The Tail Section

Homecoming
Directed by Kevin Hooks
Written by Damon Lindelof
Charlie-Centric

Synopsis:

The Caves

Charlie awakens to the sound of Locke and others looking for Jack.  He soon discovers that Locke found Claire, who had been missing for about ten days after being taken by Ethan in Raised By Another, in the jungle and she collapsed in his arms.  Jack arrives and attempts to wake her by dabbing her face with a wet cloth.  She regains consciousness and becomes very frightened.  She looks at the other survivors and screams, "Who are you!?"

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Director – Tucker Gates

Story – Javier Grillo-Marxauch

Teleplay – Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz

Kate episode

Synopsis:

Flashback

• Blonde-haired woman pulls up to motel, sneaks into room and dyes her hair brown: it’s Kate!

• Kate, saying she’s Joan Hart, get a letter from the front desk. She goes to her car and cries about the content of the letter.

Beach

• Kate is playing with the toy plane.

• Charlie and Kate talk about getting back to the real world.

• Arzt tells everyone that they need to launch the raft NOW.

• Kate shows interest in leaving, tells Michael she’s going on the raft.

Titles

Beach

• Michael and Kate argue about going on the raft.

Flashback

• Kate with flowers goes to hospital to see her mother.

• She hides behind the flowers to avoid a police man.

• Kate hides in Tom Brennan’s car. Her mom is dying. Asks Tom for help.

Beach

• Jin and Sun argue about Jin going on the raft.

Jungle

• Sayid and Jack are going to see something, run into Locke.

• Jack sees The Hatch for the first time.

Beach

• Michael doesn’t know if Sawyer is right to go on the raft.

• Kate is burning an ID. Sawyer confronts Kate, lets her know he knows more about her than she knows.

• Sawyer threatens Kate, lets her know she’s not getting on the raft. Kate says otherwise.

At the raft

• Walt and Michael work on the raft.

• Michael drinks some water and gets sick.

Jungle

• Walt runs to get help. Kate runs to get Jack.

• Kate yells for Jack.

The Hatch

• Jack and Locke talk about the Hatch. Power struggle.

• Jack wants to open it. Sayid doesn’t want anything to do with it.

• Sayid points out the quarantine sign, “it’s on there for a reason.”

Jungle

• Kate finds Jack and they run back to the beach.

At the raft

• Jack looks after Michael. It must have been the water he drank.

• Kate looks after Michael while Jack goes to investigate.

Flashback (Tom’s Kitchen)

• Kate is looking at photos of Tom’s kid, Connor. Kate looks sad.

• Tom agrees to help Kate.

Flashback (In a Pasture)

• Tom and Kate drive to a pasture and start to dig.

Beach

• Locke and Jack discuss what made Michael sick.

• Jack reveals residue on the bottom of Michael’s bottle.

At the raft

• Jack takes Michael’s water. Michael thinks it’s poison and accuses Sawyer.

Beach

• Hurley and Locke discuss the raft. Jack comes up and Hurley says, “Because of Kate? Because she wants on the raft.”

• Hurley proposes that it might have been Kate that poisoned Michael. “You know, the whole fugitive thing.” Locke is shocked.

• Discussion about dissemination of information. Power struggle between Jack and Locke again.

Beach

• Claire is cutting Charlie’s hair. They talk about rescue and how great it would be.

• Charlie writes “Monster Eats the Pilot”.

Caves

• Kate asks Jack about the raft. Jack accuses Kate of poisoning Michael.

• Kate plays innocent. Jack doesn’t buy it.

Flashback (In a pasture)

• Kate and Tom are digging. Kate finds the time capsule.

• Contents of time capsule made from New Kids on the Block lunch pail: a red hat, a toy plane (Tom’s), a baseball, other junk, and an audio tape from August 15^th, 1989.

• In the car, they listen to the tape. They’re supposed to be together now, married.

• “You always want to run away, Katie.”

• They kiss. It’s wrong.

Jungle

• Walt and Locke talk about Michael being poisoned.

• Walt says he didn’t do it. Locke didn’t think he did.

• Walt then grabs Locke’s arm and says, “Don’t open it.” Locke is confused.

At the raft

• Mike tells Sawyer he poisoned him and he’s off the raft.

• Sawyer, pissed, outs Kate in front of everyone with the dead girl’s passport.

Flashback

• In the hospital, Tom sneaks Kate in to talk to her mom.

• Kate wakes her mom up. Mom is upset. Kate apologizes for what she did. Mom starts screaming, “Help!”

• Kate runs and attacks a security guard.

• Tom follows her to his car. Kate peels out and the cops are in hot pursuit.

• Kate wants Tom to get out. He refuses.

• She peels out and rams through a car barricade. Shots are fired. She rams a car.

• Tom is dead. Shot to death.

• Kate looks back at the toy plane, but there’s no time. She runs.

At the raft

• Sawyer calling Kate out. Kate admits she is a criminal.

• No one trusts Kate anymore. She is left alone with the toy plane as a reminder of what she’s done.

At the raft

• Last preparations are being made for departure.

• Jack and Sun discuss the poisoning. He knows that Sun tried to poison Jin. “I didn’t want him to die out there.” She confesses.

• Jack won’t rat her out, he’s a good guy.

Beach

• Sawyer tells Kate he’s back on the raft.

• “You cornered me, freckles.” “That’s that.” He’s sorry, in his own Sawyer way.

• Kate asks why he wants to leave so bad. “Because there ain’t anything on this island worth staying for.” Deepening the Kate-Jack-Sawyer love triangle.

Beach

• Walt and Michael talk. Walt admits he burned down the first raft. He didn’t want to leave. Apologizes.

• Michael is understanding. Offers to stay. “We don’t need to leave.”

• Walt responds, “Yes we do” in his creepy, cryptic kid way.

Beach

• Sun and Kate talking. Sun says she won’t tell anyone it was Kate’s idea to poison Jin. She says Jack won’t say anything. “Jack’s good at keeping secrets.”

• Kate believes once she found the man she loved, she’d be happy forever. But who?

Crash to “Lost”

Episode Director: Greg Yaitanes
Episode Writers:  David Fury
Episode Centric Character: Michael and Walt

Synopsis:

Michael is in the JUNGLE looking for Walt, and runs into Charlie, who is looking for Clarie’s luggage.  Charlie leaves as Jack approaches carrying wood, and Hurley arrives to let them know about a new golf tournament for the rest of the deodorant.  Michael continues looking for Walt.

Flashback

Michael and Susan are shopping for a crib for their baby.  Michael brings up naming the baby Walt, after his father, while talking about giving up art for a while to take care of the baby while Susan finishes law school.

In the jungle, Locke, Boone, and Vincent watch as Walt learns to throw a knife.  Locke talks about using your "mind’s eye" to visualize what you’re doing before you do it.  Walt hits one perfectly, and senses something that helped him succeed as Michael arrives.  Michael and Locke argue about Walt, then Boone jumps Michael, and Locke separates them.  Locke tells Michael that Walt is "different," and needs to "realize his potential."

Flashback

Michael is on the floor playing with baby Walt as him and Susan argue about them moving to Amsterdam.  Michael realizes that Susan already took the job and is taking Walt away.

It’s night on the Island, and Sun sits with Michael.  Michael opens up about his shortcomings as a father and vows that Walt "can’t grow up in this place."

Sayid, Shannon and Jack sit around Rousseau’s maps and discuss her notations.  The maps come together around a mysterious triangle.  Michael joins them and talks about proactively getting off the island for the first time via a raft.  After skepticism from the group, Michael informs them that he’s building the raft regardless so that him and Walt can get off the island.

Walt is reading a comic with Vincent, and a page appears with a polar bear.  Walt sounds out the words in Spanish.  Michael comes over and says he needs Walt’s help.  Walt doesn’t want to go since he’s reading the comic.  Michael tries to talk to him about art after Walt talks about liking the pictures, but Walt ignores him, so Michael grabs the comic and Walt follows.

Flashback

Michael is at a pay phone calling Susan and begging to talk to Walt.  Susan tried to get off the phone, but Michael hears a male voice on the other end.  Susan admits that she’s been seeing someone, Brian Porter, the man who hired her.  Michael is annoyed and angrily slams the phone down after telling Susan he’s coming to Amsterdam to get Walt back.  Michael walks into the street without paying attention and gets hit by a car.

On the beach, Charlie finds Claire’s things, but can’t locate her diary.  Michael and Walt are rummaging through the debris from the crash as Michael explains what materials would be good and bad for the raft to Walt.

Kate and Charlie approach Sawyer about Claire’s diary.  Sawyer has it, and begins "reading" passages from inside.  Charlie punches Sawyer, grabs the book, and Sawyer hits back before Kate can break it up.  

As Michael rummages through the debris, Walt sits on the side.  Boone and Locke walk by without Michael seeing, and Walt follows them by excusing himself for water.  Shannon argues with Boone about not coming back with any food, and tells him about Michael’s plans to build a raft.  She says she’s going to help, and Boone should also, but he declines.

Locke is sitting near Jack and Boone when Walt approaches.  Before Walt can speak, Locke explains that Michael doesn’t want Walt around him anymore, and that Walt should respect Michael.  As this is happening, Michael comes running in, and mistakenly goes after Locke.  Locke makes a peace offering and leaves.  Walt and Michael get into an argument which ends with Walt saying, "You’re not my father."  Michael takes the comic and throws it in a nearby fire, with the polar bear page on top.

Flashback

Michael is in the hospital after his crash drawing a picture of him in bed, all messed up from the accident.  Speaking with a nurse, he says its for his son who will be two next week.  After the nurse leaves, Susan appears in the doorway.  She’s heard about his accident after not hearing from Michael for months.  She came to see Michael and tell him that she’s covering his medical costs and that her and Brian are getting married.  She says Brian wants to adopt Walt, and attempts to convince Michael that he should give up his hope of raising Walt.

On the Island, Hurley comes up to Michael and tells him that Walt has run off with Vincent.  Michael goes to find Walt with Locke and Boone, but he’s not there and they go to find Walt together.

Charlie and Kate sit in the caves and talk about Claire.  Charlie thinks about how he’s only known Claire for a short time, and after Kate leaves he goes back and forth with himself about reading the diary.

Walt and Vincent are walking in the jungle when Vincent starts barking at something that Walt can’t see.  Vincent runs away and Walt chases after him.

Flashback

Walt and Vincent, about the same age as in real time, listening to Susan and Brian talk while supposedly doing homework about Australian birds.  Susan doesn’t feel well, and as Brian helps her to the couch, Walt gets annoyed that they’re "not looking."  Suddenly a  bird crashes into their window and dies.  Walt seems ambivalent and goes back to his work.

Walt, still looking for Vincent, hears rustling in the trees and bushes and his eyes open wide with apparent fear.

Flashback

Michael answers the door and Brian is standing there.  Susan has died.  Brian says that before she died, Susan told Brian that she wanted Michael to have custody of Walt.  Brian explains that adopting Walt was all Susan’s idea, and how he never wanted to be a father.  Michael gets angry and realizes that its Brian’s idea, not Susan’s wish, for him to have Walt.  Brian then talks about "things happening" when Walt is around.

Michael and Locke find Vincent’s leash on the ground in the jungle.  They hear Walt screaming for help in the distance and run after the sound.

Flashback

In Australia, Walt’s nanny collects some of Susan’s effects for Michael and hands him a box that she thinks Walt should have.  As Walt arrives home from school, the Nanny says that there’s someone here to see him.

Walt is still screaming for help in the jungle.  As he comes into view, Walt is stuck in a tree with a polar bear attacking.  Michael is stunned, but Locke snaps him out of it.

Flashback

Walt and Vincent are playing with a ball as Michael approaches slowly.  Michael explains that he’s Walt’s father and Walt is shocked.  He then asks about Brian, and Michael lies to Walt about being his legal guardian to take Brian off the hook.  Michael also says that though Vincent is Brian’s dog, he wanted Walt to have him.

The bear is getting closer to Walt.  Locke and Michael are walking across a high branch to reach Walt from the other side.  Locke throws the knife to Michael who throws it Walt and tells him to use it if the bear comes closer.  Walt stabs the bear as Michael gets down into the tree.  He gets some vine around Walt and Locke pulls Walt up.  The bear, temporarily stunned, is back, but Michael takes another swipe at the bear and it leaves.

Later that night, Michael and Walt are sitting by a fire.  Michael says that he has a gift for Walt and hands him the box from the nanny that contains every letter and card Michael sent to Walt over nine years.  Walt had no idea.  They look at some of the pictures and Michael points out the card he drew in the hospital.

In the caves, Charlie is reading Claire’s diary.  It’s visible that Claire likes Charlie.  After reading something, Charlie runs to Jack and Sayid and describes a dream of Claire’s where she sees a Black Rock.  Charlie connects the Black Rock to Sayid’s story of the french woman and the mysterious triangle on the map.

Locke and Boone are in the jungle looking for Vincent.  They hear a noise in the bushes, and Claire appears.

Key Dialogue:

JACK: Are you suggesting something?

MICHAEL: Yes.  We build a raft.

WALT: Am i being punished?
MICHAEL: You think working with your old man is punishment?  No.  This is us taking control of our destiny.
WALT: Feels like punishment…

BRIAN (about Walt): Things happen when he’s around.  He’s different somehow.

Key Items:

Locke’s Knife

Walt’s Comic - The Flash

The Polar Bear

The Black Rock

Season 1 Episode 01
Title: Pilot, Part 1
Director: J. J. Abrams
Writers: J. J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Jeffrey Lieber
FlashBack: Crash (from Jack’s Perspective)

Synopsis:

A man (Jack) awakes in the middle of a grove of bamboo trees. There are sounds of chaos around him. A Yellow walks in and checks on him. THe man gets up in considerable pain looks into his jacket and winces. He checks his pockets and finds a small bottle of vodka.

He races out of the bamboo onto a beach. We pan around to a crash site, where this man jumps in to help. He first helps pull a guy from wreckage and looks at his hurt leg. Then, he tends to pregnant girl (Claire) having contractions, and a asks large (Hurley) man to help. While those who helped the injured leg man, another man steps in front of the running Engine (Gary Troup), and it sucks him in exploding. A black woman (Rose) is having CPr performed on her by a young white man (Boone) not knowing what he is doing. Jack helps and distracts Boone to get him out of the way as he revives Rose.

The wing begins to give way and he runs for Hurley and Claire to get them to safety. The wing crashes igniting the remaining fuel in it. After the immediate crisis, He surveys the bodies and looks for a sewing kit.

He takes the kit and a white shirt he found into the jungle and gently removes his shirt. There is a bad cut on his back that needs to be stitched. A young woman walks by and Jack asks if she knows how to sew. She hesitates at first but then agrees to help. He hands her the vodka to cleanse her hands.

Back at the beach, we see a sinister looking fellow smoking at the Wreckage. The camera pans to the sunset and see various people coping with the day. Charlie and Sayid introduce each other and help build a signal fire.

Back at the out-patient ER, Kate is afraid to stitch him up. Jack tells her of his first surgery where he made a mistake. He was afraid, but he decided that to only let the fear in for 5 seconds.

Nightfalls and see a montage of different people as they deal with the circumstances.
Sayid
Shannon painting toe nails
Hurley passing out food
Michale comforting Walt
Jin giving Sun instructions on what to do
Jack looking at man with a huge piece of shrapnel in his side

Jack begins to explain the crash, the turbulence, dropping 200 ft. Kate wonders about his knowledge and we find out that Jack took lessons, but didn’t finish them. We learn that Jack blacked out, but Kate was awake up to the point the tailsection and the front broke off. He needs to find the transceiver. Kate thinks she may seen where it is because she saw smoke in the valley. Then we hear a monstrous howl in the Jungle and see trees crashing. After hearing the "monster" a woman says there is something familiar sounding about it. Now our losties, are shocked, confused and terrified.

FlashBack

A flight attendant (Cindy) checks on Jack’s drink. It is not strong enough, so she gives Jack an extra vodka which he pockets. He begins to get up when someone runs by him (Charlie) followed by two flight attendants. As he sits back down, there is turbulance. He reassures the Rose that it is normal. As he begins to saw that it will be over soon, the plane drops and masks fall.

Beach

Kate and Jack begin planning their mission. She needs different shoes. She scavenges for a pair of boots, and see Lockes who smiles with orange peel in his mouth (like Marlon Brandow in the Godfather). Jack tells a small group that is talking about monster that his is looking for the cockpit and Charlie volunteers to come along.

On the journey, we find out that Charlie was a Rock Star, and apparently still wants to be. In the distance, the yellow lab looks on.

Suddenly, a rain storm begins. Everyone runs for cover, except a bald man who seems to enjoy the rain. (Locke) As they are huddled together, they hear the sound again.

The Cockpit Party finds the front of the plane. Jack, Kate and Charlie make their way inside. In the cockpit, they find the pilot alive. It has been sixteen hours since the crash and the pilot explains that they lost the radio 6 hours into the flight. No one knew where they were, so they turned back to Fiji. They were a thousand miles off course when they hit the turbulence.

Jack asks about Charlie and Kate finds him the bathroom, with red eyes. Now, they hear the sound. The pilot looks out of the broken cockpit window and he is taken. Only a splatter of blood gives evidence of his fate.

The three make a run for it. Charlie gets caught by some roots. Jack goes back. Kate is alone and runs under some above ground roots to a Banyan Tree. She is terrified and lets the fear in for 5 seconds. As she steps out, Charlie catches up. He explains that "I was Dead," then Jack came for him.

The two find a pair of pilot’s wing next to a small pool of water from the rain. They see an erie reflection in the water and look up to see…
"The Pilot," says Jack. Neither Jack nor Charlie got a look at the monster. Charlie closes the episode with the last line, "How does something like that happen?"

Season 1 Episode 02
Title: Pilot, Part 2
Director: J. J. Abrams
Writers: J. J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Jeffrey Lieber
FlashBack: Crash

Some adjust by letting others do the worrying for them. We enter where Shannon has found her belongings and is enjoying the tropical sun in her bikini. Boone insists on her helping to which she expresses that they are surely going to be rescued soon.

We see the estrangement of Jin and Sun as he yaps at her for not having her sweater buttoned to the top when Michael comes looking for Walt.

Michael finds Walt a little ways into the jungle, where Walt picks up a pair of handcuffs.

Back to Jack, Kate and Charlie. Kate wonders why Charlie was in the bathroom while they were in the cockpit. He says he was throwing up.

FlashBack:
Charlie is agitated on the plane. Cindy asks if there is anything she can get him, but he needs something she doesn’t have. He finally gives in the to cravings and runs past Jack heading for the bathroom with Cindy and another attendant in hot pursuit. Charlie hides in the bathroom and gets his fix, then tries to get rid of the heroin down the bathroom toilet. But then, turbulence. ..

On Island
Back on the Beach, Sawyer and Sayid mix it up in a hillbilly mambo displaying the way too easy stereotype of a southern guy thinking anyone with brown skin and a beard is a terrorist. All stops with a powerfully vocalized command from Kate. We find out that Sayid, a communications officer can help fix the transceiver.

Jack tends to shrapnel guy, later known to be the marshal.

A "signal party" forms with many going for their own selfish needs. Shannon goes because Boone accuses her of selfishness. Boone goes because he can’t leave her side and Charlie joins because of Shannon. Sawyer joins at the last minute.

We are then introduced to the basic conflict of the show. Presented by Locke to Walt in the form of backgammon. Two sides in an ancient game, one dark, one light. And the scene end with Locke asking Walt, "Do you want to know a secret?"

Jin making nice with others, takes his sushi to others. Hurley laughed and rejected the raw urchins, Claire tried one. THen she put Jin in an uncomfortable position by forcing him to feel the baby kick. She now thinks of the baby as a he.

Making it through a part of the jungle, the Signal Party hears a sound, not like the "something" that got the pilot. Previously, Sayid and Sawyer had continued their shouting match, but adversity often brings people together. Everyone else bolts, while Sawyer stands his ground, pulls out his gun (hey he’s left handed) and squeezes off enough rounds to bring the aggressive polar bear that was charging them.

On the beach, Jack begins working on the marshal, when Hurley faints because of the blood.

Kate gets the gun, pretends not to know how to use it, and divides it among the other in the party.

FlashBack
We see the crash from Kate’s point of view where she is a prisoner in handcuffs. She appears to be the only one awake to see the plane break apart.

On the beach

The marshal regains consciousness, and asks, "where is she?"

On the mountain, the party begins to hear a transmission. A French transmission that is repeated over and over. Sayid calculated it to have been repeating for 16 years. We learn that at least one other group of survivors landed on the island over 16 years before, but all except one were killed.

Charlie asks the most significant question, "Where are we?"

Season 1 Episode 03
Title: Tabula Rasa
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Damon Lindelof
FlashBack: Kate

Synopsis

In the infirmary, the marshal mutters something to Jack. He instructs Jack to look in his coat pocket. Jack pulls out a mug shot of Kate.

We also realize that we are only intersecting with the lives of these people at certain points. We know this because there are parts of the conversation that we have missed. Sayid was given pretty good detail about what the pilot said by Kate. The signal party agrees that they will not mention the content of the signal.

Hurley runs across the mugshot and asks of Jack, "What do you think she did?"

FlashBack

Kate was running in Australia and was discovered sleeping on hay in a barn near Melbourne. With a shotgun pointed her, she was coerced by a one armed farmer named Ray Mullen to have breakfast. She agreed to work on the farm. She goes by "Annie."

Jungle
At the signal party camp site. Boone lifts the gun and the clip that were taken from Sawyer earlier. They wake and somehow figure that Kat is trustworthy enough to carry the gun.

The Signal Party arrives where we find out that Kate can’t keep secrets. She runs to Jack telling him everything about the transmission. Kate is very curiuos if the Marshal said anything during the surgery to which Jack said, "no."

Hurley looks for stronger antibiotics, but cannot find any. Jack checks in the fuselage amongst the dead bodies. He finds Sawyer scavenging the personal articles of the dead. Sawyer criticized Jack for not seeing the big picture, that he needed to end the life of the Marshall rather than waste meds and resources on a dying man. The exchange ended with Sawyer telling Jack, "Me? I’m in the Wild."

Claire and Charlie interact while loading luggage onto a wheelchair. Jin and Sun interact showing how far they are from one another.

Hurley tries to play it cool with Kate, but can’t now that he knows she was the fugitive.

FlashBack

Kate decides it is time to move on. Ray reasons with her ans she agrees to allow him to take her to the station. Later, we find out that Ray turned her in and he was giving her a ride to the authorities under the guise of taking her to the train station. Curiously, Ray was driving on the wrong side of the road when the Marshall pulled beside Ray’s truck. A wreck occurred thanks to Kate causing the truck to flip. Ray was knocked unconscious, and Kate pulled him to safety. Her act of kindness led to her capture.

On the Island

The Marshal wakes up seeing Kate over him, he grabs her by the throat. Jack intervenes before it is too late.

Michael has difficulty making a connection with Walt. When he realizes that Walt and Locke have become friends, Michael tells his son to stay from Locke. Michael made a promise that when the rain stops, he would continue to look for Vincent. Which is also about the time the rain stops. On his search he hears a sound and runs away from it running into a topless Sun.

The rest of the beach hears the pain of the dying Marshal. His obsession with bringing Kate back goes well beyond the job. Even to the point that he wanted Kate to end his suffering. Sawyer obliged by shooting him in the chest, missing his heart, and collapsing a lung. Sawyer was obviously sick with himself for his ineptitude. Jack, as far as we know, finished the job.

Season 1 Episode 04
Title: Walkabout
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: David Fury
FlashBack: Locke

FlashBack:
Locke’s eye opens and he sits up on the beach. The end of the episode shows a broader version of the same sequence.

Beach at night: Vincent is barking, something is rummaging through the fuselage. Jacks shines a light into the plane to see two glowing eyes looking back. Eveyone is frightened, and Locke is smiling as if he knows something that no one else knows.

The secondary story in this episode is the burning of the fuselage. It is an effort that is started by Jack with strong objections from Sayid. Since the bodies will attract scavengers and there is no way to dig a grave deep enough for 20 or so bodies, making the fuselage into a furnace is the best way to deal with the dead. There was tension between Jack and Sayid in these early episode. One resonating argument that Jack offered was, "Any bodies we bury will not stay buried for long." For one day, their task is to gather enough wood to make the fuselage into a funeral pyre.

Unfortunately, they are out of food, but no matter. Locke has a plan. He breaks out his knives, and we are overwhelmed with the question, "Who is this guy?" It is time to go hunting.

FlashBack

Locke is working in his cubicle when someone calls calling him colonel. The time is set for the rendevous. His boss Randy gives him a hard time about his TPS Reports.

At the rendezvous, he is playing command and conquer to the chastizement of his boss. Randy looked through his things and found out that he was going on a walkabout. He tells Randy that a "Walkabout is a spiritual journey… one draws strength from the earth… becomes inseparable from it."

On the Island

Michales wants to go with the hunting party to get to know his sons new friend. He hand gestures to son to see if she will watch Walt. Sayid begins his plan to triangulate the signal. Kate uses the boar hunt as an excuse to help Sayid.

Claire collects personal effects of the dead to use in a eulogy. She asks Jack to give, but he refuses.

Locke picks up the boars trail. They fan out to surround it when it charges. Locke pushes Kate out of the way, but it goars Michael. Everyone is on their back.

FlashBack

Locke is in bed and on the phone with Helen. He tells her how great it was to tell off his boss Randy. How it was freeing. We get the standard that’s great from the other end. He then tells her that he has purchased two tickets for a walkabout. He wants her to go with him. She stammers and tells him it is inappropiate. If he continues on the phone he will have to pay another $89.95.

On the Island

Kate needs help with Michael, but Locke is unresponsive. He is on back almost waiting for something. He looks at is feet, wiggle them and then gets up. Kate tells him that he can’t go after the boar, to which he responds to her the same way he responded to Randy earlier, "don’t tell me what I can’t do."

Jack speaks to Rose. She tells him that her husband is still alive. She has faith. While speaking to her, he sees someone in the distance that looks familiar.

While going through personal affects, Claire runs across an envelope with Sayids’ name on it. It has pictures inside of someone he cares for.

On the way back, Kate and Michael stop. Kate climbs a tree to put up the antenna for Sayid. While she is up there, the monster reappears in the distance headed for Locke. She drops the antenna breaking it.

The Monster moves in to Locke who is standing there staring into it.

Kate and Michael return with news that Locke may not have made it. As they are debriefing, Jack sees the person again, this time he goes after him as he makes his way into the jungle. Following he and Kate hear a sound. It is Locke draggin a boar behind him.

At night, the service begins. The fuselage is lit as Claire reads off the names. Jack is not at the funeral.

FlashBack

As the camera focuses on Lock, we see him at a tour guide in Australia. They refuse to let him go on the walkabout. They say that he did not disclose his condition and they will fly him back to Sydney. He just can’t do it. As the guide walks out, Locke rolls his wheelchair back saying this is "my destiny, don’t tell me what I can’t do!"

FlashBack to Crash
Locke looks down, wiggles his toes which is an incredible moment for him. He puts on his shoes and we are put back into the opening moments of the pilot.

Season 1 Episode 05
Title: White Rabbit
Director: Kevin Hooks
Writer:Christian Taylor
FlashBack: Jack

FlashBack:
A young Jack awakes with blood trickling down a cut above the eye. Mark is being held at the fence while older boys are taking their shot at him. All he has to do is lie there and he will be okay. He needs to help his friend so he gets up and it greeted by the fist of one of the bullies.

Beach:
The memory is interrupted by an emergency on the beach. Someone is drowning. While Charlie explains that he can’t swim, Jack jumps in to get her. He swims to a point and dives down pulling out Boone who asks if he got her? Got who? Boone was trying to save someone else. Jack goes back in but realizes there is no way to save her.

Kate is talking to Jack pointing out that he needs rest. As they talk, he sees someone in a suit on the beach. Kate never saw anyone there.

Sawyer is selling off items that he has collected. Shannon is unwilling to pay the price for the sunscreen to which Sawyer responds that he accepts checks.

Hurley and Charlie turn to Jack about the water supplies being low, to which Jack wants nothing to do the responsibility.

FlashBack
Jacks father tells him that he simply doesn;t have what it takes. When Jack fails he internalizes it. When his father fails, he rationalizes it. To his father, Jack is weak because he feels his failures and feels the consequences for getting involved.

Beach:
Boone is all over Jack about saving him. He rejects Jacks authority and states that he knows how to lead as well. After all, he runs his momma’s company. While Boone is still yelping at him, he see the figure we now recognize as his father (with white shoes) in the distance. He walks past Boone and follows this man into the Jungle. When he reaches him, before he can touch him, them man turns around to reveal that he is Jacks father.

Claire faints and Charlie goes to find the water which is now missing, stolen. Locke goes looking for more in the jungle.

FlashBack
Jack in the study looking out a window at his reflection. His moms demand that he go and get his father after because of what he (Jack) has done. His father is in Australia.

Jack continue to runs after the man in the jungle. Birds call and every once in a while he sees the man and commits to run in the new direction.

FlashBack:
The hotel manager does not know where his father is. He has not been to his room in days and his wallet and medication is still in the room. The manager asks him to check with the hospitals.

Jungle:
He gets close and focus on the man, not the ground which causes him to fall down a hill and over a cliff. He catches a vine while going over and it prevents him of falling to his death. Just before he loses his grip, Locke reaches over and pulls Jack up to safety.

A moment with the Jack and Locke. Locke tells Jack what if the hallucinations where trying to tell him something. Locke tells Jack that it is not enough to just lead, a leader needs to know where to lead.

Beach:
Sun has water that Jin traded Sawyer for with a fish. This sends everyone into a fenzy. Charlie does his best to comfort Claire.

FlashBack:
Jack identifies his Dad’s body at the morgue.

Jungle:
Jack wipes his tears by the fire in the jungle. He is alone and hers more sounds. He follow the figure until he finds a coffin

FlashBack:
Jack is at the airport with Jin in the line behind him. He is emotionally explaining that he needs to get his father’s body home and he needs to bury him.

At the Cave:
He takes the nearest blunt object and bludgeons the coffin to pieces.

Beach:
Boone is caught as the water thief. He explains to the very angry mob that he was trying to help, when Jack appears giving hope and direction. After 6 days, no one is coming and it is time for them to live together.

Season 1 Episode 06
Title: House of the Rising Sun
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writers: Javier Grillo-Marxuach
FlashBack: Sun and Jin

Opening focus is on Sun’s eye. She looks at her husband as he whacks a fish against a rock to kill it.

FlashBack:
A very upscale party in Korea. Jin is serving the guests and Sun is enjoying the party. Jin approaches Sun and professes his love for her by offering a flower as an engagement promise. Sun wants to run away to America, but Jin wants to honor her and her father.

Jin sees Michael and storm off and tackles Michael. On top of him, he beats him and tries to drown him to the horror of everyone else witnessing. Sayid and Sawyer partner to subdued Jin by handcuffing him to wreckage.

To the Caves:
Charlie steps on the beehive. Locke has a plan to cover the hive, but Charlie has to be perfectly still.

Beach:
Sayid asks Michael what he did to which Michael blames on racism.

FlashBack:
A plush pond, Jin is walking away from the building where he approaches Sun looking disappointed. Then he smiles and tells her that her father gave his blessing. He has to work for him one in exchange for her hand in marriage.

Caves:
Charlie struggle to remain still until a bee stings him. He slaps it, the hive breaks in and everyone runs. Kate uses the bees following her as an excuse to take off her top. She runs into the cave where she finds a badly decomposed body.

Jack examines the bodies. They were placed in this cave for at least 40 years ago according to Jack and they were found with two stones, one black and one white. Charlie walks in with Kates shirt. Kate responded of her lost shirt, it was full of Bee’s. He responds, "I though C’s actually." Locke comments that they have their own "Adam and Eve."

Beach: Sun is taking care if a whiny Jin

FlashBack:
Sun enters a nicely decorated apartment where there is a present waiting for her. It is a puppy, but we learn that it is to keep her company while Jin is working late. He gets a call and has to take it. They are growing apart.

In the jungle, Kate thinks Jack is checking her out to which says that she would know if he was checking her out. To her disappointment, he was actually thinking about bringing everyone to the from the beach to the caves. Kate is not convinced of the plan.

Walt questions Michael about the attack. We find out that this father and son are mere strangers.

Sun again tends to Jin

FlashBack:
Jin enters the apartment and rushes to that bathroom. He has blood on his hands. He says that he was working and she slaps him. The affection that was in his eyes at the beginning of the episode is now gone.

Caves: Charlie seems to be followed by Locke. Locke finally reveals that he is a fan of Drive Shaft and has both albums. And he know that Charlie is looking for his guitar. Locke tells Charlie that he will find it because he has faith.

Beach: Kate and Jack are still talking about moving to the caves. Some do not want to go because they are not willing to give up rescue. And Kate is not willing to be "Eve."

Sun finds Michael and speaks to him in English. She explains that the attack was a matter of honor. Jin saw Michael wearing a watch that belonged to Sun’s father.

FlashBack:
A home decorator gives Sun a plan to getaway from her husband at the Sydney airport. A car will be waiting for at the door. It will look like a kidnapping.

Caves: Charlie gets away from Locke to get a hit. As he pulls out the drugs, Locke is there.. Locke explains that the island will give you what you but you have to give up something. Charlie wants his guitar and Locke insists, so Charlie hands over the drugs. Locke tells him to look up, where he sees his guitar hanging from a tree above them.

Beach: Michael approaches Jin with the axe. Over a watch? He cuts the handcuffs off saying that time doesn’t matter on this damn island.

FlashBack:
At the Sydney airport, Sun is about to make her escape until she sees Jin holding an orchid like the one when their love was young.

The losties are divided, each camp, the caves and the beach, have their fires burning.

Season 1 Episode 07
Title: The Moth
Director: Jack Bender
Writers: Jennifer Johnson, Paul Dini
FlashBack: Charlie

This is another episode that opens with an eye. This is however is the "eye" of a guitar up to the eyes of Charlie. Either he sucks at playing or the withdrawls are really messing him up. Locke tells a walk will do him good. He goes out and hears something, maybe the "monster."

FlashBack

Charlie is confessing to his priest about things that make you understand why the celebacy requirement for preist may not be in the Church’s best interest.

Outside the church, Liam meets him with the details of a recording contract.

On Island

Charlie is running his with a boar behind him. It turns out that Charlie was being used by Locke as bait. Charlie demands his drugs to which Locke lays out the deal for Charlie. Charlie gets to asks for his drugs three times. On the third time, he will give him the drugs. To be clear, this was the first.

Sayid tells Kate of his plan to triangulate the signal by using bottle rockets for signal flares. Really, fireworks smugglers?

Charlie gets in the way trying to help move bags to the caves. One of the bags has a bottle of pills that Charlie considers taking for a "headache," but Diazepam is a little strong for headaches. Jack takes the pills and Charlie returns to his guitar feeling unimportant.

FlashBack

Liam tries to convinces Charlie to stay in he band. Charlie ultimately agrees on the promise that they will walk away if it no longer is about the music.

Back at the Caves

Hurley tells Charlie that he has to move his guitar to make room for supplies. He confronts Jack proclaming that he is a "Rock God" which results in rocks falling on top of them in the cave.

The triangulation party (Kate and Sayid) make their way through the jungle while Boone shifts his responsibility to the cause to Shannon to help dig out Jack. Sawyer chases after them to tell Kate what happened to Jack. Charlie made it out of the initial cave in, but is now alone after enlisting help.

FlashBack

Fans screaming, lights flashing, Rock gods on stage. Charlie on his bass looks at Liam as he takes Charlie’s chorus in the song, "You all everybody." Backstage, Charlie is mad but is just as easily dismissed by his older brother as others have done on the island. Liam leaves him and retreats to his women and drugs.

In the Caves

Everyone is helping clear the rubble from the cave opening. We learn that Michael was in contruction, and he lends his expertise to the project.

Sawyer catches up to the triangulation party to tell Kate the events in the cave, but her unkind response to him causes him to reconsider. He invites himself along for the adventure.

While Locke is working on the boar that Charlie helped trap, he tells of the situation with Jack. Locke, understanding that this is not about Jack, asks him what he is really here for. This is the second time that Charlie asks for the drugs to which Locke uses visual aids to make a point… Locke explains to us that the caterpillar for moths are more interesting than butterflies even though the result of their metamorphosis is much less brilliant than the butterfly. If, when the moth is in the cocoon, someone tries to help by opening the cocoon, the moth will not be strong enough to survive. Struggle is necessary to strengthen.

The rescuers finally tunnel through to where Jack can hear them. He is pinned down. Someone has to go in after him, and Charlie volunteers without an objection from anyone.

Sayid leave Kate and Sawyer at the point in the triangulation effort. Sayid gives instructions to both of them. Sawyer eggs on Kate about Jack to which she tells Sawyer how he doesn’t compare to Jack. This is enough venom to allow him to tell her about Jack’s predicament.

As Charlie tunnels trough the rubble…

FlashBack

Charlie is tunneling through the crowd to get backstage. Charlie finds Liam drinking with groupies. Charlie gets on his brother about missing another sound check and he threatens to cancel the rest of the tour. They agreed to walk away before beginning the tour, but now Liam is a product of the fame. Liam leaves Charlie devastated. Charlie turns to Liam’s drugs and begin his collapse.

In the Cave

The walls begin to collapse as Charlie reaches Jack. They are both trapped. Charlie unpins Jack and helps crunch his shoulder back into place. Just take a moment to imagine that sound.

FlashBack

In Australia, a messed up Charlie visits a cleaned up Liam. Charlie pleads with Liam to revive the band, but Liam refuses. Instead he offers Charlie a chance to get cleaned up himself. Charlie, committed to the fame and the drugs storms off for L.A.

At the Caves

Kate arrives to a disheartened group. She energizes them and continues the recus effort.

Jack sees that Charlie is going through withdrawls and tells him that he will help. When it looks like it might be too late, Charlie sees a moth. he chases it until he breaks through to the ground. Charlie and Jack stumble back to the camp where everyone passes by Charlie.

On the Beach, Shannon lets off the bottle rocket after seeing Sayid’s. The third one is up giving Sayid the signal that he needs to turn on the transceiver. He gets a full set of bars and a log to the head. (Concussion number 1)

That night at the fire, Charlie goes to Locke and asks him a third time for his drugs. Charlie takes them, looks at them, then tosses them in the fire. Locke expresses his pride Charlie as he watches a moth flutter above the fire.