1.02 - Pilot (Part 2)

While Jack attempts to save the life of a dying passenger, another group of the survivors climb to a higher point on the island in hopes of getting a radio signal. They succeed, but what they hear is not something they expected.

Two players. Two sides. One is light. One is dark. --- John Locke

Il est dehors! Et Brennan a pris les cles. Veuillez nous aider. Veuillez nous aider. Il est dehors! Veuillez nous aider. Ils sont morts. Ils sont tous morts. Ils sont morts. Il les as tous. Il les as tuer tous. Si qui que ce soit entends ceci, je vais essayer d'aller jusqu'au rocher noir.
Iteration 1-7-2-9-4-5-3-1 --- The distress message

Guys... Where are we? --- Charlie Pace

Jack, Kate and Charlie are on their way back to the beach. Charlie asks if Jack can hear anything on the radio and Jack says no; it doesn't seem to be working.

Kate asks Charlie what he was doing in the bathroom and Charlie says he was being sick. He says that every trip needs a coward. Kate tells him she doesn't think he is a coward.

Flashback: On the plane, Charlie is in his seat and very nervous and uncomfortable. A flight attendant asks him if he is all right and he tells her to leave him alone. She leaves and goes to the back of the plane where she starts to confer with two other flight attendants.

Charlie suddenly stands up and goes forward, brushing between Jack and Rose as he does so. Two of the flight attendants follow. He goes to the next section forward where another flight attendant tries to cut him off. He cuts through a row of seats, squeezing past Boone and Shannon before making it to the restroom. Once inside, he removes his shoe and takes out a plastic bag which seems to contain drugs. He takes some of the drugs and calms down somewhat.

One of the flight attendants knocks on the door and Charlie frantically tries to decide what to do with the remainder of the drugs. He throws them in the toilet but before he can flush it the plane hits turbulence. The flight attendants rush off to their stations and Charlie leaves the toilet, strapping himself into the nearest available seat. The oxygen masks drop and Charlie puts his on as the plane goes into a dive.

Back at the beach, Shannon has changed into a bathing suit and is working on her tan. Boone tries to get her to help the rest of them sort through the debris but she insists that they are wasting their time since rescue is coming soon. Boone leaves.

Claire is watching her and comments that she used to have a flat stomach too. She also says that she hasn't felt the baby move since the crash.

Jin is standing in a tidepool, collecting urchins, while Sun watches. Michael arrives and asks if they have seen Walt. Jin yells something that is untranslated to Sun and she buttons the top button of her blouse. Michael, uncomfortable, leaves.

In the jungle, Walt is carrying a dog leash and is looking for Vincent, his dog. He sees something and goes to pick it up as Michael arrives. Michael berates him for leaving the beach but Walt says he was looking for Vincent. He then shows Michael what he found; a set of handcuffs.

Somewhat later, at the crash site, Sawyer and Sayid are having a fight. Sawyer is accusing Sayid of being a terrorist and responsible for the plane crash while Sayid is calling Sawyer a redneck. Michael shows them the handcuffs which only fuels Sawyer's accusations further. Jack, Kate and Charlie arrive and Jack and Michael are able to break up the fight.

Kate tells them that they found the transceiver but that it is broken and asks if anyone can fix it. Sayid says he can and says he was a communications officer in the military. Sawyer objects but Jack gives Sayid the transceiver. Sayid says he can fix it.

Rose comes up and tells Jack that the injured passenger needs his help. Jack leaves. Sayid leaves with the transceiver and Hurley follows him.

Hurley asks Sayid where he was in the military and Sayid says he fought in the Gulf War. Hurley says he had a friend who was there in an airborne division and asks Sayid which branch of the military he was in. Sayid says he was in the Republican Guard. Hurley is silent.

Kate is taking a bath when Sun arrives and indicates she should join the others. When she does, she learns that Sayid has repaired the radio but that they are not receiving a signal that would indicate that there was anyone within range to hear them. She asks if there is anything they can try and he says they need to get to higher ground, indicating the mountain behind them.

Kate goes to Jack, who is working over the injured passenger, and tells him that she is going on the expedition with Sayid. Jack is concerned and doesn't want her to go, reminding her of the "thing" that killed the pilot. He wants to go with them but cannot leave the injured man. He is getting worse and Jack has to operate to try to remove the shrapnel in his abdomen. He says he hoped the man would be in a hospital by now but since the rescue has not come he cannot wait any longer. Kate goes to leave and Jack tells her "If you see or hear anything... run!"

Jin is cutting up the urchins he collected from the tidepool into sushi. Sun tries to take one but he slaps her hand away. He takes the tray of urchins and leaves. She unbuttons the top button of her blouse as he leaves.

Jin goes to Hurley and offers him some of the sushi. Hurley admits to being hungry but says he isn't that hungry.

Walt is reading a comic book written in Spanish. (The comic book is Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends #1) Prominent on one page is a polar bear. Michael arrives and asks where the book came from. Walt says he found it.

Walt is obviously upset and Michael says that when they get home he will get Walt another dog. This does nothing to make Walt less upset.

Jack comes up to Hurley and asks him to go through the luggage and find any kind of medicine he can. Hurley agrees.

Shannon is staring at one of the bodies on the beach and crying. Boone asks her what she is doing and she says that the body is that of the person who wouldn't let them have their seats in first class and who, by doing so, probably saved their lives. She says she was mean to him.

Boone berates her for being useless while the rest of them are trying to salvage what they can. They argue a bit then she sees Sayid and Kate setting off for the mountain. She suddenly announces that she is going with them and follows. She and Boone argue a bit more but both wind up following Sayid and Kate, as does Charlie moments later.

As they leave the crash site they pass Sawyer, who is sitting on a piece of wreckage and intently examining a piece of paper. Suddenly, he joins the group as well. All of them head off for the mountain.

Jack is looking through some luggage. Michael asks what he is looking for and Jack tells him he is looking for a blade of some kind. Jack asks how Walt is doing and Michael says he is worried about his dog. Jack tells him about seeing the dog in the jungle the previous day and points out where he saw it. Jack finds a straight razor and leaves while Michael looks out at the jungle where Jack saw Vincent.

Walt, meanwhile, has found Locke sitting alone on the beach. He asks what Locke has and Locke shows him a backgammon game. Walt asks if it is like checkers and Locke says it is much better and is a much older game. He cryptically says that backgammon has two sides; one light and one dark.

Locke asks Walt if he plays checkers with his father and Walt says he never knew his father until a few weeks ago. His mother died and his father came to get him. Locke observes that Walt is having a bad month. He then asks Walt if he wants to know a secret.

Claire is writing in a journal of some kind when Jin arrives and offers her some of the urchin sushi. She starts to decline but seems to accept out of politeness. She eats one and looks uncomfortable. It seems at first that she is about to be sick but it is soon revealed that she is feeling the baby moving again and that it is kicking. She grabs Jin's hand and holds it to her belly so he can feel the baby kick too; something that makes him very uncomfortable. He gets away as fast as he can while Claire happily rubs her belly and talks to the baby.

On the mountain, the group is passing through a clearing. Sawyer wants to try the transceiver but Sayid does not want to waste the battery. They start to argue again but the argument ends when something growls then charges them from the brush. Everyone runs except Sawyer, who pulls a gun and shoots it several times. Everyone stops and comes back to discover that Sawyer has killed a bear. More precisely, a polar bear. Everyone wonders what a polar bear is doing on a jungle island.

At the beach, Jack is about to start operating on the passenger with the assistance of Hurley. Hurley warns him that he isn't good around blood but Jack tells him that he needs Hurley to apply pressure when he pulls the shrapnel from the passenger. He does so and the passenger starts bleeding profusely. Jack yells for Hurley to hand him some bandages but Hurley passes out.

On the mountain, the argument changes from the origin of the bear to the origin of the gun Sawyer is carrying. Sawyer says he took it from another passenger along with a badge identifying that passenger as a US Marshal. Sayid says that Sawyer knew about the marshal because he was the prisoner the marshal was transporting. Sawyer denies this and accuses Sayid.

Their argument ends when Kate suddenly takes the gun away from Sawyer. Everyone seems concerned, even when Kate says she doesn't know how to use a gun. With instructions from Sayid, she removes the clip from the gun. She gives the gun to Sawyer and the clip to Sayid.

Sawyer grabs her and says he knows women like her. She disagrees, saying there aren't women like her.

Flashback: On the plane, we see the Marshal, who also happens to be the passenger on whom Jack is operating. A flight attendant asks the Marshal if he wants anything. He asks for coffee then asks Kate, who is sitting next to him, if she wants something. She says no and takes a drink from her glass. We see that her hands are handcuffed.

The first round of turbulence hits. The Marshal tells Kate that she could be lucky; they might believe her story. He sarcastically says that he does. She tells him she doesn't care what he believes then says that she has a favor to ask of him. He seems surprised.

The really bad turbulence hits. An overhead compartment flies open and a briefcase falls out, hitting the Marshal on the head and knocking him unconscious. The plane goes into its dive and the oxygen masks drop. Kate cannot reach her mask because of the handcuffs but is able to reach into the Marshal's pocket and get the keys. She frees herself and puts on her mask, then puts one on the Marshal as well.

The back portion of the plane breaks away and loose items and passengers are sucked out. Kate hangs on to her seat as the plane crashes.

At the beach, Jack is working on the Marshal when he suddenly regains consciousness. He grabs Jack's collar and demands to know where "she" is.

Higher up the mountain, Sayid tries the radio again. This time he gets a signal and tries to broadcast a mayday but cannot; another signal on the same frequency is interfering. He tunes the radio and they hear the broadcast. It is a repeating message in French followed by an iteration count; a running total of the number of times the message has repeated.

Boone reveals that Shannon knows French and, after some arguing, she attempts to translate the message. It is a distress call from a woman pleading for help. She says that she is the only one left because "he" (or "it") has killed all the others. From the length of the message and the number of iterations, Sayid is able to determine that the message has been running for over 16 years.

Stunned, everyone looks at each other in silence.

"Guys?" asks Charlie, finally. "Where are we?"

This is the second part of the Pilot.

Where have they crashed? Where in the world could there be an uninhabited island as large as the one they appear to be on where a distress message could run for 16 years without being answered.

Who is the French woman in the distress message? How did she come to be on the island?

How did a polar bear wind up on a tropical island? (It's Thorton!)

The distress message: "Il est dehors! Et Brennan a pris les cles. Veuillez nous aider. Veuillez nous aider. Il est dehors! Veuillez nous aider. Ils sont morts. Ils sont tous morts. Ils sont morts. Il les as tous. Il les as tuer tous. Si qui que ce soit entends ceci, je vais essayer d'aller jusqu'au rocher noir."

Approximate translation: "He (it?) is outside. And Brennan has taken the keys. Please help us. Please help us. He is outside. Please help us. They are dead. They are all dead. They are dead. He has killed them. He has killed them all. If anyone can hear this, I will try to go to the black rock."