"The Variable" | |
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Lost episode | |
Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 14 |
Directed by | Paul Edwards |
Written by |
Edward Kitsis Adam Horowitz |
Production code | 514 |
Original air date | April 29, 2009 |
Guest appearance(s) | |
Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert |
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Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert
Sonya Walger as Penny Widmore
Alan Dale as Charles Widmore
François Chau as Dr. Pierre Chang
Fionnula Flanagan as Eloise Hawking
Patrick Fischler as Phil
Eric Lange as Stuart Radzinsky
Sarah Farooqui as Theresa Spencer
Alice Evans as Young Eloise Hawking
Wendy Pearson as Doctor
Todd Coolidge as Paramedic
Peggy Anne Siegmund as Caroline
Jennifer Sojot as Nurse
Spencer Allyn as Young Daniel Faraday
Michael Dempsey as Tony
Maya Henssens as Young Charlotte Lewis
Ariston Green as Workman
Marvin DeFreitas as Charlie Hume
Brad Berryhill as Eric
"The Variable" is the 14th television episode of the fifth season of Lost, and the 100th episode overall. It originally aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States on April 29, 2009. The hundredth episode milestone was celebrated by cast and crew on location in Hawaii. In the episode, Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies) returns to the island in order to warn its inhabitants of a catastrophe involving the Dharma Initiative research station, The Swan. Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Daniel begin a gun fight with Dharma, leading Dharma to go after Sawyer (Josh Holloway) and Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell). In flashbacks, Daniel's relationship with his parents, Eloise Hawking (Fionnula Flanagan) and Charles Widmore (Alan Dale), is shown.