Exodus
Flashbacks
Several of the survivors are shown in the final hours before the flight. Early that morning, Walt Lloyd (Malcolm David Kelley) wakes up and turns on the TV. When an awakened Michael Dawson (Harold Perrineau) asks him to turn it off, Walt throws a tantrum and flees the room with his dog Vincent. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) converse with another passenger on his flight in the airport lounge, Ana Lucia Cortez (Michelle Rodriguez). James “Sawyer” Ford (Josh Holloway) is told that he is being placed on Flight 815 because he is being deported by the Australian government. Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) is handcuffed and turned over to the Marshal (Fredric Lane)’s custody for the flight, and during a conversation with the customs guard, the Marshal reveals that he had baited Kate with Tom Brennan’s toy airplane. When he denigrates Tom’s memory, Kate attacks him, but is subdued. At the check-in, Shannon Rutherford (Maggie Grace) waits for Boone Carlyle (Ian Somerhalder) to get them a first-class upgrade, when Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews) asks her to watch his bag. She uninterestedly agrees, but when Boone returns without an upgrade, she carelessly leaves the bag. As Boone chastises her, she walks up to a security agent, telling them that “an Arab man” left his bag unattended. Sun-Hwa Kwon (Yunjin Kim) and Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) are eating in the airport cafe. Sun overhears insults from an American couple regarding Sun’s apparent submissiveness to Jin and is forced to pretend that she does not understand their conversation.
On the Island
Early in the morning, Danielle Rousseau (Mira Furlan) arrives at the beach to warn the survivors that The Others are coming, and tells them more of her own story. She was pregnant when she came to the island sixteen years ago but the Others—their arrival heralded by a column of black smoke—came and kidnapped her baby, whom she has not seen since.
As the group resumes work on the raft, Walt notices a column of black smoke in the distance. The survivors then tell Rousseau about the hatch, and their need to open it, perhaps with dynamite. Rousseau offers to take them to a wooden shipwreck, the Black Rock, which is a British slaving ship that was found inland on the Island.
Jack runs into Sawyer in the jungle, and hands him a pistol with ammo “just in case.” They share an awkward, distant goodbye. As Jack leaves, Sawyer stops him and tells him of the details of when he met a man named Christian (John Terry) (Jack’s father) in a bar. He tells Jack what Christian said about his son, and Jack is visibly moved. Jack moves off into the jungle.
As Jack, Kate, John Locke (Terry O’Quinn), Hugo “Hurley” Reyes (Jorge Garcia) and Dr. Arzt (Daniel Roebuck) head toward the Black Rock, Arzt is chased by The Monster, which Rousseau says is a security system protecting the island.
As the raft prepares for launch, Sayid gives the team a radar emitter and flare gun, while Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan) gathers messages from the remaining castaways to put in a bottle, and Walt leaves Vincent with Shannon. Sun says goodbye to Jin, handing him a notebook of English nautical terms. This encourages him to speak to her and they reconcile. He says that he will still go, but because he wants to rescue her from the island. After all the goodbyes, the raft team sets off, while in the distance, the column of smoke continues to rise.
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