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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)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

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)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

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.

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

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.

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

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.)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

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.

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer