumbles through the jungle looking for his father. A flashback shows Jack searching the hotel his father was staying at, and interrogating the manager. On the island, Jack falls off a cliff while running. He hangs onto a branch, but cannot climb up. Locke appears and helps Jack.

On the beach, Charlie offers Claire some water. They talk and form a bond. Sayid finds that Sun has water, and she reveals that Sawyer gave it to them. Kate follows Saywer to his stash of stuff he looted from the fuselage, but he doesn’t have the water.

Locke tells Jack that the others need a leader, and it should be him. Jack reveals that his father is a hallucination. Locke claims the island is “special”, and everything that happens on it happens for a reason. He says, “I looked into the eye of this island and what I saw was beautiful.” They split up: Locke looks for water, and Jack follows his hallucination.

In a flashback Jack is at the morgue. The doctor says that Jack’s father died of alcohol poisoning. Jack identifies the body. That night on the island, Jack discovers caves with an abundance of fresh water. More wreckage from the plane is here, including a coffin. A flashback shows Jack at the airport. The airline refuses to put his father’s body on the plane because he does not have the proper documentation. On the island, Jack opens the coffin to find it’s empty. He destroys it out of anger.

On the beach Boone gives water to Claire. Charlie sees him and drags him out of the tent. The others start pushing Boone, asking him where the water is. Jack appears and tells everyone about the caves. Sawyer is delighted that people hate Boone more than him. Jack tells Kate about his father.

House of the Rising Sun

A flashback shows Sun at a party. Jin, a waiter, passes Sun a note telling her to meet him in private. Sun wants to run away with Jin, but Jin insists they tell her father they are seeing each other.

Jack, Kate, Charlie, and Locke go to the caves. Jin attacks Michael for no apparent reason. Sawyer and Sayid handcuff Jin to the wreckage. Michael says the attack was racially motivated. At the caves they discover two bodies, who Locke dubs ‘’Adam and Eve’’. Jack estimates they have been dead for 40-50 years, and finds a pouch on them containing two stones: one black, one white.

In a flashback, Jin returns from talking to Sun’s father. Her father approves of their relationship as long as Jin takes a job working for her father. One night after they’re married, Jin returns home covered in someone else’s blood. He tells Sun he was doing work for her father.

At the beach, Jin tells Sun Michael has her father’s watch. Locke and Charlie are clearing the wreckage at the caves and Locke tells Charlie he recognizes him from Drive Shaft. Charlie is relieved that someone finally recognizes him.

Jack and Kate return to the beach and Jack starts selling people on the idea of moving to the caves. The castaways argue whether to stay on the beach where a rescue party could see them, or move to the caves, where there’s more shelter and have fresh water. The group splits into two camps: some stay at the beach, while others move to the caves.

The next flashback takes place several years later. Sun secretly plots to leave Jin and her father, so she will be free to go wherever she wants. On the island Sun finds Michael alone, and in perfect, unbroken English says, “I need to talk to you.” Michael is shocked that she speaks English. Sun says Jin does not know that she speaks English. She explains that Jin attacked Michael because of the watch he’s wearing. Michael says he found it in the wreckage. The watch belongs to Sun’s father, and Jin became angry when he saw Michael wearing it.

At the caves, Locke tells Charlie that he knows Charlie is addicted to heroin. Locke says if Charlie gives up his drugs, the island will give him his guitar, which he deeply misses. Locke finds the guitar, and Charlie is ecstatic. On the beach Kate refuses to go with Jack to the caves. Michael approaches Jin with an axe and cuts him free, however half of the handcuff still remains on his hand. He gives the watch back to Jin and tells Jin to stay away from him and Walt.

A flashback shows Sun at the airport about to leave Jin forever. However, she can’t do it, and gets on the doomed flight with Jin. That night at the caves Charlie plays his guitar as Jack returns with people from the beach.

The Moth

Charlie is suffering from withdrawal, and when walking in the jungle a boar chases him. In a flashback, Charlie is in church confessing his sins. He comes out of confession and sees Liam, who tells Charlie that Drive Shaft has a recording contract. Locke traps the boar and thanks Charlie for being bait. Charlie asks Locke for the heroin. Locke says that he’ll gives Charlie the drugs the third time he asks.

Sayid, Kate and Boone attempt to triangulate the French transmission. At the caves, Charlie searches through Jack’s medicine for something to replace his heroin. When Jack catches him, Charlie says he has a headache and wants aspirin.

In a flashback, Charlie doesn’t want to sign the record contract because he morally disagrees with the sex and drugs the band engages in. Liam talks him into it as long as Charlie can quit any time he’s had enough. One evening at a show, Liam starts singing the chorus to ‘’You All Everybody’’, which is suppose to be sung by Charlie. He yells at Liam after the show, but Liam reassures him it won’t happen again.

When Jack upsets Charlie by telling him to move his luggage, Charlie confronts him in a cave. Charlie’s shouting causes the entrance to the cave collapse. Charlie escapes, but Jack is trapped inside.

Using his construction experience, Michael leads the rescue attempt. In the jungle, Sawyer goes to warn Kate about Jack, but decides against he doesn’t like Kate’s attitude. Charlie tells Locke about Jack. Charlie asks for his drugs a second time, so Locke shows him a moth cocoon. Locke explains that he could help the moth by slitting the cocoon, but it would not survive. Instead, the moth needs to struggle to break free. Nature and struggle make people stronger, indicating to Charlie that he needs to fight through his suffering.

Kate and Sawyer stay at the second triangulation point, while Sayid goes to the third point. Sawyer tells Kate about Jack, and she runs back to the caves. Charlie squeezes through an opening at the cave and finds Jack. A flashback shows Charlie finding Liam high on heroin with groupies. Charlie kicks them out, and tells Liam that he’s done with the band. Liam says no, causing Charlie to use heroin for the first time. Years later, Charlie visits Liam is Australia and wants him to rejoin Drive Shaft for their comeback tour. Liam refuses, but they can’t do it without him. He criticizes Charlie for still using, and Charlie blames Liam for getting him started with drugs. Charlie angrily leaves, and says he has a plane to catch.

After resetting Jack’s shoulder, they dig out of the cave. Jack confronts Charlie about using drugs, and reassures him that it’ll be okay. Charlie asks Locke for his heroin, looks at it, and tosses it into the fire. Charlie and Locke see the previously cocooned moth flying away. Before Sayid is able to triangulate the signal someone knocks him out.

Confidence Man

A flashback shows Sawyer sleeping with a woman, Jessica. He gets out of bed, and money falls out of a suitcase he picks up, shocking Jessica. On the island, Sawyer catches Boone rifling through his stash. Later, Shannon brings a bloody Boone to the caves, claiming Sawyer beat him. Boone says that Sawyer has Shannon’s asthma medicine, and she could die without it. Jack confronts Sawyer, who doesn’t give any answers. A flashback reveals Sawyer is going to use the money to invest in oil, tripling his money. Jessica wants in, saying she can use her husband’s money.

Sawyer says he’ll give up the medicine if Kate kisses him. Kate calls his bluff and calls him out on the letter he often reads. Sawyer makes Kate read the letter aloud. It’s addressed to Mr. Sawyer. The author says Sawyer slept with his mother and stole his father’s money, causing the father to murder his mother then kill himself. The author says he’ll find Sawyer and give him the letter he knows what he did to the author’s family.

Shannon has an asthma attack as Sawyer approaches. He refuses to give Jack the medicine. Sawyer is having lunch with Jessica and her husband in a flashback, and they agree to invest with Sawyer. Charlie wants Claire to move to the caves, but she likes the beach more. Claire agrees to move to the caves when Charlie brings her a peanut butter. Charlie asks Hurley about peanut butter, saying Hurley hasn’t lost any weight, to which Hurley says he’s down two belt notches.

When Shannon’s asthma gets worse, Sayid tortures Sawyer until he gives an answer. Sayid and Jack tie Sawyer to a tree. Sayid sticks a piece of bamboo under his fingernails, causing Sawyer a great deal of pain. Sawyer gives in and says he’ll tell Kate, but only if she kisses him. After he passionately kisses Kate, he tells her he doesn’t have it. He went through torture to kiss Kate. Sayid believes Sawyer is lying, and they begin fighting. Sayid stabs Sawyer with Locke’s knife in the upper arm.

A flashback shows Sawyer closing the deal with Jessica and husband. Their son enters, and Sawyer calls the deal off. He wakes up on the island to find his arm bandaged. Kate had been rereading Sawyer’s letter. She sees the stamp on it from Knoxville, and discovers the letter wasn’t written to Saywer, but from him. Sawyer tells Kate about his flashback. When he say that boy he realized he had became the man he was hunting, and took the pseudonym Sawyer. He snatches the letter from Kate and tells her to leave. An herbal medicine made by Sun helps Shannon get better. Charlie approaches Claire with an empty jar and tells her it’s peanut butter. She’s so flattered she moves to the caves. Sayid leaves the group because he was ashamed of what he did to Sawyer.

Solitary

Sayid finds a cable running out of the ocean and into the jungle. He follows it, and falls into a trap. A mysterious woman cuts him down and ties him to a bed in a bunker. She asks where Alex is, but when Sayid says he does not know she electrocutes him. Sayid tells his torturer his story and about the French transmission. The torturer then identifies herself as Danielle Rousseau, the person who sent out the distress signal. Danielle finds a picture of a woman among Sayid’s possessions, and he identifies her as Nadia.

In a flashback, Sayid is torturing a prisoner who will not answer his questions. When he steps outside, he recognizes a new prisoner. He is then instructed to torture her until she answers his questions. Sayid discovers that the woman is Nadia, a childhood friend. She reveals that she has been tortured before, and anything Sayid does won’t persuade her to talk.

At camp everyone is stressed. Locke and his new hunting companion, Ethan, give some new luggage to Hurley. He looks through it and finds golf clubs. The next morning Hurley builds a golf course to improve morale among the survivors.

Danielle asks Sayid about Nadia, and he says she is dead because of him. Danielle shows Sayid a broken music box, and he tells her he will fix it. She gives Sayid a sedative and moves him. Danielle tells Sayid she was part of a science team, and they crashed on the island about three days from Tahiti. She identifies The Others as the carriers of a sickness that her companions caught, and says they whisper in the jungle. Sayid doesn’t believe her, and continues to fix the music box. After he is finished he asks Danielle to let him go. They hear a growl outside, and Danielle pursues it, leaving Sayid alone.

In a flashback, Sayid’s superior tells him to execute Nadia. He cuffs Nadia and puts a hood over her head. When they are alone he frees her and tells her how to escape. He then shoots himself in the leg to make it look like she overpowered him.

Sayid escapes from Rousseau's bunker while she is gone and grabs a rifle and notes she made about the island. Danielle finds him and they have a standoff. He fires the rifle, but nothing happens. Danielle says she removed the firing pin, and Robert, one of her companions, made the same mistake before she killed him. Sayid talks Danielle into letting him go. Before he does, Sayid asks about Alex. Danielle says that Alex was her child. While trying to find his way back to camp, Sayid hears the whispering Danielle told him about.

Raised by Another

Claire wakes up screaming two nights in a row and insists that someone held her down and stabbed her stomach. However, she has no stab wounds. This attack persuades Hurley to take a census of the survivors.

In a flashback, Claire takes a pregnancy test with the assistance of her boyfriend, Thomas, and it’s positive. Thomas reassures her that everything will be fine and they’ll be good parents. Claire goes to a psychic who knows she’s pregnant, but refuses to tell Claire what he “saw”. One day when Thomas comes home he leaves Claire, saying that he’s not ready for the responsibility.

While conducting his census, Hurley talks to Ethan Rom, who seems concerned about giving his information to Hurley. Jack suggests to Claire that she wasn't attacked and offers her a sedative. Claire angrily leaves the caves to move to the beach.

Claire returns to the psychic and asks him for another reading. He automatically knows that Thomas left her and warns her that what he sees may not be pleasant. He says that Claire must raise the baby by herself, and that if it is parented by anyone else it will be in danger. The psychic repeatedly calls Claire, and she tells him she’s going to an adoptive services agency.

Boone tells Hurley that Sawyer has the flight manifest, and that could help him take the census. Sawyer surprisingly gives it to Hurley without any objection. While Charlie is trying to help Claire move back to the beach, she starts having contractions. Charlie says he can deliver the baby, but after accidentally confesses to Claire that he’s a recovering drug addict, she yells at him to get Jack, leaving her alone in the jungle.

In a flashback, Claire is about to sign papers so a married couple could adopt her baby. However, none of the pens she tries works. After thinking it over, she walks out on the adoption agency, goes to the psychic. He gives her $12,000 and a ticket on Flight 815 and says a couple in Los Angeles will adopt the baby.

Charlie finds Ethan and tells him that Claire is in labor and to get Jack. Charlie goes back to comfort Claire, who tells him the story about the psychic. Charlie suggests that the psychic knew the flight was going to crash, and this was his way of forcing Claire to raise the baby. Claire stops having contractions. A badly wounded Sayid returns to camp and tells the others about Danielle, and that other people are on the island. Just as Hurley reveals that one of the survivors is not listed on the flight manifest, Ethan ominously accosts Claire and Charlie in the jungle.

All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues

At the caves, Hurley continues trying to explain that one survivor (Ethan) is not in the passenger manifest. Jack asks where he is and Michael says that he went to the jungle to get some wood. Jack then begins asking where Charlie is; Locke replies that he went after Claire. The scene then cuts to Jack and Locke running through the jungle until they find what we know to be their last position. They find three distinct footprint sets and realize that Charlie and Claire have been taken. As Jack begins shouting their names, Locke motions for him to be quiet. The hunt is on.

Locke says that they should go back and return with a hunting party. However, Jack decides to start off alone.

A flashback shows Jack operating on a woman. Despite his attempts, the woman's heartbeat goes flatline and he begins giving CPR even though it is hopeless. His father, Dr. Christian Shepard, tells him to call it.

Back at the island, Jack, Kate, Locke, and Boone set off to find their companions. Following their footsteps, the group eventually finds on of Charlie's knuckle bandages. Jack and Kate go off to follow Charlie's bandages while Locke and Boone continue on the original trail. Boone begins putting pieces of his redshirt on trees and explains to Locke the concept of "red shirt" from Star Trek.

Still on the bandage trail, Kate begins telling Jack that they should return to the beach. Shortly afterwards, they hear Claire screaming. Jack goes off on his own, but he is then quickly subdued by Ethan. He threatens to kill one of them if Jack does not stop following them.

A flashback shows Christian telling Jack to report that the woman was pregnant. Christian requests that he sign a form which will officially state that her death was an accident. He also says that "if the hospital board finds out, it will end his career". At the board meeting, Jack tells the board that his father was operating under the influence; this impaired his judgment and lead to the chain of events causing the woman's death.

On the island, Kate finds Jack on the ground. Pushing on, they find Charlie, blindfolded and hanging from a tree. After Kate cuts him down, Jack begins giving CPR. She begins saying that it's a lost cause, but he does not give up. After four powerful thrusts, Charlie wakes up. Returning to the caves, Charlie says that he did not see or hear anything and that "all they wanted was Claire".

Meanwhile, deep in the jungle, Boone begins wanting to go back. Locke finally lets him go and tosses Boone his flashlight. He fails to catch it and it lands on the ground...with a loud metal "clank". Moving to investigate, they find steel imbedded in the ground. Locke begins banging on the metal, which appears to be hollow, and they begin removing mud to find out what it is.

Whatever the Case May Be

Kate and Sawyer find a locked case among the sunken wreckage. Kate wants it, but refuses to tell Sawyer what’s inside, so he takes it. At the beach the tide is rising and will soon submerge the fuselage. Shannon asks Boone what he and Locke do every day, and Boone says they’re looking for Claire.

Sayid asks Shannon to help him translate Rousseau’s notes. Rose comforts Charlie by telling him that what happened to Claire isn’t his fault and he did everything he could. Sawyer tries to pick the lock on the case, but Michael tells him the only way to open it is with pure force. Sawyer drops the case off a cliff, and it still doesn’t open. Kate swipes it, but Sawyer gets it back. He tells her that he will give the case to her if she tells him what’s inside. She refuses.

In a flashback Kate is opening a bank account using an alias. Three masked men enter and rob the bank. One of the robbers pulls Kate into a back room and they share a kiss, revealing that Kate is a part of the robbery. The man smacks Kate to make it looks like she’s an innocent civilian and demands that the bank manager give him a key to a safety deposit box.

Kate goes to Jack and says the case contains weapons. It belonged to the U.S. Marshal and the key is buried with him. They dig up the body and pull out his wallet. Kate slips the key into her hand before giving it to Jack, but Jack catches her. Sayid becomes impatient with Shannon when her translations do not make any sense. Upset, Shannon runs away saying that she’s useless. Jack gives Sawyer an ultimatum: if he does not give Jack the case, Jack will stop giving him antibiotics for his knife wound. Sawyer gives up the case.

In a flashback one of the robbers tells the manager that the robbery was Kate’s idea. Kate shoots the robbers and tells the manager to open a safety deposit box. At the caves Jack and Kate open the case. There are guns inside, and a manila envelope, which Jack gives it to Kate, who opens it and pulls out a toy airplane. When pressured, Kate says it belonged to the man she loved and killed, then cries, but receives no sympathy from Jack.

Rose says her husband is still alive and prays with Charlie. Shannon recognizes Rousseau’s notes as lyrics to a song from a French cartoon. Kate stares at the toy plane beside her campfire.

Hearts and Minds

Boone tells Sayid to stay away from Shannon, and Sayid ignores him. Hurley scolds Boone for not bring back any boar. Locke says that what he and Boone are doing is far more important than hunting. Kate shows Jack to a garden that Sun has started. At the hatch Locke makes a paste and tells Boone it is for later. Locke suggests that staring at the hatch will tell them how to open in.

In a flashback Shannon calls Boone and asks him to come to Sydney. When he gets there he sees that her boyfriend, Brian, has been beating her. Boone reports the crime to the police, and reveals that Shannon is his stepsister. The detective ignores Boone, so he offers Brian $50,000 to break up with Shannon.

Boone wants to tell Shannon about the hatch. Locke responds by knocking him unconscious. Boone awakens to find himself tied up. Locke puts the paste on his head and leaves a knife so he'll be able to free himself. Shannon's screams and the sound of the monster approaching motivate Boone to reach for the knife and free himself.

Sun reveals to Kate that she speaks English, and asks her not to tell anyone. Sun took English lessons in Korea, but doesn’t want Jin to know. Locke finds Sayid trying to make sense of Rousseau's maps, and gives him a compass. Boone, still restrained, hears Shannon screaming as the monster approaches. He reaches the knife, frees himself, and finds Shannon tied to a tree. They evade the monster.

Sayid tells Jack that according to Locke’s compass north is not where it should be, causing him to believe that the compass is defective. Jack finds Locke and asks him about Boone. Locke says he hasn’t seen Boone all day, and the boars are migrating outside of their valley. Hurley and Jin spend the day fishing, and when Hurley fails to catch anything Jin gives him a fish out of sympathy.

In a flashback, Shannon refuses to leave with Boone. He realizes that Shannon lied to him to get the money, and she has done this before. Brian says that Boone’s mother stole money away from her, and she is getting what is rightfully hers. That night a drunken Shannon comes to Boone’s hotel room and tells him that Brian stole the money. She tells Boone that she knows he loves her, and they sleep together.

Boone tells Shannon about the hatch as the monster attacks again. This time it kills Shannon and Boone finds her body by a creek. That night Boone tries to kill Locke, but Locke reveals Shannon is alive. The paste caused Boone to have a vision quest that was crucial to his survival. Boone says seeing Shannon dead made him feel relieved.

Special

Michael asks for Walt’s help with building a raft while Locke is teaching Walt how to use a knife. Angry with Michael, Walt runs off with Vincent. Michael accuses Locke of turning Walt against him, and thinks Locke is hiding Walt. When Locke says he does not know where Walt is, both he and Michael track Walt in the jungle. Michael finds Walt and saves him from being killed by a polar bear.

Flashbacks show that Michael and Walt's mother, Susan, were unmarried. When Walt was a few months old, Susan took a job in Amsterdam and took Walt with her. She married Brian, a co-worker, when Walt was two, and their work took them to Australia. Michael didn't see his son again until after Susan's death from a blood disorder. Brian gave Michael custody of Walt and warned Michael that Walt is 'different'.

Walt is shown to have psychic tendencies. As a child in Australia, Walt opens one of his books to a picture of a native bird and shortly afterwards the bird fatally slams into a nearby window. On the island, while teaching him to throw a knife, Locke tells Walt to visualize hitting the target, and Walt fires and embeds the blade perfectly on the mark. Later, a polar bear chases Walt after Michael throws the comic book Walt had been reading, which featured a picture of a polar bear, into a fire.

Charlie recovers Claire's diary from Sawyer with help from Kate. He reads it and sees her description of a dream about a "black rock" that corresponds to a location on Sayid's stolen map. He shows this to the others, thinking it might be a clue to her whereabouts. However, while looking for Vincent, Locke and Boone find Claire stumbling out of the jungle.

Trivia


Homecoming

Charlie awakens to see Locke carrying Claire to Jack. Claire awakens and panics, asking, “Who are you people?”. Claire claims that the last thing she can remember is the flight. Jack tells her about the crash, and Charlie brings her diary and makes conversation with her. In the first flashback, we see Charlie and Tommy (another member of Driveshaft) using heroin, but they need money to buy more. They then walk into a bar where Tommy points out to Charlie a girl named Lucy, and tells Charlie that her father is rich. Charlie walks over and makes conversation with Lucy.

Charlie meets Jin in the jungle, and walks with him until Jin is hit by a rock from a sling. Ethan appears and tells Charlie that Charlie must bring Claire to him and that he will kill one of the castaways for every day that Charlie does not. Charlie returns to the beach and tells Jack and Locke of Ethan’s threat. Locke suggests that they set up alarms around the perimeter using string and weights.

Claire expresses discomfort to Charlie about the way people treat her, and asks Charlie if there is “anything going on”. Charlie assures her that there isn’t. In the next flashback, we see Charlie in Lucy’s home. Lucy shows him a cigarette case once owned by Winston Churchill. We then see Charlie eating dinner with Lucy and her father. He tells her father that Driveshaft is “dead”. Charlie later tells Tommy that he accepted a job working for Lucy’s father selling copy machines. Tommy reminds Charlie of their addiction.

An alarm awakens Boone. He, Sayid and Jack rush to the tripped string only to find that Vincent (Walt’s dog) has tripped the alarm. They hear screaming and return to the beach to find Scott murdered. Claire finds out about Ethan’s threat and becomes angry with Charlie for lying. In the next flashback, we see Charlie steal the cigarette case that belonged to Winston Churchill.

Jack and Locke debate what to do next, and Jack shows Locke the case of guns. They decide to lure Ethan with Claire. Charlie protests. We see a flashback in which Charlie attempts to demonstrate a copy machine, but vomits due to heroin withdrawal. Jack, Locke, Sawyer, Kate, Sayid and Claire go into the jungle. Charlie follows them. Ethan comes for Claire, and Jack wrestles him to the ground but loses his gun in the process. Sawyer then holds a gun to Ethan. Charlie comes from behind with Jack’s gun and kills Ethan. Charlie tells Jack that Ethan “deserved to die”. In the final flashback, we see Charlie trying to apologize to Lucy. Lucy tells him that she understands why he stole, but asks him why he took the job. Charlie tells her that he wanted to show that he could take care of her, and Lucy tells him that he will never take care of anyone. The episode ends with Claire telling Charlie that she “wants to trust him”.

Outlaws

Sawyer has a nightmare about the night, as a child, he was told by his mother to hide under his bed while she went to the door to tell his father to leave. His father forced his way into the house, killed his mother, sat on the bed Sawyer was hiding under, and kills himself. Sawyer wakes up to find a giant boar in front of him and it attacks his tent and runs away into the trees, taking Sawyer's tarp with it. Sawyer chases after it, and while he is in the jungle he hears whispering. A louder whisper says "It'll come back around".

In the morning Sawyer talks to Sayid about the voices Sayid heard while he was in the jungle some time before, and when Sayid asks why he wants to know, Sawyer replies, "No reason." In a flashback a former associate tells Sawyer that the real Sawyer who ruined his life as a child is now living under the alias Frank Duckett in Australia. He travels there, buys a gun and goes to the shrimp shop where Duckett works. He chats with him briefly, but doesn't kill him. On the island, Sawyer is obsessed with finding the boar that attacked him and goes into the jungle with Kate to find it. The next morning the two of them wake up to find that Sawyer's belongings have been ruined while Kate's remain untouched. Locke says that his sister died very young and that their foster mother blamed herself, suffering a severe depression. But a few months later, a dog came into the house, without tags or collar, and his mother felt much better. The dog slept in his sister's room, but when his mother died years later the dog vanished.

In a flashback Sawyer goes to an Australian bar and meets Jack's father, Christian Shephard. Christian tells Sawyer that some people are meant to suffer, and "that's why the Red Sox will never win the damn Series." He says that he wishes he had the strength to call his son, say how proud he is of him, and "fix everything", but he is too weak to do it. Christian tells Sawyer to fix the thing that’s making him feel bad. Sawyer shoots Frank Duckett, but Frank denies being the real Sawyer, and he tells Sawyer that this will come back to haunt him.

Sawyer catches up to the boar and decides not to kill it. He gives Jack his gun. Now all the firearms are with Jack, who locks them back in the marshal's case. They start to talk, and Jack says "that's why the Sox will never win the Series." Sawyer does not tell Jack that he met Christian.

... In Translation

In Flashbacks, Jin starts to work for Sun's father, Mr. Paik and his car company. In his interview he says that Sun is his dream and his father is dead. Jin later tells Sun that their honeymoon will be after he does some management training. Jin is later promo and Mr. Paik assisngs him to go to Mr. Byung Han's house and deliver a message. He goes to his house and tells him that Mr. Paik is unhappy with him. As a way to make him happy he gives Jin a puppy. We also see Hurley on the tv.

After being interupted by phone call from Mr. Paik, Jin goes to him and he says that he did not deliever the message properly. He goes back to Mr. Han's house and beats his up. Jin tells him that the factories must open tomorrow and that he saved his life. Then Jin looks at the scared family and leaves. We again see Jin with blood in the bathroom and Sun slapping him. We also see Jin crying. He sees his surprisingly alive father working as a fisherman and helps him work. He tells Jin to got to America with Sun to start a new life.

On the island, Jin sees Sun in a swimsuit and tries to cover her up and Michael tries to stop him but gets slapped by Sun. Jin later asks if she is involved with Michael and says no. Sun later apologies to Michael for slapping him. Shannon and Sayid flirt, while Michael works on the raft. Jack comes over and asks about the spots on the raft and Sawyer says that he got one. At night the raft is on fire and they all blame Jin. Sun then finds Jin covered with burns and does not speak to her. Later, Sayid asks Boone for permission to date Shannon and tells him that she might use him. Sayid tells Shannon that it might not be a good idea for them not to date.

The next Sawyer brings Jin to the beach and Michael and Jin fight. Sun then tells him to stop and that Jin did not burn the raft. Everyone is surprised that she speaks English and she says that he is not a liar. Locke then says that it would be unlikely that one of the survivors burned the raft.

Michael says the raft is gone and decides to make a new one. Sun goes to see Jin and says that she was going to leave him and that he changed her mind about leaving. Jin tells her that it's too late to start over. At, night Shannon decides to stay with Sayid even though Boone does not like Sayid around her. Also, Locke asks why Walt burned the raft and he says that he doesn’t want to move anymore, that he likes it on the island.

The next day on the beach Hurley listens to Damien Rice’s Delicate on his CD player and it eventually dies. While, Sun goes into the ocean in a bathing suit as a free, but lonely, women and Jin helps Michael build the new raft.

Numbers

The episode begins with Hurley approaching Sayid at night and asking about Rousseau. Hurley pretends not to be interested, but takes Rousseau’s documents when Sayid is not looking. We then see that before the crash, Hurley won a lottery jackpot of $156 million using the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42, numbers written on one of Rousseau's documents. Hurley then goes to the caves to gather water and encounters Charlie, but does not tell Charlie where he is going. Soon after Hurley leaves, Jack and Sayid arrive in the caves and ask Charlie about Hurley, after which the three of them conclude that Hurley has gone to find Rousseau.

In the flashbacks, we see that Hurley and the people around him seemed to suffer increasingly bad luck after he won the lottery. For example, we see that Hurley’s grandfather suffered a heart attack, that his mother broke her ankle and that Hurley was falsely arrested. Hurley visits a mental asylum where he apparently resided for a time, and consults a man named Lenny who keeps repeating the numbers. After hearing that Hurley used the numbers in the lottery, Lenny becomes panicked and gives Hurley the name of Sam Toomey, a man who Lenny claims to have worked with in Australia. Hurley visits Sam Toomey’s house, which is located in a desert. He encounters Sam Toomey’s wife and learns that while monitoring radio signals for the military, Sam and Lenny picked up a faint transmission in the South Pacific broadcasting the numbers. Hurley learns that Sam had an experience with the numbers similar to his own and eventually committed suicide.

Hurley desperately searches the jungle. He eventually steps on a button. Sayid then emerges from the jungle with Jack and Charlie and tells Hurley that he is stepping on a pressure trigger. Hurley steps off the trigger and dodges a trap. Hurley tells them that he is trying to find Rousseau to obtain a battery for Michael’s raft. They continue through the jungle, Hurley and Charlie cross a bridge, after which it breaks. Jack and Sayid set off a trigger that causes an explosion, which destroys Rousseau’s old shelter. Sayid concludes that Rousseau knew he’d come back.

Hurley and Charlie are shot at. They split up, and Hurley finds Rousseau. He demands to know what the numbers mean. Rousseau tells him that she does not know, only that a radio tower was broadcasting the numbers when her party came to the island, and that she went to the tower and changed the signal to a distress call after all of her party was dead. Hurley and Rousseau conclude that the numbers are cursed, and Hurley returns to Sayid, Jack and Charlie with a battery. After they return to the beach, Hurley tells Charlie about his lottery win, but Charlie thinks Hurley is joking and becomes angry. We then see that the numbers are engraved on the side of the hatch.

Deus Ex Machina

On the island, Locke and Boone build a trebuchet in an effort to break open the hatch windows. When this fails, an exasperated Locke pounds the hatch, before Boone notices a shard in Locke’s leg; Locke mentions he feels no pain, and discovers that night that he’s losing feeling in his legs.

That night, in a dream, Locke tells Boone that the island will send them a sign, at which point he notices a Beechcraft 18 crash in the jungle. The dream also reveals a secret about Boone. Awaking early the next day, Locke and Boone head out in search of the aircraft. When Boone doubts him, Locke mentions the secret he learned from his dream, leading Boone to follow Locke on the hunt. After some searching, they discover the plane teetering on the edge of a cliff. Locke, having lost use of his legs, asks Boone to climb up to check the plane. While in the plane, Boone discovers a trove of statues filled with heroin, the body of a priest, and a working radio. Using this radio, Boone sends out a distress call, during which the plane falls over the cliff. Frantically, Locke struggles to his feet, hoists a critically injured Boone on his shoulders and returns to the camp.

Meanwhile, Sawyer is having increasingly painful headaches, which are not helped by Sun's herbal remedies. Kate convinces Sawyer to accept Jack's medical assistance. After an exam, Jack explains that Sawyer is suffering from hyperopia or farsightedness, and his excessive reading is straining his eyes, giving him headaches. To solve the problem, Sayid melds together the halves of two pairs of glasses for Sawyer to use.

In flashbacks, a younger Locke meets a mysterious woman in the discount superstore in which he works. After an initial meeting, Locke later notices this same woman watching him in the store. When he chases after to confront her, she explains that she is his birth mother, Emily Locke. When Locke asks about his father, Emily explains that Locke doesn’t have a father. Undeterred, Locke hires a private investigator who finds Locke’s father, Anthony Cooper. When Locke travels to his father’s affluent home, he is welcomed with open arms. One day, Locke arrives at the home early, and notices his father on dialysis, which eventually prompts Locke to offer one of his kidneys to save his father. After the surgery, Locke wakes up in the hospital to find that his father has gone home for private care. Emily arrives to explain that all this was a scheme to get Anthony a kidney. Devastated, Locke pulls himself out of the hospital bed and drives to his father's home, where he is turned away. While driving away, Locke breaks down over the betrayal.

Locke comes to the caves with Boone, and tells Jack that he fell from a cliff while they were hunting. Jack springs into action but Locke disappears into the jungle. That evening, Locke returns to the hatch. Pounding on the door and screaming in anguish atop the hatch, Locke laments what has happened, when the inside of the hatch suddenly becomes illuminated.

Do No Harm

In the caves, Jack works frantically to establish a makeshift ER and stabilize Boone, so he can try to save the critically injured Boone. Jack notes with concern that Boone has lost a lot of blood, and has a collapsed and crushed right leg. Kate is ordered to get alcohol from Sawyer, After examining Boone, Jack promises that he will fix him.

Kate makes her way to the beach, and claims Sawyer’s alcohol. As she runs back to the caves, she discovers that Claire has gone into labor. Jack determines that Boone needs a blood transfusion, and sends Charlie off to find someone with a matching blood type. When he unsuccessfully returns unsuccessful, Jack decides that he will have to give his blood, which is the universal donor type O-. However, when Jack begins looking for something with which he can draw blood, he becomes frustrated. Fortunately, Sun comes up with a solution and retrieves a sea urchin, whose hollow, sharp spines enable Jack to begin the transfusion.

Meanwhile, back at the beach, Jin is working on the new raft, when he hears Kate's call for help from within the jungle, and rushes to her and Claire. Despite the language barrier, Kate is able to tell Jin to go and find Jack. Jin rushes to the caves only to find Jack occupied with the blood transfusion, but, through Sun, is able to convey that Claire is giving birth. Jack tells Jin, again through Sun, to take Charlie to Kate and Claire. Jack then gives Charlie instructions on how to deliver the baby, but warns him that the delivery is in Kate’s hands.

As night falls, Boone wakes up momentarily. During this brief period, he mentions the plane and the hatch, and that Locke had wanted the hatch kept secret. When Sun sees that he looks weak and pales, she stops the transfusion. When Jack then examines Boone, however, he determines that the transfusion is not working, since the blood is all pooling in Boone’s crushed leg, which is more damaged than he’d initially suspected. Jack determines that the only way to save Boone is the amputation of the leg, prompting Jack to seek Michael’s assistance in constructing an amputation device.

That same evening, Sayid surprises Shannon with a "torchlit dinner." During this dinner, Shannon tells Sayid that Boone is only her step-brother, and that he is "kind of" in love with her.

In flashbacks to Jack’s rehearsal dinner and wedding to Sarah, a former patient whom he miraculously "fixed" after she was injured and apparently paralyzed in a car accident, Jack questions his decision to be married. When he questions his father about it, his father tells Jack that his problem is not commitment, but letting go.

Back at the caves, Boone briefly regains consciousness and tells Jack to just let him go. Realizing what he is about to do in the name of keeping his word, Jack hesitates, and finally decides to not amputate. Boone dies, while at nearly the same time, Claire successfully gives birth to a baby boy. Claire gives birth to a healthy baby boy.

The next morning, Jack finds Shannon and Sayid returning to the beach. As she greives, Jack decides to go find Locke, claiming that Boone was murdered.

Lost: The Journey

The official description formerly found on ABC's website was: "Flashbacks of the core characters illustrating who they were and what they were doing before the crash, a look at the island itself, and a preview of the big season finale."

The Greater Good

At the caves, Sayid observes a mourning Shannon, before asking if he can do anything for her. At the same time, Kate tracks down an exhausted and obstinate Jack. Jack blames Locke for what happened to Boone, but Kate pleads with Jack to return. At the beach, the survivors bury Boone. During the funeral, Locke arrives and attempts to explain what happened, but Jack ignores him and flies into a rage.

Afterward, Jack explains to Sayid, Sun, and Kate that Locke is lying, but they insist that Jack must rest. Locke asks Shannon’s forgiveness, to no avail; Shannon instead goes to Sayid and asks if he could do something about Locke for her.

Meanwhile, Charlie tells Claire that she needs to rest, and though reluctant at first she lets him take care of her baby. Charlie has a tough time getting the baby to stop crying, but finally manages to do so after seeing the baby's reaction to Sawyer's voice.

Kate attempts to take care of Jack, who stubbornly insists he needs to deal with Locke. Realizing he’d probably try this, Kate drugs Jack and he falls asleep, leaving Sayid free to deal with Locke. Sayid arrives at the caves and begins questioning Locke, asking Locke to show him the Beechcraft. As they walk to it, Sayid interrogates Locke, who realizes just what Sayid is doing. Upon arriving at the plane, their cat and mouse game escalates. Sayid tells Locke he knows Locke has a gun, and Locke hands it over. Locke then reveals that it was he who hit Sayid over the head when he was trying triangulate the distress signal. This enrages Sayid, who pulls the gun on Locke and questions him about the hatch. Locke lies, saying Boone was talking about the plane’s hatches.

Sayid returns to the beach and explains to Shannon that he believes Locke did not mean to harm Boone. This prompts an angry Shannon to take matters into her own hands. Shannon steals the guncase key from a sleeping Jack, and confronts Locke in the jungle. Kate, Jack, and Sayid arrive during the confrontation, but Shannon refuses to back down. Left with no choice, Sayid tackles Shannon just as she fires the gun, the bullet grazing Locke's head.

In flashbacks, Sayid becomes an informant for the CIA, which has asked him to infiltrate a terrorist cell in which his old friend Essam is a member. Explaining that they know where Nadia is, he agrees. When Sayid discovers a plot in Sydney, he informs the CIA, who tell him to convince Essam to do it. One the day of the attack, Sayid reveals he is an informant, and a distraught Essam kills himself. After Essam's death, the CIA tells Sayid where Nadia is, and puts him on a plane. Sayid inquires about Essam’s body, and when told that because no one will claim it, the body will be burned. Sayid insists on claiming the body himself and tells them to change his flight.

That night, Sayid visits Locke, who thanks him for saving his life. Sayid replies that he only did it because he believes Locke to be their best chance for survival. He then tells Locke to take him to the hatch.

Born to Run

Charlie and Kate discuss they fame that awaits them if and when they are rescued, which disturbs Kate. After the group is told the raft needed to leave already, Michael hurries to finish the raft, and Kate seeks a spot on the raft. Michael refuses, saying the raft is full. However, after a conversation with Sawyer, Michael reconsiders, which prompts Sawyer to storm off to confront Kate. Sawyer explains that he knows why Kate wants on the raft: to escape before being captured.

In the meantime, Sayid and Jack meet Locke at the hatch. Surprised by what he sees, Jack asks why Locke hid his find, setting up a brief confrontation between the two leaders. Jack then states that he believes the hatch needs to be opened. This prompts a furiously nervous response from Sayid, but the question is left unsettled.

While working with Jin, Michael suddenly becomes ill. Jack, having returned from the hatch, examines Michael and searches for the cause of the illness, eventually discovering partially dissolved drugs in a water bottle. When he tells Michael, he immediately suspects Sawyer. In short order, Kate also is suspected, which leads Jack to confront Kate about the drugging. At the same time, Walt explains to Locke that he didn’t drug his father. When Locke touches Walt’s arm, however, he becomes frightened, telling Locke not to open the hatch.

Sawyer walks up to Michael and teases him about his illness. Michael becomes angry and kicks Sawyer off the raft. Sawyer decides that he’s had enough, and exposes Kate to everyone. Stealing her bag, he opens it and shows that Kate had stolen a passport, forcing Kate to reveal that she was the person in the Marshal’s custody.

In flashbacks, Kate returns to her home town to see her dying mother, and meets up with former boyfriend Tom Brennan, who is now a doctor at the hospital. This visit prompts the two to dig up a lunchbox time capsule. Among the items in the capsule were Tom's toy airplane and a recording of the two of them some years earlier. Later, with Tom's help, Kate is able to be alone with her mother, who begins screaming for help upon seeing her. Forced to escape, she runs into Tom, who gives her keys to his car and joins her. When police try to block them, Kate tells Tom to leave, but he refuses. As the police fire at the car, Kate rams their vehicle before crashing into another. After the car stops, Kate looks over at Tom and finds him dead. Left with no choice but to flee, Kate runs.

As the raft is hurried toward completion, Jack walks up to Sun and confronts her about her poisoning attempt. Sun confesses that she did it, explaining that she wanted to keep Jin from going on the raft. Later, Sun promises not to tell anyone that the drugging was Kate’s idea.

That night, Kate and Sawyer say goodbye, while Walt confesses to Michael that he was responsible for the fire that destroyed the first raft. Walt says he did it because he wanted to stay on the island, which prompts Michael to say they can stay. However, Walt insists that they have to leave.

Exodus: Part 1

Early the next morning, Rousseau arrives at the beach to warn the survivors that The Others are coming. Telling the assembled survivors her story, Danielle reveals that she was pregnant when she came to the island. After she gave birth, her baby was kidnapped by the Others, their arrival heralded by a column of black smoke. Jack initially dismisses her warning, telling Locke that the launch of the raft is the top priority. When Michael says that there’s too much to do, Jack assembles everyone to aid the completion of the raft. As the group pushes the raft to the ocean, it becomes unbalanced, damaging the mast. During the ensuing argument, Walt notices a column of black smoke in the distance.

A now disturbed Jack asks Rousseau for help, and shows her the hatch. When Locke offers that dynamite could probably open it, Rousseau says she will take them to the “Black Rock.” Jack then organizes a team including Locke, Kate, Hurley, and Arzt, who volunteers to come to help handle the dynamite. In the meantime, Jin and Michael try to fix the raft. When they dismiss Sawyer’s offer of help, he goes off to cut a new raft himself. While in the jungle, Jack comes up to give Sawyer a gun for protection, and Sawyer takes the opportunity to tell Jack of his conversation with Christian, Jack’s father, in Sydney.

In flashbacks, several of the survivors are shown in the final hours before the flight. Early that morning, Walt wakes up and turns on the TV. When an awakened Michael asks him to turn it off, Walt throws a tantrum and flees the room with Vincent, but Michael brings him back.

Later that day, Jack meets another passenger on his flight in the airport lounge, Ana-Lucia Cortez, while Sawyer is told that he is being placed on Flight 815 because he is being deported by the Australian government. Also, Kate is turned over to the Marshal’s custody for the flight, and during a conversation with the customs guard, the Marshal reveals that he had baited Kate with Tom’s toy airplane. When he denigrates Tom’s memory, Kate attacks him, but is subdued.

Back at the check-in, Shannon waits for Boone to get them a first class upgrade, when Sayid asks her to watch his bag. She agrees, but when Boone returns without an upgrade, she leaves the bag. As Boone chastises her, she walks up to a security agent, telling them that an Arab man left his bag unattended. Meanwhile, Sun and Jin are eating in the airport restaurant, with Sun bringing Jin coffee. When Sun overhears comments from an arrogant American couple, she is momentarily rattled and spills the coffee on Jin’s lap.

As the hatch team heads toward the “Black Rock.” Arzt turns back at the start of the Dark Territory, but quickly returns to the group, chased by the “monster.” After hiding from it, Danielle explains that it is a “security system” protecting the island. Heading deeper into the jungle after this encounter, they eventually arrive at the “Black Rock”, a shipwrecked wooden ship.

As the raft prepares for launch, Sayid gives the team a radar emitter and flare gun, while Charlie gathers messages to put in a bottle and Walt leaves Vincent with Shannon. Sun says goodbye to Jin, handing him a notebook of English nautical terms. After all the goodbyes are said, the raft team sets off, and when Vincent attempts to follow Walt, Walt tells him to turn back, and the raft sails away from shore.

In the distance, the column of smoke continues to rise.

Exodus: Parts 2 and 3

Believing that the Others are bearing down on them, the survivors divide into three groups, each working to protect and save them all.

The Hatch

At the “Black Rock”, Danielle turns and leaves the group, saying that she has done what she was asked to do. Jack, Kate and Locke enter the ship to retrieve the dynamite, and bring a crate outside. Arzt angrily stops them, explaining the dangers of handling old dynamite. During the explanation, he becomes careless and a stick detonates, killing him.

Despite Arzt’s death, the group decides to continue with their mission, and begin wrapping the dynamite in wet cloth, with Locke suggesting that two sets be wrapped, in case one of the carriers doesn’t make it to the hatch. When Locke, Jack, and Kate all volunteer to carry dynamite, they draw straws to determine who will carry it, with Jack the odd man out.

On their way back to the hatch, the security system reappears. Locke, wanting to get a closer look at it, creeps close, but is ensnared when the entity attacks him. The security system drags Locke through the jungle, and Jack grabs onto Locke’s arm to stop Locke from being dragged away. However, Jack is dragged along as well, and eventually, Locke is pulled into a hole in the ground. Despite Locke’s pleas to let him go, Jack tells Kate the get the dynamite, which he had secretly placed in his own pack. Kate drops the dynamite down the tunnel, disrupting the security system, which flees.

That evening, as they walk to the hatch, Locke and Jack have a confrontation about the encounter with the security system, during which Locke and Jack debate whether their presence is fate or not. the group arrives at the hatch. Jack and Locke set the dynamite up on the hinge of the hatch, and are about to set it off when Hurley notices the numbers on the side. He yells at them not to light the fuse, but Locke does so anyway. Hurley frantically tries to stamp it out, shouting “the numbers are bad.” Trying to save Hurley, Jack tackles him moments before the dynamite explodes.

The Raft

On the raft, everything is going smoothly. Michael takes the opportunity to bond with Walt, while Walt learns about Sawyer's long term search for revenge. Jin also gives his new friend, Michael, Mr. Paik’s watch, for which he had nearly killed Michael a few weeks earlier. At one point, the rudder breaks off, and Sawyer dives into the water after it, risking his life. After Sawyer makes it back on board, Michael discovers that Sawyer has a gun, but decides not to tell the others.

That night, the group turns on the radar system as instructed by Sayid. Much to their surprise, their radar sweep turns up an object in the distance. They fire their single flare, and the object approaches them. As it nears, it turns on a bright search light, and the group rejoices that another boat has found them. Thinking they are about to be saved, they welcome the people on the boat.

However, the boat’s crew turns out to be a group of strangers who demand that Walt be handed over to them. Sawyer tries to pull his gun, but he is shot by one of the crewmen and falls into the water. Jin jumps into the water to save Sawyer, while the strangers overpower Michael and kidnap Walt. As they sail off, a woman throws an explosive on to the raft, destroying it. Michael cries out for Walt as he watches his son disappear into the darkness.

The Exodus

On the beach, Sayid organizes the group at the beach for a retreat to the caves, while Charlie attempts to prepare Claire for carrying the baby. The two are alone when Rousseau runs up looking for Sayid. Charlie runs off the get him, leaving Claire with Rousseau. During their time alone, Claire notices the scratches on Rousseau’s arm and momentarily flashes back to a forgotten encounter with Danielle. Rousseau kidnaps the baby from Claire.

Sayid guesses that Rousseau plans to exchange the baby, whom Claire has now named Aaron, for her own daughter, Alex, who’d been taken years earlier. Charlie and Sayid arm themselves and take off into the jungle after Danielle, heading in the direction of the black smoke. Early on, they take a break at the Beechcraft, a moment during which Sayid, ignorant of Charlie’s heroin addiction, reveals that it is full of heroin. Later, Charlie runs into a trap Danielle had set. Sayid orders Charlie back to camp, but he refuses, so Sayid uses a field medicine technique to staunch the bleeding and cauterize the wound.

When Sayid and Charlie arrive on the beach, they discover it is just a pyre, with no people around. The sound of a baby crying alerts them to Rousseau hiding in the bushes, and when they call out to her, she emerges with the baby in her arms. A distraught Danielle says that she overheard the Others say they were coming for "the boy," and she believed they’d return Alex to her if she brought them the boy. She returns the baby, and the pair return to the caves, at which the other survivors had arrived some time earlier. After reuniting the baby with Claire, the survivors settle in to wait for the hatch group’s return, while Charlie hides the heroin filled statue in his bag.

Flashbacks again show the survivors in the hours before the flight. That morning, as Jin heads to the restroom to clean up coffee Sun had accidentally spilled on him, Sayid is released from airport security, as the agents apologize for causing him any inconvenience. While in the restroom, Jin encounters a man who explains that he works for Mr. Paik. He tells Jin that he knows Jin is fleeing, but orders him to complete his delivery of the watch to an associate in San Francisco.

Back at a hotel, Charlie frantically looks for his stash before heading to the airport. His companion from the previous evening also wants the drugs, and the two fight over them, before the woman leaves the room in anger. At the airport, Michael goes to call his office while Walt is absorbed in playing video games, However, Michael is actually calling his mother, with whom he pleads to take care of Walt for him. When she refuses, Michael hangs up, to discover Walt standing behind him, possibly having heard the whole conversation.

Meanwhile, Hurley wakes up late for his flight due to a localized power failure. In a mad dash for the airport, he experiences several other problems, including full elevators, a flat tire, arriving at the wrong terminal, a slow check-in agent, having to buy a second ticket, and so on. Despite all these setbacks, Hurley makes the flight at the last possible moment. Earlier, Locke was also nearly prevented from boarding because the wheelchair normally used to board disabled passengers was missing. Locke, frustrated and struggling to maintain his dignity, consents to being carried onto the plane.

In a final flashback of the boarding of the flight, all the passengers take their seats. Hurley, late to the flight, makes his way to his seat, where he catches Walt’s eye. As Walt smiles, Hurley gives him a thumbs up before taking his seat and taking out the comic book Walt later would read on the island. Arzt helps Claire put her bag in the overhead compartment, while Jack and Locke briefly acknowledge each other,

At the hatch, Jack and Locke pry the now broken door off the hinge and look inside. All they can see is a broken ladder, and a deep, dark, very long tunnel.

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