Category: Lost

Flashback: Once out of the hospital following his injuries, Michael retains a lawyer to fight to keep Walt from leaving the country with his mother, Susan. Her lawyers challenge his lack of involvement in his son’s life; Susan appeals to Michael to think of Walt’s best interests. Finally, he reluctantly allows them to go. Michael meets with Walt for a few moments to say goodbye, offering him a stuffed polar bear and telling him that his father will always love him.

The Island: Prior to Jack’s discovery of Locke in the bunker – Locke follows Kate down the shaft. He finds her shortly before Desmond finds them. He asks Locke, “Are you him?” Locke tries to play along, but Desmond quickly realizes that whomever he’s waiting for, it’s not Locke. He orders Locke to tie Kate up and lock her in a food pantry; Locke smuggles a pocketknife into her waistband in the process. She cuts herself free and climbs into a ventilation duct. Desmond quizzes Locke about the survivors of the plane crash and asks how many of them have gotten sick. He seems surprised when Locke says that none of them have. The conversation is interrupted by a beeping and a countdown clock; Desmond frantically orders Locke to input a code into the terminal – the six-number sequence. The beeping stops and the countdown resets. Jack’s arrival leads Desmond to turn the music back on, which prevents Jack from hearing Kate when she shouts for him. Jack enters the bunker and discovers Locke and Desmond.

At sea, Sawyer helps Michael onto the remains of the raft and then yanks the bullet out of his own arm. The two men bicker over whose fault it was that they were attacked; a more pressing problem is the shark in the water. They find one of the raft’s pontoons and make it through the night; the current brings them back to the island. When they reach shore, they see Jin, arms tied behind his back, frantically running toward them. The Others have found them.

written by Steven Maeda & Leonard Dick
directed by Stephen Williams
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Island Man), Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), Tamara Taylor (Susan Lloyd), Saul Rubinek (Michael’s Attorney)

Notes: The events leading up to Michael giving up his parental rights were first shown in the season 1 episode Special. As of this episode, Malcolm David Kelley (Walt) is no longer listed in the opening credits.

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Flashback: Locke attends a support group meeting after his father abandoned him. He finds little comfort there; instead he lashes out at those complaining about problems that seem insignificant compared to his. The outburst attracts the attention of Helen, a member of the group, and the two begin seeing each other. Their relationship is complicated by Locke’s continued haunting of his father, driving through his neighborhood and parking in front of his own. His father tells Locke in no uncertain terms that he is not wanted. Helen does want Locke, though – but only if he lets go of his pain. She sets an ultimatum: Locke will have to take a leap of faith to keep their relationship alive.

The Island: As Desmond and Jack confront each other, Kate gets the drop on Desmond. An errant shot hits the computer, which sends Desmond into a panic. Kate returns to the caves to get Sayid to fix the machine while Desmond explains that he washed up on the island about three years ago. Another man found him and brought him into the bunker and told him that they had to enter the six-digit code into the terminal every 108 minutes or disaster would ensue. He shows Jack and Locke an orientation film made in 1980 by the Dharma Institute, an experimental research collaboration devoted to the physical and social sciences. The film narrator explains that something at this installation – The Swan – has gone wrong, and now the essential thing for Dharma staffers to do is to keep inputting the code. Two men are supposed to be assigned to the task, and replacements are supposed to arrive every few months. But Desmond has been on his own since his rescuer died.

Locke is eager to fix the terminal and continue the work, but Jack wants nothing to do with it, convinced that the whole thing is just some sort of behavioral experiment. Desmond decides to leave the bunker; Jack follows him. Desmond tells Jack the code and then finally remembers their previous meeting. He asks if Jack was able to fix the girl. An anguished Jack screams that he married her, before letting Desmond go and returning to the group. Sayid has fixed the computer, but Locke can’t remember the code, and Hurley is quite deliberately silent on that score. If they’re going to carry on Desmond’s mission, Jack is going to have to be part of the effort.

Elsewhere on the island, Sawyer, Michael and Jin are captured by the Others and thrown into a pit cage. They are soon joined by another prisoner, a woman who claims to have been on the back of Flight 815 when it crashed. Sawyer is determined to use what bullets he has left to try and get out, but their new colleague has plenty of questions and loyalties of her own.

written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach & Craig Wright
directed by Jack Bender
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Island Man), Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), Kevin Tighe (Cooper), Curtis Jackson (Security Guard), Katey Sagal (Helen), Roxie Sarhangi (Francine), Jeanne Rogers (Moderator), Marvin Candle (himself), Michael Lanzo (Waiter)

Notes: Locke’s discovery of, and kidney donation to, his father were shown in season 1’s Deus Ex Machina.

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Flashback: After he hits the lottery, Hurley tries to keep it a secret and enjoy some time with his friends before life changes dramatically.

The Island: Hurley absolutely hates his current assignment: inventorying the food supply in the bunker. He especially hates it when he has to keep the secret from the others on the island, and eventually he brings Rose in to help him. Locke tells Charlie about the hatch, and the food . . . which sends Charlie right to Hurley in search of peanut butter for Claire. When Hurley refuses him, Charlie’s hurt feelings frustrate Hurley even more, so he resolves to take drastic measures to ensure that things don’t change for him again.

Sayid and Jack look for the source of the electromagnetic disturbance, but it’s isolated behind heavy concrete. Claire finds the message in the bottle that the raft passengers carried with them, and gives it to Sun. Michael, Sawyer, and Jin are freed by their captors and brought to another bunker where another group of survivors from the tail of the plane huddles for shelter . . . including one survivor they’ve heard plenty about.

written by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz
directed by Alan Taylor
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: L. Scott Caldwell (Rose), Sam Anderson (Bernard), Kimberley Joseph (Flight Attendant), Lillian Hurst (Carmen), DJ Qualls (Johnny), Billy Ray Gallion (Randy), Marguerite Moreau (Starla), Raj K. Bose (Pakistani Shop Clerk)

Notes: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Island Man) and Cynthia Watros (Libby) were added to the regular cast as of this episode. Hurley’s lottery win was originally shown in season 1’s Numbers.

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Flashback: Jin’s efforts to advance in society lead him to take a job as a doorman at an exclusive hotel. His roommate tells him that he is destined to find love; in the meantime he must balance his own values with the rules of higher society. Sun has her own problems with those rules, as her family pressures her to find a husband through a matchmaker.

The Island: Ana Lucia’s group of survivors decides to find the camp Michael, Sawyer, and Jin left behind. Michael chooses to head into the forest to look for Walt. Jin goes after him, and the mysterious tracker introduces himself as Mister Eko and accompanies him. They pass the body of what looks like one of Eko’s fellow survivors – the Others are out there. They’ve missed Michael for now, but that can’t be expected to last.

Ana Lucia trades barbs with Sawyer during one of his rest breaks. He’s slowing down the group, but then again he’s the only one who knows where the camp is. Back at that camp, Sun realizes she has lost her wedding ring. Jack, Hurley and others share their own tales of lost goods. When Kate tries to reassure Sun, she confesses that she found the bottle of messages from the raft, which seems to especially trouble Kate.

written by Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse
directed by Stephen Williams
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Rain Chung (Mr. Kim), Kim Kim (Mrs. Shin), Josiah D. Lee (Tai Soo), Tomiko Okhee Lee (Mrs. Lee), Tony Lee (Jae Lee), Robert Dahey (Poor Man), Kimberley Joseph (Cindy), Sam Anderson (Bernard), Rain Chung (Mr. Kim), June Kyoko Lu (Mrs. Paik)

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Flashback: After Shannon’s father dies in a car accident, her stepmother cuts off her funds just as she earns a prestigious internship in New York City. Boone offers to help her, but even he does not seem to believe that Shannon has what it takes to make it on her own.

The Island: Shannon has another vision of Walt, and is absolutely determined to find him. Sayid doubts the reality of what she saw, putting a strain on their developing relationship. Locke tries to help Claire with the baby, which alienates Charlie. Claire, on the other hand, is grateful for the help – and her musings suggest to Locke that Charlie’s recovery may have hit a speed bump. Mister Eko diverts the tail survivors back into the jungle in a bid to save time and possibly Sawyer’s life. Ana Lucia is furious, afraid that they are putting themselves at risk from the Others. When Michael demands to know the reason for their fear, she explains that over their time on the island, the Others have kidnapped many of the tail survivors. And when they appear to take another, Ana Lucia’s paranoia claims another victim.

written by Elizabeth Sarnoff
directed by Adam Davidson
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Malcolm David Kelley (Walt), David Ely (Intern), L. Scott Caldwell (Rose), Sam Anderson (Bernard), Kimberley Joseph (Cindy), Ian Somerhalder (Boone), Lindsay Frost (Sabrina), Francois Guetary (Philippe), Ashleigh Ann Wood (Nora), Maree Miller (Sophie), Patti Hastie (Nurse), Michael Cowell (Doctor), Sandra Le Bat (Dominique)

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Flashback to the Island: The tail section of Flight 815 crashes on the island. Eko begins hauling survivors and bodies ashore. Ana Lucia helps resuscitate a child. Another survivor, Goodwin, runs onto the beach screaming for help – another survivor is still strapped to his seat, stuck in a tree. Ana Lucia helps talk Bernard out of the seat, after which he begins looking for his wife. Libby sets another survivor’s broken leg. Things calm down briefly. But that night, some of the survivors go missing from camp. Eko kills two men trying to take him away as well.

Eko withdraws into himself. More survivors are dragged away – including the two children. When one survivor, Nathan, disappears for two hours, Ana Lucia’s suspicions are raised. Eventually the group heads into jungle. Ana Lucia digs the pit and puts Nathan in. Four days pass; Nathan reveals nothing. When she tells Goodwin she plans to start cutting off Nathan’s fingers to get him to talk, Goodwin helps him out of the pit – and then breaks his neck. They set off again, and find the Dharma bunker and a radio. Ana Lucia and Goodwin try to climb higher to get a better signal, and Ana Lucia figures out that she suspected the wrong man all along. In their scuffle, Goodwin is killed. Things once again settle down somewhat, until Bernard hears a signal on the radio – Boone calling for help. Ana Lucia thinks it’s another plot to draw them out of hiding. When she finally gives herself a moment to break down, Eko breaks his silence to comfort her. Cindy and Libby find Jin washed up on the shore; Jin’s escape leads them to Michael and Sawyer, and eventually on their trek to find the survivors from the front of the plane – a meeting with tragic results.

written by Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse
directed by Eric Laneuville
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Sam Anderson (Bernard), Kimberley Joseph (Cindy), Brett Cullen (Goodwin), Josh Randall (Nathan), Glenn Lehmann (Donald), Kiersten Havelock (Emma), Mickey Graue (Zack)

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Flashback: Ana Lucia returns to the Los Angeles police force four months after being involved in a shooting. Her captain – also her mother – wants to ease her back into active duty with a desk job, but Ana Lucia demands to go back on patrol. When she reacts to a minor disturbance by drawing her weapon, her partner is concerned. At the precinct, her mother tells Ana Lucia that they have a suspect who has confessed to shooting her. Ana Lucia refuses to identify the suspect, so the police have to release him. Not long after, Ana Lucia follows him out from a bar and calls his name. When he turns around, she tells him, “I was pregnant” – right before firing several shots into him.

The Island: Eko knocks out an enraged Sayid before he can attack Ana Lucia. She ties him up and orders everyone to stay put. But the other survivors are getting restless and a little afraid of Ana. Eko brings Sawyer to the beach, where he finds Jack. Inside the bunker, Locke introduces himself to Eko while Jack and Kate try to help Sawyer. Ana Lucia tells Michael to go back to the camp and bring her supplies so she can head off into the jungle herself. Bernard and Libby decide to return to the beach with Jin. When Sayid wakes up, Ana Lucia tells him how the man who shot her claimed to be reaching for his ID. She believed him long enough for him to fire four rounds. She asks Sayid if she should kill him, and Sayid wonders what would be the point of either of them getting killed at this point. With Sawyer stabilized, Jack is ready to run off into the jungle armed to find the others . . . until Eko tells him the name of the woman who shot Shannon.

written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach & Leonard Dick
directed by Stephen Williams
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast:Francois Chau (Dr. Marvin Candle), L. Scott Caldwell (Rose), Sam Anderson (Bernard), Michael Cudlitz (Big Mike), Mark Gilbert (Detective Raggs), Rick Overton (Matthew Reed), Aaron Gold (Jason Elder), Matt Moore (Travis), Jeanna Garcia (Shawna), Rand Wilson (Assistant D.A.)

Notes: Maggie Grace (Shannon)’s credit was changed to “Special Guest Star” in this episode.

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Flashback: When Kate’s stepfather Wayne comes home drunk, she helps put him to bed. Then she rides away on her motorcycle moments before the house explodes. She stops to see her mother before trying to get to Florida, to say goodbye and give her an insurance policy she had taken out on the house. The marshals catch her before she can get on a bus, but when a black horse crosses the path of the marshal’s car, he swerves and hits a pole. He’s disoriented just long enough for Kate to push him out of the car and drive away. She meets her father in the Army recruiting office where he works to tell him she knows the truth. He was in Korea until four months before she was born. Wayne is her biological father. She leaves the office after her father says he’ll have to call the police, but agrees to give her a head start. With a last hug, Kate walks out of the door.

The Island: While picking fruit, Kate sees a black horse. She volunteers to stay in the bunker and watch over Sawyer while Sayid and the others bury Shannon. Sawyer wakes up and grabs at Kate’s throat, asking, “What did you do?” When Jack and Locke return to the bunker, they find Kate gone, Sawyer sprawled on the ground, and the countdown with seconds to go. Locke gets the button pushed in time, and then shows the orientation film to Michael and Eko. Eko leaves immediately afterward. When he returns, he tells Locke the story of King Josiah and temple of Judea . . . and then shows him something the tail survivors found in the other Dharma bunker. It’s a piece of the filmstrip that had been cut out, a piece that warns against using the computer to try and contact anyone else.

Kate continues to see the horse, and fears she might be going crazy. She thinks there might somehow be a part of Wayne on the island, maybe even in Sawyer, and she tells him that knowing that Wayne was her father made her feel like she would never be good enough. Sawyer wakes up, and when Kate takes him outside for walk, they both see the horse.

While Locke and Eko are watching the missing part of the fimstrip, Michael examines the computers. The countdown clock stops at 51 minutes, and the computer beings beeping. “Hello?” it asks. Michael decides to reply . . . and gets what could be a message from another of the missing.

written by Steven Maeda & Craig Wright
directed by Paul Edwards
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: L. Scott Caldwell (Rose), Sam Anderson (Bernard), Frederic Lane (Marshal), Beth Broderick (Diane), Lindsey Ginter (Austen), James Horan (Wayne), J. Edward Sclafani (Ticket Agent)

Notes: Locke first viewed the filmstrip in this season’s Orientation.

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Flashback: In Nigeria, a gang demands that a young boy shoot an old man. The boy’s older brother, Eko, takes the gun and fires instead, sparing his brother Yemi from having to commit the sin. The gang takes Eko away, and years later he becomes a feared figure. He agrees to help smuggle heroin out of the country, but in order to do so he will have to find a way to get the drugs onto either a United Nations or Catholic charities plane. He tries to enlist the aid of his brother, who is now a priest; Yemi refuses. Eko’s colleagues threaten to burn down the church unless Yemi complies with their request, and he finally does. But as Eko prepares to leave on the plane, his brother drives up, with the military not far behind. Yemi begs Eko not to get on the plane while the smugglers and military shoot at each other. Yemi is caught in the crossfire. Eko is forced from the plane, and the military mistakes him for the priest that called them.

The Island: Michael tries to contact Walt again via the terminal and gets some firearms training from Locke. Walt lets his father know that he is all right, but he has to hide their contact from some others. Eko learns of the Mary statue from Claire; he breaks the statue, shows her the contents, and demands that Charlie take him to where he found it. Charlie tries to claim that he didn’t know what was in the statue, and that he simply found it in a field, but neither Claire nor Eko believe him. En route to the plane, the creature – a mass of black smoke – charges Eko and stops right in front of him, but does not attack him. When they find the plane, Eko offers his last respects to his brother, and a replacement statue to Charlie, leaving the addict with another decision to make.

written by Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof
directed by Matt Earl Beesley
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Adetokumboh McCormack (Yemi), Ronald Revels (Goldie), Pierre Olivier (Olu), Kolawolfe Obileye, Jr. (Young Eko), Cynthia Charles (Nigerian Woman), John Bryan (Thug Captain), Ellis St. Rose (Priest), Moumen El Hajji (Tough Moroccan), Lawrence Jones (Lead Soldier), Olekan Obileye (Young Yemi) and Achraf Marzouki (Moroccan No. 2.)

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Flashback: Jack’s reputation from his wife Sarah’s recovery has attracted an older patient in desperate search of hope for a cure for a spinal tumor. Jack’s father does not feel the man is a candidate for surgery, but the patient’s daughter Gabriella appeals directly to Jack, who can’t step back from a challenge. Jack keeps throwing himself into his work even though he can feel the distance growing between him and Sarah, and even though his father warns him not to get too close to the case – or to Gabriella.

The Island: Michael knocks out Locke and puts him and Jack into the gun locker in order to go after Walt. When Kate and Sawyer arrive to let them out, Jack and Locke take off after Michael. Sawyer insists on coming along, and Kate tries to follow. When Jack tells her to stay behind and watch the hatch, she drafts Hurley into button duty and follows. Jin wants to go after his friend as well, but Sun refuses to allow him to risk himself again.

Locke tracks Michael going north, following a different trail than he traveled with the tail survivors. As the three searchers probe each other’s motivations for the expedition, they hear gunfire, but are unable to find Michael. Locke and Jack’s argument over whether or not to proceed is interrupted by a representative of the Others – the one who took Walt and shot Sawyer. He tells the three that they are unwelcome guests on their island, and that from now on borders need to be respected. He tells them to leave their weapons behind and go home, or another of the survivors will pay the price.

written by Elizabeth Sarnoff & Christina M. Kim
directed by Stephen Williams
music by Michael Giacchno

Guest Cast: John Terry (Dr. Shephard), Julie Bowen (Sarah), Monica Dean (Gabriela), Ronald Guttman (Angelo), M.C. Gainey (Mr. Friendly)

Notes: The Others’ representative calls to Alex – the same name as Rousseau’s child. Jack’s successful operation on Sarah was shown in this season’s Man of Science, Man of Faith.

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Flashback: Liam’s drug habit continues to have personal and professional repercussions. Driveshaft’s attempts at a comeback never get into gear when he can’t even function during a television commercial shoot. His wife kicks him out of the house after he drops their baby daughter. Charlie watches and tries to hold things together, writing a song he hopes will turn their lives around. But Liam’s own plans to change his life may not include his brother.

The Island: Jack continues his planning sessions with Ana Lucia, raising Sawyer’s eyebrows in the process. The eyebrows do double time when Hurley asks him what he knows about Libby. Charlie has a series of vivid dreams about Aaron that lead him to believe the baby’s life is in serious danger. Given his past and his lack of truthfulness, Claire and the others are reluctant to believe him, especially when Charlie takes Aaron while sleepwalking one night. Eko suggests that the dreams, which include the image of a dove, may suggest that the baby needs to be baptized. Charlie begs Locke to help him persuade Claire to trust him, but when Locke finds Charlie’s stash of statues he has little reason to believe the addict. Desperate, Charlie tries to take matters into his own hands, shredding the last vestiges of anyone’s trust in him.

written by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz
directed by Jack Bender
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Neil Hopkins (Liam), Jeremy Shada (Young Charlie), Zack Shada (Young Liam), Sammi Davis (Mrs. Pace), Vanessa Branch (Karen), Craig Young (Director)

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Flashback: Sawyer tries to pull his scam on a divorcee, but she sees through it. Rather than throw him out, Cassidy asks Sawyer to teach her how to con. Over the next six months, they pull a number of small hustles, but Cassidy wants a big score – she wants to go for the long con. When Sawyer says they need money to pull such a thing, Cassidy admits that she’s been hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars she got in her divorce. Sawyer feigns surprise, but it’s not really news to him . . . he’s known all along. And he and his partner had plans for that money – even if Sawyer may (or may not) be reconsidering them.

The Island: Jack agrees to place his guns inside the bunker locker, and Locke agrees to share the combination with him. Charlie moves to the outskirts of the camp. Hurley tries to interest Sayid in the radio receiver Bernard found in the other bunker. Jack and Ana Lucia are having trouble recruiting anyone for their campaign against the Others, and Ana Lucia thinks it’s because the group is under the mistaken impression that they’re somehow safe. When Sun is almost kidnapped, it seems that attitudes might change.

That raises Sawyer’s suspicions, especially when some of the details don’t quite seem to match up. He shares his concerns with Kate, who goes to Jack. Jack questions Ana Lucia to be sure she isn’t trying to push her case a little too forcefully, but when Sun recovers and Jin is determined to pursue her abductors, Jack brings him to the bunker. But Sawyer has tipped off Locke, and Locke has decided that he won’t be responsible for anyone else taking weapons into the jungle and doing something reckless. He moves the guns from the locker . . . but soon discovers he isn’t as in control of the situation as he believed.

written by Leonard Dick & Steven Maeda
directed by Roxann Dawson
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Kevin Dunn (Gordy), Beth Broderick (Diane), KM Dickens (Cassidy), Finn Armstrong (Arthur), Richard Cavanna (Peter)

Notes: Kate’s mother Beth is the waitress that serves Sawyer when he meets with his partner. Director Roxann Dawson played B’Elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager and directed several episodes of that series and Star Trek: Enterprise.

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Flashback: At the end of Operation Desert Storm, Sayid and his superior officer Tariq are captured. The American want to know the location of a helicopter pilot captured days before, but Tariq refuses to provide information, even when Sayid reluctantly acts as an intermediary. An American officer eventually shows Sayid evidence that Tariq was involved in a sarin gas attack on a village that included Sayid’s relatives. Sayid agrees to torture Tariq in order to learn about the pilot’s fate . . . the first time that he has ever done so.

The Island: Sawyer, bothered by an incessant tree frog, heads into the jungle to find the source of his annoyance. Instead, he finds Hurley hoarding food, and blackmails Hurley into helping him find the frog.

Rousseau finds Sayid and brings him to a prisoner she has captured, claiming he is one of the Others. Sayid frees the man from Rousseau’s net, but when he tries to run away, Rousseau shoots him in the shoulder with an arrow. Sayid brings him back to the bunker so that Jack can remove the arrow, but arranges with Locke to change the combination on the armory so that Sayid can spend some time alone with the prisoner, who claims to be a balloonist who crashed on the isalnd with his wife months ago. Sayid gets no answers from the man, but becomes convinced he is one of the Others. Jack demands that Locke let him into the armory, and when Locke refuses, Jack prevents him from pushing the button until Locke opens the door. He does, and then races over to the terminal – but not before the countdown reaches zero.

written by Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse
directed by Stephen Williams
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Lindsey Ginter (Sgt. Austen), Mira Furlan (Danielle Rousseau), Michael Emerson (Henry Gale), Marc Casabani (Tariq), Theo Rossi (Sgt. Buccelli), Clancy Brown (Joe Inman), Thomas Meharey (U.S. soldier no. 1) , Kamari Borden (U.S. soldier no. 2)

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