The Candidate (Lost)
| "The Candidate" | |
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| Lost episode | |
John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) leaves the hospital and rejects Jack Shephard's (Matthew Fox) offer in the flash-sideways timeline.
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| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 14 |
| Directed by | Jack Bender |
| Written by |
Elizabeth Sarnoff Jim Galasso |
| Production code | 614 |
| Original air date | May 4, 2010 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Alan Dale as Charles Widmore |
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Alan Dale as Charles Widmore
Sam Anderson as Bernard Nadler
Fred Koehler as Seamus
Maile Holck as Nurse
Casey Adams as Wheeler
Kevin Tighe as Anthony Cooper
Katey Sagal as Helen Norwood
Ken Elliott as Orderly
Christopher McGahan as Paul
Alan Seabock as Sub captain
"The Candidate" is the 14th episode of the American Broadcasting Company's sixth season of the serial drama television series Lost and 117th episode overall. The episode aired on May 4, 2010, on ABC in the United States. The episode was written by Elizabeth Sarnoff and Jim Galasso and directed by Jack Bender. The episode is centered on Jack Shephard and John Locke.
In the flash-sideways timeline, Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) tries to find out how John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) was paralyzed. In 2007, Jack and his group betray the Man in Black (also O'Quinn), but not without falling into his plans.
After being successfully operated on by Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox), John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) awakens at the hospital. Jack tells Locke that he may be a candidate for a new surgical treatment to repair his pre-existing paralysis and asks Locke how he wound up in his paraplegic state. However, Locke declines the offer. In order to find out more about Locke's paralysis, Jack visits dentist Dr. Bernard Nadler (Sam Anderson) and asks for the dental records from an emergency oral surgery performed on Locke about three years previously. Bernard refuses to breach confidentiality, but tells him that a man named Anthony Cooper (Kevin Tighe) was brought in along with Locke three years ago. Jack goes to a nursing home and visits Anthony Cooper, who is Locke's father in a vegetative state. Claire Littleton (Emilie de Ravin) arrives at the hospital to see Jack. She shows Jack a music box that their father (John Terry) said he especially wanted her to have. Jack then invites Claire to come and stay at his house, stating to Claire that they are not strangers, but rather family. As Locke is preparing to leave the hospital, Jack approaches him and tells him that he went to see Locke's father so that he could find out why he doesn't want the surgery. Locke reveals to Jack that the accident that made him paralyzed was a plane crash; he had just qualified for his pilot's license and his father was his first passenger. Jack tells Locke his father is "gone" and that punishing himself won't bring him back. Locke still refuses Jack's offer and leaves.
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