"316" | |
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Lost episode | |
Jack (Matthew Fox) listens as Hawking (Fionnula Flanagan) explains to Ben (Michael Emerson), Sun (Yunjin Kim) and Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) how they will return to the island.
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Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 6 |
Directed by | Stephen Williams |
Written by |
Damon Lindelof Carlton Cuse |
Production code | 507 |
Original air date | February 18, 2009 |
Guest appearance(s) | |
Fionnula Flanagan as Eloise Hawking |
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Fionnula Flanagan as Eloise Hawking
Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus
Saïd Taghmaoui as Caesar
Zuleikha Robinson as Ilana
Mary Mara as Jill
Raymond J. Barry as Ray Shephard
Kavita Patil as Rupa Krishnavani
P. D. Mani as Nabil
Rebecca Hazlewood as Nalini
Patti Hastie as Barfly
Glen Bailey as Magician
Ned Van Zandt as Mr. Dorsey
"316" is the sixth television episode of the fifth season of ABC's Lost. The 92nd episode of the show overall, "316" aired on February 18, 2009, on ABC in the United States, and was simulcast on A in Canada. The episode was written by showrunners and executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and directed by Stephen Williams.
In 2007, having recruited Sun-Hwa Kwon, Jack Shephard and Benjamin Linus find a way to return to the island. Jack makes a last-ditch effort to recruit the other "Oceanic 6" survivors.
The episode begins with Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox), Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly), and Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia) having returned to the island, three years since they left it in "There's No Place Like Home". The narrative then shifts to 46 hours previous where the previous episode, "This Place is Death", left off. Eloise Hawking (Fionnula Flanagan) takes Jack, Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick), Sun-Hwa Kwon (Yunjin Kim) and Ben Linus (Michael Emerson) to a Dharma Initiative station underneath the church called the Lamp Post, which was used by Dharma to find the island; since the island is constantly moving, they developed a way to predict where it would be at a given time. When Eloise mentions that the group only has 36 hours to get on Ajira Airways Flight 316, a Boeing 737-300, in order to return to the island, Desmond refuses to join them and leaves. Eloise then tells Jack in private that he must bring something that belonged to his father Christian Shephard (John Terry) with him on the flight and also gives him John Locke's (Terry O'Quinn) suicide note.