Lost season 2
This article contains episode summaries for the second season of the American drama/adventure television series Lost; the new episodes began airing September 21, 2005. The original airdates (U.S.) are listed here for each episode. For airdates on other networks and in other countries, see Airdates of Lost.
| # | Title | Flashbacks |
|---|---|---|
| -- | "Destination Lost" | Various (clip-show) |
| 1 | "Man of Science, Man of Faith" | Jack |
| 2 | "Adrift" | Michael |
| 3 | "Orientation" | Locke |
| 4 | "Everybody Hates Hugo" | |
| 5 | "...And Found" | |
| 6 | "Abandoned" | |
| 7 | "The Other 48 Days" |
Man of Science, Man of Faith
- Original air date: September 21, 2005
- Flashback: Jack Shephard
- Written by Damon Lindelof.
- Directed by Jack Bender
The episode begins with a man rising from a bunk bed and logging onto an Apple II computer using "the numbers". He then gets dressed and begins his day, as the camera moves about the surrounding rooms, which contains an assortment of objects from the 1960s to the present. After a couple of minutes, this routine is interrupted by an explosion, spurring the man to arm himself before using a telescope-and-mirror system to examine the location of the explosion. As his gaze reaches further and further through the complex, it continues up a shaft to the faces of Jack and Locke standing around the now-open hatch.
At the hatch entry, Jack expresses reservations about entering the passageway, noting that they should wait for the sun to come up before anything is done. Locke, on the other hand, feels that their entry should not be delayed, even after Kate points out that the back of the hatch door reads 'QUARANTINE'. At the same time, at the caves, Shannon and Sayid search the jungle for Vincent, who has run off. The pair find Vincent in a clearing, and attempt to catch him, but he runs off. The two are separated, and, while alone, Shannon hears the whispers of the jungle. Walt appears, dripping wet and speaking backwards he says, "Don't press the button. The button is bad," or possibly, "Press the button. No button's bad." When Sayid returns, he finds Shannon on the ground, but Walt has disappeared.
During the walk back from the hatch, Hurley shares with Jack his story about the numbers inscribed on the outside of the hatch, but he is disappointed by Jack's response. Upon reaching the caves, Jack explains the situation to the survivors, promising them they will all be all right, as long as they stay together. No sooner does Jack finish this speech than Locke appears, carrying cable and saying he is going into the hatch. Soon after, Kate follows behind him. While Locke is easing her down the shaft, Kate realizes that there is something in the hatch, and in a sudden burst of light from within the hatch, Kate mysteriously disappears.
Back at the caves, Jack arms himself, deciding that he is going after Kate and Locke, and, upon reaching the hatch, he finds no one there. He rappels down the shaft to look for Kate and Locke, and finds a maze of passageways. He comes across a colorful mural painted on the wall, featuring the numbers, including their sum, 108, prominently in the centre of a sun. He also discovers a spot where the gun case key is pulled up, as if attracted by a strong magnetic force. Finally, after being surprised by a bright light and loud music (specifically, "Make Your Own Kind of Music" by Mama Cass), he enters what appears to be an underground geodesic dome, which contains an array of computer equipment from various decades, including an Apple II computer, its prompt glowing. As Jack is about to use it, Locke appears and tells Jack not to touch it. Jack raises the gun and asks, "Where's Kate?" Locke does not answer, as the resident of the hatch has a gun pointed at the side of his head.
During flashbacks, Jack encounters his future wife, Sarah, who has arrived in his ER after a horrific car crash that she apparently caused. The other victim, who dies when Jack has to choose which patient to work on, shares Shannon's last name of Rutherford. In the events that follow, Jack is first chastised by his father and then advised by a stranger named Desmond about his need to feel and provide more hope. After his conversation with Desmond, in which he asserted his belief that he had failed to help Sarah, he returns to her room, where he discovers that she has experienced a miraculous recovery.
Back in the underground dome, Locke tells Jack to put the gun down. The gunman threatens that he will shoot Locke if Jack doesn't surrender. Jack refuses, instead taunting Locke about his destiny. Finally, the gunman steps out, and Jack recognises him as Desmond.
Adrift
- Original air date: September 28, 2005
- Flashback: Michael Dawson
- Written by Steven Maeda and Leonard Dick
Sawyer surfaces in the ocean after the attack on the raft. The raft is burning, one whole side of it blown away. Pieces of wreckage float everywhere. Michael is heard screaming for Walt repeatedly, and Sawyer screaming for Jin. Sawyer decides to rescue Michael first, and swims over to him, dragging him onto a piece of flotsam. On their makeshift raft, Michael blames Sawyer for making him fire the flare, drawing their attackers to them, and Jin is nowhere to be found.
Shortly after they climb aboard the wreckage, something pounds on the raft from below. When Sawyer and Michael investigate, they see the distinctive fin of a shark. Michael blames Sawyer's bleeding wound for attracting the shark, and this devolves into an argument which ends when Michael orders Sawyer off his piece of raft. Sawyer complies, but soon the two are arguing again, during which time Sawyer's piece of raft disintegrates and he is forced to rejoin Michael.
As they continue to float along with the current, one of the raft's pontoons appears, and they decide to board it. At this time we get a glimpse of the shark underwater and we see a strange marking on its tail. Sawyer swims to the pontoon, giving Michael his gun in case the shark appears. When it does, Michael fires several times, apparently injuring the shark, which breaks off. Momentarily shocked by the experience, Michael numbly swims for the pontoon, where Sawyer waits for him.
During Michael's flashbacks, he remembers his early custody struggles with Susan, who has asked Michael to sign away his paternal rights to Walt. Though Michael initially resists, suing to keep his rights, he eventually relents, realizing that Walt's best interests should supercede his own. As part of the flashback there is a parting scene between Michael and Walt. Michael gives Walt a toy polar bear.
When day breaks on the raft, Michael is crying. He realizes that he should not have brought Walt with him on the raft, even if all he really wanted was to be with his son. As with his custody battle, Walt's safety and security should have been paramount, and Michael tells Sawyer that Walt's kidnapping was his own fault. At this point, Sawyer looks around and notices that they are back at the island. When they wash ashore, on a beach they do not recognize, they are greeted by Jin running toward them, fleeing a group holding him captive.
During the night Sawyer and Michael drift ashore, Claire also discovers Charlie carrying a Virgin Mary statue, stolen from the Beechcraft. Also shown are the events at the hatch before Jack's arrival. After Kate disappears into the hatch, Locke descends as well, finding an unconscious Kate in the computer room. An armed Desmond walks up behind them, quizzing Locke if he is "him." Locke at first claims to be whom Desmond is seeking, but fails to answer the riddle correctly that Desmond poses to him. This failure prompts Desmond to round up the two. Desmond orders Kate to tie Locke up, but Locke, explaining that Kate is the bigger threat, convinces Desmond she should be tied up. When Desmond concurs, Locke slides her one of his knives, and locks her in the pantry. Kate frees herself, and after enjoying a chocolate bar, climbs into a ventilation shaft, while Locke and Desmond take turns asking each other questions.
Suddenly, an alarm klaxon begins to sound. Desmond walks Locke at gunpoint to the computer terminal, and forces him to enter "the numbers" into the computer, which resets a timer for the alarm. Soon after, Desmond detects Jack, and after channeling him to the computer room, forces Locke to greet Jack, leading to the showdown seen in the previous episode.
Orientation
- Original air date: October 5, 2005
- Flashback: Locke
- Directed by Jack Bender
- Written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Craig Wright
On the beach, Michael and Sawyer discover Jin, arms bound, being chased by a group of five people he calls "Others." The three are attacked and quickly knocked unconscious by one of the group, played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. The people, including some dressed in contemporary clothing, drag the unconscious men in nets to a pit, covered with bars made of bamboo.
At the underground compound, the standoff between Jack, Desmond, and Locke provides enough of a distraction for Kate to drop from the air ventilation system into the compound's armory, where she finds and loads a shotgun. She makes her way behind Desmond, and ends the standoff by striking him with the butt of the shotgun. Desmond fires a round from his gun as he falls, hitting and badly damaging the computer. When an upset Desmond claims that everyone will die unless the computer is fixed, Kate suggests that Sayid could repair the machine and is sent to retrieve him.
At Jack's insistence, Desmond explains that, three years prior, he had been in a solo race around the world, when his boat crashed on the reef surrounding the island. On the island, he met a man named "Kelvin," who enlisted his help in his sole duty on the island: inputting the numbers into the compound's computer and pressing the execute button every 108 minutes. Desmond explains that "the end of the world" would come if the button was not pressed, but without time to explain in detail, Desmond directs Jack and Locke to watch a film reel he's placed behind a copy of The Turn of the Screw. This film welcomes its viewers to the underground compound, calling it Facility 3, the Swan, before going on to describe a project called "The Dharma Initiative," founded by experimental psychology researchers and funded by The Hanso Foundation. The film also icludes a shot of the Norwegian town Narvik. The film ends by explaining that, due to an incident on the island, the viewers must enter the code into the computer every 108 minutes for the next 540 days. Jack and Locke have opposite responses to this film: Jack believes that what they're experiencing is nothing more than a social experiment, while Locke believes the film should be taken at its word.
Soon after, Desmond attempts to power up the computer, but it shorts out, blowing a fuse in the compound. Desmond panics and hurriedly leaves the facility. Jack follows behind him, abandoning Locke to attempt to fix the computer alone. Locke briefly suffers an emotional breakdown, but Kate, Sayid and Hurley arrive to help. Uninterested in the details of the situation, Sayid directs Kate and Hurley to restore power while he repairs the computer. Outside, Jack catches up to Desmond, holding him at gunpoint. Desmond tells Jack the code, but Jack's not interested. Instead, he asks where Desmond was running to, which reminds Desmond's of his earlier conversation with Jack. When Desmond asks about Jack's patient, Jack stonewalls before eventually replying that he married her. Desmond guesses from his reaction that they are no longer married. Jack lowers his gun as he begins to cry, and Desmond runs off.
Elsewhere, Sawyer, Michael and Jin evaluate their prison, with Sawyer attempting to get above the bars by having the others boost him. The man who bested them earlier intervenes, and another prisoner is dropped into the pit. When she awakens, she introduces herself as Ana-Lucia, and they determine they were all on Flight 815; Ana-Lucia was in the rear secton, which landed in a different area from the other survivors. She claims to have survived on her own since the crash, and that she was then taken prisoner like the three men. She manages to spot Sawyer's gun, hidden underneath his shirt. Sawyer tells her that he plans to bait the guard and escape. Ana-Lucia scoffs at the plan; as they debate, she manages to grab the gun, call for the guard, and is lifted out of the cell. The guard asks her what information she was able to gain, and the men realize that she has deceived them.
In flashbacks, Locke is seen participating in a support group, wherein a woman is explaining that her mother stole money from her purse, but Locke simply laughs at this. When the moderator asks why, he explains that 30 dollars is nothing to get upset over, finally recounting the deception perpetrated by his father (as seen in Deus Ex Machina). After the meeting, he is approached by another member of the support group, Helen (Katey Sagal), who tells him that Locke said what she had always wanted to, and she flirts further with him. Later, Helen wakes up to find Locke putting on his clothes, claiming he is uncomfortable sleeping in an unfamiliar bed. That morning, he sits in his car outside the gates of his father's estate. His father opens the car door and gets in, saying he knows that Locke has been stalking him, and wants it to stop, finally telling him: "Don't come back; you're not wanted." Locke does not stop, however, and at dinner during their six-month anniversary, Helen gives Locke a present: a key to her house, under the condition that he stop going to his father's house. Locke agrees, but is unable to keep his word. Helen eventually follows and confronts him, explaining that he is afraid. He is afraid of the future, of moving past what his father has done, and of moving forward in his relationship with her. When he replies that he doesn't know what else to do, she responds that it is meant to be difficult, because what she is asking him for is a leap of faith. He seems to understand, and they embrace.
At the facility, Sayid successfully repairs the computer, leaving Locke to type in the numbers. When Hurley hears them talking, Hurley again urges Locke not to use the numbers, but he stops protesting after seeing Locke enter a wrong number. Just as Locke is about to hit the "EXECUTE" button, Jack arrives and tells Locke the correct numbers. Locke tells Jack he should be the one to hit the button, but Jack refuses. As the klaxons sound, the two have another confrontation, with Locke asking Jack why it was so hard to believe, and Jack responding by asking why Locke found it so easy. An upset Locke tells him it was never easy, but Jack needs to make a leap of faith of his own. With a scant second left, Jack presses the button. Locke says that he will take the first shift at the computer.
Everybody Hates Hugo
- Scheduled air date: October 12, 2005
- Written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
- Directed by Alan Taylor
Hurley struggles with an assigned task inside the hatch; Sawyer, Michael and Jin learn the identities of their captors; Claire makes a discovery about the fate of Michael's raft.
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...And Found
- Scheduled air date: October 19, 2005
- Directed by Stephen Williams
- Written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse
Michael sets off by himself, determined to find Walt, but discovers that he is not alone. Sawyer and Jin's captors demand to be taken to the castaway's camp.
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Abandoned
- Scheduled air date: October 26, 2005
As Sawyer's wound becomes life-threatening, he, Michael and Jin make their way through the interior of the island with the tail end survivors.
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