3.12 Par Avion

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1. A close-up of Claire's eye, she is dazed and bloody, was in a car accident, her mum went through the wind-shield, is laying in the street, unconscious, a truck is in front of them. From Lostpedia
2. Claire wakes up, Charlie fixed a picnic for her, says he wants to seize the day.
3. Sayid says the Others are 2 miles away according to the map, Locke says it's an electrical wiring map, it may not be accurate, Sayid and Locke argue, but Kate just asks Mikhail if they're going the right way, he says yes, Rousseau says to shoot Mikhail, but Kate says no.
4. Claire and Charlie are having their picnic, but Desmond shows up and asks Charlie to go boar hunting with him, Claire sees birds flying overhead and says she thinks she knows how to get off the island.
5. Claire wants Jin's nets and fish, a flock of sea birds flew over, they're migratory, heading south, scientists tag birds to track them, they'll eventually land in Australia or New Zealand, someone gathers them, they can catch one and send a message with it.
6. Charlie is doubtful about Claire's plan, asks how she knows so much about birds, she says she watched a lot of nature shows with her mum.
7. Claire gets stitches, an Officer questions her, asks how the accident happened, she says that a truck forced her off the road, she was driving, father died when she was 2, truck hit them, came out of nowhere, the Officer says it's standard procedure when there's fatality, but her mother isn't dead, she's in surgery.
8. Kate questions why Rousseau hasn't asked questions about Alex, Rousseau asks her if she cares about her friend, Jack.
9. "Imagine sixteen years from now, you’re told he’s still alive, but in your heart, you know that he wouldn’t remember you, he wouldn’t know you. He wouldn’t even know that you ever cared about him. I haven’t asked you questions about my daughter, because I do not want to know the answers." Rousseau
10. Mikhail says he was recruited when he was 24, approached by a man, brought in on the submarine, 2 weeks ago underwater beacon stopped emitting locator signal, an event, electromagnetic pulse, impossible to come back, not capable of understanding because she's not on the list.
11. "The man who brought me here, who brought all of my people here, he is a magnificent man. I will try to make this as simple as I can. You are not on the list because you are flawed. Because you are angry, and weak, and frightened." Mikhail
12. "The more I learn about your people, the more I suspect you’re not as omniscient as you’d have us believe. Don’t speak to us as if you know us." Sayid
13. Mikhail knows all of them, about them.
14. "Of course I don’t know you, Sayid Jarrah. How could I? And you, Kate Austen, are a complete stranger to me. But you John Locke, you I might have a fleeting memory of, but I must be confused, because the John Locke I know was paral—" Mikhail From Lostpedia
15. Rousseau interrupts Mikhail to point out the sonic fence.
16. Jin and Sun help Claire, get nets, make chum, Sun says her mother had high hopes for her, this would be her worst nightmare, Claire says her mum was a librarian.
17. Claire visits her mom in the hospital, Aunt Lindsey blames her, doctor says stabilized immediate injuries, mom suffered a severe head trauma, wait for swelling in her brain to go down before determining the extent of her injuries, looking at widespread damage, that right now machines are keeping her alive. From Lostpedia
18. The expenses have been taken care of, the doctor has been asked to keep it confidential.
19. Claire is about to catch one of the birds, but Desmond scares the birds away with gun shots, Desmond says sorry, he was catching a boar, but Claire wants to know what's going on, is suspicious of Demond and Charlie.
20. Sayid says don't touch the pylons, Mikhail says they're a security parameter, sensors triggered if anyone passes between them, alarm system, trap, Mikhail says it hasn't functioned in years, they encircle entire barracks, no way around. From Lostpedia
21. Locke pushes Mikhail through the sensors to see if they work or not, the barrier goes on, Mikhail starts to have a seizure, falls to the ground, from a cerebral hemorrhage, blood coming out of the ears, foaming from the mouth. From Lostpedia
22. "Thank you" Mikhail
23. Sayid and Kate are angry about what Locke did, but say they'll talk about it later, first they have to figure out how to get through the fence, Kate says they don't go through, they go over the fence, asks Sayid to get the axe, which is in Locke's pack, which also has C4. Sayid asks why, Locke says you never know when C4 will come handy.
24. Charlie doesn't want to give Claire false hope, thinks she might be overreacting, but she kicks him out of her tent, doesn't want her baby around liars.
25. Christian Shephard is with Claire's mom, Lindsey says Carole wouldn't want him there, they argue, but Christian tells Claire he's the one taking care of the bills, that he's her father.
26. They chop down a tree and place it on top of the pylon, Kate climbs up the tree and over the fence, jumps down, she's okay, everyone follows.
27. "The system appears to fire a sonic pulse when an object breaks the plane between two pylons. So, as long as we don’t break the plane, we should remain unharmed." Sayid
28. Sun tells Claire she has every right to be upset, Charlie and Desmond are arguing, Claire asks Sun to watch Aaron, says she's going to get some answers.
29. Christian goes to see Claire at her piercing shop, they have coffee, he says his doctor friend told him about the accident, him and mom had a fling, was in Los Angeles when she was pregnant, came out a bunch of times when she was little, stayed over, gave her toys, sang to her, stopped coming because Lindsey hates him, mother didn't like that he had another family, that he came because he wants to help, wants her to look at alternatives, to relieve her pain, Claire gets angry, doesn't want to kill her, says he might be her father, but she doesn't even know his name, and wants to keep it that way. From Lostpedia
30. "Claire! Claire, Claire listen to me. Do not keep your mother alive for the wrong reasons. Now there is hope and there is guilt. And believe me, I know the difference. Bye kiddo, it was great seeing you again." Christian
31. Claire follows Desmond, he catches a bird, she asks how he knew, he says he didn't, but Claire says he walked straight there, Desmond tells her what's going on with Charlie. From Lostpedia
32. "I don’t know, but you know, you walked straight here, no doubt at all about where you were going. You came right to this beach and right to this rock, and lo and behold, there’s the bird. What the hell is going on Desmond?" Claire "See that spot over there? That’s where Charlie slipped and fell in and got pounded again and again by the rocks and broke his neck." Desmond "What? What are you talking about?" Claire "That’s where Charlie died." Desmond
33. Claire shows Charlie the bird that Desmond caught, with the tag on it.
34. "Desmond told me everything. About all his visions; that he knew you were gonna get hit by lighting; that you were gonna drown, trying to rescue me in the ocean; how you died trying to get me this bird." Claire
35. Claire goes to see her mom in the hospital, she's pregnant, she turns the television on so mom can hear her nature shows, tells her about the baby, giving it away, for the best, doesn't know how she did it, raising her alone, that she's sorry, for the awful things she said to her in the car, that she wished she was dead, the accident, everything. From Lostpedia
36. Charlie reads the note Claire wrote and Claire sets the bird free with the note attached.
37. "To whom it may concern, we are survivors of Oceanic Flight 815. We have survived on this island for 80 days. We were 6 hours into the flight when the pilot said we were off course and turned back towards Fiji. We hit turbulence and crashed. We’ve been waiting here, all this time, waiting for rescue that has not come. We do not know where we are, we only know you have not found us. We’ve done our best to live on this island. Some of us have come to accept that we may never leave it. Not all of us have survived since the crash, but there is new life too, and with it, there is hope. We are alive. Please don’t give up on us." From Lostpedia
38. Claire says she's not giving up on Charlie, that it's going to be okay, they'll get through it together.
39. Kate sees the birds flying overhead, they arrive at the barracks.
40. They see Jack running toward them, but he's playing football with Tom, being friendly. From Lostpedia

Questions:

1. How did Mikhail know John Locke?
2. Why wasn't Locke on Jacob's list?
3. Why does Claire think her mother, Carole, is dead?
4. Why didn't Desmond just let Claire catch the bird the first time?
5. Did Desmond's vision have to happen exactly the way he saw it?
6. What happened to the bird with the message?

Favorites:

1. "Well it’s certainly not as infallible as the magical carvings on your stick." Sayid
2. "What do you suggest; we shoot him like a dog?" Sayid "No, I like dogs." Locke
3. "Pardon me, for not knowing that they had err, err, a sonic weapon fence." Locke

Notes:

1. Par Avion is French for "by way of air" and is used to designate Air Mail.
2. Christian Shephard telling Claire he is her father, a very Star Wars moment, with Claire and Jack becoming Luke and Leia.
3. I love the scene where Desmond catches the bird, a wave crashes on him.
4. Mr. Friendly throws like a girl.

1.22 Born to Run

1. Kate is on the run. She has several license plates from different states. She changes the color of her hair from blond to brown. She receives a letter at the hotel under Joan Hart. From Lost Hatch
2. "Drive Shaft's albums must have spiked when they found out I died in a catastrophic plane crash." Charlie
3. "The helicopters will come." Charlie talking to Kate about Michael getting them rescued.
4. Dr. Arzt says it's monsoon season, that the trade winds are going North, which is where they want to go.
5. Kate wants on the raft, to take Sawyer's spot. She says she spent a few summers crewing on J boats.
6. Kate's mom has cancer. She goes to Tom for help at the hospital.
7. Sayid takes Jack to the hatch as per Locke's request. From Lostpedia
8. It's been three weeks since Locke found the hatch. Jack wants to know why he didn't tell him.
9. "Maybe it was never meant to be opened from the outside." Sayid
10. Sawyer figures out that Kate was the prisoner on the plane and that she wants to take his spot on the raft so she can get away.
11. Michael is poisoned by something in his water. He thinks it was Sawyer.
12. Tom is Kate's childhood friend, or first love. He is a doctor, helps her with her mother, Diane.
13. Kate and Tom go to a field and dig up a time capsule. Inside a New Kids on the Block lunchbox is a hat, baseball, a tape labeled "Kate and Tom 1989" from August 15 of that year, and Tom's toy plane that he got when he went to Dallas by himself. From Lost Hatch
14. On the tape, Tom talks about getting married and having 9 kids, but Kate says they should leave.
15. "You always want to run away." Tom "Yeah, and you know why." Kate
16. Locke finds out about Kate from Hurley, because he suggests Kate might have poisoned Michael.
17. Walt tells Locke that he didn't poison his did, then Locke touches Walt to comfort him and he has some sort of psychic vision.
18. "Don't open it. Don't open it, Mr. Locke. Don't open that thing!" Walt "What thing?" Locke "Just don't open it!" Walt
19. Sawyer tells everyone about Kate being a fugitive and wanting to get on the raft so she can run.
20. Kate goes to see her mom at the hospital. "I'm so sorry for everything that I've put you through."
21. Diane screams for help and Kate runs with Tom, he won't get out of the car. Tom is shot by the security guard, Kate crashes into gold Pontiac Bonneville. Tom dies, Kate runs. From Lostpedia From Lost Hatch
22. Kate says she didn't poison Michael, but admits she was the fugitive.
23. "When we get rescued, we're gonna come back for everybody else, right?" Walt "The thing is, finding the island might be hard." Michael
24. Walt tells Michael that he burned the raft, that he didn't want to leave.
25. "We don't have to go." Michael "Yes, we do." Walt
26. Jack figures out that Sun is the one who poisoned Michael, trying to make Jin sick instead, so he wouldn't leave on the raft.
27. Kate helped Sun, it was her idea, she says Jack won't tell anyone.
28. "Jack's good at keeping secrets." Kate

Questions:

1. Who sent the letter to Kate?
2. Why weren't the police waiting for Kate at the hospital or at Tom's house?
3. Where is Edward Mars?
4. Did Kate really crew on J boats? If so, when?
5. What did Sun use to try to make Jin sick?
6. How did the toy plane get from the backseat of Tom's car in Iowa to the safety deposit box in Albuquerque, New Mexico? Who put it there? How did she get the key?
7. What did Walt see when Locke touched him? What does he think is going to happen?
8. How does he know about the hatch?
9. Does Walt being special somehow mean he has a psychic ability?

Favorites:

1. "Of course it's going to work. Look at that thing, it's not a raft, they built a sodding boat!" Charlie
2. "I'm a doctor, and you're a hillbilly." Arzt "You're a damn high school science teacher!" Sawyer
3. "You going to vote me off, Mickey?" Sawyer
4. "What? You want to open it?" Sayid
5. "You and Locke kiss and make up?" Michael
6. "How am I supposed to keep straight who knows what around here? I mean, Steve didn't even know about the polar bear!" Hurley
7. "This is track 2. It's called Monster Eats the Pilot." From Lostpedia

Notes:

1. We see the Pontiac Bonneville again, the same one that hit Michael and Locke.
2. When Kate goes to visit her mother, Diane, she screams for help, just as she said she would in Left Behind.
3. In the flashback, Kate loses her mother and Tom as a result of her actions. On the island, she is alienated because of her actions.

1.02 The Pilot, Part 2

1. "Every trek needs a coward." Charlie "You're not a coward." Kate
2. Charlie is having withdrawals on the plane, tapping his DS ring. From Lost Hatch
3. Charlie almost dies in bathroom, and then when he comes out a cart almost hits him.
4. Walt finds handcuffs in the jungle.
5. "Whatever you say doc, you're the hero." Sawyer, to Jack, after he breaks up his fight with Sayid.
6. Walt reads comic book with polar bear: Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends #1 From Lostpedia
7. Walt and Locke playing backgammon.
8. "Two players, two sides. One is light, one is dark." Locke From Lostpedia
9. Locke tells Walt a secret.
10. Sawyer shoots a polar bear. Polar bears don't live in the jungle. From Lostpedia
11. "Maybe there's other survivors." Boone
12. "Does anyone speak French?" Sayid
13. The French message: "Please help me. Please come get me. I'm alone now. I'm on the island alone. Please someone come. The others, they're dead. It killed them. It killed them all."
14. Iteration 17294535, 30 seconds long.
15. Sayid says it's been playing for 16 years, 5 months. That would be April 1988.
    

Questions:

1. How can a plane rip apart in mid-air and in three pieces so cleanly? Nearly all of the mid-section survives without a scratch after cart-wheeling through the jungle. How?
2. Charlie goes to the front of the plane, near first class and the cockpit. Shouldn't he have died? How did he end up in the mid-section?
3. Why do Jack and Kate seem like they know eachother already?
4. How does Locke know so much?
5. Why doesn't Sayid know a lick of French? He spent time in France.

Favorites:

1. Hurley and Sayid's interaction. "The Republican Guard."
2. Thank you, Kate, for bathing yourself in the ocean.
3. Hurley rejecting Jin's fish.
4. Locke and Walt playing backgammon, the numbers appear. From Lost Hatch
5. Jin giving Claire fish, she makes him feel the baby kicking.
6. Sawyer shoots the polar bear, Charlie compares polar bear to what killed the pilot. "No, that's a tiny, teeny version compared to that."
7. "There's a rescue plane! We're saved! Yay!" Hurley, he then passes out on top of the Marshal after seeing blood.
8. "Where did that come from?" Kate "I don't know, probably bear village." Sawyer
9. "Guess what? I just shot a bear!" Sawyer
10. "Guys? Where are we?" Charlie

Notes:

1. The first time we see Sawyer with the letter. From Lostpedia
2. The polar bear is the first introduction of Dharma. Other than the monster, this is the first time we realize that there are very strange things happening on this island.
3. This is when we realize that Kate is the fugitive.
4. Sayid says the transmission could be a Satellite phone.

1.01 The Pilot, Part 1

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1. Jack wakes in the jungle. We see Vincent. There is a tennis shoe near by. From Lostpedia
2. Claire is 8 months pregnant.
3. "You don't seem afraid at all. I don't understand that." Kate, to Jack.
4. Jack tells counting to five story to Kate, his tattoo has a 5 in it. From Lost Hatch
5. "If that were me, I think I would've run for the door." Kate "No, I don't think that's true. You're not running now." Jack
6. Charlie tapes his fingers with the word FATE. From Lost Hatch
7. "You'd think they would've come by now." Sayid
8. At 40,000 feet, the plane hit an air-pocket and dropped 200 feet.
9. "Took a couple of flying lessons, wasn't for me." Jack From Lost Hatch
10. "I saw the whole thing. I knew that the tail was gone, but I couldn't bring myself to look back, and then the front end of the plane broke off." Kate
11. "Don't worry, it's gonna be over.." Jack
12. "That sound. I keep thinking that there's something really familiar about it." Rose
13. "Have we ever met anywhere?" Kate, to Charlie.
14. "My friend Beth would freak! She loves you guys!" Kate
15. Drive Shaft, second tour of Finland ring.
16. Locke sitting in the rain.
17. Jack says at least 48 survived the crash.
18. The pilot wakes 16 hours after the crash. He says that after 6 hours in, the radio went out, no one could see them, they turned back toward Fiji and hit turbulence, were 1,000 miles off course when they crashed.
19. "They're looking for us in the wrong place." From Lostpedia
20. Kate uses Jack's five-count.
21. Charlie almost dies standing next to engine that later explodes, exploding wreckage landing next to him, running from monster in the jungle, he falls down and Jack saves him.

Questions:

1. How is Jack not more severely injured after falling through bamboo in the jungle? How does he know to run to the beach, or even which direction the beach is if he blacked out when the plane crashed?
2. What the hell is the monster? Why did it kill the pilot, Seth Norris?
3. Is Charlie's FATE foreshadowing?
4. When Locke first sits on the beach in the rain, my first thought was "is he home?" From Lostpedia
5. Who the hell is Beth?

Favorites:

1. Jack being a hero, and Boone trying to be a bigger hero for the first time, but he just sucks at it. "Well, you need to seriously think about giving the license back."
2. Shannon saying she'll eat on the rescue boat, and then she looks pissed when Boone eats the candy bar. She's such a bitch.
3. Jack and Cindy's interaction on the plane.
4. Rose is from the Bronx. Of course she's from the Bronx.
5. Locke with the orange, and the look Kate gives him. From Lost Hatch
6. "What are you spelling, man, bodies?" Michael
7. "You all everybody!" We hear Charlie sing it for the first time.
8. Charlie coming out of the restroom in the cockpit. He looks fucked.
9. The reflection of the dead pilot in the puddle of water. From Lostpedia

Notes:

1. The opening sequence in the show is amazing. Jack coming out of the jungle, it's quiet, and then we hear the engine and people screaming. The camera shots are so awesome.
2. Before you watch the show, if this is the first episode you see, you expect to see the plane crash, but you don't. I think that's cool. Everything you expect about the show is wrong.
3. Jack on the plane getting a drink from Cindy is very similar to the opening scene in Through the Looking Glass.