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.

1.13 Hearts & Minds

From Lostpedia

1. "This isn't a game, man." Hurley, to Boone about hunting for boar.
2. In the flashback where Boone is playing tennis, he is wearing an Italian football jersey.
3. "You don't want to make an enemy of him. We're going to want him on our side." Locke says to Boone about feuding with Sayid. From Lostpedia
4. Locke tells Boone about Michelangelo, that his father didn't want him to work with his hands, so he stared at marble for 4 months, 3 years later it was the statue of David.
5. "What we're doing is important. Right now, this is our priority." Locke, about the hatch instead of hunting.
6. Boone's flight to Sydney took 15 hours.
7. "You don't know her. She's smart. She's special, in a lot of ways." Boone says to Locke about telling Shannon what's going on with the hatch.
8. "Camp is 4 miles due west." Locke "Which way is west?" Boone From Lostpedia
9. "You say she's your sister. So, why is her name Rutherford and yours Carlyle?" The detective asks.
10. Boone was 10, Shannon was 8 when their parents got married.
11. Boone sees Sawyer in the police station in Sydney. From Lostpedia
12. "I was on my way to Bali. I travel a lot. I was looking forward to exploring the island. Somehow I ended up on a flight to LA instead. I guess that falls under the category of be careful what you wish for." Kate tells Sun.
13. Locke gives Sayid his compass. "Don't you need this?" Sayid "Not anymore." Locke From Lostpedia
14. Locke tells Sayid he was a Webelo, that he wasn't the most popular kid.
15. Sayid shows Jack that north is in the wrong direction on the compass.
16. "A minor magnetic anomaly might explain a variance of 2 or 3 degrees, but not this." Sayid From Lostpedia
17. Boone offers to pay Bryan off for $25,000 but Bryan says he wants $50,000. He says that Boone's mother took all of Shannon's father's money after he died.
18. "If there was one person on this island that I'd put my absolute faith in to save us all, it'd be John Locke." Charlie tells Jack what he thinks about Locke.
19. When Boone is hallucinating, he tells Shannon that Locke is the only one who has a clue to what's going on.
20. "Is that what it made you see?" Locke "You drugged me." Boone "I gave you an experience that I believe was vital to your survival on this island. It was only as real as you made it. How did you feel when she died?" Locke "I felt relieved." Boone "Time to let go." Locke
21. "Follow me." Locke says to Boone, as if he is ready to follow him after his realization about Shannon.

Questions:

1. Is Locke testing Boone?
2. Was Boone supposed to find his place on the island?
3. Shannon says Boone is in love with her. But is she in love with him too?
4. Boone hallucinates Shannon's death, being killed by the monster. Is this foreshadowing or is he somehow seeing the future? Did the island make him see it?
5. Where the hell did Locke learn how to make the wacky paste?

Favorites:

1. Sayid giving Shannon a gift. "Another mysterious force of the island revealed." Smooth, brotha.
2. Hurley's doctor/patient talk with Jack, telling him about his digestive issues and that he soiled Jin's family honor by not taking his fish.
3. "Dude, you gotta pee on it! Pee on it!" Hurley tells Jin he has to pee on his foot because he stepped on a sea urchin.
4. Sawyer in the Sydney police station.
5. Jin finally giving Hurley a fish he caught.
6. "He probably killed all his mates at the Post Office the day his mum forgot to put a cookie in his lunch box." Charlie, about his first impression of Locke.

Notes:

1. Kate figures out that Sun speaks English.
2. Boone figures out that Shannon screwed him for money many times over.
3. Sawyer in the same police station as Boone in Sydney is the first island connection.

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.