It began in the blink of an eye.
A plane crash...
A group of survivors...
- I'm Kate. - Jack.
An island of mystery.
This place is different.
(Rattling and growling)
The scope of it seemed epic.
(Sawyer) Come on, Freckles. Don't we deserve somethin' good?
- I was blown away by it. - Where are you?!
This was something that hadn't been done before
- in terms of prime time TV. - We're not alone.
You could tell it was... it was gonna be cool.
As the story of the Oceanic survivors began to unfold...
(Michael) Lift!
"Lost" became a phenomenon.
(Charlie)- Whoo!- The pilot really blasted off.
And captured the imagination of audiences around the world.
- Guys, where are we? - When however many million people watched it,
- I thought, this looks like it might do all right. - (Chuckles) It took me by surprise.
- We were changing the face of American television. - We're here.
- It seemed to use the medium of television... - I think there's something down... aah!
- In a truly creative way. - Kate, damn it, run!
I don't know of another scripted show
that has had as much impact on the culture.
Help me! Dad!
Walt!
Variety, mystery,
the big questions, international casting,
the unbelievably scenic backdrop.
It's a tale of survival... (Shouts in Korean)
(Loud explosion) (Screaming)
- Of redemption... - Nothing in my life has ever felt so right.
Of faith.
Why did you do this?! Why?!
But at its core,
"Lost" is a story about a group of people...
If we can't live together, we're gonna die alone.
- Whom we've come to know and love... - I love you, Penny.
Over the past six seasons.
- Why do you find it so hard to believe? - Why do you find it so easy?
It's never been easy!
Tonight, before the final chapter comes to a close...
- What does he want from me? ! - I don't know, Jack!
We're taking a look back...
to remember how they loved...
- They were all talking about all the chemistry there. - And lost...
I was pretty moved and I actually got kind of emotional.
- How they fought... - I had a life here!
Charlie!
And died.
It affected everyone a lot more than we expected.
The cast of "Lost"
join producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse
- to share their experiences... - In breaking all these rules,
- that was what made "Lost" special. - Let me out!
This only happens to somebody once in a lifetime,
- if they're lucky. - Go!
- It's changed my life. - And celebrate the story that captured our hearts...
- You have to go. - I won't leave you.
Challenged our minds...
(Buzzing, magnetic humming)
- And touched our lives. - Juliet!
I came in one person and I'm going out another person,
- and I'll be forever grateful. - I'll see you in another life, brother.
- My vision went from here to here, you know, just like that. - We were brought here because
- we're supposed to do something, James. - Sayid!
I'm so happy with how it's all coming to an end,
- and it... it just feels so right. - You just have to trust me.
Here we go.
Quite a journey, y'all. (Laughs)
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(engines roaring)
This journey began in Sydney, Australia,
where a group of passengers boarded Oceanic Flight 815
bound for Los Angeles.
Strangers, but with something in common...
they were all flawed and facing their struggles alone.
But what they would experience together
would change them forever.
The story that started six years ago
concludes tonight, so let us go back to the beginning,
where the television drama
that became a world phenomenon began.
I decided to go out on auditions during a pilot season.
I figured, if anything, I'd get, you know,
a nice little Hawaiian vacation out of doing the pilot.
Then when I saw the script, it seemed really ambitious to me.
I thought it was one of the best pieces of material that I'd ever read.
I knew that it was something unusual
just because of the collective intelligence
- of the people in the room, probably. - The first thing that stood out was the... the scope of it.
You know, it seemed epic.
(Loud rattling, metal creaking)
I really got a sense that it would afford
- a lot of opportunity to explore human nature. - Don't worry.
(Loud boom, screaming)
Uhh! (Alarm blaring)
That was January of 2004 when I went for my first audition.
By March 2004, I was in Hawaii filming the pilot of "Lost."
(Loud bang) (Woman screams)
(Man) Help!
(Woman screaming)
On September 22, 2004,
"Lost" premiered in the U.S.,
and over 18 million viewers were captivated.
Help me! Will you please help me?
(Emilie) The pilot was such a great experience.
I mean, it was insane just going to that beach every day.
- I'm having contractions. - How many months pregnant are you?
Getting to know everybody for the first time
and just trying to figure out everyone's relationships
- and their characters. - Hey! What's your name?
Jack!
It looked like a movie to me. If this was gonna be something,
that hadn't been done before, in terms of
network prime time TV, it was a brilliant way to start.
- You'd think they would've come by now. - (Matthew) I thought it was extraordinary.
- Who? - Anyone.
I was blown away by it.
(Rattling and growling)
(Branches snapping)
- Did anybody see that? - Yeah.
All of us as a cast were really excited about it
and really proud of what we'd done.
We felt like we had accomplished was something special.
(Rattling and growling)
Terrific.
The show's ambitious production style immediately set it apart.
When Jack, Kate and Charlie went to find the cockpit...
that was the first stuff we ever filmed when we got to Hawaii.
(Falsetto voice) * you all, everybody *
- You never heard that song? - I've heard it. I just don't know what the hell it has...
That's us. Drive Shaft.
- Look, the ring. Second tour of Finland. - What?
We gotta keep moving.
And to see that come to life was pretty impressive.
Aah!
Aah! Oh, my God!
(Kate) Aah!
(Crash)
There was a camera in front of us bouncing around,
and we were bouncing around and looking terrified,
but we're really just basically on a self-propelled treadmill,
and that kind of stuff, you... you do it
and you feel ridiculous doing it and then you see it come to life
and you realize how impressive it looks.
That was all shot under water towers,
which are basically fire hoses.
It's unbelievable how far your temperature drops.
All of that trembling in terror? No acting involved.
I was just freezing.
Jack!
(Sobbing)
A lot of the casting came out of, like,
finding actors they wanted to work with,
rather than necessarily fill in a role.
- I'm sick of this redneck! - You want some more of me, boy?!
Hey! We're all in this together, man.
- Let's treat each other with a little respect. - Shut up, Lardo.
First it was just, wow, I hope I'm on the level
and I don't get fired 'cause they're all wonderful actors.
Knowing that we were all gonna basically...
Drop everything and move to Hawaii
and have to live together on an island, literally,
they wanted to find people
who seemed to have good chemistry with each other
on and offscreen. You're okay. I like you.
You're okay, too. (Laughs)
I grew to have such an appreciation
for the diversity in... in these characters
because it really added such perspective to the show,
and I feel like made it a show that the world could relate to.
(Speaking Korean) There! Right there! That's a kick!
He.
Never before had a seen a cast that was truly international,
both in reality of the actors
who were playing the characters and the characters themselves.
(Yunjin) We had people flown in from all over the world.
I had just come in from Korea, Naveen Andrews from the U.K.
And Dominic, of course. Emilie from Australia
and Evangeline Lilly from Canada. It was beautiful.
I felt like we were changing the face of American television.
Fine! I'm the criminal. You're the terrorist.
We can all play a part. Who you wanna be?
We were all just kind of crossing our fingers...
"I hope... I hope they like it."
I thought, this is going to either be a huge success,
or we're gonna go down in flames.
So it wasn't until the day after that the pilot premiered
- I knew that I was gonna be doing "Lost" for quite a while. - Is it working?
Seems to be, except we're not picking up a signal.
There is one thing we could try...
seeing if we can get the signal from high ground.
(Terry) I figured that they would have to give it a shot
because they seemed to have gone to so much effort
- to produce the first one. - However many million people
watched it for three weeks in a row, I thought,
oh, this... this looks like it might do all right for a while.
- Go! Go! - Sawyer!
It was clear "Lost" was no ordinary tale of survival,
and this was only the beginning. (Growling)
It was kinda overnight...
Guys, this isn't just a bear. It's a polar bear.
I was coming from the gym, all sweaty,
and some girls went by and went, "oh, it's... ew! Ew!"
And I'm like, "ew?"
Wow, I guess I can't go out in public, like,
fresh from the gym anymore.
You know, you have to be presentable.
Hey! We've got a bar! Mayday! Mayday! (Feedback whines)
It's rare for something to be critically acclaimed
and, uh, I guess, acclaimed by the public.
- (Rousseau speaking French) - It's a distress call.
I think it was at that point that I thought,
well, this is turning into something
that, uh, I couldn't really have predicted.
It's been playing over and over for 16 years.
Guys...
Where are we?
- So, your husband... was he on the flight? - Oh, no, I'm not married.
Who needs men, right? Bloody useless. (Laughs)
"Lost" is, at its heart and soul, a character study.
We're fascinated, as storytellers,
by what makes people the way they are.
On the whole, season 1 was my favorite,
where we started to learn about these characters
and we started to care about these characters.
They were these mysteries that were unsolved
and they were tantalizing because there were no answers.
The title "Lost" was really about
how these characters were sort of lost in their own lives.
And for us, the real mystery of the show
wasn't, you know, "where is this island?"
But the mystery of the show was, "who are these people?"
And the first character audiences were introduced to
was Dr. Jack Shephard.
These characters amidst this plane crash
see this man and sort of activated
- by his desire to save people. - Listen to me.
Look at me. You're gonna be okay. Do you understand me?
But you have to sit absolutely still. (Grunts)
He is elected as the leader a bit,
and he's really reticent and doesn't feel equipped to do that
- because of all of his issues with his father. - What are you talking about?
I'm talking about you stitching up the sac
so this girl isn't paralyzed for the rest of her life.
Jack lived in the shadow of his father, Christian...
I know you don't believe in me, but I need them to.
Are you sure I'm the one who doesn't believe in you, Jack?
Although Christian died in Sydney...
(Whispers) That's him.
Jack's issues with his father followed him to the island.
Dad?
It's very rare that you would get an opportunity to play
a character over a 6-year arc that has had such an arc.
- I'm not a leader. - And yet, they all treat you like one.
The experience of playing this guy
and going through what he's had to go through
and trying to tell his story the very best that I can
- has been great. It's been an amazing experience. - Excuse me!
Do you have a second? I could use a little help here.
Look, I'd do it myself. I'm a doctor.
- But I just can't reach it. - You want me to sew that up?
- If you wouldn't mind. - (Whispers) Of course I will.
Thank you.
(Wayne) Hey, girl.
Kate Austen appeared to be the girl next door,
but she was running from a turbulent past.
You are beautiful.
After killing her abusive stepfather...
Katherine... what did you do?
I took care of you, ma.
Kate became a fugitive.
Kate's flaws were her...
as with most people, I think... her greatest strengths as well.
Her spontaneity was killing her all the time.
I mean, she didn't think before she moved. She just acted.
Don't run, Kate.
Uhh! Uhh!
Kate was a murderer, and it's very odd to see people
get behind a murderer as much as they got behind Kate.
- I didn't do anything. - Oh, yeah, you did.
Your mama gave you up, Kate.
She really cared about people on a deep, deep level,
so much so that she couldn't help herself
from acting out... sometimes stupidly.
She was following you. Like I said... curiosity. (Panting)
But they were always driven by this really big heart
that she has that just desperately wanted to see
things be right and good. I was just trying to help, Jack.
And I think that people sympathize with that.
I wanna tell you what I did.
It doesn't matter, Kate.
We should all be able to start over.
And I think that's what makes you love her, too.
What do you want for the inhalers?
- What do I want? A kiss oughta do it. - What?
A kiss.
From you, right now.
Nice, huh?!
- (Cuse) For me I would love to be Sawyer because... - (Lindelof) Shocker!
Well... "because I'm in love with Sawyer..."
(Laughs) "And I like to take off my shirt
- and look at myself in the mirror." - How about you come a little closer and warm me up?
- You sure know how to make a girl feel special, Sawyer. - Sawyer is so fun.
I mean, he's the handsome rogue. He's dangerous. He's clever.
- He quips. - There's some good ones.
You sure know how to butter a man up, stay puft.
It's a gift.
I loved "stay puft."
I thought that was kinda funny in the first season with Jorge,
and then "Mr. Clean."
All you need's an earring and a mop.
I think that perfectly describes Terry.
Lapidus...
- Hey, Kenny Rogers. - Kenny Rogers.
What's your problem, Jumbotron?
Shut up... redneck... man.
Touché.
It would be a lot of fun to call Hurley nicknames and, uh...
- say "son of a bitch" all the time? - And say "son of a bitch"... "son of a bitch" all the time.
- Go ahead. Give it a shot. - Son of a bitch.
Son of a bitch! Son of a bitch!
It's good. Now take your shirt off. (Laughs)
(Josh) It's a lot of fun to play a salty character
but that has a sense of humor.
But I was worried about his survival
- because he was so hard. - Shut up!
You wanna know what kind of human being I am? Read it. (Paper rustles)
"Dear Mr. Sawyer,
you don't know who I am, but I know who you are,
and I know what you done."
(Pounding on door) Get under the bed. Don't make a sound.
- (Man) Open this door! - As a young boy...
(Man shouts indistinctly) James Ford witnessed his parents' murder/suicide...
(Woman) What are you doing? ! What the hell are you... (Gunshot)
Brought on when a man called Sawyer
made off with everything they had. (Gunshot)
Revenge became his life's purpose,
and he took on the identity of the man he sought.
This letter wasn't written to you. You wrote this letter.
(Josh) I think that was a major moment, him being found out...
you know, what his kind of dark secret is...
really put a chink in his armor and...
Allowed his humanity to seep out of that.
- I think you've never actually tortured anybody in your life. - Unfortunately for us both...
you're wrong.
I was a military communications officer.
I fought in the Gulf war.
What were you... Air Force, Army?
The Republican Guard.
Sayid Jarrah battled with a dark past.
I guess you have a new skill set you can use.
It immediately spikes your interest,
and then you think, you know, is this a gimmick?
Why are they doing this? Is this person gonna be a human being,
as opposed to some kind of symbol
or something, uh, shall we say, less attractive?
Noor Abed Jazeem.
I'm going to ask you some questions.
Nobody calls me "Noor," Sayid.
What was unusual was that this character was a romantic.
This isn't a game, Nadia.
Yet you keep playing it, Sayid.
Somewhere, there's this part of him that is pure
that will allow him to find some kind of redemption.
One of the greatest things about this show
is that the writers were smart enough
to show us a stereotype and then flip it on its head.
- Last week, most of us were strangers. - People of different countries,
of different races, of, obviously, different genders,
are trying to figure out how to build a society.
But we're all here now.
And God knows how long we're gonna be here.
At its core, it still is a story that asks the question,
can we all get along?
But if we can't live together...
We're gonna die alone.
The island held many mysteries, none more significant
than the monster that lurked in the jungle.
(Branches snapping) There it is again.
But there was one survivor who embraced the island
and explored it with renewed faith. (Rattling and growling)
Walt, do you wanna know a secret?
Finding out that Locke was in a wheelchair was huge.
Well, I didn't know in the first episode or two that we shot
that Locke, in fact, had been in a wheelchair.
- John. - Before the crash, John Locke had suffered
a paralyzing fall at the hands of his father.
Oh! Aah!
The incident left him a broken man
searching for purpose.
(Terry) The John Locke that got on the airplane
just lived in dreams, and he had nothing else,
and I think he was almost an invisible man.
When I saw the scene when Locke stands up...
And it was very moving and... that, to me, told me something
about the possibilities for the show. It sort of...
my vision went from here to here, you know, just like that.
There are plenty of things on this island
we can use for sustenance.
And exactly how are we gonna find this sustenance? (Blade whooshes)
- We hunt. - (Terry) And all of a sudden,
the possibility was presented to him that he could be somebody,
that he could influence the outcome of events,
and that people would actually listen to him.
That was hugely seductive.
I've looked into the eye of this island,
- and what I saw was beautiful. - I never heard the voice that said,
"this is the eye of the island,
and you're looking into it, John."
But he interpreted it as having a special relationship
with the island. He made that.
We were brought here for a purpose, for a reason...
- all of us. - And who brought us here, John?
- The island. - I always had a sense, you know, that that was gonna be
a fundamental battle in the show was the Jack/Locke dynamic.
I think that's why you and I don't see eye to eye sometimes, Jack,
- because you're a man of science. - What does that make you?
- I'm a man of faith. - It was easy for me to relate to all these aspects of Locke.
I just wanted to stay on the island, live in the woods,
- give people good advice. - It's my birthday today.
At least your birthdays will be close together,
- you and your baby, and that's good luck. - You believe in that?
I believe in a lot of things.
Happy birthday, Claire.
Thank you.
So... first plane crash?
- What gave it away? - Ah, you can always spot the newbies.
(Laughs)
Claire Littleton was alone at the time of the crash
but found a friend in Charlie Pace.
They had a very interesting relationship.
So many moments were so sweet, like the peanut butter jar.
Peanut butter?!
Just like you ordered.
Thank God it was fake peanut butter 'cause I'm terribly allergic.
So I'm reading that. I'm like, oh, great!
- (Laughs) The one thing I can't eat, they got me. - Extra smooth.
It's the best bloody peanut butter I've ever tasted.
(Laughs) She's a very sweet, doesn't-hold-grudges kind of girl
but has this just incredible sort of inner strength,
having to deal with being pregnant
and having a child in not the comfiest location for that to happen,
I would imagine. (Breathing heavily)
Claire? What are you doing out here?
Nothing. Just leave me alone, please.
One of the episodes that I walked away from and thought,
holy crap, that was so... boop... good,
was the episode where Boone dies
and little baby Aaron is born.
Ready? Come on. One more.
(Grunting) Push! Push! Push, push, push, push!
(Crying)
You know, the death and the birth
and the falling away of one thing
to give life to a new thing...
it was just executed so dramatically.
That was a really special episode. (Charlie laughing)
(Cuse) And Charlie has become
sort of the surrogate father for the child. The three of them
kinda comprised the closest thing to a nuclear family
- that exists on "Lost." - I love you.
(Walt) What are we looking for again?
Uh, any long piece of metal or plastic tubing.
Anything that looks like, uh, it'll work as a frame.
The first really profound moment of the show
was at the end of the first season
- when we had the raft launch. - Oh, I thought it was pretty great.
You know, pretty seaworthy. I mean, it looked... it was a raft.
Those guys made it out of materials that they found
and could have been on the island.
It was, uh, actually more stable
- than the camera boat. - It's coming together fast.
The raft was this real measure of hope for the show...
the idea that they could actually get off the island.
(Speaking Korean)
I felt like it was a culmination of all the work
that people had put in for a very difficult year,
and I felt like it was a celebration
of where the show started from and where it had come.
(Michael) Lift! And keep it straight!
(Shouting in Korean) It's one of those moments where you really understand
the making of a television series
- is an incredibly collaborative effort. - (Michael) Go! Go! Go!
- Bye, Vincent! Bye, Vincent! - It's about literally 300 people doing something in unison.
You know, we had written the scene, but then you see the film
and you see the way Jack bender executed the scene,
and then you see the emotion that all the actors brought.
- (Laughs) - (Michael) Ah! What'd I tell you, huh?
(Cuse) And then on top of that, we went to the scoring stage
with Michael Giacchino, and the cue was so beautiful,
that when it was over, everybody was crying
because it was playing and the images of the raft launch were going on,
and they all started tapping their bows
against their instruments and clapping,
and it was just this profound emotional moment.
(Daniel) To see the magic of television
make that into a scene that became as epic as it was...
Yeah. You know, it's almost mythological.
It's almost like homer taking off on his odyssey.
It's a heroic journey,
- and it was awe-inspiring for me. Literally awesome. - Yeah.
*
The story of "Lost" required a unique backdrop
where its dramatic tale of survival and mystery could unfold.
The island of Oahu in Hawaii proved to be the ultimate location.
When I got this job, I said, "honey, we're going to Hawaii."
And she went, "where is that?" We looked on the map.
And we looked at the Pacific and thought, jeez, that's it?
- That's in the middle of nowhere. - (Matthew) Hawaii's been amazing.
It's the perfect, perfect set for our show.
- That's your island. - I've really enjoyed that.
- So much of the show is shot outdoors. - (Henry) It has incredible mountains.
The weather can be beautiful, but it can turn.
- You can have incredible rain. - Storm's about to pass, Hugo.
(Henry) The sea can be treacherous.
It can be really, really tough. You're in mud up to your ankles,
or you just spend a ton of time in the sun.
And, you know, the crew has just been absolutely amazing.
I mean, there have been days where I just don't know
how the equipment gets in and how the equipment gets out.
- It's not easy, but it's worth it. - Beautiful, isn't it? No matter how much time you spend
on the island, you just never get tired of this view.
This landscape is a character in the show.
I don't know when I'll ever work
in as magical an environment as I have done here on Oahu.
In 121 hours of the series, all but 4 scenes
were shot in the Hawaiian Islands.
Just looking back, I think we did pretty good job
being sort of all over the world
and shooting everything right here in Hawaii.
- Is this your first time in Tunisia? - No.
From the acting point of view, that kind of production design
- is like, to me, 75% of the battle. - Welcome to Iowa.
And the fact that they manage to do it here, you know,
in downtown Honolulu, to create Germany, eastern Europe...
The mind boggles. It was very daring
to allow characters to move between those worlds.
(Speaks Korean)
(Laughing)
In the history of American television,
we've never had a television show
with half of 42, you know, minutes being subtitled.
(Speaking Korean)
Every Korean person understands some words of English.
Ow! Ow! (Speaking Korean)
I stepped on a friggin' urchin!
You know, my task, when I was listening, was to pinpoint
the words that I thought that Jin would understand.
You're gonna have to pee on my foot, man.
(Shouting in Korean) Just pee! Pee on it!
- No! No! - Pee on...
So that he could hook onto those words
and give him the appetite to stay in the conversation.
I guess that falls under the category
of "be careful what you wish for."
You understood me.
You did, didn't you? You just understood what I said.
Sun was this mysterious,
very traditional, um... even submissive at times,
um, who was sort of trapped in a horrible marriage.
(Speaking Korean)
This guy was really mean to his wife. He only spoke Korean
and just was not a very pleasant guy to be around.
And I thought, well, I don't know if I wanna do this.
I'm so glad I did. (Laughs)
(Yunjin) It's been so much fun playing her...
- What's wrong? - What's wrong is I'm married.
And keeping up with her and all of her secrets. (Speaks Korean)
Despite language barriers and marital strife,
life on the island brought Sun and Jin closer
and offered them hope for a new chapter.
You're pregnant. (Chuckles)
Is the baby... mine?
(Cries)
His evolution has been pretty marked and pretty significant.
(Speaking Korean)
(Yunjin) Whether they were happy or unhappy,
it was the love story that I think a lot of people cared about.
It was almost comical for a little while.
You know, every possible obstacle you could throw in the way
- of two people getting back together. - You don't want him to go, do you?
No.
We were gonna be islands apart,
and then we were gonna be literally decades apart.
Having Sun and Jin be apart for a good two seasons
not only in space but time,
I think it really drew the... the viewers
to root for them to get back together
and have a happy ending.
They had a lot of faith in each other and themselves
- to keep searching. - But Sun and Jin were not the only survivors
to find themselves separated.
At the end of... almost every season,
they would split up the tribe somehow.
- If you wanna live, you need to come with me. - I guess our first big split
was some people were gonna live in the caves
and some people were gonna stay on the beach.
And then "Exodus," some people go off on a boat,
and some of us go marching to "the black rock."
And for a long time, at the beginning of season 2,
it was like we were working on two different shows.
And then eventually, you know, they rejoined us and then we're back together again.
Like our characters on the show,
we were, uh, we were brought here from all over the world
to this beautiful Hawaii island, and...
(Daniel) We became best of friends
because we were sailing on this ship together
and it was doing well, and... and we were just getting
to know each other. As our relationships deepened,
- I felt like we became family. - Those closing montages
that we had a lot where you just kind of
pan across everybody, and Sayid throwing the apple,
and I'm shaking sand out of my shoes...
those are nice "I love these guys" kind of moments.
(Evangeline) I'm probably most intrigued by faith.
I like being on a show that just talks about faith as a general idea,
about just really, really believing in something,
about having heart enough to step forward physically in faith.
Why do you find it so hard to believe?
- Why do you find it so easy?! - It's never been easy!
(Terry) I mean, Locke said, "I'm a man of faith.
You're a man of science." I always thought
he was a man that was desperately seeking faith,
not that he had faith. (Explosion)
I mean, I think what drove him was the need for it.
If he could simply find something to connect to,
something to hold on to, and I think that's what he was always after.
Locke's desire for connection was never more evident
than when he found a hatch in the ground
and believed it held all the answers.
I've done everything you wanted me to do.
So why did you do this?! Why?!
(Naveen) When the lightbulb went on in the hatch,
I mean, I just thought that was brilliant, actually.
You know, you had this whole buildup
as to, "what is this hatch?" And then a lightbulb goes on
and somebody walking around down there. (Locke shouting indistinctly)
Who is that man?
It was a man Jack met years before the Oceanic crash.
Jack.
I'm Desmond.
Good luck, brother. See you in another life, yeah?
When I first worked on "Lost,"
I didn't really know anything about the show.
And they gave me some episodes to watch,
and I realized that I was gonna be the man in the hatch.
Lower your gun, or I'll blow his damned head off, brother!
(Henry) But I didn't really realize how big it was gonna be.
You?
The show had sort of taken off around the world.
- You're gonna take his word for it? - His word is all we have, Jack.
You don't have to take my word for it.
Watch the film.
*
the hatch was one of many research stations
built by the Dharma initiative, a group of scientists
who came to the island in the 1970s
- to study its unique properties.... - Unique electromagnetic fluctuations.
(Siren blaring) Desmond was charged with pushing a button
every 108 minutes to keep a massive amount
of electromagnetic energy contained.
(Shuffling)
You don't really see very much of him.
You know, you don't know everything about him,
which always makes him more attractive, I think.
Desmond's a very, uh, a very interesting character
within the world of "Lost." I mean, he's the constant.
Desmond was also the reason for the Oceanic crash.
He neglected to enter the code in the computer
just as Flight 815 was passing over the island.
So when Locke chose to stop pushing the button,
- Desmond knew the situation was serious. - You killed us all.
What I like about Desmond
is that he always seems to be doing the best he can
to do what he thinks is the right thing.
Desmond turned a fail-safe key to destroy the hatch... (Loud magnetic humming)
And prevent a global catastrophe.
- He survived the ordeal. - Whoa, dude.
I woke up in the jungle like this.
Like, the hatch... blew off your underwear?
Yeah, it was a lot of fun working in those early days,
- and we've come a long way with the character of Desmond. - Hey! Over here!
The survivors soon met another man in the jungle.
My name is Henry Gale! I'm from Minnesota!
The original deal for Henry Gale was to be three episodes.
Rousseau trapped him in the jungle.
- She believes he's an Other. - An other what?
This mysterious man was presumed to be one of the Others...
the island's original inhabitants
who often clashed with the Oceanic survivors.
(Door creaks) You don't always know exactly how to play a role
when you come in as a guest player...
Of course, if I was one of them...
- these people that you seem to think are your enemies... - But this one I had an instinct for.
I knew kind of what to do with it right off the bat.
I'd drawn 'em out to a real secluded place.
And when your friends got there, a bunch of my people
would be waiting for 'em, and then they'd use them to trade for me.
I guess it's a good thing I'm not one of them, huh?
You guys got any milk?
As it turned out, Henry was one of them,
my name is Benjamin Linus, and I've lived on this island all my life.
Benjamin Linus was the leader of the Others,
and he would do anything in his power to protect the island.
Well, what's fun to play with Benjamin Linus is the uncertain middle.
You're not gonna shake?
I get to be a... a vulnerable character.
Tom, unless you hear my voice in one minute, shoot all three of them.
But I also get to be sometimes quite ruthless and cold.
(Gunshot) I'm so sorry, Jack.
(Grunting)
I'd always thought that Ben used taking a beating as a tool
to gain information about the people that were beating him.
- Did you lose someone? - You know what I lost!
I would venture to say that I am the most beaten character
in the history of television. (Grunting)
So that's been a big part of every working day.
I'm so jealous of the other actors, who, you know,
they put a little sunscreen on and mess up their hair,
and they're ready for work. (Grunting)
I always have to come in early to get
- these cuts and bruises and wounds and stuff put on me. - Uhh!
In Ben's mind, it was a small price to pay
to get the informational advantage.
Hello again.
If he was anything simple at all,
the audience would have tired of him before now.
You're gonna take this boat and follow a compass bearing
of 3-2-5, and if you do that exactly,
you and your son will find rescue.
- That's it? - Deal's a deal.
They keep moving him around fractionally on the scale of good and evil.
And just when the audience thinks they have him pinned down
then the writers change it up.
Who are you people?
We're the good guys, Michael.
Over the course of six seasons,
"Lost" has garnered millions of devoted fans around the world...
among them, the actors themselves.
I watch "Lost" to be entertained
and to be drawn into these people
and their lives and what they're challenged by.
I have a son who loves this show,
and so we... we watch it together as a family.
I'm a rabid viewer of the show now.
Some actors can't look at the show. I... I have to.
Like everybody else, whether they'll say it or not,
- I love watching myself. - (Michael) I'm a fan of the show on a lot of levels,
kind of a clueless fan.
There are many people at home that have it
- much better figured out than I do. - There's this expectation
that you have to sort of dumb a show down to the audience.
We kind of went the other way. We sort of felt like,
let's make a show that we would really appreciate as viewers
that tried to be intelligent, that tried to introduce things
that are sort of heavily thematic,
based on philosophy or physics. If one of the writers really loved the teachings
of Rousseau or Locke, uh, why not name characters
- after those philosophers? - Are you Daniel Faraday?
Jeremy Bentham? Anthony Cooper.
- Desmond David Hume? - How'd you know my name?
What we do like to do is hide little Easter eggs in the show for the people who want to
- go down the rabbit hole with us and look a little bit deeper. - To kind of get at the source
of who these people are,
we looked at a lot of the things that we had, ourselves, read.
- "Watership Down." - "The Wizard of Oz."
- "Turn of the Screw. " - "The Looking Glass."
It's "Lord of the Flies" time now. (Blade whooshes)
One of Carlton's favorite authors is Walker Percy.
- Well, we have Sawyer reading Walker Percy. - How can you read?
My mother taught me.
A book that is used as a prop... I kind of want to read it, then,
and it's fun to make connections
between things... maybe a kind of eggheaded fun, but that's me.
So whether it was Stephen King, the Bible
or the "Star Wars" trilogy...
He turns up whenever he wants, like Obi-Wan Kenobi.
All of these disparate influences
we kind of tried to bring to bear on the show.
Getting to do those references when they would show up...
- That was like a... - Was always a blast.
Jedi moment.
Hurley would probably be a fan of the show "Lost."
It would probably be his second favorite show behind "exposã©."
What the hell's "exposã©"?
Only the most awesome hour of television ever.
Hurley is kind of a group cheerleader in a way.
He was about getting the whole group
just to make it to tomorrow. I bet four papayas.
Once you get past surviving, there comes a point
where people are gonna wanna be entertained somehow,
and I wasn't sure what it'd be, but I felt like Hurley should
do something like put together a talent show or something.
Then the golf game showed up, so that works. Dudes, listen, if we're stuck here,
then just surviving's not gonna cut it. (Whoosh)
We need some way that we can, you know, have fun. I was told early, like,
"okay, here's what we got for your story.
- It's like, he's a lottery winner." - (Woman on TV)... With the mega number 42.
Okay, great, but what's my "Twilight Zone" thing?
Like, where's my twist that makes people go "what?!"
And I didn't get that till I finally read the script where the numbers that had
ruined his life, essentially, end up being on that hatch.
Stop! The numbers are bad!
And then just popping up everywhere... clocks,
soccer jerseys, the odometer on the Camaro.
That became kind of a fun thing just... just everywhere
that stuff like that shows up.
Hurley kind of always had this cloud over him,
and everything bad that happened to Hurley
or that... really, that happened to people around Hurley...
he always blamed himself for. I could really use a victory.
Let's get this car started. Let's make our own luck.
And the Dharma van is kind of a big turnaround moment for him.
He wasn't gonna let the curse control his life anymore.
- Hurley! - Make your own luck.
There is no curse! (Engine revving)
Aah! Aah!
Son of a bitch.
- Hurley! - (Charlie) Whoo!
- You know what my favorite scene was together? - Which one?
The one we're sitting in the van,
- and we've got those beers. - Oh, yes!
And you're teaching me... English.
Somebody's hooked on phonics.
- You're teaching me the important phrases to know. - Yes, that was epic.
Those... pants...
don't make you look... fat.
Only three things a woman needs to hear.
To kind of be able to relax and, you know,
literally lean back and just have a casual, fun scene
was just really refreshing.
(Speaking Korean)
(Shouts in Korean) Aah!
(Laughs) (Laughs)
(Whirring overhead) What's that?
(Charlie) It's a helicopter.
Rescue.
(Desmond) Stand back!
After 90 days on the island,
the survivors made their first contact with the outside world.
Desmond.
A woman had arrived from a freighter off the coast of the island.
The boat was allegedly sent by Desmond's girlfriend, Penny Widmore.
But making contact would be difficult.
An underwater Dharma station was jamming
all the radio signals from the island.
- The question is, how do we get it to stop? - I'll do it.
(Yunjin) For me, the most shocking episode
was the one that dealt with Charlie's death.
Charlie obviously was a very likeable character.
I'll be fine, Claire.
Don't worry about me.
They felt like they'd known each other a lot longer.
It just evolved into something that was just perfect,
and now, you know, really sad.
(Inhales deeply)
Charlie swam to the underwater station
and turned off the jamming signal... (Clank)
Giving his friends a chance to call for help.
This is Penelope Widmore.
- How did you get this frequency? - Desmond!
(Loud clanking) Did you just say "Desmond"?
- Yeah. Hey, are you on the boat? - What boat? I'm not on a boat.
One of the hardest things for us to do
as storytellers on "Lost" is to kill characters... (Knocking on window)
- Hello? Is Desmond there? - Because in many ways, these characters are friends.
Charlie!
When we killed off Charlie in the season 3 finale,
it was something that we deliberated over for a very long time.
How he died was just so moving, and... and I have to say
I was crying my eyes out when I saw Charlie drown.
It really hit home, because everybody loved him.
It affected everyone a lot more than we expected maybe, too.
When we actually went into the editing room,
the moment when Charlie actually dies
was this profoundly upsetting thing.
It felt like losing a loved one even though it was just pretend.
(Aaron crying)
Shh. Aaron. (Sat phone rings)
(Beeps, rings) What is it?
- Charlie just got us rescued. - (Minkowski) Hello?
With the signal cleared, the call for help was finally answered.
I'm one of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815.
- Can you get a fix on our location? - Hell, yeah, we can!
(Laughter)
(Doorbell rings)
(Sighs)
I burnt my hand on my muffins.
I'm interested in the ways that relativity is an issue in our show point of view.
It's not even literature. It's popcorn.
Excuse me?
Reality presents itself from one angle,
but then if you step to the side or you pull the lens back,
then suddenly you see it differently.
Here I am, thinking that free will
still actually exists on... (Loud rumbling)
Six seasons of "Lost" have taught us
that not everything is what it initially appears to be.
I always to say to people when they ask me about the show,
what you see is not necessarily what you get.
For the first three seasons,
character flashbacks explored the lives
of the Oceanic survivors
before they crashed on the island.
But everything changed when Jack, in a time of crisis,
was seen in what was perceived to be a flashback.
It's me.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Wait. Don't... don't hang up, please.
I just need to see you.
But when Kate appeared,
"Lost" took a giant step to the future
and shattered the expectation
that the survivors would not leave the island
before the end of the series.
We... were not supposed to leave.
Yes, we were.
It was the first in a series of flash-forward storylines
that followed the experiences of six survivors
who found rescue and became known as the Oceanic Six.
"'I wonder if I've been changed in the night.
Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning?'"
Jack and Kate began a life together
- raising Claire's son Aaron. - As an audience, we always got the sense
that they would be good together.
- (Whispers) I'm so glad that you're here. - That episode with Kate,
we're they're sort of living in a world where they're in love
- and they're gonna get married... - (Sniffles) Of course I will. Yes.
Things seemed to be really beautiful,
but underneath that is this thing pulling at Jack.
It was like the island was destroying him from afar.
I think Jack and Kate struggled as much as they did
because ultimately Kate was not Jack's purpose in life,
and Jack wasn't Kate's purpose. (Crying) You can't do this.
You have problems. You need to figure them out.
(Matthew) There's nothing more sad and tragic
than two people that you really feel
would have been great together.
But the circumstances that they find themselves in
doesn't really afford itself to having the opportunity
to make a really good, pure connection. (Helicopter whirring overhead)
And the circumstances that led
to Jack and Kate's eventual departure from the island
all began when a chopper arrived from the freighter.
- Who are you? - I'm Daniel Faraday.
I'm here to rescue you.
Faraday was a physicist who came to the island
with a science team and their pilot, Frank Lapidus.
But rescue was not their primary mission.
This is Charles Widmore... the man whose boat is parked offshore.
Charles Widmore was once the leader of the Others
before he was banished from the island by Ben.
I'll be seeing you, boy.
Widmore sought vengeance,
so he sent the freighter to the island,
which also carried a team of mercenaries to capture Ben.
Let's go, Freckles. I've seen enough of this rock.
Jack and Sawyer led a group to Widmore's freighter...
but the chopper began leaking fuel.
I'd feel a hell of a lot better if we were a few hundred pounds lighter!
Hey.
- So Sawyer made a fateful decision. - I wonder how much of a relationship
Kate and Sawyer were supposed to have.
In that pilot when we did that little gun scene
- and I pulled her in close... - I've been with girls like you.
They were all talking about, oh, the chemistry there.
I don't know if that gave them any ideas
or if they had all that planned already. After all we've been through on this damn island,
- don't we deserve somethin' good? - (Evangeline) I always felt, in their flaws,
they were well-matched.
But there is a sort of sweetness about two people
who know how to stumble together,
as opposed to two people who know how to fly together.
Sawyer!
- (Daniel) How heroic is that for a character? - (Josh) That was extremely heroic.
A guy that would say, "you know, we're not gonna make it."
- I loved it. - "I'm jumping. " Just like Josh in real life, actually.
It is. I'm... I'm like that. I'm a giver. (Laughs) (Laughs)
Sawyer made his way back to the island,
- where Ben had escaped the mercenaries... - Thank you for coming, Richard.
And descended into an underground cavern
in a final attempt to protect the island.
The chopper reached Widmore's freighter,
but it was rigged with explosives.
Where you going? We gotta go. Jin's below with Michael.
- No, no, there's no time. There's no time. We have to go. - I won't leave him!
Every time we get separated, it is memorable to me
because I often think, well, maybe this is it.
- No! - (Shouting in Korean) It's Jin!
I think it was one of the hardest scenes I had to shoot.
(Loud explosion)
(Screaming and sobbing)
My hands were shaking.
(Screaming)
We're not! Turn back!
Sun! Sun! Jin's gone.
(Aaron wailing)
That might be the last time they see each other,
so it was significant, and significant for Sun
in that she believed that Jin was dead.
Lapidus! Fly us back to the island!
With the freighter destroyed,
the chopper made its way back,
just as Ben Linus turned a mysterious wheel,
causing the island...
to vanish.
Where the hell's the island?!
It's gone.
That's it, people! We're out of fuel!
(Metal creaking)
(Grunts and pants)
- What are you doing here? - I decided to take a dip.
But I hope "Lost" is mainly remembered
as a character-driven show...
- Whatcha celebratin'? - I'm not celebrating.
That dealt with human issues...
- Is that our boat? - It was.
That really opened your mind to different perspectives
that you hadn't thought of before.
(Terry) I have a sneaking suspicion
that it might stand alone.
I wouldn't be surprised that if you look back on it, you know,
10, 15, 20 years from now and say,
- "that was kind of a one-time thing." - Hello, John. Welcome home.
In terms of creating a world that you can escape in,
you know, I mean, escapist television...
I don't think it gets any better than this.
(Buzzing, magnetic humming)
Anyone?! (Thunderclap)
When Benjamin Linus turned the wheel to move the island...
(Whoosh) He was transported halfway around the world
to the Tunisian desert,
and he began making contact with the Oceanic Six,
- who had already found rescue. - Hello, Hugo.
But back on the island, Locke, Sawyer, Juliet
and the remainder of the science team
began flashing through time.
(Buzzing, magnetic humming) And during one flash...
- Jin? - Sawyer?
(Both laugh) They found Jin very much alive.
- We have to go back to the Orchid. - Excuse me?
That's where all this started. Maybe it's where it'll all stop.
(Buzzing, magnetic humming) So Locke turned the wheel again,
- and the time flashes stopped. - I think it's over.
- I think John did it. - Now what?
Now we wait for him to come back. ("Dharma lady" playing)
After Locke turned the wheel,
Sawyer and Juliet were left stranded in 1974.
And with Jin and Miles, they joined the Dharma initiative.
That potato sack of a jumpsuit was hilarious, man.
You come put that on every day. You're like, wow. All right!
And I think Dan had the big sideburns.
I liked it. It was funny to be '70s, you know?
Evening, Enos.
Sawyer became head of security,
Juliet was a mechanic...
Somethin' smells good.
- And the two fell in love. - Is that for me?
Whereas Kate and I had three years to earn that relationship,
they gave us two scenes.
- I love you. - I love you, too.
(Evangeline) But I watched it, and I was convinced.
I was rooting for Sawyer and Juliet almost immediately.
I mean, Sawyer...
when he was talking to Juliet at night after the big storm,
you know, sort of pouring his heart out about Kate.
Why don't you tell me now?
I involuntarily in my head was thinking,
kiss her! Kiss her! (Laughs)
After turning the wheel, Locke was transported
3 years in the future to 2007.
He began searching for the Oceanic Six
to convince them to return to the island.
- I'm not going back. - The answer is "no."
- No, I'm not going anywhere with you! - You leave me alone,
and you leave the rest of 'em alone!
Locke had failed, and when he lost all hope...
Wait, please! John, stop.
Benjamin Linus saw a chance
- to reclaim his role as the leader of the island. - Who... what... what are you doing here?
There was a special energy in the room that day.
- John, just calm down. - What do you want from me?
- Please, let me talk. - Answer the question!
I always expect Terry to play a great scene,
but he went somewhere further and darker that day.
I don't know where we go from there,
- but we'll figure something out. - Focus becomes very sharp.
It was an intense and really fun day for that reason.
I know where we go. There's a woman here in Los Angeles...
- Eloise Hawking. - Eloise Hawking? You sure?
- Yeah. Why? Do you know her? - Yes, John. I know her.
(Gags)
(Groans)
(Both grunting)
I'll miss you, John. I really will.
(Michael) I would say it was the most intense day's work
I ever did in front of the camera.
The news of Locke's death profoundly affected Jack
and was the catalyst in his decision to return to the island.
There was something happening there
that didn't even have to do with Jack himself.
It had to do with his faith... that whole battle
with him and Locke and what he's meant to do.
He cannot let go of the notion that he has free will,
and at the same time, it's destroying him.
He said that I had to come back.
All of you have to go back.
We're gonna have to bring him, too.
(Clank, pendulum whooshes)
Jack and Ben both wanted to return to the island,
so they found a way.
(Eloise) Ajira Airways flight 3-1-6.
The Oceanic Six began their journey back.
For Kate, it was a chance to reunite Claire with Aaron.
Mr. Shephard... your relation to the deceased?
He was, uh, a friend.
To recreate the conditions of the original flight,
the body of John Locke was brought on the plane.
(Bell dings)
- High over the pacific... - Aah!
A series of flashes swept through the plane.
Is that a runway? ! (Beeping rapidly)
Massive instrument failure! We're puttin' her down!
Brace for impact!
Lapidus, Sun and Ben landed on the island in present day 2007.
- Frank? - (Lapidus) Where'd they go?
They're gone.
But Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sayid...
(Van approaching) Returned to the island 30 years earlier in 1977...
- Jin? - And were reunited with Jin and Sawyer.
I can't believe it!
Ohh!
So what's up with you guys in the old Dharma jumpsuits?
We're in the Dharma initiative. It's 1977.
- (Man) Everybody say "namaste." - (All) Namaste!
Sawyer ushered his friends into Dharma society.
And don't forget to try the dipping sauces.
- They really bring out the ham. - Daniel Faraday was also a member
of the 1970s Dharma initiative...
- Hey, James. - And he spent his days
trying to find a way to prevent the crash of Oceanic 815
- from ever happening. - The Dharma folks at the Swan worksite...
they're gonna drill into the ground
- and accidentally tap into a massive pocket of energy. - (Lindelof) Daniel Faraday says,
if we can detonate a hydrogen bomb,
this massive amount of electromagnetic energy that
- that hatch is being built to study will be negated. - And that hatch will never be built,
and your plane will land, just like it's supposed to.
His idea inspired Jack.
And when Faraday was killed... (Alarm blaring)
Jack carried out the mission.
They think that the bomb is like a reset button.
The passengers of Flight 815 will be back on the plane,
they'll be flying to Los Angeles from Sydney,
and their lives will go on as though there never was a plane crash.
But the bomb did not detonate...
This don't look like L.A.X.
(Buzzing, magnetic humming)
- And a surge of electromagnetic energy... - (Jack) Uhh!
- Aah! - Had Juliet trapped.
(Sawyer)- Juliet! No!- Aah! Ohh!
- Where do you think you're going, Blondie? - Aah!
That was quite a scene and a great experience to film.
- Don't you leave me. - It's okay.
Don't you leave me!
Tough stuff, but it was... it was rewarding.
(Sobbing)- I love you, James. I love you so much.- No!
- No! No, don't let go! - Aah!
Juliet!
I feel like it rounded out and really honored that relationship we had
or the love that we shared as characters.
(Gasps and coughs)
Juliet survived the bomb...
and finished what they'd started.
(Sobbing) Come on! Come on!
Come on, you son of a bitch!
(Loud explosion)
The big question as we move into the final season of the show is,
what is the consequence of Juliet tapping that bomb?
(Loud explosion)
So at the beginning of the sixth season,
we start on Oceanic Flight 815.
And it appears that the bomb has actually worked,
and our passengers are flying to Los Angeles.
- Looks like we made it. - We sure did.
However, we start to realize that there are subtle differences
between this group of people and what we saw initially
- in the pilot of the series. - You know, you really shouldn't tell people
- you won the lottery. - Thanks for the advice, dude,
but nothing bad ever happens to me.
- I'm the luckiest guy alive. - (Cuse) On "Lost," we've had flashbacks
and then we had flash-forwards,
and now in the final season of the show
- we have these things called flash sideways. - Something wrong?
No. No, you just... (Chuckles) do I know you from somewhere?
- Well, I'm not sure. - For so long,
these people's stories have basically been governed
by this idea that the island is pulling them to it.
We wanted to tell stories for a very specific reason this year
where the island was not in play.
This time around, the island has sunk.
It is now on the bottom of the ocean.
And so the passengers of flight 815...
they're flying to Los Angeles from Sydney
as though there never was a plane crash.
(Yunjin) When we actually saw the plane
land safely in "L.A. X.," I was just like,
it was... it was very emotional.
(Jorge) Walking off the plane was so significant.
Wow! They made it.
(Lindelof) And our brains are telling us,
okay, how did this happen? Did it happen because
the A-bomb went off and it actually sunk the island?
- Or is there something else going on here? - Hello?!
(Cuse) Then shortly after that,
we see our characters are on the island,
and they've detonated the bomb, and it didn't work.
- No. - They get jumped to what we call "island present,"
- but they are still stuck on the island. - You blew us right back where we started!
- I'm sorry. I thought it would work. - Well, it didn't!
So the audience is left trying to reconcile,
how is it that we can be watching one story
in which our characters are on the island
- and they're in a state of deep misery... - You did this.
And we're also watching a story in which our characters
are landing in Los Angeles, getting off the plane.
And so we as an audience are wondering,
- why do these differences exist? - Thank you so much.
In the sideways timeline, Jack is a doctor,
- but is also father to a teenage son. - Good luck, dad.
- (Jack) Thanks. - Kate is still a fugitive but claims she is innocent
- and quickly makes her escape. - Uhh! Ohh!
- Put your damn clothes on, Jim. - You got it, partner.
Sawyer is a cop but struggles with the same dark past.
Hurley is a lottery winner,
and good fortune follows him wherever he goes...
Everybody loves Hugo.
- But he is unlucky in love. - I'm too busy to meet someone.
- No marry. - Sun and Jin are not married
yet carry on a secret love affair. (Speaks Korean)
- Try to relax. - Claire is pregnant and struggling
with the decision to give up her baby.
Sayid is haunted by his troubled past.
He is still in love with Nadia,
but she's married to his brother.
Locke is happily engaged to his girlfriend Helen.
You are a very sweet man.
Mm. These stories are about something else.
You know, can they find each other again?
Can they impact each other's lives?
Would they ever have met if the island hadn't intervened in some way?
Jack Shephard. I'm John. John Locke.
- It's nice to meet you, John. - Nice to meet you, too.
On the island,
Locke never told Jack that he was in a wheelchair.
Jack just so happens to be a spinal surgeon.
Surgery isn't gonna do anything to help me.
My condition is irreversible.
Nothing's irreversible.
(Elevator bell dings)
These strangers began to impact each other's lives.
We were on the same flight... Sydney.
Although Kate was clearly on the wrong side of the law...
Ladies first.
Thanks.
You take care.
Sawyer let her get away.
- Go! I said "go." - What are you doing?
(Tires peal) She encountered Claire,
and the two formed an unexpected bond.
It's really cool having these moments with somebody
that you really know nothing about
- but you just immediately trust and you don't even know why. - In the sideways,
Kate feels this strange connection with this woman,
this pregnant woman. She wants to help her.
(Ethan) Everything is just fine.
Your boy just likes to move around. (Chuckles)
(Evangeline) The prospect of that,
for me, was really exciting.
I loved the idea of exploring the "what if?"(Car alarm blaring)
- John Locke lost his job... - Dude!
Which led to another connection.
(Alarm chirps) Hurley, it turns out, is actually the owner
- of the very company that John Locke has been working for. - I own a temp agency, too.
And Hurley, in turn, gets John Locke a job
as a substitute teacher at this school. (School bell rings)
Some of the other teachers there are familiar faces...
- most notably Benjamin Linus. - I don't believe we've met.
- John Locke. Substitute. - Well, welcome.
(Michael) There's little moments of bleed through
- between the realities there. - Maybe you should be the principal.
There have been times when Ben thinks
he knows this guy from somewhere. What is it?
You don't remember me, do you?
Should I?
It kind of gives you a little something new to play this season
in kinda getting to see the other sides of people as they played them.
(Yunjin) For Sun, the whole buttoning the sweater and unbuttoning it...
she sort of takes that full circle in Sun and Jin's flash sideways...
you know, taking off that sweater right in front of Jin to seduce him.
But when Sun's father uncovered her secret,
he hired two men to kill Jin.
(Grunts) Jin defeated them.
(Thud) (Crying)
But Sun was caught in the crossfire.
(Lindelof) Although Sun was shot... (Speaks Korean)
Everything seems to have turned out okay, and currently,
she's convalescing in the same hospital
where a number of our other characters happen to be.
- What is your deal, Jim? - All right, look, I go out with her, you gonna leave me alone?
(Cuse) In the sideways, Sawyer is a little bit at a loss
in his own life in terms of his romantic interests,
and Miles, his partner, is trying to fix him up
with various people, including Charlotte,
who we met on the island.
Pleasure to meet you, ma'am.
(Cuse) But then Sawyer kind of blows that up.
As he's going about his life and duties as a cop...
Ohh! (Siren wailing)
Who runs into him again but Kate Austen. (Gasps)
And he takes Kate Austen and he locks her up in jail,
and yet he's still got this strange connection with her,
and he doesn't really quite understand it.
Of all the cars in Los Angeles, you smash into mine.
- Almost like someone's trying to put us together. - Are you hitting on me?
(Chuckles)
But Kate isn't the only one who captured Sawyer's attention.
An A.T.M. surveillance camera grabbed this jaboney fleeing the scene.
All righty. And the name of that face?
Sayid finds himself in a set of circumstances
where he gets involved in some criminal activity.
(Grunts) (Shell casings clatter)
It's still a character that's, uh, near to violence.
Somehow the same destiny seems to have trapped him.
As a result, he goes on the run and finds himself
being pursued now by Sawyer and Miles.
- Mrs. Jarrah, I'm Detective Straume. - (Cuse) So in another way,
- we find that our characters are all connecting. - (Naveen) We do seem to be that the sum total
- of the choices that we make. - You're under arrest.
Certain choices are invariably full of consequence,
and some of those consequences can be quite damaging. (Bell chimes)
Sir, you're a doctor?
- Yes. - Could you come with me, please?
- There's one character in the sideways... Charlie Pace... - He's not breathing.
(Lindelof) Who basically is choking on this bag of heroin
that he is trying to conceal. He says that he had
a near-death experience, and he saw this image of love.
A woman... blonde, rapturously beautiful.
We know that Charlie loved Claire.
In the sideways, they've never met,
but he's describing her to a tee.
Well, that's just... (Sighs) poetry, brother.
Desmond works for Charles Widmore...
- Welcome to Los Angeles, my friend. - Thank you.
And was assigned to be Charlie's chaperone.
Have you heard of a band called drive shaft?
No, can't say I have.
He was leading an empty life. He wasn't depressed,
but it was just... there was something missing,
and he knew there was something missing, and he couldn't
- put his finger on it. - Charlie took the opportunity to show Desmond what he saw.
(Lindelof) So Charlie grabs the wheel. (Tires screeching)
He takes Desmond's car off this pier,
and they go into the water,
and as Desmond is trying to extricate Charlie from the car,
Charlie puts his hand up against the window,
and Desmond suddenly has this flash of when Charlie died,
and written on Charlie's hand is "not Penny's boat."
Desmond, of course, has never met Penny,
doesn't know that name, but he has this sort of
profound sense of the most ultimate déjà vu
you could ever experience. This means something to him.
(Penny's voice echoes) Desmond.
And I thought, ah, I've seen something. I've seen the light.
But I think it's even beyond that.
- I think he's become more enlightened. - Who's Penny?
Desmond's awakening
set a series of key events in motion.
These two worlds are starting to move
a little bit closer together, and the reason is
that Desmond Hume had a moment of awareness.
He seems to have some complete and total memory of the island.
Can you get me the manifest from our flight from Sydney?
- Oceanic 815. - Do you mind if I ask you what you need it for?
I just need to show them something.
- During the final season of "Lost"... - Run! Run!
(Rattling and growling)
The story on the island dove deep into mythology
- and explored its great mysteries. - You wanna know a secret, Jack?
Something I've known a long, long time?
We're not on an island. We never were.
We're in hell.
I've known him since I was 12 years old.
Richard looked just like he does today.
I started to get an inkling
that he was a little different than... than I'd imagined,
um... (Chuckles) I guess when I found out that he didn't age.
- And how the hell do you think that happened? - For a long time, people on the show wondered,
what is the story with this guy Richard Alpert?
The guy doesn't appear to age.
- It looks like he's wearing mascara, uh, eyeliner. - Are these two things related?
- Are they related? - Yeah.
And we learned definitively, number one, he is not wearing eyeliner.
The flashback with Richard Alpert was killer.
I think everyone loved that, and I was right in that crowd.
Alpert was a poor field-worker in the Canary Islands of the 1860s. (Speaks Spanish)
It was a period piece. I mean, it felt like a mini movie
within the context of "Lost."
And it had sort of classic themes and elements.
A series of tragic events led to Alpert's arrest.
He was sold as a slave
and confined on a ship bound for the new world.
(Thunderclap)
The vessel was drawn to the island
and shipwrecked during a violent storm. (Crash)
For many years, the audience has been wondering,
how the heck did that ship get in the middle of the jungle?
And in this episode, we actually finally learn what happens.
After six torturous days,
Alpert was freed by the man in black...
It's good to see you out of those chains.
But soon became a pawn in his age-old war with Jacob.
I didn't know that they would really go
into the depths that they did with this... with this episode,
and I certainly didn't know
- that the episode would be tied to the mythology. - My name is Jacob.
Alpert became Jacob's advisor in exchange for eternal life.
I was thrilled when I got to not only partake in that
but also just learn as a fan about what was at play
- on the island. - Think of this wine as what you keep calling hell.
Malevolence. Evil.
The cork...
is this island, and it's the only thing
keeping the darkness where it belongs.
When you're first introduced to Jacob and the man in black,
our assumption is, maybe they're the God and the devil,
maybe they're good and evil. Who are these guys exactly?
And we recently learned, well, they're guys.
You know, they have a history
just like any other character on the show.
Jacob and the man in black were brothers,
born on the island a very long time ago.
They were raised by a woman
- who was the protector of the island. - What is this place?
This is the reason we're here.
The boys grew into men and were led to believe
- there was nothing beyond the island. - I'm leaving, Jacob.
No, that's impossible. There is no way off the island.
Eventually, Jacob was chosen as the new protector...
Now you and I are the same.
And the man in black learned he'd been deceived.
And eventually, this builds to this great sort of Shakespearean tragedy
in which... (Squish)
The man in black kills his own mother.
You wanna leave this place, brother?! Then go!
Uhh!
And Jacob takes the man in black
and throws him down into this mysterious cavern,
and the monster emerges.
(Rattling and growling) This is the origin
of how the man in black turned into the smoke monster.
Once he is the smoke monster, he only can assume the form
of dead people on the island.
The man in black appeared as Christian Shephard.
He most notably takes the form of John Locke.
It's good to see you out of those chains.
But the man in black can also take the form
- of his own corporal body. - To leave the island,
the man in black had to kill Jacob,
but rules prevented him from doing so himself.
- Just let me leave, Jacob. - As long as I'm alive, you're not going anywhere.
- I will kill you, Jacob. - Even if you do, somebody else will take my place.
Well, then I'll kill them, too.
(Jacob) You're not gonna steal anymore, are you?
Be good, Katie.
We see in flashbacks that basically
Jacob has touched our plane survivors
- in their past lives. - It's your choice, Hugo.
Jacob's touch protected them from being killed
and marked them as candidates to be his successor.
So the man in black knows who the replacements are,
and he knows when Oceanic 815 crashes
that some of Jacob's precious candidates
are, in fact, on that plane, so he starts to check 'em out.
We might just have, uh, first been introduced
to the man in black in the pilot itself. (Rattling and growling)
They hear this monster sound... arrr!
- Yes. That's exactly what it sounded like. - Something like that. Yeah.
And one of the first people that he checks out is John Locke.
Very early in the series,
the monster angles in on Locke,
and Locke says that he saw this beautiful thing. (Roars)
Maybe that's the moment when the man in black first decided,
"this is my guy. I'm gonna become this guy."
- (Whispers) You're alive? - Yes, I am.
I had all of season 5 not knowing
that I was, in fact, that character.
I was just being John Locke, who now wasn't as afraid.
What, John? Don't you trust me here with my former people?
I'm not afraid of anything you can do anymore, Ben.
The man in black emerged.
This was somebody who was simply gonna get what he wanted.
The man in black had all the pieces in place...
Hello, Jacob.
And manipulated Ben to finally kill his Nemesis.
So now he's executed this plan.
It's time for phase two, which is,
in order for the man in black to leave the island,
all of Jacob's candidates have to be dead.
Ford. You're a candidate.
Candidate for what?
Become the new Jacob and protect the island.
(Cuse) And we learn that Jack is a candidate,
Hurley was a candidate, John Locke was a candidate
- before he died. - Right. When you die, you're no longer a candidate...
- You're no longer a candidate. - And you have to have a press conference and everything.
- Kwon is one of them. - Does that mean me or Sun?
Well, Jin, I'm not sure. But what it does mean is that
the only way we can leave the island is if
all of the names that haven't been crossed off go together.
The man in black is attempting to manipulate our candidates,
and he is trying to put them in a situation where he can kill them.
The man in black recruited Claire and Sayid.
He tried to kill Desmond...
Aah!
And left a path of destruction in his wake.
The man in black's series of calculated moves
brought the candidates together.
No! They're leaving us!
No, trust me. You don't wanna be on that sub.
They get on the submarine,
and they think that they're free, but all of a sudden,
- they discover in this backpack is this bomb. - If I don't pull these wires,
- Locke's gonna blow us to kingdom come. - No, he's not!
- Locke can't kill us. - Uh... what?
He's trying to get us to kill each other.
Stay out of my way, doc.
(Gasps) (Beeping rapidly)
The timer accelerated, so Sayid sacrificed himself.
(Explosion) Uhh!
But the explosion left Sun trapped.
Jin, go!
No! Go! I'll get her free!
No! We can do this!
Just go! Save Sawyer!
The fact that Jin decides to stay with Sun...
it was just a very heroic, romantic,
you know, ending for Sun and Jin.
You have to go.
I won't leave you.
I just never expected for them to keep us apart for so long,
and only to have us come together
and sort of be united in our death.
I love you, Sun.
(Cries) I love you.
His one priority in life was his wife.
For that, ultimately, he did sacrifice himself,
and that, to me,
is as noble an end as anyone could hope for.
What about Jin and Sun?
As the final chapters of "Lost"
two parallel storylines are drawing closer together.
- Were you on Oceanic Flight 815? - Yeah.
- (Chuckles) So was I. - Wow. What a coincidence.
In the sideways, Desmond decides it's his mission
to go out and basically try to catalyze the other characters
- so they can have their awakenings. - I met a girl on a blind date the other night.
She told me that we already knew each other.
And that? I'd remember.
Did you believe her when she said she knew you?
Yeah.
Then I say, go with your gut.
Eventually, he is reunited with Libby,
and they go on this date,
and she's having this weird sense of déjà vu.
She can't quite put her finger on it. But when they kiss,
Hurley suddenly remembers being on the island.
- Dude... - What?
I think I'm remembering stuff.
(Lindelof) And he now seems to be exactly like Desmond.
We don't know exactly what he knows,
- but he certainly knows a lot. - With Hurley on the road to awakening, Desmond moved on
to another person in need of enlightenment. (Starts engine)
He literally runs over John Locke in a wheelchair.
(Crash)
(Tires peal)
- That seems pretty direct to me. - (Laughing) And...
(laughs) "Officer, I was just catalyzing an awakening."
- Thanks. - You're welcome.
Desmond turned himself over to Sawyer
and joined Sayid and Kate in jail.
And shortly afterward, Hurley arranged for their release.
- Sorry I'm late, dude. - Don't worry about it.
Desmond and Hurley are kind of working in tandem
to... to try to help awaken some of these characters.
Okay, you're with him, and you're with me.
What do you mean, I'm with you?
We...
are going to a concert.
I think the point is that we all know everything
that we already need to know about ourselves right now.
We just need to open our eyes and see it.
- You're gonna be okay, Mr. Locke. - (Man) What do we got?
When Jack discovered that Locke was his patient...
I think I know this guy.
The coincidence seemed too great to ignore.
For some reason,
Jack feels this overwhelming desire to fix John Locke,
- to make him walk again. - While I was operating, I got a look
at the initial injury to your spine.
I think that I could fix you.
After much contemplation, Locke accepted Jack's offer.
Maybe this is happening for a reason.
Maybe you're supposed to fix me.
One thing that is really coming into play
is this idea of characters asking for help.
I think I'm ready to get out of this chair.
The fact that they are able to help each other
seems to make all the difference in their lives,
and this is a big difference between the two worlds.
On the island,
the remaining survivors mourned the loss of their friends.
They had a little girl, you know.
Jin hadn't even met her yet.
Locke did this to them.
We have to kill him, Jack.
I know.
They want to get revenge for what happened to their friends.
Um, they wanna be able to kill Locke,
but they have no idea how to do this.
Jack and Kate and Hurley and Sawyer get sidetracked
by none other than Jacob himself.
I chose you because you were like me.
You were all alone.
You were all looking for something
that you couldn't find out there...
Because you needed this place as much as it needed you.
The time had come for the island's new protector to step forward.
For a long time, Jack has been searching for the reason
that he was brought to this island and the reason
that he came back to this island after leaving it.
I'll do it.
He now firmly believes that he came to this island
because it's his job to now protect it.
This is what I'm supposed to do.
Then it's time.
Jack takes this mission on willingly,
and in fact, for Jack, it's a fulfillment of a quest
that's basically spanned the entire series.
I'm so happy with how it's all coming to an end,
and it... it just feels so right.
Drink this.
We want the last frame of the last show
to be about these people who we introduced you to six years ago
and carried you on journeys with and leave you with them
and leave you with their stories.
How long am I gonna have to do this job?
As long as you can.
To watch the show come back to the roots that it started from
and end in the same way that it started is a victory.
(Terry) You don't want the book to come to an end,
but you close the book and you go, "God, that was great."
Now you're like me.
(Lindelof) We're hoping for a legacy where people say,
"I invested six years of my life
really caring deeply about this show,
and I feel that the way that it ended
showed an... an equal amount of respect
in caring for the show on the part of the storytellers."
We're here.
(Cuse) We felt like we made the show that we wanted to make, from start to finish.
The larger messages that we wanted the audience to take away,
we feel are embedded in the show and in the finale.
The idea that here we are looking down the barrel
of that ending is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Words can't express the gratitude that I feel
- to... to have been able to be a part of that. - Looks like someone helped him out.
It wouldn't be "Lost"
if we still didn't keep a few things close to the chest.
No, Ben, someone helped me out...
Because I'm gonna find Desmond.
And when I do, he's gonna help me do
the one thing that I could never do myself.
I'm gonna destroy the island.
We really don't believe that we ever would have made it this far
if it weren't for the incredible, you know,
fan base of the show. It's pretty trippy
- and really wonderful. - The greatest thing is...
that we could have ever imagined as storytellers
was the ability to be a part of that community.
This show doesn't feel like it's something that we made.
It feels like something that kind of,
um, you know, existed and we were able to tap into.
We're profoundly grateful for having the chance to...
to not only kind of build that world
but to be a part of it.