Episode Analysis of 1.08 "Confidence Man"

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My LOST re-watch and in-depth episode analysis will include major details from the entirety that was 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. Then, come back here.

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.

Episode Analysis of 1.07 "The Moth"

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

This episode was written by Jennifer Johnson and Paul Dini, and directed by Jack Bender. It originally aired on November 3rd, 2004.

This is a Charlie Pace flashback-centric episode.

We begin in the caves, where Charlie Pace plays his guitar to try to distract himself from the fact that he's going through extreme drug withdrawals. He is sweaty and shaking. He looks absolutely awful.

Episode Analysis of 1.04 "Walkabout"

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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.

1.21 The Greater Good

1. Shannon grieves next to Boone's body. Sayid tells her that Boone was brave. From Lostpedia
2. Sayid is brought in by the CIA at Heathrow Airport to break up a terrorist cell with 300 lbs. of C4 in Sydney. They make him do it because he knows a man involved, Essam Tasir, who he went to Cairo University with, and they know where Nadia is. From Lostpedia
3. It's been 7 years since Sayid left Iraq.
4. They have a funeral for Boone. Sayid speaks about Boone trying to save Joanna. "I'll remember his courage and I know he will be missed."
5. Locke returns and tells them it was his fault, that they found a plane and Boone climbed up because his leg was injured. "It happened because he was trying to help us. He was a hero." From Lostpedia
6. Jack attacks Locke and calls him a liar in front of everyone, he tells Sayid about the hatch.
7. Sayid meets Essam in a Mosque. He tells Sayid that his wife, Zahra, was killed by a stray bomb when she was shopping.
8. Sayid finds a bugging device in smoke detector, he convinces Essam and friends that he knows about things like that.
9. "Perhaps it is not happenstance that you and Essam met at the Mosque. Perhaps it is fate." Haddad, Essam's friend.
10. Locke tells Shannon he's sorry, gives her Boone's bag and tells her he shouldn't have let him go hunting with him.
11. "He would've gone anyway." Shannon
12. Shannon asks Sayid to do something about Locke.
13. Kate drugs Jack with sleeping pills because he refuses to sleep.
14. Sayid interrogates Locke, asks about his scar, he says it's a war wound. Sayid asks about the plane, the radio, says he could use it for parts on the raft.
15. Locke takes Sayid to the plane, tells him that he isn't lying about it.
16. "I know when I'm being lied to. There's a plane." Sayid From Lostpedia
17. Essam tells Sayid that he's going to be the martyr in the operation.
18. The CIA wants Sayid to convince Essam to go through with the suicide bombing. From Lostpedia
19. Locke asks Sayid why he doesn't trust him, and Sayid calls Locke on carrying a gun without telling anyone about it. Locke tells him about the priest, Nigerian money, and the gun.
20. Locke confesses he knocked Sayid out and destroyed his equipment when he was trying to triangulate the signal to gain his trust, but it only angers him. From Lostpedia
21. "Is that a place you really want to lead people to?" Locke explains why finding the source of the distress signal was a bad idea.
22. Sayid tells Essam that he lost someone too and will participate in the bombing.
23. "Innocent lives will be lost in service of a greater good." Sayid
24. "It was fate that brought us back together." Essam
25. Sayid tells Shannon that he believes Boone's death was an accident. "I know how strong the need can be to find someone to blame." Shannon isn't satisfied with what Sayid has to say.
26. Walt is worried about going on the raft. "What if we die?"
27. Shannon steals the key for the Halliburton when Jack is sleeping.
28. Sayid reveals to Essam that he is working with the CIA, that he will give him 10 minutes to get away, but Essam turns on Sayid and then kills himself. From Lostpedia
29. Sayid saves Locke from Shannon, but Locke is still grazed by bullet.
30. Kate comforts Sayid because Shannon won't talk to him, says she just needs time.
31. "Time won't make a difference." Sayid
32. "There's always a choice." Sayid
33. Nadia is in Irvine, California. She is a lab tech at a medical testing company.
34. Sayid has his flight changed to the next day in order to claim and bury Essam.
35. Locke thanks Sayid for saving him from Shannon. "I did it because I sensed you were our best hope of surviving here."
36. Sayid demands Locke take him to the hatch, that he knew he was lying about it.

Questions:

1. Was Sayid in London at the same time as Nadia?
2. Why did Sayid say that Nadia was dead when he was on his was to see her from Sydney?
3. How did Shannon know where the Halliburton was?
4. When did Shannon learn how to use a gun?
5. Why is Locke so imperative to the island?

Favorites:

1. Charlie calls the baby Turnip Head.
2. Sayid and Essam playing football.
3. Hurley and Charlie singing I Feel Good to the baby.
4. "Hey, Chuckie, you wanna keep that kid quiet? Baby Huey's like nails on a chalkboard." Sawyer
5. "I liked that thing a lot better inside than I like it outside." Sawyer
6. Charlie following Sawyer with the baby because his voice makes Turnip Head stop crying.
7. Sayid telling Shannon that she doesn't know how to use a gun, and then she immediately shoots at the ground.
8. Sawyer reading a car magazine to the baby.

Notes:

1. Uh, Locke, maybe you should take the bloody shirt off before you confront everyone and try to convince them that you're not guilty of killing Boone.
2. Again, uh, Locke, maybe Shannon wouldn't have wanted to kill you if you hadn't gotten up and walked away right when she's in the middle of crying about her dead brother. No chick skills, Locke.
3. Even Walt is terrified by Locke in this episode.
4. Sayid saves Locke from Shannon in sacrifice of the greater good.
5. Shannon was actually going to kill Locke.

1.08 Confidence Man

1. "Hell of a book. It's about bunnies." Sawyer, to Kate, about Watership Down. From Lost Hatch
2. The woman that Sawyer cons is named Jess. Her husband's name is David.
3. "He says we have a connection." Kate, to Jack, about Sawyer. From Lostpedia
4. "We're not savages. Not yet." Jack
5. Sawyer's letter says America's Bicentennial, Knoxville, Tennessee on the envelope. From Lostpedia
6. "You were just a kid.. 8 maybe 9 years old." Kate
7. "How's that for a tragedy? I became the man I was hunting. I became Sawyer." Sawyer From Lostpedia
8. "Someone has to walk the shore and map the island. I can't think of anyone better to do it than the only one I trust." Sayid
9. They've been on the island two weeks.
10. "I hope we meet again." Sayid, to Kate.
11. I Shall Not Walk Alone, montage.

Questions:

1. Sawyer tells Jessica that he has $140,000, but then later he says he has $160,000 of his boss's money. Was he stealing money or is this a blooper?
2. Why did Sawyer leave the money behind when he backed out on the con?
3. Why does Sawyer want to be hated so much? Why would he want to be tortured for just a kiss from Kate?

Favorites:

1. "You going through my stuff, boy?" Sawyer, to Boone.
2. "I'm gonna kill him." Jack "That won't help." Kate "Maybe not. But it'll feel good." Jack
3. "Don't you miss anything besides food?" Claire
4. "Whoa. That was like a Jedi moment." Hurley
5. "I'm a big guy. It's gonna be a while before you're gonna want to give me a piggy back ride." Hurley, to Charlie when he asks him for peanut butter.
6. "Good morning." Sayid
7. "Is that all you got? Splinters? No wonder we whooped your ass in the Gulf War. Don't stop now, my sinuses are finally clearing up." Sawyer
8. "Baby, I am tied to a tree in a jungle of mystery. I just got tortured by a damn spinal surgeon and a genuine Iraqi. Of course I'm serious." Sawyer, to Kate about the kiss.
9. The pretend jar of peanut butter scene. From Lostpedia

Notes:

1. Boone is an idiot.
2. Shannon needs her inhaler and everyone thinks Sawyer has them, which leads to Sayid torturing him and Kate and Sawyer kissing for whatever reason.
3. Kate figures out that the letter Sawyer reads wasn't written to him, but by him.
4. Sayid leaves in shame after torturing Sawyer.
5. Locke allows Sayid to believe that it was Sawyer who sabotaged his signal triangulation.
6. Sayid leaving is the beginning of the exploration of the island.

1.07 The Moth

1. Locke tells Charlie that he'll let him ask for his drugs 3 times.
2. "Then we're one step closer to getting off this island." Jack, to Sayid about acquiring the transceiver signal.
3. The caves collapse on Charlie and Jack, he is trapped. From Lostpedia
4. "People survive plane crashes all the time." Kate "The tail section broke off while we were still in the air. Our section cart-wheeled through the jungle, yet we escaped with nothing but a few scrapes. How do you explain that?" Sayid "Blind, dumb luck." Kate "No one's that lucky. We shouldn't have survived." Sayid "Sorry, Sayid, but some things just happen. No rhyme, no reason." Kate
5. Charlie already has the DS ring when he decides that it's time to walk away from the band.
6. Michael worked construction for 8 years.
7. "I'm here to rescue you." Charlie, to Jack.
8. "I'm no saint either." Jack says to Charlie.
9. It's been 8 days on the island now.
10. "Struggle is natures way of strengthening it." Locke From Lostpedia
11. Sayid triangulates transceiver signal, but is knocked out from behind. From Lost Hatch
12. Charlie wants Liam to do an 8 week tour.

Questions:

1. Why did Locke imply that it was Sawyer who destroyed their chance to acquire the signal?
2. Why does Sawyer want to be hated so much?

Favorites:

1. Charlie's confession. It makes me laugh every time. From Lostpedia
2. "You're great bait." Locke "Give me my drugs!" Charlie
3. "Thank God for fireworks smugglers." Sayid
4. "I'm a bloody Rock God!" Charlie
5. "He's Scott. I'm Steve." I still don't even know which one is which!
6. Sawyer saying that if he had band-aids and a bottle of peroxide, he could be a doctor and liked by everyone like Jack.

Notes:

1. Jack tells Sayid that they'll be closer to getting off the island if they figure out where the transceiver signal is coming from. This, ultimately, is what gets them off the island three seasons later.
2. This is the first time we hear You All Everybody.
3. Kate says Sawyer doesn't want to leave because he has nothing to go back for. She later finds out that he does have something to go back for, but he ends up staying and sacrificing himself.
4. This is the first time Charlie does drugs.
5. We later find out that it is Locke that knocks Sayid out. Surprise, surprise.
6. Charlie sets himself free, and throws his drugs into the fire.