Show creators Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse discuss the show's premise and recent happenings.
An insightful glimpse into the lives of the survivors of Oceanic Airlines flight 815 summarizes the show's first two seasons.
Jack, Kate, and Sawyer have been drugged and have had blood taken from them. They each wake up in a different area with unique circumstances to deal with. Jack wakes up in an indoor cell and meets Juliet, who wants to ask him questions. He has flashbacks about separating from his ex-wife and confronting his father. Jack fails at trying to escape. Sawyer wakes up in a zoo-like cage, having to act like a lab animal to …more
Kate and Sawyer are forced to do manual labor. In flashbacks, we learn more about about how Sun betrayed Jin in the past. Sun betrays Jin again when he wants to return to the island, but she chooses to help Sayid. Sayid lies to Sun and Jin and puts their lives in danger while setting a trap for "The Others." He and Jin hide and wait with guns on the island while Sun stays in the boat. However, the plan backfires when …more
After the hatch implodes, Locke wakes up in the jungle, confused and unable to speak. In flashbacks, we learn about a betrayal in his past. He goes back to camp and builds a sweat lodge for himself, in hopes that he can figure out what to do next. While meditating in the sweat lodge Locke sees Boone, who tells him that someone is in danger and he is the only one that can save them. Locke realizes that he must save Mr.…more
Desmond predicts the future yet again, when he tries to prepare for a thunderstorm. Sawyer attempts to escape his cage, but Ben outsmarts him and beats him unconscious. When Sawyer wakes up, he finds himself strapped to a table with people about to stick a needle in his heart. He is later told that they inserted a pacemaker in his heart that will make it explode if his heart rate goes above 140. He is also told that i…more
In a fit of delirium, Eko dreams of his past and his brother. When he awakens, he believes he needs to go to his brother's body, which he had last left in the plane next to the Pearl station and burned. Locke, taking charge in Jack's absence, forms a search party to find Eko. He also wants to go to the Pearl station to use their computers to try and communicate with The Others and find their captive friends. When Eko …more
Through Kate's flashbacks, we discover that she once called herself Monica and was married to a police officer who didn't know that she was a fugitive. Eventually she told him the truth, and then ran away. Back on the island, Locke plans to bury Eko. On Eko's prayer stick, he discovers a hidden message that may guide him through the next steps of his journey to unlocking the secrets of the island. Kate is told that she…more
Oceanic Flight 815 survivors' lives; more secrets of the island.
In flashbacks, we learn that Juliet was a medical researcher in Miami who was working for her nasty ex-husband when she discovered a drug that could make someone pregnant. She was sought after by a company that Ethan worked for, who wanted her to work for them in Portland. Juliet turned them down, saying that she could only work for them if her ex-husband was hit by a bus. The next day, her husband is hit by a bus and …more
The fate of an Other rests in Jack's hands; Kate and Sawyer find an ally in one of the Others; Juliet's decision could endanger her standing with her people.
Charlie and Hurley are going through Sawyer's stash when Desmond shows up and takes them to Locke and Sayid. As Locke reveals Eko's death in hopes they can help keep the survivors calm at the news, Desmond suddenly sprints into the ocean, where Claire is drowning. He saves her. Charlie is determined to find out why Desmond can suddenly see the future, so he decides to get him drunk and and ask him. Flashback to after D…more
Sawyer and Kate, with Karl in tow, argue about what their next move should be as they row the boat. Sawyer wants to rest before heading to the main island, but Kate wants to get back to the main island as soon as possible so they can get help and go back for Jack. While setting up camp for the night, Sawyer has a talk with Karl about Alex and tells him he should go back for her. Kate is upset that Sawyer let Karl go, b…more
In flashback, we see Hurley as a child fixing a car when his father leaves for work in another state. This is the last time Hurley sees his father for seventeen years. We then see Hurley as a young man standing in front of a chicken restaurant that he just bought after winning the lottery, being interviewed by a reporter, when a meteor hits it and kills numerous people. He begins to believe that he is cursed since he w…more
Sawyer discovers that people have gone through his stash while he's been gone. They've also found a ping pong table. Sawyer decides that he will challenge Hurley to win his stuff back. Sawyer loses, and can't use nicknames for a week. Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, and Rousseau follow the coordinates from Eko's stick and find the "Flame" station where the man with the eye patch is. It has satellite dishes and seems to be a cen…more
Claire looks up and sees some tagged birds. She tells everyone that she has an idea that could get them rescued, and recruits Sun and Jin to help her. Charlie is not interested. Unfortunately, Desmond, who is hunting nearby, scares off the birds. In flashbacks, we learn that when Claire was a young woman. she was in a terrible car accident that put her mother in a coma. While caring for her in the hospital, Christia…more
Kate, Sayid, Locke and Rousseau go to rescue Jack, but the reunion is not what Kate expected. Jack has made a deal with The Others and is about to leave the island. Locke shows up at Ben's house trying to find where the submarine is so he can destroy it and keep the island a secret from the outside world. Locke is surprised how much Ben knows about his past. Ben knows about how Locke was thrown through a window from the 8…more
A flashback reveals that Nikki was once an actress in Sydney, Australia on a show called "Expose." She slept with the director and then poisoned him for his diamonds with the help of her boyfriend Paulo. When the plane crashed, they couldn't find the bag with the diamonds. After weeks of searching, Paulo finds the diamonds, but doesn't tell Nikki. He hides them in the Pearl hatch, where he sees Ben and Juliet discussi…more
Kate is locked in The Others' rec room. Locke comes in to say goodbye, telling her he is leaving with them. Kate is watching The Others putting on gas masks and packing up when someone gasses her out. She wakes up in the jungle, handcuffed to Juliet, who says she was also gassed out and left behind. Juliet tells Kate that Jack saw her and Sawyer in the cage together and that is why he didn't want her to come back for …more
Jack, Kate, and Sayid are joyously welcomed back at the beach until everyone realizes Juliet is with them. Things are tense until suddenly Claire gets violently ill. Juliet tells Kate and Jack that she can help. Flashback into Juliet's life, we see her leaving her sister and being brought to the island by submarine. She is told she must help the people on the island - the women can not reproduce. After six months and…more
Desmond has a string of visions that appear to lead him to Penny. He sees someone fall from the sky, and then be rescued by him. Desmond realizes that he must make this chain of events happen if he wants to see her. Unfortunately, the visions include Charlie being killed by an arrow through the neck. Quickly, he gathers Charlie, Hurley, and Sun, who were present in the vision, and tries to make sure everything goes of…more
Flashback to the early, happy days of Sun and Jin's marriage. A starnge woman threatens Sun that she will reveal Jin’s past, that his father is a fisherman and mother is a prostitute, if she is not paid off. Since the information would be devastating to Jin and his position with her father, Sun winds up paying off the woman only to learn that the woman is Jin’s mother. Back on the island, Juliet tells Sun that all…more
Charlie, Hurley, Jin, and Desmond decide they do not trust Jack enough to let him know about Naomi. She claims she was sent by Penny to rescue Desmond and that if she can get word to her ship they will all be rescued. Enter Sayid who is able to repair her phone, but cannot get a signal out. When Kate sees the phone, she coaxes an explanation out of them. She confronts Jack and Juliet. Juliet says,“We should tell her…more
We flashback to see that Ben was not, in fact, born on the island. His mother died while giving birth to him near Portland. He came to the island as a young boy with his father, who had been offered a job with the Dharma Initiative. While there, his father is unhappy to be made a janitor, while Ben begins having visions of his mother. Ben also makes a friend named Annie. Ben goes into the jungle to try and find his m…more
Jack devises a plan to get rid of the Others for good; Sayid finds a flaw in the Others' system.
Since Juliet has told Jack of The Others' plans for kidnapping the women, Jack has devised a plan to ambush them. He has enlisted the help of Rousseau, who has been gathering dynamite. They plan to use it to set up traps for The Others. Meanwhile, Sayid works on a plan to communicate to Naomi's ship. He has fixed Naomi's phone, but Rousseau's distress signal is using all the channels, and must be turned off at the rad…more
Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse explore the mysteries of the island and recap some of the revelations made this season as well as those yet to come.
Jack and the castaways begin efforts to make contact with Naomi's rescue ship.
Episode starts with Jack in a very dark time in his life - nearly committing suicide before coming to the aid of two car crash victims, stealing drugs, attending the funeral of someone he neither likes nor is related to, and making call after call to a mysterious someone. Back in the present, Jack leads everyone up toward the radio tower while Jin, Bernard, and Sayid are left behind to attack The Others. Charlie taken c…more
Jack and the castaways begin their efforts to make contact with Naomi's rescue ship.