"Live Together, Die Alone" | |
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Lost episode | |
Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 23 & 24 |
Directed by | Jack Bender |
Written by |
Carlton Cuse Damon Lindelof |
Featured music | "Make Your Own Kind of Music" by Mama Cass Elliot "Voi Che Sapete" from Le Nozze Di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Chains and Things" by B.B. King |
Production code | 223 & 224 |
Original air date | May 24, 2006 |
Running time | 88 minutes |
Guest appearance(s) | |
Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond Hume |
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Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond Hume
Clancy Brown as Kelvin Inman
M. C. Gainey as Tom
Sam Anderson as Bernard Nadler
Tania Raymonde as Alex
Michael Bowen as Danny Pickett
April Grace as Bea Klugh
Alan Dale as Charles Widmore
Sonya Walger as Penny Widmore
Michael Emerson as Henry Gale
Stephen Page as Master Sergeant
Len Cordova as Mathias
Alex Petrovitch as Henrik
Teddy Wells as Ivan
Dustin Geiger as Matthew
Dustin Gomes as Barista
"Live Together, Die Alone" is the second season finale of the ABC television series Lost, consisting of the 23rd and 24th episodes of the second season. It is also the 48th and 49th episodes overall. The episode was written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, and directed by Jack Bender. It first aired in the United States on May 24, 2006, on the American Broadcasting Company. The episode was watched by 17.84 million people and received positive reviews.
In the episode, flashbacks reveal how Desmond came to the island. In realtime, Desmond unintentionally returns to the beach and is enlisted by Locke to help him stop the button in the hatch from being pushed. Meanwhile, several castaways head off to rescue Michael's son, Walt, from the Others.