2.03 Orientation

1. "Others" take Michael, Jin and Sawyer prisoner.
2. Locke meets Helen in anger management meeting.
3. Kate crawls through air vent, comes down in gun closet. She shoots the computer.
4. "We're all gonna die." Desmond tells them they have to fix the computer. From Lostpedia
5. "Do I know you?" Desmond recognizes Jack.
6. John goes to Cooper's house. He asks him why.
7. "You think you're the first person that ever got conned? You needed a father figure and I need a kidney, and that's what happened." Anthony Cooper
8. Jack insists Desmond tell him how he got on the island.
9. "It was three years ago. I was in a solo race around the world. My boat crashed into the reef, and then Kelvin came. He comes running out of the jungle. "Hurry, hurry, come with me." He bring me down here. First thing he does, cause it's already beeping, he types int he code, he pushes the button, and it stops. "What was that all about?" I say. "Just saving the world." He says.
10. "Saving the world?" Jack "His words, not mine." Desmond
11. "And we saved the world together for a while and that was lovely. Then Kelvin died, and now here I am all alone. The End." Desmond
12. Orientation film behind Turn of the Screw on the bookshelf. From Lost Hatch
13. Michael, Jin and Sawyer are in a hole. A girl is dropped into the hole. It is Ana Lucia, the woman from Flight 815 that Jack met in the airport. From Lostpedia
14. "The last time I saw the computer that was gonna save the world, it didn't look like that." Jack "Is the reason you're so upset because he said he recognized you? Because that would be impossible." Locke
15. Dharma Initiative 3 of 6 Orientation film 1980. Station 3 "The Swan," Dr. Marvin Candle, Dharma Initiative created in 1970, brain-child of Gerald and Karen DeGroot, two doctoral candidates at the University of Michigan, following BF Skinner, a large-scale communal compound, scientists and freethinkers pursue research in meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology, electromagnetism and Utopian social, Alvar Hanso financial backing, you and partner at Station 3 "The Swan" for next 540 days, station originally constructed as lab, scientists work to understand unique electromagnetic functions emanating from this sector of the island, not long after experiments began an incident occurred, since then, every 108 minutes, button must be pushed, from moment alarm sounds, 4 minutes to enter the code, alternating shifts.
16. "Do not attempt to use the computer for anything--" Namaste and good luck.
17. "Flight 815? You were in the back? It broke off in mid-air. How did you survive?" Michael
18. Ana Lucia doesn't know, she was knocked out, woke up underwater and swan to shore.
19. "Kelvin died waiting for his replacements." Desmond
20. "Did you ever think that maybe they put you down here to push a button every 108 minutes just to see if you would? That all of this, the computer, the button, is just a mind-game, an experiment." Jack "Every single day." Desmond
21. Desmond tries to fix computer, blows fuse, breaks it, leaves with medicine, food.
22. Helen asks John to choose her over Cooper, tells him that it's a leap of faith. From Lostpedia
23. Ana Lucia takes Sawyer's gun. She's one of "them."
24. Jack goes after Desmond, he realizes he met Jack in LA, he asks about Sarah. From Lostpedia
25. "See you in another life, yeah?" Desmond
26. Sayid fixes the computer. Locke wants Jack to push the button. From Lostpedia
27. "Why do you find it so hard to believe?" Locke "Why do you find it so easy?" Jack "It's never been easy!" Locke
28. "It's a leap of faith, Jack." Locke relays what Helen told him. From Lostpedia
    
29. Jack pushes the button.
    

Questions:

1. Why didn't anyone replace Desmond and Kelvin?
2. Helen says she wasted 20 years of her life being angry. Why was she in anger management?
3. Why was Desmond's story about coming to the island somewhat different? Does he just remember it different because he was disoriented? Why would he lie about it?
4. Why is The Swan Station not occupied by the others?
5. Do the others know Desmond is in The Swan?
6. What is the incident?
7. How did Marvin Candle lose his arm?
8. Why did Jack push the button when he was so adamant about not doing it?
9. What did Locke think was supposed to happen?

Favorites:

1. "It's about time things are finally returning to normalness. (Kate runs up to Hurley and Sayid, screaming.) Oh, crap." Hurley
2. "We're gonna need to watch that again." Locke
3. "Depends what you mean by it." Hurley looking for the conduit lines, but discovering the food pantry instead.
4. "You know what, forget it, go ahead, do your thing." Hurley, about typing in the numbers.

Notes:

1. The photograph we see of Desmond and a woman we later find is Penelope Widmore was not actually Sonya Walger in the original airing of this episode. The photograph was later fixed for the DVDs so that Sonya was in the picture with Desmond. From Lostpedia
2. When Anthony Cooper talks to Locke about conning him, it brought about the theory that he is the real Sawyer, the man who killed James "Sawyer" Ford's parents, and of course now we all know that he is.
3. The orientation film for The Swan station is the first time we hear of the Dharma Initiative.
4. Dharma stands for the Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications.
5. Why is Jack so difficult? Come on, Jack, watch the damn film again!