“Pilot (part 2 of 2)”

Lost season 1, episode 2
Original air date: September 29, 2004

As Kate, Charlie and Jack walk back to the beach from the wreckage of the cockpit, we learn — although Jack and Kate do not — that Charlie had been snorting drugs of some kind on the plane. During the flight, he had locked himself in the bathroom to snort his stuff, and then as the plane was crashing, he dropped his bag of stuff in the bathroom before dashing out to take a seat and grab an oxygen mask. He recovered his bag from the bathroom while Kate and Jack were talking to the pilot in the cockpit.

Back on the beach, Shannon (prissy, blond girl) is sunbathing, and her brother, Boone, comes over to chastise her for not helping at all. She's still sanguine and certain that the rescuers are on their way, but Boone walks off in disgust. The pregnant lady tells Shannon she hasn't felt the baby kick since the crash. The Korean couple walks along the beach, and the man is collecting things from the shore. Michael (tall black guy with dreadlocks) approaches them to ask if they've seen Walt, his son. The woman hesitates for a moment, but as she glances at the man, she turns back to Michael and implies that she only speaks Korean. The Korean man then indicates that she neesd to button the topmost button on her sweater, which she had unbuttoned because of the heat.

Michael finds Walt in the trees, looking for his dog. Walt comes across some handcuffs, instead, which freaks everyone out. As Jack, Kate and Charlie return to the beach, they have to break up a fight between Sayid and Sawyer. As they pull them apart, they learn that apparently Sawyer has a problem with Sayid being the sole Arab survivor, and that he accused Sayid of crashing the plane. Sayid storms off to work on the transceiver, which is not getting a signal.

As Sayid works on the radio, Hurley (really overweight guy) approaches him and they strike up a friendship. We learn that Sayid was an Iraqi guardsman in the first Gulf War. Sayid approaches Kate when he has the transceiver working, but he says they need to take it to higher ground to get a stronger signal. Furthermore, the battery won't last long.

Boone again prods Shannon to do something constructive, so she says she'll go up to the mountainside with Sayid and Kate. Boone argues with her, until he finally ends up going as well, as well as Charlie and Sawyer. Sawyer tells everyone that there was an air marshal on board, which explains the handcuffs. It doesn't explain who the criminal was, but we learn in a flashback that it was Kate, although we don't learn what she did or where she was being transported. The air marshal was knocked out in the turbulence, so she unlocked her handcuffs so that she could get the oxygen mask over her face and his.

Jack has to stay behind on the beach to tend to the man with the big piece of shrapnel in his stomach. It turns out that the man is the air marshal, although Jack doesn't know that. While he's operating on the air marshal, the Korean man is going around offering everyone something, ostensibly food. Hurley refuses, but the pregnant lady takes him up on it. After eating it, she feels the baby kick.

From Michael's behavior and a conversation he has with Jack on the beach, we learn that maybe Walt isn't his son. He does tell Jack that Walt is really worried about his dog, and Jack says he saw it on the first day in the jungle. Michael is very surprised, but doesn't say anything. In the meantime, Walt approaches the silent and strange guy, Locke, who is setting up a game of backgammon. He tells Walt that backgammon is the oldest game there is, representing light and darkness, good and evil.

The search party hears something in the woods as they climb, and they brace for the Thing to attack them. Instead, a polar bear comes crashing through the trees at them, and they're all very surprised when Sawyer pulls a gun and shoots it several times. It falls over, and while they all ponder why there's a polar bear in the tropics and how Sawyer has a gun, Kate takes the gun from Sawyer in a deft move. She then asks Sayid how to disarm it, and he walks her through dropping the clip and discharging the round in the chamber.

They continue on up the mountainside until they reach a clear enough, high enough place to try the transceiver. They can't broadcast, though, because something else is already broadcasting on that frequency. It's in French, which only Shannon speaks, but even so, she doesn't speak it well. Sayid is able to discern that it's a repeating pattern, with regular intervals. Shannon translates that a woman is saying "I'm alone. I'm here on the island. Please help us. Someone please come. They're all dead. It killed them." Sayid calculates from the intervals that it's been running for 16 years. Charlie, at that point, asks, "Guys ... where the hell are we?"