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Interesting Episode Facts- Season 1


1 and 2. The Pilot
The plane explosion seen from the ground [this footage is seen in a future episode].
  • Info on Hawaii (The “Lost” filming the location):
    Hawaii was one admitted into the union on August 21, 1959 as the 50th state of the United States.
    The capital and largest populated city is Honolulu.
    It is he southernmost point in the United States.
    The only state that lies completely in the tropics.
    The only state without territory on the mainland of any continent.
    Hawaii is the only state that has a majority group that is nonwhite.
  • Info on Sydney, Australia (departure point for the flight):
    Sydney is the capital city of the Australian state of New South Wales and Australia's largest and oldest city (founded in 1788).
    Sydney is a significant global and domestic tourist destination.
    It is regularly declared to be one of the most beautiful and livable cities in the world.
    The city hosted the 2000 Summer Olympics.
    A resident of Sydney is popularly known as a "Sydneysider".
  • Info on Fiji (mentioned by the pilot):
    Fiji is east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of Tuvalu.
    The country occupies an archipelago with two sizable islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, where the majority of inhabitants live.
    It is joined by over eight hundred islands, with about one hundred regularly inhabited.
    The name Fiji is the old Tongan word for the islands, which is turn derived from the Fijian name “Viti”.
    For a country of its size, Fiji has exceptionally capable armed forces, and has been a major contributor to UN peacekeeping missions in various parts of the world.
  • Info on Los Angeles, California (the plane's destination):
    Los Angeles is the second largest populated city in the United States.
    It is one of the world's most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers.
    It was incorporated as a city in California on April 4, 1850.
    Its nickname is “The City Of Angeles”.
    On September 4, 1781, settlers from the San Gabriel Mission founded the town and named it after the river El Pueblo de la Reina de los Ángeles, ("The Town of the Queen of the Angels"), but used a slightly shorter version.
    It remained a small mission and ranch town for decades.
    The city is one of the biggest entry points for immigrants to the United States, making it one of the most culturally diverse places in the world.
  • Oceanic Airlines is a fictional airline used on television and in movies, not to be confused with real airlines TransOceanic Airlines and Ocean Airlines.
  • The portrayal of Oceanic Airlines as being disaster prone has become something of an inside joke among television and movie fans: for example, popular TV review site Television Without Pity sold a set of limited edition shirts and messenger bags branded with an Oceanic Airlines logo and the slogan "Getting halfway there is all the fun!" The Oceanic Airlines slogan from "Lost" seems especially apt for the danger prone airline: "Taking You Places You' Never Imagined!", as does its logo: a highly stylized Australian dot painting resembling a bulls-eye.
  • The plane wreckage scenes were filmed at Mokuleia Beach.
  • The plane was found at a airplane graveyard in the Mojave Desert. The plane was cut up in pieces and driven to San Francisco, California and sent on barges to Hawaii.
  • Production had to contend with Hawaiian squatters, a group of indigenous people who camp on the beaches and are a national movement in the state.
  • Shannon said that there was a black box on the plane, so they will be found. Investigators use a plane's black box to find out what happened during the flight, not to locate a plane.
  • The idea of a polar bear on the island came to producers Sarah Caplan when she and producer/ writer/ creator J. J. Abrams were driving on a bumpy road where they started talking about having something unusual on the island. Caplan jokingly brought up a polar bear but Abrams really liked the idea.
  • Jungle scenes depicting open, grassy pasture areas at the foot of jagged cliffs were filmed in Kaaawa Valley.
  • Actor Greg Grunberg (the doomed pilot) is some what of a lucky charm for J. J. Abrams since he has had roles in the Abrams' produced TV series "Alias", "Felicity" and "Lost". The things we learn about the Oceanic Airlines flight 815:
    The names of the Oceanic Airlines flight crew include Cindy, JD and Michelle.
    The plane is an L-10 11, one of the first wide body planes.
    The pilots would not have changed course had the plane lost communication. International flight regulations and procedures specify that, in the event of lost radio communication, an airplane should change its transponder code to 7600, then follow the flight plan it had already been cleared for.
    The communication and mechanical problems with Oceanic Airlines flight 815 occurred 6 hours into the flight.
    The pilot informed Kate, Jack and Charlie that they were 1,000 miles off course and they were heading back to Fiji.
  • The things we learn about Boone:
    One of the first things Boone does after the crash is to try using his cell phone. He gets a fast beep indicating a signal from someplace near.
    Boone is a registered lifeguard.
  • We learn that Shannon could not upgrade her and Boone's seats to first class and she feels remorse for this because she was mean to the man at the gate who wouldn't let them have them. She knows that he saved her life because of the section of the plane they would have been in.
  • Josh Holloway was told to imagine he was reading a suicide note when he reads the letter.
  • The things we learn about Claire:
    Claire believes in astrology.
    The symbol that Claire wears around her neck is the Japanese kanji for "love".
  • Vincent is played by a female dog named Madison.
  • The scene where Kate sews up Jack's wound was used for both actors' auditions.
  • The things we learn about Kate:
    Kate was conscious during the entire crash.
    Kate recognized Charlie when he sang a bit of his band Driveshaft's song "Y'All Everybody" from the band's second tour of Finland.
    Kate's friend Beth is a big fan of Driveshaft.
    Kate did the drapes in her apartment.
  • Kate probably didn’t do drapes for her apartment since she is always on the run from the US Marshal.
  • The things we learn about Charlie:
    On the plane prior to the crash, Charlie bolts from his seat to avoid being stopped by the flight attendants and pushes Jack on his way to the bathroom.
    He plays bass and backing vocals for Driveshaft.
    He puts the word “FATE” on his finger bandages indicating what might have happened to the plane. Charlie wears a ring commemorating Driveshaft's second tour of Finland.
  • During Charlie's snorting scenes, Dominic Monaghan is actually snorting brown sugar.
  • The character of Charlie Pace was supposed to be a 45 year old has been rock star, but the producers liked Dominic Monaghan's audition so much that they changed the character's age.
  • Dominic Monaghan, Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly were not allowed to see the cockpit set before shooting. This one take is what was used.
  • The things we learn about Hurley:
    Hurley is a nickname for Hugo Reyes but he doesn't know why people starting calling him by that name.
    Hurley can’t stand the sight of blood. He faints when Jack asks for his assistance removing a piece of metal from the belly of a survivor.
    Hurley had a buddy in the 104th airborne during the first Iraq War.
  • Info on actress L. Scott Caldwell (Rose):
    L. Scott Caldwell was born in Chicago and now lives in New York City.
    She has an extensive background in feature films, television and theater.
    Her film credits include "Mystery Alaska", "Waiting to Exhale", "The Net", "The Fugitive", "Dutch" and "Without A Trace."
    Caldwell had a recurring role as Tanya Miller on the TV series "Judging Amy".
    On Broadway, Caldwell won a Tony Award for her role in Joe Turner's "Come & Gone".
  • We learn that Rose wears her husband Bernard's wedding ring on a chain around her neck when the couple flies.
  • We learn that Sayid was is the Republican Guard in Iraq.
  • Only Sawyer wrongly accuses Sayid (because Sayid is from Iraq) of blowing up the plane as a terrorist attack.
  • The things we learn about Jack:
    Jack used the second liquor bottle he got from the flight attendant to sterilize his wound and Kate's hands for his stitches.
    Jack conquered his fears: when he was in residency doing his first solo spinal surgery on a 16 year old kid. He accidentally ripped the dural sac, shredded the base of the spine where all the nerves come together, membrane as thin as tissue. He made a choice and did not let the fear in. He counted to five and the fear was gone.
    Jack took a couple of flying lessons but said it was not for him.
    Jack’s shoulder tattoo has what appears to be a sailing ship with the number "5" beneath it, surrounded by compass points. It is a real tattoo on Matthew Fox from his years on "Party Of 5". There are four Chinese characters in Jack’s tattoo: "Ying Ji Chang Kong" ("Eagles cleave the air") from a Chinese poem.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Sayid tells the group that a radio transmission could be a SAT 4.
    The number 4 appears on a the backgammon brown die.
    The number 4 appears on a the backgammon white die.
    Sayid states that the French transmission has been playing for 16 years.
    The number 16 appears on the large backgammon white die.
    The total of the small backgammon dice add up to 16.
  • Info on sea urchin (Jin offers sea urchin to Hurley and Claire):
    Sea urchin is a popular food in Korean cuisine.
    Humans consume the reproductive organs (called the "roe") either raw or briefly cooked.
    Offering sea urchin to everyone is customary in Korea to make sure that everyone eats. Food is very important in Korean culture.
  • Info on Paris, France (mentioned by Shannon):
    It is known worldwide as the City of Light.
    It has been a major tourist attraction for centuries.
    The city is renowned for the beauty of its architecture, as well as the wealth of its museums.
    The name of the city comes from the name of a Gallic tribe (parisis) inhabiting the region at the time of the Roman conquest.
  • Producer/ writer Damon Lindelof said that the writers "have never said exactly when the plane crashed. The assumption is that it happened on September 22, 2004 when the show premiered, but we never said that".

    3. Tabula Rasa
  • This episode’s title is Latin meaning "scraped tablet" though often translated "blank slate". It is the notion that individual human beings are born "blank" (with no built in mental content), and that their identity is defined entirely by events after birth.
  • Info on Iowa (mentioned by Kate):
    Iowa was admitted into the union as the 29th state on December 28, 1846.
    The Capital and largest populated city is Des Moines. French explorers Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette are believed to be the first Europeans to visit Iowa.
    Iowa is also a major producer of ethanol.
  • The things we learn about Kate:
    Kate told the Australian farmer, Ray Mullen, her name is Annie and she is traveling Canadian college student.
    Kate likes farms.
    Kate has trust issues.
    Kate works for three months on the Ray's farm after she learned that Ray's wife died.
    Kate was in prison in Harrison Valley, Pennsylvania.
    Ray saw her mug shot at the post office turned her in for the bounty of $23,000.
    The struggle for the steering wheel in Ray's truck between Kate and Ray causes the truck to crash. Kate is fine and decides to pull the farmer out of the burning truck before it explodes giving the marshal time to catch up to Kate.
    Kate revealed what she wanted to tell the marshal before the plane crash: she wanted the Australian farmer Ray to get all of the reward money because “he had a hell of a mortgage”.
  • A man being sucked into the plane's turbo engine is the first person to die after the initial plane crash.
  • Among Locke talents, he leaen that he can make a dog whistle.
  • When called to help Jack with a medical procedure, Hurley does not faint this time (unlike in the Season 1 Episode 1 The Pilot episode).
  • When Ray is taking Kate to the train station, Patsy Cline’s song “Leavin' on your mind” is heard on the radio.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Ray states that the nearest town from his farm is 15 kilometers.
    Kate states again that the French transmission had been broadcast for 16 years.
    Kate repeats to Jack that the French transmission has been playing for 16 years.
    Kate asks the Marshal if Ray ever got his 23 grand.
    Jack tells Kate it will take 2, 3, or maybe 4 days for the Marshal to die.
    Ray states that his wife died 8 years ago.
  • Hurley is playing the Joe Purdy sing “Wash Away" on his CD player.

    4. Walkabout
  • This episode’s title refers to the belief of non-indigenous Australians that Aborigines were prone to "go walkabout" meaning that they would stop doing their jobs and wander through the bush for weeks at a time.
  • Claire’s pendant is the Chinese mandarin symbol for love.
  • Info on Melbourne, Australia (the location of Locke's walkabout):
    Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria.
    It is the second largest city in Australia. The city's motto is "Vires acquirit eundo" ("we gather strength as we go”). A resident of Melbourne is referred to as a Melburnian.
    It has one of the highest numbers of international students studying in its universities.
    The city was named after the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, whose home was near the village of Melbourne in Derbyshire. Melbourne in Derbyshire derives its name from the Old English for Mill Stream (Mylla Burne).
  • We learn that Jack has a problem letting go. Info on several dead passengers:
    Judith Martha Wexler from Denton, Texas. She wore corrective lenses and she was an organ donor.
    Steve and Christian. They had wedding plans. They were on the plane sitting a couple of rows behind Claire.
    Emmanuel Rafael Ortiz from Los Angeles, California. He just turned 32. He had a video store receipt and lists her overdue charges for Willie Wonka and Little Princess. He hadn't traveled much.
    Harold Wollstein. He sat in Seat 23C.
    Louise Millicent. [A dead passenger's name mentioned by Claire by name only].
  • We learn that Kate is vegetarian.
  • We learn that Kate is an expert tree climber.
  • The things we learn about Locke:
    At the office where Locke works, he engages in role playing games with a friend he refers to as "GL-12" and he is called "The Colonel".
    He spends his evenings talking to a phone sex operator named Helen at a cost of $89.95.
    Locke wanted Helen to come with him on the walkabout.
    Locke has been in a wheelchair for four years prior to the Oceanic Airlines flight 815 plane crash.
    Locke says "Don't tell me what I can't do" no less than three times.
    Locke has excellent knife throwing ability.
    Locke had found a case of knives in the wreckage.
  • This episode is the first time someone says "Don't tell me what I can't do".
  • All of Locke's flashbacks are intent ally missing the color blue and green.
  • Info on boar found on the island according to Locke:
    Locke estimates the weight of the piglet boars was around 100 to 150 pounds. The boar are Razorbacks. The Boar's usual mode of attack is to circle around and charge from behind.
  • Locke's boss Randy tells Locke he needs the TPS reports, a reference to the movie "Office Space". In one scene, the boss hounds his subordinate for the newly formatted reports.
  • Axis & Allies (played by Locke and "GL-12") is war strategy board game and collectible miniatures game that takes place during World War II by Milton Bradley Company.
  • There is a machine with a lighted readout beside Locke's bed. It is a PRO ElecDT® electromedical device from Hako-Med used for stimulating motor nerves for the purpose of providing muscle re-education.
  • The name of the walkabout company Locke uses is called Melbourne Walkabout Tours.
  • According to Locke, "GL-12" is the hallmark of a leader.
  • Norman Croucher (mentioned by Locke) did not climb Mt. Everest as Locke states. His best Himalayan climb was on Cho Oyo in Tibet, the sixth tallest mountain in the world.
  • This episode is partially about searching for food. Charlie's finger tape is supposed to spell LATE, but the L is turned around where it is hard to see, spelling the word ATE.
  • We learn that Charlie's granddad used to take him fishing.
  • We learn that Hurley's old man used to take him fishing off the Santa Monica pier.
  • We learn some of the dead passsengers names: Judith Martha Wexler, Steve and Kristen, Emmanuel Rafael Ortiz, Harold Wollstein (seat 23C near Rose and Jack) and Millicent Louise.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Jack's seat number on the flight was 23A.
    In the ceremony for those who died, Claire mentions a Howard who was in seat 23C.
    Locke was wheelchair-bound for 4 years before the crash.
    Jack states that it has been 4 days since the plane crash.
    Shannon asks Boone for a 4 letter word for I don't care.
    Locke has had a telephone relationship with Helen for 8 months.

    5. White Rabbit
  • This episode’s title is also the title of a song by Jefferson Airplane.
  • The White Rabbit reference in this episode’s title is from the fictional character appearing in the Lewis Carroll's book “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”. Alice enters a dream underworld of paradox, the absurd and the improbable. As she attempts to follow the rabbit, she has several misadventures. Jack confides in Locke that he feels like he is chasing something that he can’t catch up to- his father’s legacy. Through his own life’s misadventures, Jack will be able to create his own legacy and not his father’s.
  • You may recognize actress Veronica Hamel (Margo Shepard) from her role as Joyce on "Hill Street Blues".
  • We learn that Charlie can't swim.
  • Claire finds it's odd that after searching 20 suitcases, she could not find a hairbrush.
  • The story about the word geaser (Locke is called a geaser by Charlie):
    A Geaser, or Bukhe Beligte, is a man but with many powers of a god. The epic is considered a major text on Siberian shamanism, a religion that primarily concerns itself with living in harmony with oneself and the environment. The epic starts with the creation of the world and is very long, meant to be performed over the course of several days with a horse head fiddle (moriin huur).
  • The things we learn about Jack and his father:
    Jack was beat up as a kid trying to protect his friend Marc Silverman much to his father's disappointment.
    Prior to the Oceanic Airlines flight 815 crash, Jack and his father Christian were estranged.
    His mother Margo insisted that Jack go find Christian in Australia to bring his father home.
    Jack learns that his father has been on a drinking binge since arriving in Sydney.
    Christian is found in the morgue dead from a heart attack (or myocardial infarction) induced by Chrisitan's drinking binge.
    Jack's dad was found by the police in an alley in the section of Sydney called Queen's Cross.
    Jack's father is chief of surgery.
    Jack searches for his father twice in this episode.
  • This episode has a theme of people searching for something:
    Locke searches from fresh water.
    Kate and Sayid search for the stolen water.
    Claire is searching for a hairbrush.
  • We learn that Kate has the astrology birth sign of Gemini (The Twins).
  • Facts on Gemini:
    Strengths of the Gemini zodiac sign include: strong virtue, great communication skills, quickness of thought, quick learning and a deep need for communication. Weaknesses of the Gemini zodiac sign include: superficiality, gossiping, harsh speech that may hurt others and use of words for misleading or misinforming. The element of the Gemini zodiac sign is air.
  • Joanna is the second person to die after the initial plane crash. She wasn't supposed to be on the plane. She was scuba diving off the barrier reef and got an ear infection and so the doctor grounded her for 2 days.
  • Sawyer is reading Watership Down by Richard Adams. It is a classic novel in which a group of rabbits set out to make a new home, together in unfamiliar surroundings. This book parallels the "Lost" storyline closely.
    Book synopsis: Fiver, a small young rabbit has a special ability to tell when bad or good things are about to happen. Fiver sees danger and convinces the other rabbits to leave where they live and try to find a new home. They eventually get to a field that some strange rabbits inhabit. Fiver figures out that a farmer is leaving food behind in the field to fatten the rabbits before capturing them. The rabbits move on until the find a field named Watership Down. They then need female rabbits to mate with. Two rabbits from the original field Fiver lived in find the rabbits and tell them that a horrible poisoning occurred, killing most of the rabbits. The rabbits find some female rabbits held captive on a farm by a militaristic warlord rabbit named General Woundwort. The rabbits help the captive bunnies escape, but the warlord rabbit tracks them back to Watership Down. The rabbits defend Watership Down by releasing a dog from the farm, which comes and scatters the warlord rabbits.
  • The rocks used in the waterfall cave set are made of rubber so that the sound of the actors and crew members walking about are not picked up on camera.
  • The tattoo on Charlie's arm says "Living is easy with eyes closed”, a lyric from the Beatles song “Strawberry Fields Forever”.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Jack says he has 16 hours left before needing to land in LAX.
    Jack tells the ticket agent he needs to be in LA in 16 hours.
    Sawyer says he made a birthday wish 4 years ago.

    6. The House Of The Rising Sun
  • This episode was directed by Michael Zinberg. Other TV series he has directed episodes for: Gilmore Girls, NCIS, Crossing Jordan, She Spies, Monk, The Guardian, Yes Dear, Everybody Loves Raymond, Boston Public, Charmed, Law And Order: Special Victims Unit, The Pretender, Any Day Now, The Practice, JAG, The Single Guy, Coach, Cheers, Midnight Caller, Hooperman, LA Law, Mr. Belvedere, Family Ties, Who's The Boss, WKRP In Cincinnati, Taxi, The Bob Newhart Show and Lou Grant.
  • This episode’s title is also the title of a song by The Animals.
  • The things we learn about Jin and Sun:
    Jin worked as a waiter at a party thrown in Sun's honor.
    Sun's father is a very powerful businessman.
    Jin convinces Sun's father that he is worthy of Sun's hand in marriage. Jin must take a year of management training and work a year in Mr. Piak's factory.
    Guilt about what he has to do for Mr. Piak makes Jin sullen and withdrawn.
    Jin feels that it would hurt Sun if she knew the true nature of his work and how ruthless her father is in business.
    Sun had planed to quietly escape her troubled marriage. However, Sun does not go through with the escape when she sees Jin in the airport ticket line holding a small flower and smiling (He did this gesture when he promised Sun he would get her father's blessing to marry her).
  • Sun's plan of escape: an the airport at 11:15, she is to make an excuse and walk out of the airport. A car will be waiting and her family will assume she was kidnapped. When she isn't found, they will assume she is dead and she will be free.
  • We learn that Charlie has a fear of bees.
  • We learn that Locke had found Charlie's guitar in the jungle.
  • We learn that next to his guitar, Charlie's Driveshaft ring is the most prized possession.
  • Series firsts in this episode: Sun speaks English on the island and Locke discovers Charlie's drug addiction.
  • We learn that Driveshaft had two albums- the self titled "Driveshaft" and "Oil Change".
  • We learn that Locke owns both Driveshaft albums.
  • Hurley is playing the Willie Nelson song "Are You Sure" on his CD player.
  • We learn that Sayid is from Tikrit, Iraq. It is the birth place of Saddam Hussein.
  • We learn that Walt's birthday is August 24 and he is Virgo.
  • Info on Virgos (Walt's birth sign):
    Virgos signify moderation, sensitivity, stability, clarity and fidelity.
    Virgos have a sense of what's real.
    Virgos know what suits them
    Virgos are precise and clear.
    Virgos do not like adventures, the unknown and the unstable, especially in human relationships and your emotional life.
  • Champagne (Jin and Sun drink a glass) is a sparkling wine produced by inducing the secondary fermentation of wine. It is named after the Champagne region of France and is most often produced Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier grapes. In Europe, the name "Champagne" is legally protected to mean only sparkling wine produced in the Champagne region of France. Nobody knows who first made it, although the British make a reasonably good claim because they are traditionally the biggest consumers of Champagne.
  • When Jack examines "Adam” and “Eve", he guesses that they've been dead for approximately 40 years and were laid to rest without any evidence of trauma. Among their few possessions, Jack finds a pouch containing two stones, one black and one white. Locke called them “our very own Adam and Eve”. He is referring to the first people God created on Earth.
  • Black and white stones, called Urim and Thummin, are used to yes or no questions.
  • You may notice that there is no Korean subtitles when Jin and Sun are alone in a scene.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Jack estimates that 46 people are drinking 1/2 a gallon of water a day or 23 gallons.
    Charlie says that it has been 8 days and 11 hours since he played the guitar.
  • ABC played a commercial for Oceanic Airlines during this episode.

    7. The Moth
  • The title of this episode has two references from the episode. The first reference, after Charlie and Jack are trapped in the cave, a moth (along with Charlie’s flashlight) guides them to an opening at the surface. The second reference, Locke uses a metaphor about a moth to illustrate a lesson to Charlie. Locke pointed his knife at a moth cocoon struggling to get out. Locke said that he could use the knife to widen the opening and help the moth get free. However, it would be too weak to survive. Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening a creature.
  • The cave dwellers: Jack, Locke, Sun, Jin, Hurley, Claire and Charlie.
  • The beach combers: Kate, Sayid, Boone, Shannon, Michael, Walt and Sawyer.
  • The things we learn about Charlie:
    Charlie has a brother named Liam.
    Charlie was a practicing Catholic who once was an altar boy.
    Charlie takes Diazepam for anxiety.
    Charlie used to load Driveshaft's equipment, before the band had roadies.
    Charlie makes his confession of sins to a priest before he will sign a record contract for Driveshaft.
    Charlie and Liam start their band in Manchester, England.
    Charlie wanted Liam's assurance that if things get too out of control, they will walk away.
    At one concert, Liam gets so caught up in the moment, he starts singing Charlie's part in the song "Y'All Everybody".
    Liam won't make good on his promise to Charlie that they would walk away if things get out of control.
    After a few years in the band, Liam gets off drugs & stays home to raise a family and Charlie is addicted to heroin.
    Charlie stopped by Liam's home in Australia hoping to get Liam to rejoin the band.
  • Charlie had Driveshaft scheduled to be the opening act for a band called MeatCo. in Los Angeles, California.
  • Driveshaft was originally going to called Petting Zoo.
  • The lyrics to "Y'All Everybody" from Driveshaft were originally heard by writer/producer Damon Lindelof on the Phil Donahue television talk show. An angry audience member shouted "You all everybody acting like it's stupid people wearing expensive clothes!".
  • The band Driveshaft's song "Y'All, Everybody" is similar to the Bob Welsh song "Faith Decides".
  • The character Charlie has proved so popular that the show's producers made an unusual public pledge that he will never be killed.
  • Sawyer calls Jack "St. Jack". Jack is a nickname for John. “St. John” is the Catholic Patron Saint of hospitals, the sick, nurses and booksellers.
  • Sayid discovered the smugglers had fireworks and bottle rockets that helped triangulate a signal between three people.
  • Kate calls their survival of a plane crash with only a few scratches "blind dumb luck".
  • We learn that Michael had done construction work for 8 years.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Jack says the French transmission has been going 16 years.
    Michael devises a plan to have 4 people at a time dig out the cave to free Jack.
    Michael says he spent 8 years as a construction worker.
    Driveshaft is lined up to spend 8 weeks on tour opening for another band.
    Kate states that they crashed 8 days ago.

    8. Confidence Man
  • This episode, Season 1 Episode 17 In Translation episode and Season 1 Episode 22 Born To Run episode were directed by Tucker Gates. Other TV series he has directed episodes for: Weeds, Alias, Carnivale, Point Pleasant, Huff, Boston Legal, Las Vegas Skin, CSI: Miami, CSI, American Dreams, The Job, Roswell, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Profiler, Providence, The X-Files, Arli$$, Nash Bridges, The Commish, Wiseguy and 21 Jump Street. He was also one of the producers on The Job, Alias and Skin.
  • Sawyer first nicknames Kate “freckles” in this episode.
  • The things we learn about Sawyer:
    Sawyer is not his real name.
    Sawyer worked at a car dealership in order to ultimately con his co-worker Jessica and her husband David.
    Sawyer confesses to Kate that he ran the same con that was run on his parents. He became the man he was hunting.
    One of Sawyer's cons was trying to get people to invest money in an oil mining operation. The fictitious company name is called Kingfield Oil (seen on a brochure).
    Sawyer took the name Sawyer as an alias when he entered a similar life of crime to pay some debts. He hates himself for this, which explains why he seems to go to such great lengths to make everyone else hate him.
    Sawyer was born in 1968. Based on a sticker on the envelope that reads "America's Bicentennial, 1976, Knoxville, Tennessee", Kate deduces that Sawyer was the wrong age when he said he wrote it in 1976 at age 10. Sawyer would have been 8 years old in 1976.
    Sawyer wrote a letter to the real Sawyer and carries it with him.
  • We learn that Sawyer is reading Boone's copy of the book Watership Down.
  • Sawyer's childhood letter to the real Sawyer:
    "Dear Mr. Sawyer, you don't know who I am, but I know who you are and I know what you done. You had sex with my mother and then you stole my dad's money all away. So he got angry and he killed my mother and then he killed himself too."
  • We learn that Sun knows about natural remedies. She concocts a remedy made of eucalyptus that allowed Shannon to breathe without using her asthma inhaler.
  • Info on Eucalyptus:
    The name eucalyptus means "well-covered". It describes the bud cap (technically called an operculum). This cap forms from modified petals and falls off as the flower opens.
    Eucalypts have a habit of dropping entire branches off as they grow. Eucalyptus forests are littered with dead branches. The Australian Ghost Gum Eucalyptus papuana is also termed the "widow maker", due to the high number of tree felling workers who were killed by falling branches.
    On warm days vaporized eucalyptus oil rises above the Australian bush to create the characteristic distant blue haze of the Australian landscape.
    Eucalyptus oil is highly flammable (trees have been known to explode) and bush fires can travel easily through the oil rich air of the tree crowns. However, eucalypts regenerate quickly after fire.
    Eucalyptus oil is readily steam distilled from the leaves and can be used for cleaning, deodorizing and in very small quantities in food supplements especially sweets, cough drops and decongestants.
    The nectar of some eucalypts produces high quality honey.
  • We learn that Shannon has asthma. She has been embarrassed about it since she was young. Interesting note: Shannon does not have any further asthma problems and never mentions it again.
  • Info on Knoxville, Tennessee (where Sawyer is from):
    Knoxville was founded in 1791.
    It is the third largest city in Tennessee.
    It was a major center of marble distribution in the early 1900’s.
    It was named in honor of the first Secretary of War, Henry Knox.
    It is the home of the Women's Basketball Hall Of Fame.
  • Info on Ontario, Canada (mentioned by Sawyer in Season 1 Episode 8 Confidence Man episode, Ethan in Season 1 Episode 10 Raised By Another episode and Hurley in Season 1 Episode 18 Numbers episode):
    Ontario is the most populous and second largest in area of Canada's ten provinces.
    Its capital is Toronto.
    The capital of Canada, Ottawa, is located in Ontario.
    Its motto is Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (or Loyal she began, loyal she remains).
    Increasing immigration from all parts of the world, especially to Toronto, is rapidly diversifying the province's ethnic makeup.
    Ontario has seen many years of land disputes between Britain and France.
    Ontario has now become very culturally diverse.
  • We learn that Claire loves peanut butter.
  • Info on peroxide (mentioned by Jack):
    Due to the presence of catalase in blood, peroxide is only marginally effective in disinfecting open wounds, but excellent for bleaching blood stains.
    It is often used as a disinfectant in the dairy industry because, after application, it leaves absolutely no harmful residues.
  • Banoffee pie (mentioned by Charlie) is a dessert made from biscuits, bananas, butter, cream and boiled condensed milk. Its name is constructed from the words "banana" and "toffee".
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Boone says he had 4 refills of inhaler for Shannon in his luggage.
  • The song heard during the end credits is The Blind Boys of Alabama's "I Shall Not Walk Alone".

    9. Solitary
  • The episode was directed by Greg Yaitanes. Other TV series he has directed episodes for: Nip/ Tuck. House MD, Commander In Chief, Bones, Prison Break, Over There, Alias, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, Cold Case, Skin, Las Vegas, Fastlane, VIP, The Invisible Man, Cleopatra 2525, Nash Bridges, America Most Wanted and Soldier Of Fortune, Inc.
  • Info on actress Mira Fuhran (Danielle Rousseau):
    She was a leading actress of theatre, film and TV in the former Yugoslavia.
    Furlan's film credits include leading roles in over 25 films.
    Furlan emigrated to the U. S. with her husband Goran Gajic in November 1991, due to the intolerable political circumstances in her homeland. (Gajic has a successful role as Luka on the TV series "ER").
    She starred on the TV series "Babylon 5" as Ambassador Delenn.
    She has received all the highest awards in her former country, both for her stage and film work, including two Golden Arenas (Yugoslav Oscars) for Best Actress.
  • The things we learn about Sayid:
    Sayid quickly shows his supervisor, Omar, that he a great torturer for the Republican Guard. Sayid gets a promotion and a reassignment to the intelligence division.
    Sayid saves Nadia's life by pretending that she shot him and escaped.
    Sayid was instructed to find out from Nadia if she knows who orchestrated some recent bombings.
    As children, Nadia used to push Sayid down in the mud at the playground.
    When the orders of his superior officer, Omar, changed to her execution, Sayid found no resolution but to help her escape. This attempt led to the resolution that Sayid had to shoot Omar, who caught up with him and Nadia. As his cover story, Sayid shot himself as well in the leg.
    Sayid had been gone for two days since following the cable into the jungle at the end of the Season 1 Episode 8 Confidence Man.
  • The name Rousseau was also the name of a 17th century French philosopher and revolutionary Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau focused on, among other things, child rearing techniques. He was known for giving his children up for adoption. His most famous line, from his most important work "The Social Contract": "Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains".
  • The things we learn about Danielle Rousseau:
    She was part of a science team whose ship ran aground on the island.
    Danielle and her team went off course 16 years earlier after picking up a signal repeating "4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42".
    Danielle created a new broadcast from a ship called the Black Rock once her crew died and she was alone.
    She claims to hear the "Others" out in the jungle.
    She speaks many languages (English, German, Spanish, Italian and French).
    When she arrived on the island, she was 8 months pregnant.
    She had a daughter named Alex.
    Danielle's crew got "sick" and she was forced to shoot her husband Robert as a result.
  • The things we learn about Nadia:
    Her full name is Noor Abed Jazeem.
    She is a childhood friend of Sayid who used to push Sayid down in the mud in the playground.
    She comes from a wealthy family.
    She has been interrogated and tortured by the Republican Guard more than once.
    The reason that she was interrogated was because she chose to join an insurgent group against Saddam Hussein's regime.
    She has ties with Kurdish and Shiite insurgents.
    Nadia had written on the back of her picture for Sayid to keep: “You’ll find me in the next life, if not this one”.
  • Danielle Rousseau's message:
    "If anybody can hear this, they are dead. I'll try to go to the Black Rock. Please help us. He is outside, It is outside and Brandon took the keys. Please help us. They are dead. They are all dead"
  • Whispers heard by Sayid on his trek to the source of the cable:
    Woman's Voice; Maybe we should just talk to him
    Man's Voice: No, if he sees us it will ruin everything
    Man's Voice: [Sayid stops walking for a bit] What did he see
    Woman's Voice: They could help us
    Man's Voice: Can't trust...I'll come back around
    Man's Voice: [Sayid stops walking for a bit] What did he see
    Man's Voice: Nothing, he was following it
    Woman's Voice: Speak
    Man's Voice: Nothing Another new character, Ethan Rom, helps Locke hunt for boar.
  • Michael comes up with a plan to install showers at the caves and the drawing the plan impressed Jack.
  • We learn that Michael is an artist.
  • We learn that Ethan has some experience spotting tracks and looked like they might be rabbit or some other rodent.
  • William Maporther (Ethan) is Tom Cruise's cousin.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Sayid explains that he was looking for the source of the 16 year French transmission.
    Rousseau's team survived 2 months while the boat lost instrumentation 3 hours out.

    10. Raised By Another
    Marital Arabic directed
  • The episode. Other TV series she has directed episodes for: Point Pleasant, Law And Order: Special Victims Unit, Alias, Battlestar Galactica, Everwood, Wonderfalls, Gilmore Girls, Cold Case, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, ER and Dawson's Creek.
  • During Charlie's drug snorting scenes, Dominic Monaghan is actually snorting brown sugar.
  • We learn that Jack once had a girlfriend who told him that he sleepwalks.
  • The things we learn about Claire:
    Claire worked at a Fish and Fry fast food restaurant.
    Claire's boyfriend and the father of the child, Thomas, got second thoughts about all this responsibility and leaves.
    Claire's dad sang the Perry Como song "Catch A Falling Star" to Claire as a child.
    Claire's first visit to psychic Richard Malkin, he reads Claire's hands and sees she is pregnant. He then gets nervous, can't do the reading and returns her money.
    Claire's second visit to the psychic Richard Malkin, he sees that Thomas left her and she must raise the child alone otherwise the baby will be in danger.
    Claire was tricked by psychic Richard Malkin into giving up her baby for adoption to a couple in Los Angeles by psychic Richard Malkin. He assured Claire that the baby will be safe with this adopted couple. Psychic Richard Malkin books her on a flight the next day, Oceanic Airlines flight 815.
    Claire's plane ticket shows the date September 24, 2009.
    Claire's back's pretty sore from sleeping on the ground.
    Claire gets dizzy if she stands up too much.
    Claire feels she has to pee all the time.
    Claire eats boar and bananas.
    Claire told Michael and Jack that this attacker in her dreams tried to inject her with something.
    Claire and her mother are not friendly toward each other.
  • In Claire's dream, Locke pulls a card from the Tarot deck and we hear the sound of a sword.
    The meaning of the Swords Suit in a Tarot deck:
    The suit of Swords corresponds to the East direction or wind, the Air element, the Spring season, the Yetsirah or Formative World of the Kaballah, the letter Vah (Stabilization of Form) of the Tetragrammaton, the male yang energy; the suit of Spades, the Holy Word and the Jungian function of thinking. It is also associated with the astrological signs of Gemini, Libra and Aquarius. This suit represents our intellectual and rational faculties, the mental aspects and communicative of our lives. Positive characteristics associated with this suit include strength, authority, courage, and ambition and a desire and opportunity to travel. Above all, Swords indicate a desire to seek the truth and it is this desire to call a "spade a spade" that gives rise to the conflict aspect of this suit. Negative connotations include conflict, animosity, pain, anger and aggression, illness and death.
  • According to Richard Markin, a blurry image in a dream is bad.
  • The name Ethan Rom is a remix of the letters found in the words "other man".
  • We learn that Kate used to stand in the sand on the beach with her mother.
  • We learn that Locke lived most of his life in Tustin, California and told Hurley that he was in Sydney "looking for something".
  • The History of potato chips (crisps):
    It is believed that the original potato chip recipe was created by Native American chef George Crum, at the Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 24, 1853. He was fed up with a customer who continued to send his fried potatoes back because they were too thick and soggy. Crum decided to slice the potatoes so thin that they couldn't be eaten with a fork. They became a regular item on the lodge's menu under the name "Saratoga Chips". They soon became popular throughout New England. A mass marketed potato chips become popular in the 1920's when the mechanical potato peeler was invented. This product was developed by Herman Lay, a traveling salesman in the southern United States. Before the airtight sealed bag was developed, potato chips were stored in barrels or tins. The chips at the bottom were often stale and damp. Then Laura Scudder invented the bag by ironing together two pieces of wax paper, thereby creating an airtight seal and keeping the chips fresh until opened.
  • Charlie has dreams that he is losing his teeth. This sort of dream is often about a fear of how people view your outwardly appearance.
  • In 1958 "Catch A Falling Star" by Perry Como (mentioned by Claire) became the first gold single as certified by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) signifying that it shipped 1 million copies to stores in the United States.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Claire's psychic called her for 4 months trying to get her to keep the baby.
    Claire's psychic insists that Claire has to be on Flight 815 to Los Angeles.

    11. All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues
  • The things we learn about Jack:
    A nurse alerted Jack that his father was operating under the influence of alcohol. Christian was having lunch and drinking alcohol when a girl "crashed" in the ER and he was called into the operating room.
    Jack attempted to save her but it was too late. Christian asks his son to lie by signing papers stating the patient’s death was accidental. Jack signs under pressure, but later contradicts his father when Jack finds out the patient was pregnant.This leads to Christian losing his pride, losing his medical license and heavily drinking while in Sydney, Australia.
    Jack's title at the hospital was Chief Resident.
  • The word “LATE” on Charlie’s finger bandages possibly gives a clue to the search party about Claire’s whereabouts.
  • The female patient died because Christian cut the hepatic artery.
  • The Hepatic artery (mentioned by Jack) is an artery that distributes blood to the liver, pancreas and gallbladder as well as to the stomach and duodenal portion of the small intestine.
  • Semantics (mentioned by Locke) is the study of word origins.
  • Producer/ writer Damon Lindelof states that you can see everything about Locke's character in his first speaking scene with the backgammon set.
  • Walt states the his stepdad Brian thinks that Walt is the luckiest person he ever knew.
  • Walt seems to show some strange intutitive sense:
    He knew Sawyer was using an alias.
    He articulates what has happened with Ethan.
    His ability to win at backgammon with lucky rolls over and over.
  • We learn that Hurley placed 17th in a backgammon tournament.
  • We learn that Kate's dad was in the Army. He was in the Ranger Battalion stationed at Fort Lewis in Washington State.
  • We learn that Kate and her dad used to go hiking and she learned how to track deer. She states tracking was like a religion to him.
  • We learn that Boone runs one of his mother's company subsidiaries and called her "The Martha Stewart Of Matrimony".
  • Boone guesses that Locke is either a taxidermist or a hit man.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    15 minutes have elapsed since they have seen any sign of Claire or Charlie.
    Sawyer again states the fact that the French transmission was on a loop for 16 years.
    While searching for Charlie and Claire, Jack asks if the time is around 4:00.
    Kate and her Dad hiked and tracked in the woods for 8 hours.
  • The Swan Hatch is discovered in this episode.

    12. Whatever The Case May Be
  • The things we learn about Kate:
    Kate uses the name Maggie Ryan and claims to be a photographer.
    Kate, with the help of two men, rob a bank in Ruidosa, New Mexico. Kate is after the safety deposit box 815 not money.
    One of the robbers, Jason, reveals to bank manager Mark Hutton that Kate set up the robbery.
  • Inside the safety deposit box 815 is a letter sized envelope with something inside.
  • The Halliburton case contains: a leather holster, a manila envelope with the words "Personal Effects" written on it, a white envelope with the toy plane inside, a stack of 100 dollar bills, two boxes of 124 grade full metal jacket ammunition and four 9mm handguns.
  • Inside the manila envelope, Kate was looking for a small toy plane.
  • A Halliburton case has leather interior of the highest class, high density foam in the interior, tough quality aluminum (the same material used to build airplanes and the space shuttle), a movable divider, a gasketed seal (keeps dust and moisture out during transit), a duel drawbolt style latch and a triple digit combination Lock. Halliburton case products are made in the USA and come with a lifetime guarantee.
  • We learn that Shannon lived in San Trope, France for a while. She knew a guy there who helped her learn to speak some French.
  • Sayid tells Jack that he is skilled in mathematics and decryption but the equations on Rousseau's maps are beyond anything he has ever seen.
  • The movie Shannon said that she seen 900 times about fish was probably "Finding Nemo". "Beyond the Sea" at the end of "Finding Nemo" was not dubbed into the French version "La Mur", like Shannon claims. It remained in English sung by Robbie Williams.
  • The lyrics to the Charles Trenet song “La Mur (Beyond The Sea)” are on the map.
  • Literal English Translation for "La Mer":
    The sea which one sees dancing along the clear gulfs to sparkles of silver.
    The sea Of changing sparkles under the rain.
    The sea confuses the Summer sky's sheep With angels so pure.
    The sea Shepherdess of blue infinity.
    Look! Next to the ponds.
    Those tall wet reeds.
    Look! Those white birds and those rusty houses.
    The sea has rocked them like a baby along the clear gulfs.
    The sea has rocked my heart for life.
  • For the first time, Rose reiterates her faith that her husband survived the crash.
  • Rose helps Charlie overcome the sadness and guilt of losing Claire in the jungle and helps Charlie regain his faith in God.
  • According to Michael, the only way to open a Halliburton case is with pure force for impact and pure velocity.
  • Sawyer boasts that he can pick any type of lock.
  • Jack gives Charlie the antibiotic Cephalexin to help him with his heroin withdrawal.
  • The numbers spotted:
    Shannon tells Sayid that after 16 years on the island Danielle may not be sane.
    Shannon asks Boone where he and Locke have been going for the past 4 days.
    Kate tells Jack the briefcase has 4 9mm handguns in it.

    13. Hearts And Minds
  • The episode was directed by Rob Holcomb. Other TV series he has directed episodes for: Code Breakers, Invasion, Bounty Hunters, The Lyon's Den, The Education Of Max Bickford, ER, The District, China Beach, In The Heat Of The Night, Wiseguy, The Equalizer, Scarecrow And Mrs. King, The Greatest American Hero, Hill Street Blues, Battlestar Galactica, Fantasy Island, Quincy and The Six Million Dollar Man
  • Honolulu Harbor was transformed into the waterfront view of Sydney harbor complete with the Sydney Opera House and skyline by Kevin Blank's visual effects department.
  • The things we learn about Shannon and Boone:
    Shannon and Boone are half-brother and half-sister.
    Shannon was married one time but isn't anymore.
    Shannon's dad Adam Rutherford and Boone's mom Sabrina Carlyle married when Shannon and Boone were quite young when their parents married.
    Boone calls his mother the "Martha Stewart of weddings".
    Shannon accuses Boone's mother of taking all her father's money when he died.
    Shannon knows Boone is in love with her and will always come to her rescue.
  • How Shannon gets money from Boone:
    She calls Boone sounding desperate.
    Boone arrives and she shows him some strategic placed bruises.
    Boone offers money to the boyfriend to leave Shannon alone.
  • What went wrong with this bribe:
    After the he wrote the check, Boone returns to Shannon's place to pick her up.
    Bryan is still there and reveals to Boone that he's been set up.
    Bryan plays it cool and fights with Boone over whether Shannon really deserves the money.
    After Boone leaves, Bryan took off with all the money.
  • The scene where Boone is bribing Shannon's boyfriend, its supposedly in Australia, but it is very obviously the yacht harbor in West Waikiki. Both the Ilikai and Hilton Hawaiian Village can be seen in the background.
  • Sarah and Jack play the Hoagy Carmichael song “Heart And Soul” together on the piano. "Heart And Soul" is a piano duet and requires four hands to play.
  • When Boone is reporting Shannon's boyfriend to the Sydney police, Sawyer appears after his arrest for fighting in a bar.
  • In this episode, Jack begins to carry the key to the Halliburton case on a string around his neck.
  • The Webeleo Cub Scout program (Locke tells Sayid that he was a Webeleo) is a two year transition period where members begin doing Boy Scout type activities and events that foster their eventual graduation from the Cub Scouting program to the Boy Scouting program.
  • Hurley’s island diet consists of: bananas, papayas, mangos, guava, passion fruit, coconut, fish, wild boar and sea urchin.
  • Hurley is certain that Jin has had a vendetta against him ever since he turned down Jin's offer of sea urchin.
  • Apparently Hurley knew to prevent infection from stepping on a sea urchin, somebody has to urinate on it.
  • Locke compares Michelangelo's struggle to sculpt his masterpiece David to the opening of the Swan Hatch.
  • This is the first episode we see Sun's garden.
  • Info on guava (Jack finds some seeds for the garden):
    Guava is a genus of about 100 species of tropical shrubs and small trees.
    In Asia, raw guava is often dipped in salt or prune powder.
    Boiled guava is also extensively used to make candies, preserves, jellies, jams, marmalades (goiabada), and juices. In Asia, a tea is made from guava fruits and leaves.
    Guava leaves are used for medicinal purposes, as a remedy for diarrhea and for their supposed antimicrobial properties.
    In several tropical regions, including Hawaii, some species have become invasive weed shrubs. Info on passion fruit (mentioned by Kate):
    It is spelled passion fruit in Australia.
    The fruit is grown for its juice, which is often added to other fruit juices to enhance aroma.
    On the island of Puetro Rico, it is widely believed to lower blood pressure.
    In Brazil, passion fruit mousse is a common dessert.
    In Brazil, passion fruit seeds are routinely used to decorate the tops of certain cakes.
    In Brazil, some say there that eating too many seeds makes one sleepy.
  • We learn that Jin does not know Sun took English language lessons.
  • What Locke knew about the boar on the island:
    Boar migrate outside the valley.
    Boar are smart animals and smart animals adapt quickly when a new predator is introduced into their environment.
  • Kate tells Sun that she was on her way to Bali to sightsee on the islands before she found herself on the plane bound for Los Angeles.
  • Locke tells Boone that Michelangelo carved the statue of David out of an 18 foot block of marble and it took four months while Locke contemplated his work on getting the Swan Hatch open.
  • Boone is tied up with a Japanese torture technique. The ropes have no knots, but they are tied in such a way that when he reaches out with his arm, the other arm is yanked painfully.
  • Sayid states that the compass Locke had given him could be off a magnetic anomaly by 2 or 3 degrees. However, the compass being off by much more that can be explained.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Boone says he spent 15 hours on a plane getting to Sydney.
    Locke tells Boone that the camp is 4 miles West.
    Locke tells Boone that Michelangelo spent 4 months staring at a slab of marble.
    Boone asks Locke if they are going to stare at the hatch for 4 months.
    Shannon was 8 when her parents got married.

    14. Special
  • This episode features the first talk about building a raft.
  • The things we learn about Michael's girlfriend Susan:
    Susan was going to law school when she became pregnant.
    Susan wanted Walt to have her last name which indicates she had no intention of marrying Michael.
    Susan went to Amsterdam with toddler Walt in tow to study international law.
    Susan begins a relationship with the man who hired her in Amsterdam, Brian Porter.
    Susan comes to the financial aid for Michael's rehabilitation but she wants Brian to adopt Walt cause they are getting married and moving to Rome, Italy.
    Susan died of a blood disorder and was sick for only one week.
    Susan kept all the letters that Michael wrote Walt over the years intending for Walt to have them someday.
  • The things we learn about Michael:
    Michael is an artist but does construction to pay the bills.
    Michael was real excited about being a father.
    Michael wanted the boy to be named Walt after Michael's father.
    Michael got hurt pretty bad from being hit by a car while crossing a busy street.
    Michael had a year of physical therapy.
    Michael gives Walt the box of all the letters Michael wrote to him through the years. It is the first indication for Walt that Michael cares about him and didn't give up on him.
    While growing up, Michael and his brother liked to trace comic book drawings.
    Michael describes his relationship with Walt as "complicated".
  • The things we learn about Walt:
    Walt can speak Spanish.
    Susan never mentioned Michael to Walt.
    Brian is the only father Walt has ever known.
    Walt likes pictures in comic books.
    Walt was looking at the Bronze Kahuku bird in a book when one smashed into a window.
    Brian tells Michael sometimes when Walt's around things happen and Walt is different somehow.
  • One of Claire's diary entries:
    "Dear Diary, I'm getting really freaked out by that has-been pop star. I think he's stalking me"
  • We learn that Shannon gets seasick.
  • The Flash Gordon and Green Lantern comic book is about an encounter with aliens believed to be evil but ultimately misunderstood and good.
  • Charlie stumbles across a story in Claire's diary where she mentions a weird dream about a “black rock” that she tries to get away from and it won't let her. He shares it with Jack and Sayid. They speculate that it is the same black rock that Danielle mentions. They figure the triangle from the coordinates on the map are its location.
  • Info on New York City (where Michael lives):
    New York City is the most populated city in the United States.
    It is the most densely populated major city in North America.
    It is the center of international finance, politics, entertainment and culture.
    It has a large population of immigrants from over 180 countries.
    New York City comprises five boroughs: Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island, with all but Staten Island having populations exceeding one million.
    Its nicknames include "The Big Apple" and "The City That Never Sleeps".
  • Info on Amsterdam (where Walt lived at one time):
    Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands.
    It lies on the banks of two rivers, the IJ and the Amstel.
    It was founded in the late 12th century as a small fishing village on the banks of the Amstel, it is now the largest city in the country and its financial and cultural center.
    Although Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, it is neither the capital of the province (which is Haarlem), nor the seat of government (which is The Hague).
  • Info on Rome, Italy (where Walt lived at one time):
    It is the capital of Italy.
    The city's history extends nearly 2,800 years.
    The city’s motto is “The Senate and the People of Rome”.
  • The Bronze-Cuckoo (the bird Walt reads about) is an Australian native bird. In 2003, it has been found by scientists to do something no other bird can, identify the chicks of an impostor in its nests and abandon them.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Michael's hospital nurse is a mother of 4 children.
    Michael gives Walt a box with 8 years worth of hand-drawn cards.

    15. Homecoming
  • This episode and Season 1 Episode 5 White Rabbit episode were directed by Kevin Hooks. Other TV series he has directed episodes for: 24, Alias, Cold Case, Without A Trace, Las Vegas, ER, Philly, City Of Angels, Profiler, Homicide: Life On The Street, Equal Justice, Tales From The Crypt, NYPD Blue, Midnight Caller, Doogie Houser MD, China Beach, Once A Hero, 21 Jump Street, V, Hotel, St. Elsewhere and Fame.
  • The things we learn about Charlie:
    Charlie wrote Driveshaft's songs.
    Charlie tells people that the band is on hiatus or dead.
    Charlie says that he is a man of high moral standing.
    Charlie says that he believes in monogamy.
    Charlie gets revenge on Ethan by taking Jack's gun and shooting him.
    Charlie has not seen his brother Liam in a year due to some disputes over royalties.
    Charlie is thinking about doing a solo album.
  • Jin asks Sun how Claire is doing. He then asks her how the baby is doing. A look passes between Sun and Jin that suggests a hidden tension and sadness between them. Possibly something in they’re past concerning a baby.
  • Scott Jackson is the third person to die after the initial plane crash. He was murdered by Ethan.
  • We learn that Scott Jackson had won an all expenses paid trip from San Diego, California to Sydney, Australia when he is named his software company's highest earning salesman.
  • Not surprising, the jukebox in the bar plays the Driveshaft song "Y'All Everybody”.
  • Locke found Claire a mile North of the camp.
  • The things we learn that Lucy Heatherton:
    Lucy Heatherton just graduated from Oxford.
    Lucy Heatherton lives in Knightbridge.
    Lucy Heatherton's father is the wealthy Francis Price.
    Lucy Heatherton has a cigarette case once owned by Winston Churchill.
  • The things we learn about Francis Heatherton:
    Francis Heatherton is impressed that Heather is dating a rock star.
    Francis Heatherton bought some paper company up in Slough.
    Francis Heatherton was once in a band called the Protestant Reformation.
    Francis Heatherton gave up being a rock star to become more practical and responsible.
    Francis Heatherton offered Charlie a job.
  • Lucy said her father is buying a paper supply company in Slough. Co-Creator J. J. Abrams is a big fan of the BBC series "The Office"- a series about people who work at a paper supply company in Slough.
  • Sayid was the first to suggest Ethan infiltrated the castaways.
  • We learn that actual amnesia is rare.
  • Jane Austen (mentioned by Charlie) was an English novelist whose work is considered part of the Western canon (influential books, music and art that shaped Western culture). Her insights into women's lives and her mastery of form and irony have made her one of the most noted and influential novelists of her era despite being only moderately successful during her lifetime.
  • The number 134 is punched in to the jukebox to play the Driveshaft song "Y'All Everybody".
  • Claire has amnesia from her abduction by Ethan but can remember Charlie finding her some "pseudo" peanut butter (a glass jar they pretended was full of peanut butter from Season 1 Episode 9 Confidence Man episode).
  • The "Sceve" conspiracy (or is it Scott or it Steve?): Two castaways, Scott and Steve, are friends and the other castaways have trouble calling them by their correct names. However, Scott Jackson was killed by Ethan. Hurley apologizes to Scott at his funeral for calling him Steve. This slip of the tongue may be nothing but it could be something in later episodes.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Kate suggests its time to use the 4 9MM guns in the Marshal's case.
    The number of booby traps that Locke wants to set around the camp is 4.
    Locke states that they should have 4 men to use the 4 guns.
    Charlie wants to join Jack, Locke, Sayid, and use the 4th gun.
    Sawyer states that 5 guns are better than 4.

    16. Outlaws
  • The things we learn about Sawyer:
    Sawyer has killed a man.
    Sawyer had a one night stand.
    Christian Shepard inadvertently gives Sawyer the courage to kill Frank Duckett.
    Saywer blames all his troubles on a boar.
    Sawyer has been carrying around his note to Mr. Sawyer for 20 years.
    Sawyer heard his father murder his mother before killing himself.
    Sawyer does not wear cologne.
  • The things we learn about Frank Duckett according to Hibbs:
    Frank Duckett is a real hard luck case.
    Frank Duckett is a gambling addict.
    Frank Duckett is an alcoholic.
    Frank Duckett runs a shrimp truck.
    Frank Duckett was quite the hustler.
    Frank Duckett ran the romance angle, hooked the wife and took the husband for all the money.
    Frank Duckett was pretty good at the con game.
    One of people Frank Duckett conned, in despair, shot his wife then blew his head off all in front of a little boy.
    Frank Duckett used to be named Frank Sawyer.
  • We learn that Sayid gladly served on the terrorists execution squad, but still sometimes wakes up replaying the event in is head.
  • Sawyer hears the whispers in the jungle say "I'll come back around".
  • "I'll Come Back Around" (Frank Duckett's last words) is a belief in karma and foreshadowing of what's going to come. It's not a curse, rather, Hibbs will get his and so will Sawyer.
  • We learn that Kate was married once, kissed a man, been in love and killed a man.
  • Sawyer buys a .357 Magnum handgun.
  • Hurley and Charlie bury Ethan.
  • Sawyer's mom puts him under his bed so it appears that he is was still at his grandparents. She very well could have saved his life. His father could have shot him so there would be no witnesses.
  • A "carte blanche" (mentioned by Kate) is a blank check.
  • Kate’s “I Never”: visited Disneyland, worn pink, voted, had a one night stand, cared about having cart blanc, blame a boar for all her problems, carried a letter around 20 years just because I can't get over my baggage and heard her father murder her mother before killing himself.
  • Sawyer’s “I Never”: married, went to college, kissed a man, visited Disneyland, voted Democrat, wore pink and been in love.
  • Sawyer is terrorized four times by the boar: takes his tarp from his tent during the night, he knocks him in the mud in the jungle, he destroys his backpack and urinates on his shirt and he stares him down in the jungle.
  • According to Christian Shepard, they call Australia down under because it's as close as you can get to hell without being burned.
  • Christian Shepard mentioned to Sawyer that the Red Sox never win the World Series. This comment happened before the Red Sox won in October 2004 when Christian was dead and Sawyer was on the island.
  • Info on the Boston Red Sox:
    The club was established in 1901. The Red Sox won their first World Series in 1903 against the Pittsburgh Pirates. In the following decade, the club won four World Series championships in a 6 year span despite changing ownership several times. The 1912 and 1915 clubs featured an outfield considered to be among the finest in the game. The Red Sox signed Babe Ruth and in 1919 the team's new owner, Harry Frazee, sold Ruth to the New York Yankees. Legend has it that he did so in order to finance a Broadway play "No, No Nanette" starring 'a friend', but the play did not open on Broadway until 1925. Frazee actually sold Ruth because he needed the money to purchase Fenway Park (which he did in 1920), the Red Sox franchise was in serious debt and Ruth was a disciplinary problem. The contract was a straight sale. The Red Sox got no players in return. This transaction would later become the known as the Curse of the Bambino. Red Sox fans believed that the club was doomed to years of futility as a result of the sale. In 2004 the Red Sox faced the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series. The Red Sox would go on to win the first two games in Boston then would win the next two in St. Louis.
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was first used after the Vietnam War to describe the psychological and physical symptoms people experience after going through a violent and traumatic event especially in war and combat. However, the term has gone by several different names including: Soldier’s Heart (term used after the Civil War), Battle Fatigue, Acute Stress Disorder, Combat Depression, Critical Incident Stress, Shell Shock (term used after World War 1), Combat Stress Reaction (term used after World War II), Survivor’s Syndrome (term used for Nazi’s Holocaust Death Camp survivors), Combat Exhaustion (term used after the Korean War) and Gulf War Syndrome (term used after the Gulf War).
  • Locke tells an interesting story about having golden retriever as a boy:
    Locke’s sister Jeannie died when he was a boy by falling of the monkey bars and his foster mother always blamed herself for the accident. About six months after Jeannie's funeral, a golden retriever comes into the house sits down on the floor right in front of Locke’s mother. She looked at the dog and they both stared at each other for a few minutes until his mother started to cry. The dog slept in Jeannie's old room on Jeannie's old bed and stayed with the family until his mother passed five years later. Then the dog disappeared, back to wherever it was the dog came from in the first place.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Hurley claims Charlie shot Ethan in the chest 4 times.
    Sawyer is terrorized by the boar 4 times

    17. …In Translation
  • What we learn about Jin:
    Jin lies to Sun and Mr. Paik telling them his father is dead because he is ashamed of the fact that his father is a poor fisherman.
    Jin has ambitions to open a restaurant and to own his own hotel.
    Jin's official job title is special assistant.
    Jin can't tell Sun that her father is an evil and ruthless man.
    Jin was going to deliver watches for Mr. Piak to his associates in Sydney and Los Angeles.
    It was Jin's father who suggested to Jin that Jin and Sun to start a new life in America.
  • Jin goes to deliver a message to Byung Han. While there, Byung's daughter is watching TV. Hurley can be seen on the TV getting into a car.
  • Mr. Piak goes after Byung Han, the Secretary for Environmental Safety cause he closed down Mr. Piak's factory.
  • Mr. Piak's idea of "delivering a message" is to beat up and then shoot the person.
  • Sun gets her dog from the daughter of Byung Han. Byung is so grateful to Jin for the polite way Jin delivered Mr. Piak's "message" that he gave him the dog.
  • We learn that Walt started the raft fire.
  • We learn that Shannon can tie wood pieces together with perfect Bolin knots.
  • Michael is talking with Walt about all the buildings he wants him to see in New York City when they get off the island. Michael tells Walt about the Flat Iron Building. This building inspired Michael to start drawing. The Flatiron Building is on 5th avenue between 23rd and 22nd streets. It was built in 1902. It is said that the building created unusual wind patterns that would cause women's skirts to fly around as they walked on 23rd street. This attracted many young men to gather to view the skirt flying.
  • Betty (Sawyer's nickname for Sun) is probably a reference to the old television game show called The Liar's Club. Contestants on this game show were shown an unusual looking object, then each of a panel of four celebrities gave an outlandish but plausible explanation as to its use. The contestant then had to wager all or part of their $100 on who they believe.
  • Hurley has the Damien Rice song "Delicate" playing on his CD player. [Why do batteries always run out in the middle of a song]
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Michael tells Walt about the Flatiron building in NY on 23rd street.
    Michael says there is only room for 4 people on the first raft.
    Mr. Paik's associate tells Jin to take the car to the riverbank 8 kilometers away.
    Jin hits Byung 8 times.

    18. Numbers
  • The lottery girl pulling up the numbers was Sawyer's one nightstand in Season 1 Episode 16 Outlaws episode.
  • The things we learn about Hurley:
    Hurley's mother, Carmen, is Hispanic and religious.
    Don't use these numbers to win the lottery- you'll be sorry Hurley was once a patient at the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute.
    The numbers he used (4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42) from Lenny Simms, a patient Hurley knew at the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute. Lenny repeats the numbers over and over all day and the numbers got stuck in Hurley's head.
    Dr. Curtis was Hurley's doctor when he was a patient at the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute.
    Hurley’s grandfather, Tito, has had only had three jobs in his lifetime and has been wearing a pacemaker for four years.
    With the lottery winnings Hurley buys his mother a new home, a Hummer H2, invested in California orange futures and became a majority stock holder for a box company in Tustin, California.
    Hurley's lottery winnings totaled $156 million.
    Hurley has a brother, Diego.
    Hurley works at a fast food chicken restaurant.
    According to Hurley, he has put his family through some stress.
  • Pandora's Box (mentioned by Leonard) refers to the mythical box that Pandora couldn't resist opening , releasing all possible evils into the world.
  • Hurley tells his mother "Uno momento, Ma Ma" (one moment in Spanish) when speaking to her. She also asks him if he is watching "those g-string mujeres". (mujeres is Spanish for women).
  • The bad things that happen to Hurley after he wins the Mega Lotto Jackpot lottery:
    Hurley's grandfather dies of a sudden heart attack at the press conference.
    The priest at Tito's funeral gets struck by lightning.
    The fast food chicken restaurant Hurley worked for was hit by a meteorite.
    Diego moves back to his mother's house after his wife Lisa leaves him for another woman (a waitress).
    Hurley's mother breaks her ankle.
    Hurley's new house burns.
    Hurley is arrested outside his new house on suspicion of dealing drugs.
    Tropical storms hit Florida causing Hurley's stock in Orange Futures to skyrocket.
    A sneaker company in Canada Hurley owns is destroyed by fire.
    A man jumps from the top of the building committing suicide when Hurley is visiting his accountant.
  • Hurley's investments include a box manufacturing company in Tustin, California (The box company is the same company that Locke worked at).
  • Hurley tells his mother Carmen that he thinks the money is cursed. Carmen reminds him that they are Catholic and don't believe in curses.
  • The bad things that happened to Martha Toomey due to the numbers:
    She lost her leg in a car accident.
    Her home burned.
    She reluctantly moved with Sam to someplace in the middle of the Australian Outback.
    Sam shoots himself with a shotgun.
  • The bad things that happened to people and places around Sam after using the numbers: Toomey first used the numbers to guess how many beans are in a jar at a fair and won. Then he and Martha got into a car accident coming home from the fair. Martha lost a leg but Sam walked away without a scratch. There was abnormal flooding in the region.
  • Martha Toomey refers to a pickup truck as a "ute". In Australia trucks are called a "ute", which is short for utility.
  • We learn that Sam Toomey and Lenny were in the navy stationed at a listening post monitoring long wave transmissions. One night he heard the numbers.
  • With everything that happened to Martha and Sam, Martha does not believe the numbers are cursed.
  • All the numbers are retired Yankee jersey numbers. Note: While Yankee jersey 42 was not retired specifically by the Yankees, 42 was retired across the league on April 15, 1997 to honor Jackie Robinson. 4 is Lou Gehrig's number. 8 is Yogi Berra's number and Bill Dickey's number. 15 is Thurman Munson's number. Note: Munson died in a plane crash on August 2, 1979. 23 is Don Mattingly's number. However, co-creator and writer Damon Lindelof insists that they were not taken from retired Yankee jerseys but only random numbers.
  • Sawyer can be seen reading A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine D’Engle
    Synopsis of the book: a story about three children (Meg Murry, her younger brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O’Keefe a popular athlete that goes to school with Meg). With the help of three unusual women, Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which, the three go on a journey to find Meg’s father. Meg's father is a scientist who disappeared while exploring the existence of a tesseract (a wrinkle in time). The children travel to the planet Camazotz, where they fine a zombie population controlled by a disembodied brain named It. The story combines theology, fantasy, and science in a story of time and space travel and the power of good over evil. The value of a close, loving family is emphasized.
  • Col. Kurtz (mentioned by Charlie) was a character that was considered insane in the movies “The Heart of Darkness” and “Apocalypse Now”.
  • Leonard is playing Connect 4. The name Connect Four was created by Milton Bradley in 1974 and a non-proprietary version is known as "The Captain's Mistress".
  • After Sayid left Rousseau's shelter in Season 1 Episode 9 Solitary episode, she booby trapped it and blew it to smithereens.
  • Danielle's crew picked up the transmission of "4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42" and changed course to investigate it. They got shipwrecked and "sick". The crew found the radio tower but died before they could investigate it. Rousseau then changed the transmission to her distress call.
  • Locke makes the baby cradle on what happens to be Claire's birthday. He tells Claire that having her and her child's birthday close in days is good luck.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Lenny repeats 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 over and over.
    It has been 16 weeks since a winner has won the Mega Lotto Jackpot.
    Lenny and Sam hear the numbers 16 years before Hurley wins the lottery.
    Hurley is eating froma chicken bucket that has the number 4 on it.
    Tito had a pacemaker 4 years.
    Lenny was playing the game Connect 4 when Hurley went to see him.
    Mrs. Toomey tells Hurley that Sam has been dead for 4 years.
    Hurley's backpack contains 4 bottles of water.
    A television reporter from channel 8 asks Hurley a question.
    Ken tells Hurley 8 people died when a sneaker company he owns in Canada burns.

    19. Deus Ex Machina
  • The episode was directed by Robert Mandel. Other TV series he has directed episodes for: Prison Break, The District, Nash Bridges, The Practice, The X-Files and Hard Time On Planet Earth.
  • The episode title is Latin for "god from the machine". It originated with Greek and Roman theater, when a mechane would lower a god or gods onstage to resolve a hopeless situation. Thus, "god comes from the machine". The phrase has been extended to refer to any resolution to a story which does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and is so unlikely it challenges suspension of disbelief, and presumably allows the author to end it in the way he or she wanted. In short, a deus ex machina is a quick fix in a story.
  • The things we learn about Sawyer:
    Sawyer's uncle died of a brain tumor.
    Sawyer never had a blood transfusion.
    Sawyer has never taken pills for malaria.
    Sawyer had sex with a prostitute.
    Sawyer contracted a sexually transmitted disease.
    Sawyer has hyperopia.
  • Jack determines that Sawyer's headaches are a result of reading without glasses. He tells Sawyer that he has Hyperopia, farsightedness.
  • The things we learn about Locke:
    Locke was an assistant manager at a convenience store like SAMS Club.
    Mousetrap was Locke's favorite game as a boy and he used to play it with his brother.
    Locke was raised in various foster homes.
    Locke believed his real father was dead.
    Locke's real mother, Annabeth Locke, told him that he was immaculately conceived.
    Locke is overjoyed to meet and spend time with his real father, Anthony Cooper.
    Locke bonded with his real dad while hunting for birds.
    Locke was set up to give his real dad a kidney with help from Locke's real mother. Anthony Cooper needed a kidney. Annabeth Locke needed the money Anthony Cooper offered her for her assistance.
    Locke's favorite game is Mousetrap.
  • We learn from the papers for the Santa Rosa Mental Institute show that Emily Locke once admitted herself to the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute and was diagnosed with Manic Depression and Schizophrenia. It is the same hospital where Hurley was once admitted.
  • Information on Emily Locke's license from the California DMV:
    Number 12773752 Class C
    Expires: 03-20-94
    Emily Annabeth Locke
    2448 Greenwood Ave.
    Los Angeles, California 90019
    Sex: F      Hair: Brown     Eyes: Brown
    HT: 5-5      WT: 115     DOB: 10-15-49
    X: [signature]
    03-20-90      130 BL     FD/491
  • Locke's visions at the sight of the airplane include:
    A bloody Boone and his mother pointing looking into the sky saying "Teresa falls up the stairs"
    His sister Teresa falling up the stairs, Teresa falling down the stairs and Teresa falling up the stairs
    Locke is in a wheelchair and then falling out of it
    Teresa again falling up the stairs, falling down the stairs and Teresa falling up the stairs.
    Locke saying "Don't take it back".
  • Boone and Locke have an unusual connection. Both Teresa (Locke's sister) and Theresa (Boone's nanny) were slipped on stairs and died.
  • John Locke, the 17th century English philosopher whom the character in the show is named after, was a friend with the Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper. The last name of Locke's father is Cooper.
  • When Locke and Boone are looking at the body of the smuggler, Locke says clothing normally decomposes within 2 years but since the material is polyester it could be up to 10 years old.
  • Producer and writer Damon Lindelof states that you can see everything about Locke's character in his first speaking scene with the backgammon set.
  • Boone speaks into the microphone and a male voice replies:
    Boone: "Hello...hello. Anybody out there? Mayday, mayday."
    Male voice: "Is someone there?"
    Boone: "Hello! Hello! Can you hear me?"
    Male voice: "Repeat your transmission please!"
    Boone: "Hello! We're survivors of the crash of Oceanic flight 8-1-5, please copy!"
    Male voice: "Hello! There were no survivors of Oceanic flight 8-1-5!"
  • Sayid uses the words "Better or Worse" on a sheet of paper to test whether the lenses he picked up to fashion a pair of glasses for Sawyer were identical. Nietzsche (mentioned by Boone) was a German philologist and philosopher, produced critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered around a basic question regarding the positive and negative attitudes toward life of various systems of morality.
  • The Nigerian currency is the naira (seen in the plane).
  • Something does finally happen at the Swan Hatch site: a bright beam of light shines from below the unopenable window.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Locke tells his mother that Nerf footballs are on aisle 15.
    The game Mousetrap that Locke set up has the number 23 on it.
    The game Mousetrap that Locke set up has the number 4 on it.
    Locke reveals to Boone that he was paralyzed 4 years before the crash.
    Locke states that he has been able to walk for the last 4 weeks.
    Locke tells his mother that regulation footballs are on aisle 8.

    20. Do No Harm
  • At the start of the episode, Sayid is being escorted through London's Heathrow Airport. Heathrow is the world's third-busiest airport by total passenger traffic. It is located in the London Borough of Hillingdon, which is in the west of London. Heathrow began its long life in the 1930's as the Great Western Aerodrome, privately owned by Fairey Aviation, primarily for testing, the land being acquired from the Vicar of Harmondsworth. The airport was named after the hamlet Heath Row, which was demolished to make way for the airport and was located approximately where Terminal 3 is sited now. In 1944, Heathrow came under control of the Ministry of Air. Harold Balfour wrote in his memoirs that he deliberately deceived the government requisition committee in order that Heathrow could be used as a bomber base. In fact, Balfour wrote, he always intended the site to be used for civil aviation and used a wartime emergency requisition order to avoid a lengthy and costly public inquiry. Certainly the Royal Air Force never made use of the airport and control was transferred to the Ministry of Civil Aviation on January 1, 1946. The airport then opened fully for civilian use on May 31, 1946.
  • The things we learn about Jack:
    Jack and Sarah got married two years after her car accident.
    Jack and Sarah wrote their own wedding vows.
    Sarah calls Jack a hero who fixed her.
    Jack has O negative blood type- a universal donor.
    Jack's childhood friend Marc Silverman (the friend who Jack protected from some bullies when they were kids- seen in Season 1 Episode 5 White Rabbit episode) is his best man.
    Jack has commitment to things but problems letting things go.
  • This episode has the second time someone says to Jack "I'm letting you off the hook" (first by Rose in Season 1 Episode 2 The Pilot episode when he promised to keep Rose company until her husband returns and Season 1 Episode 20 Do No Harm episode when Boone realizes Jack has done all he can to save Boone but it is not enough to save him).
  • Jack tells Sun that all the blood he is giving to Boone is pooling in his fractured leg. The condition is known as compartments syndrome.
  • Boone’s injuries: a collapsed lung, a leg fracture, blood loss, shock, Compartments Syndrome and coughing up blood.
  • We learn that Boone's blood type is A negative.
  • Sun brings Jack sea urchin spines to use as a needle for the blood transfusion.
  • Boone is the forth person to die after the initial plane crash.
  • Claire gives birth to a healthy baby boy in the jungle assisted by Kate and Jin.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Jack wonders why Charlie only asked 4 people their blood type.
    Mark states it will take 8 beers to calm him down before his speech.
    When Shannon's father married Boone's mother, Shannon was 8 and Boone was 10.
  • The producers were originally going to reveal the "monster" in this episode, but changed their minds because of the show's success.

    21. The Greater Good
  • The episode was directed by David Grossman. Other TV series Grossman has directed episodes for: Desperate Housewives, CSI, Malcolm In The Middle, North Shore, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, Tru Calling, Skin, Threat Matrix, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Bernie Mac Show, Roswell, Angel, Ally McBeal, Early Edition and Sabrina The Teenage Witch. He has also directed the annual Screen Actors Guild Awards show.
  • The episode title is about someone (Sayid) saving innocent lives (the people who may have perished if the Essam's bomb went off) and whether or not to save the life of one person (Essam).
  • Sayid walks out of the building he was detained in through a door marked 815.
  • The things we learn about Sayid:
    Sayid went to college in Cairo, Egypt.
    Sayid has a philosophy degree.
    Sayid was supposed to get on an Oceanic Airlines flight two hours after Essam's death. Sayid refused to go because he wanted to claim Essam's body. The plane reservations were then changed a day later to Oceanic Airlines flight 815.
    Sayid is always moving, spending 3 months here or 6 months there presumably looking for Nadia.
    Sayid had been detained in London's Heathrow Airport for 18 hours by the CIA and the ASIS.
    Sayid reconnects with Essam so he can get the 300 pounds of C-4 explosives that Essam's terrorist cell has.
    Sayid agrees to infiltrate Essam's terrorist cell for the CIA and ASIS because they will tell him where he can find Nadia.
    Sayid had hoped that he could save Essam.
    Sayid can spot and remove electronic bugs.
    Sayid finds out that Nadia is living in Irvine, California.
    Sayid delivers Boone's eulogy.
    Sayid finds out that Nadia is living in Irvine, California, the same city where Locke lives.
  • The things we learn about Essam:
    Essam was Sayid's roommate in college in Cairo, Egypt.
    Essam is a devout Muslim.
    Essam is a member of a terrorist cell that has 300 pounds of C-4 explosives.
    Essam thinks it's fate that brought him and Sayid together again in Sydney.
    Essam shares an apartment with two other terrorists.
    Essam had to be loaded up for a target (or become a suicide bomber) in order to find the C-4 explosives. Essam's wife was killed by a suicide bomber.
    Essam shoots himself after Essam knew that Sayid had set him up.
  • Info on C-4 or Composition C-4 explosives:
    C-4 is a common variety of military plastic explosive.
    A major advantage of C-4 is that it can easily be molded into any desired shape.
    C-4 burns slowly if a started explosion is not feeding it, during the Vietnam War era, many soldiers would use small amounts of C-4 as means of heating rations while on long patrols.
    C-4 is a typical explosive used in many movies, TV shows and video games.
  • Info on Cairo, Egypt (where Sayid attended college):
    Cairo is the capital city of Egypt.
    Cairo is the sixteenth most populous metropolitan area in the world.
    The official city name is Al-Qahirah which means "the subduer”.
    The origin of the name is said to come from the appearance of the planet Mars during the foundation of the city.
  • The Great Pyramids have become a symbol of Cairo internationally.
  • Info on London, England: (the location where Sayid was detained):
    London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England.
    It is one of the four major global cities (along with New York City, Tokyo and Paris) known worldwide by their names in other languages.
    Over 300 languages are spoken in London, making the capital one of the most linguistically diverse cities in the world.
    Today, "London" usually refers to the conurbation known as Greater London, which is divided into thirty-two London Boroughs and the City of London.
    Historically, "London" referred to the square mile of the City of London at the conurbation's heart, from which the city grew. Between 1889 and 1965 it referred to the former County of London which covered the area now known as Inner Lond
  • A charley horse (mentioned by Locke) is a painful contusion of the gastrocnemius muscle of the posterior lower leg that commonly results in a muscular hematoma and sometimes causes several weeks of pain and disability. The term has also been used to describe painful leg cramps, which may occur in the quadriceps muscles or the arch of the foot, but most often affect the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles.
  • This is the first episode where every time Sawyer speaks Claire's baby quits crying. Sawyer ends up reading a car magazine out loud to keep him quiet.
  • Sawyer describes while reading a car magazine to the baby: a car with a 32 valve V-8 engine, a car with 350 pound feet rear wheel torque, a car with a 4.4 liter power plant, a car that can unleash 400 horses and a car with a 6 speed transmission.
  • Charlie attempts to sing the Itsy Bitsy Spider song to the baby.
  • Hurley sings the chorus of the James Brown song "I Got You (I Feel Good)” to quiet the baby.
  • The tag of the truck carrying the explosives is MRL-724.
  • We find out that it was Locke who knocked Sayid out and destroyed the equipment when Sayid was attempting to triangulate a signal (seen in Season 1 Episode 7 The Moth episode).
  • The things we learn that about Shannon:
    Shannon has had firearm's training.
    Shannon steals the briefcase key around Jack's neck then takes a gun.
    Shannon grazes Locke's left temple.
  • Jack is still emotional from his failure to save Boone's life and anger about Locke lying about Boone's injuries when Kate secretly puts some sleeping pills in Jack's juice.
  • Walt seems to lose trust in Locke because of Boone's death.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    Agent Hewitt explains that C4 explosives were stolen.
    Sawyer's magazine describes a car with a 4.4 liter power plant.
    Sawyer's magazine describes a car with a V-8 engine.

    22. Born To Run
  • The episode title is also the title of a song by Bruce Springsteen.
  • The things we learn about Kate:
    Kate uses the alias Joan Hart.
    Kate's mother is dying of cancer in a hospital.
    Kate has a childhood sweetheart, Tom Brendon, who is a doctor and assists her efforts to visit her mother.
    Kate and Tom buried a time capsule when they were kids.
    Kate's toy plane (seen in Season 1 Episode 12 Whatever The Case May Be episode) is found in the time capsule belonging to Tom. Kate keeps it as a reminder of Tom.
    Kate has a car and several different state licenses in the trunk.
    Kate's maiden name was Austen.
    Kate’s mother calls her Katherine and she becomes quite agitated when Kate visits her in the hospital.
    Kate has always had the urge to run away.
    Kate had two Summer's experience crewing J boats.
    For another alias name to use after they are rescued, Kate takes a dead woman's passport and destroys the picture on it.
    It was Kate's idea with Sun's help to poison the water the raft builders drink from. Sun wanted to prevent Jin from leaving on the raft.
  • Kate publically admits that she was the prisoner the marshal was escorting back to Los Angeles.
  • A "J boat" (mentioned by Kate) is a small 2-4 person sailing yacht.
  • Info on New Mexico (the location where she sees her mother and an old friend):
    New Mexico has a relatively long history.
    It has been occupied by Native Americans, part of the Spanish colony of New Spain, a province of Mexico and a U.S. territory. New Mexico has the highest percentage of people of Hispanic ancestry of any state.
    The capital is Santa Fe and the largest populated city is Albuquerque. New Mexico was admitted into the union as the 47th state on January 6, 1912.
  • The time capsule contains: a New Kids on the Block lunchbox (a teenage boy band from the 1980's), a cassette tape of Kate and Tom, a toy plane and a red baseball cap.
  • We learn that the audio tape that Kate and Tom made for the time capsule was made on 8/15/1989.
  • We learn that Tom put the toy plane in the time capsule. It was special to him because he got it when he went to Dallas by himself as a small kid. Kate and he recovered the plane years later. The plane was in the car Kate was driving where Tom was shot and killed in.
  • Actor Mackenzie Astin (Tom Brendon) grew up in a show-biz family. His parents are John Astin (The Addams Family) and Patty Duke (The Patty Duke Show, "The Miracle Worker"). However, he was not so interested in acting unlike his older brother Sean Astin. He played small reoccurring parts as a child actor in "Hotel" and "The Facts Of Life" then moved into mostly forgettable TV movie roles. He went to Johns Hopkins University until he dropped out, where he majored in history and Dominic Monaghan (Charlie) was his roommate for a while.
  • Charlie begins to write songs and tells Claire that his new album will be called "Monster Eats The Pilot" and that the song he is writing will be track 2 entitled "Monster Eats The Pilot”.
  • Arzt is the common German term for physician or doctor. Hence, Dr. Arzt's name is literally Dr. Doctor.
  • The things we learn from Dr. Arzt:
    You can tell it is monsoon season because it rains every afternoon.
    After a monsoon season hits, the trade winds shift to the south then a raft can go with the wind.
    The only piece of land south of the island is Antarctica.
  • The Numbers spotted:
    The piano magnet in Tom’s house has 15 black keys.
    The piano magnet in Tom’s house has 23 white keys.
    Arzt tells the survivors that if they wait it will take 3 or 4 months before they can sail.
    Michael tells Kate that they have 4 people going and that the raft is full.
    Michael changes his mind on who the 4 people on the raft will be.
    Kate counts off 6 paces 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 to the buried treasure.
    The french-fry magnet in Tom’s house contains 8 french fries.
    Kate dyes her hair black with a product that has a number 8 on it.

    23. and 24. Exodus
  • The episode title comes from Christian Old Testament Bible. In the Bible, an exodus refers to the departure of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt under the leadership of Moses. As a result of this meaning, the term "an exodus" has come to mean a departure of a great number of people.
  • Heard over the loudspeaker when Sayid asks Shannon to watch is bag: "flight 338 to Fiji will be delayed. Please check the board for flight details".
  • This episode’s title is also the title of a song by Bob Marley.
  • The obstacles Hurley had to go through when he was trying to make his flight:
    A power outage causes Hurley to over sleep.
    It’s going to take 20 minutes for Hurley to get his car.
    Carrying two large bags slows his pace.
    The elevator quickly stopped on his floor but was full.
    He had to find the hotel's stairs.
    In the hotel lobby Hurley yells at people to get out of his way, but they just keep getting in his way.
    His rental SUV gets a flat tire.
    Nobody stopped to assist Hurley and he had to make a long walk to the airport.
    The ticket clerk seems to take a long time to enter information into the computer.
    Hurley had to take time to buy another ticket because it is Oceanic Airlines policy that a man of his size has to buy two seats.
    The ticket clerk says that the flight is already boarding in the Oceanic Airlines international terminal and they are in the domestic terminal.
    At the airport when he is racing to the international terminal, everyone seems to get in his way.
    A security guard stops Hurley when he rushes through the security scanner.
    Hurley had to wait in line at the security scanner.
    Hurley took time to buy a scooter.
    Hurley had trouble driving the scooter.
    Upon arrival at the gate, he is told it's too late to get on the plane by the gate attendant but persuades her to call and stop the plane from pulling away from the gate.
  • Dr. Arzt is seen as Hurley tries to cut through security.
  • Info on Nigeria (where Sayid said the plane came from):
    Nigeria is located in West Africa.
    It is the most popular country in Africa.
    Nigeria re-achieved democracy in 1999 after a long sixteen years interruption by corrupt and brutal series of military dictators and counter coups.
    The country's name was made by the wife of Lord Lugard (a British appointed governor of the country during colonial times).
    The name comes from a combination of the words "Niger" (the country's longest river) and the word "Area".
  • We learned that Michael called his mother prior to the flight hoping for her help with Walt.
  • Locke is seen rolling by in his wheelchair as Michael is talking on the phone.
  • The things we learn about Sawyer:
    Jack guesses/ jokes that Sawyer's occupation is a lumberjack.
  • The things we learn about Sawyer:
    Sawyer spent three nights in jail in Australia for fighting in a bar and head-butted the Honorable Warren Truss, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
    Sawyer reads the messages in the bottles while on the raft.
    Sawyer’s history of crimes includes: assault, wire fraud, identity theft, bank fraud and telemarketing fraud.
    Sawyer makes the raft's mast, a crucial part of the raft.
    Sawyer likes Bob Marley's music.
    Sawyer's last name is Ford.
  • The character's name James "Sawyer" Ford may have been named after the pirate James Ford from the turn of the 19th century. Pirate James Ford was known as a counterfitter river pirate and serial killer.
  • We learn that Jack does not believe in destiny.
  • Sydney International Airport's Domestic and International Terminals are not connected to each other and have a subway between the two.
  • The things we learn that Danielle Rousseau:
    Danielle delivered her baby Alex herself and that they were together one week before Alex was kidnapped.
    Danielle calls the black smoke/ "Monster" the island's security system.
    Danielle abducted Claire's baby in an attempt to trade Claire's baby for Alex with the "Others".
    Danielle caused the scratches on Claire's face that she got when Claire returned from her abduction.
  • The things we learn about the US Marshal Edward Mars:
    US Marshal Edward Mars has been chasing Kate for three years.
    Kate would taunt the US marshal by calling his home.
    US Marshal puts Kate's toy airplane in a safety deposit box in New Mexico and somehow Kate’s finds out which bank.
  • We learn these things about Kate:
    Kate is not good at goodbyes.
    US Marshal Edward Mars says Kate has no attachments.
  • Bjorn is Dutch for baby carrier.
  • Hurley tells Locke what he hopes is inside the Swan Hatch: stacks of TV dinners from the 1950's, TV's with cable, cell phones, clean socks, soap and Twinkies.
  • The things we learn about Hurley:
    Hurley owned the Green Lantern and Flash comic book that Walt was reading in the Season 1 Episode 14 Special episode.
    Hurley can't keep a secret.
    Hurley's Sydney hotel room number was 2342.
    Hurley was the last person to board the flight.
    Hurley can't miss his flight because it is his mother's birthday the next day.
  • Info on Twinkies (mentioned by Hurley):
    Twinkies were created by Hostess, and baked by Continental Baking Co., which is owned by Kansas City based Interstate Bakeries Corporation.
    Various urban legends have stated that Twinkies have shelf lives anywhere from several years up to one century in duration, but there is no evidence to support this.
    The Twinkie was invented on April 6, 1930 by bakery manager James Dewar, making thrifty use of shortcake pans that were usually only used during the strawberry season.
    Twinkies originally contained a banana cream filling, but this was replaced with a vanilla cream filling during a banana shortage caused by the outbreak of World War II.
    Though Continental Foods has never revealed how Twinkies are made, most people believe that they are baked, because the bottoms look brown.
  • We learn that Charlie was on the elevator that was too crowded for Hurley.
  • Locke plays a joke on Jack: Locke says he always got nailed on the funny bone when playing the game Operation. He then lifts a stick of dynamite partially out of the box. As he is moving the stick he says "BZZZZZT!", startling Jack.
  • Locke knew that gun powder sealed with fire can stop a bleeding open wound.
  • We learn that Locke was the first person to board the flight due to his handicap.
  • Sayid was able to piece together a sort of radar system for the raft and brings Michael a flare he found in the beech craft plane.
  • This is the first episode where Aaron's name is spoken.
  • When Michael and Jin are working on the raft, Michael becomes fustrated with Jin and says "No no no, This one goes there, That one goes there". This is the exact thing Hon Solo says to Chewbacca while in the Millennium Falcon in the docking bay at Hoth in "The Empire Strikes Back".
  • On the Season 1 DVD in a deleated scene, Claire reveals that she only named the baby when she felt that he is relatively safe from the "Others".
  • Danielle Rousseau states the only options in dealing with the "Others": run, hide or die.
  • Danielle knew the "Others" were coming because smoke from the other side of the island.
  • Sayid and Charlie investigate the beach with the black smoke, there are no people and just a pyre.
  • We learn that Sun believes the castaways are being punished by fate and Claire does not believe in fate.
  • The things we learn about Dr. Arzt:
    He helped Claire put her bad in the overhead compartment on the plane.
    Dr. Arzt accompanies the people on the trek to the Black Rock and previously giving information on typhoon seasons in Season 1 Episode 22 Born To Run.
    Dr. Arzt is the fifth person to die after the initial plane crash.
  • We learn thru Dr. Arzt that some castaways feel left out of the loop when it comes to knowing things and doing things on the island.
  • Dr. Arzt relates this info about dynamite:
    Dynamite is Nitroglycerine stabilized by clay.
    In 90+ degree heat dynamite sweats Nitroglycerine.
    Nitroglycerine is the most dangerous explosive known to man.
    The man who invented nitroglycerine blew his own face off.
  • We learn these things about Shannon:
    Shannon had Sayid detained due to leaving his unattended bag with her to prove to Boone that he doesn't know what she is capable of doing.
    Boone can't upgrade his and Shannon's tickets to first class because Shannon had been difficult during check-in.
  • We learn that Walt watches "The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers".
  • At the airport, Walt is absorbed in his Game Boy Advance SP.
  • The things we learn about Ana-Lucia:
    Ana-Lucia's drink is tequila and tonic.
    Ana-Lucia has the seat number 42F.
    Ana-Lucia hates flying.
    Ana-Lucia is on the same flight as Jack.
  • Sayid is seen walking by Jin at the airport prior to the flight.
  • We learned that a woman junkie nearly took all of Charlie's drug stash on the morning of the flight.
  • The same actor played Charlie's priest (seen in Season 1 Episode 7 The Moth) and the man who Hurley bought the scooter from at the airport.
  • We learn that Charlie took one of the Virgin Mary statues from of the beech craft plane.
  • Info on Kamehameha II (Hurley runs by the Kamehameha II room at the airport):
    Kamehameha II was the second king of the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was forced to take on merely a ceremonial role; administrative power was to be vested in Kaahumanu, his father's favorite wife, and the former king's prime minister.
    Kamehameha II is best remembered for ordering that the ancient kapu (taboo) system of religious laws be abolished six months into his reign.
    In November 1823 Kamehameha II and his queen traveled to London seeking to complete negotiations for an alliance between Hawaii and Great Britain. However, before he could meet with King George IV, he and his queen caught measles, to which they had no immunity. Kamehameha II died on July 14, 1824.
  • A mast (Sawyer builds one for the raft) is the tall vertical pole, which supports the sails.
  • The things we learn about Jin:
    Jin fixes the rudder on the raft, getting the raft sailing again.
    Jin finds out Mr. Piak knows that he was planning on disappearing in the US with Sun.
    Jin gives Michael the watch they fought over (seen in Season 1 Episode 6 House Of The Rising Sun episode).
  • Jin demonstrates to Michael the English words that he knows already from Sun's list: "starboard", "raft", "sail" and "eat".
  • The Numbers spotted:
    A soccer team at the gate has jerseys with the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42.
    Hurley's rental SUV shows 4 KPH speed.
    Michael says the raft is 15 miles out when they make first contact on the radar.
    Shannon states that she doesn't want to sit next to a crying baby for 15 hours.
    Hurley's rental SUV shows 15 KPH speed.
    Hurley's rental SUV shows 16 KPH speed.
    It has been 16 years since the ship that was carrying Danielle crashed.
    Sayid states 16 years ago "The Others" took Danielle's child from her.
    Danielle's been on the island for 16 years and can set traps quickly.
    The number of the seat that Jack is sitting in is 23B.
    Flight 815 departed from gate 23.
    Kate asks Hurley if he said the number 23.
    Hurley's SUV shows it is 23 degrees Celsius.
    Hurley buys a scooter from a man wearing a baseball cap with the number 8 on it.
    Sawyer tells Michael that his father shot himself when Sawyer was 8.
    Hurley's SUV shows 8 KPH speed.
    The number of the seat Ana-Lucia is sitting in is 42F.
    Hurkey's rental SUV shows 42 KM.
  • Sawyer sings the Bob Marley song “Redemption Song” on the raft.






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     Some source of information came from the book "The Lost Chronicles" by Mark Cotta Vaz, "Finding Lost" by Nikki Stafford, Lost: The Official Magazine, ABC Official Message Board, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, TV Tome.com, allmusic.com, LostHatch.com, Entertainment Weekly and OceanicAir.com

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