Lost began development in January 2004, when then-head of ABC Lloyd Braun ordered an initial script, based on an idea he claimed to have had for quite a while. Unhappy with the result and a subsequent re-write, Braun contacted J. J. Abrams, creator of the TV series Alias, to write a new pilot script. Initially hesitant, Abrams warmed to it, and eventually collaborated with Damon Lindelof to create the series' unique style and characters. [1] The gestation of the show was constrained by tight deadlines, as it had been commissioned late in the 2004 season's development cycle. Despite the short schedule, the creative team remained flexible enough that they did not hesitate to modify or create characters to fit actors they wished to cast. [2]
Lost's pilot episode was the most expensive in television history, costing $10 million. [3] The show became one of the biggest critical and commercial successes of the 2004 television season and, along with fellow new series Desperate Housewives, helped to reverse the flagging fortunes of ABC. [4]
Capping its successful first season, Lost won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series and Abrams was awarded an Emmy in September 2005 for his work as director of the pilot. In January 2006 it won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Drama.
Each episode begins with a cold open, preceded by a recap of events that have a bearing on the upcoming narrative. At a dramatic juncture, the screen cuts to black and the show's title graphic, slightly out-of-focus, glides towards the viewer accompanied by an ominous, discordant sound. The opening credits appear over the scenes that immediately follow. In typical television format, the script is structured around commercial breaks, with minor cliff-hangers at such points. While there is a progressive story arc, events on the island are told concurrently with flashbacks relating the history of a featured character. Some episodes end with a suspenseful twist, revealed just seconds before a smash cut to black. Others, following a plot resolution, finish with a reflective closing scene that precedes a simple fade out.
Lost is filmed entirely on location on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The original island scenes for the pilot were filmed at Mokuleia Beach, near the northwest tip of the island. Later beach scenes take place in secluded spots of the famous North Shore. Cave scenes were filmed on a sound stage built at a Xerox parts warehouse, which had been empty since an employee mass shooting took place there in 1999.[5]
Various urban areas in and around Honolulu are used as stand-ins for locations around the world, such as Los Angeles, Korea, Iraq and Australia. For example, a scene at the Sydney Airport was actually filmed at the Hawaii Convention Center, while a WWII-era bunker was used as an Iraqi Republican Guard installation.[6]
Numerous writers have taken to journeying to Hawaii to find the locations in which episodes are set. In March 2005, one Los Angeles Times columnist described how he snuck onto the set during filming during one such trip[7], which has led to other travel writers following his tracks. An extensive archive of filming locations is now tracked at About.com.
Season one began airing in the United States on September 22, 2004 and featured 25 episodes. A plane crash strands the surviving passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 on a seemingly deserted tropical island, forcing the group of strangers to work together to stay alive. However, their survival is threatened by several mysteries, including a metal hatch buried in the ground, an unseen creature which roams the jungle, and the motives of the island's malevolent inhabitants known as the "Others". The survivors discover that one of the members in their group is not what he seems and encounter Danielle Rousseau, a French woman who was shipwrecked on the island over a dozen years ago.
Season two began airing September 21, 2005. A recurring theme throughout the season is a conflict between faith and science. The story continues 44 days after the crash. Several new characters appear, including the tail-section survivors Ana-Lucia Cortez, Mr. Eko, Libby, and Bernard. Also introduced are Desmond, a man calling himself "Henry Gale", Alex Rousseau and other inhabitants of the island. The existence of the DHARMA Initiative and its benefactor, the Hanso Foundation, is established. The truth about the "Others" begins to unfold and a traitor among the survivors is revealed.
There are several recurring thematic motifs on Lost, which generally have no direct impact on the story itself. While such repeated elements and references are unnecessary to the enjoyment of the series, for some fans, they expand its literary and philosophical subtext.
John Locke holds up the two opposing colors of backgammon checkers in the pilot episode.
The colors black and white, which traditionally reflect opposition or dualism (i.e., yin and yang), appear frequently throughout the series, often brought together in reference to characters whose natures are presented as ambiguous or contradictory. This dichotomy is laid out in the "Pilot" with Locke's description of backgammon to Walt: while holding up a black and white piece, Locke says, "Two players, two sides — one is light, one is dark." In the opening sequence of "Raised by Another", Locke appears as an ominous image in Claire's nightmare about her unborn child, with one eyeball black and the other white, playing with corresponding, similarly colored cards.
Other appearances of the colors likewise connect characters in apparent opposition to themselves, or each other. In "Deus Ex Machina", Sawyer, one of the more ethically questionable characters, develops headaches due to farsightedness, diagnosed by Jack and cured by Sayid, with the creation of a custom pair of glasses from the frames of two different sets: one side white, the other black. In the closing scene of "Collision", Jack and Ana Lucia, ostensibly the leaders of their respective factions, stand facing each other, with Jack wearing a white shirt and Ana Lucia wearing a black shirt. In "The Long Con", when Sawyer is telling the group that he has the guns, Jack and Locke — who were just arguing with each other — are wearing opposing black and white shirts.
At other points, the colors are featured in sometimes unexpected or unexplained ways. In "House of the Rising Sun", Jack finds a pouch on a pair of mummified corpses, nicknamed "Adam and Eve" by Locke, containing one white stone and one black stone, which he then hides from Locke.
References to eyes appear frequently in Lost. A close-up image of an eye opens many episodes, in most cases of the character whose flashbacks are to be featured. In "White Rabbit", Locke hints at his experience in confronting the island's mysterious "security system" saying, "I've looked into the eye of this island. And what I saw was beautiful." Later, in "Raised by Another", Claire has a nightmare in which Locke appears with opaque eyes, one white and the other black. The tail-section survivors also discover a glass eye in the DHARMA Initiative's abandoned storage locker, and in the episode "Lockdown", when the map of the underground bunkers is revealed by blacklight, it is briefly shown reflected in Locke's eye.
Most of the major characters have dysfunctional parents, particularly fathers, who are either absent, reluctant, or destructive. Most notably, Locke is the victim of a betrayal in "Deus Ex Machina" by both his natural parents. Jack's broken relationship with his alcoholic surgeon father, Christian, is the impetus for him to travel to Australia, at the behest of his mother. Sawyer's mother has an extra-marital affair with a con-man; after finding out, his father kills her and then commits suicide. Kate murders the abusive man she had believed to be her step-father after discovering he is actually her biological father. She is forced into a life on the run after her mother reveals her crime to the police. While the troubling parental relationships of these four individuals have been the most explored, nearly all the protagonists have had serious difficulties with their families. In many cases, the ways in which the survivors dealt with these relationships led to their being on the island.
Episodes often mention or incorporate literary works, a point of interest to fans who try to connect them to Lost's mythology. [8] While certain books are read by characters, others are referenced in dialogue, and some have just been glimpsed.
Sawyer is frequently shown reading, initially the books he finds in the plane wreckage, a habit which eventually leads to his hyperopia. In "White Rabbit" he spends time with Watership Down, an account of a group of rabbits trying to find a new warren. In the later episode "Numbers," Sawyer starts A Wrinkle in Time, a children's fantasy novel about a group of adolescents who rescue a lost father, which contains Christian undertones about a universal battle between darkness and light. [9] In "The Whole Truth," Sawyer is reading Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, a teen novel about menstruation, when Sun asks him for a pregnancy test. He calls the book "predictable."
Biblical stories and psalms have been pointedly used by Mr. Eko, such as the story of King Josiah (from 2 Kings, chapters 22 and 23), which he related to Locke in "What Kate Did," and the recitation of the 23rd Psalm in the following episode.
The Third Policeman is seen when Desmond is packing before fleeing the underground bunker in "Orientation." Craig Wright, who co-wrote the episode, told the Chicago Tribune that, "Whoever goes out and buys the book will have a lot more ammunition in their back pocket as they theorize about the show. They will have a lot more to speculate about — and, no small thing, they will have read a really great book." [10]
In "One of Them," a man who claims to be "Henry Gale" is captured and imprisoned by the survivors. Series writer Damon Lindelof has said that the character's name alludes to Dorothy's uncle from The Wizard of Oz. [11]
Locke gives a copy of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov to Gale during his captivity in "Maternity Leave." Gale asks if he could have a Stephen King novel instead. Shortly afterwards, Locke relates to Jack that Ernest Hemingway felt that he lived in Dostoyevsky's shadow, a situation which Gale takes to refer to the relationship between his two main captors.
The dialogue between characters occasionally refers to literature, sometimes in off-the-cuff remarks, to add context to the plot. In "White Rabbit," John Locke converses with Jack, who believes he may be going crazy chasing someone who is "not there." Locke refers to this as "the white rabbit" from Alice in Wonderland and makes his first declaration of the special nature of the Island, "Is your White Rabbit a hallucination? Probably. But what if everything that happened here happened for a reason?"
By admission of the show's writing staff, some characters on Lost reference famous philosophers through their names and connection to each other. [12] The two clearest examples, John Locke and Danielle Rousseau, are both named after social contract philosophers who dealt with the relationship between nature and civilization.
The character Locke shares his name with English philosopher John Locke. The latter believed that in a natural state, all men had equal rights to punish transgressors; to ensure fair judgment for all, governments were formed to better administer the laws. His concept contended that humans are born with a "blank slate" — a tabula rasa (also the title of the Season 1's third episode) — without any innate knowledge or experience, and their identity is therefore a product of their decisions and choices in life. Danielle Rousseau shares her surname with Franco-Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who argued that man is born weak and ignorant, but virtuous nonetheless. He maintained that man becomes wicked only after society is developed. His theory of the Noble Savage hypothesised that a child raised in the wilderness, independent of human society and culture, would be an objectively superior person with regards to a universal set of ethics. Rousseau stated that "man is born free, but everywhere, he is in chains," and coined the phrase "all men are created equal."
Locke's father on the series, Anthony Cooper, shares a name with a real world counterpart, Lord Anthony Ashley-Cooper, who was the philosopher John Locke's political mentor and patron. The character Locke's protegé, Boone Carlyle, shares his name with Thomas Carlyle, a nineteenth-century essayist who spoke of the organization, structure and leadership of society. In his book Heroes and Hero Worship, he proclaimed that by necessity, heroic leaders were inevitably flawed.
The show also references Eastern philosophies. The DHARMA Initiative, uses an acronym which refers to Dharma, the "way of higher truths" in sects of Hinduism, Buddhism and Daoism. The symbol used by the Initiative is called a bagua, a wheel of balance often used in feng shui.
As a "genre" show, Lost includes a number of mysterious elements which have been ascribed to science fiction or supernatural phenomena. The creators of the series refer to these as part of the mythology of the series.[13]
The "monster" is the first piece of mythology introduced. It first appears on the night of the crash when the survivors hear a loud, unidentifiable sound coming from the jungle and witness trees being torn down in the distance. The next morning, Jack, Kate, and Charlie go into the jungle to find the transceiver and see the power of the "monster" first-hand when it rips the pilot from the cockpit and leaves his mangled body in a tree. In "Walkabout", Locke also has a direct encounter but is spared. [14] In a conversation with Jack, he says of this event, "I looked into the eye of the island, and what I saw was beautiful." The monster has had very few appearances since then, emerging in the jungle every so often and disrupting the treks of the survivors, who have so far managed to escape it alive. In "The 23rd Psalm", Eko has a confrontation similar to Locke's. The "monster" is revealed here to be a large cloud of black smoke.
There have been a number of occurrences where the survivors encounter animals that either shouldn't be there or have special attributes. In "Pilot", Sawyer shoots a polar bear — which cannot normally survive in this sort of environment — and Walt later gets attacked by one when wandering in the jungle. In addition, Sawyer has several run-ins with a boar that he believes is purposely harassing him. In one episode, Sawyer is annoyed by the chirping of a tree frog, which he gets Hurley to help him kill. While on the raft, Michael and Sawyer encounter a shark that has a DHARMA logo on its tail. Also, Kate sees a black horse, which is not indigenous to the island, and believes she has seen that particular animal before the crash.
The "Others" are what Rousseau dubs the unknown inhabitants of the island, who kidnapped her daughter Alex as an infant. Initially, they were something of a mystery to her, and she set traps to ensnare them. After the survivors of Flight 815 arrive on the island, Ethan Rom, a spy from the "Others", pretends to be a fellow castaway. He captures the pregnant Claire, taking her to a DHARMA medical station to give birth, but she escapes with the help of a young woman, whom Claire later believes to be Alex. At the end of the first season, the "Others" seize Walt on the high seas. In the second season, twelve tail-section survivors are caught, and one, a man calling himself Goodwin, is discovered to be an "Other". Rousseau later captures a "Henry Gale" from Minnesota, who eventually is also revealed to be a member of the group.
The numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 appear throughout the series, both in sequence and individually. They were broadcast from the Island's radio transmitter, and it was this message that drew Rousseau's expedition there. Although she later changed the message after the deaths of the rest of her team, the digits had also been heard by other people, eventually making their way to Hurley, who used them to win the lottery. However, a series of misfortunes began to happen to those around him, leading him to believe the figures are cursed. His search for answers led him to Australia and, through the crash, to the island, where he ultimately discovers the numbers engraved on the hatch. They also appear inside the bunker, on the occupant's medicine bottles, and comprise a code that must be entered into the computer. The sum of them, 108, has also become significant in connection to the DHARMA Initiative. It appears on a mural inside the Initiative's Station Three, and the full sequence of numbers must be entered into the computer every 108 minutes. The individual numbers also appear frequently throughout survivors' lives, both before and after the crash. They have also been subtly embedded within many scenes. Links such as Sayid was 23 when America came to Iraq, the award offered for Kate's capture in Australia was $23,000, the plane that crashed was flight 815, Locke had been paralysed 4 years prior to the crash, 23 survivors of the tail section and many more can be found in the series.
The Hanso Foundation was formed by arms purveyor Alvar Hanso who turned his attention away from "keeping the world safe through the development of sophisticated weapons systems" and focused instead on the development of new technologies to "create a brighter future for all humanity."[1]
The existence of the DHARMA Initiative is established by the film that Jack and Locke find in the Swan Station. It was founded in 1970 by University of Michigan doctoral candidates Gerald and Karen de Groot and financed through the Hanso Foundation. It apparently comprises a group of "scientists and free thinkers" from around the world who were brought together at a "large-scale communal research compound" on the island to conduct research into various disciplines, including meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology, and electromagnetism. The DHARMA Initiative has placed stations around the island. Four have been featured in the series thus far. The Swan station, commonly called "the hatch", is being occupied by the survivors.
Prior to their arrival on the island, both major and minor characters had occasion to interact, often unknowingly, sometimes affecting each other's lives. These are revealed through characters' flashbacks, and are typically only obvious to viewers. A unique example occurs in "Outlaws", when Sawyer meets a downtrodden doctor in an Australian bar, who turns out to be Jack's father. He reveals to Sawyer his inability to tell his son how proud he is of him. Later, on the island, Sawyer realizes the relationship between the two men, and shares with Jack his father's words. A major crossover involves the fact that Ana-Lucia only went to Australia in the first place because of an encounter with Jack's father, in which he convinces her to go with him to act as his bodyguard. A less direct example is Jack's future wife, Sarah, who is said to have caused the car crash that killed Shannon's father. Most often, characters are oblivious to such intersections, such as Hurley's fast food manager, Randy, becoming Locke's superior at a box company, which Hurley then owns after winning the lottery; Sayid sharing a military transport with Kate's father; Sawyer being brought through a police station where Boone is being questioned, Locke inspecting a home for Sayid's childhood friend, Nadia, Claire's psychic admitting to Eko that he is a fake. Other crossovers are more fleeting, with characters appearing on televisions or being glimpsed in the background. Damon Lindelof has stated that these are not "Easter eggs", but rather a larger part of the mythology of the series.[15]
Lost's mythology is exceedingly complex, in the style of other mystery-adventure shows such as The X-Files and Twin Peaks. This intricacy, and the unresolved questions it spawns, have led to rampant speculation and theorizing among fans, mainly concerning the nature of the island, the origins of the "security system", the "Others", the meaning of the numbers and the reasons for both the crash and the survival of some passengers. Several of the more common fan theories have been discussed and dismissed by the producers, including:
The survivors are dead and/or in Purgatory — dismissed by J. J. Abrams [16]
The survivors are in a time warp — dismissed by Damon Lindelof [17]
Spaceships or aliens influence the events on the island — dismissed by Damon Lindelof [17]
Everything seen is a fictional reality taking place in one or more of the survivors' minds — dismissed by Damon Lindelof [18]
The island is a reality TV show and the castaways unwitting housemates — dismissed by Carlton Cuse [19]
In addition to the television series, the characters and setting of Lost have appeared in the following official tie-ins:
A diary by a survivor was incorporated into the official ABC web site for the show.
The interactive back-stories of several characters are included in Lost Untold, a section of Channel 4's Lost website.
As of March of 2006, three tie-in novels have been published:
Endangered Species by Cathy Hapka; released November 1, 2005. (ISBN 0786890908)
Secret Identity by Cathy Hapka; released January 1, 2006 (ISBN 0786890916).
Signs of Life by Frank Thompson; released March 1, 2006 (ISBN 0786890924).
Lost Video Diaries, a series of short mini-episodes (or "mobisodes") designed for viewing on mobile telephones, was originally scheduled to be released to Verizon Wireless subscribers via its V-Cast system, but was delayed by contract disputes that have now been resolved.[22] Each video diary is planned to run several minutes and cover events not seen in the television episodes.[23]
Hyperion Books published a metafictional book entitled Bad Twin (ISBN 1401302769), written by a "Gary Troup", who was a passenger on Oceanic Flight 815.
ABC produced a free Internet-based alternate reality game called "The Lost Experience" which began in early May 2006. The game presents a parallel storyline, primarily involving The Hanso Foundation. No prizes are to be awarded, though many clues will be offered relating to the mysteries of Lost.
ABC also produces a free official podcast, usually featuring cast members and executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. It does not reveal anything in advance, but discusses past events.(Lost Podcast)
Lost has been at the forefront of new television distribution methods. It was one of the first series to be issued through Apple's iTunes Music Store service for playback on an iPod or within the iTunes software. Since October of 2005, new episodes, without advertising, have been available for download the day after they air on ABC.
Disney has also announced that Lost will be available in streaming format for free (with advertising) on ABC's website, as part of a two-month experiment to test future distribution strategies. The trial, expected to last from May to June 2006, has caused a stir among network affiliates who fear being cut out of advertising revenue.[24]
The UK's Channel 4 has also allowed access to the series online.[25] As of April 27 2006, both parts of "Pilot" are available to watch for free, and other episodes will cost 99p each. Season two installments will be issued one week after their Channel 4 debut.
Michael Giacchino composed, orchestrated and produced the Lostsoundtrack. Although pop culture songs have been used sparingly, most music is original and orchestral, incorporating several recurring themes for events and characters. According to the Lost podcast from January 9, 2006, some of the methods used to achieve the sound envisioned by the composer are highly inventive, including striking actual suspended pieces of the fuselage from the plane.[26] The score is performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra.
On March 21, 2006, the original television soundtrack to Lost was released by the record label Varese Sarabande. It includes full-length versions of the themes heard on the show.
Due to the show's popularity, references to the series and elements from its mythology have appeared in parody and popular culture usage:
Lots, a spoof of Lost, was in the May 2005 issue of MAD Magazine.
After the episode "Numbers" aired, many people used the eponymous figures as lottery entries. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, within three days, the numbers were tried over 500 times by local players. [27] Likewise, in the same period, over 200 people in Michigan alone used the sequence for the Mega Millions lottery[28] and by October, thousands had tried them for the multi-state Powerball lottery.[29]
In the South Park episode "Bloody Mary", the boys are anxious to get home from a karate class in time to watch "the final episode of Lost."
A blog by fictional character Dwight Schrute of The Office (US version) describing his theories on Lost appeared in January 2006.[30] The character also mentions the show along with "the Others" in The Office episode entitled "Boys and Girls."
A DC Comics cover for Catwoman issue #51 (March 2006) shows the numbers as a sequence in the title character's police mugshot. [31]
On the series Veronica Mars, a fortune cookie bearing the numbers as "lottery picks" was shown as a "shout out" to writer friends of that show's creator, Rob Thomas. [32]
From March 1 to March 18, 2006, the nationally syndicated comic stripMonty featured a parody of Lost in which the title character is shipwrecked on the island, meets the survivors, and discovers that the Others are actually the castaways from Gilligan's Island.
The March 28, 2006 episode of the machinima comedy series The Strangerhood parodies Lost with several references.[33]
The American Dad episode "Stan of Arabia" includes Stan saying that he hopes that Lost will be available to watch in Saudi Arabia because he never misses it: "Just because we're in Saudi Arabia doesn't mean it's not Wednesday!"
In an issue of The Thing, The Trapster has set a bomb that can be decoded by the Lost numbers. Unlike most works featuring the numbers, The Trapster was consciously referencing the series, as recognized by Spider Man.[citation needed]
In the Family Guy episode "Petergeist", Peter and Lois watch Lost along with Statler and Waldorf, who are sitting in a balcony. They comment that the show has the right name because they "couldn't follow any of it" and burst into laughter.
Another parody, "Get Lost", was aired on The Jonny Yeah Show in an edition entitled "Wafers and Whining" on Kooba Radio, 1 Feb 2006.
Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, a commercial airliner flying from Sydney to
Los Angeles, hits turbulence and breaks apart in mid-air and crashes on a deserted tropical island in the South Pacific, with forty-eight survivors of the initial...
Shannon has found her belongings and retrieved a bikini to take advantage of the sun. Boone arrives to tell her that he and the other survivors are going through the wreckage and salvaging everything they can. She makes it clear that she has no...
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...
We are in Locke's dream as the show opens and it's moments after the crash. As his eye opens, we see the experience from his perspective. Chaos rages around him as he very cautiously looks down to his feet. We see him wiggle his big toe —...
As the eye opens, we see a trickle of blood beginning to flow from a cut just above it. We pull back to see a boy laying flat on his back. Beside him another boy is being ruthlessly beaten against a school yard fence. "Walk away now and you...
We open on the eye of Sun — who looks out at her husband Jin as he catches and kills fish with his bare hands — when we launch into…a FLASHBACK — where Jin is a waiter at a lavish party for Korean high society; and Sun is...
We open on the eye of a guitar and pan up to find Charlie, struggling to play the chords that once came easily. He's going through the initial stages of withdrawal -sweating, nervous and agitated.
Locke encourages him to take a walk, but...
Kate is out collecting bananas when she comes across a copy of the book Watership Down on the beach. She looks over to find Sawyer taking a swim. He emerges naked from the surf and shamelessly flirts
with her. As Kate questions if his...
Sayid sits alone on an unfamiliar stretch of beach. He stares at the photo of the Arab woman we saw Claire return to him in "Walkabout." After running his fingers lovingly over it and placing it back
inside his pack, Sayid stands to continue...
Claire wakes to the sound of a baby crying, opens her eyes and looks down to find that she's no longer pregnant. She follows the cries to find Locke, sitting at a desk in the middle of the jungle. He
relays a cryptic message to Claire—"He...
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The survivors react to the information that Ethan was not on the plane manifest. Fearing the worse, Jack and Locke rush out to locate Charlie and Claire. They come across Claire's bag and find a set
of footprints with evidence that someone...
Kate is out climbing trees for fruit when she runs into Sawyer. They walk through an unexplored part of the jungle, hear the sound of running water and come into a clearing to find a waterfall. They
climb to the top and dive into the water...
Boone's eye opens -- he's staring at something. From his POV we see Sayid enjoying an easy conversation with his sister, Shannon. Hurley interrupts Boone, asking him why he and Locke haven't brought
back any boars lately? Boone is offended...
Michael scans the jungle, looking for Walt. He runs into Hurley and Jack, who haven't seen him. Michael sighs, frustrated, but continues on. Hurley says that Michael seems to hate being a father. But
in the FLASHBACK, Michael is clearly...
Charlie's eye opens as he is roused from sleep by the sounds of people springing into action around him. He wipes the sleep from his eyes and gets to his feet, but before he can ask what all the
commotion is about, we get the answer. Through...
As we begin with our now familiar eye opening, we pull back to reveal something different. This eye belongs to a young boy, roused from a peaceful sleep by a violent pounding on the front door. His
mother bursts into his room and tells him...
As Jin's eye opens we sweep across the now familiar landscape of our island shore. He stands alone, turning his head first one way then the next. Looking for something...
We FLASHBACK to a setting that plays in stark contrast to the lush...
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speaks up and translates for Jin. It seems the...
We open the show with a FLASHBACK -- to Locke, with a head full of hair, working in a toy store. He seems genuinely happy as he demonstrates the game of Mousetrap to a young boy. That is until he
notices a woman, standing off to the side,...
We pick up right where we left off, as Jack works to save Boone, who was crushed in the Beechcraft he and Locke found out in the jungle. Jack enlists help from Sun and sends Kate for Sawyer's alcohol
stash, when Boone's lung collapses. Jack...
Sayid watches Shannon grieve over Boone's body. He comforts her and asks if there is anything he can do for her, but she shakes her head silently. Meanwhile, Kate goes to find Jack, who has been out
in the jungle searching for Locke. She...
A green convertible pulls into the parking lot of a hotel located next to a thriving cornfield and comes to a stop. Although we can't see her face we see a blonde woman get out of the car and open
the trunk. Inside are license plates for at...
Walt stands before a window in a hotel room. The Oceanic Airlines tickets that will carry him to his fate sit on the nightstand beside him. He pulls open the curtains to reveal the Sydney skyline.
Dawn is still a few minutes away. He looks...
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goes to help Claire prepare herself and...
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the other side of the island on the...
Violence erupts when Ana Lucia and her group stumble upon Sayid and the other castaways on the island. Ana Lucia holds Sayid captive. Kate and Jack cars for Sawyer when Mr. Eko brings him back to the camp himself. Flashbacks reveal Ana Lucia's...
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to Libby.
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A mysterious illness that baby Aaron suddenly contracts sends a desperate Claire, Kate and French woman Danielle to return to the same area where Claire was initially kidnapped. It is there where she believes she can find a cure for Aaron's...
Sun comes to the revelation that she might be pregnant. She struggles on whether to tell Jin about the situation. Meanwhile, with no success from Jack or Sayid, Ana-Lucia is called in by Locke to interrogate the new prisoner Henry Gale to get more...
When the hatch suddenly takes on a life of its own, Locke is forced to enlist the help of an unlikely ally to control the matter. Meanwhile, Ana Lucia, Sayid and Charlie go off into the jungle to find out the truth about Henry Gale and see if...
Libby lends a helping hand to Hurley to support him when he begins to think the island is having a strange effect on him. Hurley begins to see Dave on the island, who was his "friend" in the mental institution he was in before crashing...
Rose is surprisingly and vehemently opposed to Bernard's plan to create an S.O.S. signal; romantic sparks are rekindled between Jack and Kate when they trek into the jungle to propose a "trade" with "The Others"; and Locke...
After finding an exhausted Michael in the forest Jack and Kate bring him back to the main camp. When finally waking up, Michael has some new details about "The Others." Also, a lovestruck Hurley plans a date for Libby. Lastly, Ana-Lucia...
Recovering from his recent injury, Locke joins Eko in a search for the location marked by a "?" on the mysterious map. Their discovery reveals a startling secret about the island and the purpose of the hatch.
With Locke away, Jack is left in charge of the hatch and must decide if he should believe Henry and not push the button, risking everyone's safety. Meanwhile, the events that happened to Micheal after he left are finally revealed.
After discovering something odd just offshore, Jack and Sayid come up with a plan to confront “The Others” and hopefully get Walt back. Meanwhile, Eko and Locke come to blows as Locke makes a potentially cataclysmic decision regarding...
Jack, Kate and Sawyer must deal with their pasts, as they are held captive by "The Others" in mysterious prisons which remind them of their pre-island lives. Meanwhile, on the other side of the
island, Bernard and Charlie attempt to...
Sayid's plan to locate Jack places Sun and Jin's lives in grave danger. Meanwhile, Kate and Sawyer are forced to work in harsh conditions by their captors, and Henry makes a very tempting offer to
Jack that may prove difficult to refuse.
The fates of Locke, Eko and Desmond are revealed after the implosion of the hatch, while Hurley returns to the beach camp to tell the tale of what happened when he, Jack, Kate and Sawyer encountered
The Others. Meanwhile, Claire is shocked...
Every Man for Himself Sawyer discovers just how far his captors will go to thwart any plans of escape he and Kate might have, and Jack is called upon to scrub up in order to save the life of one of
The Others. Meanwhile, Desmonds behavior...
A delirious Eko wrestles with demons from his past, while Locke and some of the other castaways head back to The Pearl -- one of the Dharma Initiatives island stations -- hoping to find a computer
that they can use to locate Jack, Kate and...
Jack makes a decision regarding Ben's offer, Kate feels helpless when it looks like an angry Pickett is going to make good on his threat to kill Sawyer, and Locke discovers a hidden message that may
guide him through the next steps of his...
A suspicious and determined Hurley enlists Charlie to help him wrangle the truth out of Desmond, who has been acting strangely ever since the implosion of the hatch.
A power play ensues between Jack and "The Others" as Juliet's future hangs in the balance. Meanwhile, Kate, Sawyer and Karl continue on their journey away from "Alcatraz".
As Kate, who remains torn over leaving Jack behind with the Others, and Sawyer return to camp, Hurley finds an old DHARMA van in the woods and attempts to use it to help a fellow survivor in need of
faith.
On their mission to rescue Jack, Kate, Sayid, and Locke stumble upon a mysterious structure surrounded by farm animals and it's strange inhabitant. Back at the camp, in order to reclaim his
belongings, Sawyer plays in a a ping-pong competion.
When Claire has a plan that can get get everyone rescued, Charlie starts to exhibit strange behavior. Meanwhile, on their mission to rescue Jack, tension ensues between Locke and Sayid.
When Kate and Locke arrive at the Others' camp, Ben promises to tell Locke the island's secrets as long as he stops his destructive plan, and Kate's reunion with Jack doesn't go very well when she
learns that the Others have offered him a...
When both Nikki and Paulo apparently die, the rest of the castaways try to figure out what happened to them. In the course of the investigation, the truth about Sun's "kidnapping" comes to light.
Flashbacks show what Nikki and Paulo were...
The Others are vacating their home, and one of the castaways is leaving with them. Kate is knocked out and wakes up in the jungle handcuffed to Juliet. Kate is determined to return to get Jack, while
Juliet believes she has been abandoned....
Jack returns, but no one is in the mood for celebrating when they see that Juliet has come back with him. As Juliet struggles to find a way to be accepted, flashbacks show how she came to the island
and what she was doing during those three...
Desmond convinces Hurley, Jin, and Charlie to follow him on a trek through the jungle after he receives a series of visions. Flashbacks reveal the time that Desmond spent with a cloister of monks.
Meanwhile, a despondent Kate turns to Sawyer...
Sun allows Juliet to examine her when she learns that all of "The Others" pregnant woman died before they gave birth on the island. Meanwhile, Desmond and an unlikely nemesis collaborate to save a
new island inhabitant's life.
This episode will show us the life of Horace and Olivia, who are teachers. We will see them back in the 70's and how they are connected to the Dharma initiative.
While Jack devises a plan to do away with "The Others" once and for all, Sayid uncovers a flaw in "The Others'" system that could lead to everyone's rescue. But it requires Charlie to take on a
dangerous task that may make Desmond's...
The ambush for the Others goes awry and ends with Sayid, Jin, and Bernard getting captured.
Ben is informed of Charlie's prescence in the Looking Glass station and sends Mikhail to "clean up" the situation. He then embarks with Alex to meet...
Ben confronts Jack, claiming that Naomi is not who she seems. Meanwhile, Sawyer and Juliet try to come up with a plan to rescue the hostages at the beach.
Inside the Looking Glass, Charlie and Desmond struggle to find a way to shut off the...
They thought they had met the enemy. They thought they had seen evil. They thought wrong. As the new season begins, the survivors feel that rescue is close at hand, but they don't
know whether or not to believe Charlie's final message that...
Locke's hostage may be the key to getting off the island, so Sayid and Kate go in search of their fellow castaway in an attempt to negotiate a peaceful deal.
Kate needs to get information out of the hostages, but it may jeopardize her standing with Locke -- as well as with Sawyer. Meanwhile in the future Kate's Court hearings take place.
Juliet gets a suprising visit from someone from her past. She is given orders to stop Charlotte and Faraday from doing what they have set out to do. Back at the Barracks, Ben offers Locke an enticing
deal.
Juliet decides to reveal some startling news to Jin when Sun decides to move to Locke's camp. On the freighter, Sayid and Desmond get to know the crew as they meet the ship's captain.
Kate and Juliet must learn to work together when Jack's health is seriously compromised. Something goes wrong as Sawyer, Claire, Aaron and Miles continue their trek away from Locke's camp and back to
the beach.
Sayid goes back to the island to bring the rest of the people to the freighter. Ben, Locke, and Hurley go to another Dharma station in order to "move the island".
The remaining island survivors start to feel the effects of the aftermath of moving the island, and Jack and Ben begin their quest to reunite the Oceanic 6 in order to return to the island with
Locke's body in an attempt to save their former...
Hurley and Sayid are on the run from the cops after stumbling into trouble at the safehouse; the island survivors come under attack by unknown forces; and an old friend offers some shocking advice to
Kate in order to ensure that "the lie"...
Desmond goes in search of a woman who could be the key to helping Faraday stop the island's erratic movements through time, and Locke discovers the identity of the unknown forces who have been
attacking the survivors.
Kate discovers that someone knows the secret of Aaron's true parental lineage. Meanwhile, the dramatic shifts through time are placing the lives of the remaining island survivors in extreme peril.
Locke takes on the burden to stop the island's increasingly violent shifts through time. Meanwhile, Ben hits a roadblock in his attempt to reunite the Oceanic 6 and bring them back to the island.
Lost: Episode 7 -
The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham
Locke escapes the Island and finds himself on the path laid out by Richard Alpert, with the help of an unlikely benefactor; Locke finds himself hopelessly facing the reality of what he must do to
save his friends on the Island.
Suspicions about a possible breach intensify after Ben is taken from the infirmary, and a reluctant Miles is forced to work with Hurley when he's asked to deliver an important package to a top Dharma
official.
Jack and Kate find themselves at odds over the direction to take to save their fellow island survivors, Locke further solidifies his stance as leader of "The Others," and Sawyer and Juliet come under
scrutiny from the Dharma Initiative.
Jack's decision to put a plan in action in order to set things right on the island is met with some strong resistance by those close to him, and Locke assigns Ben a difficult task.
Jack's decision to put a plan in action in order to set things right on the island is met with some strong resistance by those close to him, and Locke assigns Ben a difficult task.
On the island, the being now occupying Locke's body turns to Sawyer and promises to tell him why he's on the island. Back in Los Angeles, Locke loses his job and encounters a number of familiar
faces.
Jacob sends Hurley on a mission across the island, but Jack must accompany him. In Los Angeles, Jack's difficult relationship with his son is revealed. Meanwhile, Jin discovers that Claire thinks the
people at the temple stole her son.
Claire arrives at the temple and warns the inhabitants that the being inhabiting Locke wants to talk, but Dogen sends Sayid to kill him instead. In Los Angeles, Sayid saves his brother, who is in
trouble with a loan shark.
Ilana prepares to kill Ben after Miles reveals that Ben killed Jacob. In Los Angeles, Ben contemplates a power play at his high school. Meanwhile Richard and Jack share their secrets and experiences
with Jacob and form an alliance.
Locke sends Sawyer on a recon mission to the other island, where he runs into Charles Widmore and his submarine crew. In Los Angeles, Sawyer works as a police officer obsessed with finding the conman
who destroyed his family.
The mysteries behind Richard Alpert's arrival to the island, his immortality, and his alliance with Jacob are revealed--plus more details about the purpose of the island and the relationship between
Jacob and the smoke monster.
Sun and Jin's search for each other is interrupted when Widmore's crew kidnaps Jin, and Locke heads to the other island to bring him back. In Los Angeles, Jin's job for Sun's father is sidetracked
when his money is taken at customs.
Charles Widmore brings Desmond back to the island so that he can conduct a dangerous electromagnetic experiment, which sends him back to the alternate reality in Los Angeles, a reality where he has
never met Penny.
Michael appears to Hurley and gives him a new mission, and Sayid captures Desmond and sends him to Locke. In Los Angeles, Desmond sets up a meeting between Libby and Hurley to further his assignment.
As the battle between Locke and Widmore commences, Sawyer launches his plan to change allegiances. Back in Los Angeles, fate continues to intervene and bring the original survivors together.
With Jack's help, Locke rescues the candidates from Widmore's compound, but their plans for leaving the island are forced to change. In Los Angeles, Jack tries to convince Locke to try an
experimental surgery for his paralysis.
Jacob appears to the survivors of the submarine explosion and tells them what they were chosen for, while Ben joins forces with Locke as they both have a final showdown with Charles Widmore.
Locke searches for Desmond to achieve his goal of destroying the island. Jack, the newly-appointed "protector" of the island, sets out to stop him. In Los Angeles, the survivors slowly reunite and
recall their island experiences.
Locke searches for Desmond to achieve his goal of destroying the island. Jack, the newly-appointed "protector" of the island, sets out to stop him. In Los Angeles, the survivors slowly reunite and
recall their island experiences.
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