The Pilot Part Two

Part two continues with Kate and Charlie coming back from their traumatic trek. Kate asks Charlie why he was in the bathroom and he tells her that he was getting sick and that this is his one tangible contribution to their trip and that he is a coward. I'm sure he feels like a coward in more than just one way as he still needs his heroine.

Next we have a Charlie flashback and we get to see the plane going down from his perspective. It has been noted that Cindy's phrasing telling people to buckle up because the light has been turned on is slightly different in Kate's, Jack's and Charlies flashbacks. Is this simply a nitpick, or an indication of multiple time lines?




Now we see Shannon sunbathing as everyone else is working to find and sort things that they need. We can see right away that Boone and Shannon have issues with each other and they aren't the kind of issues that a brother and sister should have. Claire picks up on this asks Shannon if they are boy and girlfriend. Shannon states that Boone is her brother.

Next we see another couple that has major issues. Jin and Sun. We can tell from these first two episodes that Jin is not your ideal husband and that he is very controlling and difficult to deal with.

Micheal tries to ask Jin and Sun if they have seen his Son but to our knowledge Jin and Sun do not speak English although we found out later that Jin is a such a controlling husband that Sun would go to great lengths to plan a get away and learn English in the process.

Micheal finds Walt in the jungle while he is searching for Vincent and yet again we see another couple of people that have major issues. We can see that Micheal is very disturbed to find handcuffs and is scared for his son's safety.

As Micheal and Walt walk back to the beach they come upon Sawyer and Sayid fighting. Sawyer has accused Sayid of being responsible for the crash and has stereotyped him based on his physical features. Kate is able to stop the fight all the while knowing she is the one the marshall was bringing back.

Soon another trek is planned to see if Sayid can get reception on the transceiver they brought back from the cockpit. Jack wants to go and is scared for Kate's safety. They both know what is in that jungle. However Kate states how does he know they are safer on the beach than in the jungle?

We see Jin and Sun again and right now the more we see of Jin the more we dislike him. Jin and Sun both go to all the trouble to prepare the fish yet he smacks Sun's hand when she wants a piece for herself.

Right before a group of losties leave for their second trek we see Sawyer yet again looking like the mysterious bad guy and we get the first look at the letter. In the season five finale we get to see when he started the letter and see Jacob hand him a pen when he runs out of ink. I wish I could see if the earlier letter looked the same but I don't think they showed us a close up of the letter till the season 5 finale.

We see the group heading up to higher ground to see if they can get reception. As you watch them leaving you can see the way the light "scatters" as we see it in the second episode of season 4 when Daniel mentions that light doesn't scatter right on the island. Was there time travel going on even in the first season?

I believe one of the most important scenes in the whole series happens in the Pilot where we see Locke playing backgammon. Walt comes up to him and asks him if it is like checkers. Locke goes on to tell him that it is the oldest game in the world, that it is over 5000 years old, older than Christ. He tells Walt that it consists of two sides, one light, one dark.


I believe in the end that this is what the show will come down too, two sides. Good vs. Evil.

Soon, we have another very strange thing that goes on on this island. Polar bears. I wonder what I first thought when I first saw a polar bear on a tropical island. It certainly wasn't the actual explanation and that is why I love Lost!

Kate wants to know how Sawyer got a gun to kill the polar bear and he says he got it off the Marshall. Sayid tells Sawyer that he is the prisoner. Sawyer, says, fine we can all play a part. This statement reminds me of a youtube video of a promo that wasn't played in the US but I think gives us a lot insight into the show. I love this video, here it is below.
















Kate then decides that she wants to take the gun apart and pretends she doesn't know how. We learn in a later episode that she's told this lie before in Whatever The Case May Be.

Sawyer says to Kate, " I know your type", and "I've been with girls like you". Kate then says, "not girls exactly like me". This statement has always struck and I think it may be another instance of showing the characters have been through something like this before.

We have another flashbacks and it is Kate's. Do Kate and the Marshall seem more intimate that what they should be?





We have Losties on higher ground and they finally have bars on the transceiver. They soon hear a female voice speaking in french. Everyone is so happy but it is short lived when they get Shannon to relunctantly interpret what the french chick is saying.

She says,

Please help me, please come get me.
I'm alone now, on the island alone.
Please someone come.
The others are dead.
It killed them, it killed them all.

Sayid soon figures out that is repeating over and over, on a loop.

Charlie then asks the most important question for season 1. "Where are we?"

After reading what I wrote a while back I wonder if something happens to Frank if Jack could fly the plane home, I had forgotten about him taking flying lessons!