Episode Analysis of 1.04 "Walkabout"

WARNING: If you have not already seen all of LOST, please DO NOT READ THIS.

My LOST re-watch and episode analysis will include major details from the entirety that is LOST, and will be written with the perspective of having seen everything already. You will be SPOILED if you read any further. It is far better if you learn the story of LOST for yourself, as it is meant to be seen. Trust me on this, and don't say that I didn't warn you first. Seriously. Stop it. Now. Go watch it.

To read my original post on this episode, please refer to Walkabout.

This episode was written by David Fury, and directed by Jack Bender. It originally aired on October 13th, 2004.

This is a John Locke flashback-centric episode.

We begin with the opening of John Locke's eye. He's lying on a beach, at the site of the plane crash. The engine is loud, and everyone is screaming.

The Incident, Initial Reaction

THAT'S JACOB?!?! SERIOUSLY? FINALLY! ROSE AND BERNARD! AND VINCENT!

Questions:

• Did the bomb actually explode?
• If it did, is that what caused the magnetic anomaly and caused the incident to begin with?
• Is Juliet dead? Come on, she has to be dead, right?
• So, was Richard on the Black Rock?
• How is he ageless? Why did Jacob make him that way?
• Is Jacob evil? Is his "friend" the good one?
• Why did he have to find a loophole to kill Jacob?
• Is this the end of Rose and Bernard? Are they Adam and Eve?
• Why did Jacob visit everyone? Why did he touch them?
• Did Jacob kill Nadia, or prevent Sayid from dying?
• What is in the guitar case that Jacob gave to Hurley?
• If fake John Locke is the smoke monster, or Esau, then how does he have all of his memories, and know that Ben was the one who killed him?
• Is Locke really dead?
• What the hell is Kate's purpose anymore?
• Is Sayid dead? Will the island heal him?
• How does Ilana know Jacob? Why was she covered in bandages?
• Who broke the line in the ash around the cabin?
• How did Locke's body get from the coffin into the crate that Ilana and Bram were carrying?
• What happened to the four-toed statue?
• They're coming? Who's coming?
• Were the people from 1977 flashed to present time?
• What the hell is going on? Where is this show going to be next year?

Notes:

• Absolutely loved the opening scene. Very symbolic, following the black and white theme, commonly seen throughout the entire series. Jacob, the hieroglyphs, the four-toed statue, the Black Rock arriving at the island, very well done all-around.
• People are saying that the two men in the opening scene are Jacob and Esau from the bible, who are brothers. People are also saying that perhaps Jacob, wearing the white shirt, is the evil one and "Esau," wearing the black shirt is the good one. I'm starting to really believe that. Considering that, obviously "Esau" is the smoke monster. and has been using John Locke's body in order to find the loophole to kill Jacob. Jacob is the one bringing all of these people to the island, causing conflict and people to be killed. Esau seems to disagree with it.
• Also, considering that Ben never spoke to or saw Jacob, therefore it wasn't Jacob who was in the cabin, but Esau, and Christian Shephard was speaking on his behalf, telling Locke to move the island. The smoke monster, as Alex, was also the one that told Ben to do everything Locke says.
• Cool, we finally got to see the full statue. Also, is has been confirmed that it is Tawaret.
• I cannot believe that not only did they make Juliet die in a completely campy way, but they totally betrayed her character by making her do things that didn't make any sense whatsoever, coughing her up to being nothing but some chick that died just because she thought she couldn't get some dude to love her. What was the point of putting her character through this whole season for that? From our very introduction to her character, she's wanted nothing more than to get off the island, then they give her the opportunity to do so, even if it was in the 1970s, and she doesn't take it. Then she leaves the island again, on the submarine, with Sawyer, and it looks like everything is going to be fine and well for her, but no, she has to go back to save everyone from Jack setting up the bomb, then to have her suddenly change her mind and be the one that "blows" the bomb in the end. What the hell? Come on, guys.
• Not to mention, they put us through the agony of her death, and watching Sawyer's heartache, while she's ripped down a hole by chains which was so stupid, not only, after all of that, she's still alive and blows up a bomb by hitting it with a rock.
• Speaking of which, a hydrogen bomb doesn't go off by throwing it several hundred feet, but hitting it with a rock does the job. Okay.
• Well, we actually don't know if the bomb went off or not. Nor do we know if Juliet is actually dead. I know, I know. But still. That really irked me.
• That was Jacob? Come on, the guy we've been hearing about since Season 2? Though I wasn't disappointed with him at all really. I thought the character and acting were really good, it's just not how a imagined him at all.
• Jacob is kind of a dick. I would've killed him too.
• I thought it was cool how Jacob visited everyone.
• The Juliet flashback was totally out of place, considering the flashbacks were Jacob-centric and Jacob didn't even visit her. The whole point of her flashback was to set up what happens between her and Sawyer. Lame.
• Rose and Bernard! Vincent! That scene was hilarious and pretty awesome. Rose saying "Oh, hell no!" and Bernard going "Son of a bitch!" Good closure on Rose and Bernie, really enjoyed that part, probably my favorite.
• Rose is right, everyone needs to stop trying to shoot eachother and have some tea.
• Where the hell were Penny and Desmond? If that was the end of their story, I'm not going to be happy about it.
• I'm also not going to be happy if everything I've watched for the past 5 years is going to be completely obsolete by the plane landing in Los Angeles and none of it ever happening.
• Although, it would be kind of cool if they had one episode where they showed us what everyone's lives would have been like if the plane never crashed, but just one episode.
• Jacob made physical contact with everyone that he visited.
• Jacob visited young Kate, who was with Tom, stealing the New Kids on the Block lunchbox, which the used as a time capsule, burying Tom's toy plane, among other things, inside, and later dug up together. Jacob touched Kate on the nose.
• Thank God Phil is dead, though I was kind of hoping Sawyer would kill him.
• Now, just for Radzinsky.
• Ben admitted that he's never met Jacob.
• Jacob visited young Sawyer at his parents' funeral, while he was writing the infamous letter, giving him a pen to borrow, touching his hand.
• That was totally Sawyer's uncle with the brain tumor.
• Jacob visits Sayid, asks him for directions, and causes Nadia to get hit by a car and dies, telling Sayid to bring her home, which is why she was buried in Iraq.
• I'm not going to be happy if Sayid is dead.
• The line in the ash around the cabin was broken.
• Jacob visited Ilana, asking her to help him. She was covered in bandages.
• Jacob visited Locke, was reading the book Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor, after Anthony Cooper pushed him from the window, Jacob touched Locke, appearing to heal him and make him come back alive somehow.
• Sun found Charlie's DS ring. Finally! Someone found that damn thing. Now, she just has to give the damn thing to Claire or Aaron.
• Jacob visited Sun and Jin on their wedding day, speaking Korean to them, telling them that their love is special, wishing them well.
• Jacob visited Jack at his infamous "count to five" story from The Pilot, Part 1, after which he was buying an Apollo candybar from the vending machine.
• Jack and Sawyer finally throwdown.
• Jacob visits Hurley after he's released from jail, telling him that he's blessed, and not cursed, touches him, gives him the guitar case.
• "Live together, die alone." Enough!
• Radzinsky tries to drive away in a damn Dharma Jeep. What an idiot.
• The tapestry was translated as "May Heaven grant you in all things your heart's desire," which is said by Odysseus, in The Odyssey, by Homer.
• Instead of the show ending with a "LOST" flash and a fade to black, it faded to white, which I thought was a nice touch.

Initially following this episode, I wasn't sure if I loved it or hated it, or felt somewhere in between the two. Now, after some thinking and watching it a couple of times, I'm still not sure. I guess it's somewhere in between. There are parts that I loved, but there are parts that I loathed. I've gone back and forth from it being one of the best final episodes of a season and the worst ever. I've heard tons of people say that Season 5 was the best season ever, and then alternatively, I've heard people say that they "jumped the shark" after ever single episode. I don't believe that either of those statements are true. But that still doesn't arrive me at a conclusion. I think I'm going to let it sit for the next 8 months and then decide, or maybe even until the very end. I'm just a little too confused right now.

4.10 Something Nice Back Home

1. Juliet wakes Jack, everyone is arguing with Charlotte and Daniel, Daniel says they have no signal, Jack says to clam down, agrees, says he knows they're lying, sooner or later their people will come back for them, and they'll be waiting, promised they'd get off the Island, Jack collapses in pain.From Lostpedia
   
2. Jack in bed, gets up, bare chested, the phone rings, Jane confirming consult with Ms. Berenberg, has a scar on his lower abdomen, goes to kitchen, hears whispers, trips on toy, makes coffee, newspapers reads "Yankees Bludgeon Red Sox in Sweep," goes to take a shower, Kate is there.From Lostpedia
3. Jack is reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Aaron, he tells Kate that his old man used to read that story to him, that he was a good story teller, Kate says she's glad he changed his mind, glad he's there.
4. "Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: `Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? But if I'm not the same, the next question is, 'Who in the world am I?' Aha, that's the great puzzle." JackFrom Lostpedia
5. Jack gets up, they say he fainted, he says he's just dehydrated, but Kate says that he's not fine.
6. Claire is feeling better, but she has a bit of a headache, says at least she's not seeing things anymore, Miles hears voices, asks who Danielle and Karl are, they find the bodies buried, face up, Sawyer says they'll be back to the beach by noon tomorrow.From Lostpedia
7. Jacks says he has food poisoning, Juliet says to lift his shirt, checks it out, she says that it's his Appendix, Jack says the pain started yesterday, that it hasn't ruptured yet, but Juliet says they have to take it out.
   
8. Juliet sends Sun to The Staff station for medical supplies because she knows where it is, she needs the medical instruments for Jack's Appendectomy but Sun doesn't know what they look like, Daniel offers to help, says he's done animal autopsies, says they're Scientists and they don't take anyone to get hurt, so Sun and Jin go and Charlotte and Dan join them, Juliet says that if they try to run, to shoot them in the leg.From Lostpedia
9. Juliet says they need to create a sterile environment, that Jack can't be brought to The Staff instead because his Appendix might rupture, and he'll die.
10. Sawyer tells Miles he has a restraining order and to stay away from Claire.
11. Rose wonders why Jack got sick, Bernie says it was bad luck, happened the day before they're supposed to leave, Rose says people don't get sick on the Island, they get better.
12. "Why did he get sick?" Rose "Why? It's just--it's just bad luck." Bernard "The day before we're all supposed to be rescued, the person that we count on the most suddenly comes down with a life-threatening condition, and you're chalking it up to bad luck?" Rose "Well, what are you saying, that--that Jack did something to offend the Gods? People get sick, Rose." Bernard "Not here. Here, they get better." Rose
13. Juliet shaves Jack's stomach, she says she did a lot of Appendectomies in her Medical Residency, Jack looks at where she is shaving and tells her the incision is two inches lower, Jack wants to stay awake for the surgery and talk her through it, they can use Lidocaine to numb the area, he'll watch and Kate will hold a mirror, Juliet says she needs someone with Medical experience to help, she wants Bernard to instead, but Jack says no, he wants Kate to be there.
14. Jack, working at St. Sebastian's, with patient Ms. Berenberg who leaves, he sees someone walking, looks like Christian Shephard, Erika asks him to take a look at an x-ray on the L4, he gets a call from Dr. Stillman, he's from Santa Rosa, he says Hurley refuses to take meds, stopped sleeping, and therapy is useless because he thinks his doctor doesn't exist.
15. Jack goes to visit, asks why he isn't taking his meds, Hurley says they're dead, the Oceanic 6, that they never get off Island, he asks Jack what he did today, and Jack says that he woke up, took shower, he and Kate fed the baby, Hurley says he thought Jack didn't want anything to do with Aaron, Jack says he changed his mind after the trial, Hurley says everything is perfect, just like Heaven, living with Kate and and taking care of Aaron, Jack says just because he's happy doesn't mean it's not real, Hurley says he was happy too, but then he saw Charlie, that he likes to sit with him on the bench out on the front lawn, yesterday Charlie told him that Jack would be coming by, he wanted Hurley to give him a message, that he made him write it down, the note says "You're not supposed to raise him, Jack," Hurley asks if he thinks that means Aaron, Charlie also said someone will be visiting Jack soon too, Jack gets upset and leaves.
16. "I was happy, too, Jack... for a while, anyway. Then I saw Charlie. He likes to sit with me on the bench out on the front lawn. It's pretty cool, actually." Hurley From Lostpedia
17. While at The Staff, Jin asks Sun if she thinks Charlotte knows that Dan likes her, Charlotte looks at them like she understand Korean, Daniel asks where they think all the power is coming from on the Island, Charlotte says to add it to the list, Sun tells Jin The Staff is where Juliet brought her, Jin promises to get her and the baby off the Island.
18. Sawyer, Claire and Miles run into Frank Lapidus, he warns them that Keamy and his men are coming, says they're wounded, they show up and Frank tells them they have to get back now, that he's not flying at night.From Lostpedia
19. Juliet asks Kate to help with the surgery, Kate says she's surprised he's not taking his Appendix out himself.
20. Jack is back at Santa Rosa, in his car, watching, he goes back home, asks Kate if she really thinks he's good at this, asks her to marry him, gives her a ring, she says yes.
21. They're back from The Staff, Juliet asks Sun to sterilize the instruments, Jin tells Charlotte he knows she understands him, that she speaks Korean, that she smiled when he was talking about her, asks about listening station, says if she continues to lie, he'll hurt Daniel, break his fingers, Charlotte admits she understands, he makes her promise to take his wife off the Island when the helicopter comes.From Lostpedia
22. Bernard says he could use Chloroform to knock Jack out, asks if he'd rather dream about something nice back home, but he declines, Juliet starts the surgery, but Jack is struggling with the pain, Juliet tells Bernard to knock him out, but Jack is fighting it, Bernard uses the Chloroform, Juliet yells for Kate to leave.From Lostpedia
23. Jack is at St. Sebastian, looking at x-rays, he hears beeps, it's the smoke alarm,goes to check it out, his dad says "Jack," Jack is startled, he sees him, Christian Shephard is wearing the suit and tennis shoes he was buried in, then Erika interrupts him, startles him again, he asks her to write a script for Clonazepam, says that he's not sleeping well, has a lot going on, she tells him to talk to someone.From Lostpedia
24. Jack gets home, Kate is on the phone, she says Jack is never home before 8, that she can stay for at least an hour, gets off the phone, she tells Jack that it's Noreen, one of the moms from the park, Jack says she's never mentioned her before, he drinks and takes pills.
25. Camp fire, Aaron is gone, Christian Shephard is holding him, Claire investigates and finds them.From Lostpedia
26. Bernard tells Kate the surgery went well, Juliet said she can go back inside, she tells her Jack is fine, they'll have to talk him into rest, Juliet tells her that Jack kissed her, that it was nice, but he did it for him, to prove that he doesn't love someone else, Kate says thanks, leaves, Jack is awake, overheard the whole thing.
27. Jack comes home early, tells Kate that he sent Veronica home early, asks where she was, why Veronica was there so late, Kate says she was running errands, Jack tells her that he went to see Hurley, last Friday, Kate asks why he didn't tell her, she would've gone, Jack says that he's crazy, he didn't want to upset her, he asks where she was, she asks him to trust her, to just leave it be, but Jack insists, asks who she was talking to on the phone, wants to know where she was, who she was with, she says that she was doing something for Sawyer, that she made a promise, that he wouldn't want her to tell him, Jack says he's not there, that he made his choice, that he chose to stay, Jack is the one who came back, that he's the one who's here, that he saved her, Kate says that if he has a problem, he needs to figure it out, but that she can't have him around her son, Jack says that she's not even related to him, Aaron walks in on their argument.
28. Sawyer wakes up, Miles says that Claire walked off into the jungle in the middle of the night with her dad, they hear Aaron crying, find him left under a tree, alone, Claire is gone.
    

Questions:

1. Do Charlotte and Daniel really not know anything? Are they just a Science Team?
2. What was Claire seeing when she wasn't feeling well?
3. Hey, Juliet, I thought you weren't a surgeon? So you can't remove a bullet, but you can perform an Appendectomy? What's next, Heart Surgery?
   
4. Did Jack get sick for a reason? Was he not supposed to leave the Island?
5. Why do some people get cured on the Island and some get sick?
   
6. How and why is Christian Shephard appearing to Jack off Island?
   
7. What did Charlie mean by telling Jack that he's not supposed to raise him?
8. Is Jack not supposed to raise Aaron or someone else?
9. What powers the DHARMA stations?
10. Why does Christian appear to Claire? Why does she go with him?

Favorites:

1. "Just watch your tone, Red." Rose
2. "I don't say nice things about my dad? Well, he was a good storyteller. I'll give him that." Jack
3. "Don't look at her. Don't talk to her. Don't mess with her. You got a restraining order. 20 feet." Sawyer "What are you, her big brother?" Miles 
4. "Do you think she knows he likes her?" Jin "She's a woman. She knows." Sun
5. "Where do you suppose all this power's coming from?" Dan "Add that one to the list, Dan." Charlotte 
6. "If you continue to lie... I'm going to hurt your friend Daniel. I'm going to break his fingers one at a time. Do you understand that?" Jin
7. "Wouldn't you rather be dreaming about something nice back home?" Bernard
8. "I would like to be able to tell you you' not gonna feel a thing, but... you will." Juliet 
9. "You know, getting engaged is supposed to help reduce stress, not create it." Erika 
10. "Dad?" Claire
11. "He should be fine. We just have to talk him into resting." Juliet "Good luck with that." Kate 
12. "I'd have followed them, but I have a restraining order." Miles

Notes:

1. Jack steps on a Millennium Falcon, which is yet another Star Wars reference.
2. The toy can also be a reference to Sawyer, who had made several Star Wars references himself throughout the series. Jack also exclaims "Son of a bitch!" which is a Sawyer line.
   
3. When Jack is seen shirtless in the flashforward, he has a scar where his appendix would be. Obviously this is shown for continuity, but there was a big deal made over the fact that Matthew Fox had shaved his chest and stomach for this episode, when he was clearly hairy previously. Kate also says that she bought Jack a razor in the same scene. Obviously the chest-shaving was done to show the scar from his surgery in this episode, which was revealed in the flashforward before we knew that it happened on the island.
4. I always wonder what exactly Jack is responding to when he scoffs at the newspaper and exclaims "A-Rod."
5. The Yankees/Red Sox series, to my memory, occurred in August of 2006.
   
6. This is not my favorite episode ever. In fact, I think it's one of the weakest of Season 4. Maybe it's just that I don't enjoy Jack or Kate flashes so much anymore. I'd rather learn about characters that I don't know that much about yet. However, I love the scene with Hurley. Jorge Garcia's serious acting is so underrated.
   
7. When Jack is supposed to work on someone with an L4 vertebrae problem, obviously he was familiar with it already, because he operated on Ben who had a tumor on his L4.
8. Jack gets a prescription for Clonazepam. Hurley asked Sawyer for Clonazepam in Dave. He said he needed it so that he wouldn't see things. Now Jack is the one seeing things and taking pills.
   
9. Jack is looking pretty freakin' crazy right here. This is one of Jack's craziest Crazy-Jack moments.
10. The title comes from something Bernard says to Jack during the surgery, "dream of something nice back home."
    
11. In Raised by Another, Richard Malkin told Claire that she was the only one who could raise the baby, but she wanted to give it up for adoption, when she decides not to, he then changed his story and told her that there was a couple in Los Angeles that would adopt the baby. He said "They're not strangers. They're good people." Now, there is a couple in Los Angeles raising Aaron. Was Richard Malkin somehow talking about Jack and Kate?
12. You didn't save Kate, Jack. What the hell is wrong with you? Sawyer saved her more than you did.
13. Why in the hell did Keamy bury Danielle and Karl's bodies face up, showing through the dirt? Not only is he a ruthless kill, but he's lazy too.
14. Uh, usually the Smoke Monster beats the crap out of people and kills them. Those guys had a few scratches.
    
15. Hurley states that someone will be visiting Jack as well, this is reminiscent to ghosts visiting Scrooge in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
    
16. This episode was the second time Kate's identity was revealed in a shower scene. Not complaining.
17. Sawyer's evolution to leader begins, and Jack's drug addiction begins.
    
18. I dare you to name a Jack flashback/forward where Jack hasn't cried. Go ahead, find one.
    

2.19 S.O.S.

1. Rose and Bernard are organizing the food, they argue about everyone settling on the island, Bernard says that everyone's given up on getting rescued. From Lostpedia
2. Locke attempts to recreate a map drawing from the blast door.
3. Jack checks on Henry's wound, tells him he wants to make a trade.
4. "They'll never give you Walt." Benry
5. Rose is stuck in the snow, Bernard tries to help, she says she's been driving in snow her whole life, but Bernard ends up healing her anyway, the first time they meet, she asks him if he wants to have coffee with her.
6. Bernard gathers people to help him, Libby, Sun and Jin, Jenkins, Neil Frogurt.
7. Jack is going to the line they're not supposed to cross, he asks Kate to go with him.
8. Bernard wants to do something to try to get off the island, they've been there for 2 months, he decides to make a sign, tries to gather people to help, but Rose doesn't approve and undermines him.
9. Rose and Bernard go to Niagara Falls, he asks her to marry him, says he's been a bachelor for 54 years, they just met 5 months ago, she tells him she's dying, she's sick, been in remission for the last couple of years, has about a year left, maybe longer, but Bernard asks again, she says yes.
10. Bernard asks Charlie and Eko for help, but they say no, he says everyone's building something on the island, but he's trying to get them saved.
11. "People are saved in different ways." Eko
12. Locke asks "Henry" if he pushed the button, Henry is in Locke's head.
13. No one is very enthusiastic about Bernard's idea of building a huge sign and carrying rocks from a lava field half a mile away.
14. Rose and Bernard go to Australia on their honeymoon, Bernard brings her to a faith healer, made a $10,000 donation to see him, but Rose doesn't want to go, she's accepted her death, he asks her to try anyway for him because he can't accept it. From Lostpedia
15. No one will help with Bernard's sign, he says it's Rose's fault for not standing behind him, but Rose says that he's always trying to do something, that he can't just be.
16. "If I didn't always have to do something, you wouldn't be here." Bernard
17. Jack and Kate get caught in a net, Kate says that the Others are more sophisticated, that it must be one of Rousseau's traps.
18. Rose and Locke talk, Rose tells him Bernard is building a sign, Locke says that he's done with the hatch, Rose says that he's just frustrated and he'll be back, Locke tells her that Jack said it would be 4 weeks before his leg gets better.
19. "But, honey, you and I both know it won't take that long." Rose From Lostpedia
20. Rose goes to the faith healer, Isaac of Uluru, he has many thank you letter and cards from patients, wheelchairs and crutches from people that he's healed. He says that there are places on the earth with energy, perhaps geological or magnetic, that he harnesses the energy and gives it to others, he tries to read Rose's energy, but he appears frightened by what he feels or sees, and he says that he can't help her, that it isn't the right place for her, there are different energies, but Rose isn't surprised, she didn't expect him to heal her anyway, she says not to return Bernard's money, that she's going to tell him he fixed her. From Lost Hatch From Lostpedia
21. Kate tells Jack about the medical station, costumes, fake beard, they reach the place they're not supposed to cross, where they gave up the guns to the Others, Jack yells for them, but nothing happens, no one is there, no one answers him.
    From Lostpedia
22. Rose tells Bernard that Isaac didn't heal her, that after the crash she was healed, that the island did it, he asks how she knows and she says she just knows.
23. Rose sees Locke in a wheelchair in the Sydney Airport. From Lostpedia
24. Bernard says Rose can't leave, that she thinks if she leaves, it will come back, he tells Rose that they don't have to leave, that he'll stop building the sign. From Lostpedia
25. Locke returns to the hatch, with a new-found faith, he begins to draw the map again. From Lostpedia
26. Charlie and Eko work on the church, Jin rubs Sun's belly, Claire plays with Aaron, Hurley makes shadow puppets for Libby, Sawyer feeds Vincent, Rose and Bernard cuddle as Otis Redding's "These Arms Are Mine" plays, Bernard is wearing his wedding ring again.
27. Kate and Jack still at the line, Kate says she's sorry she kissed him, but Jack says that he's not, and then Michael returns, collapses in front of them. From Lost Hatch

Questions:

1. Isaac tells Rose that it's not the place for her, but there are other places, did he know that it was the island that would heal her?
2. How did the island heal Rose's cancer?
3. Does Benry know what the button does, what happens when you don't push it?
4. If Bernard had finished the sign, would someone have spotted it from above?

Favorites:

1. "Oh happy day, here comes Doctor Giggles." Sawyer
2. "So, what does God have to do to get your attention?" Rose
3. "I think I liked you better when you just hit people with your stick." Bernard "I like you just the way you are." Charlie
4. "Oh, now you're just frustrated. You'll be out of that splint and running around the island again in no time." Rose tells Locke.
5. "I would offer to take down the sign, but we didn't get very far." Bernard

Notes:

1. Isaac has a similar reaction to Rose as Richard Malkin did to Claire in Raised By Another.
2. Although this is a filler episode, I really enjoy the Rose and Bernard flashback.
3. Jack tells Kate that he asked her to go with him because the Others don't want either of them, but he is wrong because they are two of the three that the Others take in Live Together, Die Alone.
4. Jack trying to keep Kate from picking up the doll and not getting caught in the net is like the worst acting job ever.
5. Jack screaming at the line they're not supposed to cross is the craziest Jack ever.

2.04 Everybody Hates Hugo

1. Hurley has a dream. He raids the food pantry. There is a milk carton with Walt on the side of it that says "MISSING." Jin and a man in a chicken suit appear. From Lost Hatch From Lostpedia
2. "Everything is going to change." Jin
3. Mary Jo is the lottery woman from the news.
4. Charlie asks Hurley about the hatch, but he won't disclose information.
5. Hurley tells Rose and brings her to the hatch.
6. Claire finds the message in a bottle from the raft. From Lost Hatch
7. Hurley has a job sorting all the food. He isn't supposed to give anyone anything.
8. Rose tells Hurley that she knows Bernard is fine.
9. "You're about the only one on this island that everybody loves." Rose tells Hurley that everyone won't hate him for making decisions with the food.
10. Hurley is contemplating his lottery ticket at his job. From Lostpedia
11. He gets in trouble for eating an 8-piece dark meat combo.
12. Hurley's manager at Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack, Randy, is the same guy from the box company that Locke worked at. He was also Locke's manager. From Lost Hatch
13. Hurley quits his job at Mr. Cluck's, and so does Johnny. From Lost Virtual Tour
14. Locke tells Charlie about the hatch, Desmond, and pushing the button.
15. Sayid and Jack explore underneath the Swan station. Sayid says there's a geothermal generator behind the wall, the power source.
    From Lostpedia From Lost Hatch
16. Sayid says the wall is 8 to 10 feet thick.
17. Michael tells his story to supposed "others," they believe him because they were on the plane too, in the back. They are the survivors from the tail section of the plane.
18. Hurley and his friend, Johnny, find Drive Shaft album in $2 Sale bin. From Lost Hatch
19. Hurley asks Starla out, tells her he quit his job.
20. "The last time I heard of concrete being poured over everything in this way was Chernobyl." Sayid
21. Libby tells Michael that 23 of them survived.
22. The tail section survivors found another station, The Arrow. It is an empty station. From Lost Hatch From Lostpedia
23. There were 23 of them.
24. Claire and Shannon tell Sun about finding the bottle of messages on the beach.
25. Locke is in the armory. Hurley confronts him about telling Charlie. From Lostpedia
26. Hurley and Johnny write "CLUCK YOU" in lawn gnomes on Randy's lawn. From Lostpedia
27. Hurley makes Johnny promise him that things won't change.
28. Rose stops Hurley from blowing up the food pantry.
29. Johnny discovers that it was Hurley who won the lottery. From Lost Virtual Tour From Lost Hatch
30. Hurley tells Jack he decided to have a party with the food instead.
31. Hurley gives Charlie a jar of peanut butter. From Lostpedia
32. Sun buries the bottle, no ring on her finger.
33. Michael, Sawyer and Jin meet Bernard. He asks them about Rose, tells them she's his wife. From Lostpedia

Questions:

1. Is Rose humming the same song from the beginning?
2. If titanium isn't magnetic then how did the magnetic anomaly bring the plane down when Desmond didn't push the button?
3. How does Sayid know that the concrete is 8 to 10 feet thick?
4. Was The Arrow station a storage facility? Was it ever occupied?
5. How did the guy at the gas station know it was Hurley who had the winning lottery ticket?
6. Will we ever see Johnny again? What happened between he and Hurley?

Favorites:

1. "Dude, you speak English?" Hurley "No, you're speaking Korean." Jin
2. "Have a cluckity cluck cluck day, Hugo."
3. "Maybe you should pee on it." Sawyer
4. "It's Jesus! He wants to know what color car you want!" Carmen Reyes
5. Charlie calls Hurley on lying about the hatch, like he did about having a lot of money, but Hurley says he didn't lie about that. "I'm sorry, I must have confused it with the 900 trillion I am worth myself. And this baby's made of chocolate lollipops. So, if you'll excuse us, I'm going to flap my wings and fly off this island." Charlie
6. "Honey, I don't even know what I would say." Rose, about telling people about the hatch.
7. "You didn't say three." Sawyer
8. "If you don't push it every 108 minutes the island will explode." Charlie "It's not gonna explode." Hurley "Haaa!" Charlie
9. "I'm sorry, I must have confused it with the 900 trillion I am worth myself. And this baby's made a chocolate lollipop; so if you'll excuse us, I'm going to flap my wings and fly off this island.
10. I'm sorry, I must have confused it with the 900 trillion I am worth myself. And this baby's made a chocolate lollipop; so if you'll excuse us, I'm going to flap my wings and fly off this island.
11. "Drive Shaft? More like Suck Shaft!" Johnny
12. "Dude, you've been crushing on this girl for months and doing nothing. Today you're freakin' Fabio!" Johnny
13. "Hey." Jack "Hey." Kate
14. "Not only will I stay gold, ponyboy, but I'll drink to it." Johnny

Notes:

1. I really like the closing montage scene with everyone sharing the food and Bernard asking Michael, Sawyer and Jin about Rose.
2. There appears to be a Dharma-type logo on the back of Johnny's van. From Lost Hatch
3. From Wikipedia: Chernobyl was a city in northern Ukraine, in the Kyiv Oblast near the border with Belarus. The city was evacuated in 1986 due to the Chernobyl disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.