Episode Analysis of 1.08 "Confidence Man"

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

This episode was written by Damon Lindelof, and directed by Tucker Gates. It originally aired on November 10th, 2004.

This is a James "Sawyer" Ford flashback-centric episode.

We begin with Kate, who is walking up the beach, along the shore-line, carrying a bunch of bananas over her shoulder.

3.19 The Brig

1. Locke is in a dark room, reading a file, throws it in the fire, he has kidnapped someone, there's banging and muffled screaming, Locke tells them to save their breath, that no one will hear them.
2. 8 days ago--Anthony Cooper in the room when they open the door, Locke wants to know why they brought him there, Ben says Locke brought him there, Locke approaches him and Cooper bites him, Tom tasers him, Cooper asks Locke if he knows where he is, Ben says they're leaving first thing in the morning, going to an old place, Locke say he'll go with, Ben says they're holding Kate, that he should say goodbye to her. From Lostpedia
3. "We're going to a new place. Well an old place, actually. Would you like to come with us?" Ben "Yes." Locke "Good. We're holding Kate a few buildings over from here, maybe you'd like to say goodbye." Ben
4. Kate is in Sawyer's tent, says she's going back to her tent, Sawyer's going to pee, he sees Hurley and Jin rustling outside a tent, asks what they're doing, he goes to pee, hears something and pulls his gun, Locke returns, says that he's looking for him, says he infiltrated the Others, kidnapped Ben, tied him up, dragged him into the jungle, wants Sawyer to kill him, Locke says he's a not a murderer, that Sawyer killed a man in Sydney, they have files on all of them, Sawyer reluctantly goes with him. From Lostpedia
5. "I'm not a murderer." Locke "Neither am I!" Sawyer "Except for the man you killed in Sydney. They got files on us, James. All of us." Locke
6. 3 days ago--Locke helps Cindy with her tent, people are watching him, Emma and Zack, she says that they're excited he's there, they've been waiting for him, Tom says Ben's asking for him, Ben is listening to Juliet's tape recording, tell him she's gathering information, determining if they're pregnant, going to go in and take them, Ben says no one will get hurt, he says a week ago, he couldn't move his toes, has Locke to thank for it, Ben says he's not ready to know what the island can do yet. From Lostpedia
7. "A week ago I couldn't move my toes. But the minute you showed up, I started to feel pins and needles. And this is only the beginning, John. I can't wait to show you what this Island can do. But unfortunately, you're not ready, John." Ben "Well er, no, I'm ready." Locke "No, John, you're not. You're still crippled by the memories of the man you used to be before you came to this Island. And you'll never be free, until you release the hold that your father has over you. Why do you think you brought him here?" Ben "Oh oh oh, the, magic box, okay Ben, how about you show me..." Locke "The magic box is a metaphor, John. I can't show you anything until you can show me that you're ready and willing to be one of us. When people join us here on this Island, they need to make a gesture of free will, of commitment. That's why you're going to have to kill your father." Ben
8. Charlie is stocking up on food to bring to Naomi, Jack asks where they went, he tells Jack they were exploring the beach, male bonding.
9. Charlie says they should tell Jack, Hurley says he should check at her wound, but Desmond says Jack was with them for 10 days, that they have to keep the parachutist safe, to bring someone in that they cant trust.
10. "Aye, Juliet. Two weeks ago she had your friends in cages. Naomi, I mean you heard everything that she said. If we keep her safe, she's our way off this Island. So given that, do you trust Jack? Or don't you?" Desmond
11. Sawyer wants to know what's in his file, Locke says his parents died when he was young, but it didn't say why his father shot his mother, or why he turned the gun on himself, his transcripts, criminal record, con jobs he was arrested for, why he uses an alias, bringing him to kill Ben, won't do it himself because he can't, Sawyer says no, they bring him back, Locke says he'll change his mind when he hears what he has to say.
12. "The file they got on me." Sawyer "Not much. That your parents died when you were very young. But it doesn't say why, your father, shot your mother, or why he turned the gun on himself. That must have been hard for you." Locke "What else?" Sawyer "High school transcripts. Er, criminal record. All the con jobs you were arrested for. I guess that's why you use an alias huh? Why did you choose the name Sawyer..." Locke [Sawyer hits Locke over the head with his gun, knocking him to the ground. He grabs Locke's knife and puts it to his throat] "How stupid do you think I am, huh? I already been conned by Ben once. Maybe you heard about it, bunny with a number painted on it? Think I'm just gonna follow you through the jungle..." Sawyer "James, please, you have to, you have to trust me..." Locke "Where are you taking me? Tell me the truth. What do you want from me?" Sawyer "I'm bringing you there to do exactly what I said. I need you to kill Ben." Locke "Why did you come back to get me?" Sawyer "I had to." Locke "Why me! Why won't you do it yourself?" Sawyer "James, please!" Locke "Don't call me James! Why won't you do it yourself!" Sawyer "Because I can't! I can't!!! I can't do it! That's why I came back for you." Locke "I'll go to wherever you got him, but then we're bringing him back to our camp. I ain't killing nobody, you understand me?" Sawyer "Yeah. I understand. But you'll change your mind. When you hear what he has to say. You'll change your mind." Locke
13. Hurley gets Sayid, interrupts him digging an anonymous hole, Charlie says they haven't told Jack, Sayid questions the parachutist, she says her name is Naomi Dorrit, took off from a ship, a freighter 80 nautical miles West, she was part of a search and recovery team, Flight 815, entire plane found off the coast of Bali, in an ocean trench 4 miles deep, they sent down cameras, all the bodies where there, she's looking for Desmond, company hired by Penelope Widmore, doesn't know why, she never met her, was given a set of coordinates, did a GPS grid search, didn't know about the island, was given coordinates in the middle of the ocean, 3 days ago, she was flying back, and the clouds cleared, she saw land, instruments started spinning, she grabbed her shoot and bailed, Sayid questions her, if they actually saw her helicopter, if she has a was of communicating with her ship off the shore, she shows him the satellite phone. From Lostpedia
14. "What was your name? Sayid?" Naomi "Yes." Sayid "Remind me not to rescue you, Sayid." Naomi
15. Sawyer asks about what Ben has to say, tells Locke the guy in Sydney was a mistake.
16. "Look, what you read in that file, about the guy in Sydney. I thought he was someone else, I made a mistake I didn't mean to kill him." Sawyer
17. 3 days ago--Ben wakes Locke, brings him out in front of everyone, tells him it's time to kill Anthony Cooper, Locke is hesitant, Cooper says that he can't do it, Ben says he has to, knows about the walkabout, says that Locke can't do it, he's not who they thought he was, humiliates him in front of the whole group. From Lostpedia
18. "You're doing this to yourself. As long as he's still breathing, you'll still be that same sad pathetic little man that was kicked off his walkabout tour because you couldn't walk." Ben
19. Locke takes Sawyer to the Black Rock, says Ben is inside, in the brig, he says that it's an old slaving ship, mid 19th century, Locke guesses they captured salves, to try to mind the island, says the boxes have dynamite in them, Sawyer hears muffled screaming from the back, says they're not killing him, Locke closes the door and locks him inside, Sawyer takes the hood off his head to reveal that he is not Ben, and in fact, Anthony Cooper. From Lostpedia
20. "I said shut up! [Sawyer pulls off the bag to reveal Cooper] Who the hell are you?" Sawyer
21. Sayid is trying to fix the satellite phone with Hurley, he says he's never seen equipment that sophisticated, Sayid says there's no audible channel, interference is blocking their ability to send out their own transmission, Kate discovers them, Sayid leaks the secret.
22. Rousseau goes to the brig, there for dynamite, doesn't ask any questions.
23. 2 days ago--Richard introduces himself to Locke, says Ben wanted to embarrass him, that he knew he wouldn't kill his father in front of everyone, wanted to watch him fail, that he's a man with a broken spine who could walk, the people are excited, he's someone special, Ben is wasting his time with fertility, they're looking for someone to remind them that they're there for more important reasons, he wants Locke to find a purpose, but Anthony Cooper has to go, he gives him Sawyer's file, says to read it. From Lostpedia
24. "Ben knew you weren't going to kill your own father. He put you in front of everyone in our camp just so they could all watch you fail." Richard "Why?" Locke "Because when word got back here that there was a man with a broken spine on the plane who could suddenly walk again, well, people here began to get very excited because that, that could only happen to someone who was extremely special. But Ben doesn't want anyone to think you're special, John." Richard "And why are you telling me this?" Locke "Ben has been wasting our time with novelties like fertility problems. We're looking for someone to remind us that we're here for more important reasons." Richard "What do you want from me?" Locke "I want for you to find your purpose. And to do that, your father has to go, John. And since you're not gonna do it, I'm gonna suggest someone else." Richard
25. Locke knows that there's no bullets in Sawyer's gun when he threatens him, Cooper says that's his son, he was driving I10 in Tallahassee, slammed into the back of a car, went into the divider at 70 mph, the paramedics in the ambulance, one smiles at him as he puts the IV in, then it goes black, he wakes up in a dark room, guy, door, John Locke, he threw him out a window, his dead son, survived the window, but was paralyzed, he's dead because he was in a plane crash in the Pacific, says they're in hell, they found the plane in the bottom of the ocean, he conned Locke for his kidney, has gone by the names Adam Seward, Anthony Cooper, Ted MacLaren, Tom Sawyer, Lewis Jackson, James says his name is Sawyer too.
26. "Island? Okay. I'm driving down I10 through Tallahassee when bam, somebody slams into the back of my car. I go right into the divider at seventy miles an hour, the next thing I know, the paramedics are strapping me to a gurney, stuffing me into the back of an ambulance and one of them actually smiles at me as he pops the IV in my arm. And then, nothing. Just, black. And the next thing I know I wake up in a dark room tied up, gag in my mouth, and when the door opens, I'm looking up at the same man I threw out a window, John Locke. My dead son." Cooper "And he's dead cause you threw him out a window?" Sawyer "No, he survived that. But it paralyzed him, permanently. He's dead because the plane he was flying on crashed in the Pacific." Cooper "Well, I got bad news for ya pops, cause I was on that plane with your son. He sure as hell wasn't crippled. And we didn't crash in the Pacific, we crashed here on this Island." Sawyer "You sure its an Island?" Cooper "Well what else is it?" Sawyer "Little hot for heaven isn't it?" Cooper "Oh okay, so we're dead?" Sawyer "They found your plane on the bottom of the ocean. One minute I'm in a car wreck and the next minute I'm in a pirate ship in the middle of the jungle. If this isn't hell friend, then where are we?" Cooper "Why did you throw Locke out a window?" Sawyer "He was becoming a nuisance. I conned him into giving me one of his kidneys. He never got over it." Cooper "Conned?" Sawyer "Yes sir, conned." Cooper "What's your name?" Sawyer "Hmm?" Cooper "Your name." Sawyer "A con-man goes by many names friend. I've been Adam Seward, Anthony Cooper, Ted MacLaren, Tom Sawyer, Louis Jackson, and Paul..." Cooper "Tom Sawyer." Sawyer "I was young and Huck Finn was taken. And the ladies loved that one. Made me charming." Cooper "Well how about that." Sawyer "How about what?" Cooper "Sawyer's my name too." Sawyer
27. Yesterday--The Others are packing,, moving, Ben says that Locke can't go, has to stay behind, Anthony Cooper is his mess, but they'll leave a trail, and he can only return if he comes carrying his father's body on his back. From Lostpedia
28. "But I thought I was special." Sawyer "Well everyone makes mistakes. We're leaving now. We'll leave a trail, one you can track. And John, unless you're carrying your father's body on your back, don't bother." Ben
29. Sawyer asks Cooper if he's ever been to Jasper, Alabama, says he killed his daddy, gives him the letter he carries, Cooper says he ran that con 2 dozen times, Sawyer says his mom was Mary, Cooper says she begged him to take her $38,000, says it's not his fault, tears the letter, Sawyer kills him, Locke says thank you. From Lostpedia
30. "You ever been to Jasper, Alabama?" Sawyer "Why?" Cooper "Have you or haven't you?" Sawyer "Yeah I been to Jasper. Don't tell me I'm your daddy?" Cooper "No. You killed my daddy. [Sawyer gets his letter out of his pocket] Read it." Sawyer "“Dear Mr Sawyer.” What is this?" Cooper "Just read it." Sawyer "“You don't know who I am, but I know who you are. And I know what you done. You had sex with my mother, and then you stole my dad's money all away, so he got angry and he killed my mother, and then he killed himself” blah blah blah blah. So what? Is this supposed to be you, you wrote this letter? Hey wait a second. Did you take my name because you were on some kind of revenge kick?" Cooper "Keep reading." Sawyer "Easy, easy, don't get all worked up. Look, I ran that con two dozen times. If your mother was one of the..." Cooper "Mary. Her name was Mary." Sawyer "Mary from Jasper, Alabama. Yeah, I remember her. She practically begged me to take her thirty-eight thousand dollars and to rescue her from her sorry little life." Cooper "You finish the letter." Sawyer "Look, I only took her money. It ain't my fault your dad overreacted. If he pulled the old murder suicide then I'm sure he's down here somewhere. Er, maybe you could take this up with him..." Cooper "FINISH IT!!!" Sawyer "Okay. Okay." Cooper [He rips up the letter into pieces, and Sawyer attacks him, choking him with the chains around the room] "You wanna go to hell? You wanna go to hell!!" Sawyer
31. Kate is a tattle-tale, she tells Jack about Naomi, no one trust him, she has a satellite phone, Juliet says they should tell her, but Jack says no. From Lostpedia
32. Sawyer gets sick, Locke says to go back, that Cooper ruined his life and Sawyer's, had it coming,he says Juliet's a mole, she's working for Ben, in 3 days they're coming, says he's telling him to warn the camp, he's not really undercover, he's on his own journey now, he gives Sawyer the tape, so they'll believe him, Sawyer asks if he really was a cripple, if his father pushed him out a window, Locke says not anymore.
33. Locke returns to the Others' camp with his father's body on his back. From Lostpedia

Questions:

1. How did Anthony Cooper get to the island?
2. Did Sawyer's file say that Anthony Cooper was the reason for his parents' murder-suicide or did Locke just know that it was him?
3. Did Ben really think Locke would kill his father or did he want him to get someone else to do it for him?
4. Did Ben know that Richard talked to Locke, gave him Sawyer's file?
5. Why does Naomi have technology that Sayid has never seen before?
6. How did Naomi get the photograph of Desmond and Penny?
7. Was Naomi's story completely true, was she lying?
8. Why couldn't Locke kill Anthony Cooper?
9. When did the fertility problems start?
10. What does Richard think is more important? What are they there for?

Favorites:

1. "I can't sleep if I'm not in my own tent." Kate "Fine, let's go to your tent." Sawyer "Erm... its nothing personal, its just... old habits, you know?" Kate "Fine, scram! You want me to walk you home?" Sawyer "It's five tents. I think I'll make it." Kate "Sure? I gotta pee anyway." Sawyer "That is so romantic." Kate
2. "What the hell are y'all doing?" Sawyer "What the hell are you doing?" Hurley "Going to take a leak." Sawyer "Yeah, well, so were we." Hurley "Well, alrightey then." Sawyer
3. "Hello, James. Wanna zip your pants up?" Locke "The hell are you doing here?" Sawyer "Looking for you, actually." Locke "Okay, Tarzan, so now that you're back from your blow up everything that could get us off the Island tour, how bout you tell me why you joined up with the damn enemy?" Sawyer
4. "The magic box is a metaphor, John." Ben
5. "You're wasting your time, bug-eye, me and him have been through all this. All he wants is his daddy..." Anthony Cooper
6. "I'll be here the rest of the week John if you change your mind..." Anthony Cooper
7. "[Points his torch at skeletons] Friends of yours?" Sawyer
8. "Son of a bitch. You really kidnapped the little bastard." Sawyer
9. "What's that? Is that a radio? Where'd you get it?" Kate "Er, the luggage." Hurley "What you just found a radio in the luggage?" Kate
10. "Rousseau." Locke "Locke." Rousseau "What brings you to the Black Rock?" Locke "Dynamite. And you?" Rousseau "[In the next room] Open this door! Open up!" Sawyer "Crates are right over there." Locke "[In the next room] Open this damn door!" Sawyer "Be careful, it's unstable." Locke
11. "Sawyer! Why would Sawyer kill my father, he doesn't even know him." Locke "Keep reading." Richard
12. "You're not gonna shoot anyone, James." Locke "One! Two!" Sawyer "If there were any bullets in that gun, why would you hold a knife to my throat?" Locke "Ah! Son of a bitch!!" Sawyer "Guess I didn't raise no dummies." Cooper "The hell's that mean?" Sawyer "It means that bald headed bastard outside the door is my son." Cooper "Come again?" Sawyer "My son. As in I'm his father. You do speak English?" Cooper
13. "You missing those cheeseburgers yet?" Jack "Only every second." Juliet

Notes:

1. Desmond questioning Jack and Juliet's loyalty, excellent.
2. Sawyer kills Anthony Cooper Star Wars stylee, the same way that Princess Leia kills Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi.
3. Kate, why can't you shut your mouth and listen to the damn Iraqi? Do you have to tell Jack everything that happens on the damn island, especially after he's canoodling with his favorite Other? That scene is so lame.
4. When Anthony Cooper says he doesn't raise dummies, I originally thought that he was saying he was Sawyer's father too.
5. Anthony Cooper is the real Sawyer and James Ford get to kill him, what a great pay-off.
6. Josh Holloway is phenomenal in this episode.
7. I don't think Ben literally meant to return carrying your father's body on your back, Locke.

2.17 Lockdown

1. John is packing a picnic, he's going to ask Helen to marry him.
2. Helen reads the obituaries, Anthony Cooper is dead.
3. Henry Gale tells Jack and Locke about the map, that he was just kidding. Jack tells him to draw it again, but Locke says that it's too late. Jack tells Locke to put Henry back in the armory, and Henry asks why he lets Jack talk to him that way, which angers Locke
4. Sayid, Charlie and Ana Lucia search for Jennifer Gale's grave, Charlie finds it, and they find the balloon Henry claims took him to the island in the trees above them, "Proudly Sponsored By" Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack, Nozz-a-La Cola, a Widmore Labs logo, and Minnesota Metallurgy & Mining Co. logo. From Lostpedia
5. Jack checks on Aaron, who is now no longer sick.
6. Locke rides the exercise bike in the hatch, plays music, he hears voices on the loud speaker, 20 minutes to Lockdown, Locke tries to fix the speaker, feedback, 17 minutes to Lockdown, Henry asks what's the matter, what's going on.
7. Anthony Cooper's funeral, John and Helen are the only ones there, two guys watch from a distance, a car also.
8. "I forgive you." John says at Anthony's funeral.
9. In the Hatch, protocol, please proceed, countdown from 10, blast doors come down, but Locke manages to stick a crowbar underneath the door.
10. Locke is a home inspector in California, he inspects Nadia's house, he asks her about her husband, but she says she's not married. From Lostpedia
11. Locke sees the same car from his father's funeral, it's Anthony Cooper, he says he faked his death because the guys from the funeral that were watching were after him, he took them for $700,000, a retirement scam, the money is in a safe deposit box, wants John to get it for him and keep $200,000, says he'll understand if he never sees him again.
12. Locke tells Henry about the blast doors, asks him for help, Henry agrees but makes a deal for Locke to protect him.
13. Jack plays Sawyer in Texas Hold'em for the medicine.
14. Henry and Locke try to pry the blast door up, but it comes down on Locke's leg, traps him underneath, Henry tries to help Locke. From Lostpedia
15. Locke goes to safe deposit box 1516, gets the money.
16. When Locke goes home, there are two guys from the funeral waiting for him, asking about Anthony Cooper, if John knows if he's still alive, if he's seen him, he says no, they look in his bag and there are work papers, no money, Helen asks if he was lying, but Locke says that he was just scared.
17. Locke tells Henry Gale about the button, to go through the vent in the pantry, Henry falls and hits his head, is knocked out.
18. Jack catches Sawyer dealing from the bottom of the deck.
19. Jack wins in poker, takes all of Sawyer's fruit and the medicine, Sawyer asks why he didn't want the guns.
20. "When I need the guns, I'll get the guns." Jack
21. Henry wakes up while the timer is going off, he goes through the vent.
22. John at a hotel, an Oceanic Airlines plane flies overhead, he gives Anthony Cooper his money, and Anthony leaves John his, but Locke says that he didn't do it for the money. Anthony asks about Helen, John tells him that he's going to ask her to marry him that night.
23. When Anthony opens the door to leave, Helen is there, she followed John.
24. "Are you him?" Helen asks Anthony.
25. She leaves, but John follows her, asks her to marry him, but she says no and leaves, there is another Oceanic plane that flies overhead.
26. The alarm for the computer and the button is going off, numbers flipping sound, light out, then there is a black light that goes on, a map on the blast door in front of Locke. From Lostpedia
27. A few moments later, the doors go up, and Henry comes back.
28. Kate wants to go to the hatch for a shower, but Jack tells her the pipes are busted, they see a flashing light in the jungle, a beacon, a parachute, pallet, food drop, they run into Sayid, Charlie and Ana Lucia on their way back from the balloon. From Lostpedia
29. Henry says that he put in the numbers, but nothing happened, the clock flipped back, and then nothing, crawled back into the vent, and then the doors came up, the lights back on.
30. Sayid says that they found the balloon, the grave, but Sayid didn't believe it, so he dug up the grave, found a man's body, named Henry Gale.
31. "We did find your balloon, Henry Gale, exactly how you described it. We also found the grave you described. Your wife's grave. The grave you said you dug with your own bare hands. It was all there. Your whole story, your alibi, it was true. But still, I did not believe it to be true. So I dug up that grave and found that there was not a woman inside. There was a man." Sayid reveals the real Henry Gale's drivers license. From Lost Hatch

Questions:

1. Where are the food drops coming from? Where are they still coming after the purge happened? Does the Dharma Initiative know what happened?
2. Do the blast doors come down so that no one sees where the pallet comes from? How did no one see it?
3. Did Locke take the money from Cooper?
4. Who killed and buried the real Henry Gale? Why?
5. When are we going to have an episode about Jack learning to play poker in Phuket?

Favorites:

1. "Hey, maybe he left you his kidney." Helen
2. "Why don't you put your mangoes where your mouth is?" Sawyer
3. "So, where'd you learn to play cards, doc?" Sawyer "Phuket." Jack "What the hell were you doing in Thailand? What? You don't think I know where Phuket is? Just cause I dropped out in the 9th grade don't make me an idiot. Far East, huh? Wouldn't have taken you for a world traveler. that where you got the art on your shoulder?" Sawyer
4. "You may have been to Phuket, doc, but I've been to Tallahassee. Let's just say something was burning and it wasn't from the sunshine." Sawyer
5. "What's going on?" Libby "Jack and Sawyer are finally gonna beat eachother up." Hurley

Notes:

1. Sawyer's comment about Jack getting the art on his shoulder in Phuket, amongst Kate asking where Jack got his tattoos from earlier in House of the Rising Sun, opened up the vault for the possibly the worst episode ever, Stranger In A Strange Land, where there is an entire episode about Jack going to Phuket and getting a tattoo.
2. On the Blast Door Map, the Monster is called Cerberus.
3. In Solitary, Sayid states that Nadia is dead to Rousseau, but we clearly see that Nadia is alive and well in this episode.
4. Another indication that Anthony Cooper is the real Sawyer.
5. Sayid = one badass mutha fucka.

2.11 The Hunting Party

1. Gabrielle and Angelo Busoni travel to see Jack from Italy because of his expertise in spinal surgery. She wants him to do surgery on her father because of his success with Sarah's surgery, but Jack is reluctant. He agrees to do the surgery anyway. From Lostpedia
2. Jack discovers that Locke has been knocked out, Michael locks Jack and Locke in the armory so that he can go after Walt. He says that it's his right and no one is going to stop him from doing it, that he has to do it alone. From Lostpedia
3. Kate and Sawyer go to the hatch to have Sawyer's bandages changed. They find Jack and Locke, who decide to go after Michael. Sawyer wants to go too, but Jack won't allow Kate.
4. Jack is at the hospital doing tests on Mr. Busoni until 4:30 AM. He goes home and Sarah tells him she thought she was pregnant.
5. "That's the price of being a miracle-worker." Sarah
6. Locke, Jack and Sawyer follow Michael. Locke asks Sawyer what direction they came from, the East, but Michael is going North. Michael is traveling in a straight path. From Lostpedia
7. Jin wants to go after Michael, but Sun won't let him.
8. Christian warns Jack to be careful with Ms. Busoni. He suspects something.
9. "Careful. There's a line, son. You know it's there. And pretending it's not--that would be a mistake." Christian Shepard
10. "No, your name. Why'd you pick Sawyer?" Locke "What do you mean, pick?" Sawyer "After the census, Hurley gave me the flight manifest. Your name is James, right? James Ford. Just an interesting name to choose is all. Where'd you get it from?" Locke
11. Locke, Jack and Sawyer hear shooting, they find 3 shell casings, but they heard 7 shots.
12. Mr. Busoni dies during the operation, his heart gave out 7.5 hours into the operation.
13. Gabrielle thanks Jack in the parking lot, they kiss, Jack leaves.
14. Locke wants to go back, he lost the trail. Jack says no, Zeke agrees. From Lostpedia
15. Hurley and Charlie listen to Geronimo Jackson in the hatch, Hurley asks him about Libby.
16. Zeke, or Mr. Friendly, the same man from the boat that took Walt, talks to Jack, Sawyer and Locke.
17. "Walt's fine. He's a very special boy." Mr. Friendly
18. "Just sit down, Jack. Nobody's going to hurt you." Mr. Friendly
19. "Since the dawn of our species man has been blessed with curiosity. You know the other one about curiosity, don't you, Jack? This is not your island. This is our island." Mr. Friendly
20. Jack thinks that they have the others outnumbered, but he's wrong. They also have Kate, who followed them. Zeke gives Jack a line that he's not supposed to cross, tells them to go home, they take their guns away and they leave. Sawyer says they're not done.
    
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21. Jin doesn't like to be told what to do, Sun was for 4 years.
22. Kate tells Jack she's sorry.
23. Jack tells Sarah that Gabrielle kissed him. Sarah tells Jack she's leaving him, that she's been seeing someone, that she already planned to do it.
24. "You will always need something to fix." Sarah
25. "How long do you think it would take to train an army?" Jacks asks Ana Lucia.

Questions:

1. Would Michael really have shot Jack if he tried to stop him?
2. Why does Locke ask Sawyer about his real name? Does he know he got it from his father, the real Sawyer?
3. Why does Jack make Kate stay behind?
4. Why don't the Others just explain the situation to them?
5. Why don't they just take them right there?
6. Why would Mr. Friendly quote Alvar Hanso? Is he Dharma?
7. What happened to the damn army?

Favorites:

1. "Did you just throw a banana at me? There are better ways to wake a man up, Freckles." Sawyer
2. "It's a good thing I'm traveling with my doctor." Sawyer
3. "Well, yeah, there's my favorite leaf. How could I forget this place?" Sawyer
4. "Why'd you pick that name?" Locke "Ain't it obvious? All you need is an earring and a mop." Sawyer
5. "Do you think Claire's missed me yet?" Charlie "Dude, it's been a day." Hurley
6. "This music is quite depressing." Sayid From Lostpedia
7. "That's an interesting theory." Mr. Friendly
8. "You and me ain't done, Zeke." Sawyer

Notes:

1. Jack, stop being such a big baby. If you weren't so awkward and emotional about everything and had taken Kate with you, she wouldn't have been captured by the Others and used against you!
2. Um, Jack, brilliant idea, but why don't you ask the one dude on the island who has actually been in an army?
3. The scene with the Others and Mr. Friendly is clearly the best scenes in this episode, otherwise it is by far not one of my favorites.
4. "Since the dawn of our species man has been blessed with curiosity." A quote from Alvar Hanso.

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!

1.16 Outlaws

From Lostpedia

1. Sawyer witnesses his father kill his mother and then kill himself. From Lostpedia
2. "It'll come back around." Sawyer hears the whispers in the jungle when he goes after boar and asks Sayid what he heard.
3. In Sawyer's hotel room, Hibbs gives him info on the real Sawyer, Frank Duckett, says it'll make up for the Tampa job.
4. Sawyer goes to Sydney to kill the real Sawyer.
5. Hurley and Charlie bury Ethan together. From Lost Hatch
6. "He killed a guy. He shot him in the chest 4 times." Hurley talks to Sayid about Charlie.
7. Sawyer and Kate play I Never.
8. "I never cared about carte blanche because I just wanted to spend time with the only other person on this island that just don't belong." Sawyer
9. "I never killed a man. Well, looks like we got something in common after all." Sawyer From Lostpedia
10. Locke's sister Jeanie died when he was a boy, fell off the monkey bars and broke her neck, his mother blamed herself, 6 months after her funeral, a golden retriever shows up, slept on his sister's bed until his mother passed 5 years later, then disappeared.
11. Sawyer is from Tennessee, he tells Frank. He says he loves the south and its women.
12. Sawyer meets Christian Shephard in a bar in Sydney. From Lost Hatch
13. "I seem to have misplaced my wallet." Christian
14. "It's fate. Some people are just supposed to suffer. That's why the Red Sox will never win the damn series." Christian
15. Christian tells Sawyer that his son is a good doctor, that he's a good man, and that he's proud of him.
16. "This business that you have, will it ease your suffering?" Christian encourages Sawyer to kill without knowing it.
17. "You're not alone. Don't pretend to be." Sayid checks up on Charlie. From Lostpedia
18. Sawyer fails at killing the real Sawyer, but kills Frank Duckett and gives him the letter. From Lostpedia From Lost Hatch
19. Hibbs gave him the wrong information to con him into killing someone who owed him money.
20. "You didn't have to tell Hibbs. I would've paid. It'll come back around." Frank
21. "That's why the Red Sox will never win the series." Jack
22. Sawyer realizes that he knew Jack's dad.

Questions:

1. What happened on the Tampa job? Why did Hibbs owe Sawyer?
2. Who is the man that Sawyer killed, Frank Duckett? What did he owe money to Hibbs for?
3. When Sawyer and Kate play I never, Kate says she's been married. When was she married?
4. Did Christian Shephard die after Sawyer drank with him?

Favorites:

1. Sayid making fun of Sawyer being taunted by a boar.
2. "I only made out with him because torturing him didn't work." Kate
3. "Thank you, boar expert." Sawyer says to Kate.
4. Hurley saying that Ethan is going to turn into a zombie and eat him because he's slow and he gets cramps.
5. Kate making fun of Sawyer for not being able to track the boar.
6. "Now that would be silly." Locke says to Kate about her asking if he thought the dog was his sister.
7. "Stick 'em up." Sawyer jokes with Jack, but Jack isn't Doctor Giggles.

Notes:

1. The girl that Sawyer brings back to his hotel room, Mary Jo, is the same one that reads off the lottery numbers in Hurley's flashback. She is also Harold Perrineau's wife.
2. We find out in this episode that Kate has, in fact, killed someone.
3. Sawyer and Kate do actually have a connection. They're the only ones that can really understand eachother on the island.
4. The bar Sawyer meets Christian Shephard in is the one where Ana Lucia drops him off in Two for the Road.
5. The whispers Sawyer hears by the beach, on left, right and center tracks, from Dark UFO: (Sawyer breathing) There goes another poking his head in here (could be "There goes somebody"). Yeah, let's see what he's doing. Let me decide. Come back. Wait, I see another one. It'll come back around (Frank Duckett's voice).; Oh my god, there's a guy out there. Dennis (?), find out what's going on. Did he see us? Maybe. Open it. Did you see what direction he went? Right through those trees. Go and get him. There is an explanation (resolution?) and I bet you haven't thought of it. What is it? He's been in a plane crash. Are you sure? I know what it's like for a plane to crash. Complain, complain, complain. I want to get closer. I know what you said, but he's looking around. What if he shoots us or something?; There may be something, but it may be slack (?). Let's go. Has he seen us?(Alarms go off) I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. (faint...could be echo from alarm) Intruder, Intruder. Hide against the bushes. Open the door. I know what it's like for a plane to crash. Complain, complain, complain. I know what you said, but...
6. The whispers Sawyer hears in the jungle, on left, right and center track, from Dark UFO: How could you say that? I knew he was American. It was a large group. It'll come back around (Frank Duckett's voice). Now listen, here’s what we should do. Nothing. It’s not the one. He’s coming up on the gate; How could you say that? I knew he was American. Hey listen, come on, let’s go. Go and see what he's doing. Duetch negg or Joice leg (perhaps another language or reversed). Like it's your choice. He's coming up on the gate. My guess is to shoot the pig (or "Guess he'll shoot the pig"). Yes, my hand (or head) is free; How could you even say that? I knew he was an American. Hey listen, come on, lets go. Go and see what he's doing. He's coming up on the gate. My guess is to shoot the pig. Okay.