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Everybody Hates Hugo
Air Date: 24/02/2006
Hurley is sitting in the hatch pantry pigging out when Jin suddenly appears behind him. Seemingly speaking English, it turns out Hurley can now speak Korean. A man in a chicken suit appears alongside Jin, and Jin tells Hurley "Everything's going to change. Have a Cluckety Cluck Cluck Day, Hugo." Kate wakes Hurley from his dream, and they talk about his new job, making an inventory of the pantry. Enlisting Rose, he explains his fear of the change sure to come about when others learn of the food he is now responsible for.
Jin, Michael and Sawyer are pulled out of the hole and learn that their captors are actually survivors from the tail section of flight 815. A blonde woman, Libby, tells Michael that there were originally 23 survivors; there are now 5. Among them is a 50-year-old man, who asks after a woman named Rose - it's her husband, Bernard! They are led to an underground bunker, featuring a distinctive logo with an arrow instead of a swan...
Feeling like he's "sitting at the bloody kids table," Charlie goes to Locke for some answers and learns of Hurley's charge. He then begins to pester Hurley for peanut butter, calling the nature of their friendship into question. Claire finds the washed-up bottle filled with everyone's messages from the raft and gives it to Sun. Sun secretly buries it, attempting to bury her grief with it. Jack and Sayid fail to crack the concrete wall surrounding the magnetic force in the bunker, though Sayid notes that Chernobyl incident was dealt with in a similar fashion. The pressure of responsibility finally gets to Hurley and he snaps, deciding to blow the pantry up with the dynamite he'd hidden away.
Due to his fear of change, the moment Hurley wins the lottery, he decides not to tell anyone. The next day he goes about setting his life in order. He quits his fast food job, he asks out the girl he likes and he pulls a crazy stunt with his best friend. While they drive, he makes his pal promise that their friendship will never change, no matter the circumstance. As they pull into a supermarket, a news crew is interviewing an employee who points Hurley out as the lottery ticket purchaser and, as his friend glares at him, Hurley's life changes forever.
As Hurley inserts the fuse to blow the pantry, Rose steps in and talks him down from the rash idea. He proposes an alternative to Jack, who agrees, and Hurley distributes the tiny amount of food randomly among the survivors, except for a jar of peanut butter. That, he delivers straight to his buddy Charlie, who shares a beautiful moment with Claire and baby Aaron - looking more like a family with each passing day...
Push the button if you dare.....
Man of Science, Man of Faith
Air Date: 02/02/2006
Waken by a piercing alarm, a man rolls out of bed, types something into a computer and begins going about his daily chores. He puts on a record by Mama Cass and shaves, before taking a vial of liquid from a medical supply cupboard, serial code 48151-62342. As he sticks the needle into his arm, an earth shattering boom is heard and he races to turn off the music. He grabs weapons from a gun locker and moves to a periscope, rigged so that mirrors reflect around his home. Seeing movement through one, the camera slowly moves away from him, towards the mirror and up a shaft until, at the very top... Jack and Locke peer down into the hatch.
Deciding there is no way to get everyone into the now-opened hatch, Jack tells Locke, Hurley and Kate that they need to get back to camp, and that they can deal with the hatch when daylight breaks. Hurley agrees, especially after Kate points out the word 'Quarantine' written on the back of the blasted hatch. Hurley tells Jack about the numbers and his lottery win, but all Jack seems to care about is the bombshell Hurley just let drop: he spent time in a mental institute.
Sayid and Shannon are searching for Vincent. They find the dog in a clearing, but when Sayid chases him into the jungle alone, Shannon begins hearing the whispers. She spins around, and finds Walt standing behind her, dripping wet. He says some garbled words to her (translated backwards as "Don't Press...Button. Button's bad...") though he disappears by the time Sayid reemerges. Jack's party returns and the leader promises to ensure their safety by all remaining together until sun-up. As Jack finishes his speech, Locke hauls a coil of cabling and sets off for the hatch boldly defying the leader, Kate soon following after him. He lowers her down the hole first, she is grabbed by something and Locke follows her down.
In flashback, Jack works frantically on Sarah, the female survivor of a head on collision. Passing out, she tells Jack he must fix her so she can dance at her wedding. Jack promises to fix her, something he can't possibly do. After the operation, he goes running in a stadium to let off steam, where he meets a friendly Scot, Desmond. Jack tells him of his dilemma, and Desmond suggests that he ask for a miracle. Jack shrugs the idea off, but is amazed when Sarah miraculously regains full use of her legs.
Jack heads down the hatch, and after stumbling around inside for a minute, a glaring light is shined in his eyes. He finds himself in a standoff with Locke, but the man with the gun to Locke's head? It's Desmond! See you in another life indeed, brother...
Adrift
Air Date: 09/02/2006
The raft now in tatters, Sawyer drags Michael's unconscious body onto a piece of wreckage and revives him. Michael frantically shouts for Walt while Sawyer, bleeding heavily from the gunshot wound, calls for Jin. Neither receives an answer, and the pair realise they are miles from shore. Michael blames Sawyer for firing the flare and drawing the kidnappers' attention. Michael forces him off, unaware of the danger lurking in the water below - a shark bearing a strange D.H.A.R.M.A. logo.
Back at the hatch, Locke is lowering Kate down and she is snatched. He follows her down, shredding his hands in the process. Inside, he finds Kate unconscious and has a gun put against his head by Desmond, the occupant of the hatch. Desmond asks Locke a Snowman riddle and when he doesn't respond correctly, moves to tie Locke up. Locke points out that he was the Regional Collections Supervisor for a box company and Kate, as a fugitive, is the genuine threat. Desmond forces him to tie her up, but he slips a knife into her pants as Desmond locks her in a dark room. Desmond and Locke question each other and Locke learns that Desmond has been down in the hatch for several years. Kate manages to work free of her bindings and climbs out through the air vents. A loud beeping begins, and Desmond forces Locke to an Apple II computer, where he must enter a code, 4 8 15 16 23 42 EXECUTE. A countdown timer on the wall spins back, stopping at 108:00. Something clangs behind them, and Jack walks into the standoff as Kate watches through an air duct...
In flashback, Susan has asked Michael to relinquish his rights as Walt's father so that Brian can adopt him. He decides to fight it and looks to win in David vs. Goliath showdown, but she convinces him that it would be best for their son to be with a complete family that can financially support him. In a tearful farewell, Michael tells two-year-old Walt that his father will always love him, and gives him a stuffed polar bear.
Sawyer plucks the bullet from his shoulder with his bare hands. While they fight, he and Michael's makeshift raft falls apart and Sawyer is forced to swim for a nearby pontoon. The shark comes up behind him, but Michael manages to shoot it and it leaves them alone. They both pass out on the pontoon and wake up floating close to shore. Swimming to safety, they enjoy a moment's relief but a familiar Korean voice can be heard screaming. Jin crashes through the jungle, bound from behind and frantically telling them something. He repeats one word they recognise, just as a group of shadowy figures appear on the beach - "Others. Others!"
Orientation
Air Date: 16/02/2006
Dragged through the jungle by their captors, Michael, Sawyer and Jin are thrown into a pit and a young Latino woman is thrown in with them. She questions them, introducing herself as Ana-Lucia, a survivor from the tail section of flight 815, before taking Sawyer's gun and revealing she is part of their attacker's party.
Escaping through the air vent into the hatch's gun armoury, Kate grabs a shotgun and quickly overpowers Desmond. His gun goes off as she knocks him to the ground, the computer is damaged and Desmond panics. He explains that he was shipwrecked during a solo race around the world, and that a man named Kelvin brought him to the hatch where he learnt about the code that must be entered every 108 minutes in order to "save the world". A sceptical Jack grills him for answers, and Desmond suggests they watch the Orientation film.
Hosted by Dr. Marvin Candle, the Orientation film is a documentary about The Dharma Initiative, a research colony founded by Gerald and Karen DeGroot, two scientist interested in experimental sciences including meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology, electro-magnetism and utopian social societal studies. Funded by Alvar Hanso, they established an isolated research facility, of which Jack and Locke are now located in the third Station, the Swan. An unnamed incident took place, leading to the necessity to the code being entered every 108 minutes. There are sections missing from the film, and the credits are dated 1980. Jack instantly believes the entire thing is a psychological game though he lets Desmond attempt to fix the computer. Unable to do so, Desmond flees into the jungle, and when Jack leaves Locke to chase after him, Locke suffers a breakdown, asking the island what to do.
In flashback, Locke attends an anger management session. He snaps at a young girl upset about her mother stealing $30, demanding that she be aware of real anger as he tells the story of his father's betrayal. A woman named Helen befriends him afterwards and they begin dating, though he leaves each night to sit outside Anthony's house. His father comes out and tells him "Don't come back. You're not wanted." Eventually, Helen convinces Locke to take a leap of faith to deal with his anger by moving their relationship forward.
Jack screams at Desmond over his blind faith. Desmond remembers where he recognizes Jack from, and the two share a moment where Jack's humanity is briefly restored. With 4 minutes to spare, Sayid manages to fix the computer and Locke enters the code - incorrectly. Jack walks in and corrects him - 4 8 15 16 23 42. Locke insists that Jack press the button, and they argue about faith. He eventually convinces Jack to press EXECUTE with moments to spare, and the episode ends on one very unhappy looking Hurley...
...And Found
Air Date: 02/03/2006
While doing laundry with Claire on the beach, Sun notices her wedding ring is missing and begins panicking. The rest of the survivors help her look for it, but to no avail. Jack shares that when he had lost his wedding band he had a replica made, not that he wears it anymore. Hurley reminisces about when his dog ate a drawer full of loose change. He and Sun sit and wait by Vincent, but still no luck. In a fit of rage Sun tears up her garden, and while Locke helps her rebuild it, he reminds her that you often have to stop looking in order to find something.
Jin catches fish alongside Ana-Lucia and Bernard and they realize the Tailies now have a master fisherman among their numbers. Michael and Libby set out to find fruit, but Michael breaks away from her and runs off to search for Walt. The small group convenes and Ana-Lucia announces that they're heading out, before Michael can give their location away to "Them." Jin moves to go after Michael, but a large Nigerian man, Mr. Eko, head-butts him to the ground. Seeing Jin's loyalty to his friend in his eyes, Eko vows to help him. Ana-Lucia refuses to wait for them, and the group separates.
In flashback, Jin prepares to apply for a concierge position at a five-star hotel. As he dresses his roommate tells him that his horoscope advises him to look to orange for love. The boss gives him the job, on the condition that he does not allow "people like you" into the hotel. At the same hotel, a matchmaker has set Sun up on a date with the hotel manager. Things go well, but he confesses his plans to move to America and marry a girl he met while at Harvard. Sun is crushed and leaves, embarrassed. Moments later, a poor father and his child come to the lobby door, begging to use the bathroom. Jin refuses, but eventually relents - just as his boss walks through. His boss offers him a warning but Jin quits in order to maintain his dignity. Moping along the boardwalk, he turns to look at a woman passing by in an orange dress, walking smack into another person. He scrambles to pick up her belongings, and as he and Sun's eyes meet, it is love at first sight.
Tracking Michael, Jin comes across a body impaled upon a spear. Eko tells him it was Goodwin, a victim of the "Others." Eko tells Jin to be silent and they hide underneath a bush, just as a group of "Others" walk past. All they see are their feet, but the final member of their silent single file march is a child carrying a teddy bear. Catching up with Michael, Jin and Eko convince him to return to camp, the Korean telling him "You... find... Walt." And as Jin sets out to return to his wife, Sun digs up the bottle containing the messages where, lo and behold, see finds her wedding ring, the last place she'd think of looking.
Abandoned
Air Date: 09/03/2006
In an effort to bring them closer together, Sayid builds a new shelter for Shannon, where they make love. He leaves her for a moment to get water, and as she lays on the ground, Walt appears in the doorway, talking backwards. By the time Sayid has returned, Walt is gone, and Shannon is terribly hurt by Sayid attempts to convince her it was just a dream. Charlie chastises Claire for waking the baby in the middle of the night. In the morning, Shannon sets out to follow Vincent to Walt but the dog leads her to Boone's grave instead. Sayid attempts to comfort her, but when he says something wrong, she storms off into the jungle again.
In flashback, Shannon finishes teaching her ballet class when she receives a phone call, informing her that her father has died. Rushing to the hospital, Sabrina, her stepmother, is cold and distant, but Boone comforts her at the funeral. She receives an invitation to a prestigious internship in New York, but the position is unpaid. As her father always took care of everything financial, she goes to see her Sabrina about receiving her trust fund, who coldly tells her that her father left her nothing and that it is time for Shannon to stand on her own two feet. Her stepmother even offers Boone a job overseas, making it impossible for Shannon to stay in New York with him. With nowhere to go and no one to turn to, Shannon faces an uncertain world.
Claire is having great difficulty getting Aaron to sleep, but Locke gives her some advice and the baby goes out like a light. She is concerned about how vaguely she knows Charlie, saying that he could be a religious freak, carrying around a Virgin Mary statue. Locke digs deeper, and insinuates to Charlie that he knows the "recovering" junkie has more gear.
The Tailies continue their trek across the island towards the main camp, but Sawyer's wound gets so bad he collapses. Passing out, he tells Michael to "Leave me behind. I left you behind..." Ana-Lucia insists they move on, but both Michael and Jin refuse to lead them any further without their friend. Eko and Bernard help them construct a stretcher, and they continue on. While they hoist an unconscious Sawyer up a cliff face, Cindy is snatched from thin air and nobody notices until it's too late. Terrified, they begin to run towards the camp.
Following Vincent again, Shannon is tearing through the jungle looking for Walt. Catching up, Sayid tells her that he loves her and will never leave her. The whispers begin, and they both turn to see a dripping wet Walt telling them to be silent. Too stunned to move, Sayid allows Shannon to race after the boy, but he is snapped back to reality by a gunshot. Racing into the clearing, he finds Shannon bleeding heavily from a wound to the stomach. As her he holds her in his arms, her life ebbs from her body, and he turns to see her assailant, Ana-Lucia...
Everybody Hates Hugo
Air Date: 24/02/2006
Hurley is sitting in the hatch pantry pigging out when Jin suddenly appears behind him. Seemingly speaking English, it turns out Hurley can now speak Korean. A man in a chicken suit appears alongside Jin, and Jin tells Hurley "Everything's going to change. Have a Cluckety Cluck Cluck Day, Hugo." Kate wakes Hurley from his dream, and they talk about his new job, making an inventory of the pantry. Enlisting Rose, he explains his fear of the change sure to come about when others learn of the food he is now responsible for.
Jin, Michael and Sawyer are pulled out of the hole and learn that their captors are actually survivors from the tail section of flight 815. A blonde woman, Libby, tells Michael that there were originally 23 survivors; there are now 5. Among them is a 50-year-old man, who asks after a woman named Rose - it's her husband, Bernard! They are led to an underground bunker, featuring a distinctive logo with an arrow instead of a swan...
Feeling like he's "sitting at the bloody kids table," Charlie goes to Locke for some answers and learns of Hurley's charge. He then begins to pester Hurley for peanut butter, calling the nature of their friendship into question. Claire finds the washed-up bottle filled with everyone's messages from the raft and gives it to Sun. Sun secretly buries it, attempting to bury her grief with it. Jack and Sayid fail to crack the concrete wall surrounding the magnetic force in the bunker, though Sayid notes that Chernobyl incident was dealt with in a similar fashion. The pressure of responsibility finally gets to Hurley and he snaps, deciding to blow the pantry up with the dynamite he'd hidden away.
Due to his fear of change, the moment Hurley wins the lottery, he decides not to tell anyone. The next day he goes about setting his life in order. He quits his fast food job, he asks out the girl he likes and he pulls a crazy stunt with his best friend. While they drive, he makes his pal promise that their friendship will never change, no matter the circumstance. As they pull into a supermarket, a news crew is interviewing an employee who points Hurley out as the lottery ticket purchaser and, as his friend glares at him, Hurley's life changes forever.
As Hurley inserts the fuse to blow the pantry, Rose steps in and talks him down from the rash idea. He proposes an alternative to Jack, who agrees, and Hurley distributes the tiny amount of food randomly among the survivors, except for a jar of peanut butter. That, he delivers straight to his buddy Charlie, who shares a beautiful moment with Claire and baby Aaron - looking more like a family with each passing day...
The Other 48 Days
Air Date: 23/03/2006
Everything is peacefully serene on a beautiful island beach - until the tail section of Oceanic flight 815 smashes into the ocean. Survivors swim for the shore, towing unconscious bodies. Ana-Lucia pulls a man out of the surf, and runs to help Eko administer CPR to a young girl, Emma. She manages to revive Emma and promises to get her back to her mother in L.A, a promise she can't hope to keep. An officer of the Peace Corps, Goodwin, leads Ana-Lucia to where Bernard is stuck in his chair high in a tree, and she talks him down in the nick of time. Of the 23 who initially survive the crash, four soon die of wounds.
Sleeping around a campfire, the group is woken by the sounds of a fight. They find Eko covered in blood, seething over the bodies of two intruders and refusing to speak. Ana-Lucia rallies the group, but they realize three of their members have gone missing. They build weapons and prepare for another attack, but it is no use. A week later, nine survivors are snatched during the night, including Emma and her brother. Ana-Lucia manages to kill one in the attack, finding an U.S. Army knife and a list detailing the nine taken. She deduces that someone among them must be a traitor, pointing the finger at Nathan, an obnoxious, stubborn man who spends a lot of time separated from the group. They move out to find a safer location and set up in the jungle near fresh water, where Ana-Lucia digs a pit and throws Nathan in. She interrogates him as to where the children are, but he remains adamant about his innocence. Goodwin releases him by the cover of night, only to snap his neck, revealing the true identity of the traitor.
Finding Nathan gone in the morning, the group press on and come across a bunker, marked with a familiar D.H.A.R.M.A. logo. Inside, they find a glass eye, a radio and a Bible, prized by the still silent Eko. Goodwin and Ana-Lucia trek to higher ground to get a signal, and she playfully interrogates him, until she remembers one piece of damning evidence - Goodwin wasn't wet on the beach at the crash. He tells her of the methods of the "Others", taking the strongest and "the good" first. He mentions that the children are safe and far better off, unlike Nathan. They fight, and she eventually spears him on his own pike.
Returning to the bunker, she tells Bernard, Cindy, Libby and Eko that they are safe now, but that they need to accept that this is their new life. Ana-Lucia breaks away from the group, and her emotions finally get the better of her. Eko comforts her, breaking his 40-day vow of silence to tell her everything will be ok. Bernard manages to receive Boone's transmission on the radio - "We're the survivors of flight 815!" He replies, "No, We're the survivors of 815," but Ana-Lucia makes him switch it off, thinking it another trick by "Them." A few days later, Jin is washed ashore, and the two worlds quickly collide. Flashing through the events right up until Cindy is taken, the group begin to panic upon hearing the whispers. Ana-Lucia draws her gun and, hearing someone crashing through the jungle, fires at the shape. Charging after, Ana-Lucia breaks into the clearing where Sayid now holds his dying love Shannon...
Collision
Air Date: 30/03/2006
Unable to comprehend that she has just shot Shannon, Ana-Lucia stands frozen. Sayid goes for his gun and she snaps into cop mode, taking control of the situation. Sayid comes at her but Eko beats him down and she knocks him out. Tying him up, she tells everybody to sit put while she tries to work out what to do.
In flashback, Ana-Lucia returns to work on the force after four months downtime, having been shot during a robbery. She goes out on a routine patrol, but snaps during a domestic disturbance call and draws her gun on an unarmed man. Her partner is concerned, but before he can say anything, she is called into the station to I.D. a man in custody, believed to be the man who shot her. She checks out the man, Jason, but lies that he is not the culprit. She later tracks Jason down in a bar and shoots him at point blank range, coldly remarking "I was pregnant."
Eko defies Ana-Lucia, leaving her side to carry Sawyer "to the doctor". Desperate to re-unite with his wife, Bernard begs her to let him and Libby go. Ana-Lucia turns on them, asking them "Who kept you alive these last 48 days?" She sends Michael to the camp, ordering him to return with enough supplies that she can make her way back into the jungle to live alone. Not long after, Libby and Bernard tell Ana-Lucia in no uncertain terms that they are leaving, and Jin leads them back to camp.
Carrying Sawyer across his shoulders, Eko finds Jack and Kate playing golf for bragging rights. They rush Sawyer back to the hatch, where Kate eventually persuades him to swallow some medication. As Jack watches Kate tend for him, he becomes all too aware of his competition for her affections. Eko and Locke meet each other and end up saying very, very little. A shaken Michael returns to the hatch, and Eko offers to lead a solo unarmed Jack to Sayid's location. Jin and Sun share a tearful reconciliation on the beach, but it's nothing compared to the beautiful moment shared between Rose and Bernard.
Sayid and Ana-Lucia talk about their pasts, and they realize they are not too dissimilar; both have an ugly history they wish to escape from. Sayid suggests she kill him; she releases him instead. Throwing her weapons at his feet, she offers him revenge. He leaves her alive, saying "What good would it be to kill you, if we're both already dead?" As he walks away, cradling the body of his dead love, Jack finally meets up with Ana-Lucia, and the divide between them is visible from a mile away...
What Kate Did
Air Date: 06/04/2006
As dawn breaks, Jin and Sun emerge together from their tent and Hurley gives him an approving thumbs up, while Sayid digs a grave for Shannon. Jack tends to Sawyer's wounds and is floored when Sawyer mutters that he loves Kate. Locke cuts off Jin's handcuff, and he and Michael talk about the hatch's blast doors. As she collects fruit in the jungle, Kate hears a braying behind her and turns to find a magnificent black stallion that races off. She heads back to the hatch and begs an unwilling Jack to let her take over watching Sawyer, telling him to go to Shannon's funeral. Nearly breaking down, Sayid publicly confesses his love for Shannon during her eulogy and everyone says their last farewell. During the service, a seemingly possessed Sawyer chokes Kate, demanding to know why she killed him. Returning to the hatch, Jack finds Sawyer unconscious on the ground, countdown alarm ringing and Kate nowhere to be found.
In flashback, Kate helps her drunken stepfather to bed. He keeps groping at her, but she swats him off and tucks him in. Speeding off on her motorbike, the house blows up behind her. She visits her mother and hands her an insurance policy for the house, but her mother gives her up to the police and the Marshal arrests her. As they drive through rain to jail, the Marshal swerves to avoid something and they hit a tree. Kate escapes, but catches a glimpse of a black stallion sneaking back into the woods. She goes to see the man she believed to be her father and reveals that she knows the truth about her true father. He tells her that the reason he never told her the truth was "because I knew you'd kill him."
Jack comes across a shaken Kate in the jungle and when he comforts her, they embrace. Freaking out, she runs back to Sawyer's bed, where she uses Sawyer as a channel to talk to her demons. Sawyer wakes up afterwards and she carries him outside, but he demands to go back to bed, still seeing things. Behind her stands a black stallion. She says goodbye to the horse and her guilt seems to disappear with it. As Sawyer and Kate share a moment, Jack and Ana-Lucia have that drink down by the water.
Eko and Locke discuss the story of Josiah and the importance of knowledge. Eko passes him the Bible and tells him "I believe what's inside there will be of great value to you." Locke opens it, and finds a missing part of the Orientation film reel. They splice it back together, and it reveals Dr. Candle stressing the importance of not using the computer to contact the outside world. Doing so might bring about anther incident. With the words ringing in the background, Michael hears the computer beeping. On the screen reads HELLO? When he answers that his name is Michael, he gets a one-word answer that stuns him - DAD?
What Kate Did
Air Date: 06/04/2006
As dawn breaks, Jin and Sun emerge together from their tent and Hurley gives him an approving thumbs up, while Sayid digs a grave for Shannon. Jack tends to Sawyer's wounds and is floored when Sawyer mutters that he loves Kate. Locke cuts off Jin's handcuff, and he and Michael talk about the hatch's blast doors. As she collects fruit in the jungle, Kate hears a braying behind her and turns to find a magnificent black stallion that races off. She heads back to the hatch and begs an unwilling Jack to let her take over watching Sawyer, telling him to go to Shannon's funeral. Nearly breaking down, Sayid publicly confesses his love for Shannon during her eulogy and everyone says their last farewell. During the service, a seemingly possessed Sawyer chokes Kate, demanding to know why she killed him. Returning to the hatch, Jack finds Sawyer unconscious on the ground, countdown alarm ringing and Kate nowhere to be found.
In flashback, Kate helps her drunken stepfather to bed. He keeps groping at her, but she swats him off and tucks him in. Speeding off on her motorbike, the house blows up behind her. She visits her mother and hands her an insurance policy for the house, but her mother gives her up to the police and the Marshal arrests her. As they drive through rain to jail, the Marshal swerves to avoid something and they hit a tree. Kate escapes, but catches a glimpse of a black stallion sneaking back into the woods. She goes to see the man she believed to be her father and reveals that she knows the truth about her true father. He tells her that the reason he never told her the truth was "because I knew you'd kill him."
Jack comes across a shaken Kate in the jungle and when he comforts her, they embrace. Freaking out, she runs back to Sawyer's bed, where she uses Sawyer as a channel to talk to her demons. Sawyer wakes up afterwards and she carries him outside, but he demands to go back to bed, still seeing things. Behind her stands a black stallion. She says goodbye to the horse and her guilt seems to disappear with it. As Sawyer and Kate share a moment, Jack and Ana-Lucia have that drink down by the water.
Eko and Locke discuss the story of Josiah and the importance of knowledge. Eko passes him the Bible and tells him "I believe what's inside there will be of great value to you." Locke opens it, and finds a missing part of the Orientation film reel. They splice it back together, and it reveals Dr. Candle stressing the importance of not using the computer to contact the outside world. Doing so might bring about anther incident. With the words ringing in the background, Michael hears the computer beeping. On the screen reads HELLO? When he answers that his name is Michael, he gets a one-word answer that stuns him - DAD?
Fire + Water
Air Date: 11/05/2006
Separated from the rest of the group, Charlie is having difficulty not being allowed to see Claire and the baby. He makes efforts to talk with her, but she knocks him back each time. She has Locke now. Playing his guitar down by the water, he hears the baby crying in terror, and looks out to sea to see the cradle floating away. A terrible swimmer, Charlie dives in and struggles out to the crib. Triumphantly dragging the cradle in to shore, he finds his mother and Claire sitting together as is in the nativity scene, warning him of the danger to Aaron. A white dove flies past his head, and he turns to find Hurley dressed as a monk, asking him, "Dude? What are you doing?" Sleepwalking in the middle of the night, Charlie is standing knee deep in the ocean. A terrified Claire races to retrieve her baby, and slaps Charlie while he attempts to explain his dream.
Helping Sawyer with his shoulder exercises, Kate comments on the frequent disappearances of both Jack and Ana-Lucia, building shelters and flirting outrageously. Looking for love advice, Hurley asks Sawyer about Libby. Sawyer ticks him into helping her do laundry where a spark seems to emerge, but Libby freezes up and quickly changes the subject when he asks if he knows her from somewhere. Shaken by his dreams the previous night, Charlie goes to Locke for advice, but he coldly shuns him, asking if Charlie is using again. Charlie goes to Eko, who remarks that his dreams sound like visions of a possible need of baptism. Finally, he trudges out to his stash, where Locke springs him and takes it away.
In flashback, a ten year old Charlie receives a piano for Christmas, but his family instantly place pressure on him as the one who is "going to get us out of here." Later, he finds his brother Liam passed out on the couch, high on heroin, and scolds him for missing the birth of his daughter. Desperate for money, the band take a job dancing for a commercial, but Liam is too smacked out to perform and they are fired. Liam's wife kicks him out for dropping the baby, and he and Charlie share a beautiful moment together writing a song, spoiled when Liam asks his baby brother if he's got any. Returning home from work, Charlie finds Liam has sold his childhood piano to fly himself to a rehab clinic in Sydney, leaving Charlie totally stranded and without a family.
In a final, desperate bid to save the baby, Charlie lights a bushfire near the camp and enters from the opposite side. While everyone is distracted putting out the fire, he scoops up Aaron and heads for the water. The baby's cries alert Claire, and she and Locke race to the shoreline. Locke tells a suspiciously high looking Charlie to hand over the baby and while Charlie attempts to justify his actions he eventually relents. The second Claire has Aaron in her arms, Locke solidly punches Charlie in the face three times. Everyone turns their backs on the troubled young man, and he is left with his demons. Sitting alone on the beach, he draws his hood up, retreating from the world.
The next morning, Claire asks Eko to baptise her and her baby, from which she draws great comfort. At the same time, Locke changes the combination for the armoury again, stacks a pile of Virgin Mary statues on a shelf inside and locks it, wearing a malicious smile...
The 23rd Psalm
Air Date: 27/04/2006
When Eko learns from Claire that Charlie has a Virgin Mary statue in his backpack, he furiously smashes it open to reveal the heroin inside to her. She confronts Charlie about the drug, and suddenly remembers he used to be an addict. Eko grabs Charlie and forces him to lead him to where he found the statue at the crashed Nigerian Beechwood. Trekking through the jungle, Eko sees a strange whiff of black smoke and tells Charlie to climb a tree, moments before very familiar explosions begin ripping them apart. A plume of black smoke enters the clearing and slowly moves until it sits facing Eko's eyes. Strange clicks and whirring sounds can be heard, and images flash momentarily through the cloud - it seems to be showing Eko moments of his life. He stares it down, and it backs away.
In flashback, a team of Nigerian militia drive into a small village and gather up all the young boys. One of them offers an ultimatum to a very small child - shoot an old man or be shot himself. The boy's older brother steps forward and shoots the old man in the face. The thug congratulates Mr. Eko, "a born killer," and they take him away with them. As they drive away, the cross from around Eko's neck falls off and his brother Yemi puts it on. Years later, a ruthless Eko kills a pair of drug dealers attempting to run drugs through his country. Visiting Yemi, now a priest, Eko proposes that he let them use the church's relief aid plane to move the drugs, with the intention of raising money for polio medicine. They can move the heroin inside Virgin Mary statues and, dressed as priests, will not raise suspicion. Yemi refuses, but relents when Eko's thugs threaten him. As the thugs, dressed as priests, load up the Beechwood, Yemi attempts to stop Eko from boarding, but when the military arrive and begin shooting, Yemi is shot. Eko puts his brother onto the plane, but is pushed off himself and left behind, his life saved by a case of mistaken identity.
Finding the crashed Beechwood, Eko enters the hull and weeps when he finds the gold cross around the neck of a corpse. He pulls the fuel line, and set the plane alight, reciting the 23rd Psalm in prayer while he watches over his dead brother's funeral pyre. He gives Charlie a statue to replace the one he destroyed and, placing the gold cross he lost so many years ago back around his neck, fully takes up the mantle of priesthood. Little does he realize, Charlie adds that statue to the stash of 6 or 7 he already had hidden under a tree.
Locke has taken over the gun armoury, changing the combination to secure his control over them. Michael continues to talk with the voice on the computer, and asks Locke to teach him how to shoot a gun, secretly intending to follow the message that has told him YOU NEED TO COME...
The Hunting Party
Air Date: 04/05/2006
Waking in the hatch after a terrible dream, Jack finds Locke unconscious in the gun armoury. Psychotically intent on retrieving his son, Michael locks Jack as in as well. Thankfully, Sawyer shows up to get his bandages changed and releases them in time to enter the code. Jack immediately grabs a gun and wants to set out after Michael, enlisting Locke and Sawyer. Kate wants to help, but Jack strongly forbids it. While they trek, they hear 7 gunshots, but when Locke finds the casing, only 3 are from Michael's gun. When Locke points out that Michael is probably past reason and won't return with them, Jack defiantly tells him it's their responsibility. Locke questions who they are to force anyone to do anything.
In flashback, Jack and his father tell an elderly man that he's not a candidate for surgery on his spinal tumour. His daughter reveals that the pair have flown from Italy specifically to see Jack, "the miracle doctor." Against his father's wishes, he accepts the case, but spends weeks delaying the surgery, aware of the miniscule chance of success. During this time, he spends more and more time with the patient's daughter, Gabriella, and their friendship begins to border on something more dangerous. Christian warns Jack to be careful, as Gabriella is causing serious strains on his relationship with Sarah. Seven and a half hours into surgery, the old man's heart gives out and he dies, but Jack blames himself. Meeting Gabriella by his car, they passionately kiss in a moment of grief, though Jack pulls away and returns to his wife. Coming clean to Sarah, Jack promises that he will fix everything, and Sarah drops a bombshell - she's leaving him. She's been seeing someone else, and is fed up with the fact that Jack "will always have to fix something."
Losing the trail by night, Locke suggests they head back but Jack refuses, telling him if they never see Michael again, "that will be on your head." Right that moment, a mysterious bearded figure steps out of the shadows and tells Jack that he should listen to Mr. Locke's advice. Sawyer moves to shoot him, but a bullet from an unseen gunman clips his ear. Sawyer remembers "Zeke" - he was the man who kidnapped Walt and shot him! Zeke tells them that the "very special boy" is fine, and that Michael will never find them. He quotes Alvar Hanso's theory about human curiosity, before telling Jack that the curiosity of the survivors will be more like that of a cat if they don't stop encroaching on their turf. Jack believes that the three of them could overpower Zeke easily, but is stunned when two dozens torches light up simultaneously around them. Refusing to lay down their weapons, Zeke has someone named Alex drag Kate into the clearing - they'd captured her following Jack! Jack finally concedes and they leave, but he refuses to talk to Kate the entire way home. Back at camp, he asks Ana-Lucia about the timeframe for forming an army...
One of Them
Air Date: 25/05/2006
Ana-Lucia bursts through the jungle and tells Sayid that she saw a strange woman sneaky through the jungle. Sayid follows her and spots Danielle before sternly telling Ana-Lucia to go back to camp. Danielle tells Sayid she has something important for him, hoping to bridge the gap caused by her earlier actions. She leads him to a clearing in the jungle, where a man is caught in of her net traps. He asks the man a few quick questions and, against Rousseau's wishes, cuts him down. The man attempts to run, but Rousseau shoots him through the shoulder with an arrow, and Sayid carries him back to the hatch. Sawyer busts Hurley sitting alone in the jungle, gorging himself on Dharma Ranch Dressing that he'd horded from the pantry. Sawyer blackmails Hurley into helping him find the tree frog whose croaks have been terrorising him.
In flashback, an Iraqi bunker is under heavy attack from American fire. Inside, a commanding officer has ordered his soldiers to destroy all the files and evidence inside. As they do so, American soldiers burst through the door and order them to stop. About to shoot after they refuse to stop, a voice translates the English from amongst the group - Sayid, who is removed from the rest to be interrogated. They ask him where his C.O., Tariq, is, and the loyal soldiers replies that he had left earlier. He thinks the enemy has believed him, until they lead him into a room where Tariq is tied to a chair. The Americans request that Sayid gets the location of a downed helicopter pilot out of him, but Tariq flatly refuses, telling Sayid that he is a disgrace and should kill as many Americans trying to free himself as possible. Sayid is introduced to CIA Agent Joe Inman, who shows him video footage of a gas attack led by Tariq on Sayid's home town. Inman confesses that he knows Tariq will never simply talk and gives Sayid a toolbox of horrific devices, and when Sayid emerges from his first interrogation with the information and covered in blood, he is a deeply changed man.
Sayid has begun to interrogate the new prisoner, Henry Gale, who's been locked in the now-empty hatch armoury. Even though he tells a convincing story about being a balloon-crash survivor, Sayid is convinced he's an Other. While Jack feels that they should listen to Henry and give him the benefit of the doubt, Locke sides with Sayid and assists him in getting time alone to grill Henry by changing the combination. Hurley and Sawyer eventually come across the frog and, while Sawyer plays with the frog for a minute, he eventually crushes it dead in the palm of his hand, mainly to upset Hurley and to prove his toughness.
Sayid now has someone he can punish for Shannon's death, and he's not letting go. He snaps and begind beating Henry violently, and which Jack demands to be let in and pulls Sayid away from Henry. Locke runs to enter the computer, but he makes a mistake and takes too long entering the code. The timer hits 000:00 and the black and white panels begin spinning, with black and red hieroglyphics flashing past. He manages to hit EXECUTE just before they all fall into place, and the strange mechanical whirring that had begun slows to a halt. Jack tells Sayid that Henry has had enough, so Sayid turns to a surprising confidant - Charlie, and while they recount their brushes with the Others, they realise they have real reasons for a new allegiance to form…
Maternity Leave
Air Date: 01/06/2006
Aaron wakes Claire in the middle of the night and she realises he is sick with some sort of feverish rash. She wakes Locke, who sets off to get Jack from the hatch. While both leaders are away, Danielle walks into camp and straight up to Claire, who freaks out when Danielle asks her about the babies sickness and has flashes to the time when she had been kidnapped by Ethan. Kate attempts to shoo Danielle away, but Danielle's presence has obviously unlocked some of the memories that Claire had lost. Jack assures her that Aaron is perfectly fine and is simply suffering from a standard child's sickness. The next morning, Jack and Locke give Henry breakfast and a book respectively, and while they try to discuss what to do with their prisoner, it breaks down into a squabble about leadership and power. Claire goes to Libby for help unlocking her memories. Libby, a former clinical psychologist, sits with her and gets her to completely relax, and her memories begin flooding back.
In flashback, we see Claire sitting on an obstetrics table being examined and injected with a drug by none other than Ethan! All smiles and wearing a mask of total friendliness, he has her drugged up to her eyeballs and believing that giving him her soon-to-be-born child is in her best interests. As he injects her with another substance, she is jarred back into reality, seeing flashes of a young woman and an escape hatch door...
Panicked by what she's just seen, Claire springs into action, wanting to set out to find the place she'd seen with Kate in tow. She places Aaron in Sun's charge, Kate retrieves a gun by hard-talking Sawyer and they ser out. Eko takes a break from cutting down the trees he'd marked out to trek to the hatch. He asks Locke for an axe, but notices Henry's cot in the armoury. He later confronts Jack at the beach and demands a chance to talk to the prisoner. Kate and Claire come across Danielle, and Claire demands that she leads them to the place from her memories. Rousseau leads them far into the jungle, but when they arrive at the place where Claire had scratched her, the French hermit snaps, screaming at Claire for not remembering the place herself.
In flashback, Ethan injects Claire with the same fluid Desmond had injected himself with in an earlier episode. He leads her down a corridor to a nursery, laid out exactly how Claire had suggested to the couple who had wanted to adopt her baby in a previous flashback. They are interrupted by Ethan's boss, who looks eerily familiar and asks Ethan why he came back without completing his "list." Ethan takes her for a walk outside and apologises to her for what is to come, but wants her to understand that it's all in the baby's best interest to stay with his "good family". He offers her a drink from his Dharma flask, and she quickly begins to black out.
Claire begins to recognise her surroundings and comes across a hatch doorway marked with a different Dharma logo to any seen before - two snakes wrapped around a staff. The ladies open the door and enter to find a the corridor, examination room and nursery from Claire's memories, though they've all been abandoned and heavily damaged. Kate opens a locker to discover the type of clothes an Other would wear, hanging up neatly like a costume, and in the box on the floor, examines a fake beard and costume glue. In the examination room, Claire confronts Danielle about the scratches on her arm, but as her memory returns, she remembers a teenage girl that forced her to escape from the nursery out into the jungle where Rousseau had come across her drugged body. With a shock of horror, Claire realises Rousseau was helping her escape and she had attacked her by mistake. She apologises, but Rousseau points out that Claire was not the only mother looking for answers in their party. Claire returns to camp, accepting and embracing her role as a mother, and Aaron's health is reassured by Jack.
Back in the hatch, Eko is allowed to speak with Henry. Instead of asking, Eko address Henry with total belief that he is the enemy as asks for forgiveness for killing two of Henry's people. He raises a knife to his neck, frightening Henry, but slices off two tufts of his beard as a sign of penance. As he leaves, Henry strikes up a dialogue with Locke, asking why he lets Jack boss him around. Locke rebuffs that comment, but the damage is done; he locks Henry back in his cell and smashes the kitchen bench, Henry having just vocalised his thoughts...
The Long Con
Air Date: 18/05/2006
Locke and Jack lock all the guns safely away in the hatch's armoury, and Jack manages to convince Locke to share the combination. Jack notices Locke has stored the heroin-filled Virgin Mary statues, "in case we need them for medicinal purposes," and Locke suggests he retrieve the medicine Sawyer had taken to store alongside it. While Sawyer antagonises Charlie, Jack rummages through Sawyer's tent and finds what he was looking for. Sawyer claims "Finders Keepers" and tells Jack that he "doesn't want to do this," but Jack turns and walks away, drugs in hand.
Sawyer tells Kate about the stalled army Jack and Ana-Lucia are forming, though no one seems keen to charge into the jungle, guns drawn. Hurley takes Sayid the radio Bernard had found in the Arrow hatch, but Sayid is still raging from Shannon's death and shuns his act of friendship. While Sun works in her garden, she is visited by Vincent, the dog, and a sun-storm begins. Before she can run for cover, a bag is thrown over her head and she is dragged through the jungle. Her screams for help draw Sawyer and Kate, who find her knocked out and with her hands tied behind her back. He carries her back to camp, where Ana-Lucia decides that this can mean only one thing - The Others are back - and she wants to pursue. Locke disagrees, suggesting they wait to hear Sun's side of the attack. In whispered tones, Sawyer points out to Kate that all these events are rather conveniently timed to stir up support for an attack on the Others. Sun wakes and Jack questions her about the attack, but she can't remember anything. Jin doesn't care, demanding action by asking for a gun. Sawyer runs to the hatch and casually warns Locke that Jack is coming for the guns...
In flashback, Sawyer is attempting to pull his usual con on a woman he's just slept with, but she sees through his ruse. Instead of calling the police, Cassidy is intrigued by Sawyer's mystique and asks for him to teach her all he knows. Together, they run all sorts of cons and he finds himself falling in love with her over time. When she tell him that she wants to learn "the long con," Sawyer tells her that they'll need money, and she confesses to having lied to him about being broke - she won $700,000 in her divorce settlement. He secretly meets with Gordie, his old teacher, and we learn that Cassidy was the long con all along. When Sawyer tells Gordie he wants to back out of the con, Gordie threatens to kill him if he doesn't come up with the cash. And though it breaks his heart to do so, he convinces Cassidy that they have to run for safety's sake, and leaves with her money.
Jack arrives in the hatch to find that Locke has moved the guns and that Sawyer is manning the computer. Sawyer jerks his chain, but eventually gives Locke up. Jack flips out and charges to the beach to confront him about it, though Locke refuses to take him there. A second later, they realise they won't have to, when Sawyer walks onto the beach carrying a gun. He declares that, since the camp took his stuff while he was trying to save them on the raft, he's taking back control of the guns. If anyone wants one, they've got to go through him and have a damn good reason. Scorned once again by the group, Sawyer heads off by himself, eventually running into Charlie, who tells Sawyer no one can know that he attacked Sun. Sawyer assures Charlie that both their secret roles in the con are safe - for now...
