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Lost Season 2

The Whole Truth

LostFlashback: Jin pins his hope for a brighter future on having a child, but after a year of trying the effort is only adding to the strain between him and Sun. Sun meets with Jae Lee in order to learn English, planning to leave Jin and move to America. Jae Lee wants her to consider staying in Korea with him instead. A doctor informs the couple that Sun is unable to bear children . . . but later confesses to her that he has hidden the real truth.

The Island: Jin finds Sun working in her garden. Driven by fear for her safety, he demands that she stop spending time there; when she refuses, he destroys the garden. Sun’s feelings of isolation are not helped by the symptoms she’s experiencing, symptoms that lead her to ask Sawyer for a pregnancy test. She waits with Kate for the results, and when they come back positive they go to Jack for confirmation. But she is hesitant to tell Jin, and unsure of how she feels about the idea. Locke enlists Ana Lucia to interrogate Henry, pointedly doing so without consulting Jack first. Determined to avoid repeating her earlier mistake, she wants to be absolutely sure that Henry’s not telling the truth, so she gets Henry to draw her a map to her balloon. Ana Lucia then enlists Sayid’s help to track down the balloon. Along with Charlie, they set off – pointedly doing so without consulting Jack or Locke first. As Henry is all too happy to point out over breakfast with the two of them, it appears the survivors have some serious trust issues to work on…

Order the DVDswritten by Elizabeth Sarnoff & Christina M. Kim
directed by Karen Gaviola
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Guest Cast: L. Scott Caldwell (Rose), Sam Anderson (Bernard), Tony Lee (Jae Lee), Michael Emerson (Henry Gale), Greg Joung Paik (Dr. Je-Guy Kim)

Note: Sun’s friendship with Jae Lee was shown in this season’s . . . And Found; at that time he was preparing to go to America himself.

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Lost Season 2

Lockdown

LostFlashback: Locke is preparing to propose to Helen when she finds his father’s obituary. The two attend his funeral in an effort to find closure. But instead, Locke discovers that his father, Cooper, is alive, having faked his own death to hide from rather angry men that he swindled. Cooper needs Locke’s help to recover the ill-gotten gains and make his getaway. But helping his father puts Locke in the sights of Cooper’s victims . . . to say nothing of the questions he must dodge from Helen.

The Island: Sayid, Ana Lucia, and Charlie find the balloon and the grave, exactly as Henry described it. Sawyer goads Jack into joining an informal game of Texas hold ‘em. But when Jack cleans up, he goads Sawyer into putting up real stakes – the medical supplies that were in the armory.

Inside the hatch, Locke is puzzled by a strange sound coming from the speakers. He realizes that it’s a countdown just before blast doors seal him and Henry inside. Locke is able to wedge a crowbar underneath one of the doors, but he can’t lift the door alone. Henry agrees to help him – if Locke promises to protect him against the others. Locke agrees, and they raise the door slightly. But when Locke tries to slide underneath, the door descends again, pinning his leg. Locke sends Henry to enter the code and push the button. Before things return to normal, Locke sees a set of symbols projected on the hatch ceiling. He is further relieved when Henry returns to assist him.

As Jack is returning to the hatch, Kate follows him, asking to use the shower. Jack puts her off, but offers to walk back to the beach with her. Before they do, however, they spot a flashing beacon – which signals the location of Dharma supplies that have been air-dropped onto the island. They are soon joined by the balloon hunters, who have done some digging of their own.

Order the DVDswritten by Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof
directed by Stephen Williams
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast:Kevin Tighe (Cooper), Katey Sagal (Helen), Michael Emerson (Henry Gale), Andrea Gabriel (Nadia), Geoffrey Rivas (Father Chuck), Theo Coumbis (Jimmy Bane)

Notes: The beginning of Locke and Helen’s relationship was shown in this season’s Orientation.

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Lost Season 2

Dave

LostFlashback: Hurley’s therapist in the institution encourages him to face the events that brought him here: a deck Hurley was standing on collapsed, killing two people. Hurley entered a catatonic state where his only activity was eating. Dr. Brooks says he doesn’t think this is necessarily because Hurley likes to eat, but because Hurley wanted to punish himself. Hurley resists the doctor’s advice, often at the urging of his friend and fellow patient Dave. Dave tells Hurley that he’s fine the way he is, that he should think about escaping, and that he shouldn’t turn down a meal. More to the point, as Dr. Brooks shows Hurley – Dave doesn’t exist. On the other hand, Hurley may not be the only future castaway to spend time in that institution.

The Island: Hurley shows Libby his hidden stash of food. She encourages him to do something to free himself of the food, so he destroys all of it. Immediately afterward, he finds out about the airdropped food. As he looks at the crowd poring over the food, he sees a familiar face – Dave. He decides to ask Sawyer for some medication to help prevent his visions, but when Sawyer tries to pull a prank on him, Hurley tackles him. Jin, after taking a moment to enjoy the scene, pulls Hurley away, and Hurley decides to go back to the caves, where he can’t hurt anyone. He runs into the vision of Dave again, who tells him that really, Hurley never left the institution. He went back into his catatonic state and dreamed everything that happened to him since his release. The only way out, the vision says, is to make it clear that Hurley doesn’t buy the dream anymore. And the best way to do that is to leap off a cliff.

Inside the hatch, Sayid and the others try to get some information from their captive, but to little avail. He does share one piece of information with Locke: during the lockdown, he never pushed the button. The countdown expired . . . and absolutely nothing happened.

Order the DVDswritten by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz
directed by Jack Bender
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Michael Emerson (Henry Gale), Evan Handler (Dave), Bruce Davison (Dr. Brooks), Ron Bottitta (Leonard), Grisel Toledo (Nurse)

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Lost Season 2

S.O.S.

LostFlashback: Bernard meets Rose when helping her get her car out of a snowdrift. She invites him for coffee, and they begin dating. A few months later, Bernard proposes, and Rose tells him that she has cancer and not long to live. Bernard is no less determined to marry Rose, but now he’s determined to find a way to help Rose. His efforts bring them to Isaac, a faith healer in Australia, who tells Rose that he does not have the capability to heal her. But Rose decides to tell Bernard that she is cured, so that he will not continue his efforts to do something. In the airport waiting to return to the States, Rose has a chance meeting with someone she’ll soon be sharing a beach with.

The Island: Jack and Kate head back into the woods in an effort to persuade the Others to trade Henry for Walt. Locke decides to turn away from the hatch and the button for a while. Bernard tries to organize the castaways to build an SOS message on the beach out of rocks, but his management skills are a little lacking. Matters aren’t helped when Rose doesn’t seem to support the idea. Rose finally decides to tell Bernard the truth: Isaac may not have cured her, but the island has. But if she leaves, all bets are off.

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directed by Eric Laneuville
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: L. Scott Caldwell (Rose), Sam Anderson (Bernard), Michael Emerson (Henry Gale), Wayne Pygram (Isaac), Donna Smallwood (Aussie Woman)

Notes: Wayne Pygram played Scorpius in Farscape and Tarkin in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

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Lost Season 2

Two for the Road

LostFlashback: Ana Lucia’s mother confronts her after the man who shot her is found dead. Ana Lucia decides to leave the force and gets a job in airport security. In the airport bar, she meets Jack’s father Christian, on his way to Australia. He hires Ana Lucia to help him with an unnamed job, and won’t tell her his name. The job turns out to be sitting in the car while Christian has an argument with a young blond woman, after which Ana Lucia drops him off at a bar – bumping into Sawyer in the process- and decides that it’s time to go home.

The Island: Ana Lucia tries to talk to Henry again, but he attacks her and nearly kills her before Locke intervenes. Jack and Kate bring Michael back to the bunker. When he regains consciousness, he tells them that he has been watching the Others, and knows where their camp is – and that it is lightly guarded. He plans to go back as soon as he has recovered. Ana Lucia decides that she needs a gun in order to settle the score with Henry, and finds a way to separate Sawyer from his pants long enough to get one. Hurley tries to arrange a picnic date with Libby, despite myriad logistical and navigational problems. Ana Lucia decides that she can not pull the trigger – but someone else in the hatch has no such compunctions.

Order the DVDswritten by Elizabeth Sarnoff & Christina M. Kim
directed by Paul Edwards
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: John Terry (Christian Shephard), Rachel Ticotin (Captain Teresa Cortez), Michael Emerson (Henry Gale), Gabrielle Fitzpatrick (Lindsey)

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Lost Season 2

?

LostFlashback: Eko, posing as a priest after Yemi’s death, is preparing to travel to the United States. But before he can go, his monsignor assigns him to investigate a potential miracle. A woman, pronounced dead from drowning, was woken up the next day by the beginning of her autopsy. The doctor who performed the autopsy is certain that the girl was dead, but her father believes that nothing happened but a case of hypothermia and medical malpractice. He has reason to doubt miracles, after all . . . he is a charlatan psychic who fakes them all the time. The same psychic, in fact, who once insisted that Claire must raise her own child. Eko decides to end the investigation and make his trip to Los Angeles. But the drowning victim meets him there, and she has a message.

The Island: Eko has a dream where Ana Lucia and his brother both urge him to help John. He joins Jack, Sawyer, Locke, and Kate, who are heading back to the hatch after finding out that Ana Lucia had Sawyer’s gun. They find Michael, shot in the shoulder, who tells them that Gale escaped and shot him, along with Ana Lucia and Libby. Inside the hatch they find Ana Lucia already dead, but Libby is still alive. Jack rushes to treat her, while Michael is obviously concerned – although not for the reason everyone else might think, since he was the shooter and allowed Gale to escape. Jack asks Sawyer to bring the heroin so he cam make Libby more comfortable, and asks Kate to go with him so that she can see where Sawyer has been stashing the heroin – and the guns. On the way back, Hurley asks if they’ve seen Libby, and Kate breaks the news to him. Hurley arrives at the hatch in time to see Libby pass away.

Eko offers to try and track Gale, and asks Locke to come with him. But instead of tracking, Eko follows his dream and asks Locke to take him to the question mark. Locke shows Eko the map he has tried to reconstruct from the display he saw during the lockdown, and they find the Nigerian drug plane at the location suggested. Another dream – this one by Locke – instructs Eko to climb up an almost vertical incline. From his vantage point he sees that someone has sown the ground with salt so as to create a question mark. Its point is right under the plane – and it conceals another hatch. Inside, the pair finds monitors, logs, notebooks, and an orientation tape. This tape reveals that the purpose of this bunker, called the Pearl, is to be an observation point for a psychological experiment being conducted in another hatch. The film raises new doubts in Locke about the purpose he thought he had found, but it only makes Eko that much more certain.

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Guest Cast: Adetokumboh McCormack (Yemi), Peter Lavin (Caldwell), Oliver Muirhead (Monsignor), Melissa Bickerton (Joyce), Felix Williamson (Dr. Ian McVay), Nick Jameson (Richard Malkin), Brooke Mikey Anderson (Charlotte Malkin)

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Lost Season 2

Three Minutes

LostFlashback: Michael communicates with Walt before leaving the bunker. He is soon captured by the Others. When Mr. Friendly confronts Jack, Locke, and Sawyer and trades them Kate for their guns, Alex asks Michael if Claire and the baby are OK. Michael is brought to a camp of the Others, where a woman named Ms. Klugh asks him about Walt’s past. Since Michael missed almost all of it, he can not answer. But after more than a week, Klugh makes him an offer. If he helps rescue one of them, and brings Sawyer, Kate, Jack, and Hurley to a designated spot, Michael and Walt will be freed. As incentive, Klugh allows Michael to see Walt for three minutes.

The Island: Locke tries to convince Eko not to push the button, but Eko is determined. So determined, in fact, that he stops building the church, to Charlie’s chagrin. Michael tries to organize a group to rescue Walt, but he doesn’t respond very well to suggestions from the others. This raises Sayid’s suspicions, which he shares with Jack. Other castaways are happy to see Michael’s return, then shocked to discover that they must bury two more of their own. Jack and Sawyer briefly discuss their relationships with kate and Ana Lucia while preparing to go with Michael. At the funeral, Hurley’s grief drives him to join the group as well. The team is going . . . on Michael’s terms.

Order the DVDswritten by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz
directed by Stephen Williams
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Guest Cast: Malcolm David Kelley (Walt), M.C. Gainey (Mr. Friendly), Tania Raymonde (Alex), April Grace (Ms. Klugh), Michael Bowen (Pickett)

Notes: The flashbacks in this episode include events shown in this season’s The Hunting Party. The young girl who helped Claire in Maternity Leave, and who is apparently the same age as Rousseau’s daughter, is identified as Alex in this episode.

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Lost Season 2

Live Together, Die Alone

LostFlashback: Desmond is released from prison and officially given a dishonorable discharge from the Scottish army. He is greeted by Charles Widmore, a wealthy businessman, who shows him two boxes. The first contains all the letters Desmond has written to his girlfriend Penelope during his imprisonment – letters which were never delivered. The second box contains a large sum of cash, an inducement for Desmond to go far away and never speak to Penelope – Widmore’s daughter – again. Desmond refuses, and some time later he decides to enter a boat race sponsored by Widmore in order to take some revenge. Inside an American coffee bar, he meets Libby, whose husband has just died. She offers Desmond her husband’s boat, and tells him to win. As Desmond trains, just before his encounter with Jack, Penelope drives up and confronts him. Desmond makes it clear that he still loves her, but that he has to do something to regain his honor first. The race goes poorly, and Desmond is lost at sea. Unconscious, he washes up on the island, and has blurry visions of a man in a hazmat suit pulling him off the beach.

He wakes up inside the hatch, where Kelvin Inman shows him the orientation film and welcomes him to life working for the Dharma Initiative. Inman uses a series of faked lockdowns to draw the blacklighted map on the blast doors using laundry detergent. One night, while drunk, he shows Desmond a lock that can be used to set off a self-destruct mechanism and eliminate the danger of the hatch once and for all. Inman refuses to let Desmond out of the hatch, but one day Desmond follows him. He discovers that Inman has been repairing his sailboat and preparing to escape the island. In a rage, Desmond tackles him; during the fight, he slams Inman’s head against the rocks and kills him. Desmond races back to the hatch, to see the countdown has reached zero and the terminal screen is full of the words “System Failure.” Eventually, Desmond enters the numbers, and considers that his life may be over. He opens a book by Dickens, which he’s been saving, and finds a note from Penelope. He settles in to life pushing the button, occasionally hearing strange noises coming from above him.

The Island: Jack, Sayid and Sawyer swim out to the sailboat only to discover a drunken Desmond. Despite setting sail and heading straight out to sea, Desmond finds himself stuck around the island. Sayid sees an opportunity in the boat – he will sail around the island, along with Jin and Sun, to the Others’ camp and signal Jack from a safe point, so that they might be able to gain an advantage. But Sayid stresses that Jack can not tell anyone in Michael’s party about what’s really going on, lest Michael become suspicious.

Locke and Desmond arrange a lockdown in order to get Eko away from the terminal, and then wait for the countdown to expire. Eko enlists Charlie’s help to blow open the blast doors. Charlie tries to arrange a peaceful resolution, but fails to stop Eko from blowing the charges – doing nothing to the blast doors, but injuring himself and Charlie in the process. As the countdown draws near its close, Desmond grows more anxious. When he examines the log that Locke brought from the other hatch, he realizes that the system failure from the day Inman died coincides with the day that Flight 815 crashed. He is convinced that they must press the button – but Locke destroys the terminal. Desmond knows he has only one chance – the destruct mechanism.

Jack and his party encounter a group of Others following them. After a brief skirmish, Jack can keep the truth in no longer. Hurley realizes that Michael killed Libby and Ana Lucia, and turns to leave. Jack asks him to stay with the group, promising them he has a plan. But Michael does not lead them to the camp, which Sayid has discovered is abandoned. Instead he leads them into a trap, and they are brought before the Others. Ms. Klugh releases Hurley, and tells him to let the rest of the castaways know not to follow. Henry, clearly the leader of the group, says he must live up to the deal that Ms. Klugh made, and gives Michael Walt and a boat to take them away from the island. That leaves Jack, Kate and Sawyer to ponder the future, while Charlie, Claire and the rest of the castaways do the same at the beach.

Order the DVDswritten by Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof
directed by Jack Bender
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Malcolm David Kelley (Walt), Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), Sam Anderson (Bernard), M.C. Gainey (Mr. Friendly), Michael Emerson (Henry Gale), Clancy Brown (Kelvin Inman), Tania Raymonde (Alex), April Grace (Ms. Klugh), Alan Dale (Charles Widmore), Stephen Page (Master Sergeant), Michael Bowen (Pickett), Sonya Walger (Penelope), Len Cordova (Man no. 1), Alex Petrovitch (Man no. 2), Eyal Podell (Young Man), Cathy Foy (Receptionist)

Notes: Originally aired as a two-hour episode, this is considered episodes 223 and 224. Inman last appeared as the American officer who enlisted Sayid’s help in interrogating his superior officer in this season’s One of Them, although in that episode the character is listed as “Joe” Inman. Desmond’s first encounter with most of the castaways occurred in the first three episodes of this season; his meeting with Jack at the stadium was shown in the season-opener Man of Science, Man of Faith.

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Lost Season 3

A Tale of Two Cities

LostFlashback: As Jack’s divorce nears completion, he obsesses over the identity of Sarah’s new lover. He attempts to track her cell phone usage, and discovers that she had at some point called his father. He follows his father to an AA meeting and accuses him of sleeping with his wife. When he slugs his father, he is arrested. Sarah bails him out, calls him a cab, and emphatically says good-bye.

The Island: A book club meets in what appears to be a normal suburban home. The host, Juliet, defends her choice of book, even while acknowledging that someone named Ben wouldn’t be much of a fan. The meeting is interrupted by what appears to be an earthquake. Everyone runs outside to see a plane break in half and descend. This is the island, and these are the Others. Henry Gale orders Goodwin and Ethan to infiltrate the survivors.

In the present, Jack is in a cell. Juliet tries to get him to take food, but he resists. Sawyer is in a cage that resembles an animal behavior experiment. Kate is given a shower and a dress, and brought to Henry. He warns her that the next two weeks are going to be unpleasant. Jack and Sawyer each make escape attempts, but even though Jack briefly manages to take Juliet hostage, neither can stay free for long.

Season 3 Regular Cast: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Mr. Eko), Naveen Andrews (Sayid), Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), Emilie de Ravin (Claire), Michael Emerson (Henry Gale), Matthew Fox (Jack), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Josh Holloway (Sawyer), Daniel Dae Kim (Jin), Yunjin Kim (Sun), Evangeline Lilly (Kate), Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet), Dominic Monaghan (Charlie), Terry O’Quinn (Locke)

Order the DVDsstory by Damon Lindelof
teleplay by J.J. Abrams & Damon Lindelof
directed by Jack Bender
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: John Terry (Christian Shephard), Julie Bowen (Sarah), M.C. Gainey (Mr. Friendly), William Mapother (Ethan), Brett Cullen (Goodwin), Blake Bashoff (Karl), Julie Adams (Amelia), Stephen Semel (Adam), Isabelle Cherwin (Little Girl), Alexandra Morgan (moderator), Sonya Seng (Receptionist), Sally Davis (Teacher), Julie Ow (Nurse)

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Lost Season 3

The Glass Ballerina

LostFlashback: Sun wakes up after a night with Jae Lee, who once again asks her to come away with him. They are interrupted by Sun’s father, who angrily tells her to get dressed and leave. Later, he tells Jin that Lee has stolen from him and shamed the family, and demands that Jin put a stop to it. At first Jin refuses, and tries to quit, but the appeal to family responsibilities is too much. At home, he tells Sun that he has to send a message for her father. Horrified, Sun asks him not to, but Jin can not see a way out. Still, he can not pull the trigger. He beats Lee, then tells him to leave the country. Lee decides to follow Jin’s advice – and leaves by leaping out his window.

The Island: Jin wants to turn back after waiting a day for Jack, Sawyer, Kate and Hurley. Sayid insists that they need to wait to meet their friends, although he wants to go further up the island in order to set a more visible fire. Jin effuses, but after a brief argument, Jin decides to help Sayid. Later, Sayid admit that he has been lying – he believes their friends have been captured, and he is trying to set a trap. Jin discovers the lie – and that Sun has been helping Sayid. He asks for a gun and waits with Sayid, while Jin returns to the boat. This turns out to be a mistake. The Others have seen the boat, and they head straight for it, leading to a confrontation between an armed Sun and one of the Others.

At the camp, Sawyer and Kate are pressed into labor digging and hauling rocks. Sawyer’s efforts at defiance are met with electric shocks. When he stops working and kisses Kate, the guards move in to stop him. A brawl ensues, and Sawyer gets a gun. But Juliet is pointing one at Kate, so Sawyer gives up and gets another shock for his trouble. He admits to Kate that fight was a way together information about their captors, but he doesn’t realize that Ben is gathering information on him. He is also providing information to Jack – not only his real name, but a glimpse of an event Jack thought could never happen. Ben also makes an offer: at some point, he will ask for Jack’s help. If Jack gives it, Ben will take him home.

Order the DVDswritten by Jeff Pinkner & Drew Goddard
directed by Paul Edwards
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: M.C. Gainey (Mr. Friendly), Tania Raymonde (Alex), Paula Malcolmson (Colleen), Michael Bowen (Pickett), Byron Chung (Mr. Paik), Tony Lee (Jae Lee), Sophie Kim (Young Sun), Joah Buley (Luke), Tomiko Okhee Lee (Mrs. Lee), Teddy Wells (Other)

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Lost Season 3

Further Instructions

LostFlashback: Locke picks up a hitchhiker looking to find work and start a new life. Locke can empathize, having recently moved to a small farming commune. They are stopped by the police, and Locke cheerfully shows the cop the many legally-bought guns he’s carrying in his tailgate. Eddie, the hitchhiker, decides to hang around for several weeks, but starts asking Locke about what’s going on inside the camp’s greenhouse. He says he wants in on whatever the group is planning to blow up. Locke laughs at this and says he’ll talk to the camp’s leaders. When he does, he learns that Eddie is really an undercover cop. And since the greenhouse is full of marijuana, that’s a problem. One that Locke may be willing to do anything in order to eliminate.

The Island: Locke wakes up, struck mute by the implosion of the hatch. He finds Eko’s stick, and returns to camp. Charlie sees him, and agrees to stand watch while Locke builds a sweat lodge in order to communicate with the island. After taking some of his homemade hallucinogen, he sees a vision of Boone. Boone tells him to get in his wheelchair, and Boone pushes him through the airport. He sees other castaways, but Boone tells him that he can not help Jack, Kate and Sawyer until he cleans up his own mess. He has to go find Eko.

His voice returned, Locke heads out to track Eko, believing that the polar bear has him. Charlie accompanies him. They bump into Hurley returning from the Others’ camp, and tell him to return to the beach and warn the rest of the group. On the way, Hurley finds a naked Desmond, who seems reasonably happy not to be dead. Hurley offers him some clothes and asks him what they should do about Jack, Kate and Sawyer. Desmond replies that Locke will find them, just like he said in his speech. Since Locke hasn’t made such a speech, Hurley finds this more than a bit curious. Back in the jungle, Locke and Charlie find a barely-conscious and bloody Eko, who may or may not regain consciousness long enough to remind Locke that he needs to go find their friends – which Locke announces to Hurley and the others on the beach that he is going to do.

Order the DVDswritten by Carlton Cuse & Elizabeth Sarnoff
directed by Stephen Williams
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Kiele Sanchez (Nikki), Rodrigo Santoro (Paulo), Ian Somerhalder (Boone), Justin Chatwin (Eddie), Chris Mulkey (Mike), Virginia Morris (Jan), Joel Himelhoch (Sheriff), Dion Donahue (Kim)

Note: Kiele Sanchez and Rodrigo Santoro appear in the opening credits with the rest of the regular cast in the episodes as broadcast; however, ABC’s credit information continues to list them as guest stars.

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Lost Season 3

Every Man for Himself

LostFlashback: Sawyer is in prison after his con of Cassidy, and not getting along terribly well with the warden. He sees a chance to gain a little revenge by helping a new inmate named Munson, who’s in prison for stealing government funds that haven’t been recovered. The warden wants the money, and Sawyer tells Munson he’ll use every trick he can to win Munson’s confidence – even enlisting his wife. Sawyer’s prediction comes true – while at the same visiting day, Cassidy arrives to tell Sawyer that he has a daughter. Munson turns to Sawyer for help in re-hiding the money, but there may well be things that Sawyer wants even more than payback.

The Island: At the castaways’ camp, Desmond attempts to convince Claire to move her camp for the night. When she prefers to stay, he builds a lightning rod – which he finishes a few minutes before a lightning strike that would have hit Claire and her baby.

Sawyer hatches a plan to use the reward machine to electrocute a guard and escape. But Ben foils that attempt by turning the machine off. Instead, Ben and the Others strap Sawyer to a gurney and jam a needle into his sternum. When he wakes up, Ben shows him a rabbit – a rabbit that quickly dies when it gets too excited. Both the rabbit and Sawyer have been rigged with pacemakers that will kill them if their heart rate gets too high. And if Sawyer mentions his predicament to Kate, she’ll receive the same treatment.

The expedition to the sailboat returns to the Others’ camp, with Colleen in critical condition after being shot by Sun. Juliet tries to save her, but the injuries are beyond her expertise. She brings Jack to the operating room. While scrubbing for surgery, he notices a set of x-rays before Juliet rushes him in to the O.R. He’s too late to save Colleen, especially since some of the Others’ equipment isn’t working properly. The Others leave Jack with Colleen’s body, giving him time to think about the x-rays – and the spinal tumor they showed.

Order the DVDswritten by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz
directed by Stephen Williams
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Kiele Sanchez (Nikki), Rodrigo Santoro (Paulo), M.C. Gainey (Mr. Friendly), Michael Bowen (Pickett), Ian Gomez (Munson), Bill Duke (Warden Harris), Ariston Green (Jason), Dustin Geiger (Matthew), Kim Dickens (Cassidy), Dorian Burns (Prison Guard), Peter Ruocco (Agent Freedman)

Note: Sawyer swindled Cassidy in season 2’s The Long Con.

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Lost Season 3

The Cost of Living

LostFlashback: Eko returns to Yemi’s church after his death, where he is soon confronted by militia members who want to take most of the vaccines supplied by the Red Cross. Eko has his own way of dealing with this threat, one that is not fully in keeping with the Scriptures.

The Island: Eko has a vision of his brother, telling him that he must confess his sins. Still somewhat delirious from his wounds, he nonetheless leaves camp to return to the plane by the Pearl Station. Locke is also organizing an expedition to the Pearl with Sayid and Desmond, looking for a way to contact the Others using the hatch’s equipment. He decides to offer an open invitation, so Charlie goes along, as do Nikki and Paulo, who have been feeling left out of much of the excitement. The catch up with Eko, who has another confrontation with the black cloud. Inside the Pearl, Nikki realizes that they should be checking to see if they can observe any other hatches – which they briefly manage to do.

In the Others’ camp, Jack deduces that Ben has the spinal tumor, which seems to unnerve Ben enough to admit that their plans to win Jack into their confidence have been derailed. And Juliet seems to have her own ideas about how the surgery should go. But as always, the question is whether any of the Others are to be trusted.

Order the DVDswritten by Alison Schapker & Monica Owusu-Breen
directed by Jack Bender
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Kiele Sanchez (Nikki), Rodrigo Santoro (Paulo), Michael Bowen (Pickett), Adetokumboh MCormack (Yemi), Muna Otaru (Amina), Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Emeka), Jermaine Scooter Smith (Daniel), Michael Robinson (Trader), Ariston Green (Guard), Lawrence Jones (Soldier), Alicia Young (Blind Woman)

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Lost Season 3

I Do

LostFlashback: Hiding out in Miami, Kate is trying to settle down. She’s taken the name Monica and is about to marry Kevin, a police officer. At first she’s happy to have found a home. She even calls the marshal pursuing her to ask him to back off, but he replies that they both know that she’s going to keep running and he’s going to keep coming after her. When Kevin tells her to get a passport so they can take a delayed honeymoon to Costa Rica, and she briefly thinks she might be pregnant, Kate decides that it’s time to move on again.

The Island: In order to avoid distressing the castaways on the beach, Locke decides to bury Eko near the Pearl hatch. He takes a detour into the jungle to find Ekp’s prayer stick to use as a grave marker. But as he hammers it into the ground, a particular inscription catches his eye, telling him to lift up his eyes.

Kate watches Pickett threaten Sawyer, and becomes convinced that the man, grieving over Colleen’s death, means to kill Sawyer. Those fears are only raised when Alex storms into the quarry, attacking the Others with a slingshot, demanding to know what happened to her boyfriend – the man Sawyer saw try to escape. Sawyer, meanwhile, seems resigned and practically defeated. When Kate wants to escape, Sawyer tells her there’s no point – they’re on a smaller island, totally cut off from their own. There’s no place to run, but Sawyer didn’t want her to lose hope. They kiss, then make love, and as they lay together in Sawyer’s cage, Sawyer tells her that he loves her.

Jack tells Ben that he has about a week before the tumor becomes inoperable, but he doesn’t plan to do the surgery. After all, he has no reason to believe anything the Others tell him. Even when Kate comes in, pleading with him to do the surgery so that Sawyer won’t be killed, he refuses. Some time after Kate’s visit, the door to his cell opens. Jack makes his way to the surveillance room, where he finds a gun – and a monitor showing Kate and Sawyer huddled together. Ben appears behind him, admitting his surprise. Jack says he’ll do the surgery – anything to get off the island.

Once Ben is in surgery, Pickett storms out to find Sawyer. He’s clearly angry that Ben has put himself in Jack’s hands, and mentions that Jack wasn’t even on someone named Jacob’s list. He decides to get his revenge on Sawyer then and there. But Jack makes a sudden incision in Ben, and his vitals suddenly change. Jack demands that Mr. Friendly bring the walkie talkie into the operating room. He does, and tells Pickett to let them go and put Kate on the line. Jack tells her that she’s going to get a one hour head start on the Others, and that she has to run. When she’s away, she should tell Kate the story he told her the day they first met on the beach. Otherwise, Jack will let Ben die.

Order the DVDswritten by Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse
directed by Tucker Gates
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Kiele Sanchez (Nikki), Rodrigo Santoro (Paulo), M.C. Gainey (Mr. Friendly), Tania Raymonde (Alex), Michael Bowen (Pickett), Nathan Fillion (Kevin), Eden-Lee Murray (Suzanne), Mark Stitham (Minister), Frederic Lane (The Marshal)

Notes: This episode was advertised as the “fall season finale,” with the series taking an extended break in order to be able to run the remaining episodes of the season without any breaks or reruns.

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

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Lost Season 3

Not in Portland

LostFlashback: Juliet uses her ailing sister as a test subject for a fertility project, and her ex-husband Edmund – who also happens to be her boss – finds out. He warns her that there are ethical concerns that could jeopardize her research, but if she shares credit with him, he can make sure that they are both seen as pioneers. A private research company from Portland approaches Juliet to offer her a position, but she declines, citing Edmund’s opposition as one reason. When the recruiter asks her if there’s any way that they could change Edmund’s mind, she jokes that he could die in a traffic accident. Soon after the interview, Juliet’s sister tells her that she’s pregnant. And as Juliet shares the news with Edmund the next day, a bus promptly runs over him.

The Island: Kate and Sawyer lock up their captives and begin running, but Juliet quickly sends men out to retrieve them. She tells Tom that there is no way that Jack will simply let a patient die. Alex helps Kate and Sawyer hide, and tells that she has a boat. But before they can escape, they have to rescue Alex’s boyfriend Carl. Ben regains consciousness during the surgery and asks to speak alone with Juliet for a few minutes. Jack watches the conversation, and when it’s over, Juliet tells Jack to finish the surgery – she’s going to go help his friends escape. Kate, Sawyer and Alex rescue Carl and reach the boat just as their pursuers catch up with them just as Jack reaches a critical point in the surgery – and just as Juliet arrives on the beach.

Order the DVDswritten by Carlton Cuse & Jeff Pinkner
directed by Stephen Williams
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Robin Weigert (Rachel), M.C. Gainey (Mr. Friendly/Tom), William Mapother (Ethan), Blake Bashoff (Karl), Tania Raymonde (Alex), Michael Bowen (Pickett), Ariston Green (Jason), Teddy Wells (Ivan), Nestor Carbonell (Richard Alpert), Steve Labrash (Morgue Employee), Kimberly Estrada (Sherry), Rob McElhenney (Aldo), Zeljko Ivanek (Edmund)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer