Episodes of Lost
This article contains episode summaries of the American drama/adventure television series Lost.
In addition to the twenty-five episodes in season one, a special, "Lost: The Journey", was aired on April 27, 2005 to put the mysteries of the island and the characters in perspective in the lead-up to the season finale.
Pilot
Original U.S. air date: Sept. 22 and Sept. 29, 2004. The two-hour pilot was originally split into two parts, each broadcast a week apart; it aired in its original format on Saturday, October 2.
The premise for the series is set forth in an indirect and incomplete manner, which has become the defining style of the series.
Jack (Matthew Fox), who is later revealed to be a doctor, awakens in a bamboo grove while a dog trots past, obviously confused to how he arrived there. He gazes about at the idyllic surroundings when his memories rush back to him: he had been on a jet when it was torn apart in mid-air while travelling from Australia to the United States. He bolts upright and runs through the jungle, emerging at a beach strewn with the wreckage of a jet airliner and almost 50 confused survivors of the crash.
The survivors gradually organize themselves, and the 14 principals are briefly introduced. The other major character is introduced that first night by a series of terrifying noises from the jungle beyond the light of their fire, punctuated by trees crashing down—the source of these noises is referred to as "The Monster". (Note: Online fan forums also refer to the Monster as "The Creature" or "Lostzilla".)
The rest of the first half of the episode revolves around retrieving the transceiver from the airplane, which would allow them to radio for help. Jack, accompanied by the enigmatic Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and rock-and-roll bass player Charlie (Dominic Monaghan), creeps into the jungle to search for the cockpit of the plane, and not only recover the transceiver but learn from the barely-alive pilot just how lost they really are. Unfortunately, before they can learn more, they encounter the Monster once again and the pilot is violently ripped from the cockpit. Jack, Kate and Charlie run for their lives, and later find the pilot's body in a tree — quite a ways off the ground.
It is Sayid (Naveen Andrews), a former communications officer with the Iraqi Republican Guard, who takes the transceiver inland in an attempt to use it to communicate with the outside world. Joined by Kate, Charlie, Boone (Ian Somerhalder), the snarky Sawyer (Josh Holloway), and Boone's sister Shannon (Maggie Grace), Sayid's effort to send a message to civilization is thwarted by a mysterious transmission in French that has been repeating for over 16 years. Meanwhile, back at camp, the others discover other mysteries about their fellow passengers.
Tabula Rasa
Original U.S. air date: Oct. 6, 2004
Flashback: Kate
Beginning with this episode, the development of the ongoing story is accompanied by an explanation of the origins of one of the principal characters — in this case, Kate. At the end of the pilot, it was revealed that she is a fugitive; in this episode it is revealed through flashbacks that she has been on the run in Australia, and we learn how the federal marshal with her on the plane captured her. Meanwhile, Jack, a medical doctor, fights to save the life of her escort.
Walkabout
Original U.S. air date: Oct. 13, 2004
Flashback: John Locke
About four days after the crash, the survivors discover that their food is exhausted, and wonder what to do; John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), a menacing presence in the background of the previous stories, flings a combat knife at a slim palm tree, narrowly missing the head of another castaway, 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.
Locke is revealed to have been paralyzed and wheelchair-bound prior to the plane crash. Locke had planned on participating on a walkabout tour of the Australian outback, but was turned away when the tour guide discovered that he was in a wheelchair. Locke had offered a woman who may be a phone sex worker a ticket to travel with him; this woman, Helen, rejected the offer and cut off communication with him. 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 an accountant.
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 pig, 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.
White Rabbit
Original U.S. air date: Oct. 20, 2004
Flashback: Jack Shephard
Joanna, a character that 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 posessions.
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. While flashbacks explain why Jack was in Australia, Boone gets himself into trouble with the others. 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.
House of the Rising Sun
Original U.S. air date: Oct. 27, 2004
Flashback: Sun-Soo Kwon
All are shocked when Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) attacks Michael (Harold Perrineau Jr.) 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 (Yoon-jin Kim) 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 returns home late one night, his clothes and hands covered with blood. Horrified by the violent life that Jin apparently has taken up, Sun plotted to run away from Jin — but at the last minute decided to join Jin on the fateful flight.
The Moth
Original U.S. air date: Nov. 3, 2004
Flashback: Charlie Pace
Charlie begins a painful journey of withdrawal from drugs, surprisingly aided by Locke, whose true motive for helping Charlie is a mystery. Meanwhile, survivors--especially Charlie-- struggle to find and free Jack when he's buried alive in a cave collapse, and someone might be secretly thwarting Sayid, Kate, and Boone when they enact a plan to find the source of the French transmission.
Confidence Man
Original U.S. air date: Nov. 10, 2004
Flashback: James "Frank Sawyer"
When Shannon's asthma becomes a problem, everyone becomes convinced that Sawyer is hoarding some inhalers from the wreck. Jack and Sayid torture him, but he agrees to give up the inhalers in return for a kiss from Kate. She agrees, and he says that he doesn't have the inhalers after all. Sun helps Shannon by making a eucalyptus salve to clear her bronchial passages.
In flashbacks, we learn that Sawyer is a confidence man. 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. We do not know his real name.
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.
Solitary
Original U.S. air date: Nov. 17, 2004
Flashback: Sayid Jarrah
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 Danielle Rousseau (Mira Furlan). 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 "sick"—controlled by some sort of disease or mind control (this is very vague). She also warns him to keep an eye on the others.
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.
Meanwhile, Hurley (Jorge Garcia) builds a golf course (site of "the first — and hopefully only — Island Open", in his words) to improve morale among the castaways, and Locke agrees to teach Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) some woodcraft without Michael's knowledge. Another new character, Ethan (William Mapother), helps Locke hunt.
Sayid eventually escapes from Rousseau's bunker, but he hears the whispering voices in the jungle that she spoke of.
Raised by Another
Original U.S. air date: Dec. 1, 2004
Flashback: Claire Littleton
Two nights in a row, Claire (Emilie de Ravin) 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 labor, he says Claire is having anxiety nightmares, 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 census of the islanders.
Angered by Jack's suggestion that she wasn't really attacked and his advice to take a mild sedative, Claire leaves the cave alone and heads for the beach. Charlie catches up to her shortly before she is overcome by contractions; 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.
In flashbacks, we learn that Claire was flying to Los Angeles on the advice of a psychic who had initially warned her not to let anyone else raise the child, but claimed he'd found a "good" couple in the U.S. to adopt the baby. After she tells Charlie her story, the two conclude the psychic's insistence that Claire take the doomed flight indicated he'd known about the crash.
An ailing Sayid returns to camp and tells the others he found the woman on the recording, and Hurley reveals that one of the island's inhabitants (apparently Ethan) was not listed on the flight manifest as one of the plane's passengers. Simultaneously, Ethan ominously accosts Claire and Charlie in the jungle.
All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues
Original U.S. air date: Dec. 8, 2004
Flashback: Jack Shephard
Haunted by flashbacks to his relationship with his alcoholic father (particularly one episode 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 jungles 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.
During an episode of rain, Jack and Kate get separated. Jack stumbles down an embankment after hearing the Monster let out its unearthly bellow, 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.
Kate soon comes to Jack's aid, and the pair follows Ethan's path until they come across Charlie, blindfolded and hanged by his neck from a tree branch. They cut him down, and Jack furiously performs CPR — despite Kate's pleas that it's a lost cause — until Charlie coughs his way back to life.
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) and with Boone and Locke somewhere in the jungle, where they discover a piece of metal embedded in the ground — and it's not shrapnel from the plane.
Whatever the Case May Be
Original U.S. air date: Jan. 5, 2005
Flashback: Kate
Kate takes an interest in a metal suitcase she and Sawyer find while swimming; she tries twice to steal it from him before going to Jack, claiming the case contains weapons and money and belonged to the U.S. Marshal (who was buried with the key). Kate and Jack open the case to find the items, along with a small metal airplane; when pressured, Kate says it belonged to the man she loved and the man she killed. Flashbacks show a New Mexico bank robbery orchestrated by Kate to get into a safe deposit box containing the envelope.
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 Shannons help in translating some of Rousseaus apparently random notes, which she later recognizes as lyrics to the song played over the credits of "a cartoon fish movie." (The song is "La Mer", the French original of Bobby Darin's classic "Beyond the Sea".)
Hearts and Minds
Original U.S. air date: Jan. 12, 2005
Flashback: Boone Carlisle
Boone mentions to Locke that others are suspicious of their apparently fruitless boar hunting trips — actually excursions to the mysterious metal object — and says he wants to tell Shannon; Locke responds by knocking him unconscious. Boone finds himself tied up by Locke, who treats his head wound and leaves a knife so he'll be able to free himself, given "the proper motivation" — 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 — it was a sort of vision quest Locke felt was crucial to his survival. When asked how he felt seeing Shannon die, Boone replies relieved.
Flashbacks reveal that Boone went to Sydney, Australia to rescue Shannon — his stepsister — from an abusive boyfriend, only to realize he had been set up by Shannon to get some of his mothers money. Boone is later approached by a drunken Shannon, who says she knows hes 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.
Meanwhile, Hurley turns to Jin for help with fishing. Kate discovers a garden Sun is planting in the jungle and figures out that she can speak English. Locke gives his compass to Sayid, who figures it must be faulty because its magnetic north does not align with true north.
Special
Original U.S. air date: Jan. 19, 2005
Flashback: Michael Dawson
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, where they eventually help him escape the wrath of one of the island's unlikely predators, a polar bear.
Flashbacks show that Michael and Susan (Walt's mother) were unmarried, and when Walt was only a few months old, Susan, an ambitious young lawyer, accepted a job in Amsterdam and took her child with her. She married a co-worker 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. It was her wish that he be given custody.
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—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 comic book Walt had been looking at, which featured a picture of a polar bear, is thrown in the fire by his father.
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 exploring, Locke and Boone are shocked by the sudden appearance of Claire, stumbling out of the jungle.
- Trivia: The comic book read by Walt is Green Lantern / Flash: Faster Friends #1.
Homecoming
Original U.S. air date: Feb. 9, 2005
Flashback: Charlie Pace
Claire returns to camp, apparently with no memory 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 briefcase 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.
Through flashbacks we learn how Charlie hooked up with a wealthy girl in order to steal something to sell for drug money, but fell in love. He takes a job from the girl's father, but his plan to become respectable backfires as he suffers withdrawal symptoms. Afterwards, the girl tells Charlie that he will never take care of anyone, a likely motivation for his efforts to protect Claire.
Outlaws
Original U.S. air date: Feb. 16, 2005
Flashback: James "Frank Sawyer"
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, kills his mother, sits on the bed the child Sawyer (actually named James) was hiding under, and kills himself, the dream ends.
Sawyer then wakes up to find a giant boar in front of him, and it attacks his tent and runs away into the trees. Sawyer chases after it, and while he is in the jungle he hears whispering noises. 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."
Later, Sawyer has a flashback wherein he is told, by a former associate, where the Sawyer who ruined his life as a child is: Australia. He buys a gun and goes to the shrimp shop where the older Sawyer works and sees him there. He chats briefly with him, 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.
He says that his sister died very young and their foster mother blamed herself, suffering a severe depression. But a few months later a dog came into the house and his foster mother suddenly felt much better. The dog even slept in his sister's room. When asked if the dog was supposed to have been his sister, Locke replies "That's just silly. But my mother seemed to think so." And when his foster mother died years later the dog vanished completely.
Sawyer then has another flashback where he goes to an Australian bar and meets a man there. They have a talk, and the man tells Sawyer that if something is making him miserable he should take care of it before it destroys him. So Sawyer goes back to the shrimp shop and shoots the older Sawyer. However, it is revealed through their subsequent conversation that the man he shot isn't the real Sawyer, and that he has he has been duped into assassinating an innocent man.
Meanwhile, Sawyer catches up to the boar and decides to leave it rather than kill it. He returns to camp and gives Jack back the gun he was given for their previous encounter with Ethan. Now all the guns are with Jack, who returns them to the marshal's case. They start to talk, and something Jack says ("that's why the Red Sox will never win the Series," apparently without knowledge of the 2004 World Series) makes Sawyer realize the man in the Australian bar he was talking to was actually Jack's father.
... In Translation
Original U.S. air date: Feb. 23, 2005
Flashback: Jin-Soo Kwon
Jin has flashbacks of when he started working for Sun's father, the head of a Korean chaebol (a large, typically family-owned corporation—in this case, a car company) and a man who is not above using violent methods to get what he wants. He worked for Sun's father to prove his commitment and worthiness to marry Sun, claiming he would do anything to marry her. Sun's father gives Jin a task of conveying a message of his displeasure to the Under-Secretary for Environmental Safety. At the Secretary's house, Hurley can be seen getting into a car on the television in the background. Jin relays the message and seems confused when the visibly terrified man gives him the puppy we saw him bring to Sun in a previous episode. However, upon finding Jin has not done what was implied for him to do, Sun's father reprimands Jin and directs him to return to the Secretary's home, with a hit man. Jin returns to the Secretary's house, but before the hit man can act, 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.
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 handcuffs him. Later Sawyer releases Jin on the beach 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 knows English and has been keeping it from them the whole time. Jin is obviously distraught at this revelation.
Later, Locke sits down to play a game 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.
In the cave, Jin has another flashback, revealing that his father is not dead. His father asks him why he works for Sun's father, and advises him to run with her to America. Back on the island, Jin disregards his father's advice and tells Sun that it is too late to save their marriage, and goes to help Michael build a new boat.
Numbers
Original U.S. air date: March 2, 2005
Flashback: Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
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 may have been a former patient. After winning the lottery, Hurley starts thinking that the numbers are cursed, but no one else believes him. When Jack and Hurley question Sayid about Rousseau, 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 his flashbacks as he attempts to find out the origins of the numbers at that time as well. Hurley learns that Leonard and a friend had overheard the numbers being repeatedly broadcast over the radio and used the numbers similarly to how Hurley did and also came to believe that the numbers were cursed. The transmission is the same transmission that diverted the French woman and her companions towards the island, causing their shipwreck. Rousseau is the only person to believe Hurley when he says the numbers are cursed.
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—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 boat of some sort) with the numbers embossed in 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 about how Hurley had opened Pandora's box and must close it.
Deus Ex Machina
Original U.S. air date: March 30, 2005
Flashback: John Locke
The episode begins with a younger Locke, with hair, working in a warehouse toystore. He sees a mysterious woman looking at him and later discovers that she is his mother. She tells him that he was born via Immaculate Conception.
On the island, the trebuchet Locke and Boone built failed to break the glass on the mysterious underground structure. Locke is unaware that a piece of debris from the attempt has landed in one of his legs until Boone tells him; he later realizes he has no feeling in his feet or legs. After Locke has a dream about seeing a plane crash while listening to Boone talk about someone named Teresa (later revealed to be a former nanny), he insists to Boone that they have to locate the plane, which is eventually found in the trees. Meanwhile, Sawyer is having headaches but is, not surprisingly, resistant to Jack's offers of help. Jack asks him a series of embarrassing questions ("Have you ever slept with a prostitute?", "Have you ever contracted an STD?", etc.) when he really knows that Sawyer is farsighted, a problem fixed by melting together the halves of two pairs of glasses.
In flashbacks, Locke hires a private investigator to get information on his father and mother. He finds that she has been committed in the past, and he also finds out where his father lives. He goes to his father's affluent home, where he is admitted and welcomed. Locke and his father go dove hunting several times, until one day he arrives and sees that his father is on dialysis. His father mentions that he would like a transplant, but is pessimistic about his chances on the waiting list. Locke volunteers to give his father his kidney.
Back on the island, Boone climbs into the plane, as Locke's legs have apparently stopped working, possibly returning to their pre-crash paralyzed state. They discover that the plane is filled with heroin that was being flown by smugglers under the guise of Nigerian missionaries. Boone learns that that the radio also still works and subsequently makes contact, giving the survivors' flight number to the man who answered his mayday. When the episode originally aired, the person on the other end of the receiver seemed to answer Boone's distress call with the response "There were no survivors on Flight 815." This message has been edited on the ABC website and on the episode Lost the Journey. The message now says "We are the Survivors of Flight 815." Just as he makes contact, however, the plane falls out of the tree it crashed into. Locke hoists a badly injured Boone on his shoulders and starts and returns to the camp.
In his flashback, Locke wakes up in the hospital after the kidney transplant to find that his father has gone home for private medical care. His mother is there and reveals that she and his father concocted a scheme to get Locke to give up his kidney and were working together to get him to have the surgery. Locke gets out of the bed in his weakened condition and drives to his father's home, where the once-friendly guard is not allowed to let him inside. Locke drives away at the guard's pained insistence and screams at the betrayal by his parents.
On the island, Locke makes it back to the cave with Boone. Jack springs into action but Locke disappears into the jungle to yell and scream in anguish on top of the metal structure. The episode ends with a light coming on inside the structure and Boone's condition a mystery.
Do No Harm
Original U.S. air date: April 6, 2005
Flashback: Jack Shephard
The injured Boone is in bad shape after his fall from the cliff in the airplane. He's lost a lot of blood, 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.
Sayid surprises Shannon with a "torch" lit dinner at which Shannon tells Sayid that Boone is only her step-brother, and that she thinks he is a little in love with her.
Boone has lost a lot of blood and needs a transfusion of type A negative. 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 bamboo as a needle but can't pierce his skin. Sun has comes up with a solution and retrieves a sea urchin. Using the urchin's spines, Jack begins to give Boone his blood.
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 blood transfusion. 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.
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 amputated. Jack seeks the help of Michael to find a way to cut off Boone's leg. Boone suddenly regains consciousness and tells Jack to just let him go.
Boone dies, but reveals to Jack that he and Locke had discovered a mysterious hatch, and Locke had told him (Boone) not to tell anybody else. Claire gives birth to a healthy baby boy. Jack goes looking for Locke, claiming that Boone was murdered.
In flashbacks, we see Jack's wedding to Sarah, a former patient who he "fixed" after she was injured in a car wreck.
The Greater Good
Original U.S. air date: May 4, 2005
Flashback: Sayid
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 greated good), hit Sayid over the head when he was trying to find the distress signal in an earlier episode. Sayid asks Locke about the gun he is hiding and Locke tells him about the dead drug runner before giving him the gun.
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, grazing Locke in the head.
The flashback deals with Sayid becoming an informant for the CIA. The CIA knows where Nadia, the girl Sayid loves, is. 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. When Sayid reveals his identity as an informant and tries to convince Essam to back out, Essam becomes distraught and kills himself before Sayid can stop him.
After Essam's death, the CIA tells Sayid he can find Nadia in Califoria, 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.
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 thier best chance of survival. He then tells Locke to take him to the hatch immediately.
Trivia: At one point, this episode was titled Sides.
Born to Run
Original U.S. air date: May 11, 2005
Flashback: Kate
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 suspected people including Sawyer and Kate, Sawyer reveals Kate to everyone on the island as the fugitive 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 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 promises Kate not to tell anyone.
Sayid and Locke reveal the 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 isn't even aware of the hatch, Walt begs him to not open "that thing."
In the flashback, Kate returns to her home town in Iowa, 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 when they grew up. 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 lunchbox time capsule they had buried on August 15, 1989. Among the items in the capsule were Tom's toy airplane, which Kate retrieved from the safety deposit box in an earlier espisode 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."
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 her 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 car. 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.
Back on the island, Walt confesses to Michael that he was responsible for the fire that destroyed the first raft. Walt tells Michael 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 have to leave (Presumably, this is because Walt knows about what will be found under the hatch).
Exodus
Exodus will be a three part episode and is due to air the first part on May 18, 2005. Parts two and three are planned to run back to back on May 25, 2005. Please replace this placeholder with an episode summary after the air date.
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