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Lost Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2006 - 2007
Episode 1
A Tale of Two Cities
Wed, Oct 4, 200643 mins
Jack, Kate and Sawyer are kidnapped by "The Others" and put in different environments. Kate has a shower, gets a dress and is invited to have breakfast on the beach with the leader Henry Gale (who identifies himself under his real name of Ben Linus); Sawyer is locked in a cage for wild animals and without food or water, being "awarded" when he hits a lever as if he were an animal; and Jack is locked in a sort of aquarium, being interrogated and controlled by his handler and the Others doctor, Juliet, who has a complete report about his life. Meanwhile, Jack recalls his divorce process with Sarah and how his desperation and rapid meltdown affected everyone around him, including his father.
Episode 2
The Glass Ballerina
Wed, Oct 11, 200643 mins
On the sailboat, Sayid lies to Jin, and convinces Sun to sail to a dock to make a fire camp on the beach and signal to Jack, Kate, and Sawyer but actually he wants to attract and ambush a group of "The Others". Sun recalls her childhood in South Korea, when she broke a glass ballerina and lied to her domineering and brutal gangster father, blaming the maid. Later as an adult, she cheated Jin with Jae Lee. Her father found out and he ordered Jin to murder Jae Lee, while lying about the reasons. Jin also reveals that he lied when he said that he cannot understand any English. Meanwhile, Kate and Sawyer are sent to a field for labor work where they try to escape, but are thwarted by Juliet. Also, the Others leader, Ben Linus, offers a deal with Jack that he will send him back home if he cooperates with him and his people.
Episode 3
Further Instructions
Wed, Oct 18, 200642 mins
The fates of Locke, Eko and Desmond are revealed after the implosion of the hatch, while Hurley returns to the beach camp to tell the tale of what happened when he, Jack, Kate and Sawyer encountered The Others. A mute Locke makes a sweat lodge and talks to Boone, who persuades him to rescue Mr. Eko from a polar bear cave with Charlie's help. Desmond also survived the implosion but is not quite the same. Flashbacks of Locke show how his life took a turn when he was living on a commune and picked up a lonely youth who was not who he appeared to be.
Episode 4
Every Man for Himself
Wed, Oct 25, 200643 mins
Sawyer discovers just how far his captors will go to thwart any plans of escape he and Kate might have when they forcibly and surgically implant a pacemaker in his heart which will detonate if he tries to escape again. Jack is called upon to scrub up in order to save the life of one of "The Others,", a team leader, named Colleen, who was shot by Sun during the theft of the sailboat. Meanwhile, Desmond's behavior begins to perplex Charlie, Hurley, and the rest of the survivors when he starts construction on an unknown device outside Claire's tent.
Episode 5
The Cost of Living
Wed, Nov 1, 200643 mins
A delirious Eko wrestles with demons from his past, while Locke, Sayid, Desmond, and two other castaways, Nikki and Paolo, head back to The Pearl -- one of the Dharma Initiative's island stations -- hoping to find a computer that they can use to locate Jack, Kate and Sawyer. Meanwhile, Jack doesn't know whom to trust when two of "The Others" (Ben and Juliet) seem at odds with one another when Ben wants Jack to perform surgery on him to remove a potentially dangerous tumor whereas Juliet does not want Jack to do it.
Episode 6
I Do
Wed, Nov 8, 200643 mins
Jack makes a decision regarding Ben's offer by agreeing to perform the life saving surgery he needs. Kate feels helpless when it looks like an angry Pickett is going to make good on his threat to kill Sawyer. Meanwhile, Locke discovers a hidden message from the late Mr. Eko that may guide him through the next steps of his journey to unlocking the secrets of the island.
Episode 7
Not in Portland
Wed, Feb 7, 200743 mins
Jack successfully deals the freedom of Kate and Sawyer along the surgery of Ben, and Alex helps them to escape from The Others in her boat. Meanwhile, Juliet recalls her life in Miami, when she developed a successful research of pregnancy treatment having her own sister as guinea pig. Then she recalls when she was invited to lead a research team in a laboratory in Portland.
Episode 8
Flashes Before Your Eyes
Wed, Feb 14, 200743 mins
The episode opens with reminders about Desmond's premonitions: Locke's speech, the lightning rod, etc. In the present, as Locke and Sayid inform everyone about Eko's death, Desmond takes off running. He manages to save Claire from drowning in the ocean, but his prescience has now become obvious to Charlie and Hurley. They use some whiskey from Sawyer's raided stash to try and find out what happened to Desmond and get an explanation as to how, as Hurley puts it, "that guy see the future, dude." When Desmond passes out drunk, through his eyes we then begin to (re)experience his past and event leading up to why he did not end up with Penny, though he obviously still loves her and wishes things had been different. Triggered when Desmond "pushed the button," the flashbacks are actually a form of time travel or a replaying of events in an alternate/parallel universe. Desmond struggles with his sense of déjà vu and glimpsed of memories of the future as we see him living with Penny several years earlier in London, and his visit with her mean and snobbish father to look for employment. Soon, he must contend with choices and whether or not he can do things differently this time.
Episode 9
Stranger in a Strange Land
Wed, Feb 21, 200743 mins
Sawyer, Kate, and Karl reach their Island at night, and a reluctant Kate wishes to return for Jack. Meanwhile, Jack is interrogated by "Others" constable, Isabel about the incident with Juliet. When she mentions the meaning of his tattoo, he recalls his vacation in the paradisaical island of Phuket, in Thailand, where he dated the sexy, mystic, and mysterious local Achara. Ben has an infection in his spinal column, and Jack negotiates the freedom of Juliet, who was going to be sentenced to death for Pickett's murder. Later Jack recalls what happened to him when he forced Achara to disclose her innermost secret.
Episode 10
Tricia Tanaka Is Dead
Wed, Feb 28, 200743 mins
Kate and Sawyer finally return to the castaways camp. Hurley recalls the day his father left his mother and him in his motorcycle. Than he recalls his curse and his bad lucky, inclusive after winning the lottery, including the day that the reporter Tricia Tanaka died and Mr. Cluck was destroyed by a meteor and when his father returned home. Back in the present, Hurley finds a capsized Kombi VW van in the jungle which used be operated by the Dharma Insiative, and with the support of Sawyer, Jin and Charlie, he tries to fix the car with hope to make it run again. Meanwhile, Kate decides to bring Jack back by convincing Danielle Rousseau to help her. Sayid and Locke follow her and join the team.
Episode 11
Enter 77
Wed, Mar 7, 200743 mins
Locke, Sayid, Kate, and Danielle find a communication center, another Dharma Initiative station called 'The Flame', in an isolated cabin in the woods and they capture the Russian sentry Mikhail Bakunin who claims to be the last surviving member of the Dharma Initiative. But Sayid immediately suspects that Bakunin is not who he claims to be. Sayid recalls his past while residing in Paris, France, when he was invited to work as a chef of a Iraqi restaurant, but actually he had been recognized as the torturer of the wife of the owner. Meanwhile, Sawyer plays ping-pong game against Hurley to try to win back his possessions, and loses his bet.
Episode 12
Par Avion
Wed, Mar 14, 200743 mins
Claire has an idea to use migrating birds on the island to send a message out but does not know why Desmond want to sabotage her. She begins to find out about the true relationship between Desmond and Charlie, including Desmond's new ability to see into the future and the repeated fates of Charlie. Claire flashes back to several years earlier in Australia when the raven-haired Claire and her mother were in a car accident, leaving her mother in a coma. Claire then meets her long-lost biological father: Dr. Christian Shepherd. Meanwhile, a power struggle emerges between Sayid and John as they search what appears to be some kind of complex that may house The Others. Along with Danielle Rousseau, they force the captive Mikhail to The Others' camp, which leads them to a mysterious sonic perimeter surrounding their base.
Episode 13
The Man from Tallahassee
Wed, Mar 21, 200743 mins
Kate and Sayid are captured in the 'Others' village while trying to rescue Jack, but John Locke escapes and finds the recovering Ben trapped on his bed. John asks Alex to bring Sayid's backpack with the explosives, and then he goes to the submarine to destroy it. Meanwhile, John recalls how he became paraplegic after having another encounter with his con-artist father, Anthony Cooper, who John tried to thwart his latest con victim, and Mr. Cooper attempted to kill him.
Episode 14
Exposé
Wed, Mar 28, 200742 mins
Nikki comes to the beach where Sawyer and Hurley are playing ping-pong, stumbles, whispers some unintelligible words and apparently dies. Hurley doesn't understand Nikki's words: "Paulo lies..." and the group searches Paulo in the woods. They find him like Nikki and they believe the couple have been poisoned. Meanwhile, the past of the actress Nikki and the Brazilian chef Paulo in Sydney is disclosed, when they poisoned Nikki's lover and stole a fortune in diamonds, and detailing how they landed on the island and about them trying to retrieve the stolen diamonds with both attempting to betray each other showing their interactions with all the other characters, which were only glimpsed in previous episodes.
Episode 15
Left Behind
Wed, Apr 4, 200743 mins
Juliet is left behind by The Others and handcuffed to Kate in the woods, and Locke joins them as the Others leave their village to another unknown location. Kate recalls her trip to Iowa, when she saves Cassie from the police and in return she helped Kate to meet her estranged mother. Later she reveals to Kate that she is pregnant, but Cassie never told Kate that Sawyer was her boyfriend or father of her baby. Juliet and Kate escape from the black smoke monster and returned to the empty village to meet Jack and Sayid. Meanwhile, Hurley deceives Sawyer, telling him that the survivors would vote to banish him from the camp, and Sawyer tries to change his selfish behavior, being nice, gentle and cooperative with the group hoping to stay with them.
Episode 16
One of Us
Wed, Apr 11, 200743 mins
Sayid, Kate, Jack, and Juliet arrives back at the camp of survivors, and the group does not accept the presence of Juliet. Jack protects Juliet, while she recalls her arrival to the island and her relationship with Ben. When Claire gets sick, Juliet advises that Claire was the subject of an experiment with pregnant women carried by her, and she brings the necessary vaccine to inoculate and heal Claire. Later, Juliet recalls how she first arrived on the island three years earlier, her first meeting with Ben and the Others, and about the last assignment Ben gave to her a couple of days ago.
Episode 17
Catch-22
Wed, Apr 18, 200742 mins
Desmond's latest fragmented vision suggests that his old girlfriend, Penny, will crash-land onto the island. Desmond organizes a posse of himself, Hurley, Jin, and Charlie to come along with him into the jungle expecting Penny to parachute onto the island. But the vision also suggests that Charlie will die by stumbling upon a trip-wire if he comes along with them. But Desmond insists that Charlie must come along to make the vision come true. Meanwhile, Desmond recalls his days in a monastery in Scotland over 10 years earlier after leaving his old fiancée, Ruth, a few days before their wedding where he later met Penny. In the present, Kate attempts to flirt with Jack, but he instead has eyes for Juliet, and Kate has another one-night stand with Sawyer.
Episode 18
D.O.C.
Wed, Apr 25, 200743 mins
Juliet brings Sun to get an ultrasound examination at night in a facility of The Others hidden in an old Dharma station to determine the date of conception of the fetus. Juliet discloses that all of the women who became pregnant in the island died, driving Sun to a dilemma about who could be the father of the baby. Sun recalls when she was blackmailed by a mysterious woman about the origins of Jin and his impoverished background. Meanwhile in the jungle, Desmond, Charlie, Jin, and Hurley capture Mikhail, the mysterious Russian man (first presumed dead), and he makes an offer: he will heal the wounded woman who parachuted onto the island via helicopter if they release him after the conclusion of the medical procedures.
Episode 19
The Brig
Wed, May 2, 200743 mins
Locke comes back to the survivor's camp and lures Sawyer, telling him that he kidnapped Ben and wants Sawyer to kill him. He brings Sawyer to the old vessel, the Black Rock, and locks him in the brig with his father. After an ironic conversation, Sawyer realizes that Anthony Cooper is the man who deceived his mother and is responsible for the destruction of his family. More of Locke's three days with the Others at their new camp is shown. There, Ben urged Locrk to prove his worth to them by killing his father, whom they brought to the island. But Locke does not have the heart to do it and gets a tip to have Sawyer kill Anthony Cooper for him. Meanwhile, Desmond, Hurley, Charlie, and Jin secretly bring the mysterious and wounded woman, Naomi, back to the survivors camp and hide in Hurley's tent. Hurley tells the secret to Sayid, who tries to fix her radio to contact her vessel, which lies about 80 miles away. But Kate sees the device and reveals the secret to Jack and Juliet. Locke releases Sawyer and gives a tape-recorder to him, proving that Juliet is a traitor and The Others will raid her camp to get the pregnant Sun.
Episode 20
The Man Behind the Curtain
Wed, May 9, 200743 mins
On his birthday, Ben recalls important parts of his life: when he was born, his mother Emily, seven months pregnant, was hiking with his father, Roger, dying after the delivery in the woods nearby Portland, Oregon. Years later when he was a boy, Ben's unemployed father moved to the island with him, accepting a job offer but becoming a frustrated man with a simple position of janitor in the ultra-secret project Dharma. His drunkard father blamed him for the death of his mother. Because of the island's mysterious power, the young Ben had visions of his mother and decided to leave the compound, meeting the so-called "Hostiles." Years later, the grown-up Ben kills his dysfunctional father with poison gas while he leads the "Hostiles" in an all-out attack against the village, killing the entire staff of Dharma Initiative, and Ben becomes their leader. In the present, Locke brings the dead body of his father and meets Ben and The Others at their new base camp. Mikhail Bakunin informs Ben about the arrival of Naomi on the island. Ben brings Locke into the jungle to meet the shadowy Jacob, his superior and leader whom Ben claims knows the secrets of the island. After the weird introduction, Ben shows Locke the ditch where the remains of Dharma people were dumped. Meanwhile, Sawyer plays the tape to Sayid and the other survivors, exposing the betrayal of Juliet. When Jack and Juliet arrives, the situation becomes tense.
Episode 21
Greatest Hits
Wed, May 16, 200743 mins
The beach camp is preparing to receive the Others under Jack's leadership. Jack makes contact with Danielle Rousseau to help them fend off a planned assault by the Others. Sawyer, Jin, and Bernard agree to stay behind to ambush the Others with dynamite explosives when the Others arrives that night. However, to make contact with Naomi's freighter, Jack decides to take the rest of the survivors the radio tower far inland in order to send a message to Naomi's boat. Desmond have another flash about Charlie's death. His death is the master key of the plan for their rescue call. Charlie also recalls his five most important events in his life by writing them down as his own 'Greatest Hits'.
Episode 22
Through the Looking Glass: Part 1
Wed, May 23, 200743 mins
Charlie and Desmond try to carry out the plan to knock out the transmission-blocking signal in the Looking Glass station. But Charlie gets captured by two Others. Meanwhile, Jack leads the Flight 815 survivors from the beach to the radio tower several miles inland to try and signal Naomi's freighter, which is somewhere off the coast. Back at the beach, Sayid, Bernard, and Jin await the arrival of a team of Others with an explosive trap.In the future, Jack is back in Los Angeles, living though a meaningless existence as a drunkard and contemplating suicide.
Episode 23
Through the Looking Glass: Part 2
Wed, May 23, 200743 mins
On the island, Jack and the survivors come closer to finding rescue. In the flashback, Jack is shown in Los Angeles, living though a meaningless existence as a drunkard.
